courtierka

Snerked from the_thread_lady

2009-12-23T02:45:11Z

On the twelfth day of Christmas, courtierka sent to me...

Twelve froggy_foods costuming

Eleven abrahes bookkeeping

Ten cavaliermans a-baking

Nine sims sewing

Eight socks a-reading

Seven oloteas a-knitting

Six books a-crocheting

Five pa-a-a-aris

Four fairies

Three cats

Two sweets

...and a blackwork in an embroidery.

Happy Birthday

2009-12-20T05:09:23Z

Happy Birthday Hrraloug (okay, I give up, I can spell it)!!

Happy Birthday!

2009-11-11T15:55:09Z

Happy Birthday To:
Baron a_l_e_k_s_i_i

Happy Birthday!!!

2009-11-10T12:48:16Z

Happy Birthday to the_thread_lady

Snerked

2009-10-30T18:48:59Z

Hmm, Maybe I won't go as a Sexy Librarian...

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
courtierka goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Sexy Librarian.
a_l_e_k_s_i_i gives you 8 dark green spearmint-flavoured pieces of taffy.
aresash gives you 2 mottled green root beer-flavoured gummy worms.
awilson42 gives you 3 dark blue peach-flavoured gumdrops.
ayeshadream gives you 1 light orange passionfruit-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
brighidross tricks you! You lose 6 pieces of candy!
cainder gives you 8 green pineapple-flavoured wafers.
corbaegirl tricks you! You lose 4 pieces of candy!
emelot gives you 6 light green evil-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
fittzwm tricks you! You get a wet rag.
gwalchgwyn gives you 12 white peach-flavoured pieces of taffy.
courtierka ends up with 30 pieces of candy, and a wet rag.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Happy Birthday!

2009-10-21T11:38:58Z

Happy Birthday mrq_laurellen

Snerked from Everybody

2009-10-20T11:39:24Z

I don't know...

You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents,
beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home
decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Happy Birthday

2009-10-07T22:49:56Z

There are two posts because I was having stress!!! I hope that both of you have good days!

Happy Birthday smithwick

Happy Birthdays!

2009-10-07T22:48:34Z

Happy Birthday damethea

Happy birthday!

2009-10-06T00:49:02Z

Happy Birthday lissamc

courtierka @ 2009-10-03T21:10:00

2009-10-04T04:11:07Z

Happy Birthday fearga

Books

2009-09-22T14:34:33Z

This is pretty darn pathetic! My only excuse is I didn't read a lot of the standards in high school... So, to you my LJ friends, what book, on this list am I really missing out by not reading?

Instructions:
Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag other "Book Nerds".

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Total: 4

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (only selected works)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

Total: 4 + 1=5

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Total: 5+2=7
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma-Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X

Total: 7+2=9

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

Total: 9+2=11

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Total: 11+1=12

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Total: 12+1=13

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

Total: 13+1=14

80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Total: 14+2=16

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total 16+3=19

Happy Birthday!

2009-09-20T17:15:23Z

Happy Birthday to my Best Friend and Loved Husband aresash

Kali Update!

2009-09-19T00:02:00Z

So, I just took Kali to the Vet this afternoon. No, she isn't sick, she just needs to be seen once a year. She is a cranky old lady cat (being 18 or is it 19) and the Vet likes to check her once a year.

1) She has arthritis in her hips and back... duh! She is old. They gave me cosequin (glucosamine) to give her that will hopefully help her joints.

2) She has an ear infection. We have no idea how but there it is. I have medicine to put in her ears for the next 10 days.

3) Then I had to buy flea meds for the whole pride. Five cats worth of flea medication.

4) She bites! Well, only me but still!

Total bill over $300! Wow! Well, hopefully she will be with me for many more years!

Happy Birthday!!!

2009-09-18T14:33:15Z

Happy Birthday to pernell_camber! I hope that you have a wonderful day!

