Why I plant butterfly bushes.

A Brand New Butterfly!, a photo by Leenechan on Flickr.

This lovely butterfly is a meadow fritillary. This is the first time I've ever seen one in our yard. Usually they like to hang around wetlands; I wonder if it's here because of all the rain we've had lately? It seems to really like our butterfly bush "Pink Delight."

It was only by chance that I had a camera on hand when I spotted this butterfly. Lucky me!

Not a flower. Not a bird. Not a butterfly.

"I'm Cassia!", a photo by Leenechan on Flickr.

It's a doll!

This little girl used to be my Sweet Punk Girls! Aika. I've had her for several years, but I never liked her very much. There's just something odd about Aika, who's usually a brunette with side-swept bangs, with long, straight banana blond hair and helmet bangs. XD So Kristen finally rerooted her for me with a blend of Restoredoll saran in Cognac, Stacy Titian and Original Blonde.

For the longest time, I couldn't think of a single hair color that looked good with her cobalt blue eyes. Black would have been all right, but I already have a rerooted Aika with black hair. Dark brown would have been good but then she'd have looked too much like Wicked Style II Aika. I think this red blended color worked out great. It shimmers in natural light. :D

I renamed her Cassia, because of her likeness to my rerooted Fanny Fanny Himeno, Cinnamon. And as you may or may not know, the spice commercially available as "cinnamon" is actually cassia.

Gaming again...and boy do my thumbs hurt!

I was supposed to be banned from playing video games until June 1st, but I ended up taking an even longer hiatus! Finally, I decided that it wouldn't do me harm to try to relax a little and play something. So I broke my RPG habit and tried out Katamari Forever for the PS3. I had actually bought that game around Christmas and never broke the shrink wrap. It's a very fun game, nice-looking with good music and incredibly addictive...but I suck at it. Big time. After a few hours of gameplay my thumbs have been reduced to hamburger. My left thumb in particular is so sore that I can barely compress the button on my electric toothbrush! Am I just stupid, or is it really hard to roll the katamari around?

Just the same, it's a very enjoyable game for someone like me who's played nothing but RPGs for the past decade. I'll just have to bandage up my thumbs and play again tonight...