If anyone would like to see my two kitties, here they are!

Note:

The solid white one is Gerona and the one with the markings on her head and tail is Galina. I raised both of them since they were about a week old. Gerona also has a scar on her tummy because we just had her spayed.

Some days I feel like I just want to run outside and jump off the damn balcony. Adapting is hard. It's stressful. It's tiring. And it's taking its toll on me ( Read more... )

Things almost couldn't get any worse ( Read more... )

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."
-Crowfoot, Blackfoot

Finnish climate doesn't like me. In fact, it kicked my ass. The weather there was so dry that my nose bled EVERY DAY and my feet became so dry the skin on the bottom of them was cracking, making it very painful to walk ( Read more... )

It is damn cold outside. Most of the Finns don't seem phased, but +3 degress outside is fucking cold--I don't care what anyone says. And when I am here in the winter and it's -60 out there, Hell might have frozen over but I'll be damned before I go out there! It will be mandatory that all Rowans stay inside ( Read more... )

Well, I'm finally in Finland. The flight here was very long and I almost missed my plane from Amsterdam to Helsinki because stupid Delta had my flights planned less than an hour apart. Well, the plane from Atlanta to Amsterdam was running late and by the time we landed, the plane to go to Helsinki was boarding! The airport had a cart waiting for us ( Read more... )

The days lift and wane in one constant; the hours seep past me as I fall in and out of lucid dreams ... Strange words inkle past, strange seeings ... There's a boulder in my way, and where do the stars shine now?

( oh how far we are from home ... )

Home. It feels like an eternity over since I have felt that I had that. Home. Perhaps it is not ( Read more... )

I slept in that hell hole last night. Found a garbage bag and some duct tape (because we all know duct tape and WD-40 fixes everything according to the Redneck Bible) to patch up one of the holes in the wall. Alas, there is still another one in another room, however. And there is also a hole in the floor where the pipes to the dryer went ( Read more... )

It's amazing how quickly things fall apart ( Read more... )