Most disgusting household job...

is changing the cat litter box and bagging up the garbage from the outdoor garbage cans on garbage day! I've been pulling the bag out of the garbage can each week, making it easier on the garbage man, but...I think I need to catch them and tell them to pull it out themselves. I always line the can with a large bag, it's no more difficult for them than it would be for me, and they are dressed for the occasion! YUCK!

Oh no! I forgot my parents Anniversary, that was yesterday..shoot, I hate when that happens! I'll have to send them an email, and make sure that Dakota does too! Then my Mom's birthday is on Friday, too late to send a real card, she won't get it in time! Today is Roosevelt's Bday, he is Kayley's friend from school (Mya says that Roosevelt is her BF..he he he), he made sure to tell me this morning when they were waiting for the bus!

No real plans today, checked out the jobs online...again NOTHING! Val found a charity site where they make things for kids and other less fortunates, she's working on Teddies for Tragedy out of Canada http://www.teddiesfortragedies.org/ I want to try them, looks pretty easy, then I might try to locate something closer to home, there is a whole list of things for different regions http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/charity-links.html#usa GOTTA TRY IT!

I got a few pieces of mail art done this past weekend, but didn't take pics, I was in a hurry to get them out. And I realized that I never posted a pic of my last painting, so here it is ...

Wierd dreams continue

Lastnight, or early this morning, I should say...I dreamt that one of my older sister's was now working at my daughter's elementary school as a Nurse Assistant, she and the principal called me at the same time and told me that they had to "induce a paranoid shock syndrome" on Kayley because she had become quite unruly in school for the very first time. I was quite perplexed and demanded to know what new type of therapy this was for children and why they performed it on MY daughter without discussing it with the parents first!

That's all I remember of the dream...just very very wierd, if you ask me! Usually I can tie a dream to some show I watched the evening before, but this one I can't..only thing I can tie to this is reading the school newsletter online lastnight and the Nurse's Section of the newsletter kept jumping out at me, but I didn't read that section, just the title.

Kayley and I made Valentine's for her classmates lastnight, they turned out really nice, and I like that they are homemade, more style than your average store bought things. The one she did for her Best Friend, Mya, is so cute...we found a "My Little Pony" pic in a mag, and then cut out a pink heart, and I found the words "Best Friends" from the mag as well.

I also worked on my own Valentine project as well, so that's done. No painting the last couple days, I may do some of that today. And I really have a couple mail art projects that need done, so I should combine the painting and the one mail art project, kill two birds with one stone, as they say.

My female cat, Two Toe, and I are going to wrestle...she is such a Bitch at times! Gets under your feet, then swats at your legs and screams at you when SHE is the one that won't move, now this morning she wanted to bogart the corner of my desk, laying all up on my mouse pad, so I when I pushed at her, she attacked and bit at my hand! That was it...I put her down on the floor..don't know who she thinks she is! She just has a really bad temperment sometimes, very unlike Sylvester, who will let you do anything to him...Two Toe swats and bites at Kayley as well when she tries to pet her anywhere but on her head, and if Kayley gets to close to her face, she swats with open claws...I don't like that at all! I wonder what it is that makes one cat more skittish than another? We've had Two Toe since she was tiny, and she has ALWAYS been very skittish. I think Two Toe was a runt of the litter, so I'm wondering if maybe she had to do more defensive manuevers to get at her mother's tit with her bros and sisses?

Thought of the Day

I woke up with this thought: Why do we refer to our goals or desires as "DREAMS" when actually a dream is something that occurs while sleeping, that is out of our control and may consist of people that we actually may NOT want IN our lives or events that we may NOT want to OCCUR?...Well, it's a thought..I woke up from a dream about working back at my previous employment and I found myself in a relationship with someone there, and he was going to propose to me...I figured I only had that dream because of the episode of Crossing Jordan that I watched lastnight where she's involved with the Aussie Reporter and he was going to propose, but she found herself involved with Woody again as well.

