nothing new

Nothing so very new to report. I haven't dug on the root cellar any since that day when my back hurt. I plan to do so today, though, to keep the new muscle.

I started working on making stairs on the path up the hill to my mom's house but the one step I made failed utterly so I'm going to try again today.

In fact I should get out there soon before it starts warming up. It had started raining yesterday evening off and on but it seems fairly dry this morning. Not very sunny, though.

I have some pictures to post but I'll do that later sometime.

We got the estimate back from WBC and they are expensive! They want 4,600 dollars for our building materials! The siding alone was over 1,000. But they are generally more expensive than Home Depot. When we added it up ourselves we came up with between 2,000 and 3,000. After tomorrow's paycheck we should have about 2,100-something. If it was really going to cost 4,000 we probably wouldn't be building till next spring. And sleeping in that camper all winter would be completely miserable.

my turn

The neighbors called yesterday evening to say that a bear was coming down the road towards us so we got the cats and goat in. Victor saw it again and shot at it but he missed and it took off. I tried calling Tristan but the phone thing said that calls to cell phones was barred so I sent him an email. He replied saying he'd call his friend.

For some reason today it's my back that hurts. *sigh* I don't even have a good explanation. I didn't work on the root cellar that hard. And that's about the only thing I did yesterday that could have hurt my back. It's just kinda funny cause Victor's back isn't hurting today. Finally. After nearly a week.

So they're re-releasing Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter. And I feel bad cause all the newbies will pick it up thinking, "Wow, cool, a Maul book, he's awesome!" like I did 9 years ago. *sigh* I wish I could warn them not to read it. Yes, buy it, but don't read it. I especially feel bad for the little kids who got suckered in through Clone Wars and don't even know the movies exist. Though maybe that's exactly why they're releasing it; to weed out the Clone Wars kids. They'll read it, go into a depression, and leave SW to the long-time fans who became fans through the movies, not some barely canon cartoon with artwork that they praise as being "new" when it hasn't been new for about 20-25 years. Anyway, Shadow Hunter is depressing and will make any reader want to throw the book into a wall and cry after reading it because it is just that depressing. It is stupid. It is pointless. Now, mind you, I love me some Darth Bane novels, and I see Kreia and Vergere as being good role models. But this book is just awful.

I should know better by now than to post that I will do something cause I never wind up doing it. We did not have baked ziti last night, we had taco casserole. Maybe I can do ziti today.

It's supposed to thunder storm today but so far this morning it's been fairly sunny.

laundry woes

Yesterday I did some laundry. First of all I discovered that my wash tub has a bunch of holes. So I put a garbage bag in as a liner and that worked great for a while. Then I put the wringer on top and it wasn't big enough to sit on the tub but I didn't want to waste all that water by doing it over the ground, so I let the wringer sit in the tub which was a bad idea since it poked a hole in the garbage bag and the water started to slowly drip out of various places. So I put a bowl under the largest drip and whenever it got full I dumped it back into the tub. The wringer itself is pretty bad. You hold down a lever to bring the rollers together, and you crank with your other hand. Which means this is either a two-person job or you have to hold a piece of clothing between the rollers, press them together, crank, stop and move the end of the clothing to the cranking hand so you can catch it as it comes out. The wringers won't go far enough together to wring it out properly and after each one I had to stop and wring it out by hand. So it didn't take me long at all until I gave up and started doing it all by hand. Even Victor couldn't get the rollers close enough together. So I loaded up the socks and underwear (which were the first load) and took them up to my mom's set-up to rinse them. Her wringer is much better. Then I took them back down to hang. Shirts were my second load, and I washed them down in my tub since I already had water in there. The line for laundry hung down pretty far when I put stuff on it, even light stuff like socks and underwear were enough to dip the line from just above head-height down to chest-height. But when I was hanging it I got it as tight as I could. Maybe the trees I used were too young cause they do sorta move around when I pull on the lines. Maybe I just have to pick somewhere else to hang laundry. I kinda wish I'd chosen the spot Victor dug the outhouse hole in. Too late now, though.

I dug on my root cellar a little.

Victor did a little yesterday but his back was hurting too much. For how much his back hurts he seems to only be getting two or three days of work in a week.

I'm getting either thinner or more muscley, or both, cause my waist is different. I put my hands on my hips and my waist felt different so I had Victor feel and it is different. Yay! My posture is a little different too, in a good way.

I made us pizza the other night and chicken penne last night. Tonight is going to be baked ziti.

