I finished up the final paper for my human resource capital class. I just have to make sure to chuck in my papers on the due dates and write a witty comment everyday on the boards. Easy work for a hatter like me.

In the meantime, I will sip some tea and get a hat-start on my new class - Business Law. I have to be more careful in regard to the readings because the teacher posted them in an unusual order. First assignment is a simple 300 words. Keeping in mind my last assignment was almost 2100 words.

The wedding planning is going good. I have sent out various requests for information. I might have even found a nondenominational minister. My hatter mother reminded me that I have family that might walk out of my wedding if it is too mormon. Not that I blame them, I might walk out too if that is the case >.>

I am also having fun thinking of centerpieces and flowers. I am thinking of having hyacinths be my flowers instead of roses. I saw a bunch of gorgeous blue ones while I wandered through The Knot. I am still hoping I can rent the church of my father hatter. It's nice and cozy.

So I am planning this unusually large tea party for my gentleman hatter and me in May. We set the date for May 1st. Today I was bit by the wedding bug, so we went out to Borders to obtain a couple wedding books. One of them is The Everything Wedding Organizer. The second one was The Bride's Instruction Manual. The second one so tickled Dattas that he wants to take pictures and load them onto his twitter.

Hopefully I can make it down to a potential venue for the wedding this week. I am already talking with a photographer friend of Dattas'. She is currently going to art school and offers nice discounts on pictures. So far, we are just talking about the engagement pictures before we work out wedding pictures. When Dattas and I take the carriage down to Salt Lake this weekend, we will probably do a little stationary shopping with my hatter mother.

*sips her tea with her hat covering some of her face*

No, FMA does not suck. I can just hear the sounds of it from the bedroom while Dattas watches it in the living room.

Gave broccoli bits to my Mushu. She was asleep when I reached in to pet her tail. Ever see a bearded dragon jump in surprise? I'm surprised I didn't hear a thunk from hitting her head on the log. Once she realized why I woke her up though, she scrambled to come out of the log. She really loves broccoli. I can just leave some of it on my fingers and she will grab at it with her tongue.

I still need to put up pics of her sleeping under her artificial grass.

Today is going to be full of relaxation. I am making Dattas take me to the library. I need to return a book. I may or may not pick up another one. I still have other books to read. I also need to prep for my student. Hopefully he will be recovering from shingles soon.

On the flip side, I might just have to look for Hatter M. The Logan Library has a stunning array of manga. I also happen to be on an Alice in Wonderland kick (thanks Philip :P )

Nursing another headache from my cold. I was hoping I could avoid it tonight, but my cold decided against it. Can't even wear a hat tonight because the weight would hurt it.

I finally finished Seeing Redd, the second book of The Looking Glass Wars. It was very good. I approve of Hatter Madigan in it. Very nice. I still need to check out the graphic novel of Hatter M. I almost bought it but for some stupid reason decided against it.

My writing is making some progress. I wrote a nice little story without any issues. I also started a nice outline for my novel. I do have a short section of it written and I think I will probably write it in short sections.

Dattas and I are currently watching Supernatural together. It's so nice to see the "fluffier" episodes from season 1. It's not so filled with angst. Dattas keeps moving from one episode to the next as quickly as he can.

*cough cough, hides behind giant hat*

It's been a while since I last posted. Mostly due to school. Thankfully the class is almost over.

I have completed my tutor training, but my student came down with shingles, so I have a couple weeks to prep for him. I am currently refreshing my knowledge of history since he is a history buff and wants to talk about it.

I am also now engaged to my gentleman hatter, Dattas. He proposed to me on Halloween...and is now accessing his laptop remotely from work. I know because all of a sudden loud noises came from his laptop for no reason.

Been enjoying life up in Logan. Still gorgeous scenery. USU library is awesome. I love to go up to USU with Dattas and just work on homework in one of the places at the library. I also want to get pics of the cemetery on campus. They have absolutely stunning cemetery art.

Anyways, I should go rest in bed. My cough got worse and my head feels weird. I will post more soon.

