Plethora

What? Something other than a "Funny Video Friday" post? Yes, yes, it's true! Things have been going pretty quietly lately, save for the deranged wailing of a couple lunatics. They really aren't worth my time or effort, so onward with other things.

The kids' last day of school was yesterday. Within four hours of getting home from school, Sarah started saying how bored she was. Oh boy. She was crying because she missed two of her friends. She had just seen them a few hours previous. Anyway, those two will be sleeping over our house in a couple weeks. That should be interesting.

Skylar's last day was actually last week. She'll be going into kindergarten in August. Wow! When I first made Skylar's acquaintance, she was only six months old. She has grown so much, into a little person... with her little hands in everything. Skylar keep asking me if she's going to start kindergarten tomorrow, and if she's going to be in Savannah's classroom. Same school, kid. Different class.

Savannah's class had all received t-shirts that say, "I Run..." on them. There was a space below to fill out a "reason" for running. Savannah wrote: "Because I'm hyper." Pardon my bad English, but ain't that the truth! For some reason, Savannah seems to be the only one of our daughters who doesn't mind school being out.

And now for a different sort of education. The Wicca classes I mentioned way back when (see the bottom of the entry), will finally be starting in late June. They'll run for two hours a week on a weekday, for eight months. Nikki and I will both be attending. I can't wait! The reason this was delayed so much, was that the High Priest's and High Priestess' son passed away a few months ago. Naturally, everything was put on hold for awhile. I sent them my condolences, of course, however ineffectual that may have been. I can't even begin to imagine such a loss.

Nikki and I are very excited about tonight. We're going to a "girl's night out", at a local restaurant, with a few friends, and quite a few new people (soon-to-be friends, I hope!). I know it'll be a lot of fun. I'll post the whole rundown here.

We're following up on Saturday, with a party at our apartment complex, celebrating Nikki's graduation from hell! She worked at a school with some really abusive, crazy middle schoolers... and the staff was even worse. The teacher and principal harassed her at every opportunity, in an attempt to get Nikki to quit, or do something that would be grounds for terminating her employment. I first wrote about that horrible mess over here.

Therapy has been going well, and we've been discussing quite a few heavy topics. I first mentioned this new therapist here. I do feel a lot more comfortable around this guy now. Well, as comfortable as I can be around any guy anyway. He has a very dry sense of humor, which suits me just fine. It didn't show up during our first session, but wow, is it making appearances now. He's funny. He's easy to talk to, but he tends to challenge me with questions to make me think. Most of the time, I know the answer to his question, or at least part of it.  It's just that putting heavy issues like that into words when put on the spot... yeah, it's kind of hard sometimes. But then, it's supposed to be.

Tomorrow is another Funny Video Friday, and my last zombie-related vid for Zombie Month, or Zombie Awareness Month, what-have-you. The only thing is, I'm out of funny zombie videos. Any suggestions?

Thanks for reading!

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2010 in Review

A few recent blogs have featured a "year in review," so I figured I'd adopt the idea for myself. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, after all.














In January, our daughters had a sleepover, I experienced some breast growth due to progesterone meds, and Nikki broke a rib (ow!).

In February, we ate at Red Lobster, I started going to therapy at no charge, and we started thinking about moving to Arizona.

In March, I (sort of) completed my own Interactive Fiction game, I had a talk with my mother after a long absence, and I got very sick.

In April, we had our apartment in Arizona approved, and I colored my hair redder than ever before.

In May, I got my Phoenix tattoo, Skylar chopped her hair off with a pair of scissors, some of our animals passed away, we said goodbye to family, and we headed off to Arizona!

In June, we moved into our new apartment!

In July, I didn't blog at all since we were so busy with the kids, and fixing up the apartment.

In August, Nikki got a job, we met trans-kid Rachel (among other people), I got my Arizona driver license with no problem at all, and school started for the kids, and I got some exercise pulling a wagon six miles a day.

In September, we had to replace the wagon already!

In October, I got a green iguana, one of our rats gave birth unexpectedly, and my mother sent me an upsetting letter.

In November, Nikki and I celebrated our four-year anniversary, the Transgender Day of Remembrance saw it's twelfth year, and I got free shoes!

In December, we went geocaching for the first time, my breasts started to grow again (!), Sarah got a girlfriend (!!!), and we celebrated the holidays.

Here's looking ahead to 2011! I hope everyone has a fantastic year!

