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wakeiseiyo) wrote2009-02-21 10:23 pm
wakeiseiyo) wrote2009-02-21 10:23 pm
Weekend Report
Hmph. Lazy day.
But that was a good thing! No cramps, no awkward bits of erg or ouch. I have my sheets in the dryer, so clean linens for bed tonight, I got in an episode of Tudors on the DVD, and had dinner at El Torito with Mom and our cousin (who's something like an eighth cousin, but came from the next-door town in Old Norway and share a few ancestors, donchaknow). Good times. Didn't get much else done other than a much-needed coloring on my hair to hide the grey and bland ashy roots. (I really hate my natural color. It's just godawful. I look perpetually depressed, like a bad sepia-grey photograph.)
One rebate of two has arrived from AT&T - hopefully the other will be here by next Friday so I can drag mom to the bank and have her deposit them in my account. :) [If that doesn't work, can I upload them to Paypal and do a transfer?]
Tomorrow it's the ochakai at 9am sharp (ugh), where I show up in NOT kimono and help work the bazaar table like a good little minion (and where I won't be told to do something vague and then my sensei scolded for having a useless student - I'm still pissed about that from two or three years ago. If you tell me there's nothing I can help with (because I asked, because no one was talking to me/telling me anything) and I go help somewhere else*, don't complain later that I walked off and didn't help! Dumbasses.] I need to make sure to use slightly garish eye makeup to look less hale and hearty, as the main excuse for my not wearing wafuku** and serving Tea is that I'm still sick and doing poorly. It just won't do to show up looking hale and hearty and thoroughly put together. I'm thinking unflattering hair and very blah clothes. Maybe all black - that always serves to make me look pale and sickly. Perhaps I'll just forget the undereye concealer - that alone will put me in the ranks of plague victims from the fourteenth century, I think.
Hopefully, there will be some good bargains to take home, or some old kimono magazines worth snapping up for 25 cents each. :) I have cash this year! I went to the ATM tonight. If the glass artist brings her obidome again, I may buy one or two of them - she has adorable things! (I should dig up her card and plug her [all in Japanese] site so she could get some potential business. Prices are pretty reasonable, I think - $12-50 for most one-of-a-kind plates and bowls, hina matsuri dolls, etc. You'd have to order by email - she doesn't really have any sort of shopping cart or Etsy setup or anything.)
* Or, heaven forbid, stop to eat the lunch I PAID FOR ALREADY before the kitchen closes, because dammit, that's a $45 lunch! [And that $45 is the discounted member price, yo.]
** I really do wish I could dress in kimono, but that means serving Tea and that's just a can of worms I don't have the patience for this year -- and it happens every year. One of these times, I'm going to show up early enough that they're still putting the rooms together and just take over layout, because it's IMPOSSIBLE to walk between the chairs or serve Tea with any efficiency the way they set things up each time. And if they give me crap, I'm going to hand it right back with a blunt "I'm drafted into this bullshit every year and for once, let's at least make it somewhat easy on the people on their feet in these miserably too-small fancy sandals, shall we?" and see where that goes. I mean, I scare half of them because I'm twice their size. Maybe I should use that to my advantage sometime. [Yes, I know, Tea is about good manners and Zen and making everyone feel welcome. Most of the folks who 'do' Tea don't get this, if our chapter's behavior at the annual fundraiser is any indication. I get this - it's big, it's busy. That doesn't mean the Old Skool Japan folks get carte blanche to be bitchy powermongers. Sorry. If this year goes badly, I have NO problem telling Sensei that I won't be attending again, because I don't pay for lessons on how to do all this just to be abused at the annual event that's focused on the local Tea community gathering together. If that's how this community is supposed to be, I don't want to be a part of it. And it's taken me long enough to get the backbone to say that aloud to anyone other than my mother, but there you have it. I understand work being disappointing sometimes - I have my hobbies to gain some satisfaction and enjoyment. If my hobbies turn into bad days at work, they stop being hobbies, and I'm going to stop doing them. There is a Tea chapter in Los Angeles that has Saturday classes. It wouldn't kill me to drive to downtown LA once a week to get my hobby time in.
(I realize that having vented all this here, Murphy's Law means that tomorrow will go smoothly and next year's event will suck balls.)