It is a good thing that I check my phoenix webpage daily. I found out that they start my classes on Tuesdays (my last class for my management class was last night), so there are no breaks whatsoever between one class and the next. In fact, I need to hurry up my reading to make sure that I can answer questions on time.

I have several days where I have to turn in something during the week. It also looks like I need to spend about an hour each day on the website to look at things and make responses so I can receive participation points. On the plus side, at least there are a lot more points to earn so I won't have to worry so much like my last class.

I am also glad that it looks like a lot of this is going to be new material for me. My last class was mostly a recap of my prior management classes. Dattas, who has attending two of the six class sessions, thought that it was pretty boring and did not have enough information. Hopefully the switch to online classes will be much more appealing.

*the lady hatter appears with her hair pinned back, wearing a teacup apron over her millinery outfit*

I am definitely finding projects to work on while I wait for a job.

*sits down in her armchair*

My last management class session is tomorrow. Dattas and I will go back down to SLC then. After that, I will start my online classes. My next class is Human Capital Management. I have already read two chapters from the book for that class.

I am now in charge of a newsletter for young accounting professionals. I started out writing a couple articles for it and the lady that leads the UAPCA communications subcommittee offered me the chance to put the newsletter together. It is an amazing opportunity.

The UFF is now working towards making money in order to rent a space for us to meet. Damon asked for donations of items to sell. I like to craft jewelry, so I am going to donate the pieces I already have. Additionally, I need to make more of them to pass on to Damon. I hope it helps a great deal.

On Tuesday I start my volunteering with Bridgerland Literacy. My first meeting will be to assess if I want to work in a classroom as a teacher for beginning conversationalists. My second meeting this week focuses on my one on one tutoring training. Bridgerland Literacy needs as many tutors as it can get.

Lastly, I am still working on my writing projects. My friend Phillip lent me some of her articles from her various classes. I am through a great many of them. Hopefully I can get her articles and book back to her next week. Also, I have a series of publishers I need to send my poetry to.

Anyways, I shall talk with you all later. Have a good one!

I am loving the ice cream parlor up here in Logan. It's called Charlies and they have the perfect German Chocolate ice cream flavor. Of course, my almonds and coconut shavings seemed to go towards the bottom of the ice cream, so I am now munching on them. It's all good though. It definitely called both the sweet tooth and the chocolate tooth.

So tomorrow morning, I get to go into SOS Staffing to find out about a temp job that is available and to get registered with SOS. It's an accounting/banking/auditing job that will pay $20 an hour. I am hoping it is something I can do and that I will get it for sure.

I also decided to move my books over to Amazon.com. My seller name is MikaHatter. I put a little different variety of my books on there, but that was because I noticed a book I really should sell and two books that I really should keep.

Additionally, I checked out the library earlier this week. I signed up for a library card and then traveled there with my gentleman hatter to look at the books. They did not have any Writer's Digest, but they did have 2010 Poet's Market in the reference section. As I wrote down the various names of publishers to send my work to, my gentleman hatter had a blast exploring the animal books in the reference section. We found him some information on wolves, his favorite animal.

Today was fun. My hatter parents came up and my gentleman hatter dressed up in his wolf fursuit. My hatter cousin gave him some looks, but was not really bothered by it. My hatter mother loved it although she withheld the squeal I thought would come forth. She brought me some jams and jellies as well as a gorgeous necklace from the gem faire. We went out to lunch at Jimmy Johns before my family whisked me back home briefly. My mother forgot to bring up something very important so we needed to make sure I had it for tomorrow.

When I purchased books for my MBA class, I noticed another book that I just had to have. Its called A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers. It was only $5 and has proven to be worth much more.

It actually works through all the steps of writing and gives you ideas on how to approach each step in the writing process and how to avoid hanging yourself out to dry. One thing I liked in particular is all the ideas they have come up with to avoid writer's block. One of them was to write in a journal 15 minutes a day to get ideas flowing so that you can later come back to it. Of course, it does not have to be writing related, it can be anything, so long as its not just a description of the day's events.