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Holiday Recap

Christmas just flew right by for Nikki and I. It just came and went so quickly for us that we barely got the Christmas cards out on time, and we wrapped the presents on Christmas Eve. I didn't go out of my way to wish a Merry Christmas to many of my readers and readees on Blogger, or Facebook for that matter. I do apologize, but what the heck...? I turn around and the holiday's all over!

The kids took part in a play on Christmas Eve, at the local church:

Savannah, changing into angel garb.

Now it's Skylar's turn.

Sarah is playing Mary (in blue!). You can see Skylar on the extreme right, and Savannah next to her.

Sarah, errr, Mary... holding "Baby Jesus."

Anyway, as for our Christmas, we did get a few things for the kids, but they would've been somewhat underwhelmed, as compared to previous years. However, we were blessed by the generosity of friends and neighbors here in Tucson. They ended up having plenty of gifts. Behold!

"Ahhhh... freak out!"

What girl doesn't love shoes?

Savannah got a sock puppet.

Skylar got a Pillow Pet. It's a pillow, and a stuffed animal!

Sarah with her new stuffed dino.

Skylar amidst a sea of wrapping paper, holding her cars. She loves those things.

Of course, I had to play cars too.

 I got my sweetheart a Snuggie!

Cuddly Snuggie.

 She also got a blender! (I can use it too, hehe.)

As for me, I got a bustier (which I have to lose some weight to wear), a $20 Taco Bell gift card (my baby knows me, hehe), some yummy candy, and a cute stuffed owl. She also gave me a big homemade card. Nikki's homemade cards kick the store-bought cards' asses! The things she writes in them just melt my heart.

The rest of the day was nothing eventful. Our families are in New York and Michigan, so there'll be no visiting for the holidays anytime soon. The kids played with their toys for two hours and then asked to watch TV. They veg out in front of the boob tube way too much, so we told them "no."

A special friend has joined us in Tucson for a few weeks. That'll be the gist of my next entry, but I'll just say here that we value her friendship very much, and we really click. The last time I stayed up talking with anyone until 1 AM, was with Nikki. Now I get to stay up with Nikki and our new friend! We're already dreading her going back to Ohio in a few days.

The New Year is but a few hours away. I wish everyone a Happy New Year, and please be careful if you're going out tonight.

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Exploring Sexuality

My daughter, Sarah... has a girlfriend. Yes, a girlfriend girlfriend.

Well, as much as someone can have a significant other when they're almost 12 years old (her birthday is in two weeks!). Her girlfriend's name is Tyne (I think I spelled it right), and she lives in our apartment complex. She's been friends to both our daughters (Sarah and Savannah) for the past few months. She's nine years old, and has been very forthcoming, so to speak, of letting people know that she's bisexual. Now, believe me, I'm all for letting people be whoever the heck the are... but something about this girl doesn't sit right with me.

Two weeks ago, Amy and her two kids, Rachel and Zoey came over. Lori and her family came by an hour or so later. At the playground, Tyne was reportedly talking about sex toys and such. Lori's son came back and told us. Sarah and Rachel both had a talking to. It was this big thing, he said/she said/she said. I later found out that Tyne has a crush on Rachel. (Amy, if you are reading this, shhhh!)

Last night, Sarah came in late. Our rule is that once the lights come on in the complex, the kids come home. Sarah came inside after the lights came on, and asked if Tyne could come in. I didn't see any reason why, and I was going to start cooking dinner soon, so I told her no. She went back outside. I got up after a minute and looked out the door. She was gone. I told Nikki, and I agreed that she should be grounded, and we'd go look and/or yell for her if she wasn't home for dinner.

Sarah came back a half an hour later. I dutifully informed her that she was grounded the next day for coming in late. "Okay." She asked if Nikki was up, to which I told her I didn't know. After she knocked on our bedroom door a few times, I told her that if she wasn't answering, she may indeed be taking a nap. She told me, "Okay." She sat down to watch TV and she didn't say another word.

Nikki got up to have some dinner with us, and Sarah immediately started writing something on a piece of paper. She handed it to Nikki, who then told Sarah that she was the one who said she would be grounded. I immediately took offense, as Sarah has a history of trying to pit one parent against the other, or go around one parent and going to another. Nikki told me that wasn't the case, and she would relay what was written... after dinner. Sarah didn't want her sisters to know, and she was rather embarrassed.

Sarah asked Tyne out (like they could actually go anywhere), and Tyne said yes. Tyne said she loves Sarah.

