We may be busy, but we REALLY miss cosplaying. A 2012 resolution we had was to get more involved in cosplay like we used to; however, if you saw that we were in a pretty lengthy cosplay hiatus, we were busy running our label while going to school and serving in the Air Force. Having our time eaten up trying to knock out school and military is keeping us making our own cosplays, yet we’re not the type to purchase cosplays without recognition to the creator. Thus this is where Cosplay Shopper came in to potentially fill the void for us. CosplayShopper.com is a new website where fans can purchase cosplays, lolita outfits, and costume items; in addition, custom commission outfits. I will elaborate more on Cosplay Shopper later this week on Sushicrowd.com as Rin and I are still conducting an assessment to accept sponsorship, but we have been approached by Cosplay Shopper to model for them as we are being sponsored by them. This new collaboration is a great way to tide us over until we can create our own and compete again. Hope this plan comes together well.
I’m finding it harder to be on the net more often now then before. I got moved to swing shift at work so I’m working most of the day. The great thing about swing shift is that I get more sleep and I can stay up later, but a lot of my free time gets eaten up. I still feel like my weekend is short with taking Saturday off (my weekends days are Sunday and Monday). Yesterday (Saturday), Ooples had 3 huge events the same day, an Anime Lock-In, a My Little Pony Lock-In, and Vampire Hunter D Vol. 6 release party. After doing my body wrap in preparations for the Air Force’s conspiracy called the PT test, I showed up to the event to DJ but also did my first cosplay photoshoot with Rin since a very long while (Rin Lightning set). If I could stay humble writing this, I’m not really that awesome of a photographer, but I’m pretty proud of myself if I enjoy looking at my own work, then again, I enjoy looking at Rin, especially in cosplay. I took a few photos of myself as well to update my profile photo and those didn’t turn out bad either. I only hoped that I could have taken more but I already had something to do at Ooples.
Thank God for a new Ooples store because an anime/brony capacity crowd with a convention celebrity DJ would not be contained at the old flea-market stand. I always enjoy mixing with the Hakubiverse from all fandoms and it’s a new kind of feeling as I DJ with a crowd that I am just getting to know. Originally I was suppose to mix late night at around 11:00PM but I played for a few hours around 6:00ish and broadcasted some anime music while I was working on Rin’s photos. For the last hour we were there, I was teaching Rin how to DJ and this Lightning is very much a natural DJ. Some of the tunes I have on my crate came from her recommendations so I imagine she’ll be on the deck at cons pretty soon. This Saturday coming up is the Sailor Moon Vol. 3 release party and I plan to be back there to mix as well and maybe have Rin spend some booth time.
As I wind down to go to bed after a long day’s work (yes I had to work on Christmas Day), my headache disappears. I was so worn out and had the worst headache of the season today, can’t say I had a good Christmas but then again I didn’t really try this year. Guess that’s what I get. I realize that Christmas is what I make of it and if I haven’t put much effort and attention, it’s gonna be a really shitty holiday. Well lesson learned I guess. I didn’t really have plans to go anywhere or do anything and my job needed someone to work this weekend so I figure’d “what the hell, I got nothing better to do”. The job wasn’t too bad this weekend but I made a very critical mistake (probably how I got the headache). Every food service place in town was closed during breakfast so I had to survive eating puffins, I NEED NOURISHMENT…TAURUS MEAT OR SOMETHING!!! (ok ok, I ate other sweets but I wanted to make that joke). Luckily I had food for dinner but didn’t make much as I though I was going to because of how tired I became after work, although I could have done the Jewish thing and ordered Chinese as I’ve seen a couple of spots open on my way home…and I LOOOOOVE Chinese food.
Well today may have been rough, but I should treat my week like I originally did and celebrate the season rather than just the day. Yesterday after work I went to church to hear the story of Jesus Christ and quite honestly, that’s a story I don’t mind hearing over and over. If I ever have kids, I may read it to them or other accounts in the bible. I realize the good book doesn’t have to be scary as man made it out to be and it is “The Good Book” for a reason, especially the “Gospel of John”. After church I ran into a couple of unfortunates that I’ve emptied my wallet for. Normally I don’t do that but I could tell they were legitimately miserable and it was F’n cold out there. May Jesus watch over them as we look up upon your light on your birthday. I started working out again after 2 weeks of injury and seemed that I was able to run 1.5mi in less than 13:00 min so I’m on the right track. After that, I got on WoW for a bit knocking out heroics and worked on editing for the Eric Stuart concert I filmed at FAN:dom.
Speaking of concerts, I took Rin to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra last Thursday. Honestly I haven’t been too excited to see TSO but I thought their light show was spectacular. The concert was really good but I had all I could take after an hour. We got floor seating and there’s something about being at pit level and not being allowed to act out in cheers that bothered me. I really wanted to sing “Ding Fries Are Done” at that one song, that would be EPIC! After the concert, we helped our friend Franklin from Ooples Apparel build shelves for his new store. Always great to help out friends and associates in this season. One thing I got to note is that I think Rin was hustling in what she can do. She ENGINEERED shelf building, painting, and managing people she barely met to do her bidding, yet she can’t take the trash out, do the dishes, or any other house chores. SMH.
Well I’m going to try to get to bed early. I realize with my new shift I get used to going to bed at midnight but I end up getting 4 hours of sleep doing that, which is VERY HARMFUL to my health. I’m just that much of a night person. Well, the sooner I’m in bed, the sooner i can look forward to breakfast tacos!!!
Oh yea, here’s my presents lineup.
Sweaters/Cold-weather gear: From Parents
Yu Yu Hakusho Season 1 Blu-Ray: From Rin
Dell XPS Desktop (GET in Feb): From Me
