Suicide blonde…

Now you’re beginning to see a theme in my titles eh? LOL… Have to make some kind of magic/use my new hair colour to promote fresh ideas… INXS didn’t do a song specifically geared to brunettes so I’m all exciteable that I can now rattle off silly song titles for my journal.

Today I took my grandmother shopping. It was an… erm… interesting experience. Gave me insight into just how bad her dementia is getting. I worry about my grandparents, still stoic about living alone and unaided yet so haplessly confused and muddled about simple daily acitivites. I know it’s probably time they released their death like grip on their independence but I know they won’t. The only way my family will be able to get them out of their little apartment is when they are stammering and stuttering and really on another planet. They’re stubborn… (wonder where I got it from eh?) So I took her off to the shopping centre and we toddled through, me at a slower pace than a sea turtle and her all hunched over and riddled with osteoporosis. It’s hard to watch especially given that she has to crane her neck upwards to simply see where she’s going. Awful. We had a few near misses with other shoppers until I resisted her wriggles and took her arm (if for nothing other than to steer her in the right direction). She wanted to buy a few little gifts for the girl’s which was sweet, she likes to give gifts. I knew Sacha wanted the Dorothy the Dinosaur tail that she’d seen in the ABC shop (but wasn’t allowed)  – she has a bit of an obssession with tails ATM (taking any excuse to stick a ribbon or something long down the back of her pants and crawling on the floor) so it was perfect. You can never go wrong with clothes for Tylah. She just wants the latest and greatest (my little fashionista) and was so excited the day she realised she could shop in Supre (FYI: A shop for tweeny/teeny girls that sells all sorts of garb that doesn’t fit the average female)… I ended up getting her a babydoll pinafore (that she has wanted forever and a day) and a striped top to go underneath. She will look cute when I go and get their portrait pics taken on Monday.

It’s been raining and raining and raining some more. Great when you consider the benefit this will have to our water reserves. I’m throughly impressed with that aspect, however, not so with the fact that we’ve gone from drought to flood in 3.4 seconds. Mother nature doesn’t leave much room for error and I do feel sorry for the farmers that are having to deal with one extreme after the other. I love the fact that we’re actually getting the rain, I just wish it wasn’t so aggressive. That’s really the only word I can think of to describe it right now. It’s not affecting me so much (other than keeping me inside the house thus not spending as much $$$) but ya know, I’d prefer consistent rainfall as opposed to heavy falls in dribs and drabs. I can’t wait for the day when I can have a LLOOONNNGGG hot shower. Some days that 4-5 minute shower just doesn’t suffice!

Popped over to Lisa’s house last night along with Sarah. I’d actually forgotton about our plans (typical Vee) so both Sarah and Lisa were calling me at about 7.30 and wondering where the heck I was. It was good to see Lisa again, she’s 32 weeks preggo now and I can’t wait till the lil bubba is out! Eeeeeeeeee! You can bet i’ll be numero uno babysitter! (I can’t help it, babies are just cute!)

I had a moment today. Like one of those brunette moments (it must have been) because I haven’t had that much clarity since becomming blonde. The fact that I have only about 5 and a half months until I finish uni just hit me like a sack of shit. I think it’s because I never really anticipated that this moment would actually arrive. It felt like I was stuck on this unending merry-go-round adventure of study and unemployment (due to study) and now… well now it will be ending and I’ll finally be able to earn some cash. It’s altogether a good feeling (nay, a great feeling) and also a really scary feeling! I can’t quite believe i’ll have a degree, that says something since I’ll be the only one of the "kids" that has one.

Da man is a little busy in ole’ Washington state… He’s been swept into the mayhem that is LDAC and I think sometimes the stress gets a little too much for the poor boy. I’m a little worried because he is a reformed "dipper" (in case you’re not up on the lingo, that’s not smoking but some sort of tobacco that you put in your mouth – I dunno quite how it works but it’s potent) and it was quite a feat getting him to quit. Anyhoo when times get tough and stress comes around, dipping also becomes one of those things that Jimmy turns too. I’m actually really REALLY frightened about it because it’s a shockingly terribly habit and won’t go anywhere to getting him to be the healthy guy I want to marry. I told him last night that IF it comes and up and IF he feels in any way inclined to slip that he should call me. I went through some of the things to hopefully deter him but only time will tell.

I think I might try and plan a few scrapbook pages tonight. I’m not feeling especially creative today but i’m alone and i’m putting the kids to bed and Pimp my Ride marathon is on… perfect really.

EDIT:

…and I changed my background! Soooo funky!

P.S: What the heck is Favourites 1, 2 & 3 in my "save entry" options??? Like… HUH???

<

Create your own 8 Ball

<td style="FILTER: alpha(opacity=60); BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000; opacity: .60;

moz-opacity: .60″ align=”right”>