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Boo!

I get up at 3:30 am for work, and this is what I look like

so much for beauty sleep

Best wishes where ever you are.
Ciao! ]]> ~myuh http://myuh.deviantart.com/journal/6168904/ http://myuh.deviantart.com/journal/6168904/ Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:04:24 PDT Its been 3 1/2 months since my last confession...er...journal entry.

So many of you already know what's been going on with me, and I really appreciate the support, but for those of you that aren't up to date...here goes.

I recently made a very tough decision to break up with my boyfriend of 3 1/2 years. We have been living together and this of course made it even harder, but I budgeted and figured out what I could afford and found a new apartment just for me, applied to go back to school and just when I was beginning to feel really good about all the change :woot: , I got layed off from my job . Bye bye $17/hr , bye bye new apartment , bye bye old apartment :sad: , bye bye boyfriend . So I feel at a bit of a loss.
I have found it to be true though, that when life slams a door in your face, there are usually windows around...some open at ground level, some just out of reach and some you can only get through with a rock or a pry bar...but there are windows. So I am having an issue deciding what I want to do
I want to go back to school, but I don't know what I want to go to school for ... I can collect a little bit of unemployment to pay my bills. I can move in with family here in California. I am thinking seriously about moving to Portland Oregon. I was also given a job offer as a temporary live in babysitter for a 1 year old baby girl in Alexandria Virginia, for two months It seems like a really neat opportunity to see the East Coast, but I'm not sure yet if I should do it or not...I have a lot to take care of in a short amount of time. When they laid us off, instead of laying us off that day and giving us two weeks severance pay, they told us that our last day would be in two weeks (Aug. 14) and we would continue to work until then, and we get NO severance pay.
Anyway......
I hope everyone is doing well. I've been trying to keep up with journals and commenting on deviations, but you know how it goes. I will do my best.

Best wishes where ever you are.
Ciao!

Have you hugged your today? ]]> ~myuh http://myuh.deviantart.com/journal/2832663/ http://myuh.deviantart.com/journal/2832663/ Thu, 08 Jul 2004 10:59:16 PDT Anyway all of you know I ramble....or should know by now, so be warned....here goes.
I went camping from Friday until Tuesday and I had a complete blast. It was at my grandpas property in the Yuba gap and we had 23 friends and family members from the other side of the family, so many of them had never been there, even though a few of us had been camping there our entire lives. It was really neat. Like a family renunion with all my favorite family + friends, instead of a lot of old people I didn't know.
Anyhow, the first day it was only my brother and my nephew and I, and we chopped down two old dead trees and stocked the firewood for the week, and my brother built a huge rope swing for all the kids [and kids at heart ]
On Saturday we waited all day for family and I stayed at camp to clean up the place a little and clear some areas for tents while my brother and nephew went down to the river to swim...they saw a BEAR while down there, but it ran away up the other side of the river...Sheeesh.
Anyway Sunday was much funner, everyone was basically there, and all the below 40's went on a long hike straight up the side of the mountain to a mountain canal. It kinda looks like a river with paved sides, there are even fish in them. And in places the canal turns into a flume which is like a 5 foot half pipe on huge stilts with a tiny walkway ontop of it. Everyone except me and Matt, hiked back down to the truck and got huge floating sea turtles and the like and drove to an access road to meet up with us. We walked ontop of the flume along side the mountain for a couple miles and enjoyed the view and the wind in the tree tops next to us, then met up with them. They squeezed into the water between the rails and floated down the flume and canal back the 2 miles we had come. I didn't get into the flume but swam in the canal part. Sooooo fun, sooo cold. I have a very dark sunburn and a lot of mosquito bites to show for it, but it was totally worth it. That night we drove to Donnor Lake [which was supposed to be totally full and pretty much was by noon] and two truck loads of us pulled straight down to the waters edge among all of the thousands of people who had camped out all day to see the fireworks display, and parked at the edge of the parking lot in a no parking zone. [we cheated] About 8 minutes later the fireworks started. I sat at the boat ramp with my feet in the water and took a bunch of experimental long exposure photos of the fireworks, but I haven't developed them yet. The sight was gorgeous. hundreds of little boats with lanterns, candles and tiki torches sparkling the lake and bouncing on the little waves. And the reflections of the fireworks on the lake. Ohhh so fun. Anyway we pulled out of the lot just ahead of the thousands of other people, so it worked out pretty perfectly.
The 4th of July is obviously our countries independence, but it is also the independence of my grandmother who passed away on July 4th 1998, and it is also a friends birthday who was with us watching the fireworks. I seemed to get goosebumps with every bang and boom of the display it was really magical.
On Monday before most of the group packed up and out, we went down to the river and started making a dam. We now have a great swimming/fishing hole for the kids, that is much safer and a little deeper. We moved thousands of rocks and boulders to the edge and to the dam, and raised the water level from about 2 feet to about 3 feet. So fun, but my arms are a little sore. That night I also took night time shots around the campfire with flashlights and spooky faces...I can't wait to see if they turned out or not.
Basically it was a blast. We had great food, all the men grilled on the fire and the women made salads and pasta and side dishes everynight on our outdoor stove. We had great drinks and made s'mores everynight. If I didn't have sooo much fun I would have detailed out the little bits of fun, but I decided to just spit it all out...sorry for my rambling...but you ought to know me by now. haha. Expect some long exposure shots of fireworks and the river and some fun silly action shots of taking the sea turtle down some of the little waterfalls, if they turn out. I will have to wait a bit to get them developed. If you have made it this far...thanks for taking the time to read all this and I hope it was enjoyable. What did you do for your 4th of July weekend?

-Mia ]]> ~myuh http://myuh.deviantart.com/journal/2772134/ http://myuh.deviantart.com/journal/2772134/ Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:02:29 PDT
I'd rather be resting my hot tired feet in an icy river after a mountain hike, and then jumping in and letting the water beat me to a pulp...it actually does feel quite nice. Refreshing, rejuvenating, exhilerating....
Do I have to go back to work? Bleh!

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