The laundry was still damp last night so I left it and now I have to go take it down.

cold

It is so cold this morning. It was rainy yesterday and there's predictions of rain today. And it's so cold. I almost want to make a fire. Yes, it is June 26th, and we're still running around in coats up here.

I hung my laundry line and we fixed some holes in my wash tub. Victor did a bit of digging, but he was working through a migraine. Apparently that hot chocolate mix we used in the frosting on Tuesday had sweet whey as it's second ingredient, and sweet whey is very full of terisene or whatever.

So, Tristan came up and hung out a little while.

Steam was having a sale on GTA: San Andreas so we both got it. It was really cheap, something like 3 dollars. I've never played San Andreas before, but it's fun so far. Not a lot of good music, though. Vice City has the best music. San Andreas is different in that you have to eat, but if you eat too much you get fat. You also have to sleep and pay attention to stamina. I killed someone and took their knife and have been using that a lot. I used to run around with a baseball bat primarily, but I really like this knife. Also, this is my first time playing a GTA on PC, when I played GTA:III and Vice City it was on X-Box, and then that one that follows Lance from Vice City I played on the PS2 (never finished that one cause I got stuck on the level where you're racing 4-wheelers).

bear issues

We went into town yesterday. We didn't get going till about 11:00. Someone had bulldozed the road so most the potholes are gone and it's sooo nice. Out on the highway there was road construction, though. So we wound up in town around 1:00 so we went straight to work so I could see Bonnie. I talked with her and Anita, I spoke a little with Virginia, and I got Dee to put in my vacation time for the next three and a half weeks (since I put in personal days too). Bonnie said she didn't know I did so much for her and she really appreciates it. I didn't know I did that much for her, I know I tried to make life easier on her but she helped me out sometimes too. Well, she said Zhaun's falling apart, he's working every day now, and he's already gotten in trouble for reports not being done that I  used to do. Dustin is stressed, I saw him, he was all stressed and rushed. Bret and Julie aren't really saying anything but you can tell they miss me. I didn't actually see Bret or Julie, though. Anita said they're realizing just how much I did. And Bonnie says I look so much healthier now. She's envious and I feel bad for her because she looked tired and old and downtrodden.

After work we went to storage, dug around for some things that were in there like Victor's handgun (dunno how that wound up in storage!), my silicone spray, and I don't even remember what else.

We went to this Badger Lumber place but the prices were insane so we left.

Then we went to Western Building Center and they said they'd have an estimate (for building materials for the house) by tomorrow, which would be today. We're supposed to call the branch of the store that's up here.

Then we went to the thrift store and picked out a few shirts for working in.

Then we went to Lowes where the counter apparently closed at 4:00 (?) but some other guy helped us.

Apparently Home Depot wasn't so nice and their contractor desk place had closed early too and no one else was around who could help, so I don't know what to do about that.

Kinda makes me wonder how people with normal 9-5 Monday-Friday jobs get stuff done. What, do they take a day off during the week?

Anyway, after that we went to Wal-Mart and got some things we needed like a decent fly swatter, sandpaper, tuna helper. And some things we didn't need like an ice cream treat.

We then went across the road to Costco and got some soda since 4.99 for a 24pk of Coke is an awesome deal.

Then we went back across the street to Ross and got me a sunhat. What's amazing is a lot of the hats are 100% paper. Those just fall apart. I know, I had one. I finally settled on a polyester one.

Then we stopped at a gas station and got gas and used the bathrooms. While in line for the bathroom I saw some soap that was green tea and cucumber. But I couldn't investigate it further because it was my turn, and then I forgot about it.

After we got in the house and it was almost entirely dark out that bear from the other day came back and started slapping at my car so Victor went out and was going to chase it off but it started charging him so he shot it. He got it in the shoulder and it took off. Tristan's going to come up and help us figure out where it went and he's got a friend on fish and game who he might call in, apparently they had to get a bear last week too. Tristan's kinda awesome that way, he's a firefighter, and he's done search and rescue stuff, and sometime or other he's going to Oregon for some firefighter training stuff. He knows all sorts of people and I believe he's like the captain of this branch or something.

So, I'm going to go sandpaper the rollers of my wringer and get laundry started.

tired

Victor was unable to do more work yesterday. He went out, picked up the shovel, and just about dropped it. He's still pretty sore today too, so he's going to take today off.

I started on the root cellar by myself, but I didn't get very far.

It is rainy today, with a chance of thunderstorms, so I'm not going to be doing laundry today. And as for digging, I'll go out in a little bit and see how muddy it is.

