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| You are magnificent!
I finally joined the ranks of those who sport a Truly hat, and I am giddy with how totally awesome it is.
Now I have to wait 36 days til I can unveil it.
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| Hopefully you didn't write it in too large a letters...
the 23rd of May is the actual date... Saturday...
Apologies for the confusion.
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| May 24th, 2009.
Steppes Warlord.
That's the date and event that Their Majesties, Their Highnesses, and I decided on for my vigil and ceremony for elevation into the Order of the Laurel.
I've got a lot of planning to do. I am thankful that I've been given so much time to do it.
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| I had a great weekend this past weekend. C and I went down to Houston on Friday. We got there early enough to go and spend a few hours of mental decompression at the butterfly center at the natural history museum. It's like an arboretum, but add hundreds of butterflies in a huge open air dome, all flying about and carrying all your worries away. What cares we still had were washed away as we left, as it was pouring rain. Nothing like a walk in the rain to make you forget the knots in your stomach. From there we drove to R&S's home, had dinner, chatted, and went to bed, trying not to think about Saturday.
     
Saturday was Kingdom A&S. C, Adelaide, and I got there early so A and I could set up our displays. A had an awesome display of jeweled minks. I wish i had gotten some pics. We set up our displays, then had to leave them in the care of the judges all day. Luckily, I brought some period games, and got many chances to teach and play all day to pass the time. I got to know some folks a lot better, which is always a good thing. Gwen, Adelaide, and Alex are pretty cool folks. Duchess Ebergardis made lunch, which was awesome.
Anyway, at the end of the day, I thought I had done well, but had no expectations of winning or even being mentioned. I was a little surprised when I was called up as one of the top 20 (for which I got a really spiffy pilgrimage badge made by Lochlan Dunn), and even more surprised when I was chosen as one of the 10 Gulf War champions. I went back to my place in the peanut gallery, and was chatting and looking over my judging form, when the next thing I know Melisende de Frayne is being called up for the laurels. She's a really neat person. I met her at Winterkingdom, where she taught a class on how to enter A&S competitions. In fact, she and I had talked during the day, where I thanked her again for her class. She had an amazing Opus Anglicanum display right behind mine, which I spent many minutes drooling over.
Then next thing I know, C is next to me, taking my hand. I didn't think anything about it, other than I love it when she's affectionate. So then 4 more strong hands connect with my shoulders and start directing me forward. It was Baron Godwin and Mistress Therasia, who happened to be my judges that day. As soon as I realized what was happening, the tunnel vision kicked in. I managed to focus on the royal pillows, and made it to them and knelt. His Majesty reminded me that i had paid him a large quantity of silver at the beginning of his reign... and that this was completion of my purchase...or something to that effect... I dont remember his exact words, but they were witty and timely.
So the punchline to the whole story is that I was offered entry into the Order of the Laurel. And was selected as a Gulf War A&S Champion. And most of all, had a great time seeing friends.
More to be posted as I think of it I am sure... but wanted to fire this off while I still remembered to.
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Yesterday Kev came home for lunch and found Ajax acting very ill. He was shaking, stumbling around, and drooling very heavily. So I rushed home, and his condition had only gotten worse by the time I got there. He had to be carried to the car, and we rushed him to the vet. He had a seizure while on the car ride.
He had at least 3 other seizures that I know of while at the vet. I am worried that it was poison (ethylene glycol poisoning has all of the symptoms he was showing), but the doctor said the blood tests didn't show anything like that, and he suspects it is epilepsy.
Originally, Ajax was supposed to spend the night at an emergency vet clinic on seizure watch, but his condition yesterday improved to the point that the the doc said he could come home and spend the night. He was pretty tired (after all, he had a scary day), and slept with Kev all night. No more seizures. We took him back this morning to have his catheter removed, and talked more with the doc about treatment.
He seems back to his normal happy self. We'll be keeping a close watch on him to help get thru this.
February has my permission to be over now.
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