a general catch-up

[seventhe]

In absolutely no order at all:

• Had a pretty good weekend full of friends, fireworks, and drunkenness. Got chased by the cops (yes, we are all 30 years old), did some amazing karaoke with safety_caesars as Edgar and Locke, watched Lithium play an awesome show, and sewed. A lot.


• Finished my Azula costume for our Avatar group at Otakon 2011. The costume's functionally finished - I need to give it a good smoothing over (tightening hems, adding fancier trim, some flashy buttons for fun, etc) but at the moment I could wear it and be okay with it. A good afternoon's attention to the details will make it very awesome. Still to do:
  
  • Wig
  • Bitty Collar (the piece right around her neck; I've done the two more floppy collars already)
  • Ribbon / trim for the boots (I have boots)
  • Fancier gold trim or buttons for the bigger collars; gold trim or fabric paint for the symbols on her ~loincloth~
  • General Smoothing and Touch-Ups


• Made decent headway on my Porom costume (again for Otakon 2011). I have most of the materials in hand; it's mostly just a matter of construction, as it's one of those great costumes which a) defies real-world physics and b) isn't even canonically consistent if you compare the art to the FMV to the sprite. Go Squeenix. You jerks. This costume is going to be really, really hard to pee in.


• Started Dragon Age as a distraction. It is a successful one.


• Realized there are only 12 weeks until the Akron Marathon Relay! At which I would like to be A LOT FASTER >.> So, I have constructed a training plan with the help of SmartCoach on RunnersWorld.com. The plan is pretty interesting!~ It looks very in-depth, telling me pacings for my intervals and tempos and stuff like that, and even though I still hate running I'm kind of excited to try it and see if it works. For $15 I can get a month of access to the "Master Training Plan" on their website, and I am thinking about doing that too, because $15 isn't that much for a month and I could just print it all out at the end of the month. I have really been lazy about running recently, although part of it has been letting this awful tendonitis thing heal itself, so I can't take all of the blame entirely.


• Mostly: yup awesome

How was everyone else's weekend?

Comments

[novel_machinist]

Dragon Age is a WONDERFUL distraction. I really enjoyed that game.

YAY OTAKON!

[zen_monk]

What an accomplished weekend. All I can say is that I stayed in LA for Anime Expo for the whole 4th of July Weekend. Lots of line-waiting and "meh-ness" over what people are cosplaying as.

Actually, not so much line-waiting. For an extra 50 bucks, I get to be a "premier fan" and cut in line. That really did highlight the con. That, and I got sexy voice actors' autographs. Sometimes twice.

[bixasaurus]

My weekend was pretty good, aside from working all the time.


FFFFFFFF DO NOT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON MY LEVELS OF ANGER AND DISSAPOINT ABOUT NOT GOING TO OTAKON WITH YOU GUYS. 8|

[safety-caesars.livejournal.com]

BITTY COLLAR

ALSO: I'M MAKING OUT WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

DON'T MOCK THE BITTY COLLAR. AZULA WILL END YOU.

AND SHUT UP ABOUT MY INAPPROPRIATE TAG USE LOL

[safety-caesars.livejournal.com]

I ALSO KEEP READING IT AS "GENERAL SMOOCHING"


...AND TOUCHING.

[jennyclarinet.livejournal.com]

Yes-12 weeks until the race, and I am using my new Garmin watch to help motivate me to run faster. The problem right now is that I wear myself out quickly trying to stick to a certain pace. I can barely make it 3 miles with the way I've been pushing myself. I should do more running research like you have done. Or just continue trying to improve my speed on my runs. The Garmin is such a great tool. But let me know if you find some magic bullet for running faster. :)

You already know my (stick in the mud) feelings about running from the cops. Remember-that was my 2nd run-in with cops that weekend. I am trying to keep a spotless image here!

The cosplay sounds so fun. I'm not into anything besides HP enough to ever participate, but I enjoy looking at the pictures of your costume creations.

Perhaps the answer is that the j-squad needs to have more dress-up theme parties. Although I'm not sure "white trash" is a good idea for a dress-up party, because what is white trash anyway? I could totally be proved wrong on this-I just have no freaking ideas. And I don't really like referring to any part of humanity as "trash."

Man, I sound old and rambly. Don't turn 31.