North Georgia Mtns Trip

So, Scott and I wanted to get away this weekend. I have 1 million projects to work on, but they'll wait. I only had THIS weekend before a marathon season of dogsitting. I'll be dogsitting every weekend until May, except for the weekend I go to a wedding. So, weather be damned, we were going!
We went to Ellijay Friday night. We had a delicious Longhorn dinner and then cheked into a cute lodge down the street. The sign said kooky and they were right! I went in to inquire as to cost and the desk clerk stopped mid sentence to stare deeply into my eyes and comment on all of the colors. It got me a discount too! Our room was clean and cute and I slept awesome. What was better was waking up to a winter wonderland of giant snow flakes filling the sky and coating the ground! Yes! That day we wandered around the mountains, stopping at awesome places like the Bargain Barn. We bought some fishing gear for Scott and then went to Amicalola Falls. It was really nice so we booked a room. After we checked in we noticed a public education thing going on and lo-and-beholed! OWLS! The ranger taught us about Barn owls, Barred owls, and screech owls before pulling out the mack daddy Great Horned Owl! Isn't he awesome? We got to hold him and get our new myspace pics. I also got to hold a possum.
Anyway, later Saturday night was the Smith House for dinner. I was completely car sick and I now hate the road called 60 that leads to Suches. BLECH! But I was still able to pack away some vittles before we headed back to our room at the falls.
Today was another adventure indeed. We now had maps aplenty, a fishing guide that let us know which streams were free game, and the desire to get out and about in nature. following what seemed to be the way, we were on a dirt road. There was an awesome stream beside us and we followed it for a while hoping it would get bigger. We wound up up and around, up and around zig zagging here and there. I was getting worried, and sick, but I tried to be strong and not be the naggy-pukey-girlfriend who doesn't want to do anything fun. We reached the summit and took a breather. There was another car there but no people around. We realllly didn't want to backtrack the 15 miles back the same route when we could just continue this way and follow the road down. So we started off. It was a little rocky, and a little icey. Then it was a lot rocky and a lot icey. My little honday (yes, laugh now) was getting tore up! We were bottoming out and scraping all over all sorts of things! The problem was that it was reallly narrow with no place to turn around. My stomach was in knots and before I cried or we got stuck i yelled we should stop now! We got out and surveyed and decided we could NOT make it further in the civic, but how to get back up? Well, I stood at the edge of the cliff so scott could see where to stop and he made a multi-point slippy skidding turn and got us turned around. We made it back up almost tearfully and then coast back down, defeated. Later we did find a spot for him to fish but it required SO much less adventure. I sat in the sun and read and relaxed and then we headed home.

I need some advice

Do you like the stripey layout?

or do you like the zig zaggy layout?

Sorry its been a while

I've been so busy dogsitting and catching kitties and stuff that i have neglected everything else. Sorry gang. I will promise to be better. In fact i have been working on a few things that I will try to get uploaded into the computer for your perusal. Hopefully tomorrow!

RIP

Princess Rainbow got hit by a car. If one had to die then why did it have to be her? She let me hold her. She was sweet but timid. Hopefully the other three I got fixed won't have to be scooped out of the street first thing in the morning.

I'm bummed.

Pornentines

So this month and last month at craft group we made pornentines and other crafty items using glue, glitter, paper, and boobies. This one is the best, and I am going to use it to wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you all get to see some boobies and Claire I hope this doen't scare you too much.

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Love,

Me!

Cat trap fever

So, I decided I needed a new hobby. Don't get me wrong, sewing is great and all, but I need something else to do while I'm doing stuff. So I decided to start a cat trapping program on my street. So i caught one on my very first night! I wasn't surprised because i bought super stinky wet cat food and made a trail to the trap. And I caught one within two hours! But, you know whats embarrassing? Embarrassing is when you pick up the feral cat from the vet and they tell you that its been fixed before. Then you have to tell the next door neighbor "Sorry, I accidently got your cat fixed, again. Oh and they took part of her ear too. But the good news is she's up to date on her rabies shot. Oh, and don't feed her a lot for tonight and keep an eye on her for 48 hours. Oh and here's some newspapers for her litterbox. Sorry, bye!"

Now that that one is out of the way, I gave it another shot tonight. I set the trap and then went inside about my business. I caught two! In two traps of course. And of course one of them is the one-eyed pirate cat from next door also. But the good news is that I caught this big manly man in the picture above and tomorrow he gets his first car ride! Hopefully I can catch another tonight and make the trip worthwhile.

Happy Chinese New Year!

So, first let me start by apologizing for being slack lately. I know, I know.

Now, onto the real stuff...
Today we went to Chinese New Year Celebration at the Chinese Cultural Center in Chamblee (Chambodia). It was pretty cool but it was mostly food and crowds and pushy little ladies in orange.
We got there around one and paid our 5 bucks to enter and we received 2 dollars off our snacks. So we proceeded to scan all of the delicious food vendors. I got some sort of sausage wrapped in a noodle and fried and covered in sauce for a dollar and then a bowl of dumplings for 2.50. Olivia got some disgusting bean soup that tasted like saltless boiled peanuts with sugar water. GROSS. And then she got some boba tea/bubbletea which is also disgusting. Its like green thick sauce with sugarless unsweet gummy bear things floating in it. And they had all kinds of grody flavors. I don't know how I'll make it in Singapore but I plan to bring some snacks just in case I can't make it. Jane ended up buying a ton of food to bring home and eat all week. She's a smart lady.
While I was at this Chinese center we went upstairs to see some wares. Well, the little cut out man in glasses to the left was hanging on the wall and it was amazing. I love construction paper and I love this little kid's art. We also saw little dancing girls who were adorable. Even the unfortunate girl with the humungous ears was adorable but mostly because she was so serious about her dance moves.
Last but not least is this awesome little man. If I was a China man i would try to wear this every day. He reeks of wisdom.


This fest is going on tomorrow too so go check it out! Its down Buford Highway on Johnson Road or something like that. I'm sure you can google it but if you turn left after the Buford Highway flea Market you'll end up almost right there. Just listen for fireworks.