kinda bigish posty thingy... update on STUFF
I? am exhausted. Beat. Pooped out. Wiped.
Jet lag is it's own devil. Usually I'm not this tired, wanting to sleep and taking a nap in the middle of the day but yeah.. I'm there.
We arrived with a bang and a pop and a "Eewwwwww" on the boy's part ( mine too! ) O'Hare airport isn't a fun place to be after you've lived in AK and arrive in the morning... it was gnarly with the smoke and exhust and everything else. Boychild kept his hands on his nose, and I had a growing headache ( which thinking on it, that with the people crush is probably why I can't spend long hours in the City.... air quality). But sister arrived, and took me and Loch to better skies. and HOLY HECK her house is AWESOME. It's in the country, she's got land, they've got it green and still working on it. Zack ( my sister's boyfriend) had to put the race car in the garage so that it didn't get rained on, and loch got to sit in it . We're going to watch him race sometime in the next few weeks, guess he's getting a new engine for it to make it go zoom zoom. It's great... XD
I also haven't eaten this well in ... well... months really. I'm fat and sassy and ma's gettin' on me to lose weight .... then again it's HOT AS THE PITS OF HADES.
and humid... o.o;
and I never realized that my joints would swell in the humidity, so all the problem places ( my right hand, my ankles and my right knee ) suddenly went " HA you thought the achyness with the carpal/joints was bad? TRY THIS!! AH:AHAHAHAHAHAHA ha! " and I ended up well... in pain... ITS FUN I TELL YOU. Getting used to it though, but need for it to go down more to get my ring off my finger... it's now welded on... ;_;... I don't take it off anyways.. buuuut... it'd be nice to know that It'll come off if i need it to for cooking or something...
EVIL HUMIDITY!~
Loch's bonding with Zack and my Da... it hysterical. The house splits off into the girls and the dudes when my sister comes over. Zack and Da can't get enough of the boy ( until he wears them out) and Loch can't get enough of them. Everything is a new adventure! He saw and chased lightning bugs, and we're a lot friendlier with the capture and release than me and my sister were when WE were young ( writing things with butts, it didn't last LONG granted, but I still remember doing it.) We also saw the NIFTYEST *SPIDER* in the garden. It was like... the super web-builder. I never thought I'd see what a spider on Java would be like .. but I tell you what.. this spider was cranking that web out like we were watching it on t.v. on fast forward. Huge web too- something like 2 ft by 3ft. Wild! And yes, spiders freak me the hell out .. BUT I LOVE THEM... ( figure that out.. XD... why Nonni-spider must your children be so scary and oh so good?)
Again it is hot. I want my thunderstorm ;_; and yes, for the first time in a number of years I have yet to have it. While the rest of the midwest has a stalled storm front it is skirting just thirty or so miles south of us... tormenting me with it's awesomenesss... but be assured... XD I know I"m getting one... ^^
It's a LOVELY feeling being safe again. We've got a lot of vancant houses on the block, and one family with kids, and two other families that have been there since me and Carol ( sister) were young. Which... is nice really. We can leave the door unlocked if we don't have the keys... I don't have to worry about neighbors yelling, there's a fenced backyard and GREEN GROWING THINGS... even if my da took out the vegtable plot because everyone else has one and is itching to get rid of what they got. The trees have grown INSANELY since I've been gone... feels very much like and OLD neighborhood ( was old before... there's like a 70yr old sycamore right across the street.... it takes four people to link arms around it's trunk) The trees have all gotten MUCH bigger, while other trees have fallen or been taken down. ( and I do have Alaskan tree pictures i need to post too! speaking of.... )
No wi-fi yet. Car might actually be coming a week early... ^^ Don the transport guy called me up and let me know they've recieved it in Seattle already ^^. YAY! meh baby! <3 <3.
Kinda freaky news... and weird... Well everybody knows that when you pay for unemployment you are actually putting it in for yourself right? This is money that you put in , and you get out. Gov' borrows it basically... but pays you what you're owed because of what you've put in. You can't get it if you just up and quit a job, you have to be laid off.... gov wants to do away with unemployment it's not welfare, it's not somethign that is a handout. It's the money we use to safeguard ourselves from jackasses and .. LOL... the economy issues... -.-; They're voting to get rid of it TODAY. how fun! So everybody that put in but never used it? Might not get getting it/ever get it. That chaps me. Not because I'm on it, right now I'm safe and all here... but for all the other people that have to use it that are or were in situations similar to mine. It doesn't make much sense to me. I just found this out from my mother... *SIGH* I want to shake congress by the shoulders sometimes on so many issues...
