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Friday, July 10th, 2009
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9:37 am - I'm behind on my photos...
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| Thursday, July 9th, 2009
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9:05 pm - *chuckle*
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I loved Crowded House and Split Enz when I was a teenager... so when I stumbled on the literal version of World Where You Live on Youtube, I laughed hysterically. The video's still good, too...
Spin, Neil, Spin!!
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6:19 am - What's a good way to spend an early morning?...
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I could,
A: Wash my dishes, or
B: Watch a bunch of "Rabbit Bites" episodes with Chou-Chou and Buns on Youtube...
Heh. The dishes can molder a while longer:) Bunnies!
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| Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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3:12 pm - Interesting fun stuff...
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I'm having some fun upstairs today at the Mines. We have a load of Japanese tourists, who are very sweet and have no English at all. I've been ransacking my head for my crappy vacation-Japanese...words like, 'Excuse me" "I'm sorry" "Yes" "No" "Please" Thank you" to communicate, along with a wide variety of hand gestures and facial expressions. I have to admit, it's kind of fun, and it makes me want to brush up on my languages in general...
Also, yesterday was more fun that I'd anticipated. Matt and Peaty came to the Patio with really tasty Hmong food, and we all had nibbles and caught up. Captain Emily came by and custom-drew a rabbit-monster for me, reacting to a Yodeling Nipple-Frog on the other half of the drawing. (I will take a picture, I promise. It's worth seeing.) I carded a small bag of the Shetland wool I'd been washing, too. (It was *really* full of hay. I think next time I get an urge to go from sheep to mittens all by myself I should get cleaner wool to start with.)
Now when I get home, I get to do some work on a pinata for the weekend. It's for Liz's Bastille Day party, so I'm making the severed head of a snooty French aristocrat. If I get the forms laid out today, assembly should be fairly quick and really fun. Mehehheh. *rubs hands and cackles gleefully*
So, the usual...plotting mischief and getting up to my elbows in paste and glitter-glue:)
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| Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
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6:07 am - Life is good...
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Even though it's early, it's a good morning. I have a peach. And Shamu the Bunneh has been happy-dancing around the living room. It's such a relief to see him happy again.
*pet pet pet pet pet*
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| Monday, July 6th, 2009
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8:57 am - A short list of good things...
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...People are in a goodish mood at workies.
...It's peach season at last, and since I need to go shopping tonight, that means I will tote home as many as I can carry...
...I have some Shetland wool I bought from a friend of Peaty's. It's from her sheep, and it's a lovely brown-black. When I bought it, it was still pretty raw, full of straw and veeeeeery sheepy-smelling. After lots of washing, it's finally ready for me to card. And I'm such a fiber-geek that I'm happy about this.
...I have more yarn to photograph when I get home. I've got some that's gothy, and some that's very, very VERY pink, with some other colors. I'm calling that one, "Rock N'Roll Clown"...
...I have one (1) last dose of medicine for Shamu the Bunneh. And last night we both sat on the floor cushions, with me petting and him just snuggling up. It's nice he feels better enough to do that again, and that he doesn't hate me for shoving nasty oral syringes in his mouth...
...And it looks like rain.. I'm hoping for it, a little.:)
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| Sunday, July 5th, 2009
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10:07 am - Paying the piper...
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Fourth of July was a really big bash on the Island...bigger than in previous years. We had a big raucous party in the fire pit, the Patio was in full swing. I'm still pretty full from last night:)
Now I'm at the workies, paying the price for all that fun. I expect it to be veeeeeery quiet today...
And oh yeah--I'm officially union steward again. *siiiiiiigh* Ah well...
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| Friday, July 3rd, 2009
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11:55 am - So far so good...
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Shamu's healing up nicely from his visit to the vet. The doctors tell me he was really good about the whole thing, and there were no complications. He's still a little groggy, and he's spending most of his time resting, which is good. I've been petting him gently and checking him obsessively to make sure he's comfortable...
The fun part for me is later this evening. I have little oral syringes of bunny-vicodin to give him, once a day. It takes two people--one to hold Shamu and one to get the dropper off to the side of his teeth. But now that we know what we're doing, I don't see much of a problem there...
