My Favorite and My Best

This took me too long to get back to, but let's meet another bridesmaid! Esther is getting married this upcoming August in Salem, Massachusetts (how cool is that?), which will make me the last of the LeakyCon crew to tie the knot. Which is a touch funny because I'm pretty sure I'm the oldest. But once our youngest went down the aisle first, all bets were off (love you, Jena!)  If I had to say what Esther's wheelhouse is in our group, I would quickly point out that she is the fandom lady. No one I know is as enthusiastic about fan theories and cosplay as Esther is. Dressed as another ginger who totally slays. Meanwhile I can barely sew a straight line without help! I also expect her to be the one who will go the hardest on the dance floor. At LeakyCon one year, she went right up and danced with a well-known Snape cosplayer. No fear. One thing I really appreciate about Esther is that she doesn't see the point in doing things halfway. Why just them

Okay, I just need to make a fairly innocuous post and clear my head so I can get back on this. Like I said in the previous post, there's a lot I haven't been able to make decisions about, due to lack of a locked down date. But I did decide one thing. I have shoes now. Specifically, I found another cost-cutting measure by searching shoes on the secondhand clothing shop thredUP . I started looking a while back and set up a search to email me whenever stuff matched the criteria I was going for. For a while, I absolutely thought these were going to be my shoes: JustFab Gabby in Turquois They were priced at just $12 and beautiful. I was nervous to move ahead with the purchase, so I stalled. And inevitably someone else bought them. All the other pairs I could find on eBay and the like were size tens. I wear a six. It wasn't going to happen. I couldn't fathom why all of them were tens. I even posted on the Weddingbee Boards  to find another pair. No dice. So I resi

For a while, our planning was pretty much at a standstill until we knew the when and the where. Because of this, I only had small things to talk about during most of that time, so I just didn't because I felt down about it. It's been hard to make progress and then almost none at all for a while. That being said, I did want to get back to this eventually, and as of this last (Easter) weekend, I finally felt like I could convince my brain to do it. One of the problems that causes me the most hardship is akin to executive dysfunction . What this means in my case is that I can be fully aware of exactly what I need to do to accomplish something, including being able to break it down into steps, but some feeling inside prevents me from getting started. Flashback to multiple weekends where I couldn't talk myself out of bed until sometimes up to an hour or two after I woke up hungry. I don't know. It's hard to explain to someone who hasn't experienced it. A common