Archive for January, 2009

The power of positve thinking …. you betcha!

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Picture this…. waking up in the morning, your very first peek at a new day, but your hair is totally tangled in your headphone wires, so when you sit up your ipod (well in this case my Dare) goes flying in the air, just to swing back and hit ya in the face.   Sad, but true.  OK, so it was bit of a bumpy (literally) start, it will get better, I think to my self.   So I hop down out of bed (my bed is very high for such a shorty that I am) to get my coffee and proceed to burn my tongue.  Oh rats… but that’s ok, I’ll commute all the way across the hall to my office and start my day at work.

Hmm… where is my desk?  I don’t remember all that stuff being on it – I’m sure paper breeds at night.  So a little stacking here & there (I’ll tidy up later) and I start to upload new product photos that I had been taking all week.  Oh no… I have no access?  Only the administrator has access.  But wait – I am the administrator.  I’m locked out of my own photos.  I go back and try my coffee that has been cooling on the coffee table.  Oh no, my caffeine addicted feline has beat me to it.  Yes, there he sits… on my coffee table with his little white chin, dripping with my nicely cooled coffee.  Drat!  I make my way back into my office to work on today’s orders instead.  Type type type… ready to print!  Ugh oh – what is that horrible noise?  What do you mean I’m out of paper?  It’s full of paper!  So I get out the stool (because silly me, put the printer on top of the tall filing cabinet) and proceed to wrestle with the paper, the paper tray, the levers, the flaps, the whoozit, the what-nots…. until I hear the magic sound of the paper gliding into place.  Whew!  Well it’s the home stretch now!  All I have to do is box these things up and wait for the UPS man to arrive.  Let me just reach this box off the shelf…. crash!  20 or so little tiny boxes go flying through the air as the cardboard that holds up all the bags and stuff falls, tipping everything over making it look as though a tornado had touched down, just in my office.  Grumble grumble grumble, picking stuff up, grumble grumble. OK!  Everything is packed up, picked up by UPS, and I think I’m in need of a break!  Let’s pull out that knitting I’ve been attempting to learn.  Knit, knit, pearl, knit knit pearl.  At last – relaxation is setting in, my nerves are settling down.   OK, all calm now, I’m ready to head out the door for the post office run.  Time to put my knitting away.  I like to slide it down to the end, so it won’t fall off the needle…. oops, didn’t look while I slid and pulled it ALL OFF the needle!  All you knitters out there know how to handle such a predicament, but to us novice, nervous knitters – it was the equivalent to shaving off an eyebrow!  That’s ok, I think to myself… still managing to stay somewhat positive after this calamity of a day… I’ll take it down to my knitting shop and have Brenda, my knitting guru fix it. Finally – karma hopped in my lap and Brenda, the miracle mistake fixer, saved my day.  Not just my knitting, but my whole day.  You see last week I put wool on the counter to buy and it went home with the wrong shopper, but today she had it back for me, AND she fixed my scarf and brought harmony to the rest of my day. I left there and took my son and his friend out for dinner.

I had the most scrumptious Cajun fish burger, ever, among 2 very sweet and funny young men.  I’m so proud of the man my son is becoming – he is a gem.  He deserves a sweet gal… are there any left out there?  Our quaint little town is filled with not-so-quaint girls.

I arrived home to find my new friend Kerin had written the most awesome post that included my art piece that sold, and has other really great bird art to show off, including her INCREDIBLE Raven!  I can’t tell you what a fan I am of her birds without sounding like a stalker, LOL  (Looking forward to talking to you tomorrow Kerin!) Go read here: http://remnantsofolde.com/2009/01/31/a-love-story/

Oh – and as far as yesterday’s (or the day before) brooding post goes… let’s just say I took affirmative action to make sure I came out on top – emotionally speaking.  That was confirmed on my drive home from the restaurant as fate would have it… and it just goes to show that the power of positive thinking prevailed.  (either that or there was just no more bad luck left to throw at me today, lol)

Peace!

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The only constant, is change

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

I am the queen of contradiction… I get bored easy, and love it when life mixes up, yet I hate change.  Ya I know, it makes no sense to me either.

The dynamic of people in my life is changing.  People come, people go, some never leave even when they should.  The ones I love the most are always the ones that slip away – heartbreak sure to follow.  Then I grow, make that shell a little harder to crack, and life goes on.  Relationships are so complicated, aren’t they?  My best friendships flourish from the most unexpected places… without effort.  So the ones that are SO much work – are they worth it?  If it’s such a struggle – is it meant to be?  Then those ones that surprise you and just appear out of no where – and they are so fantastic and so exciting, but like a flame on a match – they are burn hot and bright for a tiny while, then poof – they are out.

My friends read my blog (I have said it before and I’ll say it again – I hate how my blog is no longer ‘anonymous’ to my peeps)  … they will all wonder what the hell I’m talking about.  Please don’t ask me, just let me get it out here, like I used to be able to.

OK, so my heart has been breaking long enough… I’m waiting to grow now.   C’mon, make me over it already – make me learn something and move on.  Now!

Just like the sun setting and saying good bye to another day… My heart needs to say goodbye to you…

taken just north of Florence, 1-26-09

taken just north of Florence, 1-26-09

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She’s Flying the Coop!

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Here’s the story… in pictures :)

http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/vw_full.aspx?sbid=1358375

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Tweeting on Twitter

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Reading on the topic of getting blogs noticed, art noticed, etc. I keep seeing ‘join Twitter‘ over and over. So I did. If you aren’t already tweeting on Twitter, you might not know what it is…
It’s basically ‘micro-blogging’…. you post what you are doing at any given minute of the day, or where you are browsing on the internet, etc. Other Twitter members “follow” you, generating interest in what you are doing. (Tweeting is their cute term for posting)

Hmm…. for most times it’s hard to come up with a normal blog post that might appeal to more than one person, so I’m not convinced that following me around my day and hearing when I eat cereal will be much fun, LOL. On the upside though … you can ‘tweet’ from your cell phone, so when you do have something ingenious to share… it can be done on the fly and you don’t have to log onto your computer.

So…. if you want to know all the little details of my life….

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Project 365 : photo a day

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

My son Tyler and I want to do this, this year.  I have a link above in the menu, and in the side bar to the right.  You’ll be able to follow my pics there.

Break out your cameras and do it to – it’s fascinating to see the snippets of your life, down the road.



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Bumpy Start

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

I’m entering 2009 sick with that nasty sore-throat, head congestion thing.  It’s really taking alot out of me, but it can’t last forever right?  I have no voice, which is proving to be a bit of a challenge for my job, but I’m getting by.

I had a great time in Canada for Christmas.  We drove up on Christmas Eve and it was winter wonderland.

View it full screen here: http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/vw_full.aspx?sbid=1251564
You can edit the speed and volume in the bottom right corner

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