Well, yesterday I was all excited to have gotten the frig into the house finally, but I woke toi a very sore left forearm.... it took a direct hit when I was wrestling the frig up the make shift ramp I built to make the project easier yesterday.... it was almost falling off the ramp when I got hit. I bruise slowly, but it started bruising today, isn't it pretty? GIve it a couple days it will be deep purple. The white line in that same area is the scar from my spider bite a few years ago. That arm has taken a beating the past few years.



I guess at my age no broken bones is a good thing, but it sure hurts.

The 2 big news stories in Portland are about a gym owner accused of sexually assaulting an 18 yo. He has been tried and convicted in the news web site comment sections so there is no need to bother with a trial. The landlord for the gym site has locked him out of his business. I see it this way, accused is not convicted... every story has 3 versions, her story, his story and the real story. His neighbors say he is a great guy, a God fearing Christian, a good husband and father. I know nothing about the girl. It scares me how fast people rush to judgment based on a very brief explanation of the accusation. Sure, he might be guilty, but he might not.

The second big story is about a police officer who was suspended for using "excessive force" by resorting to firing a single bean bag round to subdue a 12yo girl who was being combative and who assaulted another police officer. This 12yo girl was out at 11pm with gang bangers, trying to ride the Max even though the girl had been banned from riding. She is not a little girl, she looks like an adult, was throwing blows like an adult... and nothing in the video looks like excessive force to me. http://www.katu.com/news/local/70569877.html

Why is a 12yo out partying with gang bangers at 11pm anyway? I am no Oregon cop lover, and the cops here do throw their weight around, but I seriously watched the video several times looking for excessive force and I only saw some cops under an intense physical attack while trying to do their job. So are we going to send her a message that at 12 she can do anything she wants and get away with it? I say charge her with assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, illegal entry onto the Max and turn her over to child protective services since her folks don't seem to care where she is or what she is doing... IOW send her a real valuable message about accountability and get her some real supervision before it is too late to save her.

I have finished all the kitchen cabinet doors I had enough paper to collage, the rest are going to have to wait until I have some more money. I designed an art bag today and sketched some sunfaces for a couple projects I have planned, but I left my sketchbook at Vi's so I will have to post them tomorrow night after work. I'll also post cabinet pics then.

Off to bed for me for now.... I am beat!

I have not missed a single day of AEDM to date, I have been working on one BIG project instead of daily small projects. The kitchen is coming along nicely.... one day of sanding & priming, 2 days of painting, and 2 days so far of cutting and pasting have gotten me over half way done. The following pics are awful, but by the time I get home from work, the lighting is lousy, so the cabinet 1 pic is really crappy because I have not figured out my cell phone camera setting adjustments yet. The pic of cabinet door 2 is better because I had early morning light when I took it. So...Ta-da... work in progress pics so you all know I have not been goofing off the last week (I'll get better ones with the digital camera after I get the project done):


Cabinet Door 1 ( Excuse the crappy pic)

Cabinet Door 2 (still crappy, colors are more true though)

99.9% hand made paper, .01% paint (it was easier to paint the eye pupils that collage them), I may add some painted highlights before I am done.

The collage is MUCH better in person, the neighbor across the street saw them when my front drapes were open and he came over with his wife to check out what I was doing.... I may have a commission to do their guest bathroom cabinet doors before Christmas....but not in sunfaces.

The great thing about this project is it even covered the cabinet door flaws, 2 of them were pretty darn beat up from the prior owners, this covered all of that perfectly. Yay!


No real excitement beyond the progress being made on the cabinets... oh, I did have a walker thrown at me on Friday.... just another normal day in Alzheimers-ville. Every once in awhile I feel like going into retail... at least for a minute or two. Then I walk into a store and hear someone getting reamed by an idiot customer, and reality sets in... that is when I realize that occasional flying walkers and hearing the same story or question 50 times a day really isn't so bad.

