It certainly been a long time since I blogged. I need to do it more.
I'm just going to post a few highlights of my life.
First off, I've had chest pains and a cough for every. I went to two different doctors who each did a bronchoscopy. The first doctor thought I needed surgery to clear away some scarring around my voice box (Which didn't make sense to me why I was coughing). The second doctor (Who was suppose to do the surgery, but wanted to do a bronchoscopy first) decided I just needed to see a speech therapist (Which made even less sense).
I felt like I was going out of my mind. Then I went to my parents house for a week. They live in a very country place. My cough cleared up almost immediately. Once back in the big city, I was coughing again. We got an air filter for Christmas, so we plugged it in, and I'm feeling great.
Stupid doctors.
The funny thing is that both my husband and I thought that this was the solution in the first place. It sure would have saved us on medical bills.
One of our New Years resolutions is to save more money, so I'm on a tighter budget than usual. And there are things that are coming up that I want to do.
In March, I'm going to Fannatiku, which is a small anime convention. I'm trying to get some small things made to sell at a table there. And then Botcon is in April. And its in Texas, which means my sister and I will be flying.
But that's okay. I have a B-day coming up, and I'll just use the money I get to get what I need.
To finish up this blog, one of the things I got for Christmas was the new Zelda game for the Wii. On Monday, since I had the day off of work, I was going to play it all day. But guess what, I need a special remote for it. I was so mad.
That is, until I played Okami for a while. Now I feel better.
That's been my life in a nutshell for the past few months. I'll tell more of it later.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
It's been a while
It really has been a while. I usually wait for something interesting to happen to write in my blog, but the past month or so, I've just been in a bad mood. I've been slightly depressed, and I've had some health problem. Not a great part of my life, and not much I want to talk about. To sum things up, I was depressed because I didn't think I was accomplishing much. Soon after that, my chest hurt late at night and I went to the emergency room. I've been healing since then, and trying to get into a pulmonologist. My lungs have been poor for a few years.
It was soon after making an appointment to see the doctor that I started to feel better (go fig), but I'm still going since I've had this ever lingering cough for almost two years. Time to get that cleared up. But I'm feeling better and my spirits are up so I've been working more on my projects.
Anime Banzai is coming up, so I'm getting ready for that. I'm making a few costumes and getting things ready to sell at my table. One of my costumes I'll be wearing is Astrid from How to Tame a Dragon. I'm really excited about that costume. Especially since my husband is going to be Hiccup for Halloween, so we'll be matching. ^.^
My writing has fallen behind. Lately, the only thing I've been wanting to write is chapter summaries for all my books so that I have them written down, but it'll take me forever to do that. I just keep coming up with more and more stories that I'll never get through them all. But I want to.
Another thing going on in my life is that I'm in training to be my ward's organist, not something I ever thought would happen. I never thought of myself as a great piano player, so when I was asked to start learning the organ I was a little excited, but more than a little apprehensive. I've played two songs in sacrament so far, and each time I'm very nervous. And I've found that it's hard for me to learn new songs. It's been a long time since I've had lessons.
Now I'm just complaining. I can't really think of anything of real importance that I've accomplished lately. I've been reading a lot of books, and watching plenty of Monk. I love that show.
Maybe next time I'll have a little more to write about. For now, that's how my life's been going in a nutshell.
It was soon after making an appointment to see the doctor that I started to feel better (go fig), but I'm still going since I've had this ever lingering cough for almost two years. Time to get that cleared up. But I'm feeling better and my spirits are up so I've been working more on my projects.
Anime Banzai is coming up, so I'm getting ready for that. I'm making a few costumes and getting things ready to sell at my table. One of my costumes I'll be wearing is Astrid from How to Tame a Dragon. I'm really excited about that costume. Especially since my husband is going to be Hiccup for Halloween, so we'll be matching. ^.^
My writing has fallen behind. Lately, the only thing I've been wanting to write is chapter summaries for all my books so that I have them written down, but it'll take me forever to do that. I just keep coming up with more and more stories that I'll never get through them all. But I want to.
