A quite frantic week

nobody@vox.com(Sol) — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:19:37 +0200

I started my third year of Irish dance school, and this year the lesson will be 2 1/2 hours long (it was 1 1/2, up to now...). I haven't danced for 3 months and my poor muscles ache like mad!

I'm preparing my birthday party (I'll be 40 in week!!!! geez, I feel like I'm talking of someone else, I have to be the world's oldest teenager...), so we booked the place, the cake, the sandwiches and pastries, I bought the decorations, I have to go and borrow some folding tables from my mother's friend Selene (isn't it a lovely name?).

People I invited have to bring 1 (or they will be too many, as usual!) bottle of anything drinkable, alcoholic or not, as long as it's strange or unusual. We'll have a good assortment of junk drink, I suppose :))))

I started a new cross stitch work, a Greek village, to give for Xmas to a coworker who's in love with Greece.

I eliminated all the glasses full of pens, because my cats, jumping on the furniture, turned the glasses over, spilling pens everywhere, including the inch between the piece of furniture and the wall (it means 30' of work to recover them), and I made a city-skyline cardboard pen-holder

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I'll be in Marseille on 27-28 because my partner's band "The watch" will play there (well, near Marseille, to be precise, Maison de Quartier du Roucas - Vitrolles, France) and we're already preparing and booking for the October concerts in the UK

26 Oct 07 They open for The Musical Box (not confirmed yet)
27 Oct 07 The Peel - Kingston Upon Thames (UK)

Soon we'll also be adding a floor to our house (that means take the roof down, build a scaffold on both sides of the house, build a fourth floor, making a hole to put a stair that comes down to our home, build a new and higher roof, and destroy the wall that now divides the living room from the computer-and-music room that will be reconstructed -definitely bigger- upstairs) so soon we'll be chest-high in dust and debris....

Another thing: I decided to make a "new year resolution" not on New Year's Eve but on my birthday. I have a definitely high tone of voice, and it often disturbs people without being aware of it. It's instinctive, and I don't always remember to control it. I was grown this way, in my family everybody has the same problem, it's quite ingrained. And I have the bad habit to interrupt people I'm speaking with. It's rude, and I know it. I don't do it on purpose, but I do it.

I want to stop both things. When I'm 41 I want to call both this problem solved. I have to work on them. I don't want to be a bother or a disturb to people around me. (Not unknowingly, at least. If I do it, I want to do it on purpose, when I choose to!) :))))

Today is Mabon, or the Autumn Equinox, which divides the day and night equally, and for us pagans is the moment we prepare for the winding down of the year at Samhain. It is a time to finish old business as we ready for a period of rest, relaxation, and reflection, and give thanks for our harvest of this year's crops. So I also found a moment to decorate the house with paper garlands of purple grapes and red leaves.

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that's all for now, I think I told you all I'm involved with at the moment. :) More than enough, huh?

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A quite frantic week