Unfortunately, I am not as good as that as I would like to be. I tend to write about events without putting much feeling into it. I usually reserve a section at the end of my diary for how I feel about things. Then again, I also have some highly emotional posts that are very interesting to look back upon.

Anywho, now that I am a lot calmer, I think I shall get back to reading my MBA homework. Taa taa!

My stress level has shot out the roof due to my current move. I am in between jobs right now. Hopefully I will be hired by WestHost, which is where my gentleman hatter works. If i am hired, I will hear from our boss later on today from the sounds of it. Hopefully he will tell Dattas instead of trying to reach my cell phone. I unfortunately left my charger at the Hatter Household.

Sadly, I also missed my father hatter's birthday. I ended up getting rather zombie-like yesterday, really white and all that. Dattas refused to let me take a carriage down in that condition, so we returned to the den and rested. Today will be another resting day for me in hopes that I can go visit my family tomorrow.

Yesterday was a busy day for other reasons. I went to a Writer's Workshop with Atari. It was just him and me. Thankfully only two submissions came this time from people who did not attend. The first one we had, lots of people sent in their works to be critiqued and it was just the two of us. The one that I missed, Atari had this great lesson plan and two people showed up. I don't know the details, but it sounds like he wishes that he could forget it, so I didn't ask for details.

Atari and I critiqued the work sent in and talked about what we are working on. We have different issues when it comes to writing, so we could help each other out. I have a couple ideas that I want to work on which will actually be novels instead of just short stories, so I talked with him about that. Atari gave me some really good ideas for one of them.

After that, Hobbes and I hung out over at his house. I can't remember all that I worked on, but I do know that I spent a little bit of time playing wow. I also was trying to help my gentleman hatter not get too stressed. He hasn't slept well for a while and as such his depression is kicking in.

Later on that night, Hobbes and I went to the sushi meet. We were early due to a mixup with the times on the messages that the hostess sent out. I had a nice roll even though it was a bit spicier than I wanted. I think next time I will have the Funky Charlie instead of the Funky Vegas. The green tea was awesome there.

I was amazed that we had so many people show up for it. I believe that we had 12 total. It was a little hard to count from the other end of the table. We had a newcomer show up and a few people that I haven't seen since I first rejoined the UFF. The goth trio that showed up were awesome. I wish they came to the meets more often. Some of the people were a bit too noisy but that might be due to my stress levels.

Trying to move has been rather stressful. I am never quite sure what to do or when to do it. I have some of my address stuff switched over. I will be trying to get that stuff sorted out this week.

Finding buyers for my books has been rather slow so I am looking at used book stores in Salt Lake to see if anyone will buy my books. I do have some people who want to buy my jewelry and flute. I just have to take the pictures once my camera is done recharging.

School is pretty relaxed - only issue is that one of my lenders forgot that I am back in school. I will be going to the financial services office at my campus to get that taken care of tomorrow. It scared the tea lights out of me, and it did not help that I saw the letter from them just before heading to bed.

I have three days left with ABS. I had to miss today because of my stomach flu. I could barely make it from the bathroom to my room. I made it downstairs to post this, but I have pretty much just stayed in the chair. I am going to head upstairs soon.

While I am ill, I am reading a book that my grandmother loaned me. It's called The Likeness, by Tana French. Its about a former undercover detective who gets involved with a murder of another woman who happened to steal one of her former undercover identities, so she gets to go in undercover as the other woman. I haven't made it very far, but its very interesting.

I am trying to find ways to earn money until I can find a job. I am trying to sell off my books and some of my jewelry (my hand made ones). I also am trying to sell an indian flute that I own but rarely use. I am also contemplating trying to get some of my original works published. I am pretty much applying for any job that I am qualified for up in Logan, so that means I have to wait for them to upload new things before I can apply again.

I, at the very least, have a stomach flu. I might have a fever, but I can't verify that because I can't figure out where my hatter mother put either of the two thermometers.

Life is calming down slowly. I am waiting around today for a phone call from a place called Information Connection. They are hiring people to conduct market research calls. It would be very interesting and a nearly full time job. I thought it was full time until I did the calculations last night and realized it came close, but didn't quite hit it.

