Munden's Bar

Well, almost. seraphs_folly could have not had the sniffles, and then it would have been nicer for her. Still 'twas a nice two days and three nights. My lady arrived late Friday, and we went straight home. In the morning we met up with jarratt_gray & evie_fae for brunch, then went home and prepped for tyellas' Mad Scientist party, filling it the remaining hour or so with playing with the new toy.

Without going into too much detail, we have come to the conclusion that all wars could be stopped by air-dropping pallet loads of said toy(with appropriate power supplies) into combat zones. Both cheaper and much nicer than cluster bomblet munitions, but providing more "bangs for the buck." I can see it now, the Valkyrie Air Corps in their DPM cut-offs and khaki under-bust-tied fatigue shirts, shoving pallets of HMWs out the back of a pink C130 Hercules with both boxes and parachutes marked with a big red "O" Thanks to those who managed to "liberate" one for us. They know who they are. And seriously, if you haven't got one, you should. As soon as possible. Really.

Then we picked up chinese and headed round to tyellas' place where she introduced us to chocolate & peanut butter ice cream, which was a lot nicer than I thought it would be, as I don't usually like peanut butter itself, except in sate. In fact, it was delicimus. The home made vanilla was lovely and tasty too, much better than commercial vanilla. Then people turned up to help prepare the party and I got chained into my "Igor" costume.

There were some pretty impressive costumes, T's aviatrix with aerial wings and mini-jet pack was perhaps the most inventive, though the aetherial energy effects of the wings would need to be added in post. It was a very relaxed party, except perhaps when khaybee decided to actually tie the arms of my strait-jacket together and seraphs_folly decided to feed me beer. Or when the bucket of dry ice started making dangerous noises. We did discover that dry ice hypnotises roomfuls of people, and that tyellas is a dry ice pusher, providing it free to neighbourhood kids, presumably in an attempt to get them addicted young.

Things wound up, and we went home to watch the first two episodes of True Blood. Yummy. Finally, a TV vampire show done right, with just the right amount of sex and squalor, and some stupendous dialogue, along with believably stupid characters, and nasty violence. Not for the faint-hearted or prudish though. I mean, a show that in one episode has a major sub-plot based around vampire blood-induced priapism isn't exactly kiddie materiel, is it? Lovin' it at the moment, the mixture of Southern tropes, heat, bigotry, sex, and the supernatural, reminds me of parts of Warren Ellis' Hellblazer run, tho it is based on the Sookie Stackhouse book series by Charlaine Harris, which, unsurprisingly, I haven't read, as the author normally writes Ellery Queen style mysteries. The series is produced for HBO by Alan Ball, previously famous for Six Feet Under

We finally, after lazy snuggling, fell asleep at around half three in the morning, awaking in time for brunch and a drive to visit seraphs_folly's publisher in Waikanae. Back home and a quick run to Piwakawaka to pick up more True Blood crack, which filled in time till dinner jenni_talula & Lee, whom we hadn't caught up with in ages. Afterwards I found it amusing that we spent much of the time talking about toilets. Such scintillating and appropriate dinner-time conversation! *grin*

Prior to dinner, I had shown m'lady the bed in Okooko which she had previously seen on the web but not in real life, and which she is in love with, and she showed it to our dinner partners.

Back home, more True Blood and early to sleep due to m'lady's early Tauranga flight in the morning. Shame we couldn't have caught up with more people over the weekend, but it was the first time we'd seen each other in almost two months. so there was need of a certain amount of alone together time.

The lady returns Thursday afternoon, and we will probably be going straight to JJ's for early BBC, followed by TNC, as she is going through Dawaat bhaji withdrawal. Later in the week I'll hopefully confirm the BBC, so if anyone wants to catch up, they can pop in to JJ's between five and seven, whether or not they're not currying.

Friday I'll be seeing her off in the morning again, so she can have a dirty (labour) weekend with argentbear, holding_pattern, and grendel_khan, while I go and play a cute wee dispossesed anime girl called Emba in grandexperiment's Lambs of a Nameless God at Fright Night, which is fast becoming Wellington's regular Halloween role-playing con.

