Well, it's 4am.
Obviously, we won't be getting out of here at 4am! Which is ok, I guess. Better that the driver get as much sleep as possible!! I have most of the house put back to semi-normal. I just have a little more to do in the kitchen, and then I'm giving up. If the landlord doesn't like it (IF he even sees it), he can clean it himself!
I THINK I have all my bases covered for while we are gone. I HOPE I am not forgetting anything. Of course, SOMETHING is bound to be forgotten... it always is.
If you are reading this and you know us and need to get in touch with us for any reason, we WILL be checking our voice mail at least every other day while we're out there.
I DO enjoy being AWAY from cell signal, tv, computer, etc, though.
Ahh, peace!
So much time, so little to do!
...strike that, reverse it!
We intend to leave EARLY in the morning and really only have until church time to get finished packing and loading!
Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go!
Added some Links.
I decided that it was silly of me to feel a wee bit slighted about my friends not linking to my blog, when I wasn't linking to ANYONE's blogs... so now I am! That doesn't mean I have any more RIGHT to feel slighted, though. Just means that I don't have to feel guilty that I'm not linking to my friends and acquaintances.
I will say, though, that there are a couple of them whose language is not G-rated. The Moms and the Others are all G-rated... I should probably put a notation on the R-rated ones... I'll think about doing that. Not tonight though.
My house is in chaos - we're working toward going camping for five or six days and the car & trailer are not yet packed, so everything is here in the house. Yikes!
Well.
Time is growing short! I have SO much to do before we leave for our camping trip... and so LITTLE motivation! Ugh!
I still have to pack clothes, and sleeping bags, and finish tidying up my bedroom, and ... I'm sure there's more little bits -n- pieces that I'm not thinking of, but I can't think.
I will be glad to get out there in the middle of nowhere, where it is peaceful!
Ok, yet another odd dream...
I woke up suddenly (and completely) at 3:00am today at the conclusion of this dream.
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The main character was an old woman named Alecia. She had trouble speaking clearly and was quite short and a bit overweight. Her main objective in life was to care for plants and animals.
The area in which she spent the most time was a clearing that contained an old barn, not excessively huge, probably 12 feet tall, and 9 feet wide.
As we were driving in a fifteen-passenger van (my mom was driving) on the road that curved around by the barn, the entire front of the barn fell off and lay there blocking the road. My mom could not drive over it, as it had nails (in pairs) sticking up at intervals all the way around the frame where it attached to the rest of the barn.
I got out of the van and, grabbing one side of the barn front, dragged it easily off to the other side of the clearing, near a big tree.
We continued to the meeting we were on our way to; which seemed to be a convention of Worth people, with Jax presiding. There were quite a few empty seats in the area where I was; there were only four others sitting near me - three in the same row (one on my left and two on my right) and one two rows up, to the left of us. Jax asked for some names to put on a list for something - I can't remember what. He looked over at us and spoke the names of the five of us in the area where I was sitting. He wrote down the name of the one two rows ahead, paused, and said, "Now, do I try to get EVERYONE in, or do I leave some out and take a chance on hurt feelings?" to which I answered, "You can leave me out" and one on each side of me agreed "Me, too." So he did.
When the meeting was over, I got a phone call from a caretaker that Alecia had told him that under the barn front that I had moved, she had found some dying baby (birds? I think?) that needed care.
I went to help Alecia. For the next two days, I helped her and was careful to listen carefully to her and learn and understand what she was saying. I was very glad I had, because on the 3rd day I went to help her and found her dead.
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That's when I woke up.
Ooops, I stand corrected ((blush))
I credited the game below to furitsu, but it was really
jaymeekay. I just got the game from furitsu's blog.
Sorry about that!
New online game!
Thanks to a couple of friends who linked this in THEIR blogs - I am now officially addicted to
The Kingdom of Loathing. Do check it out!
Grab A Book Game (courtesy of furitsu)
Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
The sentence: "You will find when you switch to square foot gardening that you can't stand to see a square empty, so you automatically replant as soon as the harvest is finished." (
Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew)
Weird dream again
I dreamed I (and my family and my inlaws) was at some sort of huge place with lots of people (this seems to be a recurring theme in my dreams... I wonder if that "means" anything?). There was a man there who was "interested" in me, by the name of John McRae (No, I do not know a "John McRae" in real life, nor was he at all familiar), who called me and I told him that I was married, sorry, and went on with life.
About two days later, my dh died a sudden death. I can't remember of what.
As I was wandering about in shock, John turned up again, at which point I told him what happened. He did NOT try to press an advantage, but just offered sympathy. He apparently had been widowed (widowered?) since I recall a child about 3yo being introduced to me; and I remember introducing him to my MIL.
All in all, a very very strange dream!!
Got wheels!
"My" van is now registered, tagged, and insured!!
New garden pictures!
At my web site :)
Garden Pictures
I will have to thin the carrots, don't you think? LOL!
You may have noticed...
...that I changed the look - it now matches
my web site :)
Visited with a friend today.
She's in her 80s, I think. She told my daughter and I about her daughter, who was burned severely at the age of 3 and only lived 7 days afterward. It was the first time I'd heard the story and it was so sad, but she was so sure that God had a purpose for it.
Weird Dream!
My dream semi-parallelled life - Robby & I both have an appt at 9am today and the dc are going to his parents' house.
I dreamed that I was getting ready to go to an appointment - but instead of living at home with my family, I was in a big room and had a roommate. My roommate was my sweet friend Faith (whom I've never met in person, but I love dearly!) and I was trying desperately to find something to wear that wasn't dirty. The things were not just "worn" dirty, but filthy dirty. She hovered for a bit, trying to help me find something but she wasn't any more successful than I was, so she finally gave up. Digging through one pile, I found a rust-colored wrap-around skirt that was very full, and it - with a little stretching - fit me, so I wore that, and then a white button-down shirt that looked very like a man's dress shirt, but the buttons were on the proper side to be a woman's.
