Well it seems I havent written in LJ for about a month.   I have been busy with family stuff and just everyday life.  Sometimes I just have the time but forget to or it gets placed somewhere else along the web.  I guess I will throw in a few updates about a few projects and everyday things. 
   First off,  I am enrolled in College!   There will finally be some initiative taken to get myself back to better my life.  Hopefully this means there will be at least an associates degree on my wall in the near future for Graphics Design/Multimedia.   We will see! 
   In swap news,  I am now finished with the Anime Swap and recieved a great package from TwistedTruth.  I opened up the box and was astonished at her handywork.  Box Contents - Kon crotched hat- from bleach ,  Bankai - bookmark, Fruitsbasket bookmar, and a really cool cross stitch hollow mask !   I was impressed to say the least.   I sent her stuff of early a few weeks back.  She recieved an L. Shadowbox, magnets w/ box, an anime love jewerly box, and some bleach SD charms.   I think that was the majority of things.  I will try to post pics when I can. 

In other swap news, I have joined the Harry Potter Swap 6 and am bursting with ideas on projects.  Now I just need the time and ideas to pop out onto the craft table.   I am not quite sure what I will do for this project but a few ideas are as follows:  miniature cut scene box with shelves of diagon alley, hogsmeade (3 broomsticks) ,  maybe inside of a room in hogswarts,  poly clay characters, wand, dumbledoor bag, sew to gether purse, etc.  Its all still rough drafts and I am working on  what I need etc. 

In family news, there was a visit from Kaya and Avery and we celebrated their birthdays!  I think they had a good trip.   Jason also took me and eric to Gatlinburg.  I think I posted some on this and pics.   Other than that there were family reunions, etc going on.
 

Writing on my Lj and it is exactly 1:30 am on a thursday morning, errr wednesday late night.  I feel kinda light headed and dizzy from the bleach smell coming up from the basement.  I am hoping this is not damaging my lungs anymore than my smoking habit already has done thus far.  Other than that I really don't have a whole heck of a lot going on in my head right now.   Other than what anime could I be watching, what else i need to do to finish up my swap project on crafster, when I will finish up my list for order that were messed up, how am i gonna make a pinata in time for the party, got to buy ink cartridge so i can print the pics for the decorations for the party, how many people are coming, will my house smell like bleached rotten meat after a few days, why are my legs sweaty. damn i never did fix that broken nail, what am i going to have for breakfast, should i go grocery shopping tommorrow, will i have enough to turn in my last uni application, got to remember to fill out financial aid papers and finish draft paper, just remembered i need to finish my short story, remember to list some books this week, oh and joey wants me to go get fireworks with him saturday! 

Like I said really not a whole heck of a lot going on in my head right now. ;)

Good night or shall i say good morning! Oh and did I mention that i really super (holds hands miles apart) HAte fLIES!

mana

     Today was one of those "I wish I would of stayed in bed!", type days.  I woke up to a horrid stench coming from the basement.  My flashlight in one hand and a can of Pier One Imports Spice Spray in the other, and my trip down the stairs began.  As usual I found a bit of water on the floor.  Nothing out of the ordinary considering the rain we have had over the last 2 months and it is a very old basement.  The stench was creeping on me and I knew it was coming from the floor but not where it should have been coming from. (Should of been the drain area)  The smell was coming from around the bottom of the stairs.  There was talk a few days prior about the stairwell side of the basement losing electricity.  I decided to investigate a bit further and discovered that none of the outlets were working.  The same outlet for the Deep Freezer was associated with these non-working outlets.  At this point the smell was pretty foul and I really didnt think it could get any worse. 
     I opened the Deep Freezer and a gagging shock set in.  Barely making it back up the stairs, I held it in and flew out the back door to release my cup of pudding onto the ground.  (mmm midnight snack of pudding not so mmm now!)  Since there hadnt been power down the side of the wall in days the lovely contents of the freezer had now turned into a most disgusting goop of liquidy meat products.  Well to speed up this little story,  I called my dad and he said he would come over to help empty it before the smell could settle in the house.  He added that the big stuff needed emptied out ASAP.   ( I am staying at my grandmas house by the way, while she is staying with my father. She has not  wanted to really come home permanently since my grandfather died 5 yrs ago. She asked me to come stay at her house, so I took up the offer.  I love her dearly.)      So I dug up as much courage as I possibly could and recalled the episode of any of the many CSI type shows I had watched over the years.  Lets just say the contents would of reminded any fan of CSI of a particular episode where they find a body that has liquified. What you don't experience from the tv show is that if it is anything like this Deep Freezer I attended too it is the most horrific smell I have ever had the pleasure of breathing into my nose!   We carried out bags of food and when I reached the bottom it was a horrifying purple liquid with a pulse!    

Well enough of my little story I just wanted to share my little days adventure.  (at least a small portion of it)   And a note to anyone who has a deep freezerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr - DO NOT keeP FOOD OVER A YEAR AND always check to make sure it is working especially after a storm!   If you don't when an accident does happen you will be carrying out the smelliest of the smells out of your house dated 10 years ago and have a house smelling of bleach for a few days!