Yesterday we heard a weird noise and went to investigate. A brown bear was pawing at one of my mom's sheds. By time Victor had a gun ready (in case it started to do damage, or started to come after us or the animals) it had wandered off. Meh.I wasn't overly concerned. This is actually only the second time I've had a bear in the yard, the first time was when I was about 6 and one wandered through the corner of the yard. Everyone's always so concerned about bears, but they're actually not that big a threat. I mean, I wouldn't go wandering off through the woods unprotected, but I'm not really worried about them in the yard.

I don't know why I'm so tired. I could almost fall back to sleep now. I was up till about 10 last night, slept until probably 7:30 and I could go back to sleep again right now.

I got some writing in yesterday, it was really nice. I've got about 10,000 words on my story altogether. It's one I've been writing on on and off for some time now, and every so often I scrap the whole thing and start over but this time I think I like it enough to keep it. I'm sort of doing it weird where I write important scenes, and then eventually I'll go back and create filler for the inbetween parts. Cause Scene #21 has to connect to Scene #18 somehow so there would need to be two more scenes inbetween. I'll get it there eventually. Like I said, I didn't just start it yesterday. This current draft was started probably sometime last year or the year before.

Hole is done

I made a cake last night and since I couldn't find my chocolate frosting I used vanilla and put mint truffle hot chocolate mix in it. It's alright. I wouldn't do it again.

We worked this morning, spent about three or four hours at it. Victor started to hit clay on the toilet hole so we reckon it's done. I cleaned up my laundry area more, there's a lot of seemingly dead bushes that are really ugly and they all seem to be interconnected at the roots, and the roots pull right out of the ground. I say seemingly dead cause some have new bushes or something coming off of the base. I raked some and we'll get over there to mow. I'll probably do laundry tomorrow. I found a stump to set the wash tub on.

Once it got really sunny and hot we stopped for food and rest. In another little bit we'll go back out there and see what we can do, by then the sun should have moved enough that it'll be easier on us.

dehydration

We got the wire for our solar panel so we got that hooked up and going. It's nice.

So far we haven't really done a lot else. I got the camper organized better. And now that the batteries are outside I have more room for something. Not sure what yet.

I've been kinda dehydrated today. Need to drink more water.

The other night we made a building materials list and if we go into town we're supposed to price check. It would be a good idea to do so, probably.

The rain stopped and now it's sunny and bright.

I picked a general area and I'm going to clear it up and figure out just where I want to do laundry at. I got the wash tub all cleaned up and ready, there's just a spot Victor needs to put solder on to fix a small hole, and we need to plug the drain. I need to fix up the wringer, which is mainly just sand papering the rollers. And I still need to hang the line itself.

I found my crate of hair toys. Unfortunately there are no needles in there. My ribbon is there, but not the needles. So it's still going to be a while before I can do my hair taping unless I want to try some other method besides needles. I might even know where they are, I just need to look in the box.

I've been out of work for a week. Weird. But nice. I have had 10 day vacations before, though. But this has been so nice. I need to do stuff to keep from getting fat, though I think I've actually lost weight since I've been up here.

Working on the Land

Yesterday we did a lot. We picked a spot for the root cellar and there were two little trees in the way so me and my mom dug them up and put them in a bucket of water. I let them soak for an hour or two and then put them in spots I made for them. The one was in the middle of some dead trees or bushes or something so I had to cut out some stuff. Victor started on a hole to dump our, ah, toilet into. I used the pick to break up the dirt for where the root cellar will be. I took some pictures but Victor lost my camera cord so I need to borrow Steven's again sometime. My mom gave me a wringer and wash basin. I cleaned up the wash basin but now I need to work on the wringer.

This morning me and Victor went for a short walk and Bonecrusher tagged along. It was so cute, he would flop and then notice we were walking on and bound up ahead of us. I wound up carrying him a little because we think he got tired. It would be awesome to train him to take walks with us.

Today we'll work more on that hole and the root cellar and I picked an area for doing laundry in so I'm going to clear it up and get it ready.

btw, this isn't called Mosquito Mountain for no reason. *scratch scratch* At least the bites only last an about an hour.

slow mornings

I really need to start getting moving earlier instead of laying in bed for a while first. The biggest problem is the rain, but that should be going away soon.

