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 Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2019 8:51 am
Exxos Camwen Exxos Camwen Exxos So how have things been progressing? progressing? as in my personal life? or the impeachment inquiries? lol Considering I asked back in August, life in general. xd What you can't see into the future? 4laugh Yeah... I don't know. I'm mostly good. Personal life is actually nice but politics makes me rage so that kinda interferes with my zen a bit. and you? I don't even know where to start. Chugging along, working through tough times and their aftermath. Low points of the last few years: Zander had a series of strokes and we had to let him go, I feel like I failed him every day. My girlfriend cheated on me. Spent over a month total in hospitals due to kidney stone and nephrostomy complications. High points of the last few years: My grandmother died and I thwarted the trust challenges so I have an income stream (though it probably also means I will lose my medicaid and be insurance poor next year as I will have enough to not get aid, but not enough to afford to buy insurance... that's my political gripe, heh). I have a boyfriend who is not cheating on me. Reached my goal weight after all these years. In the world of what I know other guildies are up to. Lilygwen had a kid. Craftymama's oldest is in college now. Joe has disappeared off the face of the earth. Lana is struggling through hyperemesis to hopefully have a little girl. Gemstone has now had two kids after all those years of struggling to have one. Wow! It's nice to get updates on so many. I have been completely out of the loop though I still think of everyone and wonder how they are. Congrats on your boyfriend and honestly basic survival over the last few years. Sometimes just getting by can be a challenge. More details in my own life: The good - My oldest is a junior now in college, working on his biology degree and doing well. Youngest just turned 16. My husband and I recently celebrated our 22nd anniversary. Home life is happy and relaxed. The not so good - our beloved dog died earlier this year (I'm only now beginning to look into adopting a new dog because life seems best when it includes a dog) -My mom may need to move in with us soon as she is having some health issues and completely refuses to have help outside of our immediate family. This means we'll probably need to move soon as our current house has too many stairs.
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Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2019 5:42 pm
Camwen Wow! It's nice to get updates on so many. I have been completely out of the loop though I still think of everyone and wonder how they are. Congrats on your boyfriend and honestly basic survival over the last few years. Sometimes just getting by can be a challenge. Yeah, I should probably push for a yearly reunion here at least. I can prod everyone but Darik, Joe, and Ken on facebook at least. Camwen More details in my own life: The good - My oldest is a junior now in college, working on his biology degree and doing well. Youngest just turned 16. My husband and I recently celebrated our 22nd anniversary. Home life is happy and relaxed. These teen to college years are blasting by it seems. It's like my friends kids are young... young... young... COLLEGE. Where did those four years go? They just skip from 14 to college and their younger siblings are momentary teens by proxy. xd Camwen The not so good - our beloved dog died earlier this year (I'm only now beginning to look into adopting a new dog because life seems best when it includes a dog) I have yet to consider adopting yet and it's been almost 2 years since Zan passed. I've poured everything I can into his brother, but I am starting to miss the chaos of two cats in the house. I wish for you to find the pup that fits into your loving home at just the right moment. *hug* Camwen -My mom may need to move in with us soon as she is having some health issues and completely refuses to have help outside of our immediate family. This means we'll probably need to move soon as our current house has too many stairs. I am still living with my parents. At least for another year it looks like while Alex gets things sorted and I head to Alaska. I dread leaving because my parents are getting to the age where they're going to need that care. Though I also just dread our parents' generation slipping into old age because there are so many expenses and sacrifices and efforts that are going to be so much harder on our generation. Our grandparents barely manage(d) to eke through to their final days with what little we and out parents can/could muster together. Now we have rising costs, barely enough to subsist ourselves, and will have to somehow support our parents too. As for stairs, it makes me wonder why so many generational houses have the eldest on the upper floors. You'd think as you get older, the generations would move downward. How do they have such longevity when grandma is up 50 flights of stairs and then in the US, a single step up from a sunken living room kills 90,000 old people a second. But anyway, at least with house shopping in this mindset, you might think of a house where you and your husband can get old and crotchety and avoid stairs in many years from now too. Get that sense of permanent roots perhaps. I know, sort of grasping for the silver lining on that one. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2019 9:36 am
