Brandy's Birthday, May 15th

Molly

Some more pictures

Internet Malfunctioning

And that is why I have not been around. I am lucky to have a connection right now at all. I am on the laptop and I hate this thing, so don't expect too much from me, K? The desktop has no connection at all.

I am going to go take a nap. I am extremely tired. It's withdrawals I tell ya!!

Happy 1st Birthday Baby Munchkin Butt!

I love you sweetie!!!!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!

Mine sucked and we will leave it at that. The shit was so crazy that half of you wouldn't believe me!!!

Bill, my mom's husband, (sorry, I have never called him my step dad, that place is reserved, with contempt, for Saint John,) arrived here yesterday. Wow! that sentence could be nominated for the sentence with the most commas! He drove here from Montana in this itty bitty 2 seater car. It's cute. Ma was so excited when he finally arrived in our town. Before that she was an anxious pain in the butt, lol!

They are going with the realtor today to look at more houses and I think, to revisit some we already looked at. I don't think I am invited though!

Brandy's first birthday is tomorrow! How great is that? Dad, is going to miss it though because he is in Montana. Poor daddy!

Fred Q suggested at his blog to come up with a theme. He says no one wants to here about our cats. Hmmm... but I just got a new cat. Her name is Molly and she is 5 1/2 weeks old. Black and white spots, and adorable!!!

Should I give my blog a theme?
Should I leave it the way it is?
Leave a your opinions in the comment section!

Chat

The votes are in and after pay day I will be putting in a chat room! How cool is that??

I have joined an awesome 3D chat thing and is highly addictive. Just ask Candace. I can invite you, if you like. Leave a line in the comments. Later!

Chat with me?

I have the option of putting a flash based chat room on my website. If you would be interested in chatting with me and whoever drops by, let me know in the comments and I will put one up!!

ttyl

My Mommy

Ma is here, finally! We spent today looking at houses. This is our favorite one. Aren't those cabinets beautiful? The fire place is open to the living and dining rooms. It's a three bedroom, 2 bath house with out a garage.

We have lots more looking to do, so wish us luck!!

Bored Now

And I have nothing to say. My mom should be coming to visit when the inlaws come home... she will hitch a ride with them.

I love this outfit here, but it isn't in my size or my price range. I would like to make it myself maybe! I don't know though, maybe mom and I can do something like this!

Later, I have dolling to do.

Gypsy's Interview

Ok, here's your interview! (From Gypsy)

1. What are your five favorite books?

Hollows Series by Kim Harrison (Every Which Way But Dead*)
Acorna Series by Ann Macaffrey
Firekeeper Saga by Janke Lindskold
Shanarra Series (in its entirety) by Terry Brooks
The Elenium by David and Leigh Eddings

2. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

I am lazy, I often feel run down and tired,I get sick pretty easy, and have suffered lifelong depression. If I could change one thing, it would be my health.

3. What do you believe in?

Santa Claus
Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Spirit
The goddess
The horned god
The All
Myself
Magic
Spiritual Faerie Creatures (fairies, pixies, gnomes, undines, salamanders, sylphs, angels)

4. If you could go back in time and meet one person from history, who would it be and why?

I would like to go back in time and spend a week with a frontier family. I would help them and learn from them, and see how they really lived. The knowledge would be indispensable and the experience one of a kind.

5. What do you wish for your kids?

"That they live long and prosper," find happiness, stay true to themselves, and that they keep in touch with their family.

DIRECTIONS FOR THE INTERVIEW MEME
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

My life, in a conversation

"Don't you have homework to do?" I asked.

"Don't you have a house to clean?"

Damn! She's good.

Boo Hoo

I have a fucking cold!

A Busy Week

The garden is planted. Cucumbers, dill, garlic, potatoes, tomatoes, jalapeño peppers, onions, leaf lettuce, melons, pumpkins, yellow sweet corn, red sweet corn, sugar snap peas, spaghetti squash and buttercup squash. The last one I had to get by special request from Montana via Alice. They don't sell buttercup squash here. Four strawberry plants are planted up by the house next to some flowers I put in. A huge tire in sitting close by the porch and my little flower garden, waiting for play sand to fill it. An 18 inch deep wading pool is taking up half of my back porch. Austin mowed the lawn today using the riding mower and C put concrete in around the septic system sprinklers. I followed them home from the mils today, C on the big blue tractor and Austin on the riding mower, about a mile on the main road. Our ditches are level now and he used the tractor to get the massive tire off the trailer. Seriously, this thing is huge.

My herbal and flower garden has not gone in yet. I haven't figured out where I want it yet, and I am not too sure right now where my herb seeds are. Oops. I really want to get my lavender planted. I have been neglecting my spiritual studies, too. I really need to start reading and doing my exercises, but I keep putting it off. I guess it is the same with every belief system, isn't it?

Unconscious Mutterings Week 219

This meme I picked up from Jayne. It is called Unconscious Mutterings; it is a free association exercise.

1. Freeze :: flow
2. Naturally :: fried
3. Painting :: surreal
4. Merits :: horses
5. Ironic :: totally and absolutely; susceptible
6. Survival :: freedom; entrenched
7. Cow :: moo; blue and gold
8. Anchor :: weigh; particles
9. Sisters :: grooming
10. 70 :: one

This was hard for me because instead of words coming to mind, I got jumbled images. Those are much harder to interpret and put into words. It is too early for my mind, I think. This is a personal endeavor and I am not tagging anyone.

