The Gypsy on Adventure

A sick day

Off today...and great why? Because I am sick from the root canal! Sigh I would rather be off for the beach! It was a beautiful day, not too hot but blue skies and there I sat in bed at least looking out the window once in awhile, but my stomach is so upset with all the medications! I just am so sensitive to meds! It is hard to be cheerful when you just don't feel good.

I was able to at least focus my eyes this afternoon and was able to try to catch up with my artist friends, and see what they have been working on and I ordered the new zines that I have been wanting, but forgetting to do...Being overwhelmed it is hard to do the normal things in your life, and I feel that maybe next week I will start to feel more normal again, I hope! At least normal for me!

I can tell that my other furry babies are worried about me...since they haven't seen me much they come right up and just stare at me, have you ever had 6 eyes all staring at you at the same time with little tears in their eyes? I have to encourage them that I am ok, and that they are still loved too, I have been so out of it since Monday, and they know it and miss Hooter too. Even my parrot is getting down close to me and looking at me and then whispers at me. Normally she is loud when she talks, not this week.

Terrorize me in the afternoon!

Great!

As if life wasn't hard enough for me this week...
tomorrow I get to have my first root canal!
This should be fun!

I'm going to try to stay in denial until I walk in the door in the afternoon! Grrr....
I don't like dental work...WHINE...If I could pay someone else to do this for me I would!

The only up side might be good pain meds, after the horrible experience, that might knock me out! Considering I haven't slept in I don't know how long...that is the ONLY silver in the damn lining I can see!

And why isn't there ANYTHING funny on TV!!!!????? Its all depressing! Time for a DVD! And pretend to sleep!

The Great Hooter Warrior

The Great Hooter Warrior has passed away - this morning at 8:15 a.m.

The photo was taken while Michael comforted Hooter...Your sun will never set again...and your moon will wane no more. And I can't believe the world is still rotating.

We live in deeds, not years;
in thoughts, not figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart throbs.
-Philip James Bailey

Shoes

A good thing before the stores got crowed this morning...I found these!!!!

Nothing makes me happier than a great pair of shoes! Just wish I had a pedicure! So forget the appearance of my unfinished toes! Its hard to be vain...

They are a lot of fun! Of course by Steve Madden...I don't know why but over the last few years, I seem to just buy his stuff!

Connections

There is NOTHING like a life surprise...going along my usual day, an adventure to visit some friends, a nice dinner out with my sweetie. We finally found a good Chinese Resturant near us, we had almost given up on that.

My computer has been persnickity...or maybe (I have noticed today) that I have had no patience at all, and it just may be my sadness overtaking my better side of letting things go, but when I try to post my thoughts my computer has been freezing or not letting me on the site! Driving to where I needed to go today, what a frustrating experience, and stores were just packed, I could feel myself getting grumpy. And of course my constant aching tooth! Grrr! Some people are just annoying - and then some thing wonderful happens!

After dinner I finally get on the computer, I go on the blog and I have a new comment (this is all still so new to me) and so I go to the comment! Excited like a little kid, but then my heart starts to RACE! I don't know how it happened, but there on my comments was a connection - with the AUTHOR of "Dancing Naked with Fuzzy Red Slippers!" A delightful post from the woman herself! How did she find me? How wonderful to have a connection with her...I am SO excited I can barely contain myself! How simply wonderful that she took the time out of her day, (hopefully a better day than I was having) to talk to me! Simple pleasure....connections!

Pallie Sarcastic Woman!

Part of today was a great day...all things considered, Pallie took time out of her busy baby time with her new grandson to visit! I love that sarcastic woman! She is just a lot of fun to be around. Even on a short visit! Time with her and Princess are NEVER enough!

I miss when I irratate her so that she will say "Do I have to smack you one?!" She is just so sarcastic and I love that! And then when she starts talking to you , how she whines! I forget how much I miss that too! I have to find a way to visit her this summer or September...and spend some time with her.

She sat and re-taught Princess how to cast on and off after knitting a scarf...beautiful red eye lash yarn! And she told us about things she has been working on, chenile scarves! They sound wonderful and I can't wait to see them! Of course we didn't get to talk about everything because we just did not have a lot of time...but it was still a wonderful time spent together.

My tooth is killing me!

Ok...I am pretty well fed up with the constant pain in my jaw! I think I might have to get some med's for the pain....SIGH

All I want to do is be able to sleep without waking up every 20 minutes! And be throb free in my jaw!!!! Enough all ready!

Hooter Still No Poops!

Well her foot is still swollen and to my dismay (for the first time in my ENTIRE life I am worried about poops!) she has not pooped!

Who knew that I would be worrying about kitty poops!?

One good thing is that at least she is trying to eat a little more and she is still drinking water! That is good for me for now.

Ray Charles

"Telling me Ray Charles died is the equivalent of telling me Martin Luther King died." — Wyclef Jean

Jerry Wexler, a producer and former vice president of Atlantic Records, described Charles as taking the "music of the church [and putting] the devil's words to it." The influence of Charles' trademark rasp is undoubtedly heard in the singing styles of Van Morrison and Joe Cocker. In the 1960s, the Beatles, the Who, the Animals and other bands of the British Invasion worshipped him, but simply copying his style was a losing proposition given that true soul just can't be knocked off so easily. Charles died at 11:35 a.m. (2:35 p.m. ET), in Beverly Hills, California, his publicist said. The cause was of complications from liver disease.

Charles was a towering figure in pop music history. The term "genius" came from Frank Sinatra -- no slouch in the singing department himself -- and others called him "the greatest pop singer of his generation" and "a true American musical original."

We certainly are losing a lot of one of a kind people lately, usually it seems like the famous die in three's...

I will just try to be grateful that we knew them for a time.

I just can't leave things half assed

Well today was another interesting day at work! It is memory week. One of our guys that has over 30 years retired, so I have been working on a Memory Coffee Table Book for him.

One of my guys said hey can you just scan these photos so I can have pages of them to give to him...of course perfectionist that I am...I ask what are you going to do with it? He says 'I'm going to give it to him for his coffee table!'...then he saw "the Look", and knew he was in trouble, NO don't do anything fancy!

Too late! You retire AFTER 30 years you DESERVE more than weird pages to put on your table! So as the graphic designer I am I HAD to do some thing better and classey for him! And since I am the Department Historian as well I have MANY old photo's in fact, I know where ALL the bodies are buried! And I always shock people with what I have! I have photos from back to 1920s! LOL Don't mess with me or you will be famous in ways you don't want to be! LOL

But most sickly, I just can't leave things half assed! It is just not in me to do that.