Exxos As for stairs, it makes me wonder why so many generational houses have the eldest on the upper floors. You'd think as you get older, the generations would move downward. How do they have such longevity when grandma is up 50 flights of stairs and then in the US, a single step up from a sunken living room kills 90,000 old people a second. But anyway, at least with house shopping in this mindset, you might think of a house where you and your husband can get old and crotchety and avoid stairs in many years from now too. Get that sense of permanent roots perhaps. I know, sort of grasping for the silver lining on that one. sweatdrop I wonder if it's because they were expected to just live upstairs and never leave the house. The younger folks would just bring them all they needed. Now at least there's an attempt at things like ramps, elevators and various transportation options to they can get around more. *shrug* But yeah, we'd definitely keep in mind that we aren't getting younger either when we look at houses. lol
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Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2019 4:56 pm
Camwen Exxos As for stairs, it makes me wonder why so many generational houses have the eldest on the upper floors. You'd think as you get older, the generations would move downward. How do they have such longevity when grandma is up 50 flights of stairs and then in the US, a single step up from a sunken living room kills 90,000 old people a second. But anyway, at least with house shopping in this mindset, you might think of a house where you and your husband can get old and crotchety and avoid stairs in many years from now too. Get that sense of permanent roots perhaps. I know, sort of grasping for the silver lining on that one. sweatdrop I wonder if it's because they were expected to just live upstairs and never leave the house. The younger folks would just bring them all they needed. Now at least there's an attempt at things like ramps, elevators and various transportation options to they can get around more. *shrug* But yeah, we'd definitely keep in mind that we aren't getting younger either when we look at houses. lol Me and Alex have a dream house and we can't get around the stairs aspect. We both want a design that pretty much mandates the use of stairs, but we also know it has to be a lifelong house. And it is not that far off that stair problems come into effect as I am already having problems with my knee and stairs, I have to ratchet myself up them instead of taking them normally because my right knee just won't lift my body reliably.
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Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 1:24 pm
Exxos Camwen Exxos As for stairs, it makes me wonder why so many generational houses have the eldest on the upper floors. You'd think as you get older, the generations would move downward. How do they have such longevity when grandma is up 50 flights of stairs and then in the US, a single step up from a sunken living room kills 90,000 old people a second. But anyway, at least with house shopping in this mindset, you might think of a house where you and your husband can get old and crotchety and avoid stairs in many years from now too. Get that sense of permanent roots perhaps. I know, sort of grasping for the silver lining on that one. sweatdrop I wonder if it's because they were expected to just live upstairs and never leave the house. The younger folks would just bring them all they needed. Now at least there's an attempt at things like ramps, elevators and various transportation options to they can get around more. *shrug* But yeah, we'd definitely keep in mind that we aren't getting younger either when we look at houses. lol Me and Alex have a dream house and we can't get around the stairs aspect. We both want a design that pretty much mandates the use of stairs, but we also know it has to be a lifelong house. And it is not that far off that stair problems come into effect as I am already having problems with my knee and stairs, I have to ratchet myself up them instead of taking them normally because my right knee just won't lift my body reliably. Yeah, it's hard to get everything you want on your list. I guess the best thing I've seen so far to get around the stairs issue is when the house is kind of built into the side of a hill. This way you can have more than one level and be able to have a separate entrance for each level. Granted, this works better when you want separate living areas in the same house like we probably would.
