Oh dear its been almost a month! I keep thinking about posting and then I get sidetrack (Ooo whats that? A kitty?) Sorry about that folks. Knowing how you all depend on me for my daily dose of…. crazy or…. whatever it is you come here for when none of the good blogs have an new post to look at. So we’ll go over what I’ve been doing for the last month.
First I was getting ready for Jarell to go out of town and working on my Halloween costume.
Front and back shots
Its been quite a bit of fussy work which I absolutely love but now I’ve reached the point where I have to have a few items for decoration that I don’t want to buy yet so it has moved to the back burner. I have also started on a costume for Jarell this year- a new venture because I’ve never actually sewed anything wearable for him. How hard can it be tho right? (ha! famous last words)
Jarell left on the 15th for the West Virginia job so I’ve been trying to keep busy without tying up my phone line in case I get a chance to talk to him. Thats a big part of the reason for my absence from the computer- I take every chance I can get to talk to him because our conversations are about 5 minutes long at a time and he only has one day off a week. Some of you who’ve been around for a while will know that this is the third September in a row that he’s been gone and so maybe you’d think I’d have gotten used to it by now but in fact the opposite is true.
Each time he’s gone it gets harder and I have more days where I feel like I can’t get enough to breathe. The phantom pain of a missing limb haunts me at the strangest times- I roll over in bed at night after a particularly nasty dream and he’s not there to comfort me. Or I go to call him at lunch time to see what he wants to eat and then remember he’s a thousand miles and a time zone away. Its not a lot of fun and I’m sure there are a lot of you out there who can understand what its like in one way or another.
We’re planning on having a Halloween party this year and so thats my other way to keep busy right now. Turning our basement into a haunted house or something resembling one with as little money spent as possible because its more fun that way- seeing what we can come up with from the random stuff we and my sister in law have collected over the years. It has the potential to be really cool because between J11 and myself we’ve managed to come up with quite a few low cost high impact ideas for absolutely disturbed and scary decorations. It helps that we’re working in an unfinished basement because whats creepier than the basement torture chamber right?
So other than all of that I have just been trying to keep busy as much as possible. Talking to a few friends from school through Facebook- dealing with some stuff from my past that I wish I’d known about back then. Trying to stay sane. Watching lots of movies and playing a few video games too. Just your average everyday ordinary life I guess.
And with that awkward segue I leave you to return to more interesting waters.
