It's My Life

Friends and a movie

After the crazy morning, I went to the calligraphy and illumination meeting. And there was Gavin, Brenna, Scar and Liz all sitting around a big table, chatting and working. I asked Liz to try on the shirt I'd made in the morning; fit her so yeah! She's got a camp shirt.

Most of us went on out to Prince Caspian afterwords. Great show, lots of fun. I do have something I didn't like; it is annoying that it is so obvious that Peter was dealing with temptations of leadership and power, and Susan was dealing with her awakening sexual attraction and power, and thus both of them are to be denied a return to Narnia in future movies. It's in the books, I realize that. And these were written very symbolically, blah, blah...I just found it a bit annoying. Otherwise, loved the fighting, the jokes of family interactions, the lovely scenary.

Rachel and Shannon were having a fire tonight but I came home instead. Up last night a bit late, need a good sleep.

End of "Brothers Grimm"

"make sure it is a kiss of true love, or it will be a kiss of death." There is the hero, about to kiss the sleeping princess with her shoes of glass, held in thrall to the evil, ancient, mirrored queen. He pauses, sure he is again risking death. But whose death is the kiss, whose true love? I say it is the princess who is at risk - asleep, passive, she risks everything without being able to protest her lack of choice. heh. fairy tales. Maybe I should have watched the Kim Possible.

Watch "Hairspray"

If you will, go see Hairspray. It was very funny - laugh out loud funny. Watching the enthusiasm of these dancers, including Tracy's parents, was great - I wanted to join them but lol, they were on the screen and it was a pretty full theatre. I'd not ever seen the play so this was a treat. Went with Mel, Julie and Anna, who can sit pretty good for a four year old.

The day was good. I had a workout, did some paperwork for the house and for the SCA, chatted a lot with Liz about a variety of things while doing said paperwork, met some of the heavy fighters at the park as a couple were interested in fighting but I decided to honor my commitment to go to a movie.

Got an annoying headache right now. I think I'll just go to bed. Night!

Sue Teller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4uyN5rQbbU  and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAdjn1_pppY&NR

Gotta love the YouTube stuff.  "peace out!"

Weekend is almost over

I got up yesterday later than normal and just could not get moving on the track. Ish. Totally uninspired; why am I putting myself through this torture?? Plus my heels hurt, like a heel-spur but in the back part of the heel. I'm actually limping it's so bad, lol. So grabbed up the heavy-duty cleanup bags and headed to the garage after coffee and breakfast. And believe it or not, I pulled nine bags of junk out of there, flattened a stack of boxes that is about a foot high, sorted through just about everything, and swept. I've now got someplace to drag the pell to this winter; can't do overhand shots but I can practice anything that will fit in there. Can stand in the middle and swing a sword all the way around. Plus I can use the shoptools out there. Van fixed up a hose caddy with an electric cord so it will be easier to manage running electricity out there when I want to sand or, heaven forbid, see. Rigged lights, too.

Celebrated with a really good meal and Isaiah visiting for part of the evening. He brought us a Kirby vaccuum that had been abandoned at his shop.

Today, I slept in again but forced myself to at least walk the 30 minutes and do the weights. Then cut 2 inches off the red sword and played on the pell for a bit - the shorter length is just sweet. It's got a better balance? Anyway, that felt good to dance around that a bit.

Met Jacque and Rosamund and Robert at JoAnns and found two lengths of fabric for myself. Went to the Mall and bought a new outfit. Went to Mills End and bought Van fabric for a new outfit. And then went to see Flyboys, which is a really good movie imho especially if you like arial battles. Van says most of the battles were computer-generated but they looked good. And I liked this little romance; usually the romance just gets in the way, lol.

Now I've moved the sewing back to the main floor, in the small room. And since the ironing board is adjustable, well, hey, I've also got a table for this computer to rest on. Multitasking!

Van's Birthday

Had a good day, celebrating Van's birthday. I went shooting with him this morning, and did improve by the fourth magazine. Had to get a feel for what he was telling me to do and what I needed to do, stance-wise and hold-wise, to control my shots.

Only did a mile jog/walk this morning, expecting to have a fighter practice from noonish - 3. But that was cancelled.

So we picked cherries for the wine we are going to be making. Then went to the mall to pick up protein mix, went to Superman Returns with Isaiah, ate Mexican fast food and came home. Started the packing for Dub-Dub late this evening; the chicken is cooked now and the tubs gone through! Laters!