the new girl quit.  sigh.

was meant to be a day of spring cleaning, but instead ended up with me taking miniblonde #2 to the range to shoot for her first time!  fun stuff, she did pretty darn good for her first time.  i also got to shoot my new handgun i just picked up on friday...yay!  i'm completely pleased with it, such a fun gun to shoot!  afterwards, went to my 'rents house to start my very first batch of wine...technically 2 batches, since i'm making both merlot and cabernet sauvignon.  fun fun fun

so much going on, none of it sleeping.  miniblonde #2 has a new boy, they went to third friday and were adorable together.  miniblonde #1 has been doing well with the new job and school, with a little sleep deprivation on occasion to make it more interesting.  we hired yet another nurse.  this one is young and has no office experience...i'm hoping this means i can train her to do things our way and get away from these 14 hour days.  she seems very nice, stabbity level 0.  i finally got to go shoot my present from ross......LOVE it!  nothing says i <3 you  like a russian battle rifle!  went to atlantic city in a limo with my seister and her friends for some show/dancing, fun fun fun.....julia is always fun, but the level increases when you add alcohol, yay! 

k, miniblonde #2 got voted most individualistic for her yearbook....i couldn't be more proud, even if she chose to dress 'french' for the yearbook picture, beret and all.  miniblonde #1 got her first real job!  she started on monday, seems to be taking it seriously, does well, makes me proud, etc.  now if she could just wake up with an alarm clock instead of me threatening her with the broom! 

tomorrow is my day off, so i'm loaded with appointments all morning, but possibly also an appointment in the afternoon to go see a possible new dwelling for the blonde tribe.  i'm not getting too excited, even though it is a very cute house, there would be enough bedrooms for each miniblonde to have her own room, and a real yard where i could actually plant a garden(victory!).  it's also about 3 minutes from thorboy's house and even closer to the gun range, yay.  still, i don't know if it will actually happen.  /shrugs   we'll see.  can't hurt to try. 

in other news, i'm working without another nurse again, so the long hours are back.  i love the extra money, but i think i'm starting to wear a little thin with the 13+ hours every day.  also, my house is kind of gross right now.  must obsessively fit in cleaning tomorrow in between appointments and thorboy time.  i should probably even throw a load of laundry in RIGHT NOW!!!!  /does

anyways, i had some great idea for a new comic, i just don't know when i'm ever going to have time to devote to working it all out.  i *am* keeping notes on storylines and characters, so when i get to the drawing part, i'll have material, hopefully not too lame.  i just realized i have a motto.  it is "we'll see".  ask my kids, they know that motto well. 

love him

i got her a new camera for her birthday.  here's a sampling of what she's done with it so far

she has more at www.amphetical.deviantart.com

soooo, thorboy and i went away on friday, came back yesterday afternoon.  our first weekend away, just the two of us!  and because we're THE most romantic people in the world, we spent most of one day of it at a gun show!  nothing says 'i love you' quite like buying matching his and her rifles!  it was great.  we also ate at the shiniest diner ever, lost count of how many times we drove up and down route 100, and didn't get one phone call from miniblondes the entire time!!!! 

the end

so miniblonde #1 managed one whole day back at school.  sigh.  she's now being set up for home instruction because she's still too sick/fatigued.  miniblonde #2, however, is back and going strong.  yay!

in other news, i'm happy.

the biggest news in my little world  today is that miniblondes went back to school.

the end.

so both offspring are still home, sick.  miniblonde #2 came back negative for mono testing, but has shown no improvement after 10 days of antibiotics.  their doctor thinks she really has mono anyway.  miniblonde #1 has developed new, probably not mono symptoms that i'm not allowed to discuss because she finds it embarrassing.  soooo, lets just say her symptoms happen in the bathroom, shall we?!!  honestly, i am never going to have company again.  ross keeps trying to convince me that i should just come stay with him for a few days, only half-joking.  life is one dark, dark room and i can't find the door.  kill me now.

