sundries

Oh, hey, doing analysis on a random Fortune article about American families with combined incomes of 100K - 400K and one of them is a pair of lesbians with two kids and a dog. Go Fortune! Not what I would have expected.

Patty comes home tonight. Yay. I've been very swoony about her while she's been away. Actually, I'm just very swoony about her, but you knew that.

Not going to fencing tonight. Too much to do, and I had such a good session on Wednesday, I don't want to risk going in to tomorrow with something less brilliant or a random injury or anything. Have decided to do three lessons a week in January, and then two a week with plastron lessons in Feb (my travel schedule will preclude Friday lessons).

Now if I could just win the lottery, because ideally I'd also be horseback riding twice a week and getting my pilot's license, but time and money! But I'm hoping when my debt is paid off in May, that I can then schedule the general aviation thing into the fall (I don't want to start back in the summer, because the air is more turbulent, and my stomach doesn't like it and I want some time to readjust).

I never thought, never for a moment, that my life would become about being physically capable and decisive. But it has, and it's a blessing, mainly because I know what it's like not to have that and not to have the choice of having it.

There's also the voice lessons issue. My voice is actually always my biggest courage issue, and I'm in a really good place to go there right now, but I also know that what I need to get through now is less quality of my voice things (always a thing to do) and just learning how to sing in front of people. Yes, it's time to fail in public, my dears. So hopefully marchek is still up for the Gallifrey karaoke prep idea.

I think I'll be able to pick the coat up tomorrow and then hopefully get it to a tailor before Thanksgiving.

This fucking Barrowman song is so catchy (airspaniel, are you obsessed yet?), it's appalling. Patty is very lucky I rarely put music on the stereo at home, because this would drive her up the wall. Also, she would laugh at me. I think music is probably the only way in which our age difference is really, really apparent.

Have started the next piece of IHNIIHBT, but Kali has the flu, so no idea what progress is going to look like there for a little while.

Must go buy a new fencing glove, like, now.

Hey, Megan's in town this weekend before she heads back to Asia.

I'm hoping I can find a white shirt I like shopping tonight. I am not holding my breath.

Oh! That reminds me, I've been looking at the custom shirt sites again, just because I'm so cranky about shirts in general, and I found one that has both the pale green I haven't been able to find anywhere and amusingly the awful "dishtowel" pinstripe used in one of Jack's shirts on TW. Can I just say it's nice to be engaged in cosplay stupidity when it involves good work shirts I can actually, like, wear, in my life, even if it makes me giggle to myself.

Can't believe I got that LJ Idol done. Or that it was so vicious. That had a lot of false starts to make it work, which is unusual for me.

LJ Idol, Week 9 vote

http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/202369.html

You know the drill. You keep voting, I keep playing. Thanks!