It's official...

[helen99]

helen99 = Le Suque at DDR. After about 5 practice attempts and watching a bunch of people fly through the steps with cat-like antigravity, the best foot-eye coordination I could achieve was a "C" on the easiest, ploddiest, most boring song of them all, designed for the foot-eye challenged (level .00001 or something). It was so slow that aekiy missed steps because it was too slow. I even got a D on the training mode. But that's not the real reason for this post...

Last night aekiy did DDR! The same aekiy who has never danced, never done DDR, was on crutches due to Lyme disease at WtT7, and hasn't really had any exercise since the onset of the Lyme several years ago, did DDR, for a long time, at levels 2 and 3, and got Bs! Maybe I'm being optimistic, but I am hoping we have the Lyme on the run, permanently.

Thanks go to lyssabard and tlttlotd for an excellent party, and to rangermorgiah for beautiful dance. There was an altar for the dead outside on the balcony, and kyoudai02 had brought "Ghost Money", which is from a Buddhist custom wherein you burn some fake money so the dead can use it in the afterlife... I lit a candle for the City of New Orleans, and burnt the city some Ghost Money. I was dressed as the Spirit of New Orleans, with a big floopy french-looking cap and a lot of Mardi Gras beads... It felt right to honor the City last night.

Comments

[per-akh.livejournal.com]

Hehe I really liked your costume, you looked real good!

~Duo

[helen99.livejournal.com]

A couple of days ago I ran across this site - http://www.mignonfaget.com/news/20050919.htm
and learned that the fleur-de-lys is actually the symbol of New Orleans. I never knew that before. I remember that symbol was branded on the villaness in "The Three Musketeers" so I thought it was a symbol for criminals. Then later I found out that also appears on some of the Coats of Arms in France and Britain, so it represents nobility (who also may be criminals for all I know!) Anyway, seems like a sort of fitting symbol for New Orleans, since the city has sort of been considered the "priestess-whore" of cities, in a way, so a confusing symbol works for it...
I wish I'd known that before when I threw the costume together - I could have cut one out of paper and pasted it somewhere on the costume.