Coven's Circle

bristara @ 2009-07-08T18:41:00

2009-07-09T02:26:14Z

So today I managed to catch the child of the infamous neighbors of Isaac out and about without his parents. I've been wanting to catch him to have a small talk with him, but, of course if his parents saw me doing that, they would make a fuss. Luckily, he's allowed to wander the neighborhood as he so desires, even if he is only eight. We had a small chat which took the better part of an hour, mostly on what's acceptable and not acceptable. It took some time to get him to talk, but that was to be expected.

Not only does the kid not get punished at all for the bad things he does, as we all figured, but that's the only way he gets attention. His parents don't give a shit about any of the good or normal things he might do and pretty much ignore him except when he's pulling things like he did with the firework. So that's how he's getting rewarded. Sadly, there's not much I can do about that. I would love to go try and pound some sense into his parents, but I don't think the law would look on me favorably. I also found out that he got told to do focus on Isaac's house. I'm sure they're not used to the resistance they've gotten from us, making that house a primary target.

Drake doesn't really seem to actually want to hurt anyone, at least. He asked if Puppet's all right without prompt. I just have to work on snuffing his tendencies to try and do the things he has to do to get his parents' attention. It's probably going to take awhile, but I did let him know that he's going to have to deal with consequences here. I'm hoping with a steady stream of consequences, he'll stop his current habits. The last thing I want is for him to turn out like the rest of his family. Luckily, with his parents letting him wander the neighborhood, it should give us ample opportunity to actually influnece him positively and give him some of the attention he really should be getting from them.

The biggest problem will be those parents. They won't appreciate it when they find out about it. I'm sure Drake won't be telling them on his own, but the less he does, the more suspicious they'll get, at least after awhile. I'm going to just have to keep a close eye on the entire situation as best I can. At least we have many eyes and ears all over the neighborhood. It makes it much easier. I do think I'm going to get him a water gun to give him after a bit more so he can take time some days to get involved in the ever-going water and goo fights when he might feel like it. I'll happily listen to any suggestions as well. What I could really use is a positive influence for Drake from someone about his age. He could really use an actual friend. I don't know if he's really had one before.

Other than that, things are going well. Doug has been complaining about the cold. Today's high, after all, was only 73 degrees. I had to let him pull out the electric blanket last night since it got down into the forties.

bristara @ 2009-01-31T00:28:00

2009-01-31T08:44:49Z

What an annoying pair of weeks. Perhaps January will just be a fluke month and February will start the year looking up. We can hope, of course with the sentencing of a pair of friends coming on Monday, it isn't likely, but we can still hope. Many could use for something to go their way.

But, for something good to focus on, Sierra is almost a year old. I'm pretty excited for her first birthday, even with everything going on. I've been out shopping almost daily, and that does not mean I bring something home everyday. Just because I go window shopping for kids does not mean I have to buy things. Doug will try and tell you different, not that he isn't just as bad as I am. That will also mean one of my three years is up. Only two more to go after this Thursday, but that's still more than half, but I'm getting there.

Children just grow up too quickly. It's hard to watch sometimes. Sierra's almost taken her first steps, she's working very hard on it, and Jamal's getting close to kindergarten. I need a good spell to slow someone's aging, but then what parent doesn't?

I suppose I should find something constructive to do, something to distract myself from everything happening. I'll be going shopping, again, and back to the hospital tomorrow. Doug's not looking forward to it, but it bring adventure into his life, and who can live without adventure?

bristara @ 2008-12-30T16:18:00

2008-12-31T00:33:29Z

Christmas is done and things are still wild. I've been working on preparing for a party for timorrow lately. Mostly it includes buying the necessary snacks and drinks and prepping the punch and other snacks, but it's still work. It's even more when you count the number of people involved, not that I mind. I like to keep busy.

Christmas was wonderful, as it really always is. Watching everyone open presents is a joy, especially those from Mikel, except mine. I always worry about my present from Mikel. Jamal had a great year. My mother got him a toy motorcycle, which he completely adores. All the easier for him to copy Mikel. My mother needs to work at being more subtle. Santa brought him a lot of cars for Christmas along with a couple large track sets. He's been enjoying them a great deal as well.

