Moving Day . . .

We start moving today.  We'll be without cable/internet until January sometime I think, not sure how long.  Going to be doing a lot of reading and journaling by hand.  More tasks to do when the net comes back up.  Hope I survive this it's gonna be hard.

Post Thanksgiving . . .

For thanksgiving we didn't have a huge dinner and we won't be going to my aunt's either.  I was all set to have my money deposited today we were going to go to town and get groceries and get the stuff to get started packing to get ready to move and lo and behold, the government has been off Thursday and today, so, I won't get my unemployment until next week.  Had to call my brother and grovel for him to give us some money and wasn't THAT a blast, still waiting for him to call and let us know it's been wired.  I can't believe our luck.  But hopefully it'll be here soon and we can get on with life.  I wish I could win the lottery JUST ONCE.  (sigh)

Outliving Classmates . . .

Several years ago, I found out one of my classmates, Stardi Spurlock, had died.  At the time of her death she was 42.  I've no idea how she died but was very sad to hear it.  A couple of nights ago I dreamed of another classmate that was always very nice to me that I liked very much.  I found out tonight she, Leonor Navarro, died in 2007 at age 46.  I don't know what to think, these are two very beautiful people now gone from this earth, when so many hateful people still roam it.  And I wonder where is the justice in it all?

Cool!

I got air conditioning!  We took my air conditioner out and stored it and took Mother's air conditioner out and put it in my room and it's cool in here once again!  Bliss!  No more sleepless nights due to heat!  Woo!

Fire!

Currently Reading:  No Rest for the Wicked by Kresley Cole, A Dark Matter by Peter Straub, Bell, Book & Dyke (A Bella After Dark collection)

Currently Listening To:  A Fan Blowing Behind Me

Current Title in Works:  Wyndhaven
They finally took out the Burn Ban and we can burn again.  We immediately set a small fire that consumed most of the loose paper in the house and some I collected from the yard.  Wonderful turn of events.  Everything else is still going.  I think Mother is convinced I still need to take this class though it's expensive, but what the hell maybe it'll help.  Can't hurt, it is, after all, a degree.

I really need to get my shit together and begin anew on my journey to fitness.  I get fatter every day, pretty soon I'm going to be a size 26 and wow, what then, can't even get clothes at WalMart.  Tomorrow's a good day to get started with that, it's Saturday, some weekday pressures will be off, I'll start out with a healthy breakfast and go from there.  I'm really motivated to exercise still, not really done it other than meander around the yard a little but I'm motivated!

Ho Hums . . .

Rained a little bit today, an inch so they say.  Cooled things off that's nice.  I'm trying to start an online college course but if we're going to be responsible for most of the 36k it's going to cost, I'm afraid I'll have to pass.  We're going to do good to keep a roof over our head.

I need to get Mom's air conditioner in here.  Maybe it'll dry up some tomorrow and we can, but also it's supposed to get cooler yet so maybe won't need it until Saturday and our friend can come out and exchange it for us.

Happy Day !!!!!

Currently Reading:

No Rest For The Wicket by Kresley Cole

A Dark Matter by Peter Straub

Bell, Book & Dyke (A Bella After Dark collection)

Currently Listening To: 

Sports Center So I Can Hear About Kasey's Win A Dozen Times!

Current Title in Works:  Wyndhaven

Kasey Kahne wins at Phoenix !!!!!!! WAY TO GO DUUUUUUUUDDDDDEEEEE!!!!!!!!


Otherwise it's freaking hot and I'm going to cry tonight trying to sleep.  But I'm stuck with it till winter is safely tucked into our space and it cools off for a few months.  Tomorrow is going to be another miserable day but Tuesday it's going to rain and will be much cooler Wednesday night.  I can't wait.


We've been talking more about the cabin and the ups and downs of getting it wired, plumbed and finished.  I hope we aren't too uncomfortable too long once in it, it's really an excellent new start and I for one can't wait until it gets here and we get started on it.

Monday, So What?

