Day 3 was a little (a lot, in comparison to the previous two days) on the dull side.
Everyone woke up around 9:30, and we took our time getting all packed up.
We got down to the Arts Auction as it was starting, and Ann and I wound up being the highest bidders on 3 ceramic pieces, and this absolutely FABULOUS space-themed quilt. I was so flabbergasted to have won it. I had seen it in the Arts Room the day before, and wanted it terribly much, but figured that it was far more expensive that I could afford. When I saw it on the rack of items that they brought in at the start, I figured that the bidding would start at $100+. My winning bid was far less than that. I’m quite pleased with it, and I’ll definitely have to put up some pictures. 🙂
Afterwards, we wound up having breakfast from the deli-shop in the lobby, then we hung out with Ron and Bobbie and Vern for a while longer in the gaming area. The drive home was uneventful, and the afternoon was full of Laundry. =)
I did come away from the Con refreshed and energized. I may start setting aside some time to write once again. It strikes me that there are lots of things that I’ve always wanted to do, but I’ve never actually set out the time to do any of them. I spent this last weekend surrounded by people who did set out the time to do the things that they’re passionate about, and now they have books published and have cool costumes and such. The important part of having things you want to do is in the actually DOING them, not in the WANTING to do them. Something else that’s been weighing on my mind the last two days is the way Wendy and I spent our time. She was of the belief that Gaming Was A Waste Of Time – that there were 1000 things that you could spend your hours on that gained you something other than a sparkly virtual sword and some hours that you spent enjoyably. We spent nearly $1000 on Home Studio Grade music equipment over the course of the year we were together. However, we spent a lot more time WANTING to use that equipment than we spent actually USING it. As a result, over the course of a year we had one half-finished song to show for all our ‘effort’.
Compare that to Todd Newton, who only started writing seriously in 2007, and has a book on the market, and another on the way.
Yeah. Time to schedule time to do more with what I want to do.