Traveling
I have always had to travel to Dragon Con. In the beginning it was from San Francisco. Now it is from Denver. Either way, it is a long flight. There is a lot you are limited to when you fly. First, unless you want to pay extra, and depending on the airline, you are limited to one carry on bag and a purse. I go for a week. Do you know how hard it is for me to pack regular clothes for a week in one suitcase and a purse? UGGG! Then, HEAVEN FORBID I buy anything. The trouble of shipping it home is a total mess. One year I decided to ship my dirty laundry home via Fedex. That way all of the delicate things I bought would be safe in my suitcase. To ship Fedex regular-not overnight or something-was over $40.00. WTH? AHHHHHHHH!
How do you take costume supplies and how do you bring stuff back home? It is a gigantic mystery to me how so many people can do it. I can take one or two smallish costumes and that is it. I have had to be pretty sparing on what I take so I have room to bring things home. One year it was 18 tee shirts. YAY! This takes up a lot of room in one small carry on suitcase and a purse. If you want to pay the $50.00 extra per bag per leg of the trip you can do checked bags. Prices do vary and some are dependent on size and weight. Money grubbing airlines!
Depending on the airline, the seats are so doggone narrow, there is no way to not infringe on the person next to you. Then, you have to deal with the ugly stares you get from the people passing by hoping they do not have to sit next to you. It is miserable. Don't get me started on the seatbelts. They do not always fit. I swear some of them would not fit around kids. So you have to go through the staff and say, hey I am fat, do you have a seatbelt extender? They make airplanes embarrassing enough without drawing attention to ones self. NO THANKS! I just tucked the ends of the belt under my shirt so they thought I was strapped in. Some airplane seats are so small that the average person spills out of them. What are chubby people supposed to do? TOTALLY UNCOOL AIRLINES!!!
THEN I found one of the most AMAZING websites EVERRRRRRR! Seat Guru. http://www.seatguru.com/ This website actually helps you to find the different seats you might want. They identify longer leg room, armrests that do not go up, and seat widths. WOO HOO CHECK IT OUT!
On a trip From NYC to San Fran, Virgin offered a first class upgrade for $100.00. It was the best and worst decision of my life. I did it. Since then I am spoiled. When it is a long flight, I wait until the fares for first class come down until they are barely over the original price of the main cabin. This year I am spending less than $200.00 more for roundtrip first class vs what I would have spent last fall for coach. ANNNND I get 1 free checked bag. WOOT! I do not have to worry about seat belts, people looking at me funny because I am chubby, not fitting into the seat at all, or if I can get my stuff in the one small suitcase. First class is totally worth the extra $200.00. I recommend it.
Thursday, June 16, 2016
78 Days Until Dragon Con
Soap box time.
SORRY!!!!
I have a box. Many might refer to it as a soap box. The box is of my own making and I try desperately to not bring it out in public. Unfortunately, here, today, it is getting brought out. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE????
Shooting up nightclubs? Losing your kid and killing a Gorilla? WTF? A kid is 'snatched' by an alligator? I cannot imaging the immesurable pain these families are going through. My heart goes out to all of those who remain. To those who have to pick up the pieces. Tho those who have in someway been impacted by these tragedies. I cannot imagine your pain and to be brutally honest, I do not want to try to imagine it.
STILL, WTF? Why are we doing this to ourselves? Yes, I say ourselves. The gorilla was in no way behaving out of character for a gorilla. What was the kid doing in a place where he could get captured by the gorilla to begin with? The alligator, it probably thought the kid was something to nibble. If you go near the water, home to many alligators, do you really expect the alligator to not come take a nibble? It is like asking the fat kid in school to not eat the unwrapped tweenkie that you left on his lunch tray in front of him. Would he have asked you for your tweenkie? Probably not, but if you open it and put it in front of him, what is a fat kid to do?
