long time no see!
I realized it's been a while since I've updated- part of this is that I've been spending a lot of time on AIM.
But here's what I've been doing, from most recent to least!
1. dinner
2. caulking, sanding, and painting (hooray home improvement!)
3. nap, doctor's office (I got the HPV vaccine!), nap
4. Visit with chaosblue
^_^ I had a lot of fun- I knit, attended a birthday party with eleventeen small children, played with her dog, brought her a buttload of books to borrow, helped cut a large garter snake free of bird netting, successfully impersonated Lilah, stayed up late giggling, went sheet shopping, was introduced to bash.org, and heard some funny stories.
Chlamydia is not a flower.
Gonorrhea is not a latin dance.
And something about bats flying out of lyria's vagina. (BY THE WAY, I AM ASKING YOU ABOUT THAT. Bats?)
Tiferet is a pain in the neck when you're trying to fall asleep, and Kyokukou wants a pedicure. Chester learned to pick his nose. He learned that you cannot pick your nose with a spoon.
5. On the way to see chaosblue, I took the historic highway through the Gorge instead of the interstate, where possible, for touristy reasons. It was beautiful and I loved it, despite (or perhaps because of) the situational humor of standing in the rain, looking at waterfalls, when I had to PEE.
6. Did not much of anything for a while!
7. Lilly had surgery to remove a growth from her head. It is cancerous, but we are not giving her chemo. She's cranky ALREADY. The thought of how bitchy she'd be if she were sick from chemo does not bear thinking about.
8. My aunt Irinka and uncle Charlie came to visit... pretty much just overnight in Irinka's case, Charlie stayed for two days.
9. My grandparents, aunt Leslie, and I went and they got a puppy. He's a maltese/silky terrier cross, named Bert, after my grandfather's father. He's ADORABLE- he looks like a plushie. He's also got ALL the angles figured out. X3
10. Went to CANADA. I saw the Titanic exhibit at Victoria's Royal British Columbia Museum. It's quite... amazing, really. They had character actors as several of the notable people on the ship, and they were REALLY good.
We (my aunt Leslie, my mom, and I) took the ferry over from Anacortes. We visited with some family friends in Anacortes (this was the trip of the deer- I saw at least two deer a day THE ENTIRE TRIP. One of them was bounding down a residential street in Anacortes). My aunt kept chirping about wanting to see an orca. There were no orca, but there WERE a small army of furry things (otters? muskrats? I didn't get a good look, but there were about two dozen of them running from breakers to bushes in a CONSTANT STREAM- it was funny) rising from the sea, a chatty young dragon, and a porpoise.
In Victoria we had high tea at the Queen Anne hotel (I wore black and yellow and was painfully cute. My hat had ribbons), then the museum, and then driving around. We went to the butterfly garden, which is FANTASTIC. The garden is THICK with butterflies, and there are canaries and flamingos and button quail living in there too. The flamingos share their pond with BUTTERFLY koi. This charmed me.
We had to drive up the island to catch a ferry to Vancouver, because the Anacortes-Victoria ferry only ran once a day. It was a long drive, and I saw that day's two deer. The ferry ride was gorgeous, and the ferry was very posh. The drive through Vancouver? Hairy. O.O;;; There are kamikaze motorcyclists there. We got back to the hotel in Whidbey LAAAATE.
The next day we went to Seattle to the sculpture park and a french bakery, then drove home.
11. Picked up my aunt Leslie at the airport in Spokane. I saw the first of what were to be MANY deer, and a turkey, on the way there and the way from Spokane to Seattle, which, by the way, is an incredibly boring drive until you hit Ellensburg. It is also lacking in pee stops.
12. Volunteered to set up July's Art Walk in downtown Kennewick, and pretty much stayed there all day running things around, until 4:30, when I was making clay things and entertaining children as a sidewalk artist. It was 106F, and I had a very good time. I came home covered in clay, mostly on purpose- I'd forgotten to put sunblock on my feet and legs, and the clay worked perfectly.
13. Drove to the Yakima Target with my mother and Tristan, to get a chaise lounge cushion to match the chair cushions she'd gotten at our Target (our Target was out of chaise lounge cushions). Continued to Ellensburg to pay my rent. Tristan liberally colored himself in pink and yellow highlighter.
14. Made a small water garden out of a large pot. It looks very nice now- everything has grown in. There are guppies in it.
15. Got out of school for the summer, and moved out of my apartment. OH MY GOD, cleaning was terrible. Sabrina owns my soul in exchange for dealing with Under The Sink.
On Sunday my family is leaving to go to Yellowstone. I have plenty of knitting to take with me, and two or three books.
On August 4 we're having a barbecue! It's to wish my brother "don't die in Air Force basic training." ♥
On August 7 Jason leaves for Air Force basic training.
