This is mostly for my zombie fan friends.
Looks like Mr Brooks is going to be putting out a graphic novel based on the historial attacks in the Zombie Survival Guide...MUST HAVE!
Also, the World War Z movie is in the works. They hired one of the main writers from Babylon 5 to tackle the screenplay. I really hope they consider doing the movie in documentry format.
Anyways, interresting read.:)
http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/06/29/wwc-interview-world-war-z-writer-max-brooks/

I'm feeling way too happy over finding my shoes for the wedding. I think I'm just happy I found a pair of heels that are so comfy to walk in and are cute too.
Oh, and my dress came in. So I'm going in for a fitting this weekend.
I'm a dorky bride.
Squee!

Totally Ganked this article from Jen.

Most of my LJ buddies out there are from the fandom and get why I try to get my butt to Gathering whenever its in my means (Alas, not the last couple of years:( ).
To all my recent friends, I think this article sums up my madness nicely.
http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2008/06/11009/fifteen-year-fans-the-gathering-united-by-a-90s-disney-cartoon/
Think of it like war, but with wings.
And yes, I'm staffing next year in LA. Its hard to keep me away from a Gathering for longer than two years.

I'm a dork. But a PROUD dork!

Review went well. I got a .50 raise which ain't too shabby. They said it wasn't much but they wanted to do something to show they appreciated me. So thats not too bad.:)
I celebrated buy buying way too much Retro Lush....don't ask.

So I started working out with Max which is nothing really formal. More like "Hey! let go out and do something active!" more than anything. So yesterday we went to Coronado with our friend Alana to go bike riding. I haven't been on a bike since I was 15 years old. And I've forgotten how much fun riding a bike is!
We went around the entire island which was about a 2 hour ride. I had SO much fun! But my GOD! I am in SO much pain right now! My back is sore and I had quite the case of bruised booty from sitting on the bike seat all day.
Reguardless, it was a total blast despite the sore body parts.

Max also bought me new roller blades. WOO! I've been wanting a pair for a while now. If I'm not too sore after work I may pop those suckers on and do a couple rounds around the cour yard.

In other news, I'm sad I had to miss Gathering this year. But Since Gathering is in LA in 2009 I can actually go!...and I'll be on staff again doing art show stuff so go draw, people! ;D

So, originally I was going to revamp my Phoenix costume for Laby Ball this year. So I bought some fabric and hauled the sucker out. After Wrestling with it for about a week I desided it was going to be FAR more work trying to re-imagine the damn thing than it would to just make a new costume. Unfortunately with my Phoenix costume, the wings are completely shot, and the skirt is now WAY too big. I'd have to rebuild the majority of it. Frankly, I was not up to the challange. Not to mention I really wasn't in the mood to wear another costume with an exposed midriff. I start to get self concious half way through the night with all that skin showing and surrounded by tall skinny chicks, short skinny chicks, and guys who look better in corsets than I do.
So I scrapped the project and desided to start over with a new idea. I had a ton of wine purple gauzy cotton with silver pin stripes that I was planning on using to make pants for garb. Then I realized that color goes with nothing I own garb wise. So I figured I start there. I also wanted to take a swing at trying that greek style dress I made my first Laby Ball. The first time I made the dress I had no dress form so the thing fit horriffically (And I got the pictures to prove it.). So I figured I'd go greek nymph until Max came up with a kick ass idea of making a female Baccus costume. Oh yeah. ALL OVER that idea! The color works perfectly for that!
The gown is made (and actually FITS my body for a change) but I think the whole thing is going to rely on the detail work and the head dress. I plan to take a jaunt to Michael's to pick up some leaves and grapes. I also want to add a small touch of Mucha in there with the style of the head dress.
So I'm all stoked I have a direction. The best part is the fabric is so light weight and nice that I will be really comfy.

So yeah, just wanted to share....:)

Tourney Pics! Wooo!
Today I finished everything too fast at work...now I'm sitting here. So I'll post up them tourney pics of Dooooom!



( Super_Happy_Funtime! )

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 

Tired.
I didn't sleep too terribly well last night for some reason. I think it was a combo of the heat, cat, and nervous energy I currently am harboring.

