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| Monday, February 8th, 2010 | |
| 1:03 pm | Sickness Again Ronin's sick again. We'll be taking him to the doctor here shortly for an appointment. I'm really not liking him being in public school. He's always getting sick now. This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/11 Current Mood:  blank |
| Thursday, February 4th, 2010 | |
| 8:29 am | Now Where Did I Put My Clothes? Now that I have your attention... *snerk* Yeah, I'm trying to find a shirt and my jeans. My grandma is coming up for us to go out for breakfast this morning. Just wanted to let everyone know I'm feeling much better. The munchkin is feeling better as well. And that today is my sixth year wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, Sabam had to work today (a 12 hour shift at that...), but he has tomorrow and Saturday off, so not a big deal. But yeah... I'm feeling old now. We've been married six years, together for seven, and known each other even longer than that. Tomorrow is also Sabam's 25th birthday. (Yes, we had no planning whatsoever when we got married...) So, if I'm not around much this weekend, you know why. And get your mind out of the gutter already. ^_~ This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/11 Current Mood:  amused |
| Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 | |
| 3:35 am | I Ain't Dead! That's about all I can say, at the moment. I am, however, wishing I weren't sick. Bleh. And that I really want to be an elf. That can teleport. That is all. This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/11 Current Mood:  sick |
| Saturday, January 30th, 2010 | |
| 12:51 am | One Down, One to Go Ronin's been fever-free for over six hours without medication so far. I'm hoping he'll make it through the night to stay that way. If so, that's one down on getting over the worst of being sick. Then I can focus strictly on getting myself better. (Yeah, being a mom is rough sometimes, especially when both you and the kid are sick.) On the bright side, the ear infection I was getting has cleared up (thank the Gods for those ear candles! <3). Now I'm just fighting a case of the sniffles with possible strep throat. Nothing new there. I have severe allergies and am an active carrier of strep (all it takes is me being around anyone with it, and my strand mutates and becomes active and contagious. Fun fun. *headdesk* Word of warning for everyone: don't get around me if either a) we know I have strep, or b) you have strep yourself. I love you all, but dammit, if you make me sick, I won't be happy with you!). I'm going to start delving back into my writing starting tomorrow. Maybe even try to pick back up on some poetry. You'll be able to find it in the usual spot of ![[community profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small} ibisscrawl and possibly on deviantART if I feel it's good enough (yes, I really do censor what I put up there. We're lucky I've talked myself out of deleting the stuff I don't like on there. There's quite a few that I keep seeing how I can improve from when I originally posted it, and it makes me want to hide it).OH! Mentioning such, I rediscovered some of my insanely old accounts online, stuff that hasn't been used since 2002 or 2003, when I was a senior in high school. I'm curious to see if I can find even older accounts still, back when I was like 13, when I first started using the internet at my father's house. I may go on a scavenger hunt for my old accounts tomorrow. That could be fun. Anyway, it's 1:00AM here now. I'm going to bed now. Good night/day to you! <3 EDIT: And this applies only to those within the US who have my cellphone number, but I do have unlimited texting now if you need to reach me. The rest of you, PM me if you want my mobile email address. I can't save an address book on the mobile, so I don't email out from it except in replies, but I can give you means of contacting me offline that way. Or you can just DM me on Twitter. It supposedly goes directly to my cellphone now. Haven't received a DM yet to be able to verify this... >.> This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/111379.h Current Mood: sleepy |
| Thursday, January 21st, 2010 | |
| 7:07 am | Kamloops (BC, Canada) Needs Your Help! Please spread the word, especially to those of you who are in Canada or have Canadian friends. "Kamloops is a beautiful city in the central interior of BC, Canada with a population of about 90,000. It has a moderate, dry climate and is surrounded by spectacular and sensitive wilderness areas where many endangered plants and animals live. Environmental experts tell us that toxins produced by burning creosote will pollute not only the land and water but could do serious harm to plants, animals and humans." Please read this dA news article! http://news.deviantart.com/article/10619 A personal story from a resident in Kamloops can be found here: http://muttykins.deviantart.com/journal/2 Sign the petition here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/no-creo This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/110776.h Current Mood:  determined |
| Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 | |
