whoo first post!

song+ Girlfriend- Avril Lavigne- The Best Damn Thing
book+ my DC Comics Colvergirls retrospective book
scent+ chocolate mint thingies
quest+ figuring out the details i'll need to do this year's costumes
upper+ my promotion and raise
downer+ rediculously early wakeup times for another few days
attire+ red and creme tank and pajama pants
drink+ milk! as per usual..

so this is totally the first post. yay! i'm ganking the formatting straight from my gaia journal, which is what i've used off and on for the past few years because it's so easy to use. unfortunately, it's not so easy for everyone else to keep up with, since you have to be a member to view it.. everyone and their dog uses blogger though, so i figured it was about time to switch over.

today was a good day. my nephew had his blessing in church today, and i went for that. after we all got together for late lunch/early dinner. a good time was had by all, even if we stayed a bit later than i would have liked. now that i'm home i'll likely work on more costume designs to decide what the moose and i shall wear to Wizard World Texas this november.

i love going to WWTx, i've gone the past several years, but last year was the first time i wore a costume. last year was also the first year the moose attended, so naturally i made her dress up too. i went as Zatanna a justice league member (magician, does magic by saying her spells backwards) the moose went as Raven, daughter of trigon (another magician, psychic and empath). several people recognized our characters, but no one recognized the both of us.. the younger crowd was all "oh wow! raven!" and all the older comic fans were like "hey, zatanna, you hardly ever see her anymore!" so i did this doll to illustrate that.

i did it in fireworks, which i prefer over photoshop. unfortunately this current computer has neither, so my current banner and layout are somewhat lackluster. i'll improve them when i have the best tools to work with to get the job done right. i'm planning to buy myself a new computer in the next month or two and at that point i'll install fireworks and go nuts on everything. should be great fun.

anyhow this year at WWTx the moose and i wanted to dress up again, but following a better theme. we were thinking of having a marvel comics day and a dc comics day. on the marvel day i'd be Emma Frost, the White Queen and she'd be Laura Kinney, X-23. on our dc day i was originally thinking we'd do Dinah Lance, the Black Canary, and she'd do Helena Bertinelli, the Huntress, but those costumes would be waaaay hard and i'm slightly lazy. so instead i'm thinking i could do Zinda Blake, the Lady Blackhawk (time displaced girl fighter pilot from the 40's) and moose will be Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe, aka Misfit (teleporting teenage vigilante). both costumes are cute and simple and i wouldn't make myself crazy making them. should be interesting. i'll see about posting my costume sketches in a day or two. i'll have to hook the laptop up to the scanner first and that's kinda a pain..