Gimme a minute, I have to chatter, then I'll get to the good news. Ok, so I worked till close Sunday night. No biggie, we close an hour early so I get home at a decent time to go to work in the AM Monday. I'm not insane about the idea but its better then midnight like I did all Christmas. So here it is Sunday night, maybe five or six, and it starts snowing. Now it wasn't just snowing, oh no, it was doing that freezing rain, sleet, bullshit. So what happens? We get a layer of ice on the road and then a layer of snow. Assuming no one has driven over the snow you can get traction, but if they have, well it turned into an ice skating ring. So I call Da before I left and he said my mother had taken well over an hour to get home in this mess, so he advised that I stay at Pips. Now that wasn't really a problem to me, it was Valentines Day and I got to spend awhile longer with my Valentine, but that also meant that I had to get up at the crack of dawn and hope that the road crews had gotten the road cleaned. Now mind you I had no clothes with me, no makeup, thankfully I leave some of my stuff at his place so I had a toothbrush some mascara and I found a clean tee in the Jeep. (And oh lord is that thing full of random jackets o.O) But that also means I have to be at about six in the morning (which I don't usually see unless I haven't been to bed yet!) shower, and get on the road. Best part was I wouldn't know how the roads were until I got going, so their was no way to predict exactly how long it would take me to get home. Could be that the crews had it all clear, could be a lot worse then it was when Mom started home. So I had intended on getting on the road about 6:30-6:45 it was a little closer to 7 then that when I actually did, sorry I had to have some coffee I was running on less then 6 hours of sleep. And thankfully I the roads weren't too bad, I mean they weren't great by any mean and I had to take my time, and I saw where PLENTY of people had gone off the side of the road. But I made it home a few minutes after eight, had enough time to throw on some make up and grab some clean clothes (thankfully I thought to shower at Pip's) and skid into work right on time. >.< Stupid snow! I'm tired of it. It can go away. It's against my will!!
But on to the good news. I have the hotels for DragonCon reserved!! *squee* We will be arriving on Friday about two or three and leaving Monday sometime, probably three or four in the afternoon. Atlanta is a seven hour drive from here so we had to factor that in. That was actually something new for us, most con's we've been to are only a couple hours drive. I dunno what we will do to entertain ourselves. I know he's never been there, I myself have only driven though on my way to Florida, and that was at four in the morning so I didn't exactly get the best feel for the place.
As for costumes, with me getting snowed into town yesterday, and being so worn out today I haven't done much. I cut out a couple patterns, one for the formal of Sailor V and another for Kusanagi, but that's really it. I'm going to be heading to bed here in a few so that I can catch up on a few hours sleep so hopefully I will be rested enough to get some things accomplished tomorrow. Hopefully my girl will be in on time to work tomorrow so I can get going early. We'll see though, seems like she's usually a bit later on Tuesdays then she is on Wednesdays.... I did upload a few new progress photo's to my flickr that I'll post here. Just to show them off a bit more
This is (most) of what I have done with V. I'm working on her top at the moment. After that I'll just need to get her shoes and get them dyed, then tweak both the shoulder guards and mask a bit more. ^_^ So close to the finish line!!
I know its no Harkonnen, but it will have to do till I have the chance to make one. It's not entirely painted in this pciture but its a good idea of what it will look like, assuming I have time I'll go ahead and paint Hellising Arms or whatever is on her gun in white down the side. *needs to research that more*
And notice a difference between eye to eye? Yea that's the orange in one eye and my natural color on the other. It's really nice for Kusanagi, not spot on for Seras in my opinion, but I don't have the $75 on hand to buy the red ones I want. Maybe before OMGCon, or at least before the proper photoshoot. And mentioning Seras, as today was a holiday the mail didn't run but hopefully tomorrow my Hellsing patches will arrive...
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