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[Jul. 9th, 2009|11:35 am] |
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So, again, I've let posting lapse. I remember a time when I was posting every day. Multiple times. That was likely a much more annoying time rather than entertaining, but still. Even if I have a hard time reading what I sounded like in 2001 over again now, it was nice to have a record.
So here's another go at picking it up again. Let's see if I can sum up the recently of things, yes?
A couple of shows have happened. George, Genevieve and I went to see Fuerzabruta in May which is this wild show off Broadway (a birthday gift to Genevieve from me and Michael). Action happening all over, above, on the walls, on treadmills. The audience moves around with the show. Crazy lights and building music. It all ended with a rave dance party under indoor rain. Thoroughly enjoyable show; quite the worth it experience.
Only other notable experience in May was more festivities for Genevieve's birthday. Lots good food and lots of friends.
June came and went almost as though it didn't exist. Many things happened, but it was one of those months that felt like it was over before I'd realized it started. To kick off the month we had a performance in Asbury Park for a ::insert many different sexualities and lifestyle choices here:: benefit. Our very first outdoor (and on asphalt, no less) show which went swimmingly but far too quickly. I did "Fuck You" again (which I absolutely love) and almost bought chaps. Damn my slightly too big (but beginning now to slim) thighs! I'm determined to have a pair by next year. This was followed by Dan's graduation party which was mucho fun and my introduction to a great family tradition of theirs: celebrating important milestones with lots and lots of crab.
Around the same time I got to enjoy both a boys' weekend and girls' weekend (one while Genevieve was in Virginia and one while Michael was in south Jersey). Boys weekend included much geeking out (including seeing the new Star Trek for the second time), much drinking, and a great deal of laziness. Girls weekend started by seeing the rescheduled Bailout Burlesque Charity Auction. (The first of which was cancelled, uncancelled, cancelled, moved, and finally cancelled the first time around - all on the same night. That experience included hanging awkwardly in the new Indian restaurant which was appalled to have us there in the first place, then move up to the scary soon-to-be clothing store which was falling apart, boxes and furniture - and rat pellets - strewn everywhere, only to discover performing there as illegal, almost moving the the gay club down the road, and ultimately turning away the whole audience and going home completely unfulfilled. Although in retrospect not a bad story to have.)
The rescheduled show was much fun to watch, some for tragic and some for very talented reasons. Parts made me very much want to collaborate, and other parts made me cheer (slightly inappropriately) as one act was dragged off stage. Overall and very fun night. I would love to see the auction aspect revisited now with lessons learned.
Saturday continued our girly-fest starting with some shopping, where I spent money I didn't have on clothes I _really_ wanted. Next we saw The Proposal which I liked a lot, followed by Appletizers and an impromtu stop at the club Switch to have shots and dance until close. I hadn't had a girly weekend in a long time; lots of fun was had.
Following the fun and leading up to the first of two full weekends of gaming, I got very sick, although nothing compared to the red death rash of earlier this year. Fortunately, my health returned for my weekends of gaming. You see, many times in the past we've started talking about RPGs and playing and I've said something like, "Oh! We could play now!" and everyone laugh and pats me on the head and we move on. But several weeks before, this happened while Dan and Katie were over only instead of laughing and patting, Dan, Michael, and Joe said, "Okay!" and Katie and Genevieve went shopping. This in and of it self was a geek-dream come true for me. And even moreso, as wee talked further, spawned into a plan to do full-on gaming weekends while Katie was away in Texas for a couple of weeks for a wedding.
This gave us (Michael, Joe, Dan, and I) a chance to plan an awesome D&D campaign Michael's been working on for a while on weekend one. Last weekend we tried D&D 4th Edition Friday night and then George joined us for Saturday and Sunday where we played card and board games and watched some geeky British comedy. (Best way to celebrate Fourth of July ever!) Completely enjoyable weekends and I absolutely want to do similar for every celebration that's for me. And many weekends in between.
Besides these gems I've remembered to mention, I'm sure many other really great things have happened, and for those things I forgot, I appologize. Much of the rest of my life has been exercise, shower, work, shower, dinner, sleep, repeat. Much with the work. But things are pretty okay right now.
Enough rambling; hopefully another two months will _not_ go by this time. |
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[Nov. 3rd, 2008|03:11 pm] |
Lots to sum up. I'm not so good at the keeping up with LJ these days.
So I'll start with White Elephant. On Thursday night we had our first ever us-hosted event at the Diva Lounge in Montclair. It was a pretty great show. The space was good, we had plenty of people show up, including many we didn't recognize, and we all had a blast, even with the occasional slip ups and trouble with the sound systems. We got along well with the management and bartender and may have made a contact for a new member. It was really a great experience and I'm so glad we did it (and that I was able to be there).
