My musings and stuff

Celebration V ...its ON!

2009-12-03T16:27:26Z

Okay...Celebration V announced today.

August 12-15, Orlando.

Tickets go on sale December 10, $120 per person.

Rach..you ready?

*whimper* 252+ days is not enough time...

Music Meme...stole from Miana

2009-11-24T17:44:29Z

Step 1 Put your MP@ Player/IPod on random

Step 2 Post the first line(s) from the first 30 songs that play no matter how embarrassing the song

Step 3 Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from

Step 4 Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

Rules:

No lyric hunting, that’s cheating.

No foreign language songs, and instrumental ones.

Have fun! --I have eclectic music taste.

Songs

1. I was blown away, what can I say, it all seemed to make sense…

2 Hey baby if your feeling down, I know whats good for you all day…

3 Early morning, she wakes, knock knock on the door…

4 You can torture me, with Donny and Marie…

5 Staring out at the rain with a heavy heart…

6 We’re leaving together, but still its farewell…

7 Find yourself in the gutter, in a lonely part of town…

8 I thought love was only true in fairy tales, meant for someone else but not for me…

9 This will be the day, that you will hear me say, that I will never run away…

10 …Its’ easy if you try, no hell below us, above us only sky

11 Don’t walk too close, don’t breathe so soft, don’t hug so sweet, don’t sing, don’t lay oh so near…

12 Sometimes youre better off dead, theres a gun in your hand pointed at your head…

13 The flowers you gave me are just about to die…

14 Another night slowly closes in, and I feel so lonely, …

15 Where were you when the world stopped turning that September day…

16 Mama take this back for me, I cant use it anymore, getting dark, too dark to see

17 Just a Kid, Just a fool, always trying to play it so cool, so he did what he knew, left home and dropped out of school

18 Got a job that’s okay, but they got me working nights again, punching in, punching out…

19 If you could only change your heart, if you would only change your mind, instead of slamming down the phone for the hundredth time

20 Whatever you do, I’ll do it too, show me everything, tell me how

21 Isn’t it strange? Feels like I’m looking in the mirror…

22 Listen boy, Ya don’t want to see a good thing slip away, I don’t like seeing anybody make the same mistakes I made…

23 Gonna make a change for once in my life, its going to feel real good…

24 Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me, I think they’re okay…

25 There goes my old girlfriend, there’s another diamond ring, and all those late night promises…

26 Theres a rumor here, and its going around, can you hear it on the street…

27 He’s free as the breeze, he’s always the dees, he lives in the jungle and he hangs by his knees, swinging through the trees without a trapeze, in his BVD’s…

28 I think you can do much better than me, after all the lies that I made you believe…

29 I’m on my way there to making it, Ive got to make it show ya!....

30 Sometimes late at night, I lay awake and watch her sleeping…

WHEEE!

2009-11-19T16:40:34Z

Okay...good n bad stuffs.

YAY for Star Trek. I forgot how fricking hot Chris Pine is as Kirk until last night.

BOO for iTunes...you fail at downloading my digital copy of said Star Trek.

YAY for my ComicCon team...we're all back together for round four. Confirmed last team member today.

BOO for ComicCon selling out so fucking quick...now husband has no pass.

YAY for being able to talk to my husband last night, while he was ON the ship, out to sea. Lucky enough to get a phone signal out there.

BOO for the fricking Navy who plans to send my husband on RIMPAC all summer long, and then on 6 month Deployment next November. WTF? Yikes...I'm stuck with the single mom thing for a long time it looks like.

and dammit...where;s my weekend. Is it Friday yet? Sheesh.

Trooperfest 09

2009-11-10T23:01:12Z

WOW. That...was FUN:

Seriously, I cant remember when I've had more fun.

Some of it was by myself, and some with the group.

Friday I arrived in Vegas at McCarran International airport around 10 am. Then, hitched my ride to the hotel, checked in, and immediately bumped into a bunch of legion folk. I got to my room, unpacked, and headed down to the casino. Knowing I was going to spend a fair amount of money, I got their free players card. They have a casino here in SD so I'll use it again. I messed around in the casino for a while, got my bearings, got something to eat, then headed out for photography.