In both of these incidents, the location of the animals and the animals themselves are being blamed. WHY??? THEY DID NOTHING WRONG. Yes this is a terrible tragedy but it is not the facilities or the animals that were in the wrong. Is anyone to blame? Yes and no. Accidents happen all of the time. The parents took their eyes off of the kids for just a second and whammo. Does that mean the park/zoo or animals are at fault? NO!
AS for the shootings? Seriously? Does it matter if it was a homophobe with religious undertones or just a plain homophobe? Whether he blames Isis, or some other terror organization, he still targeted a gay nightclub. That makes him a homophobe. ASSHOLE!!! All of these political pundants are fighting over terminology that just does not matter. SHUT THE HELL UP. It is still some mentally deranged person killing others for their own reasons. Terminology does not matter. How you respond to this does. How are you working to stopping this from happening again? That is what matters. His rationale? WHO CARES?!?!?!?
There are those that blame the guns. I am one of them. Am I saying all guns are bad, yes I am. NOW before you get your panties in a bunch please keep reading. Guns are specifically designed to kill. The guns in question are doing EXACTLY what they are supposed to do. Do I think all guns should be banned? HELL NO! When the second amendment was written it was all about muskets and little balls of lead. The Founding Fathers did not have the problem we do today with the amount of school et al mass shootings. I think there should be limits on guns. There need to be more limitations on WHO is able to get a gun. There needs to be a limit on the number of rounds that can be fired. There needs to be stiffer penalties for manufacturers and dealers who break the rules. I think guns are essential to who we are as a people. We need to be able to protect ourselves if we need to. For those hunters out there, you need to be able to hunt.
ALL of that being said, why as a species are we so damn awful? We killed a gorilla for doing nothing more than playing with someone who came into his home without permission. Would we legally do that to another human? HELL NO! We are horrific to our planet, animals and to others. When will we ever learn? When will we be kind to not only ourselves, but to others, other species and our world?
Off the box.
SORRY!!!!
I have a box. Many might refer to it as a soap box. The box is of my own making and I try desperately to not bring it out in public. Unfortunately, here, today, it is getting brought out. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE????
Shooting up nightclubs? Losing your kid and killing a Gorilla? WTF? A kid is 'snatched' by an alligator? I cannot imaging the immesurable pain these families are going through. My heart goes out to all of those who remain. To those who have to pick up the pieces. Tho those who have in someway been impacted by these tragedies. I cannot imagine your pain and to be brutally honest, I do not want to try to imagine it.
STILL, WTF? Why are we doing this to ourselves? Yes, I say ourselves. The gorilla was in no way behaving out of character for a gorilla. What was the kid doing in a place where he could get captured by the gorilla to begin with? The alligator, it probably thought the kid was something to nibble. If you go near the water, home to many alligators, do you really expect the alligator to not come take a nibble? It is like asking the fat kid in school to not eat the unwrapped tweenkie that you left on his lunch tray in front of him. Would he have asked you for your tweenkie? Probably not, but if you open it and put it in front of him, what is a fat kid to do?
In both of these incidents, the location of the animals and the animals themselves are being blamed. WHY??? THEY DID NOTHING WRONG. Yes this is a terrible tragedy but it is not the facilities or the animals that were in the wrong. Is anyone to blame? Yes and no. Accidents happen all of the time. The parents took their eyes off of the kids for just a second and whammo. Does that mean the park/zoo or animals are at fault? NO!
AS for the shootings? Seriously? Does it matter if it was a homophobe with religious undertones or just a plain homophobe? Whether he blames Isis, or some other terror organization, he still targeted a gay nightclub. That makes him a homophobe. ASSHOLE!!! All of these political pundants are fighting over terminology that just does not matter. SHUT THE HELL UP. It is still some mentally deranged person killing others for their own reasons. Terminology does not matter. How you respond to this does. How are you working to stopping this from happening again? That is what matters. His rationale? WHO CARES?!?!?!?
