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28 June 2004
It's Sue's Birthday! Happy Birthday Sue!  
No, there is no link to her website, but it still is my friend Sue's birthday. So...

Twenty-six years that Sue has lived
Alas I have no present to give!
Take the song, Suepey! Sing! Sing!
Till to you Angus will me bring!

Okay it's short, twisted and wrong and you probably don't know the tune, but hey! It's a birthday song! Happy Birthday!

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 08:35 (1) scribes commenting

26 June 2004
Shann amuses me  
Shann just left quite possibly the most amusing tag on my tag board. Well, it amused me and cheered me greatly. Not that I've been in a bad mood. I've been in happy zen-like place where things that would have reduced me to tears a few years ago are like are just accepted and moved on.

I think that you can love someoene, be it a spouse, partner, lover, friend, or family member, and not love everything about them. In fact, you can hate quite a few personality traits and still care for the person. It doesn't mean that you have to sit down like a doormat and roll over every time they say you have to do something. That's not love, that's being a doormat. You can bitch and moan, complain, snark, rant and otherwise vent about those you love but that doesn't degrade what you feel for them. That doesn't take away from the carinig that you feel. It's part of the caring.

There are many many things you can't change about people, nor should you try to change and mold other people to fit to your ideal. You should accept that you can't change things about people. And yes, some of their traits that you can't change will frustrate you at points, and perhaps it's healthier to vent to someone else who understands and who can just hear a rant and let you go AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGG! so you don't have to add people's burdens.

There's a fine line between seeing and feeling someone in pain and wanting to help, but knowing there really is nothing that can be done to help. There's a fine line between hinting and outright asking. There's a fine line beetween asking and begging, and along the way some things get confused or lost. Caution on one part is mistaken for outright refusal. Not moving at a breakneck speed is mistaken for unwillingness. But even then, it doesn't diminish any caring or love you have for someone.

My shoulder hurts.

I have to get cleaned up and started on garb for myself for pennsic, so I actually have something to wear at war! Gah. At least I have the EO's garb done. I'd describe it here, but it's a secret as what it's for, and he might read it, so I can't post! shhhh... In a month and a few days, I can!

Today is a day for the Cheerios shirt (thank you Aunt Jackie and Uncle Steve)!

May Jen still be going good in her recovery!

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 09:34 (0) scribes commenting

24 June 2004
Moral Dilemma  
I'm sitting here hemming and hawing about some things that I said I could do. Part of it comes down to feeling imposed upon. At least the timing of things. I do have a life, and I have things to do, and I have a feeling these words are going to up and bite me in the ass sometime. Oh well, maybe they'll take a little with it. Not too much, I actually don't mind my butt currently. *ponders how to turn so that when the words come to take a chomp out of my butt, they'll take a chomp out of the excess baggage I've got elsewhere*

Okay, enough of that.

Back to the ponderings.

I really wish that Jen would get her butt online, so I could use a sounding board... alas Jen is recovering so it's doubtful she would. Recover Jen, recover.

So I'm still sitting here still in a dilemma and still thinking... I need a good snark-fest. I really do.

So much going on this weekend. Saturday I've been invited to two graduation parties, one birthday party, and some friends are moving and need Brute Squad help. Sunday is my cousin's graduation party which I should go to and I want to but don't (see moral dilemma).

The weekend after, I'm going to see Wicked on broadway with Sue... hi Sue! That'll be a fun weekend.

And then only a few more weeks until Pennsic. *gets excited*

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 07:26 (0) scribes commenting

16 June 2004
Typo that needs sharing  
I mean, besides everyone needing hobbits--because everyone does, Typos are amusing...

Jen: yeah typos baby
Me: gotta love them
Jen: you have ot

I love typos. They make things interesting!

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 11:50 (1) scribes commenting

14 June 2004
Blogger Comments  
Hey... apologies to those of you who had commented before. Now I've got comments through blogger! yaaaaay! This makes me very happy. Anyway, they're there now so hopefully the commenting will be more reliable on bd.com's end.

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 09:59 (1) scribes commenting

Update from all Heck!  
So I'm up to my elbows in work waiting for me after I got back from my conference. Joy. I knew it was the only way to make some arrive. Anyway...

Thursday was fun. Went to breakfast and had already gotten breakfast when I discovered the Belgian Waffle Maker. I made a mental note for Friday. The conference continued in conference-y ways. I attended a session on blogs and what it could mean for my profession. The presenter asked who had a blog, and I was one of like two people who raised their hands. So what if I have 3?

After the last session, I forwent having dinner at the dorms so I could go visit my friend who lives outside of DC. We had been talking on the phone so we had concluded that I had go to Baltimore Penn Station to hop a train down to University of Maryland (Hi Susie!), etc. So I hailed my first cab (ooh, I felt so adult!) and got down to the train station (it seems as though we read the maps wrong and I had to go to Baltimore Camden station. Now this wouldn't have been a problem as I could hop a light-rail train from Penn to Camden and still make it to Camden in time to catch the 5:15 train which would have put me near my friend around 6 giving us time for a leisurely meal and then to get her to her hockey game. Except the light-rail train was broken, so we went one station and then had to change trains, therefore I missed the MARC train to College Park by like 5 minutes and had to wait an hour to catch the 6:10 train. This train would still have put me near my friend by 7ish, which made for a more-rushed dinner and still get her to her hockey game in time. Only the MARC train had a sucky signal. I think all of them did. It meant that we went no more than 15-20mph the whole trip, stretching a 45 minute trip to an hour-and-a-half long one. They had to switch the switch manually. AND there was a screaming baby! This put me to my friend around 8 or so which meant we had to grab fast-food in order to get to her hockey game) but I eventually saw her.

