I have not set foot in my church since the disastrous Annual Meeting last May. Everything about how that was handled left a horrible taste in my mouth, and I just have not been able to bring myself to go back there. The only thing I still do that has any connection to it is that I continue to visit the elderly lady that I was assigned to visit ( Read more... )

I was hoping to find a link to the internet radio station that was there, as they took lots of pics and I didn't bring my camera this year. But anyway, it went well. Very well in fact. We had 73 guests, which was a little low but still good, and netted somewhere in the ballpark of $1K. The food was served smoothly, people got enough of ( Read more... )

1. Worked 8am-1pm ( Read more... )

Carrots, mainly, turnips and parsnips if I have time. The other main cook found a recipe for the Apician Carrots marinade, so she can make that and marinate them ( Read more... )

I feel like I got not very much at all done, but yet I did the following ( Read more... )

So, I actually finished my dress a couple of hours before the feast. OK, all it needed at that point was the sleeve hems and hem ... hem, done. And some weird tacking at the top of the very non-period zipper up the back. And it made a huuuuge difference working on Carol's pricey Bernina instead of my Ames-closeout Brother that ties knots around ( Read more... )

In a few minutes, I need to go drag my ass out the door, get to church, and finish off this freaking dress for the Midieval Feast tomorrow night. With my luck, I'll finish it, and then it won't fit, and there will be no time to alter it. On the bright side, for once in my life, I may have shrunk a bit since the project got started last summer ( Read more... )

So, my job for today, helping to prepare for the annual Midieval Feast at church, was to pick up some last minute groceries. It was a fairly short and largely reasonable list.

• 20 lb of rice
• gallon of pears
• gallon of sweet red wine
• 2 packets of saffron
• if possible, edible sandalwood powder

Actually, this took up most of my day: sewing. Wahoo! I've got my dress almost all cut (still have to come up with lace for the overlay pieces-if you click that link, follow the "view" link on that page, and see the upper left corner version of the dress, which is the one I'm doing in blue and purple), and learned to stay-stitch the curvy pieces ( Read more... )

Started by rushing off to strength training at 9am. Did surprisingly well, even managed to move up a notch with the hand weights for a few moves, from 5lb per hand to 8. Still have abs of mush. Long term dream/goal: achieve a six-pack, even if it only lasts for like a day. Whatever it goes back to should still be in better shape than it is now ( Read more... )