I am discovering that vertically done collage requires a LOT of patience while the glue dries, (the kind of patience that I have a short supply of)... BUT the sunface collages are turning out really cool, they are just doing so very slowly. This is almost as painful as cross stitch!

Collage on a flat surface is a whole 'nuther thing all together, but when doing something vertically using handmade papers, the glue has to dry between layers or the pieces start sliding or wrinkling and the colors start running. The background pieces alone took 3 hours to dry enough to trim the edges. See, I cut them large to allow for moving it around a bit, and quickly discovered the paper cannot be trimmed while wet or it tears in ways you do not want it to tear.

Karina walked into the kitchen around 7 and calmly asked, "mom, what in the hell are you doing?" Keegan was quick to jump to my defense, "she is making art, can't you tell?" He then took on a supervisor's role for himself, totally uninvited. Started trying to tell me how to do it, what papers to use, etc. I had to get alpha with him to keep him under control. Angel appointed herself paper sorter and ran with a piece I needed to cut, it took all three of us to catch her and to get it out of her mouth. (She is such a happy little soul when she is up to no good).

It's going to be a late night for me, I want at least one sunface up by morning, maybe 2 or three if it goes well. I am fine tuning the cabinet paint and trim paint and planning other parts during the drying time on the wet pieces. It would be so much easier and faster if I had a place to lay them down, but the safest place to do this is with the doors in place. It has also become clear I need more paper than I have. Oh bother.

Back at it.... I might post a picture during the night or first things in the morning if all goes well.

So this is the layout I came up with, please consider this my AEDM project update for today, it's going to be an on-going thing for the next week:






You can't really see it in the drawings but the stars on the drawers are 3 colors, stars within stars sorta, and the other small areas on the cabinets hold paper mosaic spirals that might look something like this:



Unless it gets too complicated to do it this way, and then it will be spirals within stripes of different colored paper instead.

My patterns are made to size thanks to that free software Big Picture, so
I am off to cut paper and start gluing.... I may be a while ;)

No, I have not lost my mind, the paper will be sealed to protect it. This is going to be great when done, maybe my best sun decor idea yet... I hope. I should mention the cabinets went from Blue to 2 tone brown yesterday and the suns, etc will all be done in mostly neutral colors so they will sorta look like inlaid wood.

I was up at 430am, don't ask me why... it was insane. Not only was I up, I was motivated so I scrubbed and primed the kitchen cabinets. Then I decided to do the dishes, since my dirty dishes experiment did not pay off. I was privately seeing if Karina would do her dishes before I broke down and did them. I had this crazy idea when she ran out of clean silverware it would dawn on her to wash them, but when she resorted to using a cocktail fork to eat her lunch I knew I was doing them after she went to work, and I did do them, 2 dishwasher loads worth of dishes/pots/pans.

I also did a load of laundry, ate lunch and then got about half the cabinets in the kitchen painted with the first coat of paint. Now I am debating things with myself about the collage cabinet door fronts. I have already drawn several sunfaces to collage but I got to thinking about it and now I am torn on which way to go. Should I do the exact same sun on all the doors? Or the same sunface in 1 & 2 & 3, another in 5 & 6 and another in 4 & 7 & 8. Or a different sunface on each door? Or the same face but a different layout of papers for each so they are the same but different looking? Or maybe something I have not thought of on my own...?

Here is my cabinet layout, the numbered sections are the doors the collage is going on:



I am ready to cut the paper, so everyone's input is appreciated asap.

ok, I am up... have been for a bit, doing mundane things so I can play and make art later today. Now I am having coffee and a scone, and surfing the web a bit. In my travels I found this great blog Secret Fragile Skies, it is a truly fun read... great photography and even better poems , quotes and stories. I call blogs like this one a breathe of fresh air, and island, an oasis in the muck that is the internet. It is worth bookmarking and stopping by from time to time. Sorta like The Sweet Home Style Blog... which is filled to the brim with beautiful decor, unusual homes and quaint living spaces...eye candy,inspiration, a visual escape from reality. Artful decor always makes me happy, so does artful clothing and visually artsy food.