| 7:53 am | Quick Morning Updates What I'm up to this morning: 1. Wondering why I can only find one sock of a pair of Ronin's socks. And when I do find more than one sock in general (which is rare), all I can ever find is mismatched lengths, thicknesses, and colors. I'm going to go buy him a few bags of new socks and throw out all the old ones, that way they all match. 2. About to get ready to go with my grandmother and uncle for breakfast. Not really sure where we're going yet, but hey, free food. ^_____^ 3. Kind of hoping we can go to Unclaimed Baggage while I'm out with them. Beats sitting at home all day, that's for sure. 4. Got reminded that the tag is due on the car. Fun fun. *headdesk* 5. Need to call other grandmother about possibly getting our old stove back so we actually have a stove that works again. Maybe borrow her dryer for a while, too. 6. Feel a bit sad that I can't really take Raz with me today because a) I probably won't be gone long anyway, and b) there's not a lot of room in my uncle's truck as it is with everyone piled in it. Didn't expect to have that happen... 8. Not being able to count! Yay for dyscalculia! (In other words, numerical dyslexia.) 8. (The real one!) Having Caramelldansen stuck in my head!! ARGH! 9. Looking for Sabam a new job in/around Gadsden, AL. If we can find one, pack up, sell this house, and move down to Gadsden, where we've found multiple potential houses for less than half of what we're paying for this one, all of which are close enough to the mall that I could walk there during the day, and have a bigger home with more storage space! (Really hope we can do this before August.) 10. Trying to finish up a pair of pants for Raz that I'm sewing by hand. Just so you know, I suck at sewing by hand short of small amounts of mending work. Mending I can do. Full, outright sewing? Not so much. This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/110345.h Current Mood:  busy |
| Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 | |
| 1:32 pm | I Has A Happy! Yesterday, we went to Huntsville, one of the few actual cities in Alabama (which is still small, compared to what most of you probably perceive as a city). I even took Raz, my ball-jointed doll, with me. Now, for those of you who haven't been with me long, I have some pretty severe anxiety issues, as well as a tendency of being overly self-conscious. People aren't used to seeing a twenty-four year old woman happily carrying around a doll on her arm or shoulder (geek moment here, but if you've ever seen the Angelic Layer anime, that's pretty much how I was carrying him, only he's about twice as big as most of those dolls in the cartoon), so it usually results in some pretty strange looks, and a lot of whispers and laughing behind my back. But yesterday, something was different, and I felt confident, and was totally comfortable carrying him around. And as a result, I didn't get a single nasty look. Some people looked at me curiously, a few with exasperation, but otherwise, nothing bad. I was able to enjoy the outing, even if we were slightly rushed for time since we had to be back in time to get Ronin from school. While we were at the mall, I even snapped a few pictures in the arcade.   And yes, the arcade had a real DDR machine! (The stuff was actually in Japanese on the screen too! lol! All the songs and the dialogue were in English, but most of the stuff coming up was in kanji.) Despite the fact that I really shouldn't have, I played some DDR for the first time in about three years. Keeping it on light mode, I cleared four stages before I just couldn't keep up anymore. It felt really good to be able to do so, too. Though the back button didn't work to well, which made it difficult at times to keep up the combos. The largest combo I managed was 127, too! \o/ I almost had a perfect score for that song. My timing was off occasionally, otherwise I probably could have. Not bad for being so out of practice and not needing to be on it in the first place... *grins sheepishly* So, yeah. I had fun. We mostly went just to get out of the house, though I did buy a Cheshire Cat button from the new Alice in Wonderland movie that they had at Hot Topic. Which is now pinned to Raz's shirt. ^^ This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/109792.h Current Mood: cheerful |
| Monday, January 11th, 2010 | |
| 8:44 am | I Ain't Dead! Still cold (-8C most mornings; that's around 17.6F for the rest of us). Asthma adverted mostly thanks to me keeping myself holed up in the bedroom. Unfortunately, this has also led to a lot of boredom on my part. I really need to see about getting a TV in here... It's not so bad when Sabam's at work, because I can hijack his laptop to watch DVDs on while I work on my own computer. *snerk* So, what have I been up to besides trying not to freeze or cough myself to death? Not a lot, really. I'm getting into some online roleplaying through the BJD community, even though I'm still working out most of the kinks in Raz's story. It's been fun, and I've been making a lot of new friends. I think that's been, by far, my favorite part so far. Especially since a couple of them are available to talk to for most of the day, which means I'm finding myself less mind-numbingly bored than I was previously. That's always a bonus! I finished a piece of knitting I was making, which will soon be shipped off to the southern bits of London, England, along with a few other random pressies for one of my friends. More pressies will be shipped out over the course of the next few months as well. (I've been secretly hording up gifts to distribute. So, pfft on you, the stuff is already bought/made, so you might as well let me ship it to you. No sense arguing, or else I'll have Ronin pout at you. Fear the cuteness of a five-year-old pouting! *snicker* I've had sugar this morning, can't you tell?) Mentioning mornings, I've discovered a strange dyslexia I didn't know I had. Mornings for me should not be spent out and about, as I discovered the other day, walking into the grocery store, to read the sign that, to me, said, "Shoplifters will be prostituted." Heheheh. Forget prosecuting shoplifters, let's prostitute them! So, that's about it for now. Kudos for anyone who can figure out the title reference. (Hint: It's a quote from something. If you can tell me what it is, you might win a surprise. No Googling!) This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/109503.h Current Mood: freezing |
| Friday, January 8th, 2010 | |
