So, I have been off the blog for a bit. I haven't really been ill, just have been posting mostly to Twitter and Instagram. It's not that my enthusiasm has dropped or shifted but that I find myself wrapped up in the routine of springtime. I've sorted through all of my winter clothing and packed that away, I started wearing my springtime outfits to work, I've been enjoying the outdoors, we've been a little more social, and the LARP season is in full swing. With all of this activity, I find that I am just relaxing and reading a lot while doing any of these things (except writing/playing for LARP, where I don't have time to read). So I finished several very delightful books recently and have been steadily enjoying the tastes of sweeter, lighter teas instead of the darker "winter" black teas. I have also been cold/cool brewing most of the tea during the daytime.
I filled out the Spring Interview form for Drink Militia and got to answer some fun questions. It brought me back to writing about tea and my passions for tea, so I am trying to come up with my Spring/Summer inspiration for blogging. Maybe I will come up with pairings or baking recipes that use tea. Not sure yet. Obviously still tea blogging but maybe tea as an addition to life and not the center. This sounds funny to me because I have tea almost every day of ever, so it is definitely more than a simple addition to my life. This discovery process should be fun as I figure out how to direct the next few months of the blog.
The LARP season has been going well and we've had two very good events. David is stepping down as Assistant GM and will not be running events any more. I will continue for now as the Head of Plot but I am mostly writing the world background, additions to race and world packets, and giving explanation or definition to things. At this point I am not, nor do I want to, run weekend events. We have been working non-stop for four years now and I am needing a break. We're not stepping away 100% and we both plan to write for the current storylines we have going and I still keep trying to expand on and complete the pieces I have been working on. The fibro is making me more and more tired from fighting to keep going during the week, so I think David and I are making some smart decisions to not grossly impact our lives or health too much more than we already do. Rich is holding firm and he has an awesome new guy helping out with props, Tyler. I think he's awesome and his girlfriend is wicked sweet. SO YAY! Rich wrote some awesome stuff for the second event and he's been getting help from several different sources, so I am happy to see everything working out. David and I are going to try to actually PC a bit this year. He's going to play a Croc with my Red Widow (yes, this may mean nothing to you...but you could also just check out www.alliancegettysburg.com for some info). I am very very excited.
OK. I should get back to things but I will hopefully be back in the habit of writing more and at least more often in the near future. Thank you everyone for your continued support and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!! <3
We killed 58 kobolds before we had to call it a night, at midnight. I was already tired from the work day so to put this lightly I was so tired I couldn't put sentences together let alone effectively communicate my attacks. SO I just stabbed things that came at me or just kept five-foot stepping to attack the next dodgy MF'er. At about 10:30pm I was drawing in sidewalk chalk on our attic floor. I put up a "here lies" for the infinite kobolds that we were slaughtering.
By the end of the evening I was so fed up with kobolds that I asked David to write "DEATH TO KOBOLDS" on my arm in Suudic. Suudic is the alphabet that David created as the written language of the Apsuudi or Dreamtime in Barran. Yes, I was having a moment. Don't worry everyone, I did not get this tattooed on my left arm. I do think I will get a Suudic tattoo or something else to tell David I love him (yes I am weird)...but this would not be my phrase of choice.
