a horrible wrapping blog.

just so you know, i'm the worst present wrapper in the history of ever.

they look really nice from far away.

basically, i am either a too much paper or too little paper person.  so present wrapped by me have either patches covering the parts that my too-small sheet of wrapping paper didn't cover or big bulges where i had way to much paper but couldn't be bothered to cut it off.  only two this year have holes in them that i poked by accident with my own nails, so they have tape covering the holes.  D:

i was discussing my wrapping problems with chris and about how mandy was sitting on the couch making fun of my skills, and he told me to tell her that i wrapped them with love.

conveniently enough, i DID tell mandy i wrapped them with love, but apparently love is not enough to make up for these horribly wrapped packages.

so, my wrapping excuses are:  1. wrapped with love (which mandy doesn't believe) and 2. you're going to rip it off anyway, and i doubt you're going to check for paper patch jobs and extra tape beforehand.  so ha.

in other news, christmas cards!

this one came with pictures of adorable babies and sooper
awesome people.

this is the first card ever that is to me and chris!  it excites me!
our first joint christmas card!!

i also got a card from bethany and tommy, but i didn't get a picture of it before mom taped it to our christmas card wall.  D:

so yeah.  i haven't even taken a shower yet.  i should do that soon.  but first have wrap some more presents HORRIBLY.

peace.

a post-thanksgiving blog.

so as i'm sure you can tell, i'm late again in reporting anything of value. thanksgiving came and went, it was awesome but made my tummy hurt with all the food-ness.

my awesome thanksgiving crimp. :D

following thanksgiving was BLACK FRIDAY MADNESS, in which myself, my dude and his mom decided it would be a good idea to freeze our collective asses off outside of sam's club at 3:30 am to get my baby a new laptop. luckily, we did get our frozen fingers on a pretty sweet laptop, but we only got to warm up for about ten minutes before we were off again.

standing in line outside in the cold. we look like snow monsters.

but let us back up for a moment, and relive my SNOW TERRORS.

my dude picked me up at my house at about 10-ish, and we actually left at about 11-ish (had to fill himself with our tasty thanksgiving leftovers, om nom nom!) and as we were leaving there was definitely something invisible and frozen falling from the sky. as we traveled, these invisible frozen somethings grew and grew until they were giant fat snowflakes. these snow flakes were already freaking me out, since when you drive through giant snow it looks like what i call (and what chris called also, which surprised me) 'warp speed', where it looks like white lines coming at you as you travel through SPACE.

now my dude already knows how i just can't see things the way he does (literally, due to extremely fucked-up vision), so he checked on me to make sure i wasn't going to turn into 'a big ball of OH NOES!' i told him i was probably fine. as we traveled down the interstate and street lights became more and more scarce, i became more and more afraid. we were traveling slower than normal, which seem perfectly logical to me due to the conditions, but everyone else around us thought it was a bright sunny day and proceeded to zoom around us. which was fine by me. as long as they crashed far enough ahead of us that chris could stop.

so we're traveling down the interstate at about 40 miles per hour. closer to shelbyville, we hit a construction area (that has been there for like a million years and is still apparently being worked on) and were forced into one lane with these barriers on either side of us. again with no street lights. so all i can see is snow and darkness. if i could have rolled into a comfy fetal position i would have done so. we slowed down to like, 25 miles per hour though here. if the car behind us was pissed he didn't show it. but i'm sure he was. chris is trying to talk to me to calm me down, i guess. i wasn't outwardly freaking out, but had successfully turned into that big ball of OH NOES. all i could do was stare wide-eyed at the giant frozen snow coming at me at warp speed with no idea if there was anything else around us at all.

once we made it back into civilization i was fine. we did have to fight the giant snows through the wal-mart parking lot. it was like the snow was punching us right in the face. punching us with it's frozen crystals of fury. i was all sad panda. for reals.

and of course after that it never snowed again and all traces of the snow were gone by morning.

my dude and i spent way to much money, but i got quite a bit of christmas done, so it's all good. even a special christmas surprise for the buglette, we found and awesome zhu zhu pets castle for her that apparently wasn't even supposed to be on the floor yet, but we got one so yay! got mandy an awsome waffle maker which makes the most awesome fat-ass waffles in EVER. have you ever had a fat-ass chocolate chip waffle? if you haven't then you haven't lived.

that's about all the thanksgiving stuff. in other news i spent the most awesome lazy day ever yesterday with chris. it was spent doing nothing while waiting to be able to play video games. then playing video games. then doing some more nothing. there was also a lot of snuggling thrown in there. nothing better than a good winter time snuggle. :3

also, i'm painting a large and rather cartoon-y painting of an owl and some clouds. more info as that gets more painted.

some clouds. an owl outline has since been added.

and i guess that's all for now. get on that christmas shopping if you haven't already, you're running out of time.

peace.

a freaky dream blog.

slept in late again today/yesterday because of a freaky dream.

