I am SO blown away! I have a wonderful piece of art on my arm now instead of the craptastic mouse!
I sat from 1:00-6:30 pm with some breaks...and I managed in the heat because there was AC thank gawd! AND I didn't wimp out at all...no issues...it always felt great when he stopped! LOL But I am burning a bit now. I go back in a month for color.
Steve playing and singing! Love you baby!
Well I fit back into my SPRING dresses! YEAH I am so excited! And the last photo of my Craptastic Mouse before it is covered with the new art work!!!! Tomorrow my new tattoo!
It was SO damn hot my car said 105!!!!! with the AC on!!!!
My WGB went to get me a milk shake with his daughter, and she was almost hit by a car that had lost control on El Camino Real and scared the shit out of her, she saw it hit the patio rails and she ran from it...she was REALLY shaken up, and when I hugged her she didn't want to let go! Poor baby, it really upset her a lot and it didn't help the WGB or I any tonight either! We tried to joke around her...but I told her don't be surprised if she dreams about it too.
It is so hot I am stripping and going to bed with fans and a cold shower! GAH I hate heat!
It was in the 90s today! I am MELTING! I am still sick with tummy issues today and left work early! Damn it I have a lot to do and at least I got a lot done before I left at 2. It was a long rough day...but one of the guys from another dept brought me some beautiful fleurs! AND I was able to wear a dress I haven't been able to in TWO years! Yipee!!!!!
Happiness lives in the spirit...not the surface. Happy is a choice. Make it!
I love babies and I got a visit from little 2 month old Nicole at work today! : D Made me happy! AND I am putting the finishing touches on my secret work!
Even though I was tired and hurt...I walked 45 minutes! Whoot whoot! I am not going to give up even when I am STILL sick! Keep going and loose the weight! I am just concerned because I don't have an appitite and I don't want to gain any weight back because my body thinks I am starving...I just don't feel good and I can't eat much...I forced some soup down...gack!
I am SO excited about the weight getting down!
I am working on a secret project...INSPIRED!
Interesting and so can be happening...I have lots of stuff happening this week to spark some inspiration and finish up some great art! AND I was wondering HOW I was going to pay for my new ink...and my check was deposited into my acct from the stimulus! LOL YEAH me! Free ink!
This is a great week, Gypsy, during which you get lots of benefits through other people: ideas, friendship, great experiences, good social events, and much more. The fun begins on Monday when the Sun sextiles Uranus and trines Jupiter. Expect meetings out of the blue that are going to be truly delightful. Something exciting is about to be born out of all of the talk and connection. Much of the week is excellent for all kinds of meetings, networking, and get-togethers. But it's not only that; you also may find yourself joining up in partnerships that will produce excellent results when you work together with another or perhaps a whole team. You can achieve more in a group than you can by yourself, so get out there and mingle. Mars has finally moved out of your sign and is now in your personal financial zone, where it is stirring things up. You may find yourself wanting to spend more, and you might have more bills and more unexpected expenses than you realized. But you will also feel inspired to get back on track as far as your earnings are concerned. The desire to attract greater wealth will be a real motivator right now.
The Eight of Pentacles card suggests that you might feel ready
to take things to the next level, but you need to find your groove or
be prepared to put your all into whatever material, financial, sexual
or other labor of love you are working on. Send love notes, stick with
what or who you know and take a hands-on approach to self-expression.
Prepare to put your time and focus into streamlining the final details
of this matter. Add your own personal touches, for it may be part of a
lasting mark. Line up your options, for your creations could be put out
there. Even in a buyer's market, you can prove yourself to be a pearl
beyond price.
Well I hope this proves to be true for me today...I need to finish two projects with self-expression!
Still sick ... my chest is hurting from all the coughing but I cleaned up my family room my studio is STILL a disaster! I put up my shrines on the walls finally! At least we can sit on the couches with out all my shit laid out every where on it!
Allowing the truth of who you are -your spiritual self-
to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn
to move with the flow of your life.
-Oprah
It feels AMAZING to be able to SEE the changes that I am really loosing some of this weight!
Today was a surprise mail day...My Flickr Friend SoManyIdeas sent my mermaid painting! And a surprise to some one else! I love the way she painted the box! After work and I went and had my hair cut and colored again and it looks much better. Then when I got home there was a box from Dawn...which made me sad because I haven't been living up to my UGRA responsibilities and feel extremely guilty...I have not been doing much art over the last year! I have to write to her...