We need to caulk and paint our shed. There's a stump in the house lot area. I am very slowly organizing the camper. Very slowly. After we get the batteries outside I can move the kitty beds over to the in-between the seats area and that will clear up some of the table. We've been eating out on the lawn swing because of the table being cluttered. I prefer being outside to in the camper anyway. I almost think I would prefer to sleep outside as well. lol

We went into town yesterday and stopped by work. It was late so Bonnie and Anita were both gone. Dee was gone too, and I had needed to get her to put in my vacation time last week. I did talk to Deana a bit who said Dustin would be doing better if they had a night person. Apparently Justin applied, which is good cause he's really good in dairy. He's been working at Super 1, not sure why he'd want to switch. But anyway, we walked past dairy. He was out of the pineapple, fat free, and large curd cottage cheeses and I couldn't see any backstock for it. In backstock I did see a few cases of small curd but no low fat. Either Fridays load was waiting to be broke down or he's going to be out till Monday. ee. lol Yogurt looked pretty bad too. Looks like the drive through pharmacy thing is done. And they put in "don't drive into the front of our store" guard posts. Which I think is a little unnecessary, we've never had issues with that before and all it's going to do is irritate the baggers.

I need to think of a tag title for when I talk about stuff up here, like working on the shed and stuff. Home, maybe? HomeStuff? hmm...

so cold

Yesterday we went into little town and got library cards. We also talked to the phone company and they want more info so it'll be a little longer, then it'll take about two months before they'll get to us.

We did other things in town too, we went to the dump and got some roofing and a dryer shell. Stuff for covering the battery bank. And we got a metal barrel for collecting rain water.

We signed up at the foodbank but about half the food they gave us was expired, some by over a year. Ew.

It's been cold and rainy and icky. We about froze last night. And the leak on the roof was dripping again, and we had to try and fix it last night, we'll just put tarps over the whole thing. But we were kinda miserable last night and some this morning. I'm wearing a sweater right now, and when I wish I knew where one of my bigger coats are, I'm just wearing a jacket when I go out.

My hair is so greasy from all the damp and stuff. Today's hair washing day anyway.

Settling in

I'm still getting used to typing on my little netbook keyboard. Victor's currently using my regular sized one to type since his fingers are bigger than mine and I can handle this little board better.

The first night we were here Atton climbed a tree and got stuck. I had to go up and rescue him and it took a while but I was able to grab him by the scruff of his neck and pull him down. Poor thing dug his claws into the tree, but I had to keep pulling. I think I might have ripped a claw or something. I felt so bad but I couldn't just let him run back up the tree. He started slipping at one point and latched onto my leg, I'm surprised my pants blocked his claws, but my leg didn't get even one scratch.

Otherwise the cats are doing great. Bony and Foxy slept with us the first night, Atton's been kinda aloof and sleeping in one of the cat beds on the other side of the camper. Foxy slept in a the kitty tunnel last night.

Yesterday I slept in until 7:30, came up to my mom's house to use the internet because ours isn't on yet. We had tea and doughnuts. (homemade ones!) Then after the rain stopped so we wandered down to the camper and Steven and Victor got the heater and stove in the camper hooked up. The fridge will take a while cause a squirrel or something made a nest in the outside box for it and there's nuts and stuff in it everywhere and we're still cleaning it out.

We also set up the lawn swing and I moved the hammock over by it.

I also got things more organized. I brought in the laundry basket and some more clothes. We have various vitamins organized in a cabinet.

It was cold and windy yesterday but that was ok. I wore knee-high socks, I have some on again today.

I made us taco casserole last night and then we had pudding for desert. We watched two movies and by that point it was about 10:30ish I think. Weird. I still woke up around 6:30-7:00.

Didn't sleep too well last night I was too hot so I threw off two of the blankets and then I was too cold and had to bring them back.

I have no idea what kind of tags to use for this entry. hm

And I need to find my crate of hair toys. All I have right now are my regular ties, little elastics, and pins. What I want are my needles and ribbon so I can do hair taping.

Here's our cars, the camper, and our shed. My parents built the shed for us and I am very, very grateful to them! My mom put a gutter on the shed yesterday.

This view is from somewhere by the front of my car.

And here's my handsome husband who promptly fixed his hair so those lovely little locks and didn't hang over his ears anymore. Bleh. I like stray strands.

This is the quilt Bonnie made us for our wedding. We actually added another blanket or two on after this, I just wanted to show off the quilt because our top blankets aren't as pretty.

As you can see here the bed isn't as big as our old one. I have more stuff on that shelf now, buckets of clothes mainly.

A New Life Begins

We're up at our new house now. We spent the night last night at our old house, but the mattress was right on the floor due to the bed being in storage. We got almost everything done last night, and I was up till 11:30!!

