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One down 6 or 7 more to go.....finished the vest last night. When I get back from the meeting I'm going to, I'll start on my skirt and then go to the frock coat. Skirt shouldn't take too long. Made it before and it went together nicely so I think it should be done and then it's the frock coat. Even though there are a lot of directions, it still looks like it shouldn't be too hard. Then my top, Bruce's pants, my corset unless I get Bruce to doing my corset after he finishes his, then his shirt, and my underwear (chemise, drawers and petticoat). No, I'm not excited at all about this....

On December 14, the San Diego Costumer's Guild will be touring Old Town San Deigo. I've been told we don't have to have costumes but both vagabond_aero and I want to make outfits. So, this is what we've been doing over the last two weeks.

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Two years ago and about 10 - 15 lbs ago, I made the above corset. I've got the makings now for three to four more corsets that I want to make but in putting on the corset I find that my shelf (bust) swims in the corset (except when I sit down), that there is no reduction in my waistline and that my hips swim somewhat.

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Well, woke up this morning to the winds blowing up in Anaheim Hills after our Halloween party in Long Beach. My asthma started acting up, of course, because of the winds blowing stuff (dust, smoke, etc.) around. Took allergy medication and my inhaler and we headed for home. Bruce said that the car was pushed at times by the wind. We stopped in Old Town Temecula for brunch at Mad Madeline's Grill. Their burgers were great. Then on down the road finally getting home around 1:30. Unloaded the car and started unpacking and putting things away when I looked out the patio door. The sunlight looked weird. Really don't know how else to describe it. Then as I put something back in the sewing room, I commented on something smelling like it was burning. Bruce looked out the front door and said it looked like there was smoke to the northeast. Well, did a search and found little news on the fire at Witch Creek. That was around 2 this afternoon. Finally around 4 p.m., the local news channels started carrying the news about the fires. So, the house is closed up, air conditioning is on to try to filter some of the air and the smell of smoke permeates the air. I stepped outside about 6:20 and took these pics....
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Here it is the 1st of October. Our lease where we are is up on the 14th. We've given notice and will be moving this week. We are going from a cramped 970 square feet (with two 5 x 10 storage areas at Public Storage) to a 1300 square foot house with 2 car garage and yard.....so, here are some pics......

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So, there you have the new digs....the plan is we're having someone move us on Thursday and we both want to have the condo emptied and cleaned up by Friday night.

I'm so excited.

How often do you take your machines in for "maintenance"?

I'm having troubles right now with my portable not picking up the bobbin thread. I don't know if it's tension or what? Bruce is sitting right now trying to figure it out. I bought this machine over eBay and the woman said she'd just taken it in for a cleanup before she sold it. It's worked pretty much like it's supposed to be for two years.

Just had a good laugh....

For my birthday, Bruce bought me a Minnie balloon and it's been floating around the apartment since. It was over by some boxes and just a few moments ago, Gateway was up on the box and fell off taking the balloon string with her. She got caught up in the string and wrestled with the balloon and string until she finally managed to break the string and run away.....and now she's sitting here in the living room watching the balloon that is floating around the ceiling.

It was just too funny...

Over this coming month, we're going to be packing up and getting ready to move out of this place. It's just too small for our collection and us and the cats. Can use some help with packing over the weekends. Either the week before Conjecture or the week after, we will be doing the actual move to the new place. But both Bruce and my backs can't handle much of the lifting and hauling so any help will be appreciated.

Hope to hear from some volunteers. You will be fed well...

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Just received a phone call from Tadao. Susan is now off the ventilator. They have eased back on her sedation so she has awakened and asked "What happened?" She cannot receive phone calls at the moment. Tadao is working so he can't either. At the moment, Susan needs this time to herself and her family in order to speed her recovery. They (the doctors) have not received the results of the tests back so are not sure what happened.

Further bulletins will be forthcoming.

Looked for the article in the LA Times just now. It looks good. I loved the title when they continued the article on Page 7. Club: Death Does Not Release You....Some good pictures...

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Okay, here it is Wednesday, almost the end of the first third of the year. I realized on Monday that it was exactly six months since diana had done the bunk on us.

