It is with the greatest pleasure that I get to announce not just one but TWO amazing things transpiring soon.
1. I have been selected to be published for a record breaking (for me) 14th time! The Mighty.com has picked up my Special Abilities post! Once it is live, I will do a special post here to let all of you wonderful supporters know. In addition to that, I will be collecting all 13 (soon to be 14) posts on this blog for easy access. Make sure to check out the Published page tab to see them there!
2. I will be attending Texas Furry Fiesta in Dallas, TX and will have my “My Stuffed Therapy” panel on Saturday March 30th at 4:30 in the Bryan-Beeman Room (subject to change). It has been almost 2 years since my last panel and I am excited to be able to speak to all the wonderful people there! I enjoy talking and sharing what stuffed therapy means to me and seeing the faces of people I have helped. I hope to see you there.
With these two announcements, I bid you all a wonderful March as I go and prepare for an exciting month. As always, thank you all for your love and support and hey…
#hugaplushie my friends
Convention
Nightmare nights 2017
Once again I find myself at Nightmare Nights here in Addison Texas. Absolutely love this convention and it is some of the most fun I have. I’ll be posting updates as I can and just a reminder I have my panel at noon tomorrow.
If any of you are out there come by and see me, say hi. I would love to meet any of you.
#hugapony my friend
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Midweek quickie
I had a interesting weekend with a small social experiment. My sister posted the following picture and had some fun writing. I joined as well and post this picture.
I soon sat down to enjoy having a bit of fun and work on my creative writing skills. I realized my mistake after 30 min.
Everyone was posting on it.
10, 15, 20, 25. They came in twos and threes. Everyone enjoying the short blurbs about themselves. I felt my phone going off every 10 min with another one. I cursed my sister (who promptly reminded me that I shared the picture voluntarily). I couldn’t sleep as I had more stories to write…..
In all honesty, it was a wonderful time and a big stretch of my writing and creative muscles. Thank you all who posted.
Just a reminder that this Saturday, Oct 28 @ 12pm, I will be have the My Stuffed Little Therapy panel at Nightmare Nights in Addison, Tx. I would love to see each and every one of you there.
Have a wonderful week everyone!
#hugapony my friends.
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Return to Madness
Hello my dear readers. I am glad to give you an update on life, the universe and everything. It has been a crazy couple of months and I owe it to you dear reader, to give a quick account of recent events. I do plan on having posts for most of these events, but I do have my largest convention I work (A-kon 28 in Ft Worth, Texas) this week and I will have to descend into that madness filled rabbit hole. But here is a quick list to expect:
- Bedbugs and Apartment roles. Let me tell you that this was a nightmarish 2 months that I will try my hardest to forget.
- Packing and moving. With bedbugs it was a “joy”. Under pressure and a time crunch was even worse. Add in fibromyalgia and it was hell.
- Buying a house. Now this was an amazing, wonderful, terrifying experience only to be made worse at times with incompetent people. We did get the house in the end.
- Having my third daughter. She is a wonderful joy. It was fun doing all of the above and below with either a pregnant wife (who was absolutely amazing) or a new baby. just an added layer of stress.
- Wedding. A family member got married and it was great to have family together for it. Babies met baby, grandmothers met babies, babies were EVERYWHERE. Seriously there is something in the water.
- A-Kon 28. We end this past 2 month roller coaster ride with the second largest convention of its kind in the USA. Unfortunately, I will not have my personal panel there but I will be with friends at this panel:
“Two Men Walk Into A Bar”
Sheraton Hotel – Thursday 8PM-9:30PM Magnolia rooms III & IV
So there is life updates. I am still here and still being your best pony pal and sharing life with all of you. I hope to see some of you at A-kon this year (click link for more info) May your day be great and,
#hugapony my friends
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Self care day 24:Culture
Bacteria is something found in on almost everything in life. We have millions of them in bodies, they are used in science each and every day, and are some the most basic life to study. Growing bacteria is such a simple basic science experiment that we have kits sold to grow these Petri dishes of culture at home.
Though, for this next post you will have to leave home for some culture. *
Finding out about different cultures has been fascinating to me. Seeing the simple differences in thing such as buying milk in a gallon jug or milk in a bag to even more advance thing as another’s language or the fact you never put chopsticks straight up in your fried rice. There is so much to learn about our fellow humans.
Who needs aliens when you have us?