Went to her hockey game. She scored two goals! YAAY! One of her teammates was a professor at the place where my conference was and was going to pick up her hubby on campus after the game, so she gave me a ride home. :)

It was only then I discovered housekeeping had stolen my towel. So I got up early Friday morning and made a complaint to the conference housing people and they told me there was nothing they could do since a supervisor wasn't in. And besides, the towels had probably been sent out so I wouldn't see it until Monday. Not a solution since I was leaving that day! I was calm about it all and pretty understanding. I realize why they got confused since my towel was yellow and in a quirk of fate they happened to provide light yellow towels in my room. Fortunately for me, a custodial person was there, and he took pity on me and unauthorizedly took me down to the laundry section and helped me look for my towel. One yellow towel out of a pile of many! But I found it! Go me! I got it back. I was happy.

Of course, the shuttle had to pick me up in the middle of my last session. The driver didn't know his way around, but we eventually made it to the airport. I checked in no problem. The security guy was super-nice! He told me that my shoes might set off the alarm, so I took them off and walked through without setting it off (of course, I came prepared and went bra-less, too much information, I know!), and he smiled and wished me a nice day. I wish all security people could be friendly like that.

Then I got to my gate. I bypassed lunch because I'd get home at like 2ish and I was still full from Breakfast (belgian waffes, yaaay!). Only the plane coming from Virgina had 'mechanical problems' so the plane was delayed an hour and a half. Then we boarded so very quickly. And got on the plane.... and had to wait another 30 minutes for the fuel to arrive. *sigh*

So I didn't get in until 4.

Discovered parking was $30. That combined with the cost of the shuttle and I should have driven. At least I would have been on my own damn schedule. *curls lip*

So that was the end of my conference.

After that on Saturday, I was a vegetable, sleeping in until noon or so until the EO called and wondered if I wanted to take a road trip. So we went to look at camping supplies. And then found cool poles for possible banner/standard/pennant holders.

That evening was spent with J and M, and was a good evengning all around. I was inspired to sew.

Which I did on Sunday. I pieced together harem pants--which were left unfinished due to the need for elastic (which I later found, but was on a different project by then)--a chemise, which suffered the same fate. A coat for Defltwood wear, which I did finish enough to wear, but it needs decoration, which I will be deorating. Little fun blades of windmills on the front and then perhaps (if I have enough beads) a windmill on the back. :)

I started on my bodice... finally! :) It will be pretty and red and I have enough of left over fabric to make the tabs and weee! :)

On a side note... I really hate when people bother me as if I don't look swamped enough!

Shann--back in the 70's now, but oh, the 90's in Baltimore were so much fun!

Jen--I'm back now! look I live!

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 09:50 (0) scribes commenting

09 June 2004
Hey wow, blogger changed it's look  
Guess this is what happens when you finally have to go to the site to update the blog instead of using the quick and dirty button on the Google Toolbar.

Hi. I'm in Baltimore. Weeeeeee! On a conference and doing conference things. That's about it. Got to run around in the sunshine yesterday and did bits of it today. Got to revel in 97 degree weather. Aaaaahhhhh...

Little planes annoy me to no end. I really mean it. They're loud and annoying and no food or even drink service. It sucks. *curls lip*

But the conference has been nice thus far. At least that's good. Yaaay! I can't say that the little plane upset me overly much since I'm all happy-go-lucky now. :)

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 21:18 (0) scribes commenting

07 June 2004
Reconclusions  
I have concluded again that I'm a very personal and private person. Gee how'd you come to that stroke of genius? Well, because. Because I hate it when people at work ask me how my house is going. Well, if there's some big event going on in my house that I want you know, I'll tell you! I hate it when people ask me where I'm going or what I'm going to do or what I did on the weekend all the time. If there's something that I feel you should know about what happened on the weekend, I'll tell you. If there are plans that I think you should know, I'll tell you. If you ask me, I'm going to shut up and change the subject.

Why?

Well, because I like to keep my worlds happily segregated. Work worlds shouldn't interfere with home worlds, unless I choose to mix them. All my worlds should be kept separate until I choose to mix my worlds.

I don't really care for people knowing EVERY LAST FREAKING MINUTE DETAIL ABOUT MY LIFE! If I want to share a detail, I will. If I don't. I won't. That's how I am. Deal with it. It's not because I don't like you, it's because I'm an intensely personal private person and I only mix my worlds when I want to.

You know, the people that understand this about me (you know who you are) are the ones who tend to become closer to me and know more about my plans and what I'm doing.

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 12:29 (0) scribes commenting

02 June 2004
Applications for my new favorite peson now being accepted!  
Upon changing the quote up on the main menu, I noticed that Lyev's been my favorite person for quite a while. I mean, who's done nice things for me that have spontaneously caused me to declare "You're my favorite person in the world right now!"? Obviously, it'll be going to Lyev's head that he's retained the favorite person status since February.

No, I think I shall have open applications. All you have to do is find me in person, bestow me with chocolate or "chicken" and get me to declare that you're my favorite person.

Unless this has happened and I forgot to update the site *gasp!* which would be bad, and if that happened, please let me know so it doesn't go to Lyev's head that he's still my favorite person in the world.

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