Distracted By Something Shiny

I was pimping this stuff out on Twitter & Tumblr, in support of the artists who designed these awesome pieces of clothing that Sis & I wore to Motor City Comic Con this year. Thought some of you nerds would like to see too! Hope my pimping gets them both a customer or two.



Me at Motor City Comic Con this May. Check out my Kaylee Frye dress! I wanna pimp the etsy artist who did it - it’s amazing & if you wanna do a Kaylee outfit, go for this. I got tons of compliments on it, including Michael Rosenbaum who said, “Omg, you’re the shit!” & a woman in her own fantastic Kaylee outfit who kept telling her husband, “I want that dress for my birthday. Understand?” I think he got the message, lol! I rec you go one size up though, as the material clung a bit in the chest area. Also I added brown leggings & a ‘tool belt’ made from a chain belt & mini tool keychains. It was a fun outfit! You can find it for sale here — (can’t get the coding to work, so here’s the straight link — https://www.etsy.com/listing/245966361/kaylee-skater-dress-serenity-firefly?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=kaylee&ref=sr_gallery-1-36”



I bought my sis this for our Stephen Amell photo op back in May. She loved it & fit great. Only downside was that I had to listen to her running around the house yelling, “You have failed this kitty!” for like 2 days straight. LOL. Link to buy the shirt — I give up on coding entirely — https://www.redbubble.com/people/livelylexie/works/12825154-arrow-the-vigilante-cat?p=t-shirt&SSAID=389818&utm_source=shareasale&utm_medium=affiliates&utm_campaign=banner

Geek clothing is the best!

So, at the end of June, The Nephew came to stay, so he could go to daycamp near where Sis works. She dropped off/picked up every day and in the evenings, I was on auntie-duty. We mostly watched The Flash together, as he is just getting into it. His daycamp was at the YMCA and was Extreme Sports Camp. They did some tightrope walking, swimming, rock climbing, various forms of dodgeball-ish games. And he learned to rollerblade. He loves it! Too bad he lives in the country and has no concrete. If they end up moving to town, I’m going to buy him a pair, first thing.

This week he came back for Wet & Wild camp, which is all water play. He was excited and hoping they’d get to rollerblade again, which they have. They also went swimming, played water-relay games and water balloon baseball. Today they went to the big aquatic center pool, that has slides and diving boards, plus a drop slide. We got online last night to look at pictures and he got pretty excited.

While he was here, we also played more on our D&D game, that he has been playing for a year now! And we introduced him to Dead Of Winter, that Geek Cousin turned us onto, which is a zombie survival game. You work as a team, but also have individual goals. You can search and fight zombies, but you always risk being bit and spreading the infection to others. There are a good 50 characters you can choose from. It’s a load of fun!

At Motor City Comic Con we went to a tabletop booth, where I told the guy about our campaign last year with all the kids and how the nephews sliced open the dragon’s belly and crawled inside to attack him from his bowels, and the dude was laughing and telling me, “You’ve got a great generation of gamers coming up there.” Then he sold us on a D&D style Star Wars game, that he thought The Nephew was the right age for. We had Canadian Brother - who I played D&D with as a kid - Sis, Geek Cousin, me and TN. Before this TN’d only ever played solo campaigns or with the younger kids. This time he got to play with the big boys! CBro decided to turn on this jerk character we were suppose to be getting info from and just kill him. Geek Cousin joined him, so I banned them to the back of the ship, as I was game-master. TN thought that was hysterical, but he was also fascinated in watching the various ways you could go outside campaign perimeters. We stopped once we escaped Jakku, but there was more to do, so we want to play the rest later. I had to explain to Sis that you keep your character throughout all the campaigns, for years sometimes, until they die. So, no, we couldn’t let someone else play CBro’s guy, we’d just have to say we dropped him off somewhere.

Anyway, if you were wondering how The Nephew's - and my own - summer is going, that’s just a taste. Wait until I tell you about The Canadians’ visit!

You guys! OMG! The Book is finished! My book, of a collection of short stories about the various pets we have owned over the years, that my grandmother very much demanded I write just a few months before she passed away. I am finished, finally finished. Well, not finished-finished, but I finished the writing process of it all. The book is 55,603 words. It has taken me a year and a half to write. The last three or four months, I haven't even written any fanfiction really. Omg, I can't believe it's done.

It's in my editor's hands right now. I get a two week free break, before I even have to think about it again. Then there will be editing, promoting/marketing/social media and formatting it and getting it ready for self publish on Amazon. I'm hoping to do it through a place that has options through Amazon where you can get it as an e-book or you can get it as a printed copy paperback, because it would be cool to have a printed copy, but most people will probably want the e-book. I finished it yesterday, but I was so tired last night after getting the last chapter done and putting it all together, that I just went to sleep.