Currently Reading:  Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn, A Dark Matter by Peter Straub, Bell, Book & Dyke (A Bella After Dark collection)
Currently Listening To:  Reflections of My Life/The Marmalade
Current Title in Works:  Wyndhaven
I got up this morning feeling inclined to take care of business, and did get some neos fed, Mother came in early wanting to play Solitaire and she wanted me to bring up her email so she could read it (she hasn't grasped how to get to it herself yet) so I did and thought that a good time to continue Witchling, but couldn't get through the chapter for having to walk her through switching between her email and FaceBook.  I did finally get the chapter finished and the next started, I'm over half finished with the book.  I was going to work on mine a little but I fear if I got into it I'd just have to stop because she wants to go to town today, so I may as well wait until we get back if there is some time before feeding commences.  I didn't get much sleep last night so no dreams, haven't dreamt profitably in a few days now.  I probably should get to sleep earlier.

Cranky

I've been somewhat cranky lately.  Snappish, sullen.  We've had some issues, Thor, one of our dogs, got hit or shot and seriously injured, it was just awful, and I don't know I just feel like I need some space . . . some time for just me again but I'm never EVER alone.  I have some work I want to get done in the garden tomorrow, I want to plant my begonias they are still in the starter pots and getting sickly.  I want to work on my book.  Speaking of books I'm really enjoying Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn.  It's a fairly quick read, short chapters and very entertaining.  I don't know all of her terms as yet, it's series reading and many of them have their own language,  but I'm seriously loving the book.  Can't wait to read the next although next on my list is the next one from Kresley Cole after A Hunger Like No Other.  THAT'S a good series!  I also want to finish out Bell, Book and Dyke so I can move on to Call of the Dark.  Reading I am getting done.  Since Mother and I share a computer now I have to get off mine several hours a day so Mother can play Solitaire.  She wants to get me a new computer so she can have this one, I simply cannot justify getting a new computer just so she can sit all day and play computer Solitaire.  She does get email and does have a FaceBook now but I'm having trouble getting her to remember how to use them.  But what the hell, if we get a new computer, it's just eventually going to be a second computer for me.  Whatever.

I'm trying to kill time to see if after midnight I can adopt neopets from the pound or if I have to wait till later tomorrow morning.  Can you believe I have 232 neopets?  I sure can, it's practically my life now.  I REALLY need to get a job!

Ok I'm bored, gonna find something else to do till Midnight.  Ta!

Horrible, Gut-Wrenching News from Indy Racing . . .

Dan Wheldon, MUCH loved indy car driver was killed in a crash at a race today.  How he will be missed :(

Rest in eternal peace.  :(

It's About Time!!!!

Currently Reading:  Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn, A Dark Matter by Peter Straub, Bell, Book & Dyke (A Bella After Dark collection)
Currently Listening To:  Blue Bayou, Linda Rondstadt
Current Title in Works:  Wyndhaven

The low Wednesday night is going to be 39 so they say.  YAY!  Although now I have to worry about my plants.  I think they will be ok for the most part.  Until it gets REALLY cold, if it ever does.


I've gotten all my neos fed and have been keeping up with them.  I've gotten through the M accounts will do the n-z accounts later, we're going to go to town in a little bit.


Life is looking up a bit, but one never knows, there are monkeywrenches everywhere just lurking, waiting to jump in there and screw everything up.  I'm trying to stay positive.  Anyway had more to say can't remember what it was so more later!

Dark Day

Currently Reading:  Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn, A Dark Matter by Peter Straub, Bell, Book & Dyke (A Bella After Dark collection)
Currently Listening To:  Blue Bayou, Linda Rondstadt
Current Title in Works:  Wyndhaven

We finally got a good rain today, it's still dark and overcast, still lightly sprinkling.  Hope it does it through tomorrow, we need it.  Would be nice if they lifted the burn ban but not holding my breath.

I'm trying to get into some sort of rhythm with my diet, my writing, my life in general.  I wish I could make something work out for me but I can't.  I won't stop trying though.  I've never been one to give up easily.  I also wish people understood me better.  Were a little more tolerant, nonjudgmental, kind.  BUT, fuck 'em, I don't need 'em.  The more I succeed in doing on my own the stronger I can stand.  So on I go to go stand at the door and watch it rain some more.

