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March 17, 2006 – 14:03

Happy Paddy’s Day!

Beware the green beer! But the green food is okay … as long as it’s not fuzzy!

I’ve only got an hour to eat and run … Actually have a horse in the fourth race! Usually I’m stuck near the end in the nineth, or somewhere like that.

Found some journal entries that never got published, so I’m going to put them in now. Some of it might be old news, but hey, consider it catching up!

January 9, 2006 – 20:14

Home again, home again

Jiggedy jig

WHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Feel the joy, People! I’m back! For those of you who had expressed a concern at my lack of updates, thank you so much for letting me know you missed them. That meant alot to me.

For those not in the know, my computer crashed around … October? It had started failing before that and nothing I did seemed to help, so I saved as much as I could before it died completely, but, oh … what I lost! Pictures – some that can’t be replaced; music, stories … * sigh *

I shall recover, but the wound festers still. Especially considering I’ve been without my computer for well over two months. Futureshop FINALLY fixed it. I was getting ready to grow out my fingernails.

Dangerous weapons, fingernails. Don’t ever forget it. Especially the broken ones.

Where to start … where to start? So much has happened since I last wrote! So much has been missed! I wrote mental entries, but you all know I’ll never remember them and even if I remembered what they were about, it wouldn’t be the same! Well, I guess I’ll have to start at the most recent events and you’ll have to catch up as best you can later.

First off, Jade and I are sick. He looks like crap … I don’t. Heh. He’s got it worse than I do … I hope I can fight it off in the next couple of days because I have to go to a conference on Saturday. In Red Deer. My whole team is going while the boss is on holiday. Guess who’s driving the truck? Me.

I better remember to bring the ear plugs. The screams will be distracting, I’m sure.

Jade has been updating me on the recent laws regarding emergency vehicles on the highway. Like if I see a cop on the side of the road with somebody pulled over, I’m not allowed to hit him. I can’t even pretend to aim for him. He has no qualms about my doing the driving … he says. I’ll be nervous until I do it. Then I’ll be fine. Meanwhile I pray the roads are in good condition. (Goddess, hear that prayer and ANSWER IT!)

The weekend after that, I’M FREE! For about nine days. Well, that’s still a vacation that I’m very much in need of right now. My stress levels are at their limits and it’s taking a grand amount of self control to act with normal parameters. And deal with the mood swings of the PMS too. Yeah, sometimes I amaze even myself. Shush, that’s actually harder than it sounds.

So anyway, we’re going to Banff for skiing. At Sunshine. After the skiing, we’ll stay at the Fairmont and have a spa treatment. Spot will be going on vacation too. But not with us, unfortunately. He’ll be staying at a kitty condo with friends for him to play with and lots of places for him to explore. I went and investigated it with Jade and we were both satisfied. The lady who runs it is an Animal Health Technician (sounds impressive, doesn’t it?) and the condo is attached to the house so she’s close by if something goes wrong. She’s even hooked up a baby monitor to listen for sounds of distress in the night. The rooms are spacious enough and if kitty doesn’t get along with the others, he can stay in his room during the day and gets time out at night. There’s even a yard to play in during good weather. If all goes well, we’ll be using this service again.

Joyce doesn’t understand why we’re taking Spot to a condo. She thinks we should save our money and just make sure he has lots of water and have somebody check on him every couple of days.

EVERY COUPLE OF DAYS????

Did those stupid words come out of my mother’s mouth? Yes, cats are adaptable, but my baby has serious separation anxiety. He sheds non-stop, doesn’t eat, and basically sleeps all day as far as we can tell. Every couple of days, my fanny! Nobody I know would accept that for their own pet! And He needs more than just 10 minutes a day for food and litter cleaning. I know for a fact that she would never accept that for her own pets.

Lynne would be willing to offer a decent check up every day, but she lives all the way across town and I’d feel guilty about the price of the gas she’d use. Besides, Spot has no trouble letting her know that she’s NOT the Mommy!!

Poor Lynne. You know that I love you anyway.

* sigh * Bedtime. I’ll continue this one tomorrow!

January 12, 2006 – 14:06

”Ah … I am wefweshed!” Nothing quite like a hot shower to make the aches ease up, the toes warm again and the nose clear for a bit.

So … Jade has given me a head cold. I didn’t ask for it, but then he likes to give me things that I don’t ask for. I think he sees it as providing me with something before I need it. At the very least, he likes to try and surprise me. Well … I was surprised. It snuck up on me and smacked me in the face like a 2x4. I came back from my break at work with a fever, my face so flushed that my eyes looked like they had blue/white rings around them (which they did), my head ached with sinus congestion and I could feel a migraine threatening to join the party. I moved sluggishly and bending over to do my horses feet (5 x 4 = 20 hooves) was a nightmare to my head.

Did I ask for this? No, but I was surprised. Thanks, Jade.

I’m feeling a bit better today. The headache isn’t there anymore but I’m constantly blowing my nose (It seems like) and I’m getting a bit of a cough. Last night it was hard and dry and it hurt. Today, it’s a bit wetter (what a horrible image) and not quite so often. I might be able to get this down to a manageable degree before I have to go to my conference.

