Chats with Dad

I read "Let's Pretend this Never Happened" by Jenny Lawson this last weekend, then started mainlining her blog (I'm on page 61 of the "previous posts").

So basically, I'm regurgitating her writing style as well as feeling pseudo-guilty that I never write blog posts frequently enough and at that point where it's like "no one's gonna read this anyway," so I thought I'd post random snippets of conversation with my dad.

From this morning:

Fishing: you're doing it wrong

From not this morning: 
me: Quick, give me a biscuit pun

 Daddy!: you are half baked

  i never have enough dough

don't get in a jam

  you'er toast

  you're

  moms

 me: your mom's face is toast

  thanks
This is how I found out my big brother was engaged: 

Daddy!: Oh yea

  U see ace is engaged

 me: I found out after patrick

8:10 PM Daddy!: Of sourse he's a douchbag

 me: I found out because patrick posted Congrats to your brother, and good luck being the only sibling not married.

  douche

  but i'm not really sure where my phone is

8:11 PM so if you call me a couple times i'll pretend i was tried to be informed before all of facebook

 Daddy!: Oh tay

 me: maybe a text too

  that's not from twitter

  and if you really want to be extravagant, a snail mail letter

 Daddy!: Want me z2 call ur phone?

 me: maybe some sky writing

8:12 PM nah

  i don't have it with me i'm pretty sure

  and i'm listening to live music

  it'd be a bit rude if it went off

 Daddy!: Calling 7 now

 me: 7?

  I'm 7?

  what??

  that's it, i'm changin your nmber to 3

  mom's now 2

8:13 PM I seriously have no idea where it is

  maybe it's in my bedroom

  ...

 Daddy!: I just called u
Conclusion: I love my dad, and I can't figure out the formatting tab to save my life. (why you no left-align, post? v.v)

It's not like it's pink-eye, right?

A conversation with my dad from earlier this week: me: yo

  u there?

 Daddy!: yes

 me: Did mom feel sickly last night?

 Daddy!: no did you?

 me: ... yus.

 Daddy!: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

9:31 AM me: i think i may have eaten some expired chicken for dinner.

 Daddy!: u at home?

 me: no

 Daddy!: Tazikis?>

 me: no

  that was lunch

  though it doesn't look near as good 10 hours later.

  :D

 Daddy!: did you blow chunks?

 me: indeed

9:32 AM it was gross

 Daddy!: nice

  i hate3 it

  hat3

 me: yeah

  but at that point, I was too nauseous to sleep

 Daddy!: not as3om3sauc3

 me: so I was kind of glad

  at what point do you know it's okay to go home sick as a grown-up?

 Daddy!: last time I was sick it was after Behold

 me: i know.

  I heard

9:33 AM Daddy!: u have sick leave use it

 me: this is true.

  but I'm not like, impaired

  and I'm not exactly pukey mcpukerton

 Daddy!: 'cept mentally

 me: thx

  i just don't want to eat anything ever again

 Daddy!: good plan

 me: and i have a weird headache that makes it hard to focus

9:34 AM Daddy!: go home, dummy

 me: ooo

  but if i hold out till 11 I'll only use a half-day

 Daddy!: and possible infect the entire office

 me: I don't think it's that kind of sick, i really don't

 Daddy!: take a vote at work

 me: pretty sure it's straight up "whatchu eat, willis?"

9:35 AM i thought i was having a migraine last night

  then it was like, OH WAIT

  bluuurg

  all better

 Daddy!: maybe it was bad comedy

 me: mebbe

9:36 AM Daddy!: steve Martin had a quote

 me: we had a steve martin movie clip at church sunday

 Daddy!: Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

9:39 AM goota go -puke ya later

 me: thanks

  puke you later too. :/
I really don't know when it's okay to leave. When I was a kid, I'd get migraines during math tests, and my mom would be like, "Honey, I know you don't feel good, but I'm fighting fires right now and I cannot come to get you. Just do your best, okay?"
So I feel like I need parental approval to go home. Unless it's strep. Vague bad feelings? no idea on what the go-home point is. Being grown-up is hard. This is like the worst post ever. But don't blame me, I was sick on Monday ('cause that totally justifies this).

Cosplay update - Mockingjay

Let me start off by saying I'm not a furry.

This is important, because I want to cosplay as a bird. But I'm NOT A FURRY. No offense to the furry crowd, but that's not how I roll.

So I dressed as Puss-in-boots once... still not a furry.

I was thinking of dressing as a mockingjay, the offspring of mockingbirds and genetically engineered bluejays called jabberjays from The Hunger Games. I do NOT want to dress as Katniss in her mockingjay costume, or anything like that - though I may be able to get away with it, since I have similar coloring to the actress who played her in the recent movie. I just have always loved mockingbirds (they're everywhere here) for their attitude and abilities, and thought it'd be cool.

I'm still waaaaaay in the beginning stages of the project, though. I've found some pretty good reference images around the net, as well as an incredible lifelike wing tutorial and lady model template for designing the costume on deviantart.

inked by Dualmask

I also have got my hands on some Wonderflex to play with and I'm on the hunt for some liquid latex. I'm thinking some feather patterns on exposed skin using the latex and some body paint. A note on the Wonderflex - I ordered a sample sheet from Dani's Cosplay supplies and it arrived pretty quickly (in fact, it shipped less than 6 hours after ordering), but I had some unforseen problems. Nothing that could be blamed on the supplier; I just forgot that it's "spring" here in the South. Wonderflex is wonderful because it's easy to work with using heat, and 80 degree weather combined with the back of a mail truck equals partially worked Wonderflex. It bonded slightly to the envelope it arrived in. Obnoxious, but something I can work with.

To sum up, I'm concepting like a crazy person, but I'm not expecting this particular costume to be ready for Dragon*Con 2012.