A letter to Cami Kaos

Dear Cami,

I heard your podcast where in you called me out. I HEARD! And so to save face and not to let you believe I would ignore something so HUGE as an invitation from the Great and Powerful Cami Kaos,

I am formerly accepting your invitation to do the Strange Love podcast.

However, I still do not know when I can do that for I am lame and here's why...

I just bought a new headset w/mic specifically for the podcast and they DON'T WORK!! sucks to that. Plus my kid now needs glasses so I can't afford to replace them right now. Not only that but it wacked out my sound system like hella bad and I bought them at Fred Meyer's so I don't know if they will take them back. If you (or anyone) has any ideas for inexpensive headset w/mic I can purchase I would love to hear it.

So...as soon as I am not lame I will let you know and we can set up a time to do this and I will enlighten you as to the bathing hippie, if your still interested by then that is.

And P.S. I think the Bubblewench might know a little something about being a hippie; jus sayin'

So I had this great post planned...

and then the Sun came out and the birds started to sing and I completely forgot what it was I was going to say...

So I'm going to take my camera and go have coffee with my girlfriend and maybe take some picture's for tomorrow.

See ya!

There was an actual line...

At my bathroom this morning.

There was one person in the shower, one using the facilities and when I walked out there was the rest of my family standing in single file line waiting for the bathroom.

It was to say the least hilarious.

Note to self: next time you move...make sure there are two bathrooms.

Spring cleaning time...

Are you ready?

I've been up since 5am. I've gotten three people off to school and work, cleaned two picture windows and a few small ones too, I've done four loads of laundry, half of my dishes, cleaned and moved three dressers, a shelf, a filing cabinet and a dog bed.

And I'm not even close to done yet. And I won't even go into what I did yesterday.

Nothing like a Land Lady coming into the house to measure for carpet to light that spring cleaning fire under your ass is there?

Well aren't we special

Former President Bill Clinton is in Astoria, he'll be at the maritime museum in half an hour.

Now all I need to know is...can I get to the grocery store which is on the other side of town...former Pres in the middle...before the traffic becomes a completely horrible mess?

Sigh...

Happy Mother's Day!

We took the kids to Seaside Fun Center yesterday for some pre Mother's day fun.

We had spin-y spin-y fun! I laughed until my guts hurt, we love the Tilt-o-Whirl.


My Family tried to run each other over on the bumper cars.


We laughed our butts off at these two Seagulls who were fighting over a spot on the turn around wall.


this spot in fact that this Seagull quickly took when they hopped down to yell at each other.


But then we chased him away 'cause we needed to take this great picture for me for Mother's Day, a girl needs a good pic of her Family you know! Aren't they lovely, sigh.

So I tried something new yesterday.

Absente.


It is refined Absinthe, which is what I WOULD have tried if you could get it in the United States but I'm told you can't. I'm still researching; I'll let you know.

Plus it came with this:

And I love it when my booze comes with gifts.

Anyway, the box reads:

'During the heady days of late 19th century Paris, Absinthe was the trademark drink of artists like Degas, Manet, Picasso, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Oscar Wilde.

Today, Absente, Absinthe Refined, evokes the glamour and mystical allure of "The Green Fairy."
Absente is the modern version of the original Absinthe recipe. The single difference is we replaced the notorious botanical Wormwood with a less bitter cousin, Southern Wormwood, also known as "petite absinthe." Absente is the first legal Absinthe available in America since 1912.'

It was strange, it tasted like licorice and fennel. And it's 110 proof (hoo boy!) I have always wanted to try Absinthe, and Mead but thats another story, but these things are hard to buy if you are an American (kinda says something right there doesn't it?) it has a substance called Thojone which is what makes Wormwood "notorious."

It does have this substance in it, just at the legally allowed limit in the States; which I researched and found out that it's not really all that much stronger if you buy it outside the U.S.

It's the process of making the drink that most people enjoy, the ritual of it.

You pour 2 ounces of Absente into a glass, then you place the Absinthe spoon over the glass with a sugar cube on it, then pour 3 ounces of cold water over the sugar cube until it dissolves, then stir with the Absinthe spoon.

It turns from a bright poison green color to a milky light green, it's quite pretty the effect. I can see why artists liked it and also why the process seemed so ritualistic. I am a little disappointed that it tastes like black licorice though. But the fact that it's nice and strong makes up for it.

Cheers!

Friday Morning Nature Blogging

This is an Orange Eastern Lubber Grasshopper.

My girlfriend Amber is a photo biologist, She took this picture in Florida while trying to determine the food supply for some migratory birds in the swamp. She currently resides in The Virgin Islands continuing her schooling.

We hope to see her or her work on National Geographic soon; then I will have yet another geek celebrity name to drop. Heh.

In case you are wondering, the grasshopper IS as big as he looks. Even their babies are huge.

Happy Friday all!

Soooo....

It's Wednesday, the Man has been on Vaca all week long and so has been monopolizing all the time on the computer (or I don't have a lot going on in the way of funny and it's a damn good excuse).

All is well, except I feel like Hell. Just found out a couple of days ago that my little girlfriend is leaving town to start a whole new big girl life all by herself free of her 6 year relationship with her boyfriend.

We are saddened by this.

Anyway fear not fellow Evil lovers, I have much Friday Nature to Blog saved up so I'll be back on my game soon. Or whatever it is they say these days I'm outa the loop today.