ANYWAYS.
Kid's got a friend right now... XD they've been TEARING IT UP FOR HOURS. I've got a pork roast in the oven and am going to be making my first loaf of zuccini ( sp?) bread, ever! ^^. Doing some chores, and ... poked around downstairs with all of my boxes and the bed that's not put together and everything.
GOT. MY . STICK.
You have *****NO****** idea how much that reunion was <3 <3 <3!!! MISSED mr. stick... ;_; ... he gained a chaff mark from the journey and everything attached is going to be replaced when I get all the feather fun from the shipments chasing me from AK. GODS... i missed him... ^^
This is ending up good... I just wish I could shake the exhuastion.
I really want to enter the werewolf calendar contest. I love the arts already and ... honestly it looks like fun. I have things I'd love to see more of in the works though... XD but I'm BIASED and so the first of course is ? MOTHERS! and pups.... protective mommies for the win! Came about from always hearing about how you never want to be between a mother moose and her calf or a mother bear and her cubs and how they're some of the most vicious mother-parents in the animal world...... and I always went " but werewolves would so beat that... " :
Yes someone apparently took a potshot at the youngest son. Maybe mistaking him for a coyote? Who knows... but whoever did isn't going to survive. If mama doesn't get there first, the pack sure will. The oldest son has seen mama-wolf kick-butt before and feels more than safe enough to give his own opinion on the matter safely behind his mother.
The next weirdness on my end had to deal with ... well... always seeing the sexy bodies- the young, and virile mating age wolves/werewolves. You search and every snarly face is in their prime for the most part. Few pup pictures, and fewer still the oldies. I'd imagine being an old werewolf is a tough buisness, and I always liked to mash things together- and do " wonder why?" ... and perhaps the ideas of the 'wolf-man' really were just old werewolves where both magic and body were starting to fail out? So the werewolf 'fades' a bit.
Combining features of a old person, balding, liverspots, wrinkles, loose skin, large knuckles from a hard working life, worn and missing teeth... challenge. Not done on this yet, and the bird is just a stand in for placementissues.... I want to make it a magpie or a raven ( yeah I'm a corvid fan BIG TIME). Could use some help on this one a lot... o.o...
But he's grown on me... reminds me like a mix between my own father and my uncle.. .though neither of them are this old... XD
Jet lag is it's own devil. Usually I'm not this tired, wanting to sleep and taking a nap in the middle of the day but yeah.. I'm there.
We arrived with a bang and a pop and a "Eewwwwww" on the boy's part ( mine too! ) O'Hare airport isn't a fun place to be after you've lived in AK and arrive in the morning... it was gnarly with the smoke and exhust and everything else. Boychild kept his hands on his nose, and I had a growing headache ( which thinking on it, that with the people crush is probably why I can't spend long hours in the City.... air quality). But sister arrived, and took me and Loch to better skies. and HOLY HECK her house is AWESOME. It's in the country, she's got land, they've got it green and still working on it. Zack ( my sister's boyfriend) had to put the race car in the garage so that it didn't get rained on, and loch got to sit in it . We're going to watch him race sometime in the next few weeks, guess he's getting a new engine for it to make it go zoom zoom. It's great... XD
I also haven't eaten this well in ... well... months really. I'm fat and sassy and ma's gettin' on me to lose weight .... then again it's HOT AS THE PITS OF HADES.
and humid... o.o;
and I never realized that my joints would swell in the humidity, so all the problem places ( my right hand, my ankles and my right knee ) suddenly went " HA you thought the achyness with the carpal/joints was bad? TRY THIS!! AH:AHAHAHAHAHAHA ha! " and I ended up well... in pain... ITS FUN I TELL YOU. Getting used to it though, but need for it to go down more to get my ring off my finger... it's now welded on... ;_;... I don't take it off anyways.. buuuut... it'd be nice to know that It'll come off if i need it to for cooking or something...
EVIL HUMIDITY!~
Loch's bonding with Zack and my Da... it hysterical. The house splits off into the girls and the dudes when my sister comes over. Zack and Da can't get enough of the boy ( until he wears them out) and Loch can't get enough of them. Everything is a new adventure! He saw and chased lightning bugs, and we're a lot friendlier with the capture and release than me and my sister were when WE were young ( writing things with butts, it didn't last LONG granted, but I still remember doing it.) We also saw the NIFTYEST *SPIDER* in the garden. It was like... the super web-builder. I never thought I'd see what a spider on Java would be like .. but I tell you what.. this spider was cranking that web out like we were watching it on t.v. on fast forward. Huge web too- something like 2 ft by 3ft. Wild! And yes, spiders freak me the hell out .. BUT I LOVE THEM... ( figure that out.. XD... why Nonni-spider must your children be so scary and oh so good?)