So this morning the Oracle served up Pat Banatar's We Belong

We belong to the light, we belong to the thunder
We belong to the sound of the words we've both fallen under
Whatever we deny or embrace, for worse or for better
We belong, we belong, we belong together

Can't dispute that. This was followed by GnR's Patience, The Scorpion's Winds of Change and then Katrina & The Waves doing Walking On Sunshine

I used to think maybe you loved me, now I know that it's true
And I don't wanna spend my whole life just a waitin' for you
Now I don't want you back for the weekend, not back for a day (no no no)
I said baby I just want you back and I want you to stay

Certainly sounds like what I was hearing last time I was in Christchurch! :)

Here are ( some more pictures of my bling  ) taken last Friday by khaybee in Fidel's :

The last one, with the red lighting makes it look almost more like a dragon than a wolf. A heraldic wolf that looks almost like an oriental dragon. I'd like that as a description. Should one be a wolf-dragon or a dragon-wolf ? Though wolf-dragon reminds me a little too much of Wolf's Dragoons. New LJ icon in place!

seraphs_folly and I have been terribly synchronous recently, sleeping similarly, snuggling up remotely, etc. Hmm, is it wrong for one to be this silly or soppy in public? Ah, who cares, not everything can be angsty or angry.

That last song also has the following lines :

Now every time I go for the mailbox, gotta hold myself down
Cause I just can't wait till you write me you're comin' around

The latter made me think of songs being outdated by technology. Who would wait at a mailbox for a written letter from their lover to arrange a visit now? An e-mailbox maybe.

I could go to Drinking Liberally this evening, but if I did I wouldn't be home all week, and I have left-overs from Monday to eat, as I'll be at JJ's and Daawat tomorrow. Friday is shaping up to be interesting! Firstly a work do at The Temperance bar, I feel I should wear a dress to it in protest. Then Kazu with evie_fae & argentbear. Sunday, I get a visit for Father's Day. Love to you all ! :)

seraphs_folly last night gave me an antique gold ring with a collared wolf relief on it. I feel sorta like a girly girl with an engagment ring. Squee! Pictures will follow, as will more words. Happy! :)

And my mobile seem to be one of them.

This is the sequence of tracks it served to me on my trip into work this morning :

1. Morningwood - Nth Degree - The classic poly love song


2. NiN - Closer - the classic industrial love lust song
3. Live - Dolphin's Cry - The remarkably good Christian love song


4. Hoobastank - The Reason - A basic rock love song
5. Moorcheba - Rome Wasn't Built In a Day - the "Bollywood goes to New York" love song.
6. The White Stripes - The Union Forever an angsty refusing-to-believe-in-love-but-falling-for-her-anyway song

So I think my mobile is trying to tell me something... I wonder what it is?

Rome Wasn't Built In a Day is a forced-march song, it made me walk much faster than I normally would.

p.s. OK, I know The Union Forever is really about Citizen Kane

I must post to warn others of the nefarious Dark Lady of the Sith, and her co-conspirator!

Having practised their kidnapping to Kazu techniques on people such as myself, (this evening, on the pretext of offering me a lift home due to the state of the Hutt Valley trains) and reportedly, a certain bear of the argent persuasion on a previous occasion, they plot to do it some more!

On the other hand, as kidnappings go, it was a very nice one, Kazu had the all the usual nice things like takoyaki and tori kariagge, and they kindly dropped me back at my car.

In the morning, the afore-mentioned Sith Lady commandeered the Wairapa diesel in order to get round the lack of electricity on the Hutt line, lending even more weight to rumours of her secretly ruling the world!

Meanwhile in Christchurch it seems there is a beautiful black furry kitty that is pining for me Ah! The perils of interspecies polyamory and long distance feline relationships.

Looking back to a wonderful week of time spent with seraphs_folly (and the previously mentioned black kitty, her brother, and a dogle).

I took the opportunity of the visit to deliver a lovely gift to us both from trickofthedark, the first two prints (signed and numbered!) of her "Apple Lady" work,
which I had finally gotten framed.



seraphs_folly said it reminded her of us when she saw it! :) Thanks a lot trickofthedark, now one is in each of our houses!. If you like it, click on the picture to get your own!

We had a six-pack of visits to Drexels, where-in I became mightily impressed at the Drexel's special as a filling and efficient meal, and at the bottomless cup of coffee. One visit was made even brighter by the appearance of ferrouswheel and my sister V and her daughter Sam (hey, I have a niece!) who hunted escaped bears around our feet.

I got to meet my lady's builder and his wife, and got to know M and thehollowmen better whilst sampling the tasty fare at The Bodhi Tree, also tasting a new (to me) Burmese beer. Earlier I had met Tox of the Tail, their cat, and gone for walkies in the park where Dougal got mistaken for Hairy McLairy several times.

It is really quite surprising how much enjoyment can be gained from hanging round a house helping someone out. Loves Her

Looking forward to multiple partyings and role-playings over the weekend.

Oh, and seeing as it's after midnight, happy birthday Dark Lady of the Sith.

This evening I am off to Christchurch to spend five days, including my 45th Birthday, with my beloved seraphs_folly, and also to attend Southern Exposure, and the famous Christchurch Fetish Ball.