I have moved a couple things up to my gentleman hatter's abode. Currently still in the process of culling all the books I don't want from the ranks. If you want to look at the ones I am selling, check out half.com and search for mikanis.hatter. I am also going to be posting some items on here since they aren't books and I don't want to deal with eBay itself.

Debates on one of my groups has been interesting. We have been debating about guns because one of the members decided to bring an unmarked airsoft gun to the last meet. I offered to continue the debate as long as it was done without excessive punctuation and swear words. No one has tried to contact me. My future roommate reminded me that I should have also asked them to have at least some punctuation too since a lot of the people I was debating with did not use any punctuation or capitalization in their posts. The nice thing is that the mods have put their paws down and said no more guns at meets, legal or not.

Anyways, I should get ready for work. I am interviewing people today at ABS to make sure we can find someone to replace me. That's what most of my day will be. Thankfully. I am planning on begging to leave after the last interview due to illness.

I have been running around and riding in the carriage so often, that my hat has gone missing... In other words, my brains are rather scattered at the moment. Here is why:

1. Working at ABS is now extremely stressful
2. I am trying to find a new job that will let me move up to Logan
3. I am spending the days that I set aside for homework for interviews
4. I have a lot of homework (thankfully I am keeping up with it)
5. I may have to buy a new car depending on the job
6. I need to sell off a bunch of items to get more money and free up space in my room
7. As a part of the UACPA Communications Subcommittee, I am actually going to be writing articles for the newsletter coming up

So yes, between all that, I barely feel like I have any time to breathe. Much less notice that I never actually had a hat on my head the whole and so have never lost it ^.~

So I just know that my Uncle Merle and I are going to get into a fight soon. He got upset because he thought I was making fun of the prophet Jeremiah due to my poor word choice when I was trying to explain why its my favorite book in the Bible. I was trying to explain that I get rather animated when I am reading the book of Jeremiah due to his attitude about things. He goes through tons of shit and still has the best, quirkiest attitude. On the other hand, my uncle sounds like he wants to turn him into a martyr...

On top of that he said that Yoga = Hinduism, which is complete bullshit. Even though certain yoga groups use it as a tool of worship for Hinduism, that is a small group compared to the rest of the yoga community. What do I do yoga for - my body and my mind because it helps my body release a lot of tension which keeps the depression down. It also helps stop the cramping so I am not ready to kill people. What does my almost-catholic mother hatter do yoga for - her body so she can feel good and get some nice gentle exercise. Where does Hinduism fit in with either of those?

So I ended up explaining to him that I find Jeremiah admirable and that I wish that I could react in a way similar to Jeremiah if I come to hard times. I have odd word choice at times that gets confusing so I explained that I really did not intend it the way that it sounded. I don't laugh while I am reading it but I smile when he doesn't put up with stupid people.

I also ended up stabbing him with what I am sure will be an unexpected argument. For the record, I don't agree with the caste system. Thankfully, neither does my uncle. I don't like it because I don't think that your parents should decide what you are going to be. I don't like the idea of if your father is a priest, you have to be one too.

Which brings me to the argument I gave him...I compared the Levites to the caste system in Hinduism. Of course, I gave him leeway to correct me by pointing out that I was (and am) confused about how only Levites could be priests and how if you were a Levite, you had to be a priest. My point being - what if there was a truly awesome priest potential in a guy from say the Tribe of Rueben (I had to look it up in the Bible); could he not be a priest because he has the wrong parents?

Anyways, it really aggravated me. Oddly enough, I could handle the dig into the polytheists, but not the hypocrisy of dissing the Hindus over birth rights. And yes, he did make a comment about polytheists being lost souls.

My gentleman hatter came back down to make sure that I am doing alright. I have been feeling rather off since I left the convention. I have been staving off the white rabbit since it does not seem too bad. Its just very annoying. Having my gentleman hatter sleeping on the ground near my bed helped me to be able to sleep better. He is also making sure that I do not overtax myself. We are both currently fiddling around with our technology. Soon though we will need to eat. Afternoon tea would be lovely right now...

