urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp First one foot Shrimpy 2009-07-02T22:19:38Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:657973 2009-07-02T22:19:38Z 2009-07-02T22:19:38Z STEWART TURNS NINE YEARS OLD TODAY!!!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gracefulshrimp/302466260/" title="Awwww, stew :) by jennysweedler, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/101/302466260_889a355671.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Awwww, stew :)" /></a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:657800 2009-07-01T02:38:31Z 2009-07-01T02:38:31Z finished her new book coming out in October 09. FRONT AND CENTER<br /><br />it is the conclusion to Dairy Queen and Off-Season.<br /><br />yeah, catherine gilbert murdock ROCKS. tomorrow i will be buying Princess Ben, because I need to have read all of her stuff.<br /><br /><br />seriously, what an amazing book. it deals with sports in hs and is SO much more than that. :) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:657529 2009-06-30T02:36:21Z 2009-06-30T02:36:21Z i just wanted to say one reason i love justin so much.<br /><br /><br />i fall asleep faster if he is in bed with me. he waits 15 minutes after i fall asleep and then he gets up and does his stuff. he has found that if he gets up sooner than about 15 minutes, i will wake up. sometimes he falls asleep but usually he gets up and does his own stuff for a few more hours before he goes to bed.<br /><br />how sweet is that? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:657261 2009-06-21T03:02:51Z 2009-06-21T03:02:51Z <a href="http://nh.craigslist.org/grd/1231870783.html">http://nh.craigslist.org/grd/1231870783.html</a><br /><br />the first responder to my tomato selling post wants TEN!!!! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:656906 2009-06-18T18:57:25Z 2009-06-18T18:57:25Z If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:656704 2009-06-16T00:01:54Z 2009-06-16T00:01:54Z <a href="http://lrcsc.org/">http://lrcsc.org/</a><br /><br />Caleb is my brother urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:656470 2009-06-12T03:15:33Z 2009-06-12T03:15:33Z <a href="http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/friday-videos-want-you-to-admire-the-trees/#When:10:47:47Z">http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/friday-videos-want-you-to-admire-the-trees/#When:10:47:47Z</a><br /><br /><br />oh lord<br />just watch it all urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:656221 2009-05-29T10:50:44Z 2009-05-29T10:50:44Z ITS <span class='ljuser' lj:user='cotume27' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://cotume27.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://cotume27.livejournal.com/'><b>cotume27</b></a></span>'s BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1<br /><br /><br />Happy bday :) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:655885 2009-05-28T02:27:40Z 2009-05-28T02:27:40Z everyone head over to <br /><br /><a href="http://tackandtalk.wordpress.com/">http://tackandtalk.wordpress.com/</a><br /><br />thats MY STORY!!!! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:655826 2009-05-25T12:54:10Z 2009-05-25T12:54:10Z hugh got out last night<br />got into a GIANT fight with another cat.<br />justin FINALLY got him in at 230 am. love that man<br /><br />he is very low key today :(<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />apparently during the cookout a basketball hit the neighbor's older daughter's bf's car. broke the mirror. well i really DONT think it was from us, since we only had 3 year olds playing. i also think that she could have asked her daughter to NOT PLAY in the backyard for ONE FREAKING EVENING while we were there, but whatever.<br />i think they were able to fix it because i saw the car last night, i feel like she should have called as soon as she DID fix it, but again, apparently whatever.<br /><br />my mom thinks i hate her bc she sucked so badly on saturday. she didnt take caleb to his lesson, she didnt CALL anyone, including me or jennifer. didnt come to the party. didnt have a gift ready for me.<br />i understand you have health problems and no money, but effort counts for something.<br /><br />and she has plenty of money to spend on those fucking birds.<br />ugh<br /><br /><br /><br />but barring the car and mother issues, i did have a good birthday. we had SO much fun at the cookout!<br />Zach/Sara brought xman and pman. parker didnt seem to have the BEST time, but he has been a little grumpy lately, but still a sport! xander did have a good time though :) lots of laughing!