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22 luglio Mysteries of LifeI'm planning a birthday soiree and it's getting nearer the date so it's time to break out the Lists! I went downstairs and since it's still not coffee drinking weather, IMHO, I grabbed a soda along with my pen and paper and commenced getting organized. For a little noise I flipped on the TV and was immediately distracted by the coverage of the Tour du France. The commentators were talking a mile a minute, animated British accents as tho the riders could hear them. The motorcade was trudging up the steep hill in front of the pack of riders with no more than an inch between them ~ like a marathon on wheels. [how do you stay aloft when you're on top of one another??] Then the camera flips to the leader who is now decending the hill/mountain and the voiceover says he's travelling at 60 miles an hour!!!! Pretty much butt naked on two wheels going around literally U-shaped turns in 40 degree weather. Huh? And I'm thinking to myself, "why?" It's not like it's a one-day thing and it's over. These people [is it only men?] do this for days on end! And as they're racing down the mountain the viewers are shown clips of past races where riders misjudge the turns and FLY over the guard rail! Disappear off the screen! Oh, that's right, they have a *helmet* on.
 I shake my head and think, what possesses these people to do this? There are people lining the roads to cheer them on, everyone is excited and I'm sitting on my bum watching this on TV, just not getting it. If that is what you need to feel an adrenaline rush, what on earth do you do when you can no longer race? What propels a human being to go to such lengths?? Hmmm, the mysteries of life. Couldn't have said it better myself!I get all kinds of "junk mail" [email], not spam but various newsletters, etc. There is one in particular that comes out twice per week [overachievers!] and has a digiscrap freebie attached. I ususally scroll to the bottom and find the freebie without reading the numerous pages preceeding it. Today, for whatever reason I perused the information and began reading the article based on the catchy title. OMW! I think I've found my personality twin! Could there really be *two* of us??? [yeah, i know, there are probably many more] But to actually read my own personality written by someone else, describing *herself*....well, that is just a bit twilight zone-ish.
 So, I'll give it to y'all for a bit of insight. lol Oh, and I don't know who the author is, only Amanda. So, Amanda, if you come across this by any chance, please know I would love to meet you!
Creative Chaos I’ll let you in on a little secret about myself. I’m a bit of a procrastinator and a messy person. Combine that with an artistic spirit and you’ve got the recipe for creative chaos. I make this concoction on a regular basis in my house. Some days it’s actually a bit amusing and on others it’s downright embarrassing. Despite my knowledge of this shortcoming, I am unable to change my old habits. I’m not quite sure when it started, perhaps in college when I would pull an all-nighter cramming for an exam. Somehow, leaving the studying until the last minute, I was able to keep that information in my short term memory bank. It worked for me and it has stuck. I suppose I leave things to the last minute because I am busy thinking things over and working them out before I commit them to paper. The downside to that is other things have a tendency to get set aside. For example, washing dishes and doing laundry! Last year, I had a discussion with a friend about how I was “stumped.” I felt stuck. I kept stewing things over and how I couldn’t figure out a particular design project. Her reply was to point out that I was often stuck and I should either change the way I do things or identify that as part of my process. It never occurred to me that I could actually embrace this as a part of my creative design process. Eureka! (Thanks, V!) I always thought that I was just procrastinating and putting things off, when all along I was really working. It just happened to be I had been working it out in my head. Instead of being a procrastinator, I think I am ‘one that works well under pressure!’ I have chosen to embrace this as part of my creative personality and process. Instead of trying to change it, I am learning to work with it. I think things through, especially while trying to catch up on laundry and dirty dishes and then I’m able to crank out the design because it has already been worked out in my head. Then the cycle continues, because the laundry and dishes pile up while I’m busy making another creative chaos. But hey, that’s OK, while I’m cleaning it up it will just give me more time to think about the next project and what kind of mess I’ll get to make! 21 luglio My Heart HurtsMy heart hurts. That kind of ache that has pressure attached, lands on your chest and sticks. I got news from a friend that just landed on my heart and pushed down. And there's not a damn thing I can do. I try not be one of those people who says, "why??", cuz I believe that God has a reason for everything. Without getting too philosophical, I hate it when life just plain sucks. My dear friend/sister, LBA, how I wish I could take a bit of life's realities away from you right now. Doesn't it go "When life gives you lemons..." yeah, you know the rest. I like the ammended version: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and use it to wash down the Xanax. But that's not your style.
