Hi!

I am Dawn. aka DawnOwar. aka The Legendary Almighty DawnOwar.

I used to be the world's most famous internet Manowar fan, but now I'm just your average Rock and Roll cat lady who loves computers, ice cream and Chinese food.

This site is a place to keep things that don't fit on my tumblelog which is a sort of short form blog that I update constantly.

If I were you, I'd go there right now.

I moved from Cincinnati to Columbus, Ohio about a year ago. Not a huge move in distance but the two cities are totally different in character and I really like my new city and my new life a lot more than my old one, even though my social life still needs some work.

Mostly I needed the adventure. I pretty much did everything I ever wanted to do and then some in Cincinnati, and once I got laid off like everyone else everywhere did, it seemed like a good time to migrate to somewhere where I can at least have a better social life.

Columbus has a metal scene! After years of living without one and making do by hanging out with Gay men and Goths rather than stay in by myself, I come to find out that it's only a 2 hr drive to a city with a bunch of metal people to hang with. If only I'd known years ago.

I make websites for extra cash and I conserve my resources by being a cheapskate. I've always been like that.

I obsess over LOST. Because it's the most awesome groundbreaking show ever on TV. I think. Well actually I have no idea what the hell its about but I love it, I watch it, I talk about it, I listen to the podcasts and sometimes I call in and participate. No. It doesn't help make sense of any of it. I'm looking forward to the last season so I'll finally know WTF. But I also dread it in case it doesn't make any sense and I've wasted years of my life on this.

I love clothes. I have tons of them. Yet I pretty much only wear one basic outfit in different colors and fabrics.

That's all there is to know about me for the moment because I got a job as soon as I moved to my new city. I've been busy working mass overtime and paying the bills for all that driving back and forth between the two cities I did before I moved here.

Somehow I got a job after looking for exactly a week and a half. A good job too. I'd love to tell you it was more than luck combined with a strange but useful skill set but it probably wasn't. My advice to you if you're job hunting now... don't be afraid to make a career change now. It may be the only way to stay alive. Hell, don't be afraid of anything. It can only hold you back.

I read once, on some web page about how to move to NYC, the advice that you should concentrate on your career for the first year, because you won't have any friends yet anyway, and get good at what you do in order to afford to live in such an expensive city. The friends will come naturally later once you've been around awhile.

That seemed to be good advice, even if Columbus isn't that expensive.

But now I've been here for a year and I'm not really new in town anymore but I still don't know many people or all the cool things there are to do and places there are to go. My social life needs serious work still.

A wise friend once said to me you work on trying to get the balance of work and fun right for pretty much your whole life.

That sounds about right.