Date:	2008-07-24 01:05
Subject:	Yay, Steampunk!
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused
Music:	Hey Sweet Man-Madeleine Peyroux-Dreamland

The Aristocrat
86% Elegant, 27% Technological, 47% Historical, 32% Adventurous and 24% Playful!

You are the Aristocrat, the embodiment of steampunk elegance and poise.  For you, dressing steampunk is first and foremost about simply looking good, with accessories and details to follow.  However, this does not mean that you ignore the demands of creating a “steampunk look.” Your outfits weave together a balance between technology and style, and between period accuracy and beautiful anachronism.  While your fashion inspiration may come from anywhere across the Victorian social spectrum, you always find a way to make your outfit beautiful.  You will probably be found in the clothes of the steam age elite simply because of the greater elegance available to them.  Chances are you dress this way because you like it, and you would still dress in this manner even if steampunk was not a popular interest.

Date:	2008-07-08 13:44
Subject:	CONvergence 2008 report
Security:	Public
Mood:	nostalgic

Just a short(?) report for CVG 2008

4(5) days, instead of 3, to celebrate the 10 year anniversary. I think they/we should 4 days every 10 years. It was a great con but I wcouldn't do 4 days every year, it was just perfect this time though :)

Day 1, Thursday: Black Canary & Green Arrow Wedding in the Garden Court. It was fun! Tons of Super Heroes and Jedi and other costumes in attendance. Black Canary had her Maid of Honor, Huntress, with her. Everyone looked gorgeous! Thanks for coming to the wedding. It was quick and fun and we had Anakin/Bad Jedi as our "Preist", he did a great job and was really LOUD!!!!

Afterwards we had our Wedding Reception and our Super Hero room party. It was awesome, of course! I didn't have as much help in the room party as I had hoped to have but all turned out well. I had a great bunch of people to help cleanup and move out the next day so all was great. I cannot imagine throwing a party for all 2 much less 3 nights in the future thoughl. So to all you people who have begged me to have the "Party like a Super Hero" room party both nights, I am sorry but dont' think it will happen unless more people offer to help :) I had a great time seeing the party-goers and bartending. My brother DJ'd, everyone seemed to have a good time. comment on the party if you'd like, I'd love to hear feedback!

Wore Black Canary Bridal gown from Wedding Issue

Day2, Friday: Moved out of party room and into our hotel room. Had a busy day! I was on 4 panels as well as the Encore Masquerade performance. Here are the panels I was on that day: Costuming 101: Masquerade and Hall Costumes, Give those Nymphs some Hooters, Phillip Pullman: The Anti-Narnia & How to take over the world - a Villian Panel. I missed the Phillip Pullman panel as I had no time and was going to the Masquerade Encore performance at the same time :( I would have really liked to have been on that panel too! poop! I will give thoughts on my panels at another time. any feedback you may have on a panel i was in I'd love to hear it :)

The Masquerade Encore thingy was aweseome, it was so cool to be included in it. What they did was have a winning costume or 2 from each of the last 10 years so, kind of a "best of the best" performance. It was well run, quick and professional!!! I was very honored to have been asked to be in it too, wore my Cleopatra costume - gorgeous if I do say so myself. It was great to take pictures of the costumes I remember throughout the years and realize that I am friends with a lot of those people who years ago I only admired from afar. Dayna Jean was aweseome back stage Erin & Tim ran a great show. Really, the most well run thing at con I have ever seen. Then again it was quite short :) Did you see it, what did you think? oh yes and I have to mention SESAME STREET ALIENS!!! "Telephone" LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wore Cleopatra after the Encore performance and then for Villian panel changed into my "Six" dress from BSG, it was a hit! Parties were great, shout out to the Egyptian room, it rocked!!!! took pictures there will post later. Other noteable rooms (that I saw), Serenity, Dr. Who, StarWars, Cowasylum, Xena, Misfits, Harry Knowles room..... I'm missing some too :(

Day 3, Saturday: had my yearly "Aerobics with Cleo" 9:30AM panel, it was a great class again. 2 of the people came again from last year!! Woot!!! I asked if they would be interested in doing aerobics at 9:30 on Saturday AND Yoga on 9:30 on Sunday next year and they all said "YES!!! so I think I will make that happen :) It was a really great way to start the day, I suggest it for everyone, if you can manage to get up that early. Also had a Corset Making panel in the afternoon with Eve. The rest of the day was preparing for Masquerade which we did a fun preformance. I wish we had video. Basically Black Canary as Bride (Me), Eve as Huntress and Emily as PowerGirl (and oh yes, did she make a great PowerGirl, if you know the costume you know what I mean! :) We came out and walked to the "Here comes the Bride" music and when we all got in place, with our wedding bouquets, the music changed to "Sweet Dreams" by Eurothemics (sp?) and we danced sexy and then I threw my bouquet to the girls and they fought over it and i chased them off stage. cute! We won "Honorable Mention" in the Master Catagory, which was just fine as they were other AMAZING entried and so to get anything was quite flattering! We worked hard on the outfits and did well on stage but still the amount of competing talent we have in our masquerade is pretty freaking cool!

