Oceangram, did you see it?
2007-05-30 17:59:06
Did you find my site from my Oceangram I sent?
Please leave a comment if you did. I’d like to know what countries it was seen in. I did sign up for tracking, but I don’t know if that will show me anything more than what a person writes. It’s my first one to send out. I’ll check tracking in a few hours, I’m not sure how fast it washes up on a shore.
Oceangram is fun, bottles wash up on the virtual beach and you can add a message to them. One was just random sayings so I signed it just as random. Another was dated as far back as November I think it was, asking what peoples ages are. I was surprised to see one that dated. I should have dated the one I sent out dang it. I didn’t think of that.
I’ll send out another, worded differently later on and add a date.
Manic Monday
2007-06-05 11:37:52
Manic Monday
for June 4th
1. How do you learn best? Watch and learn? Participation? Reading directions or technical manuals?
A bit of all of those. We’ve learned craft techniques just watching YouTube videos. Learned others straight from books. When we were younger, learned sewing through participation.
2. Is one of your senses more highly developed than another? If so, which one?
Hmm.. never really thought about it. I’ll have to think about this one a little bit. It’s not my vision or hearing, that’s for sure. When the nose isn’t stuffed up due to allergies, well it’s probably not that either. What’s left touch and taste? Maybe touch.
3. Summer is almost upon us here in the northern hemisphere. What says summer to you?
My flowers blooming, the wildlife hanging out in the back yard, watermelon on sale at the grocery store, and it being tooooo hot out.
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Frazzled, health, weather
2007-06-05 00:42:25
It’s soon to storm. There’s thunder, lightening flashes, the works. Soon it will storm with hard rain. Day time storms are stressful, but tolerable to an extent. It’s daylight when those happen, so we can still see and watch the rain and convince ourselves it’s just rain. Night time storms really set us on edge, the entire village is just frazzled. We had it raining internally but someone shut that off and has it full sun now to try and help a bit. It’s working, but storms are still very stressful. It’s kind of nice to watch the rain fall sometimes. Not at dark though, can’t see anything.
We have our flashlight, our stuffies, favorite blankets, nintendoDS is charged, have some rapsberry lemonaid made. Soon it’ll be time for sleep, so maybe we can sleep through much of it. Husband is home so he assures us that it is very okay, that it’s just a regular short storm. We’ll be pretty okay unless power goes o
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Our Village - Drawing/Painting
2007-06-04 16:26:57
I am Unicorn. I’m not a unicorn though, I’m a person. Today they set aside time just for me to draw! Just for me. I used to be really mean to the body. Used to cut and try to take too many pills. Didn’t want the body to live. They made me stay on the upper floors but I am not allowed to tell who’s up there, the ones up there made me promise. I told them okay as long as keeping the promise doesn’t harm the body. They said okay too.
I promised to be good. To not cut or try to take pills. They showed me that we were safe. We are safe, so I am being good. It is hard to change. My job was to hurt the body. That is what I was made for. They made me, the bad people did. They made me so I’d hurt the body. So it is hard to know what to do instead. I spend most of my time inside the village instead of going onto the porch like I am now. I don’t know what to do. Today they suggested I draw something. I ask for
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Tomorrow
2007-06-04 13:47:52
Verified my doctor’s appointment, it’s tomorrow. Really nervous about going. Doctors are scary, this doctor is nice but just still afraid. Not sure what the next medical treatment will be. The options given last time were some pretty nasty strong medication choices. We had hoped (we as in me, doctor, husband) that perhaps I’d be okay wiht out it. Guess not.
The pain was pretty bad this morning when I first got up but it’s easing off a little and I haven’t even taken a pain pill yet so that’s good. Still hurt but it’s not making me cry yet so I am okay for now. Husband will come in here and tell me to take something for it and stop trying to be tough that I’m not doing myself any good by waiting. I do’nt now why I’m so reluctant to ease the pain up, in a sick sort of way.. I almost feel like I don’t deserve to be pain free. I haven’t done anything to deserve to be in pain though, that much I kn
Stoker the Cat on June 3
2007-06-03 23:49:58
We captured this tonight while watching StokerCam. She’s so cute. After this capture, she started to rapidly groom her shoulder. On the cam her head was in a blur of motion but we weren’t quick enough with a new screenshot. After that she went back to sleep. I think she has the right idea, maybe tonight we’ll get more than a couple hours of sleep. Maybe tonight we’ll get to sleep before daylight!
