The Gypsy on Adventure

Draggin butt

Whoosh...it was a rough Monday on Tuesday! After sleeping for 3 days I needed a nap around 1:30 today! I lost all my gas! I am starting to think this may be some thing else...I think I may get my blood tested if it lasts all week. That is not normal.

The day went by REALLY fast and I even brought my art work over to another location for the employee art show that will be held the 8th-26th. Always makes me NERVOUS showing off my work.

I think it went by fast because some of my fav podcasts updated today and I was able to listen to new stuff! I LOVE podcasts when I work! I learn so much and feel like I am able to do things for my soul while I work! I like the time in my ears to hear what I can change about myself and how I can view my life a different way. Live a way that embraces the good and sifts out the bad and old stuff.

GREAT mail day!

This is amazing! First of all my morning was interesting! I got to work and realized that I forgot my ears for the iPod...pout...AND most importantly MY COFFEE!!!!

So one of the gals in the other department made me a weak pot and then one of the guys from her department called me asking me if I wanted coffee from STARBUCKS! Hell ya! I said yes!  So then I found my old dictation ears and it WORKED on the iPod! Score! Morning taken care of!  

Then I opened my mail!!!! Squeel with delight! Look what I got today!!! AND perfect timing! It matched the outfit I was wearing!!!! Snort! All in all (I won't go into my work woes) it was a great day!

    

Fear of art...I love Podcasts and my iPod!

I was listening to a really great podcast, I love craftcast!  And they were saying how you have to work with intention...when you go into the studio...have intention!

• I am finishing the book
• I am working in Orange
• I am working on the shrine

Write it down. Have goals.

But beware!  Perfectionism can lead to paralysis!
OHMYGAWD how true is this! I am so experiencing this! ALL the time! I have to let go of perfection and enjoy the journey! LET go of the fear of what others will think of my art!

Here is the question:
What part of your thinking has to die for your creative voice to live?

• Fear of acceptance
• Perfectionist
• Precision
• Judgement

Disappointed...

Tonight was supposed to be a Flickr meet up in SF, well there was one, I just wasn't there. I tried calling the restaurant to order and pay for a little tid-bits tray but the gal on the phone wouldn't do it...and I didn't want to argue with my headache. pout. I still have a darn fever and HEADACHE!!! Annoyed to no end! I love these friendly strangers! I would have had SO much fun laughing with them!

I tried to cheer myself up this morning...wearing BRIGHT orange ... came home early... finally assessed my garden...I lost a lot of plants! And the ones left look...tired! I think they are tired of winter too!

I had a nice big cup of the liquid of the gods when I got home from work and studied my garden...imagining flowers in bloom! Dreaming of FEELING no pain in my head! I then sat on the couch with my trusty iPod listening to knitting podcasts and knitting my ribbing on the sweater! I am so excited that I am almost done with it! It is going to be SO cute!

Its a SPRING forward day

Ode to joy, still have a headache and the darn flu stuff...and lucky me it's lack an hour day too! I did have the day FLY by, and I was home knitting. But I did get an awesome Becktress package today! How cute she wrapped it up. AND I have ribbing on my sweater! Things are moving along on this sweater.

It was a get it together day...

In the end I didn't get it all together...Well...have you ever just had ONE of those days from the minute you open your eyes wondering what the hell you are doing? Why you feel the way you do? And where you are going? Then wonder if it is ALL the medication or if you are really having some issues.

I had a bought of anxiety again today and dizzy almost falling down again. I am tired of feeling this way. I was SO emotional driving to the mini art get together that I almost turned around and didn't go. That is not a good way to drive Highway 17!

We started our flags, of course Lucy was WAY ahead by having her paper done already! And seriously I was not in mood for collage...so I did a few attempts and stopped and just worked on my knitting...we went to lunch at a funky little Mexican restaurant and it was great food.

I brought my calorimetry hat/headband to my personal knit doctor, Lucy, and she was able to finally explain to me what I needed to do. I just couldn't wrap my brain around it! Short rows...they are a pain! Especially if you DON'T know what you are doing!

We made for a short visit but I was ready to go home.  I stopped at my fav knit store on the way home and this is scary...they REMEMBERED my name! LOL You know you hang out too long or buy too much when they know your name! Snort But in all fairness I remembered hers! Roz! LOL So there you go!

I picked up some of that fun yarn Lucy had made a scarf with last year, open gauze like looking stuff! I knew it would be fun to play with...and then I FINISHED the calorimetry hat/headband tonight! All but the button and I feel PROUD! Yeah! its done!

Even through the phases of dizzy I was so happy I finished!!!!

Knitting...catching up...

Today I knitted up one full arm warmer AND started the second one. I have a completed mittens and scarf that are mini.  I worked on a couple of swaps...Christmas Exchange and the beginning stages of the Valentines Charm swap.  Worked on the clutter...and put away my clothes that I did laundry on yesterday. Boxed up my shoes that don't fit to take back to the store, sigh...

I don't feel like I accomplished much with my days off...

Hum...

Well...to calm my nerves today I decided to drag out ALL my clothes to the living room that needed to be dealt with...Goal today to hang them up and put away the clothes pile that has been hanging out in my bedroom! They are all clean just piled high with neglect! GAH...AND the sad thing...these are not including the ones already hung up! Snort! GREEDY PIG! Trying to distract myself with de-cluttering I actually hurt my back again! GAH

And the good thing HUGE bags of clothes ready for the good will! YEAH dwindling clutter!

So in the afternoon I was off to the SECOND mammo and ultra sound...the sisters are not happy...and I now have to WAIT for the other films to be compaired to! Oh so much fun...I hate this process. While there, the one tech in the mammo room was great. At least she talked to me and had a personality! I saw the lump...gulp...it is big. But it could be the same one I had biopsied in 1999...I am remaining positive. (Even though no one said anything to me in 2005 that there was a lump...I will remain positive and refer to myself as "Lumpie the Lopsided Sister" for now) The tech in the ultra sound...a cold bitch. Of course she had me lay on my back and in an awkward position and wouldn't listen to me that I was IN PAIN! And she took her sweet ass time and refused to look at me (IN MY EYES) and actually say anything during the 20 minute ordeal! Get a personality if you choose to work in a medical field!

Yeah, so walking not so good! Snort...can you say tons of back bends?

Fowl mood...knitting...and health

So today started off all wrong and didn't get much better, I left the house and went and took myself to breakfast at Denny's listened to my iPod and read while I ate. The meal sucked, they didn't cook anything the way I wanted it. But oh well. Shrug. It's a bad day.

I went and took a 40 minute walk at my favorite park, and settled my bad mood out of my bones! I think it is partly caused by that damn asthma medicine! GAH...I had tight lungs all night and this morning was hard, but I needed to walk, I can't let things stop me from changing my body!

Then I went food shopping! Oh how fun is that right? At least I got all my fresh veggies, salads and fruit for the week! My cereal...that had moths in it I replaced and bought a plastic container to keep it in!

Then I came home and knitted...and finished the purse I wanted to do! I am liking the texture! Just not sure how to put it all together...it is awesome that it is done! AND my shawl redeux is done! AND I started a fancy scarf!  

ooooh...what a story!

I have a good friend at work that bought the last book in the Harry Potter series...she let me up load it to my iPod! So I have been pre-occupied! : )