Des Moines, Iowa
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from Malaysia
seen from United States

seen from Malaysia
seen from China

seen from Malaysia
seen from China
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Japan
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United Kingdom

seen from India

seen from Brazil

seen from United States
Des Moines, Iowa
“My Lords, it is my honor to introduce you to Estra Rain Yager, 9th of Cole’s kin, Exile of Kas.”
“Thank you for coming young ones. You may leave her here Hasari, we will return her to you once these proceedings complete.”
“Yes my lord. - Take courage Love, I’ll be downstairs waiting.”
I am ready to go to sleep. Today was a good day. But it was way too hot. And that made everything pretty hard.
Just slept okay last nightbot I woke up feeling okay. I got up and and sweet pea. Got dressed and felt okay. I had a nice morning.
I stuck to my schedule of working on a lesson plan. I'm almost done the one. I think I'm going to have to stick to you like a half hour a day because that seems to be all I can focus on. But it was something.
She spent the rest of the morning just kind of chilling. Watching videos. Playing with sweet pea. I was very annoyed about my wagon. Because I waited for it to be delivered last night and then I got a message that they lost it in the mail. So I got a refund and I'm going to wait till Wednesday when the refund goes through before I rebuy it. And it looks like it's $10 cheaper now anyway. Still very annoying.
I left here around 11 and like two streets. I got watermelon and iced tea and a cookie. And I sat outside and enjoyed my snack. I brought a mozzarella cheese from home as well and I just enjoyed the nice weather.
It did get way too hot today though. It got up to about 90 and it was very very sunny. By the end of the day there was sunshowers and that was nice. But right now I'm just kind of laying in front of my fan. Tomorrow supposed to be cooler. That'll to be nice
I got to work around 12:30. And did a bunch of cleaning and organizing. Got all the kids artwork sorted so that I could ask them what they wanted to hang in the shower and told them that everything else is getting thrown out. And we stuck to that. I also organized the coloring book so when Chelsi got there I asked her if she could get all the copies made of that. She's such a good teammate.
While I was back in our storage area I was checking on eBay because I wanted to post some stuff to my Instagram and ended up finding the last color variant of the clock Furby that I don't have. And I made an offer in the person accepted after some back and forth. And so I'm really excited that I won the last wish Furby I have wanted. So that was really cool. I'm still always going to be on the lookout but this is still very exciting.
And today was a lot of fun. The kids were good. At recess we finally got to use the basketball court again we skateboarded and worked on things. And that was nice. I got to sit and talk to Tiffany for a bit. I did fall on the skateboard and ripped my shoe which was annoying. But I hot glued it when we got back inside so it was fine.
We have to push bookbinding till tomorrow because of some printing issues. It just took longer than we thought it would. So I jumped in with the project that we were going to do tomorrow which was beading. Teaching the kids how to attach beads on fabric. When I was in grad school I took that workshop with a Native American girl who taught us how to bead traditionally and so I just adapt that.
We talked about Joyce Scott and Native American beading. The kids told me some stuff that they knew about beating. And then I have them all go sit down and wait to be called up to get their Fabric and their thread and their needle. I told each child that they only got one square of fabric and one needle and if they lost it they would be sitting for the rest of the week. I was very serious about that because our needles are kind of terrible. But we don't have a lot of time. They're all kind of chewed up on the inside of the eye so it's hard to string the embroidery floss through it. I was able to make most of it work but some of the beads which is too small and they wouldn't go over the needles. We figured it out.
They really took to it once we got the needles threaded though. At first I was saying I wasn't going to help them. I just didn't have the wherewithal to try to help every single student. But after 10 minutes of them trying I did go around and help them out. Some of them got it better than others. I switched out needles for better ones and figured out a good system. But I am going to bring in different thread because the embroidery floss is just too much to deal with. It just doesn't want to work with these needles. Hopefully they have better luck tomorrow.
They did work very hard though and they all got a little bit strong. Tomorrow I think because we're going to do a little bit of bookbinding and then we met scrap one of our projects that they can keep sewing next week depending on how well it goes on Wednesday and Thursday. We'll see. I'm not that concerned.
There was one issue because Damon stole Ahmad's needle. And then he threw it across the room. So I took Damon's needle and gave it to Ahmad. And told Damon that he can go find the needle that he threw. He then proceeded to have a hissy fit and I told Chelsi that he's not going on the field trip. It was already a close call because he's barely ever with us anymore. But after that it's just not going to happen.
We cleaned up at the end of the day and with the last 5 I had we play the vocab game. Finished up and went home.
I was able to catch the early bus and looked out because the next one wasn't coming for 40 minutes. I'm at James at Straits and we got drinks and snacks. A lemon and an avocado. And then we biked to his house
Jimenez quesadillas for dinner. And it worked on our puzzle. I'm just not good at it. I get too overwhelmed. But it's fun watching him do it. We cleaned up his apartment a little talked about what furniture is coming to his house and what's going to storage. And then I headed home.
I got back here and fed my cat. Took a shower. Talk to a kid on Instagram about Furbys for an hour. I thought they were just weird but it turns out they're just 13. Kept telling me that he was like an adult. I just kept telling him that you were 13. But he was nice and just wanted to talk about robot toys and that was cool. Seems like a nice kid
I'm going to go brush my teeth now and get ready for bed. Tomorrow is a long day. Have to be at the museum at 8:30 because I have an in the neighborhood and city builders. Another small group so we'll see how it goes. I think it'll be okay but still. Wish me luck. At least it will be cooler.
Sleep well everyone. Good night
text → Harley & Selina
[ to KEWL KAT😻 ] : Are u alive? ☠️☠️
[ to KEWL KAT😻 ] : we haven't talked in 5 years ...
[ to KEWL KAT😻 ] : & NO that isn't an exaggeration
“How long?”
“Three or four weeks. So really could have been worse, my last darksleep lasted six months.”
“That explains a lot though.”
“Feeling different?”
“Yeah.. very, not entirely sure what to make of it.”
“I know what you mean.”
“Darkness calls but there is no need to be afraid.”
“I understand you’ve just come out of a darksleep. How many would that make for you exactly?”
“Oh.. I.. well I didn’t think I had one at all until recently but I guess my family had wiped the memory of an earlier occurrence.”
“Memory manipulation? Well that is quite an evolution on the Novari baseline. Tell me... what are your specific gifts?”
“I am sorry my lady I do not really know... my father decided it was best to suppress whatever it was rather than train me.”
“You are much taller than I expected but I am not sure what I expected.”
“That is good, the Admiralty has weakened over the years. I have heard good things of Blackflame’s stock.”
“Is it true your grandfather had a harem?”
“That is highly inappropriate Hemmi! We only need to know of her line, not the precise method of breeding these exiles employ!”
“I think it is a perfectly reasonable question Alayna. Knowing her customs will help us to understand how she will integrate.”