~Leave the road and memorize this life that pass before my eyes.~

[lumy12]

I'm "Grandma sitting" right now, then tomorrow morning I'll head up to the mountains and have lunch with my dad. I'll have over 2 whole days up there this time because I took Monday off (but Dad has to leave tomorrow, cuz of Grandma). I'm not at all anxious about taking care of her this time like I was the first time. I'm a pro now! (heh - I only do easy stuff) And whoops, I apparently set up my autoreply email at work to say I'm returning JUNE 15th instead of July. Yeah I wish I could be off for 11 months! I can't figure out how to change it remotely. Bah.

I think I forgot to turn my CD alarm off in my bedroom, too. (Stad, turn it off if you want? Or just let the kitties hear an hour of Star Wars every morning to remind them of me!)

Some generous person over here has unsecured wireless that I've yoinked for the evening. But after tonight I'll be offline for sure 'til Monday night. Yeah yeah, it's not very long, I don't even really have to mention it, cuz it's not like I have regular RP partners anymore... but some of you will miss me commenting on your entries, right? Right! Of course you will! Yes I'll catch up eventually - just won't be as comment-y.

I thought about making a voicepost from the road tomorrow but I'll spare you the babble since I haz hacked interwebz. Is the text babbling any nicer?

I'll not be driving so fast this time. I didn't tell anyone, cuz I was embarrassed, but I feel like 'fessing up now: I got a photo radar ticket in a hick town! Star Valley - who knew they had photo radar up there??? (it's almost one of those blink-and-you-miss-it towns) $187. Damn. At least I was wearing my seatbelt! Anyway, that's the first ticket I've gotten since 2002. Not bad. And it was for 60 in a 45, at a spot where you have to slow down kinda quickly as you go from highway to town. (Yes, Stad, go ahead and laugh at me - I still say photo radar is a good thing and I deserved to pay the fine!)

I'm looking forward to tomorrow. I hope to get lots of stuff done during my solitude. Even if my creative juices end up not flowing as much as I'm hoping, I'll get different stuff done instead - it's all fun stuff. Either way I'll be enjoying the fresh mountain air, the peace and quiet, the utter lack of stress of any kind. Bliss!

Comments

[zigsternenstaub.livejournal.com]

Mountains! How very inspiring! I wish you boatloads of awe, fun and creativity!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's about as far away from home as I get these days! (2.5 hours away)

[zigsternenstaub.livejournal.com]

Sometimes inspiring sights are right in our own backyards. For example, I grew up in Niagara Falls, which is absolutely amazing (though I admit that I didn't really learn to appreciate it until I moved away!)

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Oooo Niagara Falls! Awesome!
Yeah, I know I take the desert beauty for granted, too. And it's shameful that I've only been to the Grand Canyon once, as a little girl. (it's far away, but still. not THAT far)

[zigsternenstaub.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd love to see a desert. Every image I've ever seen was so awe-inspiring.

As for the Grand Canyon...sometimes the most beautiful pain is knowing exactly how small we really are.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

azurien is really taken with the saguaros here. Just don't visit a desert in the summer!

Beautifully said.

[zigsternenstaub.livejournal.com]

What are saguaros?

Thanks:)

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

You'll probably know them when you see them: here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguaro) there be info and piccies!

[zigsternenstaub.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh, yes! The ubiquitous television cacti! Looking at them here, they are really are very beautiful.

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Psst!!!

On 7/19/08, on AIM, Wendy confessed to the following:

ChocoLion (10:39:13 PM): yaaaaaay all my kitties are inside!

I'm just getting the word out to everyone that Wendy has now admitted that the "outdoor kitties" are, indeed, HER kitties!!

I knew you'd want to know. *nods*

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

Awww... who will respond for Ani as Machi and several dozen schoolgirls try and convince him to wear a custom made dress if you're gone until Monday night?

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Do you know how hard it is to keep my inner Palpy from pouncing on that thread? LOL

...he'd be Anakin's hero, I think, actually. *snicker*

Ani's a goner.

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

lol your inner Palpy has to save Anakin?

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Um... more like, he'd be all over those girls. Ha!

Though, maybe he'd be blind to them if Anakin was around. He knows he's not allowed to mess with my Ani, but... still, he'd be there... and he looks exactly like his Ani, whom he misses terribly... hmmm.

