The World Renaissance Faire at Irvine Lakes was this past weekend. It was a first year faire, very ambitions for a group of friends (who are also a new nobles guild) who hadn't done it before. The made a lot of first year mistakes, but if the mistakes are overlooked (with the exception of battle), it was a pretty good faire ( Read more... )

I'm heading out to World Renaissance Faire in Irvine Lakes soon, but I thought I'd post about my surreal day on Thursday ( Read more... )

Today I'm dealing with sadness. When I was born, my parents co-owned a print shop. That's really where I grew up. I would walk to school from there and do my homework at my desk there before we went home. My very first friend, Carol, was part of the family that owned a business next door to us. Carol called me yesterday to tell me that her dad ( Read more... )

Thanks to the generosity of SpaceCadet I got to go to the Orange County fair with her to see KC and the Sunshine Band in concert tonight. That was fun! Happy funk ( Read more... )

I feel like such a slug for not posting more often. Life, and summer have gotten to me ( Read more... )

The 4th of July tends to be a traditional holiday for me. There are lots of things I like to do. While I managed some of the traditions, it was an odd, but mostly fun weekend ( Read more... )

I realize that I've been horrid about posting lately. Call it a combination of too busy and too frustrated with several things. Plus that whole exhausted from work thing, now that hours have picked up again. I did want to update my readers about Wally ( Read more... )

I have no idea if I'll actually do a detailed update on the Corona faire run, but I do want to tell about the Sunday battle ( Read more... )

I just realized that I hadn't posted here since May 17th. My bad. Between sewing projects (yay barter system!), working more hours, my allergies, and my feet threatening to commit sepuku, I just haven't had the energy to do this. But tonight I got home at a reasonable hour and most of what I HAVE to do is done, so let's see how far I can get in ( Read more... )

I realize that I didn't post yet about Corona, week #3. Once I post of the work week after, it will make sense. The short version is that I was crazy busy. But I will catch up on all this soon.
My feet hurt and I'm tired. Faire was fun. All the rest is details.