It has been a bizarrely busy Tuesday at work. Mainly because I'm both Lead VSR and Supervisor right now with my boss out of town. So yeah, a bit...okay...a LOT tired.
But I was like super woman today and got almost ALL my tasks done! Go me! There are only a few not finished since I'm waiting on other people for answers.
ANYWAYS...
Just got sprung on me that I have an end of Fiscal Year review. 0.0!
Reviews make me insanely nervous because I tend to be OMGWORKETHIC!!1!! girl all the time. Hopefully it will still be as positive as my last review was or close to it.

Last night Max bought a mountain bike. He's been wanting a bike for a long while now. And currently he's on a "we need to exercise more and eat healthier" kick (totally fine with me) so he wants to go back to bike riding. So now we have a mountain bike in the middle of our living room. O.o. Luckily we have a bike cage in the garage but we have to go to HOA to get a spot in it...so now its in our living room. O.o.... Oh boy. Mountain Bike in the living room...O.o Reguardless, I'm really happy to see Max wanting to get more active and excited to get out and move around.
I'm planning on buying a pair of roller blades so the two of us can go to Balboa park and wheel around on the weekends. Currently I can't afford my own bike and I've been itching for a pair of roller blades for a while now. I love me some roller blades.

I have TONS of Tanwyour Aniversary pictures I need to post. I thought if today was slow, I'd post them today. No beans on that one. I'll post them tomorrow perhaps...besides It gives me time to steal pictures from other people who posted pics of the Tourney...like pictures Ty took and I shamelessly snagged for myself MAW HAHAHA!
...yeah.

Tired.

I took my camera to two D-land trips and I still haven't posted the pictures.
So behold! Photo dump! TONS of pictures so beware!



( DINNILAN! )

Well....that was mildly disturbing.

I had a bizarre dream that I got a message from the ASPCA saying my dog was being neglected. That she was sick and covered in sores and they had to come claim her if I didn't do anything.
So I paniced and though "How could I forget I had a dog?! What kind of person am I!?" And started to rush around to get to my dog. But I couldn't figure out where the dog was. Once I figured out where the dog was I couldn't GET to the dog because the doors were locked.
Then I realized I was asleep and attempted to force myself awake to get to my dog to help her.
Then I woke up and realized....I don't have a dog.
That I haven't had a dog since 1996 and she she passed on peacefully and well loved and cared for.
Besides, there is no place to PUT a dog in our little place so I desided to not get a dog and got a cat instead.
And the cat was happily sleeping on my foot while I woke up.


It took me a few minutes to process these thoughts so I was a bit boggled for a while.

So I hugged Scout and went back to sleep.

WTF brain?!

EXTREMELY antsy today.
So much I want to do this week! So little time to do it in!

Wedding
I'm meeting with Peter today about wedding hair stuff...chances are it will turn into a gossip session with little spriklings of Disneyland talk involved.

Friday I go for Invites. I feel bad that I had to schedule without Ty. But unfortunately Friday day was the only day I could swing it. :(
To make it up to you Ty, I will force other evil bridesmaid stuff upon you.

I hit my first major snag with the wedding this week. Turns out a the bridesmaid dresses are sized incredibly wacky. Now I know not to expect a perfect fit when these happen but my girls have dresses either 6 sizes too big or 2 sizes too small...Come on now.
So there will be words exchanged probably today about this. I don't plan on ranting and raving but I do think I deserve an explanation on this all. We'll see how it goes.

I NEED to finish the save the date belt favors for the household! Ugh!


Labyrinth Ball
So it looks like its a GO for me and Joe to Labby Ball for Friday July 11th.
Sorry I'll miss you YET again Tabitha!
Trish is letting us crash at her place then we're going to carpool to the party. Anyone want to meet us at the dance?
I'm hauling out my old Phoenix costume, but it needs some major repair and overhaul since I lost 15 pounds since I first made it. I really like the costume though and I really want to fix a few things and add some others. I want to re-do the head pieces and make them look more over the top and elegant. I need to re-fit the skirt since it was big on me the first time. and the big thing is I want to add a tail shaped train to the back of the wings to give it that extra OOMPH it really needs. I also want to do some cool makeup. Unfortunately Steph did that awesome face paint on me last time and I have no clue how to go about it. I'll figure something out.

