RIP Booger

  GUYS.

BOOGER DIED
For context, Booger was my old hard drive. Well, still is. But... he's packed up in a drawer with all my other old computer guts. Don't ask why he's named Booger. but, he's dead.
He was 5 years old, and had a lot of corrupt files.
But, he done good.

FOR THE RECORD, I DON'T WATCH PORN ON MY PC. OK?
I believe in Separation of Porn and Rig. It's suicide to go otherwise.

Thankfully, I backed up my stuff, but... I'm too lazy to deal w/ all that. So, I've been slowly re-doing everything on Poopmonkey. There are pictures, dun warryyyy. We gotta go back though.

To like, what, a month ago? Yeah. Damn. DAAAAANG.
aaaaaaaaaah, my brains. Lesseeeeee...

Ah yes.
So I got it into my noob head that, with 2 weeks away, I could knock out a cosplay for Comikaze (now branded as Stan Lee's Comic Con or whatthefuckever).
This is hilarious, because 1. I can't sew
2. I have no design or concept for it
3. I have work and school and procrastinate like a motherfucker

So I was just like HEY. THIS WOULD BE SO CUTE?? I GUESS?
Like, in my head, it looks cute. And it works. But I also can't draw. That's a lie. I'm okay, but it takes up time, and I rather do something else? So. I don't.
That's basically the motto and way I go about doing things or not doing things. Like... Hey, that sounds kinda fun, I kinda wanna do that! But I rather be doing something else? So nevermind, I guess.

BUT, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER. I was motivated to make it happen enough so

Fuck it.

But then, stuff was happening and the days went by and I was exhausted from work so I'd put it off until the next day and suddenly I only had a week left.

IN THE MEAN TIME

My work had a party thing at BJ's for my old boss's going away... situation.
I learned what a Blowjob was.
It's actually a shot with Kahlua and whipped cream in this elongated glass. 

And Cynthia cornrowed a backwards S into her coworkers hair because... that's just what Cynthia does.

Tipsy or sober, someone always gets their hair braided. Das juss dawei idiiisss

I'm a goofy potato

but I'm a goofy sweet potato

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

That was stupid I'm sorry

And then like, a few days later I had to go somewhere far because idk. The shit w/ my parents was stressing me out.

This is me when I'm stressed out:

  I got in touch with T, and we went for the hills.

IN BURBANK :D

Escaping with a loved one, 

somewhere far, for no real reason, 

and getting sushi = 

Unparalleled

I love this place so much. They have this cilantro dip that's just.... mmpf!
And I just prefer the Burbank location. It feels familiar and cozy. 

It was especially exciting because she had never been here or to the city of Burbank ever. 

(I've taken note that I've been showing my teeth more lately. It's a maintenance issue. Our brain cells are working on it.)

Octopus got dat tripple D.

 

DAT DIP DOE

kidding.

No, it does though. It's amazing.

 We kind of ordered a shit ton.

 Guys. We were hungry.

And we ate all of it, sans 4 pieces of spicy tuna. 

JUDGE US NOT BY THE SIZE OF OUR BODIES, 

BUT BY THE SIZE OF OUR TUMMIES

 It was all so goooood.

I wanted to get sashimi but it was too much.

Too, too much.

IT WOULDN'T FIT

 We destroyed those plates. I was proud of us.
And at the end of it all, she insisted on getting the tab.
She and I get each other all the time, but when it gets cray we split. She my suga moms (when i let her). SHE'S SO GOOD TO ME.

she MY.

suga moms.

mine.

not yours.

mine.

 Again, we apologize for maintenance issues my showing teeth has caused. Our brain cells are working hard to bring the shy smirk back up.

I LUH YOOO

she's like GHADDAMNIT lol

We were in the heart of downtown Burbank, so we roamed.
The mall was just up the street, and it was closed.
So duh, we went in. 

 SHE HAS A BOOB

and an 80's headband and jean jacket

that's my girl.

We were really full, and since there weren't any immediate dope boba places, we went for the next best thing.

fucking love froyo so much.
I used to eat it all the time when I lived in the valley.
but then I moved to OC and things spiraled into madness and suddenly i'm eating ramen all the time and have a disneyland annual pass I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED

We wandered around DT Burbank for a while, just watching stuff, when we finally walked back to where we parked our cars to sit and enjoy our froyo.

I parked somewhere that resonated with me.
The Burbank Police station. 

I have a lot of fond memories working in Burbank. And getting to know the people in uniform was one I cherish so much. Every time I visit Burbank, I come here.

We just kicked it here for a while, talking, chillin, hanging out.
We were little bitches for a second, but we coo.

This made me think of stuff, but also found it comical at the same time.

Perception is weird.