Your Word is "Fearless"

You see life as your one chance to experience everything, and you just go for it! You believe the biggest risk is being afraid and missing out on something amazing. Sometimes your fearlessness means you're daring. You enjoy risky activities. And sometimes your fearlessness means you're courageous. You're brave enough to do the right thing, even when it's scary.

funny, i was reading through old lj posts after archiving my journal. back in the day, every post had some sort of quiz or test result. reading over the journal, it made me realize how much i've changed over the last 6 years. not sure i completely like who i was back then. i understand now, though, that for the first time i was exploring/learning who i really am. i'd been in a long, mostly difficult and unhappy relationship that started shortly after i'd moved out from my parent's house. being on my own for the first time, not having to live up to anyone else's expectations, was liberating and overwhelming at the same time. it's easy to just exist when you don't have to figure it all out for yourself. anyways, i find it interesting, if not a little uncomfortable, to examine teh changes i've gone thru since then. i would point out a few, but eh, no. i'm just glad i have had friends who were there when i needed so much more attention! back then my online time was a physical need, now the support and friendship online is a warm, comfortable, happy extra of life that i appreciate so much. there are people i've come to know over the years that i will always consider to be *the* best friends. you know who you are.

kait has mono

thorboy and i went hiking out at turkey point yesterday, which was fun until we realized it was duck season and we were probably in danger of being shot as we startled teh ducks.  then, on the way home, i saw an albino deer running with a whole bunch of not-albino deer!!!!  it felt very special getting to see it.

working on my annual cryptic new year post.
highlights of 2008:
2 months of worry about the c-word/marmie
1 year to watch offspring struggle (mostly successfully) with teh d-word
13 minutes to get to the  'yay my knee is all better'
30 minutes to get to the 'yay no more chance of an accident'
1 phone call  to know that i'll never hear 'hey, wanna rent a movie?' again
1 quarter of a school year to be proud of my miniblondes and their efforts
1 new human family member added
1 addition to the feline infestation
1 new shooting addiction
1 heart stopping moment when any doubts i've had were removed


edit:  raccoons, raccoons, raccoons

this time kait was 16, pregnant, and getting married to some dork.  i didn't want it to happen, but somehow could not seem to make it not happen.  just before the ceremony, i found out she'd made contact with her father and was texting him on a regular basis.  she wouldn't let me give her away, wouldn't even let me hug or kiss her before the wedding.  i hated it in some incredibly intense way.  woke up so distraught and convinced her father was going to show up to give her away.  dreams are stupid.

at least in this dream *i* wasn't pregnant, a recently reoccurring theme of the dreams. 

somehow turned out looking like my mom.  it amuses me, while creeping miniblonde #1 out completely.

so, mini-blondes went to third friday in grand ol millville, which usually is just a fun time for all.  i didn't attend, having other things to do.  there were political groups there, handing out stickers and signs, so mini-blonde #2 picked up a mccain/palin sign.  apparently some lovely liberal democrats took offence and assaulted her, pushing her, grabbing the sign away from her, ripping it into pieces and throwing it in the river.  ahhhh, so sweet.  i like how it's great to accept everyone as long as they believe/think the same thing as you!  anyways, my 13 year old daughter as a new perspective on life.  yay.

1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.

steve killed my cam by knocking it into a cup of coffee, so this was with my cell camera.
 
in other news, i can walk without crutches now, nearly like a real person!  going back to work tomorrow, yay.

phew, what a breeze!  the actual procedure took a whole 13 minutes.  i woke up great from teh anesthesia, no complications, felt absolutely no pain, and pretty much am feeling exactly the same way now!  they gave me percocet, which i took once, just because i felt a twinge, but that was at 5:30 last night.  i've had nothing but some ibuprofen since then and i feel fine.  which makes it hard to stay off of it.  doesn't hurt to walk, but i'm not supposed to for 3 days.  would have helped to have crutches already, but no one told me to get my own ahead of time.  ross wanted to carry me, the he-man that he is.  he's bringing crutches today, and will tell me how dumb i am for even being on the computer when i'm meant to have the knee elevated and iced for 48 hours...BUT IT ISN'T EVEN SWOLLEN OMG I SHOULD GO BACK TO WORK TOMORROW!!!!

anyways, andrea and denise from work are coming over today to visit me and bring me food for dinner.  also, books.  they're great!  i'm bored!@!111

ohoh, and thanks for the well wishes yesterday, tracicle , trishtrash , and melinika !!!!!