Will you tell me something great that happened today, Part XIII?

@janbb started a new “something great” thread! ;-)
Welcome back home, little penguin!

I woke up without back pain.

I’m reading my new Bible I bought yesterday and loving it. It makes me feel good =)

It’s cold and cloudy (I despise the sun and warmth) and I got some pizza. Pretty good day so far.

This happened in the last couple days: I was asked to extend my temporary position for another two months! Yay, I’m still employeed!

Started to hail [ which is nice in he summer You get to see something that looks like snow ]

My partner and I rolled in at 3 in the a.m. from a night of drunken debauchery (Guinness is no friend of mine, this morning). We woke up a few hours ago and made breakfast potatoes and eggs; had some gourmet peanut butter cups for dessert; and sat on my front porch, watching the freighter go by along Lake Huron. Now, we’re going back to bed. :)

I just woke up…but last night was pretty cool. Had a bonfire with the neighbors, drank beer and talked about ghosts.
Plus I saw a really messed up movie about a killer tire. I wish every night was this cool.

Two parties this weekend! Woo!

I am graduating in less than eight hours! :) Then a close friend is hauling us off to dinner and tomorrow my family is throwing a post-graduation celebration at my uncle’s house.

In short, I am going to be quite busy this weekend.

I barbecued shrimp without overcooking it. : )

Congraduations, @muppetish ! Good job!

My little guy had a great appointment yesterday and managed to gain almost a full pound in a week. He’s now up to 5 pounds 9.9 ounces (up from 4 pounds 12 ounces last week and 4 pounds 14 ounces at birth).

Congrats, @muppetish!

I made it to the farmers’ market before it closed and got lots of beautiful things to cook this week. This afternoon will be spent at a great coffee shop I found recently, eating pastries and drinking cappuccino and working.

That I am still alive.

I’ve succumbed to the vice that grips millions today. I fought it, I really did, but I found I just didn’t have enough fight left in me.

I started playing Angry Birds.

Ooooh, sweetie. Oh, dear. Well, I’ll love you through this… ;-)

@KatawaGrey hhhmmmm

Despite significant pain in my back, I am not grumpy or irritable.
Despite the loss of 33% of my modest disability income, I have not given in to anger.
I appreciate the sunshine I can see from my window.
I recently visited my 103+ year old grandmother two days in a row and we had a wonderful time together. It was nice to spend time with my parents as well. They live over 2,000 miles away.

Today is Sunday so my husband and I indulged ourselves by lying in bed until later than normal and then my dog jumped on my bed and proceeded to roll around with his legs in the air having a great ol’ time. It made me laugh. It’s a good day!

I felt the urge to say hello to some old friends. :)

Also, I had a really good orange at lunch. The type of orange that makes you stop and think to yourself- “Ya know, this is a really good orange!”. So, that was pretty great, I guess.

Missed ya, everybody.

I get to wear a sweatshirt today. If you know how much I hate the heat and the weather we’ve had in the Midwest this past week, you’ll understand why I’m so happy! @Michael_Huntington yay for cold and clouds! :)

Also, Mr. @jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities has made an appearance! :D

I woke up, that alone makes it a good day. Then had a nice run along the beach, that made it an even better day! Those are the simple things of life that make me happy. And I acquired my very first iPhone this week, I love it and that makes me happy every time I play with it! And the amazing part of it is, it is actually a phone too!!!

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities finally showed up on a Fluther thread.

and

I left work at 6PM today and actually have Sunday and Monday off. Woohoo!

of course, starting Tuesday, I’m working 20 days in a row – but I’ll deal with that later.

Jeff is here! Jeff is here! Jeff is here!

Finally, I made a dent in the over crowded garage. Taking all my junk to a flea market tomorrow to see what will sell. Everything left over will be free to whomever whoever will take it. Yaaayyyy!

Yay Jeff is back! Missed him lots.

A thunderstorm is rolling in. I love to hear the thunder and hear the wind whipping.

Hi, Jeff!

I watched a movie about killer pigs.

Nuff said.

I saw my parents, an aunt and my cousins I have not seen in years! It was a riot and I have not laughed this hard in a long time! ;)

It was really last weekend, but… THIS HAPPENED! Standing, left to right: , @JilltheTooth, @augustlan, @janbb; seated, left to right: @chyna, @marinelife.

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities Hi! I’m so glad to see you!

My mother went home from the hospital

@augustlan That picture makes me happy! :)

@KatawaGrey We were at a local toy store yesterday and my kids freaked out because they had Angry Bird stuffed animals!!! We didn’t buy any, but they had a good time playing with them for a bit!

Friday was my daughter’s sixth grade field trip to an amusement park. I chaperoned and had a great time! The rides were great, the kids were good, and we shared some fried Oreos. Wore myself out, but it was such a fun day!

I also found out my daughter was placed in the advanced math class for 7th grade!

@MissAusten : I’m not at all surprised that your daughter is in advanced anything! She is incandescent in the smarts department. Can you tell I was impressed by her?

@MissAusten: Haha, we actually sell a whole bunch of angry birds stuff where I work including both pig and bird plushes in various sizes and people love them. Maybe by the time I se you again, i’ll have indulged in a few myself…

Honestly, I’m not surprised your daughter made it into an advanced class either. She is sharp as tack and has a comparable maturity. I had to keep reminding myself that she was about ten years younger than I am. :)

The exhuast came away from my car yesterday (the bracket holding in place seemed to had rusted) and I was terrified that it was going to be a really expensive job. After finding a mechanic that could fix it for me (on a Sunday), not only was the problem sorted in 10 minutes but the guy didn’t charge me a penny! Oh the relief!

Wow!! How awesome was that @Leanne1986! Yay for you!

The first 90 degree day on the horizon after an unusually cool and rainy June.

My little sprouts are smiling, and, dinner on the deck with the fireplace going tonight under that big ol’ full moon.

Yay! Summer nights are here!

I work, part time, for Ann Summers (sex toys and lingerie) and today was our new catalogue launch. Not only did I win an award for good sales but there is also a dress in the catalogue called…...............................wait for it….............................the Cher dress!

Town Dog and I did a 10 k run along the river this morning, it was cool and beautiful!

@rooeytoo

Woo Hoo! Go girl go! I’m afraid I’m lolling in the hot tub, but I remember my running days fondly. hahaha

Up here it’s all hills, so you can get triple the workout in half the time. :-)

My sister decided to reconnect with extended family and take everyone’s help. It was her 50th, today, and she said that she’s done a lot of thinking. “I want to get better and get back with family”. She was even talking about planning the family picnic next year. She also talked about coming my way this Summer and renting a cottage along Lake Huron. She would be surrounded by family. We have all been waiting for her to come to us. She also said that she had a wonderful birthday. She heard from so many and received lots of flowers. She felt loved.

I am so happy.

@Jude

Great news! Aaah, time, it has a way of mellowing us. :-)

I don’t mind sharing this with you all. You’re like family. This is an email from my sister to my aunts:

To my special aunts,

Thank you SO much for the lovely flowers!!!!! I had a big boo hoo when the guy came to the door. Really sweet that you are thinking of me today. I also want to thank you for the supportive e mails….I’m really thinking about coming home for the summer.

I want you both to know that there is not a day that goes by that I don’t think of you….I’m just having a really difficult time right now. I hope you understand.

I realize that I have a big loving family ready to support me, and I feel really humbled by that. I promise that I will do a better job keeping in touch….

You both made my day, and I can’t thank you enough.
I sat in the backyard today and thought of Mom….remember when we did the 50’s b’day party with Gram? Gosh they are great memories. Hard to believe that I am 50 just like she was….gosh I miss her so.

Again a heartfelt thanks…it means the world to me.
Love Dooz Be Doo

@Jude Thank you for sharing. I got choked up reading it.

@Jude That is so touching. You and your sister are so lucky to have each other and such wonderful aunts.

From my Aunt (sent Friday)

Well Lis, come Monday you will be in your fifties. Just a babe yet. I cannot tell you how much I wish for you a good day. I miss you a lot, our talks, our e-mails, and our brewskies. Why not think about bringing Maddie and coming to Sarnia for awhile, so we can re-unite. I would love nothing more than a good visit with you to tell you how much I love and miss you. I know things can get overwhelming at times (been there done that), but it is so good to remember you have a lot of loving family members wanting to be close to you and help you in anyway that we can. We have all had a cross to bear, and it is so important to have someone to talk with, laugh with, cry with and so it goes. Anyway honey, I wish you would consider coming to Summer for a while where everyone is waiting to give you a shoulder and a lot of love. I will send you and e-mail on Monday just to let you know I am thinking about you DBD. Love always and just a few steps away Aunt Sharon XXOO

Well, over the past few months, my life has taken a turn out of suffering and suckage and into the awesome and magical. :)

I was afraid to say anything, or fear it was a transient feeling.. but, as it’s been weeks now, I feel pretty safe in stating my accomplishment—I pretty much no longer give a shit about what people think. That was my new years resolution, to care less, and I really wasn’t getting anywhere there for a while, despite the fact that I was conscious of trying to work in that direction.

I feel like I’m back on the right path again and it’s flipping amazing. I just woke up one day, post work stress and a spiritual journey aided by mushrooms, and thought, ‘God.. I am so sick and tired of caring what everyone thinks. It’s so exhausting..’

And, what’s weird, is after that, I just pretty much stopped caring, for the most part.

