This is so not a vampire blog!

Boston Latin School is officially denying the presence of vampires!

The actual story is a very sad commentary on how our kids treat each other in any school, even an elite school like this. The fictional possibilities are superb! Wiki: "The Boston Latin School is a public exam school founded on April 23, 1635, in Boston, Massachusetts, making it the oldest existing school in the United States. The Public Latin School was a bastion for educating the sons of the Boston elite, resulting in the school claiming many prominent Bostonians as alumni. Its curriculum follows that of the 18th century Latin-school movement, which holds the classics to be the basis of an educated mind." Fabulous vampire historical fiction. I'd read it.

Dark Shadows

A channel I didn't know we got, Chiller, had a marathon of all of the 1991 Ben Cross version of Dark Shadows yesterday. I watched the whole thing.

What it means to be a snow pea

Snow peas, broccoli seedlings, potato seedlings and newly munched strawberry plants all met about 2 1/2" of wet snow this morning. It was all off of the beds by noon, and it is just a memory now. My Oregon Scientific weather station reports a toasty 50.9 degrees outside.

Repurposing

I've found a good use for this wine glass holder that has been relegated to the basement since we moved into this house. It just didn't work with our new cabinets.

It only required a little modification.



Now it is a right functional CD storage rack.

Speaking of rabbits

Darn. Stinking. Rabbits!

Last night they ate my strawberry plants down to the ground.



Maybe this is a blessing in disguise, since it is supposed to snow tomorrow night.

Anxiety, anxiety keeps me happy.

Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated.

Man, the Ramones sooo understood me :-D

I'm going on 48 hours without the 24 hour allergy medicine. I felt better last night. I went to bed early and slept well.

I feel like a crackhead today. My heartrate is really not up that high, but it feels like it is going crazy. I've got a headache poking me right in the middle of my forehead. Luckily, I'm down to mostly physical symptoms. I do not think the world is going to end anymore.

I'm pissed that the oak trees are getting ready to coat the earth with a thin green film. The oak pollen feels like bunnies on uppers wearing spiked-armor jumping around in my nasal cavity. I can't wait!

Because it makes me feel better

I had a panic attack in the shower yesterday morning. Feeling like you're going to hyperventilate and fall down when you're home alone and then the dogs are going to eat your eyeballs while your down is not exactly calming.

Anxiety is not normally a problem of mine. I do worry, but not usually to such an extent that I feel physically ill. It dawned on me yesterday that it could be my allergy medicine that I just started taking Saturday. So I've stopped taking it today. We'll see how things go. I still feel miserably wound up right now, but I am also hopeful that it will be fading as the medicine works its way out of my system.

Or maybe I'm just bat shit crazy. We shall see!

Because it makes me feel calmer to look at him, here is a small study of my pet duck.



Woosah.



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