First steps have been taken...

The Boy and I have thrown our "hats" into the ring for B&B as our current Baron and Baroness are stepping down this year.  This is exciting, but we're both avoiding getting our hopes up.  We moved into the barony only a year ago, and have been warned by everyone we asked prior to sending in our letter of intent that the area is rather insular, and it is unlikely that "foreigners" will be chosen.  There is only one other couple running, and we're friends with them.

Yesterday we had the first Candidate Q&A.  It was sparsely attended, but the questions posed to us were thought provoking.  Everyone noticed that the two sets of candidates had extremely similar responses to questions.  Aside from a question about the Sargentry, we seemed to be very knowledgeable, engaging and earnest.  The Sargentry is a uniquely An Tiran thing, and it specifically belongs to the principality of the Summits.  As far as we understand it, the Sargentry is a set of trials to prove the test taker to be knowledgeable in the variety of aspects of the SCA.  The Baroness usually is the one that puts her seal of approval on a person in the trials.  And then it gets confusing.  A previous Baroness that I like very much and share a lot of similar viewpoints with, believes that sargents should be a short step away from becoming a Peer.  I look at the variety of people that I know that are sargents, and I don't see that.  I see people that are a rather long way from being a Peer.  So maybe it's all in the interpretation of the individual Baroness, but I think that should I become Baroness, it's going to be a whole lot harder to become a Sargent.  I want the possibility of saying, I support this person to the Peer circle considering them, and I want the position of sitting Baroness to back up my opinions.

Ah well.  Reconciling the differences from here and elsewhere isn't always easy.  North-westerners are weird.  We're doing the best we can, and that's all that we can do.

An attempt at a Roman hairstyle is forthcoming...

So I'm planning an A&S project for February-ish, which is recreating a Roman hairstyle without Janet Stephens having done it first!  I'm working on my recreation right now, and photographing the steps in perhaps more detail than is really necessary.  I'm hoping to get a basic write up done either tonight (yeah right!) or in the next couple days.  It's not exactly easy, because it is hard to juggle the hair and the camera in the tiny overheated bathroom, but I'm trying.  I can see why Janet Stephens uses a cosmetology head and video camera for her demos, once it's set up on the stand and tripod, you don't have to move them so much.

I wish I could just ask The Boy, but he found out earlier that the paper he thought was due on Monday, is in fact due tomorrow morning.  But this is my last guaranteed free night for a while, so I thought'd I'd get some use out of it.  Tomorrow, I go sign the paperwork for my NEW JOB!

That's right, new job.  It's not an amazing job, in fact I wouldn't have considered it back in January, but being without work for seven months has done a number on my self worth, and having any job has made me feel validated.  The hours aren't great, lots of extremely early mornings, late nights and weekends, but the paycheck will help us out so much.  And that's really all I feel I can say.  There's some strict policies about mentioning the company online, and I don't want a stray post to come back to bite me.

A little more water and back to the heat of the bathroom.

In Service to the Hair,

P

New Office...

I was voted in as the Baronial Chamberlain last night.  I get to be the keeper of the stuff!  I even have a fancy keyring with keys and everything!  Owning keys is how you know that you're a real adult, because real adults have responsibilities that come with keys.

When The Boy and I were moving up to Oregon, I had to turn over the key to my apartment, and the key to my car, and for a week, I had no keys to anything.  I felt extremely displaced then, and not tied to anything, but certainly not in a good way.  I found myself not attached to things, sort of drifting, and I found I didn't have a place to call mine.  Once we moved, I had the key to The Boy's van, and now have the key to the apartment, the garage and the mailbox.  I've come to belong someplace again.

And back to the Chamberlain.  I now have keys to the storage unit.  My first goal is to take an inventory of all the items owned by the Barony, and check it against the items on the previous inventory.  I'd like to be able to weigh the items we own, since the weight our trailer can hold is rather small, I'd like to know whether or not we can pack things in the trailer.

I'm looking forward to serving our group, and becoming more involved with the running of things locally.

So I've decided to switch from LiveJournal...

I've found that most all of the blogs I'd been coming across lately on my internet research have been on Blogger. So I think I'd like to try it, and see how it differs from LJ.  Here's to a first hand experiment in blogging, something I consistently fail at.

I'm really hoping that keeping a dress diary for my Trossfrau dress will encourage me to A) blog more, B) work on the bloody thing, and C) join the illustrious ranks of those who have come before me and I worship for their time and dedication.  In the next update, I'll go through and post the few things I've already written, and the new never-before-read recent changes!