smooches!

Thought I would blog just in case you get on in London...london london london...B)

Doing a bit of cleaning here. Don't expect much...heheh Super excited to see you! I left work about 3:30 and picked up the new element for the stove. Looks like it blew out the control as well....no heat. Made 4 pizzas in your little stove...giggle. Actually worked ok. Dinner just took a bit longer.

Hopefully you are asleep right now with a full tummy. I blogged on your site a bit to let people know what is going on.

Pretty quiet evening here. Spent way too much time working on the stove. To no avail...heheh Almost dinner time! I sure love you and hope all is well my baby!

Flights

All flights show as on time. Everything looks good baby!

Here are the differences in our times...I think...this hurts my brain...heheh

Leave Kathmandu at 240Pm local time 1:55 am Seattle time
Arrive in DELHI INDIA 355Pm local time 3:10 am tuesday Seattle time

Leave Dehli at 210Am local time Wednesday 1:40 pm Tuesday Seattle time
Arrive in London 655Am local time Wednesday 11:55 AM Tuesday Seattle time

Leave London at 1255Pm local time 5:55 am Seattle Time
Arruve in Seattle at 230Pm and we are on the same day and time...hehe.

Monday

Oh how I love Monday's....hehe. Got into a bit of a scrap with Rex today. Everyone there is all so pissy. They must really hate me. I swear.

Rex, I wanted to make sure we get that contract for Kauri’s ONM billed out this month please. I uploaded the calculator.Tim

I still need the signed one that doesn’t say "ABC Customer". Remember the "Print" tab. Regardless I will get it invoiced in September for an October 1 start date.Rex

Sorry, I haven’t been presenting those to the customer. Will do so in the future.Tim

Well, I still need them to agree to the pricing on this one.Rex

Ahh, I was considering the description of services to do that as it has the pricing on it. Even though it isn’t granular.Tim

Tim,
This is not OK with me. After you didn’t ask me for help and used totally outdated materials with Valley Bank, I worked with it, but I also went out of my way to let you know how it worked.
There are 3 documents. The Master Services agreement, the description of Managed Serviced Attachment to the MSA, and the Pricing Calculator.
It has been this way for a long time.
I intentionally took ALL of the pricing out of the Description of Services because it is not clear what they are and ARE NOT getting, hence the Pricing Calculator.
I need a signed pricing document.
Rex

Ok, enough whining. Got the babies off to school, cleaned up a bit. the house is normal...heheh...trashed. Then started in working on the calendar. Calendar wentpretty smooth. I hope. Had to change alot of stuff from KC to SWHC. But not a problem. Hopefully didn't miss anything.

I emailed the ATC announcements person the list of events and asked if they had any interest in putting them up? We will see. Then emailed them to TERRA. We will see how that goes. The SWHC site looks pretty good as we have everything out there for a few months. Gonna check and make sure it's all good.

So then I got the newsletter out. so I have gotten something done at least...heheh. Gonna check stuff on witchvox next and update that. Then I should be golden. Picking up Mom at 3 and then taking the computers to Valley Bank. Gonna have Anna help me as there are lots of them to unload.

And that is about it for now my baby! Smooches!

Sunday

Nice busy day...hehe Got up and the kids ate breakfast, and headed up to P and K's. Theia showed up and we chatted with her until Marcie got there. She seems like she will be on ok fit. She is really looking for a working substance sort of group though. So we will see how that works out.

We had hamburgers for lunch which tasted pretty darn good...hehe. Looks like they counted 336 people for ppd which is pretty awesome I think. I left about the same time as Marcie and Theia and stopped at Winco for a few days of groceries and some more oatmeal. Came home and Eryck got here.

Anna's dad did let her do pretty much what she wanted. She definitely looks pretty goth..heheh. Will have to get a picture up for you to see...B) Did homework with Bella and then Madalyn and I looked up how to play her clarinet so she can practice. Sure sounds cool. A bit like a goose at times, but pretty ...heheh

Sorted through the mail and school stuff to create a pile for you...yay...hehe. Tomorrow I am gonna take a look at the site once I do the calendar and make sure I get everything up that I know about.

Well, Maddy is practicing her clarinet. Anna is outside with her friends and Eryck. Timothy and Grace and Bella are playing outside and keeping an eye out for Gracie to come home. Lily and Rowan are playing blocks in the den. All that is missing is our Mommy....which is soon to change!