SCA
Tourney on Sat! I get to wear my new orange persian! WOOO! I'm hoping to take some photos of the Tourney. Its been a LONG time since I took my camera to an SCA event.
Fighter Practice tonight. Looking forward to it.:)

Need to get Kettil his Iron Maiden belt favor.

Home
My house is a disaster area...I REALLY need to clean.
My fish tank is in desparate need of a cleaning.
Luckily Mr Max has been slowly doing laundry for me...because he rocks.

So yeah. I wanna nap.

Ugh....
I am competely drained. Today kinda kicked my ass.
It wasn't a bad day. Just a busy one.
I'm so freakin busy these days! I really miss sitting and vegging out infront of the TV.

I wanna nap....a 12 hour nap.

Okie Folks. I just picked up two tickets to Labyrinth Ball for Friday July 11th. One for me and one for Joe if Joe can go (Max unfortunately will be working..I think.).
I figured I'll pick them up just incase and then if it looks like I can't go I'll try my best to sell em. But as of now, Looks like I'll be going on Friday July 11th.

Who's going to be there?

I had a KICK ASS weekend!
Daaamn skippy.

It was so much fun having Rob visit. And it was even more fun spending the weekend with him, Jen, and the brood. Its been far too long since I've been up to visit Jen. Its killer on my walet for gas but its so worth it.

We drove up to see her daughter, Susan's highschool graduation. There I got to meet the wacky relatives. (Yes Jen. You'll be Aunt Patti in about 20 years;)). The next day we flitted off to the big D-land and had a blast...and took some dorky pictures. Hopefully I'll get them posted tonight or tomorrow night sometime.
After we made it home, Max and I tortured Rob with gaming stories and gumbo from Creole. Poor bastard.
Anyways, it was a blast. Rob needs to come visit more often. Ya here that, Canadian!? ;D

Anyways, its back to the ol grind for me, which isn't that bad. Work overall has been mellow and I've been Miss Super Efficiant Desk Jocky of DOOM these last couple of weeks. Hopefully it will stay on this trek.

LOTS of wedding stuff scheduled this week. I'm excited to get it done. A bit concerned though that my dress has still not come in...O.o. I'll give them a call today probably.

SCA tourney next Saturday. Unfortunately Max is scheduled to work. I'm I'm still going since I have the undying need to dress up in garb again. I have a brand new Orange persian coat that needs to be worn, damnit!
And Rapier has been going really well. Avienel told me I am improving every time I show up and that he's happy he hasn't been having to constantly drill the basics with me like he has to with other beginers. Go me! Now I just need to order my damn Gorget so my neck isn't always in pain at practice.
Max and I dragged Rob to fighter practice with us after he flew in. All the main fighters' eyes lit up at the sight of the new gigantic Canadian guy. You could hear all of them loudly think "DIBS! I CALL DIBS!"
Poor Rob. Max and I'm sure abused him grately all week. :)


Yeah, its been a good week.

Wedding To Do List:
-Call Flower Lady about flower additions.
-Call DJ to touch base.
-Finalize Quartet contract.
-Call Demetrios about gown arrival date.
-Order that map print fabric.
-Get the whole tux thing situated.

Yeah, its getting to be that "all consuming" part of wedding planning when I spend most of my time working on this and not on much else. Not that I mind. I've actually been having a lot of fun organizing and making sure its all coming together. But it hasn't really been exciting to anyone else but me so I've been on the down low with LJ since I don't want to bore you with "LiekOMGWedding!" stuff other than my random to do lists...which I need for my sanity. Despite my excitement, I am still getting lots of headaches at the end of the day. O.o

Mr. talyesin is coming to visit this weekend! I haven't seen him in over two years so it will be great to hang with him again. We're heading up to crzydemona's place for the twins graduation party then a jaunt to the D-land on Friday with the brood. REALLY looking forward to the visit. And I'll bring the camera to record the insanity.


N-E-Ways...
That's about it in Cindy land.

Damnit Capt'n! You ALWAYS do this to me!
Capt'n sat Max and I down and had us watch The Lost Room which is insanely awesome. Apparently it was a miniseries on SciFi that I completely missed. Now I'm addicted. And HOW many series do I still have to get through? Lets see, I still have to finish the first second third etc. season of Lost, the second season of Dexter, the first season of Avatar, the second season of Dead Like Me, and attempt to check out Jerico. I know there's another one in there. Now I'm all into The Lost Room.
Luckily its only six episodes and we watched I think four last night. So we only have two to go. But still. The amount of TV series I'm now trying to finish is staggering.