Another thing going on in my life is that I'm in training to be my ward's organist, not something I ever thought would happen. I never thought of myself as a great piano player, so when I was asked to start learning the organ I was a little excited, but more than a little apprehensive. I've played two songs in sacrament so far, and each time I'm very nervous. And I've found that it's hard for me to learn new songs. It's been a long time since I've had lessons.
Now I'm just complaining. I can't really think of anything of real importance that I've accomplished lately. I've been reading a lot of books, and watching plenty of Monk. I love that show.
Maybe next time I'll have a little more to write about. For now, that's how my life's been going in a nutshell.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
My first poem for the blog
In a nutshell, I've been watching too much Animaniacs, and reading too much Calvin and Hobbes. I also blame my sister for reminding me about how creepy my home town really is.
The poem (I don't have a title).
There is a race
That came from space
With long tentacles and deadly machines.
They thought it right
To come and fight
Against the Earth, a planet, blue and green.
And just before
They start this war
A human they needed, to study his head.
They wanted one smart,
A scientist to start,
And just their luck, they abducted me instead.
They poked and prod
Me. This poor sod!
To get me talking to they could learn our language.
I was not in ease,
So I aimed to please
By saying things like, “Gotach fam toka mertagage.”
On that spot
I did taught
Those aliens our culture; everything bright and new.
In misdirection,
I didn't mention
They were all things no human would ever, ever do.
In just an hour
They showed their power
By making a copy of me to send to Earth.
I did not dare
To show how scared
I was of this abomination they had birthed.
The creature's mission:
To sow dissension
Among our leaders, to ruin and make a mess
To make us weak
And when we're meek
They will take over and destroy us more or less.
The copy went down,
And when she was found
Was taken to my apartment by the cops.
My husband dear,
Had little fear,
Was unaware of the plan he had to stop.
That bad clone of me
My husband did see
Act in a manner that was wild and obscene.
Even as a hostage,
This I could acknowledge
Watching the Mothership's wide visual screen.
It didn't take long,
For things to go wrong,
My husband knew and finally submitted.
Was this his wife
He wed for life?
In the end, he went and had me committed.
The invasion was doomed
To a white, padded room.
The creature was locked up with all the psychotics.
Her masters wondered
How she had blundered
While doped up on five kinds of narcotics.
Up they beamed prescriptions
Of every descriptions
Wonder written all over their ugly mugs.
A lie I told
Was bought and sold.
Those alien fiends readily took the drugs.
That super strength
Would come at length
Was the fib I told; they wanted to believe.
They laughed and cried
Some even died
Chaos reigned until their senses were retrieved.
From drug delusions
Came to conclusions
That Earthlings used too many vile tricks.
They vowed to pack,
Never come back,
(At least 'til they needed another fix.)
To end my doppelganger,
They exterminated her,
And cleaned her remains up without sign or trace.
As for MY dilemma,
I don't mind to tell ya,
They disposed me in their experiment's place!
As if my life
Needed more strife.
Those aliens only ruined me a little.
I nearly snapped
When I was trapped
In my new cell inside that mental hospital.
I couldn't tell
Those in my cell
That aliens sent me here like a delivery.
In just a few
Short months, it's true,
I walked away a miraculous recovery.
Normalness returned.
From TV I learned
Not to let my mouth spill over like a tipped cup.
I won't jeer,
I lived in fear
That if I talked the government would shut me up!
But I just couldn't keep it
From my husband, this secret.
I trusted him above all other men.
I was without
any true doubt
Until he had me committed again.
The poem (I don't have a title).
There is a race
That came from space
With long tentacles and deadly machines.
They thought it right
To come and fight
Against the Earth, a planet, blue and green.
And just before
They start this war
A human they needed, to study his head.
They wanted one smart,
A scientist to start,
And just their luck, they abducted me instead.
They poked and prod
Me. This poor sod!
To get me talking to they could learn our language.
I was not in ease,
So I aimed to please
By saying things like, “Gotach fam toka mertagage.”
