So…this morning at my wax appointment, I had a hip cramp, moved my legs to adjust, and almost sealed myself shut.

I am even sometimes amazed at my brilliance.

Unpacking is something that, quite frankly, I’m not in a huge hurry to do. I picked up the living room area, organized some bills, signed up to online pay the mortgage, brought in a table from the shed and placed more knick knacks around…made a sandwich, watched some t.v….that’s pretty much it folks! I figure, I’m not leaving anytime soon, so things will happen when they happen. I’ll put up a few bits at a time and eventually it’s going to shape up!

OH MY GOD…I’ve just had a seizure…watching Run Fatboy Run as I type. good lord. funny stuff.

So, I will take pics and get some stuff posted soon…for reals.

what else? It’s been crazy in the lives of the group. Crazy is putting it mildly frankly. Seems as if everyone around me is ass deep in the crazy pool…but there are good things happening as well. Finally working on getting settled in. Wax lady at 9 tomorrow…yeoooooooowww! Next Saturday is Burger Day in the hometown, so that’s exciting!Gert is closing in on her house…Joe on his new place…things are changing at a breakneck speed…but we’re all holding on and breathing in and out on a daily basis.

I’m boring tonight. Just kind of meshing into the couch, GOD IT’S AWESOME, and resting up. I’ll have good stuff soon. . . oh here’s something. Sunday night at the bar, celebrating the move and Sunday Funday there was a fella “interested” in me. We flirt, he flirts back, I laugh, (head back, bwa ha ha ha!) then I find out he’s moving to Cleveland this week (flop) and as I flirt my way into a nice to have met you and good bye, my heel of my shiney silver shoe caught on my barstool and Down down down down i went, taking Seige’s friends beer with me, spattering it everywhere, on me, on Explodin’Imbodin(Seiges bff), on Mandrea….FLOP. Splat. Look up….the guy is nowhere in sight. he’s bailed. and FAST.

I laughed so hard I may or may not have wet my pants. Good times.

Ahhhhhhh. Home Sweet Home.

Can you believe it’s happened? After all the long talks and posts and whining and fretting and planning and cleaning and painting and fretting and worrying and freaking out and holy fucking shit….

I’m in.

I want to tell you details. I want to post pictures. I want you all to see how hard MGirl, Mandrea, M’Lynn, Bonusmom, Seige and everyone has worked on this house.

But I just got cable hooked up, just got internet hooked up, mowed the front and back lawn, grocery shopped and am freakin tired. I have much to catch you up on….

i love you. I want to have all of you over for a cookout and cold beer. . . or fresca. That’s what I want.

So the cable guys are here. I am typing online in my “office” but stealing someone else’s internet as I don’t have all my wires here yet. Anyhoo…the guys about closed up shop thirty minutes ago and I said, ‘woah woah woah fellas! where ya going?’ They were working under a misconception that I only wanted one cable outlet in my house and that I wanted it in my DINING ROOM.

For the love of…

So they tell me yea we can do it but they will charge you twenty or so buck on your bill. Fine. Whatever. I want it the way I want it. So…then they say, we’ll just charge you ten bucks each (total of 30) and we won’t have to change the work order or anything blabadee blabadee bla.

halakleem! Vamanos! Vamanos! Let’s get this bitch wired!!!

I’m just happy as a clam in high tide, kids. just happy.

and in desperate need of a pedicure.

If you could see my feet, there would be no question as to why I’m single.

Furniture, that is! MGirl and I went on the hunt this evening after work…but first we dropped off at mi casa to check out the washer and dryer my dad dropped off. Seige was sweating his balls off busting up more concrete and working the drain issue. Good Seige. Anyways, the large appliances made me about as happy as a few small ones have in the past! Halakaleem!

