"By the pricking of my thumbs..."

Usually I don't do these, but I yoinked this one from tianaran

1. On your way to work you come across an old and ratty looking book with no author or title on either the spine or front cover. Being oddly drawn to the old thing, you pick it up and open it. When you do however, you get yanked into its pages and are now living the story. What story are you in and does anyone confuse you for someone else?

definitely something fantasy based, mostly likely one of Anne McCaffery's Dragonrider books, I want my own dragon damnit! 

I might be confused with Lessa, similar attitudes (she's accused of being a bitch on occasion)

2. You wake up the next morning to find yourself comfortable snug in your own bed and you wonder if that whole book-adventure was just a dream. You shake it off and head off to work again, this time coming across a duffel bag with a $100 bill sticking out of it. You open it and find that it's packed full of Ben Franklins. You decide to use the majority of it to build your dream house. Where is it and what does it look like?

Definitiely a castle, probably built by http://www.castlemagic.com/color.html  must be in the mountains, preferable it's very own!

3. Uh oh, looks like that bag of cash you found was supposed to be for a drug payoff and now both gangs are after you to get their money back. Unfortunately, there was a big story about your new crib and they know exactly where you live. What do you do to save yourself?

Two words...moat monster!

4. Damn, the gangs have breeched your defenses and are closing in on you. Suddenly there's a giant poof of smoke and someone appears... someone who can take down all your assailants single handidly. Who is he/she?
Like a piddly little gang is going to get past my moat monster? If they were that persistant, the Queen alien would appear in a cloud of smoke & goo and eat their faces, then the two of us would sit down for tea :)

5. Wow, that was a little too exciting, eh? You decide after such a stressful ordeal you're in need of quality relaxing time. What do you do, where and does anyone join you?

Scotland...and I'd take the whole darn lot of friends & family!

Years ago, when I was just a sprogling, I met a man named John Mayo. He was a real live, honest to goodness monk. He wasn't any ordinary monk though, he was a theater monk.

he directed all of the plays our school put on, built all of the sets, designed all of the lighting, and built all of the costumes. This man was unbelievably talented.

He's a big part of why I'm such a theater nut today. The only time I can remember him being mad at me was when I quit theater, and he fussed at me for wasting my talents.

Last night, I dreamed about him. I have Never dreamed about this man, ever. It was a nice dream, a happy dream, an encouraging dream. I woke up this morning thinking..."well that was odd, I wonder of Brother John died".

Well I just got off the phone with my baby bro. BJ did die, christmas eve. while this makes me very sad as he was truly a great man, I'm glad he stopped by to say goodbye.

Rest in Peace BJ, the world is a little less bright without you in it.

Well I had to give my husband back to the Navy last week, but at least I got him for 29 hours instead of the 12 I was origionally supposed to get him for.

*sighs*

I also got a call from my dad today. He has prostate cancer. He says they caught it really early, it hasn't spread anywhere, and the doctor is confident he can kill it with just radiaiton treatments.

but it's my Daddy...and the dreaded "C" word.

and my husband's out to sea...

I'm going to go and cuddle some kittens to make myself feel better.

*happy dance*

Husband briefly home :) Will update more later!!

Blargh.

I'm sitting here alone contemplating the burned out lightbulbs in my house. The master bedroom, both hallways, and the kitchen all have burned out bulbs and are verra dark. Unfortunately to change the bulbs I have to drag out the ladder as we have extremely high ceilings. Also unfortunately, I can't make the hubby do it. Damn...why did the stupid bulbs have to wait until he was gone to go out? Stupid lightbulbs.

In other news, I'm trying to play EQII (yes I know, it's a sony product and therefore of the devil) and having an exceptionally hard time of it because every cat in the house wants to sit ON me.

I love my kitties, love them desperately, but it's very hard to game (or type at all) when covered with four or five kitties. They take up a lot of space!!

Tomorrow is baby cat surgery day, so everyone's going to be pissed when the food and water goes away at bedtime, no food or water after midnight for Glynt. Sadly, the husband wouldn't let me get "Neuticles" for my little man, I think I'm more traumatized by this whole neutering thing than the cat is.

This morning, one of my friends poked me to update, so update I will!!

Today was a fairly busy day, I had a pulminary function test, (that I passed with flying colors) and took my baby boy kitty for his final checkup (which he passed with flying colors). Thursday he goes in for his surgery, then he will officially be ours!!