On that spot
I did taught
Those aliens our culture; everything bright and new.
In misdirection,
I didn't mention
They were all things no human would ever, ever do.
In just an hour
They showed their power
By making a copy of me to send to Earth.
I did not dare
To show how scared
I was of this abomination they had birthed.
The creature's mission:
To sow dissension
Among our leaders, to ruin and make a mess
To make us weak
And when we're meek
They will take over and destroy us more or less.
The copy went down,
And when she was found
Was taken to my apartment by the cops.
My husband dear,
Had little fear,
Was unaware of the plan he had to stop.
That bad clone of me
My husband did see
Act in a manner that was wild and obscene.
Even as a hostage,
This I could acknowledge
Watching the Mothership's wide visual screen.
It didn't take long,
For things to go wrong,
My husband knew and finally submitted.
Was this his wife
He wed for life?
In the end, he went and had me committed.
The invasion was doomed
To a white, padded room.
The creature was locked up with all the psychotics.
Her masters wondered
How she had blundered
While doped up on five kinds of narcotics.
Up they beamed prescriptions
Of every descriptions
Wonder written all over their ugly mugs.
A lie I told
Was bought and sold.
Those alien fiends readily took the drugs.
That super strength
Would come at length
Was the fib I told; they wanted to believe.
They laughed and cried
Some even died
Chaos reigned until their senses were retrieved.
From drug delusions
Came to conclusions
That Earthlings used too many vile tricks.
They vowed to pack,
Never come back,
(At least 'til they needed another fix.)
To end my doppelganger,
They exterminated her,
And cleaned her remains up without sign or trace.
As for MY dilemma,
I don't mind to tell ya,
They disposed me in their experiment's place!
As if my life
Needed more strife.
Those aliens only ruined me a little.
I nearly snapped
When I was trapped
In my new cell inside that mental hospital.
I couldn't tell
Those in my cell
That aliens sent me here like a delivery.
In just a few
Short months, it's true,
I walked away a miraculous recovery.
Normalness returned.
From TV I learned
Not to let my mouth spill over like a tipped cup.
I won't jeer,
I lived in fear
That if I talked the government would shut me up!
But I just couldn't keep it
From my husband, this secret.
I trusted him above all other men.
I was without
any true doubt
Until he had me committed again.
7th month anniversary.
Yes, my husband and I have been married for seven months since yesterday. It's so sweet. And to celebrate, we went to go see a play down in the Orem Hale Center Theater. It was really good. It's called "The Hit". If you ever get the chance, go see it. I thought that is was so cute.
We barely got there in the nick of time due to the fact we stopped by Sizzler for some food. Our waitress probably thought we were crazy because we told her we were in a hurry, and had her bring to-go boxes when she brought our meal. So we're shoveling food into our mouths, and rushed out the door. We were late to the play, but the play started 15 minutes late, so we were lucky.
It would have been a terrific day if it wasn't for the fact that when I got home, I laid on the bed in exhaustion. I hadn't been sleeping too much, so I couldn't wait to climb into bed and sleep. Then I saw on the ceiling about five tiny, baby spiders crawling around. My husband and I killed about twenty of them. After looking around the house and seeing that they were only in the bedroom, I figured they came from the window. Or there's an egg sack in our mattress (which is something I don't want to dwell on for long). Knowing I would never get any sleep in that bed, I made my husband sleep on the futon with me.
But other than that, I had a great time yesterday.
That's 7th month anniversary in a nutshell.
We barely got there in the nick of time due to the fact we stopped by Sizzler for some food. Our waitress probably thought we were crazy because we told her we were in a hurry, and had her bring to-go boxes when she brought our meal. So we're shoveling food into our mouths, and rushed out the door. We were late to the play, but the play started 15 minutes late, so we were lucky.
