dreadedmama

I have been super busy the last 6 months. Let's see how much I can remember...

• decided on a career, with short and long term goals, even 
  (going to be a geologist. short term, USGS doing research on volcanoes..long term, travel the world)
• have been going to school full time
  (I think 13 credits in winter and 14 in spring?)
• made president's honor roll in winter term
  (woot!)
• have mostly settled bs drama with my ex bf/daughter situation
  (there is still work to be done, but we are being civil)
• had a car completely die on me
  (temperature gauge stopped working, apparently my car was overheating for a long time and I didn't know? blew the headgasket anyway, and the shop wanted more to fix that than my parents paid for the car in the first place)
• met a new girl and dated her for about 4 months....
  (on a fairly regular basis, didn't go more than a few days at a time without spending time together. ) Our first date was at Ground Kontrol...and it was super sweet :)
• ...before she moved in. for financial reasons mostly. it's working out fantastically!(My daughter likes her, my gfs kitty likes me, we were very honest from the beginning, so there were no unrealistic expectations. We are definitely working our way through this relationship, which probably makes it sound much more difficult than it actually is. Things with my gf are super awesome, and no disagreement that we have is worth arguing over (YET?), we are doing pretty well at communicating I think (hopefully she feels the same! lol). Anyway, long story short, she is awesome and fantastic, sweet and smart and funny, opinionated, cute, cuddly...oh yeah, I said short... :)

Oh and I'm sure there's more, but this is what I can remember for now..

I realized there are very few pictures of my new gf, Heather, and I together, so I tried to remedy that the other night...They didn't all turn out great, but whatever. Documenting a moment in my happiest/best relationship ever.



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We met in January, and had our first date at Ground Kontrol. We've been dating since then, and exclusive since the first of April. Heather moved in with me earlier this month, and things are fantastic!

So today, I Cut 10 dreads off, reattached them elsewhere, and shaved the under side of my hair. My Head is kind of itchy, but I think it's going to be awesome for the warm weather!

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...my head looks like this.


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I can't tell if my dreads are growing, shrinking, or staying the same...so.......

                         

My dreads are 6(and a halfish) months old now, doing ok, still a lot of ends that aren't knotted, but they will eventually. I was thinking about my hair this morning and realized how much it's grown in the last 12 months. ( Collapse )

Just for some reference points....

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No pics yet, but I did extend 2 of my dreads. I did it kind of strangely as a test to see how they hold up. I took some hair from my last set (yeah I saved the whole bag of hair that I combed out lol) and palmrolled then crocheted it into "dreads" and then crocheted the shit out of the end of my dread to the extension. If they are still holding well after about a month I'm going to add some more. It will be nice to have LONG dreads. Hopefully I will get pics later and add them to this entry, but I'm going to try and get some Halo achievements now.

Ok, so it was the beginning of  December 2007. We had the worst storm on the west coast of WA in I don't know how many years. Winds over 100 mph, the only reason it wasn't considered a hurricane was because of the location of the storm.  The power ended up being out for I think 6 days. We lost all of our food, well the stuff we didn't barbecue right away anyway. One church in town opened its doors and gassed up its generator to let us eat some warm food and had a place for a few people to sleep. We played lots of card games, burned through lots of candles at night :) The last night of the outage, we built a fort in the living room with blankets and put a bunch of candles inside it. We piled like 5 people inside and got nice and warm. We smoked a j and hot boxed our little fort. Then the power came back on. It's a week that I'll probably never forget :)

Journalling..Is that even a word? probably not. Oh well..

I am so very angry right now I don't even have the words to express my true anger. We have these message boards at work that are very moderated. ONE guy has all the power to decide what's ok and what's not.  We had this thread going called "things you wish you could say to customers" and we all just used it to vent our anger about the idiots that we have to talk to all the time. Well Mr. Power decided that it wasn't ok, so he posted something along the lines of "I suggest you cease this post immediately and if you've said anything here or to a customer that you regret, I'd also suggest talking to your supervisor about it" Well, I don't ever say any of the things that I typed in there to my customers, and it was all heat of the moment venting. So nothing that I regret at all. 

Well, I replied and asked basically "so we're not allowed to imagine venting our frustrations?" Which he removed. Well, then he removed the whole thread all together. I get that some people got out of line, but nobody actually said this stuff to their customers. In fact, there was a worse thread somewhere called "things you wish you hadn't said to customers " that doesn't seem to have been touched although it was things that pepole actually DID say. So I got really frustrated that he didn't bother to reply, just deleted my post. So I decided i was going to stop posting on the message boards, but wanted to let people know so they didn't think I just disappeard. I made a new post and said "Well, the message boards were fun for a while, I'm not going to be reading/posting anymore. have fun!" And he deleted that too!!! I'm so mad, but it doesn't matter. Nothing that I say can change it. It's completely up to him what goes in there and what doesn't, but what was so inappropriate about posting to let people know I was leaving?

And I feel bad about even complaining about it, because there's nothing I can do to solve the problem. I'm just bitching, just to bitch..I fuckin hate my job.The one place I had to go to vent my frustrations is now gone.