My weekend in summary
Saturday night was the annual PAniC ball. I would give the experience two thumbs up - it had pretty much everything that was seriously lacking at the Amaranth ball, being a dance floor big enough to actually dance on, a proper photographer, announcements that were audible and quite decent food. Still noisy and crowded, but that's always the case. I do still feel a bit like all the time and space it takes for everyone to eat a three course meal interferes with what these events are really about - ie, catching up with people, dancing, taking photos and ooh-ing and ah-ing over everyone else's costumes. But I'm probably just biased by so many years at the Swancon Masquerade, where you'd better believe the budget for that kind of food has gone somewhere more important.
The plan was to pull out my Millia/girl!Ky balldress again for the event, which should have been a nice, easy costume since it was finished months ago. Only... I pulled it out a week before the ball to make one or two very minor repairs, and found myself thinking, "You know what this really needs to count as a real alternate Guilty Gear costume? BUCKLES!" And so those minor repairs became a bit less minor, required a couple of emergency supply trips and chewed up a lot of what was left of my week. It was, however, completely worth it - I was quite happy with how the costume turned out originally, but the new additions made all the difference. Also, since I had a girl!Sol in an awesome coat to take me to the ball this time, that killed any thoughts about spending any part of the evening claiming to be Millia, but that was completely worth it too.
Spent so much time dancing we hardly got many photos taken this time around and haven't gotten many of them back yet, but velithya has a few posted that we took after we got back. <3
Did not get much sleep Saturday night, mooched around on Sunday and didn't get much sleep for Monday either, now seem to be coming down with YET ANOTHER minor cold. >_< Goddamnit, I am taking my immune system back for a refund if this gets any worse! This year has been ridiculous!
My post backlog hasn't gotten any shorter in a while either. *sigh*
The plan was to pull out my Millia/girl!Ky balldress again for the event, which should have been a nice, easy costume since it was finished months ago. Only... I pulled it out a week before the ball to make one or two very minor repairs, and found myself thinking, "You know what this really needs to count as a real alternate Guilty Gear costume? BUCKLES!" And so those minor repairs became a bit less minor, required a couple of emergency supply trips and chewed up a lot of what was left of my week. It was, however, completely worth it - I was quite happy with how the costume turned out originally, but the new additions made all the difference. Also, since I had a girl!Sol in an awesome coat to take me to the ball this time, that killed any thoughts about spending any part of the evening claiming to be Millia, but that was completely worth it too.
Spent so much time dancing we hardly got many photos taken this time around and haven't gotten many of them back yet, but velithya has a few posted that we took after we got back. <3
Did not get much sleep Saturday night, mooched around on Sunday and didn't get much sleep for Monday either, now seem to be coming down with YET ANOTHER minor cold. >_< Goddamnit, I am taking my immune system back for a refund if this gets any worse! This year has been ridiculous!
My post backlog hasn't gotten any shorter in a while either. *sigh*