Lastly, after so many, many, many years of struggle and strife, I’m finally having good, wonderful, amazing things fall into my lap. I feel almost manic, with how happy I am with my life right now. I’m growing, exploring, and learning.. and most importantly, I seem to be finally getting the things I need. :)

Yay! ^^

Also, today I celebrated Emancipation Day; the 2-year anniversary of the end of my last (horrible) relationship. My friend and I spent the day having a good time and saying farewell and good riddance to selfish, abusive, emotionally stunted, juvenile women.

Celebrating because, if it weren’t for her, I don’t know how long it would have taken for me to get to this point of fed up, where I no longer have any patience for taking crap off people anymore.

As I said, I’m growing personally in leaps and bounds! It’s so exciting and awesome.

It’s a gorgeous day and I’m going out for a walk and breakfast at a patisserie with my husband.

Having pancakes?

I’ll never tell but I actually prefer their almond croissants!

@Jude and @MissAnthrope Reading about your happiness made me happy. :D

I was feeling really unwell, but I slept for 15 hours and feel much better now. Looking forward to shopping with my girls tomorrow.

I devoured chicken.

I had two whole days off, with my fiancee. We went on “dates”, had dinner, played pool, went out to a movie, made our own margaritas. It was great! We haven’t had two days off in a row together, just the two of us since last year.

Gorgeous morning, and even more gorgeous night last night.
Woke up at 2:30 am and went and sat in the amazing moonlight on the bench on my lawn up the hill. Pure magic, the night sounds of the woods and the trees casting long shadows in the moonlight. MY lower pasture is simply magic in the moonlight.Light and shadows and huge old oaks. A GREAT little midnight adventure!

I washed my car earlier and left it in the driveway instead of garaging it as usual. Freaked myself out this morning when I went out to the garage…” Dude, where’s my car?” Oh, yeah….hahaha

My fiancee agreed to try and stay put in the house I love so much and was so hard for us to get into. He took a new job across town and wanted to move within a 15 minute drive of it which is fair and ideal. The downside is moving costs A LOT of money, any of which would divert from us paying for our wedding plans/trip in advance. We’ve now agreed to stay up to 6 months in place and then reevaluate if he ends up making gangbusters and we can find a comparable house closer to his work. Yay!

I just ran out to buy hot chocolate. Odd for this time of year but it’s to keep us warm on an adventure to the beach tonight! We’re taking the kids out to look for spawning horseshoe crabs tonight after dark when the tide is coming in. The flashlights and thermos are ready, now we just need the sun to go down!

I hope their teachers will forgive us for sending sleep-deprived kids to school tomorrow, but dammit, they should be on summer vacay already!! :P

Also, I went to see my son in the 2nd grade end of year concert. That little stinker didn’t tell me he had a singing solo so I didn’t even bring the video camera! He did a fantastic job and was very proud of himself. The parents also got to visit classrooms to see a project the kids had been working on for several weeks, and it was wonderful to see all the creativity and different ideas and presentations the class did. My son’s was by far the best of course. No bias here at all…

That sounds like a great (and educational) trip for your children @MissAusten, if their teachers complain they are nuts. Enjoy. And congrats on your son’s solo. How funny that he kept it a secret. What a joy for you (did you get tears in your eyes? I always did when watching my kids doing something special). And of course your son’s project was the best! Just of course!

I am working from home today and it’s cold and a little bit wintery and I am so happy not to have to drive to work.

I just booked a flight to see my best friend get married next month. An extra bonus will be several other longtime friends will be there too :)

@MissAusten

Well, after tonights excursion bring the kiddies out west for a lizard roundup at my place.
There’s got to be a way to implement lizards into ones decorating scheme. lol

I have metal lizards on the outside walls of my house. Lizards are lovely. If you have lizards you know your garden ecosystem is healthy. Same with frogs. Unfortunately, where there are lizards, there are snakes…

My dad had a huge, fierce looking plastic lizard/dinosaur thing on his stereo. It ruled us all.

Lol@ruled us all. I might get a plastic, purple dinosaur that looks a bit like Barney and stick that next to my TV. Threaten the kids with it when they visit. “Behave or Barney is going on the TV”.

What the Barney song should have been;

I love you, you love me, I’LL KILL YOUR WHOLE FAMILY da na na naaa naaaa…sorry. Fuckin barney.

:D I always found him a little sinister. That song fits.

He is. I saw one episode about the fear of the dark. The power went out in the school, and it was all dark, then you just saw dinosaur shadows all over the walls. Come on! That’s creepy!

Oh I am sure that helped the little kiddies who were scared of monsters under the bed or in the wardrobe no end! Barney terrorises kids.

Well ultimately, that episode’s point was to try and help children who feared the dark and…

…why am I defending this purple piece of shit, someone tell me? Anything to 1-up the Teletubies, maybe.

@Coloma My kids would be ecstatic if they could round up lizards!

Sadly, we didn’t see any horseshoe crabs. I think we would have had better luck if we planned the trip for an hour or two later, but by then we would have had kids too tired to enjoy the outing. Still, we got to see a lovely moonrise and founds some sea glass!

Today I finally got our beach pass and found a really nice hammock to give my husband for Father’s Day. I hope it’s a surprise, but my six year old was with me when I bought it. Now, I’m about to send the kiddo off to kindergarten so I can have a nice lunch alone then watch a movie while I work on a new blog post in peace and quiet!

@MissAusten

We went on a Grunion run one night at a beach in southern Ca. when my daughter was about 6. Very fun!
We still joke about the song I invented,to the tune of ‘Strangers in the night’.

” Grunion in the niiight, exchanging glances, Grunion in the night, what were their chances….” lolol

I left work today knowing that I have a whole week off ahead of me :) and tomorrow my mum and I are going to London for the day.

My guy and one of my best gal pals are going to see She Wants Revenge tonight.

@Leanne1986 Happy Birthday, by the way!

@janbb Thank you. It’s not until Sunday but I am touched you were aware.

@Leanne1986 knew it was sometime this week but wasn’t sure of the day. Enjoy it!

My husband was just hired on at a company that is only 4 miles from our home! We are sooo excited. He’s been dealing with harassment at work for the past several months. His boss has been trying to get him to quit. He was driving 37 miles to the ranch he was working on, but they started making him drive to a different property that was 55 miles from our home. They did this because they knew it would be a hardship for us. We were spending over $70 a week on gas.

Well, they got their wish. My husband has a new job with benefits! Let the celebration commence in the blonde household. =)

As we were in the Denver Airport this morning we ran into some old dear friends that we haven’t seen in 13 years! They live in Houston… How serendipitous was that??? Very very happy!

I am really happy for you @jonsblond. That is a really, really, really good piece of news for the day.

I like this thread. It is so positive. It is a good thing for the day.

Yay for the Blonds!

It’s been a great week. My daughter from Nevada is here with my new granddaughter. Another granddaughter is here from North Carolina with her daughter (my great granddaughter). As soon as my oldest daughter finishes an assignment and drives here (this weekend) we will all get together at my Mom’s house for a 5 generation hoopla cookout. Cornfused yet!?

Congrats, Blonds!

I love this thread.

My tortoise ate from my hand for the first time today! That made me way happier than it probably should.

I got a very nice hair cut on Monday for way less than I would’ve in the city. And I got to keep more hair than I expected to (my ends were pretty damaged before).

My sons and the Jakester are coming for the weekend!

@jonsblond YAY!!

Start of the weekend! w00t

My older son has accepted a job working for Google in Paris so they and Jake will be moving there in the Fall. Bittersweet but also exciting. Can anyone say “petit fils”?

I JUST about creamed a very squirrely squirrel a little while ago.
Yay he made it out the other side! lol
Thought for sure he was roadkill, but, he must have had just the right moves as was still dashing around after I drove over him. haha

@Coloma I guess that was something great for the squirrel!

@janbb

Yes, I have only run over one squirrel in 20 years. He lives to forage for another day! :-)

I have paid all my bills within the first 48 hrs of getting my paycheck. For some reason it gives me a thrill to go down the list and check stuff off, even if what’s left looks a bit dismal for awhile. I sleep better, food tastes better and sex is better when I feel all secure, lots of brain space freed up.

This happened yesterday but I found out that I might have the chance to meet Barry Manilow next week. He’s doing a CD signing in London at my favourite shop in the world (theatre memorabilia). I’m trying not to get my hopes up because the queues will be enormous and he will only have a limited time but I will do everything in my power to at least get a glimpse!

Could this be the magic at last?

I’m not into his music but interviews I have seen with him, BM seems to have a good sense of humour and not take himself too seriously.

Yay! An Amazon order finally showed up today, it was mis-delivered to an anonymous neighbor somewhere on this hill. The funny thing is that they wrote this note saying it was delivered to their house on the 14th and that I should complain. Signed, D. Bennnet

Um, okay, but, I guess I could complain to YOU as well, you held my package hostage for 5 days before you put it in my mailbox?

Whatever….hahaha

People!

lol@coloma… perhaps D. Bennet was pondering over whether they should keep your Amazon parcel or not. Or perhaps they are just busy :-) Hope it was a nice thing from Amazon.

—@Bellatrix—

Yes, maybe.. lol, just struck me as funny, I’m not mad, just the logic escapes me. Haha

I had a nice visit with my dad today. We looked at old pics of the family and he took me shopping for an air conditioner for our bedroom (we have no air conditioning in the house) and some room darkening curtains so Jon can sleep in the afternoon. Jon will be working third shift now.

I felt bad since I only had homemade lemonbars to give my dad, but I’m lucky he loves me and will do anything for his daughter. I love that man. both men in my life =)

He loves you @jonsblond. You let him do something for you and gave him lemonbars, that would mean more to him than any material gift. Another lovely post about a lovely day. TY for sharing.