Otherwise, things are okay. I slept a lot yesterday, and there was social stuff. Most of the neighbors came to pet Shamu too, which was nice. I've been spinning yarn in the backyard, and it looks like the Jehovah's Witness people are out in force today. I'm usually pretty polite about that kind of thing, since it's usually some scared teenager knocking on my door and wibbling when they see my Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo t-shirt. But it does annoy me; in the politeness meter of my soul. (My inner Miss Manners comes out, saying, "Such rudeness! Trying to frighten complete strangers into accepting your worldview is Not Nice!") I have to fight terrible impulses to have some fun, really...but I manage to stuff those impulses down deep, unless they get in my face right away, telling me I'm hellbound and whatnot...
Ah, but Ben the Neighbor...if they try to wake him early enough, he'll have those impulses ready to go, front and center. I'll have to check with him later, to see if he has a story to tell me...
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| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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7:34 am - Hmmm...
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Today is already cut out to be weird. There are some very good spots, but for the most part: Weird. I will coast with it as much as I can...
At least the Bunneh is a good distraction. He's hopping around my feet, trying to get me to get the grooming brush. Such a pettable little fella, I tellya!
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| Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
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7:23 pm - Workity and whatnot...
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This week is kind of hard...I'm losing Sideburns Mike at work. He got a gig doing illustrative work, and asked to go to part time. My job couldn't swing it, so he handed in his notice. Tomorrow's his last day, so we're taking him out for dinner after work and buying him huge exotic bubble teas with booze and whatever else we can make him eat or drink...
He's promised to hang out with me and the Gaily-Waily, even though he's leaving us at the Jade Mines. That'll be good--I still get to hang onto Sideburns Mike as a pal. But the Mines will be a sadder place without him doing that funky dance where he waggles his arms back and forth...
It also puts a shadow over my work life--Mike is/was one of the Union Stewards. If nobody else steps up, I offered to take it again, as Gail's wing-woman. Hoooooboy...On the bad side, I'm really not that excited about being union steward again. On the good side, I have a lot more practice now, and I'd have another steward I could work really well with, instead of having to active argue with. Well, we'll argue, but you know...it'll be funny arguing:)...
So there you are. And meanwhile, I'm full of pasta and watching Shamu romp around the living room. On Thursday morning he has his operation scheduled...he's being neutered. Poor little guy. At least the vets that are doing it have lots of bunny-experience, and they're grooming him and clipping his toenails for free. But as a Bunny-Mommy, I'll be fretful the entire day until I get him back...
*pats cute unsuspecting little creature...*
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| Monday, June 29th, 2009
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7:01 am - Bunneh is popular...
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Last night I'd finished munching my very-oniony pizza when the doorbell rang unexpectedly. Surprise! Scentedwoods and her lovely daughter stopped by to see if I was home, and if they could have a little fuzz therapy after a long bike ride. Well, of course they could...
I picked up Shamu, who promptly hid under my chin, and he was a big hit, what with the fluffy and the cuteness and such. Then I let him romp for a bit when I showed them the chicken coops and the baby chicks and ducks. It was really nice, even though I felt a little self-conscious about my massive onion-pizza breath:) Eh, it's life, what can you do?...
Now back to the workity. And to see what amazing drama I've missed in the meantime. Sigh...
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| Sunday, June 28th, 2009
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5:41 pm - I am overcome with the lazies...
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It's been a really good day. It's cool out, and I've spent most of it on the patio in back, spinning yarn and hanging out. Yesterday I went to Pride, which was great fun, but tonight I feel the lazies creeeeeeeping up on me. I think I'll order a pizza and see what kind of brain-smushing movie I'd like to watch. Mmmm, brain-smush...
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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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6:07 am - A short list of unrelated things...
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I am entranced by the sheer lunacy of the Bonnie Tyler Literal Version of "Total Eclispe of the Heart." Wowwww, I remember the eighties being weird, but how many drugs do you have to ingest for THAT to make any sense? Yikes....
An old flame of mine looked me up on Myspace yesterday. At first I was fairly weirded out, but we got a chance to talk a little and everything's cool...
It's cooler out. The Bunneh is very very happy about this.
I coulda used more sleep.
The river is dark, and thunder is growling in the sky.
