Whee! I am a very happy little vegemite today with the arrival of my trading card (plus extras!). By way of thanks for signing up for the thing, Billy da Bunny sent a few cards – along with mine.
Of course, now I must have them all!
Extras!
Want to get in on some cards? You can get some here.
I haven’t needed one of these things since I was just barely twenty, but here I am again. Alas, too much time away from the ocean and too much time in the dusty rural-ness of where I live now has managed to give me a knockout combination of hayfever AND my asthma rising again.
BUT at least now I can breathe, and you (probably) won’t hear me bitching about it so much anymore.
I wrote a book!
Well, it’s actually a collection of horror short stories, but I wrote them! And it’s now available at Amazon.com for only 99 cents! Click here to check it out.
There’s no Halloween around here, but that doesn’t mean Zine Ninja can’t get in on some sweet treats.
Well, what started as some sneezing on Friday turned into something (worse allergies? a cold? I don’t know) that I’m still trying to shake off. I was determined to get Don’t Look Back up on Amazon by/before Halloween, so I put everything aside (including Friday’s zine review) and got it done. Woohoo! I’m a bit rusty with the formatting side of things. It felt good to do it again.
I hope you all have had/are having a spooky Halloween or simply a damn good weekend if you don’t celebrate.
Billy Da Bunny has done it again with his Zinester Trading Cards, Series 2 now on Etsy. What’s even more cool – I’m one of them!
Talk about a bucket list thing that I didn’t think I’d be awesome enough to accomplish. I’m a trading card. Squee! The proof is on the Etsy listing. Click THIS LINK to check on the listing on Etsy, go to the third picture, and you will see that there is, indeed, a ‘Nyx’ card. Whee!
Full color trading cards of zinesters from all over the world. Buy them, trade them, collect them! There are 32 different cards.
Cards are printed on glossy cardstock paper, measuring 2.75″ X 4.25″. Front of the card shows the person or place, back of the card tells stats and contact information. Collect them all!
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Apparently I need to “move more” and “lose weight” so I can “live longer”.
Pfft.
The common preaching line is to ‘find an exercise you love’. While a lot of people think dancing or swimming, I thought boxing. A couple weeks ago, I got the whole set up and have loved every bit of it ever since.
Who’d have thought that I’d actually like exercising in the morning?
I jarred my hand, it got a bit swelled and painful, Wanderer insisted I go to the doctor, and the doc insisted that I get an x-ray.
Really, this day has mostly been a product of other people insisting things. Haha.
Anyway, I’ll find out tomorrow if I need to plaster or wrap the thing. Whee!
Poll! Vote in the pooooooll.
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Ah, Zine Ninja. He does love a romp through the tulips.
Kickass and I went for a bit of a walkabout today, enjoying the local tulip show-of-sorts and some nice weather. She puts up with my rambling, and I bask in her awesomeness. It really works out as a great friendship.
She’s the kind of person who will always encourage me unless she thinks it’s a really stupid idea. Even then, she’ll very nicely lay out the reasons why said action might not be the best thing. I’ve needed someone like that, because I’m at a phase where I’m not clear on the direction I want to go in.
However, there is something that I’ve been wanting to do in terms of mail… I’ll have to see how things go tomorrow (heaps to do!) but there might be a brand new shiny thing here on the blog. Maybe.
Until then…
I realise now that a good portion of my day-to-day happiness depends on the mail. Sending it, receiving it. I obviously need to send out more mail because my post box has been a very sad post box.
On another note, I updated the cover photo for the SGZ Facebook page. Tee hee!
I feel like I have recovered from completely running out of spoons, and the whole experience gave me some perspective.
Something I’d really like to do here is add more of me. Nyx. My life. I got so wrapped up in this idea of ‘you can’t make anything (social media account, YouTube channel, etc) really take off unless it’s specialised’. Meaning sticks to one subject. There have been plenty of times in the past when I could have posted something here but didn’t because it wasn’t really zine related.
But what’s the point in that? What’s the point of self-censorship? What’s the point of keeping my fingers still (does that work? ‘keeping my mouth shut’ doesn’t really work) when there is *nothing* riding on me keeping this place all about the zines?
I want to make friends here. It’s something I have trouble doing face-to-face, so I love connecting in these sorts of spaces.
I love memes, being silly, and making people laugh. But I get so wrapped up in what I think I ‘should’ be doing that I forget that no one gives a solitary fuck and is looking over my shoulder. Even if they were, they would simply click away, and I would never know.
So where’s the harm?
Well. Didn’t this turn into a much longer post than I intended…
Anyway, I hope your universe is treating you well and that you feel cool checking out mine.
I’m going to go have an ice cream now.