as always, here's some back story for this dream. at about ten o'clock this morning, mom comes in my room with bug and tells me she's taking mandy to work and that bug wants to go back to sleep. so of course bug just climbs up in my bed, takes most of my blanket and somehow manages to cover half my bed with her little six-year-old body. at little after eleven or so, she hears the van pull up, hops out of bed and goes to find mom.

and i go back to sleep.

and in my dream, i wake up in my room and chris is sleeping next to me. i roll over, look at him, and ask him why he was here and not at work. he tells me he called in because he just really wanted to see me. so we have a lovey-dovey moment, then chris sneezes and i notice his eye looks funny. when he sneezes it looks like it's about to pop out.

a little more back story: there was a time, not super long after we started dating when chris was complaining that his eye was twitching. we would talk about whether or not we should be concerned, and my response was usually 'it's not like it's gonna pop out or anything'.

i wasn't freaked out about it, though. probably because of that bit of back story. his eye was watering, so i gave him some tissues to hold over his eye and told him i was going to the kitchen to get him an ice pack. dream logic told me that would definitely help.

i walk out of my room and in the bathroom i see mom and mandy trying to get bug's hair done. mom sees me and immediately starts yelling at me for not letting bug sleep with me when she took mandy to work. my defense was 'yes i did, what's wrong with you?!' and 'i have to take chris to the ER.'

i head to the kitchen and she's still yelling at me. there were a bunch of people in the kitchen, in my dream i knew they were family and one of the people i did recognize as soni, but outside dream world none of these people were familiar. i grab an ziplock bag out of the pantry and open the freezer to find some ice. apparently the freezer wasn't working, because there was no ice, but lots of water. i kept trying to find anything that was frozen to make an ice pack with. i came across one of those blue gel packs, but it was squishy and totally not good for an ice pack. i also happened on a bag of some sort of frozen pasta dinner in a bag, and i tried to pull out the noodles which were still frozen, but they would thaw out as i pulled them out of the bag. chris comes out into the kitchen and tells me to look at his eye, it was really red and i told him to cover it back up. i told him that the ER wasn't far and a pretty straight shot so if he could help me watch for the other cars that i could drive him.

after that i woke up. for a minute.

after that i woke up in my dream, back in my bed. i immediately know that i'm dreaming because i turn to my right and there is a table sitting next to my bed with my cell phone on it and i know that in real life i don't have a table anymore and that my cell phone sits on the chair.

i got up, looked around and willed myself to wake up.

and i did. for a minute.

i wake up again in my dream with that table sitting next to the bed and am incredibly frustrated that i keep having this dream. i'm fully aware that this is a dream and it pissed me off because i hate dreaming about places that are too realistic. and other than that fucking table my room was exactly the way it should be.

so i willed myself to wake up again.

and i did. for a minute.

then i wake up again in that dream with the stupid table and the cell phone only this time i'm fighting for my life against a vampire that's trying to bite me. i thank my brain for at least giving me a real dream this time.

peace.

walmart, fireworks and the emergency room.

oh how your day can change.

got off work last night, normal as can be, went to walmart and to shop for a cookout today, took an awesome picture of a bra someone had abandoned in the tomatoes. good times. didn't find everything we needed at walmart, so we went to kroger. had us a cart with some paper plates and a cabbage, was about to put some tasty looking day-old donuts in there when mandy's phone starts ringing. it was dad, didn't answer it in time, we figured he just needed something from the store.

what we learned was there was an accident with some fireworks over at my uncle's brothers house, where mom, all three kids, deb and art were. everyone is fine, but mom and lily got burned and we need to meet him at the emergency room. soni tries to run off with the cart of paper plates and cabbage out a door that wasn't open. after a 'just take your purse!' and 'that door's not open!!' we make it back out of krogers and to the van and head off to hardin memorial. we were vaguely freaking out, but if dad says they're fine we are inclined to take his word for it, and make it safe and sound and with no speeding tickets.

we head into the emergency room and they aren't there. we run back outside and call dad back to find out we beat them all to the ER. the house they were at was in irvington, and they were driving back to hardin county. dad was coming from our house. we see art's van pull up, they see us and pull up where we are. mom gets out first, and she's holding a dish cloth or something on her stomach but isn't too upset. she shows us the burn and parts of it were black, the rest was pink and shiny. lily is sitting on deb's lap, she's calm and we couldn't see the burn. it turns out it went from about her armpit and went down her side. nobody said bug was burned, but when she got out she had a big spot on her leg and arm, but they're not as bad. she has had some spots on her face that didn't look too bad.

deb is upset. she's trying to tell us what happened and is getting emotional, but trying to stay calm since lily is in her lap. bubba's fine, but he wants to make sure everyone is alright, he's very protective of his big sister and loves his aunt lori. we all get inside, dad hasn't gotten there yet and mom's asking for him. i wait outside for dad to get there and we both go inside with everybody. there's all sorts of paper work and stuff going on, bug's a little antsy, and i take her to the bathroom.

now bug will throw a fit if she stubs her toe on something, because it just hurts so bad. but here she is with all these burns just calm as can be. when we're finished in the bathroom and about to go out, she looks at me and she says:

"tiff?"

