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what have I been doing lately?
A whole lot of days have slipped by during which I thought "no time/energy to post something today, tomorrow is soon enough". Oops. I still don't have the energy, but I made a bit of time by leaving Swedish folk dance early tonight due to being tired, so I will try to say something about what I have been up to, if for no other reason than to let mom know I am still alive.
The weeks have been a busy round of work, working out, choir, Phire practice, and Frostheim social nights. Last weekend was spent at home accomplishing stuff, and this weekend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lord_kjar, C., and I attended a Middle Eastern Dance workshop, which was quite fun. Friday night was a Persian dance class, and Saturday morning was an Oriental dance class. The teacher had come up from Stockholm for the weekend, and was really good, and delightful personality, too. Saturday afternoon there were more dance classes, but they were aimed at advanced dancers, and lord_kjar decided not to attend them because this weekend was his first attempt at any Middle Eastern dance (though he took to the steps in the Persian dance like a fish to water, since it is on a three-count, as is much of Swedish folk dance, so he could trust his feet to do what they were meant to do and focus on the arm movements), and I opted to stay home and help O. finish up his new gorget.
We needed to make that his very first piece of armour, since he as a very short but thick neck, and so neither my gorget norclovis_t's old gorget (that came with his old helmet when I picked them up from Australia last year) fits O. at all. The rest of my armour works well enough for him for now.
This morning he and I went to fighter training, and I was delighted to see that there were six of us there--I think that after a lull in training Frostheim may actually get a group of fighters going again. I only did slow work and practice against the pell, in part because it has been four years since I have been in armour at all, and in part because I want a new gambeson before I do--we opened up the armpits on my old one to fit O. to get him working armour as fast as possible, and there is no way I am going to borrow it back now that it is open (he doesn't care if he gets hit there--silly fighter). I also brought along my jungle gym and did my workout for the day, just because.
This week at work the Russian scientist I posted about not too long back will be visiting the uni, so that should be interesting. I will try to remember to post about that, even if things are as busy as they have been. Now I had better type up my Chatelaine's report, do yoga, and get to bed so I can enjoy work tomorrow.
The weeks have been a busy round of work, working out, choir, Phire practice, and Frostheim social nights. Last weekend was spent at home accomplishing stuff, and this weekend
lord_kjar, C., and I attended a Middle Eastern Dance workshop, which was quite fun. Friday night was a Persian dance class, and Saturday morning was an Oriental dance class. The teacher had come up from Stockholm for the weekend, and was really good, and delightful personality, too. Saturday afternoon there were more dance classes, but they were aimed at advanced dancers, and lord_kjar decided not to attend them because this weekend was his first attempt at any Middle Eastern dance (though he took to the steps in the Persian dance like a fish to water, since it is on a three-count, as is much of Swedish folk dance, so he could trust his feet to do what they were meant to do and focus on the arm movements), and I opted to stay home and help O. finish up his new gorget. We needed to make that his very first piece of armour, since he as a very short but thick neck, and so neither my gorget nor
clovis_t's old gorget (that came with his old helmet when I picked them up from Australia last year) fits O. at all. The rest of my armour works well enough for him for now.This morning he and I went to fighter training, and I was delighted to see that there were six of us there--I think that after a lull in training Frostheim may actually get a group of fighters going again. I only did slow work and practice against the pell, in part because it has been four years since I have been in armour at all, and in part because I want a new gambeson before I do--we opened up the armpits on my old one to fit O. to get him working armour as fast as possible, and there is no way I am going to borrow it back now that it is open (he doesn't care if he gets hit there--silly fighter). I also brought along my jungle gym and did my workout for the day, just because.
This week at work the Russian scientist I posted about not too long back will be visiting the uni, so that should be interesting. I will try to remember to post about that, even if things are as busy as they have been. Now I had better type up my Chatelaine's report, do yoga, and get to bed so I can enjoy work tomorrow.