a lovely day!!

as of yet, i have not left the upstairs of my house since i woke up. this means i have not showered or anything else that most of you would associate with preparing for a busy day. i have done chemistry today. one more chapter down. (i got a 90% for those of you keeping up.) tuesdays here mean dustin works and i finish all the errands that didn't get finished yesterday (depending on how long chemistry takes me. today was a record. only a few hours. that left me with time to put on the duvet cover that has been washed and crumpled in the floor for probably two weeks. i folded clothes that were lost in the duvet cover and put away the clothes in my "closet room." i also wrote and sent my grandfather a letter, my old work and insurance got a letter too. i got caught up on my favorite hott mama's blog and that of her sweet, sweet spawn, big boy s as well. after this, i will shower and go to the bank. i will emerge from the house a success! it is like a caterpillar turning into the most beautiful butterfly. (i had to throw in a sick cliche that i knew would make the hott mama, herself, gag.) speaking of the temptress, her birthday is friday. it is probably the only thing in the world that could keep me away from the sex and the city movie premier (that and the fact that there is no telling when our two horse town will get the movie). i can not wait to invite myself over for a birthday celebration. i should make a point to call her to find out the when's and where's and what-to-brings. oh boy.
also i bought a hobo bag yesterday to sell on ebay. my shopping adventure with quinn, lead us to tj maxx. they randomly had hobo bags in the purse section. so i called my friend melissa (who makes a living off of ebay). she looked up how much they were going for and what i could hope to make. only one was worth purchasing and selling, but i hopefully, stand to make at least $50. now that should buy me a shopping trip for the future.
other big news includes the fact that june is almost here. that means i should be getting one more day off a week to do the chemistry--making my grade that much higher and getting the class done that much faster. also it should pave the way for the elusive rock band party.
at 5 our new roommate, rose is moving in. some of you will remember that she and dan came to visit us in berkeley. so you have seen her.
memorial day weekend is over. thank goodness. the farm was pretty busy. and though it made for quick days, i was exhausted. saturday, i also had one killer migraine to work with. that hasn't happened in a while, but it made sunday easy because i was so happy i could just move. so all is well here. now, i will shower.

things are looking up

i went to the dentist today. last time i was there to have a cavity filled, i could not use that side of my mouth for six months. so he fixed that. i also had to have him fix the cavity he broke while checking my teeth after the cleaning. but after holding my mouth open for nearly an hour, my mouth problems were done. i came home to sit on the couch, numb, but happy my mouth troubles were over, and watch oprah. dust came home a little early, too. so we took a nap. i woke up to my tongue itching the crap out of me. i guess that is what happens when your tongue is waking up from novocaine. all good though. i took a shower and then we ate at top of the hill grill with quinn and rob and her friend shenendoa (sp). we also got creamies. i needed a treat. when dust and i got home, we watched lost and just sat on the couch. it was nice. a pleasant evening out and then time with my honey. exactly what i needed. and i can use both sides of my mouth again when i eat. nice. i feel good. tomorrow we go to rob's pottery show. that is pretty exciting. i am pumped to see what he made while he was at camp in north carolina. this is the grand unveiling. should be sweet. we'll take the check book.

not all bad

finished another chemistry. five down nine to go. got another 80 on this one. i think that is ok. we have claudia bringing over some stuff today before she moves out of her house in boston. and alex is coming over. so things are better now.

