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I've got the Bonsai Bros squared away & I'm now working on configuring the Velvetpaw siblings and my camera into the carry-on bag.

I'm wondering how I'm going to fit 5 Rhubarb tarts in there as well?? >D

Anyway, after I took this shot I found Willow's own face-mask and put Samuals' back in the drawer. The next step is to attack my own packing.

And yes....like usual I'm packing clothing for 5.

*shakes head at the irony*

So here is as best a picture I can get for you of the final product of this tiny room that while small on space is LARGE on purple. The wall behind the door is white, while the end walls (door/window) are that lighter shade or grape and well....yeah then there is that dark one. EIGHT COATS of dark purple I might add....atop 4 coats of white. =__=

ANYway yep yep...another project under my belt. Next summer I tackle my own bedroom with a helava lot more weird angles, 4 x bigger and all wall papered drywall that wasn't sized so it will be a LONG project to remove the 30+ year old floral print stuff before I attempt the joy of painting.

I think...I will be using a roller on portions of that one.

But that's in 2010. For now I can say *I did it* and move onto painting the front porch in July aswell as the parging along the base of the house.



( ....other projects )

So on Thursday I'm off to Vancouver for some mental R&R from reality.

I've got pretty well everything on my list done that needed to be checked off ~ with the exception of last minute chores that have to wait till the last day anyway (ie., picking-up some rhubarb tarts & bakalava from the local bakeries for my pc techboy), lay out the schedules for everyone since they don't actually live here and have a clue... and packing.

YES that means the walls ARE DONE! Or at least what I intend to do in the way of painting is completed. I leave the furniture moving and arranging to the teens. It's THEIR dressingroom afterall.

It will be good to get away from online doll forums for a bit ~ I have been keeping to the threads involving tinies for the most part ~ because collectors of the small resins seem to me to be the most laid back and least self-absorbed of the bunch. It's all about the cute ~ period. I can't seem to disengage my temper completely so time to just disengage period, and pull the plug for a few weeks.

That doesn't mean no dolls though. The Feline siblings and Bonsai Boys are travelling with me, and I will be meeting up with the owner of the online dollshoppe, Featherfall while out in BC ~ which I am very much looking forward to. On the other hand my mother is insisting I look up my fathers' cousin which just makes me cringe. WHAT is the daughter of a former AD-man supposed to say to the man who invented National Buy Nothing Day??? The mind boggles.....


Anyway I will probably be posting daily while I'm away to keep you abreast of any adventures (or misadventures) :)

Okay...off to fold laundry (not going to miss that I can tell ya)

Resinsoul has come out with a large doll that has the ears and removable horns of a dall sheep.

Now a much more expensive doll company, Soom, which produces monthly limiteds has done a theme with hooved and horned doll people in the past and there is a minor fluff-up in some forums about RS copying Soom....because as we all know, themes are exclusive.

Only ONE company has the right to make elves and only ONE company has the right to make vampires and only ONE company can make....

The point is, no one on the planet is going to mistake a $1200 US doll for a $200 one. Just the existence of animal horns does not mean copying and the fact that this doesn't even begin to resemble the expensive doll remotely (no hooves, no elf ears), so tossing around accusations of plagerism is rather simple minded. I don't see anyone screaming angrily at Souldoll for creating a centaur when Domadoll has offered ones for years.

As a matter of fact, there are companies that have been offering magnetic demon/goat/pan horns that you can attach to ANY doll for ages. I find this to be ridiculous to think that one company invented the concept.

What Resinsoul did was sculpt their own version of horns and married it with a head with PAN ears which IS unusual. I rather like the ears but have no interest in either the horns nor the doll.....but I still am annoyed with the way some people are ready to cry copyright theft so fast. Horns are quickly moving into the same area that detachable cat ears are in DOLLYworld..hardly uncommon.

What IS uncommon about cat ears...is when they occur on dolls like my Willow and her brother Kutla...because Dollzone did something OTHERS hadn't (and still haven't) and that is ~ remove the human ears. Ironically 99% of the people that see them don't realize how unusual they are until I pull back the hair to reveal....nothing at all. XD...

ANYway..yep it's all a lot of self-righteous bleating in Dollyworld. Same old, same old. ;)

When I was a kid, before the country was converted to the metric system, milk was sold in gallon jugs.

My mother would bring a fresh one home and occasionally the *milk guzzler* in the household (me) would open a new jug, stop dead in my tracks and refuse to drink it.

I'd swear it was going sour and go without milk until a new jug was in the fridge.

