Vermillion has been one giant construction zone this summer. Not only are they building two new buildings to the north and west of the building I work in but they have been tearing up the main street through town and the last three weeks they have been digging various holes in our parking lot. Lucky no one has fallen into a hole yet.
If you haven't seen the trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Check it out!! I can't wait.
In other Harry Potter news, they are going to publish Tales of Beedle the Bard. Yay! Now I need to decided if I want to get the uber cool collectors edition or just a regular copy. Guess I will put it on my Christmas List.
As an afternoon treat here are some pictures of David Tennant as Hamlet. So cute!
To all those going to Pennsic have a good time!!!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Monday loathing since 1882
Ugg the humidity has been oppressive lately. Saturday I was foolish and turned off the air conditioner since it was 69 degrees. I think the humidity was about 69 too which meant a restless nights sleep. Sunday morning turned it back on and life was better.
Most of the weekend was spent putzing around. Family members from around the country have started to arrive to celebrate my gram's birthday this Saturday. We had dinner in the basement at my mom's. So nice and cool down there. She was overly worried about all the "stuff" she has down there. Its not that bad. The majority is confined to the corners and its not like you have to climb over boxes or worry about dumping a pile over. I understand tho. Most of the time when people visit me I feel the same way. I need a sign that says "Pay no attention to my clutter."
Sunday I was lazy and watched 4 movies. The Other Boleyn Girl (mostly meh), The Game Plan(cute and who doesn't want to see the Rock in ballet tights), In Bruges (weird but I now want to visit Belgium) , and Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of control ( amusing. I love Masi Oka)
This week looks to be busy. Lots of work meetings. At least it should make the time go quickly. I am also getting my car checked over. Hopefully that won't be too expensive. *crosses fingers*
Most of the weekend was spent putzing around. Family members from around the country have started to arrive to celebrate my gram's birthday this Saturday. We had dinner in the basement at my mom's. So nice and cool down there. She was overly worried about all the "stuff" she has down there. Its not that bad. The majority is confined to the corners and its not like you have to climb over boxes or worry about dumping a pile over. I understand tho. Most of the time when people visit me I feel the same way. I need a sign that says "Pay no attention to my clutter."
Sunday I was lazy and watched 4 movies. The Other Boleyn Girl (mostly meh), The Game Plan(cute and who doesn't want to see the Rock in ballet tights), In Bruges (weird but I now want to visit Belgium) , and Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of control ( amusing. I love Masi Oka)
This week looks to be busy. Lots of work meetings. At least it should make the time go quickly. I am also getting my car checked over. Hopefully that won't be too expensive. *crosses fingers*
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Be excellent to each other and Party on Dukes
Hagan and I had debated if we wanted to go to WW or not. He has been spending all his extra time working on Cecil's Seige site (Come to Seige in September!) and I have been feeling rather drained lately by all the changes going on at work. Katsuo and Hrodwyn were riding along so would be bad to let them down. I haven't had a chance to run away this summer and I really wanted to see people so off we went. We left on thursday morning. Went down to Hagan's at 10. He still wasn't ready and then we had to go to the barn to pick up a tent and some weapons. We were ready to leave and the van didn't want to start. Hagan got it going and we figured it was because i had very little gas left. Got to SF and picked up Katsuo and Hrodwyn. They were not ready to go either so we didn't leave SF until 1pm. Ate at Fairmount and then turned south at Albert Lea. Hagan had wanted to completely drive through Iowa but neither Hrodwyn or Katsuo had the means to get to Vermillion so we had to pick them up. Hagan was still determined to drive through IA so we did. Wasn't too bad except for spacing out the road closed sign at Charles City and had a 40 minute turn around. I don't remember why we didn't see all the signs. We followed a thunder head most of the way and it rained hard when we got close to the border. I was glad we weren't camping yet. We got to site around 8. We had missed the big storm so yay for that. Camped on the cemetery side of the park. Duncan warned us about getting soaked by zombie juice. We had curbs to protect us so no worries there. Found Fiona and Thora. They were camped on the hillside near porta potties. We decided to camp with them since we couldn't find the people Hagan had planned to camp with. Nice tho being so close to the bathroom. Hagan liked it since we could park the van next to camp. Got set up and then wandered a bit. I ended up hanging out at bardic circle. That was fun and we got song books and cool little clip lights from Ingus. I used it as my tent light for the weekend since i bought the wrong size of batteries for my lantern and then never made it to the dollar store to get the right kind.