<br /><br />mike/leasa brought torin who also had a good time and got a balloon at the end!<br /><br />my next next door neighbors tom/Michelle brought their boys TJ (same age as xman) and Charlie (same age as Parker, just 3 months older or so) and they ALSO had a good time<br /><br />Adam and Charlotte brought Marshall, who is ridiculously cute, and is getting more hair with every day. at 1 he couldn't play with the big boys, but seemed to have a good time. liked the cake i think!<br /><br />plus Jennifer came, and brought Tom and Austin. Austin was the oldest, because he is over 3, and DEFINITELY the toughest. and he Definitely had a good time :)<br /><br /><br />so yeah, even with the minor fallout, i had a great time. Justin hadn't been feeling well but he rallied forth to do the grilling and the food was great! we had burgers and dogs and chicken and pork ribs and Ratatouille!<br /><br />justin got me new leg wraps, omg so pretty plus, a cheese cutter! which i love, i hate cutting cheese with a knife.<br />i got new bath towels from z/s which are super pretty, a nice off white :)<br />also a pizza kit from adam/char which we will probably make on friday i think<br /><br />justins mom might come for dinner tonight, and we are making venison (with or with out her) and tuesday is jennifer coming over. <br /><br />i am house sitting this weekend so no riding, which is sad, but i did go help jennifer at the farm last night, and since i was a bit agitated about the whole car thing, a little manual labor DEFINITELY helped.<br /><br /><br />so thats it for now. seriously, thanks for all the bday wishes :) they perked me up each time i got them! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:655511 2009-05-23T20:56:08Z 2009-05-23T20:56:08Z its my birfday. oh yeah, its my birfday<br />woot woot<br />thanks to all who wished me a happy birthday :) and special thanks to Friday for my cupcake :):):)<br /><br /><br />the big 26!! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:655271 2009-05-22T09:42:16Z 2009-05-22T09:42:16Z we are having a cookout at my place on saturday evening, so show up if you want to!<br /><br />also, 533 am is VERY EARLY.<br /><br />off to the barn! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:655064 2009-05-15T03:16:55Z 2009-05-15T03:16:55Z <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gracefulshrimp/sets/72157618081307333">http://www.flickr.com/photos/gracefulshrimp/sets/72157618081307333</a><br /><br /><br />no names yet but they are in chronological order! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:654718 2009-05-15T01:06:31Z 2009-05-15T01:06:31Z <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gracefulshrimp/1299631885/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/gracefulshrimp/1299631885/</a><br />that is starlit, and i had a lesson on her today. it was freaking AWESOME. completely awesome<br />there was the regular part of the lesson in which i had to make her canter and stay in control and yeah TINY CORNERS it was awesome<br />THEN toni got on errol and yeah that was pretty fabulous. she just walked him in the arena to cool him out but she was pretty psyched.<br />then we jumped!!! that was pretty FREAKING AWESOME!!!! starlit is so powerful. it felt like we were FLYING over the jumps<br /><br />i also got to babysit xander today because he got pink eye. hence, no daycare. but both mom and dad had an important meeting. so i got to hang. it was SUPER FUN. he is a good kid :)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/rikilind">http://www.youtube.com/user/rikilind</a> that is justins newest band that he likes, and i like them too. they are very funny!<br /><br /><br /><br />i was adult reserve champion and open games champion (tied with delaney on that one) and yeah, FREAKING AWESOME.<br />i finally have most if not all the cruise pics up and yeah, it was so much fun. SO MUCH FUN.<br />i had a crappy day on monday, so i didnt do an excited OMG I WENT on a cruise post, but yeah, it will be coming. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:654201 2009-05-10T03:48:06Z 2009-05-10T03:48:06Z WE ARE HOME urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:653944 2009-05-03T23:59:03Z 2009-05-03T23:59:03Z Im gone til next weekend on a cruise to the Bahamas<br /><br />LOVE TO ALL! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:653601 2009-05-02T23:37:08Z 2009-05-02T23:37:08Z awesome ride with Jennifer at stables. me on 17hh oldenburg, her on 14.3 hh qh. both chestnut. very cute :) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:653186 2009-04-25T03:06:37Z 2009-04-25T03:06:37Z here is my letter to my senator<br /><i><br /><br />Hello Senator Reynolds,<br /><br />I recently read an article in the Laconia Sun that said that you voted against possible legislation for Gay Marriages and Anti-discrimination laws for transgendered people.