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still on the cape and having quite the time.  yesterday lank and mama and i tackled The Breakwater in Provincetown which was amile long rock jetty stretching out across the bay.  This involved lots of jumps and landings and scrambles and leaps and crawls, and MY MOM HANDLED IT ALL!  for those of you who don't know, my mom has Mysthenia Gravis which is a really sucky neuro-muscular disease.  her immune system basically gets over-active and tries to destroy her muscles.  When i was little she was sick frequently, like to the point she had to go to the hospital and be in a wheelchair or on a ventilator.  Well thank g-d treatment has improved and with the new experimental meds she's on have given me a new physically fit mama!!  she came to cape cod last summer for a conference and couldn't walk more than three hundred feet WITH a walker.  Now she was able to do this physically challenging rock wall with me and not slow me down at all. 

When we got to the other side of rock jetty my brother decided we should go on over to the beach on the other side of these dunes.  he was like, it's right over this hill guys come on, and he ran off.  my mom and i slogged through the deep sand to get to the beach, surprised by a new hill after each dune that crested.  we finally got there and i looked out over the ocean and i saw huge black storm cloud.  oh geez.  so my mom took a quick dip in the ocean to cool off and we headed back just as the rain started.  we had the mile of big rocks to cross in front of us, and now they were wet rocks and we were being pelted by rain. then the thunder started and mom told us to climb down into the rocks.  when that stopped we resumed our climb and jump and leap and crawl and walk and finally made it, just as the rain stopped.  it was quite a harrowing adventure and i was so proud of my mama :)

Today I ran FIVE MILES!!! I am totally amazed I didn't realize it was that far until I googled it when i got back here.  that's pretty fricken sweet.  I also worked on the book.  My mom is taking a nap and after that I think we should be headed to a beach for some late afternoon/evening swimming.  and i wanna get frozen yogurt.  my (2nd eldest) sister laura and her bf dave are here too which is nice :)

we are staying at cottage grove in eastham and i recommend it.  i like it here.

cape cod

vacationing with the momster and my brother lank.  good trip so far except my mama's sick. we are staying in a cute little cabin which totally reminds of the cottage i lived in with MR. PRVRT.  Is a good remembrance of a mostly good time.

today lank and i went bike riding from here (Eastham) to Marconi Beach which is kind of very very gorgeous.  We rented bikes from the Orleans bike shop biked about 30 kilometers today and swam in the ocean.  Now I am going to do some work on my book.

a softer world: 573

a softer world: 573

blogging on da bus!

give some a slight tummyache... but it is awful neat and FUN.  actually the tummyache might be the result of the dirty-water dog i scarfed from the stand as i baked in line for the MEGABUS.  It left fifteen minutes late but I don't care, I'm always late, as long as it doesn't come early then it is the bus for me.

It was more than ten dollars cheaper than greyhound.  and it beats the heck out of the chinatown bus b/c i don't have to go down to chinatown, the workers speak better english and are marginally less gruff, and there is free wifi!  plus i've had one chinatown bus trip where the heat didn't work in January and I had to put on all the clothes I had in my luggage and I was still freezing, and another chinatown bus trip where the exhaust from the engine was somehow coming into the bus and people were getting headaches and barfing so i popped out the emergency hatch on the ceiling because the bus driver WOULD NOT stop and we needed oxygen.  That made him stop.

so, IMHO, megabus gets thumbs up and chinatown bus gets thumbs down except for mega short trips like to philly.

I am super-tired.  i couldn't sleep in the death heat last night and i don't have money to run the A.C.   sucks.  but that's what it is.  also i was nervous because i always get nervous before any trip, stupid but true.  I am going to Cape Cod with my mama :)  never been there and i've never been on  with my mama before  it will be mostly just she and i, but my brother kevin will be around too which is great because he wants to go biking, hiking, swimming, running and kayaking with me.

my headphones died and i had to pay $10 for a crap pair of "colby" headphones in Penn Station.  What a gyp.  they are like $2 at the discount store.  highway robbery!   oh well at least they work.  sort of

ok i'm gonna go take a nap b/c this air conditioning is the bee knees!

ps. i really like this ring:

 (by violet darkling)

i want it!

