cosplay

[algeh]

Well, I finally decided to just pick a costume and buy fabric for it, seeing as the con is less than a week away ^_^;;. I decided to go as the female main character from Legend of Mana ( the one on the right here: http://www.squaresoft.com/web/games/LOM/graphics/char-shot1.jpg I looked all over the damn place but everyone who had a screenshot of that had the highlight on the male character >.< ) It's a little more revealing than I had in mind for a costume, but the only other character I was thinking of doing was wearing a kimono and those are just so complicated. This, at least, I can pretty much improvise the details. Now I just have to be diligent about sewing this week and figure out how to get my hair to do that. The fabric I bought is kind of weird, but it was cheap and reasonably opaque, and who the hell can tell what kind of fabric she's wearing anyway? At least it's washable. I'm not really happy with the red, since I thought that they didn't have red int he kind of fabric I wanted, so I got another kind. Then, after I'd already had that cut I noticed that they had red in the other kind underneath the rest of it. >.< Oh well.

My Sims game is all fucked up. They had chips stuck on the floor and 3 guests who wouldn't leave (as well as a dead repairman) so I applied the patch. However, the guests still won't leave and are whining and peeing all over the floor, and also the maid, gardener and repairman have all decided to boycott their house >.< . At least the patch moved the guests into the bedroom instead of the nice bathroom with the expensive tub in it. Bah. I think this means that it's time for me to find a new hobby. Or start a new neighborhood and hope they come out with a better patch so I can go back to the other one someday.

Other than that, I've been doing fairly well. I tried going on a longer bike ride the other day, but I got lost and ended up going on a much longer bike ride to try to get unlost. This caused my legs to start trembling pretty badly and I finally had to get off the bike and walk it that last two or three blocks back. That sucked a lot so I'm back doing my shorter route again until I have some time to sit down with some maps and figure out a good longer route that I won't get lost on. Lousy cul-de-sac infested neighborhoods.

The kitchen is such a mess. I've been cooking meals for myself and sometimes clipdude all week and haven't really done a thorough wash-everything-and-scrub-the-countertops job on it in all that time. I'm terrible about cleaning stuff up. Bah. I can sew and cook though, so I'm still doing better on "domestic stuff" than a lot of people my age. I also am pretty handy with a variety of power tools and can turn a pile of wood into a mildly functional stool or box made of wood, so I guess I'm doing ok. I can also carve a mean pumpkin, but that's much less useful (although it also involves the power tools).

Dad's going to have a fit when he comes home tomorrow if I don't do some cleaning when I wake up, especially if he realizes that it's going to be sewing central all over the computer room for the next week. I'd better do his mending while I have my sewing stuff out so as to not completely drive him nuts. I also really need to buy groceries. I used up the last of the frozen peas, canned green beans and milk and almost all of the butter, flour and pineapple. I also melted part of the handle off of his spatula. ^_^;

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[qousqous.livejournal.com]

SPATULA

[greatblondelf.livejournal.com]

oooOOOOooooo nice costume. I decided to go as Eikichi Onizuka from GTO - http://www.projectbag.com/gto/pics/onizuka/onizuka15.jpg
(it's easy, and I can use the suit later.)

Ok, good to see you did the "long ride + get lost + go beyond your endurance limits" thing. I did this a lot for awhile. I think it's actually a good thing, though you have to worry about being out so long that you make yourself sick.

These "sims" of which you speak.........sounds like all the problems of pets without all the pettable fur......

[algeh]

Spiffy. Which day(s) are you going to wear your costume? I'm probably just going to wear mine on Saturday, unless I have lots of fun in it and decide to wear it Sunday too.

I'm worried that I'll get so tired that I'll just flat fall off my bike and not feel like getting up for a while. I doubt my neighbors would be very impressed by that. I think part of the problem is that I ride first thing in the morning before I've eaten, but mostly it's just that I'm wretchedly out of shape.

clipdude says I talk to the Sims like they're little kids. ^_^; I guess it gives me something to fuss over since I can't have a dog until I get my financial shit together and move out, and kids are a good 5-10 years off. I don't even really *know* anyone with a dog or little kid to fuss over right now. I think I should try to get some babysitting jobs or something.

[greatblondelf.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd wear it friday and see if it gets any reaction, then either wear it for saturday also or use a different outfit from the same guy (since they're mostly regular clothes) on saturday...

hmm....I don't properly understand this desire to "fuss over" things. I assume it must be a good thing, however....

[clipdude.livejournal.com]

You not only talk to the Sims like they're little kids, you treat them so as well. I have never seen somebody micro-manage the Sims so much. They basically aren't allowed to do what they want to do, but what you tell them to do.

(Although, I shouldn't talk about Sim treatment, since the last time I played the Sims, qousqous and I were trying to find the best way to get them to blow themselves up!)

[algeh]

Well, I kind of think micro-managing them is the point. If you just watch what they do, it's like a screensaver.

(Yeah, I seem to remember them lighting off fireworks in their bedroom and that's not a metaphor. :p )

[clipdude.livejournal.com]

One thing I find funny is that they never pay their bills on their own. Although today was bill day (PGE, credit card, auto insurance, and rent) for me, and I pretty much understand why, now.