Brandon Hess These, my scattered thoughts

I’ve been…busy?

I’m a little ashamed of how long it’s been since I updated my blog.  Ok, I’m really ashamed.  As much as I enjoy writing, it’s always astonishing to me how hard it is for me to regularly update a blog as I seem to be come easily distracted about all of the external things in my life that managed quite proficiently to distract me from it.

So, what have I been up to since December?  Perhaps a quick inventory:

• We moved into a new apartment.  Correction, we moved into a new, cheaper, much improved, apartment with a huge patio that both lacks the incessant clamor of drunken idiots and the smell of rotted hell-spawn emerging from the vents every time the elements required heat or air conditioning.  Suffice to say, we’re in a much better place now.  Only advice though is never attempt to move a mere month before your wedding.  It’s completely jarring and makes an already stressful event almost behemoth in its shadow over all other things.
• We’re getting married in just over a week from now.  I will tell you this.  Event planning is an awful business, full of some of the most insane decisions the two of us have ever had to contemplate.  Add to it that we’re paying for the wedding out of our pocket along with trying to make it much more “us” than the traditional out of the box style wedding and you’ve got a recipe for interesting heated conversations between two people that in the past, have been relaxed with one another over the most serious of topics.  Thankfully the two of us are incredibly laid back and level headed so when we find ourselves boiling over with rage that the other would dare question the other’s musical tastes when it comes to whether or not 80’s Hip Hop is better than Ska, we quickly realize it’s a product of the beast.  It’s as though we’re both carrying a duplicate of the One Ring and every now and then, find ourselves caught up in the will of Sauron.  You know, that kind of metaphor.  On the plus side, despite my best attempts to help, Nicole has took the brunt of most of the heavy decisions and while I feel increasingly guilty that she’s had that burden, I think it’s in far better hands than if it was entrusted to me.  Not everyone loves a wedding with the theme of the A-Team and Lazer Tag.
• In just over a week, we’ll be entertaining a large sum of people we’ve all come to care about over the years.  While lack of money and availability hasn’t allowed us to have every single person we consider vital to our existence attend our wedding, the thought of having so many good people in one place, here to celebrate a good thing is at times overwhelming.  I just hope I manage not to totally botch things.
• I’ve been inspired multiple times over the last few months, spreading my ADD over multiple personal projects.  Two of them in particular have me extremely excited but at the same time, extroidanarily sad as the last few months have taxed my ambition both due to an upcoming wedding, an increasingly demanding job and just the general life curveballs coupled with my genetic disposition to be infinitely multi-tasking.   I have the outline of the novel I’ve always wanted to write clearly laid out in my head.  As well as that, the makings of a very smart and witty Machinima series that my friend Chris and I coined.  Soon people, soon.
• My parents now live in Colorado.  After what was an exhausting avalanche of misfortune and odd-timing, my parent’s lives in Minnesota came to a sudden halt, forcing quite thankfully their move to Colorado, the location they’ve desired to live within since I was born.  While I’m not one for things like The Secret or heavy-handed destiny, it’s amazing to me that out of all of the despair and tradgedy leveled at my parent’s over the last few years, that out of it they’ve been able to check off a rather large dream of theirs which was living in Colorado.
• My good friend Andy is coming to town for the wedding as is required since he’s married to our good friend Sarah as well.  Good fortune on both accounts, plus the fact we’ll be seeing their new addition to the family.  Also, the last time Andy and I saw one another, we spawned a very creative idea for a comic and I’m hoping that this time around, we’ll spawn the idea of how to actually successfully create the comic as the idea is so good, that if said aloud, it’s said to cause the immediate appearance of ice-cream and donuts.
• Katie and her very cool fiance are getting married and may have already as I write this as I’m not completely up to speed on their plans.  Either way, it’s very cool news as both of them are a ton of fun to be around and I can’t think of a better match for the two of them.
• I’m going to ComicCon this year for the first time and while I don’t have a hotel yet, I’m trying to just focus on the fact that even if I’m sleeping on a bench, the Elven cloak and free Con swag I’ll be sporting will keep me warm as I bathe in all that is geekery and nerdiness.

Much more has happened I’m sure but in the interest of just making a damned update to my blog, I think I’ll stop there.

In other news, if you want to get an idea of what I do for a living, perhaps watching this will suffice: