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| 09:47am 24/06/2008 | |||
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I'm failing to keep up with my friends list these days and by the time I get around to reading it it is soooo many pages that I end up skimming most of it. So I have trimmed many of those whose posts I only ever skim, and a few who I couldn't put an idea of the person to the name. If you think I've dropped you by mistake let me know. There may be some who I've been passed the name of by others (like Mistress Fin) that I've forgotten I should know :P. Yours (drowning in half a week of friends posts) Shenya |
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| 08:26am 22/04/2008 | |||
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Ok, so it's been a while, as usual... We had Baronial Anniversary last weekend. My first event as court chamberlain *meep*. I spent much of the time on duty... although, ironically, I didn't stand up behind the thrones for any of the three courts after stepping up. A combination of small courts, others who I thought should have a go and the final court I was going to have to go up and down twice (along with Ginevra) so standing behind their Excelencies was delegated to other court members :) I have officially stepped up as Baronial Webwright ... which means I should get around to updating the site with the new Baronial Champions etc etc. Mistress katherine gave me one of her belts at the event as a stand in for the belt that Mistress Finn is sending over once it is ready. Giving me an external symbol of being a protege :). May Crown is less than 3 weeks away now. I might get the picture I'm doing finished in time :P. I have volunteered to be a Lady in Waiting for it... so that will keep me busy :). I'm also going to be bunking with the Queen *meep* :). But she's nice... it's ok... it's just the concept that's meepy :) and pretty damn cool too :) In other news I'm currently working with an agency who are looking for a part time job for me. We had been thinking about data entry but I broached the idea of filing work... and was grinning at his description of being locked in a basement with the entirety of the file for the public hospital... so that has gone to the top of the list :D And in other other news I've gone and addicted myself to Puzzle Pirates :P (cobalt ocean if anyone is interested). |
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| SCA Laws | |||
| 09:57am 15/03/2008 | |||
For all my fellow SCAdians and thanks to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} elenbarathihttp://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2 |
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| Canterbury Faire | |||
| 02:06pm 13/02/2008 | |||
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Here is my Canterbury Faire post, honest :) ( CF AS XLII ) |
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| 11:53am 17/01/2008 | |||
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Well, I am now sans wisdom teeth. And in about half an hour or so I'll take some panadol (paracetalmol) and see if that's enough to counteract the anesthetics wearing off :P Now I just get to decide whether it's a playing Call to Power day, or a lying down to read or a finding something random to watch... it's just over 30degC out there *sigh* |
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| 06:59pm 16/01/2008 | |||
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I have a friend who has made it to the Semi-Finals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. It is a vampire story that combines Historic and Modern periods, including colonial New Zealand. The competition has the first fifteen pages up for judging and it gets off to an interesting and well-set start here. As a bonus, any US residents that put a review on go in a prize draw *grin*. Go for it guys :) |
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| Preview Thoughts of Upcoming Year | |||
| 07:33pm 01/01/2008 | |||
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I figured I might do a post of things that I can predict about the next year (personally), sort of a combination of goals and just shit that I know is coming up. 'Course now I have to try and remember what I was actually going to put in this post when I thought of doing it initially :P ( Long ramblings through here. Possibly even interesting *grin* ) |
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| An Interesting Start to the New Year | |||
| 06:38pm 01/01/2008 | |||
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Good party last night. I didn't end up doing much dancing but did get the chance to catch up with a few people, new faces and old. Didn't get much sleep. I'm soooo having an early night tonight :P. I just got an early birthday present from Murphy (yeah, the one you're probably thinking of). Wanted to make myself a birthday cake this year. Something rich and decadant that I wouldn't normally make. Couldn't find a recipe online that was the sort I was looking for (very rich, heavy chocolate and almond meal cake) so I ended up deciding that I would have to make something up. And I did. And it just worked! Despite (or maybe because of) having only had a couple of hours sleep so far this year :). It's dark and heavy and soooo moist. It could have done with a little more sweet (sugar or other) but I'll fix that with icing. It also could have done with being in a smaller but very deep tin. But at this point those are amazingly minor details compared to it working first try, from no recipe *grin*. I may make further comments about party etc. later but for now my brain is still processing stuff. Hope everyone else is having a good start to their new year :) *huggles* |