I took one last bath, using up the little bit of powdered milk that was left. And we came up today.

The cats rode up with me. Foxy in his own carrier, Atton and Boney together in another. They cried and cried the whole way up. Foxy overheated and was panting so I turned the fan on high for him and it really helped. Just as we were getting almost here one of them messed themselves which made them all cry even more, but I was going slow enough that I was able to open my window all the way and let it air out, which helped.

They weren't too upset about being in the camper. They explored, I poured them some water. After a few hours we let them outside to explore. Boney was happy and bouncy and running everywhere, but he definitively knows where home is, last I knew he was on the bed cleaning himself. Atton was a little slower to go outside, he was kinda traumatized and sat in one of the kitty beds for a while, but he, too, went out and explored a bit. Foxy hid under one of the seats and wouldn't leave the camper. He did go out for a little bit, but only in the area directly surrounding the camper.

I made the bed right away because I knew that tonight I wouldn't feel like it. Otherwise it's going to be a day or two before we're situated. Which is okay because we have nowhere to go so our cars (especially mine) can sit with stuff in them for a while.

Yesterday at work I spent a while training Dustin and I dunno, he might do ok, but I think he'll struggle a bit. I left Bonnie my email address and if he needs help he can ask her to email me.

At about 1:00 Julie called me and told me to come to the breakroom. I thought, "Ah, great, a going away party". Indeed. There was cake and they gave me a card they had everyone sign. I do like having the card, and the cake was very delicious. I just didn't like everyone paying that kind of attention solely to me. But they were nice about it, it was Julie, Deana, Dee, Bonnie, and Dustin. The cake had "Good luck Barb" written on it. I don't think the frosting was normal frosting, normally I don't like the frosting cakes here have, but this stuff was really good.

btw, Haunted Woods stomped Darigon Citadel and this amuses me greatly cause everyone was going on about how DC was awesome, DC must be full of cheaters, and we stomped them harder than any other team has this entire AC.  Not that I helped much, I got in maybe 4 games of Shootout Showdown and 2 Make Some Noise. The keyboard on my netbook is awful for Make Some Noise, it won't get me over 1,000 and you need 3,000 for a qualifying score to boost your rank! So I have my normal one plugged in. I prefer it anyway cause from work I'm used to using the normal num pad off to the right (10-key I think it's called? Anyway, I'm super fast at it, Brittany was saying that the other day, that I power type on it, course I kinda do that anyway with an average of about 72-74 WPM), and the keyboard on a laptop is always sooo small.

Speaking of Brittany, I did offer her the advice I said I would, I told her do what's best for her and don't worry about anyone else, that she'll get out or move up.

no time to say hello, goodbye

The visit yesterday went great because it was Renee who walked. If it was Howard I'd be dead. But Renee's really nice. She likes me. And she knows who does their job. She walked in the backroom, didn't look at anything, and told Bonnie good job. She didn't even go in my cooler, she opened a few doors out front and said good job. I like Renee.

I added it up. Tomorrow if I get off at 2:00, I'll be home by 2:15. Dressed and had a snack by 2:25. Out the door and down to the phone company by 2:45. Deal with them and the electric company and back home by 3:45, let's say, for traffic and waits and stuff. I was originally planning on one last bath on Tuesday morning before I left but if Emily wants us out Monday night I'll have to change that to a shower, so I'll need to do that when I get home, so when that's over it'll be 4:15, let's just round off to make this simple. I'll need dinner cause by that point I'll be very hungry. If we're in the rush of moving and stuff I'm not sure, probably something frozen I guess, so make and eat that and be done by 4:45-5:00. Let's sat 5:00. Go over the house once more, finish stuff up, get organized, get the cats situated, and get going by 6:00. Get up there by 8:00. Spend an hour or two setting stuff up and moving stuff around and watching the cats to make sure they don't run away or something. Let's say about two hours, so it'll be 10:00 by that point. Another hour to unwind will make it 11:00. And then another bit before I'll able to fall asleep will make that 11:30-midnight. And then all day Tuesday I'll have a massive headache from (1) getting 5-6 hours of sleep, (2) having woken up at 5:15 to get ready for work the previous morning which leads us to, (3) not getting to bed until four hours after I normally do so. Cause one can't change a sleep habit in under a day.