So, off to do work hunting furniture. It’s green. Sage green. Microfiber of sorts…feels like one is laying on a cloud of Cool Whip. Sage green fluff. It’s a couch long enough for my legs, a love seat that fits MGirl, and a club chair and ottoman. I will forgo the lamps and tables to get the chair and ottoman. I guess I’ll go buy it tomorrow…

Tomorrow morning the cable/internet gets installed. Tomorrow night I think I’ll do some cleaning on the house. Thursday night cleaning and touch up painting/detail work on the paint. Friday is taken with previous plans. Saturday after work come to the frontier and tape up all the boxes in the barn, and start shoving all the shit from my room into my car. Empty drawers and shelves. Movers arrive Sunday at 2pm.

and by at least 7p.m. I shall be living in my house.

it’s been 8 months kids.

8 months since I left the house on Dublin in a fit of despair and defeat. I was shattered and unfocused and frazzled and really had no idea what the world held for me. I felt unloveable and ugly and fat and gross. I was disconnected, body, mind and spirit.

8 months.
and tomorrow I get cable. AND A GOSH DANGED DVR!!!!!

Ain’t that some shit?

guess who I love? yes. yes I do. him and only him. . . i’ve decided to not love anyone local anymore. No more crushes. No more flirty flirty. Either he doesn’t take it well, or I don’t do it well enough so I’m done with that. This, is the only man for me right now. This one right here.

the house is painted.

I would have told you yesterday but I went to bed at 8:30 p.m.

it’s gorgeous. With a lot of help from my friends, Lynn, Mandrea, MGirl, Gert, Joe, Jclaire and James we got that mutha painted!!! worked Saturday night and got the hall, and back two bedrooms done. Ceilings too. I got Hideaway pizza for us and lots of beers. Seige was there to run errands and general manwhore duties. (we need more beer! we need paper towels!) Saturday Lynn, MGirl, Jclaire and James and myself knocked out the rest of the rooms and ceilings. We were so tired!!! Around 7ish, we cleaned ourselves up and headed to Sunday Funday for an adult beverage. Monday, I slept it off and then finished up second coats on the my bedroom, the red wall, and the blue walls. (OH meanwhile during this whole time it’s hotter than ASS. my a/c froze up…Marco the Great came out and fixed everything yesterday) I got all the paper pulled up from the floors, trash carried out…it looks like a real grown up house!! I will post pictures later.

Dad is bringing my washer/dryer today. Seige is finishing up the drain work in the garage. (i got to jackhammer a little this weekend too! ps…it’s hard.)things are coming together. This week is trying to get stuff organized enough to move this weekend. I’m frazzled.

I haven’t been good at communicating with any of you!! I go from talk talk talk post post post myspace myspace myspace to flatline. flop. I’m here. Im thinking about all of you and wanting to see you more! I’ll be back…eventually.

The cable and internet is being hooked up tomorrow morning at the casa!!! Halakaleem!!!

until then, i love you. i love george clooney.

State legislators today voted to override Gov. Brad Henry’s veto of an anti-abortion bill.

House members voted 81-15 to override the governor’s veto less than an hour after senators voted 37-11 to do the same. In the House, 68 votes were needed to override the veto; 32 votes were needed in the Senate.

It was the first veto override of Henry since he took office in 2003.

Henry vetoed Senate Bill 1878 Wednesday. The bill would have required women to get an ultrasound of an unborn child before an abortion. The bill also was intended to protect health care providers’ rights not to participate in abortions and decisions whether to dispense a pill to end early pregnancies.

Big stuff going on here in our great state….mostly though my fabulous, OUR fabulous governer tried to get a bunch of fuckwits to back away from our pink parts and mind their own business. Apparently he was in the minority. I know there were a bunch of other things tagged onto this bill…but seriously folks. An ultrasound??? I have more rage than words.

I have always said, and will continue to say I don’t care what Pro team you are rooting for…you don’t get to play doctor with my body. Ever. Nunya. It’s mine. You go do what you want to with yours…this is mine. MINE!!

So way to go Gov. Veto that shit. Sorry bout the override. Sorry about that for sure.

meanwhile, back at the ranch….

WE HAVE PROGRESS!!!

there will be painting this weekend. There will be moving next weekend. Life!! LIFE!!! HALAKALEEM!!!!

I haven’t really processed the leaving of the frontier yet. I’m not going to do that for awhile. Just focus on tasks at hand.

Huzzuah and Happy Friday to you all. I’m beat down tired. Need to finish up some online work and get to the bed.

