This has been one of those days when we have seemed to have no inclination to get out of bed. The cats got us up at about 6 or 7 for food, but after a series of naps, it’s now a bit after 3PM. It seems that around here , you only sleep as long as the cats allow you to 🙂

We don’t have any real plans for today, but just hanging out around the house. The cats make very good supervisors as I type this and Poly seems to now be giving me his input so I can’t see a thing that I am typing presently.

It’s just time for a warm shower and then maybe crawling under the covers to get warm again. Tomorrow is going to be a very busy day, so I think today we may just relax and rest up for then…well until it’s time to feed the cats again.

Yes I am alive and in one piece. I have not been tied to the headboard or buried in the back yard. Actually I’ve been having quite a wonderful time here….obviously since I haven’t been writing updates since I’ve been here.

Even though I’ve been here since early Tuesday morning yesterday was the first we’ve really been able to pry ourselves out of the house. We took a bus ride, and then a long walk, and went shopping for a present for my daughter. Most people would bring back the usual cliche things for their teenager when they go on vacation, like a t-shirt. I bring my kidlet a frog and a bag full of rocks hehe. (actually a frog shaped purse and a lot of really nice stones from the new age store here)

Today we have some plans with some of Julian’s friends, and I am really looking forward to meeting them. I will write when I can, but well, can’t promise I won’t be quite happily distracted and otherwise occupied.

Seemed like forever I’ve been waiting, but the day is finally here. I’ve only got a few more hours to wait before I’m on my way to see Julian again. I’ve missed him so much, unbelievably badly, for it having only been a couple of weeks since we’ve seen one another. It’s amazing just how hard and how fast you can fall for someone when the right person comes along.

For now the cats all curled up asleep in my lap, and I’m hoping my aunt manages to get over here to get her soon. If not I have put out plenty of food and water to last her for the time I will be gone, just hate the thought of leaving her by herself for very long. I don’t think I’ve been away from Neia for more than a few days the entire five years she’s owned me.

For now I’m trying to think of any last minute things I may need to pack, that I may have forgotten, got clothes, some toiletries and such but am not taking much in the way of anything else, as I’m trying to pack lightly as I can so I have some small hope of being able to carry the suitcase. I’m going to eat dinner before I leave so I don’t need much more than a snack while I am on the bus.

Mu aunt just called mid post to tell me, she will meet me at the bus stop to get the keys so she can come and pick up the cat, great news. Now I at least won’t have to worry as much about my four legged furry one while I am gone. I am sure Airianna will have her quite spoiled by the time I get back.

Julian, if you are reading this, and I have a feeling you will before the day is over, I love you, and I will see you soon baby 🙂

Last night and this morning I have been doing some thinking. It mostly started with looking at a friend’s posts on a message forum that I used to belong to. The site used to deal mostly with psychic predictions, and paranormal subjects when I first started going there. I met a lot of really nice people who like me were something slightly other than “normal.”

The problem is over time, the place became less and less a positive place to be. More people came in that weren’t so discerning in what they posted and the site became as much about paranoia and conspiracy theory as actual useable content. It wasn’t long before you needed a good mind and a serious set up hip waders to find anything useful for sifting through all the crap.

It’s hard to go there now without being hit with an overwhelming feeling of negativity, not just because the clique there basically tossed me out for not following the crowd. I’ve noticed since I got away from the place, started living my life, and being positive instead of listening to all the negative thoughts everyone seemed to be putting into that place, I have been a lot saner and a lot happier. Negative thoughts and negative people really can poison us.

I have been making a lot more of an attempt lately to keep my thoughts positive. It does take conscious effort for me at times, because it’s so easy to fall back into dwelling on the past and only seeing the negative. I’ve found as I’ve stepped away and grown happier I’ve drawn new friends and new experiences to me that I never would have otherwise, including a man I love very much. I’m finally beginning to like being who I am now…I want to be happy.

There’s no getting out of the neighborhood any way but on foot today. They’ll be blocking off the end of my road soon for the parade that, barring a pouring rain will be starting around 6 tonight and will end not long before dark. I’ve often told people that don’t live here that the festival weekend is about the only time of year this town gets remotely interesting.

Watching the parade at least for one evening out of the year gives almost everyone in town something to do. I don’t have to go far, just up to the end of the road to watch it. This may be the first year in a long time I will actually maybe have to take a sweater with me. The festival weekend is usually never this cool, but I don’t think this year has been normal weather-wise from the get go.

I have a lot of strange memories of growing up in this town, a lot of them connected to the parades, either watching them or even riding or walking in them, both the Popcorn Festival parade and the now sadly long since defunct US Open parade. I remember riding on the floats dressed as everything from a princess, a cowgirl, a witch, depending on the theme of the year. I rode on the back of a pickup truck with my softball team, and on the flatbed of an 18 wheeler with my high school clubs a couple of times.

When we weren’t riding in the parade as kids we were sitting at the end of the road by my grandma’s house in front of the church trying to keep our feet flat against the curb so the shriners didn’t run over our feet in their funny little red and yellow stunt cars. (which sadly haven’t been in the parade the last few years) I however do not miss the creepy old man that used to set off the parade every year shooting off his cannon out of the back of a pickup truck. I’m sure the man was a nice enough person, but, that cannon scared the tar out of me as a kid. I never, ever, uncovered my ears until after he was long past me.

Seems strange to think that this may be the last time I watch the parade in this town. Between my present plans to get married and move away, and the fact I doubt Julian and I have any future plans to move back here anytime in the vastly foreseeable future. Watching it tonight for the possibly last time should be fun, but maybe also a little sad. The good memories in this town have been few and too far between for a long time, but the parade at least has usually almost always been a good one.

You guessed it, I’m going to be dog sitting my aunt’s little ankle biters for the next few days. It’s not that I dislike dogs at all, I mostly like them, but chihuahuas have always made me just a little nervous. Those little dogs tend to be very high strung and I’m always afraid I’m gonna step on the poor little things and squash them.

Just hope the cat doesn’t knock the crap out of them….

I don’t have any blogging ideas of my own (out of practice maybe) so I borrowed a meme list from Queen Of Memes . Sometimes these lists are strange, sometimes thought provoking, other times downright silly. Oh well here goes…

Here is the first random list I thought I could maybe work with…

1. Who should run for United States President in 2012?

This one is a tough question, because honestly I hate politics with a passion, and elections usually end up being no more than having to choose the lesser of two evils. I think the chances of getting a good, honest person into office that has the interests of the people at heart are slim to none. Power corrupts.

2. Have you ever gone to a party and snooped in the medicine cabinet?

No, and I really don’t see why anyone would think to. I’d probably be too busy leafing through the bathroom reading material, given that there is anything available to read.
3. Why are Happy Meals happy? 

Toys and food I don’t have to cook, not to mention, no dishes to clean up afterward.
4. Have you ever done the Hokey Pokey? 

Yes, and on roller skates even. It used to be a staple of skate nights when I hung around the roller rink as a kid, along with the dice game, and hobby horse races.

5. What song sticks in your head and drives you crazy?

This can be any random song, at any given time. The only way to get it to go away is to listen to the song a few times, or for the next song to get stuck there and dislodge the previous one.

6. Do you dance like crazy around the house when no one is looking? 

I am guilty as charged when it comes to this one. How do you think I get my daily exercise and wake myself up in the morning without coffee?
7. Have you ever been involved in a food fight?

Oh yes, and oddly enough the first food fight I ever got into was with my great grandma’s live-in boyfriend lloyd. Peanut butter and crackers 🙂

Hope y’all enjoyed reading ….