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For the last week, she has been decorating for the Pokemon ball. It was a like a ball or really a prom. There was a lot of detail that went into decorating for this, of course all on the minature.

Today was the long awaited day. It was also Hollace’s half birthday which is kind of a half holiday I guess 😉

When I got home from work we went to Grayslake’s farmer’s market where Hollace fell in love with a little choker necklace. I told her it is nice but we aren’t necessarily getting it. In the end RAW got it for her after he had her throw something away for him and pay him back for it (it was $6).

From then on she was a happy camper. After the farmer’s market, we stopped by the huge sunflower field in Grayslake and I quickly shot off 60 photos, breathtaking field.

When we got home I attened the Pokemon ball hosted by Manafee. There was music, there was punch (fake) there was dancing with Pokemon. Cloudy stopped by for awhile but was later tossed out after she tried to gain access to the workers only section.

Hollace, as she kept saying….”I never thought I would see the day” started caring a lot about keeping her hair nice and brushed. For the rest of the night she kept brushing her hair. It was so sleek and soft. She was thrilled with this idea. Hopefully this means no more rag-a-muffin hair girl.

We then made some sugar cookies which she decorated.

She was having the best day ever!

Yesterday RAW went to Indiana to buy himself a 1972 MGB convertible. It is his frivilous toy. I say have fun with it but after you finish the kitchen! He was gone all day! I was begining to wonder what happened to him. He bought the car at 12:30 and he was 2 hours away but he didn’t get home until 9 pm! Because of some issues with the U-haul trailer, he didn’t get on the road until almost 4. Then he took the scenic route as opposed to the tollway, well that is never a good way. He now knows that.

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Today we headed out to some appliance stores for a dishwasher. But first there is something on my car. Apparently someone ketchuped and mustarded my back window. Very weird. I don’t get it. At least they didn’t get RAW’s new MGB. We picked out a new dishwasher and almost a new fridge. Found a lovely french door Maytag model that was on close out so the price was really good. I went home and did research on it and there were strong negative reviews on it so I am staying away.

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I ordered a new lens. I wasn’t really planning on it but Hollace’s 3rd grade teacher wants me to shoot her dog and my favorite lens (50mm f1.4) the autofocus isn’t working 100% of the time, more like 70%. I can’t trust it for this shoot.

It will cost $130-180 to get it fixed. It would cost me $90 to buy a similar (50mm f1.8) –but not as nice–lens brand new. Doing that would be like trashing the f1.4 lens because I would have a 50mm replacement even if it is more plastic-ie. My third option was to buy a 35mm f2.0 lens for $240. Doing that would give me the option if I wanted to fix the 50mm f1.4 evenutally and not have a redundant lens laying around. I have always thought the 50mm was just a bit to close up for me in a lot of cases so hopefully this will be my new walk around lens.

That all said and the money spent, I will probably use the 17-85mm lens so I can have varying focal lengths which will be handy photographing a dog.

What a dirty little trick to justify buying a new lens 😉

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Hollace bought a new Webkinz, a lil-kinz mouse. She is happy with her purchase.

About 6 weeks ago I mentioned my obsession with Flight of the Concords. Well it is still going strong if not stronger. While the family was in Fort Wayne for two weeks, I wasted a lot of time watching the 12 episodes I bought plus any and everthing different I can find on Youtube. Take one look at my favorites there and you will see what I mean.

When visiting Paula I seen a music magazine (Filter) that had FofC on the cover. I of course bought it. I was just looking at the magazine tonight and had an urge (like a 16 year old) to rip out the pictures of the guys and put them on my wall. Yikes! I don’t think I actually did that when I was 16 LOL.

I really think this overboardness of these cute clever dopey kiwi has something to do with the depressing world that I blogged about a week or two ago. These guys are an adorable outlet.

I have NOT moved from this couch since I got home at 6:30. It is now 11:30 and time to get my ass to bed.

I got a physical on Monday. I originally called to check on an odd bruise by my belly button but thought that was really ridiculous so I added a physical especially since the appointment was for 8am (so I could fast). Unfortunately I hadn’t drank anything either so finding a good vein was kind of a challenge.

I got my blood test results back today. My cholesterol, blood sugar, kidney function, liver were all good. I was however deficient in vitamin D a bit. I guess I better get out and get some sun.

I had a heck of a time getting home today. I wanted to stop by the Grayslake farmers market I just realized was on Wednesdays from 3-7. I also needed to stop by the doctor’s office to hand in some shit, literally. I had to smear shit on a card for 3 shits as part of my physical. Fishing in the toilet for that was no fun. I couldn’t wait to get the cards filled so I could get rid of them.

Anyway, the road I took home was closed because of an accident. Then every choice I made for an alternate was bad too. I thought I would never get where I wanted to go.