From there, I had one last stop for us:

I brought my tripod so we could be white girls

lol she's like WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME DO THIS I DON'T KNOW HOW TO CAMERA

 I wanted her to relax and have fun so I morphed into a shameless idiot

 This one is my favorite

 I'M AN ACTUAL BABY BIRD PLS FEED ME

Here's the white girl one:
It went on instagram, so.

Here's the mix tape one with a Savage Garden remix:

 clue, gone. where is it? I don't know.

 When your friend has a fantastic booty

YOU SUPPORT THEM AND BLESS IT

That evening was everything I needed to recharge. 

Yeah uh, T is actually short for "transistor?" She balances out my shit when I'm hit with too much. So ya. She's dope.

So, by this point, Booger was beyond repair. 

For the last few months, every time Booger acted up, I'd just do a sys restore, and it'd generally work fine. I backed everything onto my external, and it was no problem. 

But this last time my motherboard was like ALRIGHT BITCH NO YOU DON'T, HE'S FIRED.

It sucked. I knew it was gonna happen to. And told a few people, and they were all like just replace it, but I didn't listen. For several reasons- mostly being that I didn't have another copy of windows, and was just being lazy. I didn't wanna go through the process. So I waited it out as much as I could, and then... Boogers died.

I wasn't ready for it financially, lol. But WHEN YOUR BABY NEEDS YOU... 

Booger's next of kin arrived in 2 days. Newegg never disappoints, lemme tell ya.

But fuck, Comikaze was that weekend and I had a shit ton to do on my cosplay.

I had no time. It was work on cosplay in between school and work, or get Booger's next of kin going.

I also started trying to like, take good shots of stuff. it was dumb, I'm over it.

I was pissed off for about 90% of the process of making my cosplay.

I bought a morph suit, but that didn't fucking matter because I had to take it apart and reassemble it from scratch and put in a new fucking zipper and SEW AND SHIT AND MEASUREMENTS AND UGH?!? 

Ponies rescued me.

Thing. of. beauty.

 His bitchy snarkiness gives me life.

but then I had to come home to this shit again.

FUCK MAKING MASKS.
FUCK IT RIGHT IN THE ASS.

Oh, I got worbla. Fuck worbla. Fuck this whole process. 
I had NO idea wtf I was doing going into this. Youtube was really helpful though.
I mean, I can DO it. I wanted to badly enough, but seriously, fuck this shit.

This was such a stupid idea. Everyone else sands it and then paints it and details it, but nope.
I have to make it 8675938274982741294x more challenging for myself.

 Also this.

The rage, you guys.

If there's anything that infuriates me this much, it's putting this cosplay together.

I have a sewing machine, I've had it a few years but only use it when I suddenly feel I'm good enough to do a project (i'm not, but)

There were extra needles, but I was so into it and focused and it hadn't jammed in like, 15 minutes straight I was on a roll... and then the fucking needle broke. Ugh.

Fuck these shoe covers.

Fuck everything. 

I could've just bought boots and dyed them the colors I needed.

But no.

I had to get white fabric, measure out and MAKE shoe covers from scratch, and then DYE them.

that's how my brain works.

The mask came out kinda okay so I guess being pissed during the gluing process was sort of worth it?

Guess what... 

I didn't finish it in time.

It sucked, lol. 

C O M I K A Z E E | Stan Lee's whatever

 

I worked on my cosplay up until Friday afternoon, and... yeah. It wasn't gonna happen.

Comikaze started that evening, and I called it quits around 2 and decided to just get ready.

*takes photo of parking structure number*
*still gets lost*

I got there and got in line for badge pick up, when I saw my Hyrule fam walkin up. They joined my group and OUR WEEKEND BEGAN
Surprisingly, badge pickup only took like, 20 mins.

 This guy.

This guy wasn't done.

 What are you going to do with that, Senpai?!

 the product of this is somewhere on my instagram, lost in the abyss

 Coraline! ^_^

Hated the movie adaptation.

Book was better.

But, cute cosplay

 ew

 I got all my Lovecraftian scrolls from him. Known him for yeaaars!

 EW

this movie ruined me as a child omg

 Hi, Keith ^^

 I cri

 Zombie Traaaaaammmpp homiie

 First time to see an American Psycho cosplay.

Respek

The con went on until I think like, 9 that evening. 

There was an afterparty at the Globe Theater that we were thinking about going to.

It was essentially run by Club Cosplay, but rebranded because drama, so now Bernie calls it Club Comic Con (lol?) 

I've never been to any of his events. I figured it would just be a bunch of drunk people grinding on each other with EBM and house music playing... and I'm not into that, guise of geek culture or not. But, whatever.

But first... we were hungry.

Off to Yardhouse!
They love Yardhouse, lol. Come here every time there's a con in LA!

