Absentminded · Rambles

So, besides the music stuff going on in my life.

We have put in a notice to move out by the 30 of this month and still don't have a place to move too. My kid was in the paper, it was a rather cute pick of him at the famers Market with me. Oh yeah. I work for a farm at a few markets around town, one thats twice a week downtown and one thats in the east valley. I love gettting all the fresh produce that I want for free. :P

I have started writing again. I think most of that is from Cairisrin and her book endevor. SHe has greatly inspired me. So, I am working on a book of poetry. I have also been working alot on arranging music for the group.

The only other interesting stuff in my life happens on line. Otherhalf and I spend a lot of time in EQ2, it is cheaper then going out and right now we need that. Hopfully in the new year we will have a new place to live, he will have a new job, and my music stuff will be going good. I am looking forward to doing private lesssons again. :)

So I am putting out word that I am starting a music group. And I am looking for a few more musican types to fill it out. If you know anyone that meets the following, and are interested, please have them contact me. :)

1. (And most important) FEMALE!
2. Have a love of music
3. Live in the phoenix area. (so far we range from Far east valley to Metro center)

You may contact me at auroradannoncee at yahoo dot com. Then I can give you more info about the actual group its self and see if you are further interested. :)

Ah it as so wonder full. NOT! The one good thing is as of this minute I have had a good five hours of sleep. Why, do you ask is that a good thing? Because in the last week and a half I had maybe two hours of scattered sleep. Insomnia sucks! And whats worse I didn't get anything done. I didn't work on cleaning my kitchen, well ok I tried.  That wasn't going to happen. I tried a few times to get some dishes done, but I broke plates and gave my self a few heart attacks after dropping just about everything in sight. I even got my self banished from the kitchen at one point by OH. (He had just opened a nice good sized bottle of sweet relish and some how I missed the counter, or maybe I hit the counter, and said bottle ended up shattering at my feet. After the three tries to clean it up I gave up and went to the bathroom and proceeded to pick glass out of my ankles.) After all of that I decided that it wasn't worth trying to clean to perfection right now. I am taking the 'clean what I need at the moment' route. (I really miss having a dishwasher!)

I tried to get some writing done. I have done very little. The good part is that my forced exile to the couch (The place where I can conceivably do the least damage) has left me with lots of introspective time. In other words I have been plotting and planning. And I have been putting on my mask and cape of research girl extraodinaire. (Did you know that the Salem witch trials were nothing compared to the atrocities that were inflicted upon people that lived in the germany area?) So at the moment I have a little Fanfic done, almost finished with another one, both of them being short one shots. I have a longer one in the works and I am working on an original (Hence most of the research). I am also attempting to keep up with the writing of my poetry. I am excited for Friday as cairisrinand I are going on an all day adventure of hitting used books stores! I love days like that. 

Samhain was good. Orion looked really cute as a pirate. Got some decent candy before getting way too tired. But gave me a preview for next year, not sure if I will be able to keep up then. He tried so hard to keep up with the older kids. At least a good time was had by all. I have pictures but stil trying to get OH to find the program to download them from camera into my computer (It may take another year).

Happy New year to those it is. Now its the long haul of introspective until Yule!

So a good friend of mine is moving to Okinawa to teach our militaries' children. (Its really a little more involved, she's an early intervetionist, which means newborn to 3 special ed. Basically). She had a 3 year old dog that needs a home. We had been talking about getting a dog. So after a few questions about her and what not we have decided to take her. She has come with the name Ella but the kiddo thinks he wants to call her either dog or Lola (From disney's Charlie and Lola) He briefly thought about Lilo but decided he couldn't say it well enough. As soon as she walked in the door kiddo asked if she was his. We said yes. Kiddo immediatly to hold of the leash and he and the dog went outside to play. Then when anyone was near he said my doggie. 

Later that evening we had to go out to the going away party for said friend. At the house with the party there was 2 doggies as well. Kiddo was happyily playing with them forr a little bit then asked to go to home to his doggie.

ITs funny even though we have 2 cats in the house you can tell that we are all dog people. We are having a little trouble with the cats, but nothing to terrible. One fight was kind of my fault for letting the dog in the bedroom, which is the cats sanctuary. All was ok until She, the dog, went to lay down in the closet. Bad move for Tigger. Thats one of His spots. So an almost asleep me had to break up the fight and put up the baby gate to kept the dog out of the room. Figured the dog can have free run of kiddo's room since the cats aren't aloud.

hum, I have never taken any for of sewing lessons ever. And I am really thinking about doing it so I can learn some techniques that I jsut can't seem to get from a book.

The first thing I ever made was a renassiance over skirt. It was out of a blue uphoulstery material. Strangly my mother said she would help me, but I got started with out her. She came out of her room and was angery because I had it half done and I was pinning the pleats. I was eyeballing it and she told me it would be way off. IT was only 1/8th of an inch off. The first cast day I got a lot of compilments on that skirt, jsut not the rest of the outfit. :P I still have and love that skirt. Not that I wear anymore. :P

I agree that drafting patterns is fun. And its just better when you can't find anything good enough for what you are trying to do.

I utterly cheated makeing some performance costumes for my trio. I made all three gowns in two days. (Once our scanner is working I will post a pic of all three.) They looked it, but we were on stage mostly. :P And strangly we got a lot of complimetns on them.

When making renassiance bodices I absolutly love to make them reversable. ITs another cheat I like to use. Gives them more stability, and gives me more variety to choose from.

I did not finish a costume on time that was needed for stage, so I sewed my self into it. I really hated waiting for some one to cut me out of it.

I have had half of a renaissance costume stolen. And it was the bottom half. I stil have the reversable bodice that went with it.

THREE THINGS TO THINK ABOUT:

1. COWS

2. THE CONSTITUTION, and

3. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give them all a cow.

THE CONSTITUTION
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq.
Why don't we just give them ours?
It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 Years and we're not using it anymore.

TEN COMMANDMENTS
The real Reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a Courthouse........
You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery" And "Thou Shall Not Lie"
in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians --
It creates a hostile work environment.

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nothing much to report. Went out and had a great time with some friends last night and say MI3. I really enjoyed it. And had a lot of fun talking with them. Its been too long.

My allergies are horrendous today. And its making me tired and I really don't want to do anything. And I really want to take a benadryl but I know that will make things worse. Though with it being almost nap time I just might and lay down to take a nap as well. But I have at least washed most of my dishes and started laundry. Though I have put that on hold because of the wasps. There are 3 of them buzzing around in the laundry room. When it gets cool tonight I will finish that.

So things have been interesting the last few days. I made my first MK order last night. And then today some one who made a $200 order decided to cancel it until the end of May. So I don't know what to do now. I'm waiting for my director to call me.

Otherwise things have been pretty good. When I was at Melanie's doing a MK party I stepped onto her digital scale and I found out that I have lost 10 pounds. So that has me happy. And when I did some grocery shopping last night I bought a lot of good foods for me to snack on, since that is one of my greatest vises. And I also got a lot of chicken and tuna.