Best to be the Changing Water

A series of random things I wanted to say, some related to Burning Man, some not.

And some reiterating the same thing I have said on Twitter and FB already this morning, which begins with: Fucking ow, my whole body hurts. Muscles I didn't know existed hurt. When I breathed my tea this morning, coughing made me think I was gonna pull something important and then die, it hurt so bad. I love my self-defense class. And I am so fucking out of shape it isn't funny, BUT I AM GLAD THIS IS ALL AFTER MY BURNING MAN TRIP AND NOT BEFORE.

Before I left, I was coming off a year of couch-sitting. Very different from baby-sitting, as you actually do sit on the couch for it, and you definitely do not sit on the babies. Before I left, I was making faces at myself in the mirror nearly every morning, thinking "geez, this last year has been too happy. I'm getting complacent, and a little chunky in the midsection, there." Everyone else says "you look good! Stop fussing," but I don't feel comfortable in my body, and that is, of course, the most important thing. I feel heavy, I feel weighted down, I feel mildly unhappy with myself.

By the time I get back, I'm feeling amazing. Between all the walking and dancing I did and what they call the 'Desert Diet', I have probably lost most of the ten pounds I put on in the last year, and I'm feeling GREAT. Looking good, too, happy about it. Checking myself out in mirrors and saying "yeah, I'm looking amazing again. ;D" and the like.

Now, you're going to be wondering. ( What is the 'Desert Diet'? )

So with the walking across a city that was two or three miles across and ten or more miles in diameter, all of the dancing, the strange eating habits, and the returning to Colorado to a similarly active event (I didn't spend much time sitting at NDK, I never do), I was in much better shape than before I left. Not to mention that I went hiking with my friend Rudy while I was in Portland on my way home. LOTS OF EXERCISE.

I'm pretty sure this is the only reason I didn't DIE HORRIBLY during my self-defense class, and only had one moment where I had to slow myself down and remind myself to breathe slow and deep. But I made it through class, had a fabulous time, and probably didn't walk it out as much as I should have, didn't cool down well enough. Hence, being stiff and sore now.

You know what they say. The best thing for sore muscles is whatever made them sore in the first place. And a hot bath. ;)

I think that was actually it for right now. Oh, and my ceramics instructor is totally the Bob Ross of pottery. I kept expecting him to start talking about the 'happy little pottery' or something while he was showing us how to work the wheel yesterday. XD

That was all. ♥

So! Glee and squee and far too much research.

I am going to Burning Man, I am taking a new friend with me (for the love of god wish me luck on not going crazy or totally alienating either of my dear friends who will be with me on this journey), and I have totally no idea what it's gonna be like to do this.

Water conservation like woah, garbage bag over a wooden frame (with a plywood base?) on top of my car for evaporation of the minimal washwater for three people. (Is that even gonna be feasible?)

I can take a serious shower when I get to Colorado, all of us can. Michael's house has unlimited hot water, and I'm betting there's a truck stop we can stop off in along the way someplace and grab some quick stink-washdown showers between Reno and Denver. No guarantee, but I'm totally prepared to travel with stinky friends in my car if I have to.

Still debating on taking my bicycle. I'd have to do something artsy with it (not that difficult, but potentially pricey) and I'd have to either get a rack for my rear end or be able to fit it in my car.

Have been doing a lot of research with regards to food. Planning on taking a single drinks cooler (borrowing Mom's skinny cooler for that) and one dry-ice-and-frozen-water-bottle cooled large cooler for the frozen stuff. Foods that can be cooked simply, just-add-water style. Pancake mix, cream of wheat, pasta, rice, vacuum-sealed and frozen pre-cooked foods. Canned food, maybe. Definitely some pre-cooked bacon. Omnom.


And then, after Burning Man, I am going to Colorado for NanDesuKan! :D Probably not much time for visiting in between, and family is first priority outside of the con itself.

Unless things change, I'll be having to leave early (Monday after con) and cut my last visit (going to see Nii-san on my way home) shorter than I'd like, because my court date for this stupid parking ticket is on the 17th of September and it's a long drive home.

I might be able to figure out a solution that doesn't involve cutting my vacation short, though. We'll just have to see.

I think that's about all the ramble I have for tonight, boys and girls. See ya around!

Soooo, for those of you who don't wait for my LJ to post my tweets at midnight;

You know that the universe is playing silly buggers around me tonight. I don't know what it is (and I'm sure there's things I'm forgetting to include) but tonight has been full of various sorts of fail, most of it ironic.

Most of it reasonably amusing. ( And cut for length, as this post got a little out of hand. )

I've now done enough babble for one night, I think; time for bed. Everyone else retired forever ago, I'm the only one left awake and it's about my bedtime. Goodnight, all. Love and kisses and well-wishes.

