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1. Thanks to all who gave kind and encouraging words regarding Rosie. We are currently on nearly 3 weeks without a household-item-destruction incident! Yay us. Also, there has been no word from the possible former owners of Rosie. I am secretly... well, okay, maybe not so secretly glad about this. This past weekend saw another iteration of Bathtime for Rosie, during which there was a remarkable amount of fur lost for so non-furry a dog. I'm still defurring my tub area, actually.
2. I went back to the gym on Tuesday and decided to try my old workout routine that I hadn't done in some time. I thought it would be difficult and had not expected to have much luck at it. Instead, I kicked ass at it. I even went over the weight I'd had listed for one of the exercises without noticing. W00t! Also, from going shopping while on my trip, I discovered that while I do still tend to need an 18 when wearing non-stretch jeans to accomodate the unique curvature of the junk in the trunk, as it were, I am easily a 16 in everything else. I am making absolutely no progress in actually changing the numbers on the scale, but I'm working on not letting that bother me. Dancing totally rocks. The only downside is that I'd like to continue my lessons, only I'm coming up at the end of them and no rumored freelance check is likely to wing my way in the next two weeks to purchase more. This makes me sad, as I'm getting pretty good at it. Granted, the dance studio isn't the only venue in town to go dancing by a long shot, but I've worked hard to get a comfort level and a routine going there. It's a shame to just walk away from it.
3. I have a character concept for the LARP! And pictures! Should you wish to see them look behind the cut.
I had an idea I wanted to make a character named Lilie or Clara who was somehow related to one of the families of Nob Hill in San Francisco. You can imagine my surprise and delight, then, when I discover an adopted daughter named Clara for one of the families on Nob Hill! This is her obituary from Time magazine, 1928 (I think):
Died. Princess Clara, 66, relict of German Prince Franz von Hatzfeldt und von Wildenburg-Schonstein; from a heart attack; in London. Princess Clara's father, a pauperish grocer of Sacramento, Calif., was drowned when she was one year old. She was then adopted by her uncle-by-marriage, famed California railroad pioneer Collis P. Huntington. He left her $75,000,000. In 1889, a famed California beauty, she met and married Prince Franz, went to live on the Rhine. The Prince's extravagant gambling career made it necessary for him to expatriate himself and his wife. They moved to London. Splendorous as hostess & socialite was Princess Clara in both Germany and England. At one London bal masque she wore toe rings of diamonds.
These are pictures of the lady herself, dressed up for a fancy dress ball. I am considering replicating the costume should such a fancy dress ball exist in the chronicle I'm joining, as it wouldn't be that hard. The trim and accoutrement would be the worst of it, and you can fake an awful lot of that without too much difficulty using modern pre-made stuff.
Sitter: Princess Francis Edmund von Hatzfeldt, née Clara Huntington ( ).
This just so totally rocks. :)
2. I went back to the gym on Tuesday and decided to try my old workout routine that I hadn't done in some time. I thought it would be difficult and had not expected to have much luck at it. Instead, I kicked ass at it. I even went over the weight I'd had listed for one of the exercises without noticing. W00t! Also, from going shopping while on my trip, I discovered that while I do still tend to need an 18 when wearing non-stretch jeans to accomodate the unique curvature of the junk in the trunk, as it were, I am easily a 16 in everything else. I am making absolutely no progress in actually changing the numbers on the scale, but I'm working on not letting that bother me. Dancing totally rocks. The only downside is that I'd like to continue my lessons, only I'm coming up at the end of them and no rumored freelance check is likely to wing my way in the next two weeks to purchase more. This makes me sad, as I'm getting pretty good at it. Granted, the dance studio isn't the only venue in town to go dancing by a long shot, but I've worked hard to get a comfort level and a routine going there. It's a shame to just walk away from it.
3. I have a character concept for the LARP! And pictures! Should you wish to see them look behind the cut.
I had an idea I wanted to make a character named Lilie or Clara who was somehow related to one of the families of Nob Hill in San Francisco. You can imagine my surprise and delight, then, when I discover an adopted daughter named Clara for one of the families on Nob Hill! This is her obituary from Time magazine, 1928 (I think):
Died. Princess Clara, 66, relict of German Prince Franz von Hatzfeldt und von Wildenburg-Schonstein; from a heart attack; in London. Princess Clara's father, a pauperish grocer of Sacramento, Calif., was drowned when she was one year old. She was then adopted by her uncle-by-marriage, famed California railroad pioneer Collis P. Huntington. He left her $75,000,000. In 1889, a famed California beauty, she met and married Prince Franz, went to live on the Rhine. The Prince's extravagant gambling career made it necessary for him to expatriate himself and his wife. They moved to London. Splendorous as hostess & socialite was Princess Clara in both Germany and England. At one London bal masque she wore toe rings of diamonds.
These are pictures of the lady herself, dressed up for a fancy dress ball. I am considering replicating the costume should such a fancy dress ball exist in the chronicle I'm joining, as it wouldn't be that hard. The trim and accoutrement would be the worst of it, and you can fake an awful lot of that without too much difficulty using modern pre-made stuff.
Sitter: Princess Francis Edmund von Hatzfeldt, née Clara Huntington ( ). This just so totally rocks. :)
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Date: 2006-07-14 12:59 pm (UTC)From:It's just that usually there's a big empty space where the image should be, and this time there wasn't even that so I was confused. Weird.
(I have no idea why this happens, I haven't been able to find any evidence that anybody else has this problem via google or whatever.)
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