My weekend in summary

[rallamajoop]

Saturday night was the annual PAniC ball. I would give the experience two thumbs up - it had pretty much everything that was seriously lacking at the Amaranth ball, being a dance floor big enough to actually dance on, a proper photographer, announcements that were audible and quite decent food. Still noisy and crowded, but that's always the case. I do still feel a bit like all the time and space it takes for everyone to eat a three course meal interferes with what these events are really about - ie, catching up with people, dancing, taking photos and ooh-ing and ah-ing over everyone else's costumes. But I'm probably just biased by so many years at the Swancon Masquerade, where you'd better believe the budget for that kind of food has gone somewhere more important.

The plan was to pull out my Millia/girl!Ky balldress again for the event, which should have been a nice, easy costume since it was finished months ago. Only... I pulled it out a week before the ball to make one or two very minor repairs, and found myself thinking, "You know what this really needs to count as a real alternate Guilty Gear costume? BUCKLES!" And so those minor repairs became a bit less minor, required a couple of emergency supply trips and chewed up a lot of what was left of my week. It was, however, completely worth it - I was quite happy with how the costume turned out originally, but the new additions made all the difference. Also, since I had a girl!Sol in an awesome coat to take me to the ball this time, that killed any thoughts about spending any part of the evening claiming to be Millia, but that was completely worth it too.

Spent so much time dancing we hardly got many photos taken this time around and haven't gotten many of them back yet, but velithya has a few posted that we took after we got back. <3

Did not get much sleep Saturday night, mooched around on Sunday and didn't get much sleep for Monday either, now seem to be coming down with YET ANOTHER minor cold. >_< Goddamnit, I am taking my immune system back for a refund if this gets any worse! This year has been ridiculous!

My post backlog hasn't gotten any shorter in a while either. *sigh*

Comments

[chisathechi.livejournal.com]

The dress looked great! I am in awe of people who can sew, doubly so of people who can sew wearable formal attire @_@

Have you tried echinacea? People keep recommending it to me because I get sick all the time, I was thinking of giving it a try.

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Hey, considering all the neat crafty stuff you turn out, I'd be very surprised if sewing wasn't something you'd be able to pick up pretty quickly if you ever wanted to learn. Actually, sewing up wearable formal attire turned out to be easier than a lot of the projects I've worked on before, because I could get away with using a store-bought dress pattern to base it on, and from there all it needed was a few simple modifications (blue stripes, skirt shortened, slit added). I am known to spend *hours* agonising over how to get things the right shape when I don't have a pattern to start from. ^^; On the other hand, it is neat to think that for once I've made something I can get away with wearing to mundane formal events if they ever come up. I just might have to leave out a few details about where I got the idea from. XD

We do often buy a kind of vitamin C/echinacea/other stuff pills to take for colds, and it does seem to make a good difference. Only trouble is it's more use for making you get better faster than for preventing you from getting sick repeatedly, and the latter is what I could really have used this year. -_-

[chisathechi.livejournal.com]

It's on my list of things to try out over the Christmas break/break from work before moving... mostly so I can justify buying my own sewing machine and attempting to cosplay at some Eastern states cons XD

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Well, if you want any help or advice with that, you'll have plenty of people to go to. ^_^

[velithya]

yeah well, you looked okay I guess

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

And the teapot you acquired was quite acceptable. <3