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Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 3:05 pm
Camwen Exxos Camwen Exxos As for stairs, it makes me wonder why so many generational houses have the eldest on the upper floors. You'd think as you get older, the generations would move downward. How do they have such longevity when grandma is up 50 flights of stairs and then in the US, a single step up from a sunken living room kills 90,000 old people a second. But anyway, at least with house shopping in this mindset, you might think of a house where you and your husband can get old and crotchety and avoid stairs in many years from now too. Get that sense of permanent roots perhaps. I know, sort of grasping for the silver lining on that one. sweatdrop I wonder if it's because they were expected to just live upstairs and never leave the house. The younger folks would just bring them all they needed. Now at least there's an attempt at things like ramps, elevators and various transportation options to they can get around more. *shrug* But yeah, we'd definitely keep in mind that we aren't getting younger either when we look at houses. lol Me and Alex have a dream house and we can't get around the stairs aspect. We both want a design that pretty much mandates the use of stairs, but we also know it has to be a lifelong house. And it is not that far off that stair problems come into effect as I am already having problems with my knee and stairs, I have to ratchet myself up them instead of taking them normally because my right knee just won't lift my body reliably. Yeah, it's hard to get everything you want on your list. I guess the best thing I've seen so far to get around the stairs issue is when the house is kind of built into the side of a hill. This way you can have more than one level and be able to have a separate entrance for each level. Granted, this works better when you want separate living areas in the same house like we probably would. One of the houses we lived in in Washington was like that. The lower level was constantly full of centipedes (not house, the 3 inch biting bitches) and millipedes (admittedly cool, but not in the house en masse).
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Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 8:46 am
Exxos One of the houses we lived in in Washington was like that. The lower level was constantly full of centipedes (not house, the 3 inch biting bitches) and millipedes (admittedly cool, but not in the house en masse). AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! eek burning_eyes
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Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 4:49 pm
Camwen Exxos One of the houses we lived in in Washington was like that. The lower level was constantly full of centipedes (not house, the 3 inch biting bitches) and millipedes (admittedly cool, but not in the house en masse). AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! eek burning_eyes Yeah, that is why my calves are golf ball dimpled and I have a justified fear of centipedes. I'd get bitten and end up losing a 2 to 3 centimeter divot out of my leg from the tissue necrotizing.
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Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 8:40 pm
Exxos Camwen Exxos One of the houses we lived in in Washington was like that. The lower level was constantly full of centipedes (not house, the 3 inch biting bitches) and millipedes (admittedly cool, but not in the house en masse). AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! eek burning_eyes Yeah, that is why my calves are golf ball dimpled and I have a justified fear of centipedes. I'd get bitten and end up losing a 2 to 3 centimeter divot out of my leg from the tissue necrotizing. Oh wow that's crazy! ..and terrible. I don't think I've had to ever deal with centipedes. Ticks and mosquitoes sure.. and I've encountered black widows but they mostly keep to themselves unless you surprise them.
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Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 9:22 pm
Camwen Exxos Camwen Exxos One of the houses we lived in in Washington was like that. The lower level was constantly full of centipedes (not house, the 3 inch biting bitches) and millipedes (admittedly cool, but not in the house en masse). AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! eek burning_eyes Yeah, that is why my calves are golf ball dimpled and I have a justified fear of centipedes. I'd get bitten and end up losing a 2 to 3 centimeter divot out of my leg from the tissue necrotizing. Oh wow that's crazy! ..and terrible. I don't think I've had to ever deal with centipedes. Ticks and mosquitoes sure.. and I've encountered black widows but they mostly keep to themselves unless you surprise them. I always used to pick black widows up barehanded and move them outside like most other house spiders because their fangs are not long enough to pierce the skin deep enough to do anything and they are not bitey to begin with. If you're not an infant or literally thin skinned, they can't do much. But then again, I just pick up and toss rattlesnakes too. So don't try this at home, kids, I'm what the experts call an idiot with low self preservation. xd
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Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:31 pm
Exxos Camwen Exxos Camwen Exxos One of the houses we lived in in Washington was like that. The lower level was constantly full of centipedes (not house, the 3 inch biting bitches) and millipedes (admittedly cool, but not in the house en masse). AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! eek burning_eyes Yeah, that is why my calves are golf ball dimpled and I have a justified fear of centipedes. I'd get bitten and end up losing a 2 to 3 centimeter divot out of my leg from the tissue necrotizing. Oh wow that's crazy! ..and terrible. I don't think I've had to ever deal with centipedes. Ticks and mosquitoes sure.. and I've encountered black widows but they mostly keep to themselves unless you surprise them. I always used to pick black widows up barehanded and move them outside like most other house spiders because their fangs are not long enough to pierce the skin deep enough to do anything and they are not bitey to begin with. If you're not an infant or literally thin skinned, they can't do much. But then again, I just pick up and toss rattlesnakes too. So don't try this at home, kids, I'm what the experts call an idiot with low self preservation. xd I don't really have a problem with spiders but I'm also not really interested in holding them either. My favorite are the jumping spiders - the way they move is so interesting. Not a huge fan of snakes. The little garden snakes are fine but I'm not picking up a rattler no way!
