David Boggess and Margie Martino are getting married February 29th, 2008.

Please respond to beadchaser@gmail.com in order to be added to the mailing list. You may also post this on your blog if you wish so that others can see the invite.

This is a themed wedding - Kimonos or Steampunk are the primary preferences (we're doing steampunk) BUT you may come attired in Faire Garb/pirates if that's what you have on hand.

It will be late evening as we realize that people might need to travel on a Friday after work. We're talking like 8-9 P.M.

Food / Beverage = potluck
Lodging = tents of your own bringing
Seating = chairs of your own bringing

Bring firepits, etc- anything that you think you might want to use at this event

We're not looking for gifts- you're already bringing your own lodging, seating and food. And besides, the house is FULL!

Think: after-hours faire party as a celebration of two people tying the knot.

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Last weekend was one I don't care to repeat. I'm still having to recharge. All the vital lifejuice was squeezed forcibly from my soul by the masses of unknown strangers that I encountered on my travels. Friday 3 am departure from my house to airport, then to frisco then to seattle then back to frisco sunday afternoon topped off with a ride on the bart. Faire does enough as it is to drain me, but the swarms of people in the airports -- those leeched off me fiercely.  I got chewed for not having shields in place. I should know better. I do know better. But sleep deprivation is my bane.

lack of sleep- for 5 days I had like 4 hours/day- and nighttime sleep to boot. I require around 7-8 hours daily to function in the manner I like to function. Broken up into a 5 hour sleep and a 3 hour nap. I likes tha nappies./nod. By the time we got home from frisco, my body was threatening to fully succumb to a cold. I don't usually get sick unless I've not had a lot of sleep or gone thru a nasty bout of emotional- the latter's not been a problem for a while though.  Sensors were completely overloaded. Numb. I had a couple of pings come through like sirens though. Snap-crackle-pop - WTF?!? -- then look around and seek the source of the ping. I don't like being tasted without consent, by people hiding within the masses. I just wanted to curl up into a sheltered ball, so much psychic-garbage raining on me.

Too many airports, too many muggles- I love my family, but they and their friends are muggles. Non-faire folk. I had a permanent lock placed on my tongue around the female muggles. The people I offered private stock to watered it down with their cokes. :( -- I was in "screw with the crew" mode, so I was quaffing it down like it was nothing to prove my point, which now I realize probably makes them think I'm an alcoholic LOL. And given the over-tired plus the amount of garbage I'd managed to accumulate at the airports, it was indeed nothing. Wasn't touching me. My body was turning everything into sugarfood.

Dawned on me just now that I hadn't listened to any peppers recently. Been doing a lot of dead can dance and faire music. Going for the final energy top-off with blood-sugar-sex-magic now.

ahhh... I can feel the vital lifejuice refilling even as I listen.

I'll need it because I've got a set of henrician nobles (handsewn I think) and a set of pirates and 4 kubuki theatre outfits to make before hanford.

Lemme see if I can explain... We let court decide what they want to play out every year. Our faire board does not dictate to them what they should do. IoM is a great group and we know they do a wonderful job. All of the scripting etc is left to them, they choose the time period, and they tell us what they're doing. Our faire board doesn't micro-manage our nobles.

So I asked what they were doing, and somone in that group said "same thing as last year". Now, see the thing is, I thought last year was Spanish Armada. Our press releases said "Spanish Armada" and I wasn't corrected when I sent my reply of "So you're doing Spanish Armada?"

I don't know what year every play that Shakespeare wrote was written. I had no clue that MND was written 7-8 years after the SA. Just thought it was odd that it was near May Day not Midsummer. Nor did I have the time nor inclination to go look it up. I was vendor and guild coordinator last year until I about lost it the first week in April and wanted to tell at least five different vendors to "go to hell and here's your handbasket" when Mike and Sara took over for me.

I do 99.5% of my communication via email. I work nites, sleep days, so phone-calling's not an option generally. So just now, I checked my email to see if I'd breezed over something in an email last year. I hadn't.

But anyway, I guess it doesn't really matter that I didn't miss something. I'm not trying to put the blame on someone else here.

I screwed up. I put out information that I thought was confirmed because it wasn't refuted or denied. Bleh. Now I'm eating crow.

Anyone have any salt?

Just finished my nasty stretch. ... 3 on, 1 off, 6 on - by on, I mean working, and work I did- 12 hour shifts. Friday supervision = unusually busy, Saturday was an unholy hellish nightmare in the ER. Sunday was somewhat better (ER again) , monday I got stuck in pediatrics taking care of a kid that they should have not had on that floor because she was reeeeely sick.. tues and wed I got to supervise. Had a nasty headache most of last nite, sat there for like 4 hours (yes, medicated with motrin) holding my head until it subsided enough for me to function. I felt like I was borderline going into a migraine - I got one once, stress/no sleep related. it was the painless kind- the kind where brightly colored swirly rainbows cut off all visual input.

I'm so stoked I don't have to go in tonight, I don't know what to do with myself LOL

AND it's payday YAY!

meh. ah well. maybe a bit of margarita will put me out so I can sleep. I'm exhausted.

I can smell the rain coming in through the screen door.

I don't know if it's the change in the barometer or the moon, or just the fact that our first gig of the season came off with flying colors, but I feel really good for a change.