For those who didn't know, we got two new kittens, a little girl "Stabbity" and a little boy "Glynt". That is in addition to our three big kitties, one of my friends has decreed that if I add just one more cat I'll officially be the crazy cat lady.

Sadly, the house is very quiet because my beloved husband is currently out at sea *sighs*. So, I'm sitting here, surrounded by kitties, watching exceptionally bad horror movies!

...

I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to update this soon, or ever.

It started soon after the boys got home. We were all happily sitting here, playing on our assorted computers when I heard the most godawful noise I have ever heard in my life.

They were moaning. There were freaking MOANING ZOMBIES in my street!!!

We all flipped the hell out, grabbed anything that looked remotely useful, threw it up on the second floor and got ourselves up there. We blocked the windows and doors on the first floor as well as we could then knocked down the staircase. If we need to we can relocate to the attic and do the same thing again.

Hell, I should have realized something freaky was going on, the cats haven't gone downstairs all day...the little boogers wouldn't even go down for breakfast. smart cats.

We've still got power, plenty of water, and enough food to last for a while. I think we're waiting to see how bad this is before we kick in with the emergency plan.

(amusingly enough, we sat around with some friends one night and planned out what to do in case of zombie uprising...who knew we would one day have to put that plan in action?)

shit...just...shit.

http://myelvesaredifferent.blogspot.com/2007/05/blog-like-its-end-of-world-bliteotw.html

I have been defeated by a 6 pound cat. *sighs*

About two weeks ago, we took Jyett kitty (see icon) to the vet to have her girly parts removed. Needless to say I was a basket case about my littlest kitty getting major surgery, but she came out of it fine, was incredibly pitful for a few days, but was then just fine and back to normal.

Today was supposed to be the day she went in to get her stitches removed (which btw, she removed herself a few days ago).

This morning I got her 'kitty box' out so I wouldn't have to get it when I got home. The cat evaporated when she saw the kitty box.

I got home this afternoon and got ready to box the kitty. I gave them nice fresh kitty food, waited for the little booger to come downstairs, and *snatch* Aha! I had the kitty.

Took said kitty over to the box to start the packing process, and that's where it all fell apart.

That cat was not going in the box, absolutely, positively, not going in.

Now everyone knows that cats have 4 legs? yes? this is a commonly accepted fact?

Well i'm here to tell you that this is not true! when they wish, cats can apparently grow more legs!! Yep, my friggin cat grew at least 4 more legs to stay out of that damned box.

I tried to get her in frontways, didn't happen.

I tried to get her in backwards, didn't happen

Sideways? nope.

Hell, I even tried putting her in there upside down, that didn't work either.

I finally conceded defeat. I released the cat and she promptly evaporated again.

*sighs*

I called the vet to reschedule the appointment. After they finished laughing at me they said that as her stitches are already out, and she seems to be healthy, I didn't need to worry about it.

The cat? quietly lauging at me from her interdimensional kitty pocket?

Me? trying not to get blood on my keyboard and getting ready to mix a nice stiff drink.

Cat - 1 Cimry - 0

Well...we've had a busy few weeks.

We closed on the house Wed, as of 4:00pm on the 25th Havenbear and I own a house!! (and it's big...and gorgeous...and OMG does it need some lovin!)

The wedding stuffs are almost done!

Site? Check, Norfolk Botanical Gardens
Officiant? Check, one Wiccan friend of ours & a marriage commisioner from the city
Dress? Check, costumer friend is making it for me!!
Tux? Check, pick it up tomorrow
Reception? Check, Steak & Ale (no room fee...yayyy)
Cake? Check, An ooky spooky halloween cake!

Plus various & sundry other wedding related goodness.

Stress!! but absolute happiness as well.

It's all pretty nifty.

Havenbear & I have lost our minds.

We're getting married in two weeks!!

Yep yep, as of October 29th, we will no longer be 'living in sin'.


It's going to be an itty bitty wedding, BUT, next year, for halloween we're having a huge halloween/anniversary party!!

Will keep you posted on what's going on, currently I'm going pretty insane :)

Well I went down to the jail last night and finally got havenbear back at 1:30am.

1 hour my ass.

Supposedly, they have 3 hours to get them through booking and out of there.

It took 6.