I went down and got in the car with the kids. Bob & Tim got in the back seat and I was in the passenger seat. Robby got in the back next to the boys and Rachel got into the driver's seat with Nate on her lap! I turned and looked at Robby and said, "Why are you back there??" and he looked at Rae & Nate and shrugged.
I can't remember who drove, but when we got there, my keys were in the ignition. We dropped the dc off and I went to my appt and Robby went to his - in the car with my keys. Which didn't register until Mara (who was there when I finished my appt) and I walked back to the hotel (I assume it was a hotel). I went around behind the desk and started looking for my keys. Filip was there doing guard duty and someone else I know but can't remember who it was, was sweeping the floor. I started writing a note that I couldn't get in my room because Robby had my keys. The one who was sweeping came over (walking quietly - not sneaking but it had that effect) to see what I was writing and when I noticed him, I jumped, even though I wasn't writing anything bad or private.
Then I woke up.
Weirdness.
My web site has been updated.
Feel free to take a look :)
Last night's dream:
I dreamed that my friend Filip (who has no middle name) had three names - and Filip was his middle name and his first name was Joseph (or Josef, never did come to a conclusion in the dream how it was spelled) LOL
Today has been a busy day.
Got up (later than I wanted to, but earlier than I've BEEN). Got some laundry sorted and folded and put away in my room. I need to declutter clothes again! Will probably work on that some tomorrow. Then we spent the evening at our friends' house. All-in-all, it's been a pretty nice day.
We have a garden!!
I've wanted a garden for the last five years but didn't think we could have one because we rent. Turns out it was ok with the manager for us to have one (because that's less they'd have to mow!) so this year, we do!
See it here!
Added a Comments Feature.
At the bottom of each post, you will now see a place to comment on that post. I'll be delighted to see any comments! I think they will also show up on past posts, so I'll try to go back through the archives occasionally to see if there are any comments there.
Disregard this morning's post.
A very dear friend has informed me that I'm wrong
and to some degree I agree with him. Can't really deny the "fat" part - since in medical terms my 70 extra pounds label me "obese" - but since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I'll concede that one
As for the semi-invisible... what can one expect when one is a "peculiar" person? Life goes on and I have very dear friends who keep me straight, and I know I'm not invisible to THEM - or to God - and that's what matters.
Y'know what I hate?
I hate being fat and ugly. Either one would be bearable without the other. But the combination is pretty rough. Feeling semi-invisible (among people who I really shouldn't care if they notice me or not, I suppose) doesn't help either.
Sigh.
Sometimes I'm just an idiot.
This is probably the fatigue talking - only about 10 hrs of sleep in the last 48 hrs. I'm going to bed.
My kitchen is DONE!!
Check the bottom of
this page for final pictures :)
Also my mom and dad got here tonight. They're going to go to church with us tomorrow! Yay!!
And, last night and this morning, Rachel and I went to the
Ladies' Array at
Madison Baptist Church. It was nice to see ladies whom I consider friends (but whom I only see once a year, at the Array), such as Laura W, Mrs B, Freda G, etc.
Rachel made a friend last night and today they both had the same dress on (even though we had no idea they even OWNED the same dress!) - I had to get a picture!
Kitchen is progressing nicely!
With a little help from Bob & Rae, I got two coats of "Zap" (generic Kilz) on the kitchen walls. I think it's looking GREAT! You can see for yourself at the bottom of
this page.
Also, I got very nice comments about my most recent
artistic endeavor, which I think is the best I've done yet. I'm learning a lot from the people at
Worth1000.
I have been having some allergy flare-up today. I'm not sure if it's something biological/environmental (like flowers or something) or if it has something to do with the paint. I hope it's the former, as that will go away eventually!
I also cleaned out a bit of my corner last night. Only one small pile left to go through. I hope to get that done before Saturday (when my mom is coming to visit me!)
We spent several hours today at the home of our dear friends. It is always a blessing to spend time with them.
I thought my friend Michelle was supposed to be home today, but I haven't heard from her. I hope to hear from her tomorrow!
As of today
it has been four or five days since I have had a good chat with my dear friend Michelle. She's on vacation. I hope she's having a great trip, but I miss her!!
Today
I got up around 9:30 (early for me, lately!) and not too long after that the manager of our trailer park knocked on the door and told me that one of my dc had put mud all over the trailer next door :mad and I knew immediately who it was (Nate is my "mudder") and so Nate and I spent the next 15 minutes scrubbing red mud off tan trailer walls.
Then I had a customer come pick up her computer, which I carried out to the car for her.
Then later, Bob, Rae & I tilled up the garden area and I cleared some of the nastier stuff out of the iris. I still have a sapling to cut down that is growing from UNDER the trailer (not a good place for a tree!!) and some other weeds to get out of the iris.
Weird dream.
I dreamed we went to my grandpa's apartment (in real life, he lives in a house) and, as far as people knew, he had died - except he hadn't, he'd just pretended to. Somehow I found this out, and that he was actually still there, but he didn't want people to know. Inside every cubby-type area in his house was filled with spiderwebs and spiders. Even around his computer mouse, which I didn't realize until I brought my hand away from it.
Under his sink there lived a huge frog - that ate other frogs which was kind of weird. We fed it two frogs to keep it happy.
We arranged the windows so that grandpa could watch what was going on from his hiding place, so his secret would be kept.
It was weird.
Picture of my hair!
Sorry for the small-and-dark - I had Nate take the picture :D
