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Wacky hot weekend.....
Sep. 13th, 2021 11:39 am I had a 3 day work week followed by a 3 day weekend....so that was nice. Friday I managed to finally slay the laundry hydra and put everything away! We also pre-packed for the event on Saturday and since it was just us for heads of house going we had a bit to pack. With changes with Parks and rec we had to do Pop-up palooza to get things set and well, we tried to not look like ass. I had a wonderful 1.5 hour massage and had managed to do strength club and HIIT this week for 2 days. Saturday we got up early and got things going. Benton was an absolute PITA while we were packing up. We had to keep kicking him out of places we needed to be. I think he was sad he wasn't going but he was going to hang with Skyler and play in the pool. Honestly , he had more fun and was cooler.
So I mixed up 2 gallons of margaritas, two 5 gallon coolers of icewater for our crewe. It was about 103-104 without any breeze..Ugh. But it is what it is and we had an event. We got to see lovely people get awards, I did not craft...I was too hot to think of yarn. I only took a few photos...it was just too hot. I spoke for Sam with Ivan as Laurel. Her Pelican ceremony was nice and funny and not too long. Me and Mingo and Mel were at the back and some of the last to speak...it was fun. Count Thomas became a Lamp of Ysgithr and Sir Wolgrim was made premier of the Baron's Tusk (baron's thank you). So good day for Hrafnheim...but once court was done everyone started packing up and we were off site by 2ish. Got home and unloaded. I peeled down to my shift since it was so hot and I was covered....all good. Got showers and hung out with Wander and Jackie for the rest of the afternoon. We got wings from Wings over Broadway (place next to my gym) and had a really nice night. I went to bed at 945pm I was done. I slept for over 10 hours.
Sunday we got up and had coffee and then got a few things off the house to do list. We had bought new wall sconces and the outdoor light. And like any home improvement process I ended up having to mod one of the brackets. Now if I'd been smart I'd have gone out to the shop and used the Foredom but I forgot we had it. So I used a hand crank drill and a metal file. It worked just took me a bit. The porch light was hot wired so it can't be turned off...which honestly, isn't a big deal just caught us by surprise. The old light had a sensor for on and off so we think our former friend who did that work just hot wired it so we could control the carport lights separately. Its an LED and barely uses any power so I'm not concerned with it being on all of the time. With that done we got the mess of boxes and styrofoam cleared out of the front room, I brushed cats cause OHBOY did they need that and then I decluttered the entire front room minus Mel's desk area. I then figured out our unused folding dinning chairs can fit two inside the closed gateleg table and the other three got put under the piano since I cleaned that all out. Mel took the work monitor we didn't use back to work today and that freed up a bunch of space. Then I vacuumed and straightened up and reframed our Thegn and Bannethegn scroll. So on the 29th when Elena comes to clean she can do the dusting and deep cleaning work. YAY!
I was tired after that and we had dinner and then I tackled my craft crap that had accumulated by the side of the couch. I got it all yarn put where it needed to go. only have the active projects in my basket and moved a tote to my studio. I found once ball of yarn the moths got to and they had shredded it. So Its okay. I made the hat with that yarn and that was the leftovers and an okay sacrifice. After I got that all settled I sat down to crochet on my shawl while mel wove and we are now 3/4 of the way through season 3 of clone wars. Our goal is to get that finished up here in the next few weeks. I also finished the 15th book of 2021 which was Tempting Danger by Eileen Wilkes. I had read this and the next one before now but I'm rereading them so I can read the next 3 in the series....but tomorrow the latest October Daye book hits my Kindle App so we shall see what I start reading tonight.
I have the scroll commission for the knight scrolll to finish and I hope it cools down enough for me to work on that soon. I hope to do that a bit this weekend but I may drag it indoors to add the text in sharpie first before I go back to carving. Its Runes so not difficult except yanno, carving it. But that is the last thing to do. I think I will bring it in tonight so I can get the text on and then get carving slowly over the weekend. I really want it done before coronation. It was super nice to have the house looking good. It makes the brain weasels happy.
Well back to the slog.
So I mixed up 2 gallons of margaritas, two 5 gallon coolers of icewater for our crewe. It was about 103-104 without any breeze..Ugh. But it is what it is and we had an event. We got to see lovely people get awards, I did not craft...I was too hot to think of yarn. I only took a few photos...it was just too hot. I spoke for Sam with Ivan as Laurel. Her Pelican ceremony was nice and funny and not too long. Me and Mingo and Mel were at the back and some of the last to speak...it was fun. Count Thomas became a Lamp of Ysgithr and Sir Wolgrim was made premier of the Baron's Tusk (baron's thank you). So good day for Hrafnheim...but once court was done everyone started packing up and we were off site by 2ish. Got home and unloaded. I peeled down to my shift since it was so hot and I was covered....all good. Got showers and hung out with Wander and Jackie for the rest of the afternoon. We got wings from Wings over Broadway (place next to my gym) and had a really nice night. I went to bed at 945pm I was done. I slept for over 10 hours.
Sunday we got up and had coffee and then got a few things off the house to do list. We had bought new wall sconces and the outdoor light. And like any home improvement process I ended up having to mod one of the brackets. Now if I'd been smart I'd have gone out to the shop and used the Foredom but I forgot we had it. So I used a hand crank drill and a metal file. It worked just took me a bit. The porch light was hot wired so it can't be turned off...which honestly, isn't a big deal just caught us by surprise. The old light had a sensor for on and off so we think our former friend who did that work just hot wired it so we could control the carport lights separately. Its an LED and barely uses any power so I'm not concerned with it being on all of the time. With that done we got the mess of boxes and styrofoam cleared out of the front room, I brushed cats cause OHBOY did they need that and then I decluttered the entire front room minus Mel's desk area. I then figured out our unused folding dinning chairs can fit two inside the closed gateleg table and the other three got put under the piano since I cleaned that all out. Mel took the work monitor we didn't use back to work today and that freed up a bunch of space. Then I vacuumed and straightened up and reframed our Thegn and Bannethegn scroll. So on the 29th when Elena comes to clean she can do the dusting and deep cleaning work. YAY!
I was tired after that and we had dinner and then I tackled my craft crap that had accumulated by the side of the couch. I got it all yarn put where it needed to go. only have the active projects in my basket and moved a tote to my studio. I found once ball of yarn the moths got to and they had shredded it. So Its okay. I made the hat with that yarn and that was the leftovers and an okay sacrifice. After I got that all settled I sat down to crochet on my shawl while mel wove and we are now 3/4 of the way through season 3 of clone wars. Our goal is to get that finished up here in the next few weeks. I also finished the 15th book of 2021 which was Tempting Danger by Eileen Wilkes. I had read this and the next one before now but I'm rereading them so I can read the next 3 in the series....but tomorrow the latest October Daye book hits my Kindle App so we shall see what I start reading tonight.
I have the scroll commission for the knight scrolll to finish and I hope it cools down enough for me to work on that soon. I hope to do that a bit this weekend but I may drag it indoors to add the text in sharpie first before I go back to carving. Its Runes so not difficult except yanno, carving it. But that is the last thing to do. I think I will bring it in tonight so I can get the text on and then get carving slowly over the weekend. I really want it done before coronation. It was super nice to have the house looking good. It makes the brain weasels happy.
Well back to the slog.
