Feeling Better.

.....I'm feeling pretty good for a change today. I spent most of last week fighting off a cold that finally got the best of me on Thursday. I about went into full coma mode on Thursday and stayed that way through Saturday. But I only felt moderately tired and spent today and am actually getting a few chores done.

.....Earlier I went out shopping for mom. It was already in the lower 80's on the thermometer in the car. I had the windows down and the sunroof open and had the '80's channel blasting on the stereo. There's nothing like Prince blasting 'Let's Go Crazy' to bring back those days of long ago. It was May 18th, 1987. I was days from being sprung from the internment camp that was my parent's house in Port Orchard. I was excited about this event that my friend Richard was telling me all about, this thing called 'June Faire'. All my worldly posessions were packed and we were trucking them over to a double-wide trailer in Olalla. I had just received a letter from the Shipyard telling me that I'd been accepted as an apprentice and that I'd start work in July at $8.35 an hour, and I'd just told my boss, Leon Rees, who was paying me $3.35 an hour that I'd be quitting that job in just a couple of weeks.

.....Those were heady times. May has always been a big month in my life. Not just because it is my birth month, but a lot of the big things that have happened in my life have happened in May. Next week I'll be 41. I've never been into Numerology, but there is a certain magic to numbers and mathematics without even bringing the woo-woo into it. 4+1=5. May is a (5) month. (23) is a (5) day (2+3). And 1967 is a (5) year (1+9+6+7=23, 2+3=5). It amazing what you can do with mathematics. It's also easy to see how you can equate numbers into something almost spiritual as well, especially when you consider that the easiest way to explain the nature of the universe is by explaining by way of mathematical expression. :-) If by no other reason than by personal choice, I choose to think that my 41st year of existance will be magical, and leave it at that. :-)

.....The one thing that being sick this last week did was to put me behind on circlet production. I need to catch up this week. Next weekend will be the yearly 'Weekend Before June Faire FREAKFEST' That panicky time of year when you are absolutely sure that you are so freakin' behind that you'll never catch up in time to be ready for June Faire. But like the quote says in 'Shakespeare In Love', 'It's a Mystery'. I know that June Faire will happen. It will be the best June Faire it can possibly be. Go there, do your thing, and it will be fun. I intend to do just that. I will provide what assistance I can to Renart for camping duties. Mateusz and I will drive the magic Budget Flying Carpet to-and-from the storage unit. I will play my horns and dance during June Faire. And I will be a Seneschal-On-The-Standby.

.....I've got to say though that Alis is holding her own and doing a good job as an Autocrat, even with all the new variables thrown her direction. I think that the one person who will probably be freaking out the absolute most will be Her Excellency Brighid. So many Royals will be attending June Faire that she is absolutely beside herself on how to deal with them all. She'll handle it just fine though, I'm thinking. Just have to remind her to breathe every now and then. :-)

.....One thing that is very much different in May of 2008 than it was in May of 1987. I was totally on my own then. Which was exciting in its own way then. But in 2008, I have TBT in my life. I'm a much richer person now because of that. Which will make this June Faire even better than it has ever been before. I could just imagine how wondrous my June Faires would have been if TBT had met and started dating in 1987. Wow! The world would be a much different place, that's for sure! :-)

.....Off to sort circlets!

.....Aaron / Arontius.