Elise Matthesen

 I have some absolutely spectacularly gorgeous things to put in the Etsy shop, including a stunning prasiolite necklace and a lot of turquoise pendants. Once I finish the three things on deadline that actually cannot wait, I can put them up as fast as I can. The birthday actual is on Thursday. I hope to finish deadline things tonight. Wish me luck!

(Using workbench time to deal with stress has benefits that involve so many new things.)



https://www.etsy.com/shop/LionessElise

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I just went looking for my old cassette tape of "The North Star Grassman and the Ravens" (which is how I remember the title but not necessarily what the title actually is, mind you), by (I think) Sandy Denny, because the song with a line about "blackwaterside" kept running through my head as I was working on "ditchwatersprite" just now. Didn't find TNSGatR, but did find the master-and-only recordings of Cats Laughing and Boiled In Lead when they played the Canterbury Inn for my birthday party convention thingie in August of 1990.

I should probably ask them whether they'd like copies, and what they'd like done with them. I should certainly get them dumped to digital or something, to preserve them, if it's not too late already.

That was a fun birthday, even if I did sprain my ankle dancing on the first night, and have to hop around with my cane the rest of the weekend. Fun, though. Rollercoasters with round-singing on them (which mightily disconcerted the attendants, hee hee!); Beth Meacham and Tappan King singing me the "Fishheads" theme on helium; the bestest practical amusement (not joke, really) ever played on me by good friends who know I mostly hate practical jokes; and so on. I can still see, in my mind's eye, Tappan hanging a spoon from his nose and solemnly intoning, "There are no accidents."

Heck of a thirtieth birthday. Suppose I oughtta get serious about planning the fiftieth. (Not sure I really do want to rent the Buddha Bar under the Hotel Crillon, even if it'd be still there and even if they'd let me, but anyhow....)