On how I keep thinking I ought to blog more

But I don't. Cuz I have 2 full time jobs. And young. And this thing, who is new. (Oliver the kitten. ALL my son wanted for his birthday this year. Procured a full month late due to me making sure Miles really wanted to deal with kitten hood. )





Uh, what else has happened in the last 6 months? My birthday... Ha. My dad got me a pinata, and put peanut butter cups and rollos in it. So it won. We bashed it inside since it was dark and cold here in May. I still have this "hat" in my closet if anyone else wants a go.




Crazy monsoon season sunset, circa August sometime. We had the best monsoons this year, it rained SO much. Coming from the desert I still like rain. My yard grows things too. I had Yarrow, and elder berries. (And 43 different kinds of blooming things/weeds/things) The season started with the most neat-0 purple tulips...




This is kitty more recently, he is pushing 6 months. Time to get him snipped. (Though we hesitate only cuz his nifty stripe pattern repeats on one of his testes. And it pleases us. We are easy to entertain...)



And not much else is new. Poor, tired and stressed seem to be the theme of the last 8 or 10 months.

My mom is coming to visit.
Miles started school.
I am the ONLY mom in the whole world who did NOT take pictures of him in his 1st day of school garb. Sorry.
His favorite part is recess and lunch.
Asa and I had our 9 year anniversary. And we Still like each other.
Bountiful baskets in the shizzle and if you can get in on it I can't recommend it enough... only I got okra today. Eeewwww.

Well, that's it for this 6 months...

Kisses and worm snuggles.

It's good, It's funky, It's Funky Good.......

There it is... The culmination of ton of freaking effort on the part of many people, The Shop.


Mint condition 1963 table and chairs. There is a matching buffet that goes with too...


Ashtrays. That's why everyone smoked in the 60's, it kept you thin, and the accouterments were so damn stylish...

We told Miles he was the security manager. He takes his job very seriously, sneaking up to me to ask "Are those teenagers? Should I follow them around?"
Note the blue paint in the hair, he was helping me paint our open sign.

Lampy goodness.


Butterfly cups. And orange stuff. Things are color coordinated as of yet, Green clusters, blue clusters, etc. I kinda like it.

Velvet couch, very yellow.

Giant metal cock! Dunno why this is vintage, but I like his beady eye and angry visage keeping watch over things.

So far, so good. After a week of work, we have managed to turn a tiny profit. Profit = earning more per day than the rent+ loan divided by the number of days in the month.

Combined with my bakery job (hello 3 am, how interesting to see you as the start of my day rather than bed time...) I'm working like 70 hours a week now. Yeeeeaaaaahhhhh......
But the shop stuff is way laid back, so it isn't killing me yet.

Ice cream cake, now with pics...

First, you need an adorable helper. I'd loan ya mine, but I'm keepin' him. He does crack eggs with out peel, though. That pic on the fridge behind him is a cow, getting a shower from a water tower. The little thing by the cows tail is a chicken, of course.


Two cakes, cooled all the way.

Take the same pan you use for the cakes, line it with plastic wrap, and smush in slightly softened ice cream. Place another sheet of plastic on top and smooth out with your fingers. Re- freeze for a few hours at least. (I did mine over night) ( I also did it before I baked the cakes, and then just pulled the plastic wrap out and put the whole deal on a plate in the freezer.)
Cut the rounded tops off both cakes. When I put the batter in the pans, I very carefully spread it out to keep it from getting too dome-y. (Always best to do pinkies out with your man-hands...)


Put one cake, cut side up, on the plate you wish to serve on. Center your ice cream block and trim the edges to fit. Eat trimming with the tops you cut off the cake, with your adorable helper.


Put the other cake on top, cut side down. (The "frayed" edges stick to the ice cream keeping stuff from sliding later.

Frost. I think you should re-freeze for an hour before you frost, but I didn't. Then when I was frosting the sides, melty ice cream was running into the frosting, making me have to stop halfway and refreeze. So, learn from my mistakes. And I have no pics of the final project either, as I failed. But I still have to write happy birthday on it, so maybe I'll get another before consumption tomorrow.

I know baskin robins makes way spiffy jelly roll ice cream cakes, but eh, mine doesn't taste all freezer burn-y and is WAY cheaper, so kiss my grits, 31 flavors.

The forgotten

Our sale priced awesomeness. Lasted about 5 minutes.

Tasted pretty good though.

The cooler. Day one of storm.

The cooler, day 7098 of storm. Also, chairs. You can see one right by the window, there are actually 3 in a row there.

Why does blogger make it so hard to upload pics in order, or rather the order I want them in? And then I get a bunch in and type a bunch up, and post it, and all the pics are in a row and all the "dialog" is at the bottom, not near any thing and not particularly useful as description? Just to stymie me and make me not care about ever posting again, i bet.

The great storm of aught 10...

January 18th thru the 22nd it snowed. the first day 12 inches, the second about 10. the next day it just didn't stop, and then it rained too.
Here are a few pics from the storm.

This is Miles sledding down the front yard. This was the first day, it snowed all night and then was nice. Then it snowed all night again. After a bit, it was steep enough to hit the house, leading to this next pic.



This is Asa building a ramp up the side of the house so Miles could stop before the thud.

By the time the storm ended, the ramp was way buried. So was the sled for that matter.




Out the living room window. Taller than me. Blag. What is this silliness? Who moved me here? Oh wait, it was me. Dammit.


He was measuring the snow for me. And he is 49.5 inches tall.





Renfield in the "wizz tunnel" Bet you he wished he could use the toilet. It took me forever to dig this out too.


Oh look, more.

At this point it is safe to say I am done with snow. REAL done. And it is snowing right now, depending on who you ask either 4 or 12 inches tonight.


But things should grow like weeds this spring and summer and so I shall look forward to that.

Well, folks, it's been a wild ride here in on the old mt top. Four or five feet of snow in the last three days, depending on which side of town you live on, plus rain last night, to melt some and then refreeze, (and coat all the pine needles with ice so when you are out shoveling this morning they stab thru your hat. Good times)
This to the left is the Ice skating rink, it caved in this morning I think.



And This, This is sad. This is/was Bookmans. And Joanns fabric store on the left. My two favorite places. (my Third is the burrito place immediately to the right of Bookmans, no word on its roof, but it hasn't been mentioned. The best used book store in all the land. They are saying complete rebuild.


They made it mandatory that people with flat roofs shovel or evacuate today, since 2 more feet of snow are supposed to fall tonight.

So Asa, sweet man that he is, spent the day at my dads, shoveling his roof (my dad is a t4 paraplegic, no ladders for him. Hell, no leaving his house for him these days.) That's after he did ours, and spent an hour shoveling our own driveway. (Well, chipping the 5 inches of ice up)

I have pics I took, Miles in snow over his head and the doggy tits deep, as it were. I'll post them soon.

Stay warm, and dry. I reckon this storm is heading east.

day 9 in which I was forced offline by bad monkeys.

These things were in our computer, and Asa spent a few hours today getting them out. Or maybe it was some stupid virus that some dumb fuck made up, that made our computer play random music and tooth paste commercials, even when it was offline. Really, I hate the dorks who write viruses. Use your gigantic brains to fight evil, dammit.

I got to do some spy work/recon for some politicos here tonight, to see how many people were at a fundraiser for the incumbent mayor, it's almost election time here, they do it in May for better results. I felt very sneaky, ha ha ha.

And I found out they have a CSA here, which is awesome, come Monday I'm gonna see if we can get in.

That is all, thank you, and goodnight.