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 Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:12 pm
exclaim Tam's Turn exclaim =+July 28th, 2005+ Oh, I wish I'd not found this journal. The big gap stares at me as if to say "well where the hell have you been"? ...Only I would be able to see pages as mocking me, I swear... Well, I'm still living at home, but it's because I've been too busy to worry about thinking of somewhere else to live. Now that I actually have oposable thumbs, it's amazing how much better I am with my power tools. Aunt Keppit has been teaching me how to build set flats, and to do some basic carpentry- and it's been great. I outfitted my whole room with green-stained furniture to match my bed (I extended the frame and matched it up so you can only see a hairline stitch where they connect- I couldn't fit in the old one now that I'm a fifth stager), and I constructed an ornate cat tree that reached all the way up a wall and across the ceiling for Sk. He seems to enjoy it- although, for some reason I've not seen much of him the last few days. I think he's gotten himself locked in someone's garage again. Anyway, I'll make a better effort to keep up with this foolish thing. I can't stand the idea of having a record of my life as a child, and then it cutting off there- I mean, what would people think?
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:13 pm
exclaim Tawn's Turn exclaim =+July 28th, 2005+It's been a long time since I've had a chance to sit down and write anything. So much has happened, and I hardly know where to begin. After Ms. Quiet closed the doors to the old Hq building, I remember standing there in the yard, looking up at the boarded up doors, and the blue siding... thinking that everything was over. I'd still have a life with my family, and with Sarabi- but it just felt like nothing would ever be the same. But now, with the new building, and the new little SM's, it's a whole new chapter. There's a lot that's contributed to that 'new' feeling, as well- my mother and aunt are running the place (and have an all-new respect for all the work Ms. Quiet did), and I've stepped into the shoes of Maddie- taking care of the nursery. All those years of babysitting, and having little sisters has really started to pay off. It feels great to have a job- a purpose, something to DO with my life. And I'm saving the best for last- after all this time of living with Sarabi, I finally asked her to marry me, late May- and we were married the 27th of June- the happiest day of my life. We're still living in the apartment above my mother's shop- but Sarabi has been looking for a job, and some day we want to start a family, so there will probably come a day sometime soon where we'll be moving out. It won't be easy to leave the little apartment- it's been our home, and the first place we've both lived outside of our mother's homes. Anyway, I'm waiting for Sarabi to come home, and I should cook some dinner. So this is where I'm putting the pen down.
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:47 am
heart The Update heart +July 30th, 2005
+Well, I finally decided to combine the kid's logs- it was getting too hard to keep track of the three separate books, and it just didn't make sense anymore to take all the time to work on them individually when I'm already pressed for time these days. With four kids and two full-time jobs, I'm surprised I get the chance to sleep!
It's been a few months since my friend Pove offered me her house on the lake. We were at lunch in the minishop district, and after I spend a half an hour talking about the kids, she asked if they missed not having a Hq anymore, or the other SM's- so I told her how hard it had been for all of them- Tawn and Tam because they'd miss their friends and all the comraderie, and Milla because she was so young- she'd missed out on a chance to have others her age, and that great atmosphere. Then out of the blue, Pove said she had a house on the same lake that the old Hq was on, just outside of Barton, and that if I wanted it, it was mine. She lives most of the time on her houseboat out on the lake- it's a monstrous thing, made almost entirely of wood, and looks like it belongs in another world. I've never seen anything its like- it's majestic and at the same time, completely ramshackle, with planks sticking out every which way and windows made of round black glass, so nothing can be seen. I asked her once what she did on that boat, and she just shrugged, took a sip of her drink (we have lunch often) and said "fish". ...Though I've never seen her with a fish, or any of the gear or clothing, in all the time I've known her.
Anyway, long story short, she wouldn't take no for an answer, so my sister and I converted her building into the new SMHq, and it's been work ever since. We still need to get the front entrance redone- all the wallpaper has been stripped down to the original, which is just a yellow, faded flower print on white- and I'd hoped it would grow on me. But every time I walk through the doors, it feels like I've stepped into a chintzy old antique shop. There are other renovations that need to be done, but all in all, everything is up and running. I even have the school set up, and Milla's been enrolled in Pove's elementary class. (She doesn't have much to do with the center, but when I told her about the school opening up she wanted to have a part in it. Apparently, she feels her flair for the dramatic is what's missing from a classroom setting...)
It's been... a little hard, since Tawn got married. I've been reminiscing about when he was a pebble a lot these days, and reading back through his logs from last year. I know it was the right thing to do, and I'm glad to welcome Sarabi into my family- it always felt like she was one of my kids, anyway, she and Tawn were always together. But it's another case of my mother-blues flaring up. However, like always, Fortune's timing is perfect. Just as I was 'losing a son' to marriage, my fourth child entered the mix.
Having Rhea is a completely new experience. She's my third daughter, and fourth child- so I thought I would be an old hat at this by now... but I'd underestimated the challenges of having children of two different species. Jivvins are so much bigger than Skullmonkeys- Rhea is already the size of Milla, and she's hardly a month old. Like all my kids, she's so different from the others, too- so I couldn't 'phone it in' even if I wanted to. She's such a sage, composed little thing- so thoughtful and self-possessed and quietly affectionate. She's very bright, and has been doing so well with her reading- Milla has been helping her, and it's been moving them both along in their skill levels. This is the first time I've had two children who play together so well- Tawn was practically babysitter age by the time Tam came along, and Tam only ever played with Sk. So to see the two girls getting along so well, it really fills the house with a lot of joy. Last night they pitched a tent in the dining room by laying their coverlets over the table & chairs and made a special club.
As for Tam- well, she's been spending a lot of time over at my sister's, learning how to improve her carpentry skills. She's actually getting quite good- she even fixed the part of the railing that Sk blew out when he was experimenting with can bombs. I haven't seen very much of her lately- she's been spending a lot of time over at the Hq working on the renovations, and wherever else she has the hankering to go. I suspect that the day will come that she moves out, as well. ...And probably sooner, rather than later. We've not talked about it at all, but I think that the biggest thing keeping her here is Sk. In a way, she'd be lost without him. She's always thought of Aspyn as her best friend, but I know that she and that rude cat share a bond that transcends friendship.
Anyway, I've got shop papers to get to, and then I'm going to take Milla & Rhea to the zoo. Later!
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