It's Been a While - Update

I don't even know what order to put things in, since it's it's been so long since my last real entry... I guess I'll just write things as I remember them. My memory isn't the greatest, so I guess I'll just start with the most recent news for our family.

Adam got a job! I'm so happy for him. He isn't starting out with that many hours because some bonehead told the manager that he was still in high school. (Does he really look that young? LOL!) At least he'll be working, though, and when they are ready to give him more hours, he'll already have a position there. He's a cook at Pizza Hut. Tonight was his first night. Granted, it's not the best of jobs for a grown man, but it's a job nevertheless, and I'm so happy for him :-)

Poor Tricity, though, she's had a fever for the past couple of days. It goes down with medicine, but after a few hours, it comes back. Of course you wouldn't know it by the way she's acting. lol She said that nothing hurts, and she acts just fine. We took her to the hospital last night. Of course we waited about three and a half hours before they would even see her - nighttime at a hospital in a small town, how busy could they be? They said her right ear was just a little red, and tried to pass off some medicine to give her that was so bitter that it would make you puke. We tried that medicine before. Been there, done that, and I told them there was no way she would even take it. Even I wouldn't take it. Then they gave her this other kind that I thought was pretty good, but we still had to fight with Tricity to get her to take a dose... She's getting better now, though. I'm so relieved. I'm always sad when my baby girl isn't well...

Today is my mom's birthday :-) I got to go over and see her for a while. I should have baked her a cake, but I didn't think of it... And I got her a card I thought was funny, but I completely didn't get the joke like I thought I did until she explained it to me. It had balloons as the party guests with faces and everything, and it said 'Happy Birthday' and something like 'and the room fell silent as someone thought they heard a pin drop' and I was thinking... Oh, I get it... Everyone's quiet because you came into the room and it's your birthday so they stopped celebrating... haha, funny... But then mom explained it's because they are balloons, and a pin? Pins pop balloons? Then I busted up laughing because I realized I was wrong, but I finally got it. lol Sometimes, I can be an "air head". Get it? Balloons? Air head? :-p

As for me, I got to go to my first writer's meeting. I'm the first virtual member, I suppose, since it's held in Cape, and I can't go there for the meetings, so I'm stuck here in Perryville... My bestest friend Tahnee set up her camera and mic for me so that I could see and hear what was going on, and I had mine on too, so they could meet me and I could participate as well. I thought it was fun. I hope no one minded. I even got to participate in my first writing activity! We were making pass-around stories, where every person starts their own story and then we pass them on to the next person, and everyone keeps adding a little bit more to the stories. We used to do that all the time in high school, so it was a nice refresher and homage to that time in my life. We had a lot of fun with our stories back then :-) This is what I wrote for my first story in the group:

'Today was a hot and sticky, with the humidity as high as it was. I never did like the humidity. I could take the heat, but the humidity always hung thick in the air and sometimes even made it hard to breathe. The weather was much more pleasant when it was crisp and dry. Luckily, I wasn't out for long. I just wanted to go out to my garden and see if anything new had grown overnight. I walked under the trellis, my hand lightly brushing the daffodils as I passed. A flower bed had bordered my garden, and the flowers were already in full bloom, with bursts of color like bits of confetti, and when the breeze blew their scent my way, the smell was absolutely delightful. I smiled. I loved my garden.

The tomatoes were particularly plentiful this year, so I always had at least two or three ready just about every day. I gathered them up and stuck them in the huge pockets of my apron. There were some bell peppers and cucumbers ready to be picked, as well. I was so involved with what I was doing that I hadn't noticed...'

Let's see... My real life flower bed turned out great. I guess I need to make a separate post for that one so I can share some pics...

The 4th of July was a lot of fun, too. I'll have to make a post with pictures for that as well...

Of course we've been doing a lot of swimming, and I WAS making a video of that, but I always get sidetracked by something else and never finish all of the things I've started... I'll get it up though :) Speaking of... Can you believe how this HEAT is this year? It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so humid, but the humidity is killer!

We also went to a Renaissance Faire with Tahnee and her fiance James. Tahnee let me borrow one of her costumes, and she made a new one for herself this year. When I get those up, I'll post pictures of them, too. We're supposed to be going to a Pirate Fest (hopefully) with her in September. I can't wait to dress up for THAT!

Tricity's birthday was great. HOT, but great. Yet again, I need to put up pics.

hmm... let's see... what else has happened? Time goes by too fast, you know?

