Meh

[angharad_gam]

I seem to be having trouble finding motivation to do much except play computer games at the moment. This is not at all leftover illness bleh - I've actually not been feeling too bad since then. I think it's probably just a reaction to being so busy for so long, plus the weather. There are masses of things that need to be done in the garden at the moment, but it's hard to go outside when it's so cold and damp. Cold and sunny I don't mind so much. Is it just me or does this winter seem extra long?

Not I'm in any hurry for summer to come along, or at least normally I wouldn't be. I think I just need a little sunlight. Maybe I need to get back on the Vitamin D.

Ashwyn lasted all of one day before we got the 'I don't want to go to school'. In fact we get it almost every morning, but apparently he seems happy enough once he gets to school and is generally behaving himself, and more to the point applying himself. All the more grist for my 'he was just bored at kindy' theory.

Last week I found out at short notice that I was making an Avcon costume for Andy's brother. Actually it wasn't quite that bad. He acquired a Starblazers StarForce uniform jacket and a pair of white flares and wanted me to turn the flares into uniform pants to match the jacket. Andy has a photo which I will try and persuade him to post. Based on this Andy now wants me to make him a Leader Desslok costume for next year. This should not be a problem (it's not a complex costume) but the blue skin and blond hair might be another matter.

Also I think I am becoming a fan of Chap Hop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iRTB-FTMdk&feature=relmfu

Comments

[irreparable.livejournal.com]

I read that as AVON, not AvCon. *facepalm*.

The rap about tea was brilliant. +1 would listen again!

[angharad-gam.livejournal.com]

Yeah and I've got to get me some time-travel trousers :-)

Hmm....these AVON ladies are a bit strangely dressed...

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

Curious happenstances.

(1) I'm currently listening to Professor Elemental's The Indifference Engine (to be exact, Fete worse than death at the moment). Highly recommended.

(2) I made a Star Blazer's costume for a party I went to once. The jacket wasn't too bad, considering I'd never done a jacket before. I wonder where I put it. [Interestingly there was an SCA meeting (which means it must have been 1985), the next day and I hadn't time to go home and change before it, since the meeting was on the way home.]

I quite like the original anime series and the recent live-action movie as well.

[angharad-gam.livejournal.com]

I'd never seen it (I don't think we got as many American programs in the UK when I was a child as you seem to have here) until Andy got it on DVD. Erin loved it and it was on constant rotation (pun intended ;-)) in the DVD player for long enough that most of us in the house could probably sing the theme song by heart now...