My boyfriend and I had a lie in this morning, we didn’t get out of bed until 1pm. There is nothing like lying in bed and dozing amongst other things with the one you love.

Also, I received a beautiful series of three lighthouse paintings.

@jonsblond That’s awesome. :D

Aaaah, great morning over here, well, just noon now.
Was out at 7 getting all my daily watering chores/animal chores done, the heat is on this week, 100 by tomorrow. House is almost clean and then, off to the market for a BBQ with friends tonight on my deck.

The sunset was amazing last night, one of those where the entire sky is flaming with oranges, pinks, salmons and the trees are on fire. My neighbors buckskin mule was following me around and she was a gorgeous orangey gold in the light. haha It lasted forever too…I hope we get an encore tonight!

I just bought a beautiful little sparkly dress even though I shouldn’t have. I can’t wait to wear it! :)

@KatawaGrey : I wanna see! I wanna see!

@KatawaGrey Me too. I wanna see!

I took a picture but I have no idea how to show it to you guys. Give me a sec to figure it out…

Edit to add: Okay, I think you can see it now.

@KatawaGrey : I just got a promo for Gmail from your link. Stop teasing!

@KatawaGrey, what about uploading it to something like tinypic?

My gentleman friend hosted a great party last night. I met most of his friends and I believe we were propositioned for a threesome.

@nikipedia And? You can’t just start a story like that and not finish it!

@nikipedia : How cruel to tease me like that! Don’t you know I live vicariously through the wild Jellies? @chyna is right…spill!

Haha, sorry! She was flirting very hard with both of us, but everyone was very drunk, so we put her to bed on a futon. This morning she texted asking to have dinner with us, and I think it’s pretty clear that’s on the table. I’m not sure how interested I am though. We are in negotiations.

Thanks @nikipedia!

Okay, let’s try it now.

@KatawaGrey Very pretty dress. You’ll look great in it!

Thanks @chyna! I do look great in it. :P

Happy Father’s Day (at least in America it is)

My dad got to have a nice morning and breakfast at my sister’s home. My two future FIL’s got a morning phone call and some well wishes which they seemed to like. My fiancee’s kids asked him out to spend the day with them just goofing off at movies and munching junk food, he was thrilled they asked!

I watched Kill Bill 2 and found myself disturbed when that chick gets her one remaining eye ripped out. Movies don’t disturb me easily, let alone something like Kill Bill, so I appreciated it.

Incidentally, I was also disturbed in the first when Sophie gets her arm severed, and she wiggles and screams on the floor for what seemed like hours.

Note to self: Continue with plans to not watch Kill Bills.

Yeah, you’re prolly better off. Unless you like anime, but with actual people.

I got my hair done. It’s pretty!

Had a lovely Father’s Day breakfast with my boys, hubby and Jake. Just sitting around over bagels and laughing and talking. Then we went up to the forest I have been vacationing at all my life for a picnic with my brother and his family. A ten of a day!

So, I was slated to go to a Star Trek convention this weekend with my cousin, but he couldn’t get the time off work. Naturally, because I am lazy and forgetful, I hadn’t cancelled my hotel reservations. Today, I logged onto the convention website to get the number of the hotel and, lo and behold, one of the actors who had originally been slated to appear couldn’t make it. He was replaced by my favorite Star Trek actor of all time, Michael Dorn. I decided to go by myself because when the hell am I going to get to meet Michael Dorn? So, if any of you Jellies are going to a Star Trek convention in Parsippany, New Jersey this weekend, shoot me a pm and we’ll figure out a meetup!

Did I raise my kid right or what??? Anybody that says “or what” gets a poke in the snoot.

OK – I’ll bite: “Or what?”

Consider your snoot poked. :-P

And I will poke you with my beak.

Ouch. It’s very pointy!

^Girls, girls, stop. I happen to know someone with a whip that isn’t afraid to use it if you don’t stop poking each other.

OOH – a whip, you say? Methinks I saw that whip!

I believe you saw it up close and personal.

Whatever happened to the pix of her beating me with said whip? I need evidence!!!

I only have one of her beating the penguin.

@Symbeline That’s so funny. Jon and I watched Kill Bill 1 & 2 yesterday. He was telling me that the scene when Daryl Hannah gets her eye pulled out is his mom’s favorite scene. My MIL is awesome. :D

Christ lol. His mom rocks. It disturbed even me lol.

@Symbeline She was always against seeing boobies in movies, but tear an eye out. Hell yeah! lol

@jonsblond Hahaha that’s so fuckin cool. Next time you see her, tell her some random online person thinks she’s awesome. :)

Well, it wasn’t today, but yesterday. I am transferring within my company from Illinois to Virginia! I’ll be moving in the next 2–3 weeks. So, I probably won’t be contributing a whole lot between now and when I’m finally settled at my new desk.

In even bigger news: two days ago I found out that we’re having a baby girl!

Wow, @erichw1504 , that’s great! Baby girls are the best kind! OK, so I’m a little biased…

@erichw1504 Yay, yay and Mazel Tov!

@erichw1504

Awwww, baby girl! You can tape bows to her little bald head for those first pictures! lol
Well, maybe she will be born with hair. My daughter was bald as a grape for her first year. Then, her never stopped growing and was down to her behind by kindergarten. haha

Came home from work to find my bathroom all clean and nice smelling. My mother had gone in and given it an overhaul in thanks for the summer wardrobe I bought her. I’m not good with cleaning the bathroom myself because I clean the toilet, the shower pan and wipe down the sinks but I don’t scrub the floor, clean the windows, shower doors or dust the tops of cabinets. Woo hoo! Thanks mom.

My grandmother introduced me to her favourite TV series, Tenko, anyone remember that? and I loved it. I watched six episodes today it was raining outside and I will take the rest home with me so that I can watch them all in my own time. I love finding enjoyable tv series that I can curl up on my sofa and watch of an evening.

@KatawaGrey and I just had a great day together! Planned to see “Green Lantern” but were dissuaded by a Target employee who suggested Super 8 instead. We took his advice. Lovely movie! Go see Super 8, it’s really delightful!

I just got back from a Star Trek convention. Oh. My. God. I haven’t had that much fun in months. I got to meet a number of my childhood heroes and made new Trekker friends. I seriously cannot describe how wonderful everything was. I’m still in my Trek daze of happiness and awe. :)

I looked out my window and saw a hot air balloon flying low and nearby. Mom and I ran out of the house and got to watch it touch down in a field; it was beautiful!

@Mariah

You must, must, MUST go up in a balloon!
I took my daughter up for her 21st B-Day 2 years ago…it was the most amazing experience. Do it, do it, do it!

I had the whole entire day alone with my lady friend.. I’m kind of her girl friday, doing whatever odd jobs and helping her with projects and whatnot. Bonus for me, I have a garden to play in now! I came over to make her breakfast, then we ran around buying plants and gardening supplies, then we came back to her place to plant and stake and water. She’s a delight and I had fun. :)

I submitted this paper for publication for the fourth time today, and I guess I should be fed up with it, and I kind of am, but right now I just think it’s a really great paper.

And then I drank a lot of wine and videochatted my best friend, and that was great too.

Also this is not a happened today thing, but I am dating someone I like a lot, and that is also great.

@KatawaGrey – Who was there? Just curious :)

@Seelix: Michael Dorn, The Duras sisters, Connor Trineer, Dominic Keating, Rene Auberjonois, Nana Visitor, and Nichelle Nichols! I got to meet them all!

I love the Duras sisters! All that Kingon boobage and ‘tude!

@KatawaGrey – That is so cool! I love Nana Visitor :)

My significant other has been trying to comfort me through my insomnia (it has persisted for a week thus far and I am averaging four hours of non-consecutive sleep per night) and agreed to accompany me to the health clinic on campus. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to schedule an appointment since I have to work for the next three days.

I’m trying very hard not to let my mild hypochondria kick in. At least I’m in good company.

@muppetish Not to feed the hypochondria beast, but please be careful. Thyroid Storm can cause that, and it’s life threatening. If you have any of the other symptoms, go now.

A GREAT day up here in my neck o’ the woods, crazy, wild rainstorm hits, after a week of 90ish temps. POURING all afternoon, oh my grass and little plants are so happy, and so am I, no watering for the next few days but then, back up to 100+ by the 4th.

This may seem like no big deal, but for me and my daily 90 minutes of watering chores for my yard and animals it is greater than great! haha

Saw the doctor this morning. He said my insomnia is probably due to a change in my schedules and recommended that I exercise in the morning, maybe take up yoga again, read at night, and prescribed me ten doses of Flurazepam to help me regulate my sleep schedule. If I still have difficulty sleeping after ten days, I am supposed to go back in. Guess how much I paid for my medicine? $3.00! This amazes me since I have no health insurance and a simple visit to the doctor usually runs $60.

Even though my visit ended early, I decided to duck work for a half hour to have breakfast. Also, my significant other applied for a job at the writing center I work at (because apparently they are still hiring tutors!) which would be marvelous.

Fingers crossed that I sleep tonight!

Today the humidity disappeared from the air [ since it rained last night ] .

It’s all GOOD ^^

I was entrusted with a key and the care of a lot of plants, indoor and out. :)

I had a great Zumba workout this morning…I’ve been wanting the DVDs for months and finally managed to get them and absolutely chuffed to bits that I have x

@nebule – Hey, how are you? Good to see you!

