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I have to say that last week was a lot of work on the SCA and work front. I did a lot of calligraphy to get things ready for a deadline upcoming and then had a busy weekend. Friday after work I hit the gym and lifted very heavy things. I was tired and angry about things and it helped improve my mood a lot. Got home and mel was the awesomest husband and had made the pasta and chopped the veggies for the pasta salad we were taking to the Hrafn BBQ send of for Mthurin (Derrik). Tuesday he headed to Afghanistan and we wanted to have a good party for him. It was a good time, lots of good food (mel made homemade smoked sausage) and I got to sit next to the BFF and knit.
As awesome as Friday was Saturday was not that way. I woke up after a seneschal performance anxiety dream. I don't even remember what it was about (I did that day) but it shook me into panic for most of the morning and I couldn't shake the feeling of "YOU EFF'd UP!" most of the day. Which is not a great frame of mind to be in when you need to be "ON" and teach a class. Luckily being one of the King's ladies helps when the chamberlain made sure I had coffee. The other not so amusing part of the day was that for as bad as I was doing BFF was also having the same issues and since we share a brain it can be comical to observers. Ivan was very very amused at how bumbling we both were. At least someone thought it funny.
So my class went really well. That helped my mood and sense of "DOOM" but the day was just odd. I got done with my class and got accosted by a few court members saying I was needed for calligraphy help in the ready room. I needed food and then got accosted again while I was getting my sandwich. Sighs. So I headed with my sandwich to the ready room to find Ari slaving away on calligraphy. We needed to get names on scrolls and get text on a few more. I put full text on 2 scrolls and put names on a few too. I was very happy that I got to callig the A0A for Ivan's Student Ariana (Kissa). I personalized the text and that was awesome.
I finished up with calligraphy and I was very very happy that Laura was on site since she watched Benton while I was callig'ing and mel was teaching. He was crashed out when I arrived in the court room and slept for about an hour. He needed way more sleep but was too excited to see people and get to roam around in the grass outside etc.
Court was a bit long but there were some good moments. Benton had us all cracking up in the back when he squealed some gleeful cheer and ran headlong into the window at the side of the hall. It took all of our group to not crack up loudly. No one at the front of court noticed so that was good. By the time we packed up it was almost 7pm and we got home a bit after 8pm. Got Benton a big bottle of formula since he basically skipped dinner and he had a hard time staying awake through it. He was quickly to bed, we had grilled ham and cheese sammiches and then we were shortly in bed as well. Exciting no?
Sunday am was much better than Saturday. I was coherent and sane and slept pretty good. Got things going and picked Ari and Ed up and we headed down to the collegium for the meeting portion. I sat around until the 3 hour seneschal's meeting knitting and having a good time. The seneschal's meeting was really good and informative and that really surprised me. I've done this job for quite a while in the past but there is enough new things that I was very glad to go. I then headed to the southern crusades meeting and that too went way better than I had hoped. We had a good productive meeting and stayed relatively on task. Ari and I headed out after that and hit sonic during "happy hour" and got half price limeades for the drive home. Got home and was happy that mel had dinner going and I ended up cleaning up the front room and getting things organized for Monday after Benton was in bed.
Monday and Tuesday were again just crazy. Monday I managed to hit the gym again (the deadlifts are killing me in a good way) and worked on calligraphy again on Monday night. Southern Scribble all had a "we are done" moment where either our brains and/or hands all stopped working and we packed it up en masse. I was beat by the time everyone left and was asleep very quickly after my shower.
Yesterday I was sitting in my 1pm meeting and my phone rang. Mel had to go pick Benton up for a possible conjunctivitis. He had scheduled the doctor and took him and yes, a mild case but he was also running a fever and was snotty so he was told to stay home and get better. Mel was kind enough to stay home which was awesome.
In other Benton news he's basically out grown most of the shirts he has and I need to go get him the next size above what he's in and lighter weight (summer) jammies.