I love my friend Bewitched on Flickr! She found all of her Kiddles from childhood and I had commented on how I had adored them in my childhood and had them all, and that I don't have one thing left from my childhood due to some issues with my mother.
Then yesterday she surprised me with an altered kiddle just for me!!! IN a box that she painted especially for me! Man she made my entire week and I have to place her in a place of honor that I can see her all the time! Bewitched healed a small sacred wound that was still inside me buried and it feels good to have some healing! Yes, art can heal!
And awesome of awesome! I am finally loosing some of that medication weight! YEAH!!!!
I went to the doctor today, and usually I wouldn't be so damn excited but when I got on the scale, brave woman that I am, I LOST NINE POUNDS since April 4th! I knew that those damn medications were making me fat and keeping the fat on!!!!
I am so fucking excited to see movement downward!!!! Yippeee!!!!! I am back down to 200 and still moving downward...the scary thing is the doc wants me at 131-135...I think I have to take one pound at a time! But I am LOVING that I lost NINE - NINE people NINE pounds!
Today I upped the walk by 5 minutes so I am now up to 55 minutes Mon/Wed/Fri...
Ole!
There has been a lot of discussion about ink and age going on. I have thought many times about it myself. And have decided to throw all the old standards out and do what I have wanted to do for years. I am going to finally cover my old, tired ink with an art piece, that has personal symbols and will represent various people in my life.
What will it look like when your old. Well the ink I have now will look like shit, because it looked like shit when I got it THIRTY years ago! And this month THIRTY years to the month I will be covering it with a piece of art, that will look like art when I am wrinkly and old. Bigger yes, but look much more beautiful than what my current ink looks like...
Boy this crude kicked my butt! I got up around 7am to sleep on the couch so I wouldn't wake up the WGB coughing my brains out again, and slept until noon! Got up took a shower...went to the grocery store and came back and passed out again! This stuff makes you weak! I am tired of coughing and sleeping!
Still sick...didn't get anything done...I did get up and take a shower finally...thud back to bed!
Still sick...no voice...COUGH COUGH COUGH
And I have larangitis...I cannot talk! Waiting for the doctor to call...came home early I am so busy at work I should be there....but I am straining my voice! GACK!!!!
I went to the Pain Management Doc who I thought was going to go over how to live with this pain...instead he wants to do another injection in my spine AND my butt! He says I have TRUE sciatic pain (NO SHIT)...I am nervous and told him I need a month to think about it.
But the good news is he explained a lot of things to me including this will NEVER heal. So I am on the right track doing what I am doing. He told me to STOP the activity that makes me hurt and not PUSH through anything! That if I continue in an activity that makes me hurt I will damage myself more.
So I have to learn to listen to my body! AND the first shot worked a year because I stopped doing the house work that caused the pain! When I tried to start doing it again the pain came back....I have to figure something out on that end for sure. He said the shots only last 6 weeks at the most!
He thought from reading my history that he was going to suggest I use a pain pump that he would do surgery to put one in my back...NO...I am not that far yet. My nerve is not damaged. Its just inflamed or pinched by the disc.
Today I read on Lisa Vollrath's weekly letter that a friend of hers, Mary has a brother Charles who is 58, and mentally challenged, and who could use some cheering up! To read his story PLEASE go to Mary's blog: here
Charles is such an inspiration...please if it is in your heart to make some one smile while they are going through a bad time, please contact Mary colormary@gmail.com and reach out.
Photo taken from Mary's blog...
I have a card waiting to go with the mailman tomorrow, with a little treasure inside.
Look what I did!
Originally uploaded by Little Rosy Runabout.
OMG...We are good influences on each other! This little pixie I know on line did her hair after I poached the idea from Graygoosie!!!! TOO MUCH FUN!
I think we have an official club now! SO cute! we all did it in different places on our hair! This is amazing! Hee hee hee
I got up and got ready for the long drive to Lucy's I packed the good clothes for our dinner out. She had a gift certificate to a French place in carmel. Right before dinner we walked into a DIVINE shop that I absolutely fell in love with! Its Cactus and Beyond Borders! Go to this link! Not as great as being in the store but pretty fantastic!
We spent most of the day working on a few shrines. I finished the Karen Hickerson shadow box by using one of her tools to put the pin through. I started the next Religious Icon Shrine I wanted to start.
