Weekend Recap

Ok, I promise not to do a lot of these, because I’m sure you have better things to read than what I kind of sandwich I made on Saturday for lunch and how I made Sunday’s different. But if you really care about that, let me know, I’ll give you the updates, maybe even start Twittering them. Because I don’t think enough people are saying nonsense thing on their blogs and Twitter.


Anyway, first let me start by saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS!!! to the husband. I had originally planned to write a separate happy birthday post to him, but that didn’t happen. I’m not a very good writer so as much as I would love to write one of those lovely dedicated posts that express my love and devotion and talk about how lucky I am, it would probably just come out kinda crappy. Plus he doesn’t really read my blog, so it would have been kind of pointless. So I just gave him a naked massage instead and I’m pretty sure he was much happier with that. Stick to what you’re good at, I always say.

His birthday was last Thursday and I felt bad because he was having kind of a rough week at work and it didn’t stop just because it was his birthday. Plus we both had been fighting a cold all week and where I was able to take a sick day to try and recover, his job isn’t as plentiful with the sick days, plus since he’s 100% commission every day he’s not there, is a day he doesn’t make any money. So he was pretty mentally and physically exhausted by Friday. We both took Friday off and planned to go to Disneyland (or DLand for Leslie and Kim). We had planned to go and get annual passes for Valentine’s Day, but we just never made it out of the house, so we planned to do it on Friday for his birthday instead.

I still had a decent amount of sewing to do for approval and the kitties, knowing it was still a weekday said that we needed to be up and play, so I got up early, and they fell asleep. Damn cats. But you know if I went back to bed, they’d wake back up. So I sewed all morning. I let Chris sleep, because I knew he needed it. He finally woke up about 11:30. He was bummed I let him sleep so late, but I figured Disneyland was open until midnight, so we still had plenty of time. We got lunch and cash and finally made it there about 3pm. Chris was till bummed it was so late, but I figured since we were getting passes and could come back whenever, what did it matter. It actually ended up being a perfect time. We missed the heat of the day (which really wasn’t all that hot to begin with, but still) and we were so done by 11:30 at night. If we had come earlier we would not have been able to hang so late. The only bad thing was apparently that Friday is one of the busiest days of the year for some weird reason so the place was PACKED. But it was still fun. And now we have way overpriced passes to go back whenever. We HAVE to go at least 4 more times to make it worth it, so that’s a bit of an incentive.

Of course we ran into faire people there, which amazed me since it was so crowded, but since Danny pretty much lived there anyway, I guess it was no surprise that we ran into him. It was good to see him, since he’s not doing faire this year.

We came home and crashed out. My body reminded me that it’s not 19 anymore and doesn’t appreciate all that I did to it that afternoon.

Saturday I got up early again to try and get some more sewing done. The moms came over about 11 AM and we headed to Hollywood to go see Cats. We wanted to leave early because we heard about a protest down Hollywood Blvd that would shut it down and to give extra time for traffic. I drove and thankfully I’m familiar with the area enough that I was able to get us there and parked without even messing with the protest. Cats was awesome. I saw it once before when I was in London over ten years ago now. I was so excited to see it again. It did not disappoint. I figured there would be some traffic on the way home, but it was awful!! It took over three hours and that doesn’t count us stopping for dinner.

Then Chris’s mom stayed and hung out for a while, which I didn’t mind except I had costume approval on an unfinished dress is a little over 12 hours and I didn’t feel like I could just ignore her and sew. After she left I sewed and sewed like crazy. Around midnight I realized the tall hat wasn’t getting made in time, so when I finished the sleeves I threw together a pill box hat and will hopefully get the tall hat approved this weekend. I finally crawled into bed at 4am. But the cats were just SO HAPPY that I was up most the night they were pretty upset that I decided to go to bed. Bart figured 3 hours sleep was plenty and after some cursing, yelling and maybe a throwing of a shoe he spent the next hour in the bathroom while I tried to get some rest.

I crawled out of bed about 8:30am, all kinds of grumpy. Mix of nerves and lack of sleep. I finally headed out to faire, way behind schedule. I got a fabulous comment as I got there. Then met up with the girls to discuss the previous day’s approvals and catch up on what was going on. After making sure the costume mistress was available for approval, I went and got dressed. I don’t think I can express how nervous I was. This is the third dress I’ve made and the previous two she has just ripped to shreds. The last one I was up all night before opening day remaking the bodice and she still HATED it. So I was pretty sure she was going to at least be pretty picky about this one. Even though it was much better made, I know there are still a decent amount of little issues that I expected her to start listing and yelling at me for. I had fully intended for hber to tell me that the dress wasn't approvable and that I should just pack my shit and go home.

But she didn’t she only pointed a small fit issue with the bodice, which should be pretty simple to fix and she signed my card*!!!! I couldn’t believe it! She didn’t bring out a ruler and start measuring lines or counting jewels or even question the really bad hat, she just signed it!! I was shocked. And so relived. I can’t express the relief enough. After approval I was planning to go be a part of guild stuff for bit, but a gal who used to be a part of faire YEARS ago showed up for a visit and we ended up catching up for an hour. At that point I had to go because Chris’s grandparents wanted to take us out for Chris’s birthday. I don't have any pics yet. I'll post some as soon as I do. This is one of the times I'm bummed my camera sucks. The pics won't be very good.

So I drove home, showered, and sat down and relaxed for a minute for the first time all weekend. At the last minute Chris’s grandparents decided not to come up so it was just us and his mom. We went to Spaghetti Factory and I had some wine to celebrate the dress approval. After dinner I ran to the grocery store, and then went to bed. I was so tired.

It was a very busy and full weekend. I usually complain that a weekend at home doing nothing doesn’t feel like a real weekend because I’m not LIVING LIFE!!! But I think there is such a thing as the opposite extreme having the same effect. But no complaints. Overall it was a great weekend.

*For workshops we have a reconing card. We have several requirements that we have to complete, the workshops that I've mentioned before, guild support such as building and other activities, costume approval and our guildmasters signature before we can get pur pass for the season.