While I meant to spend today intensely reading a book for my projects and finishing up details on my cosplay, I ended up only reading around 2 chapters and my attempts at sewing were absolutely dismal.  My god.  I got almost 3/4 of the way through the blue fabric on the pocket, and I looked at it and said, "this is shit," and ripped it out.  My plan was to try it again, and then that changed to getting fabric glue and just trying it that way, and now friend is going to be sewing on those pieces for me on Thursday (she wanted to aha; I usually feel really bad because she does a lot of cosplay stuff for me, but she pretty much begged so I was more than happy to let her if she wanted).

And friend from undergrad texted me about Ota; he and his girlfriend are getting there on Thursday and we are also super stoked to see each other.  They're going as Glaceon and Hawlucha, so I'm pretty excited to see their costumes.  We said that we would get dinner or lunch sometime (he also informed me that it is restaurant week in Baltimore, so that is fun) and that we should hang out for a bit.  Since their hotel is further from the convention center than mine, I offered them ours as a place to hang out if they just needed to recoup at any point but did not want to walk all the way back to their place.  (I'm sure it will be okay.  I mean we have only 9 people across two rooms in the Marriott.  Expensive, but it should be fun and roomy.)

Oh, also today, parents surprised me with my birthday ice cream cake from my favourite local ice cream shop.  Chocolate chip ice cream, and they added in m&m minis!  It was super delicious and an awesome surprise and sometimes the little things like that make me smile.  Also because it was delicious as fuck.

Tried to get Callie to come in the pool, but she just would not have it.  It looked like she wanted to go in at times, but was unsure for some reason.  I don't entirely understand; she always goes into lakes and stuff to swim and doesn't mind water.  My dad suggested maybe something about how clear the water is makes it weird?  I don't know.  I was thinking the jump from the deck is too high but she jumped off that high pier at the beach so I'm just guessing.  Most likely we are both wrong and it is something completely different.


Sometimes I get really angry when I think about the ex and Otakon, which happened last year (especially since it was right after I got his email and that whole debacle began), and is beginning to happen now (though thankfully to a much lesser degree).  Otakon was something I had before him and is something I will continue to have now that he is gone and it is not something I ever should associate with him just because we went together once.  I don't think I do really associate the two; it just sometimes creeps into my mind and I need to fight it off.  That whole thing.  It can be annoying.