I feel very disconnected to every one that I went home after dinner. AND made good timing, got to San Jose before it was really dark. I just can't see at night like I used to.
I started with trying to clean up the studio...and I feel like I am getting no where! I know it has taken a long time to get this way, but it is really annoying me!
I worked on the Karen Hickerson Shrine I have been wanting to put in the shadow box I got...I painted some lace today...just have to figure out HOW to attach the pin!
We do get creative in times of war.The
picture was taken in 1918. It is 18,000 men preparing for war in a
training camp at Camp Dodge in Iowa . A gift from our grandfathers
... (remember you can click on it to see it larger)
LOVING my hair! And I finally found another fan since mine broke! It is HOT!
I made some Chili today, in the slow cooker but I don't think it will be ready today. Pout But it sure smells GOOD!
Today was a nice lazy day, I worked on some mixed media altered projects. Put Crackers outside in her cage while I gardened and she could enjoy the day and get some Vitamin A naturally. We took her to the Bird Doc today to get her wings, beak and nails clipped. Now I can hold her again! She hurts when her claws are so bad! And I could pay the neighbors next store with HER screaming since their kids are always screaming! Hee hee hee
I also bought a crock pot at Target I am so excited about that and it was on sale for $17. I am sure going to love cooking in this during the summer so no heat is added to the house! AND its red!
I was able to sit on the couch and watch my taped programs and Crackers even watched Oprah with me! So funny! But she was happy to be out and sit with me...on this VERY VERY hot day! So I made myself a very healthy nice cool dinner!
Oh I have been in a funk...I have been sad...and I wanted out of the box! I always tell myself when I retire...but I am tired of waiting on my life ... SO I did a peek a boo BLOOD RED change in my hair and I love it!
I love how different it is now...and since I am on vacation until the 21st...my conservative job won't know until I get back LOL I did this yesterday on my first day off and I love it! NEXT you might ask? Updating my ink! I am looking into covering up the mouse with some thing new or at least updating the mouse and adding a new piece of ink.
And so the vacation begins! :D
Today was the lunch date with Paule, we met back at the Mexican restaurant and had a great conversation! I love talking about art with her, she is taking some heavy classes on line for Graphic Design! Very fun! And annoying too! I enjoy her company, we talked about the clutter! OHMY and she wants to go through anything I want to toss so she may have to see my (gulp) mess!
Ah today was indeed MY FRIDAY! I was scrambling to get every thing done before I go because I am not going in on my time off or thinking of the place. I always feel like I do way too much! My goal NOT to think of work at all on my vacation which means I will not watch the news! FREEDOM should help me figure out some things I need to figure out! Including whether I want to keep my job...at all.
I was still working on the Culture Fushion Wrap and it still looks like a bat wing but I am going to go for it, seems every one likes it. I am getting a lot of encouragement to finish so I won't judge myself so harshly and I will finish!
This is what I want to know, even though I know my body is not up to things I PUSH myself! Why? Why can't I just take it slow and do things as they progress? I annoy myself!
So I am now a complete GIMP! After work I walked for an HOUR on a trail OVER a bridge (I hate bridges!) and I gimped the whole way sciatic screaming at me the whole time...but I am NOT going to give up! I am loosing this darn weight!
I continued to hang up my clothes...and try to purge those I don't or can't wear. I am a clothes horse! I found an old necklace I made and so I wore it today, and I am looking for a change! This is just part of the solution. At least they are not all over the darn floor clean!
I really have to stop keeping SO many of them!
SoManyIdeas on Flickr is a delight! I love her! Some one made a silly photo of her and I had thought she looked like Frankfurter from Rocky Horror so I made a collage and added it we all howled with laughter!
AND I am almost done with my zebra cardigan sweater!!! AND my new yarn came in for my next sweater that I want to do, it is beautiful oatmeal yarn! And says it is easy! Snort Yeah, every thing is easy! Rolling eyes.
I know I need some changes...I have been deciding on making some changes, one may have to do with hair, and the other with ink! The necklace is one I made when I first started to bead, I don't even know where my pattern is for that
I stayed home sick, my heart is still ruda-thumping and I just don't feel good. Not sleeping from the anxiety I suspect all the stress is getting to me! Since I left my stress hell hole of a marriage I sure don't know how to deal with stress anymore! My leg is still some what swollen but so much better!
I spent the day trying to be calm. I made pumpkin scones and had banana with it, and shared it with crackers. I tackled some of my clutte
