Party party party... say the masks on the wall

I know there was something of importance I was going to mention, but now that I've gone through my email, hit LJ, and looked at various group pages...

Huh. It'll come back. Hopefully.

In other news, this weekend is Bruce and Bonnie's Destruction of the One Ring Party ^_^ I shall be making lembas, and miruvor.

List of Things to do

1. Go to Lothlorien.
2. Capture Galadriel and make her tell me how to make lembas.
3. Travel to Rivendell.
4. Kidnap Elrond and demand secret of how to make miruvor.
5. Stop by Moria and scratch 'Zhie was Here' on the door.
6. Catch an Eagle Air flight home.

Or, I'll just look for a lembas recipe online. I went to World Market last weekend and picked up honey from Austria and England in hopes of making said lembas more... er... authentic. (*snickers* Yeah, sure, Zhie, let's worry about the authenticity of a fictional grain product) Trying to figure where I can find some mallorn leaves to wrap these suckers in once I get them done. As for miruvor, I've had it in my mind for the longest time that it's peach and raspberry flavored, so that's what I'm going with. Yup.

Oh, and I'm dragging DarkDreamer along, so I'm sure she'll be able to give a report on her version of the goingsons that day. ^_^

Monty's dressing up like Arwen for it. Dark told me she's going to be 'modern day Erestor' (all black, nothing fancy), as there was a resounding 'no' when I mentioned Monty's plan to turn this into a costume party. Mark, I doubt will wear anything, though he mentioned wearing the harry potter sorting hat I have (yes, I have the sorting hat! mwhahaha!) and making everyone call him Radagast. As for me... I told Monty a few weeks back that if I had the time, it would be fun to convince Mark to be Amroth and then I'd go as Nimrodel (but then we'd tell everyone that, no, we didn't drown, we just ran off to Las Vegas to get eloped and ditch Middle-earth) and if I couldn't convince him, that maybe I could throw something together and be Luthien ('cause, y'know, if she's gonna be Arwen, well, it's a sister thing, gotta one-up her...)

Or, I could go as a very confused Jedi Master. I have the costume for that, and the lightsaber. Wouldn't that be fun?

Somewhere, there are still blackmail photos from Monty's birthday party, where I came as The Canary and Mark showed up as Robin Hood. Amusing stuffs.

Okay, I can't remember the really important stuff, so here's just more stuff

Firstly, I meant to mention this last week, but I was sick.

Many know that I have an aquarium at work, sitting right above the book drop. The students and faculty love it. DarkDreamer, the day she came to see my library, asked if the fish had names. Well, the only ones I name these days are the bettas - the one in the community aquarium is Fandango (Legolas died some time ago) and the one in his own little bowl is Jim Morrison. I've got some mini gouramis in the community tank and a few variatus, a really awesome catfish that has dalmation markings, and tons of snails. So, Dark looks at the fish in the tank, points to the smallest one (the little male orange variatus) and says 'That's Gwee'. So, now, I have a tank with Fandango, Gwee, and a bunch of other stuff.

So, that's the set up. The real story is, while I was sick, Gwee became a daddy fish! There are two teeny tiny little variatus fry swimming around. Gwee has to be the daddy, 'cause he's the only male variatus in the tank. They've made it a week and a day now, so that's an awesome thing. I'm hoping they make it to adulthood. They've told us at the pet stores all the time to take the fry out of the tanks, because they might get eaten, but firstly, it's a docile tank, and second, in the wild they don't get separated. Normally, I've been told there would be about thirty fry, but, y'know, nature and all. So, the two little baby gwee-fish... ^_^


And also.. on the radio this morning, announced: INXS coming to Milwaukee in May. May 20th. Woooooo! I'm thinking, awesome, must nudge Mark about this for my birthday.

Pause.

Fuck.

I have a business trip from May 18th to May 23rd.

Dammitdammitdammitdammitdammit.

btw, I'm going to Colorado in late May. A convergence of many librarians. The overwhelming amount of knowledge in one convention center may cause Denver to implode. Just an fyi for those out west.

Hey! I'm going to the West! Heee!

*ahem*

I'm going to the West, and with me, I'm taking an aardvark, a balrog, Celeborn, um... a desk?, a.. shoot, what was the E?.. and F?... a goat (or was it Glorfindel?), something with H... ink... crap. Lost it. Damn, now I gotta go look...

( a snippet from 'I'm Going to the West' )