She is a beautiful creature, gracious and full of light. I can’t believe it’s been ten years since I got the call that she came…I was in Indiana and drove home the over the next two days to meet her. Tiny and pink and big round eyes and yummy delicious cheeks…I’d never seen such a beautiful newborn. Perfection. She’s a blessing to all of us who get to have her and she’s growing up too fast. We only have about 8 more years….that’s crazy.

I love you, Noodle. Happy Happy Happy Day!!

First night was ok at first. KikiMama found a nice soft pile of clean clothes to curl up in, Stormy had camped out under my Gert Chair and was playing a mean game of string and Sambo was, as par for course, trying to sleep inside my face, trying to get as close to me as possible and pur us into dreamland. . . nice huh?

Yeah.

Till about 3:30 in the morning when Sammy decided to explore every bit of the house and meow loudly at every discovery. In the bed. Out of the bed. In the chest of drawers. In the closet. In my shelves. Good LORD!! NEVER SHUTTING UP. I finally gave up and got out of bed about six fifteen. ugh. But I’ve been awake for about four days, it feels like.

The boys are fine. Both have eaten, litter boxed, ran around the house playing. They want outside in a desperate way. I have sliding glass doors that lead to my back yard and it’s KILLING them to sit and watch. But everything I’ve heard/read says No Bueno on outside recess untill they have been here a few days. Anyone else got any ideas or info on that for me?

KikiMama…well she’s pissed and unhappy to be in a small house with the two boys. Sigh. Family dynamics…

I’ve got a decent day today, with a break in the middle where I will go to the grocery and then come home to check on the kids. We’re having potluck at work tomorrow and since all my kitchen pals are unpacked, Halakaleem!!

Have a great day! Halakaleem and Happy Thursday

Twas a crazy weather day here in the Bible Belt. Rained all damned day long, then aww shucks, since that wasn’t enought let’s do a hundred mile an hour winds and throw in a freakin tornado or two! We had to evacuate the salon, clients with hair in process included and go downstairs to the underground garage…that’s OPEN ON ONE SIDE!! We saw a nice big transformer go KABOOM!!! Fireworks cool. I called/texted/got in touch with everyone and made sure they were safe. Some were even napping for the love of Petey Fisk.

After it was over, my last two clients called and said “uhhhhh no no and hell no” and hopefully rescheduled. I was going to leave but another girl was running behind due to the interruptions so I took her client who was waiting. Turns out, was my dentist from the hometown! Ha! Serendipity.

I went to the frontier to pick up my kids. They are all home. The cat gymboree is here, the scratchin’ post is here, food is set out, the litter boxes are out. We aren’t trying the cat door into the garage just yet. Will work our way into that. Right now the black men are hanging out working on some string and a wine cork and possibly an orange peeler. KikiMama is somewhere flipping me off. I could die in my sleep…and I’m pretty sure when I come home tomorrow…something will be wrong. I hope they get used to it. But for now, we’re all breathing in the same space.

Hey all…have a great night. Hope your Humpday was humpalicious and that tomorrow brings you one more day of bliss.

Kitchen is unpacked!!! There are a few pieces on the office floor that await their home on the shelves I’m buying for the garage. But we’ll find them a place to sublet until they get a home. WHEW. Damn Gina, that feels good. And I cannot tell you how I feel to see all of my cookware and kitchen things again. Yes, I probably do have more than the average gal, but it’s like office supplies for me. Eyes rolling. Mouth frothing. Somebody whip something!!!

and by the by, it’s raining so hard here we may need an ark. Just to let you have a heads up on that.

Rain rain rain rain here today. Have I told you guys that there is a little bunny that lives at my house? Yep. Lil brown cottontail. I think he lives in the monstrosity that is growing in my front yard, and when we cut it down we’ll have to find a new home for him but till then….very quaint. me in my lounging around clothes and a cup of coffee on the porch watching the rain and the bunny in the yard. Where the hell is Norman Rockwell when you need him, eh?

Dad came by last night and brought me a bigger tv! GOD, I love tv. bigger the better. Someday when I’m a real grownup I’m having a flat panel and surround sound. May blow my house up with it, but whatever. I’m very testosteron-y in that aspect. We went to dinner and celebrated Sies de Mayo and then I came home and unpacked some stuff. Worked on the kitchen a bit today…getting there.