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Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:12 pm
Camwen Exxos Camwen Exxos Camwen Exxos One of the houses we lived in in Washington was like that. The lower level was constantly full of centipedes (not house, the 3 inch biting bitches) and millipedes (admittedly cool, but not in the house en masse). AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! eek burning_eyes Yeah, that is why my calves are golf ball dimpled and I have a justified fear of centipedes. I'd get bitten and end up losing a 2 to 3 centimeter divot out of my leg from the tissue necrotizing. Oh wow that's crazy! ..and terrible. I don't think I've had to ever deal with centipedes. Ticks and mosquitoes sure.. and I've encountered black widows but they mostly keep to themselves unless you surprise them. I always used to pick black widows up barehanded and move them outside like most other house spiders because their fangs are not long enough to pierce the skin deep enough to do anything and they are not bitey to begin with. If you're not an infant or literally thin skinned, they can't do much. But then again, I just pick up and toss rattlesnakes too. So don't try this at home, kids, I'm what the experts call an idiot with low self preservation. xd I don't really have a problem with spiders but I'm also not really interested in holding them either. My favorite are the jumping spiders - the way they move is so interesting. Not a huge fan of snakes. The little garden snakes are fine but I'm not picking up a rattler no way! We are having a surge of scorpions in the house today. Last night was the first night things got coldish for them for the year (55º), so they of course seek out warmth and end up in the house. I have taken a dozen outside today, squashed as many more. Also a couple adorable lizards and an iguana ( Desert Iguana) out of the garage. The iguana was surprisingly chill about being picked up and carried outside, I have a feeling this is the same iguana I have removed from the garage five times over the last two years and it's just resigned to it. If I have to deal with super-chill iguana a sixth time, it might become super chill delivered to Springs Preserve iguana.
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Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 3:32 pm
Exxos We are having a surge of scorpions in the house today. Last night was the first night things got coldish for them for the year (55º), so they of course seek out warmth and end up in the house. I have taken a dozen outside today, squashed as many more. Also a couple adorable lizards and an iguana ( Desert Iguana) out of the garage. The iguana was surprisingly chill about being picked up and carried outside, I have a feeling this is the same iguana I have removed from the garage five times over the last two years and it's just resigned to it. If I have to deal with super-chill iguana a sixth time, it might become super chill delivered to Springs Preserve iguana. I've never seen a scorpion outside of a glass enclosure. I guess I've never lived anywhere where they naturally hang out. I'm a northerner I suppose... Iguanas are cool. Super-chill iguanas seem even cooler. lol I had to look up Springs Preserve. razz
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Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:55 am
Camwen I've never seen a scorpion outside of a glass enclosure. I guess I've never lived anywhere where they naturally hang out. I'm a northerner I suppose... Iguanas are cool. Super-chill iguanas seem even cooler. lol I had to look up Springs Preserve. razz Yeah, you have to go out into the basins in OR and WA to find the bulk of your scorpion species. If memory serves there is a type of wood scorpion endemic to the zone from Portland up through the south Puget Sound, but it's a teency thing all of 2cm long, scrawny and dark. So even if you were sifting through the leaf litter in the forests they'd be hard to see.
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Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 5:26 pm
Exxos Camwen I've never seen a scorpion outside of a glass enclosure. I guess I've never lived anywhere where they naturally hang out. I'm a northerner I suppose... Iguanas are cool. Super-chill iguanas seem even cooler. lol I had to look up Springs Preserve. razz Yeah, you have to go out into the basins in OR and WA to find the bulk of your scorpion species. If memory serves there is a type of wood scorpion endemic to the zone from Portland up through the south Puget Sound, but it's a teency thing all of 2cm long, scrawny and dark. So even if you were sifting through the leaf litter in the forests they'd be hard to see. Huh.. that actually sounds pretty cool. I'd like to see one - from a safe distance of course. I'm not about to cuddle one.
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