<br />I just wanted to say that I am shocked and horrified that you would do that. I feel that as a community and a state we should stand up for ALL people in our state. Everyone should be treated equally and be given the same rights. Part of the article quoted you in saying that NH is not ready.<br />I disagree with this. I think we are ready and I think we should be able to look back on the history of our Nation and be able to say that New Hampshire was part of the fight for equality for all. Not one of the stragglers to given everyone equal opportunities.<br /><br /><br />If you feel that Gay Marriages are not the way of it, that is fine. But I would disagree with you. (Although I think an excellent way for you to work around your own feelings and to change the way things go would be to separate the concept of marriage and civil unions. Put marriage back into the church and create the concept of a civil union for all, and a marriage just within a church. Obviously, everyone is going to keep calling it a marriage but by definitely everyone would be able to get a Civil Union, which would afford them the rights of the current marriage concept, but then within your church you could be married by a paster/member of your faith).<br /><br /><br />This issue is important enough to me that I felt the need to write to you. I really hope that you change your mind on this issue and become more open-minded as my representative.<br /><br />Thank you for your time.<br /></i><br /><br /><br />can i get some feedback urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:652906 2009-04-25T02:59:10Z 2009-04-25T02:59:10Z so my state senator voted against possible legislation for Same Sex marriage AND anti-discrimination rights for transgendered people<br /><br /><br />i put a fuckign SIGN IN MY YARD for her. and this is how she repays me?<br />\wtf no way. letter to the senator time. oh yeah urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:652775 2009-04-25T02:56:55Z 2009-04-25T02:56:55Z <div class='appwidget appwidget-qotd' id='LJWidget_8'> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div style='border: 1px solid #000; padding: 6px;'><p>Over the past ten years, many friendships have started and/or been renewed on LiveJournal. Of your current LJ friends, who have you known the longest?</p><p style='font-size: 0.8em;'></p><br /><p><input type="button" value="Answer" onclick="document.location.href='http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?qotd=872'" /> <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=872">View other answers</a></p></div></td></tr></table></div><!-- end .appwidget-qotd --> <br /><br />I think its <span class='ljuser' lj:user='prufrockslove' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://prufrockslove.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://prufrockslove.livejournal.com/'><b>prufrockslove</b></a></span> which would have been VERY early in the eljay sphere. because i loved TS Eliot, especially in HS, and when I searched for him, I found shana.<br /><br />also, <span class='ljuser' lj:user='skirril' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://skirril.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://skirril.livejournal.com/'><b>skirril</b></a></span> though, i can tell how long we have been good friends, bc we have been friends as long as she has been married to <span class='ljuser' lj:user='unwesen' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://unwesen.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://unwesen.livejournal.com/'><b>unwesen</b></a></span><br /><br />oh, and <span class='ljuser' lj:user='hakerh' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://hakerh.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://hakerh.livejournal.com/'><b>hakerh</b></a></span> but that is because i know her in real life. so she is probably definitely my longest, since we have been friends since freshman year of high school :). same with <l user="plainjane007"><br /><br />OH and <span class='ljuser' lj:user='keibatsu' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://keibatsu.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://keibatsu.livejournal.com/'><b>keibatsu</b></a></span> bc i was friends with Kent BEFORE i got aim!. so in terms of JUST eljay, he might be the longest<br />though i dont talk to him anymore, which is sad. he is hilarious<br /><br />and of course I am "closest" to <span class='ljuser' lj:user='zoradiveteam' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://zoradiveteam.