Well, so that's that...

So even though I've been talking about it incessantly and spending much of my waking time on it for the past few months, i've decided I'm not going to enter the persona pentathlon.  I was cutting it close to get it done, and then my apartment flooded on Monday, which threw everything into a kerfluffle.  I tried to keep going after that, but when I sat down to paint last night half of the pigments I had ground and mixed with gum arabic had molded, and some of the others were too grainy to use (and one of the things that got broken in the moving-things-around-to-let-them-rip-out-all-the-downstairs-carpet was my mulling slab, so I couldn't just regrind them). Though I do *have* modern paints, I decided that it wasn't worth trying to paint the Tacuinium page with them since the whole point was doing it with period stuff (I have NO artistic talent, in terms of drawing/painting and such, and was trying to make up for that by doing it with period ingredients). So, with that entry gone... well... I decided it just wasn't worth the sleepless nights of trying to come up with something new at the last minute.

I'm not quite as disappointed as I thought I would be, though.  I got the paper done, which in many respects was the hardest part. Girard will have a nifty hat when I get done sewing the lining.  And I made ink! I'm still going to bring some food to display, I'll decide what and document it tonight, and if I'm feeling really creative, I'll enter Royal Baker. After all, I have a period pie pan to try out...

And really, the whole preparation thing was fun anyway, even without actually entering the competition... next year, though...

Edit: Forgot I hadn't told everyone about the flood! (and Nick never posted about it either...) The powder room toilet had a valve break, and covered the 1st floor of my apartment with an inch of water. This necessitated the complete removal of the carpet (they'll replace it tomorrow, once they're sure everything's dry). No other real damage though...

On the subject of Lent

So today's the first day of Lent.  Some part of me is tempted to try the "let's see if I can pull off a medieval fast for lent, just to see if I can".  Unfortunately, that part of me is being overwhelmed by the other side of me that says "you barely cook now and you don't eat vegetables, and you haven't prepared for this at all... you'd starve".

Must fix the veggie thing so I can try this next year...