Love Vegas acrchitecture, I do. I take so many pictures its unreal. I spent most of the time on skylines, macro, and fun with fountains.

I ran into Beth, Brandon, and Marie while I was out, and so headed back with them. We hung out there for a while in their room, and then went to chase down Cris K at CircusCircus. yikes..that's a LONG walk from Bally's. LONG. But, we stopped in at casino's on the way for the free drinks. Painkillers for tired feet...LOL. Found Cris at Circus Circus and then went back to Bally's for the pre-fest suite party at Damiens. Stopped at the liquor store on the way...since the party was byob, and then headed up.

It was crowded up there, but fun. I got to meet Lightning Bear in person, plus Felix Silla. Also got to see Anthony Forrest again, haven't seen him in a while. Also got a chance to meet up with a lot of folks that I haven't seen since CIV. That was the best. I left that party around midnight. Good thing I only had to stagger upstairs 9 floors.

Saturday started early. Breakfast with Scott Rogers at Paris casino, and then off to the Vegas sign for the picture. That was fun...Id volunteered to be photog for the weekend, and had no idea that I'd have to use a ladder to do the picture. Not fun when one is afraid of heights...but I did it, and didn't fall. Course, people were holding the ladder for me too. After that had a couple hours to kill so we all (beth brandon mike marie scott brian and cris plus me) went to a buffet for lunch prior to the start of the fest portion. That buffet kinda stunk. Lousy service. Then we went to the actual fest itself. Again, what a blast. 6 hours of talking, pix, patch/coin trading, watching the Star Warrior documentary, the panel from the celebs, a reading of the fallen troopers (many wet eyes in the room), and the cardboard trooper building contest.

LOL...that was so funny. Cris, Mike, Brandon and myself decided to put an SCG team into it, and so we were given a bunch of cardboard boxes, box cutters and duct tape to build armor with. OMG...it was too funny. It all started with a stick figure drawing and off we went. 1 hour later--wearable cardboard armor that we taped Cris into. TEE HEE. We got second place.

After that, the party was almost over. So we went back to our rooms to relax a bit before we headed over to Ellis Island casino for the afterparty. I hung out there with the same group for a while, mingled a bit, and then headed back to the hotel. I messed around in the casino for a while, won some money. Then crashed, I was damn tired.

Got up Sunday to meet my group at the Bellagio for breakfast. Their buffet is the bomb...really. Best food, and loved the service. After that they all had to pack and go home, and I had hours to kill until my flight left. So I went back to the casino, played more, won more, and then went down to the sports book for the Chargers game.

The game was nuts. I walked in wearing the only chargers jersey in the place and was feeling really outnumbered by the giants fans until about 10 minutes before the game. Then I got approached by two really awesome fellows (and damn gorgeous to boot) who joined me to watch the game--also in chargers gear. By the time the game started there were about 10 of us sitting together. The game was awesome, and kept us all hanging right until the end when they got a winning touchdown in the last 20 seconds of the game. And YAY for getting swept of my feet for a hug by the hot dude sitting next to me when we won. Dang...need to hit sports bars more often...LOL. (I told my husband about this later and he laughed his ass off...gawd he's tolerant.) I even won money off the game.

After the game I went out for a while for some more nighttime photography and then caught my shuttle to the airport to go home.

As much fun as I had, I can only do Vegas in small doses. My liver appreciated that I was leaving. But I do want to go back, with Paul if I can. :)

My pix are here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/briekalan/collections/72157622771756972/

So, I left with $400 and came back with just undeR $500 after all my expenses, food, drinks etc. Not bad. and NOT normal. I think that I just had a run of good luck. I can't complain. I brought it home and spent it all on the family :)

And yes...my plane flights weren't that bad. The first cause I was tuning everyone out watching labryinth on my phone and the second because I was too damn tired to care. LOL.

Icon and emotie love.

2009-10-28T16:12:53Z

Ohkay, so some of my forums need these emoties:

^ The pub crawl emotie

^ The stupid people emotie

^ For the people who don't know the search funciton and start new threads when the old one was easily found.