That's it for now, gotta get busy so I can justify my play time later

Oh, I know! ART (smirk)...and laundry.

If you read nothing else this week, you need to read THIS. Seriously you do. It is about why we should disband Congress, do away with reps and senators, etc... the reasoning is extremely sound IMHO.

The black friday ads are starting to show up online... let me go on record as saying it is not a door buster if it requires you to do a mail-in rebate to get the sales price, it just isn't. I am not getting up at 3am to stand in the cold for several hours to do a rebate, no one should.

So far the best ads are Kohls (64 pages), Kmart ( some good deals, but no great deals) and Lowes ( some great toolbox and tool prices and some outstanding small appliance prices)... yes I said Lowes, how sad is that? Still not in: Joann's, Best Buy, Walmart. Over all, black Friday so far is not as good as last year....each store has one or two great deals and a whole lot of ho-hum. In fact I may just stay in bed even though one of the 3 things I am actually buying is on for a great price at Kohls ( but requires a rebate after the fact) and another is a decent price at Lowes with no strings attached. It's been a blah year, it might as well be a blah Black Friday I guess, so don't get your hopes up of there being bargains galore to be had.

Busy day today, but I managed to get Vi showered and I also organized 2 kids under the age of 10 to paint art cards for Noah Biorkman without getting tons of paint on their clothes. I also cooked ahead for Vi who is being quite a stinker lately. I have to get up at 7 to get Karina to work for her last day at Spirit Halloween, tomorrow they load the truck.... this means I have the house to myself all day. Hooray! I also have to have a "you have been bad" chat with my tax attorney who has been busy making deals on my behalf and not keeping me in the loop.

A blog I really enjoy is Teesha Moore's, right now she has a ton of videos on journaling if you are into such things: http://teeshascircus.blogspot.com/

Ok, since it is already after midnight I am going to grab some tea and hit the bed since 7am is fast approaching. Some art will be posted tomorrow sometime to catch things up, I did get some handmade paper out of storage but before I can start doing collage on the cabinet doors I need to prime them tomorrow and paint the edges. This is going to be FUN!

It's been a very busy weekend... I am doing my daily AEDM projects but yesterday's is not a finished project. I drew one of the sketches I need to do a collage on one of my kitchen cabinet doors, I will be doing another one today. I need 9 of them, and 6 smaller ones for the drawers. Around working Vi I cannot do more than one project a day, Mon-Wed I will also do another project if evening time allows. The door fronts will be handmade paper collage suns, I must admit I am rather excited about this project. So far in my head they will be done in neutral papers, (that could change to muted colors when I get out my handmade papers and see what actually calls to me). The finished collages will be sealed so the door fronts are washable. I may do one canvas version of each sun to sell or keep as well, I mean as long as I am cutting and pasting, why not? LOL

I have to admit doing art every day this last week has changed how I feel about getting up every morning, and it makes me hesitant to go to bed at night. Yesterday I was so wound up after designing the first sun for this, I could NOT sleep when I got home. I wanted to create it on the cabinet door... unfortunately I left the sketch in my art bag at Vi's and the papers I need to create it are in storage, but I am getting them out in route to Vi's today. My mind was racing when I got home last night and I had to fight to get to sleep, it was almost 5am when I finally succeeded. As a result I am now very tired, but it is a good tired, not the kind of tired you feel when everyone wants a piece of you and it feels like no one appreciates that part of yourself that you sacrifice for them. Mothers secretively go to this dark place a lot, few of them admit it. Luckily I am at a stage in my life where I see no shame in admitting that some days it feels like those I make sacrifices for and some of those I have made them for in the past are sucking the will to live right out of me. Doing AEDM is teaching me that sometimes you have to stand your ground, and it is wrong that society as a whole seems to tell mothers every day that their sole purpose is to sacrifice. It's a conspiracy and a lie, you heard it hear first ;)

