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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
8:43 pm	Italian Ren Dress Here is the pictures I've been promising of the new Italian Renaissance Dress I've been working on the past 5 weeks.  The event was wonderful and I had many great comments about the dress.  I even had several people I didn't know come up and talk to me.  One lady suggested I teach a class on Cartridge Pleating and a class on how to accessorize in 1560's Florence Italy!  I also had my portrait taken at the event by the great Baron Bardof. The CD of the pictures should come in the mail in about 2 months.  Once I have them, I'll post those to the email list as well as to my face book account. If any of you have a Facebook account, please let me know and send me permission if it is ok to friend you.  I hope you can see all my photos I've posted so far.  It was a rough couple of weeks to work and do this dress but I think the results are so totally worth it!  :) www.facebook.com/album.php Current Mood: happy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
2:46 pm	It's deader than hell here at Anna Maria's in Graham.  I leave at 3:30 to head the AM in Carrboro for the evening shift there.  I hope we are busier there than here.  I have my doctor's appointment tomorrow so hopefully I can change my anti-depressent to something to help me through the next few months.  I get to have blood drawn too, since there are lots of things that need to be checked.  I hope my colesterol has gone down as well as my weight.  We'll see.  Still turning in job applications but I haven't heard anything yet.  I'm trying to stay on the positive side but with this nasty weather, it's hard to stay focused.  :(  I plan to sleep in late tomorrow, go to my doctor appointment, go home and go back to sleep for the rest of the day.  Perhaps Thursday will be a better day. Current Mood: cold (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
10:16 am	Greek Goddess Quiz What Greek Goddess are you? You are Athena! Born from the head of Zeus himself, this goddess is the most respected and capable of all the goddesses. Like this goddess of defensive warfare, crafts and wisdom, you are courageous as a warrior, cunning as a fox, and wise beyond your years. You do not try to be a leader, but you are one merely because you have the raw material that renders admiration and followers. Though you may not know it...you have the world at your feet. But since you are wise, you will not allow this newfound knowledge to go to your head. How do you compare? Take this test! | Tests from Testriffic</font> </div> (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
12:44 pm	Ymir thoughts This is long so I'm cutting to save friends lists. ( Ymir 2007 ) Current Mood: happy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
2:11 pm	For all those who've been asking... Recipes from the Tavern and Lunch at Ymir 2007 ( Sausage and Barley Stew ) ( Cooked Applesauce ) ( Beef Stew ) ( Garlic Cheese ) ( Vegetable and Lentil Soup ) ( Viking Pancakes ) Current Mood: amused (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, February 12th, 2007
4:25 pm	I'm very tired today. Not surprised though. I've been on my feet literally for 4 days in a row. (Thursday thru Sunday) Today at work is really the first day I had a chance to sit most of the day and actually relax. Work's been slow today and I'm glad for once for that. Training is finally over!!!! for now... TYJ! The next training items up for bid begin in a few weeks. Maybe by then I can actally get caught up on stress relief so that I can control the stress better when the training stuff comes up again. I really need to find alternate ways to releive stress. Last week was nuts and I looked and felt stressed even though the Ymir stress was not that bad. Many people noticed I was in distress so I need to find better ways of controling what I'm feeling to get through things better. It was all the medical crap I had to do and the stuff going on at work which is what stressed me really bad. I'll post more about Ymir at a later date when I'm not so tired. I'm ready to go home now and crash for a while before the meeting tonight. Current Mood: sleepy (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
9:53 am	Onions! They stink! You know the day is going to be a wierd one when you walk into your building at work and the entire first floor (which I am on) smells like jumbo yellow onions. The smell and the fumes are so strong that they are bothering my eyes. It's actually worse than working in a kitchen. I suppose it is one of the unfortunate perks of having the cafe in the basement of your building. The other is that dessert is only one floor down so if you get the craving for something sweet, it's too easy to walk down the stairs, purchase a piece of cake and take the elevator back upstairs. :) This onion smell is getting to be very annoying right now. I might have to close my door for a while to get away from the fumes. Gee, then I can actually get some work done without getting a headache. Current Mood: annoyed (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, January 26th, 2007
