We took a few photos, but haven’t downloaded them from the camera yet. However, Robbins Jewelers got a few photos of us!
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to know how lucky I am. 😀
But if you want to cross your fingers, a $20k diamond ring would be awfully nice.
This is what my love sent in for the application to be considered for the competition:
We should get chosen to play simply because we are awesome. We met a little over five months ago at Playa del Fuego. “Playa del Fuego” is a regional Burning Man event. If you don’t know what Burning Man is, you are missing something amazing. Look it up. Since we met, we have been inseparable.
We love random adventures and have wanted to go on a treasure hunt together since we met and I think this would be the perfect opportunity. We already have had a temporary marriage out at Burning Man and I think it would be great to upgrade the plastic wedding bands to something nicer.
So if you want couple that is full of ‘win’ in your contest, chose us.
Sincerely,
Nate and Katie or otherwise know as Random and Hunnybear.
(picture enclosed of us out at Burning Man)
So with a little luck, we may be getting up at the asscrack of dawn tomorrow to race around Philly on a treasure hunt.
But I’m already a winner ❤
The amount of writing (mostly in emails/forums) I’ve done this week… I should just be a writer ;o)
Exhaustion hit me like a brick wall half an hour ago. I guess I am still tired from PDF, despite sleeping in on monday in a bed, but I only got to sleep in my own bed last night after a long day (2+ hour commute, workday, visiting dad for his birthday…) I’m afraid I’m fighting off being sick. I can’t afford that, literally (I’d have to take a sick day unpaid, meanwhile they want mandatory OT at work), so fuck the unpacking and costume sewing. I’m taking it easy tonight and catching up with my DVR. The only critical things on my to-do list are feed the kitties and myself.
I want to do Nablopomo again this year, but strive for quality blog posts as well as posting everyday. I’m not masochistic enough to do Nanowrimo this year.
So, I need some help. I know I have some people reading this, but don’t hear from you often ;o) I want some random questions or topics you’d like to hear me answer. List as many as you want. I’ll try to get to all of them (I tend to be fairly open, at least when questioned, but will keep in mind that family/coworkers can read this!)
You can start leaving ideas now, although I won’t be using them until November 1. And I’ll remind you closer to the date.
Yeah. Ok. I feel like I can fall asleep sitting up right now. I’m going, and thankful that I have a very short drive home. Take care y’all.
I arrived and was hugged by campmates.
I was a deviant (we had a theme camp, Camp Deviants).
I read deviant poetry.
I had my ranger shirt deviant-ified.
I made up many words over the weekend. Many involved -tastic or -licious.
I rangered.
I spread the word about B.E.D.
I hugged many many many friends, old and new.
I made dinner that not many people were hungry for, and burned the hell out of the hot dogs. *shrug*
I recruited volunteers and rangers.
I had my love arrive and find me despite my not getting his text (I was going to meet him) and showed him to the camp.
I drank. A bit too much of a mixture of things.
I wore a lot of green.
I hung out in an irish pub with a wall and a red door, and watched a man in a kilt and studded leather sing show tunes with a man who tends to scamper around on all fours better than most can walk on two.
I watched my friend try to peek under the kilt.
I hooped while drunk, while wearing pants and a skirt, and did a jump-in without breaking my neck.
I laughed at the Potter posse predicaments and trying to come up with more alliteration.
I think I finally can remember which Potter is which.
I avoided getting sick and my love put me to bed.
I woke and laughed with those who never went to bed as I munched on ginger snaps.
I lounged lazily and was fed breakfast.
I cooked a gazillion (felt like it) grilled cheese sammiches. and I missed most of the deviant acts performed by the customers. but I got to see their smiles.
I dressed in a tacky 80’s dress, and laughed as campmates competed for the best jersey 80’s hairdo.
I wore too much orange (at least when standing next to my love. and those with orange hair.)
I wished my love a happy half-playa-versary. ❤
I watched the pony burn. Only it was a seahorse. I took a few hundred photos.
I danced to 80’s music.
I tried to disappear in the mist.
I theme camp hopped, then fire barrel hopped.
I wandered all night (pretty much) with my love, soaking in every luscious moment, and there were so many.
