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I've gotten back into cosplay after a 10 year lapse.

Last year for Gencon I want as a Team Rocket Grunt.
This year I'm attempting a gender-bent Vegeta for the same con.  I'm currently working on the tail, creating one that is fully articulated and that will move with my body movements.  Meanwhile, my friend Eric is doing the preliminary work on the saiyan armor since I have no experience working with fiberglass.

It's been a blast and a learning experience so far.


Anyone know a really talented wig stylist I could be put into contact with? 
Or a good tutorial?


Signing off: 

I've gotten it into my head that I want to try painting.
Particularly either watercolor or acrylic.

I'm not sure if I have any artistic talent (outside of writing), but it'd be fun to try....maybe.


I'm assuming that this might be a good place to ask about how much of an investment it would be to start from scratch?
And which medium might be better for a beginner?

So, since I sometimes go years between journals I'll assume that most everyone who sees this either don't remember much about me or never cared to know in the first place.  But I figure this is as good a place as any to vent a bit... so too bad!


I have ODC (that's obsessive compulsive disorder for the unenlightened).  I've been aware of it since I was 13 and was diagnosed at 16 or so, and since I'm almost the big 3-0 this means I've been dealing with it actively for half of my life.

I have some of the same quirks that are typical OCD hangups.  I count steps when I go up or down stairs.  Everything at what I think of as a 'work space' must be in exactly the right spot, and if it's not work ceases until I rectify the situation (that one got me fired from a call center job once back in the day when a bitch coworker came and fiddled with my stuff when I was in the middle of a call, and I literally couldn't continue the conversation until I'd scrambled to fix things).

Other things are not so mainstream.  My biggest issue is my impulse to read.

That doesn't sound like it's as debilitating as it really is.  But when things get out of hand I can't walk past a mall display, or an office hallway without being compelled to read everything upon the walls.  I can't open the pantry without reading the labels of everything I lay hands on.  I know the nutritional information of my favorite cereals and my instant lunches for work by heart at this point...

But perhaps the worst thing about it is that there is an unlimited database of writing on the internet.  Fanfiction.net alone has brought my life to near ruin more than once.


My OCD jacked brain knows this.


But when I get bad I literally can't make myself go to work, or eat, or anything else that might make someone a functioning member of society.  And the worst part of it is that it doesn't bother me, because I enjoy reading (at least for the sake of literature, not so much food labels...)


It had been 2 years since my last real bad...episode, but I can feel in my gut that I'm heading there again.
If I'm not already there.  I haven't done anything but read for the past 36 hours.  DA has some amazing writers here.  But at least I remembered to eat some ramen....



Anyway, sorry about the random rant.  I wanted to get that all down and look at it.
And maybe get some sleep.

If you're a fan of my 'Your Mom is a Horcrux' icon check out the Nerdfitti.com shirt section.
Eric made an awesome graphic to match the phrase, and I love it.

nerdfitti.com/shop/item.aspx?i…

Considering that most everything that I post, comment on, and fave around here is fanart or fanfic related in some way I can't help but post a link to my friend's decal site.

He has vehicle/window decals for everything from Invader Zim and Halo to Firefly and Transformers.

Check out Nerdfitti.com www.nerdfitti.com/  …;



Also:  Now that I have Super Llama I now aspire to an albino llama!!