But I wanted to tell you guys because I can't believe it is done! I wrote the first chapter the week before Christmas 2015 - it's been a long road. I am so grateful Grandma got to read that chapter before she passed. I'm hoping to have it out by the middle of June, but it might be more like the end of June. Then I get a week to do nothing, but sleep, and then I have to get back to work on the book that The Nephew and I are writing together. But right now I get to go to Motor City Comic Con this weekend and not think about the book. And I get to have my birthday next week and not think about the book. I don't have to think about it at all until Memorial Day weekend, when I will start marketing.

I'm so happy and I know my grandma would be very proud of me. I wanted to share with you guys, because you've always been so encouraging of my writing that I felt like I had to tell you! The writing process is finished and now I'm going to catch up on some TV, at last. And maybe some things around these parts, like comments and stuff. /insert 573 happy-face emojis here/

Just a few points, because I'm too tired to do more than a few.

- I have a chest cold that came on last night. Yay.

- My mother has moved in with us. Probably forever. I'll give you the whole run-down when I feel better, it is a hell of a rundown.

- I have fallen into a pretty suck ass depression, which hasn't happened in a couple of years, so double yay. Or are we on triple yay?

+ Finally get to celebrate The Nephew's birthday with him. Actual yay. Taking him and his sister and one of his cousin's to Chuckie Cheese this weekend. Chuckie Cheese is the ninth circle of hell, but they do have skeeball.

+ Our back deck is almost finished. Should be finished tomorrow!

+ Finally got to show Dad my pics from Comic Con. He got excited every time he recognized a cosplay character. His fav was the dude dressed as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man.

Also, here is a group my friend denyce started for people dealing with grief. She sadly lost her mom about two years ago and her brother last year and things have been hard, so she thought maybe if she could use support, there are others out there who could as well. Pimp or join, people.

That is all.

My Comic Con post, at last! It was about 1 1/2 hours of a drive, but my dad gave me birthday money so we could get a hotel room. That eliminated an extra three hours a day for us, thankfully. Dad also gave me an extra $100 and when I said, "Oh, good, for buying souvenirs," he said, "No, I want a picture of Batman and Robin!" Which is how I ended up getting a photo op with Adam West and Burt Ward. That was pretty cool though, because that's really how I got into comics was by watching the reruns of the 1960s Batman show with my dad and having a crush on Robin at like age 6. It'll be a nice gift to give him, all framed up.

( Friday at MCCC under the cut! )

This has gotten longer than I thought, so I'll do Saturday later this week. Friday was a really great day though!

1. DUDES. ranua went to Planet Comicon and while she was waiting in line to meet Adam Baldwin, she snuck a photo of him and sent it to me. Like a real photo! Of Adam Baldwin! Who I basically have crushed on since like age 14 after just hearing his voice. And now I have a photo of him propped up on my bookcase! I would have slept with it on my pillow - (what? I don't care, I was very excited!) - but I was afraid Buddy would drool on it. I wish there was an audio recording of the noise I made when I opened the package, because it was kind of inhuman. She also sent me a Barbie zombie head, as one does, and I am going to hang it from my light cord in my bedroom. It's very cool! You can see the picture and some cosplay characters at her journal entry, here. I have the best friends, you guys!

2. I need to talk about last week’s Psych, because omg...( Spoilers out the ass for last week's episode. )

3) My brother came in today to do yard work and apparently The Nephew was throwing up last night (poor little guy) and so he stayed home today. But he was better this afternoon so he came to help his dad pick up sticks. I got out of the shower to an answering machine message saying, “Call me right back, real quick!” and then he was like, “I want to come in,” and I was all, “Come in where?” because I had just gotten out of the shower and didn’t realize they were in the backyard. So he came inside but we only got like 15 minutes before his dad was finished and they had to go. Still, it was a nice surprise - since they moved out of town, we rarely get the pop-in visits anymore. Unfortunately, I forgot that one of The Nephew’s birthday presents was sitting on my dresser and he went in my room and saw it, so now he knows he is getting a Hobbit poster for his birthday. Damn.

It was a therapy day today, so I'll probably turn in early. Hope your days were all lovely!

OMG YOU PEOPLES!!

I AM BACK FROM CHICAGO CON!

I AM IN LOVE WITH JASON MANNS!

I HAVE TO GO TO BED!

THAT IS ALL.

Tonight is apparently the night of which I spam you all.