11:57 am	Good Source for Cheaper Beef I'm looking for some sources to get beef for $1.99 or less a pound. I need about 50 pounds of meat total. I've been watching the grocery stores for sales but I haven't seen anything yet. The beef I need can be chuck roast or any kind of beef which cooks well in a stew and the price is good. Sam's was disappointing with beef chuck roast at $2.58 a pound. Anybody have other suggestions on where to look? Please let me know. Thanks!!! (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
11:34 am	I love snow Woke up this morning, turned on the news and of course the reporters are out everywhere to show off the accidents, school closings and all the jammed up traffic due to a few inches of snow. The radar was pretty with white and pink on the tv so I decided to look out the front door and said, Holy Shit, we actually got a few inches of snow today. We only supposed to get some freezing rain and sleet starting later this morning but apparently the storm came in earlier than expected and was colder than expected, thus the snow with some sleet later on. It was a bit icey on the roads outside for a little while untill rain started just after I left the house. With the traffic being a nightmare on 40 east, I decided to wait till 9:00 to leave for work. There was some sleet in the air as I left but by the time I got to 40 most of the road was just wet with rain coming down. It was so pretty this morning. I'm glad we were able to get some wintery weather this year. We'll see how Sunday goes. We may just get a little bit more then as well. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
11:06 am	Well, guess what. I've got another cold. Late yesterday afternoon the sore throat started and then my sinues started hurting and now the body is beginning to ache. *sigh* I think the stress of daytripping 12th Night finally caught up with me. I should have realized that the trip would take a lot out of me but you know me. I'm really stubborn when my mind is made up and I really wanted to go to the event. I'm so glad I did go so now I just have to deal with the after effects. Only good news is I get to talk to the immune system specialist this afternoon to let him know that this kind of cold is what I've been dealing with on a monthly/bimonthly basis last year. I guess the immune system boosting vitiamin stuff I've been taking for the past 6 weeks aren't working. I hope we come up with something to help me today. I really dont want to take any more antibiotics unless I have to. Only thing is, I need to watch this cold so that it does not get down into my chest and cause pneumionia like it did back in September. I'm so tired. I only want to go to my appointments, go home and pass out in bed. Current Mood: sick (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, January 5th, 2007
1:16 pm	New Meme gacked from margaretc # Elaborate on your default icon. A picture of me in my green Italian Ren dress at a 12th Night a few years back # What's your current relationship status? As single as they come. # Ever have a near-death experience? When I had my blood clot in Oct '04 was as close to dying as I have ever been. One bad move the doctors said could have dislodged the thing right into my heart causing a heart attack. I was not alowd to move hardly at all for about 10 hours until the blood thinners started working. # Name an obvious quality you have? I am very kind and caring. # What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now? Blaze of Glory by Bon Jovi # Any celeb you would marry? Orlando Bloom # Who will cut and paste this first? soucyn? # Name someone with the same birthday as you. Mr. T Cher Ronald Prescott Reagan (son of former US President Ronald Reagan) # Do you have a crush on someone? Not really # What is on your desktop background? An Owl in Flight # What is the background on your cell phone? Balloons floating # Do you like redheads? Depends on the redhead, I’ve hated a few in the past. # Do you know any twins? I knew a few pairs years ago in high school and the children of a lady at work are twins I see once in a while # Do you have any weird relatives? Does a crazy Aunt count? # What was the last movie you watched? Cocoon last night on TV, The new James Bond film in the theater # What was the last book you read? A historical romance book called “Love at First Bite” which has 5 short stories in it all about vampires. Current Mood: bored (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 4th, 2007
