Ups & Downs

Well all in all it has been a pretty horrible month. I went to the emergency room for my spine, then my turtle ran away, then my Grandpa passed away. So just when I thought things couldn't get worse, they did. So Friday was pretty awful, but Saturday two of my good friends, Kean + Tammy, were visiting from Seattle, and I haven't seen them in like a year so that was nice. I spent pretty much the entire day with friends and I think I needed that. Sunday, Aug 10th I have a art show, it is called "More Super Sundays" and it is in Hillcrest, we are on University + Richmond right in front of the Alibi so I am hopeful about that. For more info check out my "events" page.

Trying to get my sh*t together

Ok, so we had our "Sunday, Crafty Sunday" this past weekend at the Ken Club down in Kennsigton. It was pretty wild! This is the first craft show that I have ever participated in that was 21&up so that was very different. It was in a bar, so everything was all dark and crazy and stuff. The music was really good! I REALLY liked both the bands, but it was a very small space so my ears were still ringing on Sunday! The Burlesque dancers were both fantastic! That is not something you normally see at a craft show!
Well, just being at a craft show has me all fired up to get more of my crafts on the internet. So I took a whole bunch of photos and I am going to list some stuff on Etsy this week. I also looked into taking community college classes so I can learn more about Dreamweaver so I can make my own website! Yayy!

Sunday, Crafty Sunday

I have a craft show coming up this Sunday! I am pretty excited, it has been a while since I have done craft shows I have been so busy with other stuff lately! I think the last one I did was the UCSD Craft Show at the begining of June!
This craft show is also quite different from anything I have done before! It is in a bar, hehehehehe, so it is a 21 & up craft show which I find funny. I think it will be pretty cool, I am excited just to go and hang out even if I don't sell anything. We are having a bunch of cool bands, DJs and even a burlesque show! My friend Lyn is in a burlesque troupe here in San Diego called "A Bit o' Burlesque" and she was saying she might be dancing this Sunday and I was like oh where and she said at the Ken Club, which is where my show is! hahahaha So my friend might be dancing at my show and I didn't even know it!

Well what a better combo? Crafts, alcohol, music, and dancing, YAYYY!

If you want more info, check out our website: http://sandiegonorthparkcraftmafia.com/events.html

Comic-con 2008!

Well Comic-con was pretty fun overall this year. I was a bit worried because of my injury that I would not be able to go, but I did manage. I maybe did not stay as long as I would have liked to, or gotten to do as much as I might have wanted to, but at least I got to go at all. On Tuesday I had absolutely no feeling in my foot and I couldn't walk so at that point I figured no way could I go, but then I regained feeling in my big toe, now I know that does not sound very important, but even if you only have feeling in your big toe, at least you can feel where you are putting your foot and then you don't accidentally twist your ankle.

Well my friends and I did decide to cosplay this year, I dressed up as Princess Peach from "Super Mario Brothers." I look kinda creepy as a blonde!

My friends went as the video game "Super Smash Brothers" which is neat, it is a fighting game with all sorts of famous video game characters in it so it allowed us all to go as things we really wanted to go as from different video games. With such a large group it can be hard to pick just one thing to dress as!

So starting from the left I am Peach, Sherief dressed as 'Snake,' Megan is 'Daisy,' Blue-gelica is "Ice Climber", Eirikr is "Mario", Brook is "Pit", Sean is "Ness", Sarah is "Zelda", Brion is "Marth", Josh is "Ike", and Trevor is "Link."

It was fun! I had so many little girls go, 'look look mommy, a princess' as I walked by, and I would wave at them and they would get SO EXCITED. It was funny!

Our friend Analee also came as Aeris from FFVII, so cute!



I have sooo many photos, I will have to upload a slideshow or something, maybe later. Well all in all it was a fun year despite the injury and despite the fact that there were not as many panels that I wanted to see as normal.

Last year I was angry because it was SO crowded, but I don't think it was any worse this year, so that is good at least.

