I have very long eyelashes. I don't say this to piss off those of you out there who don't and use mascara , etc... to get that long look but to explain the next bit which is naturally long lashes are a big pain in the eyeball. For the last week or so I have had the sensationof something in my eye but no amount of rubbing, eyedrops, looking or poking around said eye showed anything so today I wentto the mirror that gets the most light and had a REALLY good look and what do you know one of those pesky, fine, hard to see lashes that grow at the corner of my eye was heading inwards not outwards. Grrrrr. To tweasers in hand I plucked the offending lash out, along with a few other that threatened to follow the inward trend...voila NO MORE irritation.

The other annoying thing about long lashes is that they bat against my glasses. Trust me this is about as irritating as it gets. So all you gals out there with short eyelashes..I envy you!

there...that being said I suppose I should update tis thing. It's been a while but the above said eye irritation has stopped me from hanging out on the computer too much.

We have been on the go a lot. Crown in Austria, visits to Vicenza, University in Lübeck, and Nürnberg last weekend. Today Marcus is in Frankfurt for the day / night and comes home tomorrow, hopefully with my latest purchase of ebay nibs. Setting up scribe blog, sorting out scribe admin stuff, gearing up for Coronation and our own up coming holiday to Germany for the silly season. I am SO looking forward to the Hamburg and Lübeck Christmas markts.

Today is nice an sunny for the first time in ages, I am actually making lists of stuff I need to do before we head out up North. Doing Laundry and writing... The writing is slow and i am struggling with it a bit because I am having to get out of medieval scribe mode and into merly-starwars mode. I need two brains... oh wait if I had that I'd be even more neurotic than i already am. *sigh*...

I do have a list of scrolly things not SCA related I want to do and on top of that some hand made presents for folks. In between I am trying to get 'library thing' working for me and just generally being me. On top of this... the Italian learning has ramped up because I am determined to be able to speak somewhat by the end of this year. This is so hard but I am working on it. I learnt German as an adult I can learn Italian as well. There is JUST not enough time in a day any more, well there would be if i didn't spend so much of it wandering around virtual reality. :)

Time to get the laundry hung up.

until then, be excellent to each other.

It is that time of year when it rains and rains and rains and so  far this past week this is what it has done. I don't mind too much, because the clouds do really cool things as they skirt around the hills and the mountains.

For the last three weeks I have not been at my best. Since crown, where I got very chilled and stayed that way, my body has been very unhappy. The combination of severe allergies and getting cold just wore me down and by the time University rolled around, along with th stress of flying it was inevitable that I get sick with a cold. Hey presto... SCA event = being sick. *sigh*

I don't recall a lot of University. I do remember answering a LOT of questions and spending a lot of time running around up and down the stairs to our under the roof room ( most lovely) to fetch things for people that I had arranged to bring / deliver / give... etc... The scriptorium was quiet and relaxing. The way I had hoped it would be. Some new folks tried out some calligraphy, some establishes scribes hid out , heads down and did what they did best... scribed.

Someone asked about art work. You can see what I did for the event here.

Scrolls for university

I had my Fulvio appointment yesterday, he is my SC / massage therapist who is sometimes very gentle and sometimes quite brutal but ni a good way. Yesterday he did some intense deep muscle massage on my back. Ow! but god afterwards you feel great! I don't know how he does it, and he is pretty magic.

Yesterday was also the first time I have ever spoken in Italian to him. It was hard but also cool because he doesn't speak much english so he was thrilled to bits that I tried. I am at that stage in the language learning where Iunderstand a LOT more than I can speak myself because I simply don't have the vocabulary and I don't have all the verbs in their conjugation memorised. It's incredibly frustrating, but speaking helps a lot and Fulvio is safe, he's delighted I try and helps me out doesn't laugh and so I am unafraid to try.

In the mean time I am battling with my desperate desire to continue writing my SW DOTE books which has ground to a halt during to the SCA scroll stuff. At the moment I have this want to write but am being driven to do more art work and it's driving me mad. I guess I will have to give in to the desire to paint so that I can get back to writing.  I need to be two people to get it all done. Those reading the story need not fear I have enough material to keep updating for a few weeks yet and there will be a Christmas break as when we head up to germany the internet access is limited severely.  But I have some medieval pieces I want to do for friends for Christmas gifts and I need to get all that started now. This duality of art nature drives me crazy though.

in the mean time...I am getting better, recovering from the chills, aches and pains, allergy attacks and the cold. Gearing up for the stupid season and all the running around we have to do on the next while. It seems to me that we are always more busy now, either with Work related things or the whole christmas stuff and that we travel an awful lot during this time.

