Tomorrow is the last day of preparation for my May the 4^th be with you – Cake Break event for Multiple Sclerosis.

I can’t believe how amazing everyone has been in donating cakes and stuff. I will never be able to properly express my gratitude to the friends who have helped or even intend to simply show up. That’s more than anyone can ask for.

It’s really exiting and terrifying now that it is close. The event will start at around 12 noon and go on till 5pm. The venue is The Flying Duck on Renfield Street, who are having another star wars event in the evening, a screening followed by a long night of dancing and music. The place will look amazing, I was given the opportunity to see a huge Paper Mache Jabba the hut that one of the staff had made and I can only say this… Wow!

I also want to say thanks to them for being incredibly nice and thoughtful and for giving me the venue for free all day. They have no objection to me selling food to their customers which I am sure will cut into whatever food they usually sell throughout the day. Not only that but they have been most obliging in offering their services and help in any way they can and I am really taken aback at their kindness.

There will be a multitude of cakes, cookies and other baked goods available to buy and consume on the premises and you can wash these delicious nibbles down with your drink of choice. Drinks will be available to buy at the bar and range from beers, spirits, wine etc, to soft drinks and even a cuppa tea if you are that way inclined.

There will also be the raffle, which has a number of prizes to be won.

First prize is a 2 and a half foot millennium falcon, which incidentally I won myself at a convention 3 years ago in a rock band competition.

Another prize will be a special Batman Vs Darth Vader Print by Lar de Souza who created this artwork specifically for a Multiple Sclerosis event in which his lovely wife was taking part. They have raised over $5000 for this cause so far. (Applause)

Then there is the very, very cool and no doubt very tasty Death Star Cake baked by the very talented cook and writer of Rock Salt. A wonderful blog about all things that make one go NOM!

…And a mystery prize… even to me… a wonderfully lovely American has donated something to my cause and he won’t tell me what it is, so I shall find out when I pick it up from UPS tomorrow morning. I would scowl if it weren’t such an amazing gesture.

Each of these prizes where donated by giving and talented individuals. I am lucky enough to be able to say that they are, all of them, my friends and I can’t find the words to thanks them for their effort and their kindness.

So now back to preparations. Tomorrow I shall pick up the mystery prize, collect the T-Shirts, pick up cakes from two generous donators, hands out flyers and a few other errands.

Wish me luck!

Well I figure I might as well blog about reality considering my fictional blogging is at an unintended halt after a series of almost inevitable delays. Of course any attempt I make at a comic will result in it taking far longer than it should for variety of reasons. These reasons include Christmas visit from my brain worms, then my partner needing looking after due to a bout with pleurisy, my nephew being born, more brain worm activity and now, of course, I have buggered my shoulder.

So yup fun times.

I cannot apologise enough to anyone who has been waiting on a blog update from Diary of an Office Girl: Not a Spy. Although I think that particular demographic is probably much smaller than I would like to imagine, especially given the amount of time I have put into it over the last year and a half.

Hoping that a new desk coupled with physiotherapy and perhaps a few sugar fuelled all nighter’s will bring me up to speed as soon as I am able. That or at least allow me back into internet world for more than limited time my injury will allow me to use a keyboard for.

Since the pain only really becomes noticeable when am at my desk typing or drawing it seems prudent to not do that right now. Or at least not until I have seen someone about it.

I never realised how much I missed procrastinating for hours on end while getting little to no work done. At least then I could tell myself I would make up for the lack of effort the next day. Right now am faced with the reality that I will get very little of any work done tomorrow and probably the next day too.

One of the worst things about my lack of ergonomic set up and the consequences I am now dealing with, is that the only way I can type this post, or get on a computer at all right now is to use my partner’s… shudder… macbook.

I feel dirty… and not in a good way.

It goes against every part of my moral fiber to be toying with this instrument of evil but alas I am weak and I don’t have a useable laptop at my disposal. So I am left here to use this monstrosity. Which I am developing a resentment for already, with it’s lack of clickable buttons and it’s command instead of control foolishness.

I mean what kind of sick freak uses alt 3 to make a hashtag!?

Even now while I write this I can feel it, being a git. It’s not doing anything per se but I know it’s plotting. Waiting for me to get to a point where to loose data would make me cry and sob and then it will strike and crash and inside it will be laughing maniacally at my misfortune, feeding off my misery and gaining nourishment from the tears I weep as they fall on to it’s over-thought, hyper-minimalist exterior.

I’m also convinced that the more nasty things I write about it the more likely it is to punish me and spitefully destroy any work, saved files or bookmarked pages I may desperately need… the bastard. How could anyone own one of these things. I mean what more proof of it’s evil do you need. Can’t just tell by the way it sits there pretending to be innocent.

It’s sickening.