Emergency Room Woes

Well I saw "Batman: The Dark Knight" on Friday evening, it was ok. I liked Batman Begins better but this one is still worth seeing. I was in a lot of pain when I got home (sitting in a movie theater can be difficult on my spine sometimes) so I took some vicodin and got a ziploc bag filled with ice to put on my spine. I woke up at 4am in HORRIBLE pain (and I was wet and laying in a puddle, I guess I fell asleep with the ice still there). Normally when my spine is in pain, laying down is what feels best. But this time it hurt to lay on my back, it hurt to lay on my side, and it REALLY hurt to lay on my stomach. Well I guess I was crying so that woke Trevor up. Then we were trying to decide what to do. With my insurance the emergency room is $50, but if I waited until the normal offices open at 9am then I can get an urgent care appointment for only $15. Well I thought about it for like an hour and decided I was in too much pain to wait so we went to the emergency room. We got there at 6am, it was EMPTY! My biggest fear was going to the emergency room and then having to wait several hours to be seen anyways. They admitted me immediately. They said my spinal disc was probably inflamed, normally when my spine is bad I have pain shooting down the from of my leg and into my shin and foot. This time I had pain down the back of my leg shooting into my buttock. Normally it hurts to sit, this time sitting actually felt 'good' and it hurt to lay! They gave me a injection into my butt of some pain reliever. It made me sooo nauseous, but it also made me sleepy so that was nice. They didn't want me to stand because they were worried I would pass out, but I told them I didn't want to lay becasue it hurt, but they made me! I had some interesting times flopping about the bed trying to get comfy, I flashed everyone my underpants 100 times (I was in those stupid ties-in-the-back hospital gowns) and I almost feel off the gurney once! After a few hours of observation and tests they sent me to the pharmacy, they sent me home with steroids to helps the inflamation and to strengthen things up, they also gave me some percocet for pain. When I got home I was able to sleep for several hours, that was nice. But when I woke up I was in terrible pain again. I took the percocet and it did not kick in for 1 1/2 hours!!!!! It only helped the pain barely, plus I think it made me nauseous again! So I tried to lay down to go to sleep that night, but it hurt soo bad. I tried sitting in my computer chair, which felt better, but I just could not fall asleep sitting up (it is too bad I don't have a recliner chair). So I got into bed and was in and out of sleep all night.

I decided to go back to the doctor on Sunday, this time I waited until 9am to go to urgent care (I just couldn't afford $50 again for the emergency room). The funny this is even though I had an appointment it actually took me longer to be seen this time! I told the DR. the percocet wasn't helping at all. Also Saturday the pain was just in my spine, butt, and the top of my leg, today my whole right foot underneath had gone numb. It made it very hard to walk, I am very worried I will twist an ankle before all is said + done. He gave me another shot in the butt (I guess it is a hydromorphone solution) and then he sent me home with MORPHINE and muscle relaxants (flexeril I think). Well this time the injection helped a LOT. I went to bed right away, stayed asleep for hours and never felt nauseous! It helped so much I did not need to take pain killers all day! I did take a morphine and flexeril as I went to bed that night, but I fell asleep right away so I did not know how much they helped.

Now it is Monday and my Dr. told me to stay home all week to rest up and get better. Makes sense, especially since my foot is still numb and it is hard to walk. Also for some reason, they did not want me to go to work on Morphine, heheheeh. Well at noon I took a morphine and I did not notice any difference until 1:48. Then I felt a slight flush and my pain was slightly better. I am somewhat disappointed. I thought Morphine sounded very powerful, hey now I am finally using the big guns I thought, but nope!!! Morphine helped a little, but it was hardly much better than anything else I have taken! At least I am not nauseous today! So I am not loopy, or anything, does that mean someday I can go to work and take morphine!!! Still seems kinda weird! I really think there must be something wrong with my metabolism! Well all-in-all I do feel better than this weekend, still in pain, but nothing like before. Maybe the injections helped? Or maybe the steroids are starting to take effect, who can say?

Well one other thing I wanted to say was this last weekend was Gay Pride Weekend in San Diego, and obviously I did not get to participate in the activities and show support for my friends that are walking a different path in life than I am, but I did want to say to everyone, "Have a Gay Day!"

Distracted by Cake

I am working on my costume for comic-con so I have been Googling "Princess Peach" images so I can get some inspiration for my costume, well I found the funniest picture of a Super Mario Brothers wedding cake! Then suddenly it was an hour later and I had been doing nothing but looking up funny video game cakes on the internet and here they are!




















Martha even shows you how to make your own Wii cake (this is NOT a joke)






And even a Zelda ice sculpture!



Then I decided to give a shout out to Trevor and look up Star Wars cakes, but all in all they are not nearly as creative with a few exceptions.....




And now I am hungry, ~sigh~

Back from Yosemite

So I am back from Yosemite and I had a very awesome time, I will write more about that when I have the pictures downloaded off my camera....but for now you can hear about my dining adventures on the way!

One of my favorite parts about taking a road trip is stopping at Sonic Burger! We don't have any in San Diego (the closest one is 100 miles away!) but we still have the delicious commercials playing on TV here which lead to intense cravings for Sonic Burger. The best thing about Sonic is their drink selection, it is CRAZY!!! They have soooo many options you could go over and over again and never order the same thing twice. Well I am a big fan of the cherry lime-aide, but this time I decided to try their "real fruit slushies" I got lemon berry, it was SO GOOD!!!! I have a favorite new drink!!!! I highly reccomend it! There is real strawberries and lemons in it! I also had the cheddar bites!!! It is a lot like the 'cheese-on-a-stick' from "Hot-dog-on-a-stick" except bite sized, mmm!