Weekend Update

[melaniesuzanne]

My teeth hurt. My jaw hurts. My inside lip hurts. Obviously, I went to the orthodontist on Friday. My upper teeth are moving nicely, he said, and now it's time to focus on the bottom teeth again. He's got an activator chain on the tooth next to the tooth which needs to move and the entire bottom right side of my mouth is howling in pain. I also have to wear a rubber band between upper and lower teeth on that side to add to the chorus of misery. I haven't been popping Advil like candy, but I'm getting close to that.

Owie.

Saturday was good, though. Hubbyfink was pitifully sick and I made him stay home from Holiday Faire. I am a big, strong girl and I was able to set up my booth (The Ermine Mouse) by my lonesome and have open spaces on the table and shelves ready for psalite's and reasdream's items when they arrived. I had items priced to MOVE (maybe priced too well, but I was more interested in clearing out space than making money) and clothes and fabric flew out of my shop. Hooray! I didn't make quite as much money as I did five years ago when I was able to pay for movers AND the speeding ticket I got en route to the event, but it was pretty close. I did a bit of shopping as well and came home with lovely Thai silk, an adorable white mouse puppet, nommy potpourri, earrings, and a few other trinkets. Dinner with friends at the Japanese steakhouse afterward was the cherry on top of a pretty fantastic day.

For Sunday, Hubbyfink and I ventured into DC to see a revival of Cirque du Soliel's "Quidam" at the Verizon Center. Quidam was my first experience with Cirque twelve or thirteen years ago. I think I've become jaded since then because the acts weren't as spectacular, but I suppose that Cirque and I have both grown. I'm glad that we left home pretty early because my phone's navigation system did NOT want us to take I-66 in and then it didn't want us to take Constitution through town. I did drive I-66, but I couldn't get into the lane for Constitution and wound up taking E to a numbered street and made a series of left and right turns until we happened upon Gallery Place. Leaving the event was just as exploratory since construction on Constitution had it closed down to one lane. Yeah, no. We cruised around the mall, passed the recently renovated DC war memorial, found the recently opened Martin Luther King, Jr memorial, made a (probably illegal U-turn) after being passed by an ambulance and seeing traffic stacked up ahead, and finally escaped from DC via the 14th Street Bridge.

Hubbyfink spent the evening glued to "House Hunters International" (dear Lord, what hath I wrought??) while I organized the craft room within an inch of its anthropomorphic life. The reduction in SCA clothing, accessories, and fabric allowed me to reorg the fabric shelves and I can, for the first time in nearly five years, see exactly what I own. It turns out that I have no plain brown wool, but I'm mostly okay with that right now. I have lots and lots and LOTS of grey wool. Huh.

Tonight there will be a manicure and packing and then a mad frenzy of house cleaning before we hit the road at oh-dark-thirty to go over the mountains and through the woods to Aunt Trisha's cabin in the Smokies.

Comments

[dwildchil.livejournal.com]

You're not a consumer whore -- you're just doing your part to help the economy!

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

I like the way you think. :)

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine a Cirque show in the Verizon Center instead of the big top.

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

It wasn't an altogether pleasant experience. We were practically on the stage -- front row, house left -- but felt disconnected from the performers as well as the rest of the audience. The atmosphere under the grand chapiteau lends itself to infectious applause and laughter. The Verizon Center, while great for rock concerts and sporting events, is much too big for the intimate nature of a Cirque performance. That lack of audience closeness could have exacerbated my feeling of jadedness.

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

Have you seen any of the shows in Vegas? I want to, but I need to find traveling companions.

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

No, I've never been to Vegas. Scott is dying to see KA and I'm intrigued by O.

[moshah.livejournal.com]

Curious how seeing Quidam again was for you. That was my first experience with Cirque, and in my mind still one of the best. That and Drailion are probably my favorites, as well as Ka (although that one is sufficiently differently to be a different category.) But I wonder if it sticks out because it was the first.