Ok, and I checked all your flights and no changes. The Jet Lite one I just have to pretend I am trying to book it. It is still the same times. So all looks good so far. I will check again tomorrow for you ifn it helps you.

Smooches and talk with you soon baby!

lazy day

not much happening today...heheh. I spent some time in the garage playing with my airplanes seeing if I could get any of them flight worthy...but no going...hehe

Headed off to the grocery store in the afternoon and got the kids some tv dinners. Your rockin socks came. other than that the only excitement was the element blowing up in the stove. Looked like a nuclear bomb went off in there! Very bright. We were making a pie. So I had to get your green oven down. Came in handy...heheh.

Can't wait to talk with you bebbe! Smooches!

Jake

So, talked with Julie. they had a good day today and Jake spent the whole day with her. He says he is glad he got caught in a way and wants to straigten up and fly right.

I then talked to him. He has been smoking pot since summer school and says he did it cuz his friends were and because it helps him relieve stress. He says it will be hard to quit because he likes doing it but he feels he needs to quit. He is entering a drug rehab program.

They find out Monday wether or not he is suspended or expelled. He gave me his email address and his instant messenger so I am going to add him to yahoo messenger. I am going to keep in touch with him every few days and see how he is doing.

Friday

Not much to report on the work front. Sold a few small things and entered opportunities from the show. Trying to get my duckies in a row...hehe

Still not feeling all better...sigh. Soon! heheh. Worked outside a bit and cleaned up the wood scraps and the garage. Did a bunch of laundry. Been trying to spot the stains and keep the clothes halfway decent. B)

Ohter than that a pretty quiet day! Just went to Wallie World for dinner for the kids and some house supplies stuffs. Decent day today mostly sunny and about 70.

Can't wait to talk with you tonight! Hope I get to...hehehe. Will prolly call Jake in a bit. Smooches!

Tough Day

So, I lost a big customer today. $900 a month worth. The are going with another company because Nick was their engineer and he was the one that NWCS let go. Not good news and I am trying to deal with it the best I can. My income is shrinking and shrinking.

Julie called this am and left me a message to call her on her cell. Said it was important. I didn't have her cell so I tried to call her home. She wasn't there. I called her work and they wouldn't give me her cell. They didn't know why, but said she had to leave work suddenly and go to one of her kid's school.

She finally called. Jake was arrested for stealing another kid's ipod and selling it to buy marijuana. The police found the marijuana on him. He will either be suspended or expelled. Julie said she has had tons of trouble with him lately with skipping class and sneaking out at night. She thought she had it under control. Evidently she does not.

Don't know what to do about that either. Just got home from the open house at work and the house is trashed so I will work on that and maybe go take a bath. I am trying, like I said, to stay balanced but I am feeling a tad overwhelmed at the moment.

Miss you baby! You have no idea...lol

Wednesday

Another rainy day. We did have a few decent ones..heheh. Oh well. We setup for the open house today. I am feeling a little better, hopefully much better tomorrow. It should be a fun day. Long day though and lots of on my feet time.

Anxious to hear how you did yesterday. If you made it through the puja?!? We got another cool email today about the center. Don't know if you saw it yet or not. But a group that is interested in using it. Would be way way cool!

Well, time to get dinner ready for the kids and hopefully will see you on soon! Miss you babycakes!!!!

Class

Heya cutie! Back from class! Went really well I think! Man, I think everyone missed you...heheh. I am not nearly as much fun as you are. But, we got through the "lecture" portion without anyone falling asleep. heheh

And everyone made lovely God's Eyes! It was so sweet of you to call me! I am so glad I had both phones on and picked up! Would have totally killed me to miss you! Thank you for being persistent...lol.

Was nice to hear your voice! You sounded a bit tired! I hope you get to feeling better and better and were able to enjoy the puja!

Well, gotta find some dinner! I love you my baby!

Oh, Austin signed up for the counseling class as well! Yay! So 9 now...

Tuesday

Oh so much fun to wake up...lol. Hope you are feeling better today! Work is/was work. Nothing too radical happening. I got one of the MSP contracts. The smaller one from Kauri. Should help the month and keep it from being another horrible one! Yay!