I am reading a very stupid Witch-as-superhero-romance-novel Gaily-Waily gave me...I *will* get even with her for this...arrrgh arrgh arrgh!
So there you are...
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| Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
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3:11 pm - Hotness and the Pokity...
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I am not enjoying our hotness right now. Heh. I misspelled this "Hotmess" the first time. I think that's more accurate, really...
Meanwhile, in the War of the Pokity, I just finished taping little strips of paper with "Pokity" written all over them all over Captain Emily's locker. In cursive, print, French, And with illustrations. On the locker shelves, on her clothes, in her shoes. Mess with MY locker, will she? She'll be finding these all over the place for ages! (Mostly because her locker, I gotta tellya, it's got sedimentary layers. It's like archaeology, looking in there...)
So there you are, updated with extra Pokity...
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| Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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7:39 pm - I'm a terrible person...
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You know why? Because in all the hot, hot weather I'm putting up more pictures of yarn I made:
It's too hot to actually make anything with it, though...bleh.
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8:37 am - The War of the Pokity...
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Captain Emily and I got into a big Poke-fight over the weekend. It was in the driveway, and while she was faster I had better grip-strength. It ended in a tie...or did it?
On Facebook, Emily went "Pokity!" at me. Cheeky wench. So I called her up when she was at work, announced, "Pokity!" and slammed the phone down, giggling. Soooooo, she came back later to the Link where I was working with a memo for me...
"It has come to my attention pokity that you are in the middle of some pokity poke poke poke pokety. Moving on, pokity pokity poke poke poke poke pokity pokity pokity pokity..." Under this, was a piece of paper with "POKITY!" in the largest font she could find, over and over and over...
But was this over? Ummmmmm...no.
I went to my locker. Taped to the door was another sheet of Pokity. There was another taped to the inside of my locker. And on the side. And stuffed in my bag. In large and small fonts, completely covering the paper...So. Much. Pokity...
Last time I had something like this going on, I won with a pizza with the words, "Tag!" written on the top of the box... I have a cunning plan, that does not involve pizza. But I can't tell you yet, since she reads this journal sometimes...
Also, Gaily-Waily got into a fight with some ladies in long, flowing Victorian dresses this weekend...but that's another story...
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| Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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7:57 am - Mmmm...
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I had some help and put the A/Cup in my apartment, to the benefit of me and the Littlest Orca...
Summer got here quickly, didn't it? Happy Solstice, people!
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| Friday, June 19th, 2009
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8:14 am - Ya wanna see what we get up to on the patio? Of course you do...
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There are many inherent risks of Patio life on my humble, pretty Island. Overindulgence in meaty things, cheesy things and delightful little nibbles is common. The occasional poke-fight breaks out. There are hot grills. There are large tongs. There is wildlife...
And if you're not careful, you can break out into a terrible case of HeadPigeons. Look at these poor, suffering souls...and be grateful that you're not here yourself, or you, too may end up with a horrible, horrible case of HeadPigeons...
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| Thursday, June 18th, 2009
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2:53 pm - Dreaming and wakefulness...
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I bolted out of bed this morning all freaked out because I had slept late.
I shoved myself into the shower, muttering anxiously to myself, and then when I got out I checked the clock again. I didn't wake up late--I woke up fifteen minutes early. I must have had an anxiety dream about oversleeping so badly that it woke me up early. *shakes fog out of ears.* Usually clocks, light switches and cellphones don't work in my dreams, so how did I read the time the way I did? Strange stuff...
I'm finally more awake, but it took a while--it doesn't help that I'm in the Hunt exhibition, surrounded by lush, beautiful colors. It's like I'm dreaming again...except it's a dream where people try to touch things and my feet hurt. At least it's my Friday, and not much more to go...
And then I can sleep in, and dream things that aren't related to the clock-radio:)
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| Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
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8:00 pm - A little fun with green fluffy stuff...
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I'm really happy with how this yarn turned out--it was a bit fiddly, and many was the time it snarled and I swore terribly...but it's definitely worth it, I think.
Erin named the stuff, "Frogger" and it stuck. It really does have a kind of Eighties sort of coloring to it--all neon and bright greens and pinks and blues...
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