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| Still not dead! |
| 07.31.04 (8:55 am) [edit] |
[i][b]The reports[/b][/i] are greatly exaggerated. :)
[i][b]Hiya, friends! [/b][/i]Boy, did I ever miss you. Hoo boy, did I ever...Sulky here reporting for duty (sorry, [url=http://www.johnkerry.com/inde...]Big John[/url], didn't mean to swipe yer line)! Hope you've all been well; trying to catch up with yer various doings and/or blogs. Some of you I've just flat-out neglected--again; still--so be looking for communiques right soon. My apologies...
[i][b]I'm finally back[/b][/i] from my sister's, where Mom and I went for 18 days to try to help get her back on her feet (divorce, bad health, general grumptastic mood/actual depression)...and well, I'd love to be able to report that we did some good. Friends say to be patient; that even if it doesn't look like she's coming out of it, it's all percolating inside her, and she will be okay. I'm clinging to that wise advice with all my heart. We walked into something that we weren't prepared for; we knew it was going to be bad, but we didn't know she was essentially having a nervous breakdown. So we spent our time working very hard around her house inside and out, consoling, setting up appointments for professionals she could talk with, distracting, entertaining (I did a lot of soft shoe--I think it just made her cry harder), and poking through lots and lots of advice books. We're going back in a couple of weeks to check up on her and finish some things we started in her house (getting it ready to sell)...so I'll be around here more often for the next few days. Thanks for your determination to will me to blog. I see my stats--you people don't give up on me. :D
[i][b]The worst part [/b][/i]of this little visit was the utter mad chaos of trying to fix a person and a house simultaneously, and having little time to do anything but concentrate on crisis management. That was pretty draining, but the best part was getting to take a little mental health break (sorely needed!) to meet m'partner in crime, young master [url=http://www.strenturgent.com]Jeremy[/url] , and his lovely, effervescent friend Fran, and his equally lovely and effervescent wife Lynn, and their amazing uberchild Mr. Whit. We just hung out, helped Fran move into her new apartment, took a little road trip, monkeyed around with music and books, ate a lot of cheese and meat (Wisconsin), and drank a goodly amount of beer. It was a total gas, very relaxing, and an enormous treat to meet and greet some truly wonderful people. Hope to see 'em again right soon!
[i][b]In other news,[/b][/i] the job hunt continues (after a suspension while in Illinois), came back to find other sick relatives still sick (expected nothing different), my gentleman friend S. and I are still conversing (that's what we like to call it!), and the neighbor/friend I asked (and paid) to take care of my garden while I was away all but killed my beautiful plants. I left specific written instructions of what to do when, all pretty and typed up nicely, couldn't have been clearer, and came home to mayhem, neglect, death, and destruction. As I told a friend, next time, remind me to ask a stranger on the street to ignore my plants for free--I'd get the same results. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrr......but I've salvaged what I could, and what's left looks pretty. I don't begrudge this trip but I was sure hoping to come back to a different sight! :shock:
[i][b]I still can't upload pix[/b][/i] to tBlog. Don't know what the problem is. Keep getting a "cannot find server" IE error window. Anyone have any thoughts? Rocky was able to upload something to my images, but I can't, for some reason. Browser settings are fine. No clue...sucks because I've got all kindsa eye candy for you!
[i][b]So much more to say.[/b][/i] So little time right this moment. I'll be back later today. :) Y'all people take care now, awright? Remember to tie your shoes. It's important. :)
[i][b]xoxo S.[/b][/i]
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| 35 big Sulky years! |
| 07.18.04 (10:19 am) [edit] |
[i][b]Yay![/b][/i] Now we are 35!
[i][b]We are 35 [/b][/i]with no job, no home of our own, a family falling apart, friends and a boyfriend who all live away from us, and we're broke as a joke. :) But. We do have this, which I found on my sister's refrigerator today:
[i][b]Attitude[/b][/i]
[i]by Charles Swindoll[/i]
[i]"The longer I live, the more I realize the
impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me,
is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, than
education, than money, than circumstances,
than failures, than successes, than what other
people think or say or do. It is more important
than appearances, giftedness, or skill. It will
make or break a company...a church...a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every
day regarding the attitude we will embrace
for that day. We cannot change our past...
we cannot change the fact that people will act in
a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one
string we have, and that is our attitude...
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to
me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with
you...we are in charge of our Attitudes."[/i]
[i][b]That is my only[/b][/i] birthday wish today. Those of you who know me know I don't care about candles and cake and presents and funny hats. Well, wait--yeah. I do love me some funny hats, yo. :wink: But I wish for a
good, healthy attitude. The next 365 days will be
what they will be...the question is, how will I choose
to see it?