*is clearly insane*

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

Imouto-chan's sanity is questionable. Machi is quite scared now.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

It's okay, tell Machi I won't let him near her. NOT EVEN IN A STRIKE-OUT COMMENT! See how nice I am?

Oh wait - is it ME she's scared of? Little old me? Bah!

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

Machi is afraid of Wendy-chan. Wendy-chan is the medium between Ani and Palpy after all.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

It HAS occurred to me that maybe I'm too quick to blame stuff on my "inner Palpy." That maybe it's just ME. Have you seen Notes on a Scandal yet?

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

Not yet... I'll put it on my to-do list.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Tell me when you see it and I'll tell you what I mean. Maybe. If I can explain it. (besides the quite OBVIOUS thing that should make you think of me...the boy in the icon!)

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll keep that in mind.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Oh how fun! Yeah Show Low is another hour or so northeast of us. Careful of the photo radar just before you get to Star Valley!!!

We would go except that would ruin our antisocialness. Hee! :P

Gummi sex = renfaire?

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Hee hee, I'm wearing my Ren Faire t-shirt that says "The floggings will continue until morale improves" at the moment. It's the perfect t-shirt for a to-do-list weekend!!

[(Anonymous)]

"Did you ever notice how when you're at home, your shit is STUFF, and when you're at someone else's place, their stuff is SHIT!"

(quoted to the best of my memory, said by the late great George Carlin)

-Brian
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And to Stad, cuz I'm far too lazy to make a second post on here and she reads every single one anyway so she'll get this, hmmm ... paying $187, yes, hooray, I deserve to pay it cuz 60mph is so damn DANGEROUSLY fast and I must be punished ... gimme a break, you're drinkin the Kool Aid. Fight the power!

-Stad

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Heeee, "Stad" is either me or my brother. We both call each other that and we are the only ones allowed to address each other as such. (don't ask) So in the above comment, he does not actually have a roleplay persona named Stad, he is simply Brian.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

I could have killed a child running into the street!!! I'm sure they put up that photo radar because they were tired of people like me thinking "oh lolz it's only Star Valley, in another minute we can go 65 again so why slow down?"

I was paying extra close attention this time and I can't BELIEVE they got me, it's so glaringly OBVIOUS.

You're a good cat-sitter, the house looks great!

The Burns guys are made of fail, though.

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

This t-shirt is from the Ren Faire held in Sterling Forest in Tuxedo, New York, not far from New York City. I have another I picked up at the same faire that says "Super Wench" across the front. The one with "The floggings will continue until morale improves" has that written across the back.

I haven't been to the Ren Faire in a few years, I really need to go again this year. We totally enjoyed it. First time I went I went with my friend Sharon. Somewhere in this house I have a picture of Sharon and I in period costume, taken at some photo booth, both of us with our low bodice tops on and boobs hanging out. Sharon was very pleased to actually have cleavage!

The last time we were there, several years ago, we had my nephew's friend, Dalton, with us. Let's just say that Dalton doesn't get to go many places if there is any kind of cost to it. He had a blast because "Aunt Deb Deb" just adopts all my niece's and nephew's friends and spends just about as liberally on them as on the niece and nephew! Anyway, we were barely in the fair and "Maid Marion" came up to our group and asked the boys if they could help her find "Robin Hood," and gave the boys a description. Seems seems this was some little game that was going on that day.

The faire's website says "The New York Renaissance Faire features over 125 performance on 20 stages and over 100 craftspeople set on 65 acres of beautiful Sterling Forest." (A map (http://www.renfair.com/NY/general/mapImage-04.html) of the site is here, if you're interested.) What that translates into the place is HUGE. We spent nearly all day running around after the boys who were busy trying to find Robin Hood because if Robin Hood truly loved Maiden Marion he'd meet her at the Kissing Bridge at 3 pm. Problem was there were SEVERAL actors all dressed in costumes VERY similar to Robin Hood's! You had to find the right one to relay Maid Marion's request. The boys did NOT want to go to any of the shows, go on any of the rides, etc, because Dalton was completely caught up in finding the REAL Robin Hood. We finally did, mission accomplished, right?? WRONG!

