Warning: Driver Weaves & Spins

 Just as a note to anyone looking at my Live Journal.  My journal is mainly friends only, so if you add me as a friend and I know you, I'll add you as a friend so you can read my journal.

NOTE: if you have a strange LJ name, you might need to tell me who you are.  If I don't add you as a friend it most likely does not mean that I do not like you, I just may not know who the heck you are.

Thank you!

FYI: I also have special filters set up for Weight Loss/Health and Wedding Planning, so let me know if you would like to be in on one of my filters.  :)

Borrowed from

harleenquinzell.  Not that I'm really expecting anyone on LJ to get me anything but I am bored and I'll forward this onto my Mom.  :)
 

 

I'm posting this mainly so I won't forget and I can go back and look it up.


I didn't do the mint this past time but I think I'm going to in the future.

Taken from spranglady.

What are you reading?
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.


Closest Book: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

     "We haven't seen him at all, have we, Adso?" William said, turning toward me with an amused look.  "But if you are hunting for Brunellus, the horse can only be where I have said."
     The cellarer hesitated.

( What kind of Prince/Knight Would I Marry )
( Fears )

Heard from the plumber and he believes that it was just a broken fitting on our water pump because he doesn't see anything else wrong with the pump except for that, and he said that broken fitting would cause the water to not be pumped properly.

So, I'm knocking on wood that is the issue and replacing the fitting will fix the issue and he said the cost should just be the service call unless he finds something else or if that doesn't work.

I have determined that today is crazy since tomorrow is a full moon.  It seems like several people are having some "special" Mondays today given their LJ posts.  So, maybe it's a lunar thing.  I can only hope.  :)

This week is not starting well.  

Yesterday I was attacked by roaming pollen clouds.  It is a bit frightening when you look up and see a large yellow cloud of pollen coming your way.  Yikes.  I don't really have much in the way of allergies (very grateful for that right now) but still, a giant cloud of the stuff will affect me too.  I had to use my windshield wipers this morning to be able to see out my front windshield.  Yuck!

This morning I awake to find out we've got some water issues at our house that most likely involves either 1) our water pump or 2) the well.  I'm hoping it's the former because I can't imagine that it would be more costly than dealing with a dry well but I don't know much about that.  *sigh*
So, we just have a trickle of water coming out of our taps.  On the bright side, probably means I'll go to the gym more this week to take a shower.  :)

I am also not very happy with the embroidery for my Byzantine sleeves so I think I am going to ditch that effort instead of investing more time on them and not liking them.  I'll probably spend this week working on the neck stuff for the Dalmatica.  Other than that, the outfit is pretty much done.  Oh, I gotta hem the veil too...crap....forgot about that.

On the good side of things, I finally got the bed where the vegetables will go cleared out.  It was a pain in the butt but now I just need to put some more soil in there and plant the veggies.  Yippiee!

I just hope the water thing will get fixed and won't be TOO expensive.  *sigh*

I am extremely frightened by the upcoming Showtime series on Henry VIII.

Here are some choice exerpts from the CNN article about the show:

"Henry VIII is coming back to the throne. And this time, he's bloody gorgeous."

"Rhys Meyers defends the copious flesh and bumping 'n' grinding in "The Tudors" as on the mark. 'These people had an awful lot of sex, more sex than we have today,' said Rhys Meyers....'Once the sun goes down there's very little to do in the Tudor kingdom. There's no TVs, no iPods, no nightclubs, no motor cars, no bowling alleys,' he said. 'So you either read, talk, laugh, drink, sing -- or shag the devil out of each other!'"

"In other words, he's [the actor playing Henry] nothing like the pale, square-headed fattie in the famed Hans Holbein portraits."

"The first two hourlong episodes suffer from the clunky dialogue typical of historical epics, as characters are obliged to announce obvious bits of background to each other for the viewers' benefit."

*sigh*

For the whole article: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/29/apontv.thetudors.ap/index.html

Everybody's doing it...guess, I should follow along!


Create your own Friend Test here

( I knew I was a nerd! )

So here are a couple tips for today...

1. Don't try to embroider while watching a foreign film with subtitles.  Bad things happen, and it's usually to the embroidery.

2. Don't embroider in bed.  I seem to be missing a needle and I'm a bit frightened as to where it may have gone.  Don't worry, I'm sure I'll find it - I just prefer to not find it the way I usually find needles and pins. (Remember, I am the one who sewed a pin into the side seam of my dress and I had to be rescued from it).

( Yard stuff )

However, I did get some other things done too.  Actually, whenever I went inside to "take a break" I ended up doing another project.  When I went inside to fix myself some breakfast I ended up rearranging most of my kitchen cabinets and then making breakfast.  

And, then in the afternoon when I went in for a glass of water, I ended up figuring out how to unlock my windows.  Which, does not seem like much of a task but James, my parents and I had tried several months ago and couldn't figure it out.  But, after speaking with my neighbor, who I discovered her husband had been the one to install all of the window locks, I tried again and figured it out.  And then figured out how to operate the storm windows, which was interesting.  But, after that, I was able to open the house to the lovely Spring air.  :)

I didn't get a whole lot done on my Coronation garb.  I did get the rest of the Dalmatica sewn together and I'll hopefully get help hem marking at the Wednesday A&S night.  I also started working on the embroidery.  Which wasn't turning out exactly how I pictured in my mind.  I think that I'll keep at it for a little bit because I'm rusty at this sort of embroidery so hopefully it will start looking a little better as I progress.

