2004-11-28

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2004-11-28 12:48 am

That 'real' post I promised

Twenty pages of LiveJournal posts. It reminds me of trying to catch up on Gaia, when I had a connection that didn't take all year to load the pages. My eyes are about to fall out of my head, and my poor little tushie's gone numb from sitting in the same spot. Fortunately, I still had leftovers of Cherry Coke from the trip home to keep me upright and focused. So I'm sorta updated.

I'm... very worn. Any visit up to Megan's family is draining for me... visits that include -any- of the extended family leave me desperate to escape. These are people who deemed me 'unacceptable' and 'beneath' them years before they had any inkling that I wasn't 'heterosexual male'. They consider me less than human... and I consider them to be prime examples of 'boorish nature' and so shallow that not a fleck remains of compassion or love. I figure that makes us about even, but it's NOT the kind of thing that's going to contribute to a joyous Thanksgiving dinner. Megan's Mom works hard to minimize the friction; it's an action I laud her for. She's a good woman that's pinned in place by an OCD controlled husband and his 'money is everything' relatives.

This year, there was very little opportunity for a clash... twenty minutes before dinner was to hit the table, everything I'd had for breakfast/lunch came roaring back up. I spent the better part of the meal in the bathroom (fortunately for EVERYone at the other end of the house), and then crawled (yes, literally) across the hall into the room Megan and I were using as a bedroom. An hour later, I bolted back across the hall into the bathroom. When I emerged twenty minutes later, one of Megan's sisters commented that that was the 'fastest Goddamned freight train' she'd ever seen; apparently my dash back to the porcelain throne featured vaulting over said sister (as she hit the floor with a panicked squeak) and landing -in- the bathroom, concluding with a pirouette that both closed the door and aimed me at the commode. *blinks* And I blinked at her, too, when she told me. I remember bolting up out of bed with that 'sick in transition' feeling, and then there's a blank space that ends with me huddled over the flusher. o.0

Whatever decided to lay me up at least ebbed as quickly as it reared its' head; by the next morn I was fine... and ravenously hungry. A plate of scrambled eggs and two english muffins later, when I found myself considering the viability of a turkey sandwich, I started wondering if someone'd left a xenomorph egg by my bed...

At any rate, I survived it. In the course of my catching up, I discovered this lovely little bit...
      
mind control is love
brought to you by the isLove Generator


More Quizzie Goodness... )

And because I found it entertaining: Name That Porno .Com

Okay, I'm done. Time to post this and turn on Adium X...
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2004-11-28 05:53 pm

The Mold Warrior -or- Ellie Versus The Addition

Another strafe on the addition was done today; the wasted lands beyond the door did their best to take the warrior down. Foes, falling objects, weapons... nothing seemed to do much but slow her for brief periods. And then... she ran out of fuel...

Meaning my supply of caffeinated beverages ran out, along with the remaining clean boxes and tape. There are ten boxes remaining, victory so teasingly close, but when I ran out of fuel and then had the light bulb burn out where I'm working, I had to throw in the towel for the moment.

The lost? Added to the list of things difficult (if even possible) to replace:
  • My German/English side-by-side Bible
  • My Latin/English side-by-side Bible
  • Three more large boxes of assorted hardcover books
  • A steamer trunk, along with the kitchen appliances it contained
  • Two boxes of towels I didn't even know we had...


On the plus side, and this time there IS most definitely a plus side...

About halfway down a stack of boxes, I found one with Lady Winter's handwriting on the top, labeling it as 'cooking implements'. WIthin the box, I found the small deep fryer I'd bought for the Hearth, the electric mixer that I'd painstakingly repaired after another pet managed to burn out the motor, and the set of oak-handled knives that'd been bought for me when my duties were expanded to include some of the cooking.

I... I had thought that everything had been packed into the moving van She'd hired. I don't remember this box leaving with me, nor do I remember it being moved from the Calvert house up to Glen Burnie. Silly little flit that I am, I curled up in a ball around the mixer and cried for almost an hour... remembering the praise I'd gotten for refusing to give up on the repair. I have my keepsakes. They're not the ones I would have chosen myself... but ... they are probably more appropriate and useful. I'm not known for thrifty thought when it comes to memory pieces. These... though battered and heavily used... there are a good many memories attached to each. And some of the pressure that's been sitting on my chest for the last week has lessened.

I'm far from happy with the amount and nature of the destroyed materials... but I can face the end of this project now without the grief that's been dogging my heels.

In other news, in spite of the still uncooperative DSL, I ventured back into Gaia. It... is not something I recommend doing via dial-up, but... I was suffering from withdrawal. Lots of new faces, and a few very very dear remembered ones. And other than that... I'm gonna go take a nap. :p