My mother thought I was being ridiculous because it tasted fine to her ~ until she realized that each and ever jug of milk I refused *turned* sour within 3 days and it was poured down the drain.

I have always been the *milk canary* in our household because my sense of smell and taste really IS that sensitive.

Growing older I was told my palette would peak and then become less sensitive but....somewhere along the way I'd read about sommeliers and how their taste is at it's prime from their 40s through 50s. While I remained skeptical I am now forced to accept the fact that I'm in for a long, annoying decade.

If the badly designed/located drip pan under the fridge is getting funky I can smell it about THREE WEEKS before it starts to affect the family and I need to pull the unit out of it's spot, remove the back panel and start the long process of cleaning the thing with vinigar.

If my eldest spritzes a perfume on herself behind closed doors at the other end of the house, on another floor ~ I know in about 2 seconds.

The other night I was sitting on the couch watching tv with the husband and suddenly sat up, rigid and sniffing the air like a dog. Teh Bob asked me if I was okay and I nodded...but sat uneasily because I'd smelt something chemical and floral float by and the teenagers were both out. After a moment my brain classified it and at the next commercial I bolted upstairs to my sons' bedroom.

Opening his bedroom door I saw that he was asleep and on the floor in the middle of the room was a can of Febreeze....(I didn't buy it, the teens did)

Yesterday my eldest apologized as we wandered around the fabric store, for still reeking of the roasted garlic she'd indulged in THREE DAYS earlier. I could smell it coming off her body in WAVES when she walked by me and she said her boyfriend couldn't understand what I was talking about because he couldn't smell it at all.

Did I mention I can smell myself and avoid certain foods because it turns me off and I just can't get away from my own skin??

I was reminded of this when I walked by a tree in full bloom this morning at 6 a.m., and was hit by an overpowering cloying floral fragrance. It was strong but not nearly as bad as something that I smell when I walk past another house in the opposite direction ~ an odd smell that is like a whiff of ozone but could just be the undernote of some plant's blossom that I now find irriating. Assuming the source is natural. When it's not then I'm in trouble. Heavy duty cleaners in places like schools, hospitals and public swimming pools almost bring me to my knees. When my mouth feels as though I'm sucking on iron....it's never a good thing.

Artifical fragrances trigger headaches and my nose runs like a faucet was turned on full..the daughters have learned to not spritz till they leave the building and NEVER if they are being driven someplace by myself, because I HAVE forced them to open their windows all the way in the middle of the winter. The irony is that I burn several sticks of Japanese incense a day. It's simple enough to conclude that naturally occuring ingredients/scents are better for us than the chemical soup we insist on swimming in and the growing number of people with scent sensitivities is a reflection of that fact.

I have to chuckle a bit when I consider that I rank the smell of horse manure on a breeze across a pasture or in a barn as much more pleasing than most any perfume on the market ~ I can smell the hay in it which makes it very sweet compared to that of omnivores like pigs and chickens, with their confined lifestyles and highly concentrated grain and additive laden food sources. When most people wrinkle their noses I breath deep and smile.

It's no wonder that the Japanese find Westerners rancid. We eat like pigs.

Yesterday ~ as I winced at my eldest's sour garlic scent, I was interested in the fact that she could no longer smell her stinky rose reek, but she'd be able to do so for the first two days. I wondered if she's on the same track as myself. Will her sense of smell continue to improve as she ages?

Later in the day the other teen was complaining about the BURN of salt in her organic Bran Flakes. The cereal was already low in salt but it was still too much for her. I picked up two types of whole grain cereal for her that contained NO added sodium and she is finally satisfied. I have to mention that while I cook with small amounts of salt, there is never a salt shaker on my table.

....and for breakfast I have freshly steamed rice ~ plain, every morning. Yes I do like the flavour of rice as a matter of fact. So does my son.

Speaking of which, at the same time I was purchasing the cereal, I picked up some fresh salmon and told the Japanese fish monger that I wanted it with the skin on since my son loves the grey layer (of fat) between the skin and the flesh. She stared at me in surprise before exclaiming that he has a very good sense of taste ~ JUST like the Japanese. *0__0!!!

....sorry kids. Your genetics are showing.

Today started off with the usual run around for the groceries and a stop at the post office. Then it was off to the fabric store with the eldest to let her root around for fabric and notions as she's about to embark on her first sewing project. My father gave her his mother's old Elna sewing machine and she's quite pumped about it all. :)

Upon our return I removed the wooden *mold* from the concrete my father and I poured last week, and the step seems to be good :)

I also planted another row of carrots, re-planted some pumpkin & yellow zucchini seeds (and caged them in ) and ....put the final coat of light purple paint on the end walls.