Still not feeling up to par. Dizzy and tired. But not too bad, just hard to focus...hehe Think we have a new person coming to class tonight off of the TERRA group. Yay! Would be cool.

Sure hope you are getting better and won't get very sick! Hope you get your lama time in soon as well! Don't know if we get to chat tonight or not. Hopefully! I sure miss you my baby! It is almost 3 here now and I am hoping to skip out a bit early.

Gotta buty some sugar as we are pretty much out of it. Grandma and her koolaid and popsickles...heheh

Smooches my baby!

Today

Not feeling much different than yesterday...geez already. I decided to do some work today anyway so worked some more on the fence. Getting closer...heheh.

Pretty niceish day today with patchy clouds. No rain! Yay! Gonna go get Mom in a bit and pick up a few groceries after I drop her off. Also need a few more boards for the fence.

We are up to six for the counseling class now. I got permission to post it to TERRA and so I did that as well, see if we get anyone through that.

Well, I got decaptained today, went onto the boards and had no moderator privledges...hehe. Kinda odd. After having them in some form or fashion for a year and a half...hehe

Well, off to clean up and get mom! I love ya baby!!!!!!!!!!!!

sunday pm

Well...including you and I there are 5 confimed for the counseling class. I will continue to work on it. We will get at least the 8. I am sure of that. Had a pretty lazy day. Told you about the classes I took 100's on both. The spells for the second degree and the last of the 2nd degree tests. So all I have to tak enow is the final....aargh. Gonna have to study for that.

Played my game a bit more, lost oddysey. On the final disk. Eryck came over tonight so everyone was extra rowdy...heheh. Can't wait to see some more pictures. you sure have some amazing ones so far.

Hoping to feel much better tomorrow! Tired of feeling worn down! Gonna be a good week next week for work! Big money! Big, huge!

Love you baby!

Sunday

Woof, still feeling quite plucky...dizzy and suchlike. Saw your new pics! Very nice! Have a good day overall? I tried to get a littel bit done today. Sent out some emails, one to Mara at TERRA to see about getting some of our stuff on their calendar, or at least posting it to TERRA. Then one to cbmc about why we arent doing full moons in November or December. Elaine was wondering. Called Scott on that. Then some about the counseling class.

Called everyone on the WOTY class to confirm for Tuesday. Took two tests at WitchSchool and finished by book report for that. So dizzy! Wheee....heheh I know it's just sinusses but ooh boy. Gonna crash in a bit and relax. Love you sweets!

Dinner

Getting dinner underway. Can't wait for the munchkins to go to bed. Hard to concentrate on anything and my brain is failing...lol.

You are probably up by now, unless you slept in. Still raining quite solidly here. Gonna let the kids watch a movie with dinner. Mini family night...heheh

Rescue me...lol

Saturday

What a day.....heheh. Not feeling much better, very dizzy. Decided I am staying home today and not going to ritual. Very rainy day today. Mostly rain in the forecast now. Guess our summer finally gave up.

Bella got her other tooth out today. I went and got some groceries and that about did me in...lol. I am sure it is just my head getting re-aquainted with my body. B) Got the kids chip dip for dinner. Thought I would get them something fun for tonight.

Kids are whiny butts today, but Bella and Grace are having lots of fun coloring all the day away. Had Timothy and Madalyn do some cleaning and I have been doing laundry. Anna is at her Dad's house.

I think Eryck is coming over tomorrow while Scott bowls. Not sure. He is not much of an emailer....lol

I miss you sweetie! Would be a good knitting day with all the rain.....B)

Bella

Her tooth came out! Yay! Check it out...heheh

Friday

Woke up feeling pretty yucky but I think I am on the mend. Still pretty dizzy and slight fever, 99.5, but doing a bit better. Not neary so congested.

Got my article written and submitted and made a bunch of calls on the open house. Up to 20 people I think now. 6 more to go.

The kids were talking at the bus stop about how they think it is weird that you are sleeping now and will be getting up during our evening..heheh

I miss you so much! I love you my sweet baby!

Gonna go hit the couch and eat something....

Smooches!

Thursday

Oh goodness, woke up with a huge headache, couldn't breathe, throat all swollen. Guess it's not allergies. lol. Slept in until 8 and then went in to work late. We had a lunch training with HP and I spent the rest of the time working on the redo of the contracts for Milepost.

