Dated May 30 to family and friends
Hi all;
I hope everyone is doing well? Now that Anime North Season is over I
might have time to breathe. Still have three orders to go but not bad.
There are construction guys outside my back window. They are tearing
down our back steps and replacing them finally. It's hard not to be
polite and I don't know whether to smile or pull the blind as they are
working right in front of the picture window looking into my living
room. Being me I just give them a good morning wave and go about my
day, making sure I'm covered.
It turns out I don't have to leave my house to embarrass the crap out of
myself. Last week I was making a turtle shell backpack for Catie's
costume. She had taken my IKEA tray and used papermache on it to
create the shell. But she didn't let it dry properly and for three days
she and I had blinding migraines. We discovered that the mache had
molded on the inside. So Gross! You should have seen the "yuck" dance
she did when she stuck her hand in it to turn it over--beats my
"earwiggy" dance any day.
So I decided to redo the whole thing and I made a quilted cover. My only
pain was the tube of white that went around the edge. I basically made
a 36" tube and had to stuff it. I couldn't find a long enough handle
to push the stuffing up with so I decided to use the broom.
The easiest way is to brace it against the floor, hold it with my feet
and just keep pushing it up and down to get the stuffing to the end. I
didn't realise how "improper" it looked until I heard a crash outside
and found out the guy fixing the window had laughed himself off the
ladder.
On Thursday night I was making armoured gloves, Catie was running around
in her "Squirtle" costume with a blue wig, turtle shell and tail,
Keagan, her boyfriend was wearing his pink gi, a street fighter costume
and their friend Curtis was dressed as a D & D wizard. Then the
pizza guy came. None of us thought it odd for them to answer the door.
I love these moments of my life.
My health seems to be getting stronger. I organised a Community Spring
Cleaning and BBQ for our neighbourhood. We picked up garbage and leaves
etc... It was funny because I went out of my way to make sure I got
halal meat for the Muslims in the neighbourhood and none showed up.
Really good burgers though. It was great to see all the kids out and
making an effort. I was really impressed with them. I was supposed to
just organize the teams and food but as the one of the co ordinators I
had to try to help by sweeping and picking up the glass. That's why
I'm so sore today. My big old Mountain Man did twice the work picking
up branches and old furniture and heavy stuff but won't admit he's worn
out. Thank goodness he's on holidays. We also got our approval for a
grant for the squirrel proof garbage cans I wanted. Poor Mr. Squirrel's
children will have to count on the kindness of strangers from now on.
We have all of our plants in. Lavender, tomato, basil, oregano, moon
flowers, parsley and chives. Once they finish the back steps Hubby says
he will make me a small garden but I worry that the kids will take any
fruit, flowers or vegys grown. I am thinking I might put in some
chocolate mint if it's not too late. The problem is that it has to be
isolated or it will take over all your garden but it makes an amazing
sauce.
We seem to have started a trend in our neighbourhood since we put up the
greenhouse on the balcony five neighbours on each side have made little
gardens of their own. It's nice but I wish they'd stop asking me
questions about their plants. I get all my answers from Gene Lake (He's
a friend from Convergys who used to farm and is brilliant for gardening
questions.) or the internet.
Catie won tickets to the premiere of Pirates of the Carrabien movie and
couldn't go but Sarah had been desperate to go and Breyan couldn't find
tickets. They sold out in fifteen minutes. Since Catie had to work she
let Sarah have the tickets. The next issue was babysitting. Hubby and I
know how hard it is to get out together when you have small children.
They couldn't find a sitter so my guy and I volunteered. It was
physically hard but rewarding. Except I forgot how much babies puke on
everything, Aurora decided to inform me, "she can do whatever she
wants." I proved her wrong. Ivy is adorable but very clumsy. I've
decided I really don't want more babies, I'll let my kids have them.
But I do miss telling bedtime stories, having Rory inform me, "Nona, I
have new make-up. I'm going to give you a do-over." She's so my
granddaughter. Unfortunately, or not, she couldn't find it. She says
she will do it next time. She very proudly showed me how she cleaned
the bathroom for me. Am I that bad at complaining about people's
bathroom?
There is a funny picture on Breyan's Facebook that has him and Rory
sitting back on the couch with their arms behind their heads watching
TV. I turned around at one point and there was Oompah and Rory doing
the same thing. Wish I had my camera.
We had a funny moment with Aurora. We were talking about family history
and I guess Breyan had explained her Great- Grampa Lorente does
genealogy for the Home Children. She told me, "My Great Big Grandpa
finds little boys and girls that got lost when the government put them
in ships and pushed off." I roared.
Well this is all for now. It's been a very hard week so I think I will have a nap today.
Missing you all.
Kimberley
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