I fell asleep at dawn in his arms.
I had another lazy morning and was fed breakfast again.
I was gifted a rose.
I hooped.
I wandered in the sunny afternoon, in skimpy clothes, it couldn’t be october.
I soaked in the wonderful energy of PEX/PLF.
I packed up, reluctant to leave.
I ate from the huge buffet my campmates cooked.
I ate candy necklaces, only they weren’t necklaces, and not around someones neck….
I said sad goodbyes.
I watched a pirate ship burn.
I left home. For the time being.
To sum it up…. Sun. Cold night mist. Fire barrels. Fire. Music. Hooping. Food. Deviance. Laughing. Friendship. and most of all, Love. PDF is always all these things, but even more so with my soulmate and love by my side throughout. ❤
Is it spring yet?
See you at PEX.
So yesterday was a flurry of emails among my merry band of deviants. (We’re doing a theme camp called Camp Deviant at PDF.) The last minute planning/packing/scheduling, and procrastinating as none of us wanted to be at work.
Unfortunately, they all have today off to pack and run around and hit the road, arriving when the gates open to the public.
I am at work. No one to email with about how excited we are, and how awesome this weekend will be.
Of course I have my love to talk to ;o) we will be in touch throughout the day as always. And – happysappy alert – this weekend is our half playaversary! No, it hasn’t been quite 6 months (although it feels like a lifetime ago – in the good way!), but we met at spring PDF, so I’ll always count it in playa calendars in addition to regular calendar months. 😀
The car is mostly packed, and I already can’t see out the back window. Need to pack my clothes and toiletries, and anything else I forgot, after work. Then I’m heading down to Random’s, where we will be crafting a sign and a bar game, and helping him pack. I could rush down to PDF tonight, but I don’t want to set up a tent in the dark and sleep alone in the cold! He is working from home tomorrow, so when he gets up and starts working, I’ll make my way to PDF. My deviants need me, and I have ranger duty (one of the ways to volunteer is to be a Ranger, doesn’t require too much work, basically you just know who to contact in an emergency, and help settle little crisises – crises? um drama that comes up sometimes). Anyway – he’ll be going down to PDF after he finishes work tomorrow. Since there’s currently no room for him in my car, it’s probably a good thing we are going in two. ;o)
So I’ll sit here today, and work, and wait. I am excited for the theme camp. I am also trying not to have expectations, as expectations and burns never mix well. Aside from a ranger shift, a meal shift in our camp, and a camp event I’m running – grilled cheese sammiches! taking over for Maria who couldn’t return this playa for her infamous sammich making skills 😦 – I have no plans and only hope to have a low stress/low drama weekend, full of fire, friendship, and love.
I think we’ve got that covered.
I’ll be thinking of those who couldn’t make it this time as the pony burns – that’s you, Mizz Buttafl’i, and our cheezy Maria, and oh damn I don’t even know who else will be missing. OH Dove and Josh. They are in Africa with Peace Corps! That link is their blog, a REALLY interesting read! I owe them an email & a donation for hoops out there once I can afford it. I’m definitely going to miss those crazy sexy kids, they always make me happy.
Big E, here I come. Hope you are ready for some hugs!!!! 😀
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Why the hell do I want to make life more crazy for myself? These things only sound fun when I’m wasting time online to pass the day.
I have attempted nanowrimo twice. Never got more than a week into it. I did do nablopomo last year, but on a private blog that no one really read, I think, which is a good thing for all involved. Not very difficult. Difficult to write QUALITY every day. I definitely didn’t. I dislike the organization of nablopomo, and love the nanowrimo forums. But I don’t really want to be tied to the computer in all my spare time.
Time to go knock things OFF the to do list, not add them ;o)
So, Random wants to set up his own blog ;o) When he does, I’ll link to it from here. (He may also guest post on mine, who knows!) Got me thinking more about what I want out of this blog.
I’ve been pretty edited in my postings here. Usually nothing you don’t want mom or an employer to read. (Typically I keep my real name seperate, but I have content on the web with my real (nick) name and a link to here.)
