Café Nox

Once again, I have let a while lapse between posts. Alas, I be a bad blogger *sigh*

Anyway…..

The summer is ending. In the space of one week, I went from being a caregiver at a School Age Program to being a teacher’s aide at a Primary School. It’ll be an interesting experience, and definitively a change from having 30+ pre-teens screaming for blood when they realize I won’t bow to their every whim.

While I do realize that pre-schoolers and children grades 1 and 2 have a tendency to throw just as many tantrums, at least they have a shorter attention span and I’m armed with funny voices and plenty of “inner child”.
I will miss many of the pre-teens, though. Some of them were a joy to work with, as where most of the other caregivers. But, it was time for a change.

I haven’t been able to do much site planning, but a few changes have taken place, and I’m working on learning the stuff I need in order to make the changes I want.
’til we meet again, everyone (all four of you) have a wonderful week!
*bweeeeee!!!!!*

So, I’ve decided that on Fridays I shall post videos I find interesting.
For my first posting, I’ve chosen a good topic.

Most people think I’m completely off my rocker. They’re right of course. Also, the kids at work have been increasingly noticing that I’m crazy. Very often they point out how random I am. Many wonder how my brain works to come up with such oddities. So…..here’s the answer to:

How does my brain work? Imagine if you can, that every single person/animal in this video is one of my brain cells attempting to process infomration:

………..I hope I have answered your question.

It’s been a while once more.

Things have happened around my family. My brother bought a house, my sister moved to Montreal.
My Grandmother Teresa Mejia passed away. I do not plan to elaborate on what her passing has meant to me right now.

I’m looking for another job. Had an interview with one of the local schools and we’ll see what happens.

I’ve seriously started thinking about being self-employed. I just have to find out what can I do that could bring in some money.

I overslept this morning, was late for work and am now very dopey. Doing laundry, and dishes.
Yes……this is all very exciting.
I think I’ll pass out now *thud~*

YES, the fact that there’s a #1 next to the title of this post should be cause for you to worry. There will indeed be more in the future.

So…..wackyness. Randomness…..yeah………..

*twiddlethumbs*

Anyway, I realized that I haven’t posted anything on this blog since my happy new year blurb.

I got a job, a car and a couple days ago, a new monitor. The monitor is big and shinny and I wuvs it.

I’m also eating leftovers.

And watching my husband pace in blue pj’s and a cable-knit brown sweater while eating hot dogs.

My new car is 11 years old. The fact that cars are so old over here (well…..for the military, haha) makes me giggle to no end. We’re thinking of a good name for it.

YES……we name our cars. The Bear car is called Señor Skippy. Mine so far has the honorary title of Squeegee. That’s what the previous owner called it.

YES…..we’re weird, but if you’re reading this post, then you already know that.

If you’re a webcomic person and enjoy off-the-rocker fun, make your way towards both DAR and Dylan Meconis‘ (author of Bite Me!) site. Their work has been launched for sale and it is a worthy purchase. My copies are somewhere in the CONUS (yay for fancy military accronyms) and should be arriving to my greedy lil’ hands……someday.

I got a speeding ticket. The day after I purchased the van. Pooooooh on me.  I was doing 36 kph. on a 25kph zone. I’m a speed demon. *hangs head*

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that’s all for Wacky Wednesday!!!!!

Everybody have a peachy time!

Over and out!!

*thud*

So the year’s coming to an end. 2008 is a year that will always have a very special place in my heart and life.

I started it out by marrying the man I love and becoming a military spouse looking at an overseas PCS.

I dropped out of school to prepare for the move and we proceeded to go through all our stuff, tossing, selling, donating and deciding what we couldn’t do without.

I travelled to Mexico to say goodbye to my family.

I changed my name, enrolled in a Medical Transcription course and lost my car to a hail storm.

I became a bicycle owner and started building the stamina to ride it – very very slowly – . I enrolled in a Birth Doula course.

I quit my job, packed up our home and took off on a trip to say goodbye to more family and friends. We lost a lot of things to water damage. We left our cats with family.

We took a train trip from Cleveland to Seattle, then hopped onto a plane to Japan.

We suffered jet lag and lost more stuff to water damage.

I injured my ankle, ended up on crutches and lost every single ounce of stamina I had built for the bicycle.

I lost one desktop and a laptop that died over a space of a few months. I bought a new desktop.

I was offered a job and started a mile-long list of background checks for it.

I came to realization that Medical Transcription wasn’t for me and dropped out of it.

I enrolled in a college-level Japanese class.

We spent our first holiday season as a married couple.

I decided to overhaul my website and started planning a cooking section, including video tutorials.

We bought our first piece of furniture together, as well as a car.
The Bear fixed the car with his own hands and taught me how to change a tire.

I don’t think it’s any wonder that we are slightly worn out at the end of this year. Between our wedding in January to our moving overseas, our lives have changed a lot.

2009 will begin with our first anniversary, hopefully me starting my job and the Bear leaving for a few weeks on assignment. If we’re lucky, our household goods will arrive on time, and we’ll actually have our own furniture in our home.

2009………bring it on!

To everyone out there, I wish a great Holiday Season in the company of your loved ones. May this coming year bring you wonderful things!

In other news….I’m having an article on bike trailers/shopping carts published at Okinawa Hai! ^___^

As mentioned in previous posts, I’ve been re-thinking Café Nox and it’s function.

What I don’t want out of my website:

I don’t want to become an online celebrity. Given the fact that there are only about 3 people who ever drop by, I doubt that’s a danger. I also don’t want to have to dedicate every waking hour of my life to a website.

What I want out of my website:

To provide something helpful to others.

My SIL asked me for a recipe the other day and I sat thinking about how to best pass on the recipe. When it comes to cooking, I’m more of a “here, let me show how it’s done”, than “here’s the instructions, just follow them” person.

I have a basic digital camera and started pondering the possibility of answering my SIL’s request with a video on how to prepare the food. In the past, I’ve considered doing more than just posting recipes of stuff I like to make, and well……I started wondering about cooking videos for everybody.

I mentioned enough times out loud in my conversations, that the Bear gave me video-editing software for my birthday, hehe.

So yes, cooking tutorials are on the design table for the future of Café Nox.

That’s one of the brainstorming session’s results. I will update on more as I can.
In the meantime, I leave you with one of Brandon Hardesty’s Re-enactments:

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!