I've finally come up with a solid idea for a novel. I wanted to make a story involving real witches, but I wanted to keep it interesting, as well as keep it real. I don't want to give too much away because I'm always paranoid someone will steal my ideas, but I think it's a good idea, and I can't wait to write it. I'm just now getting started with it.

Come on, lottery! I actually won $4 about a week back. That's usually the highest I ever get :-p Any time now, I'll hit that jackpot. Then we can finally take care of things... Some of the first things I'd like to do is get insurance, get my teeth fixed as well as my family's teeth... Get our living will made and have our funeral arrangements taken care of, and then build my dream home, take vacations, and start a business. As long as I have my dream home, I'll be happy :-) Anything I want to do for fun will pretty much be built into my dream home. A grotto and solarium, a crafting room for Tricity and I to do all of our arts and crafts, a playroom for her with a ballpit, lifesize dollhouse, etc., a small home theater, an exercise room, a small skating rink, a gocart track, my mini farm with goats and chickens, my greenhouse, orchard of fruit trees, an office/library, Adam's massive garage and workroom, an outdoor kitchen, and other things :-D And it's going to look like a castle, too, because that's my style. lol

I've started a collection... Among my grandmother's and Adam's grandmother's things, there were a bunch of Avon bottles. No, I'm not collecting actual Avon bottles, lol, but I'm collecting the ladies they have. There are perfume bottles that are shaped like women of all different kinds (and I have a guy in a tuxedo, too) and in different colors. I'll post a picture of those when I get them all together. I guess you kind of have to see them to know what I mean :-)

Another thing I guess you could say I'm collecting is... mustaches... lol They are stick-on mustaches that I've been getting out of quarter machines. I slap them on, take a picture, and then pretty much put them back in the plastic ball I got them in, and stick them in the dashboard. One of these days I might show you a few... hahaha (doubtful :-p lol)

We had a little bit of extra money a couple of weeks back, and we went to the mall in Cape Girardeau and got a few things. Adam got some spike earrings, and I got some rainbow hair clips. I would have gotten red, but since my hair is red now, it would have pretty much just blended in... So I got some rainbow ones. Just like everything else I've been talking about, I'll have to show you some time.

As I stated, I have a webcam now. Me and my bestie Tahnee have been video chatting lately :-D we did it by accident one night and just kept it on, and had so much fun that now. So now I had to go out and buy a camera so I could have my video on, too. There's some special effects that we've been playing around with to make each other laugh. Sometimes I swear my soulmate was made into my best friend.

Let's see... what else? :-D

hmm... I hurt my toe a while back at the thrift store. I was opening a drawer looking for toys, and ran my toe right over, ripping the nail halfway... It's just about grown out and healed up now, so that's no longer a big deal... Just something that happened during the time I wasn't posting.

Adam's niece, I suppose I can call her my niece, too :-) , works at McDonald's, and it's fun to go through the drive through and see her once in a while. I've only got to see her once, but it's amazing to think that she's so grown up now. It reminds me that he and I have been together for five years, as of this month, actually. When I knew her, she was just a pre-teen/tweenage girl, and now she's already been through a serious relationship and is even past being a freshman in high school. And then I get to thinking - wow, my baby girl Tricity is already four, now! How can time go by so fast when it used to drag on when I was younger? It's not fair... I want more time in my life...

Two of my cousins are having babies. My cousin Luella is having a girl, and my other cousin is having a boy. They are even due around the same time. Maybe like a week or two apart. I'm really excited for them, but man... I wish I could have another one so bad... The whole time I was growing up, I'd never imagined it would be me who was the one to blame for not being able to have kids with my partner. I always thought that if that was going to happen, it would be the guy's fault, but it's all because of my hormones being imbalanced, and it messes up my system. I wish I could afford hormone therapy, but we don't have that kind of money...

My friend Tahnee is opening up her photography studio. Yay! I'm so excited for her! She's a fabulous photographer! She took some of Tricity for me, and I was in love with her work. I'll have to post a few some time, if I haven't already. Sometimes I'll backdate new posts about past events to when the events actually happened, and then you'll see them before posts like this, where I talk about updates.

Now that Adam is going to be working again, he mentioned that maybe we can put Tricity back in gymnastics. Man, that would be great. She talks about it every once in a while, so I know she remembers it. We just didn't have the money to put her back in, but it was a great way for her to work off some of that energy of hers, and hopefully she'll be better at listening this time, too.

I think that's pretty much all I've got for now... I'll work on getting those pictures put up and doing more updates, but I can't guarantee anything. Life just gets so crazy sometimes! So until next time... Ta!