I know you can only walk thru this and you will with the grace and strength that makes you the wonderful person you are, but know that I am saying a prayer for you...thinking of you so much. If you'd like me to throw the hissy fit that you don't have time for right now, just holluh! I love you, my sister.
Wanna know what makes me the most sad? The fact that I live so far away from her. If I could be there to hold her hand, make her a cold soda or just watch bad TV together, it would be a gift for us both.
I'm so sorry you got a sack of lemons. 19 luglio Digital Scrappin'Whoo hoo!!! [everybody dance]
 I am up to my eye balls in digital scrappbooking. Trying to learn the various methods of creating elements to use, combing the net for ideas. Some people are wicked talented when it comes to createing "kits" of color coordinated stuff. Well, I *did* it! Here are my first creations:
Okay, you're saying, "huh?" Well, these are "paper" or backgrounds that I created and I use them to build a page on, print and Voila! a scrapbook page is born! Here's a page I made using someone else's materials:
This leads me to wondering what in the hell I'm gonna do with a room full of scrapbook stuff! I doubt that I'll ever be a digi scrapper exclusively but you save a heck of a lot of $$ and space! I must clarify ~ I got a little excited ~ the pages that I "created" were done so with step by step instructions from Renee Pearson's digital designs2. But I sure feel like I'm learning a lot and have tweaked a couple of her designs to make them my own. Thanks Renee for a great book!!!
SeasonsI hate the heat. No, I *hate*, abhor, loathe, dislike in any fashion of the word, the heat of summer. Today it is humid as a steam bath and feels like 100 degrees. The air is so thick! B and I had some errands to run this fine Saturday morning so I raised the garage door, stepped out into the garage and thought, "hmmm, it's not too bad." Then I breached the threashold on the driveway and the air smacked me in the face!! Like opening the oven door and I muttered, "Lord, I hate this heat." Thank you, God, to whomever you blessed with taking up the mission and creating freon [sp] and AC!! It is one of life's luxuries I do not take for granted. We still do not have our AC fixed in our home, making do with a "window shaker" in the bedroom upstairs. B can't understand why I spend most of my time up here. ?? In the heat of the day the house stays about 10 degrees cooler than outside but it's still uncomfortable. I try to get the housework done in the morning or the late evening when the sun isn't blaring at it's worst.
I have some photos from this past winter in my hard drive ~ they, along with many, play a slideshow as my screen saver. I was struck when they flashed across the screen. The "blizzard" of '08 as they called it here dumped a lot of snow on us. Wouldn't it be lovely to go outside and jump in that snowbank right about now? What a drastic change of weather! It's really quite amazing. Both extremes are a pain in the ass but if I had to, I'd rather shovel snow than feel so damn lethargic in this heat. Did I mention that I hate the heat? It's oppressive and miserable.
::sigh:: Oh well, whatchya gonna do?
14 luglio Blog designMy word, people sure do put a lot of work into their blogs!! As I peruse the world of digital scrapbooking I have run across some *really* hi-tech blogs! [ok, for those of you who know how to do this, you're laughing at my definition of "hi-tech", I know...] There are blinking fonts, scrolling slide shows, colored backgrounds, photos, links...geez, these women [haven't found a man's yet] are either wicked talented or they spend a lot of time deciphering the how-tos. hell, I just tried to change the damn color of mine and gave up. lol Then I found this blog where the woman said "if you wanna redesign your blog, go here." So, I clicked on it and after about step 9 I said, forget it. Go here, design this, upload it to this site on the web then change the URL to this and opload it to your blog and then.....blah blah blah. Nah, I'll try something else. Oh and then she says at the end, "i'll do it for you for $25.00." Right!
I guess part of it is that I'm just too dopey to concentrate. My headaches were so bad this weekend that I wanted to drill into my neck and just suck those herniated discs out of my body!!!! I could *feel* the swelling in my spine and the pressure on the nerves in my head. Nothing I did could relieve it and I just couldn't get comfortable. I didn't want to let B know cuz sometimes when someone else acknowledges my pain and starts with the sympathy I feel even worse. As my friend says, "I'm tired of feeling broken." I took so many drugs this weekend and especially last night that I still feel dopey. I've been typing this for way too long. I keep getting so distracted.