I just got back from delivering them and a quick grocery and shampoo run to wallie world. probably gonna take it pretty easy tonight. Not feeling well. So far it's just Anna, Timothy, Grace, Rowie and Bella that are sick. Gotta love the public schools...hehe

Hope you are sleeping good! B)

May go take a bath and then hit the couch. Feel like I was hit by a couch...lol

Carolyn did her resignation thingy today now that ppd is over with I guess.

Wednesday

Bit quieter day today...hehe Spent most of the morning following up on stuff and calling customers to get them to the open house. Goal is 26 and I am at 16. Work it! B) Tonight is the music vendor night thingy. Hopefully will go quickly.

Another nice day today, nice and warm and sunny! I went down to milepost credit union and hopefully we hammered out a contract that they can get approved. I will type it up and take it down to them tomorrow.

Was gonna work on the fence a bit tonight but very tired..heheh. So i will blog to you and then probably work on my article for the times. Just two weeks until you come home, which still sounds like the halfway point! Lol

Got a few more cucumbers off the plant, no more tomatoes yet believe it or not. And there is one zuchini that seems to have made it past the slugs. Well, off for now and hopefully will see you on later!

Smooches!

Ritual and moon

Ritual went pretty well I think! I dusted off the Hecate Full Moon ritual we did and re-wrote it taking out the invocation. made it an evocation instead. Kat didn't come but we had Bob, Katherine, Danielle, Tammie and Anna. Everyone got to play a role with vounteers as Bob as warder, Danielle as Maiden and Katherine as HPS. I think it went well and everyone said nice things..hehe.

Right after ritual we cam home and saw this up in the sky....


Does that qualify as a harvest moon? You decide...heheh. I am starving and gonna get some dinner! I am thinking I don't get to chat with you tonight but we will see! I miss you and love you my baby!

Tuesday

Well, a very busy day indeed. Started off with a salesmeeting, mostly just them going over all of their goals for us, how many new customers, staffing leads, etc. Yawn. Then I called some customers to try and get them to the open house. The at about 11:30 i headed for another meeting with Kauri in Seattle. Should get that msp I hope!

After that i went over to get your ring. It looks bery perty and shiny. Then off to Freddies for cakes and ale. Got the rit all ready. Will take Anna and I know bob is going to come. Hopefully someone else will as well..lol. I know Kat won't be there as she says she is still worn out from the weekend.

As for me, I am hot and tired...heheh. Very warm today here. Gonna start packing up and getting ready for the ritual in a bit. Have to go over and put away the table and chairs from the woty class that didn't happen, then setup for ritual. I hope we get to chat tonight. We will see! I paid for your shaman training so that is all goodly!

I love you my sweet! Hope you are having a good early morning!

white tara

does sound close, and a beautiful mythology!

When the 1000 White Taras are named the tone of the planet will shift from one of fear to one of compassion, of love. It is something like the Durga myth. When the world was on the brink and the Gods threw their hands up in surrender and called on Durga to save this world, Durga came. She cut away greed and avarice and restored harmony. The Gods asked her to stay and be our goddess but she said , "No, that wasn't the deal I signed onto, but if you need me again you can call on me". And so we are. We are calling her to cut away avarice and we are calling on White Tara to remove the fear, thus allowing this to happen, through compassion... through love.
The myth of the White Tara began when she showed up as the tear of Avalokiteshvara, also known as Chenzering, who the Dali Lama is a reincarnation of. She appeared when Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of all Buddhas, moved into a state of compassion... when his mind and his heart met in wisdom... and the suffering he saw because the the lack of this balance, made him cry. Then he could see Her... or it is said she appeared. For that is who she is, the compassion expressed in that tear. It could be said the tear cleared the eye to see her. She is the expression of compassion. It is time to let the waters flow... let our tears cleanse and nourish... let it dissove fear in all its manifestations especially hatred. Like the water thrown on the Wicked Witch of the west... melting, melting... let the fear melt as we see we are one with all.
When the 1000 White Taras are named, acknowleged and joined... the force will be so great it will spread quickly. Like the 100th monkey theory, when a critical mass changes, the whole will change. The naming has begun...

