Out of the Blū

Monday, May 22, 2006

It's Monday & I'm pooped.

Well, I hope to keep this one kind of short so I'll just get to it. Thursday I had to pick up Shadow from school because he was sick and that's pretty much lasted until now. Over the weekend he seemed to get better with a little TLC and Tylenol so I sent him to school today and ended up having to go get him again. 😐 I took him to the doctor and he had a temp of 102.8°F and strep throat. 😕

He had to get a shot. Ya know he's 6 years old, but that still doesn't stop me from getting all teary-eyed when they have to do that. It sucks. 🙁 Also I felt really bad for him already because one day this weekend I closed the car door on his head. He knows not to get out of his seat belt until he's told to do so and we were in a parking lot about to get out and a car was trying to park right by me so I closed the door... Unfortunately, Shadow had decided to stand up and stick his head out right about then. I didn't see him until it was too late. 😭

He has a bruise and that's all. I felt terrible (and will probably have nightmares for a while), but that's just one more reason why kids should listen to their parents. I probably could've killed him if I'd closed it harder and I told him so. I don't think he'll be doing that again. I truly hope not.

Anyway, since he was sick this weekend he slept a lot. So I had time to get one more room sort of situated. It's the front room - the room you walk into when you come in the front door. We have a lot of the animals in there and I think it looks pretty nice. It could still use a little work, but it's fine for now. So... that leaves 3 rooms to finish. They will probably not be completed anytime soon.

On to the pics.

This is our porch type area. I like it out there. 😄

If you look to the left after you walk in this is what you'll see. (It's where the gliders and the parakeet live).

If you keep looking around you'll see Shadow's desk (complete with a hedgehog on top )(who, btw, is rather cuddly - or at least tries to be). 😍

The chameleons' fancy setup.

And finally: the mantle with a bunch of random stuff on it such as: the Matrix box-thing, a lamp, and a shark fin and hand print that Shadow made, and his cap & gown pic. SO cute!! 😁

And that's pretty much that room. It's not perfect, but it's better than being crammed full of ugly boxes and stuff. I'm pleased... at least for now. 😄 And exhausted so I'ma go. LOVE!!!

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Check these guys out!

The gerbils in their new and improved bachelor pad (they now have an upstairs and downstairs). 😁

I think they like it a lot!

Why I haven't blogged in over a week...

So this is why I haven't blogged in a while... I've been busy this whole time trying to get the house in order. I'm still not done - nor do I foresee that being the case anytime soon as we still have a few rooms to go. But here are some pics of the rooms that ARE done (or are at least mostly done). 😃 First up is... the kitchen! Yeah it's still not perfectly in order, but you get the idea.

Next is the bathroom... I don't really know what all I could do to it, but here's what it looks like anyway.

Next up is Shadow's room...

And Shadow in his room...

Well, I guess as I finish the other rooms I'll put up pics of them, too. But so far that's my progress. Ok, I guess that's all for now! Later!

Saturday, May 6, 2006

I'm way too damn old for this...

I'll just jump right in... we went to the Crawfish Boil in Birmingham today and it was... hmmm, what the hell do I even say? It had it's ups and downs to say the least. 😳 Quite an adventure, yes.

First of all I didn't get to eat before I got there so needless to say I felt like I was practically starving when we finally made it in... but to my dismay the smell once we were inside the gates was absolutely PUTRID. 😧 Anyway, I do NOT like the smell of most seafood and especially not the smell of hot, rotten seafood. *gag* What's worse is that the dead li'l crawfish littered the ground so not only was there the smell of fishy death, but the look of it, too. 😭 Well, that turned my stomach and it took me a good few hours to be ok enough to eat. *sigh* Not a good start.

So anyway the first two bands to play kind of sucked, but they were somewhat local so whatever. Then up was Jason Mraz, and I enjoyed that. He was like a cute li'l songbird... he made about as much sounds as he did words. That was fun. Then up was the Presidents of the United States of America (P.U.S.A.), and I absolutely LOVED them. 😁 They had tons of energy, and were funny, and had really good music. I swear, in one song about a cat, they made me laugh until I cried (not that that's hard to do), but anyway, that was good. I might post the lyrics to that song at the end of this blog...

