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AlanaArgon
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Name: Alana
Birthday: 9/15/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: Fighting with swords, writing my novel, and filling my life with music and pure truth. Oh, and of course I love reading children's books, for they are often more creative and delightful than any others.
Expertise: Currently learning Spanish. I also am a musician, a novelist and training to be an organizational genius
Occupation: Student....well I suppose I am
Industry: Contracting
Message: message me
Member Since:
1/4/2005
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| Yes, her name is Jack, and she has one eye...at least I think it's a her. One of my first mornings in my new house, I stepped outside to leave for work, locked the door, and as I turned around, there she was. This fluffy white furball was standing on my porch, facing me and staring. Staring with its one green eye. And almost everyday since, this cat has been outside to greet me as I leave for work. My "duplex" neighbors, who are also my landlords, own a bunch of animals, including many outside cats. Jack is the only one who doesn't run away when I walk out of the front door. She just sits where she is, or stands there...not moving, just looking, even when I walk right by her. This morning she actually sat up when I walked outside and her head turned as I passed, watching me. That's the most activity I've seen out of the thing in a week. lol. Well anyhow, I've decided that I like this one-eyed Jack. We'll see if she continues hanging around. In other news: I've gotten half of my new garden bed cleared out. This is my first attempt of a garden of any kind, and this one is for veggies. I'm about to start my seedlings this weekend for a fall garden, and I've got my herbs growing inside already...haven't decided whether they'll go out too or not. My poor lavander plant is looking sad. One of them at least. The other is growing wonderfully. And I've just decided to experiment with sweet potatoes. I want to get some slips and have a large container garden of those wonderful roots and vines. But in the meantime, I've taken some slips from a potato I already have and potted them. I want to see if maybe, just maybe, they will begin to take root and grow. If they do, good. If not, then I only wasted a whole 5 minutes of my time. | | |
| So I just took that Geography test I've been so worried about. I decided I had run out of studying time and needed to take it, tonight. So I read the almost 40 pages of notes I'd taken aloud once, then shut my notes, tossed them away where they couldn't be reached, and took the online test. I knew I'd missed some, I thought there were 5 possible misses, at 2 points each. But it went quickly.
I ended up finishing the test in 16 minutes, and I only missed 2. I made a 96 out of 100! I made an A on my first big geog. test!!!!! Yay for the A!!! So that makes an A in math so far, an A on the map quiz, and then and A on the unit one test in geog. So far so good. Let's hope the A's keep rolling in!
Oh!!! And we got the piano into my new house on Sat. before the rain hit. Most everything is moved, and now that the geog test is taken care of, I can stop concentrating on China and keep my focus on moving tomorrow before and after work and classes.
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| Well I'm back from vacation. A week of fun with my family, and even though I enjoyed it, it's so good to be back. I can't wait to see everyone and find out what my friends were up to this week. After tonight, my days are packed for quite awhile. I start school again on Wed. (AHHH!!!) I haven't been to school in two years!!! But I'm thankful that I'll be graduating *hopefully* in December. It's nice to know that I'm so very close to being finished. I'll have a degree, I'll still have my full time job, I'll have a "house" to myself and by then, a winter veggie garden (roots anyone?). I'm very excited that all these things are falling into place. With everything that's happened lately, I'm wondering what else will fall into place! This will be a very interesting 2 semesters.
By the way, my arms are both an interesting shade of red. I spend the entire vacation without getting burned, and then on one of the last days, my arms decided that they had to try it. Thankfully they don't hurt so much now as they did the last day of vacation.
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| So today is an interestingly mixed day. It's been incredibly quiet, then amazingly busy, great then slightly frustrating, etc. I had to go grab fast food (ewww) for lunch today, since my kitchen is all but closing before I leave for vacation tomorrow. While there, they managed to get my order wrong (sad because I drove up just a little too much before realizing it and had to wait inside). I rushed back to work, hoping I wouldn't be late, and was feeling irritated and hurried and flustered. But as I was getting out of the car, something below caught my eye. I closed the door and looked closer, and in my office's ugly cement parking lot, in one of the grey cracks grew this "weed". Just a little patch of bright green. But in that patch were three of the smallest little flowers I've ever seen. They were bright bright pink, very cheery and perfect, looking up to the little bit of sun that peeked through the clouds today. It's amazing how the smallest things can have such a great impact on how the rest of the day will go. I'm thankful for my unexpected little present of "faerie flowers". | | |
| I haven't written in such a long time, but I've been extremely busy. I'm about to start school again (and might be able to graduate in December), I'm moving to a cute little house closer to some of my closest friends, closer to my school, still close to work, and I'm even about to take a week long family vacation. When I come back, school begins and I finish my last minute (all of it) packing. So xanga has gone out the window for a while. But now I have read things that make me want a place online to ramble about it. How serious are we about life in general, about making things better, about helping others? In this country I mean. I just found recent news articles (the kind you never see on CNN or the BBC) siting different persecutions that have been going on around the world. In Ningi (Africa I think), there are people who kidnap christian teenage girls, force them to convert to islam, and then marry them against their will (and their parents' will) to muslim men. In Algeria on May 27th there is the first hearing for a group of protestants held for having non-islam documents. Two pastors in India were beaten after a woman (who was healed from kidney problems) became a christian. Others carried bamboo rods (ow) into a school for not closing during a protest (it was actually closed) and beat the principal. And in the office next to me the important conversation of the day is about last night's American Idol broadcast. | | |
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