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Ah, it's been a long time.

Blog, I have neglected you so.

 

 

So, the last time I blogged was exactly a week ago.

So what eventful has happened this past week?

 

- Well, I've completed Parappa The Rapper. I still need to get the 'cool' ranking on level 6 before I can unlock the bonus level. - Which is hard, because the music of level 6 is really hard to follow.

 

I don't know if it's my eyes - but my font looks weird today.

It doesn't look right...

 

 

Oh well, we'll cope. It's Arial red, it's supposed to be my font, anyway.

 

 

Through the week at school, it's only been revision, because the exams are starting this Friday with the first one.

My first one is in a week's time - and then I have three weeks of exams.

 

 

One thing though, I've got out of my depressional spiral.

I'm not harming every day like I was.

I'm not crying as much.

 

I seem to be crying more and more as I get older.

Maybe that's just the stress adding to things.

 

 

And I've made up my friendships with both Stephen and Claire - we were all sat together today in the library talking - poking pencils through a pear, before we lobbed it at Carl, and it shattered all over the place.

 

- And we got shouted at for that, too.

 

 

Then I started licking my hand, because it tasted nice, and Pips was filming me really close up on her phone - and it looks really pornographic and wrong.

She's threatened to put it on YouTube - but if she does, I'll kick her teeth in. :)

 

I walked home with Pips and Miraan - and I ate some leaves off the trees.

 

I wish I hadn't though, because I've got an upset stomach now.

I've had to use the bathroom twice, so far - but the first time, the spicy salaminis I ate last night sorta repeated on me. - How it burned, and how I whined.

 

The leaves were horrible - the green ones all got stuck in my teeth, and Miraan moaned at me because I kept spitting.

I wasn't spitting AT him though!

 

 

Adam stayed over on Saturday just passed.

 

I have this little water game I won in a 2p machine in Southend, and I took the plug off the back, and I went to flick it at him, but it never came out.

So he got it off me, cornered me in the gap between my bed and the wardrobe and poured it on my face.

I was sad.

 

 

Then he kept getting me with the water pistol I stupidly filled up.

 

 

Either way - I watched him get right to the final area on Resident Evil 3 - we decided to start again, seeing as how we knew where everything was this time.

 

He's left it here, in my PS1, and I wanna play it. but I'm scared. :)

 

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Today's song lyrics:

 

Only This Moment - Royksopp

 

 Forces within me, makes reason with lust...
But I try to accept it and not think it works...
Because I know I might lose you by taking the chance...
But love without pain isn't really romance...

Only this moment... (Holds us together)...
Close to perfection... (Nothing is out there)...
Always beside us... (Trusting my senses)...
Deep down inside... (I know I will survive)...

 

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List of all my cats through my life so far:

Puff

Alexander( a manx)

Knip

Frisky

Calico(adopted, original name Huey)

Soot

Smokey

Poco

Buttons(son of Poco)

Bobbie(son of Poco, a bobtail and went with me when I got married)

Charcoal(given to me by a friend)

Fluffy(rescued from abusers)

Sugar

Popcorn(daughter of Sugar,Twin of Snowball)

Snowball(daughter of Sugar,Twin of Popcorn)

Miracle(a young kitten i tried toafter several days)

Nestle(Kootchie, as my daughter called her!)(daughter of Charcoal)

Little Bear(daughter of Sugar)

Little Bit(daughter of Sugar)

Chocolate(Daughter of Charcoal)

Patches(daughter of Little Bit)

Peanut( an adopted stray)

Boots( came from a baseball field.adopted her)

Kitty-Kitty(my son's cat he got when 2. Shortened to Kitty and Kitty lived to be 17)

Barney(adopted)

Rascal(adopted)

*Buttermilk(adopted)

Jazzy(my daughter's cat she got when about 5)(adopted)

*Purdy(an adopted stray )

*Baby(took from our churches neighborhood. She kept running in the church and the Preacher threatened to call Animal Control, so we took her!

*Bathsheba(Sheba for short. Adopted stray)

 

*= still have

 

good thing I woke early and hit the front yard as it's now raining again. I managed to eliminate one large half dead shrub, take down a small rock wall that was buried under years of dirt and reposition them around the "water" aka mud. It will take a few days for all the mud so sink and let me clear it out so it looks more black or maybe even green... especially the water fall.. hahahaha... well not quite.


But the redwood against the violets looks great and my columbines are blooming as is the jack in the pulpit hidden within the maidenhair ferns. and now jim is building a raised bed within part of the redwood walkway and i will plant gypsophylia from seed. always good to have and such a heavenly scent. My paltry little peony has not died .......yet. I will be amazed if next year it really takes over. Now i just have to finish hiding the black rubber that lines the muddy hole, get my stone pagoda, do something to hide the electricity post, and plant the remaining ajuga along the water's edges. Yahoo !!!

The other great thing is the full bath off the garden room. once again I came into the house literally covered in mud.... stripped down to bare skin, jumped in the shower and wrapped in a towel. tossed the muddy gardening clothes into the washer and came upstairs all clean and ready for warm clothing. The weather predictions which are REALLY laughable out here is for weather in the 80's later in the week so Jim and I will head straight for cannon beach  or tillamook. anyone want some cheese?

our weekend began early with dinner at a friends wednesday night. we thought it would be an early night but everyone else was going over to a jazz bar. I recall the days that those types of places were off limits due to all the smoke. But as people get enlightened about second hand smoke more and more laws prevent exposure to the non smoker nice pink lungs type like me.

and last night we went to the ballet and ate at the Heathman first. OMG do I ever love the Heathman. very NYC, busy, delicious and an amazing cocktail menu. so I had a raspberry crusta (crustas were the class of coktails invented in the 1850's with a sugar rim----- grandparent to the margarita and cosmopolitan... which not only TASTED great but had an aroma like flowers. I definitely need to learn to make this one. It may be my favorite ever. then we split a beet and blue cheese salad. and split bacon crusted salmon with spinach risotto and asparagus. and dessert was pistachio profiteroles.

I think we almost slept through the first ballet piece at thye Schnitzner ( dress circle) ...Whitebird finished their season with a bang. the four largest and maybe best West Coast ballet companies: Eugene, Portland, San Francisco and Seattle. SF had a guy with the most amazing ass since Baryshnikov. yikes, I was mesmerized at first by the tush and then his dancing actually brought me to tears.

Jim filled the sedan with  gas yesterday and it cost $63. I must confess that I am not bugged by these high price tags as much as most Americans because we have  never been into car commuting and  never owned a gas guzzler SUV. so if these prices change people's car  and driving habits and maybe makes cities rethink mass transit it will be a very good thing. W wants Americans to remain in  love with their cars but I feel things must change and if it's the pocketbook that does it. good.

Most of the front yard decking is done. I have to finished enlarging the baby pond in front and then line it with the basalt I dug up. and then mulch the beds. Then start looking for a price effective stone pagoda. A friend pointed out that the reddish wood contrasts with all the green and makes everything pop. makes sense. so if we dont get rain tomorrow I will do the pondette... and if It rains I will work (finally) on the window coverings for the guest room ( red and white toile) cool huh?

Sorry I've been overwhelmed lately so I didn't get a chance to post the pictures I wanted to yesterday. Here this day is almost completely gone as well. Better late than never right?

More pictures.