I think the deep feeling of loss of self is amplified in creative people especially, people who made choices to try and be normal, to do normal things, to be responsible. Writers, musicians, poets, dancers, artists who work day jobs and to meet the demands of family when all they really want to do is make the visions, words and music in their heads come to life. Someone asked me once where the ideas come from... I think creative people are born with a special spark, they see things no one else sees or understands until the creative person makes it real. As you age the inner desire to create becomes a flame, one that burns you until it gets outside of you because somewhere inside you know time is running out for getting the ideas in your head "real" so you can share them. When you are so busy being "a responsible adult", making reliable money to keep the bills paid, and doing mundane things like cleaning, laundry and cooking or putting bandages on scraped knees and telling teenagers they are truly worthwhile people while trying to stay one step ahead of them to keep them safe as they try to figure out who they are, the flame gets put on the back burner so long it becomes a habit to ignore it. This does not mean the visions stop stockpiling inside your head, in fact they become a heavy burden of sorts. Blame this on too many years working in the medical field, but the only thing I can compare it to is feeding yourself the wrong things and then getting mentally and creatively constipated.

AEDM has been good for me so far, not the burden I expected it to be, more of a liberation. Yes I did art once in awhile... seldom finishing anything, no sense of satisfaction in what I did finish, even if everyone who saw what I had done loved it I felt blah. I think if nothing else, joining AEDM has really made me realize that at least for me, art has to happen every day, even if in only a small way. It doesn't matter if it is a sketch in an art journal, or an art bag, or a painting, or fiber art, or making a robot quilt for Keegan, it has to happen every day, for at least an hour, even if sleep is sacrificed to get the time to do it because I will stagnate if I do not make time for what drives 'me'. Ever felt like that?

So now I ask you, the people who have read this post to the end, what is that one thing you never seem to have time or energy for even though it is important to you? What are you waiting for and when are you going to start making time for it? We are not here forever you know, whether it is an hour of working in the garden, making art, writing a novel, learning to play the piano.... you really need to allow it to be a part of your schedule every day, and you need to make the change in your schedule NOW, in ink, not pencil. Really, you do.

This is the rough draft of 4x6 art card I am sending to little Noak Biorkman in my Xmas card, it is also my AEDM for today:



Still have to do some touch up on it, but you get the general idea... I wasn't going to do a sun, but Keegan said I had to, because they make people happy, and Noah needs some happy. He is still so adorable some days... he is also doing a card, it looks a lot like mine (LOL)

Now, a vodka and 7up is calling my name... might post more later.

BTW, I am not impressed with Tmobile's 3G network, so far it has been slow and mostly not available to me. In a progressive place like Portland, I find it's lack of availability extremely odd. Still making friends with the new phone, and still wishing they had included a couple screen protectors. I did discover no thanks to yahoo or Tmobile, that if I do yahoo via their mobile access, I lose less options, like moving incoming mail into designated folders, and deleting unwanted email is easier.... I am getting access to some things I could not access on my Dash in email... but direct links embedded in emails seem to be less available to me, that coud be Android's fault though. Fortunately I remember being uncomfortable with my Dash at first too.... oh, and Motoblur seems to lock up a lot. Hope they work that out in upgrades.

I am up for a potty run, so posting this before returning to bed, (I had a rather rough afternoon).
My AEDM project from Wed. Nov 4th: Another sun plaque-



I am not quite sure why it is showing so much shading when scanned. I shade from underneath, visually in person it is really subdued, but the scanner seems to pick up more than shows on the surface.

And my project for Thurs. Nov 5th: A acrylic sun painted onto fabric (it is going to be used in a purse later this month)-



The Friday project is going to be a 4x6 art card for Noah Biorkman, the boy I posted about yesterday.

The hardest part of AEDM for me is the scanning and posting... enjoying the art making though. Might even wander into new territory with this, (something sunface free), eventually. Also hoping to dabble in textile art along the way.
For now, back to bed for me.

So I got a tad distracted by the new phone, it arrived yesterday. I was so distracted I forgot to scan my art for the AEDM post, so I will be posting 2 pieces tonight when I get home from work.

