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finished!

i met up with denton at chatters to have a drink after my presentation. then angel and ben met up with us. then april and alisha called and they joined us. then they called jamme and he joined us.

this was supposed to be a little celebration drink for us as we (angel, ben and i) had all finished our senior presentations and the stress was over!

after a few drinks we decided to switch venues and headed to 505 to play a few games of pool and sit on the patio (the girls stopped and picked me up some different clothes when they changed because because have you ever tried to play pool in a suit and 2 inch stilettos?)…

after finding out that denton is a pool shark (as well as a few more drinks)…

we concluded our tour by visiting 5th street downstairs then dancing upstairs.

yes.

dancing.

this is the amount of alcohol i had in my system: i actually danced. a lot.

oh yes, there are more photos. oh no, i am not going to post them.

thffpt!

was poured out of friend’s car around 1am (i think) and opened the door to be confronted by a very cranky kaya doing the pee dance. a few minutes wandering outside while she took care of her needs and i watched the stars (they’re spinning, how odd…) and i then collapsed into bed after skyping jason and making him talk to me while i was completely incomprehensible.

note to self: do not drink and skype.

in conclusion: do not start drinking at 3pm in the afternoon. ever.

people kept trying to call me this morning. i attempted to turn off my phone but could not manage it due to complete lack of coordination so ended up sticking it under the mattress. mom tried to buzz me on yahoo. i stumbled over to the computer and turned down the volume then went straight back under the covers.

now i know why i have not gone out in a long time. great night; bad, bad morning.

austin picked me up this afternoon and took me to get my car. i stopped for some hangover recovery food (medium orange slush and large chili cheese fries from sonic)and proceeded to return home and crawl into bed. okay, i also picked up some chinese takeout. leave me alone, i did not want to cook. for the entire weekend.

13 days to go.

hibernation mode has set in.

non-random quote of the day:

Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.–Mahatma Gandhi

is a very very very nice house.

i have petunias and pansies blooming currently. the lilacs just finished. the butterfly bush is starting to bud. the ivy has shaken off its dark mutterings and is starting to grow fresh green leaves which are snaking their way around the house. birds have again taken up residence in the nest which has been in a corner of the carport since we first moved in. the lawn is mowed, the seeds are planted, fence put up to keep away the quizzical neighbor puppies as well as the divine miss k’s sudden need to bury any treasure she comes across. we ourselves found a buried treasure consisting of a two-part barn door in the garage last week and turned it into a table for the front porch. although the garden will not be planted this year, we did not forget the back porch where seeds of sweet peas and sweet williams were dutifully plopped down and patted in. i sit in my empty house with kaya on the bed looking at me uncertainly as i sit here and laugh and cry and generally confuse her with sudden shifts of emotions. going through the big plastic tubs of memories that my dad will take away to storage in may. years of stuffed animals, photos and trinkets which meant so much to me at one time or another. how can my life fit in a few plastic boxes? in a few short months these few plastic boxes will be all that is left of my life here. pictures and trinkets which i will bring out again in another place at another time and wonder again how my life which has contained so much, can still fit into a few boxes to be shifted around.

of course, you have to understand that when it comes to packing i am almost unequaled…those boxes are damn full of stuff.

*grin*

only slightly sunburned…sunburnt? not sure and do not care at this point.

semantics aside, let me give you a quick update:

friday-
austin and jamme came over and helped me clean out the entire garage! also helped me plant flowers, seeds and put on window screens.

went to the blessing of the bikes street dance with the entire “family”

watched movies with austin all night and drank hennessey (new experience) with a couple of nigerian friends; stayed up way too late (it included a viewing of fiddler on the roof…do not ask)

saturday-
recovered from previous night’s fun time
austin very nicely brought in the mail and laughed at me as i was unable to get out of bed for even a brief moment until about 1pm. have to love your friends.

roger weed-eated, danielle weeded the flower boxes, i eventually picked myself up out of bed & mowed the yard and marty did about 1,000 other things that needed to be done to the house.

went to a friend’s house and had dinner, stayed up too late once again watching scarface.

pictures from friday and saturday are here in a downloadable .rar file

sunday-
jamme and austin came over yet again and put hinges and locks on the doors to the garage.

they also pulled out a root from under the carport with austin’s blazer. fun was had by all.

we planted more seeds and petunias.

photos from sunday are here.

jen: i hope everything goes well with selling your house and moving. best of luck!

sorry the stagger has been so quiet lately. it is bound to be so for the next few days at least due to a lot of school assignments being due and so on and so forth. please do not abandon your favorite watering hole. i am sure that once this week is over it will be back to the normal inane mutterings and rants!

not having a job is fun.

*grin*

still in kansas, toto.

despite the numerous tornados and bad weather we experienced here tonight, we have come through with flying colors.

okay, to tell the truth: kaya, the harddrive, the safebox and myself were swiftly escorted and esconced in austin’s mother’s home. after four hours of listening to tornado sirens and a few hail marys (which i may now know by heart thanks to austin) we have all now returned to our fair home. no worse for wear, just a bit tired is all.

resuming our original plan of movies and dinner, albeit at a much later time than originally anticipated, austin and i curled up on the bed and proceeded to watch our movies. well, part of them. several hours, a movie and several phone calls later: austin was soundly asleep as i muttered away into the phone while trying not to disturb him.

mutterings aside, it was a dramatic night as my petunias, sweetpeas, lavender, sage, lemon balm, chives, basil and dill had been planted with care with help from the boys (jamme and austin). the tornado came close and then took a powder. kaya has decided that tornado sirens are not fun. my time on the phone was informative, interesting and just a touch double-edged. now i am off to bed. to curl up with kaya and imagine that i may be able to stay awake during class tomorrow.

allen: bordeaux sounds excellent.
steimes: i may eat your cracker jacks. send me your address or they are mine for the molesting.
fromage: get a spare key and no more popcorn.
hedo, krisa-tina, jen: where the hell are you?

random quote be damned, this one is picked ripe for my pleasure:
Plan for the future because that’s where you are going to spend the rest of your life.–Mark Twain

plan better.

plan for the unexpected that is.

suddenly without a job and it feels very odd. okay, i did it to myself since i walked in there with a gentle piece of paper which said “bye bye bye”.

is not quite how it went, but it will work for descriptive purposes.

turned in my huge project yesterday and feel all the better for it. now i just have to get in gear with everything else and i will be sweet as orange marmalade.

april’s birthday party was last night. it was a blast, i’ll get some photos up here at some point.

tonight is off limits to everyone. i get a little ‘grace’ time with my ‘will’.

cheyne’s birthday is tomorrow night. (hee hee, he is getting old!)

saturday night i get to give mart a “honey-do” list a mile long and run away quickly before he explodes

three weeks of school until i am a free woman.

well, kind of free.

towards the end of the year before i am officially a divorcee.

is this not the cat’s meow?

muah ha ha ha

as i am busy working on a project which is due tomorrow! ack! four weeks left. less than that…oh dear, oh dear, oh dear…i sound like the rabbit off of winnie the pooh.

with that i am going back to my homework because it is so much FUN!

most inane quote ever:

You always find things in the last place you look.–Anonymous

suggest that no more live links are posted?
maybe start using h++p://site.etc instead of http://site.etc
i don’t know if this system has an option of posting urls as text and not a hyperlink
people could just copy and paste links to their browsers.

did you read the news today? a farmer won the nobel prize without trying…he was outstanding in his field.

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