Tomorrow, after kaffeklatch, I will remove the tape...see what bits need to be fixed and proceed with the long wall that will be dark purple. I see 6 layers of aubergine in my future... I will have to do this painting without tape at the ends since I don't trust myself not to screw up the yet *uncured* paint/

The weather has been changable & it's almost autumnlike around here with the temperature barely making it to 18C during the day, if at all. When I say *changeable*, I mean that the yo-yo-ing of the atmospheric pressure, as the weather systems swan through the area alternating overcast and drizzly with sunshine and wind. It's been playing havoc with my grey-matter and I can't recall the last time I've suffered sick-headaches. Head aches yes. Head aches that go on for days sure. But waves of cold and nausea are really annoying the piss out of me.

I hope this isn't another little change in life. I've only ever had one migraine and don't want to EVER repeat it!

I sure hope it calms down for tomorrow. I'm face painting at my son's school, Fun Fair for a couple of hours in the evening and while I know I'm in for a long time in that chair...I know full well it CAN feel longer *erk*

Okay...it's Tuesday night and time for myself,the eldest and her friends to settle down for an hour of complete silly fluff, a.k.a.: a new episode of Canada's Nest Top Model. >D

Now that the face-ups on the little RS blue boys are done, I can turn my attention to Sora ~ Resinsoul Mei

No...you are not looking at Dr. Manhatten Jr. XD Her name is taken from the following:

Kū

空 Kū or sora, most often translated as "Void", but also meaning "sky" or "Heaven", represents those things beyond our everyday experience, particularly those things composed of pure energy. Bodily, kū represents spirit, thought, and creative energy. It represents our ability to think and to communicate, as well as our creativity. It can also be associated with power, creativity, spontaneity, and inventiveness.

When I return from Vancouver in July, I'll hopefully be able to finish her up and then get started on her brother Mizu/RS JUN (the water element). I'd been itching to get at this girl though and at least give her a face and re-attach it to the body (after 4 months on my desk). I will continue to work on the colouring of her face/head and body as I move forward with this project and decide if she needs a wig or just to go with a patterned scalp.



Thanks for looking.

Another coat of paint on the walls meant...I had time to do up Lapis' face. :)

He's 15 cm tall by the way, 4 cm taller than a puki for anyone who is interested.

Yesterday I brushed another coat of white paint on the walls of the little room and had to stop due to a hand cramp. I suppose this wouldn't be such a problem if I wasn't one of those freaks that doesn't like to use a roller because it misses too many spots on these old wonky, rough walls. Today I think I'll be able to add colour to one wall but need to give three others another coat of white.

F**K! ~ I am really peeved that animals are eating my pumpkin seedlings and/or seeds. They have chewed up all the seeds and/or seedlings of the fairytale pumpkin sprouts twice, so today I'm replanting, but putting cages (strawberry baskets) on them so they can't easily dig them up or gnaw on them....or so the theory goes.

I also have chives and rhubarb that my mother brought me the other day, to plant. Before I moved here 12 years ago, I dug out pieces of plants from my old garden and given them to her to plunk into hers so that one day I could get a piece back. Today the offspring of my old plants go in...and it's funny.

All I asked for was a rhubarb plant ~ and she arrived with POUNDS of rhubarb to. The irony is that the locally grown food co-op started up this week and I had an order in for...you guessed it...rhubarb.

I am cleaning, chopping and freezing scads of it today.

I also started another thing on THE LIST...that being, giving my Resinsoul Blue boys face-ups. I finished Turq this morning :)

Having wired his body I am really happy with his ability to hold limited poses and stand like a rock. Sora and Mizu are DEFINATELY getting wired!! I think I might do that for SU too now that I think of it.

ANYway...I hope to get Turqs' little brother Lapis done today.


( Turq )

Can someone please explain to me what is with the obsession with Dolly-people plastering their internet handle on the photos of their resin babies?

While I sort of get the idea of having the watermark on the side of the image, those who drop it directly in the centre of the photo strike me as uniquely paranoid.

*flaps hand in a bored manner*

You don't need to preach to an artist about wild an wooly world of cyber art theft ~ I leave that to the copyright lawyers and professional wankers & hand-wringers to hash out ~ but seriously....

