Sparkly Things

You Are Late Period Western European Nobility.
Nothing excites you more than looking sharp,
even if it breaks your bank or causes you heat
stroke in the middle of summer. Be sure to
drink lots and lots of water, because it can
get rather warm under 8 layers of velvet and
brocade!

What Is Your SCA Clothing Style?
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Darn slanted quizzes. I couldn’t find answers I liked.

So,
I’m waiting for things to happen.
I’m waiting to get out of here tonight.
I’m waiting for my Dr.’s appt. tomorrow (just a check-up).
I’m waiting for Mr. Phil to get back from guard duty.
I’m waiting for the weekend so I can get some sleep and go to Eno Academy.

I’m just waiting.

We took Tom to the Dr. yesterday for his chronic ingrown toenail. I thought he was just going to examine it and schedule us for treatment at a later time. Oh no. The nurse took us right into the procedure room. The Dr. came in, Novocaine’d up the toe, took out his scissors and whacked off about half of Tom’s big toenail. Then he cauterized the nail bed and the nurse bandaged him up and we were on our way. Whew! It actually doesn’t look too bad. Tom says it’s throbby, but he put some antibiotic cream on it today, took some ibuprophen for the pain and went on his merry way. This is a problem he’s had for about 8 to 12 months and suddenly it’s all gone. He’s looking forward to being able to lunge and wear real shoes again. Maybe his fencing will improve ;) I know I’ll be happy when he isn’t constantly showing me his goopy old toe and asking me if I think it looks infected, so it’s all good.

So, I’m not going to get to Pennsic this year. No surprise there. But we are planning to do a little weekend event here to make up for it. OK, it’s not REALLY an EVENT, because then we’d have to put it in the Kingdom Newsletter, and it’s too late for that, yadda, yadda…
SOOO, we are having an “extended overnight practice” at a local campground and inviting all the local people.
BUT now we have a problem. The place we have picked is a campground on Ft. Bragg and people can’t camp there if they don’t have official military ID’s. Most of the people in the local group have them. But people from the wider Barony don’t. So we have a dilemma. Invite people for the day, but not to camp and use the kewl site (which we have already been promoting) OR choose another site which may cost more, be less convenient and have fewer amenities. What’s a poor organizer to do?

I polled the group. I’m interested to see what they come up with.

So, I played through the end of the Diablo II expansion last night. It was fun, but it definitely felt tacked on. None of the bad guys were as tough as I had expected and I defeated the big boss, Baal, in one go-round. I had expected to die at least two times. Diablo was tougher, in my opinion. Now I can play the secret cow level (heh, heh).

SCA meeting tonight. It’s the business meeting. We’re planning an event and I hope we can make some progress on it tonight.

Work continues. We’re trying to keep everyone busy.

So I watched A Chorus Line last night (but didn’t do any sewing, I’ll blame the cats). I realized that I am now older than EVERY ONE of the characters, including the “old lady”, Sheila (who is *GASP* 29!).

How did that happen? Stories used to be about people who were older than I am. It gave me something to look forward to. I realize that if I were a dancer, I’d be washed up by now. Dancing requires a lot of strength and energy. It’s definitely a young person’s career. And they have such passion about it. I enjoy things, I feel strongly about things, but I come to find that I am not passionate about very much. I remember being passionate, putting all of my energy into feeling happy or devastated. And I remember what and more importantly WHO I was passionate about. I wonder if I wasted my passion on the wrong things. I’m happy that I never got in big trouble and I’m content with my life now, but I wonder what I could have accomplished with my life if I had applied my passion to something constructive.

We had a going away party at work today. Denise’s husband is PCS-ing (Permanent Change of Station) to Germany. I said I would bring chicken salad. I had planned to make it last night, but with the press of other things, it got put on the back burner. So I stopped at the grocery store on the way to work. They did, indeed, have all of the ingredients for chicken caesar salad, very convenient. But the prices were OUTRAGEOUS. I found hearts of romaine, (more reasonable than the salad packets, which were $3 for 12 oz of washed, cut up greens, a packet of croutons and a packet of dressing) a bag of croutons, a bottle of dressing and 16 oz of cooked chicken breast. The chicken alone was $8. You can get 5x as much for the same price if you buy it raw. So, for the same price as a nice restaurant (a word I can never spell) meal, you can get salad fixings for 6 or so people. Next time, I’ll make it myself.

This just goes to confirm my opinion about money and time. When you have one, you can save the other. I bet quality comes into there somewhere as well.

I did spend some time and save some money last night, tho. I fixed up clothes that have been sitting around in the mending for a while.

Tonight, A Chorus Line and a new dress.

I got TWO projects done last night. And now I am in the sewing groove. I made a pair of capri pants and a new dress, both with fabric that has been sitting around FOREVER (I mean that literaly, the pants are from authentico 70’s fabric from Grandma’s stash). I am very virtuously declaring that I will work on only those projects I have been putting off until I clear out space (for more fabric, drool, drool).

It is a good thing, tho’, as my wardrobe is severely limited due to weather constraints. It is getting up in the high 90’s here, and I have very little work appropriate clothing that is up to that much heat. I have a fair amount of lightweight contemporary stuff. I just have to use it.

Now if only I can get the cats to STOP helping.

I once worked at a camp and New Games was their term for non-competitive games. I like New Games.

Our new game is Mutants and Masterminds, a superhero RPG from Green Ronin publishers. I’m playing with Tom and Charlie. Anthony is GMing. We got off to a good start. We all went the mystical route. Tom is a sorceror. Charile is an angel and I’m a spirit of Chaos imprisoned in a flesh body. We have tons of magic. Last night we had a preliminary fight to get the combat system worked out, and then we took on a demon. Very interesting. I’m a little down on my char. right now, but I think with some tweaking, I can make it work out.

Work continues. Phil is gone for two weeks. Hopefully nothing too catastrophic will happen while he is gone. on the good news front, he got engaged to Christine. I’m interested to see how that will work out for them. I wonder where they will settle. And IF they will settle. Phil is indeed a rolling stone.

I’m so boring. I spent my entire 4th of July weekend hanging around the house. Tom had to work, so we did the beach thing on Friday and then I slugged the entire rest of the time.

Oh well, back to work. Last week of Summer Reading Club. Then Mr. Phil is on National Guard duty for two weeks. Should be interesting.