Monday, October 21, 2002 -

Drum Roll Please!

It's happened! I'm now up and running with Moveable Type! Thank you, Rachel! You are a goddess :)

The new and improved Dragon's Muse is here. Please update your bookmarks!

I'll be keeping this old blog here for archive purposes, but this will be the last post to be made here.
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Thursday, October 17, 2002 -

Away I Go

I'm heading to Reno for a long weekend to attend a Peter Wingfield Fan Club gathering. It's not Toronto and LCA like I'd hoped it would be this weekend, but it's a pretty good consolation prize!

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Monday, October 14, 2002 -

Good People

I've been online a long time, and met some wonderful people. Heck, I even got April, who for all intents and purposes is like a sister to me, out of an email list. Not to mention some of the best friends I've ever had. I think there's no way I can get even more wonderful things from the internet, but I would be wrong!

I've been fighting with Moveable Type, trying to get it to work for this blog, and one of these days, for my others. But I hit a brick wall with a resounding thud! Enter Rachel the MT Goddess of Texas! I met Rachel through her blog -- and a hell of a blog it is -- and we've interacted through her comments section and through email. But the last few days, she's been frelling amazing. She's been trying to help me figure MT out, even recoding my existing template so I can use it. Just because she likes to help. She doesn't know me, but she's putting in a ton of work to help me out. Isn't that something great, especially these days? Rachel goes to college, runs her own business, and a household, but she takes time out of a very busy life to help a stranger.

I've thanked her in email, of course, but it deserves its own blog post, so I can share one of the bright spots in my life with all of you. Thank you, Rachel! You're the best!

posted by The Dragon's Muse at 10:17 PM | link

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Things

Not too much to report. I got my hair cut Saturday, very, very short. Spent too much money on the Aveda produtcs at the salon, and then totally blew my budget at the mall. But I do have a nice new sheer black shirt for my trip to Reno this weekend! Tonight, I need to make a stop at VS for suitable undergarments to wear with said shirt.

I'm sleepy, I want to go home, and I'm hungry.

Drat! Forgot to order the Ennis Sisters concert tickets again! Maybe I should take it as a sign not to go....

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Thursday, October 10, 2002 -

Do You Ever?

Do you ever get to feeling emotionally and physically tired, and you can't quite figure out why? I've been like that lately. There just seems to be so much to worry about and so few ways of dealing with that worry. I'm a fixer, always have been, always will be. My mum always says I take the weight of the world onto my shoulders; something I always laugh off. Somebody needs to be the one to take care of stuff, and that's me. Been doing it since I was a kid. My mum was in the hospital a lot when I was a kid, and my father couldn't be counted on emotionally, so I was the one to take the role of the "grownup". It's still that way. When there's a problem of any kind, my family just expects I'll fix it. Sometimes I fantasize about running away somewhere and ditching everyone and everything. not that I'd ever do it of course -- I'd worry myself to death over everyone I left to manage on their own!

Yeah, I'd like some cheese to go with my whine.

posted by The Dragon's Muse at 4:24 PM | link

Tuesday, October 08, 2002 -

Buffy in a Whole Other Light!

I posed the following question on an email list:
Can someone please tell me what happened up to the point where Spike was doing a Screed with a rat and then there was an earthquake?

Paul, the "Guy" in the Gaggle, responded with the following, and I had to share:

Not much, if I remember rightly. Buffy shows up at work/school and talks
to the new principle. Buffy wants to know more of what her job entails;
and in a rush of beurocratic power, asks if she can suspend people. :)
The Willow/Giles scene might have happened before that point, too.
Willow: I don't want to go b/c there's so much more to learn here.
Giles: That's rubbish, you don't want to go b/c you're afraid your
friends won't forgive you. They will.
Willow: You're right. Also, let me do some set up for our Big Bad this
season. The Earth has teeth. The hellmouth is opening. This is the
Biggest Baddest yet. I'm scared.
Giles: Yes, well I'm sure you Yanks will sort all that out. Here's your
cab. Toodles, I'm off for tea.

Spike (to rat): Alas Yorick! I knew him, Horatio! A man of infinite
jest! Oh, hold on a minute. I mean, they did it! They gave it back!
And it hurts! It burns, inside where there wasn't anything before! You
know, this is great stuff. I haven't gotten to do a decent madman bit
since the student-directed one-acts back in college. Grrr!!! Argh!!!
'Struth, I am full up with angst!

Later, at the Summers house. Cyclops, Jean, Havok and Cable walk in.
Cyclops: Sheesh, that was quite a battle with Apocolypse we had today.
Havok: Boy howdy, you ain't kiddin'.

Sorry...wrong Summers house.

Later, at the Summers house in Sunnydale. Buffy, Xander, and Dawn,
World's Tallest Girl, are consoling and gathering info from Ms. Plot
Device Of The Week. Spike arrives all jaunty-like, offering to help.
Spike: Oh, yeah, I'm back, baby. Yeah, I was talking to rats for a bit,
but I'm over that now. I pinched some bleach from the store and fixed my
hair again on the way over. Now, I know when I left last season, we
weren't on the best of terms. I know I tried to rape you and all that
rot, but I'm sexy and angsty, so the audience will forgive me pretty
fast, and you should, too.
Buffy: I suppose you're right. Let's team up. By the way, I lost
another 30 pounds over the summer. Watch this, when I turn sideways I'm
invisible!
Dawn: Hurt my sister and I'll skewer you. I'm all tough now. Grrr.
(Turns to camera) See, UPN programming guys? I can carry this show next
year! Let Gellar go off and make more talking dog movies! I'm the star
now! Me! Mmmwwwahahaha!!!

Some stuff happens.

Spike vamps out.
Spike: I've got a soul now! I'm all distraught over all the bad stuff I
did. Oh, woe! (gnashes teeth)

Paul, watching show: Well, shit. I guess we're in for Angel: Redux now.
Joelle and Cynthia: Shuttup! He's all sexy and angsty! Spike rules!
Woo-hoo!
Blue the dog: Ruf!
Scout, World's Cutest Puppy: While y'all aren't paying attention, I'm
gonna crap on the floor over here.
Charlotte the cat: You people disgust me.

Or, that's how I remember it, anyway.

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Thursday, October 03, 2002 -

Ouch!

My mouth is throbbing!

Had my teeth cleaned today, and my gums and teeth are just pulsating in pain! I think I need some tequila when I get home.

And worse than that, due to our crap insurance, the crown I have to get in a few weeks is going to cost me $400! Half the total of $800 [sigh] And I thought our last dental insurance was bad. And the hell of it is that my dentist is even in the network and it's still costing me a bundle.

I need to move someplace cheaper, I really do.

posted by The Dragon's Muse at 6:06 PM | link

Tuesday, October 01, 2002 -

Tea and Boots

Last week, I got two things I'd been waiting for: my Upton Tea order and my Ariat Ropers!

Thanks to C&S Jen (so as not to confuse her with my friend Jen [g])for the heads up on Upton Tea, it rocks! and thanks to Gary for the help and advice on fitting boots! On the weekend, I got some boot socks, and I wore them all day today at work with no problems. And that is really rare for me and new shoes.

Two and a half weeks till Reno!
posted by The Dragon's Muse at 6:11 PM | link