People irritate me.

Maybe I’m just pmsy.

So I started my job and it’s pretty much rad.

Does anyone say ‘rad’ anymore? Bah.

I’ve been in non stop trainings I”ve been so so sooo tired I fell asleep on the floor one day after work and then on the couch another day. So tired that it feels like I’m hung over.

I’ve practiced CPR so much I have rugburns on my knees and an elbow.

My work email is not sending anything through to me.

I have voice mails but I can’t retrieve anything.

My predecessor has been deployed for the Hurricanes so I’ve been running solo trying to piece things together where otherwise I would have had something to help out—even without a physical person to help me which is what normally happens.

Today I scheduled my VERY FIRST CLASS EVER! Can you believe the giddy squeals coming from the cubicle next to me as I was on the phone with my contact? And then my department ran around through the entire office (it was the end of the day so everyone gets silly and no one else was around) telling everyone I got my first class!

7 weeks of 1 hour 1 day a week after school babysitting classes.

I’m purposefully volunteering extra hours this week so I can bank extra hours for extra days off as the school districts are off as well—for December. I have to have 1700 hours for the entire year paced out equally between 11 months so… that’s like 150-70 hours a mo depending on mandatory conferences.

Have I mentioned I might go to Florida as a chapter chaperone for the high school leadership kids? I so so so sooooooo hope I can go. 3 days 2 nights of fun times with the kids learning about nationally recognised volunteer opportunities, awards, etc.

One of our chickens is broody. She gets the cold water on her crotch for a few minutes a day and sent outside the coop in the evenings. At least she’s eating…it’ll pass in a week or so I think but it means egg production is nill. I’m really considering starting up our coop light since it’s going to start getting darker and darker earlier and earlier. Maybe sometime in october we’ll get the timer.

Started playing spore. it’s fun.

All the animals are doing great. Juno the hedge kitten looks a lot like who we think is her daddy. Not color wise but body wise. He’s a really lanky long tall skinny grey/blue cat. Her stub tail grew quite a bit which we think came from her getting well fed. It’s not normal long–still shorter but longer. And it’s got a bit of a puff at the end. So she’s growing long and lanky, I call her our squirrel ferret cat and she squeaks/wuffles as she runs around playing. When she jujmps off stuff she sounds like a squeak toy it’s really funny and weird. ha ha!

Her sister—YES ‘he’ was a she I was wrong—-we caught a few weeks ago is settling in really well with my mom and sister. She is a bit of a lover apparently and likes hiding inside shirts. The other night my mom told me she was in her shirt sticking her head out of mom’s armpit hole sleeping while she watched tv. ha ha!

Anyway… pretty boring except for sassy random bouts of music and house cleaning.

I’m scared shitless for what’s coming with the economy.

Mike’s work got paid today and they get their business checks cut through wamu. Apparently one of his co workers went to deposit his check and the bank said they’re holding all wamu checks for several days before funds will be available because wamu is most likely going to go bankrupt—soon. Or not. ???? So…that sucks ass.

I hate to be chicken little guys but I really really hope you guys are starting stockpiles of formerly rationed items. Think depression era. Why the crap do you think we got illegal chickens?

Rubbermaid tub in a storage spot that’s cool and dry.

I’d start getting used to powdered milk as well.

I’ve got 13 or so lbs of pears I’m going to freeze to make pear butter.

I’m not joking peeps. Please take care of yourselves out there. It wont be overnight but it can and will suck.

Let’s just hope we don’t wind up with what’s her face and mccain.
:::sigh:::

we have 2 illegal chickens.

in the city limits we aren’t allowed chickens but we have them anyway for eggs and fertilizer. Hopefully they won’t get evicted for quite some time. Roumer has it…the ordinance police only make rounds when there’s complaints and so far none of our neighbours have even said they noticed our hens.

*fingers crossed*

we only got 3 acorn squash so far this is a bad year for onions and tomatoes. :( well.

I FUCKING hate the republican party.

If McCain wins this upcoming election…I will cry my face off and probably actually participate in protests this time around. I won’t BE the one helping those who get pepper sprayed….I think I will be ready to BE pepper sprayed.

I honestly, honestly don’t know how I will handle it if those twats manage to brain wash the old folks and rednecks and get elected in. Or Cheat like the last time.

I don’t know how I’ll react when…and yes there will be one…. a draft gets enforced again.

Only two things could get me sooo fucking pissed off that I’d be willing to start a riot and get pepper sprayed. Now there’s three.

1) A Draft
2) Extreme homophobia//gay repression// gay segregation laws being enforced/made.
3) Another 4 years of republicans.

Fuck that shit.

/rant

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Hoorayyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Three interviews! (sigh of relief)

Now I go take a nap!

Just kiddding

Word.

If you’re looking for an interesting way to cut some corners with meals and still have them taste pretty darn good, please look to your right in my blogroll and clicky click on ‘Hillbilly Housewife’.

I’ve slowly started switching Mike and I over to several of the cost cutting recipes (like the pre mixed rices, breads, etc) and with our garden, we’ve managed to do bulk shopping less and less. We do eat a lot of cheese which is sad because the cheese issue is quite lame but we also eat a lot of what goes on sale for 25c a pop (pork and beans and chicken and stars soup anyone???). I’m slowly experimenting with my bread machine and have learned that I can make a 500x’s better loaf by utilizing ONLY the dough cycle and even then cutting it short by about half an hour or so so I can work my own mojo into the mix.

We have 4 gallons of strawberries frozen, and 1 gallon of blue berries. We were going to get more blueberries from my mom but I don’t know when that will happen and I was going to go peach picking but seriously… I am so burned out on hamstering. Just you wait till our corn is harvestable. We had 8 last year… this year probably 4 times that much.

I’ve also started stocking up on canned veggies for the winter. If I ever see green beans on sale for 30 sommat cents a pound again I’m snatching up like 7lbs and freezing them.

Mom gave us 3 jars of blackberry preserves, I probably should do something with 1/2 our strawberries… Apples come into season late august. We’re right smack dab in the hazelnut and walnut region of the world I think it’s safe to say nuts are going to be easy to get… especially U pickers.

I’m trying to learn how to make my own refried beans (I know it’s easy but I just haven’t officially tried yet) cos I LOVE ME SOME REFRIED BEANS.

I’ve also been snooping around meat counters for discount 2 day before ‘experation’ date meat that looks no different except for it’s tag so I can re package and deep freeze in our basement freezer. I got like almost 4lbs of ground beef for about 7bucks. I’m waiting for 3 dollar whole chickens.

I think once I get a job we’ll start stocking up on lamb and other natural meats from the organic free range places. I’m not near the Raw milk supplier anymore so I can’t support them so I gotta find a new cow nearby which will be hard cos it’s so secretive. I am so sooo close to getting chickens but I think that will happen only when we notice the price of chicken stuff going up.

I have my third interview tomorrow and I’m getting nervous. I haven’t yet gotten my preparing questions so I’m starting to freak. well, it’s only about half 3…. (shrug).

Still… nervous, and pmsy and bitchy aren’t good combos.

I TOLD YOU SO!

Better start slowly stock piling your food.

Mike went to the store today and cheese was actually empty.

hmmm.

Let’s see…. disgusting as it is… powdered milk is on our list.

Better look officially into that surveillance system as well. If shit hits the fan like my WW vet neighbour said happened in the day… a few more years and people might start climbing over each others fences to steal food.

Oh but wait. Our country would never do that to us? We’re all fat and happy we’ve never in the last several generations ever had to deal with shortages of anything right?

Hmmm…

Let me high five you in the face.