Just thought I’d share a capture of our favorite webcam kitty =) Goodnight!
pokemon
2007-06-03 18:02:36
we got a egg in pokemon game
Blog your Blessings
2007-06-03 16:27:29
This is an entry for Blog your Blessings
Sunday. I think it’s a lovely idea this blogger has set up. I’d seen the various sites doing this but decided to finally join in. Unfortunately, wordpress.com and blogrolling.com don’t work well together. That sucks, I wish blogrolling.com had an HTML version. Hopefully I am still able to join in on the fun.
TodayI am blogging about the rain we had. Normally I don’t like rain, it causes excessive joint pain. I’m blessed that my new doctor doesn’t let me suffer and has prescribed medication to use until my next appointment. I don’t feel a thing today because of it, rain or no rain.. I’m good today.
I had been worried that maybe I wasn’t watering the containers well enough to get the roots fully watered. I really am not very experienced with growing things, so I never know how much water is good. Is it until it starts wooshing out the bottom of the pot or is that too much? Di
Unconscious Mutterings Meme
2007-06-03 12:49:33
Join in HERE.
Savage :: Fred
Warrior :: Nerfed
Daisy :: Donald
Schedule :: Doctor
Rock, paper, scissors :: Lame
Medical :: Grrrrrrr
Jade :: Faux
Elevator :: Escalators
Drain :: Clog
Goldfish :: Pet
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So upset.
2007-06-03 02:06:26
Took sleep medication and the other pills three hours ago. Am I asleep, oh no of course not. In fact, it didn’t work at all. Someone blocked them I guess, sigh. Very irritated.
All day we went over that it is safe to sleep, we’ll be safe tonight at any point we want to sleep it’s okay. All day we go over it. What’s the deal, this bites. I want to sleep. Was going to try to ride my bike a little tomorrow, but if too sleepy.. can’t risk it. That on top of pills that make me drowsy is just dangerous to go zooming around on a bicycle.
Who blocked the pills!?
Garden contest
2007-06-02 21:35:27
I thought I’d share the link so you can enter too. I found her site last week I think it was, but I don’t remember how I found it now. It’s really a nice site. So go enter and good luck! It only runs till June 18th, so if you read this after that.. it’s likely the contest has already ended.
Contest at Daily Weeder
She is running a contest for some really neat prizes. All three are great, and she’s right the rose is beautiful. It actually looks fake, you know one of those flowers that is so dainty and lovely that it must be created by an artist in some way. Hopefully my entry isn’t too dorky to tolerate, its’ true though. I am very proud of my weird little garden I have going on. Everything is in containers, except the roses we already have.
The roses are several years old. We planted them ourself, so it shocks us they are still alive haha!! Lots of blooms this week, it’s fun. The red ones smell the best of all th
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Hrm.
2007-06-08 02:43:50
I don’t remember blogging. I don’t really remember much about this past week. A little bit, but not much. I keep trying to attribute it to tiredness. I think that excuse is just not cutting it.
Need sleep, maybe tonight it will be good sleep.
I thought I did all the comments but they are all still there, I’m sorry. I will try to answer them tomorrow, apparently I thought real hard about it but never did bother. I hate when that happens.
We’re reading Prodigy by Alton Ganksy for the um.. what’s it called. I can picture her blog layout but not the title, I think it’s Read-a-Ton? I dunno, sorry I forget. I know I signed up for it and all though, I do remember that. I’ll read up on it.. I think it started recently, a summer reading program. It sounded like fun, I remember that much!
Tomorrow need to get milk and bread and eggs too. Breakfast is tough when there’s just oatmeal to fix, and no milk oops. Ran out a coupl
Dreary day somewhat
2007-06-06 20:32:05
Just feeling sad. Maybe just tired.
The night just got a little better though. We won a contest in a chat room event! Last night we signed up at a digital scrapping site and posted a layout today, then during the chat they held we worked on another one using the special graphics they offer during chatting time. It’s very fun. The contest was to choose a number, and we chose the closest! So we’ll get our prize soon, I was so excitd about winning that I forgot what the prize is. I think it’s a gift coupon to use in the digital shop to download some nifty graphics. They have all kinds of cute stuff.
If they don’t publish our real name, since they needed it to put on the coupon, then I’ll link to the site and our neat layouts too! Just waiting to see how they handle the winner details before we share anything further on the blog. It’d make us feel incredibly unsafe if our full name was listed.
