where i've been!
it's been a while since i updated my site, so i figured i'd write up what's been occupying my time lately!
first of all, my husband and i had our big wedding ceremony! we were legally married in the middle of summer, but last month was our ceremony with friends and family present. i'll have to compress some of the best photos to go in the gallery, but here's one of my favorite shots:
we had our ceremony at a venue called The Cloisters in my husband's home state. it's a historic home on a beautiful wooded property and even though it was like 2 billion degrees out (our fault for scheduling an august ceremony ) everything was perfect. we kept things small and lowkey, with a small guest list and without much of the "traditional" wedding stuff— we walked the aisle together, for example, because we've been together for so many years that it felt more appropriate to do it as a pair rather than the traditional one-at-a-time way. our reception was a simple dinner without a big dance party or drunken festivities because we're old and boring but we did have this very pretty cake, which i only got to sample a small bit of but i'm told it tasted great. and it had matching cupcakes, which stained everyone's tongue blue!
unfortunately, after the wedding, we and most of our guests ended up getting covid, so that took my husband and i out for about a week afterward. he had a much worse time of it, with a fever and all the whole gamut of flu symptoms, but in my case i just had the absolute worst sore throat i've ever had in my life. it legitimately felt like i swallowed and gargled crushed glass and i hope to never experience that again. i still haven't entirely recovered; i've had a persistent mucusy throat ever since.
then, immediately after covid, the medical fun continued with a minor wrist surgery for my husband. it was just to remove a ganglion cyst, so nothing major, and he's recovering well he did have a yucky little case of contact dermatitis from the steri-strips, though, so that was a Thing that we had to deal with.
then, after that, we got to be extras in a music video, so that was a cool experience! it was for a side project of King Dude's, so we were background goth clubgoers. i got to be "guy who goes to the bathroom" because they needed someone to cross in front of the camera. gotta add that to my resume i wore the same shoes that i wore to the wedding because those are my nice goth shoes lol.
and then, the day after the video shoot, i had to go to in-person jury duty selection for a first-degree murder trial, but they didn't select me because i said i don't trust cops but it might also have been because of the way i was dressed— jury duty was from 8 AM to 4 PM, and at 6:30 PM i was going to see Sisters of Mercy, and i wasn't going to have time to run home and get ready, so i just wore basically the same outfit as the picture above, but with much more black eyeliner. can't imagine why they didn't want my weird ass on the jury for murder
Sisters was really good, btw! never seen them before. i've always heard they have a reputation for sucking live, but i really enjoyed it and the crowd energy was great. we were on the barrier, and a couple of the people in our friend group ended up leaving because they were just there to see the opener (Blaqk Audio, which i also enjoyed) so we made a space for this young girl to get on the barrier, too. she couldn't have been older than 15 and she was going CRAZY for Sisters. like, Andrew Eldritch would come shambling his skeletal ass over in our direction and this girl was screaminggggg like it was 1965 and the Beatles were singing to her directly, it was so funny. at the end of the set my husband caught her a pick from Kai and she was like "THANK YOU OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO REMEMBER THIS MOMENT FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE" and gave him a big hug. very cute, good vibes all around.
so yeah that's all the stuff that's been keeping me busy lately! also, i've been reading a lot of horror novels lately. i've been going off of what r/horrorlit recommends, but to be honest the taste level on that sub is...questionable, lmao. Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman was fun, i liked that one. i also enjoyed Penpal by Dathan Auerbach, although i felt like the ending fell a little flat. but Come Closer (Sara Gran) and Stolen Tongues (Felix Blackwell) were so fucking bad, my god. i didn't even finish Stolen Tongues, it was making me cringe so badly i just couldn't do it lol. Come Closer made me feel insane because people gassed that book up like it was the scariest thing they'd ever read and i didn't like a single thing about it. it was so bad i get angry thinking about how much ass it sucked. anyway, currently i'm in the middle of Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill and i'm liking that a lot so far.