Anyway, I think it was during the Presidents' show that the crowd started to get a little rough. People were all jumping around and stuff (which was not too horrid, I guess), but the crowd-surfing WAS. I got kicked in the head and that pissed me off. 😠 Well, the next person that came around on top of the crowd got dropped which I thought was hilarious (and what he deserved for being a dumbass), but he ended up between me and Nick so I promptly snatched him out of the way. There was one more guy to do that (I'm pretty certain during the Presidents' set), and I don't know what came over me, but I just started hitting him. I was pissed.

Up next was Better Than Ezra (who were not better than anything, btw...), and they thought it would be fun to encourage the crowd-surfing. 😠 Well, this one girl came over once and I slapped the back of her once she got on the ground... then she came around again, but I could not reach her... then she came around AGAIN and I fucking grabbed a hand full of her hair and pulled it as hard as I could. I was so angry at her! She screamed "Owwww!" and I thought that was funny. Yeah, I don't care if I'm evil ... that was reckless and stupid and those idiots could've crushed me. I made it a point to show my negative appreciation.

Moving along, P.O.D. played next and they really got the crowd rowdy. I hate to say it, but I was honestly scared. People were jumping hard and pushing and crowd-surfing like crazy. I truly did not want to end up crushed and dead and stinking on the ground like the tons of crawfish I'd seen all evening. I barely saw any of that show due to the fact that I ended up having to close my eyes and bury myself in the warmth and softness that was Nick in order to calm myself (I'd begun shaking and sweating uncontrollably - some sort of panic or anxiety attack, perhaps?).

Toward the end of that show it starting raining a little. Then Live came on and it rained pretty much through that whole show off and on. AND IT WAS THE LONGEST SET OF ALL. 😐 After standing on the spongy, stinking ground for about 9 hours and getting rained on and being scared out of my mind throughout the last few bands I just wanted to leave. But Live drug on and on and they didn't even put on a very interesting show. The singer guy took off his shirt and gyrated for a bit, but he's getting a little fat so that wasn't even awesome (although to hear the crowd scream, you'd think it was spectacular). *shrugs* Oh well

In summation you probably think my night sucked. Well, parts of it did. But I love going places with Nick and making memories... and the fact that I survived it made it an adventure. ... Also, I have to admit that I like it when he gets all protective over me - and at shows like that he usually does. On top of all that I did discover a band that I thoroughly enjoy (P.U.S.A.), which is one that Nick is really fond of, also, so that's cool. All in all, I'd say it was $12.00 well spent.

Well, that's all. Here are the lyrics to the song "Kitty" (the one that I thought was so funny) by the Presidents of the United States of America. They have a myspace page so you should check them out. They're GREAT!

"Kitty" by The Presidents of the United States of America

Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow

Little bag of bones been out all night

Kitty, you're scratchin' at the screen door

Little bag of bones been out all night

He needs some pettin' and lovin' on his head

He needs some pettin' and lovin' on his rain-soaked hide

He's circlin' round my ankle

He needs some pettin' and lovin' on his hide

Oh kitty, won't you come inside

Kitty on my foot and I wanna touch it

Kitty on my foot and I want to touch it

Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow

Pussy purrin' and lookin' so satisfied

(Lost in his little yellow round die?)

Pussy purrin' and lookin' so satisfied

Kitty up and scratch me through my jeans

Fuck you, kitty you're gonna spend the night

OUTSIDE!

Kitty on my foot and I wanna touch it

Kitty on my foot and I want to touch it

touch it

wanna touch it

Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty

Touch it!

Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty

Touch it!

Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty

Touch it!

Kitty on my foot and I want to touch it!

Monday, May 1, 2006

Karma karma karma karma karma...

chameleon(s). 😁 So... do you even have to ask why I have up a picture of them? 😂

Also... I turned in the keys to my apartment today. 😐 I'm not sure how I feel about that yet...