Sierra's been hiding in her set of tunnels that she got. She's taken to hide and seek and loves to crawl in and out of them to hide from people and sneak up on them. She has no lack of players, either.

It's been a good season. Flu season has avoided us thus far, which makes me very happy. I hope it stays away. Sometimes I almost feel like counting down the weeks until the season has passed us buy and we don't really have to worry about it. Here's hoping it stays away from us this year. We certainly don't need it.

With that, I should go to the store. We're supposed to get more snow tonight, another 3 inches. Of course, the last time we were supposed to get 2-4 inches of snow, we got a little under a foot. I'd rather stay in and not drive through that.

Everyone have a good night and happy New Year.

bristara @ 2008-12-12T19:51:00

2008-12-13T04:03:08Z

So this week finished our final heat filled energy sucking addition to the house for the winter. Doug is thrilled, and that's all that really matters. Our garage is now heated. I've been actually planning on it for awhile now, so I've been saving up for it. Doug pays little attention to the finances, so it was a good surprise for him. We'll call it an early Christmas present, not that it counts against the other presents he's getting. But the garage is now toasty when we have plans to go somewhere, which makes it easier on the heater of the car, it not needing to warm up to run hot air, which makes it even easier on Doug. Considering the arctic blast that is supposed to come through Saturday night or Sunday, it's a very nice addition. Doug still have his shopping to go, after all, and I think he might get the bad luck of winter deciding to come and stick around for awhile, which will make his shopping all the less comfortable. I do love watching him get ready to go somewhere, though. Even when it's just half of a block, we drive, and he takes fifteen minutes to get put together at least.

But, Christmas. I'm completely finished with my shopping, of course. I finished early last week, which makes me happy. I've always been an early shopper, I've had some presents for months, and it does me well. I just have to worry about driving Doug places if it's too cold so he doesn't have to worry about taking care of the car himself when he gets out of wherever he goes. I'll just go to Barnes and Noble when he's shopping for me and find a book to read.

Everyone's been extremely busy with Christmas coming up. It's a good stress relief for a lot of people, even most of those who want to grumble about it. Note, people who might want to try and get me into trouble, that I said most, not all. There's just something about this time of year that gets under people's skins here. It's good for the soul... most souls.

I think that's enough. I should go work on catching up on some things I need to do for our roleplay. Stay safe.

bristara @ 2008-11-29T05:53:00

2008-11-29T14:04:08Z

I think things are finally starting to calm down a little from Thursday and Friday, well, for most of us. Bait's coming over today to finish my Christmas lights up on the roof. I paid him extra money to make sure he did mine first. I like to be prompt. Yesterday was spent getting some of the snow off of our roof to make it safer. Of course, our way of getting snow off the roof is to send Mikel up there, him always being willing, and have him shove the snow off with a shovel.

This led to all sorts of excitement yesterday. Doug, Tripper, Jumanji, and Amber, just to name a few, were the victims of a bunch of wet snow coming down on them from above. Mikel enjoyed his job far too much. I didn't have to pay him, however, and now the roof is prepped for Bait to do his job.

There was a grand snowfight last night as well. Who knows who started it, but it started at about one in the morning and around three blocks were included in the warzone. This will make it quite interesting when we get more snow. It was good to see so much tension fade, though. It's as though the snow was almost purposely sent to us Thanksgiving and the day after. It's a shame that it will be melting here in the valley, and probably mostly today. Maybe we should make a trip tomorrow to higher elevations and take advantage of the added snow. Well, some anyway.

Breakfast smells like it's just about done, however, and so I should go see to it. I have many mouths to feed, and they get into the kitchen if it takes too long. I won't go into what happened last time that happened. Maybe I should get Penny a good heavy rolling pin. Hmm.

bristara @ 2008-11-14T02:14:00

2008-11-14T10:25:02Z

I just got back from the store. Since Doug is asleep, and I was still awake, I decided to pop out to do all the candy shopping I needed to do for him. It gives me plenty of time to stash it all away where he can't find it. He'll be searching for it, especially after reading this, but I'm not going to let him find it.

We've apparently started a Christmas war, if you ever thought such a think could exist. I bought a special bag from Hallmark, a No Peeking bag. It doesn't say that on the front. It simply says "Ho ho" many times. Well, I put it some tissue in it, put it where I knew Doug would find it, and then proceeded to be patient.

