April 25th &26th: I failed again! The best thing to happen to me.
Well I believe my costume this weekend could fall under both of those categories. I'm going to do me and do the positive first.
The Riddler
This is the first time I've Cosplayed a Male Character. It was fun stepping out of myself and the gender role of strictly female (Though I still wore feminine makeup and my boobs don't really make it a reality to be a man) I won the best Costume prize of two tickets to an advanced 3D screening of The Avengers Age of Ultron. I'm SO excited! I think it's funny that I won something the first time I try and step out of my normal costuming boundaries.
As for the "I Failed again" Despite winning an awesome prize for it's first time out there are a lot of things I want to add to this costume. Some of which is to totally rework it. Not so much a fail but, I want to get better and learn from past costumes. :)
Make the question mark on the back darker, it faded a bit after the first wash.
Make the green jacket match more with the green of the hat. (Fabric paint)
Add another layer of gold to the staff. The dry brush effect didn't work out as nice/the camera didn't pick it up.
Make the mask! I had bought the one I used and to me it just didn't cut it. It was the wrong shape, was uncomfortable to wear for more than 10 mins and the sequins kept shining in the corner of me eyes. I'm thinking for the next one that I'll hold it on with spirit gum this time. *nods*
Get a picture of THE BACK!!! >.< Can't believe I didn't!
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RL/ Mene News:
Wut! a Feature within a regular journal post!? Scandalous!
I'm working on my fifth image for June. After this I only have one more image to work on before I hit my June goal. :D NICE!
I don't really remember when or who it was with. I know it was before kindergarten with a neighbor hood boy. But I moved 4 times before the age of 5 so the memories are very jumbled. I went to 2 different schools in kindergarten and another two in grade one. I think I kissed him at the park. The more I try and remember the more I can't. XD
I remember my first kiss in the house we finally settled in when I was in grade two.
RL/ Mene News:
Working on some sketches today. :D Feeling happy. :D
Surprise! It's Nephila's alt here today! Why? Well because I'm only like 131 gold away from my next goal in buying out The glove box shops and I though it might be easier to earn it this way than hop back and forth between accounts. XD But I'll probably still need quite a bit now that I think about it. I guess we'll see how far I can ramble on about my awesome sister and cousins. XD I think it's 60g now for maximum posts. I can't remember.
My sister is pretty awesome. We're close yet far away right now since she's moved out. It's great talking to her still. We have similar interests (Comics, anime and sci fi) so she really is like a built in bestie. Our most recent escapades was going to a Cancer fund raiser in costume. It was a lot of fun. It's actually kind of strange not being in the same house as her. We used to decompressed after the kids went to bed by playing games or chating about the next anime. Or watch movies on netflicks. It's not the same as being on the phone or texting. >.< Since my sister left though I have been concentrating more on my art which is ok but lately I feel like I might fall or set myself up for failure. I'm pretty good at that. . .
My cousins are pretty awesome too. One is getting married this June. They're such a cute couple. Her social was fantastic. I've never been to a St.Patrick's themed wedding social before. I'm mostly close to the cousins on my mothers side because we're all more or less the same age. Where as on my dads side they're all a good deal older than me. Dad was the youngest of the family and an oopsie. XD So most of the cousins on that side were teens when I was born. Out of all of my 12 cousins on my moms side only 3 of them are boys. So when we girls get together things happen. Amazing dun things. XD
RL/ Mene News:
Me Tracker: 3750/3881 (before this post)
After post:3800 (still need 81)
ONE MORE SLEEP TILL ADVANCE SCREENING of THE AVENGERS AGE OF ULTRON! eeee!
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Yup it was awesome. I went right after work, since the tickets were won and a premier I really didn't have any time to eat before we went so I ended up eating a bunch of junk. >.< I figured that's pretty normal for going to a movie. I tried to find some Avengers Memes for this but I couldn't find any I liked. I figured these would apply just as well. XD
RL/ Mene News:
I went to See The new Avenger movie. It was great. :D
Ahh the first day of May. It's a beautiful day outside. The walk before and after work today was a delight. That flows very nicely into the topic of the day. My first job. I was like a lot of young people. Full of energy wanting to go and do everything...still kinda like that really. We didn't really have a lot when I was growing up. In fact my dad became bankrupt and we lost our house when I was 7. We lived with my aunt so I took a paper route to help mom and dad out. I think most people have paper routes when they're young.
I don't have much time to read as an adult, I prefer to spend time drawing or creating rather than consuming media and Ideas of others. However, as a child young adult I read a lot. One of my favorite childhood books was Island of the Blue dolphins. When I first got it I thought is was going to be about mermaids and dolphins but as I started reading it it was something completely different. A young girl and a wolf pup living alone on an island. I should re read it some time to see if I remember thing right but in one part of the book a devil fish got hold of her canoe and she nearly drown.
