Forever and a day. I'll admit that I have been a very bad E-Stripper. I shan't promise to be be better about it. I know that I probably won't be. At least you're always here... It's comforting, you know.

Right now, I'm feeling generally disconcerted. I hate that feeling. I spent almost 9 hours at my church today, prepping and cooking for a reception that's tomorrow afternoon. A reception that I feel got dropped in my lap after I tried to get a straight answer about it over 2 weeks ago. Anyway, thanks to Diartiste, well, she and I managed to get a great deal done and whether or not the others, who are supposed to be helping me, actually help me or not, I *should* be okay. I use that word loosely. It's pretty bad when one cannot trust "friends" from church to be trustworthy and reliable...

And on top of all of this, I have lesson plans to do and materials to create.

A depression seems to be lurking... Hmmm... Is it the Gin that I'm drinking or the pressure that I'm feeling or something else all together different...? I just don't know.

I have missed you, E-strip. :) Thanks for being here!

Yesterday, I ran some errands with my parents. I was gone from the house I live in for three hours. There were no bees in or around the house when I left. When I returned, I heard "BZZZZZ"-ing and thought, "Shit! How did Flies get in?" (I have a problem with flies. They get in, live and reproduce and die up in the sky lights and, well, the ceilings are REALLY high in this house. I just can't get at them, so I curse them- A LOT- but there have been no flies this year...) Anyway, it wasn't flies (Thank GOD!) but bees- lots of bees- There were about a dozen inside the house and whole mess more swarming outside the house. I have no idea where they came from, nor how they got in. Needless to say, I called the exterminator who said that they would be here, today.

I woke up this morning and all of the bees that had gotten in had died. The exterminators arrived around 20 after 8 this morning. No bees, anywhere, except for the dead ones in my house. The exterminator then told about a house he went to yesterday that had called because there had been HUNDREDS of bees in the house. The owner sprayed the ones inside. The exterminator went to spray the house and there was no sign of the bees- ANYWHERE! My house is Deja Vu all over again! So beware, E- Peeps, of roaming gangs of bees! You could be next.

I'll have to ask our resident Bee expert what this means. It sounds like a Bee Scooby Doo Mystery.

Last Friday, I had a small dinner party for my BFF, Di. I baked and cooked all day. I made a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting from Scratch, as her birthday cake. I even toasted the pecans that were in the cake and the frosting. Seriously, it is an amazing recipe- totally scrumptious. For dinner itself, I made baked butternut squash, coated in olive oil and spices, topped with parmesan cheese; a roasted sweet pepper salad- in which I actually roasted the peppers in the over; baked sweet potatos; and steak. What makes all of this so striking is that I don't cook, not very often at least. I live by myself and my mother is an amazing cook and lives next door. I don't actually need to cook very often. Let's face it, it isn't very fun to cook for one's self. If I can get by with chopping up veggies and whipping up a quick batch of hummus, then I'm pretty happy. The thing that I discovered last Friday is that I do, very much, enjoy cooking. Tonight, for no other reason than I felt like it and I had the ingredients, I made Snickerdoodles. They'll be fabulous with a lovely cup of tea. All of the sudden, I want to bake- everything! It's very bizarre. Is this what barely working does to a person? I don't know....

On the agenda for this evening 1. drink tea and eat Snickerdoodle (it is fun to say!) 2. grout tile downstairs in family room ( I laid it two days ago, it's time to grout! Fun wow.) 3. Talk to Boy

Can you stand the excitement?

I have finally decided upon a new user pic. I loved the old one, and I am still "SpringFaerie", will always be SpringFaerie, but even I am tired of my "sweet" persona. No one is *THAT* sweet, even me! And so, I am unveiling my new user pic. It definitely captures more of the frame of mind that I'm in- still sweet, but also sexy and little naughty. What can I say? It's been an interesting Summer! ;)

Do you have any idea how much it sucks to download music with an Old-School Dial Up Connection? It truly blows. I feel like centuries have passed since I began this quest for new music for my Ipod.

And am I the only one who misses the halcyon days of Napster, back when it was just a "Shared Music Community" site? *Sigh* Ah, the good ol' days...