Blumen Gardens

snow ponies!

Right Front

Right Rear

Left Rear

Left Front

sitter or squatter?

There is something everyone will come in contact with many times during the course of their life, it is unavoidable. It brings shivers down some spines, and chills to others. At work, at the movies, at school, in the mall…It is…the public restroom! (duhn duhn duhnn).

In this location, three types of people are born.

There are the "sitters". These people could care less about germs or organisms left by the person who used the bathroom before them. They dismiss the notion of anything “dirty”rubbing against their bare bottom. They sit, and do their business.

There are the "squatters". These people hover above the toilet seat, balancing with their hands on their thighs. At times the end of the urine stream will trickle down their leg. They suspend their booty in mid air, and do their business.

There are the "liners." These people don’t have the leg muscles of the squatters, but are still germ-conscious. They line the toilet with a half roll of toilet paper, sit down comfortably, with a cushion of TP under their bum, and do their business.

*EDIT*: I have also been informed that their are holders. These people put their bladders to the test and no matter what, they hold it until they get home, where their tush has nothing to worry about, then they do their business

The last first day of school ever (I hope!)

In 23 mins it will be the beginning of the end. The first day of my LAST year of school. Though I feel like I've already said this when I entered into this point at U of I with my undergrad degree.... I swear, this is it!! I don't think my nerves can handle anymore.

This year has already started stressfully . I'm not officially signed up for some of my classes because the only spare day I had to do it was Friday, and the school was closed Friday, even though the 1Ls had orientation. (helpful) I don't have all of my books. My friend Brian delieved his to me (which I have yet to pay him for), I'm getting another 1 or 2 from one of the girls I got some of my 1L books from, but those are "in the mail" and have yet to be seen on my doorstep. My last book is crux on a girl who got married this weekend... so I'm guessing that one is lost in the mounds of useless kitchen wedding presents and most likely under a silver ice tong set no one will ever use.
Le sigh.

I also begin my year with no contract ofr my job that starts at 8am tomorrow with the university. I have been strong armed into accepting a contract that not only can easily throw me under the bus, but contridicts itself in many areas. Not that I expect everyone to hire an attorney to do all of their contract work... no wait... if you're going to do specific contract work that is worth a few thousand dollars... then yea... hire an attorney, or listen to me when I tell you what you've written is BUNK.

I'm off to make myself some coffee for my chipper morning tomorrow. If you were to read back to about this time last year, you would know that the coffee prepared at my lovely job leaves MUCH to be desired and can easily be akin to brown water.

So, I'm off to follow a schedule that is not a schedule and to go to a job that I don't technically have and then later to study with books that I do not have.

And as a sidenote: I am not a slacker in any of this. I tried to get the school schedule worked out far in advance and did not hear from my porfessors and the Dean about the correct method until last week. The same goes for my contract at Career Services... I heard hide nor hair of the department until about the 30th of July and was given 1 week to sign, only to find that everything was screwed up... hence the lack of contract at this point. The books I ordered are here on time, and aside from Brian, the books from freinds are those that are lacking and to me... the $400 I saved is worth being behind a few days in reading.

I haven't been able to go see the pony since Wed. I've been stuck here with a bad headache, had a wedding... among all fo these other things... maybe tomorrow he can help with my sanity.

You know its special when you have a horse that totally loses his mind, and you still love. Today wasn't that day... today was a day on the horse where we melded and understood each other. Today was nice... no one at the barn and a horse in tune to a day of work. I had a rough time today, my back was not going to let me do everything that I wanted to do.. but Fire understood and decided to go with the flow and do the exercises I was able to do.
Even with we fight and he gets frustrated, its okay! I realize he's just a baby and he's only throwing a fit because he thinks something I'm asking of him is unfair. Thats just to me... we can work through frustration, I'm sure I'll get it too.
Sorry for the ramblings... its just hard to put down on paper how nice it is to take time to do something where theres no talking and just behavioral responses. Its a very Zen feeling... a guess a kin to people who get runners high or that can sit outside in the dirt for hours tending to flowers.

Even my computer pet dog has decided he is done. God... this is just going to end and then I'm going to start up with more BS after the weekend. I wouldn't be surprised if I just take a time out break on my own. This pace is NOT something I can keep up with for much longer. Run run run... blah.