Unless you are aiming to make a profit from the image I don't understand this need to shite in the middle of a beautiful image that they have taken agonizing pains to pull the elements together, compose, photograph and tweak to perfection.

Doing that makes it FUGLY. WHY are you bothering to share?

If you are afraid of it getting stolen post it in such a fashion that it can't be copied, is at a really low resolution or don't post it at all.

In other words: People get over yourselves.

This flowering onion is one of several bulbs I planned last autumn and totally forgot what they were 'til the buds were about to pop. At some point I'd ruled out tulips due to the leaf shape, but exactly what remained a mystery until I happened to notice an earlier blooming clump in a neighbours garden.

ANYway I was messing around with both a white and black background against which to shoot them and each having unique strengths.

In RL I've taped the ridiculous amount of woodwork for that small room and have now applied the first coat of primer. I've forced the teens to make an colour choice and will be picking it up when I go back to the hardware store for more primer. It would appear that this blotchy old drywall is a real colour-sucker-upper. I might have to do a full three coats of primer before I'm happy with the results...and then start on the various shades of purple I'll be applying.

Speaking of purple....

( Onion spam )

Picked-up my father's birthday present this morning, did a quick bit or morning grocery shopping and then finished sanding the little room, vacuumed it before washing the walls.

I'm waiting on them to fully dry before I start taping the woodwork and then tomorrow doing the first coat of primer.

I am wondering what kind of renovations were done in this room 30 years ago, because these seems to be a lot of plasterboard and/or drywall instead of all 4 walls being plaster and lath. *0__o...and lots of squirrely tape work and quasi wallpaper removal.

I then pushed a few more seeds into the ground before taking my two Resinsoul boys tinies apart. I washed their heads and have left the pieces to dry before I spray them with MSC. I then proceeded to wire their floppy little bodies while I had their heads on a platter. This involves shoving pipecleaner or plastic coated wire through one wrist/ankle and up through the limb, the torso and then down through the other limb ~ darned if that didn't make an immediate improvement on the swinging and flopping appendages. :3

I was getting frustrated with myself because I wanted to play with them but I'd prefer they had face-ups and there is no excuse besides my own laziness. Now that I've go so much done around the house I can start putting a few hours aside daily to work on my resin army without feeling guilty that I should really be doing something else. I haven't gotten around to working on Mizu or Sora because both require full body painting and this is a much bigger undertaking than just a gentle pastel detailing on the little blue boys..

Anyway...soon off to pick up the sprog from school and take him to tutoring (a.k.a. quality reading time for Pira)

Feel good about today ~ another few things ticked off the list, including taking the discarded contents of the china cupboard to the charity store AND more importantly ....weeded the side yard (only about a metre wide and length of the house)....then digging up some ribbon grass clumps from a neighbours' yard and transplanting them.

Hopefully they'll take hold and prosper in this neglected area, so my neighbours will have lovely clumps of ornamental grass to enjoy and not worry about stepping on when they get out of their cars, as this ugly strip is alongside their driveway.

The Rose of Sharons I started from seeds years ago are doing just fine (had to cut them down to size again..meaning keeping them at 6')...but the ground underneath has been problematic and I always feel sorry for the eyesore that doesn't like to grow grass. This hardy ground cover should be prolific in the poor soil and put up with much abuse...heaven knows I haven't been able to kill it in the backyard in spite of my abuse of it.

Not that I've tried to kill it...I LIKE it a lot. It's MY kind of perennial...hardy as heck. I just ignore it except for a good spring raking to get rid of the dead leaves.

IN FACT it's the reason my neighbour across the way asked me to take AS MUCH AS I WANTED because she finds it maddeningly invasive and rues the day she stuck it in the ground.

Mwhahahahahah.

20 clumps heeled in ~ go crazy boys!!

TODAY...no dolly piccies.

We have for your viewing pleausure: images of parrot tulips, in all their twisted glory :3

These guys really presented a problem, because they have a natural, waxy surface that reflects light in an odd fashion or appears grey before they completely unfurled...so I had to wait a day and go back when they'd opened u a bit more.

While I genuinely find pleasure in the streamlined angles of a regular tulip, after a while they all look the same. On the other hand, the parrot variety presents an endless parade of contours and shadows in which not only do the colour break but the petals do as well, feathering and curling in individually unique directions ~ they are rather like the anti-tulip tulip >D


( parrot tulipspam )

Continuing to check things off my list ~ aibeit slowly, but none the less I am doing it.

~ China cupboard sorted/cleaned/re-arranged.

