Week in the Life - Day 1

[wook77]

I will, in all likelihood, fail at keeping this up for 7 days BUT...

Rules:
1. You must take between 6 and 8 new photographs per day.
2. Your WITL must be consecutive. No skipping days.
3. You must post your photographs at the end of that day, sometime after the last picture is taken.
4. Each photograph must have the time taken beneath and a title, with no other explanation.
5. You must post these rules at your first entry, then link back to it for the other six days so that people will know wtf you're doing.
6. Your post must say "A Week in the Life of [your name/username], Volume [whatever day you're on].



The buttfuckingugly house two down from me.


Arizona storms - bright sunshine on one end of the yard:


and dark foreboding clouds on the other end:


kaalee did one of these and it looked fun, self-portrait where I look taller than I am:


My kitchen:


My orange tree:


My grapefruit tree:


My random pumpkin plants:


The last of my Tastykakes (anyone want to send moar?):



Random photos from when I meant to do this before:

He's half pit bull and half basset hound. He's Jake, the wonder dog:




5pm commute home on Friday:


Book 4 of the Nightrunner Series (this photo also known as, "proof that wook reads in the car at red lights):


My poor car:


I hadn't known that I lived where there was a mechanic's garage four houses up. This truck annoys me as it parks right where I can't back out of my own driveway without almost hitting it. Park near your own garage/house, you fucker. And stop towing in your ghetto beaters.


My ficus tree. Purchased in 1996. Was told it would last MAYBE two months and the guy thought he was ripping me off for charging me 15 bucks for it. I call him Jabba as he is normally ginormous (i just pruned him):




Also GIP! Look at the icon elanorofcastile made me! *lovesliekwhoa*

Comments

[kerryblaze.livejournal.com]

Your kitchen is so pretty!! *covets*

*pets Jake*

I'll send you Tastykakes!!! What kind do you like??

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I picked out the colours and did all the painting but my sister built the bartop. She is MUY talented. Her and my mum spent a long time on it.

OOOHH! Really?! For really realz?! I love the kandy cakes. and the butterscotch krimpets. I really wish that tastykake was out here. Them and Martins. And Gibbles. and Utz. I miss the food from back in PA so bad :(

[best-of-five.livejournal.com]

i need an icon with our city's name on it :D

i just wanted to pop in and say that i FINALLY got taken out to lunch at the new food place that you know very well since you live above it during the day :p and it's really cool. i had the veggie sushi and give it a very enthusiastic thumbs up!! also i'm going to email you to see if this week might work for you for lunch. i think my schedule looks pretty nice and empty for a change!

[elanorofcastile.livejournal.com]

*loves back* *loves your kitchen* *wants to come visit* >_> <_<

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Come visit anytime! I've a guest room now! We could do all sorts of fun stuff around Tucson if you come. But not until next year as I have no vacation time until then and I would want to take time off to hang out with you lots and lots. :D <3

[wendy.livejournal.com]

I want to come have dinner in your beautiful kitchen!

PUPPY!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

YES! Plz do!

Isn't Jake the most awesome thing ever? Look at those stubby basset legs with that giant pit bull head! He is <3.

[red_squared]

Your kitchen is gorgeous. I love the redness!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I love that deep red as it sets off the cabinets so nicely! There are some really lovely knots and graining in the cabinets, too.

The bartop is awesome! My sister and mum made it and they are just really really talented :D

[best-of-five.livejournal.com]

aww! piccies are so nice. can't wait to see it all :D

also, it can be mocking time now plz? SHADOW RETURNS -dies laughing-

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Heee! There are plenty more, hopefully. If I remember and I'm not too busy chatting with someone at work.

Mock and I will hurt you in your sleep on our trip.

[the_rainbow_jen]

Your poochie is awesome. As is your taste in reading material (I heart Linda Howard, heh). I want to come live with you! :D

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Hee, well, that's the dog I dogsit instead of one of mine. I'll try to get all four for photos tomorrow :D.

Linda Howard is awesome! I love Julie Garwood, too. I'm currently reading Book 2 of the Brenda Novak "The Last Stand" trilogy. Have you tried that yet? Trust me was excellent and Stop me is really good so far!

Come on down!!!!

[oconel]

Your kitchen is very nice. And you have an orange tree!!!

I love dogs and Jake looks intelligent :D

In the picture it looks like you have ice on your car.

I stopped reading the Nightrunner series at book two (I didn't read good things about book three, so I was unsure about buying it). Is it any good? What about forth (I didn't know there was a forth, btw)?

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Eee! Thanks! The kitchen is quite lovely. It's one of the rooms I love the most in the whole house.

Jake is super smart and very placid, too.

And hee! It's just too bad that that is the oxidation of the clearcoat across the top. The silvery bits are where there is NO paint on my hood :(.

Book 3 was my fave Nightrunner book. Book 4...errrrrrr....well, it felt like she lost her characters. Too long between books, methinks.

[shygryf.livejournal.com]

awwwww! you have to come meet ginger. she is the cutest thing in four legs. Hero is taking well to being a big brother.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

:D I do I do!

I'm glad they're getting along so well!!!

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

*flails*

You have Shadows Return already?

