Absentminded Rambles

Other life happenings

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:05:57 GMT

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. :)

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:56:48 GMT

Warning, here in lies a rant and rambles. If you want a reason for the post jump all the way down to the PS. :) Thank you.

Wow, I can really have my stupid moments. And to most of the outside world this would be one of them. To those who understand costuming you will understand.

For the last ten years I have been dreaming about a musical group that has nine women. Yes you heard me right. Nine women. The premise of this group was to get me not only back into playing my music, but to also get me back into playing at Renfaires and the like. I love performing and I really missed it. I finally have the opportunity to get started with this group and now I have come to the great and wonderful task of creating the costume.

A little about the group. We are called the Pierides. If you remember any of your greek mythology you will certianly remember the Muses. The lovely and wonderful nine sisters, who could turn terrible in the face of an idiot that tried to challenge them. There are stories of people being turned blind and deaf after losing horribly to the Muses. Orignially I actually thought about calling the group the muses, but after googling it a few times I realized that it had been used way to much lately. So I dug a little deeper and found this other group of sisters. They were the daughters of a wealthy king who constantly boasted about his daughters ability, (I have his name written somewhere...) It came to the Muses attention. Now here the story gets a little fuzzy, but basically the daughters lose and the Muses taking pity on them turned them in to birds. (Part of how the worlds birds came about mythos.)

So I have taken this story and compounded on it. Basically, I have stated that The Muses think that the world is losing its creativity and the Muses have asked us to help spread more of it through out the world.

I have to state now that I am not going for historical accuracy, but something that could pass at a renfaire or at a wedding. I have been knee deep in trying to come up with good designs and trying maybe not please everyone in the group, but at least hear what they all have to say.

My original idea was to have 9 renassiance period costumes that were basically identical, but each one would be its own monochromatic color. Someday I still want to work with these costumes. But today, we are all poor and half of use have families to support or stay at home moms. So, it needs to be cheapish, versital, and have a high wear, cause we live in the desert and faire season hits 100F +.

I have narrowed things down to just three colors. Burgandy, green and blue. I would prefer to use a real red as that would have been more greek, but our royalty wears that and I didn't want to have confruntations there.

Then sadly after much research so far the best basic style pattern that I have found is a regency dress. I will have to modify a lot of the pattern, but I think it will look good. And will have the almost timeless look I am going for.

I finally found one really good linen store to buy the fabric I want online. The next two issues are that I have to change the burgandy color to this almost plum color (I happen to really like it). Adn that everyone in the group is to afraid that white linen is going to be too see though to wear as an underdress. So I am off again to find a different fabic that everyone else wont dig their heels in against.

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:58:21 GMT

Warning, here in lies a rant and rambles. If you want a reason for the post jump all the way down to the PS. :) Thank you.

Wow, I can really have my stupid moments. And to most of the outside world this would be one of them. To those who understand costuming you will understand.

For the last ten years I have been dreaming about a musical group that has nine women. Yes you heard me right. Nine women. The premise of this group was to get me not only back into playing my music, but to also get me back into playing at Renfaires and the like. I love performing and I really missed it. I finally have the opportunity to get started with this group and now I have come to the great and wonderful task of creating the costume.

A little about the group. We are called the Pierides. If you remember any of your greek mythology you will certianly remember the Muses. The lovely and wonderful nine sisters, who could turn terrible in the face of an idiot that tried to challenge them. There are stories of people being turned blind and deaf after losing horribly to the Muses. Orignially I actually thought about calling the group the muses, but after googling it a few times I realized that it had been used way to much lately. So I dug a little deeper and found this other group of sisters. They were the daughters of a wealthy king who constantly boasted about his daughters ability, (I have his name written somewhere...) It came to the Muses attention. Now here the story gets a little fuzzy, but basically the daughters lose and the Muses taking pity on them turned them in to birds. (Part of how the worlds birds came about mythos.)

So I have taken this story and compounded on it. Basically, I have stated that The Muses think that the world is losing its creativity and the Muses have asked us to help spread more of it through out the world.

I have to state now that I am not going for historical accuracy, but something that could pass at a renfaire or at a wedding. I have been knee deep in trying to come up with good designs and trying maybe not please everyone in the group, but at least hear what they all have to say.

My original idea was to have 9 renassiance period costumes that were basically identical, but each one would be its own monochromatic color. Someday I still want to work with these costumes. But today, we are all poor and half of use have families to support or stay at home moms. So, it needs to be cheapish, versital, and have a high wear, cause we live in the desert and faire season hits 100F +.

I have narrowed things down to just three colors. Burgandy, green and blue. I would prefer to use a real red as that would have been more greek, but our royalty wears that and I didn't want to have confruntations there.

