Soooo.... Richard decided he wants to make a Dead Space costume. Namely one of the suits from Dead Space 2 (as yet to be determined) My head is realing. I have the base idea down, but how the crap do I put it all together and make it look like it does in my head? I'd love to do one of the suits that has pretty red glyphs all over it (I can't remember the name, but oooo, shiney)

Base- Cheap wetsuit. Found one for 35 bucks online...not too bad. Just gotta figure out sizing.

"Armor"- This idea I'm stealing from many a cosplayer out there- craft foam. I'm sure once I'm all done with this, I'm never going to want to look at the stuff again.

Paint and Glue.... and LOTS of it.

I think we may give Pepakura a try for the helmet, but we'll see how that all goes.

Can we say that my husband is insane, or that I'm insane for actually wanting to try to do this?

I know I haven't posted here in forever....but Facebook and Youtube are now starting to rule my internet life. LOL

Sooooo, go check it out!

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Richard and I got some of these fushigi contact juggling balls....let me just say: OW! One wrong move and "crack!" your knuckle, shin or other body part that just happened to catch it is gonna get a bruise.

Sure it's tons of fun and mind boggling once you can get a move down, but until that time....lot of pain. I think I have a bruise from a ball getting launched at my shoulder on accident.

Just saying...keep a bottle of ibuprophen handy if you get these things.

I am not doing well. I still feel like breaking down an crying at random intervals of the day. Not a good thing while at work. About 5 months of feeling like this...and it seems like it will never get better. :-(

I have this sudden overwhelming fear that I'm never going to get my bloodsugars normalized ever again. *grumbles* And that I'll never lose any weight, even if I try. Blah. I am seriously having one of those self loahting moments. I keep telling myself that if I can control my diabetes better, a whole world of possibilities could open up. Like, having another child. My little sister is pregnant right now, and I am completely jealous of her at the moment. I soooo want to have another baby, even though my two current beautiful children can drive me batty at times. Maybe its the whole thought of *being* pregnant. I dunno. I'm perfectly happy having two kids. Really. I am. But for some reason I don't feel like my life is complete yet. *sigh*

On another note, most likely going to give up playing in a current LARP game that I've been playing for a little over a year now. Long story short, I'm not happy with rules calls or the ST's favoritism. Richard says he'll run a LARP multi venue game just for me, with rules I approve of, but for some reason I don't know if I'm happy doing that. Goes right back to a form a favortism, even though he says it isn't so. I guess it's getting to the point where his game rules aren't just about me anymore, since other people are giving input on what they like and don't like. Plus, I don't want to scalp players from the other game nessisarily, even though I keep hearing from several of them that have just started playing as well that they aren't terribly thrilled with the setting or rules either. Hm... Maybe Richard's idea will grow on me some more, me thinks.

I'm also wanting to go blonde...I mean BLONDE! I'm debating bleach, but I don't want to completely fry my hair. I guess if I go that route, I shall need to use LOTS of conditioner for weeks at a time. I've been doing that after I lightened my hair last time, and it seems to have helped a bit. I also trimmed up my ends...I was starting to even look fried.

Ok, enough griping. I need to make time to make costumes now....

So, I haven't been posting on here as much. You can always follow me on Facebook. I've been posting there like mad...which is why I think its about time I post something on here for once. (its been what....3 months? yeesh)

So, went to Radcon (feb 12-14th) this year, and had a blast, except....yes there is an except...Friday night during the dance I started bleeding (mensus type...no I'm not dying). Didn't think anything of it at first, but 2 weeks later, I was still bleeding. I know!!! WTF, right? The scary part was, it wasn't normal mensus bleeding either, it was that dead, black, end of your freaking cycle so I can get on with my life blood. So, anyways, after scaring the crap outta myself trying to figure out what was wrong by searching all over the internet, checking for side effects of my IUD (Mirena), and everything I could possibly think of that matched my symptoms, I called the doctor...well, doctors. I got to a clinic with multiple doctors in it, so I get my choice of who I wanna see. Nice huh? I had been cramping then for a couple days, and freaking out like crazy. I get there the next day after calling, and they can't figure out what the heck is wrong either. I had an ultrasound the next morning to check on the placement of the IUD, just to be sure it hasn't slipped or anything, and nope. It was perfectly where it was supposed to be. Well, frak! So, what the heck is wrong then, and why the heck am I still bleeding????? The nurse practitioner (yeah...apparently the docs only see you if your prego now...bleah) gave me a prescription for an anti-iflammitory pain med, and said in two weeks if this hasn't improved, that we might consider estrogen therapy. Good thing that is just another lovely pill for me to take for months on end. GRRRRR....