~ Items from said cabinet that I detest, dislike and/or simply have no interest in ever using (a.k.a. 23 years worth of fugly stuff that I've been gifted with over the years) wrapped in newspaper and boxed up to be given away.

...I think I am starting to grasp the concept of not having to keep everything people give me that I find not to my taste. I just don't have the space or the patience to keep unwanted crap anymore.

I must be turning into a grumpy old woman >D

~ large, seasonal rag runners/rugs washed and hung outside to dry

~ teen dressing room (formerly the sprogs'room) dregs of wallpaper removed, cracks and holes patched and sanded.

~ hanging files cleaned out.

~ had a chat with Xan who gave me a lesson in the new FTP on my system.

~ bathroom cleaned (weekly scrubdown)

~ grass cut / minor weeding done

~ laundry done ~ including washing all livingroom throws/blankets. With a big old Victorian, some rooms have little heating and our livingroom tends to be on the cool side so we have a stack of blankets for anyone sitting there to put over their laps.

~ some floral photography done (and a photoshoot with Tuuli here, standing with the spirea down the street) including shopping n cropping selected images.

...still...didn't get that side strip of yard done, but it's on the list between things that haven't been struck out yet...just below *paint bedroom*.

My father is coming this week to help pour my cement bottom front step.

...okay...My father is coming this week to pour the bottom front step and I'll be helping him ;)

18 days till Vancouver. Tick tick tick wheeee! :)

I am working my way through my Dolly Army, trying to take photos amid the vegetation with all of them this Spring/summer.

Yesterday morning the greenery was glowed intensely ~ the kind of vivid, retina burning shades you only get with new growth, and in particular ~ just well watered new growth.

Anyway the hostas had exploded out of the ground and I thought they might make a nice backdrop for a photo...and the boys agreed.

1 rainshower + 2 puki = squeaks of delight, a flurry of clothing dropping to the floor as the imps, Pip and Pikku tore off to streak through the hostas ....*face palm*

Now my puki crew lives in a two story apartment (formerly known as THE BOOK SHELVES) where they are generally to be found, posed into a diorama. This is the other thing I love to do with them ~ set them up in scenes. My tinies rarely just lounge around ~ they are always busy doing something....so here is what they are about currently:

And upon their return, the boys were promptly scolded by Plum for leaving their clothes scattered all over the apartment and ...bringing home yet another pet. THIS one with 6 legs >D

I took the Hujoo doll outside in the rain yesterday evening. Squatting under an umbrella, I tried to balance her, the camera and said bumpershoot without falling over myself.

If you squint hard enough, you can imagine she is walking in a sea of fallen cherry blossoms ;)

The rain has come and gone, at least long enough for the sum to come out and start recharging our batteries for a few days and before the next wave of wet.


Feeling soooo lazy today. Stayed up late watching more episodes of TrueBlood with Teh Man last night. We are now caught up to where he left off on the televised version ~ so we can now enjoy the 2nd half of the first season before I take off to Vancouver.



















I was talking to my father today and mentioned where the hubber was going and my dad asked me if he'd taken *bug spray*.

*0__0?!

It has been SO LONG since I've been north that I'd forgotten it is PRIME black fly season right now. OH NELLY is Teh Bob going to be not particularlly thrilled with *networking* on the golf course all day and scratching all night.

In fact...I don't see him getting past a few holes before he retreats to the club house because he is such a city boy XD. *sporfle*


Whether it's kicking back and ignoring the world or rushing round for personal fun, I hope everyone has a good itch-free weekend! :3

Well that lasted what...36 hours?

THIS bit of news has the manga loving world reeling, as it should for reasons of thought policing among other things ~ but I'm not going to get into a discussion here or anywhere else about it because it can and will become an wankfest pitting the shota/lolicon casual admirers (because there is a whole lot that can fall under this catagory, like PoT djs) against the morality bristles of those who equate any kind of depiction of shota with hardcore, throw away the key, anti-pedophilia, hang-em til their feet stop kicking, rants.

It's already started in one small doll forum for chrisakes and it is annoying the piss out of me.

High horses have been mounted and there aren't enough brooms in the stable to deal with the opinions that are splatting to the floor.

On the flip side: THIS blog entry makes note of the fact that Rape games are to be banned in Japan.

Unlike the former article that is downright scary, THIS I found interesting because, here is a genre that makes me cringe...probaby as much as the shota-allergic people do. Having said that, I recognize it as something that rubs my aesthetic fur the wrong way, but I won't judge those who find the concepts in the games/manga to be entertaining on some level.

