instarsia

First things first....I finally started the book.

After years and years of talking out of my ass, and whining about how i wished that i could write something and not feeling like i was ready...its finally started. I'm about 85 pages in. This thing is going to take a ton of revisions, and editing, and when I'm ready I'll post what i can.

It's based...
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okay...so i caved and bought access to the town wide over priced wi-fi tourist trap today.

its the best i can do atm...not enough bandwidth to do anything except blog and chat (so no games) but it will help make those long boring days go a little bit faster (when i'm not working) and enable me to stockpile knitting patterns more easily.

so i'm sitting...
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Dear SG-land,

i will haz internetz next week.

expect a crapload of pics and a massive update

::end transmission::

hai guys.

i walked the mile down to the internet cafe today cause i couldnt take it anymore.

my eyes were crossing.

if i did my budget correctly i should re-join the living sometime this month...then you shall see me all the time again.

how is everyone?

So...all the stuff got moved up okay. Finally.

over the last 2 weeks, i have not had much internetz access. We are hoping to see how this month goes and what our budget is going to be like so we can get the DSL hooked up before winter hits...we've just been in a FUBAR financial situation for the last few months and we need to...
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I am alive...i'm just VERY BUSY

I miss you all!!!

I cooked like a madwoman this week!!!!


I managed to do the following...

*Tweak their Alfredo recipe (basically i just made my great Nona's recipe and they said it was perfect. They were making it too hard.)

*Made up a recipe for a salad (yes i know...but the restaurant i work at is VERY detail oriented, and salad is considered an art form). But, I...
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Thanks everyone for the well wishes!!!!!

I completely neglected to mention where in Minnesota i'll be living...which was dumb on my part...

I'll be living in Grand Marais. Its about an hour from the Canadian border...and a good days drive into Toronto. I'm excited....

very scared and head is spinning...but excited.

I'll be living in a lovely 2 bedroom apartment that looks out over...
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in the next week i will be a resident of Minnesota.

i decided i wasn't happy with my life...where i was at, and what kept happening.

I've never made such a huge jump before.

I'm moving up here...landed a job and a place to live...put down a deposit on an apartment.

Within the next 14 days all my stuff will be up here and i'll...
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up at Trout Lake still...

If life were this perfect thing that always worked out the way i wanted it to...

I'd never leave.

No...i'm not kidding.

I'm having a wild passionate love affair with the northernmost part of Minnesota (yes..even the feet of snow...-35 in the dead of winter part).

life is just so much easier in some ways up here.

Today I'm knitting/crocheting...
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I'm going to run off into the woods for a week by Canada.

fuck this whole sitting around moping thing.

I'm so glad i don't have to pay to go or get up there.

I leave Saturday.

I'll be back NEXT Saturday.

I'll try and actually take pics this time.


maybe....

naked in the woods on a parked snowmobile pics....

who knows

xo xo xo...
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I've been trying to use my FF XI trial for like...weeks now....

its probably expired.

I'd really like to try the game

It keeps asking me for a code i never received...then telling me that I'm dumb and cant play for not having it.

*sigh*

I'm playing 2 games right now...and yesterday i had the computer off by 7 pm because i was tired of...
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