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19th July, 2008. 10:32 pm. Hypothetical
It rained here tonight. It rained a lot. It rained so much that if you had happened to store a lot of your stuff in cardboard boxes in your rental basement, and if your landlords' maintenance guys had not properly sealed the basement window, then a lot of water would have come in and soaked all of your cardboard boxes. It rained so much, in fact, that the humans attached to both your landlord's emergency maintenance numbers must have washed away in the flood, because they weren't returning calls. If this had happened, you might theoretically have had to spend a couple of hours with your husband and your (haloed) mother-in-law sloshing the water out of the basement with a snow shovel, a dustpan, and a couple of towels; mucking out the inexplicably dissolving basement floor paint; and moving boxes and wet stuff around.
That's a lot of rain, I tell you what.
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scienceprincess |
19th July, 2008. 7:53 pm. roving accident
I may have just ordered a bunch of different kinds of rovings from etsy. I suppose it's good I don't spend much money on anything else.
Oh -- and I joined a one-of-a-kind roving of the month club for the next 3 months.
This spinning thing is lots of fun.
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scienceprincess |
19th July, 2008. 7:48 pm. Writer's Block: At the Hour of Preference
I love the early morning. 5 - 8 am. It's quiet and my brain works really well. I can get lots done without interruption.
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stewickie |
19th July, 2008. 4:31 pm.
The 48 hour film project was a real hoot last weekend. It was good for Stewart and me to get away for a weekend....and being immersed in artists and artistic expression was great. We miss that part of our lives. In the city, most of the people we came in contact with were booksellers(co-workers). People who work in bookstores are generally artists...stopping on their life path to fund their art with a book store position. Not so many of those folks up here in Port Townsend. I think I'd like to become more involved in the actual film project next year, if possible. Maybe with me no longer working weekends, Stewart and I will be able to make more trips to Seattle for those type of things. The weekend in Seattle inspired Stewart to look for a photography class. He is already a good photographer, but he wants to be great. He wants to write a post on his experience in the film project, but he sez he is having a hard time finding his words. If you're interested in seeing any of Stew's production pictures of the 48 hours film project, click here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hcl2candy/
This weekend, we have been working in the berry patch. We weeded and fertilized the beds....and while we were there, we added a rod-iron pergola near the berry beds...and an outside fire place near the pergola.(we've had these things still packed up from our Portland move) They look good there, so I think we'll make that area into an outside room. We were babysitting the kid's puppy, Sawyer, while we worked, so the kids could attend the 1pm showing of Batman. They said they loved it(specifically Heath Ledger's Joker).
Stewart and I have to get ready to leave on our trip next weekend. We'll be flying...and flying...and flying. I hate to fly...my ears..Argh. In fact, neither of us has taken a flight since before 9/11. Anyone have any advice for our first time post-9/11 flying? Do we have to be ready to be strip searched because of the bottle of hand lotion I carry in my bag?
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cookiefromhell |
19th July, 2008. 6:45 pm. i'm a cheap untrendy tool
i just bought a dell notebook for $850 cuz i wanna wait until macbook pros are updated in january to get one. i dont wanna blow $3k on a laptop and then be like 'QQ those are better now for the same price'. (my desktop is dying and i'm married to the idea of getting a laptop.)
ima be cool like brad and hoard multiple computers
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heathrow |
19th July, 2008. 3:21 pm.
This week, I've been missing my mom a great deal. Monday was especially rough. My dad called while he was on a layover in town, and he picked up on the sadness in my voice. (Dad and my mother had been divorced for over a decade when she died.) He shared that he had a Mom-related blue spell the day before. Hearing that someone else missed her truly helped me.
There are so few people around that knew my mom in her good years. Even before my mom was officially diagnosed with cirrhosis, her mind had been changed from the years of drinking. Tom never knew my mom back when she was vivacious and pleasant to be around. So while he realizes that I'm mourning her death, he can't understand the full impact of the years of good memories and love. He only got to live through the "pain in the tuckus" years.
While I was down in Tampa, my aunt presented me with a box of pictures from my youth. This is better than gold to me. (My mother only had one photo album of pictures from my youth, and it was water damaged. I was only able to salvage four photos from it.) I'm planning to spend some time over the next year or so taking this large box of photos and writing down as much of the associated history and anecdotes as I remember. I already feel like part of my mom is slipping away. Same thing with Abuelo (maternal grandfather), who passed 2 weeks before Amelia was born.
It has been getting easier though. It's not nearly as bad as the first month where I would just stop to cry in the middle of the kitchen for a while. Before Monday, it had been a couple of weeks since the last big grief punch.
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