Was crazy that night too.
World finals for League of Legends was happening at the same time at LA Live so there were tons of people there all weekend.

We filled our bellies, and split.

So, lol..

They wanted to pregame. By pregame, I mean go back to their hotel, drink, and then walk to the Globe.
Thing is, it was 10 by the time we left. And I had already purchased a ticket for Club whatever.  So I didn't want to be too long, or else I'd feel like I wasn't getting what that stupid ticket cost. It wasn't a lot, it's just... this was the first time, and it better not suck, you know? lol

So... we agreed on them meeting me at the club later. I just walked there by myself while they went to the hotel. Jose's gf showed up too, so I'm sure they all wanted to just kick it for a little. Which I understand.

So I finally get there.

It was exactly what I expected it to be.  

Geek/Nerdy aesthetic only attracts me so much, lol. 

I know how aesthetic works, TRUST ME.

It's a mask. 

Take that away, and it's the same shit you find anywhere else. 

But I was there, so I made the best of it.

For the most part, watching people in masks and silly costumes was enough to keep me entertained for a bit. 

Hyrule fam called it quits last minute and didn't come, so I ended up just hanging by myself.

 Psyche.

Erick was there! And Doge!

 I didn't know they were gonna be there so when we found each other it was a huge relief!
We starting talking, I was so happy to see him!
but was so rudely interrupted.... it took me so off guard. fucking RUDE, as if i wasn't even there.
so I walked away. I really put into perspective how not cool I am amongst that cosplay crowd.
Which, I'm pretty okay with.
He had to go work quick, but we ended up hanging out most of the night. He was there to film for someone. I guess some guy in a deadpool costume was gonna go around... being deadpool. but once Erick was done with his part, we split.
We had to move our cars, so we ended up taking an Uber back to the convention center and driving back to the club.
I completely forgot which structure my car was parked in lol. That was fun, lolol... I'm so sorry, Erick! Thank you for being so patient with me hahaha

 But we made it back, and I had fun! ^_^

Things seemed like they calmed down, and we missed the whole deadpool shoot which was preferred. I wasn't drunk enough to even wanna deal with that shit, tbh lol.

That's my homie, lol.

 He looked beautiful, I was so proud of him! haha

 :D

 These two are so precious

My precious babbiiiess

ILU so muuchh

After a while, I got up on stage and started dancing with Doge because fuck it.
Dancing isn't something I'm awful at. so.
And I had beer.
And it was Comikaze weekend. fuuuuuck eeehht.

I kept smacking Doge with my hair and I'm sorry :(

Erick and I split at the end of the night. 

 BEWWWBIIIESS

looks like a booty :3

 i love that shirt so much lollolol

 Precious babies

wub dem so much

 Was trying to take a selfie with Doge, when that guy just jumped in. No clue who he is, but HOKAY THEN

Everyone was talking about the Walking Dead 

I don't watch it, so I just observed lol

Aaaaand I bought a shirt I've had my eyes on for like, 2 years now lol. Finally! ^_^

Day 2

 The only day I bothered to cosplay, and even then, it was super last minute and ez-mode.
Hyrule fam bros were so gracious with me, and offered me a place to stay overnight in their hotel, so I packed before heading out.

Saturday was a shit show for parking.
I got to the convention center around 10:30-45. I didn't get inside, like walking around, until almost 2. The traffic to get into a parking structure was fukcing. stupid. I almost rage quit several times, but the cars were so compact and wouldn't let anyone in that I couldn't leave even if I wanted to, so I just stuck it out. Pissed, but determined.

An old coworker was there that weekend too, we met up.
I was hungry sooooo...

 Blenderman. 

We went to Wondercon with his friend like, back in 14 I think?

I used to have a huge crush on him years ago, because he's really funny.

He's also sad. 

Like me! ^_^

Yay funny sad people. Cheers.

 I wrote about sad people being drawn to each other in another post.

This is an example.

He reached out to me, and yeah.

Was cool to see him after all this time. He hasn't changed a bit!

HYRULE FAM

 Ugh, I need to redo everything about that cosplay. It was so rushed lol. I made that mask out of the skirt part from an old dress I never wore, and I don't even remember what I got the beak from. It's all stretched over a wire cable. And the hood makes it so I can't see shit, because my eyes are actually above the Poe's eyes. I also wanted to put LEDs in for his eyes, but got lazy and did that instead. So much to do. Also, I want to make a lantern that's actually like... canon, lol. I mean I have the tools to do it but I'm lazzzyyy. Cosplay sucks, but I love it enough =\

 LOOK AT THIS GASTLY COSPLAYER!!!! I LOVE HERRRR

SHE WAS SO CYOOOOT

 Hay Erick! :O

He wanted to shoot us :3

So we shot for a while, and then called it quits.

It was a long day and we split for the hotel. I drove us and omg....