[i][b]It's my wish [/b][/i]for you too. Even if it ain't your birfdays. :)
[i][b]Just a few words from the front; more soon,
xoxo Sulky[/b][/i]
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| Scary-go-round! |
| 07.08.04 (9:46 pm) [edit] |
[i][b]'Sup all y'all![/b][/i] Man, I'm busier than a tapeworm-ridden entrant in a hotdog eating contest!
[i][b]What?[/b][/i] I don't know. Just ignore me; I do. :)
The author, in the process of coming up with nonsensical crap for her blog.
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[i][b]The busyness [/b][/i](business?) has kinda felt like an outta control carnival ride, but has also resulted in increasingly successful attempts each day to cross off more than half of my to-do list. Regular readers of this..."blog"...(more like neglected stepchild) may recall my issues with managing enormo-hunks of unstructured time. Well, I think I've finally gotten a handle on that: I just drink a whole lot of coffee. Far more than I should. Far more than I ever did. Hey, it's workin' for me! Of course, there's that whole "I can't sleep" part, but just look at the work I'm pumpin' out! :)
[i][b]Unfortunately[/b][/ i] this has meant another lag in bloggy goodness for you, my ragtag crew of stubborn hangers-on. And I'm sure you're all the worse for it. :wink:
[i][b]Oh hey--[/b][/i]before I move on--to actual content--some of y'all just went to a Decemberists show. How was it! :)
[i][b]And now,[/b][/i] Sulky plays catch-up:
[i][b]After seeing[/b][/i] [url=http://www.michaelmoore.com]this man's[/url] most recent effort, like many of you, I'm completely ready for that mission to Mars we've been batting around for decades now. You bring the mp3s, I'll bring the beer cooler. Jeebus. Sulky don't git political much 'round here, because if she did, that's all she'd write about. I could write a whole separate blog about geopolitics...but who'd water my plants? Anyway. I joke because it's far more seemly than breaking down in weepy hysterics every two seconds over modern life in America. I know you feel me. :shock:
[i][b]Ear tubes![/b][/i]
[i][b]My mom[/b][/i] had ear tubes put in last week, and is recovering beautifully! I’ve been after her for six months to see an ENT because of fluid blockage and subsequent profound hearing loss, but hey, I ain't the only stubborn one in this family. It"s been highly amusing to watch her jump every time the A/C comes on: "What the hell was that!?!" Hee.
[i][b]Lying and cheating[/b][/i]
[i][b]Meanwhile, [/b][/i]my sister is not doing at all well. It turns out that her soon-to-be-ex-husband has been cheating on her, and she has unassailable proof thereof. Which she has taken to her attorney...sigh. He moved out last week, and she’s been pretty much crying all the time and falling apart at the slightest provocation. This is made all the more difficult to deal with because of her poor health. Mom and I are leaving on Sunday to go visit her for a couple of weeks. It was her birthday today, and all she did was cry. I better not run across that asshat, had I, huh...
[i][b]Turtle wranglin'[/b][/i]
[i][b]There was a[/b][/i] snapping turtle languishing under the hot sun in my front yard, all of a sudden, the other day, so I made him a wading pool, and put him in the shade. Later, I put him in a bucket filled with a little bit of water and took him to the park, where he now resides lakeside under a cypress tree. Farewell, dear snapping turtle; we hardly knew ye. You were really mellow, to be sure, but you weren’t as pretty as that painted box turtle I used to have. That one had free roam of the basement, which he greatly enjoyed, but sadly passed into glory after a precariously-balanced box of textbooks fell on his wee noggin one terrible night. Which just goes to prove: a little knowledge is indeed a dangerous thing. RIP, Yertle. May flights of giant Galapagos tortoises sing thee to thy rest.
[i][b]Harriet![/b][/i]
[i][b]The most [/b][/i]remarkable thing happened! Back here at [i][b]fling fling![/b][/i] a while ago, I was lamenting the many friends with whom I’d fallen out of touch over the years--and somehow, one of them, Harriet, found me! Yay! I heart the internet.
[i][b]S. stands for sugar[/b][/i]
S., my boyfriend, in his studio. Just 'cause. :)
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[i][b]CD tradin' post[/b][/i]
[i][b]Amongst other things,[/i][/b] I've traded [url=http://www.strenturgent.com]Jeremy[/url] the Clientele catalog for the new Mission of Burma. We're both happy! Still workin' on the zine. More on that next entry!
[i][b]In job news:[/b][/i]
[i][b]Screw it![/b][/i] Nothing worth mentioning! Same old shit different day! Yippee! :?
[i][b]Dat's about it[/b][/i] fo' right now. Got a big ol' wildlife story for ya, with pix to match, but tBlog isn't letting me upload 'em right now, and I refuse to tell it without visual aids. So. Soon. :)
[i][b]Love all y'all! [/b][/i] I thank you again for reading and commenting. Stay cool now, and remember to replenish your fluids! Be right back,
[i][b]xoxo S.[/b][/i]
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