Anyways, The Lost Room is insanely unique and intriguing. What I like so far is it really doesn't explain a whole lot about what is going on. Its just happening and you're kinda screwed. I love shows that leave a lot to your imagination...and there's also a pen that will set you on fire and a comb that stops time. That makes it awesome just in itself. The cast seems to consist of "that Guy"'s. You know the actor. The ones you see in everything but aren't famous enough for you to remember their names. So when you see them you point and say "Hey! Its THAT guy!". They're all very accomplished "that guy" actors as well.

If you like that everyday scifi genre (the type that is set in the real world, but is just REALLY off) this is a great series to check out.
So go rent it...NOW.
Seriously...I'll wait.
*...taps foot*

So Remember all those things I said I'd so last night?
Yeah...I blew them off and went to see Indiana Jones 4 instead with Max.
It was fun. Not amazing like the first three films. Something seemed to be missing from this one which kinda made me sad. I still feel that the ending of Last Crusade was the best way to end the series, with Indy riding off into the sunset. But Crystal Skull was fun when it came to tying up a few lose ends and had some great moments that were very much like the original films. I was pretty impressed with Shia LaBeouf. He wasn't playing his typical Shia LaBeouf character of the bubbling nerd boy. He played Indy Jr Jr rather well and if they desided to continue the franchise with Mutt as the lead I'd go see it in a heart beat. He really felt like young Indy to me. In fact, I think he was underused in the film. Cate Blanchett as usual is my hero and I loved her as the campy Russian scientist. Her and Shia were the two things that really made the movie feel like an Indiana Jones movie to me...which is bizarre since they were the two things that were never IN an Indiana Jones movie before. I think it had to do with the fact that neither seemed tired or old and both seemed to be having a blast in the film. The plot was also fun and different and, thank the gods, they did not deside to rely heavily on CGI. Yes there was CGI but it wasn't Star Wars 1,2, and 3 CGI.
One pet peeve. Why bother introducing characters that Indy apparently knew for years when you could have just freakin' brought back Salah? I understood they didn't bring back Marcus since Denholm Elliot died years ago but I missed Salah in this movie. Come on, how hard is it to get John Rhys-Davies back, huh? Was he too busy filming Anaconda 4?

But it was far better than I predicted and I did have a good time. I may buy it on DVD just so I can have the complete series, I doubt I'll go see it again. I'm still perfectly happy with Last Crusade as the final film.

So the network has been down since around 11 am today. I still had internet and my register but any real work work I had to do had to go on hold. On the upside, I had lots of fun reading cracked.com and trying not to laugh out loud. On the down side, Oh my hell it has been a sloooooooooow day in every respect of the word.
So I've been fighting to keep my eyes open. Luckily in another hour or so I can start closing down. Then I head on home for a nice long walk, shower, and possible laundry before bed time. I'm trying to get housework done afterwork so I can have my one free day (Friday) To just veg out and do nothing important except maybe sew. Got lots done last night. If I get more done my veg our Friday may be a reality!

I also have a ton of printed photos of Danny at home..a TON. I need frames! Lots of frames, stat! I swear if my parents expect me to put this many pictures in frames, my place would look like a babies 'r us catalog...REGUARDLESS! My newphew is the cutest and sweetest newphew there ever was! So there! Ha!
And he only thew up on me once!
Leelee bought him a pirate shirt in honor of me and Max. I need to get him a pirate hat of some sort.

Feeling the urge to sew lots of garb on Friday...which is why I want my day free. I really want to start my Italian Ren and maybe work on a couple kirtles since I have all that dang linen look fabric I got for mega cheap. I should probably whip up another tunic for Lou since he's currently our naked pirate in residence. The man needs garb something firece. Anyways, I'll see if I can actually accomplish this on Friday.

Wedding stuff is coming along smoothly so far. Found alternate treasure chests that are cuter than the original ones and mildly reasonably priced. I ordered samples. I have an interview with another clergy and I booked the last two vendors. WOO! All but the gravy now, baby! So things are truckin' along as they should.


So life has been shockingly uneventful. Which is kinda nice considering the many years of chaos I had in the past. Can't complain...other than to say right now I want some dinner.