There's very little in the world that's as satisfying as getting out of cosplay after a long day at the con and just throwing all your shit on the bed, and finally sitting down, and checking your phone. Not even showering immediately, or taking off your make up....
just...
 taking your cosplay off, and laying down.

So.
Good.

and beers.

After we changed, Jon and I were hungry, so we left Jose and his chick to smash, while we went across the street to get some grub.

LOL. SORRY HOMIE. 

 NOMZ

aaaaand there was ANOTHER after party that evening.

I forget who was hosting it whatever I don't care, but it was free to get in with a badge, sooooo we were off!

Ran into BHAH :D

 He's fun :)

So.

He was checking out my spikies on my face, and asked me if I've ever made anyone bleed with them? Or if I've poked anyone? Or... something along those lines, I don't remember. And if I could break skin with the one beneath my lip. I said probably.

He tested that.

The answer is yes. Yes, I can make you bleed with my thorns, lol.

Did I just call myself a rose? Probably.

But, Bahb is an odd character, because he almost seemed proud of it, haha.

It matches my nail polish! Yay!

 There were DJs, and goofy dance acts and some cover band that always plays.

It was alright. I mostly people watched and just kicked it with peeps. 

DAY 3

 There was a damn marathon.
I was very, very, very fortunate to have been able to stay the night with Hyrule fam. No lie. They saved me the agony of having to drive around this madness Sunday morning.

 They were down to cosplay, I was over it lol.

Miyamoto + Kojima Babies ^_^

 There was a prop contest. Majora's Mask got my vote :3

 Dino!

Sweetheart.

He and I had a long talk about the strike that's been happening amongst vo talent w/ sag-aftra against massive dicks (game publishers-- the big ones). It's so messed up and unfair to so many talented people. I hope they get better treatment and wages they work so hard for.

It came down to negotiating pay, and how it was worded in the contracts. and the publishers were like, NOPE- that's too vague and implies this. so sag-aftra said fuck you then, we're not working for this bullshit. It's sad.

I APPRECIATE YOU, DINO!

And all my other VO friends going through this crap. Hang in there, I had no clue how awful the industry is to you. You're all so amazing, and you are so important because what you do gives life to so many games we've come to love. Thank you for that, and I hope dicks can finally see and acknowledge that you deserve so much better!

 *at a comic convention*

*buys anime stuff*

 I stopped by the Full Moon Features booth, and spotted Charles Band chillin there.

He remembered meeeee!

That year they stopped me when I was in Leechwoman cosplay and we took photos together!

Senpai noticed me again! ^___^ eee!

 I don't think there were enough spidey universe cosplayers.

 But... Saw dat Noir Spidey. Had to get eem. 

I appreciate him.

 YO, THIS BOOTH THO

 I WANT TO LOOT EVERYTHING

Impulse bought a thing because I'm Bethesda trash.

 waaaaaah so cyooot Mimikyu ^^

 OH HEI

 Food tiem.

We split kinda early-ish. Headed to yardhouse of course, when Erick and peeps showed up there too!

 Everyone went their separate ways. kind of.
Hyrule fam was over it and ready to go home, so we said our goodbyes there.
I left with Erick and basically helped in chase after people to shoot until the con ended lol.

 I enjoyed this.

 I was super tired by the time doors closed and everyone shuffled out into the lobby.
I was ready to go home, so he was nice enough to drive me back to the hotel to get my car, and I drove us back. Dropped him off, and I headed home.

Here's the loot I left with!
Two awesome prints by one of the ladies Erick shot. She was nice enough to let us take one each as a thank you, but Erick let me have his. The Monster Musume shirt, the Ghost Pokemon shirt, the Rad-X pill bottle, and the Full Moon art book given to me by Charles Band ^_^ There are a ton of Puppet Master posters in there I'm gonna put up when I get more tackies.

BETHESDA TRASH, I TELL YOU 

I mean, it's hand made, and I get that. So I didn't feel 100% bad about paying what I did for it.

Even though I can totally make this, but the guy spent a lot of time on all of his stuff so... gotta support. And I fucking love Fallout, so.

And here is where i end this.

Hi.

Did I finish my cosplay? No.

Did I get to set up my hard drive? Nope. Not then, at least.

It was a crazy weekend. And the following weekend was Blizzcon, and Dapper Day that same Sunday. And I had tests and assignments due in between. It's been pretty crazy. 

Con season is officially over for me, so I can stress about school without stressing about cons in peace now. 

Obviously, my PC is back up and working. That was a SUPER fun process. We'll get into that later, lol. I leave you with my mopey snuggle sleepy face.

There's a shit ton more, I'm no where near done, but... I have work at 4 am lol ^_^

GOOD NIGHT! I'VE MISSED YOU!