UPDATE I WOKE UP FREEZING and had to put on all the clothes and towels so i wouldn't die of hypothermia.  geez.  this is very silly.  i'm almost to albany now.  my papa is gonna pick me up.

pretty

little known open air garden in small town named hakone, in japan.

check out some more pics and info at http://www.kuriositas.com/2010/07/hakone-japans-amazing-open-air-museum.html

we be sittin'

today was super nice!  i had breakfast with a friend, then a bit of shopping at rite aid and trader joes, then headed up to home.  made a super yum burrito and had a shower.  then i went to the beach with brian.  the bay was really dirty and seaweed-y so that kind of sucked.  probably because there were a million people there yesterday and today but that was kind of gross.  now i am babysitting sawyer, who is sleeping.  CENTRAL AIR ON BLAST!  playing with jackson (puppy) and getting ready to do some work.  hitting ten pages a day lately.  jackson is on the kitchen counter!!  lemme go spray him.  BRAHAHAHa i am the mistress of the squirt bottle of doom!  he's contrite.  ok time to get some work done :)  oh~! i also made a super awesome dinner tonight.  i used bagel thins (thomas) I love them they are only 110 calories with great bagel flavor.  I put on marinara (Classico) and mozzarella (don't remember which brand) and tomatoes, oregano and basil from my garden.  IT was fantastic.  jackson just licked my shoulder.  what a weirdo.

irrational paranoia

i feel like something bad is gonna happen today.  its probably stupid but it really makes me wanna stay home in my room with dittocat.  i am spose to go to a fourth of july picnic at nick's house in Stuyvesant  town.   brian said i can bring his lucky stone tyrannosaurus but what if i lose him?  i gotta shake this it is stupid.

FASHION ENHANCERS

I bought a dress with little spaghetti straps to wear to Niyi's wedding.  It was lovely, blue with sparkles.  But my sister said "YOU CAN'T WEAR A BRA WITH STRAPS WITH THAT!" and i was like, "oh, really?" *sadface.*  I HATE strapless bras.  because I have big bazoongas.  Sweater meats.  Dirty Pillows. Whatever.   And strapless bras always end up sliding down as the night progresses, pulling my boobs floorward and helping me achieve that ever fashion-forward look I like to call "Grandma tits."

I figured maybe I could avoid this by turning to a neat adhesive bra, as I had purchased a pack of them ages ago and never worn them because I was smarter back then.  These bras were called Fashion Enhancers and I figured they would solve my bra problem toot sweet.  I still don't understand why I couldn't wear a regular bra with this dress, but Kara said I couldn't, and she's a mom now, so I give her opinion on things more credence than I used to.  I applied the Fashion Enhancers as per the instructions.

I checked to make sure I was not a "woman with significant melanin" because it was indicated in the directions that this product can caused skin lightening.  I am already very, very white, especially on the boobs, so I wasn't worried and went ahead with my plan.

After applying the Fashion Enhancers my boobies were lifted somewhat but they looked kind of wrinkly and torpedo shaped.  Not good.  So I decided I better layer on the closest thing I could find in my apartment to a strapless bra, which was this bustier thing, size 36C.  My bust size is either 34D or
34DD depending on which lingerie store I get measured at.  So I strapped on the bustier thing and the cup were kind of pushed out beyond the actual boobs..  so I filled in the difference with cotton balls.  Looked swell! (as evidenced by this picture of me flapping my arms like a bird.)

Alright, so I was reasonably sort of comfortable and ready to go!  About an hour into the event I was attending my boobs got really itchy and I remembered I am allergic to most adhesives.  When I had surgery last summer I had to buy a "durable barrier cream" because all the tape holding my bandages on kept a)giving me itchy red raised rashes and/or b)ripping off bits of skin.
I should have put on the durable barrier cream before I put on the adhesive bra.  So, I had a nice time at the event, stalwartly ignoring my itchy tits by focusing on the pain of the boning in the bustier poking me in the tummy when I sat, and my toes in my brand new high shoes, blistering and grinding themselves free of flesh when I stood or moved.

