She went walking where the cedars line the road

but it seems to be really really mostly gone. sadface.

i'm importing , last time I did this was 170 weeks ago. woah!

anyone here?? *yells into the DW cave *

I wonder if we could go all of December without using the family dining table ( lol ).

yeah ... brilliant ... it's almost too big to get into the back door. The front door is impossible due to the security gate and an odd angle.

But it smells just like home :)

Maybe i'll do an outside tree this year.

Happy Hanukkah !

I would really love Calculus 2414 ( 2 ) more if I could take it at 1/2 speed. I mean , yes ... it's a tricky little beast and I can see why they call in the engineer killer ... but it's beautiful ...if i could just have the proper amount of time to memorize all these theorems.

GAH!

I'm doing okay ... I feel like i'm going to pass. Getting that golden fleece , otherwise known as an A, well... i'm not so sure that's gonna happen. I feel like I have a really good chance at grabbing a solid B though ....

My first B ...but in this case , considering the material covered and the difficultly level , I would be okay with it.

I'm near obsessed with making this new concrete jungle a lush and fragrant garden of delight .... on a pauper's budget of course ... free pallets and bags of yard waste set to the curb are my current best friends.

We've build 3 large raised bed gardens that i've filled with bushes butterfly's like to frequent and herbs and veggies ...and all of my roses went into pots so they could come along with us when we moved. They seem to be just fine in the poys so i'm leaving well enough alone on those.

This weekend i'm building 2 more pallet based raised beds and i'm starting to put serious thought into where I want to put my water gardens. I have 3 4 foot peanut shaped pools that Willa had been hoarding for a rainy day after buying them for less than pennies on the dollar about 10 years ago. They just sat in her storage , as most of her "project" stuff does. Lucky for me she has been trying to de-clutter a bit and was happy to let me give her $20 for all three pools. Hell , she made a profit , lol ! She only paid $5 for each of them ( original price tag shows them to be $89 - woah! )

We have built most of a concrete wall that is also a succulent garden in the making. It's functional for keeping the dog from running into 4 lanes of one-way traffic in the front of our church/house. But , eventually I think it's going to look bad ass :)

** I think I haven't mentioned , we ended up moving into a building in the Heights that used to be a church - the sign's still up actually , and there is a broken pew in the back. The yard was basically covered in shitty asphalt except for a postage size piece in front. I'm watering and weeding up there trying to bring the grass back on that patch ...but the rest ... well ...i'm putting into practice some of those urban gardening techniques i've read about and watched videos on .... it's my turn to try that shit out - yea ! **

Behold my dream house .... ( no not perfect , i would do a lot of interior work to make it more "us" )

but I would totally keep the canary yellow counter top in the kitchen ( lol )

http://www.ziprealty.com/property/63970-CASCADE-PARK-PL-MARBLEMOUNT-WA-98267/81187743/detail?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=drip_notify

Nacho Guzman demonstrates how much a face appears to change with differing lighting positions, in a teaser for a forthcoming music video from OPALE.

Me at EJ's a couple of Saturday nights ago



Things we find at the grocery store that we are pretty sure are failed martial marital aids repackaged

Trg final is done and I do believe i'll be keeping my bright shiny 4.0 GPA *hooray*

Managed to get a 96 on the big paper of the semester for Comp II and an still enthused enough about the subject that i'd like to flesh it out further, do even more reseach, and possibly drive out towards San Antonio and check out the facilty in person.

Biology I is the big brain hog between now and Wednesday of next week.  I've got  a near 100 in the class thus far but the final is 15% of the grade ... so I still need to pull a decent grade on it.  It's 100 questions and comprehensive of 450 huge pages of detailed material.  I will b4e eat , sleep, and dreaming Biology until the cows come home :)

I've applied for the National Science Foundation Scholarship.  My biology teacher ( who is on the selection board ) thinks I have a really good chance of getting it and encouraged me to apply.  

I've also submitted my offical request for admissions to University of Houston and the Cullen school of Engineering. 

I am the lead candidate for a part-time position back with Chevron doing document control.  In fact, it appears that I may now be the only candidate they are considering as the second choice has taken another position within Chevron My final interview is next Tuesday.  The pay is exceptional ( $32/h) and it would only be a 6 month contract.  This makes it the perfect position timewise for me.  I would be able to keep going to school (albit part-time instead of full-time) and the contract would end just as I am gearing up for returning to full-time in the Fall at University of Houston.  Hopefully by that time Wes will have sold the house in Bay City and found a job here in Houston.  Fingers crossed.

We're going back up to Seattle post-holiday for a week.  We are both really looking forward to it and Kelsy seems unusually enthused as well. Her boyfriend from Turkey ( Arda ) will be coming to see her for 3 weeks in December so we will get a chance to meet him. The house my mom made an offer on will have been approved/denied by the bank that forclosed on it during that same week we will be there as well ...so we might be helping her move into her new place - that would be outstanding.

More later ...

Yuletide trees scenting up the front of almost every grocery store parking lot ...LOVE IT!

It's going to be a real challenge to not get one RIGHTNOWRIGHTNOWRIGHTNOW. Jon has asked that we not decorate the tree until he gets home , not sure how i'm going to explain that one to Ro without giving away that he is coming home ...he wants to surprise her at school.