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la_belle_laideWow, do I owe an update!
I feel like I have to rush it all though, which seems like a jip, and cheating. Friday was Boychild's finalization at court and it was pretty lovely. It took forever getting into the damn courtroom. We all got there around 9 AM and didn't get into court until 1 PM. Then they got sworn in, said everything in their papers was true, and it was all over. All the kids (and adults!) got cookies and candy and stuff afterwards. Boychild was so hilarious while we were all waiting in the courthouse. There were tons of families there, and by the time it was all over, everyone knew his name. He just went around making everyone crack up.
Then that Friday night was Jo-chan's play, which was "Big, The Musical." As usual, the entire cast handled itself with aplomb beyond their years. The lead, Josh Baskin, was Jo-chan's best friend. He's a good kid (he comes to the family parties sometimes,) and he was great in his role. Jo-chan had some speaking parts and she absolutely shone. She's got natural timing for comedy. After curtain call, the music teacher (this is another really great dude,) played a reprise of one of the songs and all the kids went onstage to sing and dance to it. It was really sweet. After the play I told Jo-chan "You look so beautiful! You're like a little hooker!" and she said, "Thanks, but I'm not wearing any makeup." Good times.
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hyenarave, if'n you want to be picked up after school Friday lemme know. It's Tropic Thunder weekend. Including ice cream. :D
Saturday was the party for Boychild's finalization. It was full of kids and loud toys and very noisy. SB and my aunt Betsy came by for it. UD and Jo-chan could not, because Jo-chan had another play to do that night.
Umm, let's see, what else. On Sunday I went shopping and then Monday Kung Fu and oh, I got all my loans for college and stuff this semester all figured out. That was so damn hard and ridiculously and needlessly complicated, and I'm glad it's finished. Then yesterday I took the dogs to the vet for their vaccs and boosters and fortunately--because it was done right this time and not with cheap-ass vaccs--Haku did not have an insane allergic reaction this time. And Sano has a minor infection in his anal gland, FUN. He shot the poor vet in the face with it. These are things I do not miss about working at a vet. There are things I do miss about working at an animal hospital, such as working with animals, and the few good people I used to see almost every day, but honestly when I think of going back to The Bad Place it makes me want to hurl. The thing is, I can only imagine that I would still be trudging through it trying to convince myself that it was not only fulfilling, but that I was being treated fairly and with respect, when so obviously the opposite was true for so long. I think that's the downside to having a default setting of "cheerful." You make the best of crappy situations, that's cool and all, but you also get complacent.
Ah well.
Tonight in Kung Fu we all hung around after class waiting for the new kickboxing students to show up for an 8 PM class, but they didn't show up. So we did shoulder rolls and tricks and junk like that and hung around for a while, then we all went home. I like those nights when we're all hanging around there; I don't know why, there's something comforting about it.
I have just downloaded some songs by an ooooold favorite band of mine, The Thompson Twins. I was in love with them when I was 12 and for some odd reason I had been jonzing to hear them in the last few months. I figured it would sound cheesy to my adult ears but I have to tell you, "Lay Your Hands On Me" actually sounds better. It's majestic and meaningful in ways it wasn't when I was 12. I wonder what happened to this band? They were pretty great.
Well, that's that.
Oh, and it is cold as a witch's tit. *Checks* Yup, yup it is.
I feel like I have to rush it all though, which seems like a jip, and cheating. Friday was Boychild's finalization at court and it was pretty lovely. It took forever getting into the damn courtroom. We all got there around 9 AM and didn't get into court until 1 PM. Then they got sworn in, said everything in their papers was true, and it was all over. All the kids (and adults!) got cookies and candy and stuff afterwards. Boychild was so hilarious while we were all waiting in the courthouse. There were tons of families there, and by the time it was all over, everyone knew his name. He just went around making everyone crack up.
Then that Friday night was Jo-chan's play, which was "Big, The Musical." As usual, the entire cast handled itself with aplomb beyond their years. The lead, Josh Baskin, was Jo-chan's best friend. He's a good kid (he comes to the family parties sometimes,) and he was great in his role. Jo-chan had some speaking parts and she absolutely shone. She's got natural timing for comedy. After curtain call, the music teacher (this is another really great dude,) played a reprise of one of the songs and all the kids went onstage to sing and dance to it. It was really sweet. After the play I told Jo-chan "You look so beautiful! You're like a little hooker!" and she said, "Thanks, but I'm not wearing any makeup." Good times.
hyenarave, if'n you want to be picked up after school Friday lemme know. It's Tropic Thunder weekend. Including ice cream. :DSaturday was the party for Boychild's finalization. It was full of kids and loud toys and very noisy. SB and my aunt Betsy came by for it. UD and Jo-chan could not, because Jo-chan had another play to do that night.