I want to write more, but I can’t decide if I want to break down those walls and be more informal, open and honest (the way I can be on friends-only blogs, such as my tribe blog) or if I want to strive for better writing and reaching more of an audience. The latter makes me think I would have to consistently write more formal entries, such as those I wrote for the Morristown Green blog about Burning Man, however it’s not necessarily the case and just my internal expectations.
Am I writing for myself or the audience? Both. I like having this blog as a check in point for friends, a way to update everyone if they choose to read it. Everyone wants to be heard, or else blogging wouldn’t be public. And I’ll admit I love checking blog and flickr account stats for shits and giggles! ;o) But ultimately I do it for my own enjoyment/cathartic exercise.
I read a lot of blogs. Friends who post often and fairly openly, if only for friends only communities (on myspace, tribe, LJ). Those who are celebrities for blogging (dooce and yarnharlot). And then there’s the niche of those people that I don’t know, they aren’t THAT well known publicly, and yet I’m a loyal reader and almost feel like we are friends even if we’ve never talked. The top of this list has to be Jen Gray. Her entries always include a photo (I want to take more photos!!), and most of the time some thoughts in her head that both show who she truly is, without revealing every single intimate detail of her life. These entries are moving, inspirational, comforting, hilarious. I even find awesome music thanks to her fearless self-made movies.
Ha. I hadn’t read her most recent entry until double checking the URL for the link above.
Leave it to Jen to answer the question before I even asked it today.
its okay if you dont do it like they do it
and its okay if you do it that way instead of this wayat the end of the day,
this is still YOUR story.and not a single person on or off the planet can
tell it or work it the way you can.your thumbprint is essential here.
only you can see from your eyes,
only you can speak the words in your heart,
only you…you are past the trying to force a way that doesnt belong to you,
that is why you feel that stuck shit feeling….
because it no longer works.you know better now.
its your song
your story
your way
your expression
your essence
that is the ticket here.no one can do it just like you.
not a one.you own the pencil
you are the author of your life.and thank god.
it would be like a world of re-runs if we did it everyone else’s way.
Do you blog? How do you choose your voice, or how you present yourself, if that is a conscious decision at all? What do you expect out of other blogs, whether your friend’s or a stranger’s? Is there anything you want to see more of in this blog? I won’t bother asking what you want less of – if it’s here, it’s because I want it… Aside from self-editing for professional or personal reasons, I’m not going to stop doing something when you can easily hit the back button in your browser. (I’m fair, and try to alert readers before something is graphic or controversial so you have some warning ;o)
Accident, originally uploaded by k8et.
How my car was hit and Lauren’s car was totaled while sitting in the driveway.
Driver started in her garage, backed up at an angle hitting her own garage, went across the street, into our cars in the driveway, then switched from reverse to drive and hit the telephone pole.
Driver was fine and refused to go to hospital.
Added irony is that it’s the second destruction of a bush in that exact spot.
I need to blog more. Or maybe I’m just bored. *shrug*
Getting ready for Playa Del Fuego – it’s one week from today!!! My friends and I will be running a theme camp this time and I’m very excited for it.
Otherwise, I’m working on costumes for the halloween party at PEX. Unfortunately it’s the same night as NYC decom, but my heart belongs to Philly. Sorry big apple! 😀 Random and I will be a steampunkified Mad Hatter and Alice in Wonderland. Currently looking for gears/mechanisms, glasses for him, and possibly a pink flamingo for me… Started cutting out fabric for my dress last night. On the floor. For over an hour. I have muscles hurting in strange places. o.O
That’s about it. This weekend, hitting up a Cranberry Festival (a project at work involves Cranbury Brook in NJ – just when I learned to type it as a -bury, I need to switch back to the -berry. ayeayeaye) because who doesn’t like cranberries? And Bordentown looks like a cool area, so adventuring we will go. The rest of the weekend will probably be crafting/sewing time as I attempt to make a top hat, and teach Random how to make pants.
Oct 18 will be a NJ Burner Fall Outing day at Doyle’s Farm – anyone is welcome, contact me if you aren’t on the NJ Burning Man email list and need details (once they are decided!)
I need to hoop more. I need to clean up the apartment – the weekend after PDF I’ll be hosting a small meeting/crafting party. I need to take more photos. I need more hours in the day and longer weekends….
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