So, anyways, I start taking these lovely little pills, which essentially are like ibuprophen that cause swelling to reduce. And ya know what??? It's apparently working! YAY! *does a happy dance* I've only been taking them now for two and a half days, so who knows. Lets hope this isn't some random fluke of nature. *crosses fingers*

I go back on the 11th of March for a standard regular check up, and will hopefully find out if there is anything else wrong with me....I have a bad feeling this whole thing was just a bad yeast infection gone horribly wrong. I tend to have them so frequently now, I hardly know I have one unless the doc says I have one.

Now the joyous part....

Waiting.

I've sent two more of my cats away to get fixed. Yeesh. That was a chore. I had to come home from work to help poor Richard capture our boy kitty, Tommy, so we could get him in the cat carrier. Needless to say, Tommy is not a happy cat right now. Baby did suprizingly well. She kind of started freaking out when Tommy started freaking out, but that's to be expected.

I hope they will still love me when they come home Wednesday night....

So Richard started school online. Yay! Thats the good news. It's scary, but doable. I have a feeling I will be spending even less time with my husband now than ever. This sucks, but I keep reminding myself that its for the benefit of us later in life.

Blarg....

Richard's car transmission overdrive light keeps flashing, which means there is something wrong with the transmission. And we probably don't have enough money to get it fixed, unless we take what money we have been attempting to squirell away to pay of our furniture loans before Jan 7th without getting HUGE amounts of back intrest.

Crap.

Depending on if we can find an inexpensive mechanic depends on if we will see if we can buy a newer car then. Lets just hope if we have to do that, we can get a car loan. *cries*

Finance Gods....why do you hate my family so?

So we are biting the bullet, and Richard decided he wants to go back to school (while still working full time of course) online to finish his Bachelor's degree. I think we have decided that Phoenix Online is the best bet all around, and he should hopefully be submitting his FAFSA paperwork next week. He's going to be getting his degree in Business Management, which should take roughly 2 years to complete, which is AWESOME! Afterwards, if all works out well, he can hopefully continue on to get his Masters of Library Science. I'm hoping this can land him a more awesome paying job so I can evntually be able to stay home for the kids most the time, possibly breaking down to just needing to work part time. This of course is only theoretical at the moment, but one can home. I'm just hoping this won't all dig us further into the hole of debt. I keep telling myself we ARE doing better, but our credit cards scream at us otherwise. Ahh....the joy of bills. Can't wait for tax time....we should hopefully get a nice refund...to pay bills.

The 8th was Michael's 6th birthday. Much excitement abounded. We spend a lovely afternoon at the local Chuck E Cheeses, and since Michael only goes to Kindergarten half a day, we were able to enjoy Chuck E Cheese almost to ourselves. It was wonderful. Best time I think any of us have ever had there.
Michael got to have an icecream cake, which he LOVED, and he picked out the design. Superman!!! Which really suprised me since there was a Spiderman and a Bumblee both of which he adores completely.


Many clothes and games were opened after everyone got a peice of superman. It was so good, my teeth hurt afterwards. (That sounded a bit off...haha)

Also tonight, which Richard and I were done making Apple PIE (which turned out divinely.....*drool*) I decided it was about time to give Amilyn her first haircut. It all turned out relatively well, so I am pleased. She was being cute with her "cape" afterwards. Richard helped keep her entertained so noone got hurt while trimming her locks.



Not the greatest haircut in the world, but it looked much better than it did before. So I'm happy, and no tears were shed. Yay!