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Mar. 9th, 2007 10:51 amJust saw the trailer for the movie 300. We already have plans tonight to see a friend play live music, so we can't go tonight when some Leo's Pride people are going. Maybe tomorrow.
On the other hand, I got the giggles at the trailer, because I instantly recognized the music as being from NIN's The Fragile.
There's a
learn_icelandic. o_O The last time I went to Powell's, I saw a book that's something like, Teach Yourself Colloquial Icelandic, and I almost bought it just because it was there.
I still think it's mildly amusing that I was so miserable when I lived there, and yet I want to go back so bad it hurts. :^(
I think I'm going to take Katrina's suggestion, and buy that guidebook I saw for Reykjavik, and sit down and figure out a rough budget/itinerary for a trip of a week or two. I'm figuring that if we go for a week, we can stay mostly in Reykjavik, and do the Golden Circle stuff (Gullfoss, Geysir, Thingvellir, Blue Lagoon), and have a really awesome trip in a relatively short amount of time. Oy gevalt, though, the expense! There's also the swimming pool (so awesome) and mebbe a couple of museums right there in the city, and possibly we could do the pub-crawl thing one night. There are two vegetarian restaurants in the capital. Most of the hostels have kitchens, so we can buy food at the grocery store to keep costs down a little, food-wise. There's no way to get around the fact that it costs a thousand bucks for round-trip airfare, though. Damn Icelandair and their monopoly. If we go during May or September things might be cheaper than in the summer, and the roads won't be too snowy.
Hung out with Katrina yesterday. I helped sew Rick's huge cloak (I mean huge, it's a full circle of wool felt that'll go down to his knees). He's going to look like Andre The Giant in that thing. And there were enough scraps left over that I made a new hammock for the ratties (they peed so much in their old one, that even after I changed their bedding, the cage stank, I really need to have enough hammocks that I can have one in the wash and another in the cage), and I have enough for a bodice! Katrina gave me an old bodice pattern that was too small for her. It's not period-accurate at all, it's got darts in it, but she says it's way easy to sew. And it has instructions written for people who are complete morons at sewing (that'd be me) and explains the bit about making a prototype, and has illustrations on how and where to adjust the fit.
B Sharp Fabrics needs to do another class on bodice making--one of those ones where you get all duct-taped up over a tshirt and get cut out of the tape and then cut up the tape into flat pattern pieces.
On the other hand, I got the giggles at the trailer, because I instantly recognized the music as being from NIN's The Fragile.
There's a
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I still think it's mildly amusing that I was so miserable when I lived there, and yet I want to go back so bad it hurts. :^(
I think I'm going to take Katrina's suggestion, and buy that guidebook I saw for Reykjavik, and sit down and figure out a rough budget/itinerary for a trip of a week or two. I'm figuring that if we go for a week, we can stay mostly in Reykjavik, and do the Golden Circle stuff (Gullfoss, Geysir, Thingvellir, Blue Lagoon), and have a really awesome trip in a relatively short amount of time. Oy gevalt, though, the expense! There's also the swimming pool (so awesome) and mebbe a couple of museums right there in the city, and possibly we could do the pub-crawl thing one night. There are two vegetarian restaurants in the capital. Most of the hostels have kitchens, so we can buy food at the grocery store to keep costs down a little, food-wise. There's no way to get around the fact that it costs a thousand bucks for round-trip airfare, though. Damn Icelandair and their monopoly. If we go during May or September things might be cheaper than in the summer, and the roads won't be too snowy.
Hung out with Katrina yesterday. I helped sew Rick's huge cloak (I mean huge, it's a full circle of wool felt that'll go down to his knees). He's going to look like Andre The Giant in that thing. And there were enough scraps left over that I made a new hammock for the ratties (they peed so much in their old one, that even after I changed their bedding, the cage stank, I really need to have enough hammocks that I can have one in the wash and another in the cage), and I have enough for a bodice! Katrina gave me an old bodice pattern that was too small for her. It's not period-accurate at all, it's got darts in it, but she says it's way easy to sew. And it has instructions written for people who are complete morons at sewing (that'd be me) and explains the bit about making a prototype, and has illustrations on how and where to adjust the fit.
B Sharp Fabrics needs to do another class on bodice making--one of those ones where you get all duct-taped up over a tshirt and get cut out of the tape and then cut up the tape into flat pattern pieces.