http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/ele/757912246.html 

If anyone wants a good big TV, I'd much rather sell it to someone we know, and will certainly go down on the price.

Thanks!


Cleaning house has been fun.  We were out in western mass this past weekend, I'll give details later...  We're going out there again THIS weekend.

Whew!

 

An Acura Integra.  Our new (used) car.  We have named it R2-D2.  





We had a lovely time on the Fame, and the fireworks were spectacular.  We sat on the boat to watch them.



More photos will probably follow.

Been very busy, so if I don't know what is going on with everyone and I've missed something important, I'm very sorry (really!) but I haven't read LJ in several days due to the busy-ness of everything...

Tomorrow is triplehdm and my 2nd "anniversary."  We're going out on the Fame to watch the fireworks in Salem.  I'm very excited and hope it doesn't rain...

Also, we have an acquisition that I will post pictures of soon...  I was waiting to post until everything turned out well with it...

If you ever want your head to hurt, read about the Chinese emperors and empresses during and after the Three Kingdoms era.


It isn't good to be the king.

Or queen.

Or anybody.

Too cute... 

Just bought tickets to go see a Jethro Tull concert in early August.  It's their 40th anniversary tour.  Which got me thinking; do any people nowadays even know about my favourite bands?

Most people I know barely have heard of Jethro Tull and the Moody Blues.  the Who is a different story of course, but what about singers like Tom Rush, or even Cat Stevens?   Does anyone of my generation really know or like them?  

My fave bands are the Who, Moody Blues and Jethro Tull.  Does anyone else here like them?  Or have similar bands that they feel people don't remember?

Did I make a post like this before?  Am I becoming senile already?


Anyway, wicked excited to go see Jethro Tull with Dan.  It will be my second time seeing them, as the first time I saw them was around 5 or 6 years ago at Tanglewood.  They are amazing!

Weeeeeelll....


Lesse, first of all, Demonslayers went well, apart from having to cancel one day due to my ridiculous non-being able to breathe from the coughing illness. I had done the previous Sunday show with a temp of around 101, which I do not recommend to anyone who has fights in a show, it made for a very difficult time, but fortunately all the fights still went without a hitch, and the audience loved it all the same.  We made decent money to give to charity, so that is really good, and JT and Amy were fantasticaly helpful.  All things considered, I'm rather relieved that the show is over.  Although, there is the rumor that a sequel is in the works ;)

I am no longer working with John Hancock.  My headache "thing" made it impossible to work there, so there you go.  I have saved up enough money to allow me to take some time to just try to focus on getting acting work.

NOTICE FOR THOSE THAT ARE ASKING REGARDING CALIFORNIA:  Dan and I are putting off Cali for a bit as there are supposed to be a TON of movies filming here this summer, and rather than spend money to move out there and work as extras, we're going to try it here for a bit and hopefully have something to put on our resumes for when we do make the jump to the West Coast.  So yes, we will be around at least this summer, and depending on if we are getting work, perhaps longer.

I did a stage combat workshop for some middle school kids while we were in the midst of Tech Week for Demonslayers, which I do not suggest for one's sanity overall, but they were wonderful, and they particularly loved learning how to fall down.  I'd forgotten how much I like teaching, as it had been almost a year since the last time I taught.  Possibility for the future?  Not as my only thing, but maybe someday I'd like to be a movement/fighty teacher.  Not for a long time though.  I don't want to be the teacher that never went out and did anything.

Had a lovely several days at home with Dan and my folks.  It seemed like the trip of eating things; lunch at Fresh Pasta in NoHo (Dan and I both had pesto chicken with asparagus and sweet potato ravioli with gorgonzola garlic bread and chocolate torte, wow), Cornish Game Hens cooked by my mom, breakfast at Elmer's, a picnic by the river with several VERY yummy cheeses, dinner at my fave restaurant in the world:  Bizen, for Godzilla sushi, tuna carpaccio and lots of plum wine, and on the last day, a cookout of epic proportions, with my homemade bbq sauce for chicken, steak, marinated fiddleheads, my mom's potato salad which rules supreme over all other potato salads, shrimp, raspberry mead and strawberry shortcake with my hand whipped almond/vanilla/maple whipped cream.  Phew!

Fighty was much fun, as Dan and I basically goofed around with our lightsabers.  A double bladed lightsaber is much harder to work with than one would think!  But it ended up being a pretty cool fight that we came up with, and I got my hand cut off!!  Like not for real or anything...  It was wonderful seeing people, particularly Kate and Justin, whom we have not had a chance to see in quite some time.

I am EPICALLY looking forward to the Cabin Party. 

To all the hot mommas I know out there.

Rock, rock on!

So some of you will see this a lot, but for those of you who haven't, here is my awesome friend Conor's documentary on stage combat. There is a lot of me and my friends fighting. And we look pretty cool. Cooler I think than we looked at the time...

He rules.

Happy Beltane Everyone!

May the mead flow like...

Well, like mead!

Super mega-huge happy birthday wishes to my main squeeze triplehdm!

Hey world, you owe him a really awesome day. See that you deliver.

 Ahem.




WHINE!!!


That's all I got.

To Veronica!!  Have a lovely day!! 

So I know it's been quite a long time since I posted, but there hasn't been too much excitement.  More of the same shenanigans with headaches and whatnot...

However!!

WE MET "ROWDY" RODDY PIPER!!!!!

 

Ok, you totally can't tell how much I was smiling.  I think my face might have been twitching.  So how did we do this?

triplehdm and I went down to NJ and stayed with my Godmother, then we drove to Cherry Hill where there was a huge monster movie convention.  Piper was there with Keith David to do a "They Live" reunion thing.  I was SO nervous.  But when it actually came time to meet him, he was so nice!!  I gave him my ticket from the Royal Rumble to sign, and he was excited that we'd been there, and couldn't believe that I'd actually been hoping he would show up.  He loved my outfit (heh) and when I told him we drove from Boston just to see him, he kissed my hand and told me I was so sweet.  

...

Roddy Piper is a gentleman???  How is that possible?  Well.  It's awesome anyway!  So yeah.  I was shaking like a leaf afterward.  I told Piper he made me so happy and he said, "Good!  Stay happy!!" 

I really am still reeling, and that was on Saturday.

We also saw "Jay" (Jason Mewes) smoking a lot, and telling people all sorts of good natured nasty things, I took a picture of Malcolm McDowell, but his line was too long.  Bruce Campbell's line went literally around the entire building, so we didn't bother.  Met lots of fun zombie movie making people, picked up a couple gifts for friends, and then drove to Philly for an hour.  Everything was closed, so we just threw money on Ben Franklin's grave and wandered about for a bit.

A little bit more to follow later, but that was awesome enough I think.

To eimiayumi !!!