I'm going to be making some phone calls and sending some letters, especially since it was extreemely difficult to get any information out of these people. The worst was when they tried to tell me he wasn't there.

But I have him back, he's fine, his command is outraged on his behalf and a tad amused.

I'm feeling a nice lawsuit against the landlord for this mess. I'm also seeing some type of harassment charges.

Well apparently Tropical Storm Ernesto left Florida alone? Why did it leave Florida alone?

So it could eat SC, NC & Virginia that's why!!

Stupid storm. It is pouring outside right now, the wind is kinda whippy & we're under tornado & flood watches.

*sighs*

Stupid Storm....

I have awesome friends :)

I got a nifty little package this week, it contained...

One VTM goblet with a pretty black stem
One VTM goblet with a pretty black stem and an Eye of Horus on it
One pilsner glass with the setite clan symbol on it (Anubuis head)

Thank you sooo much Corstis & Tessmc, they're beautiful!!

Well I’ve started my new job, and wow. I LOVE IT!! I’m now the Theater Manager for a community college. My theater is beautiful! It’s a 500 seat proscenium house with four dressing rooms, a practice room, a wardrobe room (with a washer & a dryer!), a “coat” room, (my little Florida born self went “WTF is that??”, a kitchen for concessions, a box office, and a looovely both!.

The booth has an ETC Expressions board ( <3 ETC), a DVD player, 2 CD players, cassette player, VCR, and (drum roll please) and absolutely magnificent 32 channel SoundCraft sound board! The booth is truly a happy place!

I have my very own office (and it’s huge) with a brand new work computer.

*sighs happily*

I can set my own hours; right now I’m working 7am – 3pm, because of the way traffic is over here. Once the season gets going that will probably change quite a bit.

On the home front, things are great. Everything is going swimmingly with HavenBear, the kitties are fine, and damn I miss my siblets!!

This pisses me right off...

http://www.local6.com/spotlight/9589707/detail.html

Not because it's strippers going tubing (which I think is actually a pretty neat idea) but because of this quote from one of the City Councilmen.

**"I'm really disappointed that this is going to occur on Sunday when people should be in church," he said. "I hope they behave themselves and keep their clothes on, but I'm not sure they will because strippers are trained to take off their clothes."**

What the hell?? people should be in church?? I guess he missed that whole "freedom of religion" thing, or he just assumes that everyone in his little town is Christian...The "trained to take off their clothes" part sounds like he's talking about dogs.

Damn people piss me off.

This world we live in is so incredibly fucked up sometimes.

http://www.local6.com/news/9524308/detail.html

Why did they let this man out on bail!!!! and where did he get a gun??

*sighs*


I'm going back to Wow...some hordeys need to die.

Wow. I suck at updating my journal *grins*

I have a new job!! *happy dance* While I really like working for the abortion clinic, it unfortunately does not pay that well. Not to mention the fact I'm still paying for my lovely theater degree, so using it for something would be kinda nice.

My new job is as the Theater Manager for one of the community colleges around here. That's right, I once again have my very own theater to play with. Yayy!! it's mine!! all mine!!..

ahem.

The pay is fairly nice, and it has full medical and dental benifits, oh, and a retirement plan (although the chances that I'll be there long enough to really take advantage of that are kinda slim).

For clinic news, our protesters are getting more numerous, and obnoxious. They've started taking pictures of everyone going into the building. *sighs* We're in fairly large office building, it contains our clinic, a dentist's office, a jewlery store, a computer company, a security company, a hair salon, a real estate office, a morgage company, and a restraunt supply store. I'm certain those people just loooove having their pictures taken, and being told how terrible they are for "going into the abortion building!!"

I've started taking my camera to work, and every time they take a picture of me, I take a picture of them. They don't seem to like that very much, which means I'll have to keep doing it!

For Diablo226....

I asked someone else to give me this answers, so in return I'm posting here.

If you comment on this post:
1. i’ll respond with something random about you
2. i’ll challenge you to try something
3. i’ll pick a color that i associate with you
4. i’ll tell you something i like about you
5. i’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. i’ll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. i’ll ask you something i’ve always wanted to ask you
8. if i do this for you, you must post this on yours

Just an interesting tidbit from the Florida news (which I check fairly often) I still don't understand why they wanted him to kill the dog.

http://www.local6.com/news/9296581/detail.html

people are nuts, absolutely friggin nuts.