Just a few days ago, my patience paid off. The sound of police sirens followed by a voice telling the peeker to put the present down and back away slowly went through much of the house and naughty Doug was kept from trying to peek. So, what did he do yesterday? He came home with a pair of jingle bell earrings, which I flat out refused to wear until he used Jamal against me, and then I said I would wear then in the house. Then I was reminded that it was the day to take Jamal out Christmas shopping. He did not want me to take the earrings out of course, and so I ended up going out with them in.

To make things even better, word got to Mikel to come to my house, and so he got to see them. So I owe Doug. Yes, I do. I just have to figure out exactly what I'm going to do.

But, first things first. I need to go hide this candy, and then I suppose I'll sleep.

bristara @ 2007-02-13T02:49:00

2007-02-13T10:58:15Z

And now that I have made a long comment on Gayle's journal, I will now make a short update before I head to the hospital to await the arrival of my little brother or little sister.

Life has been busy, as always. The house is still full with people running in and out of it almost constantly. Markez has become especially adept at this and causes a lot of trouble. I've noticed he ends up over here a lot when he's hyper.

I think that's planned.

But I should go. I have to be there, after all.

Snow

2006-11-27T02:54:01Z

It's a good thing we've driven everywhere today. We were prepared for the snow, or at least as prepared as we can be. Doug is never completely prepared for snow, and it's going to get worse for him, the poor thing.

He can hope that the -7 degree low forecast for Tuesday night is lifted a little, or a lot, before Tuesday night gets here. Winter is certainly giving us a nice preview, and it's a year when we aren't supposed to have much in the way of winter. We have the war starting to spark up between those who want a cold and snowy winter and those who want a warm and dry winter. Personally, either work for me, though Jamal would like the snow, I'm sure. I see children fighting with their father in the future over how winter should be. It's amusement to look forward to at least.

I almost hurt John last night due to him calling a twelve year old he arrested a little shit. I don't think he'll be making such comments in front of me again, or at least anytime soon. The next time he does, I will hit him happily, the asshole.

And then Mikel almost hurt him later for, again, being an ass.

He just knows how to make friends and influence people.

So there's my life lately. I'm still working with this kid who I can just see is going to find John to be a target. I can't blame him, of course, but I'd rather he not end up arrested.

Now I must go comfort Doug and make him hot chocolate.

bristara @ 2006-11-03T18:16:00

2006-11-04T02:16:08Z

I have been told that I must make a new post. I suppose it has been a long time since I've made an update, hasn't it?

My life simply has been amazingly busy. I haven't had much of a chance to settle down, rather I seem to be running everywhere at once. What with work and taking care of those I have at the house, it's been a very busy year, not that I mind at all. I like to be busy.

I haven't been feeling the best recently. I can't exactly explain it, but at least I've been on the mend. I think it will be a little while still until I'm a hundred percent again, but I will certainly get there, I know. I have a lot of work to do, I can't let things like this hold me down.

I've recently gained a new child into my household. He's only fourteen years old and has already been faced with more problems than anyone should ever have to face in their lifetime. He has yet to tell me much of anything that hasn't been recent, but I'm slowly working on that. I have an ass to kick, and that might well help gain a little more of his trust. It's obviously something difficult to gain. I have this feeling that he's going to make a game out of pickingon poor Doug, however, so we'll see how that goes. He's my new challenge, and a greater challenge than any I have yet faced. But I'm Bree, and Cheyenne is such a great help as well. We'll manage, I'm quite sure. The poor kid could certainly use it.

Mikel's been hyper ever since Halloween night. This has made for a noisier neighborhood, especially with him feeling better, but it is nice to see him acting much more himself again. Most people around here seem to be on the mend one way or another, and it's good to see that since holiday seasons also tend to help people a great deal and that's still coming up. This is a good time of year.

Now, I'm going to go order out for dinner. I'm in a good mood and Pizza Pipeline has excellent sandwiches, something Doug should be thanking them for time and again.

bristara @ 2006-10-30T08:11:00

2006-10-30T16:41:49Z

As a little break from my life which has become a little busier lately, I'm going to do one of these. I'll do Nadine later, and I'll also write out an update later as well. But I have to get back to that busy life here soon and don't have time for too much.

