I don’t have much to say today. I’m running on fumes right now, and even the cup of coffee I just drank at 8:30 at night against my better judgement isn’t going to keep me awake. It also just took me a full 30 seconds to remember how to spell “against”, so that should be a pretty clear indication of my mental state. I want to be more fun than that, but I’m tired, and still kind of sick with a cold, and just ready to rest for a while. I have a day off tomorrow, so hopefully that will help me recharge. I’m going to try to sort out how to make a WordPress theme and probably do some costume designing work for Carmilla. Here’s hoping that will give me some more interesting stuff to write about.
Tag Archives: 40 Days
One Week Down
I’ve been doing this now for a solid week. I’m nearly positive I’m the only one seeing this, and while that both takes some pressure off making anything I’m saying interesting and makes me feel like I’m just talking into the void for no reason, I’m still pretty happy that I’m keeping this up. I realize that this pace is unsustainable in the long run, but if I can hold it for forty days, it might help me make this a more regular thing in the future.
Eight Years from Tuesday
I’m still sick and still exhausted and still determined to make this work. I’m laying on my couch watching The Simpsons, hence the ridiculous post title, which was just said in the episode I’m watching. Usagi has decided to join me.
Long Slow Day
It’s kind of astounding to me how hard this is to maintain. It’s probably just because today I’ve come down with the third, maybe fourth, random illness in as many weeks. Apparently this is totally normal when your kid starts daycare, but it still sucks that my son has caught everything and brought it home to share.
On the plus side, I got to watch Bloodlust again for the first time in years. I now have a bunch of good-ish reference pictures of Carmilla, which is exciting. I also got to enjoy the amazing late nineties style DVD menu. I honestly forgot how quickly stuff like that starts to feel dated, or rather, how fast 20 years can go by. I’ll sit down tomorrow and actually start planning how to make a costume.
But for now, more lying on the couch and blowing my nose. Again.
Introducing Shiba Sunday
I have an adorable dog. She can be an incredible jerk at times, but her cuteness always keeps anyone from being annoyed with her for too long. So I thought, in honor of my adorable dog, I’d start a new feature here called Shiba Sunday. I get more stuff to post about on a regular basis, you get cute Shiba Inu pictures, and we all get to enjoy some quality alliteration.
For my first entry, here’s a before and after picture of my girl Mari. The top picture is her when we first brought her home, and the bottom is her now at seven, rolling around on the sofa like a fool.
Leap Day
It doesn’t particularly feel like an extra day of the year. Still, it’s pretty interesting to me to have a day that only occurs every four years, give or take. I still don’t understand all the rules involved. It feels like one of those “i before e except after c” things, where there’s a rule, but then there are rules for the rule, and it just gets confusing.
I ended up spending the day running errands with my husband and son, finishing folding a truly absurd amount of laundry, and watching my kid play. I also tried to squeeze in a little bit of website design while he was napping, and managed to crash Photoshop mid-save. So, I ended up making negative progress somehow.
But now I’ve recreated everything that I accidentally deleted and have finished my design. Now to see if I remember how to write CSS sheets…
Like A Dragon
I’ve been doing some web design for the first time in years. It’s been a lot of fun, although I’ve just been messing around in Photoshop so far without actually coding. I’m kind of dreading that part.
In the meantime, my cat spent the day sleeping in her pile of toys like a dragon guarding her horde.
Cute Kitty
My son is sick with a bad cold, which I’m getting, and I’m exhausted. But I also don’t want to give up on my “post every day” plan on day two, so here’s a cute picture of my old lady kitty, Usagi, with the hope that I’ll have more energy tomorrow.
Ambitious Projects and Bad Ideas
I used to go to anime conventions and cosplay at least twice a year. Between adopting a child and everything else that’s been going on, I haven’t actually made a costume for about two years, outside of throwing something together for Halloween. I’d like to get back to sewing and costuming, and since I’m not the type to ease back into a hobby (a.k.a. a dumb person), I’ve decided to go straight for the most bat-shit crazy option I can think of.
For those of you unfamiliar with animated vampire films of the early 2000’s, that is Carmilla from Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. I am a huge fan of the Vampire Hunter D light novels, and even though Carmilla does not actually appear in them, I have wanted to do a costume from the series for a while, and hers is amazing.
Seriously though, I’m not sure what I’m thinking taking this on as a restart project. The wig alone is the stuff of nightmares. And that dress defies physics in the way only an anime outfit can. But, you know, I guess I’ve had worse ideas than this.
Time to dig up my swatch book and see what I need.
Mardi Gras
I honestly didn’t realize today was Mardi Gras. Normally I don’t realize it, but I had a plan this year, and missing Mardi Gras actually would have messed my plan up.
I was raised Catholic, and even though I no longer go to church or practice, the only real holdover from my past religion is Lent. The theory is you’re supposed to give something up as a sacrifice. It was never a practice that made a lot of sense to me, even though it’s supposed to be symbolic. But when I would give things up, it would always be something kind of silly, like chocolate or ice cream or something, and half the time I wouldn’t even manage to get through 40 days without slipping.
So a few years ago I changed my plan. For the 40 days of Lent, I gave up procrastination. I forced myself to create something every day and posted it on the internet for accountability. It was hard, but I did it with no slips. It might not be as much in the spirit of things to give up something so intangible, but it genuinely helped me and made me feel like I was actually doing something that mattered, instead of just pretending to give up something trivial that I would totally go back to the second Lent was over.
So this year, I’m giving up something more intangible again. I’m giving up ignoring my blog. However dumb I feel about it, I’m going to post here everyday until Lent is over. Heck I might even try to push for Easter. We’ll see how things go. I suppose I accidentally picked the right time to come back here and start writing again. Here’s to happy accidents!