Dusk

This post is a sublimation;-) You are warned (as if this would stop you from reading further...)

Bellydance goes well, on 25th there will be a big party, many of the girls will be dancing, and clarieberry and me will be dancing too. I'm very looking forward to it. Got new earrings, very jingly;-)
Been to Stock House, got two metres of light blue satin to make harem pants and little top for the party. I wanna decorate it with golden and silver beads if I have time, as my jewels are both silver and golden, so I wanna bring it all to accordance.
On 24th will also be xanalith's party with Dr Who theme, and I need to make Leela's costume, but I haven't started yet... Oh well, it's not that much of a costume to make;-))) I wanna wear it with my white boots.
allova's and sven_helsong's 21st party on Saturday was great, I had a very good time. There were lots of funny moments, like when allova ran up to me and several other people to whom I was talking, and hid behind one of them screaming "Hide me from the Russian!" Me got puzzled;-) Then found she was running from xepera_xeper who tried to pull her ears, that's a Russian birthday custom. Eventually he got her, and then had to run from Tigger who chased him all around and was generally very scary. It's nice to have a man who can protect your honour *sigh*. Live music by Amplitude, the band from 2014, was great. I notice I use quite a lot of bellydance moves while dancing with modern music, it's not all about belly;-) Cake was huge and very yummy. And ten people fitting into little children house in the kindergarten was just dodgy, very dodgy.
I'm officially out of Auckland Sword and Shield now, talked to Chief_Instructor today. Will not be coming to the end of the year feast neither, as suddenly found it's a Nightmare Circle weekend, alas. I'll keep doing the secretary stuff till the AGM so will be coming to committee meetings, and then will pass it on to someone and quit completely. Still, have no intentions to leave events like NAAMA and Easter Camp, it's fun, even though I'm a poor fighter *sigh*, but it's not all about fighting.
I'll be at St Cath on Saturday (one day only), so slothphil and other people from outside of Auckland, I'll see you there!
Also planning to be at Mistletoe's party on 7th, she said come as your favourite fantasy creature, here it is, my chance to wear the ears again!
And then there will be Nightmare Circle, and I'll be crewing, yay!
And then there will be Christmas and the 3 weeks break, and lots of sleep and free time!
Life is good.
Now I'll go buy some oranges, have food, and take my antibiotic, as I'm still fighting the virus.
*happy hugs to everyone*

Maxx and Wises hate me, they are slow like hell. No bellydance today, clarieberry's boyfriend needs her car so she can't come. I was trying to find a bus, and Maxx and Wises showed exactly how bloody much they hate me. By the time I was able to figure out how to get there it was too late to go anywhere, I would be late anyway. Maybe it's goo I didn't go, as the shortest route will include about 15 minutes of walk in the city, plus two kilometers walk in Birkenhead. Two kilometers walk is not a problem for me when I have enough time, but with today's weather maybe it's better not to risk. It can start terribly raining any moment, I'm afraid, and then I would get to the place VERY WET, which is never fun to be *pout*. And that's not to forget I don't expect to get a lift back to city neither, I mean, I could be lucky, but more possibly - not, in this case I'll have same two kilometers walk back to bus stop, maybe in a storm, definitely in complete darkness, no idea if I find the way ok, and no idea how long to wait for the bus there. So maybe it's good I didn't go... Sad anyway.

On the way home I had to hold my bloody skirt that suddenly flied up totally to the belt level, I mean it! Trying to hold it I almost got overridden by a bus, I think the driver was scared too as he slowed down in a rush. After this getting totally wet was not that much trouble, so now I'm sitting at home trying to dry myself. Vak. Still, walking home holding the bloody skirt as much as possible to not let it strip me again was not fun. No more feminine stuff, it doesn't matter if I wear skirt or jeans anyway.

And now probably need to go cook something as I had lunch almost 6 hours ago, so start feeling a bit hungry. Maybe I'll make pancakes.
Ah, and I've tried peanut butter yesterday! I've heard a lot about it, and now tried. Interesting thing. I don't think I'll become a fan of it, but can make a nice food addition sometimes;-)

Yeah, I've been doing knitting recently, find it very interesting. I'm in the process of knitting something like a scarf, but hopefully some time later I can make a pink sweater for myself. No matter how much I like the bellydance-type costumes, for winter you need to have something warm;-))) Though I must admit that bellydance scarves have something like knitted pieces, they hold the coins. Makes it all very jingly;-)
Yay knitting!

clarieberry, I think this type of knitting is very much like what we discussed, see patterns under cut

