Letting stuff out…I suppose…

I’m feeling…Stressful?
I’m not quite sure that is right. I’m not really at a point of having an over abundance of stress…At least not to my knowledge…But…I’m all anxiety & twitchy & snappy.

The Critters were getting to me last night…I love them dearly, but they kept pushing each other’s buttons & I just couldn’t take listening to it.

I’m not too far behind on my homework…I’ve got 7 out of 8 articles read for sociolinguistics. 6 out of 8 summarized.
I have 2 chapters to read for it and Teaching Reading…But that’s not really that much, considering some of the previous weeks reading loads.
I have an essay to write for Teaching Reading…But it’s a reflective essay, so it’s more of less me babbling about why I want to be a teacher.
I do need to get in to the school for observation & tutoring, as it needs done by November 20th…But I still have a little lead-way.

Harley’s dentist appointment yesterday was better news for his teeth than we thought…He only needed one filling instead of four.
They sealed the other three teeth, which since the insurance has an age cut off on (Which is just bloody well stupid.), I had to dish out $102.00…But amazingly I actually had it, so I didn’t have to worry about where it was going to come from. & they didn’t even have to give him any shots, just the gas…& he behaved so well for the whole thing.

I got some awesome character pics for Maria…Despite the majority of the first round of pics taken being blurry. Mum showed up for a little white & could take some more.
It even stopped raining momentarily, so I could get some done outside.

Maybe it’s the cold weather…& hunting season…& being too close to idiots who shouldn’t be allowed to possess guns as they don’t have the common sense required to operate them.
Friday, which was most likely the last half-way decent day, I wanted so much to go outback…But was continuously told it wasn’t safe. It’s not fair that I have to worry about walking freely on my own land because on one side it runs along the property line of an idiot.

There is a tree in my yard…*pokes @ it* That no one can seem to identify. *shakes head* 
Which, under normal circumstances would not bother me, but…I kind of have need of knowing.
It had tipped over in Spring, making the fire pit impossible to use (not that it didn’t need work to be usable to begin with, but that’s not the point).
I decided, in the process of making my coyote outfit, that it would be good to have a stave to go with it. There was on branch on this tree, it was cracked and broken, and bound to die if left there anyway…So I decided I would take it, and as it could be made the right size, it would make a good staff (which is the staff I have in the pictures).
I figured I would get it, make it…& then I could just look it up online, find out what it is, and see what attributes were associated with the wood/tree.
Yeah…Not happening. *headdesk* Leave it to me to pick a tree that no one can figure out what it is! 
I’ve looked online, gone through every identify site/process/etc. that I can find. There are a lot of, this matches, but this doesn’t…But nothing that says, "This is it!" 
Mum took a tiny bit of the branch I took from the tree, with leaves into the DNR…Then took some pictures back…They are still unable to say what it is. [We have stumped the poor DNR guy, and he took Mum’s number and said he’d call when he finds something…He’s even enlisted the aid of another guy to try and figure it out.]
I sent pictures to the Nature Preserve in the area, who have passed them on to their naturalist, in the hopes that maybe they can come up with something.

I need to get to work on Creeper’s robes for Sonja…Must remember to put pockets in it.