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I'm a huge fan of tacit and his ability to sum up great ideas. I highly recommend his latest entry on "Some Evolving Thoughts on Veto"

Go ... read it now. It's well worth the read.

YAYYAYYAYYAAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't have details yet, but kellfire's daughter and her friend Jessica have been found. They are not home yet, and there are no other details, but they're found.

This was just posted to the Chirurgeon's List - thanks ot alphaggek for the link.

( make with the clickety )

Quite honestly, I don't know how I feel about it at the moment.

Happy Birthday keltique! May this be a fantastic year full of delightful things for you :)

Listening to the new Great Big Sea CD - Fortune's Favour that arrived in the mail yesterday.

Oh yeah.......

Finding out that Itunes carries a CD I thought I would never find.

Almost 17 years ago, my then household mate Paul gave me a tape with some great music called "The Twenty Best of Scotland" by Noel McLouglin. I searched for the Cd for years with no luck. I stopped playing the tape because I was afraid of breaking it.

I found my SCA songbook today and a copy of CD case and playlist was in the front. So on a whim I thought I would google it and then put it in Itunes..... and *dude* it's there.

I am stupid happy right now.

Create your own family sticker graphic at pYzam.com

Happy Birthday to quicktongue!!!!!!!!

May this be a delightful year and I hope I'll get to see you soon!

*Grrrrrr*

That's my frustrated sound.

Not only has something gone wrong with the sensors on my '05 Chyrsler Van (just had the mechanic check it this morning). Needs fixed in the next week or so to the tune of $280 or so ...

Now my sewing machine has decided to sew nothing but a straight stitch. My 30-year-old-workhorse Viking (by Husquevarna)-which-apparently-you-might-or-might-not-get/have-parts-for-going-to-be-damn-expensive-to-fix-still-don't-want-to-give-it-up-love it-machine....... and the serger is also joining in the fray with some mechanical issues.

Do I have some weird electrical force around me making my machines go on the fritz?!?

Just to start your day off in the right frame of mind, I give you:

Being the Mom of 4, 3 of whom are under 10, our snacks consist of Chewies, Cheese Puffs, Wheat Thins with cheese from a can. I forget that I can have a real snack.

Today, it was inspired....

Red seedless grapes
Garlic stuffed olives
Delice de Bourgogne cheese on crackers.

Oh ....yeah.

This morning I caught a thread on the Merry Rose (the email tavern for the Kingdom of Atlantia) on someone asking practical ideas for bringing her 8 month old (twins I think) to Pennsic. The responses ranged all over, including one that basically said "don't bother, it's too much work" ... so I thought I'd chime in with some thoughts - because I've basically raised my 4 girls in the SCA and short of a few events that I elected to miss - we go do things as a family. Anyway, here's my response this morning that prompted me to make it a class

( My thoughts on bringing kids to Pennsic )

And with the encouragement of my clan ... I decided to make this a reality ...

I've signed up to teach a class at Pennsic this year "Modern Kids/Babies in the Current Middle Ages" with the lovely mellyflori giving me my class description:

How-tos on safety, garb, hydration, and keeping parents, babies, and kids sane and entertained at Pennsic and other SCA camping events.

So ... I'm interested to hear what other SCA/Renn/reenactors & like folk say about raising kids. All hints, tips and tricks are welcome!

And it really is "Always Better When We're Together". I love you so very much!




There's no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard
No song that I could sing
But I can try for your heart
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
Like a, shoebox of photographs
With sepiatone loving
Love is the answer,
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Like why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it's so hard?
It's not always easy and
Sometimes life can be deceiving
I'll tell you one thing it's always better when we're together


[Chorus:]

MMM it's always better when we're together
Yeah, we'll look at the stars when we're together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together


And all of these moments
Just might find their way into my dreams tonight
But I know that they'll be gone
When the morning light sings
And brings new things
For tomorrow night you see
That they'll be gone too
Too many things I have to do
But if all of these dreams might find their way
Into my day to day scene
I'd be under the impression
I was somewhere in between
With only two
Just me and you
Not so many things we got to do
Or places we got to be
We'll Sit beneath the mango tree now


It's always better when we're together
Mmmm, we're somewhere in between together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together


MMmmmm MMMmmmm Mmmmmm
I believe in memories
They look so, so pretty when I sleep
Hey now, and when I wake up,
You look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time,
And there is no, no song I could sing
And there is no, combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing<
We're better together.

I did it! I replace the hideous old fixtures with something much nicer. Look!



Oh ... the sign is latin ... anyone figure out what it says?

Today's project? Replacing a sensor in the front lamp post. Hopefully I'll turn off the correct breaker :)

**edit - sensor replaced in short time, no incidents**

If I survive that, I'll replace the lights next to the door. *just kidding*

**edit (10:45am) working the porch lights now**

I'll be safe ... promise ....

Pennsic pre-registration (online) closes on June 15th. Have you registered for you medieval vacation yet?

Thanks to liamstliam for this link to a wonderful story in my own backyard. Really inspiring.

The Cinderella Prom

My cousin Ed is a long time teacher and practioner of marshal arts. In the last couple of years he's become involved with a group that teaches marshal arts to kids with disabilities ... this morning he sent me this.

I am so proud of him and so proud of the work he does. He's the guy with the super short military cut on the right. It's a long video, so you don't have to watch all of it ... but I just wanted to brag about this fine man with a wonderful, generous spirit.

http://xable.com/videos/100973

lapsedagnostic and I split the weekends so that one of us always gets a sleep-in morning. I get Saturdays and he gets Sundays. And, a lot of the time, for one reason or another, we end up getting up about 1/2 the time to do stuff, usually with the kids .... So, this morning he gets up to take T to a chess tournament and tells the 2 youngest not to come get me to until 10 (which just doesn't happen most of the time.... really they're 8 and 7 - but they do try). Except for this morning.

This morning I woke up slighty before 9 - picked up the newest Anita Blake book Blood Noir which I started last night. I read in the quiet of the morning until the first hand on the doorknob at 9:45. Shortly after, my prom-going Widgeon came and snuggled me in bed. A little while later she brought me tea and a bagel w/ salmon & cream cheese and I finished my book at 11:10.

What a decadent morning, and a lovely way to start a really busy day. Yay!

F*cking Comcast still doesn't have their act together and now LJ seems to be running more than a little slow.

*grr*