Weekend Recap
Ah, I have returned to the dorm after a weekend at home. Friday Da came and I went home, trying to sleep in the Blazer, but kept getting woken up by people either calling me (April, Macha, Laimia and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
kill_macewan)or some idiot thinking he could outrrun a tractor trailer and failing miserably. I ate some yummy rice my Granny made and then watched Most Haunted and wrote. It had been forever since I actually sat down and wrote something for myself.
Saturday was Stoakesay Castle's Annual Faire and as always, it was great! Well, most of it anyway. The aura-reader gave me basiczally the same lecture I've gotten since 2002! I got it the first three times lady, you know me, you read for me every year and I'm sick and tired of hearing the samr damn thing. I actually got pretty brassed off about it at the time because she deliberately brought up several of my Order-mates who passed away and accused me of 'closing my heart to love and friendship.' My reaction? Yeah right, lady, you know what, just sod off. But of course I couldn't say that while sandwiched in between Da and Buzz. Right after this I circled the room again and a large oval piece of bloodstone set in a silver braid pendant caught my eye. I continued shopping, checking out cloaks and corsets and catching up with cousins, aquantinces and old friends I hadn't seen in months sometimes the year from the last Stoakesay Faire. After a third time of circling the room like a...buzzard...I went back to the table with the bloodstone and I convinced my Da to let me have the $40 to buy it for my collar. It took some cajoling, but he agreed and handed me two twenties. I walked over to the lady running the table, a Bern by clan, and handed her the box containing the pendant. "I'd like this please." I said v. nicely.
She starts a spiel about the qualities of the piece...aligning you with your bloodline, your clan, staunch wounds, stop bleeding, prevent injury, aid in invisibility charms, acrruing wealth, money, power and helping to assure victory...blah blah blah. I wait about two minutes and finally say. "I realise all of this, can I have it." It seems she finally looks at me, or something triggered in her mind and she flushed and says: "Oh, of course, that pendant I made myself...it's $40 dollars, but with 20% off it comes to 30-something." I don't remember what it was exactly but I was surprised by this, obviously.
Me: Is there a sale of some kind?
Her: No no, we just like to keep people like you happy.
Me: *smirk* "Okay.
Her: Esther will get your change. *whispers to cashier*
Me: *Takes change* and prances over to where Da and Buzz are standing, shocked.
Da: Was there a sale?
Me: No. *Cheshire cat grin*
Buzz: *Laughs* Did you threaten her?
Me: No.
Buzz: Your reputation strikes again.
Of course now the pendant is on my collar and I am very happy. Wee bloodstone... So we eat dinner, leave late, and drop Buzz off. Da and I go play pool and for the 3rd time in as many years I beat Da! Woohoo...celebration time! So I popped back over to Granny's for the night, go to bed, wake up early and go over Buzz's new 401(k), Watch Harry Potter POA, went shopping for fishy stuff at Wal-Mart (Because Laura (princessstarr)have new fishys. So I come back to the dorm and after watching the pilot of 'Lost' which Laura has now addicted me to, I run into Nisse and Laina--they have a gift for me--a 3rd fishy.
So now we have 3 fishies who need names...Yay fishies.
calmkill_macewan)or some idiot thinking he could outrrun a tractor trailer and failing miserably. I ate some yummy rice my Granny made and then watched Most Haunted and wrote. It had been forever since I actually sat down and wrote something for myself. Saturday was Stoakesay Castle's Annual Faire and as always, it was great! Well, most of it anyway. The aura-reader gave me basiczally the same lecture I've gotten since 2002! I got it the first three times lady, you know me, you read for me every year and I'm sick and tired of hearing the samr damn thing. I actually got pretty brassed off about it at the time because she deliberately brought up several of my Order-mates who passed away and accused me of 'closing my heart to love and friendship.' My reaction? Yeah right, lady, you know what, just sod off. But of course I couldn't say that while sandwiched in between Da and Buzz. Right after this I circled the room again and a large oval piece of bloodstone set in a silver braid pendant caught my eye. I continued shopping, checking out cloaks and corsets and catching up with cousins, aquantinces and old friends I hadn't seen in months sometimes the year from the last Stoakesay Faire. After a third time of circling the room like a...buzzard...I went back to the table with the bloodstone and I convinced my Da to let me have the $40 to buy it for my collar. It took some cajoling, but he agreed and handed me two twenties. I walked over to the lady running the table, a Bern by clan, and handed her the box containing the pendant. "I'd like this please." I said v. nicely.
She starts a spiel about the qualities of the piece...aligning you with your bloodline, your clan, staunch wounds, stop bleeding, prevent injury, aid in invisibility charms, acrruing wealth, money, power and helping to assure victory...blah blah blah. I wait about two minutes and finally say. "I realise all of this, can I have it." It seems she finally looks at me, or something triggered in her mind and she flushed and says: "Oh, of course, that pendant I made myself...it's $40 dollars, but with 20% off it comes to 30-something." I don't remember what it was exactly but I was surprised by this, obviously.
Me: Is there a sale of some kind?
Her: No no, we just like to keep people like you happy.
Me: *smirk* "Okay.
Her: Esther will get your change. *whispers to cashier*
Me: *Takes change* and prances over to where Da and Buzz are standing, shocked.
Da: Was there a sale?
Me: No. *Cheshire cat grin*
Buzz: *Laughs* Did you threaten her?
Me: No.
Buzz: Your reputation strikes again.
Of course now the pendant is on my collar and I am very happy. Wee bloodstone... So we eat dinner, leave late, and drop Buzz off. Da and I go play pool and for the 3rd time in as many years I beat Da! Woohoo...celebration time! So I popped back over to Granny's for the night, go to bed, wake up early and go over Buzz's new 401(k), Watch Harry Potter POA, went shopping for fishy stuff at Wal-Mart (Because Laura (
princessstarr)have new fishys. So I come back to the dorm and after watching the pilot of 'Lost' which Laura has now addicted me to, I run into Nisse and Laina--they have a gift for me--a 3rd fishy. So now we have 3 fishies who need names...Yay fishies.