Then sadly after much research so far the best basic style pattern that I have found is a regency dress. I will have to modify a lot of the pattern, but I think it will look good. And will have the almost timeless look I am going for.

Now the big problem is that I really want to use linen and I am having a hard time finding a place online that has all four colors that I am looking for! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Oh well. I will work on this! :) Thanks for reading my little rant.

PS
does anyone know of a good linen source online store?

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:50:08 GMT

I may be a geek and play EQ2, but this is just...well....you'll have to see for your self.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=498

Music abounds

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:15:23 GMT

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. :)

promotion

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:24:30 GMT

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:23:21 GMT

Oh my. Life has beena little weird. I would say crazy, but that hasn't seemed to fit either. It's not hectic, but it seems like it. Otherhalf has taken the rest of the week off and that has thrown me off. My day off got switched and that threw me off as well. Oh well. Life goes on and I can put things on hold because of it. I need to get my butt in gear and get things going.

Goals

To exercise more
make more money
take extra money and buy healthy stuff for me.
write more
keep the house clean

I think I'm going to be adding to this list as time goes on.

a Meme of 7s

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:29:25 GMT

Seven things that make me happy right now

1. Thursday night girls night. Just the girls sitting around and drooling over very hot guys!

2. playing my music and being inspired once again. I am even thinking of trying out for one of the symphonys near by. I'm a little nervous by this fact but I think that if I can get some good practicing in I might be ready for it for the next season. I really miss being in a symphony. And I think that I might try and get some of my contacts together again and see about starting another group. I am also really tempted to go back to playing out at the Renfaire. I so truly miss it!

3. My family being healthy. I know a little cheesey for this time of year, but bad things are happening to those around me. My sweet neighbor is dieing of cancer. They don't think she'll make it to Thanksgiving.

4. Reading to my hearts content. I finally got off my ass and got a library card. O and I go tothe library almost once a week.

5. Mostly being over the stupid virus that has been plagueing my body for over a week. A week with hives and still being on drugs is not fun. Stupid drugs didn't completely work.

6. Mostly being over the withdrawl from the said drugs. I can't stand not being in control of my person. cairisrin thought it was a little weird being out with me when we went out to dinner the other night. Normally I am the type to sit in a corner so I can see all exits and I totally pay attention to all that is going on around me. That night I sat in the middle of wendy's and totally missed some of what was going on. The weird part was I was thinking to my self that this is odd and why am I sitting here. It didn't feel right, and yet I coudn't get my self to move. Very unsettling.

7. Sex. Is there really anything more to say after this?

Seven things that I should be more ashamed of

1. Jensen Ackles. I am so obsessed right now. But he is SO hot! and I really love Supernatural! Thats what girls night is all about!

2. I have to admit to being a ANTM junkie. Truly. I say its because I love the pictures at the end. AAnd while I really do love seeing the pictures I lvoe the behind the camera work and seeing what the girls go through.

3. www.fanfiction.net I sit most of the day and read there as well. I'm ignoring my kitchen.

4. My 3 year old son has his own computer and can pull up playhouse disney and nick jr all by himself. He spends hours sitting next to me playing while I am reading online.

5. Radio Disney. I still listen to it even if my son isn't around.

6. frozen kit kats that my son got for samhain

7. D&D. Granted this is how I met my man of the last five and a half years.

Mercury in Retrograde

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:32:41 GMT

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!

DOGGIE!!!!

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:39:40 GMT

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.

:)

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:09:15 GMT

My sons Namesake........

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-081006b.html

That is all.

Star Wars Geekness!

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:49:06 GMT

I couldn't resist this. IT is SO me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqTi0ZFDawY

Ruling the world!

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:41:01 GMT

If You Ruled the Land . . . by wackyweasel

Your first name:

How you gained your rule:

Your title is:

The Big Cheese

Your symbol is:

the tiger, for that cool stripey don't-mess-with-me-ness

You rule from:

a tower surrounded by circling dragons!

At your side is:

your body double - hey, good lookin'!

Your enforcers, troops, and guards are all:

centaurs! They should NOT be so hot . . . oh well!

Your most popular law is:

No-pants Fridays

Your least popular law is:

All religions required to write you into their doctrines

Your worst enemy is:

no longer with us. Foul play? Who, you?

Your popularity rating is:: 31%

Your chance of being overthrown is:: 34%

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3 things to think about

Wed, 24 May 2006 18:21:27 GMT

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.

How important is it to you?

Thu, 18 May 2006 06:59:56 GMT

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Yay!