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| St Caths | |||
| 07:13am 04/12/2007 | |||
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St Catherine's Faire was great :) There weren't too many people, although it did still take me a while to settle in and stop being uber-quiet shy person :P By the end of it I was chatting away with at least a few people, although a lot of that was "I'm tired so I can't keep my mouth shut so you get to know practically every thought that passes through my brain". I even got to do flirting/snuggling/kissing for the first time in years. It is very hard for me to tell who it is ok to do things like that with :P It was a shorter event than Canterbury Faire although it didn't feel like it by the end. I got to do so much music that I was musiced out before the last day (and that is impressive, trust me). Partially that was because the hall where dancing/music practices happened was the one my bunkroom came off, so it was somewhere that was central for me. Partially it was because people up there were so very enthusiastic about having live music available, it is nice when that happens, although I do understand that practically always having live music means that people get used to it... but it was a nice boost :). It didn't hurt that I took my viola up, I'm starting to get more confident on it. One new achievement on the music front, I actually managed to conceed that there was a couple of pieces that we just couldn't get up to speed in time for the ball and that they should use the boxed bard. That was hard. Although, during the ball, we did end up, towards the end, telling them we were having a break and putting an additional piece onto the bb. :P Billeting afterwards I got to stay with Mistress Katherine, and that was really good. We have a lot in common. Including, to my surprise, age. She has done so much that I feel so much younger than her :P. We spent most of yesterday talking and that was great. Although it has ended up with me probably wanting to go up for three events next year, partially just because it was so much fun, partially to hang out with Katherine and partially because it might help get some music going up there... not weekly practices or anything like that but more the having different people play one or two dances at each ball, even if they are the only ones they know the music for. Even better if they can choose some dances that they aren't so fond of dancing and play those. Oooo... nearly forgot. I got a knife for a song *grin*. Literally :). It's a beautiful knife, hand made with a shaped bone and ebony handle and a tooled leather sheath :) I traded it for a love-song for his lady that I had written earlier in the afternoon (in about half a hour). What's more it was done by silent bidding and my offer bet the Baron of Ildhafn's offer of armor (the knife maker is a man of peace who didn't know why the Baron was bidding on the knife anyway). I was soooo stoked, I had been thinking that I had been over hopeful bidding on the knife as I had been intending to go for a leather tankard but the knife was just too pretty and tempting. What's even better the maker (Edward Braithewaite) was just as happy with the trade as I was, always the best trade :). If I can get the "I can't believe it's not oils" painting done well over the next year or so I intend to see if I can trade one for one of his tankards, that would even out the time slightly :). You can tell I"m still excited and bouncy, right *grin* In about half an hour I'm heading off to visit my parents for a few days, take them their christmas baking :). So I had better post this, finish my cuppa tea and then go do dishes so that I'll be ready to go. *huggles* |
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| 06:27pm 27/11/2007 | |||
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Weeeee Finished NaNo, with one day to spare in my available time. Got Christmas cake done. It might be a little burnt on the top but doesn't seem too bad. I'm waiting for it to cool properly before bagging. Managed to do an experimental lot of almond biscuits, they started out far too soft, ended up about right on the next tray but they were spreading too much so I added more flour... and ended up with the last two trays being too dry *sigh*. That's what happens when you're making it up as you go :P. Tomorrow is packing to go to St Cath's (camping event in Ildhafn). I'm ending up having to take the dry mix for two lots of pancakes and two loaves of bread. Personally I had been intending to do without fresh bread. Apart from that I'm looking forward to the food, by all accounts the cook is being particularly nice to me :) (I might even get pastry, if I'm really lucky *grin*). *resists a yawn* Apart from that I am kind of stressing about the part where I'm going to my first camping event outside my local barony. I know that there will be plenty of people there that I know but I'm still stressing :P To add to the stress I've been having to fight incursions of ants practically every day *sigh*. I've asked the landlords (who are pretty good, particularly considering that they are the city council) to deal with it but given that I asked only 3 working days before I'll be going away it may well not happen until after I get back. Meanwhile I'm going through fly spray and trying to do a whole bunch more cleaning than usual :P. As a reward tonight I'm having salmon, to celebrate finishing NaNo *grin*. *goes to check on dinner* |
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| 02:32pm 23/11/2007 | |||