Wore BC Bridal Gown for a while and then wore "Six" from BSG = FUN!!

Day 4, Sunday: moved out of room, had lots of kids to help, went fast. nice relaxing day. met lots of cool ppl. wish i had kept my swimsuit that day but had already packed and moved it out :( next year. wnet out for foods at TGIF, the first meal I had eaten since Wednesday. food was good. watched Barbarella with ppl at Cinema Rex and it was great. Now people will know it when I wear the Barbarela fur costume next year and at DragonCon this year! woot!

Day 5: Went to a panel at 12:01 midnight/monday morning to have the con be a "5" day con, in memory of Michael Sheard and for others we lost over the last years. It was cool and there were like, 200 people there??? Tim talked about Roadkill too, and it was nice and a chocolate fish was smuushed.

all in all a flipping awesome con! my brother went along, his first ever con and he loved it and we have already planned costumes for next years theme. "The funnier side of Sci-Fi" can I just say, Mel Brooks!

Date:	2008-06-08 14:44
Subject:	yep, superior!
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused
Music:	Hey Sweet Man-Madeleine Peyroux-Dreamland

77 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Superior Take the test!

Date:	2008-05-29 11:05
Subject:	Working out! :)
Security:	Public
Mood:	bouncy
Music:	Boom Boom-Pepe & The Bottle Blondes-Latenight Betty

So this was the week to start back on my workout plan, Body for Life! I hurt my back 2 months ago and am just getting ready to go back to regular life.

I am taking it a bit easy so instead of serious cardio/running, I am walking hard instead. Here is what I have done this week, and I must say, I KICK ASS! :)

( week workout )

The plan is:
Walk around Isles 5 days a week w/Eve. - so far 4 for 4
Weights 3 days a week, BFL style but all body parts each weight day instead of the upper/lower days. - so far 2 for 3 this week
Eat BFL style, 4 meals a day if possible, 6 hopefully I bought all good groceries so that is going well :) yum protein! so far this has been acheivable!
Stretch everyday, always, I never forget this part so that is easy. - obviously YES!
Yoga at LEAST every Saturday morning class, and add in Wed. night class when possible and I usually do my sun salutations when i first wake up to get my blood going so that is always a good thing to start the day with :) - haven't done the class yet but do the asanas in the morning on my own

How are you and your body?

Dear God, Buddha and Mother Earth,

Please make Barack Obama the next President of the United States.

Thank you,
me

PS. I need to make, and have been meaning to make since 2006, an Obama girl shirt!

What type of Fae are you?

I just wanted to write that I am still, after 7 years or so of bring on lj (yeah I'm old-er than you!), so surprised that people can get mean to a "friend", on their friends list.

It is just amazing to me.

here is what I think about lj posting, not that you care :) and also, I never post anything that dramatic, as I mentioned already, I am quite boring. So this hardly has even happened to me, I just see it happen to others and it seems rude!

1. It is your journal post whatever the hell you want.
2. It is public (to whatever level you post) there may be consequences to what you choose to post.
a. you could have your journal printed out and taken to court, if someone wants to hurt you that way-which is why I hardly post anything of consequence here-been there done that, even on a friend list posting.
b. you may have "friends" that either are not nice, don't believe in the same things you do or just want to be poops, sometime it is not nice to have that reality, stuff shoved in your face but it could happen.
c. someone could share what you post with someone else NOT on your friends list. depends how much you trust your friends
3. I think "friends" should comment in a respectful way, if they feel the need to comment in someone else's post. I think name-calling and other such bullshit, ie. making someone feel bad/stupid is awful and if you post that way, it is pretty apparent to everyone else how insecure you are.
a. Of course if you post that you think certain people are stupid be prepared for those people to comment back at you about how they resent it.
4. If you vent, people should take it as a vent and CHILL THE F**K OUT. sheesh! If I was venting to someone - face-to-face, I would hope that my "Friends" would be supportive and understand that I am venting, and not really being the most logical, at that time.

i guess that is it, i wonder if there is a "rules" list for lj posting.... also, this is not in response to anything that specifically has just happened, I just wanted to journal about it. Anything else you can think of adding to this list? We need a Miss Manners for LJ : )

Also, I love LJ communities, i have just joined a DragonCON community and fairy community and I love them! so exciting! I am thinking about starting a fitness/con community, centered around planning fitness because of upcoming Con dates and travel. Somewhat like Class Reunion fitness but more geeky!

http://www.links2love.com/christmas-songs-hippopotamus.htm

Date:	2007-12-03 09:34
Subject:	BNAT plans and packing list, yay Austin
Security:	Public
Mood:	satisfied

I'm going to the Masquerade Ball, are you?  It is tomorrow night, at the Holiday Inn.