Not so sure what the new year will bring I guess we will have to wait and see.

Until then, be excellent to each other.

how I can be so bored and yet so incredibly busy ALL AT THE SAME TIME?

I know I am woefully behind on this blog... if you are nosy head over to the LJ one there some stuff there. I will post here soo I promise I just gotta take a breather... 

that is all...

for now...

till later...

be excellent to each other

that I feel like bantha poodoo. It would be so typical to come down with something nasty and flu like right before we fly. I keep hoping it is allergies ....but I ache all over and asprin ain't cutting it.

anyway I thought I'd share. now I am going to escape in a stinking hot bath.

until then be excellent to each other... 

that I rather like the title...evil minion dark side scribe!

that's all

So, we went down to Vicenza to hang with friends and do some scribal stuff. The actual event was called off on account of people being broken and unwell. Mostly it was a very quiet weekend and fun with lots of time for chatting and tea and or wine drinking.  I got to teach some techniques to a first timer and that was... well... interesting but had positive results. I also learnt that I sort of suck at the whole hands on teaching athing nd just don't really know how to go about being a good instructor for something I am not even sure I know how I do. It was an odd feeling.

I have rediscovered though that cigarette smoke makes me terribly sick. It's been a really long time since I was in close quarters with that much smoke snd I had forgotten the results. I am still a bit wheezy and queazy this morning, hacking up green stuff...ook. It's been a long time since I had an asthma attack but  came real close this weekend, not a happy sensation. I am debating whether or not to get a new inhaler. I haven't needed one in three years but I do feel safer having one on me.

Now we are home, always seems like down to earth with a bump on one hand , nice on the other in that it's home. It also seems that our house is tiny after visiting the villa in Vicenza. It's funny-weird really. but in a good way. I always get that home feeling once we get through the border crossing and I see the sharp peaky mountains. There is no snow on them yet and it was colder in Vicenza than it was here. Still winter is coming and you can see it crawl its way down the mountains sides as now the soft hues of yellows and browns turn to bare branches as those leaves drop.

The next three days will be about getting ready for University, making sure all the scrolls are done, ready to travel and safely packed, that we have clean garb ( eep) and feast gear and also comply with the new airline regulations for hand luggage. Flying just gets stupider and stupider eventually we won't be able to get on a plane unless we are naked. Oh well, it's not as if we fly that often so hopefully things will be okay.

I am so looking forward to seeing all my friends, my house-hold kids ( it's been a while since all the trees from DW have been together, well except for Skarf but I think he has left the SCA ) and relaxing in the Scriptorium. There will be three very interesting classes held in the scriptorium which will make it really fun. I am looking forward to this. I also get to spend time with my parents in law and some shopping time in Hamburg and trying to sort out what comes next. We have Christmas coming up and a bunch of birthdays. We will also be away a lot or at least Marcus will be away a lot and so it will be a bit of a hectic time. I can't believe the year is slowly coming to an end. We have been here almost 2 years now but it feels like only a month has gone by. Which reminds me I have italian homework to do and laundry to do. Real life bounces in with a bang.  The winter cmoes, our nights when there are no clouds are brilliant and clear. Last night the moon's light was so bright I could have read by it. There is also a comet making its way out of the solar system that we should be able to see with the naked eye. If the clouds that came in on the morning winds vanish maybe we'll see it tonight.

okay well back to trying to get some work done, some writing done and some laundry and some house work in general. I also have to get some thank you gifts ready and try to plan for the weekend.

so until then, be excellent to each other!

I started to bid on another box of pen nibs, probably between 2 - 300 nibs on the box but stopped after I was over bid... really I don't NEED yet anoteh rbox of 1900s pen nibs but damned they're cool to have...

I was getting that sewing machine feeling so I walked away... still there is another box out there.... I havethe page book marked...

argh! 

my second box of nibs that I bid on and won 2 weeks ago came in the mail today and it's sweet! + 5 bottles of ink ( weenie bottles) three nib holders and some extra stuff....

*sigh*

until then be excellent to each other and stay away from ebay it's dangerous ...