It would have been a terrific day if it wasn't for the fact that when I got home, I laid on the bed in exhaustion. I hadn't been sleeping too much, so I couldn't wait to climb into bed and sleep. Then I saw on the ceiling about five tiny, baby spiders crawling around. My husband and I killed about twenty of them. After looking around the house and seeing that they were only in the bedroom, I figured they came from the window. Or there's an egg sack in our mattress (which is something I don't want to dwell on for long). Knowing I would never get any sleep in that bed, I made my husband sleep on the futon with me.
But other than that, I had a great time yesterday.
That's 7th month anniversary in a nutshell.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Books I recommend that I've read recently
Recently I've finished a couple of books that I've been very happy about, some that relate to the books I've recommended on past books.
I finished the third book of the Circle of Magic series called Daja's Book by Tamora Pierce. I didn't think it was as great as the first two, but it was fine.
Next I finished the second book of the Keys to the Kingdom series called Grim Tuesday by Garth Nix. I really love this series. It is fantastic. It's very creative, and it feels like Alice in Wonderland but with a plot. It has strangeness all over it, but a nice adventure feel.
Another book I finished is called The Roar by Emma Clayton. This book is a distopia and kind of creepy. I would not suggest this for younger audiences. It's post-apocalyptic and involves corrupted governments and lying politicians, as well as kid endangerment and brain washing. I really like the characterization of this book, and some of the plot twists. Now I gotta go get the sequel "The Whisper".
Last of all is a book called The Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison. This isn't my usual type of book. It's fantasy, but more on the romance side. It was very interesting, and a different type of fantasy than I'm used to. My only complaint was the ending was kind of slow and a bit softer than I liked. I was hoping for a cliff hanger since there's a sequel.
I'm still addictive to books. I can't do anything without taking a book with me. I'm currently reading two more, and then one with my husband. I can't stop. Also I bought three more books at DI. What am I to do?
At least my husband is keeping up with my addiction. He's just as bad.
That's my obsession in a nutshell. I'm glad that I might be able to spread it to others.
I finished the third book of the Circle of Magic series called Daja's Book by Tamora Pierce. I didn't think it was as great as the first two, but it was fine.
Next I finished the second book of the Keys to the Kingdom series called Grim Tuesday by Garth Nix. I really love this series. It is fantastic. It's very creative, and it feels like Alice in Wonderland but with a plot. It has strangeness all over it, but a nice adventure feel.
Another book I finished is called The Roar by Emma Clayton. This book is a distopia and kind of creepy. I would not suggest this for younger audiences. It's post-apocalyptic and involves corrupted governments and lying politicians, as well as kid endangerment and brain washing. I really like the characterization of this book, and some of the plot twists. Now I gotta go get the sequel "The Whisper".
Last of all is a book called The Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison. This isn't my usual type of book. It's fantasy, but more on the romance side. It was very interesting, and a different type of fantasy than I'm used to. My only complaint was the ending was kind of slow and a bit softer than I liked. I was hoping for a cliff hanger since there's a sequel.
I'm still addictive to books. I can't do anything without taking a book with me. I'm currently reading two more, and then one with my husband. I can't stop. Also I bought three more books at DI. What am I to do?
At least my husband is keeping up with my addiction. He's just as bad.
That's my obsession in a nutshell. I'm glad that I might be able to spread it to others.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
My name is Emilou and I'm an addict
It's true. I can't stop. I don't know what to do.
And my husband doesn't help. He's just as bad.
So we have four bookcases stacked full of books in our apartment, a bookcase for fantasy, one for religion, one for my comics and manga, and one for the rest of books. Besides that, I have two shelves in my closet and inside my nightstand holds over 120 books that I have read.
And my husband isn't helping. Almost once a week, my loving husband goes to DI, half the time I go with him. When I go, I can walk out with up to fifteen more books. Good news is that usually that was about ten bucks spent for fifty dollars worth of books (I love DI). But I can't get over this addiction.
I tried to sell a few of my books. Over the space of two years, I have accumulated about twenty books that I didn't want. So I decided to sell them to a used book store. The first one wouldn't take them, the next one only sold LDS books, and the last one was closed. Instead of taking them home, my husband said he'd buy ten dollars worth of merchandise at DI if we donate the twenty pounds of books to DI. We went home with twelve more books.