I didn't do too much yesterday...well, then again...I did get creative in my new space and worked on some freestyle painting.
I don't have the knack for creating original things though...I copy off of things that I see...I can't just "think up" beautiful things in my head and begin drawing them. Hmmmm, maybe I don't have "beautiful thoughts" flowing through my brain all the time?

I also did some work on my old homepage. I realized that I had three different homepages, one with Verizon and two with Yahoo (one being under the crconfer ID), so I copied all over to my critfish ID, and totally deleted the crconfer page. a

The manager of the editing job that I interviewed for had asked me if I had experience with HTML coding. I told her that I work on my own homepage quite a bit, goodness, I should have showed her my work right then and there. And I forgot to mention the blogging, oh well, I'll keep my fingers crossed!

New Space

I moved things around yesterday, and it feels so much cozier! My desk was WAY in the front room, cut off from everything, and it's always cold in there, with trying to conserve Oil...prices so high as they are! So I moved my desk and other things into the LR (which I haven't been using either), now I have a nice L-shaped workspace which is closely located to the other two rooms that we utilize in this huge house (besides the bedrooms and bathroom). My intent is to have more workspace to spread things out and do some mail art, maybe some painting...whatever! Oh, yeah...and if I can ever get back in line with the bill paying and record keeping, I have lots of room for it now!

Some day with the addition of more furniture, I'd like to use the front room as a game room/sitting/library room...who knows? So many ideas, so little money! But for now, I just closed those big double pocket doors and it can stay that way all winter long, for all I care! When Spring comes, and I can take all this big heavy plastic down off the windows, I'll be able to see out into the side yard, which will be my secret garden...someday!

Been away too long!

Holy Cow! Can't believe how long it's been since I posted here...my comp was crashed for quite awhile, then had to reload the software for my camera, and it's just been one thing after another. Mainly just getting online to job search really! But WOW...I feel like I've been shirking all my other "duties"...not that anyone really reads this anyhow!

I really need to get back into the mail art; however, I want to do something different with my work area here...thinking of putting the desk shelf up onto the wall out of the way to give me more desktop space to work. Been feeling like I want to paint quite a bit! not that I'm a good painter, either, but hey it's fun and relaxing and rewarding to see something finished! Plus every "artist" has their own creativity unlike any other!

Been pretty upset with my GF and it really came to a head lastnight when, once again, we went out together, but since she is back on her "HoneyMoon Week" with her BF she wanted to meet up with him, then she was all up his ass and neglected those that she went out with to begin with. And it really just irks me, because a week from now she is going to be mad at him and talking all kinds of trash about him, then expect me to be RIGHT THERE! She tries to play it off like she doesn't talk about him, but when she's pissed off at him, she's telling everyone we come in contact with things that are going on and asking their opinions! Anyhow, it came to a blowout lastnight, I just couldn't take not one more gushey lovey dovey word or moment between the two of them with her defending his actions like he's a "real man", so I told her about it and walked out. Her and him ended up following me in her vehicle, pulling over to the sidewalk and I told her to just let it go and grow up, but she wanted to argue her point so I became very agitated and told her that it's all good THIS week and she wanted to be right up in there tonite, neverminding those she came with, but next week it will be a different story, she'll be talking all kinds of smack about him and having me play her "disappearing games" again...she protested that and demanded that I tell him how she has always said that she LOVES him...I agree...she says that she DOES love him, but that's not enough, she talks more crap about him than anything and I'm tired of the roller coaster game. We were both very loud on the sidewalk there, and the resident living there turned on their front porch light, so I made a hasty retreat out of the area with her saying that I was only acting this way because Kevin and Keith left, and I was REALLY mad about THAT! Oh...please...if she could only see how her actions are just so disgusting and how tired I am of the back and forth stuff with her. I mean, sure, I'd love to see the two of them work things out, but I know it never will. Well, maybe with her pushing people like me and her mother out of the picture, and when she is only left with BF, maybe the two of them WILL work things out...but I really highly doubt it!