Gentlefolk, I am, today, stupidly excited by a number
That number being 155.4
Or, in other words, fifty pounds off!
I started in early February of last year, and I’m not really done yet. The winter was stupidly slow on weight loss; no walkies outside. But woo! When I started, I wasn’t sure I could do it. Now I am.
My friend Wyste was writing about things, like a to-do list only more fun. These are my things.
There are 7 big parks within a reasonable drive of our house, not counting the one in our back yard. I’d like to hit all of them at least once this Spring/Summer/Autumn.
Two craft festivals, maybe three. Naples. Can we make Rhinebeck? Need a catsitter. Park Ave Fest in Rochester.
Wine festivals, Naples is a double-header that way, and Cortland. Be done with wine touring after E&KB until the students are gone for the summer – what else can we do while we’re waiting for them to leave?
(must not involve getting a tan for the next month & a half. Considering snow, not hard)
Tattoo! And a hairchop and dying.
Leads to knitting, need headbands. Lots of headbands & kerchiefs.
And I really want a sundress. Will the extant pattern work? How about fabric? Could probably buy new, still have coupons. But I have soooo much fabric laying around.
I should finish that little above-the-knee skirt. That would be cute come summer.
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| One Sense Two Cents Political Rant
From http://wbmaclean.com in re. his beta testing of his One Sense Two Cents comic. My rant, his drawing. 🙂 |
Weekends like this past one remind me what I love (and hate) about living down here.
Saturday was a trip to Horseheads to get T. fitted for a tux for an upcoming wedding we’re both in (Horseheads is the closest town with a Men’s Warehouse; it’s about an hour away). This involved driving through some of the most depressed and depressing parts of Southern Tier, NY, but it also involved random sights like this, a stop at a winery above Watkin’s Glen, a stop at a really nice restaurant, and a really nice drive with my spouse-person. I’ll chalk it up as a win: I’m still full from those ribs!
Sunday we were still feeling like driving, so we headed out to Liedenfrost Winery, where we stopped last weekend, got a little more wine, stopped at Atwater Vineyards for a tasting (Really, really, really good wine!) and then took a hike in the Finger Lakes National Forest.
We started discussing the history of the Reiassani people while we were walking & driving, so I’ll have some worldbuilding notes and maybe an exodus map later this week.
I love my dinner train of thought looking at cupboard: mm, not in the mood for matzo ball soup. Want Jambalaya. Don’t have a Jambalaya mix. Maybe Dal palak with the chicken in the fridge? That sounds tasty.
We ended up making naan with a side of chicken, sausage, and mirepoix.
😀
Today was a do-it-yourself wine tour. 🙂
Penguin Bay Winery was having a buy-two-get-one on their very nice Percussion wine, so we headed there.
I’ve wanted Red Newt’s Hellbender Soiree port since we stopped there this autumn (there was a line), so we stopped there on the way to get a bottle of that.
After Red Newt and Penguin Bay, I turned into the first winery that looked really interesting, which turned out to be Leidenfrost Estates. We tasted … well, most of their wine list, and ended up buying a Log Cabin White, which is a nice versatile semi-sweet wine, and their dessert wine Encore. (their Gewurztraminer was also very nice).
Then… we stopped at Finger Lakes Distilling, and split a rather more high-octane tasting. Nom. Delicious. We’re going to have to go back and buy more.
All in all, a nice way to get out of the house for a few hours. 🙂
This began on Twitter, but I’m posting it here after some encouragement to do so.
In short: I’m sick and tired of hateful blanket statements about other groups/parties/affiliations.
To be tolerant, one needs to be universally tolerant; either it’s okay to have any opinion, or none are okay.
(Noting, of course, that an opinion or a political affiliation are not, in themselves, actions (hitting someone with a stick is still bad))
Religious group X, political group Y; they do not themselves hold opinions. Bigot A, Loudmouth B, they may, but assuming they represent an entire group is just turning around and being as hateful and prejudicial as they are.
To the end of “all I can do is disagree,” I will unfollow people who are spewing hate speech, whatever direction they are spewing it in.
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In discussing YsabetWordsmith‘s latest fishbowl, marina_bonomi asked:
Anyone else tries to give a face to the protagonists and antagonists in the material you read? Do you hear their voices instead? Both? neither?
This is actually a bit of an issue for me: I don’t picture people well, and certainly not faces. I’d have a hard time bringing to mind facial features of old, dear friends, much less fictional characters. Heck, I had no idea what Rin & Girey looked like for quite a while, and I only know what Autumn looks like because of her smile.
What I picture, for friends, for fictional characters, my own or others, for people I only know on the internet, is bits of body language, and sort of stand-alone body parts: Eseme’s hair. Wyst with a china cup of tea. Trix gets a screwdriver. it may be sonic. Brian’s hugs. Elasmo talking animatedly.
The curve of someone’s back. Their hands. Their expression. Their way of grumbling. The place I most often see them. But people? I don’t seem to picture people as a whole, at all, and I almost never picture /faces/.
What about you?
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| Finger Lakes National Forest, early Autumn 2010 |
