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draconisregenaOkay so this weekend was beyond my normal standards for good. Far far beyond it in fact. I can't remember the last time I had this much fun doing anything much less have several of those anythings grouped together. My weekend actually started Thursday evening since I don't have a job and I can in fact get away with that.
Thursday: Got to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blackcatter and Dawn's house after a right nasty drive down. I started the drive at 3:30 and I didn't arrive in Bloomington until it was 7:30 I think...It was late! Traffic was bad as hell! Puppy cuddles and puttering around helping clean occupied most of the rest of the evening. Dawn and I didn't sleep at all so we stayed up watching obscure old movies until 6ish in the morning.
Friday: Today I did the great Job Hunt. *sigh* I got a few little nibbles (mmm nibbles...) from places that I went to talk to their HR departments but nothing of any real substance. Spent almost an hour at Bromenn beforet hey could find someone to tell me that they couldn't tell me anything. That was my last stop before heading to Peoria to visitnorfacoflandra. I was too frustrated to continue. I gave myself enough time to get lost, and while I didn't get lost I did get a little bit turned around once and I missed a turn once. For me getting somewhere I have never been that is Excellent. I got there only minutes before Dietrich (you know sometimes I am unsure what name to use for you) , and just in time to get a headbutt from the cat. I promptly got shanghi'd by the boychild into "want to see my trains?" We played with trains, and broke a piece of track. That was fun. I love kids, especially cute fun-loving type kids. The New girlchild was very very cute...*sigh* babynoises...yep. Anyhow. Got to watch the process of cooking and it was truly entertaining for me who does not cook well. Kitchen magic is the phrase he uses for it and I find it very appropriate. Not to mention the food was wonderful. Snuggles and conversation downstairs followed... :) It was nice to see leeduck and birchduck even if it was only briefly. They're just fun people to be around and I like/admire them a lot. I am unsure if they know that, but hey if either of them read this now they do.
Saturday: Inkin in Lincoln... I was unsure what a scribal event was going to be like, but I could not resist this one. It was fantastic. I learned to write! Gothic and Uncial hands, it was amusing that the man who taught me how (Wilhelm, I think) showed my practice pages to nearly everyone he talked to. "So jealous I could spit" was used a number of times. I think it was an excercise in How red can we get Ruth in one afternoon? I got shanghi'd again byscribewithgold into doing a project. You have no idea how amazingly cool it is that Bardolph and Brigh (the King and Queen of the Midrealm for my non SCA friends) were painting things that I had drawn. Though it amused me to no end that Bardolph had to ask what color the pale behind the dragon was on the Midrealm device.
The party was its normal awesomeness.aztecknight brought in a dagger as a grab bag gift that was VERY popular. Wow yeah. I ended up with Katydids. They are chocoalte but I don't even like them. Oh well. We watched Jeff Dunham, which was fun because not only is it Hysterical, but I thought for brief periods of time that Green Jenny and chentzu were going to hurt themselves laughing at it.
Drinking, food, fun, frinds, snuggles, kids and puppies. It was wonderful.
Thursday: Got to
blackcatter and Dawn's house after a right nasty drive down. I started the drive at 3:30 and I didn't arrive in Bloomington until it was 7:30 I think...It was late! Traffic was bad as hell! Puppy cuddles and puttering around helping clean occupied most of the rest of the evening. Dawn and I didn't sleep at all so we stayed up watching obscure old movies until 6ish in the morning. Friday: Today I did the great Job Hunt. *sigh* I got a few little nibbles (mmm nibbles...) from places that I went to talk to their HR departments but nothing of any real substance. Spent almost an hour at Bromenn beforet hey could find someone to tell me that they couldn't tell me anything. That was my last stop before heading to Peoria to visit
norfacoflandra. I was too frustrated to continue. I gave myself enough time to get lost, and while I didn't get lost I did get a little bit turned around once and I missed a turn once. For me getting somewhere I have never been that is Excellent. I got there only minutes before Dietrich (you know sometimes I am unsure what name to use for you) , and just in time to get a headbutt from the cat. I promptly got shanghi'd by the boychild into "want to see my trains?" We played with trains, and broke a piece of track. That was fun. I love kids, especially cute fun-loving type kids. The New girlchild was very very cute...*sigh* babynoises...yep. Anyhow. Got to watch the process of cooking and it was truly entertaining for me who does not cook well. Kitchen magic is the phrase he uses for it and I find it very appropriate. Not to mention the food was wonderful. Snuggles and conversation downstairs followed... :) It was nice to see leeduck and birchduck even if it was only briefly. They're just fun people to be around and I like/admire them a lot. I am unsure if they know that, but hey if either of them read this now they do. Saturday: Inkin in Lincoln... I was unsure what a scribal event was going to be like, but I could not resist this one. It was fantastic. I learned to write! Gothic and Uncial hands, it was amusing that the man who taught me how (Wilhelm, I think) showed my practice pages to nearly everyone he talked to. "So jealous I could spit" was used a number of times. I think it was an excercise in How red can we get Ruth in one afternoon? I got shanghi'd again by
scribewithgold into doing a project. You have no idea how amazingly cool it is that Bardolph and Brigh (the King and Queen of the Midrealm for my non SCA friends) were painting things that I had drawn. Though it amused me to no end that Bardolph had to ask what color the pale behind the dragon was on the Midrealm device.The party was its normal awesomeness.
aztecknight brought in a dagger as a grab bag gift that was VERY popular. Wow yeah. I ended up with Katydids. They are chocoalte but I don't even like them. Oh well. We watched Jeff Dunham, which was fun because not only is it Hysterical, but I thought for brief periods of time that Green Jenny and chentzu were going to hurt themselves laughing at it. Drinking, food, fun, frinds, snuggles, kids and puppies. It was wonderful.
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Date: 2006-12-18 06:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-18 07:24 pm (UTC)BTW you got to teach me how to make that ^&**() g. LOL
That project looks awesome. So can you teach me how to draw like that? I'm not posting those right away given what they are for and I think he wants them to be a surprize. I'll post the other pictures soon, just got back home and started painting walls again.
I'm also happy you enjoyed the rest of your weekend. Have a happy week and we'll talk soon.
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Date: 2006-12-18 08:16 pm (UTC)As for the drawing well, that might be more difficult for me to teach (I am not a good teacher), but I can try.
Yay for the painting of the walls!
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Date: 2006-12-19 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-19 05:15 am (UTC)