I was homeschooled all my life until college. My mother did a fantastic job teaching us all the basics that myself and my siblings excelled. When it came to history, she let us decide what to study and prepared unit studies to help us along with them. Medieval times? We built castles out of Lego and what was the meaning of why castle stairs are spiraled in a certain way (it is so a defender would be able to swing a sword with their right hand and the center column would not be in their way, and conversely be in the way of an attacker). We did native American studies and learned more about some of my family history and the tribes we had ties. I learned to use chopsticks at a young age of 6 because we learned of China’s great history. So much culture and history to be learned.
So how does this help us.
I look around and see so many flyers and posts about local heritage festivals that go on in our community. I see so much life and passion in them. People celebrating their family ties. Enjoyment and enrichment to be had at every turn. I, myself, attended Oktoberfest with some of my German ancestry coming out. I was out learning more about myself.
Who I was.
Where I came from.
Knowledge is power they say.
Power to help yourself.
Power to take better care of yourself.
#hugapony my friends.
It is always a pleasure bring you more day to day posts. I will continue to do so until the end of February. Please make sure to comment, share and follow along as I share some simple things to better your life!
*This terrible pun/segue is one I could not pass up. The science geek in me is giggling like mad.
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Ikkikon 2017.
I will be at Ikkicon 2017 and I will be doing a panel on invisible disability on Saturday Dec 31st at 6 pm to 7 pm. Come join me as we talk about living with invisible disabilities and share in a safe space our experiences and ways to help each other. I will have a special prize for the first two people who come up to me in the panel and say “clumsy draconequus” will get a small prize!(Kudos for those who get the reference).
I cant wait to see you all!
Come out and hug a pony with me!
PS – Picture from http://tygerbug.deviantart.com/art/Hug-Life-Shirt-319992930
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Anime North Texas 2016
I have just come back from working yet another convention. I am tired. This one I worked guest relations. I hung out with so many great people. They inspired me to do more with my blog and even encouraged me to do more to help others. A few even made it to my disabilities panel. Here are the amazing people I had the pleasure of working with.
Caleb Hyles is a Youtube star with singing power that leaves me in awe. I had the oppurtunity to sit down with him and his wife and share life stories and other craziness. If you haven’t checked him out, do so at: https://www.youtube.com/user/CalebsCovers/featured
Gareth West is an up and coming anime super star! He is an extremely talented voice actor who has an amazing passion for his fans. Hanging out with Gareth was so much fun this weekend and made me so happy. Check out his Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/gareth.west.90
Cherami Leigh is a complete sweetheart. She has a resume that baffles the mind as to how much work she has done. As always, she brought her mom out to the show with her. Cherami is one that the fans love and adore. More on her bellow. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473873/
Double feature with Kristen McGuire and Chuck Huber.
Kristen is a crazy awesome person who cannot stop drawing on people’s plushies. Her voice work and her art is a one, two combo to make you want to love her more. I am still waiting on her Cat Girl #2 comic. Her info is http://kriscomics.com/
Chuck works so hard to be there for his fans. Even when he is not supposed to be somewhere, he will pop out of nowhere and surprise everyone. A long time, hard working actor who puts in time with his fans was a crowd favorite. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0399321/
Aaron Roberts. My pony brother from another mother. I need to buy him more pony stuff. He was one of the first to arrive and one of the last to leave. His panels were packed with good information and audience pleasing fun. Check him out at http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Aaron-Roberts/
Greg Ayres is another one of those hard working folks that has a huge laundry list of projects with his name in them. From working on anime to fighting bootleg items in the dealer rooms, it is amazing that he has even more to give with crazy nighttime club DJ hits. His list of amazing feats are here: http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/greg-ayres/
So that was my weekend. It was long hours and hard work but it all paid off to be with such amazing people. I wanted to shout out to my staff who helped me, Star, Foxx, and AJ along with Sarah who kept guests happy in the green room. I am going to go sleep now for a week.
#hugaplushie my friends (just keep them away from Kristen)
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Nightmare nights 2016 day 3
Here is the last and final day of Nightmare nights 2016! Thank you to all the attendees, guests and a huge thank you to the crew who put on the show!!
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Nightmare nights 2016 day 2
I had a short day today. People outside the convention needed my help and I was never able to make it back to the show. I will be back tomorrow (fingers crossed) and I will post more pictures!
Jenn Blake artwork for a Friend!!
Badge!!
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Nightmare Nights 2016 Day 1.
Yes yes, I am back once again at Nightmare Nights 2016. I will be bringing you the best pictures of cosplay and all the best things I see while at the event. I hope you all enjoy them! I will be posting everyday for the next three days! Tag yourself, drop a line, or if you are at the event, come say hey!!
My Stuffed Little Therapy 