Oh, please, please, please, please!

I now have this cute little kitty as my Word Assistant. He’s just adorable … especially when he brushes up against the screen and purrs! * LOL *

So I was thinking of voting tomorrow. Doesn’t matter whom for. Even if they keep their promises, I don’t fall into any of the categories they are fighting over anyway. So, my life won’t really change. Sad, isn’t it? I’m not alone though. I’m sure many of you (few as you are who read this) also fall into the “no group” group. Maybe we should start a group of our own! We’ll have a sign on the door that says “No Politicians’ Promise Target Groups Allowed” So there would be no poor people, no gays/lesbians, no single parents, no low income families struggling with daycare … etc.

On second thought, that sounds horribly BORING! There wouldn’t be anybody interesting left behind to talk to. Besides, I believe this group already exists. It’s called Club Med.

I come up with some very strange ideas sometimes … pay them no mind.

Ugh … when will the Sinutabs WORK!!!

For those of you who haven’t seen me lately, I’ve done a good job of growing my bangs out. They are past my chin now. This makes things easier to put my hair up for work, but I’m not sure what to do to style it. Not that I have to do that much. Every now and then though, something special has come up. I’ve just left them long and not fussed over them, but one of these days that won’t be good enough. I have tickets to Stomp and Phantom of the Opera this year. I have a vacation coming up and I’m sure that there will be at least one night that we may dress up for dinner. We usually do. Oh, well. I’ll figure something out. I usually do. Or Lynne does for me. She usually has great ideas – even if I don’t agree with all of them. ;)

I miss people playing with my hair. There used to be at least one person a day, in high school, who would come by and touch my hair. Not all of them were girls either. Yesterday, my mother-in-law was stroking my hair and remarking wistfully at how long it was. I almost purred.

If you have Microsoft Word, DL Links the cat for your assistant! He is soo … kawaii! (cute – pronounced the same as ‘Hawaii’) He takes cat naps and sleeps in about two different positions.

I hope this cold goes away soon … it’s making my Barq’s taste bad. * weep *

I need to get some filing done. And some items organized. A new shelf? Hmmm … perhaps. We’ll see. I may be able to make something work without actually making any large purchases. It could happen. It could!

I’m gonna have to start my Pools of Radiance all over again, but that shouldn’t be a big problem. I will, of course, remember most, if not all, of it when I go to play it again, but I can adjust things so that I go in with different characters and make things a bit different. We’ll see. I never managed to beat the last of the big baddies, so maybe a new group will be a good idea. I’ll have to give it some thought.

I’m playing D&D with my group on Sundays again too. So I’m out of the house and visiting my friends at least once a week.

AGH! I just got a story plot idea! AGH!! PAPER!!!

Hokey Stinkmore, that’s good stuff! Where was I? Oh, yes, visits with friends. I wish I had time to go out more though. I envy people their weekends. I really do. I also envy those who can sleep in to 06:00 before waking up to go to work. I could do that if I had a car … maybe. I admit that I love being up in the early morning. It’s so peaceful and quiet and very beautiful. I just don’t like the waking up part. J

My cat thinks he’s Velcro. He’s almost always attached to me. And when he’s not, he trying to be. When that doesn’t work, he tries his luck with Jade. Then he goes off and pouts for a bit … and eventually he thinks we’ve been punished enough and he comes back to try again. Silly thing.

Jade just loves him to death too. When the kitty condo asked us if there was a limit on how much they could spend on vet services should Spot have an accident or get sick, I tried to be practical and pick a figure. A large figure, but a figure, all the same. He just shook his head and said that there were no limits on what he’d spend on him in that case. I doubt that anything will happen to him at the condo that would be a matter of life and death, at any rate.

And on that note, Spot says it’s time to go cuddle on the couch. He’s driving me batty at the computer.

Questions? I answer ‘em! Most of you already know how to get a hold of me – the rest will have to wait for construction to finish! Sorry!

Sweet Dreams!

Lea

PS.- I just did a Search on the Telus site for “Dreams in Amber” because, of course, I’ve lost the URL (just occurred to me to use the link on Shep’s site, but if I had done that, I would have made the discovery that I did.) Dreams in Amber came up!! The first three listings were Dreams in Amber! MY Dreams in Amber! That was just SO cool! I’m tickled that I’m find-able! I even sounded interesting! Crap! Who’d have thought?

PPS. – 17:21 - Just had to share Jade’s dream from last night with you. He has no idea why he had it either. He dreamed he was Spider-man. No, I’m not joking. Spider-man. Being chased by the Hulk who was threatening to smash him with what appeared to be Thor’s Hammer. We don’t know how Hulk got Thor’s Hammer, but I’m sure Thor will be pissed when he finds out. Hulk said a lot of “Hulk, smash!” and Jade said he made the typical witty Spidey-like comments in return, but he can’t remember what they were. (Typical.) He said he noticed that Hulk was smashing the roof where he was so he lead him in a circle until Hulk fell through the resulting hole. Then he was in a high school clinging to the ceiling and blinding students by “thwapping” them in the face with webbing. He thought maybe they were zombies or something, but now he’s not sure. He says he couldn’t see himself as he was looking through his own eyes at the time, but he could see his hands and he was wearing the uniform. (The red and blue, I’m guessing.)