AiROW (the website that shut down and caused many of us to migrate here ~3 years ago, including DominicX, Nullo, ragingloli, Michael_Huntington, Fyrius, Thammuz, RareDenver…) is back!!! I spent so much time there from ages 13–16 and made some wonderful friends. I couldn’t be more excited right now. :D

Had a great time celebrating the 4th on Saturday at a local community park.
Live music, crafts, food booths, carnival and then fireworks over the lake.

I felt bad though, the poor ducks and geese were losing it when the fireworks started, frantically swimming in a huddle and completely panicked.

First they had a surprise big bang that lit a huge American Flag display in lights by the lake, then, a spectacular 30 minute fireworks display.

A beautiful show, except for the goose abuse.

There was one Marwyn with about 30 Canadian geese, I wanted to rescue him/her sooo bad, and bring them home to my goose haven. :-(

@aprilsimnel thank you sweetie xxx I’m not doing too great but hopefully on the up road x

@Mariah I’m glad your old site is back, but I sure hope you won’t leave us! We lurve you. <3

@augustlan Nah, now I just get double the fun. :D Thanks!

It may not be absolutely great, but I finally filled in “My Story” on Fluther ..yay me, lol. I figured I’m staying, so I might as well share some information. :)

CanIbrag?OK,thanks!

Every Wednesday, at least in NYC, is “Half-price Wednesday” at the Salvation Army. It occurred to me to go in the one on W. 96th Street 20 minutes before they closed – and I scored these babies for $10.

Yeah, baby! Never worn! Now those are a birthday prezzie!

Happy “my birthday was yesterday” to ME!

Happy Birthday to you @aprilsimnel and congrats on the bargain score!

Happy Birthday @aprilsimnel!

@aprilsimne
lHappy Birthday!
You don’t look a day over…uh, whatever age you are! ;-)

A great, uneventful day of defrag after a crazy bust week or so,
10:05 pm on the west coast and I am just eating dinner now.
These summer nights ..by the time the sun sets and you finally make dinner it’s bedtime.

Just had my nightly visitor, mama raccoon, who got her slice of buttermilk bread, she really wants the Science Diet..but, beggars can’t be choosers. :-D

My sweetie’s new job gives him the same day off every week, my day off! We had a wonderful sleep in, ran errands together, made a fabulous BBQ dinner, discovered the “product of mexico” cute yellow lantern peppers are really farking burn your ass up hot Habanero peppers—, went swimming with out dogs, welcomed my mother home to a clean house an dinner made, had play time.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @aprilsimmel :D

I realised that I’m considering closing my facebook account for the right reasons

A stray cat had kittens in my garage. They’re adorable! We also finally have tenants for our rental house. Life is good!

Auggie has kittens in the house! Yay!

@augustlan xxxxxx thinking of you and the kittens and your beautiful new tenants…congratulations lady xxx

Whew, a busy afternoon at my little river store. The weekend rafting crowd is in full swing for a Friday.
One of the rafting companies right across the road from us had 17 of their rafts on the river and were down to hooking for guides from their competitors. Double your pay if you can take these L.A. folks out of Chili Bar.

It’s always fun to spook the tourists with all the scary names for the various classes of rapids, we have Hellhole, Troublemaker, Satans Cesspool, Meatgrinder, Deadmans Drop, Bouncing rock, Triple Threat, Hospital Bar, Recovery Room and Surprise! lol

My boss is setting up a huge big screen TV and we are going to start having outdoor movie nights next week in our little parking lot. Fun!

A great day and now, I am enjoying the AC and waiting on a friend to come and install a cool new ceiling fan for me! Happy Friday to all! :-D

It’s raining. This pleases me.

Rain is lovely @Leanne1986. It is Saturday so I was home with my lovely family. Always a good thing.

bad day. But the only person who will appreciate me raining on the parade is @Leanne1986.

This song is fitting for today I think.

I’ve had a rough week, emotionally, interpersonally, blah blah blah. Today marks the end of this week. All I have to do is make it through to 1:30 without losing my shit and I’m home free for the next 3½ days!

I’m quite the busy bee these days and, to continue the insect metaphors, I’m especially a social butterfly over the next few days. This afternoon will be gardening and playing with the new weed whacker. Sunday is my male best friend’s birthday and I finagled it off, so we’re doing brunch in the city. Monday, I have a play date with my lady friend. Tuesday, I’m getting together with a bunch of my female friends from Ren Faire ages ago, most of whom I have not seen in YEARSANDYEARS, and we are going to eat, gossip, and SING!

So excited. Way back when, I used to be into singing and pretty good at it. I did living history at Faire and we had a singing group. At one time, we were considered one of the best in all of Faire, to give some idea of our abilities. I’ve missed singing in my life and I’m super happy to re-open that door. :)

Gas tank is filled, electric bill is paid and I’m almost over the nibble of Habanero pepper I sampled the other night.

@Neizvestnaya
Once I strung some Habanero’s I had grown and hung them around my garden to see if they would repel the one deer that pushed the fence in to get to the garden goodies.
I was watching out the window when the doe came uo to the garden gate and took a bite of the fresh strung peppers. She stood there chewing for about 30 seconds than, all of a sudden, just leapt into the air bucking and kicking and tossing her head. haha
I felt kinda bad, but, she never came back.

—@Coloma__
We bought these peppers loose at WallyMart the other night, no description except “product of Mexico” but they were so cute, little and pretty color that we couldn’t resist to grill them up with our other fajitas vegies. I only nibbled a tiny piece and it’s wrecked my bowels for several days and given me sore swollen inner lips and tongue :(

I went on the best date ever last night! My boyfriend took me to the Magic Castle in Hollywood along with nine of our friends, and we stayed in a beautiful hotel afterward and had an amazing time!

BIG GAY BRUNCH. Bottomless mimosas. Delicious food. Gay peoples and excellent (non-gay) company. OMG, exactly what I needed. :]

Oh yeah—and free parking! No end to the magic.

Somewhat inebriated, but I know you guys love that, so here I go…

Okay.. so.. my male best friend’s birthday brunch and post-brunch drinking. Super fun by itself. I happen to meet this amazing woman who is extremely attractive, or maybe, rather, that I am extremely attracted to her. But she’s straight as far as I know, so I totally behave myself for many hours.

But we talk.. I tell some deep secrets about myself. She’s gorgeous and a great listener. Again, thinking she’s straight and I have no chance, I tell her she’s super beautiful.

Fast-forward to hours later, and I end up giving her a lift home. She says I’m ‘adorable’ and ‘amazing’ and she’s so thankful for the ride, but seriously, I’m so happy to do it! I ask her on a date and somehow, not sure exactly, but she says yes! Despite the fact that she is straight and is dating a guy, but he’s a jerk, and she thinks I am cool and sweet and is interested in going out with me. She gave me her number.

Can any of you believe that I hit on her?? I cannot believe I hit on her. Or that she was receptive!

I’ve texted just so she has my number.. let’s all take a moment and hope for me that she doesn’t sober up and change her mind, yeah? Thanks. :)

I’m back from outer space and I missed you bitches.

@KatawaGrey Did you find any Wookies?

@Plucky: Nah, but I think some Klingons followed me home…

Great, wonderful, spectacular, beautiful morning on my little mountain. The heat wave has passed, for now, and it is an amazing 65 degrees!
Breezy, sunny, and all my flowers are smiling instead of wilting. :-D
I just spent the last hour wandering around taking pictures and in-joying this most beautiful early morning. The high today is going to be 87 and dropping to 85 and 83 by midweek! Perfect, perfect, perfect. I’m so easy to please! LOL

I’m about 50 hours away from getting married to a gorgeous woman.

@ru2bz46

Congratulations!

A Friday friends lunch over here in a few hours. Coloma is wiped out, but, on she goes. haha
A fun hangout will be an opportunity for me to SIT DOWN for more than 10 minutes in the last few days. lol

On a downer note, had a big, stray dog in my yard this morning. The geese were out and came running and shreiking and hissing into my garage.
Dog ran off, and literally DISAPPEARED in seconds. Where did he go?
My gate was closed, sooo, security breach!
I think the dog a BIG Shepherd type either jumped the field fencing or snuck under the lower gate from my pasture. Time to check the fences.

@ru2bz46 – Lucky! Congratulations! :)

A fellow jelly and out of state friend of mine got to hang out with us overnight and we’ll be able to see him again during the weekend while we’re out of town attending another jelly’s (my bestest friend) wedding.

I am 2.9 pounds away from my two-week weight loss goal! This makes my month-long goal seem significantly less daunting. Though the real tough work is keeping the pounds off. My sleeping is still irregular since the last time I checked in here, but I slept like a rock last night and feel pretty good. My room is also one step closer to being purged of all unwanted clothes and toys.

As of right now, I have written 62 freakin’ pages of my advancement document. It’s not anywhere near done, but I am feeling really accomplished!

My husband brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning. I feel so nurtured when he does that!

A couple of days ago, my cat chewed through the wire to my microphone. It wasn’t a particularly expensive microphone, but I was pissed because I use it to record my piano playing sometimes, and I’m not willing to dish out the money to buy a new one at the moment.
Today, with the use of wire strippers and a soldering iron, I fixed it. I tested it expecting to find that the sound quality was very diminished, but it sounds great! Now I’m happy my cat did that because it still works just fine and I got to use my beloved soldering iron.

@Mariah

and…luckily no electra-cat vet bills, one shocker is enough. lol

@Coloma Hahaha yes, I’m glad he chose to chew on something that wasn’t plugged in! He doesn’t normally chew wires, so it was pretty odd.

Oh, I have something else great! I wrote a pretty cool little program in C++ last night, and I found out I got an A in my summer calculus class. I’m so relieved to know that I still know how to do all these things, haha.

