The weekend that was...

[ianuk]

Well, that was a very, very productive weekend..just not as productive as I needed it to be but I'm okay with that...it just means less sleep this week. Friday night I got home from work a 5pm...much later than planned but I got errands ran, sushi delivered, projects picked up, a hood worked on some more and then got dolled up for our anniversary dinner. Mel was about 1.5 hours later than I had hoped but it gave me an hour to "chill" and not move for once that week. We headed out and made it to the My Big Fat Greek Restaurant by 9pm. The food was faboo but since they are opening another restaurant on our side of town their liquor license is in review meaning they can't serve any. Sighs. We had a good time and came home exhausted from the week and very soon went to bed.

Saturday morning dawned bright and shiney and we got up in good order, packed the car, got gas and donuts and headed to site for cleanup. Mel was faboo and let me sew to and from the cleanup. Cleanup was good...many new things on site like a site steward and the trash wasn't too bad. The boys got to be manly and put up a barricade and school kids were running amok on a picnic. All good. dqbunny surprised the heck out of us with a nummy Nigella's Guinness Chocolate Cake. Seriously, didn't expect that at all. Wow! And it was NUMMY!! Then we drove home (I sewed) and we stopped off at the new Wine and More and got some booze....very cool store. Then we headed home and got showered, changed and then headed out to Mon's Masked Revel. I sewed and almost finished up the tunic hem before we lost light. Had a very nice time, good food and good conversation while at the event. We got our second surprise of an chocolate orange gonache cake with tons of roses on it for our anniversary. Wow again! Plus we got some silk/morino wool as a prezzie too! Such luv, seriously overwhelming. We stayed about an hour later than we should and on the way home blew a tire. Yup. But in 10 mins we were back on the road. Got home and were exhausted from the day...wow.

We slept in for quite a while on Sunday. We both needed it and it was such good sleeping weather...cool in the house, warm blankets and snugly cats. Got going and out the door for joe's about 9am, had a good breakfast, picked up some scrips at walgreens and then home. I go things organized for my day and mel headed off to paint the war walls. I headed off to music practice. It was an okay practice. I just need more practice. Its been a bit since I played and well, when I keep switching clefs it gets me confused. But I have it now and just need to practice. Have 2 rehearsals set up for Tuesday and Wednesday so we should be good. Then I got home, finished Walrick's tunic finish work as seen at scribe_ari's journal. I'm just doing finish work on all of the clothes so not a lot of work but its helpful to Ari. I got that done, put facing in my lacing areas of my dress except the sleeves cause I still didn't get that and then headed off to drop of the tunic and then head to lferion's place for buttonhole goodness. We chatted quite a bit and got all of the buttonholes done...though we had to repair a few since I was dumb with the seam ripper. We got delivery chinese and it was good. Then I headed home to find my house full of boys drinking and eating chinese (guess we were all on the same wavelength).

zippydclown had been over a bunch in the last week working on stuff for coronation in the shop. Well, he and zephyr had finished work, mel had come home and richard had come over and they were having a good time. I joined in with a beer and then we kicked folks out about 11pm. Sighs, we'd been to bed on time all weekend...oops. Anyhoo, slept great and woke up and looked at the clock and realized that the alarm hadn't gone off and it was 630am. Ooops. Got up, got cars switched (mel gets to drive on the donut and handle all of the tire stuff this week for the car and the trailer). I got to drive the truck some more and I've missed her. Seriously. I'm amused this AM by the Undead journal. Its fun. But other than that its gonna be a hard week of work at home and here. Sighs. I'll post the to do list after I get back from my meetings.


1) Repad helmet (Monday)
2) Finish Cygils and Cyphers (Monday)
3) Practice music a lot (all week)
4.0) BUY GOLD BUTTONS CAUSE I HAVE THE DUMB!!!
4.5) Sew on 22 buttons on Cote
5) Sew 1 button and 1 loop on hood
6) Hem hood
7) Finish trim hem and neckline cote
8) Finish hand tack on facings sleeves
9) Finish work on Cecilia's Cote
10) Pack gift basket for Phelan and Amirah
11) Clean my house
12) arrange crash space in phx
13) Pack car for coronation
14) Get IKEA to buy list
15) Make sure mel gets the trailer taken care of (tires and electrical)
16) See if richarddbrewer can work on the electrical on the trailer in his broken condition...or at least direct someone to work on it.
17) Not go insane.
18) Get BLUE FABRIC AT HANCOCKs TO GIVE TO ADALIZE!!!
19) Buy Plane Tickets to Atlantia for holidays. Confirm stuff with argent_lupin and fibergeek