When Gayle adds me to sharionaq, I'll move this over there. But, for now, this is the only place I have to post it.

The Necessities:

Name: Bristara Blooddawn

Race: Human

Occupation: Pirate captain of the Fortune Hunters

Age: I look to be about 28. I'm older than that, closer to 35.

Social Status: Most would consider me the scum of the world.

Favorites:

Color: Green

Food: Freshly made fish. Blood's all right, but it doesn't take the place of fish.

Drink: Anything hard. The harder the better since it's hard to get kicks from alcohol now.

Game: Sparring

Gemstone: Sapphires

Weather: Windy

Method of Travel: Ship. There is no better way to travel.

Animal: Sharks

Hobbies/Pasttimes: Sparring

What is your favorite season? Why? Fall. I just like it.

Personality:

What is your greatest fear? Why? I don't have any fears that stick out more than anything else.

If you had to describe yourself in a few words, what words would you choose? Stubborn, strong, hateful

What is your biggest sin? Wrath

What is your biggest virtue? Out of the seven? It would probably be industry or diligence or whatever the fuck that virtue is calling himself these days.

What animal do you associate yourself with most? Sharks

Do you linger on your past mistakes or do you just accept them and move on? I always move on. There's no use in lingering.

What is the thing/being that motivates you most? The ship, the crew, and my hatreds.

Are you satisfied with your appearace? Why/Why not? I'm perfectly satisfed with it. Anyone doesn't like it, that's their problem.

What, do you feel, is your best quality? Why? My strength

Is there anything of which you’re protective? What? Why? There are only three things I'm remotely protective of. My kid, the ship, and Cashen.

Have you ever cried yourself to sleep? Hell no.

Do you have any tattoos/markings/piercings? What are they? Why do you have them? My ears are pierced a couple of times each and I have the symbol of my ship tattooed at the base of my neck.

Do you have any one object you especially treasure? What and Why? My ship, maybe?

Life:
What has been the best moment of your life? Getting the brilliant idea that lead to me becoming the captain of my ship.

What has been the worst moment of your life? Watching my ship come into port with Hecate's symbol flying and the entire crew gone.

What do you want to make of your life? To stay just where I am and to see the end of that damned Brandy Rose.

What is your secret? I don't have any fucking secrets.

If you could change one action of your life, would you? What? Why? There's nothing I would change. I probably wouldn't be where I am if I did.

If you could have one artistic talent you don’t have, what would it be? Why? Fucking hell. I don't care about art except finding it and getting money from it.

Urban or rural life? Which would you prefer and why? Sea life.

Would you like to have children? How many? I already have one kid. She's quite the little something. More? I don't think I have time for more than one.

If you could have anything in the world, what would it be? Why? The end of the Brandy Rose.

Do you drink? Yes.

How do/did your parents treat you? They were tough on me, but I think they raised me just right. They raised me on the ship for a good long time before I was even allowed off of it. I like the way I turned out.

Relationships:

How hard is it to gain your trust? Extremely

How hard is it to regain your trust? Impossible

Have you ever been in love? No, not really.

Do you feel you’ll ever fall in love? If not, do you feel it might be possible you’re wrong? No, I don't think I'll ever fall in love, and no, I don't think I'm wrong.

Do you have a secret crush? Hell no.

Who, do you feel, is your worst enemy? Patrick

Do you hold grudges? Fuck yes.

What characteristics do you look for in a person? Strong, greedy, and a good hatred of the Brandy Rose always helps.

Who has had the most influence on who you are today? How so? My parents. They raised me to be who I am today.

Who is your biggest hero? Hero? I don't have a hero. I'm my own hero.

Whose death do you fear most, if any? My daughter's.

If you could give someone anything, who would you give it to, what would it be, and why? I'd give the Brandy Rose a good deadly plague that they couldn't be resurrected from.

Pick two people you know and pick their best qualities. Why did you pick these? This is getting annoying.

If you had to pick one person to trust with your life, who would it be and why? Cashen. Because I know he wouldn't betray me.

