A New Look, a New Life

Well, alrighty then!  I really needed to upgrade my blog.  Not sure how I like the new layout, but we'll see if it grows on me.  I feel really bad that I've neglected this blog for so long. I keep thinking about things to post about-the problem is I'm never near a computer when I think of things.  By the time I get home, I'm just to lazy to post. HA.   I miss my old theme, but it hasn't been compatible with Blogger's fancy features for years.  Since the server I was using to house my template (and most of my graphics and photos) no longer exists, I figured it was time to upgrade. I need to gather and repost my links-maybe I'll add a page for them, rather than putting them back on the side bar, like before...

It's the beginning of -Con season!  (-Con season for me is March-June)  Last year I attended 4 cons- ConCoction in March, Armada in April, Marcon in May, and Origins in June.  This year I had to skip ConCoction, but the rest are still in my schedule! I'm working on three new and one updated cosplays for Marcon this year-I'll try to post my progress here.  That reminds me, since picasa is defunct, I need to find a new place to house my photos online. Wow, I've REALLY neglected this blog!  

Cosplays I'm currently working on:

Scarlet Witch

Captain Janeway

Lt. Torres 

Scully (updating)

A few first's from 2017:

I witnessed my first total solar eclipse!!! My god-that was an AMAZING experience!  I really need to post about it.  I'm pretty sure the lens I used to capture it was the same that my Dad used in 1979. :-)  My friends and I drove down to Nashville, TN for the eclipse.  The next total eclipse in the U.S. is only 2211 days away!  And Cleveland is in the path of totality! (if I stay in my backyard, I'll experience a whopping 3 min, 46 secs of totality!) 

I worked on my first political campaign.  Settle down, people-it was a local election!  Mayor of University Heights-I helped with the lit drops, and was invited to the watch party on election night-it was a lot of fun, and I think I met more neighbors in my city during the last six months than I did over the last 9 years I've lived here. LOL. I love my little city.  Hard to believe way back when I was looking for my first apartment, I wouldn't even consider anything around Lee Road, let alone past Lee-I thought it was too far from work! HA!

Ran my first 5K!  Back in October I casually mentioned to my friend Tina that I was thinking about attempting the Couch to 5K program.  She got really excited and encouraged me to do it, so we could run the Christmas Story Run in December!  My original goal was to be Not Last- not only was I Not Last (I was in the middle of the pact), but I ran it in under an hour!! Woo!  Definitely want to run it again next year, and I'm looking for another 5K to run in the meantime (2 5Ks a year seem reasonable. LOL)  I've been thinking about attempting the Caveman Crawl in Geauga County in June.  We shall see!

Gotta run-here's hoping my next post won't be two years from now...