Also, it's 8:21 now and I have about 45 minutes before I have to start getting ready for work and I won't have more than maybe two-four boxes to pack into until 6:15 when I get home from work with more. And I'll still need food tonight. At most I'll have an hour and a half tonight to do stuff. I was planning on spending this morning, this evening, and tomorrow afternoon/evening finishing up so everything would be ready Tuesday morning. Maybe I'll just stay up till 10 tonight and go into work tomorrow half-dead from lack of sleep. That would work. I'll super caffeinate. But then if I'm up till after midnight tomorrow night on what was already a 5 or 6 hour sleep night the night before I'm in for being nearly unresponsive on Tuesday.

Wish my back would stop hurting. Apparently yesterday that muscle that keeps getting stuck in my shoulder got stuck and I had to have Victor pop it back.

52 1/2

I worked from 5:12am-11:19am. Altogether I actually have about 52 1/2 hours for this week. I am so tired.

I'm going to make dinner in a little bit here and I still have to finish cleaning off my desk. I got some done yesterday.

On Neopets my team stomped Lost Desert. I am kinda glad I joined HW because LD has been at the bottom the whole time. Winner's curse cause they won last year. Our big win didn't help, though, cause we're still 9th place.

yuck

The Great Value Oven Ready Lasagna Noodles are awful. They taste like they didn't fully cook, they were a little sticky, and tasted off. If you've had a frozen lasagna the noodles taste like the kind you get in the cheap ones.

51 hour work week, yay money

I worked 10 1/2 hours today, roughly. 6:05am-4:38pm. And Zhaun wants me in in the morning to get ready for that visit. He had said 6:00, 5:30 if I could, but I'll probably try to aim for 5:00. I had Coty again today. He came in on time, though. But nothing had gotten done since I left on Wednesday. Or hardly. I caught Coty having a 25 minute break and I tattled. His excuse was that he was cold. o_0 Whatever, Bret had apparently caught him too and told him that was the only break he was getting today. I hope he holds that up too, cause I only take one break a day. Usually it's between 15-20 minutes. And sometimes I skip it entirely.

It's going to be pretty bad at work tomorrow morning, but at least I powered through one of the pallets of freight already. Now I only have a half pallet from Wednesday and one more from today. And I told Coty if he's cold to do yogurt so hopefully that at least will be done tomorrow. I still have to clean too, I've told three different people to clean under the shelves and no one's done it.

I'm going to make us lasagna. I found noodles at Wal-Mart that say Oven Ready so I'm going to give them a try. I'm also going to attempt a half recipe. I just don't really know what to do with the other half of the can of spaghetti sauce. Put it in the fridge for now, I guess.

While dinner's cooking I'll see what I can do for cleaning off my computer desk.

My finger tips hurt, my knees feel swollen, my back hurts, my feet hurt, and my legs hurt. But I've only got three more days. If I work 4 or 5 hours tomorrow I'll have about 50-51 hours this week. It means my next check will be big.

Next week Zhaun wrote me for Sunday and Monday like we'd planned, and then on the rest of the week he wrote "Thanks Barb!" It made me all teary. He has Dustin 8-4 with "Dairy" 4-8 on load days. And I heard Julie saying they still haven't picked someone for dairy full-time. If Dustin has to go through July 4th with random people from the front end for his second dairy person I'm going to laugh and feel bad at the same time.

We got a storage unit yesterday and we moved our bookshelves into it. And my sewing filing cabinet. And my keyboard (musical). And a shelf we had had our board games on. My mom will be down tomorrow to help us move the couch and stuff into it.

It was hard finding where it was. We stopped in at this engraving place to ask to use the phone to call and find out where it was and the people in there were all, "We don't believe in phones." and directed us to some place that "allows phones". The next place we went into were very helpful and told us right where it was. It's a little back off the main road but not by much. It has an automatic gate and it was fascinating to watch.

I took apart my sewing desk yesterday.

The cats are all confused. Boney was wandering around where the bookshelves were looking sad, and he came up to me with these big, confused eyes as if to say in a quavering voice, "...mommy?" Poor thing.

Well the TVP (that we use instead of hamburger meat unless it's something like hamburgers or meat loaf) should be ready so off to do lasagna it is. If I'm going in at 5 I should really go to bed in about 50 minutes but I want dinner. I will stay up for dinner and skip breakfast tomorrow morning if I have to to get an extra few minutes sleep.