The pollen in the air is making my asthma flair up....I'm having trouble breathing. I'm calling the doctor when they open at 9 a.m. I doubt he can do much for me because I've got my albuterol and I take Singulair every night. And I really don't want to take prednisone. I've done enough of that.

Listening to Michael Buble. As one of the girl's here in the office said, the arrangement makes a good pole dance. And let me tell you, that's what it makes me want to do. Of course, I put it on last Friday and gave Bruce a dance....and I just realized, we still don't know where my bra and tshirt went to.....

Michael Buble is coming to the Greek in August so I've asked Bruce to take me for my birthday. My other birthday present, I've asked him to get stuff done on the store paperwork so we can get rid of it hanging over our head. We need to find an accountant who knows retail and do our taxes and let us know how bad things really are...

And can you tell, this is a random thought journal....I think I need to go warm up my leftover omelette from Dinah's on Sunday. It was scrambled eggs (of course) plus jack and cheddar cheese with chili and avocado. YUMMMMMM. Last night we had meatloaf and leftover mashed potatoes that I added two eggs to and then topped with cheddar cheese. It was great.

I think I've rambled enough for now. Except, I do have to say that I really love my man. He's the greatest.

The Savage Garden song, "I Knew I Loved You Before I Met You" seems so totally appropriate for Bruce and I. Suze had a X-Files premier party three to four weeks before Loscon in 2000 and Bruce attended it. I was already there sitting next to Christian and when Suze let him into her little apartment, my thoughts were 'oh, crap, he's here'. I had no idea what his name was but for some reason, I knew he was 'dangerous' to me.

Then three weeks later, I met up with him again at Suze and diana's dance at Loscon. Got him to get up and dance with me a time or two and next thing he knows, he's got this girl on his lap. (I don't remember doing that but both Scott Busman and he says that I did) I do remember telling him that I wanted to tell him something but I wasn't drunk enough to tell him yet...

What a wonderful man. I'm so glad we'll be together for the rest of our lives and I sincerely hope it's a long, long, long time....

I didn't realize it had been so long since I'd written. I've responded to a couple of comments but haven't really diaried since last Monday and even then, it was just a test....So, what can I say?

Well, was kind of worried about some money last week but Mom cleared that up because she came through with a check to help pay for my plane ticket back to help her pack. Umm, I'm helping her pack because she's going to sell the farm and move in closer to town...She's tired of putting at least 30 miles on the car every time she heads into town for something. Also, she wants to be able to just up and leave if she wants to and she can't do that now because she has two horses, 15 cats and my brother's two birds. I don't know what she's going to do with the cats but the horses, one she'll sell and the other one, who is over 30 years old she'll put to sleep. The only reason she hasn't already is that Minka would be VERY lonely then.

On Saturday after my Creative Memories meeting, Bruce and I headed up to Santa Barbara to see my aunt. We reached Santa Barbara around 1 p.m., took Aunt Gloris out to lunch and then looked at the various park sites that were on the beach for a site for the wedding....We think we've found one but if we use this one, it's going to be a very 'intimate' wedding with only 80 people including ourselves. So, I'm not going to be having the BIG bash I wanted but at the same time, I like my vision at the moment. The building we're thinking of using has a large grassy area before it goes to beach. And the caterer can bbq. So, have everyone there by somewhere around 4 or 5, ask them all to step out to the grassy area, then Cathie and Randy come out followed by Bruce and I, heading up to Mic. Exchange our vows and then it's party time. Been trying to figure out something that we could have that wouldn't set my mom's or my aunt's stomachs off and I think we may have settled on bbq (without a lot of sauce on it) Brisket with cheesy potatoes. It has a patio for Shawn Crosby to set up his sound system on and they have a pa system. So, it sounds ideal if a little small...

Then on Sunday after the Meddler meeting where we got to watch the first four episodes of the new Doctor Who, which I absolutely adore, I received a call from the jeweller that comes to the studio three times a week to work on watches and sells jewelry. He had found some stones. So, he showed up and in order to show them off well, put them on my hand. Man, they looked beautiful. A rich beautiful blue sapphire with two trillion cut tsavorites. Beautiful....

We have to figure out finances and see when we can afford them...but....

Things are progressing....