The Different Types of Cold Fronts:

There are two types of cold fronts:

The mind-blowing cold front.  This front comes after what feels like the hottest day EVER.  It comes on the tail of a storm.  In this front, the temperature will drop from HELL HOT to crispy cold in about an hour and a half.  It comes with a lot of wind, rain, and hail.  This is my favorite front.

The second is the sneaky cold front.  That's what is coming in over the next few days here.  This front sneaks in over night, waking you to a pleasantly cool morning and with its gentle north breezes makes the day comfortable and enjoyable.  The sneaky cold front tends to be short lived and doesn't drop temps as low as I like them, but trust me, over what we've been experiencing, I'll take it!

Life Around Food . . .

Mom was in earlier playing Solitaire.  She's so bored because we don't have food.  I'd like to have snacks, but at least I like a lot of things on tv, I can entertain myself for hours on the internet, and I like to read and have many unread books here.  There is also my poor novel that sits unworked on for the last few days.  Mom has the news channels, eating, and playing solitaire to fill her days.  Her most active hobby is feeding the squirrels.  I sympathize.  I hope this teaches her a valuable lesson in shopping.  You have to plan for lean times.  Buy stuff that is packed by the dozen and that keeps.  Don't eat everything up in one week, go lean a couple of days a week to stretch the munchies out a little longer.

I have got to stop drinking the water here, I believe it's making me sick.  Can't afford more bottled until the first of the month I imagine.  We'll see how it goes though, I think things are going to start to change around here.

It's Just Another Day . . .

I'm feeling alright going into October.  Blessed Mabon, by the way.  Onward to Samhain and then to blessed Solstice.  I hope to be a good 20 pounds thinner by then, we'll see.  And at least 100 pages into my book.  Right now I'm blessing that we still have a house to live in and a little food to eat.  The next two weeks are going to be long and hard.  Did some wandering around in the yard this evening it was nice but I have a sore achilles tendon for some reason.  Can't imagine doing anything to it I barely get off my fat ass these days.  But that will change as will the weather, it's nice now morning and evening still a tad too warm in the afternoon.  But onward to things more fun.  Good evening.

My YouTube Obsession

So there are pros and cons to going through the effort of setting up playlists on YouTube and favoriting other people's videos.  Pros:  There's BUNCHES of 'em out there just about anything you'd like to see on vid.  Cons:  If a person yanks their account the video is yanked, and videos get yanked for copyright infringment.  So if you're out there and you know how I can preserve some of these videos I've added to my favorites outside of YouTube speak up and me love you long time!


Other than that I've not done much, still looking for a job and have applied for public assistance which I hate and hope I get turned down for.  The weather is nicer I get out more and work with my remaining plants every other day they are doing alright I guess.  Fruit trees look distressed I hope they come back strong in the spring.  I think I need to start looking for another confederate rose.


Getting sleepy eyes.  Going to bed.

Excellent!

I'm happy to report, it's raining! Dark, misty, thunder, lightening and RAIN RAIN RAIN! I'm so thrilled it's so beautiful. Sad to be so happy about something we should be getting regularly. But we're not. This is the first rain we've seen in weeks, and prior to that MONTHS. Drought sucks. So many trees around here have died. I hope they come back in Spring but I'm told they won't once they die in drought they're dead. Hope not or it's going to be so sad around here.

Sadie has gotten so heavy but because of her injury I guess, you can't tell until you try to pick her up. I hope she doesn't get pregnant. Blondie died a couple of days ago. She was very old.

Well I'm going to go enjoy the rain!

A Day of Change . . .

I'm killing off ALL my LJ blogs and coming fully over here. LJ is making me watch a commercial before I can blog over there so fuck em. Ok so today is nice, I got to get out and garden a little, got my hands dirty, a wasp landed on me, I got wet from the waterhose, got dirt under my nails, it was nice. That reminds me I need a garden blog guess who's starting a garden this spring! Yep me is. LOVE IT. Ok I'm going to go write.

Wishing Things Would Get Better . . .

Today was a hard day. But I managed to end it on a more positive note. I just wish things would get a little better here but I don't know what to do to help that happen other than getting a job and I'm trying.


Weather is changing, it's cooling slightly so it's not as uncomfortable for me to get out and walk so that's what I'm doing. I'm trying to improve all aspects of my life, no one can do it but me. High time I took back some control.

