al fin
the last (i think) big spanish paper of my university career, done. maybe now i'll learn how to speak spanish, ¿sí?
finally
thanks in whole to my dear friends and family, i am officially moved in. if you wanna come see my new room, please wait until about a week after graduation. rufus the cat is having fun exploring all the boxes and bags. hopefully it keeps him occupied while i'm away at school.
it took about 10.3 people to move all the junk from what was my hope chest of a house to the dumpster, goodwill, storage, my mom's house, the garage and this very large room. already i am looking around asking "why wasn't that donated?" i must be ruthless in this next round of sorting.
thanks to my momma, wendi, joyLynn, jamie, craig, ryan, theresa, jeff, kathy and gage for all the help packing, rehousing and lifting, especially that ridiculous television. it was fun, no?
now i look out my window upon flowers and chickens (rooster?), and enjoy shared responsibility and love. everyone should live here.
five years gone
it sneaks up fast. so many more things he's missed, though when i walk past the architecture building on the way to morning class, the smell of warm cut and smoothed wood brings him to me. sometimes i wonder what he knows of us now, what he's shown or told of us.
with a little help
first, these girls are brilliant and lovely and have huge hearts. they plan to take seamus home with them next saturday. thank you thank you thank you.
second, i'm still sick. been traveling from couch to bed to urgent care and back this weekend. i think all the pills are beginning to work, but not until after i missed both Easter services. next year, i hope. thankfully, wends, joy and my mom all stopped by to bring soup, juice, flowers and more to help me feel better.
third, i watched across the universe twice today. opening my mind to the beatles.
spring break and holy week
spring break was helping finish the front porch, babysitting, working, cleaning, reading, ikea, four peaks and writing.
holy week has been school, tartanic, working and, now, sick again on the couch, resting up for defensive driving school tonight. sunset and sunrise services on south mountain, friends and family to come.
but wait until three
a couple of pictures from a couple of saturdays - the kids asleep (?) on the way to the library and david's ferdin-aloisiu-copernicu-whatever-his-name-is unicorn, with the melting eyes.
and monday at school, the eclectic coffee kiosk on forest mall was playing "let's go to bed" as i walked to my last class, then "pictures of you" played on the radio as the girls and i drove home to eat dinner. so, some cure.
weather, and being under it
a glorious sky when i went home for lunch and some of the supplements i'm on to kick this cold in the junk for good. a tip: do not add GSE to water unless you're the biggest bad ass on the planet. hiding it in orange juice doesn't make you any less of a person, and you won't get the urge to puke on your keyboard.
commercial break
does anyone out there know of a household in need (and want) of a super cute 9-month-old kitten? if not, i will be driving him to maricopa county animal care and control with a heavy heart, probably next tuesday. taking one cat into the new house is iffy, two is out of the question. in case you don't know/remember, this kitten was the result of a rescue, and i was able to find homes for the other 6, but he's the last hold-over.
can you help me find him a home? i am willing to pay to have him neutered, if that is a deal-maker.
water-logged
this weekend i'm babysitting for my cousin's kids, all three at once for two and a half days. here we are, right in the middle, and they are all quiet and sleeping in their own beds. until around 1:30 or so, when dusty and layna will wake up and ask to sleep with me in the big bed. how can i say no?
today we skipped the zoo (too cold and wet from yesterday...and i let them all sleep in as late as they would) and went to the library instead, where we found a bunch of books on water (?), dinosaurs, a few fred gwynne books and some dvds - escape to witch mountain and a complete season of fraggle rock.
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of course, as i typed that, the baby woke up screaming and i had to abandon blogging to help him fall back asleep...and myself as well.
this morning it's been a lot of "please eat, layna" and "gage, no-no, don't throw your food on the floor" and "why are you mad, dusty?" we're on the second movie of the day, since the baby is busy trying to sleep playing and screaming in his crib, and i'd like it to be as quiet as possible for a peaceful nap. i'm off duty tonight, i think right around bedtime.
last night, crab legs for dinner (on sale, cheap!), and 70% of gage's lunch on the floor for the cat.
a este momento...
...estoy escribiendo un ensayo en español.
pero quiero compartir dos fotos de sábado - nuestros nuevas gallinas y mi primo jugando baloncesto. 
eso es todo por ahora...
this boy i love
rather than going home to study this afternoon (this will bite me later, guaranteed), i decided to visit the family i've been missing so much - my cousin and her babies. gage is almost 19 months old, can say a few words including "taco" (their cat) and "cookie" (because he's a chunk), and provides constant entertainment. tonight he enjoyed grazing the superbowl goodies table, eating his way through everything set out and then some. this is a highlight strip of his evening.
take these broken wings...
playing hearts, i lost.
( . . . )
wendi, to pervy/avacado/chico/kiwi/verdi the bird: "you're as worse as a baby."
if all goes as planned, i'll be moving into the estrogen house in march, since i'm there practically everyday now anyway.
surprise party
saturday night we pulled off jamie's surprise birthday party. there was food, beer, wine, friends, family, music and, later, a loud game of catch phrase between 12 good friends. halfway through the third game, cori started asking, "what's that smell?" wendi got up to make sure the oven was off, then followed the smell down the hall to her flaming bathroom.
a few lessons: lit candles go on clear counters, not on the backs of toilets below hand towels; fire extinguishers should be readily available; the smell of a campfire lingers, while the smell of a bathroom fire invades.
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