awake again
May. 2nd, 2011 03:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hypatia42Even less sleep so far tonight than I was getting last week. Someone on facebook mentioned that I seem to have gotten my serotonin and melatonin mixed up. I don't know enough about the chemical process to speak on this. I do know that I tend to wake up and start being functional when the sun goes down. That has pretty much always been the case. Not sure why. I'm a cat...
Plans shaping up for the weekend. First time I will be in KC for Mother's Day ...I think since we moved up here. We have never really done much for those types of holidays. Mom says she is gonna partially fund our gasoline expenses for the trip. I gotta say that takes a load off my brain. I had been worried about that one. We aren't coming down for Memorial Day this year because of a wedding. Also not coming for the Fourth of July this year. I'm going to CONvergence. *squeee* Upshot being, I have no idea when we will be back. I'm busy a lot this summer and I will have a business to run.
By strange coincidence neighborman will be in KC Wed thru Sat this week for a conference. I will likely hook up with him and show him a few sights simply because its rare either of us has time to go out and do anything together. Mom wants to take peeps out to see Thor on Friday. Might see if he wants to go to that as well. Being in a foreign town is hard if you don't have a guide or a guidebook. Is there a club in the 18th and Vine district or just museums? He mentioned Jazz and dressy clothes. P&L District is an option too.
Have yet to decide if I should take him down to Arthur Bryant's. *snerk* Feels a bit like introducing someone to a piece of my soul, like having someone read my poetry. I don't know how I would take it if I took someone there and they really didn't like it. Maybe I can just tell him where it is and he can decide if he wants to venture down there. I don't have the same problem introducing people to Jack Stack and I really like them. No, its Bryant's all the way. Been a lover since I was a kid. Can't remember a time when we lived in the country and didn't have bottle of the sauce in the fridge. Don't forget to shake it or it settles out. For the love of god don't cook with it. Its a condiment, no really.
Friday I get to see my Amada! Yay!
Saturday during the day is still quite up in the air. I want to go down to Louisburg to the big cat sanctuary there. I want to see VooDoo the lee-o-pard. Giant rumbly scary prrrin cat. Found out today that there is a big cat preserve here in MN as well. Between here and Duluth. Very exciting. Much closer than the wolf one up in Ely.
I should work on making it up to see the boys since it is Adrian's birthday and all. I wonder if they will have time to come with me down to the cat place.
Saturday evening is over at Pub House, or is it Pubhouse? I'm really not sure. Rew works there. I hope they have things other than beer and shitty liquor. God I'm such a snob. Ah well. neighborman mentioned today that the cachaça I like so much is like lighter fluid. More for me!
Sunday morning/afternoon in Weston with mom and sibs. There is apparently a photography shop there that is amazing. Rew has been haunting the place and learning all about it. Apparently the uncle of the guy that runs it was a local name in photography ago. Took pics of all the celebs who came through town. This was ago enough that they didn't find negatives they found plates. Too cool. Wanna see. I remember there being an old style candy store there and Pyrtle's is there too. We should have fun.
Down to Gma's for dinner. Nate is coming up from the Springfield area but likely not with the kids, it being mother's day and all. I have mostly shaken the desire to do violence about the situation with the kids by studiously avoiding thinking about it. I think they have a child advocate at this point. Nothing else we can do. No, moving back to MO and calling child protective services to say we will take them is really not an option no matter how tempting.
I'm taking the girl with me. Through all the busy this summer I won't be able to most of the time so I am glad I can this trip. Its probably time to get her in and see the kittychiro again. Its been a while and it feels like she would benefit from it. We've been doing the stretches and giving her her prednasone. Not much else we can do for her at this point. I will be very glad when the weather actually warms up such that allowing her to move around the house and out to the backporch is ok. She doesn't move so good when she gets cold.
Speaking of cold, it snowed today at the Mayday parade and festival. Even though there was like, an hour of Morris dancers! I sat on the cold cold hill for four and a half hours. The show hadn't started by the time I left, which would have been over and hour and a half late. The timeliness would be one of my main beefs with the Heart of the Beast productions.
I pinned my skirt though. I might have figured out how to bustle the skirt like I want it. I need to measure and pin some more but I believe I have the idea down now. I have discovered the dire need to wash the thing and pray that years after it was worn last, whatever that spot is comes out. That would be much harder to accomplish once it is sewn. I think I'm going to have to stuff the bustle to make it lay right. The fabric is kinda soft and floppy. I haven't decided if I am going to attach the underskirt or if it will be a separate piece. I also need to decide if the trim needs to come off. We shall see how things turn out.
