alarm! alarm!

[luciab]

The cats are all looking seriously unhappy, scurrying around, trying to not be stepped on. Except of course they manage to be directly in front of me half the time....

I have put off packing for Pennsic just a leeeetle later than usual this year. Like, packing today, leaving the house tonight. I did start collecting things in the LR, so that's something. And it seems to be going reasonably well, thanks to the packing list that I've used for the last several years. It's honed down pretty well by now. And I'm being really lucky about finding those things that I'm supposed to have, and KNOW I have but can never find when I need them. Like veils, and caps, and those bands to keep them on with. No, no, I don't mean the damned brass hat, that thing just gives me a migraine. If I need something to keep a veil on I usually just wear one of those circlet things. I admit to a certain perverse pleasure, thinking about those people who would give their eyeteeth for some kind of fancy hat to wear, and here I can wear one and don't. Heh. And I further admit that at Pennsic I wear a straw hat like a peasant in the field and I'm done with it.

I'm looking forward to having both my main peeps at Pennsic this year, with Livia sharing my tent and zihuatanejo directly across from us. Whee! And I swear, I am going to get them to tell me what the hell "zihuatanejo" means. I keep forgetting to ask.

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[thalionar.livejournal.com]

you know, I don't know what it means to *them* and I've been wondering, and decided to ask Uncle Google...

from http://www.zihuatanejo.net/
Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa
Mexico's most relaxing beach resort area
on the Pacific Ocean in the state of Guerrero

[luciab.livejournal.com]

Love Uncle Google.

Wearing Veils

[thatursula.livejournal.com]

I ran across this article by Cynthia Virtue that shows you how to keep a veil on your head with two strips of cloth and a few pins. The strips of cloth barely show, the veil stays on even in wind - and you don't even need to wear a circlet if you don't feel like it (!) ===> http://www.virtue.to/articles/veils.html

Have a safe trip,
Ursula