Beliefs:

Do you follow a deity? Who? Why/Why not? Worship? No, but I work for Eternity because it's a good way to boost my power and gives my daughter a safe place to stay.

What causes would you fight hardest for? Wrath and greed

What causes would you fight hardest against? The Brandy Rose.

Do you believe violence solves anything? Why/Why not? It solves everything if used right.

How important do you feel nature is? Very. What the hell would I sail on without nature?

How important do you feel dreams are? Who cares?

What do you believe is the most powerful force/emotion in existence? Wrath and Pride

Do you believe in life after death? If you do, what is that life like? Yes, I do. but I don't care what it's like. I'm never going there.

Do you believe in love at first sight? Why/Why not? Hell no. What kind of bullshit is that?

Do you believe humans/humanoids are inherently good, evil, or neutral? Why? I don't give a damn. Who cares if we all turn out the way we do?

Do you believe in mind over matter? Yes. I follow a god of Psionics...

Do you believe your actions are justified? Why? Fuck yes. I just don't let myself get pushed around.

Do you believe everything happens for a reason? Why/Why not? I really don't care if they do or not.

Do you believe that it is all right to use poison? Assassination? Torture? Under what circumstances if the answer is yes to any of these? All of them. Because not only can torture be fun, the other two are sometimes needed. I'd rather just kill people face to face, though.

Do you believe plants have spirits? Why/why not? I really don't care one way or the other.

What do you believe is the most important virtue? Important sin? Why? Anti-Sloth is the most important virtue. I hate Sloth. He's annoying as hell. The most important sin is either Wrath or Pride.

What do you believe is the worst sin? Worst virtue? Why? The worst sin is, surprise, Sloth. The worst virtue is Humility.

Harder Questions:

If you found an enemy working towards a cause in which you believe strongly, would you be willing to join forces? There is no fucking way I would join forces with the Brandy Rose, no matter what the cause.

If you found a baby red dragon (gold for evil characters) (thought to be inherently their alignment), would you kill it? Why/Why not? What kind of stupid thing would it be to kill a baby gold dragon? You take it and you ransom the hell out of the parents.

If you were in a lawful and good society that condoned slavery, would you accept it or try to change it? (This would assume, since it’s a good society, that it is law for the slaves to be treated well) Why bother? Like they would listen to me, and like I would have the time to make them listen to me... or that I even care.

What form of government do you feel is the best? Why? One leader, a co-leader, and people who do what they say.

If evil, are there acts that are typically considered evil that you are against? I wouldn't personally murder children, not after having one of my own.

If good, are there any “sins” that you believe are necessary, even for good people? They all need more sin. It would do them all a world of good.

Life Trudges On:

2006-04-13T18:39:48Z

And it seems to be going at a much more rapid pace lately, but then that typically happens when I get busy, and busy I've been over the past week. Between trying to help keep spirits up, trying to keep kids distracted, working, home things that I need to get done, and reading, this past week just seemed to more or less disappear. I like it that way, however, though it might be getting to the point where it starts to stretch my limits, but I'm not willing to admit to that quite yet. I still have some serious work that I need to do.

So I'm off again to run around a bit more. I hope everyone's doing all right, or at least relatively all right.

-Bree

Kelly insisted.

2006-02-27T16:41:44Z

So here I am updating. I'm so kind to do so, but don't go passing that on because it's well known that I'm not kind at all. Since Doug left for work not all that long ago, the first thing that comes to mind to talk about is the weather. Is that not typical? It's warming up again, which has Doug happy, and the signs of spring are out there once again. It's due to rain for much of the week, but I think we've had our last taste of winter. We're heading straight for spring. And then, before Doug knows it, it will be summer and he'll be happy for another few months before it gets too could again. Sometimes I wonder if we should move to Arizona.

Kids are continuing to grow up and I'm continuing to bemoan that fact. It happens, I know, but that doesn't mean I don't wish it could happen just a little slower. In light of Gayle gathering people, I've seemed to have started to gather my own little following. I don't mind at all, of course, but it's making for interesting housing situations. Maybe I should start planning for more. All I know is that I'm glad Quarterback had the Olympics taped. Not only did he have the Olympics taped, he made sure to have every bit of the Olympics taped. It gives one of my house guests something to do for a long time to come. I've lost a TV to it, but that's all right. Of course, Quarterback and Superbowl have migrated to my house to watch the Olympics over again with Sports Mania. This has made my house a loud place when people aren't sleeping. But at least they pick up after themselves. It's fun making meals for several people, however, and I guess I can just see what my mother and grandmother see in it.

