Progged ShinryUnreal, The Unmaking Extreme, and now dipping my toes back into Savage... Derusting m9s and m10s before going to mentally prep for m11s

Took a sick day, the con crud caught up to me after being mildly okay most of last week. Slept until 11:30AM. Got breakfast, then just relaxed and watched the entire season 1 of Wistoria: Wand and Sword. Today was a calm and relaxing day.

Finally unpacked my luggage. >.> Put stuff in the wash and then vacuumed the floor... Life... is better. 😂 Also started to re-organize my workshop, and toss some things. Ugh... I think I got the flu or some sort of con-crud for sure; was very lethargic today, and my joints ache >.>

Got paid! 🎉💰🎉 And then paid off my debts from FanFest! 💸🥲💸

Thank you all for attending the Fanfest cosplay gatherings this year! Anaheim was a blast and I hope people enjoyed. The Carrd has been updated with the group shots of Day 1 and 2! Tag your photos with #NAFanfestCosGathering ! fanfestcosplaygathering.carrd.co

Me, as I sort through my 2000 (well... 1995, to be exact) photos: STOP BLINKING! STOP BLINKING IN ALTERNATING GROUPS!! STOP!!! 🤣

For those at Fanfest wondering who drew my cute Au Ra, this is the artist! bsky.app/profile/stra...

FFXIV FanFest 2026 is over... 😭 I was very :harold: at work today. Honestly, I should have taken one extra day off.. I loved meeting everyone (and some, again!), catching up, matching faces to names, hanging out, and the general atmosphere.

I don't want to wake up and go to the airport... 😭 FanFest is over... 😭😭😭 Siiiiiiiiiiiiigh.......😭😭😭😭😭

:O It meeeeeeeeee!

Cleaning out my back pack to prepare for the day... Wtf, I have more stickers in my haul 🤣

Automatically woke up at 4:30 and then 6:30 ish AM PDT..... Body at 4:30: Omg FanFest prep time?! .... No😭 Body at 6:30: Work? ....... Fork no!!

Direct your concerns and pushback to the CEO, the people at the very top. From what I gather, Michael-Christopher Koji Fox was FORCED to use it.

Fanfest day 2... ow...

I am qbsolute rubbish at sticker Tetris

It's officially Fanfest month so it's about time I reveal details on this year's #NAFanfestCosGathering ! Here's the Carrd with the info: fanfestcosplaygathering.carrd.co Day 1 will be the big main shoot due to it taking place (tentatively) before the Glamoured to Life event at 1PM.

Shutting down for the night..... FanFest day 1 tomorrow!!!!!!!

I am questioning my life decisions right now... Alarm at 3:45AM Fully awake by 4 Out the door by 5 At the airport by 6 Flight at 8AM...

Packing mostly complete. Just missing toiletries that'll get added tomorrow morning. Weirdly, my large suitcase is PACKED with stuff. I was not expecting it to be full at the start of packing, but... here we are... somehow. Anyways, not looking forward to waking up at ask fork o'clock tomorrow...

Argh, lost an hour or two fighting with my separating hidden zipper... Tomorrow is the absolute last day, going to have to crunch hard while working 🥲

Working on the checklist of items to bring on my trip to FFXIV FanFest... Today me will try to alleviate Wednesday and Thursday me of worry I forgot something... 🥲

I hate me today... Doing the final push to complete my cosplay for Fanfest and

Phone randomly warm or hot, battery draining quickly. When new, phone lasted two days without need to charge. Set max change at 80%, to prolong life, can't have lost that much capacity in a year or so... right?? Went through my settings, disabled lots of apps allowed to run in background..🤞

Make It Myself xkcd.com/3233/

Small progress last evening, sewn three more snaps on the top by hand, and then had to do some work work things... Aiming to at least cut out the cloth for the thigh wrap thing tonight and prepare to sew it.

Best decision I've made for lunch: Store bought salad bag, and the Costco blackened salmon. Dump half a bag of salad into the container, precook the salmon night before, bring to work, reheat salmon gently.... Omg :Q......

Sloooowly getting there! Need to paint the blue to silver, add some more bits and pieces here and there...

This would go against the entire spirit of the sticker trade. 😔 Please don't do it.

Only two more weekends to work on Cosplay before FanFest... Gotta focus >.<

The final 14 days before FFXIV FanFest 2026....

Almost crunch time for FanFest >.< Going to try and make some progress during the week, and unmelt myself off the couch to craft... Work sucks all the energy out of me. Realistically though, I a few items left: * Front Ribbon + Pattern * Thigh pouch thing * "Boot covers" * Repaint tail + Horns * ??

Cosplaying attendees will also receive a badge ribbon! Will be in limited supply, but attending either day will let you get one! #ff14 #FFXIV #FFNAFanfest #Fanfest2026

OH, HERE. THIS!

Super excited for the FFXIV: The Cosplay Guild's Photoshoot at FFXIV FanFest 2026 - Anaheim!! I will part of the cosplayers, as well as a photographer! Hoping to see all of you there! fanfestcosplaygathering.carrd.co #NAFanfestCosGathering #FFXIV #FF14 #FinalFantasyXIV #fanfest

She cute

Tomorrow's the day!

My commissioner completed my request quickly :O Grateful for their speed, communication, and cute art! Details to follow once everything is finalized :D

I GOT IN TO GLAMOURED TO LIFE!! TIME TO LOCK IN AND FINISH MY COSPLAY

Lazy and slow day today... Not making much progress on cosplay, but at least I commissioned someone for FanFest Sticker trade!!

I somehow managed to teach my cat her name... She is so cute when she trots over to greet me when I call her.

The weather is literally all over the place... (Ha) But also figuratively too: A nice a warm 28C yesterday, and today... 3C with snow.

Uploaded Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel to my flickr! Looking at the photos, I definitely need to work on my low-light-conditions photography. I tried _not_ to use flash as much this year, maybe in this situation I should have.

Okay... Going to try and not be exhausted from work tomorrow and attempt to melt into my chair. Need to get the last two photoshoots uploaded... * Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel * Vocaloid

Kusuriya no Hitorigoto / The Apothecary Diaries photoshoot is now up on my Flickr!

Looking at my photography collection, I should probably just dump some old photos onto my Flickr. Maybe someone know someone who knows someone else, and they can see the photos that never made it to them.

Well... time to spend an hour or two looking through the photos and uploading to flickr. Apparently, people like instagram more, so.... I guess I need to upload a select few there too. For the faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaans!

*Self ego inflation* I think these things were the MVP at some evening photoshoots. The 50USD was well worth it.

Moved all the photos off the first memory card and on to my server. I'm so paranoid as I'm about to delete the memory card's copy...

Sunday, after Katsucon, a thread. I miss all of you already. What I wish I did was just break out of the my shell a bit more. I saw some meetups on the two Katsu discords I'm aware of, people just hanging out on Thursday or Friday, vibing, playing cards, or something.