AS far as the new phone goes... I can honestly say I do not hate it, a pleasant surprize after the G1 experience. We are still getting use to each other, I really like some things and I am sad about others. Adjustments will need to be made in how I do things like yahoo web mail, and I need to re-train myself to keyboard with pointer fingers instead of my thumbs. I seem to have lost the ability to do mass deletes on yahoo web mail... and when I do delete emails on my phone they are still there when I get back to my computer, THAT is VERY annoying. There seems to be no way to set the browser display to a particular size (for us folks with old eyes), so you constantly have to increase the display size if you want links you can actually hit on the touch screen or text you can see, I have not figured out how to get back to the browser home page without going to the bookmarks and finding it, that is also annoying. BUT unlike my Dash I can open multiple windows and pop between them. YAY!!!

I need to figure out how to approach the touch screen without opening things I do not want to open while scrolling it... i have not even touched the 5.0 camera yet, but it is going to be a step up from my 2.something one in the Dash for sure. So far, I like this phone, the Blur function is very handy, it cuts done how much I need to go to Twitter and facebook, I like the universal inbox, where I can see all new email headers and msgs in one place, very time saving.

My biggest complaint so far...for a $400 phone they could have thrown in at least a couple screen protectors IMHO, the Mytouch included those, and a nice carrying case... other issues: the phone back is a tad hard to get off, but certainly secure. Most of the newer phones seem to have this issue, the G1 felt like the back was breaking when you tried to get it off. I HATE where to placed the charging port, on the left side, it is awkward to plug it in, and seems to pull the phone sideways to the edge of my dresser when plugged in. Small complaints so far.

Now I need to rustle Vi into the shower... I'll ber doing art when she naps this afternoon.

OH, on the subject of art, there is a call out for Xmas cards for a 5yo boy who is losing his fight with cancer, Noah Biorkman, Snopes checked out the story and it is for real, the family is celebrating Xmas sooner instead of later...info can be found here:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/biorkman.asp


Mailing addy to use is also on that page.

I am challenging my friends to not only send a card, but those of you who are even a little artsy, please include a 4x6 art card appropriate for a 5yo boy, something his mom can hang onto when she needs something to hang on to most of all. Paper, fabric, multimedia... doesn't have to be fancy, just happy, hope filled, cheerful, comforting... stick it in with your card, and you need to do this fast...by Sat at the latest.

There is an on going debate on the quilt list about a quilt called "Gollyville", that won for 'best handwork' in the PIQF quilt show. It features Golliwogs in a little village doing everyday life things. Several people argued it should be removed as offensive and racial. I found it online and saw it as a well done, appliqued quilt, even kinda cute. Yes, in the US Golliwog was a demeaning name for blacks in some parts of the country, I still have a topsy turvy doll from my childhood that is half golliwog and half white and sorta Golliwog in appearance, a doll made my my mom with the assistance of my best friend Mary's mom (she sewed). Mary was black and one of my 2 best friends in a small Illinois town where racial tension was not an issue. They made us each a doll to remind us we were connected to each other, we loved those dolls and Mary and I are still in touch with each other. Because of my life experiences I guess Golli dolls have no racial slur connection for me, I find it hard to believe they still have one for anyone, apparently they do. My doll looks a lot like this one except it had knots for hair on the black side, like a golly:



Anyway it suddenly occurred to me this morning the people calling it offensive were white women. I think this occurred to me today because a black quilter said she had seen it and felt no need to write the organizers of the show to register a complaint about it. This got me pondering the whole debate... what is it that makes Caucasians get offended or outraged on behalf of other races, even when the races they are defending are showing little or no outrage over what they are being defended against? Misguided historically-induced-guilt activism perhaps... after all we DO owe blacks, Native Americans and the Japanese Americans a HUGE apology and then some.