I have been kind of adopted into a hodge-podge sort of family and it feels really wonderful. We had a ‘family’ lunch today at an Ethiopian restaurant because I mentioned I’d never had it. That was really nice; we sat outside in a shaded garden at the back of the restaurant and ate a leisurely meal of all sorts of deliciousness. I always try the beer of whatever ethnic cuisine that I’m eating, and Ethiopian beer did not disappoint.

Then my lady friend took me shoe shopping, as she had her eye on these and wanted to try them on. Aren’t those hot? And she is so hot; even the two jaded girls in the shop were admiring how impressively she walks in heels.

We gardened and then we went to a queer burlesque show that her close friend was performing in. My first burlesque show. So, so, so fun!

Those are beautiful shoes. I would fall over if I tried to wear them. Sounds like a lovely day @MissAnthrope.

I found out someone I work with is pregnant!

My resident mama raccoon is learning new tricks. She shows up and pokes her head in the cat door every evening around 9:30–10pm and waits for me to break out the goodies.

Last night I got her to stand up and beg off the landing in my garage, dangling a piece of Wheat berry bread.

Then she returned and stood up and waved her paws at me. So cute!

I did discover that she does not like Swiss Cheese or Apricots. lol

What will I serve tonight? :-)

Not today, but this past Saturday – my sister got married :)
Here is a picture of me and my sister, and here‘s one of me and my dapper man ;)

@Seelix Nice pics! Are you and your sister twins?

@augustlan – Thanks! Nope, not twins – she’s 7 years older than I am. But I’ve been told there’s a slight resemblance ;)

I got married yesterday!
It went off (almost) without a hitch. My best man got sick and couldn’t make it, so my best maid, a fellow jelly, stepped up to fill the role. I’m glad she was able to fly in for the occasion!

@ru2bz46 congrats!!

@ru2bz46 and why are you fluthering on the day after your wedding!! You should be uurm…............ busy :D

Congrats.

Maybe wanted to share the happy moment ^^

Congrats and many happies, @ru2bz46 ! That’s wonderful!

@ru2bz46 – Wow, that’s awesome! Congratulations!

Congratulations @ru2bz46!

@ru2bz46 Congratulations on your marriage. I wish you many years of happiness and success in your marriage!

Thanks all! We just took a couple days off for now. Honeymoon is scheduled for August when her mother goes back to Israel and her son goes back to London. We’re sneaking in some “busy time” whenever we can…

@ru2bz46 – My heartfelt congratulations. I wish you both the best and many years of happiness and laughter together. :)

Saturday Sweetie & I had a wonderful massage and awesome dinner gathered with friends to greet and celebrate my best friend getting married.

Sunday I got to be “Best Man” at my best friend’s wedding and share the day with several mutual friends and ex in-laws. It was such a beautiful day! It ended with my sweetie & I spending the night in San Francisco.

Monday San Francisco with friends and my sweetie, hitting some of my most favorite spots. I didn’t want to fly back home.

My weekly play date… magical and beyond enjoyable, as always. I like to just be her plaything, so basically, I never know what’s going to happen when I go. But I’m extra excited because I’m getting something next week that I’ve been waiting patiently for and she’d mentioned a couple of times. Yay!

After that, we were all supposed to go out to this goth club, but plans shifted and we ended up hosting an impromptu dinner party that lasted into the wee hours of the morning. Time flies so fast and I laugh my head off when I’m over there . Such good times!

I just booked my flights to America :)

@Leanne1986

Well come on out to the micro farm and hang with the geese.
Lots of cute young river guides in my area. ;-D

I’ve been riding my stationary bike for 45 minutes a day, every day since mid-May. (Okay, I’ve taken a couple of days off due to not feeling well, and I didn’t ride last week as I was staying with my parents. But almost every day.)

And today I finally broke 20k! 20.1 kilometres in 45 minutes! I know it’s not all that much, but I’m pretty dang proud.

Far out! That is great @Seelix. Well done. Do you feel great? Are you looking all taut and terrific? I wish I had such dedication.

@Bellatrix – I’m feeling pretty great, but I’m not quite taut yet :)
Thanks!

Yay Seelix…man, I’ve got get my ass pumping again, soon, right after this glass of wine. lol

Well…beleive it or not my “pet’ Raccoon just REFUSED a delicious RIB in favor of her preferred Oatnut bread!

My boss splurged on ribs tonight and I brought a few home, it is Weds. night rib night at our local deli and they sell out in about an hour. I’m not a big rib fan but I thought I’d bring home a few for mama coon…and, she REFUSED them. What kind of crazy wildlife would refuse gourmet ribs? haha

Oh well, she’s an easy dinner guest.

Tonight she reached up and grabbed her slice of bread with her little hands from my hand…awwww! Coloma is easily amused. :-D

@Seelix Congrats! I just got a recumbent bike a couple of weeks ago & have been trying to work it as hard as I can. Right now it’s kicking my ass.

Yesterday was my birthday. It went far better than expected. Even though I had to go to work in the morning, my co-worker’s wife baked me the most delicious brownies ever, my group of students had their last tutoring session and they were diligent workers for the entire fifty minutes, and then two of my high school friends ambushed me with Mrs. Fields cookies and a lift home. We played catch-up for a couple hours in my room. My best friend had to cancel (which was the only downer of the day.) My brothers and I picked up my significant other and his younger sister. We went to the Old Spaghetti Factory (the waitress sang for me… embarrassing, but sweet.) Then we went back to my house so that my parents could see me for a change, sing, share cake, exchange gifts. Then we went to the theater and saw Winnie-the-Pooh (which was incredibly sweet.)

My brothers bought me seasons two and three of Breaking Bad. My parents bought me athletic wear, and my significant other shared with me the first few chapters of a children’s story that he is writing for me. It was the sweetest thing. Too bad we didn’t have any alone time to discuss it more in depth.

I’m contemplating ducking work today to give myself a nice, long weekend. Hm.

Happy Birthday, @muppetish !

@muppetish

Happy Birthday to you! :-D

I vote for playing birthday hookie and pampering yourself today too!

Awesome morning over here, getting together with my daughter to pow wow on a writing project and get it on a flash drive today. She is paying me back for a loan at the rate of about $50 an hour, lol, good deal for us both though. I HATE writing query letters and so she is my editor in chief and all around secretary today.

@Coloma I would love that!

WOOOO!!! For the past year and a half, Mr. Fiance has had a claim in with the Ministry of Labour because his last job, from which he was laid off, refused to pay him severance and the balance of his vacation pay. His claim officer finally called him just now to tell him that the money will be in his account within two weeks!

Take that, jerky employers! It took a long time, but we won!

Yay! Justice can happen! Well, in Canada anyway…

I didn’t know whether to celebrate yesterday, (I quit smoking four Thursdays ago) or tomorrow (I quit on June 23) so I decided to split the difference and pat myself on the back today.
Hooray for me! Now will someone please turn down the heat???

Congratulations @JilltheTooth. You quit on my hubby’s birthday! :-)

It was hard to wrap, but I thought he’d like that!

The cruise line we booked our honeymoon on in the beginning of the year honored a discount just mailed out for people to book at the last minute. This just shaved off half the balance we owed. Yippee! That difference happened to be the amount we just paid to have new tires put on one of the cars and the registration renewal for both of our cars. Sometimes… very rarely but sometimes we get a windfall in a roundabout way.

Somebody is smiling on you! That’s great!

A pretty warm afternoon, around 94 and just cracked a Mikes Hard Raspberry Lemonade.
Waiting on a couple of pals to come over for cocktails in the cold hot tub soon. Am nearly at the final draft of my story, worked on it for 5 hours yesterday, and now…I only need ONE second to the LAST paragraph to give the ending that little extra
oomph!

Yippee!

But, I’m done tweaking it for now, time to tweak myself with a little happy hour socializing, it’s 4:09 on the west coast…let the happy hour commence!:-D

98 pages and I think I’m done writing. Time for a drink.

@nikipedia

Damn! Was that all in one day? You need several drinks, like 4! hahaha
Congratulations!

Nah, I’ve been working on it in one form or another for months. It felt like it was never gonna end!

And I am on drink #1.

Well..we’re in the same story boat it seems, I have been working on mine for years! This one in particular. Cheers! :-D

I bought tickets to see Barry Manilow in Vegas :)

Her name was lola, she was a showgirl…

I bet that will be a cool show.

@Bellatrix I’m excited!

I would be too! You will have to give us a review of the performance AND the rest of your trip. When do you go? What is on the itinerary?

This evening we’re meeting up with a friend who’s living in SC right now – we haven’t seen her in a while. Beers on the patio – let’s hope the weather holds out!

My future MIL and stepdaughter spent the afternoon crafting 6 different prototypes of decorated champagne flutes to choose from for our wedding. They were all so pretty!

Mother-in-law went home to Israel today!
I actually got along fine with her since I only speak English and she only speaks French and Hebrew, but she drove my wife nuts for the last two weeks! I’m glad to have peace in the house once more.

My baby boy is 2 months today and has more than doubled his birth weight now. He’s up to 10lbs! He was under 5lbs at birth.

@Seaofclouds

Awww….kiss his fat little belly for me! And his chubby little feetsies! :-D

@Seaofclouds : Yay to Nimmy! Do a raspberry on his belly for me!

Well it isn’t great for me, but my beautiful daughter is moving out again today. She found a flat/apartment she can afford to rent on her own near the city and is going to move into it today. I will miss her. It has been a joy having her home but I also appreciate she is a grown woman and she is excited about having her independence again so I am happy for her.

I am learning to take good care of myself.

@janbb

Yay!