^ For the " Oh shit I cant believe you went there comments"

^ So many uses...For old and beaten to death topics, for old geezers in the group...

^ for the overly dramatic threads that are so entertaining that you just want to laugh at the chaos...

^^ The Yay for teamwork emotie!

^^ The PWNED emotie...oh the potential

Madam presidente...can we add to SDFF? Dying to use em...

And for iconage:

Pissed ^^

Angry disbelief or WTF ^^

Beyond pissed and near murder ^^

^^ And what should be my own icon --Busy!

OMG...I might...make it!

2009-10-27T15:48:33Z

Oh Halloween.

I have a love and hate relationship with you Halloween.

You give me one more reason to costume and be creative.
You allow me to drag my family, even my youngest baby who doesn't yet know what you are, into my obsession.
You allow me to show off my sewing/crafty/beady talents.

and yet...

You also inspire me to work up to the very last minute...and I mean the last minute.

But not this year Halloween...! I'm ahead for a change.

5 costumes, 5 people:

Baby's costume done a month ago. Cheer top and skirt, undershirt purchased, shoes, purchased, skipped pom pom (she won't use it anyway)

3 Jedi Younglings:
Pants...made by Grandma, enroute 2 day priority mail.
Boots...purchased--on clearance even.
Belts...target specials (they are for kids after all...)
Undertunics...plain white long sleeve T shirts. That's what the younglings in the movies wore (tan/neutral)
Overtunics, all three sewn, 1 hemmed, 2 unhemmed but will take about 1 hour to finish.

Autumn night fairy:
Dress...finished, complete with hand sewn silk flower details and ruched sleeves (whee!!)
Surcoat...finished, added hand sewn bead/silk flower/ribbon closure this weekend
Shoes...purchased and broken in
Undersleeves...fingerless gloves
Crown...finished a month ago
Wand...^^ ditto
Wig...in progress. Front/side braids done. Now doing back braids and loopings, sewing flowers in.
Accessories---makeup items, purchased. Nylons--purchased, but not sure if I want to wear, jewelry...finished.

Left to do:
Small details on fairy:
      Topstitching neckline to keep gather/spacing correct so it stops twisting
      Sewing beadwork onto hems of sleeves and dress
      Beading on neckline
      Wig
      Make bracelets to wear over undersleeves
      Pull everything together for Friday
      ~~Get nails done~~
Younglings:
     Hem last two tunics
     Hand stitch interior ribbon ties? (or be lazy and use safety pins?)

I have Thursday off and plan on doing all this then.

to do list

2009-10-23T20:24:34Z

Friday:

~~Survive workday~~
Balance budget/Pay Bills
Pickup kids
Home/Dinner
Clean kitchen
~~Have Jo vacuum~~
Empty catbox(es)
Empty Garbage
Set up Hepa Purifier

Saturday/Sunday

~~Fold Laundry~~
Work on Costumes
Sweep and Mop kitchen
Have kids clean garage playroom
Vacuum garage
Scrub out fridge
Clean Computer area
Fold/Box up fabric stash
Clean off stairs
put away my clothes
Straighten rug in Stefan's room (may need help with this have to move furniture)

Costume work:

Find belts for kids costumes (hit thrift store)
UGGS for kids costumes (fake uggs?)
Hem/sew Stefan and Jordan's tunics
Ruch sleeves on my robe--may use black braid trim...or beaded trim if I can find it.
Sew flowers onto ruching and possibly top hem?
Work on Wig (~~comb~~, style, w braids, leaves, etc)

Yikes...and I know I'm missing a bunch of stuff. Mostly Legion stuff.

For Rachel

2009-10-20T22:33:47Z

Vegas, we are confirmed for arrival...

2009-10-16T17:19:40Z

Well, after weeks (months) of planning to go, and waffling about it, I finally booked my tickets.

Despite the fact that I've already paid for my hotel, my badge/ticket, and for my mum's ticket here to watch my sithlings, I was STILL waffling on whether or not to go.

Especially after one of my travel partners bailed and the other isn't totally sure.

But...Screw it. Got my plane ticket today (OUCH. EXPENSIVE! I waited too long....), and I'll be arriving on the 6th of November for 3 awesome days.

