Wandering through E-Space

 Once again, I've neglected this blog.  A lot has happened since 2018.  A LOT.  I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with this space, but I'll think of something.   I originally thought I would start blogging again during the pandemic-but as you can see, that never happened (although since we're still in it, I guess it's not too late to start. 😉) I used to be quite the blogger-I was looking at some of my first posts and I had these long, great entries.  Then the entries became shorter and shorter, until I just stopped. I don't really know why-laziness perhaps? I was attending a virtual book launch party for my friend Marie Vibbert and one of the other attendee's asked if she was the only non-writer.  I assured her she wasn't, as I also am not a writer. One thing led to another and I started talking about my blog and what I had originally intended for it (I think I was going to talk about my trading card addiction  hobby. 😂), and that I just sort of

This past weekend I spent Saturday night to Sunday morning at Observatory Park for the Perseid meteor shower!  This was my third Perseid overnighter at OP.  I set up just before 8pm Saturday night and my friend Jynjyr joined us for a night of counting meteors. I started officially counting around 9:30 pm and finished up around 6 am. (woo!) Total count for the night: 70.  My record is still 201.  The weather wasn't perfect-the humidity was in the 90s, and it was on again off again clouds.  Also-lightning from Canada-I kid you not!  CANADA.  We started noticing lightning flashes around 11 pm-they were bright enough to wreck havoc with our night vision.  I kept checking the radar and there was a fairly large storm cell around London, Ontario-but nothing on the U.S. side.  It was quite fascinating (and annoying-as I mentioned before-it messed with our night vision).  I was hoping to get some decent meteor shots-and was really excited-this was my first Perseid shower (although not m

It's that crazy time of year again!  Con Season!  Once again my place is littered with little bits and bobs and scraps of material as I try to get my costumes together for Marcon.  This year there's less scraps of material and more bits and bobs as I attempt to make jewelry for my Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff cosplay.  I'm basing it off of her appearance in Avengers: Age of Ultron, although truth be told, my hair will look more like hers from Infinity War. 😉 I'm extremely proud of the fact that I was able to make quite a bit of her pieces with items I already had in my stash-but I did have to purchase a few more things.  In terms of the rest of her outfit, I'm using items I already have here at home-black skirt and sleeveless t-shirt, my black riding boots. I ended up purchasing a maroon blazer to complete the outfit-it's not exact, but I'm hoping it's a decent enough representation of the character.   Scarlet Witch is my main cosplay for the weeke

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 schedu

Well, it was more than 8 months since I last posted!  Ha. I've been debating about the direction I want to take this blog-I really do want to continue blogging-I'm just not sure what I want to talk about.  Originally when I started this blog back in 2003, I was going to post more about my trading card hobby and my collection.  I never really did that-only a few posts here and there.  Nowadays my collecting of trading cards is limited to free promos-trading cards can be an expensive hobby! I've been more active in two other hobbies I love: astronomy and photography!  However it would be easier to do the things I would like to do with this blog if I upgraded my blog.  The only problem is the current template I am using is not compatible with the upgraded system, and I'm still rather attached to the way my blog currently looks (yes, I know-it's only the second template update, and it's been this way since near the beginning!  I can't help it...)  So we'

Whoa!  Haven't posted here since September!  YIKEs!  I hope everyone (who celebrates these) had a Happy Easter...and Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Valentines, St. Patrick... :-D Life's been busy-but I do manage to post to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. ;-)   Things are going to be busy on the Convention front-I just realized I will be attending at least one convention for the next three months!  It almost was 4 months, but I had to skip Cleveland ConCoction this year. :-( I'll be heading out to the Artemis Armada One convention this weekend, then Marcon in May, and Origins in June. I'm trying to work on a costume for Marcon-it's going to be a major sewing project for me.  My friend Julie helped me with a mock-up, and now I need to create a new pattern from it.  Wish me luck! I also am embarking on some major organization projects.  I've been meaning to bring up my trading card boxes from the basement for a while now, but I've had n