Dalton HAD to make sure that Robin Hood met Maid Marion at the Kissing Bridge so we had to LEAVE the jousting tournament, where we had FANTASTIC seats on the hill overlooking the tournament field, because that show overlapped the 3 pm time for the meeting at Kissing Bridge.

When we got to the Kissing Bridge a very anxious Maid Marion was worrying that Robin Hood wouldn't arrive, that he didn't really love her, etc. Dalton kept reassuring her that he did, he'd promised Dalton he'd show up. It was all very cute! Finally, just on the other side of the bridge Robin Hood appeared and the lovers met on the middle of the bridge with an embrace. Next thing I know, Dalton is yelling at Robin Hood that he has to kiss her because it's the Kissing Bridge. Several other people started saying the same thing (I suspect they had also been dragged into this game since there were kids about the same age with them) and Robin Hood and Maid Marion finally kissed (a bit reluctantly it appeared to me!).

But, Dalton was happy, and that's all that mattered. Huh...more than you wanted to know about the ren faire, I'm sure, but there you have it!

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Psst!!!

On 7/19/08, on AIM, Wendy confessed to the following:

ChocoLion (10:39:13 PM): yaaaaaay all my kitties are inside!

I'm just getting the word out to everyone that Wendy has now admitted that the "outdoor kitties" are, indeed, HER kitties!!

I knew you'd want to know. *nods*

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

It's about time she confessed to the fact that these cats own her too!!!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

You were just therrrrrrre - and you were just with Darth Goofy too! lol

I don't doubt that the photo radars are all about the $$$. But hey, what better deterrant? (besides jail time!) I shouldn't have been speeding, I have no problem paying the fine. *grumble*

Thanks, I will! I hope to read your new fic tonight but I'm behind on fic-reading... if I don't get to it I promise I'll read it next week! [insert pestering for Anabasis update here]

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

OMG that sucks! Stupid hick towns and their highway rapery!

"Good luck, man" - LOL

Awwwww.

I'm saving traffic school for the next time I get a local ticket. Or... hmmm, maybe the next time I get ANY ticket, now. Blargh.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, is this because I told you how lazy I was? (I really am. I'm horrible) If you don't have an Avon person you're taking business away from (???) then certainly, I'd love the order! You can email it to me (lumy12@cox.net) or call me and leave it in a message (cuz I'ma sleepin' now) or even just reply here if you want :)

Since you don't care when it's delivered... I'm putting an order in on Wednesday, and I'll be Grandma-sitting again the first weekend of August, I could bring it to you that Sat. late morningish? (Grandma-sitting and NOT going up to the mountains that time.) She's in south Scottsdale right off the 101 so it's pretty close to you.

G'night!

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Psst!!!

On 7/19/08, on AIM, Wendy confessed to the following:

ChocoLion (10:39:13 PM): yaaaaaay all my kitties are inside!

I'm just getting the word out to everyone that Wendy has now admitted that the "outdoor kitties" are, indeed, HER kitties!!

I knew you'd want to know. *nods*

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

the utter lack of stress of any kind

I shall SO hate you for that...especially on Monday when I return to hell!!!

Have fun!!!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

I know you will, and you have my deepest sympathies. *pets*

I hope to come back and find a fully crossed off to-do list on your LJ, young lady! Especially the one really really important thing!

Thanks!!!

(icon is for your boss, btw.)

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

I make no promises about it being fully crossed off...but I think I can make some progress on the Top Sekret Project!!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Indeed! *snerk*

I'll be sure to respond to your post after I slog through my overflowing inbox ;)

[emavalexis.livejournal.com]

For some reason, this post makes me want to start singing John Denver songs. o_O

Have funnnnn, Wendy. WE WILL MISS YOU.

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Which one? "Take me home country roads?" or "Thank God I'm a Country Boy Girl?", or maybe "Rocky Mountain High", although she's not in the Rockies, oh well.

[emavalexis.livejournal.com]

ALL OF THEM. I AM SICK. ;)

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Why would that classify you as being sick?? I love all those songs!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

It's probably the tag. lol

I did but I MISSED U TOOOOOOOOOO

And I have 80 gazillion things to catch up on! Yay!
(will steal your music tomorrow, r/r the QaF ficlet tonight cuz it's short!)