I am an addict, and I can't stop getting more books and reading them.
I have no life. My nutshell is too full of books.
And my husband doesn't help. He's just as bad.
So we have four bookcases stacked full of books in our apartment, a bookcase for fantasy, one for religion, one for my comics and manga, and one for the rest of books. Besides that, I have two shelves in my closet and inside my nightstand holds over 120 books that I have read.
And my husband isn't helping. Almost once a week, my loving husband goes to DI, half the time I go with him. When I go, I can walk out with up to fifteen more books. Good news is that usually that was about ten bucks spent for fifty dollars worth of books (I love DI). But I can't get over this addiction.
I tried to sell a few of my books. Over the space of two years, I have accumulated about twenty books that I didn't want. So I decided to sell them to a used book store. The first one wouldn't take them, the next one only sold LDS books, and the last one was closed. Instead of taking them home, my husband said he'd buy ten dollars worth of merchandise at DI if we donate the twenty pounds of books to DI. We went home with twelve more books.
I am an addict, and I can't stop getting more books and reading them.
I have no life. My nutshell is too full of books.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Bot Con
So Bot Con was a few days ago. I just got back, tired and geeked out. But it was a great weekend.
It started over a month ago when I started making transformer hats. It took me forever, but I bought enough material to make around 90 hats. Two years ago when I went, I had about twenty-five hats and sold out. This year, I didn't want to sell out, so I made enough. I had most of them finished when the trip began, but the rest I had to sew by hand. All the way to California, I sewed hats. In the hotel, I sewed hats.
I went with my sister and three of her friends. We arrived at Botcon a day before the convention, so we went to Hollywood and the beach. I got pictures of Abbot and Costello's stars, and we walked up and down the boardwalk. It was fun and very interesting. Then we went to the beach. The ocean was cold, so there was lots of squealing and screaming.
The Botcon came. I had made hats for Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Ratchet, Prowl, Jazz, Red Alert, Soundwave, Starscream, Thundercracker, Skywarp, and TFA Prowl. I also made a few baby hats, but I was afraid that I made them too small. And sure enough, I did. But they fit a few plushies some fangirls had. So I gave them away to the girls, who were happy about that.
During the first day, I didn't sell very many. The dealor's room was only open for three hours, and not open to the general public. I sold about ten. The second day was crazy. The general public was allowed in for a small price, and I sold around thirty hats that day. The third day I lowered my prices, and sold around twenty more.
I sold out on Prowl(8), Soundwave(7) and TFA Prowl(4). I sold a good amount of Bumblebee(12). Jazz(4), Ratchet (5) were pretty good as well. My seeker hats were fair, but I sold none of Thundercracker. I sold one Red Alert and two Cliffjumpers. I want to have this on record for next time I go, so I know what kind I need. But I made a great amount of money there. I made as much as I spent, including gas, price of the table and hotel. It was great.
I also have had a few people saying they're wanting to order hats online, and a couple of people have offered to advertise for me, so I'm stoked. I might have a second income for buying my geek stuff.
Besides selling hats, I also saw a lot of neat costumes. There was a girl who had made a Jazz dress that was really adorable. Another girl made a punk girl style Soundwave costume. And then these really awesome people made ten foot costumes of Grimlock and Devestator. The Grimlock could even talk like the character. There were also some really good movie costumes of Bumblebee, Megatron and I think Blackout. They were amazing. There were a few other really good ones, that I missed or that I'm forgetting to mention.
I also bought some great swag. I got myself a Heroes of Cybertron Paradon Medic that I want to custom change into my original character Airclover. I bought two artist made picture, one of TFA version of Rosanna and one of Elita-One. Then I traded two hats for an Air Razor toy. I bought a TFA Shockwave that came with a little Bumblebee. This was my most expensive toy I bought, and it wasn't that expensive. I bought two comic books, one I got cheap. Then I got a World's Smallest Transformer Grimlock. He's so cute and tiny. The last toy I bought was a TFA Arcee. I was happy about this one, because she was going for forty dollars everywhere. I got her for eighteen on the last day. Yay.
