Death and Taxes

I'm putting this up for any Shakers who live in the Midrealm and might want to meet up at D&T. Maybe I'll get more than three people reading my blog!

Found something interesting

On, of all thing, a hijab fashion blog.

Looks an awful lot like a kirtle/veil combo, yes? Wouldn't look a bit out of place at an SCA event, would it? Okay, it's very pink, not exactly a period-popular color, but since when has the SCA been all about authenticity?

This look a lot like the Moy dress, found in a peat bog and recreated here. Irish/Muslim fashionistas unite!

Make it stop!!1!!!1

I've had the tunes to SCA dance songs stuck in my head since Saturday. First it was Jenny Plucks Pears. Then Black Almande. Then John Tallow's Canon. Now Korabushka. Why, why, WHY won't they leave me alone?!

Check in

The marriage is still sanctified and all (srsly, how many gay folks have to get married - legally - for my marriage to stop being valid? Because Canada and some European countries have had gay marriage for awhile, and everyone there seems to be okay. Maybe it's an American thing...)

The Derbyshire Ren Faire is going on tomorrow and next weekend, and Dun Traigh will be there, fighting, dancing, and generally getting all up in people's faces about joining. It'll be FUN!

I survived! (sort of)

Border Wars in two words: Fun. Brutal. It was hot, then cold, then stormy, then hot again. Mix that up with almost no sleep and much drunken revelry, it's a prescription for some kind of nasty hell virus. I'm sick as a dog. But BBW was a blast, Ernmas got her Order of the Willow (for teaching A&S and making garb).

I spent Friday and Saturday night nekkid as a jaybird, because that damn chemise has way too much fabric to wear for very long.

Somehow, I feel better

Not for any real reason that I can think of. But I do feel better. The dentist told me I have three teeth the need pulled (ironically enough, not the wisdom tooth I thought was causing the problems in the first place...) The one that's currently infected goes first, that's on Monday or Tuesday, then the rest as I can afford them.

The stupid stimulus check STILL ISN'T HERE. But i think I'm somehow also okay with this. We can afford site, gas and food with Hubby's respite check. Everything else is gravy.

I'm fried

Sunburned, my voice is going, my hip aches like you would not believe, and I'm pretty sure I never want to see another child again, EVER. And I had a great time getting there!

Dun Traigh just did our annual demo at Muskegon Community College's Mayfest. Lots of people, lots of kids, lots of potential new members. Lots of telling people that yes, they could try on the jewelry, no, nothing on the table was for sale, hey, get the hell away from our food, no, you can't just take any of the library's collection of early 1990's Tournaments Illuminated or Compleat Anachronist. Good times, man. Good times. I'm going to take a major league painkiller and curl up in bed. Hopefully, I can get up at 5:30 to take the husband to work.

Oh, yeah, one of our fighters got an armor bite. And we'll be on the local access newscast and the community college channel. Kewl!