One of the things about moving every two years, with a weight limit, is it does limit the STUFF. I was stunned at how much junk we'd accumulated while in Fairfax for a triple tour.

Of course, my stepmom sending a full-size moving truck of all my parents' stuff after my dad died didn't help.

On another topic, does anyone know a good English -> Latin translator that will do whole phrases?

Who is collecting the stuff for -t?

Who is collecting the stuff for -t?

I would be happy to, since she will be out here, if that works for people.

JS! Why does your clan-sect-group-thing have a Cymru (Welsh) dragon on your tabards?

The red background with the white animal? That's a heraldic wolf, which is the totem animal for our kingdom, Ealdormere (the province of Ontario in the regular world). Those particular tabards are designated for our unbelted champions fighting team. Unbelts is SCA parlance for fighters who aren't knights.

Our parent kingdom, the Midrealm, or Middle kingdom (MI, OH, KY, IN, IL) has a welsh dragon as heraldic animal. It was originally a chinese dragon because China is also known as the Middle kingdom, but someone a long time back figured the welsh dragon looked cooler, so that's what they use. (You may see that in some of the pictures, their tabards are white with a red stripe with the green dragon in the middle).

Count me in on the care package for -t! and I've got some amethysts lying around waiting to be made into something ...

Perkins, insent to your profile addy.

I'm just going to assume it's okay with people for me to be point person. I need to run to work now, but I should have time today to get organized about it, so I will post more later.

A Perkins Point Person sounds good to me!

Heather, I think a shower for your family members would be faboo. Let me know where they register because I'd like to send them something too.

Ooh! The Christmas after my family's thing we had an ornament party just before it came time to decorate the tree. It was simple -- just cider and cookies and carols and shiny little packages. My friend Dotty thought it up, she figured, sure people would give us ornaments ON Christmas but that would be a bit too late. It was such a wonderful day.

I'm just going to assume it's okay with people for me to be point person.

::points emphatically at Perkins::

Aidan's teacher is very nice and she was amazed at how smart he is. Of course, all my babies are smart. The visit went well and she totally pretended not to notice that the dining room floor hadn't been vacuumed yet.

Of course he's smart! He's a Buffista baby!

My DH just got his papers back with grades and comments. One of the instructors, a PhD, applauded a point by writing "Here Here!"

He got good grades, but if he'd agreed with the instructors he would've done better. They marked him down on the Ethics of War paper for "falling prey to the sickness of political correctness."

points at Perkins

Perkins, will you be collecting money also? I'm not sure what I have to send in physical goods, but I'll check.