*bursts hole through door* Heeeerrrreeee's Whitneyy!!!!

I'M BACK YA'LL!!!

So I did take a small hiatus as I dealt with some personal stuff but now I'm back and staying true to my commitments!

It is the most wonderful time of the year! I am so excited for fall! In my opinion, Fall is the greatest season and I will fight anyone who disagrees with me! But if anyone does want to fit me... Just know that I am packing some serious noodle arms... so there's that...




In a celebration of Fall, here is a list of Whitney's Top Ten Abby-Normal Things about Fall

10. Ghostbusters: 

It's socially acceptable to watch Ghostbusters (The original, god damnit) Most people dive into their lists of Halloween relevant movies and now when I make references, it is more likely that people will get it because it is fresh in their minds.

9.Ghostbusters:

 I can make anything Ghostbusters themed and everyone is down to partake! 

8. Oktoberfest: 

Wearing lederhosen and drinking copious amounts of beer is completely acceptable. Its actually encouraged! Give me a bratwurst, a beer, funny hat, and an old German man dressed as Elvis and you will never see a happier Whitney. 

7. Horror Movies Galore!

There are so many horror movies to choose from on Netflix and any grocery store $5 rack. Its so wonderful. Want to watch a a hooker that was brought back to life like Frankenstein? You can! FrankenHooker is a real thing also not a porn! 

6. The Road to the Oscars Begins! 

The movie studios begin to release the Oscar-baited films and the binge watching can officially begin!! Get out to the theater!! Honestly, who doesn't want to see LaLaLand?!!

5. BOOTS ARE ON SALE!! 

The cutest Shoes are on sale! 

4. The Living Dead-Zombie look is treading!! 

"Aww sweet you're getting ready for Halloween with a Zombie costume?" 

"Yeah sure,,,, Definitely not exhausted from work and class... Ready for Halloween..." 

3. HARVEST FESTIVALS! 

  

I know I already mentioned Oktoberfest but I (not so secretly) love Harvest Festivals, pumpkin carving, PIE, facepainting, the carinval games, risking your life in those carnival games, PIE, silly string fights. Gah! I love them!! 

2.Hockey Season!!!!! 

1. Comi-freaking-kaze

I like WonderCon, Comic Con will not allow me the tickets I so desperately want, but Comikaze is life. Comikaze is home! My boys at Southland Ghostbusters, Halloween themed events, more places to go in cosplay, and Club Nokia with the Flux Capacitors. It's the best mini getaway of my year! So stoked! 

Crafty Felix Stealing the Voice and Heart of This Poor Unfortunate Soul

Hello friends! Is there anyone out there?!? I have been incredibly neglectful of my blog the last three weeks due to sickness and oodles of other unfortunate events. However, I am back! Not with an elaborate life lesson this time as that may stray to a path that will frighten you all away... all of you that have indeed stuck around.

Anyway, I digress...

Have you ever just woke up croaking and rasping as all the sound has left your throat so that you have to text your boss that you won't be into work because the awful sea witch has visited the night before and promising you a beautiful set of legs but really only leaving you with a gross-slimy demeanor that would make even Sebastian, Scuttle, and Flounder say "Sorry bro. You're on your own." Yeah... that was me for the past two weeks ago, which is ironic that I received this product in the mail to review.

Let me just start by praising the beautiful, creative, PATIENT, and talent soul  that is Rosa over at Crafty Felix! My new favorite Etsy store!!

I discovered the wonderful talents of Crafty Felix at Long Beach Comic Con. I was rambling on and on, as I always do as I started to walk away with one of the wonderful products without paying as I was so distracted by talking and admiring the piece. I quickly snapped out of it and ran back to pay! Seriously guys... This woman is a saint for putting up with me. We began talking and immediately hit it off! I left LBCC that day with a beautiful BB-8 on top of an ice cream necklace that I will be feature in future Lazy Girl Cosplay posts.

The wonderful pieces that are are among the favorites and most high in demand from Crafty Felix are the wonderful purple seashell earrings that I'm sure that I would have to use a ship to fight Ursula off for to match the beautiful voice-carrying shell necklace that I'm sure you will want part of your world asap!

As The Disney Bounding team deemed March the month of Disney bounding, I thought it was appropriate to piece together an outfit honoring everyone's favorite Queen of Sass. Ursula was always one of my favorite Disney Villain because she was just as sarcastic as she was diabolical. These earrings and necklace definitely solidified the look that I was going for and the pieces that I received the most compliments for as I strolled through the busy Old Town Orange.

There are many more FREQUENT posts to come and definitely more Lazy Girl Cosplay posts with my pal over at Crafty Felix!

You can definitely check out her Etsy store at the link below!!! 

Check it!!

    

+Crafty Felix 

Anxiety: The unpleasant biohazard that turns this Bruce Banner into the Hulk.