I hope my liver survives it. If I spend very much of this trip sober, it'll be a waste of moolah.

Need opinions on a costume choice...

2009-10-13T16:00:56Z

Welll costume friends...

I need an opinion.

I'm doing a Dark Fairy for Halloween... Its intended to be the opposite of Titiana from Shakespeare. She's thin ethereal, white/pale, flowers in her hair etc etc. I'm fat n chunky, still pale, but the outfit is completely the opposite, dark black and blue, with accents of autumn leaves and feathers.

One of the reference pictures shows an "undersleeve" that's more like a glove.

Now, I don't have pictures of my dress yet, it's finished, but I don't have a way to take my own photo easily right now.

It is black, off the shoulder, and kinda looks like a chemise in the way it's made. The sleeves are long and pointed. It's based off a pattern from Arkivestry -- which is Simplicity's new "Goth" line of patterns. Look at the upper right of the pattern front, and imagine that in black. I recommend the pattern too, its SOO simple!

Then I've made a surcoat out of navy blue rippled chiffon with rolled edge lettuce leaf hems (love my serger!). It looks like waves cause there's so many colors of blue. But it's also very dark.

The surcoat will close with a frog just below the breast line, but otherwise float free.

Then I've made a crown, and a wand to carry, along with a red wig...I haven't styled the wig yet, so in the pic it looks a little funky. Here's Brie wearing the crown.

Then me: (I look awful so take this pic with a grain of salt...)

and then the wand...which I totally cheated on. It's a metal tube with the feathers stuck down inside, wrapped in ribbon and hot glued to death. And it's so LIGHT.

So, now you have a general idea of the look.

I'm thinking of two options: Ruching the top of the sleeves to gather them up over the forearm and emphasise the point of the sleeve and wearing the fingerless gloves below:

http://cgi.ebay.com/23-Black-Fingerless-Satin-Wedding-Prom-Opera-Gloves_W0QQitemZ350262136468QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item518d400e94

Or leaving the sleeves alone and just adding a bit of black venice lace in a rose pattern without the gloves.

Either way I'm going to be wearing long nails in either black or deep red.

Thoughts?

Halloween costume updates

2009-10-11T07:02:30Z

WOOT!

Finally making some damn costume progress.

I got both my dress and surcoat completely done tonight. WHEW! THank goodness for a serger that can do fancy narrow rolled hems on chiffon.

I also got halfway done with my crown.

So:

Dress: DONE
Surcoat: DONE (need to find a closure though)
Wand: Need to attach feather/leaf bunch, wrap and then done.
Shoes: Purchased
Crown: In progress
Wig: received, need to style. Problem finding a wig head first...
Wings...YEAH...might just skip these. Having a heck of a time, plus with all the parties I'll be wearing this outfit at...wings might not work.

Kids:

Well...I have the fabrics. Yeah.

Also been helping Rachel with hers tonight. She's got the skirt nearly done and we'll be able to work on the hood thingie soon. It's fun seeing hers come together too.

I might, just might, actually get these done in time.

Thank goodness Kids Jedi Padawans are so easy.

costume 1 down--4 to go...

2009-10-07T02:32:05Z

Well--today was my day off.

Productive day.

Packed all outstanding mailouts including challenge coins and stuff.
Finished Katie's costume
Cut most of the pattern pieces for my dress
Did the dishes
emptied 1 of 2 catboxes
changed the lightbulb in the garage (tricky...even on a chair I was on tippy toes)
fixed the printer
cleaned my sewing machine (damn bobbin casing kept jamming!)
Went to the post office
went to michaels
answered *some* email (50% to go)
Swept the kitchen floor.

I still have a couple more hours before bed in which i hope to finish cutting out my dress pieces and *maybe* do the basic seaming, or I could start working on my crown again...(blasted thing!)

But...this was my happy place today:

I made the skirt--its actually pleated but you can't tell. I made the cheer top too, an a line sleeveless tank. I bought the patch online, found the slippers at walmart (for $5), and she's wearing a long sleeve white onesie underneath. The only thing left is the pompom...and that's just a slow process. I was never a fast crocheter.

