Even when it’s fucking hard.

You wouldn’t want to deprive my niece of moments like this, would you? 

Appearing in this video, my Sister Brekke, My niece Dani, and Ginger. Putting the kitten in a cup delights Dani to no end. (?why?)

Dooce got me hooked on A softer World.

Today :

So I’ve been looking for this book by a (I think) Canadian Author for 6 months now.  And I can’t find it for a reasonable price.  And I think Canada is punishing me, but I’m not sure what for.

The Stone Skippers by Ian Burgham has been back ordered for as long as I’ve been looking for it- Seriously, how freakin long is this going to continue?

I found one this morning on Amazon for $70.00.  I don’t know if that is Canadian or U.S. currency.   WTF????  I haven’t bought a book for myself in FOREVER.  I sure as hell ain’t payin that kind of money- that’s like 12 minutes of my lawyers time, RIGHT THERE!.

CANADA, I totally love you! Please don’t do this to me-  You can’t be mad at me cause I won’t let the ex husband take Emma to see the crazy grandma in Manitou!  You don’t want my 5 year old subjected to that!  And plus? He’d never bring her back! I’d never see her again.

Don’t be hatin on me, Canada, I love you!   Just make whomever publishes this book print it again, so that I can work that poem into my wedding ceremony somehow!

Especially when served over potato casserole.  Oh yes I did.  It was delicious. So there.

Carolyn, stole some of your ideas.  Cause you have your head in the right place

8 Favorite Foods (WTF? I have to choose? I problems digesting dairy and gluten, but I eat em anyway. I don’t like cauliflower or Lima beans most of the time. And that’s about it)

1. Rice- any kind.  I have yet to meet rice I don’t like.
2. Sushi (mmm. spider roll)
3. Gumbo
4. Cava (Any kind of sparkling wine, really)
5. Chocolate. High % cocoa dark chocolate. (I agree with Carolyn on this. I’ll fricken eat cocoa powder)
6. Acorn squash
7. filet mignon, medium rare (with a baked potato)
8. Veggies, Fresh, Steamed or grilled with salt, pepper, olive oil and lemon juice

8 Favorite Stores ( I don’t shop much)

1. Rainbow books (a used book store here in Boise)
2. Barnes and noble
3. Any shoe store (YES! I HAVE A PROBLEM)
4. Boise Coop
5. Asian Market (actual name- highly descriptive)
6. Cost Plus World Market
7. R.E.I.
8. Ann Taylor (Not that I can afford to actually shop there)

8 things I did today (so far and not in order)

1. Made coffee
2. Watched Tinkerbell
3. Blogged
4. Read half a book
5. Informed my coworker that Heidi and Spencer eloped, for the pleasure of watching her be ill- note- I’ve never actually watched any show they are in
6. Cried
7. Chewed out a client kinda on accident
8. Took a bath

8 Favorite restaurants (it’s hard to name 8, we hardly ever eat out! And several I loved have closed in the last year. Damned Recession)

1. Little Thai place a couple of blocks away -can’t remember name
2. Fusion Asian Grill
3. Carino’s (OMG the salad…*drools*)
4. Cheesecake Factory
5. Pair Restaurant
6. Bittercreek Alehouse
7. Donnie Mac’s
8. Mandarin Palace (Standard Chinese,  2 blocks from my house.  Good People. Excellent food)

8 Things I look forward to

1. Brian proposing- he’s giving me no clues
2. Getting married, one way or another
3. House
4. Dog
5. Baby (or two.  I’d like 3 total)
6. Sailing around the world
7. School
8. CAMPING-We went every other weekend last summer and it wasn’t enough

8 Things I like to do with family

1. Camping
2. Talking and debating
3. Cooking & eating
4. Snuggling
5. Watching Movies
6. Reading
7. Dreaming
8. Shopping

8 Things on my wish list

1. Proposal
2. Touring France and Spain with accompanying wine tasting (too good not to steal.  Add Italy. Hell. Add all of Europe.)
3. Lie in a hammock all night and watch the stars in the southern hemisphere
4. Lap top Ex husband to fall down dead from natural causes
5. Sailing around the world
6. Computer chips that implant in your brain so that all you have to do is think to blog or to google. (OOHHH me too!)
7. A dog  Ex husband to fall down dead from natural causes
8. A house with good water and a manageable-sized yard for a garden

Your thoughts, please.  Am thinking of finishing up NaBloPoMo and then going private on the blog again.  – I really really enjoy all the visits and stuff.  But If I’m going to be going to court in January is seems the best thing to just…. Hide- Not cause I say or do illegal things, I just feel very exposed.  And if I want to blog about kittens I think I damned well should be able to.  Anyway.

I am depressed, stressed and totally unhappy with the legal system.  And just bummed.