We left at around midnight and headed to a diner (me, Genevieve, George, Regina, and Jeff) and chatted for a while before heading home. My least favorite part of these things is always bringing stuff back inside after the show. But soon enough we were unloaded, I was showered, and I collapsed into bed. Overall the five hours sleep I got wasn't quite enough. So getting through work was a bit difficult, but it was a short day and I closed up early. Then George, Genevieve, and I picked up Erin and I headed home to started finishing the minor decorating and setting up we had left to do for our evening.
We had a really nice evening hanging with Katie, Dan, Erin, and Joe. We watched movies, talked, and drank a lot. By around 1:30 I was one of the first to pass out. My body definitely decided to deal with my drunkeness by falling into a coma. I remember only two things after that. One was crawling and falling out of bed at some point trying desperately to find the bathroom but still being too dizzy to move around easily and the other was talking to Genevieve while trying to stay stable on the floor when she finally came to bed. I woke up in the morning feeling pretty much like crap, but drank some water and got rid of enough toxins to be able to clean up and make breakfast for everyone who was up.
Later on Michael, Katie, Dan, and I parted ways with the others to check out a gun shop we were pointed to by the Mount Olive PD when we applied for our FIDs to check out their selection. It was somewhat busy at the counter when we got there but we were able to take a look at a few things we really liked, including a Taurus revolver comparable to the Smith & Wesson I'd decided on. The largest differences were the shorter barrel and the fact that it was a .38 special instead of a .357 magnum. But I knew I was unlikely to get use out of .357 rounds anyway, and I've discovered that the shorter barrel, or at least the sights on the Taurus, are easier for me to use properly.
Anyway, afterward we met back up at our place with Genevieve and George and hung out a bit before Katie and Dan had to get going. The four of us spent the rest of the day eating more of the massive amounts of food we'd gotten for the party and playing games. We played Burn in Hell which's a Steve Jackson card game and then LIFE, which I've only ever played on this crazy computer version we had gotten with our Gateway computer years back.
Sunday was spent mostly out. We met Joe and Borders where I ended up buying way too many books (but they were cheap! And buy one get one free!) Then we headed to New Hope. I'm having some trouble with one of my piercings and wanted to get some advice from the piercer. I need to try barbells apparently before giving up and starting over, but I'm going to order them myself because they massively overcharge. We spent a good deal more time there and ended up chatting up two nifty guys, one who we met last time we went - he owns this awesome antique-y shop with all these weird and freaking artifacts. And he's got great stories. We had yummy pizza and ice cream and then headed back towards home. We stopped to do some rare but necessary Michael-clothes shopping and then spent the rest of the night in.
This morning Michael and I took a trip back to the gun shop this time equipped with snap caps so I could try the action on the revolver because that was really the only thing keeping me from deciding to go with that one over the Smith & Wesson. After trying it and talking with the guy a little bit he said I could prepay and have it stored until out permits and FID cards came in. So I did. It was a really excellent deal; "used" in the sense that he ordered it for someone who ended up not purchasing it so it was never actually used. The only thing not pretty much perfect is the gold fittings like you can see here, but it _does_ come with wooden grips in addition to the rubber ones, which is awesome. And I can always order silver fitting sand replace them once I'm familiar enough to take it apart.
Overall, I'm thrilled. I wish I could get my FID card already, but I'm all ready and paid for once I receive it. Plus I saved a _butt_load_ of money. :D
So that was an _excellent_ start to my day. And then, after setting up and having breakfast with Michael before he went back home this morning, I also discovered that 24/7 Led Zeppelin is back on XM! (And apparently Sirius Radio as well.) Yay!
And thus, for now, concludes my varying and all over the place sum up. We'll see if I get any better with more frequent updates. Soon to come: wedding planning update! |
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[Sep. 11th, 2007|11:42 pm] |
So, George, Genevieve, and I went shopping tonight for SalonCon/Wicked Labyrinth stuff tonight. I had taken the day off from work to recover from an icky tummy virus I've had since Sunday morning and finally felt mostly better by this evening so I joined them. We went to Inspirations, Good Will, a busted sex shop, and Genevieve and I hit Walmart (out of necessity) after bringing George home. I got quite a few things.
At Inspirations I got the most adorable, girly pink negligee for one of the numbers that I tried on tonight and with my corset it looks so good! Genevieve cooed over it, so I know it's perfect. Then at Walmart we got the majority of the purple fabric I need for my number which I'm more and more excited about. I just need to learn the choreography, that's all.
So yeah, very good stuff with the costuming and for pretty cheap, too. I will feel much better once I'm confident about the choreography, but the costuming helps.
Okay, now time for shower and then bed. |
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