Now...to get mine rolling!

sigh Getting it done? NOPE

2009-10-05T15:29:43Z

Well crap. Halloween is in three short weeks, looks like there's NO way I'm going to get stuff done.

But then...the kids are going to be fairly easy too...I might be able to whip them out faster than I think.

Status of mine:

Crown:--started but, having issues. Need a stronger base to hold shape. But like the leaves I bought for it.

Wand: --found this awesome black feather plume to use, now I just need a base. I have an idea but need to see if it will work.

Dress and surcoat: Have fabric, hope to start sewing tomorrow

Shoes: obtained

Wig: obtained, need to style. It fits perfect, and ironically the color exactly matches my current shade!

Wings: The ones I bought are the right look but don't work for me. Too kiddish, so I'm giving them to little Emily for her costume since she is doing the same as I am. (this was NOT planned! Really! Emily thinks it's funny though.)
Now I'm going to have to make my own...this is more challenging, but I still have some ideas.+

I've also finished the jersey I was working on, and am 90% done with Katie's Charger girl outfit. I just need to pick up the shoes/socks/onesie today.

So, up next are a skirt for day wear, the revisions on Katie's outfit, more work on mine, and Jedi for the kids.

Three weeks left...can I make it...?

Star Wars in Concert. GO.

2009-10-03T23:26:12Z

OMG...best show evar.

Displays in the exhibit were awesome, Anthony Daniels as narrator was HILARIOUS, and the music...

If you are any fan of the Star Wars soundtrack...this was the best. You forgot that it was LIVE. THey had a live Choir in addition to the orchestra, and listening to Duel of the Fates sung/played live was chilling.

In the picture from L to R are

Don T, Donna K, Caitlin S, Lawrence G, Chris R, Lesley F. Lori P, Edgar G.

There were more troopers there, but we were the die hards that suited up before and after the show.

FUN FUN FUN and definitely worth the expense and time.

ARGH!

2009-09-29T20:46:47Z

Got word from the place I ordered wings today--the computer made a "mistake" and they were out of stock.

WTF?

So now, they are going to take 5 days to refund the money that got yoinked out of my account in mere minutes, and I'm on the wing hunt again.

I literally spent weeks looking for a pair that was affordable and not to terribly cheesy (and black...big dificulty there.)

Grouchy!

Here's what they were supposed to look like:

On the flip side, my shoes and wig arrived yesterday...

My Halloween costume crusade...

2009-09-28T20:46:25Z

So, with a family of 4 kids, comes a heck of a lot of costumes. Not to mention Mum and Dad!

Well, Dad's floating on a boat in Hawaii until next March, so I'm off the hook there.

Kids:

Katie (Baby) Miniature non-sexy Charger Girl costume. Since both her father and godfather would flip if I did this one:

So instead she gets a little white sleeveless top with a chargers patch, blue/white/yellow box pleat skirt, white baby shoes, and a hand crocheted pompom.

My three others decided they wanted to do Fairies from Tinkerbell.

Brie wants Rosetta...which is perfect for her hair/coloring. I found the wings for it at D23 I found the most awesome rose/purple ombre fabric for this at Joanns. It's kinda the wrong color tone, but it will work perfectly. And it is for a four year old after all...

Stefan, amazingly, wants Terrence:

I was kinda surprised that he'd want to do a fairy. This looks hard to start off with, but I think I can make it easier than it looks.

Jordan's is tough! She wants Queen Clarion. Again with her skinny built and long hair, it's a perfect choice...but. OMG the wings! Where am I going to find gold wings that won't cost me a fortune. (sigh) I did find the fabric. Gold tissue lame. on sale for 50% off. Something tells me that even with a serger I'm going to hate working with it. The crown is a little offputting, but we'll see what I can do.

Now mom's costume! HEHE...I hate to say this to my kids, but Katie's costume comes first as it's her first Halloween. Then mine cause I haven't had a new halloween costume in 4 years, just retreads of old stuff. I'm doing what I call an "Autumn night fairy".

These will give you some ideas of where I'm going...

This is my "hair" reference. Long red hair, with flowers, feathers, and leaves intertwined at the tips.

