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Posted on 2008.08.02 at 22:03
Current Location: here, in bliss
Current Mood: thankful
Current Music: gregory and the hawk- birds and the bees
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so much more than walls and windows.

it's the one place in the world where i actually belong, where my quirks and characteristics are welcomed and adored. where i can play housewife and the perfect mother.

it's the scene of so many romantic moments, and more that were simply perfect. 

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happy to be here :]

squee!

holy friggin crap

Posted on 2008.07.12 at 10:14
Current Location: van lennen = home
Current Mood: loved
Current Music: let my love open the door - dan in real life
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i live!

it's been, what - like a month? far too long at any rate, and i'm sorry about the vanishing act!  oh so sorry

during the big move *dun dun duuuun* we dropped michael's computer tower and apparently it destroyed the graphics card? i don't know exactly what the illness was other than we couldn't see the screen. so no interwebs, sadly

now we have a gorgeous new computer, so i'm back with smirking vengeance

it's been a busy and beautiful absence

we've settled in the new house, and mere words can't do it justice. it's perfect and quaint and well - it's home. all our things are in their rightful place and it's like we've always belonged here. here within walking distance of downtown, the library and museum ... amidst historic Victorian type homes and their amazing gardens

it has perhaps a billion windows, built in shelves and a storybook fireplace. there is a sunroom where we can sit and watch the world go by, a backyard where clothes go to dry and smell like sunshine and a kitchen a mile long.

leighton seems to be the most happiest about our move from the apartment, his room is bigger and allows for more toys ... and he graduated to a toddler bed from his crib. now he can clamber out and play early in the morning while i shower, instead of being confined until i'm ready to release him. needless to say - he is a happy boy

my crappy immune system followed us here however it would seem

i went to the hospital earlier this week with what i assumed to be a regular asthma attack and was told i have both huge lungs and phenomena. great

i've been slowly recovering, but even today i wake up with a shaking cough and headache. it's completely reversed any weight i've lost, but i guess there isn't much hope in working out when i can barely function lol

in the weeks to come our cat wren will deliver babies, and i am certainly more nervous than she!

if anyone could offer any advise it would be greatly appreciated! as far as i can tell from youtube videos, she gives birth to disgusting black bubbles full of kittens ... ewww?
but i'm equally excited. i have made her a little den from a sierra trading post box and some old shirts of michael's, i have a birthing kit with scissors, towels, mucus suckers, newborn formula and bottles and alcohol. i feel super proud lol

frontier days is coming up soon, which means : carnivals, parades and nightshows! oh my!

i always become ridiculously excited for the last week of july, i feel like a kid again. 

and this year i am especially thrilled to be sharing it with michael - as lame as this sounds, i have always been single for frontier days. the third wheel in walks around the carnival ground, the odd one out on paired rides. but this year i have my significant everything and it should prove to be an amazing time

well, that's it from me. sorry again i've been missing out on so much, i'll be catching up! <3

oh it is love

i'm so lucky to be me

Posted on 2008.05.03 at 12:26
Current Location: wallowing in my own bliss
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: everytime we touch - goot
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i woke up this morning to sweet little kisses on my nose, long fingers raking my hair against the pillow sham and a tender note in his goodbye voice.

i love him dearly, and waking up like that every morning makes me a much braver, happier and thankful person.

i have never felt so settled in my skin, just happy to be me - whatever that means

still sometimes i have my crazy moments :: where i pace the house at ungodly o'clock because my anxiety is constricting all hopes of breathing, i still cry because i see an old woman alone in the mall and remember what it's like to be really really alone, i still worry that someday i won't do something right

but then, he holds me close and i just
calm

even if i am always wrong, even through my psychotic moments he loves me. for better or for worse. 

i don't have to study endless books on his interests to keep a conversation with him, i don't have to always agree with him and sometimes it's enough to just be quiet and enjoy each other's nearness with no talking to suit either opinion.

i'm a very lucky girl, i know. i have a beautiful boy who adores me - i come home to love notes and scavenger hunts, a path of votive candles leading to a wonderful bed, hershey kisses all over. he thinks i'm beautiful and smart and yes (blush) even sexy. he loves my son like his own and trusts me

on that note

with michael's full support and cheerleading i quit my goddamn miserable job on friday

oh god bless

i think i surely would have snapped if i tried to stay. don't get me wrong, i maintain and cultivate my love for the store and the beautiful things within ... but the people operating and overseeing just weren't worth a few sticks of pretty furniture and glass vases.
i was handed my check and i just said simply this will be the last check i'll be needing

no harsh words, no hurt feelings. i was just
done.

two hours later i was hired by two other companies

one is a floral shop, and they wanted me to start tuesday. i think it will be a relaxing and fun environment, surrounded by the beauty of nature in flower and shrubbery form. 
it doesn't pay half enough and there are no benefits though :[

so i'm going to keep it until i start classes with the cable company, which pays eleven dollars an hour for my entry level position and full health benefits

that means

- i can file for divorce from tristan, finally. i VOW i will not see three years married to this awful man (which will be in august, so easy enough to divorce him and avoid that miserable anniversary)
i have been holding off on this process to keep my insurance, but with this job he will again be useless to me

- with that kind of pay and michael's joint income, we can take the world

- and also, in time (about another year) we can make our own REAL engagement, save for a wedding and honeymoon and a home

i began my relationship with michael a mess, a broken toy if you will, a woman scorned by all with nothing to provide or offer ...

everyone's trash became one man's treasure

and under his loving care i'm growing and beginning to sparkle as such

so to all of you who threw me away :: dismissed me as crazy, bipolar, a liar and a user

you were wrong. i just needed michael all along to reach my brandylyn potential

(thank you again for loving me angel)


 

beautiful boys

joy :]

Posted on 2008.05.01 at 00:25
Current Location: surfing the internets on that googles
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: love song - sara b.
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so we're going to take the day to shop for new furniture, and i couldn't be more excited

allow me to explain

it's not that i require nice new things - it's that every last stick of belongings in the apartment thus far has a history, that i wish to erase. you can't move on without first being determind to leave it all behind ... and persoanlly i am ready to litterally leave it all in the trash

or set it ablaze and dance around it in pagen worship

for instance

michael is sitting quietly behind me watching the television, which coincidentally is sitting atop an entertainment center his cousin corey brought into my life when corey and i dated almost a year + ago
it's cheap, plastic board bought from walmart or similar and assembled with many stripped screws and holes

also there is the computer desk on which i type now, a present from corey also

it's not that i sit and ponder over thier bad memories, but i believe they do cause a slight dispare in the brightly lit life mcihael and i have created.

it's high time we started building the foundation for our forever, buying the jetta was step one - i'll never forget how delighted i was to sign my name next to his on the contract. but now we need to develop our love shack lol

no more cheap playwood furniture! hooray!

we're thinking something like this ::

home

yummy yes? keeping in mind we're not expecting to buy a house for a few more years, we need space saver stuff ... LOTS of pockets and nooks to make things function in the apartment

in other news, sent off my new penpal annie's letter. i was really excited to take on such an activity 
... i just need to find more to say and include her in

i am thinking about mailing a blank disposable camera and having her take some pictures of her town, not anything personal like family of course, that seems creepy and unsafe of me to ask ... but to see another city from someone else's POV i think would be fabulous <3

take care :]