Anxiety is a real thing. It is a shadow that follows you through the light and the dark. I suffer from sometimes crippling anxiety that keeps me up some nights.

I am a person that cares about others. That is what I do. That is one thing that I am consistently good at doing. While I do have a love for music, film, photography, and art; my true passion is people, more specifically, caring about those people in my life. It is a trait or passion that is recognized as a positive characteristic. But what happens when that characteristic of selflessness consumes you whole? Leaving you constantly worrying that your actions are affecting the people that you care about... That's where the anxiety sets in.

I recently started a new journey in many respects. New lifestyle, new job, revisited hobbies, new home. I feel incredibly lucky to have all of the new opportunities at this time but then again, anxiety kicks in and I am left with these feelings...

"This is great. I am happy for now... But what if it takes the place of achieving my real dreams?"
"What if I'm not good enough to succeed in the career I set out to achieve?"
"Am I pushing the people that I love most away to achieve this? You're only happiest when you surround yourself with loved ones?"
"What if I miss out on supporting them in their endeavors as a pursue my own?"
"Do they feel that I am not as supportive as I once was?"
"I consider myself to be a good friend, colleague, and family member... Is that just my ego? I've seen that facade done before by others."

... I'm going to stop right here to spare you the other anxiety ridden questions that swirl around my head to keep my post under 1000 pages.

Some days are harder than others. Just a few days ago I  had one of the worst anxiety attacks I've ever had, leaving me a puddle of self doubt, unable too sleep, really unable to breathe. After a scary and more so annoying sleepless night, I  spent the majority of the day in bed, causing even more anxiety as I  had to call out of work, which I  hate doing. It was that afternoon that I  decided that I  would no longer  let myself fall victim to these attacks. I would remember  my self worth and all of the wonderful things that I am, have done, and will do. I need to fall in love with myself again.... because until then I cannot continue to do the one thing that I  am  really good at- care about the world and the people that I meet. I have always thought the phrase "you have to love about yourself before you can love anyone else"  was a cheesy line that we feed to the bitter girl going through a break up but it is  the honest truth.

So friends, I  have decided to start campaign  of sorts inviting everyone to take a second to look at the bigger picture. See the silver lining if you will. I want to start a movement where one can recognize that taking care of yourself is essential, especially in my case. I want to start a movement where we can appreciate who we are right now and not focus on who we want to be constantly. So my friends I start with a post. A post appreciating the lovable

creative hot mess that I am. Including a sicky picture of myself. Love yourself friends, you're the only one who will be with you from beginning to end in this life. Appreciate your time with yourself and the others will follow and anxieties will melt away. More fun posts to follow!!! Happier blogging my friends. Enjoy this picture of me as I lay sick in bed!

The First Doodle from my Noodle

That one time I doodled @room334 as BB-8... It's a pretty metal drawing. I know. #atmywhitsend#doodlesfrommynoodle #bestfriend#destinedtobewithalottakatz #starwars #bb8#fashion #highwaistedskirt 

And the Oskar goes to Whitney for her role in "Procrastination: A very delayed post"

Forgive me, friends for I have fallen off the schedule. I have had quite an eventful two weeks since my last post and finally have time to tell you all about it.. So let's get started, shall we?

Three weeks ago, I sat in a bright doctor's office waiting for my annual check up,  engaged in a discussion via text with my boyfriend about the Oscar nominees. (We surprising have very similar taste in film. I use the word "surprising" because I honestly didn't think I would meet a human that shared my taste and critical opinions of film until I met Cam, it is one of the many things that attracted me to this man.)

*****WARNING: THE MAJORITY OF THIS POST WILL BE A SAPPY LOVE FEST THAT YOU MAY WANT TO RECONSIDER READING OR AT LEAST GRAB A "DOGGY BAG" BECAUSE YOU WILL PROBABLY NEED TO VOMIT FROM THE EXCESSIVE SAP****

Cam is a very talented musician and the most likable man in the Ska music scene, or any scene really.... Again, I sappily digress. It was then that Cam jokingly said that we should plan an award show for the Orange County Ska community with completely ridiculous awards and a red carpet and name it "The Skacademy Awards" or "The Oskars". I thought it was a hilarious idea and knew that with his brilliant mind and my experience in event coordinating, we could definitely pull it off.

We immediately rolled up our sleeves and started contacting everyone we could think of to make the event happen. Within a week, Cam had most of the bands in the local area excited, social media praise coming from every direction, we had sponsors providing support, and articles about the event in bigger local publications. To be completely honest, I have never been more proud of anyone in my entire life. He worked tirelessly while making it seem effortless. He attended to every possible detail and more while still working full time and having band practice nearly every night. It was incredible. To say it was like watching Superman spinning the entire world backwards and never breaking a sweat would be putting it lightly.

Everyday there seemed to be a new form of support over social media and through the local community.