my green monster

we are safe back here in the green mountain state. all is fine and dandy except one thing. my green monster is starting to raise it's ugly green head. here in vermont, we overlook a green, green field (where we plan to one day build a home). we are also both making money for the first time since november (green). i should be happy and wonderful. but i keep have dreams where things are getting stolen from me. this has been going on for about a week now. i asked my friend, hott mama what that meant, and she said something in my life was out of control. so i have been thinking and thinking what is out of control, and actually, there a several things out of control in my life. here are a few. i am used to spending long periods of time with my honey. he now has one day off six days on. on his one day off, he likes to spend it playing video games and sleeping. so i am green with envy at all the people throughout the day/weeks that get to hang out with him. i don't feel like i do anymore. i have two days off, but one is fully devoted to chemistry, and that makes me a little ill (green). it is a hard class and things keep happening to make it impossible to do. yesterday, our one day off together, i could have been doing quiet chemistry upstairs while dustin took a nap on the couch, but the power was out. so now computing could be had. i woke him up by sweeping (a job that needed to be done, but only has one day to get done). he was a little sour at me for waking him. i was at a loss, because i was cleaning the house and letting him sleep. stinky. (green). he explained that having tuesdays off was actually like having two days off because i didn't work. this made me angry. (green). i am a little sad now because instead of getting to tell him these things, he is seeing his grandparents, a job he likes, but has to work around his schedule. i know he loves the farm, but i need my honey in my life. i need him functional and happy. six days a weeks is killing me. and while he is working, he is fine, but he falls asleep early most nights. so i don't get to see him , or we have some amazingly crazy plan (this is good because we get to hang out, and we get to be happy) with friends. i am so happy to be surrounded by friends again, but for the first time in years (anti green), i hung out with friends while dust stayed home (green). i guess i just need some quality time with my honey. it will happen. in june.
sniffle, sniffle

vermont, a green state.

get ready to rumble!

for months dust has been after me to start singing a solo tour on rock band. so i finally started a solo tour on rock band. you all know that all i do is sing. so it is pretty much me, sitting in the house, singing in various pitches and octaves to hit the notes of various songs. i'm really singing, not yelling. and i am singing on the "hard" level. so be impressed. i think i am ready to take on gwen stefani. the hardest song i have come across so far is, "should i stay or should i go now/ if i stay there will be trouble/ if i go there will be double." it is really hard for me to sing that low. you may think in your head that it is an easy song. that is ok, i did. but it is so hard for me. so when we have guests, i will not rush to sing that one. that may have to be a quinn song.

also we are trying to plan a sleepover with all of the hott paquettes. i am so excited. i hope this dream comes to fruition. the last time we just got the elder two hotts and now we may get all 4. dorian knows the words to "dead or alive." we are set. i don't know if they know it or not, but i think that family should buy a bus and take that gig on tour. they've got their own band. they've got the world's most talented five year old drummer, the cutest two year old singer, a hott bassist, and a daddy guitarist (sorry jeremy, you have to settle for "daddy" as your adjective. but you are still way more talented on the strings than i could ever hope to be. so that must suffice for now.) i hope it happens. right now dust and i share one day off a week. mondays. in june this should change. we will try to get back to our luxurious sunday/monday schedule. i am looking to work 4 days a week until the chemistry class is over. so it may be tricky to get jeremy off of work when we are off work--unless this is a rocking democracy. in that case it is 5 (if dorian and sebastian are of legal rock voting age) against one. also we need rob and quinn in the mix. that way we can all switch instruments and no one gets too tired before 4 am (official rockstar bed time). good thinking, huh.

i should go to do the ol' chemistry. i must start lesson 5. as it is, i only have 10 more weeks left. thank goodness.

