Catch-up time?

It's sort of catch-up time for me - not that I was doing all that much. I've come to realise that I have a 'post-Pennsic' routine and the frantic embroidering of last week (and the accompanying tendonitis) threw me off. All my thoughts were centered on Coronation. Now that it is past, I have been 'lazing' by catching up on emails and piles of paper left from the pre-Pennsic packing (mail, mostly, that needed to be sorted but wasn't time-sensitive). So I feel as though I'm regaining control of my normal life.

Had a friend over yesterday so I could go through her fabric with her and pull out a couple of lengths to make her a Viking-era gown and hangerroc. I'm looking forward to that. She wants it 'whenever' but my goal is to have her in it for Baronial B'day. Assuming that my washer can handle the second length of cloth - it's rather bulky.

Have been comtemplating my ideas about honor and vows but am loathe to post them here. I've found that some things are impossible to mention to friends without 'judgement' and 'accusation' being imagined. My way isn't anyone else's way but it seems, too often, that voicing the code I live by only leads to putting friends on the defensive. This saddens me, because I'd really like a good conversation about it... *sigh*

Creating a filter

Hokay.... here's a-what I'm gonna do, see? I'm gonna check that previous entry of mine and everyone who wrote "I'd love to be in on that conversation" is gonna get a chance to talk about that honor-stuff and that "how do you regard vows/promises stuff". And the rest of ya don't need to be worried about seeing da conversation-like. Cappish? (I'll give it a few hours for folks to have time to read it and reply.)

Man. I'ts raining cats, dogs, and little amphibians out there. Wow. With periodic spots of sunshine coming down in rays. I'll bet the rainbows are beautiful out there!

"On my honor..."

I should warn you that I ended up not creating a filter – some folks read this without LJ subscriptions and I think their input is too valuable to block them out. So we’ll just have to trust each other.
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