For the record, I decided to go with Brock #1 picture (the one with the brown-ish background and the pictures arranged to look like a "t") and the Matt #5 picture (the one with the two John Winchester pics along the left and the big headshot along the right.) That wasn't actually the one people liked the most, the most popular one was the one with the ripped jeans and the cheap sneakers. But I thought I might be too embarrassed to get that signed. I don't mind making Jared sign my SPN-Sims comic book, but that picture of Matt makes my brain wonky. And my brain will already be wonky looking at his pretty face, so...

I printed my pics and I am very happy with how they came out. My Jason Manns picture is awesome.

So, thanks for your opinions everyone!!

And now, some people wanted to use some of my autograph pics, so they asked for pretties of...

( Misha Collins - 12 )

( Aldis Hodge - 3 )

( Mark A Sheppard - 6 )

( Richard Speight Jr - 4 )

Anybody else?

Sleep now.

It's tough, the things I ask of you...to take time out of your busy schedules and look at these pretty pictures of Brock Kelly and Matt Cohen.

How could I ask such a thing of you?

So heavenreturned asked me if I was getting excited about convention.

Isn't that a silly question?

HELL TO THE YES!

( I keep having convention dreams. )

( Also, what does my family think goes on at one of these things? )

Now the good stuff...I made autograph pictures. I like to bring something a little original. (Ever since the first time I got an autograph in person when I had a wallpaper printed out that I made of Frodo and Sam and Sean Astin said, "Where did you get this? It's cool." I was all, "I made it." And he goes, "You made it? Wow. That's awesome." Which was awesome.)

So I made quite a few, I maybe got a little carried away. But I have decided what to print for each person...except Brock Kelly and Matt Cohen. I can't decide. I've gotten a few opinions, now I want yours.

So, here, look at my options and tell me which you like best. Colin Ford is NOT going to be there, but I am always prepared for the future, and I love the Little Winchester Brothers. But then I realized the odds of me ever getting Colin's autograph is like 100 to 1, so that seems silly, even though the pictures look really awesome.

( Um, here...PRETTY! )

Thanks, Peoples!

(Also, if you are going to Chicago Con, don't forget to bring something for the food drive! Thanks!)

Thing 1) I have a HEADACHE. I'm trying to cut down on the amount of Mountain Dew I drink everyday. It's not going well. It's insane how dependent I have become on the caffeine. I feel like it negates the amount of crunches I do everyday, if I follow it by putting that much soda in my system. It's gotten worse since I gave up the drugs, but I thought it'd even out again after awhile. Maybe I shouldn't worry about it, considering everything I have flushed out of my system this year, but I work my ass off working out everyday and it pisses me off you can't see the evidence of all those crunches. But right now, my head hurts.


Thing 2) I'm listening to my newly downloaded JASON MANNS ALBUM right now! I like it. I'm not all nutso about him like I am Steve Carlson (<-- my rockstar boyfriend, you know) but it's catchy and fun. There is this song on it, "Journey", that I would totally turn into a Narnia vid, if I ever wasn't lazy and actually got back into vidding again. But in my head, it's totally a Narnia vid. (I know, in the lyrics he talks about his guitar a lot, but I still totally see a Peter and Edmund angst vid.) I'm enjoying it, and Jason seems like a total sweetheart when I see him around the Incestuous CW Vortex Orgy Cult happenings on the internet, but I doubt I'll ever get into him the way I am Steve. Maybe after I see him in concert, if I actually see him in concert - there is still some debate about whether or not we are going to the concert.


Thing 3) I now have a PAID ACCOUNT with LIVEJOURNAL!! I did it. I also bought a shitload of icon space. It's still way cheaper than I imagined it would be. Mostly, I share this with you to inform you that I will be uploading icons like a crazy whore over the next week or so...so, yeah, SORRY TO SPAM YOUR SHIT WITH ICONS.


Thing 4) MARK SHEPPARD just signed up for the Chicago Convention that I'm going to!!! I'm so EXCITED, YOU PEOPLES!!!! I've had a major crush on this guy since he was The Firestarter in that season one episode of the X-Files when I was 15. (Yeah, my fire kink has been around for a long time now) and then he was Badger on Firefly and now Crowley on SPN and OMG!!! I wish I had my old photo program, cuz I would rock the best piece of photo art of all those fandoms for him to sign. I'm gonna see what I can pull together for my autograph with my crap paint program, but dude - MARK FUCKING SHEPPARD!


Thing 5) I was recently thinking about BOBBY in the SEASON FIVE FINALE of SPN. ( In case you haven't seen it yet - Spoiler Cut )

What do you guys think?


That is all.