Did some yoga today, but we’re terr
So relieved
2007-06-05 16:48:01
Today’s appointment went very well. Our bloodwork results were really good. The doctor says we can hold off on the next medication a while longer too! I am so happy about that. Instead of switching to the other medication for now, we’re to continue trying to reduce the one and taking the pain relievers as needed till we see how it all goes. It’s going to be a tough summer. The doctor is on call any time we need help though, so if the pain gets too bad or we get sicker he said just call and they’re all there for me at the office at any time.
The anxiety and stress is all done. He told me to stop stressing, I’m making myself sicker. It’s hard though. Everything stresses me out.
Between the family deaths, health problems, friends being sick. There’s very little time to not be stressed it feels like. It’s always something major lately. It’s too much. People gotta get well, stop dying, and leave me to rest a whi
Who is she?
2007-06-11 11:35:36
Yesterday I went from drying off after a bath to having my legs and butt bone sore because I was under a desk. Thankfully at some point I managed to get dressed too. Pajamas were on backwards though. It’s very upsetting. My husband said a young one came forward, the name I won’t type because she isn’t here to give approval of that. Her information she shared, I also don’t feel right typing without her saying it’s okay.
We don’t know her. She must be in another world area, beyond our sight. I guess. I don’t know.
What she told him makes me sick to think about. Have had nightmares the last week, horrible ones. They seemed so real. I guess she was trying to tell us something. She told him. He was so nice to her, I cry over that too. Gave her a teddy bear to hold apparently.. it was soaked in tears. H got her pencil and paper to color with. I didn’t know we had colored pencils other than the water color type, t
Pain
2007-06-10 00:02:59
Physical pain is making me want to hurl. Almost time so I can take a pain pill. I took tylenol earlier, and I am afraid to take the pills too close together. I just know I’ll rash up or something equally miserable. In about half an hour I won’t feel much of anything I don’t think. Can’t wait.
Came in to look up pokemon walkthrough, I forgot what the game told me was next. Something about Mt Coronette after I released the three super pokemons I think, but I ran around there and didn’t see anything new. I did catch a clefairy for the kids though, every time they tried the pokemon was making it faint, so I switched toa low level pokemon. Easier then!
Man this bites. I want to bike around town tomorrow, if this keeps up I’ll either be too drowsy or too pained to do so. Either way, hoping to get up to the one shop. Gotta get that done and find some boxes. Have some neat things to mail off to a friend, made her a bookmark last month
Peppermint
2007-06-09 19:09:18
Tomorrow, if it isn’t raining, I’ll cut some peppermint! Thanks to the great tip by dragonfly183, I know when to harvest some herbs now! In all the herb sites I read over, most of them just go on about how great the mint or oregano tastes in this or that recipe, some describe how to dry them, but none explain when to harvest. Thanks, dragonfly183!
The comment was in another entry, but here’s what dragonfly suggested:
I usually pick my mint when its a foot tall. i would recommend cutting the stalks and not just pulling the leaves. The reason for this is because the stalks get woody and the leaves get tougher and its easier to flavor things if there young and tender.
As for the oregano, its the same. don’t let it bloom what ever you do. i did that once and the leaves were very rough. 1 foot is tall enough. If you decide you have enough oregano you may want to let it bloom. The bees and butterflies “LOVE” it.
I went out with a ruler. I have some mint stalk
Birthday
2007-06-09 18:06:23
Today is the birthday. Usually they are very scary and not good. The last few years though, each year they get less scary. This year in particular has been fun. We opened up our various emails and found tons of happy birthday notices. Granted, most are from forums we signed up at so no human actually sent it.. but that’s besides the point. It’s like junk postal mail, it makes the young ones happy to get fun mail.
So today we went to the library, picked up the two books we had them transfer over. One on sewing vintage bags, it’s great. There’s at least three in there we’ll make. Then the other is miniature cross stitch. How aggravating, the listing said it was embroidery. To me, embroidery is done on linen. Not done cross stitch style over teh whole piece. Cross stitch irritates me to do, but I do appreciate the beauty of a finished piece and am very impressed with anyone who can do that craft. There’s just no one in the village with the
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Classmates
2007-06-09 13:07:18
Who are these people!?
We’ve been signed up at Classmates.com for a while. Now and then we get emails from the site letting us know someone knew has joined a grade we listed to monitor, or that someone looked at our profile there. It’s never important emails though. No one contacts us except the one time.
