Land o'Lessa

Could someone message the little ice-pick wielding dudes currently stabbing me in the lower back and tell them to knock it off? I appreciate it! I meant to let you all know some things yesterday, but then ice-pick wielding dudes, and I sooooooooorta lost focus! Haha! But I’m soldiering through today, for I know you can’t live without my special brand of snarkitude, right? Right!

No snarking necessary here though – because it’s all about Congrats!

1. Peppermist got a part in Grease! While she was certain that everyone who auditioned got a part in the Chorus like she did, I know for a fact that they did NOT, which means she beat out quite a few in order to snag her spot! And the Chorus for this show is HUGE, with MANY songs, and a LOT of stage time!

Her friends all bailed on her – which makes me wanna wap ‘em in the head – and as a result Peppermist is a little nervous with each rehersal, but she can’t deny that she comes home with a smile. They’ve worked with her one scheduling conflict (tap dance on tuesdays) and are genuinely thrilled to have her.

And it gets conversations like this:

Me: How was practice?
Peppermist: Awkward! We learned the rest of the choreography for “We Go Together” – which is partner work! I was standing there sorta like “Hm, Ihave no partner, I’ll just stand here, embarrassed” and then there was a guy next to me who was sorta like “Hm, I have no partner, I’ll just stand here, embarrassed” and lo, we became partners.
Me: OH OH OH! WAS HE CUTE?
Peppermist: OMG MOM.
Me: WAS HE?
Peppermist: I guess.
Me: What’s his name?
Peppermist: I don’t know! What, you expected us to TALK?!
Me:…no. of course not, child. That’d be INSANITY right there…

So she’s, ya know, making friends and influencing people, just as she should.

2. The always lovely Deana dropped me a note this morning to let me know who won the GE Strong as Steel Sweepstakes! Congrats go to Katie H. from Fort Worth, TX (who’s chosen a fridge!) who won through Bargain Hunting Moms! We’re so happy for you both – and only a TEENY TINY LITTLE BIT TOTALLY OMG JEALOUS.

3. Watch this space, cuz guess what? it’s SWIM TEAM TIME! First meet on Saturday in Seward, which means Nana, the pup and I, along with Auntie and her kiddos will be carpooling up that direction WAY early on Saturday morning. So if you hear many cheers wafting your way from up north? It’s the crazy lady with the camera, screamin like crazy for all my Swim Team kiddos.

And now I’m gonna go curl up against my hot water bottle and listen to GLEE sountrack for a while. Have a great day, ya’ll!

….so remember when I woke up a few week ago and went “ew, snow” and then it was like 15 degrees below zero and brrr cold and no more snow, and stuff? And I was still walking around in just sandals and socks? Yeah, remember that?

This morning we woke up to THIS.

Yeah. And when I went to bed at 2am? None of *gestures wildly* THAT was happening. Which means, when I got up this morning to take Peppermist to Twirl Girl practice, a number of things happened:

1. I promptly fell on my considerable ass. Ouch. Wrenched my back, my knee hurts, and I’m irritated. Fuckin’ snow, man.

2. I almost hit one of the teenagers cars pulling out of the driveway. The trick of driving in that much snow is “go for it and PRAY, and oh, look, some brave soul already laid down tracks for us, FOLLOW THEM!” Fortunately, the end of the El Camino went unscathed.

3. The boy took MY car to school again – the truck is without a starter currently. To say this terrifies me is an understatement. It’s MY CAR.

4. The preheretofore mentioned El Camino? Promptly got stuck. The neighbors helped push him out (I would have been down there, and was on my way – but remember the sandals socks issue? and the fall? I need to unearth my boots – I have one, dunno where the other is. But yeah.) – but it was a comedy of errors as S was driving, and very timid. “GUN IT!” they say, and she goes “Wha?” And then they had to say “Put it in DRIVE sweetie, and take your foot off the brake…”

5. When they finally got the El Camino into the previously driven tracks with the help of The Boy who came back around to see what was taking so long, and gave a good ole HEAVE HO to the back end himself, Z yelled “KEEP GOING!” And ran alongside, opened the passenger side door and dove in. While I laughed and kicked myself for not video taping it all. I’m a bad blogger. I know.

6. The dog is BESIDE HIMSELF WITH JOY. Which also means I had to go untangle his ass cuz he’s a dumbshit and STILL wrapped himself around the tree. Sigh.

7. The electricity keeps flickering – which makes my internets go “OH NOZ! SHUT DOWN!” and me going “OH NOZ! START BACK UP YOU BASTARD!”

8.The buses for the littles is running TWO HOURS LATE. Sure, all you babies down south would just close school for the day, NOT US. We’ve a rep to keep, dammit – so our kids go to school ANYWAY. The neighbor was taking her nieces into the school, so gave the pup a ride too.

9. SOMEONE in this house, who shall remain nameless, (but is totally pictured to the right sporting the SNOWFLAKE pin a lady at nana’s church gave her – and who I’m TOTALLY blaming for all *gestures* this) is THRILLED with the snow fall.

10. That cute little face is getting WHITEWASHED as soon as she gets home. Just sayin.

Moose!

I know, not that unusual. But look closer….

Closer…

awwwwww there ya go! MOOSE BABIES!

Still wobbly and unsteady, and tiny. It’s officially Summertime in Alaska.

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In other news – got the ribbons for the last swim meet finally! The pup got 4th place for the 200yd freestlye relay… and? The BIG surprise! 5th place in the 50yd BUTTERFLY! WHOOO!

Hey, guess what?! Redoubt erupted just before midnight Alaska time. Currently the ashcloud is headed north of us – hopefully it’ll continue on that track. We’re fine! don’t panic! I checked the “eruption preparedness list” and discovered I have a non-electric can opener (..number 6 on the list…), so we’re totally golden!

What about numbers 1-5?
Shhhh. Nana probably has that. And I stopped reading after discovering I had number 6!

So – Me and my can opener will be over here watching the pretty sky. Don’t worry! We’ll be fine!

Srsly – don’t worry. It’s really not a big deal. But if you’re worried, you can keep track of things here: http://www.ktuu.com/Global/category.asp?C=159292&nav=menu510_2_2

Just don’t go to KTVA.com, because their late night emergancy reporter? HAS WAY SCARY EYEBROWS! SRSLY! I wanna like.. email him and tell him to FIX THEM OMFG. See?

And what’s worse? is they’ve been recently manscaped? So they no longer have that little curve. I wanna like, reach through the screen and pluck the catepillers off his face. OMG. YEah, stick with KTUU.com. Cuz. AAAAAAAAAAYIIIII! his eyebrows are gonna EAT ME!!!!!

You know me, I like to focus on the important things during a “crisis”.