However, I am enjoying our new babies. 😊

Thursday, April 27, 2006

UPDATE - New Pets

Yes, we have some new ones. Nick bought another scorpion; since he had such crummy luck with them in the apartment he thought he'd try again now that we've moved. This one is very active and fun to watch - and it's big. 👀 Also we got a cobalt tarantula. That thing is too pretty. This is what she looks like, but it is not her:

They are more aggressive than other tarantulas so there's no holding her. She's very young and her fangs are already about a quarter of an inch long! I love her so much! Anyway, since I'm on the subject of animals - we've fixed up the gerbils bachelor pad and it looks quite nice, I'd say. Aside from what we think they've been very energetic and playful so I think they dig it, too. And with that...

The End

UPDATE

Home Sweet Home
As you know, I closed on the house on Thursday (the 13th) and that was awesome. We didn't stay there that night because we had nothing we needed, but we were able to stay by the next day, which was Friday - Good Friday, to be exact. And come to think of it, that was, indeed, a good Friday for us all. 😊

Shadow had a field trip to the Birmingham Zoo (which he said he really enjoyed) and Nick and me were off work (with pay!!!) because of the holiday so that gave us an extra day to get a jump on moving. And, well, that's pretty much consumed us all for the last two weeks. Anyhoo, back to Friday. I bought Shadow a new bed frame... one of those with the drawers underneath and a bookcase for the headboard (it's one of those you have to put together / yay!). Before I go any farther I'd like to state for the record that for the first night or so me and Nick were planning for us all to camp out in the big room together because I thought Shadow might be nervous or scared in a new big place. Well, that was NOT what Shadow had in mind. He stayed up until 2 a.m. waiting for me to finish putting together his bed so he could sleep in his own room. He wasn't scared at all. 😀 I'm really glad he felt so at home there from the start... I have to admit, though - I did, too. 😁 Honestly, it just feels like the right thing happened at the right time and I like that (a LOT).

Before I move on to Easter I want to talk about Saturday. Saturday was pretty good, too. A lot of moving going on, (of course), but we took some time to relax. We went to Frontera (that Mexican restaurant right next to the apartment I'm moving out of) with Nick's parents and that was some awesome food. I've been right next to it for a year and a half and had never eaten there until the other day. Damn, I didn't know what I was missing. I wish I had - that would have been SOOO convenient. Anyway, sometime after that we watched King Kong and (of course) he dies at the end. It brought tears to my eyes (as many things do), and I was sad. Well, not as sad as Shadow, who burst into tears and out rightly sobbed... which in turn made me do the same. 😭 Nick just sat there awkwardly for a moment until I asked him to get us some tissue. I guess it was pretty funny, looking back. Now for...

Easter
Easter was easy and enjoyable. When I woke up that morning I panicked a little since I didn't know where Shadow's basket for egg hunting was. Since we were going to my mom's first, though, I decided not to worry about it because I was pretty sure she'd have an old one around somewhere - or at least she'd be able to help me rig up something. Fortunately, the Easter Bunny was on top of things. 😉

When we got in the car that morning there was an Easter basket full of goodies in the passenger seat. As it turns out my boss and his wife (who I now live down the road from) had put it there for Shadow. 😀 That was really nice and Shadow got to use the basket that came directly from the Easter Bunny. 😉 He was pretty excited about that. After my mom's house we went to see some of Nick's family. They'd made an Easter basket for Shadow, too, and put some King Kong swimming trunks in there. He got to go swimming on Easter and that made his day. After that they cooked out and we ate and just hung out with the family. It was nice and relaxing (which we desperately needed after two whole days of moving non-stop).

The End?
Well, I can't think of anything too interesting that's happened other than that... we've been so insanely busy and quite honestly - I'm so sleepy that it's affecting me (in an "I can't remember what just happened" kind of way). Once we get all settled, though, I'll have to take pictures and invite people over; until then - I miss everyone and I hope all is well! LOVE!!! ❤😁