And my crown reference:...I am making a full circlet with black feathers, deep red and orange leaves and berries.

Skirt/dress reference...

I am making a chemise style flared dress out of this black suedecloth that looks "distressed" awesome stuff, and SOOO soft. It'll be off the shoulder but with long belled/pointed sleeves. I might do the red undersleeves made from gloves...haven't decided. Then I'll be wearing a black surcoat made out of this really lightweight sheer organza that I'm going to put a rolled lettuce edge hem on with red or orange thread. Then I've got these sheer black wings coming that I will put a few feather tips on as well. The surcoat will probably have a opening in the back to allow the wings to go through so that I can wear the harness correctly. And a pair of black sparkly espadrille sandals with ankle ties. I'll also be wearing a red wig of almost waist long curls. I'll be braiding parts of it, sewing in leaves and feathers at the tips. I can't wait to see how this all comes together.

I just hope I can get this all done in time!

I'm also making some mods on a football jersey, plus a skirt to wear to a football game in just three weeks.

GYAH. I'm so tired

2009-09-28T17:38:37Z

I know I brought this on myself, but I'm so TIRED.

UGHH....

Lets see:

Friday night--leave work early at 2 pm, go rush rush get kids, changed, etc, then go to stupid last minute corporate dinner, and rush to Dennis' house like an hour late. (HA! I still beat Edgar there.)

Stayed up at Dennis place drinking, laughing, watching others play Rockband/GH 5 (need GH5...seriously), and then watching Mike lose his Rocky Horror picture show virginity. (tee hee...that was funny! --So was watching Felixx in his seat. :-P) Got home roughly 2 am Saturday morning. **note to self, Sherry is awesome bartender~!**

Saturday--got up at 4 to feed baby, crashed again until 630. Speed cleaned house, did laundry, took shower etc etc, left for FanForce meeting at 1245. Took Katie to meeting! Meeting was fun, I have ballots now sitting on my desk waiting to be counted tonight. Got a chance to talk to Rach a bit, held baby Kira (she is cute!), talk football with the guys (tee hee), and have Carne Asada fries. Katie did get passed around a bit, but was cranky and wanted mommy. She kept trying to reach for Edgar too. AWWWWW... Of course, after the meeting we did the parking lot gossip thing for about 30 minutes with a bunch of us. After Fan Force I went home for a couple hours and then went out to Barona Casino to join Dennis and Sherry for the evening. Edgar came out with us too. That was a lot of fun, first time to a casino for me. Star Wars slots for the loss! LOL...Dennis lost $60 I lost $20, Sherry won $95. Of course Edgar has uncommon good luck and won a bunch off another machine, and we all played Roulette. I won $45 there. I think I finally left the casino at about 130 am. Man I was tired. And for the record...Barona is in the middle of nowhere and you have to take this long twisty windy road--you can't go more than 30 miles an hour. Good thing they don't serve alcohol there. (that's just weird though)

Sunday morning got up at 730 after a quick 4 am wakey by the baby. Went out to breakfast with the kids and aunt sharon at ihop--they had an NFL menu! HAHAH. Funny. After breakfast we went to the beach, and then back home to watch the Chargers game. During/after the game I worked on my helmet, robe, forcepike and stuff in preparation for Friday's troop, plus also some modifications on my throwback jersey for the Denver game and other minor sewing projects. I'm going to hit all this stuff again on Wednesday. I finally hit the bed about 11 pm, and then got up at 330 am to take Auntie to the airport.

Like 15 hours of sleep over the past three nights. OUCH.

The first battle in the school year

2009-09-17T02:35:54Z

Well, the first skirmish happened today with the teachers at school.

I've been "informed" of the homework policies and how they are "daily" returns. Yeah...that aint going to work.

So..to both teachers I sent a very politely worded noted explaining my situation here at home, our daily schedule, and the reason why we do most homework on the weekends. I let them know that I'll do my best, and asked to have homework returnable on Mondays, and also pledging to get assistance from Primetime.

