YES!

First off, I ordered our Aerosmith/Kiss tickets. ROCK! The monday show is on my dad's birthday, he's turning 50, and I thought he'd love to see the show. So B and I will be attending the concert (lawn seats) with Mom and Dad. I'm so excited, I loved the Kiss concert that I attended but I was cheated - it was the 'we're not wearing makeup now' tour.

Dad e-mailed me to thank me and my bro for the tix and noted that he was off to "go rock'n roll on a bathroom in Bishop Forest" (he's a contractor) and signed the message "Dad Funkinweanerlifeinthefastlane".

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I'm a cheezball, but I want to go to another Waltham show. There is one in May in Worcester, hmm . . .

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I'm going to have a busy summer of sewing (in addition to helping with the kitchen remodel - we got the word from Dad that he's planning on starting in 3 weeks). We've figured out (we think) what costumes we'll be bringing to DragonCon and picked up the patterns for them. I'll start working on those AFTER I finish that blue dress I've been working on for 2 years, though.

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I'm sunburned again from yesterday's Ren Faire trip to Hammond Castle. I think my house should look like that place, yep!

Costumes

As already mentioned, we'll be working on costumes for DragonCon. We'll be doing:

Gendo Ikari and Misato Katsuragi (pretty simple to pull together, though must sew dress and jacket and order a red had and pick up a black&blue wig, I saw a good one at Newbury comics of all places).
http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/gendoikari/images/card1.jpg
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/Juzzam/NGE/MisatoNERV.jpg

Zechs Merquise (or is it, Miliardo Peacecraft) and Lucrezia Noin from Gundham Wing (yeah, I'm sure I butchered the spelling of those names). These should be interesting, we'll be making the uniform coats, I'll need to get boots somewhere and I'll have to find a good short purpley-blue wig that's in anime chick style.
http://www.geocities.com/honor_of_sphinx/pics/z8.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/instructornoin_pics/noin151.jpg

And the most scary one of them all, Anakin and Padme from Episode II - I'm going to attempt to make the picnic gown. The only thing that really scares me is the bodice - I'll have to figure out a way to do it and make it look OK without doing crazy amounts of embroidery.
http://www.padawansguide.com/promo/pages/anakin1_promo.htm
http://www.padawansguide.com/padme/flowered/padme_flowered_promo1.jpg

Any tips anyone? I'm not trying to be perfect here, these are all costumes I thought would at one point be fun to make and I could wear parts of them elsewhere later on.

And, would any of you sewing people be up for a stich-n-bitch? I have a paper due on May 20 and after that, my leisure time will be spend sewing (both for me, and for Swanstage, once they need me).

Blah,

I'm having a blah day today and I'm not in the state to go talk to college Seniors about how my wonderful Simmons education helped me professionally.

So I'm skipping the Psychology Alumna dinner and will veg. at my parents house before heading to class instead. Its one of those "I just don't want to deal" days for some reason.

Have a good night, all!