Mm... Lasagna

What a great couple of days. 

Yesterday, My boyfriend, my mother, and myself all went to see Maleficent. It was a really good movie and it was just perfect considering how long I’ve been waiting for it to come out. (Maybe one or two years?) I was really excited when they finally put it out. I’m not going to spoil any of it for you guys, but I can definitely say it’s worth it and you can even go see it with your kids.

Today was belly dancing class. I had so much fun. We learned some hip up moves and I need to practice them some more at home. I had a really difficult time with some of them. I love my belly dancing classes so much. The instructor is very experienced so she knows a lot about how to make the moves work so much better for us. It’s really great. She says I’m doing okay, too but I still have some things to work on. You can’t be perfect right out of the gates, though, as much as I’d like for it to be that way.

Now I’m sitting at home watching Moon Phase with my boyfriend while we wait for his parental units to cook the lasagna we brought home from the store. Oh yeah, we went to the store today. That was pretty uneventful, but that’s pretty normal. We just had to buy enough stuff for dinner I guess.

I’m just generally happy. Mm… lasagna.

-Vyvyan Wormwood

Dancing Around Town

I’ve been thinking a lot about cosplay and stuff lately too. I really want to make a really cool cosplay but I don’t know what I want to do. I have a bunch of ideas that I want to try and stuff, but I don’t know which ones I want to try out. Card captor Sakura, Yuuko from  xxxHolic, Freya from Chobits, Hazuki from Moon Phase, Dead Master from Black Rock Shooter, Nyozeka from Alice the 19^th, Shinku from Rozen Maiden, and Rabi en Rose from DiGi Charat. I have a ton of ideas besides that but those are some of the ones I want to do.

I hope one day that I can read and watch Japanese animes and mangas in their original format. That way I can get things from the source. I like watching them with subtitles because I can read really fast (at least in my mind) and it’s easy for me to keep up with them. My boyfriend, D, also watches them with subtitles but I think he prefers them to be in English so that he can just sit and listen instead of watching them intently.

As for my steampunk ideas, I really want to go with the name Vyvyan Wormwood and dress up with a green wig and things. Like a steampunk Poison Ivy or something. I think it would be really cool. I would want a green corset to go with it. I found some cool patterns at one of the local sewing shops that have some ideas for steampunk clothing and I fell in love with some of the coats. I just wish I could fit into them all and/or knew how to expand out a pattern like I need to do.

D and I just got done doing some running to town. We got a pizza at little ceasars and ate it. We still have a couple of pieces left so we’re going to save those for later I think. The cats are acting up again. They always act up when we come home from somewhere because they miss us and think we’re going away forever. Then they get jealous of each other and start fighting. They’re both males. Their names are Cotton Puff and Anise. Cotton Puff is a Siamese and Anise is a grey tabby. They have the same mom though. We’re still not sure where the Siamese comes from. None of the cats around the neighborhood are Siamese.

Right now I am listening to music on Spotify and deciding what I want to belly dance to. I have found some pretty cool songs while listening to a radio station based on Beats Antique. I really like Beats Antique and their dancer Zoe Jakes. She’s really pretty and really talented. I want to be like her someday. I get a lot of inspiration from other dancers and their different styles. I’ve seen some really good dancers who are plus size as well. Belly dancing is a really forgiving style. You don’t have to be all skinny and tiny to do it. You just have to be confident in what you do. I’m not that confident yet but I would like to be. I want to perform at some point. That would be great!

Ah well. I can dream.

-Vyvyan Wormwood

Swamp Butt

Had a great day with my friends at gaming today. We play Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 edition on Sundays. The guys are great and we are always having a laugh about something stupid we end up inevitably doing.

Today, we fought some lizard men in a swamp between a couple of towns we are on our way to and from. We got attacked by some dark elves in the process. They caught us in a dark sphere of darkity-darkness and we had to run to get out of it. Thankfully, even though he was swinging blindly, our Barbarian caught one of the dark elves and cut him in half. It was intense.

Yesterday, D and I rented the video game South Park: The Stick of Truth so we’re having fun playing that right about now. I really like the game and think it’s hilarious, but it’s really not a game for kids AT ALL. Hopefully parents figure that out.  Makes me glad I don’t have kids so that I can play whatever I want without having to censor stuff. I would feel awful if I had kids and didn’t censor things for them because I would want them to have a normalish, semi-sheltered life I guess. I think that’s really hard to do these days though. Kudos to parents who keep their kids as kids/innocent.

I’m still working on my learning of the Japanese language. I don’t know  a lot, but I’m getting some of the basic syllables down in the writing system. I don’t really know any words except for how to count to ten and I’m not even sure I’m doing that right.

I want to write my own comic book someday. I have been working on stories for various things and have been cheered on by quite a few people so that really encourages me a lot. People have told me that I’m pretty creative and will get things figured out sooner or later.

I have been going to a belly dancing class every Wednesday at one of the local places and I have been doing pretty well. I don’t do as much as the other people because of my back, but it is helping with my core and keeping my back in better condition. It’s a great workout for that. I try to practice each day.

Oh, and you can find me on twitter @Vyvyanwormwood. I don’t post very often, but when I do it’s okay stuff. I like to repost all kinds of things on there from the things I’m interested in. It’s a mix of things. If you like sewing, anime, crafts, comics, gaming, gardening, burlesque, belly dancing, jewelry making, etc. then I’m your gal.

Lots of fun!

-Vyvyan Wormwood