| 12:03 pm | Cold + Asthma = Trouble I probably won't be overly active for a few more days... I'm desperately just trying to keep warm, as it's dropped down to be way colder than I ever remember it being before. I've been having asthma trouble ever since I was sick recently, and it's being triggered by the cold. So, yeah, I'm in pretty bad shape at the moment, and just trying to keep the airways clear and open to be able to breathe... I'll try to keep an update available as to how I'm doing. Your best bet will be to follow me on twitter, since it's more likely for me to post there than anywhere else on regular updates. I'm not using my @hmtanpu account anymore. You'll find me as @jackalibis now. I'm not posting public tweets anymore either. So put in a request and I'll get to it when I can. Take care... This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/10 Current Mood: cold |
| Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 | |
| 9:07 pm | Snow Days We're under a winter storm advisory... Yes, Alabama's supposed to get snow, starting tomorrow. Schools are closing. Ronin's school is closed tomorrow and Friday both. Stupid winter. Can we move to Hawaii now? This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/10 Current Mood: cold |
| 12:43 am | Changing Twitter I'm changing my twitter. I'm making it easier for people who don't know me as Sab Saiti to find me. Look me up as @jackalibis. It's private, so if I don't add you back right away, leave a comment here and I'll get back to you on that. Please note, though, as I am accepting messages directly to my phone, my twitter list is becoming more restricted. So if I don't add you back, I'm sorry but I do have a reason. Many of you I've already added. So just confirm. ^__^ Anyway, it's almost 1am, so g'night. This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/108744.h Current Mood: sleepy |
| Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 | |
| 3:43 pm | Nevermind Children of Kemet is not available for transfer of ownership. I'm letting it die. I'm not going to argue about this, so don't bother. It's my choice. End of story. This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/10 Current Mood: determined |
| 7:56 am | Just So We're Clear... Just so we're clear on this (the future of Children of Kemet), no, I'm not joking. Also, no, I will not be leaving behind every single possible Kemetic project I have. My blog, Lotus Touch, will probably pick back up again in full swing, and I'll probably see about starting a personal website just for myself, which will have a lot of Kemetic influence to it as well. Not a "Sab only" website, but more a "this is the whole me, don't like it, GTFO" kind of website. I honestly enjoy web administration, but running a community lost its fun for me. When you literally shed tears because of a website, it's time to call it quits. I'd like to invite everyone from CoK that's hanging around here to stick around. I'm not going everywhere. If anything, I'm just growing up a bit more. Sure, it might not sound like it, being that I'm leaving such a long-term project, but really, it's become dead weight on me. It's time to let it go. There's so little actual contribution to it, especially after the move to paid hosting (minus the generous donations to pay for said hosting), that it's just not worth fighting to keep it alive anymore. So, 2010 is bringing about change. Would I open up a new Kemetic community? No. Would I encourage someone else to, and even go so far as giving them a hand with it? Sure, no problem. It's just that I don't want to be in charge of it anymore. Children of Kemet has ground me down so much in the last year that I've practically lost connection with the Gods themselves, because all my focus on things Kemetic have been to fixing the website instead of enriching my own spirituality. And honestly, if you don't like the fact that I'm doing this, fine. Whatever. You can either contact me and we'll see about you taking over the website and running it yourself, or you can just leave and never look back. I need to focus on some stuff for myself for a change. If you haven't noticed, my family life has been full of shit this past year. My spirituality has gone out the window. Most of my hobbies have all but died, save for a few new ones I'm building. I've been selfless in dealing with the site so far, only once in a course of six years running ever even demanding some thanks for all the work I've done. And you know what? I only got two or three people saying thank you... Out of 50 or so members, only two or three people said thanks. How would that make you feel, huh? Well, it was enough to make me realize I deserve to be selfish. I want the time I spend on CoK back for myself, back to be able to restore my spiritual side, back to be able to explore new hobbies and interests. So, to all those who couldn't take the two seconds it takes to utter those words, thank you for helping me realize what I needed to do. This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/108039.h Current Mood: peaceful |
| Monday, January 4th, 2010 | |
| 7:29 pm | Concerning Children of Kemet's Future I've been running Children of Kemet since I founded it in 2004. It's been a source of a lot of things for me, ranging from good friendships to severe frustrations. However, after almost six year, I'm getting worn out... There have been a lot of complications, and I've done every possible thing I could to try to fix them, bending myself backwards to try to make everyone happy, spending upwards to 20 hours a day trying to get everything fixed and ensure everyone happy. I've lost the love for the website that I once had, and it's making me want to just close it down for good. Children of Kemet has always been just a hobby for me. It was something I had wanted to do, part of it simply because I was told it wouldn't work. If someone else wants to take it over, I'd be more than happy to discuss it with you about the financial obligation to run the website with its current host, and to contact the host owner about transferring ownership. But as for myself, I'm done... I've grown so frustrated with trying to keep the site physically up and running lately that I just honestly don't care anymore what happens to it. So, I'm leaving it up to someone else to decide. If anyone wants to take it over from me, contact me at jackalibis@dreamwidth.org and we'll discuss it. Otherwise, the site will be closing once the last of the donation funds runs out on it. This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/10 Current Mood: exhausted |