4:21 pm	On the attack laurel bandwagon meme An SCA meme created by Attack Laurel . All credits to her. 1. What is your SCA name? (You don't have to write the full name, just your first name if you want.) Beatrice Villani (Bay-ah-tree-chay Vil-lah-nee) 2. What is your home kingdom? – Atlantia 3. Have you ever lived in another kingdom? If so, where? I was born and raised in the Kingdom of the East but I was not playing in the SCA at the time. 4. Do you remember your first SCA event? When/what was it? I went to Ymir back in 2002. My car broke down on the way to the event so I did not get to the event until 3:00 so I missed Falcone’s kighting but I did go to my first court to see Girard and (at the time)Generys get their AOA’s and Clair get her pearl. 5. Do you have any awards? (You don't have to list them if you don't want) I have my AOA, an Opal, Kittyhawk, Boreas, Baronial AoE 6. Do you list them after your name in communications like e-mail? Nope 7. Do you have a device? Yes, Argent 3 irises purpure slipped and leaved vert a chief invected purpure. I want to turn a badge to get passed as well 8. Do you use it? On what? I have not had the chance to put it on anything yet. I plan to make a banner for Pennsic and paint the device on some of my belongings. 9. Are you on all the kingdom/society lists available to you, or do you avoid them? – I am on several lists. I need to get onto the Seneshal list as well. 10. Do you keep your Pennsic/Estrella/Gulf Wars/etc. site tokens? Yes. I have a token for each of the past 4 pennsics I’ve gone to. They are hanging with my other site tokens on my mirror in my bathroom. 11. Do you keep the favours you've been given by royalty/friends/SOs, etc.? Do You wear them all? – I have the favors in a special box at home but I don’t wear them. 12. Do you call your friends by their SCA names even when you're not at an event? Lots of times. Some friends I only know by their SCA name. 13. Do you go out to dinner in garb after an event? – On occasion, when I don’t have the opportunity to change in modern clothes first. 14. Do you have all kinds of garb, or do you generally stick to one period? I try and dress for the theme of the event though generally I stay with 16th Century Italian. 15. How many interests do you have within the SCA? What's your favourite? – I have a few interests but my favorite is working in the Kitchen. I love to cook! I also love to do service where needed and some people have said that I have a helium hand too often but I say not enough. :) 16. Do you have an SCA-oriented web site (to show off projects, keep dress diaries, etc.)? No unfortunately. I wish I did but I don’t have webpage knowledge to build one to post pictures to. 17. Do you maintain a hairstyle that is more period style than modern? How about any other part of your appearance? – I try. When my hair was long it was easy to do but now my hair is short so I have to be creative. 18. Do you tell "No $###, there I was" stories? (Admit it.) Do any of them involve well-known SCA people? Not too much has happened to me that could be classified as such. 19. Authenticity is Fun. Yes or no? Why? – Yes, within reason. Sometimes certain people are garb nazies and they take the fun out of trying to LOOK authentic instead of being authentic which most times is too expensive. That’s why we have the 10 foot rule. 20. Is there one modern thing at events that really bugs you? Things that are not covered but should be or are blatenly obvious when they shouldn’t be. Bonus Question! 21. Everyone has a shameful garb/accessory mistake hidden somewhere in their past. What's yours? (We're all friends here, we promise not to laugh. Much.) I wear too many T-tunics when I should be in my Italian Rens. Current Mood: blah (Comment on this)
Monday, December 4th, 2006
3:59 pm	I feeling better now. This weekend I was the living dead, literally. I pretty much slept for most of the weekend. Friday, it was off to bed early since I was still feverish and was sent home early from work. I kept the alarm clock off for Saturday morning and realized that I slept to just past noon. Very unusual for me to do so. I had some soup to eat, gaterade and lots of water to get me hydrated and made a warm pile of blankets on the couch to cuddle in while drinking some hot tea. After a bit I fell asleep again and woke up near dark. Do you ever feel like you are having an out of body experience when you are sick, like you are not fully aware of yourself? I felt like that after I woke up. Very bezarr to walk around the house not feeling like yourself. I ate some leftovers for dinner and watched a bit of tv for a little bit, then it was back to bed for more sleep. Sunday, I felt much better. I