A lot of very exciting and crazy things happened to her. Which amazed me since she was suppose to be my age at the time doing all these adventurous things. Her character was like a mix of Pocahontas and Lara Croft only at a Wendy Darling type of age. XD Her independence was something I aspired to while I grew. I never really surrounded myself with people I was more about being outside and collecting rocks than playing with dolls.
RL/ Mene News:
Found an awesome 'new' office chair today for $7.99 similar models are like 150-200. yay for thrift shops. It just needed some dusting and adjustment. A very awesome find.
Walked for nearly the whole day. I'm tired but the happy kind. Did lots of trail walking and shopping earlier in the day.
Food! :D Tonight I'm having chicken and veggies. For desert we're having Strawberry Rhubarb pie. Yum! Can't wait. We'll need it after all the cleaning and moving stuff around we're doing today. I'm hoping to go for another long walk today. Not as long as yesterday but still. Now that the snow is gone I want to take advantage of the outdoors.
I'm working on some things for July's updates today. Nothing to major yet but it's some thing that will go towards a larger group picture of my World of Warcraft Crew. :) My BF's B-day is in June and I'm starting to think what I want to do for it. Prolly a nice dinner at home or something like that.
RL/ Mene News:
Doing some cleaning today. Replacing an old mattress today. Also thinking about putting on a facial mask tonight.
Five things I did... today? hmm. It was a pretty good ol' regular kind of boring day today. A few pretty great things did happen on mene. Not so much in real life.
Oh hey it's May the forth be with you day! :D A lot of my friends are watching a Star Wars Marathon. I have to much stuff to do to get ready for key con to really think about watching a marathon.
I won a few CI's from the "Strut your stuff" CI contest :D
Made an Avatar for the Cosplay contest
Ate the worst rendition of sweet potato bis ever. (first world problems)
Worked on a few art projects.
Had yummy hardy veggie soup instead of the bis. much nicer. huh I guess I was in a soup mood today. XD
Fact of the day not nearly as delish as soup of the day. Today I had a nice cream of broccoli soup. Soup is seriously something I can eat whenever. So many kinds too. nom nom nom.
RL/ Mene News:
Long day at the day job, I came home to a nice salad made by my daughter. She's a sweetie. It made my evening so much easier. I honestly had no clue what I was going to make when I got home.
I'm in the middle of a mega trade right now!!! So exciting. 100k worth of commons for a second place medallion. I can't wait to play with all the shiny newness. :D I'm going to SS my main inventory later. XD (such a mene nerd)
Oh boy does this ever fit for this week in Mene. I won Second Place in Delcatty's Art Contest. It was 69K gold a quite a few awesome random items. It sucks to see people go but at least she went in a creative way. I wish she would have got more art for her contest. So that's going to be a pretty awesome shopping spree when I get my inventory sorted from the mega trade. XD The amount of commons was like 3-4 pages worth XD Eee! .
RL/ Mene News:
Only a week away till keycon. . . OH GAWWWDS MUST PREPARE!
Bought the rest of The Glove Box. The next shop will be...Hot Gossip
Over the next few weeks I'll be going on a few different adventures. Summer is just around the corner and con season is HERE! Tomorrow I'll be going about 2 hours out of the city to witness the snakes coming out of their dens. It's a pretty big thing when they all come out. We're packing a picnic lunch and taking the camera. :D
Over the weekend I'm organizing my bags for my in city vacation to Keycon. :D It's gonna be goood! yay May long weekend. :)
RL/ Mene ToDo List:
Work day job (10-4)
Exercise make dinner (4:30- 6)
Mene Stuffs / Scan in new sketches
Compile and upload to DA
Start bgs coloring
Put together picnic lunch so it's ready for tomorrow. (around 11)
During this mothers day weekend I went on a little day trip out to a rock quarry. We left at around 11 and came back around 6 or 7. When we got home we all crashed and slept. Woke up at around 12 and then went for a walk. XD It was a really nice day. I think the snow is finally going to stay away till October. We walked the trails and searched for critters. We saw a blue Jay pair, tons of snails and a pretty snake. :D Yes we played with snakes. XD We also looked at different rock patterns and the different types of rock in the area.
On Sunday we went thrift store shopping and out for dinner at a nice Thai restaurant. Then we went for a walk after we got home and got some coffee. After that it was a quiet night at home. We watched Sherlock Holmes and fell asleep.
I'll upload some pictures from our adventure on Saturday. Now I have to get ready for the next adventure... KeyCon. I can't believe it's this weekend already.
RL/ Mene ToDo List:
Make a travel List
Work on bg images
upload pictures
Mene Stuff
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May 11th: Games
Gaming is something that I enjoy. It relaxes me after work and makes me look forward to the weekend. :D I love MMOs and Table Tops and recently I've been experimenting with LARP. . . which is really hard to not break character in. I think if I ever do a serious character they'd need to be crazy. Spouting the same one liners isn't fun for anyone involved when it comes to RP.
