Let's have it, a big, big sigh.

SIGH

Okay, there we go. So Izumi-Con was muy fun-o. Slight complications, but over-all, a pretty good time. And because this is my journal that i'm spamming you with, I get to ramble for as long as I want.

So I had gotten my wig for Sora on Tuesday of the con. Interesting story there. I went to the wig store in a mall on the verge of dying. The wig store apparently only had 2 months before it went out of business entirely, so all the merchandise was on sale for 20% off. After waiting 20 minutes for the manager to get off break [called him on the phone number he left, but he never answered], I finally got to go into the shop and pick out a wig. Found a very nice-looking one that was already straight and layered, which would save me the time I needed to style it. I only had $60 on me, and the guy said that the original price was $110. But, since everything was on discount, I would get $20, paying only $100.

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Anyone reading this a math whiz? Cuz correct me if I'm wrong, but 110-20 does not = 100 to me. So I thought, Hey, even though this guy is an old, crippled, Asian man, he should know his numbers. I think I'll try my haggling skills. So I told him I only had $60. His business is going out soon, he leaves the store for large amounts of time because he has no customers, and half the price is better than nothing at all.
"If you want $60, look over there."
Fine, I can take no for an answer. So I decided to go with a $10 wig, knowing that the fact that it's curly is going to give me more pain than I need, but hoping that the guy knew that he just lost a potential $50. Yeah, extreme revenge, that's me.

And I was right, the frugal act did come to bite me in the @ss. Wednesday wasted washing and waiting for it to dry. Thursday lost straightening it [Not that it actually took me that long to do each thing. I have school and other stuff to do, like cleaning to get permission to leave the house....yeah.]. Then Friday, 1 1/2 hours before we have to leave, me, my mom, and ~rokinwriter92 try our mad skills and cut and style the wig with minutes to spare. It was pretty amazing, trust me. We layered it with a freakin' razor blade. No handle, just a 3 inch blade.

Pile into the car: ~rokinwriter92, ~pyromaniac1101, and me. Get to the con around 6, then I realize that in all the hustling and bustling...I forgot to print my ticket. Dur-hur-dee-dur. So ~rokinwriter92 and I jump back in the car, speed to the nearest library [violating several traffic regulations on the way, but that's not very important], and run in. I recieve stares even without a wig, looking like I'm unemployed [which I technically am]: slacks, dress shirt, undershirt, and unlaced converse. Print my ticket and we're out of there.
So we got up to =Uchia-Sakura's room, style my wig again so it doesn't look that crap-tastic [that =Uchia-Sakura is an amazing person], and head down to the lobby. So if anyone saw me there, I was the casual, school-boy Sora with a very humpty-dump, homemade keyblade crafted by Ryndal.
Speaking of that jerk-off, he didn't come to Izumi-con at all. He apparently "couldn't make it" when I called after school, and he couldn't attend Saturday since his choir was singing at the OU game. Too much homework, which I understand. He's in college where he cannot go to conventions at the expense of his grades, even if we planned this weeks ahead of time. So I ask him if he's still able to go Sunday. "Maybe, but I'm not sure." Great, let me know when you've got a better lie than that. Then he has the audacity to tell me after the convention's over that he could've gone Friday. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Saturday: Wake up, down breakfast, change into the glory that is the innocent, 12 year-old Sasuke. Except I leave my clothes at =Uchia-Sakura's room. Excellent. So dress girly, since nearly all my cosplays are boys, and meet ~rokinwriter92 and ~pyromaniac1101 at Target to buy socks/jewerly. Then we head to the Con around 3pm. Run upstairs to the room, change, spray, wrap [my legs with athletic tape], and go. Saturday was severely awesome! My homemade ninja shoes were a pain, though. Cheap-o things usually are.
Seeing ~InvaderVal was, I must say, somewhat hilarious. We haven't really talked face-to-face much, so it was a bit much to expect her to recognize me in costume. So has she walked by in her Hinata cosplay, I stepped out in front of her, assuming she knew who I was. The look on her face when she tried to side-step me and I only got in her way again: funny. She eventually realized who I was after I said her name, then we took a picture together, cuz that's just what you do. Sorry, Val, if I seemed to be a creeper.
Rave later that night. I can't dance worth crap, so nothing to say about me. The guy who pulled out some wickedly bright glow sticks during the rave, we met him in the elevator. Just a random fact. I love awesome con people.

Sunday: Rushed to the con after church. Me and ~pyromaniac1101/Misa were late to the SasuSaku wedding [everyone always seems to be late while going to a wedding], and ~rokinwriter92 had both Misa's eyeliner and my wallet, so I was restricted to only spending $20. The eyeliner is important if you're cosplaying L, which I was. So I forsook the cutting of the cake to run across the street and buy eyeliner for $5, cutting on my spending money.
To those of you who didn't stay for the wedding, it was extremely well done. =Uchia-Sakura and her buddies did amazingly [as per usual], and picked the best person as the priest [Cory, aka Muslim Kakashi]. Make Out Paradise is the best way to unite a marriage.

The con was very mellowed out Sunday, being the last day. Met up with Pikachu!~Chizuza and did my [very limited] shopping. One Death Note poster, a BlackButler pin [I didn't know that series was getting so popular. O_o], and...yeah, that's all I could afford. Light!Ryndal isn't supposed to know this, but the DeathNote poster is centered around Light. But the reason I got it is that, despite my obvious dislike for Light, L's actually in the background looking like he's om-nom-nomming on Light's head. That's the only reason I got it. It has nothing to do with the provocative pose. Absolutely nothing.

So, all-in-all, I enjoyed Izumi-Con. Next time I know to plan things a bit better and to tell Ryndalcertain people to actually keep up with their schedules. Thanks to everyone who allowed us to take pictures, and to everyone who took them! Pictures....will be up soon.