So it’s been a while since I posted and it’s not that I haven’t been thinking of you guys or wanting to post but it’s just …. I have so many things I want to write about that all of it ends up a jumbled mess in my head … this happens on occasion and I have decided it’s time for another random thought’s post so that I can think like a normal human being again.
Adulting
I’ve talked a few times on this blog about
being an adult and how I try so very hard to not be an adult however I am one.
I went on vacation last week to the beach. On my way home from the office on my
last day of work before my trip I stopped at the local liquor store to buy
supplies. Upon getting home some 4 days later I was unpacking to realize I
NEVER OPENED MY SUPPLIES. However that didn’t bother me as much as it hit me
that I didn’t even think about opening my supplies. Like really? That bottle is
still in the brown paper sack I took it home from the store in. That’s messed
up on so many levels. If that weren’t enough, tomorrow we get a new employee
and my boss will be at another office so I get the job of showing her around
the office, getting her hooked up with HR, telling her what we do, and showing
her where she can find things. Like I’m the 2nd in command. Which I
guess I was aware of but now it seems more official. That sounds like a job for
a grown up …. Am I that person?! When did that happen? That sounds so …. Responsible.
DragonCon/Cosplay
So it is July …. You know what that means … it’s
time for that all important decision …. To Cosplay or not Cosplay and why is
that so hard for me? I always think of these ideas and then decide they are
dumb or no one would get them or I’d never be able to do them justice so I
decide not to do them. Then I get to DragonCon and boom there’s the costumes
that I thought about or I’m reminded that everything is fair game at DragonCon.
It is not uncommon to see amazing cosplay, as well as mediocre cosplay and blow
your mind cosplay and it’s all ok. Last year I saw several Quail Man costumes,
something I thought about then decided no one would remember or get it. This
year I’m thinking about Daria from MTV days when you know MTV showed music and
only a few other programs. I also thought about something that will allow me to
use my new awesome chair Golden got me for my birthday/Christmas. I also
thought about Jeanette Miller from the Chipmunks. I can totally pull that off
nerdy girl who loves books. However I
know me, I’ll make all these plans, get up there and chicken out. I like to
blend into the wall and in costume that’s not really what it’s about. Golden’s
better at this Cosplay thing than I am. She’s better at a lot of things than I am
but I don’t want to give her a big head. Maybe as DragonCon nears I can get
Golden back on this blog … what do you say @theonlygolden ?
Travel and fun
with Friends
As part of my New Year’s Resolutions at the end of 2016 I wanted to travel more, and spend more time with friends. So far I’m
making good on that promise. Earlier this year with my friend Christina and I
made the trip to Auburn for the weekend and traveling with her is always an
adventure and fun. Of course I went to Birmingham in May for Golden’s birthday
and got to hang with her and Marible. I just returned from a trip to nearby
Orange Beach to see Journey with my friend Katie, at the end of Aug/Sep we will
be going to DragonCon with Golden, in November I’m also going to Disney with
Golden, and today I added to my itinerary with a tip to Nashville in October
with my friend Christina to see Ed Sheeran for whom I've gone straight stupid for. I’m super excited about this trip. It’s
been a while since I went to a full on concert in an arena and we have awesome
seats. I am fighting my fear of the world by going out and about and putting myself
into situations that normally make me nervous and scared. I have decided we are
all going to die someday, I might as well be happy while I’m here and not have
regrets, well not have a lot of regrets anyway. Besides fear of the unknown is no fun ... right. Now I just need to work on the writing thing.
Prayers for this
nation and yes even this President
I’ve thought on several occasions about
writing an open letter to our current sitting President but know he’d never see
it, even if someone could read it to him, so I think it’s a giant waste of my
time. However, every time his orange ass is on my TV or in an article I’m
reading I am once again reminded of the point of letter. For full disclosure, I
didn’t vote for him, I don’t care for him, but he’s what I have ended up with.
That being said I need him to succeed and before you all grab the pitch forks and
for a riot let me explain. If he can pull this off then the idea that anyone
can be president lives on. Granted that person has to have money and there are
limitations on who can and can’t be president but if he tanks it, and it looks
like he’s going too, then for the rest of our lives anytime someone “outside of
the box” runs for office they will point to his big orange ass to explain why
that’s a bad idea. It’s not a Republican VS Democrat thing it’s a human vs
human thing. Let me also add that I trust Trump far more than Pence and if the
powers that be that are trying to impeach Trump win then we end up with Pence
and I’m not sure that’s a world I want to live in. So I need everyone to relax
and let’s see what this dumbass can accomplish before you know he nukes us all
into non-existence.
As some of you may or may not know during Lent this past year I gave up social media in general. No twitter, no facebook, no Instagram, no notifications, all I kept going was e-mail. It was everything I dreamed that it could be. It’s been about 4 months and part of me wants to go back. I purged a lot of my “follow” list when I got back on all my social media platforms and I definitely don’t use it like I did before the “break” but there are days where it’s still too much bullshitting and this person bitching about this and that person bitching about that and these guys over here wanting to bitch about something else and the others complaining that no one gives a shit about what they want to bitch about. Here’s the thing… it’s a giant world out there and we are all allowed to have different opinions the issue is when we completely dismiss the difference of opinion simply because it’s not mine. That being said the way we dismiss one another also upsets me. While in college I took a Rhetoric class and I remember telling the teacher that I thought people were being too sensitive about it, sometimes a writer talking about a dog is just that a dog. I want to go an apologize to that teacher now. I’m witnessing it first hand on a daily basis. it’s not that we have intelligent arguments that could sway the person being talked to, no that might make too much sense. Instead we use juvenile name calling and hastags to belittle and attack one another and then those same people bitch because our President is doing the same thing on a daily basis. Our children are watching people, well not my children cause I don’t have any but my nephews for sure. They see us acting like childish bullies on the internet and then we wonder why they are doing the same. Let’s elevate the conversation or not have it at all. It starts with us and Social Media is key to this change.
I’m sure there are more but for now this is
enough …. Thank you for letting me have my brain back.
Marcy
@beaslma