My new wife and I went for a 33-mile bike ride, had some great nookie when we got home, then took a couple friends out for sushi dinner. This is the life I wanted for the past 45 years! :-))

Sounds like you had a wonderful day @ru2bz46.

@ru2bz46 Didn’t realize the wedding had taken place! Sounds great!

I’m looking after a dog for a friend for the whole of next week. Apart from my own dogs (obviously) this little terrier is my most favourite dog in the world. Anyway, today her owner asked me if I would have her for an extra day :) so, not only do I get an extra days money for her board but I also get her company for longer!

I finally finished a big knitting/needlefelting project my mom and I have been working on.

A co worker of mine agreed to switch shifts with me so have an almost extra day off in order to go out of town with my family. We might, maybe, possibly, hopefully have enough time to go to Six Flags now.

@Mariah : Lovin’ that funky-doodle hat!!!!

I was emailed this evening by my university telling me I’ll get my exam result tomorrow (3 days early!) dun dun duuuuun…..

@nebule : Fingers and toes crossed!

Great day at the beach with a friend followed by wine and cheese at her house.

I am in summer fruit heaven, local strawberries, cherries and plums. My fruity cup floweth over!

I am making strawberry shortcake with real whipped cream tonight!

Note to self: Do not step on the scale for the rest of the week LOL

It’s my dog, Gus’, birthday today; he’s 15 years old!

Happy Birthday you gummy lil fella!! Hope you get to chew… oops sorry .. suck on a bone :D

Happy Birthday to Gus!

Woof woof!

Oh, the irony! While making my strawberry shortcake last night my neighbor dropped over with a giant slab of blackberry pie they made. Holy mother of dessert, I ate the whole thing! Shortcake tonight. I’m in big trouble now,—BIG! LOL

:-) @Big.

My fantastic dentist has sold his practice!! WTF!!! That is surely not allowed? Once you are a favourite dentist, surely you have to stay with the program forever!

Singing! I facilitated some of my old ren faire guild peeps getting together to sing and we’ve decided to perform at a faire scheduled mid-September. Today was our second practice and I’m really excited because we’re sounding better and better, plus with the practice and such, my voice has gotten stronger, so I feel much more confident about singing in front of people. On top of that, the three women that attended today are some of the coolest, most awesome people. Hanging out with them is so silly, fun, and they have some adorable kids.

My boyfriend told me about a really nice dream he had about me last night. Not dirty, just sweet!

I realized I have to find a way to get back into making art.

My daughter has rescued a young Tiger kitten ( maybe 3–4 months old ) from the dumpsters around her apartment complex. She has been luring it with food for a few days and managed to nab it last night.
I guess he/she is a real sweetheart once she brought in the house…sooo, going over with a carrier this morning and taking it to the shelter. After he/she is all vetted and fixed I may adopt it! If nothing else another poor kitty is off the streets.

@JilltheTooth Yay!! I got a Distinction!!! :) 87% in my exam and 88% for my module assignments :-) Very much a bundle of joy x

@nebule That is AWESOME. Congratulations :) x

Oh, the kitty was so CUTE!
But, a SHE.
Not sure that would be a good blend with the resident princess Mia.

But, for all you cat lovers she was so unusually marked. A ticked tabby with calico face, orange and black and then gorgeous patches of caramel barely coming through from her undercoat. Very striking little girl. We are going to keep tabs on her the next few weeks. I am torn, and I also fell for a little black and white ‘Kitler’ type.

He was adorable!

Black teardrop shaped nose patch and a toupee. Little black spots on both ears, black tail and black spots on white.

Help! Cats in my face! lol

I got all my hair chopped off today. After about 3 years of trying to grow it out, having tons of chunky layers feels sooooo good!

@Seelix Hooray for you! I’ve been dying to do the same. Now you can bike & just get a sweaty neck.

Congrats on the hair cut @Seelix. Do you feel all new and sexy and different :D

My significant other has an interview for a tutoring position lined up with my supervisor our university’s Writing Center :) I am going to be there for moral support before clocking in. The possibility that we will get to work at the same place has just gone up!

@muppetish, I think someone was asking about you on the fb group. Have you been/do you want to be invited?

@nikipedia Well that made me blush bright pink. I am not a member of the group because I’ve been a bit protective of my offline identity, but I could possibly be persuaded to join a friendly group.

Good friends from Tenn arrived yesterday. I haven’t seen them in 6 years but we feel like it was 6 days! It’s so lovely having them here!

@JilltheTooth Have a great visit with them!

Going to Maine in the morning!

@janbb Have fun! If you run into Stephen King, tell him I’m his number one fan.

How are you sweetie?

I’m okay.

Was just star gazing in my hot tub on this lovely summer evening when I had a thought about the Perseid meteor showers this month. The second I thought ” Oh yeah, the meteor showers are coming, I have to look up the dates!” ZING! An awesome meteor streaked across the sky. Instant manifestation! lol Okay, maybe the Happy Brownie has me in sync!

My wife did a Groupon for her yoga studio ($49 for a month of yoga), and sold over 100 of them so far! That should help get through the slow August and September…

I HAVE ORDERED MY DREAM TOY! So excited. I know you guys now probably expect that ‘toy’ means something kinky and dirty, but get your minds out of the gutter.

I finally, finally, finally, FINALLY, after many years of dreaming and hoping and fantasizing, will be the proud and deserving owner of a digital SLR. Beginning model, of course, nothing terribly high-end, but I did a lot of shopping and price comparing and the one I settled on is extremely highly rated. Not to mention, I found one on eBay for a fantastic price, with all the accessories and software included!

I’m hoping it comes this week, as I’m planning a solo camping trip to Yosemite next week. Oh man, that would be the best ‘play with my new toy’ ever!

^Yay! Snoopy dance! You got an SLR! Um, what is an SLR?

Hee hee.. SLR = Single Lens Reflex. “A single-lens reflex (SLR) camera is a camera that typically uses a semi-automatic moving mirror system (hence the name “reflex”, from the mirror’s reflection) that permits the photographer to see exactly what will be captured by the film or digital imaging system, as opposed to pre-SLR cameras where the view through the viewfinder could be significantly different from what was captured on film.”

Also, there is added functionality of being able to swap out lenses. These are the cameras that pros use and, frankly, considering how long I’ve been doing photography, it’s damn time I got one for myself. ;)

OK, I’m sorry, I can’t help myself…“pics or it never happened” hahaha

I admit, I’m hoping to experiment with fetish photography, now that I have a camera that makes me look like an actual photographer, rather than just a perv with a point-and-shoot. ;) Mistress hasn’t seen my work yet and so has been rather ambivalent about my doing her shoots. She has ideas, so I’m hoping to get to play around.

I had an excellent meeting with my supervisor. She is exceedingly supportive and I walked away feeling very good about it and the future.

Kicked ass in my yard today, and my house yesterday, everything looks great!
Now, 12:14 am and having a conversation with ‘Hilary ‘the thoroughbred Mule, below my deck. She is tromping around and pushing the fence in to get to the delicious green weeds on my side, from the runoff of my deck plants.

I will be falling asleep to the stomping and munching of mules soon. lol

Lovely, lazy time in Maine. The bed here is sooo comfortable!

Had a fabulous visit with my friends whom I haven’t seen in 6 years, and if all goes OK my friend’s paper about measuring the thermo-dynamics of lava flows will get him invited back to do research on Mount Kilauea this December. He and his wife rent a cottage near the volcano observatory, and have invited me to visit (if it all comes to pass, fingers crossed people!). All that vulcanology stuff is way cool, and, even cooler, I’d get to meet Hawaii Jake!

I faced something head on that has been bothering me and it turned out to be not quite as scary as I thought it would be.

Well, Coloma is getting her new kitty Weds.
The stray my daughter found was going to be euthanized tomorrow, but, they said if I agreed to adopt her she will be spayed and vetted, vaccinated tomorrow. Well…of course I did agree!

Oh no! Sooo, hoping she will work out with princess kitty #1, Mia.

I actually just posted a question for success stories of two female cats blending into friends.

I am excited but scared that they will hate each other.

Sooo, if any of you can tell me your ” girl on girl” female cat success stories, I am all ears! :-)

We want piccies @Coloma. That is so lovely. What are you going to call her? I had a mother and daughter cat once and they got along fine. Occasional little spats but other than that friends. Hope it works out :-)

@Coloma What are you going to call her?

@Bellatrix
@Leanne1986

I’ll get pics soon, after she recovers from her spay today.
I don’t know what I will name her yet, thinking, thinking….

I just talked to the shelter and she came through the spay and health tests just fine. I pick her up at 1 o’ clock tomorrow afternoon!

They said she hates being there, I can’t wait to bring her home and lavish her with TLC and lots of food to fatten her up! :-D

I printed the final draft of my document today, and was offered a very generous gift.

Congratulations @nikipedia. That is a big task completed.

I collaborated to solve what seemed like an insolvable problem.

Oh, @bob_ , I knew you’d lick that pesky cold-fusion thing! Good on yer!

I get my new kitty in 4.5 hours!
Aaagh, I am so nervous! It’s like having a baby, well, not quite, if I was having a baby at 50 I’d be standing on the edge of a bridge with a big rock tied around my neck. lol

@Coloma – Yay! I’m excited for you and can’t wait for pictures!

Here she is, nameless kitty! My daughter and I are hanging out and trying on lots of names, so far, nothing jumping out at us.
She is adjusting well, likes her room and comfy big pillow, and is loving the atttention! :-)

My wacky life, while waiting in the animal services waiting room a nutty woman comes in with a Ground squirrel in a trap, she said it has been eating her chickens eggs and her tomatoes. I told her that I would take it home and release it on my property. They would have killed it. The shelter personnel looked the other way and we transferred it into a box in the parking lot.