I like being in the dark

I am the most politically uninformed person on the planet, and I am proud of it! I am not being saturated with what I can and cannot say; a bit only trickles in here and there. Imus who? Ha! I wouldn't know who Obama was if it weren't for Candace over at Chapterhouse for Christ's sake!

At least when I used People PC, I got daily sound bites... snippets of current events, but even that is gone now. Pop culture to me is what I see on the covers of gossip magazines in line at the checkout counter. Do I really give a shit if Br@d and Angelin@ are having issues? Or if T0m and whats her face are in some kind of crazy marriage? No fucking way. I am not bombarded with anything, and it has to do with self control.

If you don't like what you are seeing or hearing on TV or the radio, change the fucking channel. Shut your goddamn browser. Take control of your life, and just walk away.

Don't feed the trolls.

**Update**
I am mostly talking about political incorrect stuff, but everyone comments on the gossip part... part those who go on rampages over what someone said, are gossiping. If we stop listening to these people, then it doesn't matter what they say, because we took away their audience.

Fine, I will put up a new post already

Sheesh! Any more creepy obnoxious comments in the middle of the night, though, and I might have to call the popo out here.

"Um, hello? Can you send an officer out to blank lane?" I imagine myself whimpering into the phone. Then the dispatcher asks me why, and I say, "I think I am being stalked and harassed. Someone left a creepy message on my blog."

Click.

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So, I thought my upper left wisdom tooth was coming in because it is sore when I touch my gum. Yeah, I know. Stupid. The dentist said he didn't see anything on my xray and it didn't look like it was poking through. So I let it slide, and he "drilled, filled and billed" two of my molars. Ouch! He hurt my cheek and my gums! I swear this time, I am going to call and make my next appointment with his partner, the gentle older man.

So anyway, I figure that my gum is swollen so maybe I have an abscess or something? Then last night I was farting around and I slipped my fingernail up under my gum behind that last tooth. Yuck! Salty liquid gushed out and it was all sunken in and shrivelly- for a minute. Then it filled back up again. So I brushed and flossed and rinsed thoroughly, and waited until I felt pressure, ran to the sink, and whoosh- salty taste, rinse, repeat! How gross is that? It pretty much feels normal now. I don't think it was pus, because that is bitter tasting. In junior high my lower wisdoms were pulled and I had and infection that leaked pus. This wasn't like that at all. This just tasted like salt water... or snot.

I am not going into how I know what snot tastes like. We are just not going there, ok?

I downloaded this free 3D program called DAZ tonight, and I swore I was going to open it up right away and read the tutorials and actually use it this time. Instead I got sidetracked looking for doll bases that I thought looked like Rachel and Ivy from Kim Harrison's witch series. Yes, I am that lame. I found them, too! Rachel is a redheaded witch, from Irish descent, and Ivy is a living vampire, with black hair, and exotic almost Asian features. Rachel and Ivy are best friends, roommates and business partners. I am obsessed right now ok? I am rereading all the books and am surprised at how much I missed in the beginning. Like, duh, Kim set that up!

If you didn't think I was lame yet for what I just wrote, you will when I finish. I joined the author's yahoo group. At least I have the email set to digest! I only log in if one of the entries catches my eye, or if I am bored. Kim posts comments herself and even responds to our questions, and it is fun and refreshing, so there. I never joined a fan club as a kid you know. I was to embarrassed because I didn't know what I was supposed to send to them to join, because they never said! Yup, loser then and loser now.

These two characters have another partner. A four inch pixy with dragon fly wings named Jenks. He is married and has 54 kids and lives in their garden, which is between the church they live in and the graveyard. They are "runners"- kind of like PI's slash cops and they catch bad guys, mess around with demons and magic, and try not to push each others buttons so that Ivy doesn't vamp out and attack Rachel.

The series is great, so there, and this is my blog, so I will talk about it. It is past one in the morning and I am tired, wore out, and edgy. I could really use some Starbucks right now. It just sounds really very good.

*sigh*

I can't wait to get started on my dolls!

Band

Austin had band tryouts on Tuesday at the Middle School. He tried the trumpet, percussion, saxophone and trombone. The teacher who was testing the percussion doesn't teach it anymore, but he remembers Austin from the Music Screening they did at the elementary school and he wants to teach Austin himself, because he thinks he would make a good musician! How cool is that? He said that Austin looked like he would be good at the Trombone or Trumpet and that we should try those too. His score for percussion was ok, but he got "good" for the rest! He has a "good buzz"!

So now we wait and see where they put him next year. The kids get a whole class time for instruction in their instrument. Austin prefers the trumpet, but I am sure he will be happy with whatever he gets. And to tell you the truth, his first day trying out the trumpet he sounded better than my brother ever did! HA!

Candy Day Pictures

Easter Eggs Made With Natural Egg Dyes

I used water, vinegar and cabbage leaves for the icky light purple and water, vinegar and yellow onion skins for the dark red brown eggs. They were put in raw and boiled with the dye. I got the "recipes" from Lady Tawodi.
The flash is too bright here, I think:


After I added some oil to shine them up.