Blogapalooza 2016 - Day 8: Snowpocalypse?

Lately when the town is threatened with a dusting of snow everything shuts down.  It's fun but I miss the days when it actually snowed.  Throwback Thursday anyone?

Blogapalooza 2016 - Day 3

     What a day.
     It started off super frustrating.  I set all of my alarms so that I could get up in time for service out at the hall.  I even left time for me to take a shower, even though dry shampoo and I are good friends.  Slept.  Through.  Them.  All. 😞  I mean, yeah, I didn't fall asleep until 4 am, but seriously!  Barely woke up in time to nominally help with a bit of set up and take a shower before the gorgeous tea party that my sister threw!  I was still putting on makeup when the first guests arrived and I was happy to be wearing a hat so no one could tell that my hair was still wet!
     Everyone dressed up in hats or pearls or both and looked lovely.  The food was delicious: spanakopita, meats, cheeses, crackers, lemon bars, sugar cookies, and veggies to go with the tea.  I had so much fun talking about writing with some of the guests and we will be getting together again soon to iron out what the whoosit Robyn in doing in the story.  And in the end we all got to take our teacups home!  I also offered to make anyone's cup into a candle.  Two people took me up on the offer so I know what project I'll be working on next week.  :)
     After everyone left sis and I popped over to New Seasons to pick up a few groceries and we saw a bride and groom wandering around with their best man and maid of honor, still in their wedding finery (though someone had spilled something reddish purple on the side of her dress).  Evidently they had only been married a few hours.  Why anyone would decide to go to the store after a wedding is lost on me ... though I have wanted to wear one of my cosplays to go to the library.
     Now I'm sitting here eating Cherry Cordial Kisses (my favorite part of this time of year and one of my favorite Black Friday purchases) watching TableTop while trying to figure out what to post tomorrow.  I'd hoped to be a little more on top of things and have scheduled posts but children did not nap when they were supposed to and I slept when I was no supposed to.  Things should settle down on Monday.

My Childhood House

Picture Prompt Day 33 - A picture of the house you grew up in

     From left to right, me waving 'Hi' to the camera, my sister running around, and my mom seven and a half months pregnant with my brother.  The little (currently) unborn stink is the reason we had to move, leaving the only house I had ever lived in, the only school I had gone to my entire life, and almost all of my friends.  I wasn't bitter at all.  Nope.  Not at all.

     Funny fact, after we painted our house yellow with green trim (no, we're not sports/Ducks fans, it looked nice) the same color scheme popped up all over the neighborhood and spread all over the city.  I felt so ahead of the curve.

A Crazy Night

Picture Prompt Day 32 - A picture of a crazy night

     I don't think Cat or Deanna would like it if I showed our other goofy pics so we'll settle on this one.  It's always interesting when the three of us get together.  ;)

Me and the Siblings

Picture Prompt Day 27 - A picture of yourself and a family member

      On the left, myself and my sister when we were younger.  I wish it still snowed like it used to.  Those are whole apples as eyes, a carrot for the nose, and pistachios for the mouth.  On the right is myself and my brother, when he was still smaller than I was.  Now he's a behemoth with several inches on me.

Don't Die Sis!

Picture Prompt Day 14 - A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without

     This blog is turning into a love letter to my sister, lol! 
     We had friends over for a turkey dinner on Saturday, the AMAZING annual meeting on Sunday, and Monday kinda got away from me so I'm catching up today (Tuesday).

We're Messed Up Man

Picture Prompt Day 10 - The person you do the most messed up things with

     This should be self explanatory.  They have plastic cake decoration foliage in their mouths.  They are goofs and I love them and they make me laugh so hard I have to use my inhaler.  Two live an hour away now, thankfully the other lives a flight of stairs away.

Who I've Been Close to the Longest

Picture Prompt Day 2

     I'm at a point in my life where I have drifted apart from my childhood friends (which hurts more than one might imagine) and have slowly begun drawing close to those I was distant with before.  Such as my younger sister, who you see here 'sailing' with Brown Bear.  He must not be a very good sailor, from the look she's giving us, or he's said something colorful, which would be surprising because I've always found him to be very polite.
     When I think of being close to someone, I think of someone in whom you can confide your thoughts and feelings, even the ones you're afraid others might look at you askance for, someone you turn to when in distress, that you know you can rely on.  While my parents naturally come to mind, especially my father, honestly the first two 'people' think of in these terms are Brown Bear (the teddy you see above) and Taffy, our half German Shepherd/half Airedale Terrier.

    She was about a year older than I was and for as long as I can remember, I viewed her as my older sister.  My parents did a very good job of immediately establishing to Taffy that I was above her on the pecking order and she accepted it with grace.  We have several pictures of infant me on the floor with my toys and in the corner you can see a black, furry Taffy nose, hovering over this new little thing for her to protect.  I can remember hugging her she she was still taller than I was, and I loved laying on the ground, running my toes through her soft, curly fur.  Even when my parents were too busy for me or weren't home or if I just needed a quiet bit of company, Taffy was there.  I was devastated when we had to put her down, finally, at age thirteen, due to cancer.  Hers was the first loss of someone I was close to that I had to deal with and it hit me hard.
     I find it difficult to get close to people, animals are so much easier, but I am glad that I have my sister.  Growing up we weren't close (being just far enough apart in age that I could do 'big girl' things sooner that she could, and traveling in different social circles) but in the last five years, as I graduated from high school and she entered it, we've grown close.  So close that I sometimes swear we're twins born four years apart.  That isn't to say we're exactly the same, we have very different temperaments (think Jane and Lizzy Bennet) and there are some things we cannot agree on (tomatoes, bell peppers, olives, split pea soup, which Outsider is better, comic books), but we can finish each others sentences, often know what other means when what they've said sounds like gibberish to someone else, work well side by side in, and have forged an iron bond.  There is no one I would rather spend time with.