Musings of Lanna Lee Maheux

I recorded this on a whim. It’s episode one, not sure if there will be, or should be, an episode 2.

Today I colored my hair. I got a haircut over the weekend (which I love!) and I felt my hair really deserved to be it’s “natural” color. [Natural in that I was meant to be a redhead.]

Because I was doing it myself and because I haven’t had my hair colored since last fall sometime, I decided to color first with blond, and then finish up with red.

Here is a pictorial through the process of coloring my hair.

Before:
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This weekend Edmund and I traipsed to Boskone 47 a Science Fiction convention in Boston. We’ve been going every year since 2006 (or thereabouts) and it is one of our favorite events.

So what is so special about Boskone? It’s small. It has great panels with many to choose from. It has one of the best Con-Suites I’ve ever experienced. The gaming area is well-run and a lot of fun. And the people are awesome. My in-laws came again this year, and they love it as much as we do. It’s nice to have an event that works for geeks of all ages!

This year I challenged myself to make a balloon monster for the art show. I also wanted to see if I could sell any more of my monster art pieces I’ve been making for the last couple of years. Friday afternoon, after we checked into the hotel, I made this:

And Edmund hung my art:

Then I took a nap – as I had a couple of hours of sleep the night before. Fortunately I woke in time for the art show reception, which started at 10 pm. Edmund and I hung out with Henry (my father-in-law), listened to jazz, and I drank my free drink while Edmund enjoyed an $8 beer. Then he finished my drink for me.

Saturday I woke up earlyish and attended some panels. First up was one about the Middle Ages. Then a panel on the newest Start Trek movie. Next I attended one about Avatar. However, the most thought-provoking panel was titled “the Heroine’s Journey”. It was a discussion on Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s journey and how, especially in fiction, different the female journey may or may not be from the journey of the male.  I am still processing the discussion and will write about my thoughts later. Good stuff.

Saturday night we shared a large pizza with Ed’s parents, Chris and Henry, then Chris and I hung out in the hot tub for an hour and had a nice talk.

Sunday I got breakfast from the Con-Suite, bagels FTW! The art show ended and to my great surprise, especially since no one bidded on anything all weekend, I sold 2 of my monsters:

Someone also bid on my Balloon sculpture, which was nice because then I didn’t have to take it home.

My friend Linda visited (nickname L2K), we’ve known each other since 2000 when we took an acting class together when I was living in Boston. I haven’t seen her in a couple of years, so it was great to catch up!

After a nap, we order out for some Mexican food and Ed’s parents joined us again for dinner. The convention was officially over. However, many people stayed later for the “Dead Dog” party held in the Con-Suite area. Edmund and I rolled down at around 9 pm to see what was happening and we started playing some games. Ed and I played Stoner Fluxx, next Edmund played the Great Dalmudi with a bunch of others while I read and played a solo game of set. Then we played Dominion Seaside with 3 then 5 players, and ended out leaving after 1 am. Great people, great times.

Because I’ve heard that blogs are so 2007, I’ve decided to refer to this website as my blag.

Welcome.

Edited to add:

Guess we now know where I got the idea! (Thanks xkcd!)

Frankly, no one follows my blog. I’ve had nothing to follow. I post things now and again, videos, updates, pictures; but never regularly, and nothing really substantive.

I am hoping that, with my new WordPress blog, that I can turn a new leaf, make more posts and write substantive stuff, if only for my own personal development.

To that end, look for posts on/about:

• Feminism
• What I’m doing
• Geek stuff
• Going back to school
• You name it!

Okay. Let’s do it to it!

If you are seeing this page, you are at my new Wordpress site! Good times.

Hope you enjoy it.

Below, except for the post about “Choosing my vanity” are all the posts from my older blog, which was powered by Blogger. I loved Blogger and totally recommend it, but I am finding that I like WordPress even more!

How cool is Maine? When I decided I wanted to get a vanity plate, they had a generator that showed me what the plates would look like. Apparently I kept all the jpgs I created, because I just found them in a folder on my desktop. Enjoy!

Here’s what I got:

Mad Skillz

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Created by Oatmeal

A few months ago, I went to the dentist. They said my tooth was falling out:

As you can see, it’s not really a normal tooth. [Hint: see post.] It needed to be removed as it was causing bone loss in other teeth. [Please note: in the interests of TMI some graphic photos follow.] Read the rest of this entry »

Please be gentle:

Lanna’s First Podcast

Or try here:

My friend Margo tagged me on Facebook with the request:

Go to google. Type in your name and the words “will be,” all in quotes, as in “lanna will be.” Write down the first ten you find.

This is where it gets a bit weird. In Thailand “Lanna (English One Million Rice Fields, Thai: ล้านนา) was a kingdom in the north… around the city of Chiang Mai.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanna) Apparently Lanna is pretty popular in Thai culture.

Here are the first 10 unique entries:

1. activities operated by Khum Lanna will be on join-in basis
2. Thai Lanna will be closed on Saturday, September 30th, 2006 for Ming and Ratana’s 30th year anniversary. We apologize for any inconvenieces
3. The northern culture of LANNA will be focused on during the SONGKRAN festival in CHIANG MAI, with about three billion baht worth of tourist earnings
4. LANNA will be using her real psychic ability and her accute powers of psychic clairvoyance,and her tarot cards to give you the answers that
5. The friendly staff at Lanna will be happy to help you with all of your dining needs.
6. The soldier greeted Dutch Dank with unwonted cordiality as he rode by, whispering to himself, “Lanna will be alone.”
7. Chiangmai folks believe deeply those who have been blessed by the Saint Lanna will be remained in a state of peaceful & happiness for his/her entire life.
8. Lanna will be humming to herself why deciding what to wear when going … (option 1) At first Lanna will be offended, since she did her very …
9. People in Lanna will be required to speak Khammuang ( northern lao dialect ) so that the language of our parents parents will not die out
10. Pick-up at the Prague airport and transportation to Villa Lanna will be organized.

I am more powerful than I expected! I will require you to call me Saint Lanna from now on.