Why can’t I have vivid dreams like that? Or should I be thankful that I don’t? He said it went on for quite a while. I think I had one once but it was more like The Warlord/ D&D style. It was years and years ago. I was the leader of a hunting?/ war? Party … I had a bow and arrows and we were going through a jungle type setting. I remember attacking and being attacked. The dream was interrupted, but I never had it again … I wonder what it all was? There was another, but I’m sure I recorded it here earlier. If I hadn’t, I’ll find it and type it up for you. I know I recorded it somewhere.

January 13, 2006 – 16:42

So I’m driving around and I’m deciding that I like this truck very much. The first time I drove a truck (one of those Dodge Rams when they first came out) I felt so out of place. It was huge and I was not a truck person. Today, I felt like that truck fit me like a glove … once I figured out how to work everything in it. * LOL * It’s a GMC Sierra. And it’s very nice. It’ll be a good drive to Red Deer. As long as I don’t have to kill my passengers.

Lynne told me that I was very “poopie” the other day. She said she brushed it off though as she knew I was sick. I hadn’t even noticed I was “poopie” … I thought I was being rather cheerful considering the cold. Hmmmm …

I found a site that I had been to before for my web site’s clip art. I hope that I manage to put it back up soon. I miss my updates. I keep nagging Lynne for her to update her site because I can’t write in mine. Well, now I can write, but I couldn’t before.

19:17

OMG! The things I go through! I went and got the tire checked for the slow leak and bought a wiper blade. That’s what I was told to do. I also bought Jade a present that I couldn’t find for him for Yule. Damn impulse shopping. Anyway, I got home and found a note in my pocket … and realized that – silly me – I had told them to check the wrong tire. So I went out to try and get the blade on and noticed that THERE WAS NO ARM TO ATTACH IT TO!

Well, that would have been nice to know while the dealership was open! I’m gonna be driving in possible snow tomorrow … with one wiper blade. Thankfully, it’s on the driver side.

The things I go through.

I need sleep.

Sweet Dreams!

Lea

January 16, 2006 – 21:06

Finally called the dealer for the arm to the truck. I still have it. I still love driving it around. I hope I don’t go into withdrawal when I have to give it back again. It’s a GMC Sierra extended cab. Very nice. Engine needs a tune up and it has a few rough points, but it’s still a very impressive looking truck. I’m very tempted to offer to buy it.

My “good” clothes are starting to outnumber my “I can wear this to work in” clothes. It’s about friggin’ time! I had a couple of shopping sprees over the summer, and Jade has been very generous with my wardrobe as well. Either because I need it (he’s completely outfitted me for our ski trip coming up) or just because he thinks I need cheering up. I now own more lingerie than I thought I’d own in my life. And I’ll probably get more later too.

Speaking of which … I think I’ll go put a piece to good use.

Four days to go.

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Back to the present day …

I’m trying so hard not to fall asleep, that it’s not funny. But it’ll be worth it if I manage to get home before 21:00!

That’ll be nice … I’ll still be late to bed, but not AS late …

Gave Lynne a bit of a pick me up yesterday … or meant to. Made her cry instead. (Put away the torches, it was the good kind of crying!) I won’t tell you what it was, because it’s none of your business … if she wants you to know, she will tell you. So there.

Lynne, don’t forget Sunday!

March 18, 2006 – 17:43

Hokey Stinkmore … snowfall warning indeed. The graders are not doing a god job keeping up with it either. They don’t appear to be doing ANY kind of job, actually … what do we have working? Three? The snow has been recent, we should have lots of budget money for snow removal! Let’s get crackin’ on it!!

Jade barely managed to come and get me (and was not very pleased to find that I had volunteered him to drive a co-worker home.) Well, I had to … she old and very short and she doesn’t walk very well to begin with. Took her two hours to catch a cab this morning … she jumped at the chance to get a ride, so I knew it was bad out. We were fine until we got back to our own neighbourhood … somebody was stuck in the street so we couldn’t get to our alley and had to go around the next block to the other side. Got almost stuck at the alley mouth … then got very stuck in the alley just at our driveway. A “neighbour” from a block over was out shoveling and came to help us. I’m glad … Jade was making those extreme muscular usage, “this is gonna hurt later” faces. It was kind of scary.

I should take pics of the snow for Ellen and Mr. Bill … Where’s Jade’s camera?

Got ‘em … even got a ‘snap’ of Jade shoveling the front walk. There’s proof for ya’ll that he does it. ;)

Good thing the lamp post is safe with you, Ellen … I’d just lose it in the snow up here!!

Must go relax now … and make supper … and do some laundry … and take a shower and wash some dishes …

Well, that sentence started okay …

Sweet Dreams!