Tue, 09 May 2006 00:56:26 GMT

My first realy MAry Kay order is in! ITs so much fun to open it all! and now I have some fun stuff to try as well. :)

lazy day

Sun, 07 May 2006 20:17:31 GMT

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.

Beltane

Mon, 01 May 2006 04:17:03 GMT

So yesterday I was over at a friends houise doing a Mary Kay party and when I went into the bathroom she had a digital scale. So I plucked up my curage and got on it. I have lost 10lbs since my sergery. I am very happy about this. I know it could be a lot better, but it has inspired me to work even harder. Last night I went and did a little grocery shopping and I got a lot of healthy and filling snacks for my self.

Beltane

Mon, 01 May 2006 04:13:58 GMT

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.

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:53:53 GMT

well I started off not having a very productive day. All I wanted to do was read the last book in the Artemis Fowl series. I finally forced my self to stop and get some cleaning done. though I did fudge a little and I watched Ghost whisperer. But I have managed to get the laundry done, Orion's room basically cleaned (I still need to go through his toys and get rid of some.)

I also got a lot of MK stuff done. I can't believe that wednsday and thursday gave me $700 in sales. That's $350 straight to me. For only about 5 hours of work thats really fun. I wish I could spend it. I'm taking $50 to cover the bank account and then the rest is going towards buying inventory. And I still have a party to do tomorrow! Then tomorrow night I will be putting in my order. I've very excited about it. And I will even have another member to add to my crew in the next week. I'm on my way to the 1st company car!

Orion is talking up a storm. And the potty training is going really well. Now if I could only get him to go poop in the potty everything would be grand.

Not much else to say. I have been playing a lot of EQ2 with Otherhalf. I've watched Advent Children 4 times. The kiddo has discovered Ducktales. I'm hiding from cleaning my dishes (even though there isn't that many of them).

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:10:33 GMT

well last night was almost a bust on the MK front, but then one person showed up. And then my om called and made an order. So I ended up selling $200 last night. Yeah! I have tonight and saturday to make at least $600. I would love to make more for my very first order, but I am being realistic. I should have at least $25 left over so I can get the website up and running so people can buy through there. I'm so excited about that!

Then the best happened and Otherhalf came home with Advent Children. So we watched it last night. And we are watching it agian this morning before we both have to leave. :) Great movie! and the previewss for the other final fantasy games look pretty cool as well. The sound track is now on my list of wants too. :)

Thats all for now. Here's to hoping that tonight I can sell around $250. :)

PS
OTherhalf slightly sabotaged my diet this morning by making breakfast. French toast is sooooooooo good!

busy day

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:16:32 GMT

So I had to get up a little early today to clean my house. I haven't done much of anything lately becuase Otherhalf was home. He took time off for his b-day and we were going to go up to the mountains for a week but the stupid gas prices kind of stopped that idea. So we stayed in the valley and basically played EQ2 the whole time. I have to admit that I am having fun doing it. Mostly because he is there and we are spending time together and it makes him happy. But it toatlly left my house in a mess. Thankfully he goes back to work today.

Unfortunatly that means that I have a ton of work to do. I have to clean my house. I'm leaving in a little bit to help Savannah and Co with her house and then I will come back here and keep cleaning my house and then I have to get ready for a Mary Kay Trunk show at my house. And then tomorrow I will go to Savannah's early and finish her house and then do a facial party there as well.

So I guess that means that I need to get off of my butt and get going. :)

Long time no post.......

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:36:15 GMT

Well I can't say my life has been terribly busy. But I have been doing things. I finally paid off my license and can drive again. Otherhalf and I are doing really good. Child is being a typical 2 year old and doing wonderfully with the potty training. I'm getting more massage clients and My Mary Kay business is going pretty good. I hope to have my own website for people to order through by the beganing of may.

I have a lot to say but it's mostly just ramblings about day to day life. Though I am going to try and post a lot more often. In eed to get better at this whole journalling thing. :)

And I have a lot of things to journal about.

hehe

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:27:30 GMT

You are Daniel V.:
You're young, fresh and new. You've got a quiet

sensibility and know how to listen to your

client. People like your modern style and

edge. You listen well and execute perfectly.

You're going to go as far as you want. It

doesn't hurt that you look like you should be

fronting a band.

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Confession

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:46:49 GMT

I had a major dinner binge! I couldn't help it. I actually cooked, which I haven't done in a while. And it was so good! but now I am so full! It was all healthy stuff too, I just ate to much. And I am wanting something sweet. Which is bad I know. I even ate my fruit as a dessert to kind of help that, but it didn't seem to curb it too well. Oh well. I'm going to drink another glass of water and see if that will help.