I am wearing a cavewoman costume, and supposedly romeoa is wearing his caveman costume.  I don't know if he will Reeeeeeally wear it though, as he isn't quite happy about it.

I will take some pics, it is cute.  We wore them to realsarah's and geohard's party last year but only a handful of people got to see them.  So i wants to show it off again.

yay!  Next weekend OmegaCON, i have decided for sure to go, although I am just now realizing that i didn't mail in my form, that is sitting right here on the desk!!! damn!  will now have to pay $5 more and hope we get a late-checkout room! double-damn!

work is good

life is good

kids are good

friends are good

van and furnace is repaired/replaced and we are in debt! not good

cie la vie!

Date:	2007-10-04 10:50
Subject:	about Roadkill :(
Security:	Public
Mood:	sad
Music:	classical

I'm  making another corset and I had great help at convergence for which boning I should use but now I don't remember what I should use.

 Should I use steel boning or spiral boning?  I know at least not to use the plastic boning again, as it sagged and bent the wrong way at con!

any help is greatly appreciated.  I want it to be good and the best, I only want to make this corset once :)

thanks!!!

Date:	2007-09-14 07:42
Subject:	Happy Happy Birthday Geohard, I'm a ditz!
Security:	Public
Mood:	chipper
Music:	Imogen Heap

I remember now, we have the SAME Bday, how cool is that?  I totally forgot what day your Birthday was until last night and then I remembered!  sheesh, I'm a blond at my roots!  My favorite other September 14th Birthday person :)

hugs and lots of love today, have a fantastic day.

ps. my icon is WW punching old age away from us!

Happy Birthday to my favorite Ming!

The Book Quiz said I was Watership Down.

Wow, a bit disturbing actually, that book made me think, a lot.  I mean who knew bunnies were so (gulp) tough??

"Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you're
actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their
assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they
build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You'd
be recognized as such if you weren't always talking about talking rabbits."

Date:	2007-07-11 14:15
Subject:	volunteer picnic?
Security:	Public
Mood:	discontent

Hi, couldn't find the info on the Misfits site or convergence site.  but when is the volunteer picnic and also, when is the ice cream social ( August 4th-found it)?

I miss everyone already  :(

Date:	2007-02-27 22:37
Subject:	as requested by dddraggonlady
Security:	Public
Mood:	sleepy
Music:	quiet, shhhhh, children asleep

Comment here, and...

1 ). I'll respond with something random about you!

2 ). I'll challenge you to try something new.

3 ). I'll pick a color that I associate with you.

4 ). I'll tell you something I like about you.

5 ). I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.

6 ). I'll tell you what animal you remind me of, as if this is going to be a stretch.

7 ). I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.

8 ). If I do this for you, you must post this in your journal, ya bums!

hey, what are you doing on Sunday afternoon? I know you won't be watching football, so you should join our GEEK PROM committee! we are going to start making cool props starting at 2Pm at mle292's house and then at 5PM we will have a general brainstorming meeting to decide on decorations and for committee members to sign up for ticket sales at area CONs.

so if you want to help us, pretty, pretty please. reply to this post! oh and you can buy 2 tickets to the prom on Sunday, if you can help us out, otherwise tickets won't go on sale until March 3rd, at MarsCON

x-posted to mnsf

Date:	2007-02-02 14:51
Subject:	New Challenge Date February 5, 2007
Security:	Public
Mood:	busy
Music:	Frank Sinatra- Night & Day

So a couple of us are going to start a new challenge and try and win! Wanna join us?  we are starting on Monday so you still have the weekend to go and buy groceries and plan your workouts and meals......! Come on you know you want to look awesome in 3 months.  Ready to look HAWT for summer?

Here is my icon from 2 years ago when i was at my bestfitness ever.  i am now 10 pounds heavier and less toned but i will turn that around. 
I just met </a></b></a>fit_longings e_kickand we both are ready to start kicking some ass on Monday.  What's your story and do you want to join in our BFL chapter?  I plan to post at least every other day and keep track of my progress that way, also will hold some acountabilty for me to stay on track. </div></td>

cross posted to bodyforlife