we are here

well. i finished section 4 of my class. i only got an 80, but that is still 10points higher than i need, so i am ok with that. things here are looking up. we got monday off, and i get tuesday off, too. that is the new chemistry day. the computer is up and going. i got to eat dinner at jeremy and allison's last night. it was so good to get to hang out with them. i don't think i have ever gotten the two of them to myself, so that was nice. the house is finally feeling like we live here. we got groceries and hung curtains. we're getting there. even our friend jess and her baby, daylin, came to visit us. i even managed to sleep till 10 this morning (not that that is a record or anything, y'all know how i am, but with no curtains, 10 is great!!) let's hear it for the curtains. we took karen for a mother's day dinner tonight at a yummy sushi place called shin la (or as dustin says, "shin ra"). it was a nice evening. oh. yes. today the last of the big boxes came in the mail. it had my back pack, some sweaters and rock band and the wii. if the post office knew what they were holding, i am certain we would not have gotten our box. luckily, no one tipped them off. it is good to sleep in this house on our bed. it is so quiet compared to our san pablo address. and our bed is the lap of luxury. we are on a busy road for vermont and maybe one person every 10 minutes goes by during daylight hours. it is so nice. we are thinking of building a house on the grandmother's land that is right across the road. so it is nice to have a chance to feel out where we could spend most of our life. so far so good.
i started a solo tour in the rock band game today. so far i am at least 4 stars in every song on hard mode. now that is saying something. i only sing. so you know any potential neighbors love that, but they are so far away, they don't know what is happening in this house. so i can be as loud a singer as i want. nice. also, you should see how happy the kitties are here. stairs to climb, windows to look out, their couch to sleep on, and empty rooms to explore. kitty heaven!
so i guess things are good. we have a schedule at work. we sleep well. we see our friends every day. it is good.
dust is happy to be back to work. he is on for 6 days a week. i did that in asheville, and it nearly made me crazy. i vowed to never do it again. so far, i am pretty much keeping that vow. and i am much happier now. i don't think the manix's mind too much that i only work 5 days. i am sure they would like more, but i think we would all be burnt out on me in no time. so all is well.
we miss our friends in california. melissa and andy are in arkansas right now. would be nice to be warm and tipsy. (i know they are.) they get to hang out with jamie, too while they are there. i am jealous. it would be quite a party to see those girls at the same time again!
meg's birthday is next week. shout outs to her. she gets to turn thirty. so that is nice. she is a doctor of anthropology. so she has a big brain. but she is still fun. i am sorry to miss that party.
forrest, if you are reading this, like you said you would, i should tell you jack told me the best way to get rid of aphids organically is organic soapy water. you may have to wash your chard a little more thoroughly, but you will get to eat it instead of the aphids eating it. also i want another jar of that chocolate sauce. how do i go about getting that?
lynette is back home and has eaten all the yummy organic food we left her. i am sure she, too, is happy to have her own bed and the snoring man and crazy dogs that comfort you to sleep when you sleep there.
love to all.

listen alla y'all, it's a sabatage!

since returning to vermont, we have seen friends which is great! we can walk to work, or ride our bikes that we rescued from the barn at the farm. we can do a lot of things (laundry--in the house, for example). but there are some things we cannot do. here they are:
we cannot take a fast, hot shower. the water system is quirky. you must let the water run for a good 5 minutes to guarantee a hot shower. otherwise, cold.
we cannot take the box springs to our mattress up the stairs. the way the house is set up, it just doesn't go up because of the banister/ceiling combination.
we cannot cook dinner. our pots are somewhere in the barn. we must get them.
we cannot go to the bank. we are working until well after the bank closes.
we cannot go to dinner after nine anymore. nothing is open then except bars.
until today, we could not get on the internet. i thought this was the most sabotage--ing thing because i need to do my chemistry, and being that it is an online class, the internet is key in actually taking the class.
also we cannot play the rock band. the big box we sent, is not here yet. it also has the wii. so no smooth moves, either. what are we to do with ourselves? the horror!
all this aside, i am happy to be here. and the kitties love their new digs. it is pretty sweet to be able to hang out with rob and quinn and have allison and the boys come visit at work. that never happened in california. and obviously, the internet is back on now. and we have cable tv for the first time in years. we get to go to ben and laura's tomorrow for a party. we have eaten all the cupcakes i brought home. so i guess it is time to get back to baking. and it will be nice to put that lovely pink kitchenaid mixer to work. sleeping on our bed is the most luxurious thing we have had in a while. that pleasure is not lost on the kitties or us. riding a bike is about the silliest thing i think i have done in a while. do you have any idea how ridiculous i look? so far only dustin and jack have seen me, both got a chuckle out of it. so. between that and not driving, i think it is worth it. the crew at work is pretty good. they all are happy and nice. laura is there and claudia starts tomorrow. should be fun. as for me now, i should go and take a shower. i gotta run the water a while. but i just thought i should keep you updated. love to all.