Shan, love, that list is of stuff to pack. Your pants are very done. XD And they’re packed now, so I’m gonna check them off the list.

Kira, I think we’ll walk you to your room/friends/stuff after we check into our hotel, okay? I’ll call you too, but I just wanted to get in touch SOMEhow.

Ahhhhh! I’m so excited now! X3 It helps that I get to bug the creator of my character about what he wears. So, hopefully this will be the last blog before the con, and then when I get back there will be con-babble that no one will care about! Yaaaay! X3

The new and improved list, due to not having quite enough fabric for Sanzo:

Get Febreeze, cameras, eyelets, hair extension clip-piece, oversized button-up shirt, trousers, white thread, Sharpie
Call Sabra
Get keys from Steph
Wash and pack
Make CDs
Finish prop-thing

Remember to pack!
Shan’s pants (heh, cosplay)
Shan’s necklace (Mm, red stone)
FMA jacket
wallet (ID, credit card, cash)
sewing emergency stuff
bath stuffs, clothes, comfy shoes, hairstuffs
Cell phone and charger

I like these lists a lot better. ^^; I’ll still be in costume, kinda. Most people probably won’t notice or realize I’m in costume, though. But I’m really excited about it, so nyah. XD And the Sanzo was getting to me, so this is better. Much less stress, which is important. ‘Specially since I don’t want to think about how I agreed to four straight days of 3-11 shifts followed immediately by a 7-3. The next week is gonna be HELL. But the con will be worth it! Zettai ni!

Kira- I have your number, I can’t get through. I’ve been trying all day, off and on. Basically, we’ll pick you up around 5pm, unless you can get a ride to my house. From there we hop onto 93 and go south. I figure we can walk you to your hotel room, but we can figure that out later. The important part is 5pm. If you can get a ride to my house earlier, that would be cool, because I don’t know a quick way from your house to 93.

Waking to short rumpled hair is very different from waking to long rumpled hair. XD I had forgotten.

So it’s all a uniform bronze now, and I really like it. The cut is almost exactly like Hinata’s. X3 I’ll need to do some styling for Sanzo, but not much, really. (I might stop by a preppie store to get one of those fake hair things to add to the eartails, though.)

Today is sewing and the little bits of hardware. (Shan’s pants need five snaps, and a prop needs eyelets.) Tomorrow is shopping and packing and leaving. Aw, heck, tonight is packing. ^^; I know I’m not gonna sleep, and I need something quiet to do at night.

So, list for tomorrow:
Bedford Walmart
-jeans
-paint
-Febreeze
-cord (belt)
-trouser socks
-disposable cameras
Bedford Fashion Bug
-hair
Steph’s
-pick up keys (noon-1pm)

List for today:
-snappy thing
-the snaps on that
-eyelets on prop-thing
-kimono
-closures
-sash
-cut/glue sutra
-paint sutra
-alter undershirt sleeves
-get packing!

Hey, not too bad. I can do that. Ah, and I want a map of this silly town, and I need to call Steph and Kira. Okay. I can do this. *pose flex sparkle*

*yawn* Sleepy. No time to rest; going down for the haircut and dye now, will finish Shan’s pants and some of my props when I get back. Tomorrow is sewing day for my kimono, and I need to chop at popsicle sticks in all my free time. ^^; I might need to get some fabric for my sutra, too, because I’m really not liking the stiff felt. And I keep forgetting about the chakra. Rar.

jeans
paint?
Febreeze
cord (belt)
trouser socks
get Shan’s keys from Steph
arrange getting Sabra

All that in two days, plus cosplay. Rar. So crazy. XD I’m really excited, though, and I like the thought of cosplaying again. It’s been a while. Two years, I think. Whee!

Shan: It was Michelob Ultra. Damn you, Mich! XD So do you still want to leave early? I’m sure we can work out parking, but if you’re anxious about rest for work (can’t say I blame you), that’s fine.

Kira: Uh, good luck? Don’t die? XD Man, I’m so excited now! So much to do, so little time…

Nearly done Shan’s pants now. Just gotta do the front snappy thing. I hope they fit properly - the way they were designed was certainly not mean for alterations, so there are a few weird hitches. I’d try them on, but they are so not my size. -_-;; But they should be okay, because the waistband didn’t get altered, and that’s what I’m sizing everything to, so it’ll be fine. *firm nod* I’m not gonna make the back pocket welts grey - that’ll take too much time and no one cares anyway. XD It would be too anal-retentive, and I don’t have enough time to make it look good.

I’ve got everything I need for my own costume except the pants. There are two tough parts, but the rest will get done pretty easy. Probably just in time. XD I might finish cutting and gluing the breastplate on the way down, heh heh. I completely forgot about all those stupid popsicle sticks. ^^; They’re so time-consuming. I’m saving them ’til last, because I can do them on the go and I don’t need many supplies for them. (Don’t worry Shan, I won’t actually cut them in your car. Shavings are a bitch to get out.)

So excited! XD So I need jeans and a haircut and to pack. I hope my hair turns out alright. I’d have gone today, but the place is closed Mondays… And they seem to randomly close during the week, so I’ll go tomorrow after work, and if they aren’t there then, I’m going somewhere else. XP I need this haircut liek whoa.

I’m kinda hungry. I might run to the store for munchies.