After the party I went in the car and thought to myself "how can I get out of this stuff!?"  I tried to go into a gas station bathroom but the attendant told me it was "closed for cleaning."  That gas station looked like it hadn't been cleaned since 1973 but whatever.  I pulled off the adhesive bras in the car without taking off my dress or bustier (it was dark and I don't think my friends noticed me molesting myself, or if they did, they were kind enough not to mention it.)

My skin came off in three spots on my right boob, so I used some the cotton balls I had stuffed in the bustier to do a field dressing on the new wounds.  The medial surface of each under-boob was all red raised rash of course.  When I got home I found a carpet tacking nail inside the bustier (I have no idea why) and it had scratched up my tummy quite well.

So Fashion Enhancers and spaghetti strap dress and bustier and all that stuff worked out just dandy.  I highly recommend both products because one would not want to ruin one's appearance with a regular bra, right?

Now, the Fashion Enhancers came with 3 adhesive bras in the pack.  I only have two melons.  I was excited by the possibilities offered by this extra bra.  I was going to make an awesome false beard:

Or perhaps a beautiful tiara:

I asked Brian to help me decide and he said it would stick to my hair or rip the skin off my chin.  I asked him if we could put it on dittocat and he said no.

Ok time to work on the book. smell ya later!

PS: I AM GOING WADING AND SEINING TODAY!!  you are jealous.  Don't be jealous!  come with me.  Into the Depths

PS: THIS JUST IN!  BRian made me breakfast!!  i tried to take a pic like vanna white and one of the sammiches fell on the table!  but the table is clean.  i eat now.

Today's Dinosaur is: Quetzalcoatlus!

Quetzalcoatlus

 This dude is hugemongeous!  He's named after Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god of the Aztecs.  Quetzalcoatlus is a total badass.  He's got a forty-foot wingspan: wings as big as those on the first plane brought up into the skies by the Wright Bros.  Extreme bad-assery.  And it doesn't stop there my friends, no.  He could take off from a standing position, stock still, leap into the air with a mega-push-up, like a vampire bat.  This becomes even more super impressive when you realize dude was as tall as a giraffe. so you see this giraffe guy walking around on all fours and then he squats and push ups and flaps away?  You would toally poop your pants in amazement.

Yeah.  Quetzalcoatlus is the coolest.

In other news I have a buncha stuff to do today so I better hop to it.  MORT IS DEAD (my crayfish.)  lahsanna (my turtle) ate him.  It is very sad.  Muy triste.  So obviously Lahsanna is hungry.  Prime directive for this afternoon: go to my bank and deposit rent check, go to other bank and pay rent.  Go to library and get new books (this might have to wait until tomorrow) and come home and get gorgeous.  My friend Ewaen and I are going to our friend Niyi's wedding, in Connecticut.  This will be my first African wedding and I am very excited to be going.  Niyi is Nigerian and his bride from the Ivory Coast.  Should be some awesome native clothes and foods and maybe dancing?  Neat!

 

i'll help you make today good

i promise.   because i don't want to work on my book or clean my kitchen or leave my bed.

 

this is what the workspace should look like... i should be working.

but nope.

 ok dang!  i'll go do work now. but i'm not happy about it.

A Complex Food Chain - Slide Show - NYTimes.com

A Complex Food Chain - Slide Show - NYTimes.com

simply stunning. the NYT with another mind bloggling slideshow, this time showcasing life in a cold seep ecosystem.  not to be missed!

Ambient SUPOR. Une rampe de Skate transformée en poêle géante | Le Publigeekaire

Ambient SUPOR. Une rampe de Skate transformée en poêle géante | Le Publigeekaire

i would totally by non-stick pans from a company that build a giant skate ramp and has skateboarders fly around on it dressed as shrimp. absolutely.