Shop Talk
It's a Beautiful Morning...
E-Mail is down.
The Ordering Software is... spotty (which means 5 minute orders take 20 before it crashes and you have to go to backup.)
We're 59 in cue.
We haven't gone below 12 in cue in over a week.
I am out of yarn... (So I can't even distract myself by making a bondage mask or something.)
On the Up Side... They're serving sandwiches in the break room. Great. ๐คจ
If I make it through this week without killing somebody we'll be doing good.
I do ren-faire style camping but at night it gets friggen cold. Since I don't like to be cold I try to avoid that part. Mostly I'm ok... I have a great sleeping bag, lots of blankets (two wool ones) and a boyfriend to cuddle with. But my head and nose are forever cold. I try wearing a hat to bed and wrapping up to keep my nose warm but that never works. The wrapping gets pulled away, the hats come off... and I wake up with a cold nose!
So I'm making something new. It started as a hat, then got longer, until it comes down over my eyes and nose and neck, with only an opening for my mouth so I can breath. It looks like a bondage mask. (I even made it a little rounded to accommodate my hose)
I do...
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They get big bruises, we point and laugh, then at night all the grown-ups get smashed and party until the sun comes up.
Creepiest people you will ever meet. Swear to god. It's just like monty python's holy grail, except not funny. They carry swords around and refer to all women as wenches... Have the distinct odor of mead oozing from thier pores...
We don't refer to all women as Wenches... in fact, I believe if you called a woman a Wench within the hearing of any male (particularly a male in armor) you're likely to get beaten at the least and thrown out most likely. It's usually m'lady, Lady, Your Grace, Your Excellence, Your Highness, or Your Majesty... depending on their awards and position in court.
The only time that people smell bad is at the end of a 3 day camping event with no running water, and even then we try to bathe anyways... in May we were boiling water on the stove to fill the shower bags so we could take turns washing up. That... and we don't drink a lot of mead... it's hard...
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It's the chivalry thing... hell! I was setting up camp alone one time and had three guys come by and "M'lady, let me help you with that!" Before I really knew what was going on, they were setting up my tent and I was sorting totes. I also have a hard time going to the bathroom (the biffies as we say, or port-o-johns) alone, they guys who are camping with us make a habit of one of them escorting a lady if she leaves the camp alone, it's cute really, I am safer running around at a camping event by myself than almost anywhere in the world.
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