When I finally got home, I sat down and never got back up. I am pathetic.

yet I am sitting here feeling all grown up drinking a glass of wine…in an actual wine glass.

Sherry is suppose to come up tomorrow for the weekend. We are planning on going to Ravinia so lets hope for no rain. Last time she was here she seen a little wine box and insulating cozy for it at our Super Target. It is perfect for Ravinia so I bought it yesterday in advance to her visit tomorrow. I also bought 2 plastic wine glasses which is the only way to go for Ravinia. Paying for the cozy was such a waste of money ($9) but I bought it anyway. For the wine I bought a Chardonnay cube (equivalent to two bottles). I thought I would try it tonight. Its alright but then again I am not a drinker.

Listening to the news is starting to bum me out. Every morning I wake up to news radio. I am getting close to changing that habit just like I had to after 9/11.

First I worry about gas prices. Not so much the impact of my wallet to fill up my car but rather the impact of the trickle down. Every thing is going to be too expensive. I just see this as the beginning of a major economic problem. Because we live below our means I am not worried about us per se but everyone else who can barely make ends meet as it is. It is going to get worse for them then eventually everyone. I can so see this thing trickeling down to me losing my job. I work in the art department of a big corporation. We are fluff. Yesterday our company had a great earning report and was doing really good then today I hear one of our divisions is laying off people.

As if the gas problem wasn’t enough of a drain on the economy, don’t get me started on the mortgage problem. Again this doesn’t impact me directly right now but as mortgage companies and banks go down, I can’t see how anyone can get away unscathed eventually. Are we heading for a “Great Depression”

Then there is environmental issues and …..well it is all becoming too overwhelming.

Today at lunch I decided to look at my photo magazine to unwind and there was a horrifying section on how fucked up we made this planet. Last night I was catching up on my TiVoed shows and was watching a marathon of Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days and that was depressing me.

Tonight I decided to just watch mindless fluff to escape from all the bad news. I started with an episode of Bewitch and the Dick Van Dyke show which actually had me laughing out loud. And I have ended the night watching my favorite New Zealanders, the Flight of the Concords.

I feel better now.

Please excuse the bad sentence structure of this posts. I wanted to get my thoughts down as quickly as I could before hitting the hay. Good night.

Pam and Shelby, Cindy and Tim (my sisters and their husbands) took the opportunity on the 4th of July weekend to leave my mom with 9 kids and get a room at the Radison Hotel which is connected to the Holiday Star Theater. I obviously wasn’t going to be a 5th wheel on their get away but I did go to dinner with them and check out their room. They had Sleep Number beds. You know we are all getting old if this was excitement. We all took note of our sleep number. I think mine was about 40.

Walking down the hall to get to their room I see a guy walking down the hall with crazy hair. I didn’t connect that it could possibly be Weird Al since he was playing at the theater that night. As we turn the corner, Cindy said, that’s Weird Al. Shelby ran back down the hall after Al and said “Al”. He turned around and Shelby got a few pictures of him. And me without my camera. I got to start carrying that thing all the time with me again.

Boy was my nephew Will (Shelby, who is in the picture’s son) jealous, he is a big Weird Al fan.

RAW is working on the kitchen and as usual everything is going wrong. I don’t know if he realizes it but it always goes this way for him. Lots of swearing and temper tantrums. I am sure this was how it was over the holiday weekend but I didn’t hear it.

The only thing I required is that he get my sink (and now oven) hooked back up before he leaves for 2 weeks tomorrow morning.

Right now it doesn’t look possible which I am sure is adding to his stress. You know, I don’t know. He acts like this over EVERY home improvement project. What the hell was I thinking when I agreed to let him do this himself.

Today I ate an entire bag of white chocolate mini peanut butter cups. What the hell is wrong with me?

Last week while RAW was working on the kitchen a guy knocked on the door. He flashed some ID and said he was a states attorney. He wanted to know if we sold a car to the neighbor. Yeah we did a year or so ago, the 20 year old Chrysler 5th Ave. He wanted to know if we sold it for the mother to use or for the son. I believe it was for the son to drive but RAW told him for the mom. Don’t know why he told it that way.

I guess they found some serious drugs in the mom’s new car and impounded it. The mom I guess said that was her car and not her son’s so she could get it back.

I am not sure how knowing who drives the old Chrysler (which I haven’t seen around in a while) is going to make a difference. Maybe it was the Chrysler that got impounded.

I realized I was pregnant. It always seemed to take about a year for my cycles to get back to normal after being on the pill and 10 years ago was no exception. It took a year of crazy temp charting to get my first normal monthly cycle and immediately pregnant.

I happened upon my journal from back then and it surprised me that I told everyone that I was pregnant within a couple days of knowing myself and let me tell you, I knew at the first possible moment I could.