Today is finishing stuff up before we head out to the retreat. I'm looking forward to seeing everybody and the new babies and getting a chance to spin some more and take classes. Plus Benton will get to play and have a good time with folks. Its gonna be nice minus the 20 hours in the car.
( Pictures of Scrolls and things )
As awesome as Friday was Saturday was not that way. I woke up after a seneschal performance anxiety dream. I don't even remember what it was about (I did that day) but it shook me into panic for most of the morning and I couldn't shake the feeling of "YOU EFF'd UP!" most of the day. Which is not a great frame of mind to be in when you need to be "ON" and teach a class. Luckily being one of the King's ladies helps when the chamberlain made sure I had coffee. The other not so amusing part of the day was that for as bad as I was doing BFF was also having the same issues and since we share a brain it can be comical to observers. Ivan was very very amused at how bumbling we both were. At least someone thought it funny.
So my class went really well. That helped my mood and sense of "DOOM" but the day was just odd. I got done with my class and got accosted by a few court members saying I was needed for calligraphy help in the ready room. I needed food and then got accosted again while I was getting my sandwich. Sighs. So I headed with my sandwich to the ready room to find Ari slaving away on calligraphy. We needed to get names on scrolls and get text on a few more. I put full text on 2 scrolls and put names on a few too. I was very happy that I got to callig the A0A for Ivan's Student Ariana (Kissa). I personalized the text and that was awesome.
I finished up with calligraphy and I was very very happy that Laura was on site since she watched Benton while I was callig'ing and mel was teaching. He was crashed out when I arrived in the court room and slept for about an hour. He needed way more sleep but was too excited to see people and get to roam around in the grass outside etc.
Court was a bit long but there were some good moments. Benton had us all cracking up in the back when he squealed some gleeful cheer and ran headlong into the window at the side of the hall. It took all of our group to not crack up loudly. No one at the front of court noticed so that was good. By the time we packed up it was almost 7pm and we got home a bit after 8pm. Got Benton a big bottle of formula since he basically skipped dinner and he had a hard time staying awake through it. He was quickly to bed, we had grilled ham and cheese sammiches and then we were shortly in bed as well. Exciting no?
Sunday am was much better than Saturday. I was coherent and sane and slept pretty good. Got things going and picked Ari and Ed up and we headed down to the collegium for the meeting portion. I sat around until the 3 hour seneschal's meeting knitting and having a good time. The seneschal's meeting was really good and informative and that really surprised me. I've done this job for quite a while in the past but there is enough new things that I was very glad to go. I then headed to the southern crusades meeting and that too went way better than I had hoped. We had a good productive meeting and stayed relatively on task. Ari and I headed out after that and hit sonic during "happy hour" and got half price limeades for the drive home. Got home and was happy that mel had dinner going and I ended up cleaning up the front room and getting things organized for Monday after Benton was in bed.
Monday and Tuesday were again just crazy. Monday I managed to hit the gym again (the deadlifts are killing me in a good way) and worked on calligraphy again on Monday night. Southern Scribble all had a "we are done" moment where either our brains and/or hands all stopped working and we packed it up en masse. I was beat by the time everyone left and was asleep very quickly after my shower.
Yesterday I was sitting in my 1pm meeting and my phone rang. Mel had to go pick Benton up for a possible conjunctivitis. He had scheduled the doctor and took him and yes, a mild case but he was also running a fever and was snotty so he was told to stay home and get better. Mel was kind enough to stay home which was awesome.
In other Benton news he's basically out grown most of the shirts he has and I need to go get him the next size above what he's in and lighter weight (summer) jammies.
Today is finishing stuff up before we head out to the retreat. I'm looking forward to seeing everybody and the new babies and getting a chance to spin some more and take classes. Plus Benton will get to play and have a good time with folks. Its gonna be nice minus the 20 hours in the car.
( Pictures of Scrolls and things )
