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| since I posted here, that is. since then, we have moved to Richmond, Virginia. Like, 2 1/2 weeks ago. The new house is layed out in a way that is much easier for me to keep a handle on cleaning wise. The kids have their own little kingdom upstairs where they can make whatever mess they want and I don't have to look at it too often. Still have a half dozen boxes or so to unpack due to the fact that I've had a horrible neck pain for the last week which has caused nasty headaches that just wouldn't go away. Finally ended up in the doctor's office on Thursday, where they stuck me full of needles, and then in the ER on Friday where they stuck me full of MORE needles and wrote me prescriptions for valium and percoset to deal with things. It sorta kinda works mostly. I'm able to function but still not truly pain free. Pretty sure I need to find a new chiropractor. I have a feeling a good chiro could end all of this in about 2 minutes flat.
The dogs are having a ball running on our 1.88 acres here. This morning Kasi the Corgi took off after a rabbit and I was just about to go back inside in search of clothes (having wandered out onto the porch in my bathrobe to supervise) to go chase him down through the woods when he reappeared looking a little ashamed that it had gotten away from him. Tucker is too old to be worried about chasing that rabbit, but the neighbor's riding mower appears to be fair game!
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| It's done! He is OURS! Bush is HISTORY!
now where can I get a recording of "Air and Simple Gifts"?
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| Despite spending what seems like hours and hours noodling about on Facebook, I actually have accomplished a lot the last couple of days. Loads and loads of stuff has been moved out of Liam's room and into various other bits of the house, I found the bottom of the sink and scrubbed it shiny, mixed up a new batch of bread dough, made a gallon of oat straw concoction, finished knitting a dishcloth and started a second one, helped set up for coffee hour at church, taught sunday school, attended a class on herbs and essential oil use, and best of all, managed to create a bowl on the potter's wheel that didn't suck OR fall apart.
Judith and Bill came over for dinner and pottery lesson tonight as usual. Judith brought a crock pot full of chili. I'm really enjoying the social of my Monday nights in the garage! Wish Andrew would come join us though.
Saturday is Pinewood Derby and it has me totally stressed out. Happens every year. Not sure why. I'll just be glad when it's over.
Just hours until the inauguration! Such an exciting time. I'm glad to be able to see this great moment in history - even though Maureen Haley said Saturday that Obama is NOT the first African American president: Thomas Jefferson was! I'm still trying to fact check that one. I'll get back to you on that. In any case, the Bush regime is over! Ding dong the witch is dead. Unfortunately that means he's moving into MY town. grrr.
Liam seriously needs to quit snoring so I can hear the telly! Or go snore in the other room. sheesh.
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| why the bloody hell am i wide awake at 1am while even the teenagers are blissfully sleeping? it's just not fair. i'm going to be wrecked tomorrow and I have 75 things to get done.
hopefully one of those things will be going to the grocery. the cupboard is BARE. we're down to ketchup (not much), cereal (no milk), and a bottle of mead.
park was nice today, but cold. connor stepped in a mud puddle and then to clean his shoe off, instead of wiping it on the grass or coming and asking for a cloth to clean it off on, he washed it off IN THE CREEK. and then ran around barefoot the remainder of the time there AND at cubscouts which was also mostly outside.
just a month before our cub scout pack comes apart at the seams and we have to start all over. i think we are cursed. this is our second go at scouts for connor and it's just not working. maybe we'd be better off going the spiral scouts route that some others have suggested. it's just so damn new age and sappy.
a week and a half and Connor will be 9 years old. And Liam is going to be frelling !20! in less than a month. i can't possibly be that old. looks like liam may sign up for an electrician's apprenticeship program. they get him a job (only making $9.50/hr, but hey), and he goes to school one night a week for four years and then he is a liscenced journeyman with 36 college credits (so he could go on and get a degree in electrical engineering maybe at that point?) Sounds like a good deal.
Plans in the works for ConDFW Feb 20-22, and trip to Chicago by way of St Louis May 1st-5th to see Tempest and drop Sean off with the Brendan so they can go to ACEN and we can bring some of Liam's shtuff back down here. I'm sure josh and dan are getting tired of it (other than the fact that they will be losing the awesome microwave of DOOM when we finally do come fetch stuff)
We're still plugging away at the pottery. Liam's really good at it. Me, not so much. I finally managed to make a piece that I'm halfway pleased with. Monday we hopefully try the kiln for the first time.
I sat in on the New UU class at church tonight. It's the class that prospective new members have to take before they can join to make sure everyone fits together nicely. Not sure why I was there - I'm practically a new person myself, but what the hell. I met some interesting people.
I finished reading Regenesis on Monday. I was all 'GRR! I have to readreadread so I can see how this all works out' and now it's done and I'm sad because...well, because it's over and I miss the characters and I don't know if it will be another 20 years before the NEXT volume! At least the new Foreigner book is out in April. Same week as the new Dresden Files book.
oh, hey! a yawn! maybe I can actually sleep now. I think I shall at least try....
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| I'm about 1/4 of the way through C J Cherryh's new sequel to Cyteen, Regenesis. And I just caught myself seriously considering writing Cyteen/Foreigner crossover fanfic depicting a dinner meeting between sera Emory and nand' Bren and their respective black clad security staffs. Someone please stop me.
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