urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:lavendarkitty lavendarkitty lavendarkitty 2006-08-21T20:48:34Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:lavendarkitty:26270 2006-08-21T20:48:34Z 2006-08-21T20:48:34Z I couldn't think of a subject. Let's see here. Well the ezine is going alright. I'm writing an article for National novel writing month, I've started it 45 times still haven't gotten it to flow right. I've got all the information it's just in my delivery. I've been made staff for at least one possible two anime sites, one has a strong potential for payment one is writing reviews, the other is converting videos. I had one place tell me my review was too short even though it was twice the length of the ones they had listed on the site which I used as a model for my sample per their request. Not to mention the attitude was place nasty, so I'm glad I decided not to write for them. Luckily membership is free to that site so I didn't have to worry about cancelling. my burn is doing much better, I'm not really allowed to cook rice anymore though, still it wasn't all that bad judging from the scar it was only 3rd degree still it's not in the best of places and as long as I don't wear low cut shirts for the next several years, it isn't even noticible. Andrew started school, is doing well, I have a doc appointment with my primary on thursday at the most ungodly hour honestly anything before 10 am is ungodly for me even though I go to bed fairly early most nights now. I just love the whole sedative quality for all the meds. Micha is being Micha, she's still here but at least she got her formal acceptance to Tibet university for the fall. They are sending the visa paper work over, they are cutting it kind of close but it seems to be habit for them. Because of GRE she'll have to wait a year before she can start her PHD program at Columbia, provided she makes it in to columbia. My japanese is improving though I still can't keep up with a conversation, I'm noticing when the subtitles and the words don't match about 89-90% of the time in more than just a word here and there too. So definitely an improvement. Umm Let's see oh I've been granted administrative access to the ezine i.e. more work for me. Miko is a lovely person she's got drive, determination, the project management skills, but she's not very knowledgable about some things like she wanted to put the submission deadline two weeks prior to the publication date I was like umm no because there are 10 stories going in, at least three articles other than the one I'm writing, plus the various other things she's got planned and there is no way we can edit all of that stuff, get it back to the authors for revisions get it back to us and posted with only two weeks. That little statement is what won me all the extra work though I couldn't just leave it be since I happen to be the editor so the editing should be on my schedule I mean that's what she "hired" me to do. Anyway that's about all thats going on here. OHh Irene got her old pos of a car stolen from BK while she was playing Bingo there, mostly cause she left her keys in the bathroom, she got the car back, after it had been ripped apart to make room for an oversided boombox, painted blue with spray paint then white with house paint with a 69 on the hood, it was filled up twice at the same gas station with stolen gas, they just filled 'er up and ran off, was involved in a high speed chase before ramming into a fire hydrant and being ripped through the entire bottom. Needless to say it's kind of totaled but at least she got it back. I'm so thinking it's so fitting but hten I'm mean that way urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:lavendarkitty:25958 2006-08-11T20:50:34Z 2006-08-11T20:50:34Z There isn't much going on. Still haven't made the doctor's appointments that I need to make. I keep putting it off. Andrew starts school on Tuesday, school itself starts monday but the teacher was a bit late on the bus request so he'll be ready to go on tuesday. I burned my self fairly badly, it's all icky and blistery and gaggy but it's healing. Writing hasn't been going very well for some reason. I can't seem to get into the mood to write. I've never really had this problem before, unfortunately it seems to affect my already completed works as well. well I suppose that's to be expected. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:lavendarkitty:25493 2006-08-03T04:35:12Z 2006-08-03T04:35:12Z It's been far far to long since I updated last, again not that there is anything going on worth mentioning, hence the reason why I haven't been updating. Gpa finally passed on about two weeks ago this coming Friday it wasn't unexpected obviously and we'd been waiting for it. Micha went up to see him and took the time to take care of the issues and say what needed to be said an all of that wonderful stuff and like two weeks later he let go. We surprisingly got in touch with my Great Aunt Dot who is my Gma's youngest sister. We'd lost contact over the years and unfortunately the only person who could get us back in contact was Gpa and he was unable to figure out what day it was let alone where he put addresses or who Aunt Dot even was since he told everyone Micha was his friend Jon while she was up there. How that came to pass we are still trying to figure out. Anyway apparently Aunt Pat's little escapade with lying reached even Aunt Dot and there were a lot of things that needed to be cleared up between us. We got to talk and frankly I'm trying to figure out where Aunt Pat came up with some of the stuff because apparently some odd ball stories were getting to Aunt Dot about Andrew and I. I haven't been told what they were but apparently they were kind of freaking. I'm kind of wondering what the tartarus fodder was telling Dot fortunately Dot knows Dad better than that and luckily we'll be seeing her for Micha's graduation since her house down here in Stuart was robbed and she and her room mate the other Dot came down to check it out. It gave Dad and her time to reconnect which they both needed. So Aunt dot will be the first and probably only person on Dad's side of the family to meet Andrew in person. Scary and kind of sad that it's come to this but it couldn't really be helped I suppose. I have applied for a position as a video encoder on several websites who's requirements weren't that strict and to a couple of ezines. They aren't paying jobs but they will get me learning experience if nothing else and there is the potential on a couple of them for them to develop into paying jobs as time goes on. At least it's something to do other than Japanese and web design. Shelley's in town as of today so obviously I'm not in the best of moods. Micha's been giving me the same type of digs Shelley does about how piss poor a mom I am and how i never pay any attention to andrew and blah blah. This I would like to know. If I don't pay attention to him how does he get fed, changed, bathed, played with, his medicine, put to bed, woken up etc. I mean sure I don't go to the beach with him and I don't go swimming and I don't take him to the mall. First beach and swimming and sun and my meds are a big big no no and a ticket to a stay in the hospital. Not my idea of fun. Second I can't handle his activity level in crowded places, there fore it's smart to keep him out of crowded places. On top of that I spend literally almost 24/7 with my son. There are few times when we aren't at least in the same room as each other. How can I be accused of being neglectful. Still emotionally I'm having no other response other than irritation so I suppose that's an improvement. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:lavendarkitty:25243 2006-07-17T03:10:54Z 2006-07-17T03:10:54Z Another update only reason haven't updated before now is because there wasn't really any point to it. Nothing has been happening, going on, interesting, new exciting, different from the normal. What's the point in boring people with a life that has no purpose, meaning, or substance. I'm spending the month at my sisters obviously Micha because there is no way Mel and I would ever survive living a month together. Woman would kill me within the first 48 hours. All doctors tests came back neg on anything from the rhemetologist so on to primary again and then to an endocrenologist and then back to testing and lala. Japanese is coming fairly well for me. I understand maybe one line in 50 which means I have no idea what's going on any of the time but I'm managing to pick up words. I'd pick up more if I actually applied myself..apply myself yeah right. anyway that's pretty much the sitch no writing, I sit and listen to a foreign language almost 24/7 and while I have gotten a lot of structure down I have no meanings to attach to the words though I can usually pick out which words are subject, descriptor, verb that sort of thing. Helps to watch anime where the english translation is identical to the subtitling and the subtitling is done by people who don't get creative and have characters who don't curse..curse.. or change what the character is acutally saying cause they think their script idea was better..irritating people.