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I only have 10,000 words left to go and 5 days plus this afternoon to do them in. In that time I also need to pack for a camping event, practice and play for a ball, make another attempt at jumble-like biscuits, spend an afternoon helping out a friend and her son, and bake a Christmas cake *wibble* Speaking of which, does anyone have a large cake tin that I could borrow? I need a 25cm round tin to bake the Christmas cake in if I'm going to follow the recipe (and I'd rather stick close to the recipe for my first attempt at one). *tries to force self to stop procrastinating and do some more writing* |
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| 02:12pm 20/11/2007 | |||
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Infection caught from slavetopassion *grin* Describe me in one word.... just one single word. Leave it in my comments section. Then post this original message on your journal and see how many strange and interesting things people say about you. |
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| Snippet | |||
| 02:01pm 01/10/2007 | |||
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Here is the start of the snippet for the prompt from meridae (honesty and daffodils). I am stuck on it. Any suggestions from the audience for what comes next would be appreciated (especially from meridae). btw. arabwel I'm not ignoring yours. I've poked at it and it's threatening to be long-ish (and, if I'm really luck and can file off the serial numbers, maybe publishable). So I'll post a good snippet from that once I have a chunk of it written, honest :)( Read more... ) |
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| NaNo | |||
| 07:40am 26/09/2007 | |||
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It's getting close to that time of the year again. The time where I try to figure out if I have two writerly braincells to rub together and produce a story. This is likely to be more of a problem this time round as I've written next to nothing this year. So..... A request to all you out there reading this. Please give me a request, a phrase, a few words or something like that and I'll come up with a scene or short story to go with them. If I'm really lucky one will give me some ideas for my NaNo effort. Pretty please? *puppy dog eyes* |
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| Visiting Auckland | |||
| 09:42pm 23/08/2007 | |||
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I'm going to be up in Auckland for St Caths Faire (weekend of 29 November - 2 December) and I'm going to be at a loose end for the Sunday night. Anyone want a house-guest for one night? *grin* |
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| Question Meme | |||
| 10:41am 10/08/2007 | |||
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Q. Can you cook? A. Q. What was your dream growing up? A. Q. What talent do you wish you had? A. Q. If I bought you a drink what would it be? A. Q. Favorite vegetable? A. Q. What was the last book you read? A. Q. What zodiac sign are you ? A. Q. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? A. Q. Worst Habit? A. Q. If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride? A. Q. What is your favorite sport? A. Q. Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude? A. Q. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me? A. Q. Worst thing to ever happen to you? A. Q. Tell me one weird fact about you: A. Q. Do you have any pets? A. Q. What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly? A. Q. What was your first impression of me? A. Q. Do you think clowns are scary? A. Q. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? A. Q. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience? A. Q. What color eyes do you have? A. Q. Ever been arrested? A. Q. Bottle or Draft? A. Q. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it? A. Q. Would you date me? A. Q. What's your favorite place to hang out? A. Q. Do you believe in ghosts? A. Q. Favorite thing to do in your spare time? A. Q. Do you swear a lot? A. Q. Biggest pet peeve? A. Q. In one word, how would you describe yourself? A. Q. Middle Name? A. Q. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same? A. |
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| 12:05pm 04/08/2007 | ||||
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| Published again | |||
| 10:14am 10/06/2007 | |||
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I've got another story published! The first one that isn't in an anthology :) Paddy and the Wolf. Available in pdf, lit, html and prc for justUS$2.49. When he gets reports of a wolf invading popular public areas of his park, Ranger Paddy heads out to track the animal down. When he finds the wolf he finds far more than an animal, leaving him confused and intrigued. Soon he discovers that his wolf is capable of speech, of learning, and maybe capable of a lot more. The wolf might just be able to teach Paddy something about love. Has Paddy snared just the kind of man he needs? sample: ( 'Cut' to save space :) ) Go and buy a copy, pretty please? (I get an actual royalty for this one, rather than a flat rate *grin*). |
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| Icon Drabble(ish) 5 | |||
| 01:16pm 20/04/2007 | |||
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Another self-appointed drabble from chris_king_2005's icon list (number chosen by Chris).... ( Soooo adult. NWS etc. Involves sex scene with two men, if you don't like that kind of thing don't read it :P ) Chris, time to choose another couple of numbers, 4-40 inclusive (but I'm not doing doubleups :P) |
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| Icon Drabble(ish) 9 | |||
| 04:16pm 19/04/2007 | |||
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Some more of the Icon Drabbles... because it's easier than writing the stuff I know I should be :P ( Read more... ) |
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