Jamal's been getting taller. This means he can climb on more things. This makes for more heartaches and near strokes for me. I've now caught him twice when he was jumping off the counter, and I mean literally caught him. He's learn that if he pulls a chair into the kitchen, he can get on the counter. I blame the lights in the kitchen because I need a chair to change them. Oh yes, and I blame Mikel of course. That's important to get out. Soon he's going to be asking to get on the roof because Bait gets up there twice a year to do our decorating and take it down.

So, all in all, my life is going pretty well at the moment. It helps keep my mind clear so that I can focus on others. And the flu has stayed away. This makes me so happy that I can't express it for fear of being called horrible adjectives by Mikel. Now, I must go make breakfast for people.

Finally.

2005-12-25T09:31:57Z

I'm done. I'm finally done with the rec room downstairs. Now I can go get my few hours of sleep before Taye comes running in and jumping on me or some such thing. It's a good thing I only need a few hours of sleep a night. But still, that was a lot of work. But it was a good deal of fun too.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Do enjoy your day.

This is amusing enough to post.

2005-12-21T09:28:37Z

Now. If only Bait would get better.

bristara @ 2005-12-17T23:17:00

2005-12-18T07:31:41Z

I suppose that I should make an update as I'm here anyway. Not that that's always led to me making updates, but such is the way it is. It's been busy and hectic. My grandmother decided to skip Christmas and move on straight to Valentine's Day for awhile. I don't understand the woman. She always tries to stick her nose into my business.

Yes, I'll enjoy doing that when I have grandchildren.

I've been busy trying to prepare for Christmas. This has come down to blocking off the downstairs and not allowing anyone down there but me this year. Yes, that includes Doug, and he's been following me around trying to get me to give hints about what's down there. He does tend to be very cute this time of year after school is done. He had a hard time sleeping for awhile too, though, the poor thing, so I've been helping to take care of him as well.

Now there's Bait to worry about, and hopefully he won't be held down for too terribly long. But things seem to be lightening up a little at the moment, and yes, I knocked on wood after typing that. I hope it keeps up. It had better keep up. If not, I really need to schedule an appointment with the Fates. We need to discuss some things. Perhaps I should do that anyway. They're female, I'll just take Mikel with me. We'll win.

Now, I think I heard Doug complaining about cold weather, and that's my cue to go warm him up. Yes, I warm him up a lot and in many different ways. Jamal and Taye being in bed, I think it's time for my favorite way. The work downstairs can continue tomorrow.

bristara @ 2005-11-09T22:26:00

2005-11-10T06:27:41Z

Since Mikel was kind enough to steal Jamal from me:

I find it fitting.

bristara @ 2005-11-09T22:02:00

2005-11-10T06:05:52Z

In all the mess that's going around, I updated my icon. I decided it was probably about time seeing as the picture I used for my first icon is many years old. I like how it turned out. Now I must get back to chasing Jamal who seems to have decided that the freezer here is a good thing to climb on. He'll probably go for the cupboards next.

bristara @ 2005-10-24T22:02:00

2005-10-25T05:05:25Z

Sometimes John just pisses me off. Sometimes I can't resist jumping on his ass. He's lucky Mikel took a walk earlier today. I may need one myself still.

What kind of stupid moron takes an eleven month old into the kitchen within reach of expensive spice jars, freaks out when she knocks them down, keeps her there so she can knock more down as he continues to freak out, and then gets angry with the baby and scares her with his yelling?

John does.

I shouldn't write more on this right now, I'll just work myself up again. Sometimes typing things out just doesn't work.

bristara @ 2005-10-13T01:19:00

2005-10-13T08:21:25Z

I'm angry.

In fact, I'm very angry. Perhaps more angry than I've been in a rather long time.

No, I'm not going to elaborate further on the subject at this time.

I'm cruel that way.

bristara @ 2005-09-18T19:56:00

2005-09-19T03:15:23Z

Well I had a small bit of amusement recently.