So funny, she asked if she catches more if she can let them go at my house. lol

Sooo, my daughter and I brought home a cat and a Ground Squirrel side by side in the backseat. haha

The squirrel was happy to be free again, and ran off down my tiny road and disappeared. lol

The geese are having their nightly salad bar, the new kitty is resting, Mia is lurking, andsomewhere in the woods is a squirrel starting a new life. haha

She’s such a beauty @Coloma. Funny about the squirrel..the same type of thing has happened to me.

I don’t know what you should name your new girl…it’ll have to do her justice.

I was asked to audition for a local chamber orchestra yesterday. I was really surprised, but who knows maybe something good will come out of this.

Having a chilly, wet bit very relaxing week in Maine.

@Coloma – Aww, she’s so cute! She looks a lot like my dearly departed kitty, Esme. Feel free to steal the name if you like :)

Just for the hell of it, I put on a pair of jeans that I haven’t been able to wear since last summer. And they fit! Baby steps, but I’m gettin’ there :D

@Seelix
Congrats,—I hate you lol—
I have a lot of things that don’t fit well right now, bah!

Well, 22 hours in on kitten care over here.
She is a very demanding little thing, sheesh! Very vocal, pushy, and neurotically affectionate. haha

Now that she has been allowed out for a couple of minutes she is insisting she is plenty ready to start taking over the house. Mia is NOT in agreement.

We shall see how it all keeps unfolding. Cat management 101 begins, again.

I went out for an Indian meal for my sister’s birthday and there was an old bloke going round the tables doing the most incredible magic tricks. He had skills!

I went to the doctor! It’s been forever since I had insurance, much less been able to seek medical attention without any stress.

My ears have been troubling me & I got them looked at, plus I ended up getting 3 other things attended to while I was at the medical center. Bonus—I have an appointment in a few weeks with a dermatologist to get a cyst I’ve had for 3 years removed! Thank god.

I just had a really long really awesome talk with one of my best friends. He just got back from China and is back to saving the world he’s a chemistry grad student who is working on a cure for both malaria and aids and I haven’t spoken to him for more than a month. He came out to his mother who is totally cool with it and he decided to be a vegan. He also figured out that he is a feminist and we had a great talk about that. We also had an excellent talk about atheism versus spirituality and he is the first atheist I’ve spoken to about my personal beliefs to actually listen to what I had to say rather than discounting what I said out of hand. I was just so glad to talk to him and we were on the phone for an hour and a half. :)

My daughter, @Fly, got a job! She’s very excited, but nervous, too. :)

Shhhhh! 6:12 am. been up since 4:30 in the cat zone over here.
OMG! I have chased Mia around the mountain with a flashlight the last two nights. She is extremely pissy about the new cat.

Classic cat emotions.

I am exhausted.

Running around the fields at midnight, up at 4:30 to the new one crying, she is LOUD! and now, the two of them are lurking around the house in the barely sunrise zone and Coloma is extremely out of it! lol

This is my 3 year anniversary on Fluther as @JilltheTooth pointed out to me early this morning.
Yay!

When I get really frustrated here sometimes, I realize that @chyna has weathered just about all the ups and downs of Fluther and is still here. That helps me to wade through some of the shit and come out the other side. Yay, @chyna !

Happy anniversary @chyna!

Today I spent the morning teaching my Jack Russel the basics of Flyball. I can’t say she is a natural at it but she appeared to enjoy herself!

This afternoon I spent an hour with a lady that I really enjoy chatting too and then spent the rest of the afternoon/early evening keeping my boyfriend company on the phone as he spent a few hours on the motorway (obviously he was on hands free!)

I got a short surprise visit and a goodbye kiss from Jake on my way home from Maine.

It wasn’t today and it wasn’t for me, it was however incredibly good. Yesterday evening, police charged a man with the murder of Daniel Morecome. Daniel was a 13 year old boy who was abducted from a bus stop in 2003. His abduction touched people in Australia and I am sure further afield. I think anyone who has children, or just cares about children, connected with the loss of this young man.

His parent have been the epitome of bravery and dignity. They have not sought attention for themselves, but they have never given up on their son. I hope this recent development in his case will lead to his body being found and closure for his family. Link.

I just went to the store to buy smokes and when I went to pay I looked in my wallet for cash. It was empty except for some misc papers. I was pretty sure I had a five in it so I dug through the papers and found a hundred dollar bill. I was totally confused and checked my pockets and found the five I thought was in my wallet.

Now I was totally confused since there isn’t a good reason why I would have a hundred in my wallet. When I got home I asked my mom and it turns out around three months ago she gave me a hundred for five twenty’s. I had totally forgotten and never noticed it in there.

So I found a hundred bucks I didn’t know that I had. Now I’m going to the strip club and I am going to make it rain.

A beautiful day and Coloma is having a happy brownie Sunday.She needs it with cat integration, hormones for them, happy brownies for me. lol
Went to the local ranch and pet supply and bought kitty pheromones to help with the integration of the 2 females.

Have a diffuser in the kitchen, common turf, and have sprayed the new cats room and other zones. We shall see. I have named the new kitty ‘Ruby’, she is a gem, but, if the girl on girl scene does not launch, she may have to go live with my daughter.

It has been a trying 4 days, Coloma said ” WTH make it a happy brownie day down on the microfarm!” I had lots of fun playing with my fire hose on the hill a bit ago.lol

LOFL

I discoved the subreddit IAMA in which people post “I am a ________. AMA,” AMA standing for “ask me anything.” I broke the format a bit and wrote “I have no colon. AMA.” My thread recieved so much activity that it’s currently sitting at number 3 on the subreddit home page, and I feel awesome!! I love doing what I can to raise awareness about Crohn’s, colitis, and ostomies, and I never knew that I could get the word out to so many from the comfort of my own home. I’ve answered so many questions today and it feels great.

@Mariah :: I IAMA is great. Just remember that some of them are fakes.

For anyone interested. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/

And I like robots too.

Well, me and the boyfriend broke up yesterday. I cried a lot last night as I drove to my mom’s house, but today was much better. No crying and we watched lots of Star Trek, went to the mall and saw a good friend. He and I have agreed to be friends, though we are limiting contact now. It wasn’t a vitriolic break-up at all and we outlined some problems that would prevent the relationship from succeeding. I’m feeling okay today, and I have a number of friend visits planned. It was just amazing to see that as soon as I was in distress, many of friends rallied around me to help me get through this. It makes me feel as if I am living my life absolutely correctly, if so many people want to help me. :)

Well, MyMouse, you are much loved. Everywhere.

Ooh @KatawaGrey, I’m so sorry. I’m glad to hear you’ve got a good support system though.

My something great is such an itsy bitsy great something, but oh well. This evening is just filled with the sounds of crickets, locusts, and cicadas, and I looooove it.

@mariah: Thanks. :) I really do have the best friends. Also, hearing the sounds of nature counts as a big great in this day and age. :)

@KatawaGrey So very sorry, my friend, that this is happening in your life right now. Take this time for yourself, hang with your friends and you’ll get through this.

@KatawaGrey

Here’s a pint of your fav. ice cream!
Don’t forget the silver lining, you get to do whatever pleases you now and it leaves space for a whole lot of new stuff.

Cat integration is still hit and miss, mostly miss right now. lol
Jeez…sooo, back to square one after a brawl on Monday afternoon that has resulted in ‘Ruby’, the new girl, being confined to her room again the last 2 days.
Mia is staying away from the house, sneaking in to eat and I am lavishing her with treats and attention.

Tonight I am setting up a big kennel cage and we are gong to start over with brief exposure.

I am trying to focus on the positives, namely that I have the time and resources and a freezer full of happy brownies to soothe my stress.

If I can’t take a vacation, the vacation can come to me! haha

I guess there are worse things in life than playing with cats on a mountain while under the magic cloak of happy brownies.

At least when I get too stressed I can go amuse myself playing in the hose on the hill, make rainbows in the trees. ;-)

Maybe I need to bake some ‘Happy’ cat treats for the pissy cat kids too.

Maybe the pheromone and Tuna ‘surprise’ treats will be a winning combo. lol
Wish me luck! :-/

Disclaimer: I am only kidding about the happy cat treats, well, mostly anyway.

I FOUND THE PERFECT APARTMENT, YAY!

Yay for @bob_ !

@bob_ Congrats!

@bob_, PICS OR IT NEVER HAPPENED.

Thanks! :D

@nikipedia HEY WHO TAUGHT YOU THAT? ~

Here it is on Google Earth Street View. Actual pics tomorrow after I sign the papers :)

Now we know where he lives!

@bob_

Cool, when can I come for a vacation? How far are you from the beach? lol
Are you all stocked up on sandwiches for your guests?

Well, the lady at the shelter last week that had me take her Ground Squirrel home and release it on my property called last night and had another one. haha

I tried to tell her that she could just let it go nearby away from her house and gardens but, she insisted on driving like 30 minutes to let it go in my pasture.

Funny.

So now e have 2 Pleasant Valley squirrels relocated to Lotus. I like to think I am contributing to new blood on the mountain. haha

I wonder if I can apply for some sort of grant as a Ground Squirrel refuge or something? lol

@KatawaGrey @Coloma Everyone’s invited. BYOB, though.

@bob_, I was promised there would be tequila.

@nikipedia You will not be let down.