But here's what I've been doing, from most recent to least!
1. dinner
2. caulking, sanding, and painting (hooray home improvement!)
3. nap, doctor's office (I got the HPV vaccine!), nap
4. Visit with chaosblue
^_^ I had a lot of fun- I knit, attended a birthday party with eleventeen small children, played with her dog, brought her a buttload of books to borrow, helped cut a large garter snake free of bird netting, successfully impersonated Lilah, stayed up late giggling, went sheet shopping, was introduced to bash.org, and heard some funny stories.
Chlamydia is not a flower.
Gonorrhea is not a latin dance.
And something about bats flying out of lyria's vagina. (BY THE WAY, I AM ASKING YOU ABOUT THAT. Bats?)
Tiferet is a pain in the neck when you're trying to fall asleep, and Kyokukou wants a pedicure. Chester learned to pick his nose. He learned that you cannot pick your nose with a spoon.
5. On the way to see chaosblue, I took the historic highway through the Gorge instead of the interstate, where possible, for touristy reasons. It was beautiful and I loved it, despite (or perhaps because of) the situational humor of standing in the rain, looking at waterfalls, when I had to PEE.
6. Did not much of anything for a while!
7. Lilly had surgery to remove a growth from her head. It is cancerous, but we are not giving her chemo. She's cranky ALREADY. The thought of how bitchy she'd be if she were sick from chemo does not bear thinking about.
8. My aunt Irinka and uncle Charlie came to visit... pretty much just overnight in Irinka's case, Charlie stayed for two days.
9. My grandparents, aunt Leslie, and I went and they got a puppy. He's a maltese/silky terrier cross, named Bert, after my grandfather's father. He's ADORABLE- he looks like a plushie. He's also got ALL the angles figured out. X3
10. Went to CANADA. I saw the Titanic exhibit at Victoria's Royal British Columbia Museum. It's quite... amazing, really. They had character actors as several of the notable people on the ship, and they were REALLY good.
We (my aunt Leslie, my mom, and I) took the ferry over from Anacortes. We visited with some family friends in Anacortes (this was the trip of the deer- I saw at least two deer a day THE ENTIRE TRIP. One of them was bounding down a residential street in Anacortes). My aunt kept chirping about wanting to see an orca. There were no orca, but there WERE a small army of furry things (otters? muskrats? I didn't get a good look, but there were about two dozen of them running from breakers to bushes in a CONSTANT STREAM- it was funny) rising from the sea, a chatty young dragon, and a porpoise.
In Victoria we had high tea at the Queen Anne hotel (I wore black and yellow and was painfully cute. My hat had ribbons), then the museum, and then driving around. We went to the butterfly garden, which is FANTASTIC. The garden is THICK with butterflies, and there are canaries and flamingos and button quail living in there too. The flamingos share their pond with BUTTERFLY koi. This charmed me.
We had to drive up the island to catch a ferry to Vancouver, because the Anacortes-Victoria ferry only ran once a day. It was a long drive, and I saw that day's two deer. The ferry ride was gorgeous, and the ferry was very posh. The drive through Vancouver? Hairy. O.O;;; There are kamikaze motorcyclists there. We got back to the hotel in Whidbey LAAAATE.
The next day we went to Seattle to the sculpture park and a french bakery, then drove home.
11. Picked up my aunt Leslie at the airport in Spokane. I saw the first of what were to be MANY deer, and a turkey, on the way there and the way from Spokane to Seattle, which, by the way, is an incredibly boring drive until you hit Ellensburg. It is also lacking in pee stops.
12. Volunteered to set up July's Art Walk in downtown Kennewick, and pretty much stayed there all day running things around, until 4:30, when I was making clay things and entertaining children as a sidewalk artist. It was 106F, and I had a very good time. I came home covered in clay, mostly on purpose- I'd forgotten to put sunblock on my feet and legs, and the clay worked perfectly.
13. Drove to the Yakima Target with my mother and Tristan, to get a chaise lounge cushion to match the chair cushions she'd gotten at our Target (our Target was out of chaise lounge cushions). Continued to Ellensburg to pay my rent. Tristan liberally colored himself in pink and yellow highlighter.
14. Made a small water garden out of a large pot. It looks very nice now- everything has grown in. There are guppies in it.
15. Got out of school for the summer, and moved out of my apartment. OH MY GOD, cleaning was terrible. Sabrina owns my soul in exchange for dealing with Under The Sink.
On Sunday my family is leaving to go to Yellowstone. I have plenty of knitting to take with me, and two or three books.
On August 4 we're having a barbecue! It's to wish my brother "don't die in Air Force basic training." ♥
On August 7 Jason leaves for Air Force basic training.