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The Spate of the Union
Jul. 23rd, 2021 12:49 amI recently watched a 70-episode Chinese soap opera based on the women living in the Forbidden City at the time of the Qianlong Dynasty. There is another one based in the same time period but I've only seen clips from it on YouTube. The clothing was amazing and it inspired me to get back on the costuming horse and make new clothes for Bossman and I, only ours will be late-period Mongolian. But fancy. We need some fancy stuff. And definitely some deels that are not in just household colors.
I attended Trimaris' Royal University. Their online one, that is, where a man was teaching a whole track on Mongolian topics. I'm not so positive about the reliability of everything he was presenting but the classes were interesting and sparked a book search during each one. I now have a new book on medieval Mongolian life waiting for me to read it, right next to the new Ottoman clothing book. And my new Viking research book. I also took a class on the differences between Ottoman and Persian clothing - very useful! It was taught by someone I would call a friend even though we've never met face-to-face. Decades of email and then Facebook interaction supports that.
A friend of mine is dying of pancreatic cancer. She was just supposed to be going into the hospital to get a stent replaced but somehow that led to the discovery of the tumor. It has already spread to her liver. She'll be starting palliative chemo in a couple of weeks, which may double her expected life time from "Maybe up to six months" to "maybe a year." The news hit hard. Even after knowing her regular health issues this was a bolt out of the blue.
We are talking about Bossman's retirement. He turns 70 next year and sometime after that he's retiring out. We have been thinking about moving to the Las Vegas area when that happens. That would put us in the same area as our eldest son. Rocky mountains and western life, sort of back to our childhoods. We could have chosen to move near his younger brother but - - Georgia. Humid, Gulf Coast Stormy, really Republican Georgia. No thank you. Dry and hot Nevada, which doesn't tax retirement pay, sounds more appealing even with the dire projected water situation. We're giving up pavilion camping when he retires, or after Pennsic 50, whichever comes first. Man will that cut down on our storage stuff. I'm trying to talk my man into investing in a camper. If we do, we could maybe keep going to Pennsic. Maybe. I'd like to explore Great Western War.
I'm down to three totes of fabric. Plus the stuff I just bought for making the deels but I'm using up some of the stored stuff for edge linings and cuffs. I am determined that it will all be used up before we have to move. I have enough space taken up by books and Lego kits!
I begged Bossman for a cute little building under glass that was also a music box. Little did I know, it is a kit you have to put together yourself. The pink one, which is all of seven inches tall. https://www.cutebee.net/products/diy-miniature-dollhouse-kit-24 He gave it to me for Mother's Day and the kit is sitting on a shelf in our kitchen, guilting and intimidating me each time it catches my eye. It is so tiny and is going to require a steady hand and lots of tweezers. There is electrical wiring on each floor that must be put in place before each wall is "papered". Good Gawd!
And I have three Lego kits waiting for me to build them too. One can wait until November-ish, as it is last year's Winter Village kit, but the other two I've just been too forgetful to pull out and build them. I should do that.
I attended Trimaris' Royal University. Their online one, that is, where a man was teaching a whole track on Mongolian topics. I'm not so positive about the reliability of everything he was presenting but the classes were interesting and sparked a book search during each one. I now have a new book on medieval Mongolian life waiting for me to read it, right next to the new Ottoman clothing book. And my new Viking research book. I also took a class on the differences between Ottoman and Persian clothing - very useful! It was taught by someone I would call a friend even though we've never met face-to-face. Decades of email and then Facebook interaction supports that.
A friend of mine is dying of pancreatic cancer. She was just supposed to be going into the hospital to get a stent replaced but somehow that led to the discovery of the tumor. It has already spread to her liver. She'll be starting palliative chemo in a couple of weeks, which may double her expected life time from "Maybe up to six months" to "maybe a year." The news hit hard. Even after knowing her regular health issues this was a bolt out of the blue.
We are talking about Bossman's retirement. He turns 70 next year and sometime after that he's retiring out. We have been thinking about moving to the Las Vegas area when that happens. That would put us in the same area as our eldest son. Rocky mountains and western life, sort of back to our childhoods. We could have chosen to move near his younger brother but - - Georgia. Humid, Gulf Coast Stormy, really Republican Georgia. No thank you. Dry and hot Nevada, which doesn't tax retirement pay, sounds more appealing even with the dire projected water situation. We're giving up pavilion camping when he retires, or after Pennsic 50, whichever comes first. Man will that cut down on our storage stuff. I'm trying to talk my man into investing in a camper. If we do, we could maybe keep going to Pennsic. Maybe. I'd like to explore Great Western War.
I'm down to three totes of fabric. Plus the stuff I just bought for making the deels but I'm using up some of the stored stuff for edge linings and cuffs. I am determined that it will all be used up before we have to move. I have enough space taken up by books and Lego kits!
I begged Bossman for a cute little building under glass that was also a music box. Little did I know, it is a kit you have to put together yourself. The pink one, which is all of seven inches tall. https://www.cutebee.net/products/diy-miniature-dollhouse-kit-24 He gave it to me for Mother's Day and the kit is sitting on a shelf in our kitchen, guilting and intimidating me each time it catches my eye. It is so tiny and is going to require a steady hand and lots of tweezers. There is electrical wiring on each floor that must be put in place before each wall is "papered". Good Gawd!
And I have three Lego kits waiting for me to build them too. One can wait until November-ish, as it is last year's Winter Village kit, but the other two I've just been too forgetful to pull out and build them. I should do that.
