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[ravencallscrows]

After dealing with alexander being a disrespectful, disobedient and just plain defiant child for the nth day in succession, i'd had enough.
It was a reasonably warm morning for early February (prediction: this will go down in the annals of history as the winter that wasn't) in the Principality of Caer Pugetia, and i needed to get away before thoughts of strangling the child took over. Went out for a walk toward Discovery Park (about a twenty minute walk from here), figuring that a long walk to the beach and perhaps a nice cry might help. Got to the park, and about two-thirds of the way to the beach along the loop trail (about a 2.8 mile hike), the clouds lifted and the sun came out. Ended up feeling considerably better, except for the occasional complaint from my cartilege-bereft and scar tissue-enhanced right knee.

Tomorrow, weather and parrot-chomped left index finder permitting, an outing to Rosario Beach and/or Deception Pass with the Seagull, the Irish parlour pipes, and the Clarke whistles to sit on the bluffs and engage in a little musicological therapy.

Oh, yeah. Still nothing positive on the job front, but the the state has finally pulled its head out of its collective rectum and decided that i'm really unemployed, and accordingly eligible for benefits as such.

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[hottoastermama.livejournal.com]

Good thoughts headed your way.

*Give your wife a back and foot massage.*

[hottoastermama.livejournal.com]

Ooops! You two may or may not be married! Wife, SO, whatever..... Maybe she'll give you a back massage back. I'd send astrally projected massages, but the real thing is way better.

Want to trade boys for a while? I'll let Alexander romp about in the snow for a bit, go sledding and then intoxicate him with cocoa.

[inanna.livejournal.com]

Yup, wife in law as well as spirit. :)

i really need to give him a massage.... he is so overdue for some deep tissue work. :)

You know, i'd love to trade.. .and i know alexander would love to go play in the snow, he's been so disappointed that we haven't had ANY snow this year. We could take Jonah to the zoo, the aquarium, the science center, and maybe a ferry ride. :) But, i thought you were planning to come visit us anyway... we can just trade kids as you leave. :D

[hottoastermama.livejournal.com]

Haha. Good deal. Jonah is more subdued, but he likes adult attention and can get clingy. He's holding onto my pant leg as I type and while he's sorting through matchbox cars.

Jonah and I made candles this afternoon (I found the wax remnants!) but the one in a dish wrinkled up and looks like brains. hehehehe. It's supposed to be a valentines gift for Jonah to give Grammy.)

Oh! Do you two have non-lj names? Maybe Ollie and Lena, or Frank and Gertrude? Abraham and Mary Todd? (I'm Missy, but maybe you guys knew that......)

[greenshadows.livejournal.com]

One fine day there's a tree I need to introduce you kids to in Discovery Park...an ancient bigleaf maple you can stand inside (can't quite explain; you'd have to see it) and if you let it, it'll absorb your misery and ground you. It's helped keep me relatively sane in the ten years or so that I've visited it. :)

Hope Alexander straightens up soon!

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[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

Yup. In the non-electronic world, i'm vanya.

[inanna.livejournal.com]

*hug* Thanks... we hope so, too!

[blackfyr.livejournal.com]

...the occasional complaint from my cartilege-bereft and scar tissue-enhanced right knee.


So, not knowing the backstory on this knee, have you been taking Glucosamine Sulfate and Chondroitin Sulfate to help rebuild the cartilege? Taking those has helped my arthritis greatly. I can walk without a cane most days where I was using one by 10a.m. every day before.

[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

And since damashita hasn't responded, i'll answer for her: she doesn't use her 'real' name online, but if you wanted to figure it out, we have the same first three letters, the same last letter, and her name is the same as the genus of the "Painted Lady" butterfly. (that should make it easy to figure out without breaking the rules and disclosing too much information)