The Gypsy on Adventure

How tough we are on ourselves!

Ha! This ad made me laugh so hard and I thought oh my gawd how true!!! I completely blow things out of perportion when I think of my flaws! Growing daily...literally! I wonder at times how much my self-loathing talk to myself just hinders me from getting this weight off let alone just being happy with myself! AND I have more than ONE hair under my chin!!!! Giggle Listen to this:

The Lovely Bone

Perception: malignant mole. Reality: adorable beauty mark. Perception: bearded lady. Reality: a measly stray hair. Perception: cystic acne. Reality: microscopic zit. You’re a pro at blowing things out of proportion. For some perspective, head to Berkeley’s Herringbone Apothecary.

A little Celebrity!

Ha! I had a good surprise this morning...I started to go through my email, and I have Chubbyville on digest because I get a lot of email from the groups, and as I was reading the digest...and here was this note!

From: "Kitten" <ohkitten@>
Date: Tue May 30, 2006  12:57 pm
Subject: Home page art!

Oh my...I just got a look at the awesome mermaid on the home page...great work, Gypsy!
xo
Kitten
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Wow! That was it off I ran to see the home page! Eeeep! There my mermaid was!!!! I guess I should have used a photo of me smiling huh! Giggle How fun! I am a little celebrity for a time!  I don't know of any other time I have been on a home page! Giggle What a silly rush! Too think I would have missed it if Kitten had not said anything!

Loving days off!

Ah, sweet time off...got woken up by kisses saying good-bye as my BF went to work...he only grumbled a little that I was cozy in my bed while he pushed the coffee pot button and I drug myself out of the warm covers! Grin

I didn't do much today, I went to the post office and sent off my fatbook pages over night. Then I went and bought two lights to replace the ones that broke in my family room...you just cannot do art in the dark! AND I found the 112" drape rod I have been wanting...and it is even shabby chic! Whoot!  I have only been looking for one oh, for 3 years now! So although I have not done anything today, I at least feel like I accomplished something!

I even bought my anti-virus for my laptop today...I haven't been using it until I could afford the virus protection...whew...glad I got it but it was annoying to install! LOL  Now I can use my laptop again...yeah!!!! 

The project my girl friend Angie has been working on was mailed today...I was a participant in it and can't wait to hear the reaction...I can't say much...I am not sure if the recipient reads this or not! Giggle All I can say, It's gonna be good! I love making people cry in a good boo-hoo way! : )  She was so excited that she sent me an email first thing this morning! giggle! I wish I was there to hug her! Why is Texas so darn far away! AND why am I a wimp about flying!

Today my son IM'd me again...hum I think he is missing his mommy! : ) Grin. I don't bug him, I want him to live his life without feeling obligated to me! You know what I mean? No guilt...contact when he wants! I am missing him and it is so good to hear about what he is doing! : ) 

Quotes

If i am not for myself, who is for me?
And if i am only for myself, what am i?
And if not now, when? ~ Hillel

We are each so much more than
what some reduce to measuring
~ Karen Kaiser Clark

New Look

Well...I have been wanting to create my own header and finally today I did...and decided to change my colors to Purple and Orange...I like the way it turned out I think! I will have to live with it for awhile and see if I like it.

Out for the first time

Today was the first day I felt ok. So I finished planting my fleurs finally...and gave them a good watering.

Then I bugged Michael to go and take a walk with me, he really didn't want to, and we have been having a hard time connecting lately. There has been so much stress it is waring on us.  He went, but he wasn't thrilled...we walked at one of the local parks, and off into the annex, you would never know by the photo we were in town. 

Fatbook pages

I finially finished the mini fatbook page, ATC size...the theme was Something Old is New Again. So you took a fat page you already did and resized it to 3.5 x 2.5, I used two that I did not do on the Fatbook Board but in another group.

I used another photo paper that is matt, and I am hoping it is going to be appropriate for the book, it is not text weight...but I may be pushing the envelope...but I am trying new paper to find the best ones.

Only goodness in the Mail!

Well...under the weather today, no gardening, no real arting...well some, but not much...and the mail came! DROOL the mail is here with the skinny Johnny Depp book! YUMMY!

Fact of the day:

I feel much better when I get art in the mail! And I can drool over JD as well! Hum...I can't complain now! Giggle

Quotes

"One kind word can warm three winter months."
Japanese Proverb

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer."
Albert Camus

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
    Mahatma Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi

Take some Universe Advice!

One way to defeat invisible, limiting beliefs, Gypsy, even ones you may not know you have, is to simply dream of a life so grand, that they couldn't possibly make sense.

And then start living that life, today, however humbly at first.

En garde –
     The Universe
It's a dirty job, Gypsy, but the pay is out of this world.