Of course it's just the games that are going to be affected, but when you start banning things generally it's hard to know where draw the line and stop.

It should be noted that a lot of yaoi games will fall under this banning...although I'm sure it will be just a bit of creative writing to make it more *consentual*.....on all sides of the genre divide, but the fact remains that No Will mean No even if it's only a computer program. ;)

Mind you...if it ever extends into the realm of manga you can kiss half the adult industry buh-bye overnight. Eromanga as a genre will be well and truly f**ked. I can't even imagine what will happen to the brilliance that is Ero guro! :(

In case I've forgotten to post a picture of her, here is one of Plum (the 3rd puki) that I took this morning, between rain showers....

She's a total cutie ~ but then what puki isn't?

*stares at the lily-of-the-valley*

Interesting how the *just past their prime* blossoms look like glass when wet :3

ANYhoo ~ The universe let me know it was listening to my boastfulness of being in great shape... when I *over did* something in my quads on the weekend and I've spent the better part of the week loosening up enough again so as not to perambulate like a 90 year old. Stairs or any downward incline were particularly awful ~ not knowing when my knees would just collapse from under me was a close 2nd.

SOooooo anything that required bending down was not going to happen....at least not very fast. Hence the cupboard/pantry are still stuffed and side garden a mass of weediness. I'm sure the 3 days of rain will have made that much for fun to work on this weekend.

Today it's as though nothing happened ... legs are back to 100%

*looks skyward*

Thanks for the memo. Humility is now polished.

Anyway ~ we did get Teh Sprogs' former room cleaned out ~ and most of the wallpaper is now down...except for one wall that was apparently not sized prior to hanging it 30 years ago. *groans*

Nothing to be done about that today ~ I've my newly hatched neice and 3 year old nephew to mind this afternoon. Wouldn't be able to do much anyway since the 4 of us are juggling one car until Friday so I can't get out for supplies (scraper, TSP, primer, paint, masking tape.).. *rolls eyes*

Hopefully the 9 year old, who is home today with a miserable cold, won't be spreading any of his buggies to his cousins. Baby will probably be fine, but the 3 year old worships him and containing the germies is probably not going to happen, no matter how much I try to keep the little minion off his adored older brother (in his mind).

I was supposed to get out to the late show of Star Trek tonight with the Eldest Spawnling but it doesn't look like little brother is going to be able to go to tag along to the hoop game dad and Middling play in tonight ...*face palm*

And so it goes...

*wanders off to figure out what to feed the troops for dinner*

Well today I scooted out while I had the opportunity to run errands (a.k.a. had access to my own car) and aside from picking up more CD-Rs, a large memory stick and scrutinizing the external HDs... (didn't even know 'til Tam mentioned it, that desktop terabyte units exist...mind still aboggling)... I also found a carry-on, rolly suitcase that I will use for my Vancouver trip to transport the Velvetpaw Siblings and Bonsai Boys. I am toying with the idea of bringing Samual along too *motions to photograph*...as he's such a lovely little urban pirate :3

ANYway ~ I then scooted up the extension ladder outside, and replaced the backyard security light bulbs. I have to do that on the driveway too at some point...*hate heights*

Slowly sifting through the piles of papers that I had in hanging folders behind the pcs and ...stuff...that collected around them. Our computers are on a monster walnut diningroom table with plenty of horizontal surface to heap needful clutter on. Amidst all that crap you'd think I'd have been able to find the power cord for my scanner ~ which has gone AWOL for some inexplicable reason. *0__o?! WHY my scanner would even be unplugged from the battery back-up unit is even MORE of a mystery.

The eldest has been scanning, on her machine, generations of photos she dragged down out of the attic ~ which are currently spread all over the livingroom.

There must be an unwritten rule in this house. ALL ROOMS BUT ONE must look like a hurricane hit them at ALL TIMES.

Since my bedroom is looking mighty spiffy right now that must mean something else had to give ;)

Well off again to take the sprog to tutoring. I'd do the grocery shopping and then can sit back in the car and read uninterupted for an hour *^___^*

Hopefully tonight the Bman and I can watch another episode of TrueBlood on DVD. He's really liking it, and I'm glad for the opportunity to watch it at my leisure instead of freaking out on my family when they'd walk in and talk or call or just run roughshod over us ~ during show when it's broadcast on cable. The husband is only now starting to realize just HOW MUCH we were missing dialogue and storywise when relying on seeing it televised. :P

Yes sir....gobs of backstory.