Productive Weekend

2009-08-30T14:56:08Z

This have been a VERY productive weekend so far!

aresash decided to go to William Tell Archery event but I knew that I wanted to stay home. I have to get ready for September Crown as well as everything else so it was for the best.

Yesterday I:
1) Did the dishes (heck they were done within 10 minutes of him leaving)
2) All of my laundry is washed, dried and put away (may be a record since I usually don't get it put away immediately)
3) The finished Largesse is ironed and ready to be dropped off with the Baroness on Tuesday
4) I ran errands and then run errands again (I lost my transfer pen)
5) I transferred the pattern for my embroidered coif to the linen
6) I sorted stuff
7) I filed stuff
8) I did some more housework stuff.

Now, it is just before 8 and I am wide awake and at it again.

What Season is Your Soul Connected To?

2009-08-25T16:57:44Z

Your Soul Is Connected to the Spring

You are an optimistic, eternally hopeful person. No matter how dark things get, you always see the light.
You are open-minded and always up for a fresh outlook on life. You don't cling to ideas or beliefs.

You are sweet hearted and have good intentions. Even though you've seen a lot in life, you remain innocent.
People see you as playful and even a bit airy. You feel free to be yourself, and that's a beautiful thing.

What Season is Your Soul Connected To?

Updates

2009-08-22T17:54:42Z

It has been awhile since I updated mostly cause I haven't really had a lot to say.

I went to Autumn War last weekend, but a lot of other people have given better updates because they were much more involved then I was.

I was in charge of the Seige Cooking Competition. Thanks to gwen_the_potter for the donation of the pot that we gave as a prize! I promise to shop for prizes earlier if I am in charge of it next year! I have gotten postitive feedback about the staggered start and finish times. It does make for a long day but I think overall it was better.

The tent drama was a major bummer... My tent arrived Thursday night and since ayeshadream and I were sharing the tent but since we were very tired we decided to wait until Friday morning to set up the tent. After breakfast Friday morning we pulled the tent out of the container... Oh NO!!! Mold, Mildew!!! It seems that my garage has a leak or something and sometime over the year that the tent was stored it got wet. Now I get to call and see about getting it cleaned and repaired! Yay! NOT!

Projects are going slowly as I don't have a lot of time to work on them but I have approximately 3 weeks to finish the socks for my boss. She leaves in a little over 3 weeks to go to Spain for 2 months. I am almost done with the first sock so it shouldn't be a problem. Then, on to the next project, I am thinking the Tudor Rose that is on the frame and the cap that I need to get traced.

Housework: Have got to get organized!! Have to get stuff cleaned up and put away. I just can't figure out why I can't get it together! I was looking through a box of stuff and found a skirt that was a size 7! I haven't worn a size 7 in MANY years! Why do I still have it???

Happy Birthday!!!!

2009-07-27T15:06:50Z

Happy Birthday talentus ~! I hope you have a wonderful, relaxing, enjoyable day!

Happy Birthday

2009-06-24T11:39:27Z

Happy Birthday to evaria ! May your day be fun and quiet! May you have lots of fun with ziggy when you celetrate this weekend!

Happy Late Birthday

2009-06-22T15:28:57Z

I was so tired when I got home yesterday I didn't even log on...

Happy Belated Birthday ziggy ! I hope that your birthday was lots of fun!

Happy Birthday

2009-06-14T15:51:53Z

Happy Birthday unjessing ! May your day be full of fun!

OMG! Yay!

2009-06-12T01:38:59Z

I didn't realize that strawberries were ripe yet! I walked through the Olympia Farmer's Market (I work right next to it) and there they were! Fresh, picked this morning STRAWBERRIES! I bought half a flat! And ate a basket before I got them home!!! Yum!!!!

courtierka @ 2009-06-03T07:19:00

2009-06-03T14:20:13Z

jillwheezul !! I hope you have a lot of fun with your day!

Happy Birthday!!!

2009-06-01T05:05:14Z

thalialunacy

May your day be filled with Joy and fun!!!