Let's see here.

Things I forgot from con babble: KK's friend's are like GOLDFISH. ATTENTION SPAN OF A GOLDFISH.

"We'll just go wait in line for the cosplay contest, right? YEAH. OKAY!" ...ten minutes later... "I'm bored. Wanna go see what else is going on?" "OKAY 8D WE GO BUHBYE NAO." *Facepalm.* Cue me puttering along after them and grumbling about goldfish attention spans.

We were in the line for the dance for all of about two minutes.


And on to post-con awesomeness now...

Hehe, I'm stalking James-san. Kidding, kidding.

*Five minutes of IM chatting later...*

OH MY GOD. THEY KEEP GETTING OLDER.

But I bet he's not a virgin... I would hope, anyways. *Stares.* Twenty-nine? TWENTY. NINE.

Holy shit. Not that age matters to me, and all, just... Ten years. Wow. I never would have guessed.

Anyways. My current fandom obsession is now DEATH NOTE.

HEART! I -just- met Mello and Near, and OMG Mello is a nutcase! Near is like a miniature blond version of L! SO CUTE. *SPOILER* made me want to scream and flail. I want *SPOILER*!

L IS LOVE. WHY???

I have got to go and mow the lawn before potential work today. Love!

*Runs off in a hurry.*


ETA: Rain, so no lawnmowing. Plus, DAY OFF. YEY. ...I'mma go play DDR dressed like Misa now. =D

Er. As soon as Roommate-chan goes to work and stops napping on the couch, that is.

WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY~

LAWL.

I am SO WIRED right now! I came back for the night, cutting the dancing short for the evening, because I figured crash time was a good thing, and I had a ride.

But I so didn't wanna leave the rave! And up until... just now... I was VERY AWAKE.

I thinks I'm sleepy now. Bedtime!!

LOVE YOU ALLLLLL!

Note to self: Find and add Kada and Yazoo to stalk-list (friends)!


OH YAH. I BOUGHT YAOI AND A CORSET TODAY. 8D

K, done. ♥!!

Wow, it's been a while. Plus, that last post was not a good one to stop posting with. xD; Oops.

So much stuff is going on. I'm working CRAZY this week and next and the week after that, with today being my major off day. I don't get more time off until the weekend of SakuraCon.

I'm sick. This stupid cold finally kicked my ass, but I'm gonna do everything in my power to kick it to the curb and get on with stuff ASAP. I -refuse- to be sick by the time con comes around. Just, no. I'm popping megadoses of immunoboosters and such like, I'm getting a little exercise today, and a lotta sleep, and I'm gonna be mostly off the internet for the next few weeks.

Not to mention I've gotten a lot fed up with all the people I know on Yahoo, and I've decided that I'm only up for talking to a very select few of them. Only the ones I like enough. I talk to Max on the phone a lot, so I don't need to be at the computer for him. Niisan doesn't -require- computer time either, so it's mostly Zee and Kel that I'm online for at this point.

With occasional appearances from Nikki and Rari, and if Jas would ever be online...

I'm up for RP, but not for RL crap, mostly.

On the RP side of news, I have two Original characters from the Firefly universe. ♥ One of them is an Independent soldier, and the other is an Alliance soldier. They're from different timelines, though.

I guess that's the main update. Things are otherwise pretty normal.

We had the_shoshanna visit for a week, of which I did not get to see her much because I was working. We had a bunch of the Seattle-area people come over on Saturday for a potluck, which I missed a large portion of. Between working all day (until six, plus an hour on the bus) and it being my love's birthday, I didn't do much interacting until he'd gone to bed, by which point it was about nine and people were starting to head out.

I think I'm going to get dressed and take a walk to the store, see if I can find any more Kick-Ass Immune, and pick up some NyQuil and tissues. Then, I plan on curling up with some of the manga I've been too lazy to read, and getting some rest. Or I might curl up with the Serenity RPG guide and finish flushing out some character stuff.

NDK is in a week. By this time next week, I will be in Denver, standing in line to pick up my registration. (EDIT: by the time I actually posted this, it was several hours later..)
I AM SO NOT READY!
O_O

Also, new icon, since I got the hair short and all. And since the ears seem to have come unglued from my head... Amazing, I think I'm growing up. At least a little bit, anyways.

I'm going to do one of those "Ten random things" memes for myself, courtesy of KK's sudden obsession with them. ^_~

Sorry if this post is a little disjointed, I'm bouncing between it and the numerous Yahoo windows at the bottom of my screen, which keep making little plock-plock noises as people say words to me. And I'm a little spazzy lately.

Back to con stuff: ( Cut for length.. )

I'll add things as I think of them later. That's it for now, I guess...