ETA: Murphy's Law accomplished. Today was a good day. :) Next year will undoubtedly suck.
But that was a good thing! No cramps, no awkward bits of erg or ouch. I have my sheets in the dryer, so clean linens for bed tonight, I got in an episode of Tudors on the DVD, and had dinner at El Torito with Mom and our cousin (who's something like an eighth cousin, but came from the next-door town in Old Norway and share a few ancestors, donchaknow). Good times. Didn't get much else done other than a much-needed coloring on my hair to hide the grey and bland ashy roots. (I really hate my natural color. It's just godawful. I look perpetually depressed, like a bad sepia-grey photograph.)
One rebate of two has arrived from AT&T - hopefully the other will be here by next Friday so I can drag mom to the bank and have her deposit them in my account. :) [If that doesn't work, can I upload them to Paypal and do a transfer?]
Tomorrow it's the ochakai at 9am sharp (ugh), where I show up in NOT kimono and help work the bazaar table like a good little minion (and where I won't be told to do something vague and then my sensei scolded for having a useless student - I'm still pissed about that from two or three years ago. If you tell me there's nothing I can help with (because I asked, because no one was talking to me/telling me anything) and I go help somewhere else*, don't complain later that I walked off and didn't help! Dumbasses.] I need to make sure to use slightly garish eye makeup to look less hale and hearty, as the main excuse for my not wearing wafuku** and serving Tea is that I'm still sick and doing poorly. It just won't do to show up looking hale and hearty and thoroughly put together. I'm thinking unflattering hair and very blah clothes. Maybe all black - that always serves to make me look pale and sickly. Perhaps I'll just forget the undereye concealer - that alone will put me in the ranks of plague victims from the fourteenth century, I think.
Hopefully, there will be some good bargains to take home, or some old kimono magazines worth snapping up for 25 cents each. :) I have cash this year! I went to the ATM tonight. If the glass artist brings her obidome again, I may buy one or two of them - she has adorable things! (I should dig up her card and plug her [all in Japanese] site so she could get some potential business. Prices are pretty reasonable, I think - $12-50 for most one-of-a-kind plates and bowls, hina matsuri dolls, etc. You'd have to order by email - she doesn't really have any sort of shopping cart or Etsy setup or anything.)
* Or, heaven forbid, stop to eat the lunch I PAID FOR ALREADY before the kitchen closes, because dammit, that's a $45 lunch! [And that $45 is the discounted member price, yo.]
** I really do wish I could dress in kimono, but that means serving Tea and that's just a can of worms I don't have the patience for this year -- and it happens every year. One of these times, I'm going to show up early enough that they're still putting the rooms together and just take over layout, because it's IMPOSSIBLE to walk between the chairs or serve Tea with any efficiency the way they set things up each time. And if they give me crap, I'm going to hand it right back with a blunt "I'm drafted into this bullshit every year and for once, let's at least make it somewhat easy on the people on their feet in these miserably too-small fancy sandals, shall we?" and see where that goes. I mean, I scare half of them because I'm twice their size. Maybe I should use that to my advantage sometime. [Yes, I know, Tea is about good manners and Zen and making everyone feel welcome. Most of the folks who 'do' Tea don't get this, if our chapter's behavior at the annual fundraiser is any indication. I get this - it's big, it's busy. That doesn't mean the Old Skool Japan folks get carte blanche to be bitchy powermongers. Sorry. If this year goes badly, I have NO problem telling Sensei that I won't be attending again, because I don't pay for lessons on how to do all this just to be abused at the annual event that's focused on the local Tea community gathering together. If that's how this community is supposed to be, I don't want to be a part of it. And it's taken me long enough to get the backbone to say that aloud to anyone other than my mother, but there you have it. I understand work being disappointing sometimes - I have my hobbies to gain some satisfaction and enjoyment. If my hobbies turn into bad days at work, they stop being hobbies, and I'm going to stop doing them. There is a Tea chapter in Los Angeles that has Saturday classes. It wouldn't kill me to drive to downtown LA once a week to get my hobby time in.
(I realize that having vented all this here, Murphy's Law means that tomorrow will go smoothly and next year's event will suck balls.)
ETA: Murphy's Law accomplished. Today was a good day. :) Next year will undoubtedly suck.