Yesterday we woke up fairly early. First thing, both cat and dog went out. I went about the morning, feeding kids and drinking coffee. When the animals hadn’t returned within a half hour, I was getting pretty worried. Usually morning escapes are used for potty and then right back into the bus. I was planning on getting out of Brad’s driveway, however, I won’t leave without the animals. I ran up the street, and then back down.
Rhea was in a fenced in yard with two other dogs, looking fairly distressed. I was worried I had to knock on the door and ask them to relinquish my dog, but she ended up squeezing through a hole in the fence, visibly shaking for another 15 minutes.
Chikkie decided to worry me for longer. After saying our goodbye’s and thank you’s to Brad during his lunch break, my worry increased by a lot. He didn’t seem very pleased about our presence, as if his decision to help us was based mainly in alcohol the day before, or the fact that I’m not actually a drugged out street rat trying to change up my life (or my tender age and no romantic or sexual interest in him?) made my presence undesirable. Maybe he was just uncomfortable with all my out of the box thoughts and life.
At any rate, I made a missing cat post and then focused my attention on Atreyu’s school work. Before Atreyu could finish reading all 6 practice books, he meandered in. Thank heavens! He was immediately stuffed into his harness, bus started, and after a stop at ARS repairshop (deliver some thank you’s!) we grocery shopped at smiths.
Just as it was starting to get dark, we headed towards Lake Havasu. It was about an hour drive, filled with music, singing and dancing. I feel I should include some youtube links to my favorite songs? It’d give a bit of perspective on my inner thoughts. Nahko’s music is super influential in my life. He gave me the strength to travel with my kids in the first place. Maybe I’ll make a whole post about each song and what it means to me.
We drove through Needles, and in no time we were at the truck stop North of the city. I kept dancing while preparing salad and fish sticks. Then reading, brushing teeth, and off to bed for the boys. I considered staying up and working but I was getting cold and demotivated. Instead I crawled into bed and learned about the video editing app I have. I feel a little less intimidated by the process now, but still plan on sitting down with pen and paper and trying my best to stay as organized as possible about it.
In the morning, a wonderful Montanan knocked on my door and gave me a $20, saying if I was here by the time he got off work he’d bring me more cash. What a nice guy. Though, the kids were excited to see the library again, so I was pretty sure we wouldn’t make it that long. Not long after, Stefan came past getting hot water from the gas station. He has a little bum camp just over the hill, spent his youth traveling about with long hair and long beard, all trimmed in his gray days. We hung out for a little bit chatting.
After Stefan went back to his camp, the kids and I decided it was time to head towards the playground. The animals wanted to run and I wanted to hang out for a little before heading for the library.
It was a little windy, but nothing like the 20-30 mph winds my app had predicted. The boys ran around while I stretched and talked with Saliha. A nice little lunch and a visit from a kind fellow and his SO adorable little dog. I swear it was a toy aussie, but he said it was some kind of chihuahua mix. I still put money on the aussie in her. She was so soft and sweet. Rhea loved her.
And then we headed for the library. The kids went straight for the computers. I didn’t mind today because I knew I had a lot of work to do on my own laptop. I brought out the tiny laptop Crikett gifted me this summer and went right into setting up an online shop at shopify. Only a few hours work inclusive of merchandise design.
You can find it on Matilda-bugus.myshopify.com
It’s still a little rough, but I’m gonna work out the kinks on it. Next project Vlog and home tour video of great quality! I can do this! I would really appreciate some static income. It would help on minor maintnance and major emergencies.
I am trying to put myself into a mindset of abundance. We do have everything we NEED. A water hose and filter would be great so I could get water anywhere, but finding people with a hose attached to their house willing to give me 20 gallons shouldn’t be the hardest thing, even though we’re out in the desert. Also do NOT miss that bulky flushy leaky toilet at all. A bucket and cat litter are just the ticket. So easy, no leaks, no mess, more room.
I got sidetracked. The library guy ended up making the remark that my kids were to be in sight of me, though they were only on the computers and I was at the available outlets, but it was a good time to kick them off the electronics and to the play area. Atreyu found himself a huge Dinosaur book to check out. I grabbed the second Harry Potter. Galixy chose a simple book. On the way out I grabbed a DVD for them, too.
It was already dark but I know where I’m going for these campsites. We ate holiday mashed potatoes, minus the corn. I could’ve sworn I’d purchased some recetly but I can’t even remember putting it in the bus, so I guess I must’ve changed my mind on it. I did add sour cream and cheese and ground flax seeds. Then the kids watched their movie while I started working on here.
By now we brushed teeth and started into Harry Potter. 3 Chapters later, the boys are both sleeping, water is slowly boiling on the stove heating my back, while I contemplate not having taken any pictures in the last couple days? Woe is me! I guess it’s for the better as I have no storage and really must clean up the videos to make more room or get an SD card to force more room! Grrr. Rather go the free route, but facing trying to save the edited video to an already full device, hmpf. I should’ve dumped everything onto the computer while it was on, but I was so busy, and I may need the files more on my phone than on the laptop…
Tomorrow is Wednesday. Middle of the week. The library has story time and the Cavalry church has mass at about 6PM. I don’t think either is really important enough to get us out of our campsite. I have a lot of cleaning and project to do! The kids have more than enough to entertain themselves. I’m going to get into these videos now. At least the paper part. The cutting and tweaking might be a thing for tomorrow, or the day after.
As I’m thinking about my projects, a forgotten project resurfaces and I should really get my mind straight on how I feel and what I would want to say to Galixy’s father if he ever deined to unblock me… Would his presence or words hurt me enough to consider him harmful to Galixy? Would he even ever contribute to our lives? He’ll probably find an excuse not to, but it doesn’t really matter. I just need to get it out and organized instead of in this kermuddle that my brain is.
I hope intensely for your well being and happiness. Loving you!
Stay grateful!
Matilda the Bugus 