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naked_yak
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Location: North Dakota, United States
Birthday: 11/4/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: anne rice novels, korn, vampires, and all things 17th century
Expertise: who knows?
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
4/1/2003
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| well, as many of you are already aware, fargo is in the middle of the biggest flood in at least a hundred years. at the begining of the week i was all a mess. i was worried-terrified, really that the city was going to go under. well, it seems that the river has reached its high point, though they haven't announced a crest yet, and seems to be receeding a marginal amount. as many of you also know, my parents house is situated precariously close to the red. well, their old house. thats right. my parents did something completely out of character and bought a house in north fargo. they looked at it, made an offer, and three days later signed papers. how insane! so anyway, this new house is not in the flood zone yay! however, they can't move in 'till april. so they emptied the basement into the garage of the new house (the people they are buying from are very nice and understand the unique situation) and everything on the first floor of the old house is packed up and wrapped in heavy plastic. the park district did put a ring dike around the house but dad says they threw it together so sloppily that he doesn't have any faith in it. they also put in a rather larger, more substantial dike to protect the neighborhood behind the house. so worst case scenario is that the smaller dike would fail and the house would flood to the first floor but all their stuff should be alright. the park district, apparently, does not plan on renting the house out again as it is old and needs extensive, expensive repairs. so mom thinks they'll knock it down in the near future. this saddens me because it is my childhood home. i am excited for my parents, they deserve a new house, a bigger house, a house with modern comforts like central air! but again...my childhood home. i have a garden there and memories. i have never known another home from my childhood. i won't even be able to go visit it. i will miss the giant lilac bush and sitting on the back patio watching the lawn slope down to the river. i will miss the erratic appearences of wild life like deer, turkey, blue birds, we even had quail once. i will miss the tranquility of NOT living in the middle of an ordinary city block. i can go back to the site, that won't be a problem. but it won't be the same. ~sigh~ things just don't stay the same
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| ~sigh~ oh there is so much to update about. This month has more or less sucked as i have spent much energy trying to find a suitable place to relocate my life. it is hard to find apartments when one doesn't have unlimited income. but we all knew that already. i have a friend who has been staying with me for almost a month and a half. she moved out to california to be with someone and when she got there found out that someone didn't want her there anymore. they couldn't have called and told her before she packed up her life, given away most of her stuff, and spent lots of money getting there...but i digress. anyhow, she found her way home (a long and trying grayhound bus journey) and called to let me know she would be in town and trying to stay at the ywca. i told her she had better come stay with me till she got on her feet. no friend of mine is going to stay at a shelter while i have something to say about it. but now i'm really ready to have my own space back. i have a small room and i miss having cecil come over and do bed oriented things with me. i know it is my room, but i am not going to kick her out so i can do the dirty. but anyway, she should have enough money saved up to get her own place soon and i am moving out of the house i share with katie on dec first. this excites me terribly. i will be living by myself. and i think i pretty much have an apartment in the bag. i applied there once but got denied because cecil's credit is shit. the guy told me if it had just been me, i would have been approved. so i am applying again, and cecil will have to stay with his mom until he makes enough to contribute to the house hold. he is in such a shitty place right now. it really sucks. but i gotta go! i never seem to have enough time to get down what i have to say!
~the yak
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| as many of you already know, we had to put jack down a few weeks back. this SUCKS. i miss my puppylove. i'm getting a comemorative tattoo of his paw print on may 22. i've been checking in at that tattoo shop from time to time to check on how the artwork is coming along. but the visits are few and far between because its very emotional for me. also, this new xanga isn't as hard to navigate as i thought it would be, so i'll be keeping my page here. huzzah! (but mostly because i like signing "the yak" at the end of my posts)
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| ok, so here's the deal. i was all nice and comfy with xanga. i knew how to get around and i was even learning to use some of the extra applications. god forbid, i may have even learned to put music on my blog! BUT they went and updated their "look" and totally rearranged the site. yeah, i could learn to use it, but at this point i'm fairly comfortable with how myspace works and i'm barely online anymore so i don't know if i will. so this may or may not be my last xanga post. i know i don't update very often but if it starts to be an obscenely long time, try looking me up on myspace. and i'm slowly becoming more acquainted with facebook so you can find me there too.
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ok ok ok. i haven't been online in like a week or more but here is a picture of cecil. i think he had been awake for all of 20 min when i took that. i know he looks kinda dopey in it but i love this pic. i spent the weekend with him and his kids. they are pretty cool. kinda brats but kids will be kids and i kinda think all kids are brats so i may not be the person to ask about this. i think they liked me, though, which is a major relief for me. we went to mom's and made cookies for v-day. it was lots of fun.
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