Mrs Flinn, Stefan's teacher, hasn't responded. However, Jordan's teacher, Mrs Rodgers did. This is what I got:

Mrs Farquar, Okay, Monday's are fine for turning in all homework. I will give her math homeowrk each day after the lesson and she may bring all plus reading logs back on Mondays :) Mrs R. PS: I really respect your structured schedule. I think that is great for kids. Thanks also for your service to our country. As your husband serves in the Navy, I know you are serving us too by doing the Lions share at home. Thank you so much, Mrs R

*snif* ...WOW

This week

2009-09-08T18:31:44Z

To do:

Daily list:

Get kids up

Feed em breakfast

Make Lunches

Drop kids at Daycare/School

Work

Pickup kids at Daycare/School

Fix em dinner

Help with homework (please o please…not much this week!)

Baths

Get kids to bed

Tuesday

Daily list plus:

Clean Computer desk

Outgoing mailings

Clean kitchen table

Clean sewing table and sewing machine

Wednesday

Daily list plus:

Sweep/Mop Kitchen

Downstairs catbox

Thursday

Daily list plus:

Sew Katie’s facings in and hem costume top

Friday

Daily list plus:

Prep for Saturday at Cynthias/D23

Make sure I have garrison goodies set out to take to Scott Allen for LBCC

Saturday

Drop kids 530 am

Head to Anaheim

Sunday

Prep for school on Monday

Costumes

Total housecleaning

ALL WEEK

Laundry—evil beast, I will conquer you

General pickup

Costume list:
Katie's costume
Rachel's costume
my sleeve mods
my helmet
Jedi's for kids
Brie's Rosetta
Jordan's Clarion
Stefan's Terrance

Still a workin...

2009-09-05T16:39:19Z

Friday

Work!
Pick up kids
Dinner
clean catboxes
bag up garbage
wash laundry (at least 2 loads tonight)
have kids clean rooms
Have kids clean their playroom
Make Stefan find his glasses
relax and watch football game at 1030 if im still awake--might go for a drive just so I can listen to the game on the radio since it's blacked out on TV.

Saturday

Finish washing laundry
fold and put away all laundry, make kids help
fold and put away all blankets, make kids help
vacuum bedroom and pickup
clean my bathroom
~~watch recorded football game if I didn't stay awake for it~~
Pack for Sunday trip
Costumes--finish Katie's dress, start pattern for Brie's Rosetta, revise Rachel's pattern.
Sweep kitchen
Vacuum Living room

Sunday

Pick up veggie plate
B & B's house for the day

Monday

COSTUME DAY!!! --work on pattern drafting, cutting, sewing, on all the below ** ones have priority
    Katie's costume
    Brie's Rosetta costume
    New Jedi for Stefan and Jo including Cloaks
    My Autumn night fairy costume
    Rachels robe and sash *
    My guard robe sleeve mod and sash *
    Sand down helmet for repaint *

UGH...I feel like I'm not getting very far!

BLEH! Friday and lots to do

2009-09-04T15:26:56Z

Unfortunately this has been somewhat of a rotten week. I've been tired and headachy a lot, and it's a vicious circle that once I get the dumb ass headache, I get crabby which makes the headache worse, so I lay down with the kids, cant sleep, get crabbier/achier...just bleh!

But, today's going to be a good day, I swear it.

To do tonight

Work!
Pick up kids
Dinner
clean catboxes
bag up garbage
wash laundry (at least 2 loads tonight)
have kids clean rooms
Have kids clean their playroom
Make Stefan find his glasses
relax and watch football game at 1030 if im still awake--might go for a drive just so I can listen to the game on the radio since it's blacked out on TV.

Saturday

Finish washing laundry
fold and put away all laundry, make kids help
fold and put away all blankets, make kids help
vacuum bedroom and pickup
clean my bathroom
watch recorded football game if I didn't stay awake for it
Pack for Sunday trip
Costumes--finish Katie's dress, start pattern for Brie's Rosetta, revise Rachel's pattern.