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://zoradiveteam.livejournal.com/'><b>zoradiveteam</b></a></span> as he is my life partner :) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:652294 2009-04-21T02:19:54Z 2009-04-21T02:19:54Z god bless the broken road by Rascall Flatts so whats new.<br />i have been so good about blogging!<br />i am now into may with scheduled posts. WOOT WOOT<br /><br />there was an ad on pandora. wicked weird<br />though it makes sense. and it was only like 5 seconds<br /><br />might have someone coming to look at the rabbits tomorrow. woot woot<br /><br />work was interesting today. bev and katherine both called in. so it was lynn kathy and i. it was okay but a bit stressful at times. <br /><br />started Deb Caletti's The Fortunes of Indigo Skye. its good, but its the same as the other book i read by her. it is taking me a while to CLICK with it. but...<br />it is like. i like the characters and i like where they are going but im a little bored. its weird.<br />i usually like OR dislike a book. i dont like it and get bored at the same time.<br />but i think its worth it. the characters are fabulous :) it would be a GREAT movie.<br /><br />i finished Jennifer McMahon's Promise Not To Tell. yeah. go read it RIGHT NOW. awesome. super awesome.<br /><br />i didnt rake because it was cold and windy. and its going to rain tomorrow, but jennifer is coming over, so that should be fun.<br />what to have for dinner? i think sandwiches and soup are in order...<br />ill have to pick up some sandwich meat though. thats okay.<br /><br />what else.<br />i have 4 sleeping beasts on the bed.<br />stewart the corgi, kayden the rat terrier, liza the siamese and hugh the buff.<br />so sweet :)<br /><br /><br />anything else?<br />what are YOU reading? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:651957 2009-04-17T12:28:53Z 2009-04-17T12:28:53Z <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gracefulshrimp/3449351939/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3390/3449351939_17ba3cac32_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gracefulshrimp/3449351939/">Honda Accord</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/gracefulshrimp/">jennysweedler</a>.</span><br clear="all" /><p>Isn't it PRETTY?????<br /><br />oh im just so happy with it :)</p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:651586 2009-04-15T02:34:31Z 2009-04-15T02:34:31Z <div class='appwidget appwidget-qotd' id='LJWidget_9'> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div style='border: 1px solid #000; padding: 6px;'><p>LiveJournal is turning 10 and we're feeling nostalgic. What was your first LJ post about?</p><p style='font-size: 0.8em;'></p><br /><p><input type="button" value="Answer" onclick="document.location.href='http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?qotd=849'" /> <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=849">View other answers</a></p></div></td></tr></table></div><!-- end .appwidget-qotd --> <br /><br />May 1st, 2001<br />it was about macking it with my then boyfriend and getting new kittens.<br />which means that Liz was born in 2001. and is now 8 since the post was about her two brothers urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:651410 2009-04-14T22:12:25Z 2009-04-14T22:12:25Z yeah so<br />nothing. it was basically nothing.<br /><br />she was sick last week, and shouldnt have gone to the ceramics place yesterday. she exhausted herself, got a little dehydrated, her potassium levels were screwed and her protime (blood clotting levels) were all messed up.<br /><br />so she got exhausted and passed out.<br />she has a bracelet that says, call these people, and no one did, or steven and i would have been notified.<br /><br />she came home at 130, and doesnt remember me or my brother going to see her last night.<br />weird.<br /><br />so yeah, all that stress and worry and FREAK OUT for... nothing.<br />so glad yeah urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gracefulshrimp:651157 2009-04-14T12:14:26Z 2009-04-14T12:14:26Z apparently at 130 she called to get brought home<br />justin did it because he is the best thing in my life<br />i am going over to her house now, and seeing what is up, if she is awake of course<br />i feel so beat up i doubt i will make it through the day<br /><br />also, one bunny jumped into the other bunny's cage at 430 this morning to fight.<br />wtf?<br />again, justin to the rescue.