Monday

So yeah. I haven’t written a whole lot lately. Partly because I haven’t had anything to say. Party because I’m busy. Partly because I’m not sure how to say what’s on my mind or what I’m going through. I’ve written a couple of posts, but still haven’t decided if I’m going to post them or not.


But in any case, here’s a post today. There is more that I want to put down, I’ll probably post about tomorrow. But for now this post is pretty basic.

This last weekend was the first out of 11 over the next 3 months that will be consumed with faire. The beginning of workshops. This weekend is like the first day of school. You are seeing friends and people that you haven’t seen since last season. There are lots of hugs, lots of catching up and of course lots and lots of DRAMA. It never ceases to amaze me the amount of drama that can be found around the faire site at any given moment. There is always a ready supply of gossip, hurt egos, back stabbings and your occasional good all out screaming fight. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t all that faire is, but there is no denying the drama is definitely thick around site.

My weekend personally remained relatively drama free, thankfully. Few moments of misunderstandings and annoyances, but for the most part I was able to enjoy myself. Which is my mission this season. My outside life is just too much and too stressful to come to faire and have it rival my real life. I need it to be my escape this season and I’m looking forward to it being so. Construction in Glade* is going beautifully and we’re already ahead of the game, which is just awesome. I already have 2 out of my 3 classes done (I love being a Master*), survived Queen Show* rehearsal and picked up the nickname of Sourdough-heel, which I don’t even know how to begin explaining. So far it’s promising to be a good season.

This coming week is PACKED. Dress MUST be finished this week. No exception. I finished the bodice over the weekend, so that leaves the forepart and sleeves and a million little details that individually are a big deal, but added together will be time consuming. So I will continue my effort in exchanging any free moments for sewing. At least one more trip to Joanne is called for. Chris’s birthday is this week and since we are going to Disneyland on Friday to celebrate, there will be no sewing going on probably for both Thursday and Friday. Saturday I’m going to see CATS with family; I’m pretty excited about this. But it means I’ll have to get my dress approved on Sunday. And Sunday is dinner with Chris’s grandparents for birthday. I’m already exhausted.

I’ve also been fighting a cold that seems to have made its home in my sinus cavity and doesn’t want to leave. So Sudafed has become my best friend. Plus Day Light Savings has kicked my ass. As always. Seriously. How can we make it so we don’t have to do this anymore? I’m done. I’m not participating next time around.

Lady Jane is still sick. We’re trying some new meds and some holistic stuff. If it doesn’t help than it looks like we’ll have to start shoveling out the big bucks to take her to a specialist. This has been a source of great tension in our house on many levels and I’m so done. I’m really at my end of having any idea what else to do for her.

So that’s pretty much life so far this week. As I said there is more that I may talk about later. We’ll see.

*1. Glade – Court Glade is our theatrical environmental area, where we hang out, eat and acts as sort of our home base.


*2. Master – The number of workshops you have to take to work a Faire season is in proportion to the number of years you’ve worked. 1st yr = Apprentice (12 classes), 2nd-9th yr = Journeyman (6 classes), 10+ yrs = Master (3 classes).


*3. Queen Show – Faire for the most part is an interactive show where you interact with the characters around you. We have the stage shows with a scrip, director and so on at different times and places throughout the Faire. Queen Show is the one that involves the Queen and her Court.