beth_leonard

2nd Degree Black Belt Test

2020-12-04T11:11:43Z

My 2nd Degree Black Belt Test is Fri-Saturday Dec. 11-12, 2020 over zoom. The part that family and friends are invited to watch is Saturday 1-3pm. Let me know if you would like a link, and I'll send it. Mostly though, I'm both proud of and embarrassed by my open form. I'm proud of it, because I've spent a long time working on it and there are some tricky parts to it, and I think it looks pretty good in comparison to some of the people I'm testing with, but embarrassed by it because I know which things I could do better: I didn't work as hard as I could have and prioritize my training, but I had to stop recording at some point and call it "done."

--Beth

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Cello Rental info?

2019-07-17T02:24:11Z

Do any of my local friends have experience renting instruments? Amber wants to play the cello in the orchestra at school. They have an instrument at school for her to use, but she's supposed to get one for home to practice.

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Dinner Fundraiser for anti-cancer

2019-06-21T23:45:43Z

I am pledging to re-post anything I post to FB to Dream Width in order to make sure there's more content here.

Does anyone want to join us for dinner tonight for a dining fundraiser? We'll be eating at Holder's Country Inn, 998 S. De Anza Blvd, San Jose around 6pm. (right across the street from the Home Depot that I think of as being in Cupertino).

This is to support the church Relay-For-Life anti-cancer team.

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Mini-Winterfest

2018-12-09T08:13:26Z

It's been a while since I posted on DreamWidth, but with the recent changes in TOS elsewhere, apparently it's getting more readers again. For whatever reason, I feel like I can tell Facebook about how my day has been, but I feel like if I'm posting here, I need to say something more substantial. As though the major life updates go here, and the day-to-day goes there. Maybe if I change that, more people would find something worth reading here.

So here's how my day was today: great!

We had an old friend from Mudd and his family over this morning for lunch (Dominic for those Mudders who might read this) and then my girl scout troop hosted an awesome event for 230+ people.

Mini-Winterfest was a huge success, and my 6th graders took the stage with ... if not confidence, at least the air of someone who was in the process of developing confidence.

I didn't need to take the mic at all the whole time, but I couldn't help myself near the end, when I announced about the lost & found instead of finding one of my girls to do it.

They'll grow. One day they will think of that themselves and won't let me have the mic at all.

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{Public} This is a public test post.

2017-05-09T05:17:48Z

I have now migrated to Dreamwidth from LiveJournal. This is a public test post. It should be visible to the general public, in addition to my friends.

If you are my RL friend (or someone with whom I am friends on LJ), you should also see an "access list" test post, similar to my LJ "friends" security setting, and you should be able to see all my "friends" entries from LJ.

If you do not see such a post, please leave a note and let me know so that I can try to fix the problem.

I have not yet made any custom groups on DW, so I have not yet made a similar post to a custom group. Don't worry, you haven't missed it (yet)!

I'm not sure how well my protected entries ported over from LJ to DW, so if entries you could see on LJ have disappeared, let me know.

--Beth

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