I also really enjoyed the Cooks Guild meeting on Sunday.  I thought it went really well with lots of yummy and nifty dishes.  Plenty of food and fun foodie companionship.  The potluck was bring your favorite period dish, so I brought a mushroom pie because I think they are very yummy!  And, I had also been playing around with a recipe called French Biskit which is very biscotti like.  However, I forgot I had them in the oven so they were VERY dried out.  When I ate them I felt like my dog chewing on a rawhide treat, but they tasted good.  :)

Hopefully tonight I will pull up some more plants from the flower bed and then get to work on more embroidery.  Fun!

I have Friday Afternoon Spring Fever in such a bad way.

I made the terrible mistake of going outside during lunch.  Which was quite lovely, ate my lunch in the park and played on the swingset.  :)

However, ever since then I have wanted to be frolicking outside.  *sigh*  I guess my frolicking will have to wait until tomorrow when I'm outside doing yard work.  Which yard work isn't really frolicking, but it is outside.  :)

I am extremely excited because the man who mows our lawn said he would trim the bushes which probably haven't seen a blade in 2 - 3 years at least.  It looks so much better, and they guy is only charging me $15 for trimming around 10 bushes.  

I am extremely glad I don't have to do it.  I'm going to prune the rhodedendron and azelea myself but that's not nearly as crazy a job.  Yippieeee!!!

Doing the happy dance!

I am prefacing this with the fact that I like children.  Most of the time they are cute and quite amusing.  But, I do have to say that I really think a child that is old enough to walk and to talk to people should have at least a basic teaching of manners.

I say this because I was assaulted by a young child in JoAnn's today.  Now, the child was nice, but really, really overly friendly.  I was in the middle of a conversation with a sales associate when this child comes over to show me this toy cow he had.  (I have never had an encounter with this child nor even made eye contact.  I apparantly have the "come hither and play with me" look for small children).  So, in the middle of my conversation, this child shoves himself in between us and shoves the toy into my chest and starts chanting "a cow, look at the cow!".

I was a bit bewildered that the fact that this child who was a complete stranger to me was completely "up in my face".  I just nodded at the child and went about the conversation with the sales lady.  

Now, the mother was standing right there and all she said to the child was, "Hun, she's talking to someone right now".  There was no pulling the child away from me.  No appologizing to me.  There wasn't even a discussion, "don't interrupt adults while they are talking" or "don't talk to strangers".

I ended up turning and walking away with the sales associate to try to find the item I was looking for.  It was just a very odd experience.  I'm used to small children talking to me or showing me things but not quite as demanding and physical as this child was.

I'm fairly patient with children so I was OK.  But not everyone would be.  Not everyone likes children, especially when they are acting in that way and with that much physical contact.  You might have someone who will yell at the child or will push them away.  Or worse, in this day and age, it's not the best to have your child be overly friendly with people who are complete strangers.  

Anyways...I thought I'd share.

I am also making some decent progress on my garb for coronation.  I still do have a couple weekends to work on the garb as well as during the week so I'm feeling pretty good about that.

Well, I am quite tired now, so I'm going to go to sleep.  I'm glad it has been a productive week so far.

I got quite a bit accomplished this weekend.  My tunica is nearly finished.  I just need to hem the neckline and attach the trim for the clavii.  All of the seams have been protected and its sleeves and bottom is hemmed.  My dalmatica is almost constructed.  I just need to sew the side seams together and then start protecting the seams.

And then, the fun part...  I am going to be embroidering the neck collar of the dalmatica and the cuffs of the tunica so I need to now plan that design and start working on that because that will take a while to complete.

I also need to figure out what I am doing for a belt.  None of my current belts will really work very well.  I'll have to think about that, I may need to make one if I have time.  :)

I also got some garden supplies.  I think I am going to try to have a small garden.  I usually kill plants, but maybe since this will be outside, they may have a bit more of a chance.  However, I am starting the seeds inside.  God help the poor little plants.  I have two black thumbs.  

I also need to get out and start cutting back some of the bush's this week since they are looking really out of control.  I may try to do that some this week if the weather is nice.  

I'm feeling pretty accomplished.  I was contacted today about submitting an article for the Oak, probably because about a month or so ago I said I'd do one on bread.  And then my article ended up turning into 35 pages.  A bit long for an Oak article.  :)
However, I do think that I'm going to refine it a bit more and do a Complete Anachronist on Bread.

Anyways, I was able to crank out an exerpt from my paper on spice bread and I submitted that draft for her review.  So, we'll see.  But, I got that accomplished tonight.  It wasn't too bad since I already had the research done, it was just compiling it in what seems to be a rational article.  Well, at least it made sense to me.  :)

I have all of my stuff ready to go for the garb workshop tomorrow.  Very excited.  Hopefully I can get lots done.  I have some handsewing to do, embroidery to plan out and start and my dalmatica to cut out.  I don't bring my sewing machine anywhere because it is attached to my sewing table and it is a PAIN in my posterior to remove and put back. 

I now need to go and put a fresh coat of dye on my hair.  Gotta look fully red-headed for St. Patricks day.  Because I'm pretty sure I have some Irish in me somewhere.  I should have a pin that says, "Kiss me, I'm 1/35th Irish".  :)

Ok, whining over.

I now have my tunica cut out.  Yippieee!!!  And it will get mostly sewn together tonight.  I have also decided to not make my Dalmatica out of silk.  1) I don't have any silk on hand and 2) I don't need to spend the money on silk since I've already purchased linen for the tunic and I'll need to get trim as well.
So, I have decided to do the Dalmatica out of linen, which was a fabric the Byzantine's used as well and I have some on hand.  Actually, I had more than I thought, which was a pleasant surprise.  So, I'm going to make it out of this funky green color.  It almost looks peacock-green since the warp threads are blue.  Anyways...now, for trim decisions...

And, now...for the cheese...