Keep on keepin' on
It has been a busy year. I am enjoying almost everything I have been up to and it doesn't seem to be letting up. Or I won't let it up.
Today I am home because I do not have to help my Mom and Stepfather deliver their sunflower shipments all up and down the Puget Sound. This is a VERY good thing...for me at least. They need the money badly so the fact that there is a lul in the flower harvesting is not good for them. However, spending my day off driving for over 20 hours is not something I am missing.
I will be puttering about the house tidying and preparing food for our game night tomorrow. We keep saying we are going to do it and have finally made a plan. I am attempting to not get all worked up and stressed out about it because it is supposed to be casual. I am happy to have the house all to myself today and I will work at my lesiurely pace. I made a good ol'fashioned 'Irish' stew last night. I think this one is only Irish because I am Irish and I made it. Authentic would have involved lamb and I just wanted beef. I am thinking I will put it in some little puff pastries and call it an appitizer for the appitizer pot luck that game night this time has become. I may also make some of my oatmeal cookies that I created the other day when I was so very sad about the only professional photo lab in Seattle being shut down. Seriously, it devistated me. I am still grieving. Anyway...they were rockin' good and a creation all my own. The owner of the business we share office space with thanked me several times over and his wife is a caterer!
We are doing the pumpkin patch thing on Sunday. It will be sad not doing it with my Dad. It will also be sad doing it for what will be the last time with my kid. She will most likely be away for at least the next 4 years and won't get home to partake. Also, I seriously hope the old guy who has the farm we go to is still alive and still farming his pumpkins. Last year we had our doubts.
Monday I need to sew up / finish up the chimese for the kids Ophelia costume. I know I said I would never do another costume for her but she had accuired a dress from a friend for Ren-fair and asked me to do the undergarment last summer. Ren-fair was canceled so I didn't have to do it then. When she said she was going to the Ball as Ophelia and would need the garment after all...I said I would.
Other than that, I am working out some tennative ideas for Muppet and my wedding next year. It looks so far to be a small affair on the beach and then an Irish pub. We aren't going to Ireland after all. I decided it would piss my mom off too much and we cannot afford it anyway. *sigh* someday I will go. Someday I will see Maine too.
The kid is applying to Yale! I admire her spirit and determination. Most folks I have told feel similarly. However, the other day I unintentially let it slip to one of my friends and she laughed in my face for a full minute and then finally noticed my unammused expression and said "She knows there is no way she will make it in, doesn't she?". This is a particularly insensitive friend so I wasn't completely shocked but I was somewhat hurt. I shrugged my shoulders and said "She knows it is a long shot (because a teacher told her so) but it is worth a try". The only reason the teacher said it was a long shot is because their school does not give grades. The teacher also said she would have to get her SAT scores up. We immediately put her in tutoring and she feels she did well on the first round. She is back in tutoring for the 'Subjects test' which she will take at the beginning of next month and are required by Yale. A long shot is still a shot and more power to her for taking it! Where would we be as a society if people didn't shoot for things they weren't sure about?
Speaking of long shots... The photo business is still kind of on hold. I did donate a print for the benefit Moth put on for the Children of Haiti. My family wanted to keep it and Moth wanted to win it. I chose one I felt would appeal to a wider variety of people yet still reflect some of my style. It was not my favorite but it did turn out nicely. Since it was a raffle not an auction the woman who won it had little to no idea what she had. A friend of Moths who had invited this woman to the event has since accuired the print. She asked the woman who won it to tell her three things that made it a great photo. All the woman could come up with was that she won it. Moth's friend said she didn't appreciate it and did not deserve it. Moth's friend took the print from her. A side note: The woman who originally won the print did not obtain the winning ticket honorably. In other words...she didn't pay for it. I feel good the print went to someone who appreciates it, paid for many tickets and helped Moth out a great deal during the entire event.
The kid is driving a lot now and I am feeling more confident about her ability to do so. I also enjoy not being the cheaufer.