Asta Manyana

To Miss Melanie on her Birthday,

So the universe never did see fit to give me my very own sister...And so instead it sent me you.

Happy Birthday Miss Melanie, I love you ever so much and this I dedicate to you.

Love you, Love me.

Ummmm.....

Well it's Saturday morning...my Man is at work, my children were picked up by their Grandmother last night and taken far away, I just don't know what to do with myself.

I could sleep. oooo, sleep...sleep is good. My old friend sleep how you have abandoned me in recent years, how like a jilted jealous lover you have left me for some other who will appreciate you like I have been unable to.

Some lucky little 20 something who doesn't really need you because they don't have offspring and can run on hangover fumes after days and days of thwarting your every effort to sway their young souls to your slumber land, undeserving little wretches.

Oh how I miss you sweet sleep. I meant not to offend thee with my inability to lie with you at will, with my wakeful nature that keeps me from your sweet embrace, oh evil bladder that wakes me and pulls me from your arms when I have finally succumb to your honey potion.

How fondly I think of the soft, soft pillow that is the top of my bed...and the dark dark curtains I have hung in honor of the ever approaching summer with it's ever earlier day break that seems to come only minutes after we meet again.

Well sleep, now...I have no other engagements. I have all day so...please...don't leave me now.

Good day all; to bed I go. I have a date with an old friend and his name is Dream.

Friday Morning Nature Blogging

This is the frozen tundra, I Don't know if this picture is real or photo shopped. But it's beautiful.

Happy Friday Everyone. I hope you all have a fantabulous weekend ;p

Happy May Day All!

Did everyone go out and protest something? Ya! Me Either...But the rest of the world did so don't worry...someone was out there protesting for you.

Wednesday Morning Nature Blogging...

'Cause I just got nothin' today and I just took some new pictures at a place called Dismal Nitch, funny...but pretty. So I'm cheating today.

They said 59 degrees...they were wrong.

So Waldport this weekend was really nice, Friday the weather was pleasant and 55 like they said it was going to be...then Saturday got there and the Sun came out and it was more like 65 or 70 which was just what I asked for.

The girls had fun playing in the pools low tide left behind.



And I enjoyed the sun a little too!




We had a blast!

We made candles....

Tea cup candles...



Too be continued...

SOAP!

To be continued.....

Friday Morning Nature Blogging

Is going to a little early this week. I am taking my two daughters down to Waldport Oregon to spend the weekend with my Grandmother, Mother, Great Aunts, Aunts, Cousins, Cousins-in-Law, Second Cousins and various assorted associations of all the aforementioned womens.

We do it every year and this year I had no way of leaving my girls home and my Family absolutely would NOT let me out of it.

So in honor of the cold beach that I will be visiting (hopefully the weather forecast will change to 70 but for now I'm not holding my breath) I want to post something that looks warm and beautiful.

Enjoy your weekend everyone! I'll be back Sunday with lots of photo's of Beach, Babes and Bedazzled handmade goodness.

So I am off like a dirty skirt...

I am leaving fair Astoria O' Beach of my existence today for fair Waldport O' Beach of a far off nature.

Why you ask would I go from one beach to another when the other is 4 hours away? I am going to my annual all girls family craft retreat. I'll be blogging again today so you will get the explanation of that.

I'm going to go ahead and post my Friday Morning Nature Blogging early as I will not have access to a computer while I am away, the post is already written; all I have to do is hit publish and jet out the door so I am remiss to explain it all here now when later it will seem like "yeah, okay! we get it now shut up already!" so you'll just have to wait.

Hey here's a thought though, I live at the beach right? Why can't I talk my family into doing craft retreat closer to my house? why must I drive my ass four hours away to craft at the beach when I live at the beach?

Hmmm?
During crab festival?
Which I have never been able to attend due to craft retreat.
Hmmm, why?

This year I'm gonna work on them. There has got to be a better way. They have to see that there are places that are not four hours away that are still right on the beach. And were not even staying on the beach, more like a dunes length away. You can hear the Ocean but you have to climb the dune to see it.

Sigh, I'll shut up now.

At least I get to see some family I haven't seen since Christmas, so I guess it's worth it. Plus! I'll probably have lots of crafty things to blog about when I return on Sunday so SCORE!

Be prepared for handmade goodness coming SOON to a blog near you.

Sorry people's I tend to get nervous before a long drive...

And this spider is NOT in a cage...

It's in a candle...that USED to reside on my bedside table.

And when my dog knocked over my bedside table and all went crashing to the ground and my daughter picked it up and said "Look Mama, a dead spider" I looked in...decided she was right and put the candle back on the bedside table.

Next to my head.

Then later I reached over to switch on the lamp...and it moved...and so did my skin.

Unlike Miss Melanie's spider this one is Not in a cage, it was right. next. to. mah head. Where my mouth is. And my ears are.

It did not fly out of the candle when it hit the ground like you would expect either, no! It has built itself a nice little web in that candle and sealed itself in.

It's a poisonous spider by the way, in case you were wondering. It's the down side to living in the Pacific N.W. BIG HAIRY POISONOUS FUCKING SPIDERS THAT EAT YOUR FACE!

Bet you don't miss THAT bubblewench.

*UPDATE 7AM, THURSDAY*

The Evil King inspected the spider last night, determined it is NOT poisonous though he could not tell me what it was and decided it could STAY! he refuses to kill it or remove it.