You see, I paid a visit to the sinful_ community to see what exactly they were saying about dj_rabid_angel. Now, I decided that I might as well let my own opinion be heard since I don't like to stay quiet when people are showing such a poor lack of judgement as Jim should not be Greed. Like I said there, though you can't read it now as they kindly deleted my posts, I believe fully that Jim should be Pride, with a tinge or two of Wrath.

I also let them know just what arrogance implies and that not everyone who is proud displays arrogance. I know many people wouldn't call me or Mikel arrogant and yet we would both be pride. Oddly enough, Mikel would also have that tinge of Wrath. No wonder he and Jim get along so well. I know I'm not violent.

However, if you read the most recent post from the head of Greed on the community, you will see that I certainly know how to make friends and influence people. Not only did they delete my posts, but they made the community friends only. I'm sure that this will prove to be a little more inconvenient for them as now they will have to friends people before they can actually post a survey. Nevertheless, I find it amusing that I singlehandedly made an entire community go friends only. Not only that, but I did it with two posts that were in no way hostile or even demeaning in any way. I simply stated flat out that I know very well what sin I am, and I need not voters to try and judge me. So I demonstrated my pride. Actually, they might call me arrogant.

Personally, I think that the supposed head of Greed was just sore because I told him that he shouldn't be allowed to vote on Jim because he's greedy. Therefore it's only right that he would pick Greed. In fact, I would wonder if he should really be the head of Greed if he didn't pick Greed for everyone who submitted a survey simply because he wants more people under him. It's only fitting, correct? I know that's what Gayle would do if she were the head of Greed.

Gayle says that, yes, she would vote Jim as Greed just to have Jim under her. As quoted from her, "Jim would be mine." See why she would be Greed?

Anyway, it's good to know that I can still have quite the influence on people with very little work. I'll have to pay attention and see if any replies pop up to that new post by the supposed head of Greed. I'm interested even to see.

In other news, Doug has to start teaching again on Wednesday. At least he finally managed to get a good night's sleep last night. It's been a while since he's had one of those. I'm quite sure he'll continue to have these nights, at least until after school starts. I suppose the rest will depend on his class and the amount of homework he has.

Jamal's taken to trying to chase Mikel around and falling left and right. It's actually rather endearing, even if it is a bad sign for the future. He's also added a few more words to his vocabulary and a couple times he's even said "dada" without the no in front of it. Of course, right after he went back to "no dada" each time. He's also said "mama" a few more times, though mostly at night when he wakes up from sleeping and demands my immediate presence.

So, with all of that, Hacker feeling better, us having more visitors who are bugging John, and Bait being a little worse with Mankin than usual, life is pretty good. I'm not going to curse it with mentioning coming possibilities, so I'll just leave it at that.

Really Quick:

2005-09-05T04:36:23Z

I'm writing to alert you all the, since it's going around, I've updated my layout as well.

However, in order to get the full effect, you'll have to have the Black Chancery font. It's a good font, and you all should have it anyway.

bristara @ 2005-08-28T15:32:00

2005-08-28T23:17:09Z

I figured since Becky was going this, I might as well do it as well.

Five things I can't live without:
-Doug
-Jamal
-I'll have to go with music as well
-Children
-Well I guess oxygen is a given

Five foods/beverages that I love:
-Steak
-Fruit Juice
-Broccoli
-Crab
-Huckleberries. To those of you back east, yes they are real.

Five things that I always (at least usually) have with me:
-Jamal
-Doug. In the summer, he's always around due to a lack of school. In the winter, he's usually clinging and cuddling anytime he's not working.
-Ginger Altoids, just in case
-An animal of one sort or another. We only have three at the house assuming no one with an animal is visiting.
-My wallet.

Five things I will always and forever hate and/or dislike:
-Child Abusers of one sort or another
-Neal
-Steve
-John
-Chicken

As for tagging, if you read this and haven't done it, consider yourself tagged. There.

