wonderful weekend

Despite my back being so sore I can barely stand, I am in a truly excellent mood this morning. There are many reasons for this: I had an awesome weekend, accomplished a LOT yesterday, and got up early enough this morning to get to work by 6:45. This will let me get out of here at 1pm, hopefully early enough to avoid the intense heat my office builds up by mid-afternoon, and also includes 15 minutes of extra time for making up a bit from last week.

I went to Tir Righ Coronet Tournament on Saturday, my first big event back in probably 3 or 4 years. It was absolutely wonderful. The break I had was needed, but it's time for it to be over and for me to get back to where I belong. I got to see many friends I hadn't seen in a long, long time and had so much fun.

Sadly, Ian was bored out of his mind. He didn't know anyone except me (well, he'd met a few of my friends previously at non-SCA stuff), had no idea what was going on, and didn't really find much of it interesting at all. And I'm a court junkie, so I wanted to stay for the whole thing, and of course it was horribly uninteresting to him. So I told him to play with his iPhone - fortunately we were tucked away in a corner.

Yesterday morning, Ian and I went all the way to North Vancouver to have breakfast at the Tomahawk Barbecue. And I watched in absolute wonder and horror as he downed the ENTIRE mixed grill. Seriously, I think that thing was designed to be split between 2 people. It's a wonder his heart hasn't exploded yet.

Then I went home and cleaned like a madwoman. The event on Saturday has left me inspired and very gung-ho to get back into my arts and craft projects, and since my place was such a disaster, I couldn't find anything. Now it's tidy enough that I can craft in peace and actually find things. The cleaning also had the side effect of my finding the receipt for my computer chair, which I can now go exchange today, as it broke in less than a month after purchase. Sadly, I will have to skip archery practice tonight because of my back pain.

looking for new SCA friends

Now that I'm "officially" back to the SCA, and all fired up about SCA and participating again and doing service type stuff, I have decided I also want to work on losing this shyness I have and meet new people.

I know, you're probably thinking... what shyness??? I'm nowhere near as bad as I used to be, and over the internet I'm a lot less shy, and once I've been introduced to a person, the shyness pretty much completely disappears. But I am absolutely horrible at introducing myself to someone new out of the blue.

But there are so many people out there who Do Cool Stuff and who I could learn from even just by talking to them or reading their LJs, that I am asking this favour of those of you on my friends list who are in the SCA and in An Tir: who should I know? Who do you read who I don't, who Does Cool Stuff and would be cool with me reading them? I know I could just go through your friends lists and friend people randomly, but I think it'd be cooler if I got a few recommendations and could say "So-n-so sent me because they think you're nifty".

Thanks!