Celebrations

There are only a few things I’m really willing to spend large amounts of money on gratuitously. One of them is travel; the other is fine dining. Give me the option to spoil someone I care about in the process, and you've hit my true weakness.

I decided to finish up a weekend of eating energy bars in lieu of food, pizza with incorrect toppings, peanuts out of the con suite, and late nights at Houlihan’s in fursuit by changing gears entirely, and taking lediva to Morimoto, the new restaurant in Philly opened by the Iron Chef Japanese, for our anniversary. (Two whole years, can you believe it?) It's probably the first time in my life I've gone to a place like this while it's still trendy, but once someone reminded me that it was there, I couldn't help myself.

( Food, glorious food! )

Anthrocon report (short, obligatory)

I didn't attend a single actual con-sponsored event, it turns out, except for the game I ran, but I had a moderately amusing time in any case,despite being too exhausted to attend RHPS or do any late night hanging out.

Special thanks to aprivatefox for helping to run the tabletop gaming rooms, and sythyry, lediva, and tygermoonfoxx for running games. You made my job easy, and gave me time to wander about.

My favorite part of the con, as usual, was costuming. I'm pleased to see that full body, non-plush style costuming is continuing to gain in popularity; it's a great way to interact with people in character. The Heaven the Pregnant Vixen costume went well, I thought:

( It looked like this! )

I especially like the way the hair came out -- so seventies!-- and the toe socks (barefoot and pregnant, y'know). Fewer explicitly squicked reactions than I expected, and much postive feedback. Many many people rubbed my tummy, which somehow in this context didn't bother me in the slightest.

Expected: The comeon "By two, you don't happen to mean me and my friend, right?" (Nice try. :P). Not expected: More than one person thought I meant that I was a serious fan of 2_gryphon. Special bonus: The suit is actually very comfy, and I expect to wear it as random around, the house maternity wear when the weather gets cold.

sythyry and I gave away a lot of pottery, and got prints and sketches and produce and promises. I hung out with a bunch of tall women and other interesting people. Mothra kicked a lot and got his very own conbadge, thanks to mister_wolf, via lediva.I ate cheesecake with interesting freaks. Some World Tree books were sold, despite only about an hour and a half table time on my part.

That's it for the con scene for me, for the next few months.