slept in again still being very tired but at least I wasn't a zombie when I woke up this time. I didn't have a fever for once and felt some of my energy coming back. I spent some time later in the afternoon with my dad and brother at the office working on paperwork, then we went out to dinner which was really nice. I'm not thrilled that I am back to work already but at least I feel like I'm nearly over this cold. The training from hell has begun again this week and next week I have to take over the other job duty for a week. Good news is that we have the week off before Christmas and hopefully the week after from training. I can handle training again after the new year. Hopefully it won't be as stressful then like it was earlier in the fall. Current Mood: sleepy (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
9:14 am	*sigh* Still dealing with sickness. I went home yesterday a bit early from work with more fever. Not a high temp but enouph for my body to say, hey I am still not feeling well and I need more sleep. I did manage to make it though most of the day at work but we havent been too busy as of yet so it's been ok so far. I just hate the feeling of falling asleep in front of the computer while I'm trying to read emails. I keep nodding off and I feel my head dipping and jerking back up when I hear a loud noise from the hall of some sort. Oh well. I'm still couphing a lot also. Yesterday after lunch, I started a couphing fit which I had lots of trouble getting under control and my boss could hear me all the way down the hall and came running in thinking I was choking to death. After lots of water and a couph drop, I was able to breathe again, but this spert seems to happen a couple times a day and at least once at night. Last night I had to sit up in bed for a while to control the latest couphing binge and to let things drain without me trying to lye down and choking again. I hate being sick. This year has just been a very bad year for illness. I feel more miserable this year than I did going through the chemo which is very sad to say. I need to get my depression under control as well. I've been going through spurts of major sadness which have been dragging down my immune system. I'm not surprised I caught a cold last week after the depression fit I had during the week after the pas event. Just another reason why I've been avoiding events lately this fall. Once I can breathe again with out wheezing or a couphing fit, I plan to start walking up at the gym at work. I plan to take a hour and half lunch and walk for an hour up at the gym and then have the 30 minutes for lunch. Hopefully, this will help give that burst to the immune system I need to fight off more depression and illnesses later in the winter. Well, back to work. Some paperwork just came in that needs to be compeleted. Current Mood: tired (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, November 27th, 2006
2:50 pm	I'm heading home early from work today. I'm sick again. It started on Wednesday afternoon of all things and lasted all weekend. I went to the health care at work and found out I have another fever so it's off to the pharmacy for more perscriptions then home to take some of the couph medicine of goodness and pass out in bed. Thanksgiving was a lot of fun despite being sick. I went down to Goldsboro to stay with some friends for the weekend. We spent a nice day with other friends having dinner and good conversation. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I spent quietly with my friends catching up on things gone by, playing some games and working on crafts. We had a bunch of us go out on Saturday night to see the new James Bond film Casino Royale which I thought was pretty good. Yesterday, my friends drove me around the Seymore Johnson Air Force Base (where they live and work for the time being) to look at the new fighter jets that are being stationed there for a few months. It was really cool to see them and the hudge refueling tanker parked nearby. I drove into work this morning with terrible traffic coming on 40 west which I was expecting but it still took me 2 hours to get to work from Goldsboro. Next time I need to budget a bit more time for traveling. Time to head home. I'm so ready for some good rest. Current Mood: sick (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
4:30 pm	I'm doing better mentally. The family went on a trip this past weekend to Biloxi, MS for a few days and I think it helped us all have a nice break from life for a while. ( Trip to Biloxi ) Current Mood: tired (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