and that's the end of my big life update— tl;dr i am not dead, just doin stuff
first of all, my husband and i had our big wedding ceremony! we were legally married in the middle of summer, but last month was our ceremony with friends and family present. i'll have to compress some of the best photos to go in the gallery, but here's one of my favorite shots:
we had our ceremony at a venue called The Cloisters in my husband's home state. it's a historic home on a beautiful wooded property and even though it was like 2 billion degrees out (our fault for scheduling an august ceremony ) everything was perfect. we kept things small and lowkey, with a small guest list and without much of the "traditional" wedding stuff— we walked the aisle together, for example, because we've been together for so many years that it felt more appropriate to do it as a pair rather than the traditional one-at-a-time way. our reception was a simple dinner without a big dance party or drunken festivities because we're old and boring but we did have this very pretty cake, which i only got to sample a small bit of but i'm told it tasted great. and it had matching cupcakes, which stained everyone's tongue blue!
unfortunately, after the wedding, we and most of our guests ended up getting covid, so that took my husband and i out for about a week afterward. he had a much worse time of it, with a fever and all the whole gamut of flu symptoms, but in my case i just had the absolute worst sore throat i've ever had in my life. it legitimately felt like i swallowed and gargled crushed glass and i hope to never experience that again. i still haven't entirely recovered; i've had a persistent mucusy throat ever since.
then, immediately after covid, the medical fun continued with a minor wrist surgery for my husband. it was just to remove a ganglion cyst, so nothing major, and he's recovering well he did have a yucky little case of contact dermatitis from the steri-strips, though, so that was a Thing that we had to deal with.
then, after that, we got to be extras in a music video, so that was a cool experience! it was for a side project of King Dude's, so we were background goth clubgoers. i got to be "guy who goes to the bathroom" because they needed someone to cross in front of the camera. gotta add that to my resume i wore the same shoes that i wore to the wedding because those are my nice goth shoes lol.
and then, the day after the video shoot, i had to go to in-person jury duty selection for a first-degree murder trial, but they didn't select me because i said i don't trust cops but it might also have been because of the way i was dressed— jury duty was from 8 AM to 4 PM, and at 6:30 PM i was going to see Sisters of Mercy, and i wasn't going to have time to run home and get ready, so i just wore basically the same outfit as the picture above, but with much more black eyeliner. can't imagine why they didn't want my weird ass on the jury for murder
Sisters was really good, btw! never seen them before. i've always heard they have a reputation for sucking live, but i really enjoyed it and the crowd energy was great. we were on the barrier, and a couple of the people in our friend group ended up leaving because they were just there to see the opener (Blaqk Audio, which i also enjoyed) so we made a space for this young girl to get on the barrier, too. she couldn't have been older than 15 and she was going CRAZY for Sisters. like, Andrew Eldritch would come shambling his skeletal ass over in our direction and this girl was screaminggggg like it was 1965 and the Beatles were singing to her directly, it was so funny. at the end of the set my husband caught her a pick from Kai and she was like "THANK YOU OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO REMEMBER THIS MOMENT FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE" and gave him a big hug. very cute, good vibes all around.
so yeah that's all the stuff that's been keeping me busy lately! also, i've been reading a lot of horror novels lately. i've been going off of what r/horrorlit recommends, but to be honest the taste level on that sub is...questionable, lmao. Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman was fun, i liked that one. i also enjoyed Penpal by Dathan Auerbach, although i felt like the ending fell a little flat. but Come Closer (Sara Gran) and Stolen Tongues (Felix Blackwell) were so fucking bad, my god. i didn't even finish Stolen Tongues, it was making me cringe so badly i just couldn't do it lol. Come Closer made me feel insane because people gassed that book up like it was the scariest thing they'd ever read and i didn't like a single thing about it. it was so bad i get angry thinking about how much ass it sucked. anyway, currently i'm in the middle of Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill and i'm liking that a lot so far.
and that's the end of my big life update— tl;dr i am not dead, just doin stuff
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