I suppose I should update while I'm at it. Jamal's almost fourteen months old now. He's quickly picking up on different words here and there as well. He's still big on the "No Dada" versus Madison's "Dada," which is just adorable. Oh course this leads me toooo... Four days ago he finally said "Mama." Of course, it was one of those rare times he woke both Doug and I up in the middle of the night. He somehow managed to get hold of the baby monitor even, so it was right near his mouth. But that's all right, because he's just adorable. He only needed a change and wanted cuddling, so I was happy to give that to him, and he spent the rest of the night with us.

Oh yes, and he's walking now. He's tried to run a few times and has only gotten a few steps before falling onto his knees or bottom. Of course, he's already tried to climb a bookcase. Thankfully. his legs aren't long enough for him to get up there... yet. Mikel is such a wonderful influence. We seem to be gathering guests though. Hmm. Doug is bemoaning the coming of seventy degree weather. Poor thing. His weather never lasts long enough. Ah well, it means he'll be hanging around me more, and I have no complaints about that.

It's actually been somewhat quiet around here, though. So there it is. Now I must go catch my son.

Edit: Oh yes, I must show off the new picture of Jamal. New user picture.

It's been some time, hasn't it?

2005-06-15T00:08:44Z

But oh well, you'll just have to deal with that from me. However, I have great news and so I had to post it up here right away, of course. Doug is on Summer Break now, having gotten in his grades early. Of course, that was by accident. Someone forgot to tell him that the grade deadline was apparently extended to the end of this week.

So he got to be there for Jamal's first word. Yes, Jamal said his first word not all that long ago, which has me thrilled. My little baby is growing up. Of course, he's growing up far too fast. But he's so cute. So as Doug was trying to get him to say "Tennyson," Jamal looked right at him and said "No!" There was a brief stunned silence before Doug was all happy because he said his first word to him.

So there it is. Jamal's first word is officially "No." I blame it on Mikel's influence. I tried to get it to be "Mama," but apparently that didn't work. So now Doug is trying to get Madison's first word to be "Doug." We'll see how that goes. I'm just waiting for it to come out like "Duhduh" or "Dada." That would just thrill John and it would be just hilarious.

What else is there to update on? Others have already told you about most of the very important stuff, so that leave me with less to talk about. It's just nice that it's summer again. I really do enjoy summer. The extra people who come and go are fun to have around. I suppose I'll leave it at that. I have to go get Jamal away from Mikel who keeps ending up with him. He's always trying to influence my kids, damnit.

-Bree

I forgot to knock on wood.

2005-03-03T06:04:56Z

It's probably not a good sign that I'm not only starting to feel worse, but quite a bit worse again. My emotional state improves only to have my physical state drop yet again. I hate this, and I hate being sick. I don't want to go to the damned hospital, but then everyone knows that, or at least should.

So there's a short update. It's much the typical except that I'm just not feeling well at all, and that's an understatement. I'm now ging to go curl up with Doug and the kids for a while.

Hello

2005-02-26T07:35:02Z

I feel sick. I'm not that sick, I just feel sick. My brain isn't working very well at the moment, either. But I have a whole chocolate cream pie to myself, and I've been munching down on it since Doug brought it home for me. Chocolate cream pie is very good. I like it a lot, and for some reason I've been really hungry today. I'm sharing it with a kid I found who needed some help, so I'm going to hit Topaz up for extra help because she's good like that.

I hate the flu. I want to feel completely better. I felt better the last six or so days, but it went back downhill last night and now I feel like total shit again. So I had Doug go and get me this pie.

I still want another kid, but I still promised Doug three years and I'm only through half a year. Unless I get to count pregnancy into that. Hmm. I sense a 40 week loophole here. Then I'm getting close to being.. no I'm past a year and half through it, meaning I'm past halfway through entirely!

Damnit. I said having a kid in the promise and he's pulling the promise on me. I'm only two thirds of a way through one year that way. That's not even a quarter of the way through. I was really sick through my whole pregnancy almost. I think that it should count. He's too stubborn. I want another kid. Jamal's growing up too fast and it's taking too long to get to my next kid. Go figure.

So I will continue to eat my chocolate cream pie, not be sick, take care of my kids, and be annoying to Hacker for he's annoying me. I need to update my icon. I've decided this. I will do it at some point. I have one I would like to use, put I'll have to work on it at home for certain reasons that I shall not disclose.

So in the words of whoever used them last, ta ta... or something.

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