It’s actually how our brother found us after so long of no contact. I had no idea where he lived, he had no idea where I was either. I ran and hid, he still is in the same state but he’s gotten smart. No contact with those that hurt us. I was surprised to hear he has zero contact with family at all. That is better though, I am glad he is broken free of them. He’s done good in his life, so proud of him it makes me wanna cry! I always felt like I had failed him, like I didn’t raise him well enough. I did the best I could, and no matter what he has done or hasn’t done in his life, I am very proud of him for how he is now.
Today
2007-06-08 16:25:55
Just a basic day I guess. Sorted some laundry but haven’t actually taken it out to the washer. I probably won’t, saw a big spider out there and not quite sure where it’s at. So the laundry can wait.
Then the phone rang and this strange man asked for me by name. Ohhh.. talk about scary. I got all defensive, demanded to know who it was. Turns out it was the guy at the library. He apologized a ton, said I sounded absolutely terrified. My husband said I had a look of sheer terror on my face. I didn’t know who it was that’d have that number and know my full name. Heh.. of course the library would, I am the one who filled out the papers to request two book transfers!
Whew.. that one took a while for the nerves to settle down from. Man, I am jumpy.
So excited, hopefully tomorrow we can get out to the library and get the two books. Drop off the ones we’ve finished reading (after we write down titles/authors) and get some new ones. O
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Any slower please?
2007-06-13 22:00:23
If the Adobe Exchange was any slower, snails would break world records in speediness.
What’s the deal with that site, it’s so slow that it irritates me. Can’t download zip files at all, they’re all bugged out. Sometimes the non-zipped files download, I got a few last night. Tonight.. nope. I think it’s only a 50kb file and I’ve got 2kb of it after 10 minutes. I guess it’s prime time downloading right now, I dunno. I just know that I saw a snail whiz past me, sticking his tongue out at me.
I guess I’ll leave it to download and go watch TV for a while.
Stress flies away
2007-06-13 16:11:11
I am almost in tears and passing out from relief. That sounds so dramatic, but it is the truth. A huge weight, gone. The pressure, the fear, the stress.. all just flew out the window. We have had a huge stress hanging over us for six months solid. Every day waking up early worrying about it, every night unable to sleep at times because of worrying about it. Round and round and round. Physically wearing ourselves out in the hunt for this one particular item. Every day. Praying every day, that we’d find it soon to end this misery we were in.
I’m going to cry. My head hurts so bad suddenly.
Several in the village swore up and down that it was in a manilla envelope. I believed them. Always telling me to look in the manilla envelopes in the house. So several of us have been. Every week we pull the envelopes out of the various stashing spots and look through them paper by paper. Every week. All the time. Not finding what we’re after. Had
Dialga
2007-06-12 22:09:33
WOO! Getting a headache from all the cheering. We read up on the Pokemon strats to see how to get up to the legendary Dialga. Mt Coronet is a real stinking pain to travel through. There’s no healer buildings on the way. That was not easy. We got Dialga on our first attempt, just one Ultra Ball. We had stocked up with 40, just for this battle.
How exciting! By the time we finished our Pokemon were:
Miss Two 41 Luxray
Riley Jr. 31 Lucario (The egg we received, evolved at 20, when we began our trip up Mt Coronet)
Charlotta 41 Staraptor
a 41 Machoke (Named after husband hehe, he wanted me to find a Squirtle but I keep telling him there isn’t one in Diamond I don’t think so he chose Machop instead haha. Every day he asks if I found a squirtle in my game yet, it’s so annoying and funny at the same time)
Maple a 41 Turtwig (Yay, starter pokemon wins all!)
Sneasel 35 Sneasel (I haven’t thought of a good name for her yet)
Oh man that w
Metamucile Apple Wafers
2007-06-12 16:29:45
I can’t believe I’m going to say this…
They’re really good!
Doctor insists we add them to our diet, because we don’t get as much bread or wheat in the diet as he’d like us to have. Personally, I thought we were doing pretty good. He said it wasn’t too bad, doing good but need more because of various health problems and I told him I can’t stand to add more bread. We already eat whole grain stone ground style bread, whole wheat pasta (which is probably fake seeing as it’s store brand), and if there’s a choice on the occasions we’re out to eat we go for whole wheat if we can instead of regular bread. Sometimes we even fix brown rice. I think we grossed the doctor out, apparently most people don’t eat brown rice around here. It’s not bad, it’s certainly not as nifty as white rice. Plus it’s near to impossible to make a rice ball with the stuff. It’s not sticky enough.