As I mentioned, I am pretty confident in my event coordinating skills so Cam and I agreed that my skills would be most useful on the day of so, I prepared everything that we would need on the day of.

I would love to give you a extensive description of how I flawlessly put everything together on the day of but instead I will give you a visual aid of what actually happened:

8:00: Wake up & pack up car and tell Cam that everything will be fine and I got this as I send him off to work.
8:10: Go over check list 87,000 times in the shower.
9:00: Panic attack while making envelopes for winners in Starbucks.
10:00: Argue with lady in JoAnn's fabric about discounted fabric then realize that I picked up the wrong one...
11:00: Get to venue and move child's birthday party from my area so I can work efficiently. (Sorry Tommy. Happy 5th birthday btw)
11:30: Get a beer.
12:00: Battle the sun as it melts the duct tape I used to decorate and my hopes and dreams.
12:30 Order balloons
12:30-4:30: Productive Blur filled with Anxiety.
4:30-5: Frantically get ready as my mom graciously watched the stuff at the venue for me. Thanks mom! You da best!!!
5:00-7:30: Panic fest and calming as Cam arrived.
7:30-3:30am- The best event that I've ever been to or had the honor of planning and coordinating.

Everything was perfect. The decorations, the massive amount of people, the bands who played flawlessly, the light saber battle. (yes. light saber battle)



As we got home to finally reunite as we had both running around all night, we talked the success that we had just shared, as we discussed what had happened we realized that a dream that we had talked about passively in the past was actually a possibility with the success of the Oskars. We have decided to start a production team that plans local fun music events with local businesses to raise money for local charities and I could not be more excited or inspired to do anything in my entire life and we already have hit the ground running and many exciting opportunities that will begin in April!!

It's a new journey that I can't wait to begin and I made sure to bring my hankerchief so there 's no going back now..
 *self high five for obscure Hobbit reference*

There are a lot of exciting storms a'brewin' my friends... so stay tuned.

Hello from Paradise Island where the streams never cross...

Hello... eh.. Is this thing on?

We're going to get really real here for a second (see what I did there? ha!) I have no idea what I'm doing... In many respects actually... Whether it be blogging, dancing, being an adult, or solving an equation related to astrophysics. Do you even solve equations in astrophysics? I don't know. I'm bad at math and most sciences. Anyway, I digress..


Being 25 in today's society is exciting and terrifying. I spend half my time stressing about making the right decisions relating to financial stability and career paths while still struggling to keep my childlike disposition and and idealistic point of view. This is probably why I chose to become a preschool teacher temporarily until I reach that point of achieving my ultimate career goals and lifestyles. Don't misinterpret, my use of "temporarily;"my job is incredibly rewarding and exactly what I need right now. I spend my days helping my kiddos develop and grow and experience their self discoveries that somewhat relate to my own. They struggle to gain this power and independence that at the age of 25, I struggle to gain at a much larger scale. What I'm really trying to say is, I am in fact a large toddler with a super hero complex trying to gain my independence.

I use the term "super hero complex" lightly as to express my interest in comic books and pop culture in a fun way. I am, of course, not referring to the psychological disorder. I do not seek recognition through creating desperate situations that only I can solve. I don't have time to become a vigilante, and let's be completely honest, I am super clumsy and would either forget that I strapped someone to railroad tracks or trip and kill everyone accidentally.... again.. I digress. I find the comic book and pop culture world to be incredibly interesting and fun. I love to immerse myself in the culture and world. As seen in my fashion choices, I love to cosplay. However, with my lifestyle, it is way too time consuming. Instead, I will settle with being a mediocre cosplayer with an extremely geeky wardrobe that incorporates my favorite pieces of pop culture. While I would love to become a super successful cosplayer who knows everything about everything in geek culture, I am definitely happy with being mediocre with my costumes and filling my time with watching the shows, movies and reading the books to gain that knowledge to have discussions and share my opinions with the fine people reading this. And by that I mean, hi mom.  

With my dirty laundry freshly hung out online (on the line, I made an attempt to make a joke....feel free to attempt to laugh at the relation at any time) I decided to start a blog to share my experiences of being a quarter of a century old nerd who is trying to figure it out. Life. I wanted to start a blog to share my experiences for those out there who feel the way that I do, struggle with mid-twentisms (a term that I am coining whether I am the first to use it our not) to share my puntastic doodles that I think are funny and think you might share as well, and mostly my opinions and experiences of geeky pop culture. So, come on. Vámonos. Autobots roll out, No power in the verse can stop me. Avengers assemble. [insert any other geeky reference relating to "let's do this" here] Again, I digress....

One more thing... Hope you all enjoy Feminist rants... 

Also enjoy the pictures from my first geek photo shoot that I have scattered throughout the post because I don't know where else to put them yet... Happy Blogging Friends!