KWAR

KWAR was a lot of fun but it sure went in a hurry. We got up to the Cities about 10:30 -11. We had a good drive up. It was cold but nice drive. Got the hotel and unloaded. Ran into Super Dave right away who helped us unload. Turned out he was in the room right next to ours. He was sharing a room with Uncle Dave, Julio and Bron. Got settled and headed down to the party that was kind of winding down. Lots of people didn't recognize Hagan and I right away without our hats and garb so that was kind of funny to see their reactions. I can't remember what time hotel security came to tell us to break it up but at that point I needed to go to bed.

Saturday morning we got ready and headed down. Nailz showed up when we were signing in at troll so went back to the room with her so she could change. Milled about a bit and visited and then the day was absconded by baronial meetings. We are deciding who gets to be the next Baronage of Nordskogen so we got a whole lot of information on that and met will all the candidates. I think it went pretty well. My brain was pretty full by the end of it and I probably could have used a nap before court but there wasn't time. Sir Tom was kind enough to go out in the snow and get us lunch. As Hagan says Sir Tom is the bomb.

Court was a rather impromptu affair but everyone was enthusiastic about the awards we gave out.

That got over and I hung out and let my brain absorb all the info of the day. Visited with people a bit too. Around 6 the Oakshott Collection was about to open but I was too tired to really enjoy it so went back to the room to change since we were going out to dinner after everyone saw it.

Got changed and everyone was back. There was a big line so they decided to wait until after dinner. So headed out to dinner. The snow was very light at the time but we did have to spend about 20 minutes digging out the van and trying to get the side door to open. It freezes shut rather easily. But we got everyone in and headed off to the Atlantic Chinese Buffet. V. good. mmmm.

Made it back with no fender benders. Yay and then hung out in the room for awhile while the boys went to the hot tub. Went down for Rigo's birthday party. Much silliness was had. Not as much as they had in Rigo's room, which was broken up by hotel security.

Sunday we headed out. I-35 was somewhat icy. We passed about 3 accidents and there were various cars in ditches and tracks that showed where previous cars had gone in the ditch. 90 was better in some spots but someone cranked the wind up and it was bitter cold when we stopped. Was glad to make it home with little trouble.

Hopefully we will have good weather traveling to Boar's Head.

Dudes!

Hey its been a while since I blogged. Thanksgiving was good. Filled with food and friends. No lefse but there will be some for Christmas. Yay!

Would write more but no time lately. Both jobs have me running, running. Might write later this week to talk about KWAR.

In the meantime enjoy this Doctor Who Web comic. Its awesome. It has all the Doctors in it.

Turkey thoughts

Ah the blessed time for turkey and all the trimmings. Cannot wait. The only thing that would make it perfect would be a batch of lefse but I know my mom didn't have time to make any. :-( I am sure she will make some for Christmas. Something to look forward to.

I hope everyone has a good holiday. I plan to spend time with friends and not think about work or SCA. Angi is going to be in town so I can't wait to see her. Saturday I am planning on going to SF to see Enchanted with Rue and her daughter. She is not usually up for girlie movies so that should be fun. Maybe hit Coldstone. mmmm

Its odd what you find on the internet. Check out this doofy hat. You can buy them from some boutique in NY for 135 bucks. I am sure you could make one, if you are into figuring out patterns, for much cheaper.

TOC

TOC was a rousing success. I think there must have been at least 30-40 some fighters there. Maybe more. I didn't really count but it was nice to see such a large turn out. Everyone seemed to be having a great time teaching and/or learning.

I drove up by myself on Saturday morning. Its only a two hour drive to Mitchell and not like I needed to be there early. Felt really strange going to an event by myself. Its been awhile since I have done that.

Spent most of the day visiting, hanging out and watching some of the fighting. Tom made extra good onion pottage for lunch. I think it is the best he has ever made. So yummy. Late in the afternoon we had court and a round table chiv meeting. I think many positive things came out of this event.

After everyone got packed up and site cleaned up, a bunch of us headed off to Chef Louis Steak House. My steak was awesome but much bigger than I could finish. Not a big problem since Hagan was happy to finish it for me.

After that we went back to the hotel to relax and have fun. I spent some of the night opening beers for Steelbender since he had some trouble with the twist tops. ;-) We stayed up way to late and got up too early. Curse my internal clock. It was nice to get home early so I could nap on the couch the rest of the afternoon.

Three days

Three days off! Can you believe it! Three days where I can do what I want. Or not do which is the nice part. Yay! Which is good cuz things have been hell on wheels this week. Ai ya. Irritation levels have reached critical mass. All of this work related. meh. Thankfully I don't have to take work home with me. Work stays at work. To bad the crankiness does not. Its getting better tho.

Not sure what is on the agenda for the weekend. Should pick up and organize stuff, clean and maybe do some sewing. Also need to do some SCA paperwork. I wish there was something good playing at the movies. Would be nice to go see something. Haven't done that in ages.

Happy Birthday to His Maj!

Today is Hagan's birthday! Happy Birthday Majesty!

St. Kates

Saturday was St. Kates. I tend to go to it every year but I think the events you usually go to are the ones where it seems the strangest to be royalty. I had a good time tho. We loaded up on Saturday and headed out. We stopped at Medb's to pick up a scroll and then eat breakfast. Breakfast at Grandma Max's - mission status...failed. It was okay but I think we will give it a miss next time. I don't understand because when I ate dinner there it was good. I guess I should have ordered the egg special like Sarah.

Made it to Volga around 11 and found out that they weren't having it at the usual place. Instead it was at the auditorium which I thought was torn down. Apparently not. Felt kind of strange being back there but good too. Got unloaded and dressed. All the fighters were getting geared up to go outside to do their thing. Tarrach was teaching a weaving class so I sat in on that. I think I could handle the c-clamp loom. Warping it seems easy. You just go round and round and leave a card every time you go around. The main thing that keeps me from weaving anything is the warping process. I am not sure if I have the patience to warp.

After that tried to watch the fighting but the wind was just too cold to sit out there so went back in. Lu had another one of her seconds yarn that needed unraveling so that took up most of the afternoon. By the time we got done with that it was time to get ready for Court. We had fun giving Chuck his Lord cubed award before giving him his Tyr. Lu had made some little femo tacos to give out so I got to give out tacos for the first time. Thought it would be okay since Hagan wasn't there.

Feast was good as usual. Everything was really tasty especially the dates with cream cheese. Every year at St. Kates they hand out rondels which are notes that ask to tell a story or do something funny. Storm's puppet show was the highlight. I hope the guys post it online soon. So funny. After feast they set up the plague rat shoot. Everyone had fun with that.

Next up: TOC.