Yeah, that becomes one of the things that rule my life. Which is very good, I believe.
Obviously, doing some bellydance stuff in the morning instead of jogging will be great. If I can make myself get out of the bed at 6am;-) Nevertheless, did some exercises yesterday evening. Hurts. Yeah. One of the good things of doing it at home - you can stop any time to have rest;-)))
I have discovered YouTube! Well, not that I didn't know about it before, but I never saw any stuff there that would make me interested.
Now yay - they have bellydance videos! Oh, they have amazing videos! I'm searching all around there, and finding beautiful stuff!!! I think I may even post some links here later, just because it's so incredibly WOW!!!
With one video yesterday there was a moment "oh, that's exactly what I can't do! Go back, go back, how exactly she does it?" So they can actually be used for training purposes too.
And it's just so prettttttttyyyyyyyyyyyyy! *squee-squee-squee*

I've got another bellydance music CD! Yay!
The first one I had was with dances that we learn, and this one is with warm-up music. Very-very cool.
But right now I'm so terribly sleeeeepy *yawn*. Feeling very tired, need to go to bed early *yawn* - something that I almost never manage to do. Internet is far too interesting.
My arms and hips are tired, but in whole I feel very nice. I cannot, like some of my friends, post regular descriptions of physical exercises, so I'm trying to pretend I'm doing something fit-keeping by mentioning sore hips after bellydance and bruises from swords;-)))
I think clarieberry agrees with me that it all needs practicing and that we are gonna be very fit one day.
But I do understand more and more why they call it bellydance. It's kinda funny when you try to work with muscles about which you are not even sure they are there...

Made poll on Diatribe and found everybody apart from me are using daggers in larps. Amazing. I want that too.

I've ordered two from Mordavia_creator, he's made a big weapon order in the beginning of winter, so soon the stuff should arrive, I think.

I like daggers. They are nice, very nice. And easy to carry too... Which reminds me that on Sunday I'm gonna discuss with Trainer_guy the thing with which I'll be able to carry sword on my back. Otherwise it does take too much space around me.

I've also been thinking of getting a pair of steel daggers. I am highly unlikely to make them myself, not only because I'm lazy, don't have tools, blah-blah, but also because I want them to be pretty. Meow. I talked to one guy who said he can do it some time ago, but we didn't discuss details such as price, maybe I need to ask him at last and decide how I can save money for the thing I want so much.

I really do like the case dagger fighting. It just feels so right. Do you have this special feeling with something that this is the exactly correct thing for you, the "natural" feeling? Holding a dagger in each hand feels so very natural to me, and it was like that from the very first second. I think I'm even improving my technique;-)))

Another natural thing for me is bellydance. My heart cries thinking that I had to miss it this week. I think next time my arm will still be hurting but much less, so I'll do it. Oh dear.

Sunday bruises are visible now, especially on the left hand, but I still prefer to defend with dagger. I just don't like shields.

Other news: my new jeans that I bought this weekend are very-very nice. I didn't really intend to buy ONE MORE pair of jeans, but you really need to have at least one pair of decent long blue jeans... By "decent" I mean they should look relatively new, not like my old jeans in which I flew to New Zealand 3.5 years ago. I still wear them, but not to work, they just really look old. I like them very much, so probably wouldn't be able to rubbish them until they are completely torn... And they are very convenient too.

And the new ones are very nice. They are dark blue, and rather tightly fitted, so they are good to be worn with boots. That's the main reason I bought them. I'm going to wear them to work with my black cowboy-like boots that I wear all the time now (because it's winter and cold). They look very nice together. And seems like it's a totally normal New Zealand style, as I can see so many women wearing tightly fitted jeans with boots.

But I wanna discuss what you would be wearing on top of it. When at work I wear jumpers that are long enough to make my lower back look acceptably decent for work. I have a whole bunch of such jumpers.
But if talking about outside of work - what options would be good? Sometimes when I see other women they look a bit... defiant. But very cool, yeah...

So I'm all in thoughts now...

P.S. Looking at how much space I spent here for each topic it seems that you can get used to bruises, but talking about clothes will always take much attention;-))))

P.P.S. I'm going to bellydance again today! Yay! With clarieberry! And I have a belt at last! I've bought it on Saturday! It's so cool! And jingly! Yay!

Weird enough?
First draft for my new LJ profile... Something needs to be there.

Baka Lucy! Stop searching for bellydance LJ communities and joining them!
It's 1.30am! Go to bed! You have to work tomorrow!

Oh. My. Gods.
Looked in LJ interests search for "bellydance".
111 communities.
21 of them are Russian-languaged!
Geek.