*is green with envy*

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I do but, um, well, um. It was all right. I've a proper review coming. It's good but not as good as I was hoping.

[waterbird.livejournal.com]

I'm envious of your citrus trees! We've got a plum tree in our back garden, but I counted and it looks like we'll be lucky to get five plums this year.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Hee! I love having the citrus trees. I had lime trees at the other house but the birds ate the blossoms every year.

We've got about 10 grapefruits and about fifty bazillion oranges. Not bad for the first year for a set of dwarf citrus plants :D.

[kath-ballantyne.livejournal.com]

Yay for pretty kitchen and plants.
I squeed when I saw you had Shadow's Return already. We couldn't find it the other day over here.
I was so tempted to buy it from the store where she was doing signings so I'd get an autographed copy but I couldn't afford it.
I've been watching Lynn's LJ and it's a great laugh. She was answering a lot of questions about the series and all.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

EEE!

Shadow's Return is good. It's not as good as I was hoping but it was good. I wanted an autographed copy, as well, but the shipping was way out of my price range.

And I LOVE her LJ. The little questions she answers are so awesome! I love the Tamir triad. Did you read that one?

[fitzette.livejournal.com]

your kitchen is so pretty!! *steals your tomatoes for salsa*

I love all your trees and things. I can't keep a plastic christmas tree alive!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

We're having stewed tomatoes and homemade salsa (we have a jalapeno plant, too) and stuffed tomatoes and tomatoes in our eggs and fritattas and lots and lots of stuffs.

Hee! I'm horrible at keeping things alive. I think that Jabba only lives to spite the dude who sold him to me. When I moved him from PA back down to AZ, he went down to about 30 leaves. It was really sad and I cried because he'd been with me for so long and I couldn't stand to see him so stressed so I really babied him for a very long time. He loves it outside during the summer.

[dark0feenix.livejournal.com]

Very pretty pictures with so many citrus trees and all. I think I'm in love with your kitchen. It's nice and shiny. And actually I don't think the house in the first picture is ugly at all. *hides* :)

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The kitchen is love.

The first house is much more pink IRL. It is justaklfda;dlsfjk PINK. So very very PINK.

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

Add me to the list of folks coveting your kitchen. Man.

*pets Jake*

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks! You're more than welcome to come by and have a cuppa with me anytime!

[kaalee.livejournal.com]

I, too, love your kitchen! It doesn't surprise me that you have such gorgeous, vibrant colors, nor that you were the one to pick out the color and do it.

Also, I want citrus trees.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks! I can't wait to paint my room. Which, hopefully, is happening this weekend. Bright Lime Green and deep chocolate brown and bright blue and a deep teal and a;dlfjka;fjk COLOR!

Citrus trees are AWESOME. I had lime trees but the birds ate the blooms so I never got my limes.

[yodels.livejournal.com]

Are those Kandykakes I spy? My favoritest of all the Tastykakes. Nobody bakes a cake as tasty as a Tastykake.

Love the kitchen!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Kandykakes!!!!! OMG OMNOMNOM!

I love love love them so much. My dad sends them to me for birthdays and christmas. Those are the last of the ones I froze after Christmas.

You'll need to come here and have a cup of tea with me in the kitchen!

[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

i really love your kitchen!! what are tastykakes?

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Tastykakes are the little cakes in teh photo... they're the best. They're a Philly brand and are so much better than like Twinkies or Little Debbies. MMMMMMM

♥

[kethlenda.livejournal.com]

Doggie! What a cutie.

There's something I love about seeing green fruit on a tree. Always have. Not sure why. I think it goes back to when I was a little kid and first realized that those green blobs "magically" turned into fruit.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Isn't he? *huggles him* I get to dogsit him for like 3 weeks in October. I'm so excited! Jake time!!!

I love it, too. I start thinking of what I want to do with it and making all these grandiose plans and then, in the end, I know I'm just going to eat them as is. But the plans are lovely :D

[nefernat.livejournal.com]

That kitchen is beautiful and that counter top absolutely gorgeous!!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The countertop is especially lovely IRL. The colours are even brighter than on my photo above.

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[gryffindorj.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to know I am not the only one who reads at red lights. I'm quite jealous of your grapefruit and orange trees. I always want to grow citrus and it's far too cold here in the winter to do that. *pets your doggy*

[wook77.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'm also really really glad I'm not the only one! I always get odd looks from the driver's next to me but I feel more productive. Sometimes, I write at red lights. I'll drive with my tablet on my lap and then write as much as I can.

This is my first year with citrus trees that get beyond the bloom stage. Down here, there are places where people just let the fruit rot on the ground because there's so much. Me? I snag it all!

Jake is love! I get to dogsit him in October again and he is so cool!

[wearethestars.livejournal.com]

OOOOH, YAY! I love posts like this!!!! I might do a WITL...

[wook77.livejournal.com]

EEE! YOU HAVE TO!!!!

That would be so wicked fun!

[libgirl.livejournal.com]

I love your kitchen! :D Your pictures are lovely and it's fun to see inside other people's lives :D

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And yeah - it's been fascinating looking at everyones! I'm having fun doing it, too. I actually remember to take photos, um, 50% of the time, too!

♥