Yes there is racial prejudice in the world still today, there is also bigotry and prejudice acted out again different financial classes, women, gays, Muslims, pagans, Jews, Mexicans, the obese and you name it... every day. It's not right, none of it... but I think people get carried away by what or who offends them, so why they take it upon themselves to defend and why or from what is a mystery to me.

The Golliwog actual came to life as the result of a children's book by Florence Upton in 1895, later the figure and name were used as an insult to blacks... but it did not start out as a racial slur. Times change and so do meanings, and it seems to me the only people keeping the racial slur that was connected to this doll alive are those outraged by it and trying to force it to be a racial slur again. Life is complicated, so are people.... ignoring the past or glorying it with negative commentary will never change the past. Oregon is a fine example of this, a couple elections ago someone placed a measure on the ballot to remove the N word from the Oregon Constitution. For those who do not know much about Oregon, this state was founded on bigotry... and IMHO removing that word from the constitution, at great expense I might add, did NOTHING to change the history of this state, the south coast or Oregon still has a VERY limited minority population, and removing the offending word from the state constitution will never change that, people will, eventually.

Oddly enough, in the course of the debate someone posted a link to a boob scarf... and no one found that offensive. It must not have been riding under the 'outrage' radar. LOL

My new phone is suppose to get here today! UPS says it is out for delivery...yay!!!
Off to clean house so I can make time for art... still on track for AEDM, go me!

But I did get my AEDM piece done for Tues Nov 3rd, and here it is... A neutral colored Sun Plaque.
(Approx 5 1/2"x12", acrylics on pine)



I had to work VI today at the last minute so I painted most if it there, finished it when I got home but had to wait for the paint to try enough to slide it onto the scanner. Not being able to close the scanner tight made the color a tad off but it is close enough for now....in RL the color is a lot crisper. BTW that background is paint not wood grain.

Someone msg'd me and asked if I was going to be selling any of the art I make for AEDM, the answer is yes. If you see something you like, click on the picture to see if it is for sale and the blog price will be in the picture info, then private msg me from my info page and inquire about buying the piece you like. If you are not on live journal, include your contact info. Anything that does not sell via my postings will eventually go up on my web page and either Etsy or another online selling page at a slightly higher price.

Now, I need to get some sleep....

Ramie called and told me to be sure to enter the Zazzle binder cookbook cover contest, so I asked her when it ended...(tonight of course at 1159pm). It sounded fun so I went on to check out the rules, and put my painting away to work on it instead. I could not find size requirements so I set my screen to the size of a binder dimensions and got to work on it. I have no special software so I spent a little over a couple of hours on it, went on to make the binder and in the design screen, my design showed up as at least 6 times too small. Holy smoke Batman! No time to redo it, so it's just gonna be my art effort for the day I guess...

They had plenty of foodie cookbook covers, and some cute ones, even some funny ones , so I went in a totally different direction. I almost did a cover of scattered vintage take out menus and a plaque that read " My recipes are so secret they are cleverly disguised as take out menus" because some people do not cook and I figured they could use a book to stash their take out menus in. But then I got this other idea and that was the one I went with instead.... counting this as my AEDM effort, not to worry I reduced the size of it for posting here:



Okay so it is not fine art... I had fun doing it anyway even though I am not really into doing digital art. I even designed a dark brown inside with skulls on it for the liner sections. Maybe they will come out with a smaller binder/notebook I can sell it on eventually.

Been loading the van with a load of "to get rid of" stuff. Cleaned the kitchen and the floors, now settling down to do some painting.... I found a petrified McDonald's Hamburger in Keegan's toybox.... still in the kid meal bag. It was sorta scary how good it looked, it had to have been in there for awhile. I may need to rethink ever eating there again, but I do LOVE their Angus Mushroom Swiss burger!

I have made a decision about Christmas this year.... lots of hand made stuff, (I've been working on gifts since Sept) and I am only buying 5 gifts and 3 gift cards beyond what I can make. I am cheating on the buying. Thanks to Sears and Kmart, I am doing online lay-aways for the 5 gifts I want to buy, that's as far as my budget goes this year. I am hoping this means I do not have to step foot inside a store except to do my pickup. If you want to cheat too and have a store near you to pick up from, here are the links to their online layaway pages, all I have to say is they had better not screw this up! If I have to go shopping at the last minute because of a error on their part, heads will roll.

