Sparkly Things

We took the big plunge and got a new truck.  He’s a Toyota Tacoma.  His name is Dug.

Tiernen is very happy being a macho guy with a trukk!  Hooray.

I wish I had gotten a picture of this, but “entry point + military base + camera=not such a great Idea, Bob” but anyway, as we came in to work this morning, (we cut in through our local AF base as it saves us time and traffic)  who should we see standing there and waving at the cars in the checkpoint but a guy in a griffin costume.  Really quite a good one.  The local AF post’s mascot is a griffin, to go with Ft. Bragg’s dragon.  I think he was there to promote their Halloween events over the weekend, but as we didn’t ask the gate guards, we’ll never know.  And because the Air Force is a class organization, there was ANOTHER one at the outgoing gate.  Sometimes I love my job.

Oh, and we got to see a C-130 come in to land over our heads on the way in, too.  Busy day.  The military really DOES do more before 9 am than the rest of us do all day.  

Well the weather here has started to change.  We went from mid to high 80’s and high humidity on Saturday to barely 70’s and rain on Monday.  Of course the temp. dive took place while we were sleeping out in an unheated cabin, so my sinuses are rebelling.  Other than the constantly running nose and sneezing, though, I’m fairly good.  Our LARP weekend was fun and we came away with lots of ideas for fun costuming to make and donate.   The Woobs is chomping at the bit to make some foam weapons now, so we ordered the supplies online last night.  

Today we have an appointment to talk to our DSS worker about our plans and progress in the fostering/adoption process.  We’ve both been looking forward to this, so I hope it goes well.  We still have some work to do around the house, but I’d like to take my time and do it right. 

Happy Birthday to my sister, .  She’s now officially old enough to know better (I so decree).  I sent her b-day stuff with her Ren. Fest costume, which I will post about sooner or later, I promise.  Hopefully she is enjoying it.

And while I miss some things about living in the ‘Burgh, I don’t know if this would be awful or awesome.  Hopefully someone who is living there will go and give us a report. 

Busy weekend in the imaginary world.  LARP until Sunday and then a long D&D session on Monday.  And we have our first in-depth meeting with the DSS folks re: foster/adoptive kid stuff on Tuesday.  I hope they will have read our profile by then.  I did spend many hours writing it. 

Had a quiet weekend.  Friday night was gaming at Chez Us with the boyz.  I was still playing my substitute Druid char and the variety was nice.  Saturday saw a trip to the salon for new hair and the arrival of the cups and mugs for next week’s Tavern.  Sunday was napping and lots and lots of TV, some bad some indifferent.  I also footled around on Facebook a fair amount.   I was able to get my online photo album linked to it before logging off last night.  

This week is going to be rather busy with work and getting ready for LARP on the weekend.  Much food must be purchased and prepped.  But we can do it! 

And last night I succumbed to the slight urgings of others and signed up for Facebook.  I’m Jenn Kuntz on there because apparently it isn’t happy with people being anonymous.  I’m not going to forget about LJ, in fact, I may just forward my posts from here to there so I’m not repeating myself.  But it is amusing.  And complicated.  It’s got as many bells and whistles as an ice cream truck.

Oh, and apparently everyone I’ve EVER known (in RL, not in digits, of course) has an account over there.  It was like a little walk down memory alley and then I got mugged by my hippocampus.  

Thanks to everyone for their encouragement and kind wishes!  We have to turn in our many-page family profile this week, so we’ll be working on that until Thursday.  I think I’ve sufficiently cleared the decks to allow us to work on it with minimal interruption.

Here’s an FYI for those who might still be reading this and are interested in the progression of our little lives.  The Woobs and I have started attending the state mandated classes to become licensed foster/adoptive parents in the state of NC.  This is a very big deal for us right now, but I realize that I didn’t tell a lot of people we were thinking about it, because we are both pretty nervous about whether or not we will be able to do it.  For one thing it means that we will be more or less unavailable on Thursday nights for the next few months as that’s when the classes take place.  For another we are trying to think of three non-relatives who might be willing to give us a letter of reference.  It’s mostly a matter of being spoiled for choice.  We’ll also have to make some modifications to the house, but they appear to be more or less manageable.

The wheels of bureaucracy turn pretty slowly, so we probably won’t have a little person in the house until sometime after the New Year at the soonest, and even then, we’re trying to work for an adoption placement which might take even longer.  However, we remain hopeful.  I know I’m ready to expand our family, and since we can’t formally adopt any of our wonderful friends, we’re going to try opening our lives to a child who needs a home.

• 16:21 I know I’ve been out of sight for a while. Took a little stay-cation to allow myself to decompress. Back at work now and doing fine. #

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Yes, despite the sincere effort on the part of the Woobs to drive us into exhaustion, we lived through the whole weekend, LARP, travel, wedding and all. We took a recharge day at home today and we’re both back at work tomorrow.  The cats are happy to see us back and have been extra snuggly.  Here’s a nice pic of`us as Jef-f-f the recovering road worker and Ada the kitchen wench.   It was taken by a very nice lady named Rowena who was also a new player at the LARP.

We forgot the camera for the wedding, but I expect Gavin and Lilith will have links to their pictures up very soon.  There were LOTS of people taking pictures, as they chose a very beautiful venue for the ceremony.

Anyway, back to work for us.