I'm hoping to be opened to some new experiences over this period, meet some interesting people, and to have a lot of fun, as well as a lot of snuggling!

I have a new pair of leather pants. If the costume design committee (i.e.: seraphs_folly ) approves of them, this will be the first time I've worn leather pants in public since I used to hug tightly to the back of my room-mate RF on his bike when I was in RNZAF Woodbourne. And unlike then, when I was wearing RF's cast-offs, these are new! Mmmm! I love the yummy smell of new leather!

Before I go, ( some quick reviews! )

Nothin'
can compare
to when you roll the dice and swear
that your love's for me.

I just wanted to say that I really like Finley Quaye's Dice The vid helps too.

And the video for Evanescence' Call Me When You're Sober has Amy Lee sitting in a red Edwardian (i think) dress petting a wolf. Nuff said.

I like Melanie C's Never Be The Same Again as well. Its not a secret anymore... :)

Jes chillin'.

Point of Fashion: Pajamas at 3.00 pm

For those of you who don't have my lady seraphs_folly on their f-lists, and who have an interest in Japan or things Japanese, I suggest you check out her latest post. .

She writes well, that one. It's one of the many reason I love her! <3

It seems Japan has drawn in a lot of people I know, mellific and her beau are there on JET, like debzter and her beau were a few years back. My eldest son Joel was there presenting a paper about three weeks back, fd_midori was there a short while ago, seraphs_folly is there now, and giffydoll is planning to go there soon (presumably with superlate). I've probably missed some people off that list as well.

Speaking of my eldest son, he's just starting up a new commercial venture. Though it does remind me a bit much of certain things in superlate's game....especially seeing as I know more about it than I'm letting on here.

Edit: I just realized that in my financial forecast spreadsheet I missed an entire pay day out! It seems there's a third pay day in November on the very last day of the month. And I had succesfully budgeted all expected and regular expenses without it!

Which means my budget has just had a significant amount of money added to it. Whee! I'll be rich! Though not until the end November. Might be handy for Christmas presents, though reducing credit card debt would also be a good thing. Sort of like getting a Christmas bonus even. Does anyone still get those?

I'm waiting for lunch while Clearcase re-installs. I'm also waiting to leave work this afternoon. Because I'm also waiting for seraphs_folly to arrive on the train this evening.

When she does we will grab some food and then bundle ourselves back Pinehaven and hibernate for the weekend. Well, we may make foray's out for brunch and dinner, and I may have to get up and put stuff in the house coz Ele will be temporarily moving with Ben to her brother's house in Carterton on Satyrday , dropping some stuff off to temporarily store at my house. And we might make it to a certain party on Satyrday night, if m'lady is up to it.

But other than that, looking at that weather out there today and the forecast for the weekend, I think we'll stay wrapped up in warm duvets and cuddle. It's terrible. It's only been since Conclave that I saw my love last, and that was actually only two weekends ago, but it seems like an age! I think there is a high level of infatuation going on at the moment.

There;s also a high level of uncertainty. The future is up in the air. Will I go overseas next week? Don't know. Will I go overseas sometime in the next month? Don't know.Will we go overseas together? Don't know. Will I manage to last through to next pay day without running out of money? Probably not.

The latter is cause for a rant! Bloody BNZ! They changed the configuration of my account without being asked. Now, instead of declining my EFTPOS card when there are no funds, it lets me have whatever money I want and then charges me $20 for the privilege! Bastards. One can;t tell know how much is in an account when one is at an EFTPOS machine. It is has been usual practice to try one account, and then if that one is declined, use the other. Or use cash.

So last week I ended up paying $23.50 to send a packet by mail, and $32.00 for three coffees. Bastards!

The guy I spoke to at the bank about it said "Why don't you set up a new "Net Alert" to tell you when your account goes under one dollar? It can txt your cell phone!"

I felt like saying "Why don't you pricks stop fucking around with my accounts without my permission?" But I was polite and merely said "I don't have a cell phone". It seemed the tellers didn't know how to stop this from happening.and they had to get someone in to help them. They first tried to say it was "normal" for this type of account

"Well it wasn't normal last bloody week" I said!

So all together I Iost $60 out of my food and living money for the next two weeks (the $200-odd left after mortgage, power, telephone, other debts, and Ele have been paid .I don't know whether there is any way I can sue the BNZ for this, but I'd like to. This sort of shit from a bank which is already making a lot of money off of me means I will very likely look at the KiwiBank option for refinancing my mortgage!

But I'm going to forget about that over the weekend. I have much more enjoyable things to think about!
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