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For the first time since he was born, we attended a party at The White Rabbit's house without our Kung Fu Panda, who stayed at home with our friend, The Improv Lawyer. It was like old times: getting silly with friends, building off each other's conversations, and being told several times that I was "cut off," despite the fact that I only had 2 1/2 ( Read more... )

A few Saturdays ago, we played Confed online again, the role-playing game created and run by our friend The Cheshire Cat. We play over IRC so that friends far and wide can participate. Because we are now typing out our actions and conversations, I am taking much of this write-up from my fellow players' words. I apologize for not condensing it ( Read more... )

Two Saturdays ago, we began a new adventure. The Cheshire Cat has for decades GM'd a role-playing game he created, called Confed (short for Confederation, an interstellar democratic alliance). In order to make it easier to play for those of us separated by long distances -- the most far-flung of whom is the Court Wizard, living in the Boston area ( Read more... )

Before I begin, let me just announce that Kung Fu Panda watched Sesame Street for the first time today and loved it. He watched a segment where Elmo goes camping, and they learn about words. He seemed greatly amused by the word "canteen."

On Saturday, The Gryphon threw a 40th birthday party for me, with the help of The Cousin and The White Rabbit ( Read more... )

On Sunday, the Fourth of July, my sister and her husband left shortly after breakfast (a Dutch baby, made for us by my husband, The Gryphon ( Read more... )

In what would probably be our last social opportunity before I give birth (my due date is early June), The Gryphon and I attended an Otakon social Saturday for staffers in Eastern Pennsylvania.

Sunday was reserved for the Scramble Square Puzzle Project, a.k.a. reorganizing to make room for the baby. Plus, we went out for my first ever Mother's Day ( Read more... )

After the one-day Prepared Childbirth seminar on Saturday, The Gryphon and I went straight to our friend, The Cheshire Cat's place, for a session of the role-playing game he developed and runs, Confed. We were playing that weekend primarily because a long-distance friend, The Court Wizard, was in town.

( I didn't know you could do that with a solar flare. )

On Saturday, The Gryphon and I attended two Halloween parties. I went as Astrid Moon, a "spiritual advisor," a costume created from items I already had in my clost, featuring a floor-length blue caftan I bought in my hippie days.

Any other year, I would have had fun staying in character — offering half-baked advice or telling people their auras ( Read more... )