stephanie is: 
sore in the scalp…
34 braids down… around 90 to go. the fresh braids are all on one side one my head so i feel like i am going to start walking in circles. there were some spots on my head that got too much sun over the summer and i have to comb dead sunburn skin out once the hair was free. ew. that is why rebraiding is a good thing. my hands are feeling pretty usless at this point, because doing 34 braids for me is like doing 68, as i have to unbraid them first. but i loaf my braids and can’t be bothered to even brush my hair in the mornings so this style is perfect for me.
while i was sick i got the last sleeve finished on my hand-crocheted sweater. it is a custom-fitted ballerina cut sweater in super soft aqua yarn. i offered to make danny a manly sweater in the speckled black yarn i’d been saving but he declined my offer. i think i will design myself a cardigan with it instead. i wear lots of those.
since danny doesn’t really have any days off till next weekend, he only went in to work for a few hours untill things were running smoothly. though now it is 2:30 and there isn’t really anything we could go out and do together.
i am doing well health-wise. i have started eating normal. yesterday i did have digestive distress after dinner but that was the only time i had to take medicine. i am still very very tired. no medicine so far today, though i’ve only had breakfast and snacked on some veggies. i could so eat a grilled cheese sammich on sour dough bread with a side of seasoned fries and a slice of pie. mmmm! what is it about the middle of the night that makes one crave denny’s?
gikiski wrote some interview questions for me. i’m afraid my answers won’t be very exciting or thought provoking as i am damn tired. and there are some things i put a great deal of thought into, and other things i just accept as-is. many times i simply cna’t answer a question without more details… the world is not very blank and white to me.
1. How were you influenced most by the person who influenced you most?
the person who influenced me the most (my dad) made me so much of who i am by raising me alone that i could never list it all. he had a lot to do with my open-mindedness, my love of reading and learning new things, my desire to help others, and my non-judgemental viewpoint.2. What are five things you would tell yourself if you could send a message ten years into the past?
i used to have dreams that i could go back in time to when i was in elementary school. but i would be invisable and just watching myself as others see me. i would not want to send any messages back in time to myself. there are many things in my life right now that mean a great deal to me, and perhaps things would not be the same if i had not taken the exact life course i have so far.3. If you were to write a book, what do you feel most comfortable writing about?
a writer i am not. i’d rather illustrate the book.4. What do you think is the purpose of sadness?
huh. well, what i think doesn’t matter because, sadness is. perhaps we as living beings need a way to sort and remember experiences in our minds that we’d rather not go through again.5. You are on a island and find an unusual chest half buried in the sand. It takes you a while to figure out how to open it since the chest does not actually look old, but beyond new. You open the chest. What would you like to find inside the chest?
that depends. am i stranded on the island? alone? do i have the basics to survive? are my loved ones okay, or do i have nothing left to live for? something like that would depend on the circumstances.
i don’t really like the interview ‘rules’… it makes more sense to exchange questions with each person. if you are interested, then ask your 5 questions to me here, and i will add my answers and questions for you in the same comment. don’t forget to link to your journal/blog so i can check to see if you answered mine. and actually, that might be a nice way for me to find people to add to my lj friend list… i do not add people just because they add me. generally if someone starts commenting to me (or if i see interesting comments in someone elses’ thread) i will pop over to their journal and see if it looks interesting.
hm… 3am now. i need more snail mail! and i have stamps… so if you’d like a pen pal, my post office box address is: 11654 Plaza America DR #239, Reston, VA 20190.
i used to write to a friend’s dad while i was in college. he was in prison the whole time i was there. i do not know what he was there for as he told me not to ask. i just wanted to brighten his days and i enjoyed his return letters. i felt secure writing him at the time since i lived in a secured dorm and he was my friend’s dad. my letters to him were silly – always on my cartoon startionary collection with the envelope covered in stickers. many times he’d complain if the security people cut some of the stickers off before the letter got to him.
before that, my pen pals were best friends that moved away. i was very vigilant in writing back for years, but in both cases they moved/changed schools and they forgot to give me their new address. dang, no love for me. one of them i write from 2nd grade through 5th. the other during middle school. they had both moved to other countries.
i need food, i think.