Maybe I can sleep more now.
Plans shaping up for the weekend. First time I will be in KC for Mother's Day ...I think since we moved up here. We have never really done much for those types of holidays. Mom says she is gonna partially fund our gasoline expenses for the trip. I gotta say that takes a load off my brain. I had been worried about that one. We aren't coming down for Memorial Day this year because of a wedding. Also not coming for the Fourth of July this year. I'm going to CONvergence. *squeee* Upshot being, I have no idea when we will be back. I'm busy a lot this summer and I will have a business to run.
By strange coincidence neighborman will be in KC Wed thru Sat this week for a conference. I will likely hook up with him and show him a few sights simply because its rare either of us has time to go out and do anything together. Mom wants to take peeps out to see Thor on Friday. Might see if he wants to go to that as well. Being in a foreign town is hard if you don't have a guide or a guidebook. Is there a club in the 18th and Vine district or just museums? He mentioned Jazz and dressy clothes. P&L District is an option too.
Have yet to decide if I should take him down to Arthur Bryant's. *snerk* Feels a bit like introducing someone to a piece of my soul, like having someone read my poetry. I don't know how I would take it if I took someone there and they really didn't like it. Maybe I can just tell him where it is and he can decide if he wants to venture down there. I don't have the same problem introducing people to Jack Stack and I really like them. No, its Bryant's all the way. Been a lover since I was a kid. Can't remember a time when we lived in the country and didn't have bottle of the sauce in the fridge. Don't forget to shake it or it settles out. For the love of god don't cook with it. Its a condiment, no really.
Friday I get to see my Amada! Yay!
Saturday during the day is still quite up in the air. I want to go down to Louisburg to the big cat sanctuary there. I want to see VooDoo the lee-o-pard. Giant rumbly scary prrrin cat. Found out today that there is a big cat preserve here in MN as well. Between here and Duluth. Very exciting. Much closer than the wolf one up in Ely.
I should work on making it up to see the boys since it is Adrian's birthday and all. I wonder if they will have time to come with me down to the cat place.
Saturday evening is over at Pub House, or is it Pubhouse? I'm really not sure. Rew works there. I hope they have things other than beer and shitty liquor. God I'm such a snob. Ah well. neighborman mentioned today that the cachaça I like so much is like lighter fluid. More for me!
Sunday morning/afternoon in Weston with mom and sibs. There is apparently a photography shop there that is amazing. Rew has been haunting the place and learning all about it. Apparently the uncle of the guy that runs it was a local name in photography ago. Took pics of all the celebs who came through town. This was ago enough that they didn't find negatives they found plates. Too cool. Wanna see. I remember there being an old style candy store there and Pyrtle's is there too. We should have fun.
Down to Gma's for dinner. Nate is coming up from the Springfield area but likely not with the kids, it being mother's day and all. I have mostly shaken the desire to do violence about the situation with the kids by studiously avoiding thinking about it. I think they have a child advocate at this point. Nothing else we can do. No, moving back to MO and calling child protective services to say we will take them is really not an option no matter how tempting.
I'm taking the girl with me. Through all the busy this summer I won't be able to most of the time so I am glad I can this trip. Its probably time to get her in and see the kittychiro again. Its been a while and it feels like she would benefit from it. We've been doing the stretches and giving her her prednasone. Not much else we can do for her at this point. I will be very glad when the weather actually warms up such that allowing her to move around the house and out to the backporch is ok. She doesn't move so good when she gets cold.
Speaking of cold, it snowed today at the Mayday parade and festival. Even though there was like, an hour of Morris dancers! I sat on the cold cold hill for four and a half hours. The show hadn't started by the time I left, which would have been over and hour and a half late. The timeliness would be one of my main beefs with the Heart of the Beast productions.
I pinned my skirt though. I might have figured out how to bustle the skirt like I want it. I need to measure and pin some more but I believe I have the idea down now. I have discovered the dire need to wash the thing and pray that years after it was worn last, whatever that spot is comes out. That would be much harder to accomplish once it is sewn. I think I'm going to have to stuff the bustle to make it lay right. The fabric is kinda soft and floppy. I haven't decided if I am going to attach the underskirt or if it will be a separate piece. I also need to decide if the trim needs to come off. We shall see how things turn out.
Maybe I can sleep more now.