11:57 am	I have a meeting this afternoon with my Manager and the Manger of the department. Last time, back in the spring when I had this meeting the news was not good for me. It led to alot of extra worry and strees. So here we go again. Let's see if the Ax is going to fall on me again. Pink slip maybe? We'll see. Current Mood: depressed (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
2:44 pm	Happy, Happy Birthday Dear Brother! Hey Everyone. Tomorrow is my Brother's 30th Birthday! Yep, that's right. My little brother is turning the big 3 0. My Brother is, for those who only know him by one name: Damian le Archer or Eric Klein or island42. Everyone send him an email tomorrow wishing him a happy 30th! Happy 30th Birthday, my dear Brother! Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
Friday, October 6th, 2006
4:24 pm	Suck fest week and beyond Work is being a major suck fest. The more the week went on the more crap got piled on my duty list. I have many deadlines to face over the next few months as well as facing quadrouple amount of work coming in due to it being 4th quarter and we are trying to get the sales in before the end of the year. I finally broke down this afternoon in a friends office which relieved some of the stress of the week. Unfortunately, I can't keep doing that for the next 6 months. I have to find a good way of relieving the stress over the next few months or I am really going to loose it fast. The managers have no common sense, they no idea how much we actually do during the end of the year crunch and the managers are making us OA's feel like we are dirt, stupid and completely ignorant of how things are done in the department never mind that most of the OA's in the department have been doing the work for our department at least 10 years or more. I guess years experience has no meaning to the higher ups in our department since we are the lowest on the totem pole here. If things keep up the way they are, I might have to seriously consider leaving the department and if things don't get better around the institute, leave the company completely. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
4:08 pm	Answers to those books who stumped you. Here are the answers to the 2 that seemed to have stumped everyone. :) Also, the book that has the date of 1907 is Black Beauty. I would like to find someone who deals with old books and have it appraised someday. I wont part with it as it is really a family heirloom but it would be nice to know what it is worth today. It has an old photograph picture of a black horse on the front cover. 5) “It was April in Virginia. The brooks and runs on George Washington’s estate were overflowing in their hurry to join the big Potomac. Pussy Willows along the banks were swollen to plumpness. And everywhere, the woods and meadows were alive with cheeps and chirrings and little feet scampering.” Cinnabar, the One O'clock Fox - Marguerite Henry (one of the few books that Margerite wrote which was not about a horse or equine) 6) “From the pleasantly situated old town of Maienfeld, a footpath leads up through shady green meadows to the foot of the mountains, which, as they gaze down on the valley, present a solemn and majestic picture.” HEIDI - Johanna Spyri (I cant believe that no one recognized this or even guessed. I would have thought it would be obvious since my real name is Heidi and how can I not love the book for which I am named. :P) The ones that you all recognized. 1) “The primroses were over. Toward the edge of the wood, where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond, only a few fading patches of pale yellow still showed among the dog’s mercury and oak tree roots.” Watership Down - Richard Adams / corax_onyx 2) “Not long ago, there lived in London a young married couple of Dalmation dogs named Pongo and Missis Pongo. (Missis had added Pongo’s name to her own on their marriage, but was still called Missis by most people).” The Hundred and One Dalmations - Dodie Smith / harleenquinzell 3) “The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.” Black Beauty - Anna Sewell / corax_onyx 4) “A wild, ringing neigh shrilled up from the hold of the Spanish Galleon. It was not the call of an animal in hunger. It was a terrifying bugle. An alarm call.” Misty of Chincoteague - Marguerite Henry / corax_onyx 7) “I remember the day the Aleut ship came to our Island.” The Island of Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell / harleenquinzell 8) “Miyax pushed back the hood of her sealskin parka and looked at the Artic Sun.” Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George / corax_onyx 9) “Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.” Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder / skippyclese 10) “I am on my mountain in a tree home that people have passed without ever knowing that I am here.” My Side of the Mountian - Jean Craighead George / harleenquinzell Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)