[Ansteorra] time for a different topic

[Aurore Gaudin]

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LOL.  Loved your story, very beautiful.  Thoughtful is hard to believe when he had the worst habit of remembering you.  Aurore
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: cehuse
  To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
  Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 4:12 PM
  Subject: RE: [Ansteorra] time for a different topic


  Now, I like this subject! :-)

  This is a long story, but it all makes sense...

  I was a single mother nearly 5 years ago, with 2 small children. I was working
  under a contract (for blind people) for the federal government and was in
  college. Well, it was Halloween and I came to work dressed in a beautiful
  Victorian gown that I had rented for a Halloween party that weekend with my
  college friends.

  Anyways, I was walking down the hall towards when I ran into a woman dressed in
  a really pretty cloak, tunic and all these really neat things (they were site
  token) hanging off her belt. This lady was Lady Elizabeth Hawkwood. She
  commented on my gown and we struck up a conversation. Well, the conversation led
  to the SCA and she gave me copies after work of the Black Star and the Elfsea
  Scroll and showed me pictures of events. It sounded like so much fun and seemed
  very family friendly! I thought, "Could this be the group I have been looking
  for? One that I can do things with both of my children?"  I put the newsletters
  away when I got home and forgot about them...after all, I was still in school
  and my grades meant everything to me.

  Two years later, I had graduated with straight A's, had made the National Dean's
  list 3 times and the local Dean's list every semester I had attended. I was
  excited that all my hard work was coming to an end and I would soon be able to
  get a better paying (and much more stable job). But, I was sad because the only
  friends I had were my friends in college and I knew that soon I would probably
  never see them again. Well, I was cleaning out old papers one weekend after
  graduation and came across those newsletters. Fighter Practice was that day, in
  only a couple of hours and just around the corner from my apartment. So, I
  gathered up the kids and took them to practice. Diane loved all the lovely gowns
  and Ryan loved the heavy fighters. I loved talking to Lady Eleanor (she was so
  very much in love with Lord Sebastian...he bowled me over completely when he
  lightly kissed my hand. Ok, I admit I read historical romance novels).

  So, we went to something called "Moot". I loved it! Lady Ameliene told me to go
  talk to Lord Phelippe Descors about a subscription to the Barony's local
  newsletter. He was rather scrappy looking (he had not shaved in a couple of days
  and was wearing really sloppy clothes)...and he was a bit abrupt with me. So, I
  shrugged him off and paid for my subscription.

  I went to Baronial College the following weekend and had a blast! He swears he
  saw me there and that we talked. I don't remember ever seeing him there, much
  less conversing with him.

  Two weeks went by and I wanted to go to Scarborough Faire. When I picked him up
  my first thought was, "He cleans up very nicely and he does know what a razor if
  for! He's pretty cute!" We went together and spent the whole day there. I spoke
  to him of things I would never talk to another person about, much less a another
  man. It was like we had known each other our entire lifetimes.

  Well, 3 weeks later was Springfaire and I put on the list asking if I could camp
  with anyone. He responded and said that I was more than welcome to spend the
  weekend in his encampment. The kids were packed off to their dad's and I left
  for the weekend. When I got there, a massive wind came through and I became a
  human kite while trying to get my fly on my tent (but that's another
  story)...Phelippe was on the list field trying to keep the Baronial pavilion
  from sailing into Meridies. When he came to our shared encampment (looking
  wind-blown and scrappy..again), he rescued me and my tent. He told me at that
  time, "I remember you now...we went to Scarborough Faire together!" I was a bit
  miffed. How can you spend an entire day with someone and not remember them?

  Well, we spent that Saturday night under the stars walking hand in hand. On
  Sunday, when it was time to go, it was very hard for us to depart from each
  others company. It was instant love.

  A proposal at Defender that year and nearly two years later, we are now very
  happily married with a new baby girl. I now feel totally complete in my
  life....A wonderful, thoughtful loving husband, 3 beautiful children and more
  friends than I have ever had in my entire lifetime. Why? Because, Lady Elizabeth
  wore her garb for Halloween!

  Maria

  *** St. Theresa's Prayer ****
  May today there be peace within
  May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to
  be....
  May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith
  May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has
  been given to you....
  May you be content knowing you are a child of God....
  Let this presence settle into our bones, and allow your soul the freedom to
  sing, and dance,
  It is there for each and every one of you....

  > -----Original Message-----
  > Well, I think we've all flogged the dead horse of getting help, chivalry,
  > etc., ad nauseum, to death.  How about a different topic?
  >
  > I was recently explaining to my brother how I met my significant other:  We
  > had seen each other a few times in a bookstore where I worked, and made
  > passing comments to each other on various topics.  One day when I finally
  > had the opportunity to ring up a sale for him, I noticed the book he had
  > ordered had Celtic knotwork on the cover.  I made some comment about it, and
  > our conversation eventually drifted to the S.C.A.  I said I had heard a bit
  > about it from some people I worked with at Scarborough Faire.  He offered to
  > bring me some newsletters (back in the day when they were more than just
  > event announcements) and a couple of T.I.s, and would talk about the SCA and
  > answer any questions I had over a cup of tea, if I cared to join him after
  > work.
  >
  > The hook was, I think, that he had a different line.  He didn't ask me out
  > for a beer or a drink at a bar, or even for my phone number.  He offered to
  > teach me about something in which I already had an interest.
  >
  > So my idea for a different topic is this:  tell how you and your mate came
  > to be together if it had anything to do with the SCA.
  >
  > Amicalement,
  > Ly Madelina de Lyndesaye

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