The State of the Nea

[neadods]

Buncha little things:

There is a definite rash around the tick bite. Since I show no other signs of Lyme, Rocky Mt Spotted Fever, or Hoof & Mouth, I figure I can wait until regular hours on Monday to call my doctor. Which I *will do.*

There are a great number of things that I should be doing this weekend, and I'm spending a fair chunk of it packing and planning for Media*West instead. I finally figured out just why I'm so hyped - M*W is the kind of con that is always more fun with an active fandom, and I haven't had a really active fandom for a very long time, since Kung Fu - The Legend Continues. And I haven't had a really hot fandom since Quantum Leap, and I'm thinking that Who shows all the signs of being very hot this year. Who and Heroes, that's my prediction; the Stargate franchise has been white-hot for years, but it was losing momentum last year while Who was gaining visible traction.

Sunday 7:
This is getting harder and harder to do. In the beginning I had a lot of enthusiasm; now it seems like I'm the only one talking about it and that makes it much harder to keep up the energy. However, I am absolutely, positively, DETERMINED not to give up. The idea of combing out the drawer-thing in the office was too depressing (I have no idea why); tackling bedroom, library, or basement too daunting; and I'm keeping the bathroom for the next two weeks because it'll be so easy to get my 7 out of there in the short and distracted weeks before I go to Media*West.

So that left the hall closet. Now mind you, I'm a luggage lush. A suitcase slut, a tote tart, a handbag hussy - any way you want to phrase it, I'm a sucker for carryalls and they were all mostly* shoved into the hall closet. In the end, I didn't get rid of many coats (yes, you do need several coats, just as you really do need at least three pairs of black shoes) or umbrellas (I figure losing them will deal with the stack through attrition) but I really did a number on the bags. There's an overflowing box to be freecycled on the hearth with 1 overnighter bag, 2 backpacks, 4 purses, and 4 briefcases. (It is possibly symptomatic that I kept only one briefcase and one spare purse but two overnighters and a weekender, plus two canvas bags of indeterminate size and description.)


*This is not counting the basket of canvas & nylon totes in my bedroom that has already been as combed as it's going to get, and the wheeled luggage in the basement that will go on the block when I get there.

Comments

[keltique.livejournal.com]

"tote tart" *snort*

my monitor thanks you for its morning coffee shower....

[hildy.livejournal.com]

*thinks about her closet*
*thinks about her bag collection*

It's sad because my first thought about the Freecycled bags was I'd want to root through them and see if any would be useful. Not because I have a lack of bags, per se, but because they always feel inadequate before a trip. Because someday you'll find the perfectly sized one. Like the right pair of shoes, which will inevitably be discontinued...

"My name is Hildy, I'm a bagoholic."

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Please do keep posting about the Sunday 7 -- I enjoy reading it!

I am awful about tote bags, but not about most other luggage or bag types. Certainly not about purses, where it's always been hard for me to find one that I considered satisfactory, and I never got the whole business about changing purses to go with your outfit.

But tote bags... I have canvas ones, Tyvek ones, mesh ones, small ones, large ones, a knitted rainbow-colored one that I've never used but was too pretty to pass up at the yard sale... you get the idea. They are just Too Damn Handy when you're in a hurry and need to pack a few things with you that are too big for pockets, and they look nicer than using old plastic grocery bags.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

someday you'll find the perfectly sized one

Which is how I ended up with so many in the first place...

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I have a full (overflowing) basket in my bedroom of all sorts of totes - all the handouts from Malice (except the one that counts as an overnighter), one from a mystery bookstore that was an emergency "purse," some canvas ones, the one marked "Bag of Holding" that just amuses the heck out of me... None of them are going anywhere. Some have been gang-pressed into holding crap in my car, but I'm certainly not getting rid of them. Self-control only goes so far!

[lagilman]

Try spending ten+ years going to world fantasy, worldcon, BEA, Bouchercon, etc. I have canvas bags filled with smaller canvas bags until it's turtles all the way down...!

Some go in the car and bike for shopping trips, some are folded into my suitcases for emergency carry-on use, and some get waitlisted until others wear out. But I still have too many, and know damn well I'll pick up new ones (my favorite is still the DC World Fantasy bag, which is just...amazing).

If anyone wants a nice shoulder-strap canvas bag or three, drop me an e-mail at dymk (at) comcast (dot) net promising that it will replace a plastic shopping bag and I'll send them one!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

You have to see the mystery store one - it's way better than the DC WFC one. (Not even sure I still have that, although I think I do.)

[not-hathor.livejournal.com]

Nea, *Please* make the time to see the doctor. A friend of ours from the SCA contracted Lymes' and ended up in long term treatment, because he didn't think it was serious and kept putting it off and putting it off, when early aggressive antibiotics would have cleared it up quickly and with no lingering effects.

So hop to it, girlfriend! I expect to see you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at MediaWest sometime in the next couple of years (not this year, alas! but next year? working on it.... priming the kid and the husband with remeniscent tales of the video room, the art show and the huxters' room (s)...

-Mary

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'm calling the doctor's office when they open at 8am.

[not-hathor.livejournal.com]

Good!

*Hugs Nea*

Have fun at MW, okay?

-Mary

(I do apologize for acting like a nag... I just found out this weekend my Dad has prostate cancer, and of course, he procrastinated a couple of years... fortunately it's a slow one, and there are good treatments, and as Dad rather morbidly joked, at his age either the diabetes or his heart will get him before the prostate even has a chance!)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Ack! Sorry to hear about your Dad!

The office isn't answering phones yet. Will call again at 9.

[fyrdrakken]

Definitely hoping you get in to see the doctor (or better yet, already have by now), and I feel you on the bag situation. And agreed that cons are the most fun when you're all atwitter about a fandom and can meet up with people who share it.