After over a week apart I woke up with my fella this morning :)

This morning didn’t go too well. I had a follow-up appointment with the health center today because I still have insomnia. Nobody in my family said anything about it to comfort me even though I was an absolute mess and my significant other was unable to accompany to prior engagements. My doctor prescribed me a low-dose of antidepressants and told me to see him in four weeks (or sooner if the medication doesn’t help me regulate my schedule. And now I have to hold everything together to go to work. Ugh.

On the bright side, my school’s webpage finally loaded and I am officially enrolled in the two classes I was hoping to get into. Now if they would finally change my status from “accepted” to “admitted”, I could call myself an official graduate student.

The other day when I was at a friend’s place, I hopped onto her bathroom scale. I haven’t weighed myself since the beginning of June at the doctor’s office. The bike is paying off – I’ve lost 17 pounds so far!

@Seelix Yay, well done!

Also, to quote @nikipedia, PICS OR IT NEVER HAPPENED :)

Coloma’s having an un-great cat day.

A morning of serious gyrations with cats. lol

I feel the makings of a documentary
Rated ‘R’ for language Mine and theirs! Pffft! Rowrrrr!

@bob_ – Thanks :) I think I’ll wait until I’ve lost some more so’s I can go buy a bikini or something, then post some pics ;)

@Seelix I approve of that ^ message ;)

We need pics or film even @Coloma. I hope they make friends soon!

@Seelix: Excellent! And because you’re doing the bike, you’ve actually probably lost more weight than that, but put one some muscles. Keep us apprised!

Well…‘Ruby’ is going to live with my daughter, I will miss her but, trust me, she and Mia are not going to be a blend. :-/

My daughter and I are going on a Petsmart shopping spree at 11:30.
Ruby will have a great set up and be the only cat child, I think it is best.
It will also be my daughters first pet as an adult and I will get to visit her and watch her grow up.
A win/win for everyone, but mostly poor Mia.
Only room for one queen of the mountain. haha

The Mr. & I are ready to stop smoking.

I advanced to Ph.D candidacy today!

I got a response from the audition, and I made it!!!!

I found out my best friend and her fiancé are ready to stop smoking!

Also, my bro-in-law died peacefully this morning (lung cancer) without any of the life-support crap that he was so against.

Great news @nikipedia (not that I doubted it would happen for a second).

:-) Sounds like a plan @Coloma…

@ru2bz46, sorry for your loss.

I have no good news… well no bad news either which I suppose is good news!

We just ordered my bridal set (engagement ring and wedding band). It should be in next week. EEK!
We haven’t told anyone yet, so anyone with whom I’m friends on Facebook, mum’s the word.

@Seelix Yay!

@Seelix. That is so, so exciting. My fingers are… zipped? sealed?

And we are all going to be flower girls and bridesmaids… YAY… sorry did I let that out of the bag too?

@Bellatrix – Everyone can be a bridesmaid! Especially @Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard.

@Seelix

Congratulations! :-D

Well…Coloma is wiped out, but at peace. haha
Demon kitty went to live with my daughter tonight!
11 days in the trenches of new cat in the house drama.
Cat drama to the 10th power.

But hey, we saved the kitty and she gets to be queen of her own space now, and, best of all poor Mia is at last free to heal from her traumas. haha

I have removed every trace of the rescue cats accessories, haha, Febreezed and vacuumed the ’ bad kitty’ room, and Mia is lurking around cautiously. I made sure she SAW the cat go with my daughter, and I am hoping it sunk in. lol

Sooo, Ruby the demon queen is probably just settling into her new digs with a state of the art litter box, cat condo, and all sorts of cat set up stuff.

Bye bye Ruby, you were cute but, it just wasn’t going to work. Coloma has another cocktail

Hooray! I just found out I get to be a bridesmaid in @Seelix‘s wedding!
I guess if I can have a woman as my best “man”, this is fair…

I quit smoking MJ almost a week ago, cold turkey.. this is mainly because I want to find a new job—a banquet job—and they pretty much all do pre-employment drug screens. Not to mention, it doesn’t hurt to detox periodically.

The issue is that I have insomnia (always have, even as a kid) and without smoking, my sleep is spotty at best. So, I’ve been really exhausted and cranky and emotional. I don’t handle tiredness very well. But I did get 12 hours of sleep last night, thanks to Ambien. Still tired, but way better than I have been!

In addition to that, I woke up today and out of nowhere, I decided it was time to unfriend my last girlfriend on FB. That relationship was good at first, but the majority was abusive and really bad for my mental health. She’s volatile, angry, immature, and incapable of having an adult relationship.

This past June, I celebrated the 2 year anniversary of my emancipation from her and from any subsequent abusive bullshit, yet I was still too afraid of her volatility to actually de-friend her. I had multiple people over the past year or so urging me to do it, but I was stuck and afraid and I just couldn’t.

E is in a relationship with someone and seemingly happy—thus, distracted and probably won’t care too much once she notices. So, I did it! I know it doesn’t seem like much, but it’s HUGE for me. :)

@MissAnthrope Cutting those last ties to an abusive person can be very significant! Props to you!

I have just about finished my course prep for this Fall’s literature class; a goal I wanted to complete by the end of August. I’ve been distracted and busy much of the summer so it is a great relief to see it come together.

A happy ending to some gardening with Marwyn tonight. haha
He likes to hang out on the patio with me when I am messing with my plants and collecting seeds.

Had a cup of Morning Glory seeds I have been harvesting sitting on a little cut glass mosaic table.
I have about a ⅓ of a cup of seeds right now, and when my back was turned Marwyn decided to sample the seeds, looked good to him.

Nabbed him at the first peck and don’t think he ate any.

Whew….!

Halluci-goose….oh noooo! lol

I found some old co workers and friends on facebook, connected a few. I like our small, small world.

It is the eighth night since me and the boyfriend broke up. Seven of those nights, my friends have either hung out with me, or stayed up all night talking and texting to me. Obviously, I know the best people.

Today I found out that my last day of work for summer quarter is this Thursday. I can finally be on break! For three weeks. Ah well.

My medication has been working. It’s not perfect, but at least I’m sleeping.

I went to the mall today! I just had surgery five days ago and I went to the mall today!

Yay, @Mariah ! You’re really cookin’,girl!

Dear Fluther diary….

Todays “greats” include, shipping off the adopted foster cat to a boarding facility and receiving a nice check in the mail, about a $100 over the $535 stray cat “rescue” scene that has been unfolding over here for the last 4 weeks!

Gah!

Another leg of the ‘cat’-astrophic cat journey unfolds.

“Ruby”, the rescue stray I adopted was not working out with my cat, re-homed to daughters, not working out, (because of boyfriends allergies ), re-homed to me last Weds., is now being boarded at the cat Hilton until Thurs. when the arsenal of allergy remedies arrive at daughters place, including an air purifyer and various other potential help against the situation.

The kitty escaped the bathroom last night when I was setting up and cleaning her ‘room’ before bed and viciously attacked my other cat for the 4th time in a month.

Sooo…Coloma shipped her off to the Cat Hilton today with roomy, indoor/outdoor accomodations until Thurs. when daughter and boyfriend pick her up to try again.

4:45 on the west coast and Coloma has EVERY intention of getting fairly ripped here over the next few hours! lol

Inspite of the frustrations, at this point I don;t care what it costs to get this cat out of my life and into her own! haha

Shit…ya know, I’ll be living in the goose barn before long!

@Coloma It’s great that you and your daughter and her partner are not giving up on this cat. So many people would have just carted her off to the nearest shelter under these circumstances.

I just had a Krispy Kreme donut for breakfast.

@Leanne1986

Well…I was about ready to toss her the other night, haha..but, she is such a great little cat, she just needs to find her purr-fect place, and that is NOT with my female. lol

A GREAT morning!

Bliss has returned to the mountain with my cat Mia feeling so happy that her territory is free of the evil cat enemy again. haha

She has been in and out the last hour this morning, playing again, super affectionate, not running out into the woods for the next 12 hours.

My poor little cat, she is a trooper after her month of hell. lol

A good thing today was when I saw that on Fluther people still act with good intentions even though some parts of their advices could be left unsaid.

It’s still nice to see others care too.

The power came back on!

Day 2 of bliss again with the wild cat gone.
Daughter and boy friend are picking her up at boarding this morning around 10–11.
Keep your fingers crossed that the infinite amount of cash and time we have all spent on this cat pays off.

They now have done a major once over on their place, have Allerpet spray for the cat, allergy pills for the boyfriend, an air purifyer ( courtesy of me, wtf…what’s another $150 after already spending around $400, all things considered ) the cat is being bathed at the boarding facility this morning, and an arsenal of other allergy related sprays and products.

We do have 2 other potential back up homes, but I am hoping, hoping this works!

Woke up to my little female goose ‘Sonora’ limping again from an old injury last year. Maybe more goose Rimadyl coming….Gah!

Coloma is having a very trying year of the animals! haha

Why does “Coloma” speak of herself in the third person, janbb wonders?

@janbb

Heh! ;-)

JilltheTooth has wondered that as well.

Chalk it up to writing style and quirkiness I suppose.

@Coloma I will. Thanks!

I to my internet back and had dinner with a friend I haven’t see in a few months.

@KatawaGrey : I am confused… but I love you the mostestestest anyway.

Whoops, I got my internet back, but apparently lost my ability to type.

My friends threw a little celebratory party last night for me and my coworker since we both passed our exams. It was a lot of fun, and my boyfriend came and was charming, and all my friends like him.

I’m thinking it might be time for a new thread. What do you all think?

^Yes.

(New thread will be coming soon.)

I “divorced” a toxic friend today!