a fast (and random) update, and a question...
Stream of consciouness random updates from my life...
Finally losing weight! Woohoo! No special diet... just good old-fashioned calorie-counting. I'm down 22 pounds as of today, and am officially retiring the jeans which are now too large to even keep on with a belt. Thankfully, the formerly too-small jeans fit again, so I can go down another size before I'm forced to go shopping. Ultimate goal? Getting to where my knees and ankles don't complain when I stand for a couple of hours at a Wild Mercy gig, and getting back off blood pressure meds.
Fiddler just ran off with the WiiMote. Silly cat.
Worked security for IndyFurCon w/ the Dorsai a couple of weekends ago, which was lots of fun. Have a compilation video that I'm putting together and will post eventually. There's a post building in my brain about that weekend, but I'm not coherent enough to string it all together right now.
Also... oh dear gods what was Apple thinking? iMovie used to be so easy to use and now it's an absolute nightmare, and I hate to put the entire Final Cut suite on my laptop just for this one little editing job. Grrrr... may have to finish editing that at work.
Wild Mercy is working on new stuff, which is always fun, in preparation for a joint concert with Il Troubadore. More about that once we have details worked out. Also, I'm working on new solo stuff, which means I'm playing way more guitar than usual, which mostly just makes me realize that I desperately need to find the time and money to take some guitar lessons.
Like I need more things to fill my copious "spare" time, I have a volunteer introduction meeting at the Indianapolis Zoo on Thursday night. I love our zoo... I've loved it ever since I moved here... and I'm looking forward to seeing what volunteer opportunities might work out. They want a fairly firm time commitment, which I can understand, but I'll have to see how that works into my Wild Mercy and con-going schedules!
This weekend I got bored w/ my hair (it was in that "I need to color the roots or re-color the whole mess" stage) and changed colors. I still have stripes, but this time they're bright pink instead of blond. It should be fun to see people's reactions to the change. :-)
The combination of all the recent work on the yard/sidewalk plus my forgetting that the car insurance and home warranty policies were all due in July (oops) means that I'm very short on cash right now. As a result, my going anywhere is very limited except for a couple of things that I've already paid for. Upcoming events... StrowlerFest in St. Louis, OVFF and WindyCon. if anybody is planning on going to StrowlerFest or WindyCon and wants to split the cost of a room, I've got space if you don't mind rooming with Drummer. :-) Which reminds me... I haven't booked a room for OVFF yet. I should do that.
And on that note... I already asked this over on Facebook, but I'll ask again here... who's going to StrowlerFest? Hopefully I'll see some of y'all there!
And now I must sleep. Tomorrow, work.... and entertaining reactions to fuschia-striped hair. Whee!
Finally losing weight! Woohoo! No special diet... just good old-fashioned calorie-counting. I'm down 22 pounds as of today, and am officially retiring the jeans which are now too large to even keep on with a belt. Thankfully, the formerly too-small jeans fit again, so I can go down another size before I'm forced to go shopping. Ultimate goal? Getting to where my knees and ankles don't complain when I stand for a couple of hours at a Wild Mercy gig, and getting back off blood pressure meds.
Fiddler just ran off with the WiiMote. Silly cat.
Worked security for IndyFurCon w/ the Dorsai a couple of weekends ago, which was lots of fun. Have a compilation video that I'm putting together and will post eventually. There's a post building in my brain about that weekend, but I'm not coherent enough to string it all together right now.
Also... oh dear gods what was Apple thinking? iMovie used to be so easy to use and now it's an absolute nightmare, and I hate to put the entire Final Cut suite on my laptop just for this one little editing job. Grrrr... may have to finish editing that at work.
Wild Mercy is working on new stuff, which is always fun, in preparation for a joint concert with Il Troubadore. More about that once we have details worked out. Also, I'm working on new solo stuff, which means I'm playing way more guitar than usual, which mostly just makes me realize that I desperately need to find the time and money to take some guitar lessons.
Like I need more things to fill my copious "spare" time, I have a volunteer introduction meeting at the Indianapolis Zoo on Thursday night. I love our zoo... I've loved it ever since I moved here... and I'm looking forward to seeing what volunteer opportunities might work out. They want a fairly firm time commitment, which I can understand, but I'll have to see how that works into my Wild Mercy and con-going schedules!
This weekend I got bored w/ my hair (it was in that "I need to color the roots or re-color the whole mess" stage) and changed colors. I still have stripes, but this time they're bright pink instead of blond. It should be fun to see people's reactions to the change. :-)
The combination of all the recent work on the yard/sidewalk plus my forgetting that the car insurance and home warranty policies were all due in July (oops) means that I'm very short on cash right now. As a result, my going anywhere is very limited except for a couple of things that I've already paid for. Upcoming events... StrowlerFest in St. Louis, OVFF and WindyCon. if anybody is planning on going to StrowlerFest or WindyCon and wants to split the cost of a room, I've got space if you don't mind rooming with Drummer. :-) Which reminds me... I haven't booked a room for OVFF yet. I should do that.
And on that note... I already asked this over on Facebook, but I'll ask again here... who's going to StrowlerFest? Hopefully I'll see some of y'all there!
And now I must sleep. Tomorrow, work.... and entertaining reactions to fuschia-striped hair. Whee!