Oh hey. Life update since I feel like Iâve disappeared from the internet.
Moved from LA to Chicago a few years ago. Miss the sun and low humidity and my CA friends, donât miss the traffic and $2000 studio apartments.
Bought a house which is a magical 1890s Victorian Barbie dream house with tin ceilings, a gothic parlor, a frog pond, a garage my fiancÊ could turn into a blacksmith forge, and no closet space. Promptly painted every single room bright jewel tone colors to make up for the 11 years I spent in apartments with white walls.
Got engaged to my now fiancÊ who surprised me while in Pirates of the Caribbean cosplay with swords he forged. Weâre currently in the middle of planning our wedding at the Field Museum next year. Gonna get married under the spinosaurus! Gonna have cocktails with Sue!
Got really into dumb little watercolor paintings of my cats ( @pawtercolors ).
Got hardcore into gardening now that I have a yard. We have blackberries, raspberries, mulberries, and strawberries growing wildly, our cherry tree is popping off, and Iâve added in a pumpkin patch. I have about 30 pots scattered around the yard and spend an hour or 2 a day weeding, watering, and puttering.
My hair has gotten suuuuuuper long!
So basically, Iâm thriving. But in the course of moving and leaving the best state to cosplay in and all my cosplay friends there, Iâve really pumped the breaks on the hobby. And when Twitter went down, I took that enforced hiatus to just get offline and touched grass so hard that a pumpkin patch sprouted up! Itâs been really mentally healthy to just have some hobbies that arenât so heavily tied to my physical appearance and donât come with the feeling you have to constantly produce and post to be successful. I grew to loath the word âcontentâ and it was kind of a relief to be freed from the urge to perform and produce. I still have a lot of my outfits and put something together a couple times a year and do some shoots, but between moving, larger life events, and other hobbies Iâm just not much in the hardcore cosplay scene anymore. Iâm too busy cuddling cats and lying among my sunflowers to stress over regularly maintaining social media. Iâll show up looking cute when I feel like showing up and looking cute! âēī¸
