Things what are exciting in the life of Andee

My new glasses are en route! Huzzah! I haven't had new glasses in more than half a decade (seriously, i think I got these in 2004) and the old busted ones I'm wearing are truly old and busted and I might even add "jacked the fuck up." I mean, one ear piece is cracked in half, the AR coating is scratched off, the nosepads are all fucked up and since I lost all the weight they're too big. As in if I look down for more than 30 seconds, these slide the hell off my nose and off. Very irritating. So new glasses is a BIG DEAL. Its also kind of a BIG DEAL that with all the astigmatism and coating and shit, these only cost me about $60. Shit. I remember when it cost well over $300 to keep me from stumbling through this world blind as a bat.

All that said, I hope these fit and I didn't fuck the scrip or the sizing up.

Vaguely considering biting the bullet and seeing about getting contacts later on this year. I've never had them before - the first half of my life my opthalmologist was still concerned I might develop keratoconus (it runs in the family) thus dooming me to a life of hard lenses if I wanted contacts (yeah fuck that noise). Once it was determined that my corneas turned out the normal shape, I already had a THING about things being all up in my eye, so just never got up the nerve. Except now, IDK, be nice to not have something sitting on my face when I get married. Not a requirement by any means, but it just seems like time to try something new. We'll see.

PAXEast(er) is in 8 days. It's probably telling that the event I'm most excited to attend is the FetLife meetup on the Saturday.

The McGurk/Elroy wedding is the week after that.

I has Writing Ideas. God only knows if they'll go anywhere, but they are There.

Maybe it's just the turn of the seasons, but I just feel a little more positive and a little more determined to get on top of things lately. Or at least, less discouraged by my total failures to make progress, which is good because persistence is the only way I'm going to get the shit I want to do done.

cell23's mother has invited us over for an early Easter egg dying and brunch type thing this weekend. This is timely because OMG i have the HAMlust like whoa. Seriously, it's been all ham craving all the damn time since yesterday.

Pinterest I swear is eating my life and soul, but I love it. I love having visual bookmarks, if that makes sense, I love having a repository for all the cool shit I find on the net in a place where I'm very likely to look for it again, unlike a bookmark list or stumbledupon account. Honestly now that I'm on it, I'm very surprised others of my friends aren't on here already. extrajoker for one. Course, if she had a pinterest she'd descend into CROCHET/CROSS STITCH ALL THE THINGS cackling madness for real.

And that's my life at this moment.

Five questions from maps_and_guitars

1) Is there anywhere you'd like to see a map of, and any particular period? I'll post a pretty, if I've a close match.

Do you have any maps of America that actually have an approximate location of Nurembega on them? Interested for a writing project.

2) Is there anything new that's worth reading in the sword & sorcery field, that you know of?

Sword and sorcery isn't really my wheelhouse, alas, so I don't have too many selections. I enjoyed what books of Raymond Feist I've read, especially Magician. I tend to like books that turn that genre on its head better - Simon Green's Blue Moon Rising + the Hawk and Fisher novels are very enjoyable, if hard to fucking find. I recently discovered Jim Hines, whose Goblin Quest was also an amusing/quick read.

3) What venues in Northampton are friendly for unknown indie rock and/or punk from out of town these days?

Pearl street, the Elevens… That's about all I know about. Not really on the indie rock circuit. Hell it's been forever since I've seen live music anything.

4) I'm in a rut of not really recording that much of anything. Got a song you'd like to hear me cover?

Resisting really hard the urge to yell "freebird."

Okay for poops and major ha has, cover Lily Allen's "Smile" or "Not Big."

5) When are you back in NYC? We oughtta have beer, or a geek game evening, or suchlike.

Not sure, but I'll put the word out when I do. I tend to come down to the city and not leave The House the entire week I'm there. Old habits die hard.