Hamtaro has been getting more and more friendly with the cats. My hatter mother and I are starting to wonder if he might be getting a bit too friendly. While I was away at RMFC, my hatter mother caught Hammy chasing after one of our female cats for piggle kisses. My hatter mother was laughing so hard that she could not get it on camera.

Hammy was also a cutie yesterday when I snuggled with him. It had been a long time since I had a chance to snuggle with him. Since a couple days before the con, I have started to take allergy pills every morning (so far they are working like a new tea cup). He climbed off my shoulder and into the window. From there, I hand fed him carrots and lettuce greens. He was so happy that he swooned in the window. He looked so comfortable. However, I had to move him because he had his back paw sitting in some pee he graciously decided to leave there.

Herein lays some of the random moments that our news reporter, Mika Hatter, caught, but could not remember what sequence they occurred in:

Dattas: oh my gosh, you do not want to go in there!
Mika: why not?
Dattas: you just don't want to go in there!
Mika: *looks at Darkwulf and Shadow before turning back to Dattas* Tell me
Darkwulf: Oh he got a little surprise earlier
Dattas: It was so gross!
Mika: What was it? Tell me or I will follow Shadow
Darkwulf: *laughs*
Mika: Fine, I have to see it *walks towards the door jokingly*
Dattas: *walks in opposite direction after trying to pull Mika back*
Mika: *follows Dattas* I was just kidding
Dattas: I saw naked guy butt in there
(paraphrased of course)

Hobbes! Horses!
*Hobbes turns with huge raised eyebrows and hopeful grin*

Laken (wonderful artist and Crow fursuiter): Mark it up! Mark it up!
(singing from Mark It Up from the Repo: The Genetic Opera)

Damon: *holds up a ball in the podium at the front of the ballroom* Ball?
Three fursuiters: Ball? Ball! *reach out their paws*
Damon: Ball? *makes a move as if to throw it*
More fursuiters: *moving more into the center and reaching towards Damon* Ball! Ball! Ball!
Damon: *tosses ball*
Fursuiter: *catches it and tosses it to the original owner who passes it back to Damon*
Damon: Ball?
Fursuiters: BALL!
Damon: *tosses the ball again, but spiking it a bit*
Fursuiter: *catches ball and spikes it*
Ball: *goes up into the big chandelier and gets stuck*
Fursuiters: No!!
Damon: Well I guess we should call the hotel to let them know they have a ball if they want it
(another paraphrase)

Mika: Ball?
Damon: Wait, why would you want a ball, you aren't a dog
Mika: So?
Damon: why don't you go look for something shiny
Mika *turns to left and spots disco ball*
Mika: *pokes disco ball to keep it spinning while she drinks her water*

Greetings! This is the last report from RMFC 2009!

We had a blast last night. We went to BD's Mongolian Grill. They were really nice and the food was very yummy. All of us could not resist going back for seconds. I shared my large brownie ice cream with the others. I was craving brownies :D

Dattas and I skipped out on the bar and the dancing. He was not feeling very well so I stayed with him. The other furs spent some time down at the bar, drinking. There were more dancers last night. Hobbes got some great pictures.

This morning, we all woke up even later than the previous days. We left as quick as we could to "go to breakfast", but then we got stuck in the dealer's den. Everyone either picked up their arts from artists or bought new arts. Eventually we made it to Einstein's Bagelry again. Such a good breakfast. We sat in the restaurant this time.

After we ate, we went shopping. We checked out Radio Shack and Office Depot. Only a couple furs went into the Radio Shack, but we all went into the Office Depot. Hobbes needed a flash drive and Dattas wanted to look for a better Eye-Fi card. Hobbes was able to get the flash drive; Dattas was not so lucky.

We came back to the hotel and waiting around impatiently for the end of the Art Auction. Acamori, Tiber, Hobbes and I all bid on auctions. Before we got into line, we hung out around the Dealer's Den. I got a Cheshire Cat card from a nice artist. It is my plan to scan on all of the art I purchased to show everyone what I found. I also made sure to grab all of the cards of the artists I either purchased from or was really fond of.