There are those that blame the guns. I am one of them. Am I saying all guns are bad, yes I am. NOW before you get your panties in a bunch please keep reading. Guns are specifically designed to kill. The guns in question are doing EXACTLY what they are supposed to do. Do I think all guns should be banned? HELL NO! When the second amendment was written it was all about muskets and little balls of lead. The Founding Fathers did not have the problem we do today with the amount of school et al mass shootings. I think there should be limits on guns. There need to be more limitations on WHO is able to get a gun. There needs to be a limit on the number of rounds that can be fired. There needs to be stiffer penalties for manufacturers and dealers who break the rules. I think guns are essential to who we are as a people. We need to be able to protect ourselves if we need to. For those hunters out there, you need to be able to hunt.
ALL of that being said, why as a species are we so damn awful? We killed a gorilla for doing nothing more than playing with someone who came into his home without permission. Would we legally do that to another human? HELL NO! We are horrific to our planet, animals and to others. When will we ever learn? When will we be kind to not only ourselves, but to others, other species and our world?
Off the box.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
79 Days Until Dragon Con
Ugg!!!! Being sick sucks. I got home from work today and took a nap. RAH! However, I needed to go to Weight Watchers. I decided I would just go and weigh in and get dinner on the way back home. I was up 1.8 lbs. GRRRR Not really surprising though considering I have done NO physical activity since I broke my toe. I am ok on walking now. It is still sore but it is managable. However I take 5 steps and I wheeze then cough. Not fun.
Monday, June 13, 2016
80 Days Until Dragon Con
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This first year at con was a changing point in my life. I am going to overcome this struggle.
Sunday, June 12, 2016
81 Days Until Dragon Con
UGGGG I have a cold. if it is not one thing it is another. Tomorrow my friends and I have decided to give up smoke breaks (I dont smoke, I just take breaks) and go walking instead. I hope I will be okay with the toe issue. I might be slow but at least I will be moving. We shall see. In high school when my allergies were hell, I used to tie a roll of toilet paper around my neck. I think I might do that tomorrow for our walks. Summer colds are terrible. I am glad that all of these issues are happening now and not right before con. WOOT things are going to be awesome!
82 Days Until Dragon COn
A little more history.
10 years ago, I moved again. This time to California where is was cloudy, foggy or rainy every day. There were hills everywhere that made casual walking unpleasant. Biking and rollerblading downright icky. I knew no one, so I hid in the house. I was away from my family and the things I knew. I was lost. I was in a serious downward spiral. I would drop my husband off at Bart (the subway) in the morning and then go to the donut store on the way home. I would get my 2 donuts and go home get back in bed and not get out until it was time to go pick him up again. This went on for several months. Needless to say my weight BALLOONED to the highest it has ever been.
I started to get to get better and got a new job. I hired a personal trainer and lost a
lot of weight. YAY. A year later, I got another new job and it was stressfull and
totally depressing. I stayed there for 5 years. Why? Because it paid
REALLY well and I knew I was going to be leaving California as soon as
enough money was saved to buy a house. During these 5 years the weight
went up and down. I tried all sorts of crazy diets and even went to one
of those weight loss clinics where you could only eat the food that
they provided and 1 lean meal a day. The food was terrible. I ate 1
cinnamon granola bar 4x a day and then a cheese and onion omelette every
day for over 2 years. I was MISERABLE. BUUUUTTTT I did loose 60 lbs.
YAY That was great, right?
10 years ago, I moved again. This time to California where is was cloudy, foggy or rainy every day. There were hills everywhere that made casual walking unpleasant. Biking and rollerblading downright icky. I knew no one, so I hid in the house. I was away from my family and the things I knew. I was lost. I was in a serious downward spiral. I would drop my husband off at Bart (the subway) in the morning and then go to the donut store on the way home. I would get my 2 donuts and go home get back in bed and not get out until it was time to go pick him up again. This went on for several months. Needless to say my weight BALLOONED to the highest it has ever been.
Friday, June 10, 2016
83 Days Until Dragon Con
Date: June 10, 2016
Time: 11:30 pm
Water: 45 oz
Activities:None...I broke my toe
Steps: 19590
This evening I am out of town visiting family so I do not have a lot of time. More tomorrow!
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