I have to go get real stuff done, soon

I'm in a big Zelda mood right now. I really want to do a Twilight Princess version of Zelda's costume. I've kinda wanted to for a long time now but last month I saw a tutorial on how to do her hair and it's actually really, really simple. Basically a small half-up pony with two side-braids and the tails braided. Actually I did side-braids due to lack of ribbon to wrap, but I don't think they're actually supposed to be braided. Dunno. I haven't actually researched anything on how to make the costume yet cause I know it'll just sit around in my head for the next few years or however long. My Mara Jade catsuit costume has sat around in my head for probably the last 5 years. I have a pattern. And I have fabric bookmarked. I have the muscle. I don't have the waist. Anyway, I have the right hair color and length to do a Zelda costume, so that's a plus.

Ah, I have fond memories of hanging out somewhere high up in Kakariko Village (not the tower, that's too high, I just mean somewhere scenic) and playing the song along with the game on the ocarina. (in OOT) You know, I love TP, but OOT will always be #1 for me. Almost makes me wish I hadn't packed my N64, but I don't have time for that anyway. I hear for the newer version you can get on the Wii and the GC they changed the ending. Which is stupid. But I have yet to play it for myself to see what exactly happened. Something about how time is now split into two lines and MM never happened, or was it WW that never happened? I don't know what everyone has against MM and WW, they were both really great games. I want MM. I don't have MM. I need to get it. I have just about every other Zelda game. Course, I don't have Tetra's Games, 4 Swords, the Oracle games, Spirit Tracks, TP on the GC, or OOT on the GC.

So far on Neopets my team's kinda sucking. We've been in 9/18th place for the last several days. I haven't done a lot to help, I haven't even played 3 games of each game each day. (3 plays on a game gets you neopoints, anything over that just helps your team and gets you rank points) I'm still a Rank 1. If I was going for All-Star I'd need to be something like Rank 8 by now.

long day

Another 10 hour shift today. Cody, who, I guess, is actually named Coty, was supposed to be in at 2 and wasn't. Around 3 I had Bret call him and tell him to come in. I finally gave up and left a little after 4. Apparently he's been calling in a lot and trying to get out of working sometimes. If they fire him I wonder who I'll have on Friday night. I might have another long day on Friday, which won't be good cause we want to move our big stuff to storage on Friday.

Tomorrow I'll really get pushing to get a lot done.

My teeth hurt on both sides. If it doesn't get better in the next little bit here I'll break down and take an ibuprofen or something.

Chicken and dumplings in the oven.

sometimes i hate choosing a title, lol

We lost to Krawk Island on YYB, won MSN, lost Shootout Showdown, and tied on Slushie Slinger. As always, here's my scores from yesterday:

Yooyuball

Goals Scored	308
Goals by Krell Vitor	34
Goals by Wan Dirx	48
Goals by "Brains" Mortigan	46
Goals by Zo Junior	180
Saves by Fanetti	111
Number of Wins	43
Number of Draws	1
Number of Losses	0

Slushie Slinger

Games Played	23
Top Score	671

Make Some Noise

Games Played	30
Top Score	7,631

Shootout Showdown

Games Played	101
Top Score	1,200

I worked 10 hours today. And now I want to go make pizza but I hurt and I'm exhausted. But I need to, I'm hungry. Victor's never done it before and he sometimes messes up these sorts of things (you know men, he'd kill the yeast or something).

I asked Dee (HR person) if I can use my vacation time after my last day and she said yes. So that's another 1,300 I'll be getting, just spread out over the course of three weeks. Plus my personal days will be put in too, I figure I'll get her to put those in next week since I only have two days next week. And then Bonnie's going on vacation the first week of August for sure. All that with what we've got and we'll have the house's frame (at least) up by winter.

8 days left, gotta pick up the pace!

We played against Faerieland yesterday, we won on YYB and MSN, tied on SS, but lost on SLS. Not surprising we lost Slushie Slinger because Faerieland has consistently won that game on every match. Now here's my scores:

Yooyuball

Goals Scored	289
Goals by Krell Vitor	34
Goals by Wan Dirx	46
Goals by "Brains" Mortigan	40
Goals by Zo Junior	169
Saves by Fanetti	103
Number of Wins	40
Number of Draws	1
Number of Losses	0

Slushie Slinger

Games Played	20
Top Score	664

Make Some Noise

Games Played	28
Top Score	7,631

Shootout Showdown

Games Played	83
Top Score	1,200

I cleaned in the bedroom yesterday. And that's about it. I don't know what I spent all yesterday doing! I really didn't spend a whole lot of time at Neopets. But yet... I think I couldn't decide what to do. I started to go through the halloween makeup I'd bought years and years ago but I couldn't find expiration dates on any of it. Deciding to look it up later to see if it might be toxic now or something, I went into the bedroom. I got sidetracked by a pile of old comics sections of the paper I had for some reason. I didn't need to keep any of them so I read them and threw them out.