Waiting in line for the art auction pickup was interesting. I was able to talk with a nice fur named Jim. We talked a lot about horror films and books. We both find horror movies invigorating and horror books relaxing. Turns out that he bought the framed version of one of the prints I purchased. What was really odd though is that they could not figure out if I was outbid or what happened with the picture I bid on. Eventually, I was able to find that out later on after double checking with Con Ops.

*sighs a little, and rubs her ear a little*

My apologies folks, its been a long day and I have been a little tired.

*ear perks a bit with a small smile*

Dattas and I spent some time just wandering around the hotel. Dattas was in suit, while I was his handler. We peeked into some of the rooms, some of which included the Lounge with several furs playing games and on computers as well as a panel on shared universes. We also wandered around the hotel during the second life panel (which Hobbes attended) and the creating a language panel. I was tempted to go to the language panel, but I decided against it.

We spent some time just resting in the room too. Everyone was having a ton of fun. We did a lot of joking around with less attention being paid to the TV. Tiber had set the channel to Saving Private Ryan. We shared a few Dr. Tran jokes in addition to other jokes. There have also been a large number of Futurama references in jokes too.

We had our lunch/dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. Several of us were wearing tails. Dattas convinced us to go into the Hard Rock Store and ended up meeting a couple ladies that were extremely thrilled to meet us. One of them admitted that the Cafe happens to have a board in the back that asks all the employees what species they would be if they were furry. The two ladies in the store were a fox and a panda. Our waitress was a woolly mammoth.

The total party at the Hard Rock Cafe - Dattas, Sylvari, Shadow, Nightstorm, male friend of Darkwulf's from WoW, the wife of the friend from WoW, Darkwulf, Acamori, Max, Hobbes, and me.

Dattas had his first alcoholic beverage. It was a raspberry lemonade with a little bit of alcohol in it. Darkwulf had the same thing but with a lot more alcohol in it. Acamori had a martini, which Dattas later tried and found too salty. Hobbes had a hurricane, which is what Darkwulf had the last time we went to Hard Rock. Tiber had his usual beer (silly otter).

We had a ton of conversations that were so much fun. We kept teasing Hobbes about the horses. Dattas got a bit looser and relaxed. It did not help that we were laughing so hard from the joking around. Tiber tried really hard to not let us take his picture, but Darkwulf and I were able to get some really good ones. We also had several conversations that involved geek stuff like phones.

We came back to the hotel briefly before heading back to Hard Rock Cafe in fursuits - Darkwulf, Frio, Dattas, Sylvari, and Mika. The manager was fine with us heading back in our fursuits and the two ladies in the store had asked us to come back too. Max, Nightstorm and Hobbes were our handlers. The handlers doublechecked before we went inside, so some of us were dancing in front of the Cafe.

We were allowed to come in and the two gals came right up to us. The one that would be a panda was very excited at my raccoon suit since it can pass off as a panda if you see me just from the front. We took pictures with those two ladies, several families, the manager and some waiters. Our handlers took pictures both upstairs and downstairs in the Cafe. It was really hard to tell who was having the better time, the fursuiters or the people around us. We made several little kids so very happy.

Hobbes is pretty sure that the panda gal will probably come to a furry con on her own. She was so fascinated by it and really liked the idea of joining us. He gave her his email address. I am hoping that she will come next time. I think its awesome that she loves pandas. She was also a very nice gal.

The rough part about the trip is that when we were ready to head out, it started to rain and hail. We had to spend time waiting around in the Cafe and the store. It allowed more people to take pictures with us. We also got some water while we waited.

Current news - we came back to the hotel and are currently split up into two groups. Dattas, Darkwulf, Max and I are in the room still. We are watching Metalocalypse while we either check our phones or *smile* blog. Acamori, Hobbes, Nightstorm, and Sylvari are currently at the dance. From the sounds of it, Darkwulf will soon join them. I may or may not go with since it sounds like a ton of fun.

This is Mika reporting live from the end of RMFC. I hope that you have enjoyed the news coverage. More information will follow soon!