I'm Gonna Muster Every Ounce Of Confidence I Have...

Oh...man...

That's what this state should be called instead of Ohio.

Got into Ohio to where we were going last night and found the house of the people we were staying the night with.

They weren't home.

So we waited on their porch for three hours for them to get here. Just before they got home we ordered pizza from a nearby Domino's that we found online that delivered.

Because you know I got bored prayed and pulled out the laptop to find that they have an unsecured wireless network.... niiiice.

Got in touch with the man and the kidlet to say that we got here. Ordered the pizza online for delivery, and waited.

When she got home she felt bad that we had waited so long and that we ended up ordering pizza to be delivered to their porch.

They were nice enough people, we'll be seeing them again on Sunday when we're coming back through to go home again.

We made pretty good time coming down too. We were over the border at 8am and getting here to their porch at about 2:45ish. that's with stopping for an hour for lunch.

covered about 500 miles.

So we're leaving this morning and heading through West By God Virginia and will just catch Virginia as we deke into Tennessee from the east.

I just finished having the worst shower in the world... water pressure was going in and out and the temperature was going back and forth... I have long semi thick hair and man it was hard to rinse out conditioner with water that felt like a tepid rain shower.

I got to curl up in bed last night and nearly fall asleep on the man... get this... at 10 o'clock. *laughs*

I was so tired from not getting any sleep the day before that I was falling asleep at like 9.

so I retired into the bedroom and skyped him and chatted with him til I nearly passed out. Got out the ipod and listened to probably two songs before falling asleep before 10:30... Yeah how often you hear me telling you that...?

So I didn't get to talk to my Bing last night, that made me a bit sad. But the man kept me company and even got a front row seat to most everything we did via webcam. Even got to wave at the kidlet and show him the view from the porch which btw is a pretty great view if you want to live in the middle of no where surrounded by hills and trees.

Saw some deer munching away on some grass and got to listen to some angry locusts... now that's an interesting sound. It got all real quiet on the porch and then came this sound... reminded me of Deliverance or something...

Anyway... so that was pretty much the first day of the trip... tonight y'all get to hear about the dinner show we're going to and the trials and tribulations of getting there.

oh yeah.. and happy birthday too me... *twirls finger in a whoop dee doo fashion*

I love you my guys.

post soon to those who still actually read this.

oh yeah and freaked me out when I went to Google and it was actually Google.com and not .ca :P

I Love You Oh So Well Enough to Fill Up Heaven Overflow and Fill Hell

I'm supposed to be in bed right now...

I'm leaving here in about 4 hours to go on a road trip down to Memphis TN where I'm going to a conference...

You can see how tired I am right? *chuckles*

I figured since my last post was way back on the 26th of Aug I should probably up date what's happened since.

Bing made it here on the 26th... we ended up having to wait for his fllight to get in... but I tell ya waaaay worth the wait...

He was everything I expected and more... he and I spent the first few days alone which was so uber cool of the man... After the kids and the man got home we all hung out and went to different sites and what not... apparently we did too much because like Murphy's law states and all that... I got really sick... I mean really really sick... however... I have to say that I had the best two men looking after me that anyone could ever have... even though he was sick as well Bing was still trying to get up and do and get stuff for me... the man slept in a different room so that he didn't get as sick as we did... the kidlet even missed two days in the first week of school because he had gotten it as well...

Well I ended up in the hospital the friday that I was supposed to go to the YAMS Womens Weekend... yeah that totally sucked... so ended up in bed for the weekend instead... *sighs* I was really not happy about missing the first womens weekend in over 5 years...

Then even worse... Bing went home... *sighs* I really didn't want him too...

He didn't want to either which was nice to know... guess that means that we're not half bad... he'll be back... and I'm hoping that after he comes back he still thinks we're not half bad... we've been (the three of us) talking about having Bing move in...

I'd really like that... you have no idea how much I would love that...

I love the man... no one on the face of this big ball we live on understands me like he does... and I can't imagine my life without him...

I really should be getting some sleep but I'm so really not enthused about going to TN... I mean it's 3 am and I still haven't finished packing my bags.

Wish me luck...

I love and miss you both.

You said always and forever
Now I believe you baby
You said always and forever
Is such a long and lonely time

At Worst I Feel Bad For Awhile...

*takes a deep breath*

After a rocky start yesterday afternoon... and hours of worrying, fretting, refiguring... I can now say that Bing is in transit!!

I have never in my life had such a brain fart... after looking at all flight details... or at least I thought all the details... it was soon pointed out that the flights we believed he was supposed to be on today... were actually yesterday... neither one of us even remotely realized it... until he got the cancellation email...

