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alonewiththemoon10 years ago today M and I had our first date--we watched an episode of Deep Space Nine and then went out to a Korean/Japanese place in Brighton Center. I can't believe it was so long ago, and at the same time I can't believe it was only ten years. That was the first day of the rest of my life :-)
The holidays have been good to us. We both got good swag and some exciting family news from my brother and his wife, making it a very happy holiday indeed. I bought a camcorder yesterday, a JVC model that came with its own DVD burner, which is very cool since my computer does not have a burner that can do DVDs. I've been following Seti around making little movies, and it does ok in the low level of lighting in our dining room at night, so I'm optimistic about how well it will handle belly dance shows. It has a sports setting for capturing fast moving people on static backgrounds, which might be useful.
I've got to get dancing again, but the last three days have been super productive for me. I organized all my sweaters in bins (as opposed to storing them in a jumbled heap on the top shelf of the closet), went through years of accumulated paperwork (I suppose I don't really need to keep the phone bills from three apartments ago), am currently backing up my computer, found places to put all the christmas stuff, bought a utensil holder bucket thing from Monroe Saltworks so that we can actually find things in the kitchen drawers again, and many other useful endeavors were undertaken and accomplished. This is really what I wanted to do with my holiday break, so I'm not too sorry about missing the dance time. Tomorrow I should get in some dancing, after the trip to Winmill Fabrics and a couple of sewing projects. Though among my swag were a couple of samba DVDs, so I might delay the Middle Eastern dancing another day ;-)
Today my parents took us to see the Napoleon exhibit at the MFA. I'm not sure I would have gone on my own but it was quite fascinating. I had no idea about much of the symbolism of the material culture of the time--no design elements were accidental. Napoleon had his artists creating a new lexicon of symbols based on the principles of the Revolution, at least before he went all power crazy emperor. Josephine sounded fascinating in her own right. I'd like to find a good bio or better yet a good reality-based novel about her. Of course the elegant gowns made us all think of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kambriel --if you are reading this, K., my mom says hi to you and C.
The holidays have been good to us. We both got good swag and some exciting family news from my brother and his wife, making it a very happy holiday indeed. I bought a camcorder yesterday, a JVC model that came with its own DVD burner, which is very cool since my computer does not have a burner that can do DVDs. I've been following Seti around making little movies, and it does ok in the low level of lighting in our dining room at night, so I'm optimistic about how well it will handle belly dance shows. It has a sports setting for capturing fast moving people on static backgrounds, which might be useful.
I've got to get dancing again, but the last three days have been super productive for me. I organized all my sweaters in bins (as opposed to storing them in a jumbled heap on the top shelf of the closet), went through years of accumulated paperwork (I suppose I don't really need to keep the phone bills from three apartments ago), am currently backing up my computer, found places to put all the christmas stuff, bought a utensil holder bucket thing from Monroe Saltworks so that we can actually find things in the kitchen drawers again, and many other useful endeavors were undertaken and accomplished. This is really what I wanted to do with my holiday break, so I'm not too sorry about missing the dance time. Tomorrow I should get in some dancing, after the trip to Winmill Fabrics and a couple of sewing projects. Though among my swag were a couple of samba DVDs, so I might delay the Middle Eastern dancing another day ;-)
Today my parents took us to see the Napoleon exhibit at the MFA. I'm not sure I would have gone on my own but it was quite fascinating. I had no idea about much of the symbolism of the material culture of the time--no design elements were accidental. Napoleon had his artists creating a new lexicon of symbols based on the principles of the Revolution, at least before he went all power crazy emperor. Josephine sounded fascinating in her own right. I'd like to find a good bio or better yet a good reality-based novel about her. Of course the elegant gowns made us all think of
kambriel --if you are reading this, K., my mom says hi to you and C.