I made meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and gravy for dinner. The gravy was really runny, I should have added more flour. I had some real onion left so I chopped that up and put it in the meatloaf. I really liked that. And while it was cooking in the oven it cooked the onion and they turned all white (I was using red onion) and soft and were just nummy. I normally don't really like my meatloaf much, but the real onion made it delicious.

AC Day 3

We lost to Kreludor pretty bad. We lost on YYB and Shootout Showdown and tied on the other two. eek. Still getting stuff done in RL so not a lot of time to really help my team, and I didn't expect to be able to reach All-Star or anything, I just hit Rank 1 yesterday, whereas a lot of people are aiming for a rank a day. None of these games take more than 3 minutes total. Make Some Noise takes 30 seconds a game, Shootout Showdown usually only takes 10 seconds at most.

Yooyuball

Goals Scored	247
Goals by Krell Vitor	32
Goals by Wan Dirx	37
Goals by "Brains" Mortigan	36
Goals by Zo Junior	142
Saves by Fanetti	93
Number of Wins	35
Number of Draws	1
Number of Losses	0

Slushie Slinger

Games Played	15
Top Score	664

Make Some Noise

Games Played	24
Top Score	7,075

Shootout Showdown

Games Played	72
Top Score	1,200

AC Day 2 Scores

Here's my scores from yesterday. Haunted Woods was up against Roo Island and we beat them in the three side-games but it was a draw on YYB, so I feel kinda bad that I didn't get in at least one more game, if could have made a difference.

Yooyuball

Goals Scored	168
Goals by Krell Vitor	17
Goals by Wan Dirx	27
Goals by "Brains" Mortigan	28
Goals by Zo Junior	96
Saves by Fanetti	63
Number of Wins	24
Number of Draws	1
Number of Losses	0

Slushie Slinger

Games Played	11
Top Score	651

Make Some Noise

Games Played	19
Top Score	7,075

Shootout Showdown

Games Played	50
Top Score	1,200

AC Day 1 Scores

The Altador cup started yesterday and as YYB (the main game, a sort of soccer style game wherein the goalie plays for the other team and you get constant auto-switching between team members, yay) gives you the most points I went ahead and played it. I almost did sign the boycotter listing but I didn't. I never played the old YYB but if it didn't have auto-switching then it must have been great. Most people were complaining about the lack of mouse control but that doesn't bother me. It's the auto-switching that bothers me. Yesterday my team, Haunted Woods, went up against Moltara and we won in all four categories, yay! Anyway, here's my scores from yesterday:

Yooyuball

Goals Scored	86
Goals by Krell Vitor	6
Goals by Wan Dirx	18
Goals by "Brains" Mortigan	18
Goals by Zo Junior	44
Saves by Fanetti	33
Number of Wins	13
Number of Draws	1
Number of Losses	0

Slushie Slinger

Games Played	7
Top Score	651

Make Some Noise

Games Played	12
Top Score	6,447

Shootout Showdown

Games Played	24
Top Score	1,189

I am still doing move-related stuff. I did some hand-wash only clothes and packed a bucket.

I finally put my Star Wars Chess Saga Edition pieces back in the box correctly. About 5 years ago I stupidly opened it up and played it. And then realized I didn't know how to put the pieces back in properly. You can't just dump them in the box and hope the lid fits cause the lid will not fit. I found a picture online of how the pieces fit. It was like doing a puzzle. But anyway, that and some other stuff went into another box.

I finally remembered to bring the rest of the cds in from the car and now they'll go in the box.

I've decided on a blanket to put around my serger I just need to bring it out and do so.

I started on a new conditioner for my hair. It's Tresemme Naturals Nourishing Moisture Conditioner, Aloe Vera and Avocado 25 fl oz (739 ml), and it's really, really nice. My hair's still drying but I really like the smell. After it dries I'll be able to tell how good it does.

Earlier it thundered so loud I could hear it in the store over a busy rush and it made me (and everyone else) jump. Back in Kentucky it used to do that all day. I do miss day-long rainfalls. Here it goes about 15 minutes then it stops for a few hours then starts back up again.

Victor went and had the propane filled today. He's doing pretty good. He ate something bad (worsteshire sauce, who knew it had anchovies in it? we had some on Saturday and again on Monday, so, yes, that means he was sick on Tuesday but that just meant we knew he'd be sick again today so he was able to try to prevent it) and was going to get a migraine today but beat it back with serotonin and vitamin c so he's just super tired is all.