Again it is hot. I want my thunderstorm ;_; and yes, for the first time in a number of years I have yet to have it. While the rest of the midwest has a stalled storm front it is skirting just thirty or so miles south of us... tormenting me with it's awesomenesss... but be assured... XD I know I"m getting one... ^^
It's a LOVELY feeling being safe again. We've got a lot of vancant houses on the block, and one family with kids, and two other families that have been there since me and Carol ( sister) were young. Which... is nice really. We can leave the door unlocked if we don't have the keys... I don't have to worry about neighbors yelling, there's a fenced backyard and GREEN GROWING THINGS... even if my da took out the vegtable plot because everyone else has one and is itching to get rid of what they got. The trees have grown INSANELY since I've been gone... feels very much like and OLD neighborhood ( was old before... there's like a 70yr old sycamore right across the street.... it takes four people to link arms around it's trunk) The trees have all gotten MUCH bigger, while other trees have fallen or been taken down. ( and I do have Alaskan tree pictures i need to post too! speaking of.... )
No wi-fi yet. Car might actually be coming a week early... ^^ Don the transport guy called me up and let me know they've recieved it in Seattle already ^^. YAY! meh baby! <3 <3.
Kinda freaky news... and weird... Well everybody knows that when you pay for unemployment you are actually putting it in for yourself right? This is money that you put in , and you get out. Gov' borrows it basically... but pays you what you're owed because of what you've put in. You can't get it if you just up and quit a job, you have to be laid off.... gov wants to do away with unemployment it's not welfare, it's not somethign that is a handout. It's the money we use to safeguard ourselves from jackasses and .. LOL... the economy issues... -.-; They're voting to get rid of it TODAY. how fun! So everybody that put in but never used it? Might not get getting it/ever get it. That chaps me. Not because I'm on it, right now I'm safe and all here... but for all the other people that have to use it that are or were in situations similar to mine. It doesn't make much sense to me. I just found this out from my mother... *SIGH* I want to shake congress by the shoulders sometimes on so many issues...
ANYWAYS.
Kid's got a friend right now... XD they've been TEARING IT UP FOR HOURS. I've got a pork roast in the oven and am going to be making my first loaf of zuccini ( sp?) bread, ever! ^^. Doing some chores, and ... poked around downstairs with all of my boxes and the bed that's not put together and everything.
GOT. MY . STICK.
You have *****NO****** idea how much that reunion was <3 <3 <3!!! MISSED mr. stick... ;_; ... he gained a chaff mark from the journey and everything attached is going to be replaced when I get all the feather fun from the shipments chasing me from AK. GODS... i missed him... ^^
This is ending up good... I just wish I could shake the exhuastion.
I really want to enter the werewolf calendar contest. I love the arts already and ... honestly it looks like fun. I have things I'd love to see more of in the works though... XD but I'm BIASED and so the first of course is ? MOTHERS! and pups.... protective mommies for the win! Came about from always hearing about how you never want to be between a mother moose and her calf or a mother bear and her cubs and how they're some of the most vicious mother-parents in the animal world...... and I always went " but werewolves would so beat that... " :
Yes someone apparently took a potshot at the youngest son. Maybe mistaking him for a coyote? Who knows... but whoever did isn't going to survive. If mama doesn't get there first, the pack sure will. The oldest son has seen mama-wolf kick-butt before and feels more than safe enough to give his own opinion on the matter safely behind his mother.
The next weirdness on my end had to deal with ... well... always seeing the sexy bodies- the young, and virile mating age wolves/werewolves. You search and every snarly face is in their prime for the most part. Few pup pictures, and fewer still the oldies. I'd imagine being an old werewolf is a tough buisness, and I always liked to mash things together- and do " wonder why?" ... and perhaps the ideas of the 'wolf-man' really were just old werewolves where both magic and body were starting to fail out? So the werewolf 'fades' a bit.
Combining features of a old person, balding, liverspots, wrinkles, loose skin, large knuckles from a hard working life, worn and missing teeth... challenge. Not done on this yet, and the bird is just a stand in for placementissues.... I want to make it a magpie or a raven ( yeah I'm a corvid fan BIG TIME). Could use some help on this one a lot... o.o...
But he's grown on me... reminds me like a mix between my own father and my uncle.. .though neither of them are this old... XD