October 02, 2004

I Need a Vacation from Paradise

Seaspray

I woke up this morening to the sounds of torrential rain and pulled the sheet back over my head. I was late for some reason I failed to hear the radio alarm for a full two hours likely drownd out by the rain.

So I stayed home. I have gone to the garage and found my "Cold Weather" clothes I dont know why i failed to do this before but I finally checked the weather for Mansfield Ohio today and its going to be a balmy 59 degrees... mercy do I still have a jacket? I dont know?

Woodys packing plan is to buy stuff when he gets there. I have never found that to work for me so I am washing out jeans and sweat clothes and hopefully that will be enough. Its ultra casual at the school, in fact we were told not to wear anything that we would be worried about ruining. Fine about 2/3 of my wardrobe will fit this description

2 pm the rain has stopped. I have done little except do something I thought Id never do. I am opening a online shop with Cafe Press. I have had emails wanting copies of my photos and encouragement to market them. So this is an easy way. If you want a particular picture on an item let me know and I will do what I need to do to get in to the online store. I did a tile trinket box just for an experiment. I will be doing note cards and stuff like that If you want a shirt or ball cap let me know I wasnt planning on doing them but will do anything that my loyal readers want. After I have paid for my little camera I will donate part of the profits, I havent decided where yet.

3pm stopped for a minute... I am so weary... I think I have been sick or something its like nothing agrees with me when I eat and I am swollen up like a balloon... I had a very not expert opinion form a lady in NC that encouraged me to get to a doctor, I was in the throses of the menopause... thought that I was all done eith that but it makes sense.

Earlier this week I went to a neighborhood meeting with the mayor and the councilman regarding all of the problems in our subdivision... Frankly we are very fortunate to live where we do as we dont have all of the problems that people do closer down to the ocean. Our subdivision is arranged with the streets named alphabetically in Hawaiian and all have fish names like Ahi for A and Honu for H ect...so if you live on an A street you are pretty ok but you get down to the O and P streets that is very bad whole neighborhoods are victimized by the ICE heads and the drug runners . I get angry just thinking about it. The County wants us to form a neighborhood watch and do all of the policing ourselves, but I think that is really unfair as it singles out those that do the snitching, and they have an even harder time of it. Our courts have to let these guys go until trial so they get picked up and are out in a day... big deal. A lot of the cases never get to trial as the statute of limitations runs out. Still, I think the cops, who are understaffed and underpaid, try and there just isnt enough of them to go around...

We are locking things up really tight and placing Mak and Nani into boarding insted of having a cat sitter. There are a lot of professional house sitters here on the island for the above reasons. I still dont like a stranger in my house and would rather chance the break in than have to deal with that.

5 pm What I think is a worse problem is what is going on now someone on the block burns their trash. I almost want to get on neighborhood watch just to have a means to get on them. Its as illegal as sin and I dont know why they cant just go to the transfere station like the rest of us.

getting bitchy so Id better sign off for now, will go make a bit of dinner for the mister when he gets home in a few hours...