Talked to Gert last night for a long time. Isn’t it amazing what a good chat will do for the soul? I feel better that she feels better about the whole house thing. Hers is amazing. I cannot wait for her to get her stuff in there and stamp it as her own. Joe is already moving into his new pad, ready-ing it for the lovely ladies! Anyway, I worked out the crazy voices that i mentioned I needed to write about. Feel tons better and back on the path. i was just in a place…and couldn’t seem to shake it off yesterday at work till I got a silly little text from Spence. Isn’t life good and the world a fantastic place that gives you what you need when you need it?

Mother’s Day is this weekend. . . All of mine are out of state for the day, so I’ll be sending and calling. Mom is coming for about a week at the end of the month so we’ll celebrate then. What are you kids doing for the fabulous women who birthed ya?

Happy Humping Day everyone. If you can’t hump the one you love…hump the one you’re with. . . or him:
or him:
or him:
or him:
or him:
or him:

and I’ll be having him:

Cheers!!

Is it really ten things tuesday and I’m really participating? Looks to be…list a list a lissssssssst…let’s just work on a to do list. Seriously

10. work on bedroom, unpacking and hanging clothes and moving bookshelf into office.
9. once bookshelf is in office, unpack more books.
8. buy sturdy garage shelves for bukly kitchen gadgets and set up in garage. unpack rest of kitchen.
7. organize and clean kitchen
6. guest room. all of the above. set mirror up on dresser and put futon together.
5. put weed and feed on front and back yard.
4. get the rest of my plants from the frontier this weekend.
3. get mind back in the ww game and go weigh in this week even though I KNOW I’ve gained.
2. figure out why my washing machine water temperature is jacked up and get that fixed.
1. bring my babies home!!!

There is a lot to do, but really I think I can knock a lot of it out tonight and tomorrow morning. Dad is coming into town tonight to bring me my tv and to go to dinner. The most major things this week are my bedroom and brining over my kitties. I dread that transition. I hate the thought of taking them away from the lush fabulous frontier and sticking them in a little house. I hate the thought of taking them away from their playmates. I miss them though. Am I getting worked up over nothing? we’ll see. Meanwhile, I’m off to the showers, Huzzuah and Happy Tuesday and I love George Clooney.

I think Monday’s are just doomed to be my not doing so much day. I had high hopes. . . . and got a few things done. Went to Biglots and spent my gift from B and Scottyringo…got me another gnome. Two gnomes as a matter of fact…they are either playing leapfrog or are of the homosexual variety of gnome, I’m not sure with. I love them. And I got some lights for my gazebo thingy, when we get that put up. I went to eat lunch with Smurf and he came over to see the casa. Laid on the couch and watched the last ep of Freaks and Geeks. I am SO SAD that that damned show was only one season. I think I need to buy it. It’s fabulous. I napped. I put in Superbad and half assed watched. I got up and went to the frame shop and took my Picasso that I’ve been lugging around and thumb tacking on every wall I’ve lived between since 1997…it’s going to actually cost out of my pocket about 123.00 but total cost was 223.00 GULP. Holy crap it’s expensive. And I went the cheap route, my first quote was over three hundred….bleagh. But I had a 100 dollar gift card that I spent on it so I don’t feel so bad. It’s beautiful and GOES perfectly with my house.

Then I cruised to the hometown and spent a bit visiting Hysteria Lane with Gert in her new abode. OH MY GOD!!! It’s bigger than the Blue Banana!! Gorgeous. You guys, she has an amazing house that she will transform into an even more amazing home for her and Noodle. I’m SO. PROUD. OF. HER. She has set her sight on this and marched straight on till morning, veering left and veering right, thru whatever obstical that tried to derail her and got what she wanted. I want for her to have some peace and to get settled. It’s done wonders for my mind. She moves on Saturday. Ahhhhhhhh. Life.

Stopped off at the Frontier to say hi and love on Bonusmom and my kids. I miss them terribly. May try to get them on Wednesday. I picked up some of my odds and ends and brought home some of my yard art and plants. Will go get the rest of them on the weekend…I miss it out there. I miss it to my bones. As much as I love it in my home, I miss it there. It’s hard.