Just a quick note - Shan, Kira, my bestest buddy in the whole wide world agreed to take Saturday AND Sunday in exchange for his Thursday and Friday the next week. So, unless plans have been made that mean we HAVE to leave early on Sunday, we can stay as late as we want! <3 Well, except for Shan needing to work the next day and Kira’s school. Or is it vacation? Meh, either way.

Hot damn. Remind me to be affectionate with Aru every night before bed - that was the single most restful night I can recall. And I only slept six hours, because I have work today, and it still was the most restful. And - holy crap, my neck isn’t so tense it hurts. *boggles* My back is still bleh, but wow. My neck. *pokes it* Yeah, I know, it means I should relax more often, but that’s the thing. I can’t consciously relax. ^^; Crazy Lisette, yeah, I know.

Nicole gave me lots of music - Tom Waits and Rasputina and jazz and old rock and such. I’m listening to Waits now. I love his voice so much, and his lyrics are so cool. Heck, he has a song about the Apocalypse, and is singing about crows as big as airplanes in it. Love.

Gonna try to pick up the sewing machine today. I’m so useless on weekends. ^^; But I have tomorrow off, so I’ll finish Shan’s pants then. Tuesday I can work on the hard stuff for Sanzo unless I fall asleep, and Wednesday and Thursday I’ll be in a desperate flurry to finish. XD I’m so not gonna finish. And to think I started getting everything together a good year ago. There’s no stopping procrastination! Ah, and I need a haircut in there, too.

So yesterday before work I had one of those gut feelings that something bad was gonna happen to me. I ignored it cheerfully, as it wasn’t very bad (and only when said gut feelings make me physically ill does it indicate something REALLY bad) and lo, at work I dropped a 12-pack of beer on my hand, pinning the last joint of two fingers to a metal shelf. Now you say, “Pft, that’s all? Wimp.” And I point out that the impact split open one finger and they were both completely paralyzed for the next hour, and numb for the next two, and still tender. There was blood involved. The beer was unharmed. XP So I’m fine now, but it was a little funny not being able to really use that hand. Luckily, it was a quiet night, and my fingers aren’t broken (which I thought they might have been for a little while, they REALLY hurt and they were swelling and everything).

So that is my story. I’m sticking to it.

Steph: Is too. XD Although I admit, the weather lately has been really dismal.

Nicole: Yeah, I think part of it was the milk, too. My stomach doesn’t like milk when it’s empty. ^^; Shoulda remembered that.

Kira: No, no acid reflux. Just a picky stomach. ^^; I could make a list of all my chronic problems, but they don’t really bother me, so it would just be silly. Well, except for the sleep thing. I have a vague suspicion that I don’t actually do deep sleep cycles, and thus sleep is not very restful.

So yeah. I abruptly realized that I have about four functional days before the con. Maybe less. I should be fine, though - as long as I get Shan’s pants done, I don’t care about my costume. Much. It’s a pain anyway, and I’m really focusing on next year, not this one. Which is kinda sad. Cons are losing their magic glow. Well, not Otakon - I keep dreaming of it, with the big glass windows and the chatter of fans and the click of cameras and the soft sound of cool fountains and the hiss of air conditioning and automatic doors and the smell of the harbor… *gets all dreamy* Maybe next year. Maybe. It’s not worth the hassle of getting down there, which says a lot about said hassle.

Really don’t want to work. Really tired. But I gotta. *sigh* Working next Sunday will be such a bitch, leaving the con and going right back to the store. La. I whine too much. If I really hated this job, I’d do something about it, right? Right. So I need to just shut up. Besides, staying with them a long time looks good for future employers. Right? Right. Shutting up.

I am so fucking tired. C’mon, body, I slept nine hours. That’s decent. It’s normal. Stop fucking me over. *sigh* This is not gonna be a good week. I’m actually kinda looking forward to the con being over.

Uuuugh. I hate my stomach. Heck, I hate my body. >_< See, I tend to not be able to eat in the morning - I’m nauseous for the first hour or so after waking, and then my stomach declares war and I have to vaguely interpert this as hunger. So I decided to try those liquid breakfast things. Ugh. They’re decent enough, and they sit better than solid food, but damn is my tummy upset that I dared to put something in it. Bleargh.

That aside, it is very cold. I like it. <3 It’s better than being insanely hot. (Nyah nyah, Steph! Xd *sluuurp*)

Shan: …You confuse me. <3 One week omg aaaaaaah so excited!

Nicole: Exactly. It made me cringe. They did not harmonize. ^^;

Kira: *dances* OOOOOONE WEEEEEEK!! *ahem* Yeah, I tend to be pretty laid-back about stuff. So don’t worry about offending me with something like that, kay? Heck, I get to see you! That’s got me all excited. XD I know, none of that made much sense as a whole.

So I’ve started trying to learn Bratja. It’s, uh, kinda hard. I think it’s Russian. But I was singing along best I could, and I was like, “Wow, I didn’t know I could make sounds this pretty.” My only problem is that I am not THAT soprano. <_< Damn you, boy choirs. Why must you be so pretty?

When I was in chorus, I wanted to be a tenor. I could sing their parts better than they could. XD I couldn’t sing a few of their lower notes, but I was still better. They really kinda sucked. (Well, sometimes. Other times they really pulled together.)

*whine* My tummy really hurts. I don’t think I’m sick. I’m gonna try some Powerade, it likes Powerade. It doesn’t like milk. That might be the problem. Mm, that’s a little better. I should be okay. *pokes tummy* Now you hush. You were plenty spoiled yesterday, you carnivore.