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January did NOT slow down, friends, so please forgive the lack of consistent updates, yes?

Scots Welsh was a lovely little war...got to say hello to the Usual Suspects (you know who you are) and wave cheerily to Norse Boy off in his unelectronic corner :) The Mittens was also appropriately tortured, so all is Well.

Most excellently, found little teeny stone bats that SheepyOne transformed, out of gracious generosity, into BEAUTIFUL bling for the new Norse outfits. They may also be used as regular necklaces for the FAB new cotehardies. As always, Sheepy proves herself a rare Gem. thankyouthankyouthankyou.

Of course, Yours Truly being Yours Truly, I prompty broke both wings off ONE of the bats...hugging a Duke of prolific Ducal Profile porportions LOL.

Also got to spend a HUGE amount of time with Sheepy and the FarFlung/Crimson Fist/Wyndryder brigade and can state that I have now been Officially Noticed Doing Not Much at an event. So, all of you out there INSISTING I never just sit around and kibbitz.....

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT. So there :)

Have also dropped a SIZE since Christmas! YAY!!! At this rate, I will be SKINNIER at THIS Gulf Wars than I was at Gulf Wars 2003 - this is a Very Good Thing.

Passings:

Denny from the Mamas and the Papas - much missed

E. Howard Hunt -Watergate criminal, frankly not so much.

The Mamas & Papas made music they shared with the world out of their hearts and enriched us all. Mr. Hunt used the Consitution as toilet paper on his way to his goal of assisting a corrupt politician attain greater powers than that document allows. More about this selfishness issue in a bit...

Another gentle from the SCA has recently died - she and I unfortunately grew apart over the last few years, but I mourn both the friend that was and for my friends who were still close to her who grieve still. Sadness abounds, does it not?

Late last year, of course, we suffered the deaths of Scout and Earl Brendan (MAN is that still hard to write) and there are memorials planned for both at Gulf Wars.

Yours Truly hereby anounces that there will be NO DEATHS this year. Everyone go get your heart checked.

Speaking of Death, it got me thinking that we do NOT appreciate the effect our choices have on our lives and on our friends. Brendan especially left his mark on me, making me a better Scadian and a better person. It was selfless on his part.

Too often, though, we make selfish choices that have exceedingly negative effects on the lives of people we allege to love. Some goal seems to become far more important to us than the hurt the journey to same does to our friends and off we go....All of us, me you our cats, make decisions based entirely on the effect they will have on OUR lives and spend far too little time thinking about how it will affect others. In my long experience, this NEVER works out and, once we Do achieve the goal that was so important to us that we willfully and knowingly hurt our friends and in instances made them do what they did NOT want to do; the Attained is not as shiny as we thought and its attaining did us nothing.

And then we look around and notice a trail of borken hearts and hurt friends behind us, NOT loving friends beside us as we travel.

So, let's all stop doing that, shall we? And look out for one another a little more. Listen to the true desires of our friends and loved ones a little more intently and then; being in possession of this knowledge, spend a LOT less time running roughshod over them. No Grail was ever found by the selfish. I may fail in this attempt more often than I succeed, but I committ to trying to changing that ratio. Wanna come along?

hugs,
Alysoun

Yes, IT HAS BEEN A WHILE....

OK....so what HAVE Yours Truly and the Mob been up to?

Hmmm...where to begin..where to begin...

12/21/06: early afternoon; Father in law is spending several days with us
12/21/06: later afternoon: Father in law is NOT spending several days with us.
12/21/06: Still later afternoon: Sister in law kicks Father in law out of house because Fther in law IS now spending several days with Us.
12/21/06; Simultaneously with above: Darling Hand breaks hand on cinder block because Sister in law's face is unavailable.
12/22/06: Father in law arrives. Loves us and apologizes.....much cooking ensues.
12/23/06: Much more cooking.
12/24/06: Much and MUCH more cooking and tree-decorating
12/25/06: FINE day...much cooking and dart-playing.
12/26/06: Father in law goes home.
12/27/06-present: Darling Man's hand continues to be broken. Sister-in-law still lives.
12/31/06-1/1/07: Very Happy New Year, what with the Vodka and Percocets and everything :)
1/5/07-1/7/07: Yours Truly attends Tourney of the Wolf Moon and has a Fine Time.

Also of interest: Have finished the second Norse and am starting in on a series of particolored cotehardies.....to be followed by More costuming because the Sheep is a Bad Influence. Received a HUGE sewing kit for Yule and love it muchly, also received books and many nifty other thingies. Big Find: cobalt blue linen, perfect for Trimaris Court garb. woohoo!!!! and little teeny tiny horse head buttons for one of the particolored cotehardies -and they are ARABIAN horse heads. muahahahaaaa.....

What is interesting to me is that Darling Man is a terrible patient, but also a very odd one...can't wash his hair by himself but CAN microwave his own dinner...can't drive a stick but THINKS he can re-wire the DVD player.....thanks goodness the health insurance is fabulous...

Anyay, off to the house to Do More Sewing and Looking after the Broken..

Hugs,
Alysoun