I've paid and will be attending my first ever convention :) Possibly even in a steampunk dress (Ivy Hisslepenny from Soulless).

Excited and also terrified at the same time...

Back at lj mainly to read some Steampunk communities and follow Gail Carriger (amazing author, you should read her).  Curious if anyone still has me on a friends' list. If so, I apologize for my absence. Might start journaling again.  Things are mostly good. I have ADHD, a boy who loves me and makes me laugh, and a cat who brings a smile to my face

Quiet Friday tonight. I've been thinking of tribes lately. Jenny Crusie uses them to describe the close female friendships women form that guide them through their lives. Her stories always feature these wonderful strong female friendships where the women meet up regularly and hang out and have girls nights ( Read more... )

So in the past two years I've gone from about 135-140 to 174 (according to the scale at work--I hate that thing, I can't walk by it without feeling a need to go weigh and then hating that number and wanting cheese--I know it's a little sick ( Read more... )

Random things that I keep meaning to buy but not getting around to (some may require saving ( Read more... )

Next weekend I'll be at a retreat for students in my former major (Philosophy, Politics, and the Public) where they prepare for graduation and what comes beyond it. So far as I know, I'm essentially there to talk about what I did after graduating (chose a city, got a job, moved, started volunteering, and lowered my expectations and ego to a ( Read more... )

I picked up two workout dvds at target over the weekend. They were $7 each. One has a 52 min "bootcamp" workout, the other has four 10 min kickboxing workouts, each with a different emphasis. I think my goal will be to do each ten min workout this week and the 52 min one once over the weekend. I know, it's little, it's not enough, blah, blah, blah ( Read more... )

1. Write in Capital Animals at least 3 times a week, work up to 5 by March ( Read more... )

Also, really cute photos :)

Yeah, it still hurts like hell, but my dad reference Bujold in an unrelated email and I remembered her quotes on tests and pain.

Essentially:
It's better to fail a test than refuse it.
Life will bring you pain, choose to have your pain be for something glorious.

http://capitalanimals.blogspot.com/

I agreed to switch Arthur and Guenevere (foster kittens since June) for Keene--a depressed, anxious, unhappy 15 year old gray male cat who looked like if Toby had an awful time of it. He has a snaggle tooth and had stopped grooming himself and only ate when people were near him. He had been in foster but the foster returned him because he tried to ( Read more... )