Came home, hit the grocery for some laundry soap, did my inaugural loads of laundry. The washer is fucked up temp wise so will have to get that looked at. Seems to do everything on warm to hot, which will not do but at least I have some clean clothes. It was No Pantie Sunday as it always is, but it was almost No Pantie Monday and Tuesday!!!

what else is going on…I have some stuff that I need to write about but am choosing not to at this point because it’s a little confusing in my head, and I don’t want to hurt feelings and until I can get my head wrapped around what is bothering me it needs to stay where it is. I usually dont edit here. At all. It’s against all that this means, this space means to me. But this is different. I’ll figure it out eventually. No worries.

I had a really nice peaceful quite night. I unloaded some stuff, putzed around then decided to grill hamburgers and some asparagus. I did and sat out at my table and read while I had dinner. It was al fresco and quite civilized! ha!! had to do something to balance out all the bubba that the weekend brought me!

Dad comes tomorrow to give me his big ass tv!! I love that. I love tv and I’m very excited about the big one. Will let you know how that goes. Meanwhile, send out some good money vibes. Last week was sooooo slow, with so many no=shows and cancellations that I need to really kick ass this week for a decent paycheck. I’m not going out at all this week. Saving saving saving.

Here’s to another week. Huzzuah and Happy Monday, ya’ll. I love ya. And I love him…

Gert gets her house today!!! I am so so so excited and proud of her. Joe signs his lease today. I am amazed at his strength! Things are good. Life is good. Even with all the crazy that is spinning around me.

It was a full weekend, what with Burger Day on Saturday and working on the house on Sunday. I went over to Carolyns Garage and got two pieces for the guest room and a dining room table and chairs. It’s totally perfect for my house. I am constantly amazed and the stuff that I’ve collected over the years, and how it all actually “goes” together. I guess I do have a style. Huh. Who knew? I got a bunch of boxes unpacked yesterday and that is really feeling good. Today am tackling my bedroom and possibly the kitchen. Or not. Heh heh heh.

The answer to that question my friends…is yes. Yes you can. for about five minutes then it’s go time.

Went back to the hometown yesterday to celebrate the 20th Burger Day! It was awesome! Saw about a million people I went to school with. None that I’d “dated” however! It was crazy how we’ve all grown up yet look exactly the same…kind of. There were many moments that I’d be talking to someone then it would ding in my head who they actually were! Stony rocked out on the streets, the music was great. Maegen and I decided next year…off work for the WHOLE day!

I was talking to this guy, he graduated a year ahead of me, most of the night. . . and quite frankly thought it was going well. I wanted to leave and come back into the city to meet my friends, but thought I should expand and get out of the box a little…the thing is you guys…I’m not that girl anymore. I’m not the girl who just stand at the side waiting for attention. I’m not the girl who just follows someone around han ging on every word, thinking if I stay long enough we might make out. Ha!! I’m just not that girl….

having said that I don’t really know what kind of girl I am…but I like her a lot more every day.

I’d like to put something out there…because you know saying it out loud makes it real.

I’m quitting smoking.
Again.

After the great breakup of 07, I started back again. Then I weaned off to only when I’m having a beer or at the bar. I never smoke, hardly ever, during the week. Friday at 5pm until Sunday Funday is over is my time…but I’ve got the patches, last night I had a drag off of two and that was it. It’s hard. And it sucks. And whatever. So this week, there have only been about 3, and it was at the bar and the bar was getting tumultuous and the patch fell off…but it’s better. I’m better.

I’m not that girl anymore either.

Just forked over my first mortgage payment…

Am I grown up yet?

Nope. Just broke!

It’s MayDay ya’ll! Grab a maypole (dirty!) and go for a little skippety doo daa. April lasted so long I thought I’d missed a visit from Flo…April was a month. May is Gert’s month, she gets her house on Monday!!! So excited for her.

I have to say, I am missing the frontier. A lot. I miss Bonusmom…And missing my chirruns…Hopefully I can get the house in order soon and bring them over. Soon!!

Happy day folks! Happy happy day.