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My Ongoing Resolution

I haven’t made a New Year’s Resolution to lose weight in years. That’s mainly because the fact that I want to lose weight is a given. Has been since I was in Junior High. These days, I resolve to focus on something in another part of my life — say, this year’s resolution of finishing what I start — and just assume that, yes, I want to continue to lose weight.

This is my “before” entry (no pictures — I’ll leave that to your imagination), in which I discuss my stats and my plans. If you’re still interested, read on.
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2005: Year in Review

I’ve been kind of slack with posting blog entries this week. I just haven’t been “feeling it,” I guess. So, while I’m home from work on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and while Aaron is still upstairs asleep, I’m going to take this opportunity to blog about the major events of 2005.
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Ohayocon6

I can’t seem to think of a witty introduction, so I guess I’ll just give you a link to my Ohayocon 2006 photos.

I’ve found one photo of Aaron and me posted online so far. I’m sure there will be more eventually, though.

Aaron and I recorded a con report in the car on the way home from Columbus on Sunday. The audio didn’t turn out quite as well as Aaron had hoped, being that we didn’t take into account the sensitivity of his mics and the acoustics of the car. Still, though, if you haven’t already, check out our Ohayocon report on the Weekly Anime Review Podcast, scheduled for release this Thursday.

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OMG Teh Cuteness

Threadless.com Submission - Pirate Kitty

I require this shirt. Just FYI.

In other news, tonight involves preparations for Ohayocon, including:

  • packing the suitcase
  • ironing the costume
  • printing the preregistration confirmation
  • generally hyping

Which is nothing compared to Aaron’s preparations today. On top of all that, he also printed hotel confirmations and directions, went to the post office for stamps (unrelated to Ohayocon, but still in the list of errands), packed up his iRiver and mics for mobile con recording, and did a bunch of other stuff.

He also pointed out that I have no room to bitch and complain about how my helmet turned out, when I assembled it two days before the con. Good point.

Update, 7:20pm: Why is Norton Security blocking the Threadless banner I posted? Gyarr. I can’t figure out how to manipulate Norton to allow me to view this simple image, so I’m just turning off Ad Blocking. (Not turning off Pop-up Blocking, mind you, although I doubt I really need it with my kick-ass Firefox.)

I wonder what else Norton has blocked before… hmm.

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Ohayocon Countdown

Only two days left until our fourth Ohayocon, and I’m as underwhelmed about it as I was about Christmas.

I have two unfinished Kujian helmets sitting upstairs: one papier-mache, one cardboard and fiberfill. The papier-mache helmet I only started on Monday, and I knew when I got one layer down that there was no way I’d get it done by the weekend. Still, tonight I decided to prime it for painting, just to see… and, really, there’s no way it’ll be ready for the con.

The cardboard one is a retooling of the original helmet I made for Youmacon. It was too tall, and the plexiglas outer brim was too brittle to wrap around the helmet, and it cracked in three places. So, I’ve been trying to improve upon it this evening, to no avail. I’m just feeling… disinterested.

I really enjoyed cosplaying at Youmacon, so I’m not sure why I’m so blase about it this time around. Maybe it’s because I can see how uber-awesome my papier-mache helmet will be when it’s done, and I hate having to retool a funky fiberfill chop job instead.

Ah, well. I should get back to that, I suppose. *sigh*