| 10:54 am | Stupid Winter... I hate the cold. I really do. I hate the fact that I also have a cold at the same time. Or, more accurately, that I'm getting rid of it, by hacking it up. Nasty. Just wanted to let you know that while I feel half dead at the moment, I am still alive. Winter break ends tomorrow, and Ronin will be back in school. Today, however, he is watching his daddy's Godzilla movies. I'll be around, if half-frozen... This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/107706.h Current Mood: freezing |
| Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 | |
| 11:15 pm | Quick Drama Thing We're at the work Christmas party. One of the employees brought here daughter, who'd just lost her baby (will detail more later). The poor girl is miserable, but her mom was making her stay, and not letting her grieve. I can't stand when people are like that... Anyway, more later... This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/10 |
| Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 | |
| 7:10 pm | Phone Numbers & Email Addresses If you haven't noticed the request already, I'm needing to update my contact lists. So if I'm supposed to have your number or email address, leave a comment below and tell me what they are. If I didn't have it before and you want to share it, that's fine too. ^___^ The reason: I have a new cellphone. It was time to upgrade, and our old phones were dying. We're still waiting for one to arrive (I got my upgrade in the store, we had to order the other online). Before too much longer, we'll also have unlimited messaging on the phones, which means texting will be possible. It is now easier for me, since the new phones have full qwerty keyboards now. And touch screens. They is shiny! ^____^ As it is, I can also email from my phone now. If I've granted you access, you can get my email addy from this post. Hope everyone has a happy holiday! (Comments screened. Anonymous comments possible, but please be sure to let me know who the heck you are!) This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/106682.h Current Mood: cold |
| Monday, December 21st, 2009 | |
| 10:54 am | BJD Shipping Updates For those who care, here's the current info. If you don't care, feel free to ignore this post. ( Read more... ) Happy holidays to everyone! Starting Wednesday, I won't be online much if at all until Saturday, so I'll catch you all when I get back. Having four houses to visit leaves me exhausted by the time we're done, and even though it's going to be spread out over three days, it's still more than I care to go through every time... Love you! <3 This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/106093.h Current Mood:  anxious |
| Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | |
| 7:40 pm | Rantage Dear Insurance Company: Please quit sucking. You were doing so good until recently! When you insist on us having an automatic bank draft for payment, it's kind of hard for us to pay you if you don't finish your end of the paperwork. Once we sign the consent forms, it's out of our hands. And we've signed the consent forms THREE TIMES ALREADY!!! Get your act together. Please?! Kthxbai, Me This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/105399.h Current Mood:  frustrated |
| 8:43 am | Quick Updates Family: Damage to my grandmother's house is going to be fixed thanks to the insurance. Learned that there is apparently a now messy time-capsule of over 50 years worth of flooring in the living room. lol! My paternal grandfather, rest him, just laid the new flooring over the old. No wonder it was so padded! Doll: Raz is currently with the Mississauga Post Office in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. His shoes are currently still in New York City, USA, waiting for the postal service to do a pick-up for shipping. Both might arrive as early as tomorrow, and hopefully no later than Tuesday if all goes well. Photos will be available mostly in my Flicker, with some of them posted into my journals ![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small} dreamkeeper and jackalibis (the latter of which will be crossposted into ![[livejournal.com profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) jackalibis and ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jackalibis for those of you watching there). And of course, you'll be able to see the better ones over on my deviantART page.Personal: I haven't been feeling too great lately, and it's mostly my own fault. I keep forgetting to take the herbal treatment my grandfather bought for me. It really helps, and I really should be taking it daily, but it just slips my mind... I ended up going to bed last night at 5:30pm, waking back up around 8:30pm to get up for an hour before going back to bed. All this cold (and it's only 35F to 55F right now (1C to 12C)), so yeah, not overly cold by most people's standards, but remember, I live in the South, which is fueled by the fiery passion of Bible-thumpers preaching fire and brimstone! *snerk* Regardless, too damn cold for anyone with hyperhidrosis and arthritis, okay? This is why I don't move to Canada, regardless of having 20 people up there all wanting me to) isn't helping any, and I'm having a hard time getting good and woke up. It always being overcast isn't helping either. This post was posted at http://jackalibis.dreamwidth.org/105132.h Current Mood: cold |