"what is it, toad?"

"i saw it coming. i saw it but i couldn't move out of my chair."

"you saw it coming at you?"

"yeah."

"then you're a lucky little girl that somebody was there to get you, huh?"

"yeah."

and that's all she had to say about it. when i talked to chris later he said she was probably in shock, since it all happened so fast.

but everybody got bandaged up (of course it still took hours since it was the ER), and got to go home. i spent most of the time with bubba playing with the wooden toys on the wall, the ones where you can move the balls around the tracks ("this one is me, this one is you and this one is lily bug. this is us in space!") and we colored some in the special 'trip to the hospital' coloring books. deb had to go outside and smoke her first cigarette in years, though. it was all pretty emotional, really. when art first saw my dad, he went right up to him and said 'albert, i'm so sorry.' he was really quiet the whole time, i think since dad wasn't there he was supposed to be the man of the group and protect his wife and little girl. deb was upset because she was off from the fireworks and she didn't know what was happening. dad was upset because he had been at home and not at that house with them. they were all kinda bummed because not one of them had wanted to go to that house at all.

so this is what actually happened though, as i've put together from all the accounts:

they were at the house of a friend of art's brother. they had a little bar-b-que and were doing fireworks for the kids. and these were pretty big fireworks. bug and lily were in chairs near the house and mom was standing behind them. deb was kinda off to the side. they shot off a bunch, but one apparently misfired, but the people setting them off didn't see it or know what happened, they actually kept setting them off. the misfired one headed for bug's chair, just as gina (art's brother's wife) was coming out of the house. gina saw the firework and snatched bug out of the chair, but bug was still hit a little bit, mainly with sparks or spray from the firework. the firework ricocheted off the chair and hit lily. lily's clothes actually caught fire, they had to throw them away at the hospital (she left wearing a tank top soni had on under her own shirt). mom grabs lily and basically smothers the fire, and either she got hit by an after shot of the firework or the flames on lily's clothes burned through her own shirt (her shirt had a burn hole in it) and got her on the stomach. my mom said it felt like she'd been shot, and she thought that she might be on fire, so she hit the grass (with or without lily, i'm not sure, but she did grab lily after it happened. mom asks deb if the babies (meaning the kids) were all right or to get them, but deb was so far away she didn't know anything had happened. after all this chaos ensues.

it's horrible that these things happen, but you kinda see what these kids are really made of. mom ran with bug into the house and said that she smelled like smoke, so she started spinning her around and looking for damage. but bug wasn't screaming or crying, she just kept asking mom if they were okay. i think the whole time in the ER she was more worried about mom and lily. she was acting very mature for age, i think, because i'm sure all those burns hurt, but she knew they weren't as bad as what mom and lily got.

lily came out of the ER with a nice does of codeine, so she was a happy lily. a very happy lily.

today has just been helping out, making sure they're not running into things with their burns, soni got the job of changing all the bandages since she's the best at it. lily's changing did not go well, she was pretty upset about, but then again she has a second degree burn down her side. i also got a good look at mom's, it's pretty gross but it's also shaped like a bean which makes me giggle. bug's got her big ones covered up and cream on the one's on her face.

it was all pretty traumatic, but everyone seems in pretty good spirits and in a lot less pain then i guess there could have been. so that is my tale.

everybody had a great independence day, but please for my sake be very cautious! those fireworks are still explosives! just prettier! and if you don't know how to handle them go watch some on t.v.!! i love you all and don't want anybody to get hurt!

peace and love. :3

waitin'.

bloggin' on my dude's laptop. it's much easier to blog when all the keys work. :D

right now chris is fryin' mandy some corn. you heard right. all of a sudden mandy wanted some of chris's delicious fried corn, and chris was just like 'alright' even though it's midnight. but mandy's corn craving might be related to her tasty blue booze. ya never know.

i'm also currently enjoying a nice cherry rum beverage. tasty.

been hanging out with the fam and the dude. been celebrating and lovin' chris cuz he got an awesome job! well, maybe not awesome to you, but i think it's awesome! i'll miss my awesome dude on days he's working, but with the extra income we'll be able to do a lot more fun stuff together. love my dude. :3

hmm. i don't know really why i'm bloggin'. i mainly wanted to tell you about the corn, cuz it was funny to me.

OH WAIT, also mandy was telling me a story yesterday about how someone mistook me for her while i was out with chris, so she said we can't make out in public. i suggested to chris that we *do* make out in lots of public places so that mandy looks like a ho bag. ah, that would bring me such joy, but would be really mean of me. but would be so funny and you know it.

(don't worry mandy, won't do that, still love you. even though you didn't take me shopping or invite me in the pool. bitch.)

about to watch the crazies with mandy and soni (and possibly chris, but he'll be on this laptop ignoring it while i cling in terror), so i need to finish this drink so i'm slightly less terrified. i'm a baby when it comes to scary movies, but i sit through them just because i want to know what happens. just like with scary video games, can't play them but still wanna know what happens.

("soni: i need to eat some freakin' corn right now.")

gonna go get me some corn.

peace.