Japanese and Dumb Cats

Looks like it’s the start of another week today. Oh god. It’s horrible. Just kidding. It’s really not that bad. I’m just kind of sitting around today. I have a doctors appointment tomorrow to start my pain management stuff. I’m kind of nervous. I have all of my paperwork together and I hope I don’t have any problems with it. I’m probably going to have to walk with my cane, though. 

Saturday, we played Mutants and Masterminds for the first official time. That was fun. My character is called Magpie, and she is a mystic character similar to Raven from Teen Titans. I pretty much ripped off the character, but I made it just a little different. I had some different powers, too. But for the most part it’s a ripped off character. I have magic blast powers, flight, and I can hide in shadows in plain sight. I used those powers to follow one of our other characters into an enemy hideout without being noticed. It was really awesome. I love being able to do those things. I wish I could do them in real life. I’d pop out of people’s shadows all the time and scare them. Lol

I got a book on learning Japanese over the weekend, too. It’s a Getting Started book. I’ve only read a few chapters in it, but I’m learning all kinds of things so far. I wish I had the CDs that went along with it, since those you can hear the way the people say the things in the book with it.

I’m not sure I’ve mentioned it, but I have two cats. I have one grey tabby named Anise and  a Siamese named Cotton Puff. They are brothers because they came from the same mom. They were from two different litters a month or two apart and they were the last of their litters because the wild dogs around here killed the other ones off. It was really sad. But we got Anise and Cotton Puff from it and they love us. They are dumb as bricks but we love them anyway.

I need to do some more exercises. Today, when I went in for my birth control they told me I had lost about ten pounds from last November. My bmi had gone down and I was generally doing better for myself. I hope that I can do better than that in the upcoming times. I think my belly dancing is helping a little bit because there is just so much movement, and I don’t do a lot of movement normally. This is just another one of my stupid struggles I have to deal with. That and I like food way too much. Maybe to a freakish degree even.

Ah well. Gotta keep up the work.

-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