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If you're a family member, my open, day-to-day journal is available at allabout_cassie. This is my personal journal, and while I love you, it isn't meant for your eyes.

If you're interested in my graphic work, my icon journal is grn_mouse_icons. So, if you're interested in me for my icons, please friend that journal instead, as once again this is my personal journal.

Not terribly interested in having random strangers read my journal. If I don't know you, please tell me who you are and how you found me.

Thanks!

Hey guys!

One of my best friends was ill earlier this year and without health insurance had to have a surgery he can't afford. I am a sad broke sailor and I'm currently unemployed, so my resources other than my time, energy, love, and yarn, are sadly limited.

Here's the deal. I'm busy making hats. Crazy amounts of hats. And I have my *entire* knitted collection already. This includes katamari-esque boodle hats, Twilight hats, zombie hats, even a pair of Bella's cabled mittens that I wore to my sister Eden's wedding. I love all of these hats and knit items, and I am going to take them off and sell them in a knit and crochet blogathon. The plan is to post in a cycle of video post with me wearing the hat, photo post of the hat, why I love the hat and a silent auction in comments trying to raise donations for John's surgery fund, with the hat (or other items) as a reward. I'm also going to try and make as many hats as possible the day before the event and will blog about that process. I am willing to donate free shipping for the items if, instead of paying me for them, the funds you would have paid me for the hat goes to John's Surgery Pledge Drive. There are no words for what a wonderful friend, writer, and human being my friend John is. So I'm asking for the help of my friends and family in this. If you love handmade items, or know someone who does, please save the link or pass it on. If you'd like to support the blogathon directly and want to donate a certain amount per post, that would be fantastic as well.

You can follow along at hatsforjohn. Please friend that journal, follow it, favorite it, and please help me to give back to a talented writer and great friend. If you'd like to see examples of his amazing and hilarious flash fiction you can find it at The Bathroom Monologues.

I will be starting the blogathon this Thursday, December 3rd, at.

Thanks for joining me!.

Dr. House: Ah, my birthday. Normally I'd put on a festive hat and celebrate the fact that the Earth has circled the Sun one more time; I really didn't think it was going to make it this year, but darn it if it wasn't the little planet that could all over again.

Hehe.

I'm 25!

*gets out her festive hat* A quarter of a century. Damn.

http://shipnewsbycassie.blogspot.c…

Woo-hoo!

So far it's a collection of all of the newsletters I send out to my family. But in blog form, so it's kind of awesome. With pictures and everything.

You've been informed. Go look. Comment. Favorite. Stumbleupon thumbs up it. Something, people.

In one convenient location! That was fun.

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First three are here.

First comics. Yeah, I did three already, but they aren't very good/interesting, so I'll put more effort into the next ones.

Erm.

Yeah.

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As a tall ship sailor, this is a public service announcement for ALL of you wishing to talk like a pirate:

Avast means stop -- hold your line, don't drop it, but stop hauling or easing. It is a nautical term, not a generic pirate word.

You haul sails, you don't hoist them.

Grog is a hot drink made from water, rum, and lemon juice. The rum sterlizes the water, the lemon juice prevents scurvey.

Limes do not prevent scurvey -- only lemons have a high enough vitamin C content.

Mate (not matey) is a shortened version of "Shipmate." I have lots of mates on my ship...none of them are "me mateys".

And last but not least....

Tall ship sailors do not say "Yarrr!"

Thankyew very much. :)

Holy shit, Powell's is hiring and today is the last day to get an application in!

I know what I'm doing this afternoon.

*does a little dance*

It took me a while to realize some people wanted off my friendslist. Sorry about that! You are now greenmouse free. :) If anyone else wants off, just comment/unfriend me. Comments are screened.

*hand, forehead, staple* I think I'll go sit alone in my room in the dark, reading Edgar Allen Poe and weeping over my lost internet friends.