*hangs head* I have NO idea how both of us missed that little (read: HUGE) detail...

But now he is on his way and hopefully somewhere on his way to North Carolina for his final layover before Buffalo...

What really sucks is I woke to find a note from the construction crew down the street saying we'd be without water for pretty much the entire day today...

I'm craving soup :(

Also woke up from the weirdest dream... had people in it that I haven't spoken to in a while... made me sad... Squasha ended up with some head trauma, I had to beat up a woman with a golf club, dinner was odd, I can't even begin to explain how weird it was... left me with a bit of an uneasy feeling...

bah too distracted to finish this one...

Strong Independent Pagan Woman Singing

Ok so I haven't said anything for awhile because I was going to end up gushing at you or ranting...

So now I'm good... I'm gushing good but... I'll try not to get any on you...

So...

Our fusebox went on the fritz, we're not the type to complain overly so we figured we'd wait and we made due because it was only affecting the ceiling lights in the kitchen and living room. About two weeks later suddenly there's no hot water coming out of the tap in the kitchen. Of course I'm poor and generally broke so my first thought was to my gas bill... called the man, when he got home he checked and the gas was still on. (Yeah I know horrible that we wouldn't know something like that) Anyway, so the man heads into the basement and hears a 'pssssh' sound as he nears the water tank. There was water all over that corner of the basement and the 'psssh' was actually coming from the tank itself. It had a leak inside that had put out the pilot light. So the man and I strong armed the tap on the tank and got the water to stop leaking out all over the floor.

So with this we did call the landlords. Who got the gas company out the next day to look at the water tank. And they had a electrician coming out the day after to put in a breaker box where the fusebox was.

So this is on a Friday. Next day, Saturday, gas co comes out and looks. 'Sorry can't replace the tank there's no liner in your chimney, have to have one it's illegal not too. We can get someone out on Monday.'

Well thank goodness we were going out of town for the weekend. (which we had an awesome time reconnecting with a bunch of people we missed).

So on Sunday the landlord/lady came out and got the electrician to come and do the box.

We came home Sunday night to lights!! yay!

Found out that the gas company was coming out on Tuesday... and yay! I woke up to hot water and took a most needed shower.

So yay! to hot water and lights! and neither having to do with bills!

So then a couple of days later go to call the cable company and arrange to make a payment, and the phone wasn't working. Ok looked at the bill. We had a few days before having to make the much needed payment... nope ends up they just decided to turn it off before the deadline. *le sigh*

So it's been really peaceful around the house... *laughs*

My dollar this month is gonna be stretched to the limit I dare say... but it's all good... we take it all in stride now... can't afford for me to have a heart attack...

So phone should be back tomorrow or day after... not that anyone who reads this actually calls *laughs*

I say so a lot.

Anyway... few more days until my visitor from Cali, totally stoked. Everyone here is. Three whole weeks... nice long visit.

Kids go back to school on the 8th!! Yay!!

Also coming up... YAMS Womens Weekend (You Are My Sister)... I'll be gone to that for the weekend of the 11-13 of Sept.

I come back from that and Bing goes back to Cali on the 16th... :(

Then I leave on the 20th to go down to Tennessee until the 29th.

There's other picnics, bbq's and girls nights and stuff like that in there as well but those are the three main things that have my September busy...

I know, you're wondering 'how is she going to Tennessee for 9 days if she's so broke?!' Well if you're friend enough to me to have me on a msg system ask me there. Other then that, none of your bees wax!

*laughs and sings...*

I'm late... I'm late... for a very important date... no time for Hello ~ Goodbye... I'm late... I'm late... I'm late...

toodles!

And the Northern girls, with the way they kiss...

So I noted how it was odd about the whole me craving fish when I don't really like already right...?

Well I've now cleaned/eaten the house of all it's fish products that I've bought lately.

So it was I think maybe three or four days ago when I last had some... and of course the cravings still haven't gone away... except now... my brain is playing tricks on me...

I can smell fish in the house... not so much like 'ew dead rotting stinky fish' ...

As I described it to the man... you know the smell of the ocean... how it's that salty fresh breeze that comes off the water that has that live fish smell to it and the warm smell the sand gets... it's not obscene but just faint... yeah... I'm totally smelling the ocean in my house...

(no I haven't bought any new air freshners or anything like that...)

So.. I've gone from just craving fish to smelling the ocean in my house... oh and the last two days I've been singing beach boys songs... I think I'm slowly going insane...

So.... yeah.... any ideas?