Aggravation

One thing that is totally aggravating to me is all the damned buffering on YouTube. Is that my computer??? Specially my Robin McNamara vids.


Another thing that is totally aggravating is this consistent bickering between my mother and my brother. He hurts her feelings and for days she's like a walking raw nerve, EVERYTHING pisses her off. We have a couple of 3 and 4 month old kittens and one cat that is about 9 months old so he's still a kitten himself. The two little ones (not litter mates) are playing and Max the big one wants to get in on the gig, and plays too rough with the little ones. Mother is threatening Max's life because he won't leave the little ones alone, and he's not even hurting them.


Something else that is aggravating the shit out of me is the fact that I will not get my act together and get this novel on steady legs, will not get my food and exercise program more consistent, and I'm wasting precious time. But I'm a Monday starter so I'm going to do what I can to get my shit together come Monday. I feel tomorrow is probably going to be a bad day, Mother will still be pouting, and will likely make my life a living hell with her bitching and threats. But I'll persevere.


We did get nice weather today. It was overcast and cooler most of the day and it actually rained. It's 74 degrees now and the outdoors smells fantastic. The mile and a half deep pile of leaves is very rustic looking. No sense raking them we can't burn them. We don't have a mulching lawnmower so that won't fly either, so we just leave them there. 'S ok, I like it.


Going to go and do some more blogging elsewhere.

New Blog

I made another blog. I was watching Julie and Julia and was inspired by something she said about her reasoning for starting her cooking blog. To train herself to finish what she started. Set a short term goal and finish it. I've been needing to do that so, inspired to do it, I began a blog about it.


Otherwise the day hasn't been all bad, just lazy. The heat outside keeps me from doing anything out there and what needs to be done inside I've not had the motivation to get done. But I do have things I want to get done tomorrow. Cleaning for one, my goals for another. I'm finally going to tackle Mother's room. I'm going to have to do it with her here and that's going to be so hard but I'm willing to give it a go. She makes it too difficult I'm just going to tell her my intentions and if she doesn't want me to do it I'll leave her to do it herself.


And on that I'm going for the evening.

One Of Those Bad Times . . .

Still hot here in spite of a really good rain yesterday. That's really nice I hope it starts a trend. There is a vicious hurricane heading toward North Carolina but it's not going to do us any good in spite of it being a really large system. But our time will come assuredly.


We're just riding out the waves of poverty right now I really hope I get a job soon I'm going to do what I can do to magically move things along as soon as I can formulate exactly what it is I want to do. I do know I want to get back into working in Conroe. So I'm concentrating there.


I love my YouTube 60s and 70s playlist. I have over 120 songs on it, and I'm building my 80s hard rock playlist now.


Going to go now more later.

Obsessive

I'm so obsessive compulsive it's unreal. There is a song from the summer of 1970 titled Lay A Little Lovin' On Me by a man named Robin McNamara. About 6 to 8 months ago I was on my way home from work and the radio station I was listening to surprised me with this tune. I very nearly lost control of the vehicle I was so thrilled to hear it again after so very long. I guess when I got home it completely went out of my head because I'd forgotten about it until 2 nights ago when I went to see if I could find something on YouTube that I'd seen on television. I think I was looking for the Geico commercial that Richard Simmons just got through filming. Anyway, on the side where related videos show up I caught that song title and happily clicked the link. I've never seen Robin before and really wasn't sure who actually sang that song. I pulled up the video and here is this cute lil hippy guy, a cross between Tommy James and Donovan, if you ask me, singing and dancing to this song and I LOVED it! I watched it, I shit you not, about 30 times that night, I was up until 3 a.m.. I found more videos too, some one hit wonders I used to rock out to as a teen. So I have this awesome playlist now on YouTube and I have been bringing it up and playing it while I fool around on the computer. I haven't felt such happiness in years as that night I sat up gathering all these great songs. Amazon.com has some Sounds of the 70s compilations that have Robin's song on it that I'm going to order next Friday so I can have him in my cd player in the car whenever I want. I feel like a kid again!

Copycat

This is a copy of my LJ blog, because I can. How many of these things can we have?!