/peeks out from under blankets/

So hey! I was not around for a lot of January and February because I was once again frantically working on Katsucon costumes. Katsucon was last weekend, and it was good, even if the con seems to be having staffing shortages. I wore my closet Gu Yun cosplay to the danmei photoshoot meetup and was pleasantly surprised that I was not the only non-MXTX cosplayer there - there were about five people from Er Ha (somewhat expected), and then a 4-5 person Word of Honor group (less expected) and three people cosplaying from Qiang Jin Jiu (extremely unexpected). No other Sha Po Lang, but several people did recognize me which was great.

Andy and I also did a paid photoshoot to get good photos of Hua Cheng and He Xuan, so eventually I will have some spooky ghost kings to share.

Of course I got home and Alistair decided to get sick (pneumonia), but also did not want to go in the carrier At All which involved a lot of stress and my hand getting mauled, and the help of some very good friends who drove 45min in the snow to come help me wrangle a cat who had a surprising amount of energy for not having eaten for three days. He is still at the vet hospital but on the mend and probably coming home tomorrow.

I also managed to do something to the muscles of my lower back at Katsu (probably like... standing too long or something dumb), which the shoveling and cat wrangling did not help - sitting and laying is mostly fine, standing and walking around is stiff muscle soreness. Ready to sleep for about a week, I think.