Hey, a lot of my posts are turning into Friends-Only.  Just post a reply or add me as a friend, I will add you to my list.

In reference to what is going on with Num8, I have two things to say.

-Don't forgot about all the great things the furry community (yes, a lot of us are a community) did to help him out with what he wanted when we all thought that he was dying.

-Don't be afraid to ask the tough questions, sometimes the unbelievable is actually unbelievable.

Please, nobody snap to conclusions right away.  This is either a really good hoax that is perfectly timed and executed to get someone want that wanted at the expense to whom he considered friends.  Or, this is a horrible joke to be playing on someone for some unknown reason.  We aren't all naive, so don't act that way, please.

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So, what is this?

And no, all three is not allowed for an answer. :P

Made this this morning for the FFFF.  Figured I'd throw it up here in it's full glory.  Done in about an hour in MS Paint.

 ( BIG Picture! )

So, I was browsing online earlier trying to find some healthy, quick recipes, and I couldn't find anything that didn't require some strange ingredients or actually sounded delicious (tofu... seriously??)  So, I went to the store and bounced around some ideas that sounded good and headed home to create this...



( Grilled Duck and Wildberry Salad Recipe )

So, there was enough interest in the idea that I decided to go ahead and create a community... fitfurchallenge 

There will be a bunch of added content, and a RSS feed so you can get immediate updates if you want.  Please, everyone that expressed interest, join the community.  And, get the word out even if you aren't going to do the challenge yourself.  The more the merrier, and in this case, the more successful.  The more support that those on the challenge can get, the better the results will be.

Go ahead and check it out... there isn't much yet.  Also, if someone can make me an icon for the challenge, I'd be eternally grateful.

So, this is an idea that I originally planned of doing myself, but I figured that others might want to join me.

When I was 18, I use to weight 102 kg.  I never realized how much I actually weighted at that time, and I really didn't care.  But, the next year I was planning on joining the military and lost about 10 kg before I joined.  About three years ago, I finally got my weight down to 83 kg, and I felt great, but since then, I've slowly started to gain weight.  Today, I weight 85.6 kg, and I'm not that happy about the weight.

So, this summer, I've decided to start losing weight, and getting back down to 83 kg by dieting and exercise by EF.  Of course, that's not my target, my target is 80 kg, which I haven't weighted since I was a teenager.  So, on my LJ, I'm going to track my progress with weekly updates of my weight loss, shooting for a loss of 0.5 kg per week.  And, I want you to join me in my quest.  Set yourself a target weight you want to reach in the next three month, remember that a good weight loss program will allow you to lose 0.5-1 kg per week, and don't look into fad diet or crash exercises, but a good low-fat diet and steady exercise.

If you are interested, just leave a comment that you want to join in the FitFur Challenge, and send your current weight and progress to my e-mail.  If you want to join, but don't want to have your info posted with your name, just send me an e-mail at fawks (dot) beaumont (at) yahoo (dot) com, and I'll post your progress with an anonymous number along with everyone else's.  If I can get at least 10 people interested, I'll start up a community.  And, if we can get 25, I'll look into getting custom T-shirts made before Eurofurence.

If you do think this is a good idea, please repost a link in your own journal.

( Make-A-Wish Event (Text Heavy) )

This is the time I get to do my friendly shove.  If you have the ability, money, or just energy to help out a charity, I besiege you to do it.  Go online or look locally and find a charity that you think is doing a good job, and help support them.  You don't need a large group of people, or a huge planned event to help, just giving some support, money, or even helping to raise awareness for a worthy cause is enough.  You'll get a warm, fuzzy feeling inside, everytime you think about it.

Yep, today is the day where I get to celebrate the day of leaping onto the mortal coil those 24 years ago.

It's been an extremely busy day, and shockly, a very happy one at that!  And, it's all thanks to you wonderful people I get to call friends!  All of your well-wishing journals, happy tweets, and buzzing texters, you've really made this day special for me.

Time to run off to a meeting, I love you guys!  If I'm not going to see you soon, consider this a big digital hug from me!

*huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugs*

Also, a big happy birthday to kaelin_tiger !

Talk about finding out about something in a strange way and learning something new.

Marissa is a 17-month-old girl who has been dignosed with infatile spasms, and her family decided to do something about it.  The decided to create a blog to follow her life, and in turn, create awareness about infatile spasms, which is part of a condition known as West Syndrome (a form of epilepsy) that affects young infants and usually leaves them mental handicapped.

I just realized that I forgot to introduce my newest suit.  Fernel was purchased on auction and created by Lacy.  He was worn out for the first time (by me) at the Keukenhof event this past weekend.  While I received the suit only a few days before the event, I did get a quick crash course in long ears.  :P

Due to an extremely positive (and gender-confused) response from furs and non-furs alike, expect to see Fernel at future cons and public events.

Behold, the tale of the Easter outing of Keukenhof, as it unfolded (through photographic evidence). Beware, the horrors are contained within.
( Read more... (Photo+12) )Photographers: Tobias, Draygon, and Troetel.

Also, get ready for the BBF footage, coming VERY soon.

This is just some of the mayham that happened this weekend at the Keukenhof.  As you can tell... TOO MANY PEOPLE!  There are just flowers (and some fuzzy things), seriously people, go home. :P  More later, when I'm not so busy.

Now that one final detail that was going to be changed has been changed, I don't have to just post parts. :D

This is Dusk, created from Noble Productions, and I haven't be so happy to get a fursuit in a while.  I don't know why, but for some reason I have just fallen in love with him from the get go (I blame my hidden bunny genes).  He was a joint creation between me and Noble, with Noble having most of the creative output.  I love to let artists to just go crazy, and do what they feel they want to.  You usually get the best results that way.

Well, either way, expect to see a lot of this bunny in the coming year.

( Gimme Picture! )

Just because my curiousity is never ending, I added a widgit to my journal.  Let's see how well it works.

You'll have to click on an entry to see it, it will be in the sidebar.  :P

Please enter any entry, I want to see how well it works.

Drawn by sushicougar 

Yes, I know I'm horribly late about posting about the show, but that's just how I roll.

This past Saturday, EF Registration opened up and along with it, a pre-registration show that just went off (almost) perfectly.  I want to thank everyone who helped out with the show at Cheetah's place (BBF went into a lot better detail then I can right now.)  Also, a big thanks to all the people who called in and joined in on IRC.  A big, huge special thanks to Akeela, he was just amazing, professional, and a lot of fun, and I really hope to do something like this again with you sometime.

If you did miss the show, it will be online sometime in the near future.

I'll try to make a longer post tomorrow, when my brain and body actually gets some well-deserved sleep.

See you all in six months (or maybe even sooner).  [123]

There are certain people in the world that you meet and immediately click with.  Furp was one of those people.  We met at EF this past year, and would just shoot the bull, talking about military things and Iraq, as well has him poking fun at me being a glorified phlebotomist.  He was an absolutely great guy.

Hearing the news that he has passed away in a motor accident, it saddens me that I won't be able to have enjoyable conversations with him again, and leaves me regretting not getting the chance to know him better.

RIP Furp - You'll be sorely missed

tanidareal made a nice set of new fox moods, which are free for use!

Check them out.

Look what just showed up in my inbox.



His name is Macchiato, the second of the coffee bunny trilogy.  He will be made by B3 Mascots in the same style as Frappuccino, and will hopefully be completed sometime this summer and debut either at CFD (unlikely) or EF.

Artwork drawn by the ever-amazing sushicougar.  Go check her out if you haven't before.