Sunday

Pick up veggie plate
B & B's house for the day

Monday

COSTUME DAY!!! --work on pattern drafting, cutting, sewing, on all the below ** ones have priority
    Katie's costume
    Brie's Rosetta costume
    New Jedi for Stefan and Jo including Cloaks
    My Autumn night fairy costume
    Rachels robe and sash *
    My guard robe sleeve mod and sash *
    Sand down helmet for repaint *

And all through this, manage to keep the house decently clean, air it out big time, and not die from the heat.

Wow, I wish myself luck...

Wednesday...Oh wednesday...

2009-08-19T14:55:00Z

Yikes, its Wednesday!

Seriously...the week is going too damn SLOW. Once again, I want a remote for my life that has a fast forward button.

TO do:

catchup on work at office
call my laminator for quote
Fedex
Postoffice
pickup kids
clean kitchen
make dinner
wash laundry
fold / put away laundry (my chore I hate....)
work on final postal run for Thursday
catch up on emails and pm's for past couple days
bathe kids/bed
fix vacuum (memo to me buy new belt...)
catbox
garbage

Yikes....and I have to do all of this sometime in the next 14 hours. *sigh*

IZ Monday. GRR

2009-08-17T16:39:22Z

Its' Monday

It Sucks

BLECH.

YUK...to do

2009-08-14T14:39:12Z

Even though the weekend is supposed to be a time of relaxation...HA!

Friday:

Work until noon, then company picnic.
Petsmart: Catfood
Walmar: Diapers/Formula
Goodwill: Drop off donations
Home: clean out fridge, take out garbage, unpack first carload
Grocery store: weeks worth of groceries
Point Loma: Pick up younglings
Home: unload second carload and kids, and unpack groceries. Then dinner, dishes, general cleanup, and baths/bed

Saturday: Giant merch packing day. It all MUST be done. (Rach...I really need help...I'll feed you and give you alcohol!)
Plus: Laundry, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, airing house, catboxes done, garbage out, clean off computer desk, watch hells kitchen recording, record chargers telecast, make kids clean up rooms and playroom.

Sunday: continue anything left over from Sunday's list and start some basic costume work for Katie and then continue on down the costume list.

Im finding that I keep up with housework reasonably well while Paul is gone, but I really need to keep working every night. Laundry seems to be my waterloo that I can't keep up on. Dishes etc I do fine. Boy this is going to be a rough haul. I think I need to make the kids haul a bit more of their share somehow and then devise rewards for it.

Costume list:

Katie's chargers outfit ASAP
My RG Robe fix
Sand/paint/polish helmet
Rachel's RG setup
Rosetta Fairy for Brie
Clairion Fairy for Jordan
Terence Fairy for Stefan
Baby fairy for Katie...no clue? Tinkerbell or something?
Evil Fairy for mum... Picture something like a fat Maleficent without horns and with wings. And no green skin, sorry aint doing the makeup thing....
Finish Sith Lord--redo shoulder sculpts and hooks
Redo Scout work, biceps, arm greeblies, fix holster, helmet remodification
Fix handmaiden gown

Day off, for the win!

2009-08-12T02:30:08Z

Tomorrow is my day off. I've survived a full 5 days with Paul being gone and haven't had a meltdown yet.

WOO HOO!

Tomorrow Rach and I are hitting the exercise trail with the younglings, and also I'm going to work on costumes! A ANH Leia dress commission, plus a charger girl costume for the baby for football season and halloween. After that? More COSTUMES! I have 3 kids who want fairy costumes from Tinkerbell, and a evil forest fairy costume to make for me.

Now I won't manage all those tomorrow, but they're on the schedule...

My musings and stuff

Celebration V ...its ON!

Music Meme...stole from Miana

WHEEE!

Trooperfest 09

Icon and emotie love.

OMG...I might...make it!

to do list

For Rachel

Vegas, we are confirmed for arrival...

Need opinions on a costume choice...

Halloween costume updates

costume 1 down--4 to go...

*sigh* Getting it done? NOPE

Star Wars in Concert. GO.

ARGH!

My Halloween costume crusade...

GYAH. I'm so tired

The first battle in the school year

This week

Still a workin...

BLEH! Friday and lots to do

Wednesday...Oh wednesday...

IZ Monday. GRR

YUK...to do

Day off, for the win!

sigh Getting it done? NOPE