Guess I'll try to change the colors or something.  08 luglio Another DayI'm still alive...not so much kickin'. My headaches are back the last few days. [I have 2 bad discs in my neck that press on my spine and cause severe headaches up and around my eye.] Haven't really felt like writing much. Feeling really negative ~ I *hate* that! And critical. I think I was born with a critical, negative nature and I try hard to fight it. But when I'm tired or in pain, etc., it rears it's ugly head with a vengence! Who wants to read that! Then I think, who the hell reads this thing anyway? And it's kinda *my* thoughts, right? So maybe I should just let it rip and c'est la vie. ??? Maybe I'll just ramble...
I cut the damn grass today. Damn, i need to get a job so I don't have to do that anymore. lol I called the temp place but there isn't much out there that fit my perameters [sp]. Or volunteer. I keep saying that and not doing anything about it. I got online and did you know you have to apply to volunteer? Go thru an interview, etc. ??? Of course it makes sense, but I was surprised nonetheless. Can you imagine being rejected for a volunteer position??? ouch!!!!
Dara Torres. Please be clean! Don't give the cynics of the world validation! For those of you saying, "huh?", she is the 41-yr-old who qualified for the Olympic team by winning the 100 & 50 free in swimming. Wow! Now all the nay sayers are accusing her of doping. Maybe it's just me, but if you *know* that the Olympic trials will be held on a specific date, why wouldn't athletes be tested BEFORE they compete??? Why wait and hold the trials, choose the team and THEN do the testing and cause a big broo-ha-ha over disqualifying someone??? Hello?? As my favorite Doctor says, it's time for common sense to make a comeback in America! I'm just hoping this woman is clean.
Here's another one: I saw it on 60 Minutes or some show like that. A high school has a book in its library. Kids are able to check out the book, obviously. An English teacher decides to use the book in her class. The school board delays in giving her a decision to use the book or not so she sends home permission slips to the parents of the kids in the class. Every parent but one gives her permission to use the book. The kids really like the book. They are engaged in class! What more could you want! Well, the teacher is suspended without pay for using the book because it has fowl language. The Freedom Writer's Diary is the book in question. It's a true story of how a teacher lit a fire under a classroom of "unteachable" teenagers, created critical thinkers and inspired a book. A little of what it's about:
Then a pivotal moment changed their lives forever. When a racial caricature of one of the
African-American students circulated the classroom, Erin Gruwell angrily intercepted the
drawing and compared it to the Nazi caricatures of Jews during
the Holocaust. To her amazement,
the students responded with puzzled looks. Erin Gruwell was appalled to discover that many of
her students had never heard of the Holocaust. When she asked how many in
her class had been shot at, however, almost all of them raised their hands,
and began lifting their shirts to show their scars. This initiated a battle-scar
show-and-tell that left Erin Gruwell shocked and inspired to take
advantage of the powerful energy she had sparked.
Again, where is the common sense??? Calls to mind the times when I was working in DeafBlindness we were dependent on the government to approve funding. How many of those individuals making that decision *ever* spent a week teaching kids with multiple disabilities? Yet they had all the power and *knowledge* to make such a hefty decision! Put the school board of Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach in the classroom of the "unteachables" and see what books *they* choose for the curriculum? argh... Went to see "WALL-E". Not a fan of science fiction, per se, but appreciated the strong message. Moral of the story? Don't let a machine do for you what you can do for yourself. [LOL~ ok, ok, maybe that was *not* the intended message but it struck me!] Got a message that my laptop is fixed and being shipped back to me. Should have it by the end of the week. ::sigh:: Wonder if any data could be saved. I think that's wishful thinking. Oh well. It's 95 degrees in the shade and we still don't have our central air fixed! Maybe *that's* why I'm grumpy! This is rediculous! Enough rants. Wait, one more: OMW!!!! I AM SO SICK OF THIS POLITICAL BULLSHIT! Can you really believe anything they have to say?? Have a good day, everyone.
04 luglio What's Your Color?Isn't that interesting. colorstrology.com says Winter Green is a calming color and is my "birth color." hmmmmmm Before I knew this I had already made my blog green. Perhaps I'm in sync with the world. You can see who I really am at [check out the sniffer, JJJ ~ haha]: http://www.colorstrology.com/colorstrology_sniffer.html
baaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaha That just makes me laugh cuz I've *never* felt as tho I've been on the right path at the right time. Ok, that's an exaggeration. I'm not always a mess.
As my colorscope says, I need to be on stage. I need to create. Time to contact Kathy. |
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