it is raining for the first time since late july and it is not very convincing.
― estela, Monday, 17 September 2012 11:06 (twelve years ago) link
i should have posted that to lxy and jergins' board because i could.
― estela, Monday, 17 September 2012 11:08 (twelve years ago) link
the downside of spring rain is giant australian spiders sneaking indoors for shelter, it is quite a significant downside.
― estela, Monday, 17 September 2012 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
it's raining.
― tehresa, Friday, 28 September 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
it's raining and i heard lxy's favorite taylor swift song at the gym. i deadlifted 115 lbs.
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 15 October 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
that song is STILL in my head (i nearly typed heart which is kind of lol but mostly true)
― lxy, Monday, 15 October 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
someone was telling me a story about a cat they had many years ago who required dramatic lifesaving surgery after being hit by a car and it was in the days before vets had respirators so the vet nurse had spent the entire four hours of surgery gently blowing air into the cat's lungs using a drinking straw and i fervently wished jergins was there so he could hear this and i could see his facial expression.
― estela, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 06:17 (twelve years ago) link
haha i do too!
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
i wish you all could see this tiny little duffer of a superman who turned up at our house trick or treating. he was too little to have any idea of what was going on and he was so short you could barely see him toddling along behind his witch big sisters and the candy handover confused him but he seemed happy.
― estela, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
estela did u dress up
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 November 2012 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
no, i don't like to dress up.
― estela, Thursday, 1 November 2012 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
ok
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 November 2012 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
I'm now staying with my parents and I chased a bug out of my room and it went into their bedroom instead and it's in there whizzing about.
― estela, Friday, 14 December 2012 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
i am certain they are extremely surprised by this
― lxy, Friday, 14 December 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
imaginary pet
― t. silaviver, Saturday, 15 December 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
kinda struggling with estela having parents? i'd envisioned more of a pallas athena scenario
― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 December 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
Otm
― tehresa, Saturday, 15 December 2012 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
imaginary pest
― lxy, Saturday, 15 December 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
It's ice raining. Bad day to learn your coat is more water resistant than waterproof..
― tehresa, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
it has been extremely hot and humid here, ice rain sounds like a sweet fresh dream.
― estela, Thursday, 27 December 2012 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
hello from arusha tanzania
― lxy, Thursday, 27 December 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
hello<3
it is even more disgustingly hot here today, i was not meant for this.
― estela, Thursday, 27 December 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
it's disgustingly cold here. can you send postcards from tanzania or are you on a safari?
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 28 December 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
i will when we get to zanzibar next week. send your address, yo!
― lxy, Friday, 28 December 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
where in the world is
lxy of the sandbox
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 December 2012 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
rim of ngorongoro crater, for now. tomorrow, serengeti plain. in four days, ras nungewi zanzibar.
still time for postcards if you send your address! connectivity has been pretty good.
― lxy, Saturday, 29 December 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
emailed u
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 29 December 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
got it!!
― lxy, Sunday, 30 December 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
Neighborhood is exploding like crazy! Happy 2013 sandbox! The century is a teenager now :)
― jaq, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 08:15 (eleven years ago) link
happy new year, sb<3
― estela, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 09:08 (eleven years ago) link
got a postcard from paris today<3
― estela, Friday, 4 January 2013 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
i still have the shanghai one on the refrigerator door, it's held on by an old ratbag of a troll magnet with flaming vertical orange hair and smudged chimney sweep cheeks.
― estela, Friday, 4 January 2013 12:11 (eleven years ago) link
hurray from zanzibar!
― lxy, Friday, 4 January 2013 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
today we walked (trudged dispiritedly in the heat and humidity along a dusty road -- the long way because we were told there were packs of loose dogs on the short road) through town (a collection of falling-down shanties and huts with infants sitting in the dirt outside, and a bunch of shops called "shop" that had for sale fruit, potatoes, used clothing and shoes), to the tourist beach (a beautiful expanse of white sand fronting a turquoise sea, peopled with europeans in speedos and thong bikinis, zanzibari boys telling us how the beach is dangerous further down -- why? it's not clear -- and gangs of little girls in pretty dresses shouting JAMBO! and offering seashells for sale -- one of whom hit me with a piece of flotsam rope when i pleasantly declined.
it's hard to be here. we're staying at a 5-star resort on the northern tip of unguja island, surrounded by barbed wire topped walls beyond which is squalor and poverty. so while we have all the comforts (along with the over-attentiveness that seems to imply comfort), it is difficult and unpleasant to leave, and stifling to stay.
plus it's superfucking hot. and we just spent 7 days on safari, which was its own brand of difficulty and unpleasantness.
we have seen a billion wild animals and some incredible scenery. tanzania is very beautiful and we've met some very nice people. but to be quite honest, i am ready to go home. but i'll be sure to send postcards before i do.
― lxy, Friday, 4 January 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
Paris postcard arrived today <3<3<3
I miss you guys and will be very glad when you are back home.
― jaq, Saturday, 5 January 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
that does not sound like the right climate or soil for you to flower in, miss lxy.
― estela, Saturday, 5 January 2013 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
I love reading your accounts. They are so visual, i feel can see you there!
― tehresa, Saturday, 5 January 2013 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
got my paris postcard today! <3
― smoove operator, Sunday, 6 January 2013 07:21 (eleven years ago) link
daerest lxy,merci pour le cafe! <3
― tehresa, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
<3, everyone, from schiphol. i did not get the tz cards mailed :(
i feel completely insane.
― lxy, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 07:35 (eleven years ago) link
<3 godspeed home dear one, are you on your way? it's seems ike you've been gone for such a long time!
― estela, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 09:31 (eleven years ago) link
the only time i was in schipol my bag was pulled aside for a search. i was there with a friend who was returning to the states after several years in the peace corps in west africa, so i was carrying some of his excess stuff -- fortunately the long cylindrical item that caught security's eye was not a marital aid but a bike pump.
in the course of the search the woman noticed that i'd forgotten to mail my postcards and offered to do it for me. and she did! <3 the dutch
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
estela have you and f been to an abl game?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
home. thank god. 30+ hours in transit is tooo long. we flew business class the last leg, which was a great surprise.
hakuna matata, everyone.
― lxy, Thursday, 10 January 2013 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
Welcome home! I hope you can just relax in your house with all your stuff, listening to quiet familiar sounds and just breathing in the air of home.
― jaq, Thursday, 10 January 2013 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
happy new year at home!
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 January 2013 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
so welcome<3
mookie, we've never to an abl game but f. has very recently been reading up on it. also the dodgers/diamondbacks are supposedly going to play in sydney next year, he is more interested in that but it will no doubt be ludicrously expensive.
― estela, Friday, 11 January 2013 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
it's snowing!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
no it isn't!
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 March 2013 06:39 (eleven years ago) link
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licorice bullets!raspberry licorice bullets!jaffas!giant jaffas!
― smoove operator, Friday, 3 May 2013 01:52 (eleven years ago) link