what an incredibly long day…

so. i didn’t end up going to bed last night. that was fun. i won’t go into the boring details of the whys and wherefors. *shock horror* what the hell am i going to blog about then?

*shrug* i don’t know. let’s find out together, shall we?

since i was up all night, around 5am i decided that i needed to go shopping. i grabbed my camera as i headed out the door, too, because i thought it might be a good chance to get some sunrise photos somewhere other than my front porch. i think i mentioned that i’d wanted to go out saturday. that didn’t happen. it’s too bad, too. that would have been the only way to see any sun at all.

it was a dismal morning. way too many clouds to see any sunrise. it only managed to get lighter, nothing else. blah.

i guess i should tell you that i drove up to that abandoned railroad track that i went to last summer. i should probably put a link to the blog where i posted those photos, but i don’t feel like it. sorry.

i decided a few days ago that i really need to figure out the manual settings on my camera, so i set the little dialy thing to m, which i think is the totally manual settings. i don’t know, i could be wrong. i haven’t looked at the manual since i first got my camera. heh. anyway, as i was driving up to the railroad tracks, i saw a bunch of deer. they were in three different fields along the route that i was going. i thought, “great! i have my camera!” except that it wasn’t so great. i didn’t have the settings right and everything was so, so dark. that sort of unsalvageable dark that there is just no fixing. poop.

anyway, i took quite a few photos while i was there. unfortunately, hardly any of them turned out. i suppose i’m going to have to quit being so damn stubborn about using a tripod. although i am going to blame the wind a little bit, too.

i’m not sure this photo really should have been kept. in the larger sizes you can see how blurry this photo actually is. but i deleted so many! and i seem to have lost one. i have no idea where i saved it at.

after i finished messing around here, i came home and waited. my mom was coming to pick me up at 11 so we could go to my cousin’s daughter’s baby shower. she lives way out in the middle of nowhere around an hour away. i thought i might get a chance to take some photos on the way there, but it started raining.

i did take photos at the party, but they were of my family, so i won’t bore you all with those. i’m sure just trying to get through this blog was difficult enough. yay you!

who says you can’t finish with a thud? again, i couldn’t be bothered to arrange these from worst to best. *sigh*

>what an incredibly long day…

>so. i didn’t end up going to bed last night. that was fun. i won’t go into the boring details of the whys and wherefors. *shock horror* what the hell am i going to blog about then?

*shrug* i don’t know. let’s find out together, shall we?

since i was up all night, around 5am i decided that i needed to go shopping. i grabbed my camera as i headed out the door, too, because i thought it might be a good chance to get some sunrise photos somewhere other than my front porch. i think i mentioned that i’d wanted to go out saturday. that didn’t happen. it’s too bad, too. that would have been the only way to see any sun at all.

it was a dismal morning. way too many clouds to see any sunrise. it only managed to get lighter, nothing else. blah.

i guess i should tell you that i drove up to that abandoned railroad track that i went to last summer. i should probably put a link to the blog where i posted those photos, but i don’t feel like it. sorry.

i decided a few days ago that i really need to figure out the manual settings on my camera, so i set the little dialy thing to m, which i think is the totally manual settings. i don’t know, i could be wrong. i haven’t looked at the manual since i first got my camera. heh. anyway, as i was driving up to the railroad tracks, i saw a bunch of deer. they were in three different fields along the route that i was going. i thought, “great! i have my camera!” except that it wasn’t so great. i didn’t have the settings right and everything was so, so dark. that sort of unsalvageable dark that there is just no fixing. poop.

anyway, i took quite a few photos while i was there. unfortunately, hardly any of them turned out. i suppose i’m going to have to quit being so damn stubborn about using a tripod. although i am going to blame the wind a little bit, too.

i’m not sure this photo really should have been kept. in the larger sizes you can see how blurry this photo actually is. but i deleted so many! and i seem to have lost one. i have no idea where i saved it at.

after i finished messing around here, i came home and waited. my mom was coming to pick me up at 11 so we could go to my cousin’s daughter’s baby shower. she lives way out in the middle of nowhere around an hour away. i thought i might get a chance to take some photos on the way there, but it started raining.

i did take photos at the party, but they were of my family, so i won’t bore you all with those. i’m sure just trying to get through this blog was difficult enough. yay you!

who says you can’t finish with a thud? again, i couldn’t be bothered to arrange these from worst to best. *sigh*

>the hobos vs. the evil little evils: a halloween/christmas story

>i so shouldn’t read the quick comments on other people’s blogs sometimes. i just spent about two minutes laughing myself silly coming up with that title (and another two minutes laughing myself silly when trying to explain it to hubby), and i wasn’t even involved in the conversation. *sigh*

*uncomfortable silence*

ok, moving on…

i thought i’d try something different tonight. i’ll probably regret it as soon as i hit post, but i don’t have anything better to blog. a couple of weeks ago my dad dropped off, yet again, a couple of shopping bags full of junk that used to be mine when i was a kid. one of the things happened to be a folder. i opened it up to see what was inside it and as i’m looking at forms and old mail, i realize that it’s not my stuff, it belongs to my dad. the only thing of mine in the folder is a paper that i wrote who-the-hell-knows when. there’s no date on it, but i do recognize my handwriting. i don’t remember writing it at all. nothing about the story sounds familiar to me in any way. but hubby said i ought to post it in installments on here. probably just so you can all make fun of me. 😉

so, here we go…

Sam the Cat

Once, a long time ago, there was a cat named Sam. He lived with a little old man named Uriah Clemens. They lived in an attic on Petunia Ave. in Columbus, Indiana. They lived a happy life together.

One day though, Mr. Clemens was thrown out of the attic because he couldn’t pay the rent. Now he had to find a new place to live, find a place where he could get some money, and feed six mouths. (Sam had four kittens. He was a she!)

Mr. Clemens was discouraged because he had no place to go except the streets. He didn’t want to become a bum, he also didn’t want Samantha and her kittens to get run over.

Sam saw how unhappy her owner was so she decided to look for a home that they could all live in. She was a very brave cat. She fought big dogs from all over so she thought she could handle herself while looking for a home.

She searched all over the city looking for a place to live. She found several places where people could live for only five cents a week. She ran to get the master and children and lead them there.

She found Mr. Clemens sleeping on a park bench. She meowed as loud as she could to wake him up. He saw her and said, “What’s the matter?” She meowed again and then started to walk off in the direction of the boarding houses. He followed her down the street when a car hit Sam. The kittens ran about, the driver got out of the car apologizing a million times and saying he’d buy the guy a new cat or give some money. Mr. Clemens looked at Sam. She was still alive and breathing, the car had run over her tail. She got up and started to lead the way again.

When they arrived, there was a sign that said, “No dogs or cats allowed.”

to be continued…or will it?

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