Saturday I spent annoyed at someone who'd gatelisted with us, but yet didn't spend the day with us. For me, this is a huge slight. It's like a slap in the face. I gatelist you so you can help us entertain the people who wander by the encampment. You work for your listing, it's not a right, it's a priveledge. Dropping your precocious 5 and 11 year old female offspring off with your friend who IS helping pisses me off further. 

meh.

I'm gonna get back to enjoying my mood.

My workplace has AFAIK always blocked a lot of the personal sites like myspace. So I started using livejournal as my primary resource.

Now they've taken that one away as well. Or so it seems, as I am using a different computer to check my stuff tonight while I'm training someone.

Ah well. such is life.

blah. I'll just keep my mouth shut rather than blathering on.

I ended up working Thursday. Yes, I’m a whore. Wave a bit of money in front of my face and despite the fact that I know it’s probably not the best thing for me because I’m already overwhelmed with preparations for the weekend, I bite. Haven’t been sleeping worth a damn lately either, so I was wiped out when I got off work Friday morning. Then there was the whole thing with getting Casey to school. Slept a few hours (3) then got up and wandered around the house doing things. Friday night, setup was uneventful.

 

 

Performing and a “dry” site = a quiet Saturday nite. Nothing to report.

 

 

 

 

We topped it off by invading Me-n-Ed’s because they had beer. I had three glasses. Michael drove home.  

 

Awesome weekend. Much better Sunday than Saturday though, Saturday I was cranky and frustrated about a lot of things, and my attention was being pulled too many ways for me to concentrate on what I needed to get done personally.

Heading up to FCC tonight for faire.

I worked last nite. That, and a few other reasons = margie running on very low reserves. Set-up should prove interesting. Guess I need to be moderately friendly or Saturday nite midnight hazing is gonna be nasty LOL

I'm not going to calaveras this weekend.  *sniff* I miss my friends ... but it's too far, and cashflow's extremely tight. 

So instead, I'm having a workshop with the guild. Wish I could be out and about tho. I'm getting a wee (read: huge) bit of cabin fever since I can't make my annual spring fling weekend happen this year.  I hear Anthony Keidis's out of the country this time of the year though, so it would be pointless to go to Hollywood LOL.

The guild will be at FCC. 
I'm still very grumpy.

Michael and I went out for sushi tonight - took gpsymgk's recommendation, although it wasn't free sake night. It has this little track thing that to me was reminiscent of a 60's restaurant with small plates of food on it that you can take and eat. Color coded as to price. Had a dish with baby octopus on it- I eyed it for a while, then took the blue fin tuna instead.  Neat, neat selection of tasty goodies on the menu - far broader selection than the fast food Japanese i usually go to close to the house. Sushi two nights in a row now for me - yum.

So  we're sitting there in a booth, and one of the cooks starts having an energetic conversation with someone, sounded like she was bitching about something. Michael knows a smattering of Japanese, so I asked him if he could understand it. Bout halfway through, his eyes open wide and I'm like "What?" he responded with a "wait" and I kicked over into Spanish and we had our conversation. It was odd.. two very Caucasian people speaking in Spanish so they could have a private conversation in a Japanese restaurant surrounded by people speaking Chinese- in California.

a lot of the inner frustration's left. 

I just find I have a ton to do, making a plan to get it done.  learning to channel all my wayward unfocused energy into something productive. 

March will be interesting.

welp, staying home this upcoming weekend. too much stuff to do garb and guild wise. I'm doing a workshop on the 10th for the guild, and I've got to do some research for it.

I don't know if you know of my OC when it comes to garb, but I like to handsew the garb I make for me. I've got a whole set I need to make as I've outgrown in both taste and size my previous stuff. . .  I've got the biggins made LOL. sleeves for the chemise as well. square necked thing. bah.

Not thrilled that birthday falls on sunday of FCC. Would prefer to hibernate, but I can't control the calendar. it falls where it does.

casey's school transfer isn't going as easily as I think it should.

my head hurts from banging it against brick walls that hinder me.

ta~

wow. I notice there's some heavy usage on the "note to asshat" boards this morning. Guess I'm in good company.

Firstly- I *do* have sympathy for people in a sucky condition- like if you're nearly 700 lbs and can't fit on a gurney without spilling over and thru the rails which causes a moderate amount of pain, or if you're short staffed and have to work thru lunch because there's no time to eat.
Secondly- Despite what you might think, YOU are not the center of the fucking universe. I will do what I can to ease your discomfort, but I will not jeopardize the care of other patients to make all right in your particular little crumb of the world.
Thirdly- Continuing to whine after I've explained what can and cannot be done does not increase my level of sympathy, it increases my level of annoyance. Take your choice from the options I've given you, or come up with a solution to your own problem.


there's a song by Guns n Roses... "Get in the Ring" - it describes rather accurately the amount of venom I'm feeling at this particular moment in time.

I need to slip back into my ice queen skin - it feels so much better than this. gah.

NO, do not take the title to mean that I like that band.

Finally decided that I'm not gonna go to calveras simply because I can't be afk from the house 3 weekends in a row.
off to do something else.

Wow. 387 million dollars.

 

6a.m.

i am awake in bed at the hotel. i've been awake since 330. i was asleep around 1230 a.m.

found a food machine.

sat in the lobby and read the wall street journal.

mike and sara are asleep.

michael is asleep.

i on the other hand, am wide awake and will probably be so until classes start.

i shall try and make remarks after each class


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