Weekend Plans

[LadyWordsmith]

Oooh, beach wedding! Sounds lovely. :) 

 

Tonight...I am eating hibachi with friends, then power-grading so I can take the rest of the weekend (I hope) off from grading for my son's 8th birthday, our 12th anniversary, and a weekend of gaming with friends. (SO don't want to grade during that.) 

[U4ea]

Beach weddings are awesome!

 

I never bring grading home with me I never do it when I do bring it home, so there's no purpose. Lol home time is for being home. Period.

 

My weekend was pretty low key. Dana raced on Saturday. I did shopping yesterday. Today, I did all the laundry. I watched the end of Les Mix (the movie) last night. It was very well done. Bawled my eyes out, just like I was supposed to. :-) Dana cleaned my truck today so we can take it over for an appraisal this week. We're going to trade it in for a Toyota Sienna soon, I think.

 

 

How's everyone doing?

[Ryrin]

I'm ok. I went to lunch at the Olive Garden and got a pedi with a girlfriend today.

 

Beach wedding was awesome.

[LadyWordsmith]

Lor, I would love to not bring grading home, but if I did not, I don't physically have enough hours in a day to 'do' it all. I only get one hour during the day for anything other than teaching, and each assignment takes anywhere from 2-5 hours to grade all of them. 

 

So other than the fact that I got a lot of that done, but still didn't finish, the weekend was pretty awesome. My son had a great birthday, and we gamed this weekend, and it was otherwise much more relaxing than the last three weeks have been.

[LadyWordsmith]

Had a very interesting weekend. Worked Concessions at a major college football game.... because I am an English teacher. (Our school has a stand at the local University. It splits profits. It was Student Council's turn to man the stand. I am learning so many interesting things at this job. ) 

[Wren of the Brown]

We had our annual Shire Defender this weekend.  This is an event we have where we invite the neighboring Shires and Baronies down for an afternoon of tournaments and whatnot.  For each of our tournaments (archery, fencing and heavy fighting) we have two place-takers; best overall and Shire Defender.  Since I was last year's Heavy Defender, I had to help run and marshal the tournament list and keep fighters moving and hydrated while doing some fighting myself.  Since we've seen a lot of growth this year, all of our new Defenders are new faces who have only been playing for the past six months or so - we've attracted a lot of enthusiastic people and I'm glad to see them recognized so early.
 
We also had two new tournaments this year; an Arts and Sciences show and a Bardic competition.  Since A&S can be so stressful, we started a new category called "First Tries" - it's a first attempt at crafting something you've never done before without need for documentation.  It's basically a way for people to get their feet wet when it comes to crafting and even people who have played for several years are entering pieces.  The Bardic competition was something we had over dinner and beer - we had to craft a poem or a story describing the scene depicted on a huge beer stein and the best story won.  The scene was a bar fight and so, we had one guy improvise a song about why they're fighting, another story about a drunken contest and a few others.  I also threw in an improvised poem and won the stein.  So, even though I've handed off the Defender title to a new fighter, I'm now the Defender of the beer stein.  >_<;;
 
Here's what I wrote:

In those days, August reigned,
heady and full sweltering.
The hall, fat stuffed with humid heat,
harbored the merry drinking.
Mead flowed, honey and full bubbling,
the babbling crowd, drunk and well seasoned,
rattled the picket board mead hall.
Look, now, at the age-addled crone,
her bowels full and blustering,
filling the air with fat flatulence,
heady and full sweltering.
Look, now, at the withered youth behind,
his nose full and blistering,
filling his viens with hot blood,
swinging his mighty mug,
ready and ham-fisted.
Look, now, at the shattered crowns,
brows bruised and bloodied,
fists hewing and well-battered;
the hall in tumult and full battle,
age-addled crone giddy and giggling,
well-content in the halls of the Hammered Badger.

I've been reading _a lot_ Anglo-Saxon poetry.

[Ryrin]

Awesome, Hiarth!  I want to join SCA soon as I am healthy again.  

 

I did a lot of reading and relaxing yesterday.  Today I spent most of the time at a friends home watching football and eating.

[LadyWordsmith]

Love it, Hiarthbeorn! I have been teaching my students Old English epics of late. 

We had our Provincial Triumphe event this weekend as well! To which we had blessedly (and surprisingly) cool weather given Ansteorra this time of year. It was a wonderful event. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[U4ea]

OK, I got through Peanut's birthday! We rented the beach house and had a blast! We didn't want to come home!

 

This weekend, Dana is playing with his rc cars. I'm debating taking the girls to a Fall Festival at the Tybee lighthouse. It really depends on how the girls are today.

 

Peanut lost her first tooth and turned six last so! She growing up too fast!

[Ryrin]

I'm going to an outdoor choir concert. It's held on a ranch. There will be a silent auction and desserts. My son is in the choir. I'm really looking forward to it.

[U4ea]

Fun!

 

How did it go?

[Ryrin]

It was awesome, Lor.  We've decided that we liked it so much we plan to go even after our son has graduated!

 

I really want to go to the movies this weekend and take a long walk outside in the cool weather.

[Ryrin]

We went out to lunch and to the movies to see "Captain Phillips." Good movie. Now we are at a Fall Festival in a park at a small town near where we live. Beautiful weather.

[LadyWordsmith]

Choir concerts are fun! 
 

This weekend is Fall Break! Four days! They will be busy days, but I am excited. We are doing a Cub Scout activity at the zoo, and then I was asked to play a role on Saturday evening in a 1920s dinner-theatre murder mystery! I am one of the suspects, "The German Maid." It's a one-night thing, but I'm looking forward to it. 

[Ryrin]

That sounds like a lot of fun, Lady!  

[Hallia]

Rashi and I are going to Disneyland this weekend!

[Ryrin]

Yay!!!! Have fun!!!

[LadyWordsmith]

Thanks, Ryrin! I think it will be.  

 

Let my weekend begin. It's Fall Break and I just entered all of this week's grades into the computer! I get the weekend OFF for the first time since early August!

[U4ea]

off? ugh. I don't have one of those until Veteran's Day. We don't get a Fall Break. Well, we do, I guess. It's called "THANKSGIVING." *sighs*

[LadyWordsmith]

Sorry to hear that, Lor!  

 

[U4ea]

*shrugs* I've never had a "fall break" so it's one of those "don't know what you're missing" things. The first half of the year is always the hard one to get through. I swear the last few weeks have been LONG and exhausting. 

 

Anyway, what's up this weekend, my Kinsters?!?!

[Ryrin]

Not sure yet. I'd like to go for a walk outside, watch football and maybe a movie.

[LadyWordsmith]

Spent today at a friend's birthday. We grilled food and played "Betrayal at House on the Hill" which is a really neat board game that involves exploring a haunted house in a group, and was a lot of fun. Very thematic for the month. Then came home and watched 'Epic' with the family for the first time. I enjoyed the movie.  

[Ryrin]

I watched some football, went to see Thor and went to lunch with my husband.  Nice weekend.

[Wren of the Brown]

I didn't have practice this weekend; the Shire was off and away to an A&S event. So, I had a nice stroll through the park and, afterward, went out and found a new sweater. Spent the evening playing Ryzom and did some reading for class.

 

Today, I tore apart the house because I found a black widow hanging out by my dresser. Set off a fogger and am sitting here now, at the Denny's, eating a country fried steak and listening to the honky tonk they're piping through the ceiling.

 

Like a rhinestone cowboy. -coffee-