At the end of the day, we walked to a comic book store and I found the last Gargoyle's comic book that came out. Horray. All in all, I didn't buy that much stuff.
I also ate some delicious sushi. I like the eel kind, and the Inari. There was also a bakery near our hotel that had some of the best cupcakes. I got a sugar and spice tea cake, and it was stinkin' good. I'm cravin' some right now. The lady there was also very nice. She said the bakery usually doesn't make muffins everyday, but she made sure to make muffins for us the next morning, and they were so good.
It was a great trip.
It started over a month ago when I started making transformer hats. It took me forever, but I bought enough material to make around 90 hats. Two years ago when I went, I had about twenty-five hats and sold out. This year, I didn't want to sell out, so I made enough. I had most of them finished when the trip began, but the rest I had to sew by hand. All the way to California, I sewed hats. In the hotel, I sewed hats.
I went with my sister and three of her friends. We arrived at Botcon a day before the convention, so we went to Hollywood and the beach. I got pictures of Abbot and Costello's stars, and we walked up and down the boardwalk. It was fun and very interesting. Then we went to the beach. The ocean was cold, so there was lots of squealing and screaming.
The Botcon came. I had made hats for Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Ratchet, Prowl, Jazz, Red Alert, Soundwave, Starscream, Thundercracker, Skywarp, and TFA Prowl. I also made a few baby hats, but I was afraid that I made them too small. And sure enough, I did. But they fit a few plushies some fangirls had. So I gave them away to the girls, who were happy about that.
During the first day, I didn't sell very many. The dealor's room was only open for three hours, and not open to the general public. I sold about ten. The second day was crazy. The general public was allowed in for a small price, and I sold around thirty hats that day. The third day I lowered my prices, and sold around twenty more.
I sold out on Prowl(8), Soundwave(7) and TFA Prowl(4). I sold a good amount of Bumblebee(12). Jazz(4), Ratchet (5) were pretty good as well. My seeker hats were fair, but I sold none of Thundercracker. I sold one Red Alert and two Cliffjumpers. I want to have this on record for next time I go, so I know what kind I need. But I made a great amount of money there. I made as much as I spent, including gas, price of the table and hotel. It was great.
I also have had a few people saying they're wanting to order hats online, and a couple of people have offered to advertise for me, so I'm stoked. I might have a second income for buying my geek stuff.
Besides selling hats, I also saw a lot of neat costumes. There was a girl who had made a Jazz dress that was really adorable. Another girl made a punk girl style Soundwave costume. And then these really awesome people made ten foot costumes of Grimlock and Devestator. The Grimlock could even talk like the character. There were also some really good movie costumes of Bumblebee, Megatron and I think Blackout. They were amazing. There were a few other really good ones, that I missed or that I'm forgetting to mention.
I also bought some great swag. I got myself a Heroes of Cybertron Paradon Medic that I want to custom change into my original character Airclover. I bought two artist made picture, one of TFA version of Rosanna and one of Elita-One. Then I traded two hats for an Air Razor toy. I bought a TFA Shockwave that came with a little Bumblebee. This was my most expensive toy I bought, and it wasn't that expensive. I bought two comic books, one I got cheap. Then I got a World's Smallest Transformer Grimlock. He's so cute and tiny. The last toy I bought was a TFA Arcee. I was happy about this one, because she was going for forty dollars everywhere. I got her for eighteen on the last day. Yay.
At the end of the day, we walked to a comic book store and I found the last Gargoyle's comic book that came out. Horray. All in all, I didn't buy that much stuff.
I also ate some delicious sushi. I like the eel kind, and the Inari. There was also a bakery near our hotel that had some of the best cupcakes. I got a sugar and spice tea cake, and it was stinkin' good. I'm cravin' some right now. The lady there was also very nice. She said the bakery usually doesn't make muffins everyday, but she made sure to make muffins for us the next morning, and they were so good.
It was a great trip.
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