CPSPPD EVENT

Getting Setup

Front Table setup

Oloteas Rit

Super Cook

Peeps...B)

Utter mayhem...hard to walk anywhere!

One of the classes

Front Lobby

Norm! B)

Would you like to volunteer?

So, Eveything went pretty well. All the volunteers howed up and showed up ontime. Food was the big fiasco. Todd was cooking on only one small barbq and people were waiting 30 minutes or more for burgers. One couple even asked me for a refund and were very frustrated at how long it took. They ended up leaving after I gave them the money back.

Other people mentioned the food problems as well and i think feedbacked it on the questionairres. So, that was a problem. The music was loud and the vendors wre complaining to Kat about it, that they couldn't hear customer's talk to them. The room had pretty crappy accoustics and the sound guy ended up turning the speakers off altogether and just having the monitors drive the sound.

During setup some people moved their tables this way or that way which cascaded and ended up crouding people at the other end. During the height of the day it was very hard to walk around cuz of so many people.

So, other than all that, i talked to a bunch of vendors who said they did really well. they all seemed pleased. Everyone that I talked to loved the location. I think almost all the food was sold, hopefully for a profit. Either Coast or CPSPPD paid for the food. Not sure who. Rituals were well attended and went well.

All the classes seemed to be well attended with like 20 to 30 people. Excpet the last one of the day which was like 6 people..lol Tear down was accomplished basically before 7. Which was amazing! Only two spills, one latte on the sidewalk which Anna (bratsky) and Paul cleaned up, and one raw broken egg on the carpet which I cleaned up...hehe

All in all I think a huge success!

PPD

Wow, 6 am came very early...hehe. Was still dark outside. Gonna be hot today, about 83 or so. We are getting ready to roll outta here. Up to P and K's at 7:30. Sorry we almost missed each other last night. Didn't think there would be a prob but you were on pretty early! Was glad i setup the laptop right when I pulled in the door even though I expected you on later.

Miss you my sweetie! I hope to be home before 9 tonight so hopefully we will get to chat!

Bummer about Lama leaving for a few days. Too bad you can't tag along...B) Where is he headed? Another place in Nepal?

Hope you sleep well tonight! I am off!

Saturday

Ahh, got to sleep in til 9 today...B) Then got busy on the fence. It is all done now except for all of the run on the neighbors side. i guess I only put up four sections and the gate....but it feels like I did a lot. Back yard is all fenced in again...hehe

Nothing more I can do until I rent the auger. So, after that I worked in the garage and put up some shelves for your looms and spinning wheels. Should keep them out of harm's way. Not sure what time Tamara is coming today. Sometime late like 8 I think.

Anna went to the Huskies game with her Dad today. She will be home late. Charging up the camera and getting odds and ends ready for tomorrow. Uploading the grove of the patriarch pics to the arratu group...man is that slow...geesh. Prolly get up at 6 in the am to head out. Not looking forward to that...heheh

Gonna be a busy busy day. Well, bout time to make dinner! You are prolly eating breakfast or something. Hope you have an awesome day!

Friday

Got up and got the kids off, then did some work, invites to the open house, ordered some parts, yadda yadda. then lunch and Bella off to the bus.

Cam back and put the kids down. Got the gate built and set into place, then did the piece going to Russ' fence. All looks really good! Nice and solid! Gonna work on the portion in his yard tomorrow prolly.

Great news for you! I fretted and searched and finally found a way to get money off of my card and into our account. I billed myself for 1100 in product through paypal, then paid myself with my Symantec card. Only cost like $40 on the $1100. So, you will have the dana money in cash! I can see why that is important and I would want it that way as well!

I will figure the rest of the stuff out a bit better but there is at least another $500 in there that you can play with.

We are getting ready to go to Scott's house. Prolly won't stay too late but I will have the laptop on so we can chat! I miss you so!

Tomorrow Tamara is coming to spend the night and she will stay til Sunday. Mom will be over as well to watch the chillens. gonna be a long day! Up to P and K's at 7:30 to help them load up! Yikes! heheh

Nothing else much going on. Reading the companion to the 4 agreements. Did a big working today with stones for prosperity and riches. Gonna be making some big money! Yay! Come on big money! Can't wait to talk with you. So weird to think you are sleeping. Actually you may be up by now....4:49 there as I type this....well, smooches! I love you baby!

