Here is one I took. I love it cause it is more interesting than the average flower.
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Josh asked me last night if I wanted to go camping. Between the bugs and the poison oak, no… not really. Actually, I think I would love to. We might this weekend. He also wants to drive somewhere. I said the beach, but The Great Lakes are closer and cooooooooooooler. I don’t know if we’ll really go, but it would be nice to do something like this before summer is over.
Last night was my last film appreciation class for the summer semester. It was my only class. I got an A on my 5 page paper & the teacher asked to put it on her website. I realized how it is weird how there are some people who like what I write and then the polar opposite(Josh). He doesn’t hate it, but I am way too long winded and flowery for him. He prefers reading thick manuals to anything remotely entertaining. I am influenced slightly by Bronte & Abbey & Zola when I write-among other poets. I was nervous about the paper because I didn’t want to get some of the technicalities wrong. I have never done a formal bibliography or have ever cited sources with in the text.
Here is another random picture at the Missouri Botanical Gardens:
It reminds me of something out of an art nouveau painting.
Chloe has been doing SO well. She is a little more layed back, but just like before only nail-less(which is really fantastic when it comes to pain). She is so funny when she gets REALLY excited she runs through the house like a maniac. We’ve let her sleep outside of her crate the last two nights and aside from waking me up a little earlier, she’s done pretty well. We still keep the kids door closed, mainly because they leave their toys everywhere and I don’t want her to chew on stuff. They clean their room daily, but I don’t hover over them and stuff gets on the floor. Pretty sure the floor is magnetic. I have also been tucking the garbage can into the little downstairs bathroom(which is near where the can is anyway) so that in case Chloe smells anything she might like to dig for I don’t wake up to the floor covered in trash. So anyway, it looks like she likes sleeping in her little bed(that she has outgrown, but loves dearly) near me(she would rather sleep ON our bed, but yeah-I ♥ you, but no thanks). I want to get her a new bed, but I want to make sure it has a waterproof inside and a washable cover(s). Washing her little bed is a pain in the bum!
We got our shopping “bags” tonight!!
We ended up getting them at Target anyway because we checked out the ones at Dollar Tree and they are TINY!! These where like six dollars each, but we figure with all the grocery shopping we do they will get major major usage. Not to mention most of the vendors at the farmer market automatically bag in plastic t-shirt bags for each individual vegetable. Luckily today we were able to cut down on bags by bringing along our little cooler. I had SO much fun there… we weren’t there for too long, but we got a ton of good veggies and the kids got to play a banjo and the banjo guy sun while they played. 
Trinity got another matryoshka doll at one of the trinket vendors(it’s like Saturday market, only the nonfood goods are pretty much made in China dimestore hippie crap) and the lady GAVE jonas a little wooden doggie that is a puzzle that opens.
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Here is a random picture of a horse that we saw on our little exploration trip of Illinois:
Coraline was a little too much for the kids. Trinity stayed up half the night & Jonas said he had bad dreams and he never does. After the movie he was all zombie and wierded out. They never seem to get that bugged out about scary stuff… but I don’t think they watch too much of it. The last movies I think were a little scary for them was neverending story(the wolf was scary) and Trinity watched Return To Oz with Marina when she was like 3, but I don’t think she remembered it. It scared the ship out of me!! We kept reminding them that Coraline was a. fake & b. had a good ending. I think it would have been different if they watched it in the middle of the day.
Tonight totally made up for this weekend. The weekend wasn’t horrible, but it was what it was. Ugh. Anywho… we got out of the house and walked around the central west end(St. Louis’s equivalent of the Pearl District or NW 23rd for those of you who are Portlanders) we took Chloe and she horked in the car, but we walked all around the extravagant row houses and she had a great time getting lots of love from strangers. We also stopped for gelato before dinner.
Then we drove over and parked at The Muny (Municipal Theater) and took a billion pictures. We saw a ton of turtles and ducks and I found another broken robin’s egg on the ground complete with poor little dead bird fetus inside. Robin’s must have a shit-ton of predators. After walking around the gazebo @ the muny, we walked over to the Boat House restaurant and ate outside with Chloe. More petting & dog loving ensued and we took tons of pictures of the lake and watched people launch off in their little foot peddle boats. There were baby ducks and more turtles waiting to get a little bit of our food or some croutons from the waiter.
Before dinner we met a huge poofball dog named Murphy. He was like a giant cotton ball. He was so big and soft… IDK a giant poodle or something. Well, when we were being seated for dinner we looked out on the lake-naturally. Then we hear this guy yell “MURPHY!!!” and we look over and Murphy had gotten off leash and decided to chase the ducks in the lake and got all soaked. It was pretty hilarious.
We got home just in time to see the Fourth of July fireworks that they decided to launch tonight instead(due to the rain & whatnot last night) We walked out to the big field by our house, but we got eaten alive by bugs and started to walk back to the house. We took some pics over the peanut lake so that the fireworks reflected off of it, then arrived at our apartment and sat with our neighbors–which actually happened to be the best seat in the house! The fireworks were directly in front of us!
I am not saying that they built this just cause of us… but, they totally built this cause of us. 
LOL. We went to downtown St. Louis today to check out their new city Garden. It was their opening day today. It was really nice… I hope their weren’t too many chemicals. Annnnnyway…there are other wading fountains in St. Louis, but it seems like they aren’t very well kept. Hopefully they keep these ones nice.
There wasn’t too many people there.. just a few people & some people with name tags that were very proud about what they had accomplished-getting in the way of everyone’s shots. As long as they keep up the maintenance, I promise to not become too supercilious, lol.
Watching CNN.
People fighting over the climate bill.
People fighting over the healthcare reform.
Argument #1: The job loss. Idiots.
Argument #2: Wait time for a PCP(100 days). Tell that to people who can’t see a doctor at all.
How do these people have the balls to get on TV and argue about these things.
I went for a LONG walk last night. It was probably still 90° out. At least there was no possibility of burning. I took Chloe, but I forgot water. Not good. Neither of the two gas stations would let me have a cup of water. This town doesn’t have enough fountains. :\
Yesterday we went to the Soulard Farmers Market & The Art Museum & The Jewel Box to take pictures and bum around in the heat. At the the museum had AC. We bought strawberries for 1$. We met an old guy that was nice who sold us the strawberries. We also went down the the levees in St. Louis were it seems like they pretty much allow graffiti. There was at least a mile of graffiti. There was a perfect rendition on "the Lorax" …a movie I have always equaled with this area. 
I don’t think it was an accident that they chose that Suess character. It was SO hot. We drank lots of water.
Josh and I went with Jonas to the St. Louis City Museum.
…it is only like 2 seconds long.
More City Museum pics in my flickr.
More City Museum pics in my flickr.
