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About Me

I am a strong and independent woman who is generally very busy. I am very happily married to a wonderful man and am a full-time mom to my 14 year old step-daughter. I am enjoying my current carreer incarnation as a book buyer for a distributor. My friends are very important to me and I like to spend a great deal of time with them. I also spend a great deal of time as Leyli Shirazi in the SCA. I reside in the fair Kingdom of Meridies and enjoy Heavy Combat, dressing in ways most people wouldn't, and generally spending time with a bunch of wonderful folks!
If I could do anything I wanted and didn't have to worry about the pay, I would be a costume designer/seamstress. I wouldn't make "regular" clothes, but would make fabulous fun stuff. I currently do a fair amount of this in my spare time for myself and my family. If you ever catch up with me at a Sci-Fi con, there is really no telling what I'll be wearing. Could be a corset, a super-hero costume, a vampire costume, or just something fun and flashy.

My Interests

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I'm not so much here for meeting new folks as for keeping up with those I already know.

My Blog

Tea in Space!

Check out our latest Tea In Space podcast where the ladies and I discuss Pride and Prejudice and ZOMBIES!  It's the one day each month where we get to do something totally fun at work!http://www.ingra...
Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 11:57:00 GMT

Something fun at work!

So, 3 of my girlfriends at work and I have been doing an audio podcast since last June.  They have all been great about posting the links and pimping our oh-so-fun genre fiction book club...but I have...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:45:00 GMT

New Year’s Challenge...Love More

Hate has many different definitions, but the common themes are... 1) an extreme aversion to 2) a desire to cause harm 3) a desire to see harm done to another   I wonder if humans are the only cr...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:28:00 GMT

Healthy Food-Blech!

It's really, really hard to integrate whole, unprocessed foods into your diet when you only like about 5 vegetables and about 6 types of fruit  Oh yeah... and I have neither time nor in...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:46:00 GMT

when will they invent teleporters??

So, just today I figured up the mileage I have driven this year in the SCA.  Just counting driving from my door to site and then back home it is about 5,700 miles.  That's not even counting ...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:59:00 GMT

Crown List in 3..2..

So, it's been a crazy-busy couple of weeks.  I got my knight's lady's cotehardie overdress and underdress done in 2 weeks and sent home with her last weekend. (I've been crazy nervous because thi...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:24:00 GMT

a different sort of Dragoncon...

 Some of you folks may remember that last year I made a decision to do things a little differently this year at Dragoncon. Well, it was different.  Not having the late-night Farshad par...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:50:00 GMT

Three quick reasons why my husband is awesome.

He's smart - Not just "can chew gum and walk at the same time" kind of smart...but he's great at problem solving, abstract thinking and at articulating his thoughts.  That's the main reason ...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:24:00 GMT

Coronation

Just a few of the highlights from the weekend.   Obviously getting to be there when Sir Caspar and Cecilia (My Knight-in-Law and his lady) were crowned.The keebler Elf boys posing in Lord of the ...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:21:00 GMT

Who Am I??

Universalreason posted earlier today about an exercise in class where you were to pair up and tell each other enough to have the other person introduce you.  This got me thinking, I don't like to...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:14:00 GMT