Kinda like Friday...woot

Well, Thursday is done for the most part. Was at work all day today. Got quite a bit done, spiffs and whatnot. couple hundred for HP and $250 for Symantec. The Symantec spiff goes away soon...sigh.

Left work about 4ish and went to lowes for some brackets and screws for the fence. Should have all the hardware I need. Got new stuff for the gate so it is perty...heheh. then went to Freddies and got small groceries for the babies. Tomorrow is Anna's pictures, have to get that done.

Came home and worked on the fence. Have the short section in front of the temple all done. Can't dig any more postholes though. I tried, but too rocky. So I put in the new post for the gate and got that all secured and cemented. Can put in the gate next...heheh. Still gotta blast those other holes tho....gonna need an auger.

So far so well with school. No missed busses, no sick kids. Anna decided to buy lunch today so I tore into her. What a loser...B) Anywho, hope we get to chat tonight! Smooches!

Friday

Well, everything went well this am. Kids all off to school and whatnot. Taking Bella down in about 30 minutes. Been working this am and doing a bit of cleaning. Going to Scott's tonight for barbq and game night. Prolly won't stay very late.

Healing circle seemed to go well. Here are some pics...

Everyone arrived pretty close to six except Paul, so I called to see if he was on his way, and he answered...oops. He lost track of time. So he zoomed down and we chit-chatted until he arrived and we started about 6:45 or so. Heheh. We sang the Thunder Gods song...B)

I miss you baby! After the bus stop I am gonna mow the lawn I think then work on the fence! I love you!

Thursday

Just a quick note in case we miss each other tonight....B)

Normal day, had a sales meeting this am. Not much unusual. But, then Bella missed her bus, not sure if it was really late or they just missed it. So she was bawling, so I came home and took her over there. Hung out in Grace's class for a bit and then came back home. Did some weeding and my new monitor showed up....it's big...lol. And way too bright. Gonna have to fix that. Picked up Belly at the bus, here is a pic...

Heading out in a bit for the healing circle. i ended up getting the roses cuz nobody replied. Going to Scott's tomorrow for a barbq and then game night. Prolly take Anna and Maddy. I miss you baby! I hope you have a great morning...heheh. i should be around like at 8:30? 9:15 am your time I think? TTYS sweetie!!!!!

Evening

So, homework is all done, papers signed, backpacks sorted...heheh. Took my gas planes down to Ultimate as well for consignment. Dinner is cooking and babies are relaxing. Love you baby!

Madalyn says:

My teacher's name is Miss Grijalva, or Miss G. She is the nicest teacher ever. She is a little strict, but she is a neat freak. She said that of herself. Tomorrow we get to go to the third grade classroom and help them with their binders. And I feel bad that you aren't here because I am going to get a gold medal for reading olympics. I had a wonderful day! I miss you so much!

Timothy says:

I love you Mom, how are you doing? My teacher is really nice and I had a great day! My teacher is Mr. Voyles and I didn't get into trouble today.

Gracie says:

I love you! My teacher is Mrs. Sturber and she is really nice but she tricks people.

Bella says:

I love you mommy! I only got to color at school. I can't remember my teachers name (Miss Blau).

Rowie:

Me love mommy so much that me miss her.

Lily:

Umm, me love her. Go get my backpack. I want one milkshake. And peanuts.

heheh

First Day of School

Ok, here are some pics, Gracie outside the school..

Getting ready to go into class...

This is where she will sit.

Bella ready to take on the world!

Bella sitting at her desk. Very excited!

Both of them are excited and ready to go for their first day tomorrow! And, we already have homework...heheh

First Day of School

Well, everything seems to be going well. Everyone got off on time and is super excited. Just got back from Gracie's orientation. Her teacher seems nice and is very positive and rearing to go. We leave for Bella's adventure in about 45 minutes. I will post some pictures later and then will also post some stories from the kids tonight as well. Love you baby!

Monday

Well, got lots done today so far. Showered, ate, did the calendar, did the newsletter. Contacted Melaine to see if Linda is still going to do women's circle. I posted all of the Center events on Witchvox. Took the donation stuff to Goodwill. Next I am going to clean the garage until I pick Mom up at 4. then off to grocery shopping. No rest...heheh. I miss you baby! Can't wait to hear from you! Hope everything is going well!