Hello again. Checking in before the working weekend begins. Still doing the same job at the same place but now I'm working as supervisor until they find a permanent one. This is nowhere NEAR a glamorous job, especially since I try to attract as little attention as possible. But, I do have a really nice crew that I'm working with right now and it makes it a lot easier. I have a Spiritualist Nursing assistant who swears that her spirit tells her when patients are in trouble. I wish she had a really useful spirit that would tell me what the Megabucks numbers were going to be or that would keep the patients in their beds and not asking for anything when the new season of 24 starts on Sunday. Can I get an AMEN? And here we have the reason that I didn't update for so long...I was on a writer's strike also! I still haven't received any benefits, but I get paid about 50% more than I was getting paid. (Pause for multiplying times zero)




I almost considered making a political post at the beginning of the month, but (probably wisely) held my tongue. Let's just say I am very happy about the outcome, but I still haven't figured out what I'm going to wear to the Inaugural Ball. What DOES a coatcheck girl wear??

I hope everyone is doing well and staying ahead of the game for the holidays!

More Reasons to Screw Around all Day

Back?

I keep saying that I'll start posting again and never do. So, I'm just going to go ahead and do it. My old template was SO old that I decided just to scrap it for now and then I'll edit it later.

Both kids are in high school now and that is good and bad. Good, they're independent and don't need a babysitter...Bad, they have a million and one activities and places to be and can't drive yet. So, taxi service is open! Fortunately, they are both enjoying high school and I don't have too many dramas except that my son (my BABY) has had two girlfriends already this year and is now chatting up a third. YIKE.




The animals are just as crazy as ever. The dogs are mellowing out a bit. We tried them on a raw diet over the summer and that worked out okay except that it was costing 150-200+ a month. So, we put them back on Kibble (yeah, we suck) But! It's really good Kibble. I'll put a plug in for it because it is really the best. No grain, no junk, 75% less Melamine than other leading brands(LOL): Innova EVO The stuff is pretty expensive, but not 200 bucks a month expensive. The dogs tolerate it, but with quite pointed stares at me when I'm cutting up raw chicken for dinner.

Yoda the Wondercat™ is a big clown who keeps all of the other animals on their feet. He loves to run into the room and get the dogs fired up, then race off to another part of the house with them on his heels.


We did have some sadness: Fluffy, my old guy passed away earlier this year. He was the best friend anyone could have ever had and he had a very long, happy and spoiled life.

RIP my buddy, there's plenty more of that where you're at!

It's 30 Days of Do, Bitch!

I guess it's time to stop pretending that I'm going to try to come back regularly or even semi-regularly, so I'm thinking each season for right now...it's still fall, right? Anyway, sorry to keep you all in suspense, but after my disastrous performance at the VMAs, I've really had a lot on my plate. (like stalking Rihanna, that skinny bitch)

So...what is there to talk about? I've been stuck at home for nearly 2 weeks with the dogs because Luca had kennel cough


If you've never heard a dog make a sound like it was hawking up a chainsaw, you've really missed out on something! Poor Luca...he really wasn't as bothered by the whole thing as Kai was. She wanted to go to daycare! Every day until around 1 in the afternoon, she would growl and fuss and stand in front of the front door. She'd start doing jumping jacks every time I made a motion that LOOKED like it was heading toward the door. This experience had me fondly recalling the days of trying to have 30 seconds to myself in the bathroom while toddlers pounded on the door or wandered into traffic. My poor cats, for which 'Dogs at Daycare'='Vacation' were not especially pleased, either.

I actually started a garden IN THE GROUND, if you can believe it. Here there be evidence. Now you know it WOULD have looked better and more convincing had there been actual FLOWERS in the garden, but I have just dug up my gladiolas and put in iris and daffodil bulbs, so you're going to have to use your imagination a little bit. Turn on Dora and grab your magic backpack if it helps. These are some lilies and irises that mom gave me to plant and they're doing pretty well. Behind that is my peony. This one is a deep fuschia, but I have ordered a pale pink (can't recall if it is blush or bashful haha) and a coral colored one. This garden was just the small corner I dug by the peony and I kept expanding it out a little bit at a time. Eventually, I hope to join it to a walkway to the lower yard.


There are also a lot of iris, hyacinth and daffodil bulbs here. I did have acidanthera sort of unenthusiastically blooming, but dug them up along with the glads.








Here are some of the results of my planting marigold seeds last spring. This is actually pretty cool. I must have exposed some of them to radiation or nuclear waste or dog pee because check out the size of this marigold... Ayi!!!! GOING SWARROW TOKYO!!!





Finally, here is a picture of a piece of slate that my youngest found and brought home for the border.




What else...I went to a great class, Advanced Layers, taught by Jane Dunnewold.
I learned how to do silk screen printing, soy wax batik, glue/gel medium resists, flour paste resists and very cool 'faux silk screens' made from interfacing, tulle and house paint and a whole ton of other fun stuff. I came home with dye all over my clothes and probably absorbed into every pore in my body. Since I just messed up my card reader, I'm going to save the pictures of some of my projects for another post.

So...what did YOU all do on summer vacation?

Summer Sprawl

Hello everyone! I am writing to you from Writely, which is google's document writer. I tried using windows live writer and I can't seem to get the proper posting url to work. I noticed other people having the same problem, but I don't see the workaround answer...anyone know?

And WHY, you are probably asking, am I even BOTHERING to find publishing software for a blog that I have so SORELY neglected? You should know the answer to that already. Stupidity (AKA Comedy) happens, and I am either there to perform, experience or witness it and I feel a responsibility to record it. This is not to say that my life has been "Stupidity free" since I last posted...nay nay! I can just never remember the stupidity by the time I get to the computer.

So, lets see...the summer so far, in review. Wake up, hide in the media room reading my email until Evil (the children) awakes. Spend day ferrying, fielding phone calls or scheduling intricate meeting arrangements for said Evil. I do get breaks, because Cuteness (the animals) needs to be fed, petted or walked. To add to this symbiosis, I have (sort of) taken up gardening, as evidenced by my dinner plate sized dahlia picture in the post below. Right now, I am working with containers, which I can keep close to the house so that I don't forget all about them. Sort of a KinderGARDEN, if you will. I haven't killed anything, except for poor "Jack Flower" (the card read, "take care of Jack Flower...he's got a gun!") which is a very hapless impatiens that my kids got me for mother's day 2 years ago. It thrived in a tiny pot until it got too big this spring, so I replanted it in some very nice miracle gro soil in a big hanging planter right in the middle of a sunny window. For all of my care and attention, it turned all powdery and the stems rotted and fell off. "Army of One" ? I don't think so.