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/dap_10153_12605_DAP_Sears+Layaway
http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/dap_10151_10101_DAP_Kmart+Layaway

This is actually quite clever of Sears/Kmart... let customers buy online, pickup local, make payments online... makes for easy-peasy shopping, and should help make their store customer service easier to deliver. Unless Black Friday turns out some jaw breaking deals I am staying home from that this year due to budget cuts....except for the Crafter's Warehouse sale...I have to go to that one if they have anything worthwhile at all, it was a lot of fun last year even with the bone chilling hour wait to get into the store. JoAnn's Black Friday sale will be attended on account of necessity only if I need something to either finish or make a gift.

What is everyone else doing about gifts this year? I know Obama says we are recovering, but I do not feel recovered at all.

But here it is... my November 1st AEDM artistic accomplishment:




I thought I was going to have to beat the heck out of my printer/scanner...it would NOT find the scanning software, even after 3 restarts...gawd it was annoying. Luckily, me drinking 2 glasses of wine seemed to help ;)

Night all, more art sometime tomorrow, I already have an idea....yay!

I am up and making art, seriously, I am. A sun ,of course... what the heck did you expect? But it is a new style of sun for me.... pic will be posted later today after I finish detailing it and it gets a chance to dry. This post is the teaser ;)

Gotta say, it feels good to start the day this way...

I am thinking of gathering sun quotes and lyrics, say 30 of them, and doing an illustration for each one, at a rate of one a day.... could make a nice coffee table book/gift.... (or an artsy journal if I do the quotes around the edges). If you have some favorite sun/sunshine quotes or lyrics blips, please share them here as a comment and I'll try to fit them into this.

Off to have coffee and a blueberry scone (which I baked yesterday in my 20 minutes of free time).

In costume my gangster and my evol fairy:

Soo...I WAS going to try to do Nanowrimo this year, gawd knows I have a 100 brilliant ideas clogging my brain, I had a great little guy political rebellion idea for my novel... but then I heard about "AEDM"( Art Every Day Month)... and that seemed like a better fit for my current lack of energy and limited focus, so Nanowrimo waits till next year because I am more likely to actually accomplish a successful finish in signing up for AEDM.

Those who have been emailing me asking where my art is will be thrilled with this decision I am sure... so it starts tomorrow and goes the whole month of November...art in the making on a more regular basis and blogged about, yay! Okay so some of it might be journal pages.... but art is art and fitting it into everyday is a good thing that I do not seem to be accomplishing on my own.

I am getting increasingly amused by the H1N1 flu shot promos... now they are claiming that if pregnant women get the shot it will also prevent premature birth, it adds birth weight to unborn babies, and protects babies for 6 months after birth... OMG it's for the children"/babies" rush out and get it fast! Hell if they claimed it also made you lose 20 pounds of weight without effort or dieting in as little as 30 days there would be fist fights over these damn shots. When are people going to figure out something is fishy in all this hype over a shot for a flu most doctors say is much milder than they were told to expect? Never mind the fact there have been no real clinical trials, at least not reliable ones... no study done of long lasting side effects or adverse reactions, or the safety of the shots... you have been assimilated...go get one now, drag your children down and line them up. I am still opting for D3, C, blueberry juice and a healthy diet, avoiding crowds whenever I can (only because people are stupid enough to think the world will end if they do not go out fully infected).

Please don't forget to sing "Happy Birthday To You" while washing your hands! Only then will your assimilation be complete! (I actually heard a woman doing this in a public bathroom yesterday, the poor little drone) ROFLMAO.... gawd the dumb things people will do on the say so of politicians and the nightly news continues to amuse me day after day.

More from Vi's later, taking my gogo gadget with me...