My birthday was lovely, the fella got me a Kobo and I've been enjoying having a thing to read fic on that doesn't do anything else. So I can curl up and read book and not get distracted by pings and alerts.

The birthday celebration day of massage, hair cut and comics went really well. I ended up spending the entire appointment talking comics and nerdery with my hair dresser, which was fun.

I also wandered by the farmers market got lunch and ought so many delicious nuts.

I was also struck by how it was the exact opposite of my 40th, where I rented the chalet with friends and had a whole weekend of social celebration.

This day I spent most of the day on my own, choosing my own things and then went out for dinner with the fella.

Both days were lovely and both days were what I needed at the time :D


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It's another year of Marvel Trumps Hate!

This had quickly become one of my favorite events from when I first found it in 2020. This year I answered the call to be on the org team, which was really quite fun.

I try and have one goal for the auction, just to create some kind of focus to narrow down the huge variety of offerings. This year it was bookbinding. I ended up missing the one I was aiming for because the author didn't respond in time for permission, but that was okay because my hunt for permission put me in touch with other people and instead of getting one volume of the series bound, we're going to end up with the whole series!

And then I also got the first creator in a second chance offer, and we had come in under budget enough to take advantage of it.

(I am also poking around learning book binding...)

We got a good collection of wins, I'm excited to see what comes out of it!


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