Umm, let's see, what else. On Sunday I went shopping and then Monday Kung Fu and oh, I got all my loans for college and stuff this semester all figured out. That was so damn hard and ridiculously and needlessly complicated, and I'm glad it's finished. Then yesterday I took the dogs to the vet for their vaccs and boosters and fortunately--because it was done right this time and not with cheap-ass vaccs--Haku did not have an insane allergic reaction this time. And Sano has a minor infection in his anal gland, FUN. He shot the poor vet in the face with it. These are things I do not miss about working at a vet. There are things I do miss about working at an animal hospital, such as working with animals, and the few good people I used to see almost every day, but honestly when I think of going back to The Bad Place it makes me want to hurl. The thing is, I can only imagine that I would still be trudging through it trying to convince myself that it was not only fulfilling, but that I was being treated fairly and with respect, when so obviously the opposite was true for so long. I think that's the downside to having a default setting of "cheerful." You make the best of crappy situations, that's cool and all, but you also get complacent.
Ah well.
Tonight in Kung Fu we all hung around after class waiting for the new kickboxing students to show up for an 8 PM class, but they didn't show up. So we did shoulder rolls and tricks and junk like that and hung around for a while, then we all went home. I like those nights when we're all hanging around there; I don't know why, there's something comforting about it.
I have just downloaded some songs by an ooooold favorite band of mine, The Thompson Twins. I was in love with them when I was 12 and for some odd reason I had been jonzing to hear them in the last few months. I figured it would sound cheesy to my adult ears but I have to tell you, "Lay Your Hands On Me" actually sounds better. It's majestic and meaningful in ways it wasn't when I was 12. I wonder what happened to this band? They were pretty great.
Well, that's that.
Oh, and it is cold as a witch's tit. *Checks* Yup, yup it is.
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Date: 2008-11-20 03:00 pm (UTC)I saw two of the Thompson Twins once. It was when I was studying in England, a classmate and I went to see Nick Rhodes' wife in a very fringe theatre play, but couldn't get in because it was press night. So we watched the celebrities (including a very pregnant Fergie!), and then went into the pub (the theatre was on the upper floor of the building).
The play was short, and everybody came down into the pub before we had finished our ciders. That's when I saw some of the guys from Duran Duran -- and two of the Thompson Twins. They were sitting at the bar together, the lady and the white guy. I had listened to them too, so it was a neat surprise. :)
And that's my incredibly long comment for the day. *dusts hands, quota met*
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Date: 2008-11-20 04:04 pm (UTC)OMG you saw two of the Thompson Twins! I had such a crush on the redheaded guy when I was a kid. I've always had a thing for redheads I guess. Of course, I was going to marry John Taylor when I was twelve (well of course I was going to wait until I was 16,) but Thompson Twins were my second favorite and if it hadn't worked out with John Taylor, it would have been that redheaded guy. ;D
That is a neat surprise! I also think it's the BOMB that you got to study in England.
ETA: How sad is it that when you said "Fergie" my first thought was "My Humps" Fergie? O_O
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Date: 2008-11-20 05:26 pm (UTC)I couldn't decide between John or Roger. There was no denying John Taylor's appeal, but I have a weakness for the dark and moody type. However, it was John that I actually flirted with at that pub, so there ya go. He was still so pretty, even though he was wearing a white turtleneck. I know. *facepalm*
And it was awesome to study there, truly -- there are claw marks on the tarmac of Heathrow to this day from the day I left. &England;
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Date: 2008-11-21 02:14 am (UTC)How long were you in England and what did you study there? Apart from English guys. ;)
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Date: 2008-11-21 04:07 am (UTC)I was there for four months. My school had their own arrangement over there so we had our own flats and classes of our own in a local school with local profs, so I had a range of subjects: Art History, Church History (with Rev. Alan Walker. Fell in love with him the minute he walked in the door. He looked like Sting, proper English gentleman version.), a lit class and a philosophy seminar. It was wonderful!
I could talk about it forever. And I'd go back in a heartbeat. :)