I think Tyne is a player. Probably a more innocent nine-year-old version of a player, but a player nonetheless. I don't trust her. Tyne wants Sarah to sleep over. Nikki and I are like, nooooo wayyy! Who knows what kind of sex toys she'll pull out of the closet. Ha! It's funny, but at the same time... ummm, not funny. This is my daughter here.

Anyway, after being debriefed by Nikki, I came back out to the living room, hugged Sarah, gave her a kiss on the forehead, and told her I loved her.

Sarah later asked Nikki if I only did that because she likes a girl. Hello??? I always tell her I love her. And what's with this not talking to me? Everything has to be relayed lately.

For the record, no... I do not love my daughter more because she likes a girl, or is dating a girl, sort of. I think that maybe Sarah feels a bit more free to be herself, and to explore her sexuality, ahem... on a VERY limited basis, mind you. She has two lesbian moms, two transgender friends, and their moms, who are transgender, bisexual, and a few straight people thrown in there (ha ha!). Does she feel that she should be a lesbian as well? I sincerely doubt that. There are so many people out there who think that a child being raised by gay parents will also be gay. Pure hogwash and cow manure. But yes, I do feel that she feels more safe in telling us she likes a girl, and it's probably easier for her to admit it to herself as well. She knows that nothing is wrong with being gay.

That said, danger lies on both sides of the fence. Sarah is so sensitive. I hope this girl doesn't try to break her heart. I know where she lives, after all.  ;)

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Geocaching II

We went geocaching again last Sunday (see here for the first expedition, as well as an explanation of what geocaching is). The whole family came this time. We went after three caches, and we found them all. Read on...

Our first cache was nearby in the Safeway parking lot. That's all we knew. I parked in front and let my GPS tell me where to go. We soon learned that the cache was behind the store. We looked behind a tall metal cabinet thingie and found the skeletal remains of a bird. No picture for this one, sorry! The cache turned out to be underneath a metal plate on a lightpost. Nikki saw that it was loose and pulled it upwards. We found a little sardine tin underneath. We took some items and left some of our items, tiny as they were. They had to be, this thing was tiny. I forgot what the items were, sorry.

We got back in the car and headed for the next one. (I would just walk but everyone else gets tired quicker than I do.) This one was in a trail behind a bunch of houses. We found it pretty quickly under a tree. There was what looked like a birdhouse, but upon closer inspection, it most definitely was not. Observe:

The owner of this cache had built the semi-birdhouse himself. That's really neat! I also loved the way the "chest o' trinkets" looked, as well as the log book. Here's a picture of me holding both.

We also found our first travel bug in this cache. A travel bug is a trackable dog tag that you can place in a cache. It's usually attached to an item in some way. This allows you to track your item online. The item becomes a hitchhiker that is carried from cache to cache (or person to person) in the real world and you can follow its progress online. The one we found was in a small plastic bag with a lego.

This travel bug is "racing" with another travel bug. Whichever one goes the most miles wins. They both started in the U.K.! The travel bug with the yellow lego is till in the U.K. This red one made it to Florida, then up to Canada, back down to New Mexico, and ended up in Arizona - first partway up Mount Lemmon, and now down here near us. What a trip! The unfortuante thing is, our car is not so good. Otherwise we'd bring it at least 30 miles or something. I'll have to drop it off somewhere else locally. Maybe the next geocacher can do right by it.

Before we headed to the next cache, we decided to take a few miscellaneous pics.

The kiddos!

I really love this picture of me and my snookums!

Our last cache was a really tricky one. It was located by the Pantano Wash, but farther south. Luckily for us, we didn't have do down in the wash, like last time. We looked so long for this damn thing. All that was around were little bushes and dirt. And my GPS was telling me I was 0.0 feet from the cache coordinates! Nikki and the kids kept kicking this log around, picking it up and putting it down, kicking it, etc. I picked it up...

The sun was in our eyes.

Wow! This guy carved a hole in the log and jammed an altoids tin into it! There wasn't much inside since it was so small. And no wonder the coordinates were off. They were moving the log from it's original location, so when I was standing there, it was somewhere else. Geez...

We took some time to fool around and climb a tree. I'm a kid at heart, so I had to get in on the fun.  ;)

Yayyyyy!

Sarah, get that thing out of your mouth!

This is really good picture of Sarah.

"Honey, take the picture! Can't... hold on... much... longer...!"

We took the long way around (by mistake) when going back to the car. Skylar was really tired. She kept stopping and sitting down on the sidewalk. I wanted to hit some more caches, but we had to call it a day.

I'm considering starting another blog just to cover our geocaching exploits. We'll see...

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