Environgirl @ MindSay

First I went to work today and had to deal with my annoying co-worker for 4 hours. I did well, but I was a little mean in a sneaky way.  See, she has this annoying habit of dominating people's conversations. Anytime someone comes in to say hello to me, Ms. Cantankerous takes over the conversation and I can't get a word in edgewise.  My aunt Fannie, who is responsible for turning me into a Trekkie, likes to come by to say hello sometimes if she goes to first service.  The annoying coworker found out my aunt was a nurse and now when aunt Fannie comes in, I can hardly say hello! The entire conversation suddenly turns into a whine fest  about her aches and pains and her elderly, sick siblings and in-laws.

Another young lady who used to do childcare and watch the kiddo a lot likes to come in and say "hi" to the kiddo and me.  We usually like to chit-chat about her ever increasing family. Today, I think I was able to utter a few phrases before Ms. Cantankerous took over the conversation.  Environgirl called me while I was at work to make plans to get together so we could get stuff for her Ren Faire costume.  I was asking her what her theme was and trying to get an idea of what type of costume she wanted and wouldn't you know that that annoying co-worker of mine was butting into my telephone conversation and trying to put in her two cents????

I got fed up and decided to hold an entire conversation with Ms. N, who has a very thick Bolivian accent and speaks Spanglish at best.  Since Ms. Cantankerous always complains about not being able to understand a word Ms. N says, I knew it would annoy the shit out of her if I were talking to her about how she met her husband and how she came to to the US.  My Spanglish is pretty good and I am very good at understanding people with thick accents. I think this is because my sister had a speech impediment when she little and I was the only one in the family who could understand her. It was hilarious to watch Ms. Cantankerous trying to follow the conversation, and it was good to know that once Ms. N gets a chance to talk, she can be quite verbose! 

Ms. N : Weel, mi husband he..ehm trabajo with the los aviones and he...ehm...they send him to Europa! He like it very much, but he had to learn...ehm....I don't know what to call....ehm Allemand?

Me: Really?? I didn't know that! Did you get tickets to travel too since he worked for the airline?

Ms. N: Oh no! I no like to travel!

Me: Allemand?  So your husband had to learn German?

Ms. N: Yes, but you know eet was so fun. He had to go to school with the childrens!

Me: *laughing albeit a bit affectedly*

Ms. Cantankerous: *sitting in annoyed silence*

Anyway, like I wrote earlier, Environgirl and I spent the day trying to get her barbarian costume together.  We had fun being silly and just hanging out.  It was nice to see her again.  She surprised me because she bought me two dresses and a cute shirt.  They fit nicely and the dresses will come in handy as I expand. 

However, the day was almost ruined because as we walked back to the car, the kiddo, Egirl and I noticed a car with three kids under the age of three left alone! The youngest was an infant of about eight or nine months!  I guess this idiot thought everything would be okay because she left the car running!  Egirl and the kiddo went to get Walmart security and I stood by the car to make sure they were okay.  We were livid!

Saturday Night at the Richmond Arms.



Callmeroger joined us.





Can you tell what song I'm singing by looking at the lyrics? Notice, too that I am right in front of the Megaplexxx sign! LOL!



tristaprez and environgirl



videovixen and cocoagoddess 



Dreamgirls?

Environgirl , Myclette and Torridgirl at the Renaissance Festivals Roman Bacchanal

 

 

Here's the Prep work for this weekends Roman Bacchanal theme weekend...

 

And Here's a Video of the Faire with Egirl, Myclette and Myself...guest starring Uykou and CallmeRoger

 

Egirl sings about a "Bench of Fertility" while Myclette takes Pictures.  Along came a Satyr to suprise us. LOL

 

Next are videos of the Joust and Closing Fireworks.

 

 

This is going to be a quick picture post since I have to go to work in an hour. I promise to post more tomorrow, and write a better entry about the recent MindSay Meetup at the Texas Renaissance Festival - Roman Bacchanal.



We really missed the Mindsayers that weren't able to make it.  It would've been so cool if they did.  Anyway, there's always next year.

p.s. Steeni, I got you something nice. I'll be sending it by snail mail soon.

First of all I'd like to thank EVERYBODY for wishing me a happy birthday. You guys are the best and I really mean that!  I was never one of those women who pouted every time  a birthday came up because it means they're getting older.  I always looked at it as it being a blessing that God has given me another year of life. Who can feel bad about that?  Besides, I look damn good for my age! :D

I'm a little worn out from yesterday's Ren Fest activities to write a real post, but we had a great time.  Even though it wasn't the big Mindsay meet up we wanted to have, it was still nice to see Callmeroger and his lady love Uyoku.  It was her birthday yesterday and  Roger bought her a huge margarita to celebrate it -- he also bought her other things. It's cute to see him spoil her! :P

Anyway, I'm just going to post a few pics of our costumes and some glamour shots. I'll post more later, probably in movie form because I took a lot of pictures!



Me as the queen of the Nile! This is actually an old costume that I altered.  Torridgirl made my cape and she did a fantastic job.  I got a LOT of attention yesterday, a few actors at the Ren Fest actually bowed to me! I think the cape made all the difference.  After all, who can resist gold lamé?  When she finished the cape and belt there was about 2 1/2 yards of fabric left.  I let her have it because I know she'd be able to make something awesome with it.

Other alterations that were made were, a key hole to expose more cleavage, a wider, gold lamé belt and a head dress.  Here is a picture of what the costume looked like before the alterations:





Toga! Toga!  I loved the togas Environgirl and Torridgirl wore!  In my humble opinion, they had the best togas there.  They were asked to enter the toga contest, but they didn't.  I think we didn't get to the destination in time.



I caught Egirl doing this expression because she was posing for another person's camera.  I told her, "don't move!" and got the perfect shot.



Torridgirl saw this setting and thought it would be perfect for a glamour shot in my costume.  It looks very Egyptian I must say.  This is supposed to be my come hither look.  I don't think it really says "come hither" as much as it says "are you done yet?" I guess I'll have to work on it.



Torridgirl was just sitting on this bench waiting for my head to stop spinning. I was a bit light headed because the day before I think I had a mild case of food poisoning.  I may have had some bad fried rice.  Anyway, I saw her sitting there and the lighting was perfect.  I told her to smile and I snapped this picture.  She looks so good in red!

I'll post more later!