I found a WoW Lore Book at Value Village "War of the Ancients" I pretty much know the story already but I heard the writing for it is spectacular. So I'm going to give it a chance. :) I also bought Dragon with a Girl Tattoo. It's a pretty awesome parody.
This list is going to be added to threw out the week.
FACIAL! This weekend my skin will be going threw drinking, make-up and LOTS of fan type people. I'm going to start with a nice hot cloth to open up my pores then this lovely Baobab and Marula Oil mask. After that I'll hop into the shower and after the shower I'll put on some coconut oil.
Lots of beauty things and relaxing before the madness of con.
RL/ Mene ToDo List:
I finally got all the common from the mega trade in their places.
My current shop: Hot Gossip 584/901
Alt Tracker: 1500/3350
I'm thinking of building a master art list I can come look at my schedule & past updates on. I like keeping track of things. Perhaps this after noon.
My original goal for art this year was one a week then I realized I could probably do better than that If I really work at it. Ever since that Wednesday and Saturday have been my update day.
January
3 WoW Centaur Sketch (I posted a different version of her every day for a week)
10 WoW Centaur Final
17 Mel's Sewing! (commission)
21 WoW Goblin
24 WoW Goblin nv
28 Male Sylvanas (more WoW fan art)
31 "Colors" different skin tones
Febuary
3 WoW Centaur Sketch (I posted a different version of her every day for a week)
So many things. Ok I'll start with Friday. Thursday was pretty much just getting things packed and ready for the weekend.
In the morning we got everything loaded in the car to take to the hotel. We checked in around 3 and got everything settled in our hotel room. We went directly to registration which thankfully had no line this year. We got our badges and headed back up to the room. We read threw the Panel scheduling and started circling things we were interested in. We left for dinner around 4 and meet my mom and dad at The Keg. It was my dad's B-day dinner. I had steak and mashed potatoes for dinner and Creme Brulei for desert. We made it back to the hotel on time for opening ceremony's. After that we were free to roam the dealer's room and various things. We ended up in the Gaming room and played Cards Against Humanity with friends both old and new.
On Saturday we went into the Art show and did some browsing. . .
To be continued when I'm not so sleepy.
News/ToDo List:
Oooo there was a store update while I was away. :D Very nice.
Ahh yes, it's back to the grind of the day job tomorrow. I don't wanna T.T lol JK. I'm actually excited about getting back on track with my various projects. Even though I didn't join in the costume contest this year there was a lot of things going on. So I was exhausted but not as exhausted as I could have been.
News/ToDo List:
Finally posted my not so new doom pony avatar! XD plus a few more I hadn't updated. XD
Alt Tracker: 2500/4610 (I added some of the new commons to the list)
It's how I survived Con. XD Corset + Alcohol and 3 dance parties...plus being over 30. I'm glad I took the two days after the con to re-coop. I didn't get the con crud like many people do after these events. So woot! It's a beautiful day outside, and I just added some cranberries to my H2O. Yum. :D I like putting things like lemon, lime, mint ect. into water. It's nice.
News/ToDo List:
Now that I have a gold cushion of 100K on 100K I'm going to start going for more commons on my main. :D woot! This is SO exciting. :D
I'm in a really good mood today for no real reason. :D
I wish I had been younger when I watched Harry potter. Or even read the books first. I have a bad habit of seeing the movie before reading the book. I was kinda of over the age where that style of story would really mean anything to me. The world of Harry Potter is very interesting. Sometimes I wonder what other wizard rivalries would be like there...I mean if thing are that intense in High School Imagine the Gangs. XD
News/ToDo List:
The new CI is out! :D And because of that... new avatar! XD
I am hungry but to hurty to eat. I think I might have a combo migraine ear infection. I can feel it pulsing. Computer light is probably really a bad idea right now but meh.
I think it would be cool to be invisible. :D I'd see SO many shows and movies for free, Freak people out by whispering to them at night. XD lol you know the normal invisible shenanigans.
So Chris an I decided to ignore our time apart and celebrate our 5 year anniversary. :D We went out for a lovely dinner and then went to see Mad Max. It was awesome. Suddenly the urge to drive a semi is real! XD HONK HONK!
I can only imagine Humanity going forward into space under this banner. Unfortunately for many people it's far to similar to certain religious symbol. It's an interesting idea and I'd love for us to have a world wide culture. Just so many of us are still into our separate tribes ways I don't see how it'll happen. Some of the things said about the flag looking like the star of David is enough for me to wonder if we'll ever make it as a whole.
News/ToDo List:
Art, lot's of it. :D
Some Mene stuff.
Breakfast was lemon tea. Snack was pretzels. Lunch was soup. Dinner...not sure yet.
The Riddler
The next shop will be...Hot Gossip
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