I have to say, I love a good road trip. I reallly do. I love a trip with people in the car (most people) and I truly love a trip by myself. This one was no exception. I had my bigass Sonic tea, my mound of cd’s that had who know what mixed on them. Some Broadway, some Jeff Tweedy (sigh. Chrome, remember that concert? “how’d ya like me now?) That, was bliss! Some Dolly Parton, some Scissor Sisters. Some Idia.Arie…But this trip was mostly filled with Trisha Yearwood.

Chrome can attest to the fact that it is entirely possible for me to listen to the same cd, same song even, for over four hours straight. Yup. True that.

So Ms. Yearwood and I sang our hearts out from here to Arkansas. We were awesome. The ride home was all Rent. Act 2. I LOVED IT! My imagination runs wild, I have crazily detailed scenarios play out in my head about certain someones. new york was a prominent theme in the fantasy world…that my friends, is bliss.

I tell you all of that to say this. Alternate Bliss’s are just that. The dictionary defines the word alternate as such:

1. to interchange repeatedly and regularly with one another in time or place; rotate (usually fol. by with): Day alternates with night.

To interchange. It’s not as if there’s not already a bliss in place. It’s there. Oh it’s there. I came home and rolled right up to my garage, and unloaded my car. MGirl came over, we sat on my porch in my M’Lynn gifted chairs sans cushions and talked through our weekends. I saw that while I had been away, Babs had come over and planted some beautiful flowers in the beds in front and back and covered them with mulch and just made a nice surprise for my homecoming. I got to the frontier and Bonusmom was here, the cats were here, my bed was here. I had communication from friends online…

That my friends….is bliss.

So I want to clarify that I am not mourning the lack of use my uterus has had. Or the fact that I have no shiny band on my left hand. I long for a partner, a witness to this life of mine, but I am complete and profoundly happy with life just as it is.

Alternates are just that. . . . Just a left, when possibly you turned right. A zig, when one could have zagged! It is what it is.

Home. Home on the range.

Where the cats and the cats and the cats plaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Halakaleem.

Trying to upload pics of Wonderbaby…it takes forever on my machine. I’ve tweaked the size of the pics, bla bla bla, still it takes forever. So…

I’m home. It was a grand visit. got good face time in with the fam. Got the paint for my house. . . . OH MY GOD ARE WE SO FREAKIN SICK OF THIS SUBJECT YET?!?!?!?!?!?! Fuck around. I sure as hell am.

Dad arrives tomorrow night and begins to do work for the rest of the week. I go to class tomorrow morning and work during the rest of the day to prep for that. We’re on the downhill slide gentle readers! that deserves a universal Halakaleem!

HALAKALEEM!!!!

hows about this little load of delicious?!?!?!?!

DE LISH US!

Another night…another bag under the eye! What can I say…the kid is a night owl! Oh well. Things are moving along nicely here. The family is working on their routine, factoring in another child, bob and weave, left and right. They have it down to a science. It’s about time for me to take myself out of the equation and head homewards…give them their couch back.

Wonderboy and I had a nice morning. He doesn’t wake up very well, a.k.a. puts on his cranky pants first thing in the morning! But we had some fun, played some video games, ate a toaster strudel and a pancake on a stick, did some hair, talked about butt workers ( I (he) flushed a little one yesterday…he didn’t do very much work…that’s what happens. You just get flushed!) then he went off to school. I’m going to hang around until he’s out before I get on the road.

It’s been a delightful visit. The Wonderbaby is DE-LISH-US. It’s been interesting slipping into someone elses life for awhile. Funny. I always thought it’d be my life…this one with the husband who makes you laugh till you pee, and the children and the house…I remember sitting in college having one of my first awakenings and figuring out the whole Follow Your Bliss concept and having tears stream down my face and asking Ma, “…but which bliss do I follow?…and what if I choose the wrong one?”

I always thought this…this would be a bliss I could do. I think I still could. Can. Maybe someday when Mr. Lanky Delicious sweeps me off of my feet….

What do you think…is there an alternate bliss out there for you? What is it?