This is way too long but I have to jet so will not be putting it behind a cut. My appologies to those of you this bothers, but I don't post very often so just deal.
Today I am home because I do not have to help my Mom and Stepfather deliver their sunflower shipments all up and down the Puget Sound. This is a VERY good thing...for me at least. They need the money badly so the fact that there is a lul in the flower harvesting is not good for them. However, spending my day off driving for over 20 hours is not something I am missing.
I will be puttering about the house tidying and preparing food for our game night tomorrow. We keep saying we are going to do it and have finally made a plan. I am attempting to not get all worked up and stressed out about it because it is supposed to be casual. I am happy to have the house all to myself today and I will work at my lesiurely pace. I made a good ol'fashioned 'Irish' stew last night. I think this one is only Irish because I am Irish and I made it. Authentic would have involved lamb and I just wanted beef. I am thinking I will put it in some little puff pastries and call it an appitizer for the appitizer pot luck that game night this time has become. I may also make some of my oatmeal cookies that I created the other day when I was so very sad about the only professional photo lab in Seattle being shut down. Seriously, it devistated me. I am still grieving. Anyway...they were rockin' good and a creation all my own. The owner of the business we share office space with thanked me several times over and his wife is a caterer!
We are doing the pumpkin patch thing on Sunday. It will be sad not doing it with my Dad. It will also be sad doing it for what will be the last time with my kid. She will most likely be away for at least the next 4 years and won't get home to partake. Also, I seriously hope the old guy who has the farm we go to is still alive and still farming his pumpkins. Last year we had our doubts.
Monday I need to sew up / finish up the chimese for the kids Ophelia costume. I know I said I would never do another costume for her but she had accuired a dress from a friend for Ren-fair and asked me to do the undergarment last summer. Ren-fair was canceled so I didn't have to do it then. When she said she was going to the Ball as Ophelia and would need the garment after all...I said I would.
Other than that, I am working out some tennative ideas for Muppet and my wedding next year. It looks so far to be a small affair on the beach and then an Irish pub. We aren't going to Ireland after all. I decided it would piss my mom off too much and we cannot afford it anyway. *sigh* someday I will go. Someday I will see Maine too.
The kid is applying to Yale! I admire her spirit and determination. Most folks I have told feel similarly. However, the other day I unintentially let it slip to one of my friends and she laughed in my face for a full minute and then finally noticed my unammused expression and said "She knows there is no way she will make it in, doesn't she?". This is a particularly insensitive friend so I wasn't completely shocked but I was somewhat hurt. I shrugged my shoulders and said "She knows it is a long shot (because a teacher told her so) but it is worth a try". The only reason the teacher said it was a long shot is because their school does not give grades. The teacher also said she would have to get her SAT scores up. We immediately put her in tutoring and she feels she did well on the first round. She is back in tutoring for the 'Subjects test' which she will take at the beginning of next month and are required by Yale. A long shot is still a shot and more power to her for taking it! Where would we be as a society if people didn't shoot for things they weren't sure about?
Speaking of long shots... The photo business is still kind of on hold. I did donate a print for the benefit Moth put on for the Children of Haiti. My family wanted to keep it and Moth wanted to win it. I chose one I felt would appeal to a wider variety of people yet still reflect some of my style. It was not my favorite but it did turn out nicely. Since it was a raffle not an auction the woman who won it had little to no idea what she had. A friend of Moths who had invited this woman to the event has since accuired the print. She asked the woman who won it to tell her three things that made it a great photo. All the woman could come up with was that she won it. Moth's friend said she didn't appreciate it and did not deserve it. Moth's friend took the print from her. A side note: The woman who originally won the print did not obtain the winning ticket honorably. In other words...she didn't pay for it. I feel good the print went to someone who appreciates it, paid for many tickets and helped Moth out a great deal during the entire event.
The kid is driving a lot now and I am feeling more confident about her ability to do so. I also enjoy not being the cheaufer.
This is way too long but I have to jet so will not be putting it behind a cut. My appologies to those of you this bothers, but I don't post very often so just deal.