How I Spent My Birthday Weekend (or, The Adventures of Princess Limoncello and the New Dress)
So, this past weekend was my birthday weekend: I am now a brand spanking new 37 year old!
*does a little cheer and dances around in her undies*
Wait, what?
37 years isn’t a milestone that we normally celebrate?
Why not? I mean really, why not? It seems to me that every year reveals to us new truths about ourselves, awareness that we get to use as we ( Read more... )
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We certainly enjoyed ourselves and I had a GREAT birthday!
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*dies*
Separated at birth, we were!!
(Someday I MIGHT tell the story of me, the OTS initiation party, and the yucca. Yucca = vodka, ice, sugar, fresh squeezed lemon and lime juice and a LEETLE (very little) 7-up. As well that Anne knew where I lived, as I couldn't have given her directions)
Lurves the hat, too!
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Yucca isn't a Peruvian drink, is it? It sounds like a drink that my boss' husband gave me at her graduation party a few weeks back...
Thank you for the hat love sista!
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The hair in her braid is her hair? along with the zopfe? not fake hair? My hair is just not long enough to even begin such a thing. Blech. I am going to be working out how to do some braids with clip in human hair extensions that I got.
Also the drinking thing? I learn that anew every 7 years or so with red wine. My limits aren't what I think they are. And the drunker I get the more I forget how much I had... Apfelwein got me this weekend. I hate waking up slightly drunk.
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And yes, that is Caitlin's real hair. Not only is it that long, it is BABY SOFT all the way from roots to tips. *shakes head in disbelief* Total hair envy. *chuckle* Personally I am going to be working out hair extensions to go with my Zopfe because a) my curly hair has never grown longer than just past my shoulders and b) I am thinking of whacking my hair off to ear height. Basically I can't do this without some falsie hair.
I seem to be on a two-to-three year cycle with the drinking thing. I seriously think that the weight loss contributed heavily to this bout because I had no 'baseline' to work from. Oh, and my elbow was broken and kept tipping the contents of the limoncello bottle into my porringer. And then I just *had* to drink it. Really.
/looks innocent
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Where do I get my card?
Awesome hat is awesome. I have one on my To Do sewing list. And I already have my own collection of naughty pins! (You west coast fraus are trend setters, doncha know?).
Germans have no sense of humor? HEE! The first thing I learned when I started doing Landsknecht is that everything is funnier in a German accent. It doesn't really matter what you say, it's just funnier. My group cracks ourselve up all the time!
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*ponders* I should totally make these up for folks who love their wool clothing....
(You west coast fraus are trend setters, doncha know?)
*blushes* I totally give all credit on the hat to vanagnessayem (and to some degree, to love3angle who's red Schlape to go with her Saxon Princess dress first caught my heart years ago). Honestly, get that hat off your To Do list and onto your machine; from drafting to finishing I think it took me about three hours (and I am slow and insisted on making a couple of drafts at the brim). vanagnessayem's entry on the hat shows the bits conveniently laid out on a 1" squared measuring surface....
Like I said, I've never understood how other groups doing get the German sense of humor. OK, it can be a little...off...sometimes. But honestly, HILARIOUS.
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My Hauptmann loves to tell bad Landsknecht jokes. "What do you get when you go to war with the French King?"
"I donno, what do you get?"
"Prisoners." (or "Ransom.", depends on his mood)
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West Coast, East Coast, Mid-West Frau unite!
"What are those things on your hat?"
/evil eyebrow shrug
Your Hauptmann sounds like one (or more) of our Feldwebels. *chuckle*
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that and "We sacked Rome" to unprotected Italians
So sorry I missed celebrating with you darling - but my sewing projects and concert tickets had me booked up...
but CoCo looms and there will be much celebrating of both our birthdays I think...
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Ah, taunting Italians (mostly Courtesans, and really only those ‘Courtesans’ who are really just trumped up strumpets with no skills other than acting as sheet holders for someone’s bed); I managed to keep a civil tongue in my head this weekend when I was around the overly-tapestried Roman couch cushions. And to be REALLY honest, I actually liked the one who kept coming into camp for snacks (she is something FIERCE…maybe she’s part German?).
At any rate, you were terribly missed Schnokieputz! Getting up to evil just isn’t the same without my partner in crime. However, I completely understand your reasons for being absent and merely demand photographs of you and your man out at the Pyrate Fest next weekend in recompense.
;)
OMG. CoCo. I need to get shoes and a purse! *scurries off to the interwebz*
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