Friday got up and first thing i did was slam my pinky in the door jam of the porta pottie. I was not awake enough because I didn't scream or say anything when it happened. Calmly examined it and then used the awesome hand washing stations( I wish they had those at every camping event, so nice) to clean the cut, found my anti bacterial cream and band aids an patched myself up. Hung around camp until my class time. Went to the beginning Nalbinding class. Gah its hard. Not sure if i will keep practicing or consider it something that i just don't get. Probably keep trying for a bit. After that I ran in to Ainsleah and walked back with her to visit the Gnome World Gang. Hung out there for awhile and helped count cash for troll and had a root beer float when they came to camp. After that poke through the merchants and ended up hanging out at Caillie and John's booth for awhile. Headed back to camp and everyone was going swimming. I was tired so rested in camp until they came back. Thora had made us buffalo steaks which were yummy but we were all still hungry so we went to A&W. They still had the phone you order from. Cool. We ate quick and headed back since hagan had a Shadow's company meeting. Hrodwyn and I went to the Bad Baroness tourney and that was fun. Katsuo got second place. Slowly headed back to camp. So hot that night. It was forcast to storm so battened things down and traded my dress for a t-shirt. too hot to wear garb! Sat in the grass until the wind came up and then went to bed before the rain. My tent was set up kind of strange but it stayed up in the rain and kept everything dry. Yay dry tent.
Saturday was a nice day. Watched fighting and visited with people all day. Very enjoyable. It was a bit warm in the sun but in the shade it was very nice. Late afternoon I hung out with Fiona as she wrapped up the Silent Auction and then hung around until Court. After court we were going to go downtown for supper but everything was mostly closed so back to A&W. Was fun since a bunch of SCA people were there. I was pooped after we ate and went to bed right away. I didn't feel like I had the energy to do anything more.
Trip home was nice. Windy but good. When we got to La Crosse a guy on a motorcycle told us the gas hatch was open and the lid was gone. We had heard a thunking noise when we left Boscobel but couldn't figure out what the noise was. I was kind of unhappy about that. We stopped for lunch then and for some reason I looked on the roof and there was the gas lid. Thank you luggage rack! I can't believe it stayed up there for that long. We got to SF around 5 and we went to see HellBoy 2. Awesome. Would have enjoyed it more if was awake.
Monday I slept in, did laundry, and watched Dr Who. Thank goodness I took an the extra day off.
Still not really awake today but not a lot happened while I was gone so not a lot to catch up on.
Not sure what is going on this week. Looks to be hot. I am hoping to tackle my closet project. Hopefully I can ditch old clothes and make better use of my space.
Friday got up and first thing i did was slam my pinky in the door jam of the porta pottie. I was not awake enough because I didn't scream or say anything when it happened. Calmly examined it and then used the awesome hand washing stations( I wish they had those at every camping event, so nice) to clean the cut, found my anti bacterial cream and band aids an patched myself up. Hung around camp until my class time. Went to the beginning Nalbinding class. Gah its hard. Not sure if i will keep practicing or consider it something that i just don't get. Probably keep trying for a bit. After that I ran in to Ainsleah and walked back with her to visit the Gnome World Gang. Hung out there for awhile and helped count cash for troll and had a root beer float when they came to camp. After that poke through the merchants and ended up hanging out at Caillie and John's booth for awhile. Headed back to camp and everyone was going swimming. I was tired so rested in camp until they came back. Thora had made us buffalo steaks which were yummy but we were all still hungry so we went to A&W. They still had the phone you order from. Cool. We ate quick and headed back since hagan had a Shadow's company meeting. Hrodwyn and I went to the Bad Baroness tourney and that was fun. Katsuo got second place. Slowly headed back to camp. So hot that night. It was forcast to storm so battened things down and traded my dress for a t-shirt. too hot to wear garb! Sat in the grass until the wind came up and then went to bed before the rain. My tent was set up kind of strange but it stayed up in the rain and kept everything dry. Yay dry tent.
Saturday was a nice day. Watched fighting and visited with people all day. Very enjoyable. It was a bit warm in the sun but in the shade it was very nice. Late afternoon I hung out with Fiona as she wrapped up the Silent Auction and then hung around until Court. After court we were going to go downtown for supper but everything was mostly closed so back to A&W. Was fun since a bunch of SCA people were there. I was pooped after we ate and went to bed right away. I didn't feel like I had the energy to do anything more.
Trip home was nice. Windy but good. When we got to La Crosse a guy on a motorcycle told us the gas hatch was open and the lid was gone. We had heard a thunking noise when we left Boscobel but couldn't figure out what the noise was. I was kind of unhappy about that. We stopped for lunch then and for some reason I looked on the roof and there was the gas lid. Thank you luggage rack! I can't believe it stayed up there for that long. We got to SF around 5 and we went to see HellBoy 2. Awesome. Would have enjoyed it more if was awake.
Monday I slept in, did laundry, and watched Dr Who. Thank goodness I took an the extra day off.
Still not really awake today but not a lot happened while I was gone so not a lot to catch up on.
Not sure what is going on this week. Looks to be hot. I am hoping to tackle my closet project. Hopefully I can ditch old clothes and make better use of my space.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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