Speaking
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Mint
2007-06-12 13:57:49
Trying to keep busy, still feeling only half here. It’s hard to explain but it’s a disturbing feeling.
So it started to thunder a little, just a wee little. Just under the “it’s scary!” mark. It’s daylight so that makes it easier. We gathered up a strainer, the kitchen scissors, and paper towels. Then went out and cut some peppermint. There was a LOT more to cut than we’d planned on!
Expected maybe two or three stalks (or.. whatever you call it, stems?) but nope. We have four layers of leaves in the oven, with the fifth layer of just the stems to dry and cut later. We heated the oven to 180 (it’s hard to tell on our oven, but it’s just a little past “W”) for about 20 minutes while we did the leaves. Then turned it off, stuck the leaves in, turned the oven light on and cracked the oven door open a tiny bit. The oven gets pretty warm with just the light, so I figure that’s good enough. The oven
hazy
2007-06-12 10:53:28
today i feel hazy
Sleep and Germ Rants
2007-06-11 19:23:12
Oh wow.. I actually took a nap today. Wasn’t sure at first if I slept or lost time, but they all assure me that it was sleep. Which is good, because that’s what I remembered doing! Was so cold that I curled up on the couch with like four blankets, four pillows, and four stuffies. Just a coincidence that it happens to be four, across the board there. Then.. haha.. I slept till 4pm. I didn’t sleep four hours though, that kind of messes up the blog entry so we won’t add that in.
Feeling a lot better after waking up enough after the nap. Still really tired, but that was a good safe nap.
Thinking about another nap. Not sure if it’s just the last few weeks catching up to me or if I’m coming down with something. Everyone at the grocery store the other day was coughing and sneezing. Nearly passed out. Trying to get some boxes of pasta, there were several people on the aisle germing the place up. I try to keep my disgust to myself, but
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Swimsuit, heat
2007-06-17 15:03:42
It’s so hot.
It’s now 90 outside, about 85 in the house, too hot. AC still not fixed,calling emergency number tomorrow. As long as it stayed cool out, we fine. It’s not fine now.
So we dug out swimsuits. We own three as it turns out. Two black ones and one that’s real cute bright colors. About 11 years ago we bough the bright one. It was a little too small when we bought it back then, today we found it’s too big to wear and still be respectable even just sitting on the porch as still as possible!
Then we tried the other black one on, which has never fit. It’s also a little too big. I can’t tell what size any of these are though. The sizer tag is faded. That one fits well enough that we could wear it around the yard but we just can’t bend over haha.
The third one fits! It’s also a little too big but, it’s more stretchy so it clings much better. It’s not as worn out as my other two. I am so exci
Oven cleaning started
2007-06-17 01:20:24
Chemical free, dudes!
I went with baking soda and water for now, several sites mentioned that being good. We are too afraid it will cause harm to our pets and to our own lungs if we use serious cleaners. Once we took a good look at it, the heat kind of seared away much of the gunk that was normally in there. That is so gross and kind of embarassing to admit tha twe rarely clean the oven. Quite possibly never have. So it’s really not bad after all as it turns out! The pitcher of water, the intense heat.. wow.. that’s all I can say. Fried the crap right out of there I guess!
There was a puddle in the bottom. Mostly water, but definitely some butter/margarine mixed in. We’re just now realizing how dumb it was for the pitcher of water to be thrown in. Scary! That’s why he should stop tossing my bakin soda boxes!
So there’s a layer on the door, a layre in the bottom. Then I ran out of baking soda, only had two small boxes. Tomorrow we&
Oven needs cleaned
2007-06-17 00:49:35
Oops.
Tried to fix fish sticks tonight and um.. we need to clean the oven. It burst into flames on the inside. Yesterday we fix something and it bubbled over and made a tiny fire but it was just wee little no big deal. Cause it had margarin or whatever the sticks were, and we figured that was all it was.
Weeeelll… tonight, that was major. It stayed contained within the oven itself, thankfully. Husband threw a pitcher of water in there and slammed the door shut hehe. Was very scary at the time, felt frozen.. watching myself from the corner of the room it felt like. Scary
But I have to admit, him throwing a pitcher of water into the oven was hilarious as all get out to think about later on after the whole moment was over. It’s a lime green pitcher, which is cracked because it’s a cheap crappy one.. hot and cold back and forth ahs made a bazillion little cracks in it. It cracks if you even talk about it, so try not to talk or think about the pitcher
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