We're off to Lethbridge tomorrow morning to go to K's University. I'm looking forward to it, she'll meet her profs and everything, that's a good start. I want to take lots of pics.

I listen to the news about H1N1 flu aka swine flu. Part of me gets a little bit scared and another part of me thinks this is much ado about nothing. You get both views if you listen to the news long enough. K is scared, I can tell, she listens to the news now, normally doesn't that much. I hope it's nothing. This world can be scary sometimes, these days. Obama held a news conference telling people to wash their hands. Well duh. Hopefully, we all know that already.

May begins tomorrow. that means June is closer. It snowed for a bit while I was at the college this evening. That's just plain stupid. Enough already. I'm trying to cheer myself up by planning a trip to the Grand Canyon this summer. and Vegas. It'll be our last hurrah before K leaves home.

Mojo challenge 33

What do I love from Peter Pan? Well, Peter asks us "Do you know why swallows nest in the eaves of houses? To hear the stories." That's what I love, the stories. IMO, the library has the keys to the kingdom. When my girl was less than a year old, she would sit in her stroller and look at picture books. Once, in her toddlerdom, I found she had stacked all her books in a pile in her room; the pile was a high as her. Not the best use for books, but you get the picture. I love books and I love stories-the Internet will never change that.

OK, I have to admit it to myself. I blog at the end of the weekend and the beginning of the weekend. As much as I have good intentions, I'm not getting it done any more than that. It'll have to be good enough. Tomorrow our kazoo band is performing in the Red Hat Parade. Gadzooks, I never thought I'd hear myself say that! I'm sitting here, wearing my red cowboy hat, and my kazoo is polished and ready. Apparently the girls are planning to add a shot of liquor to their coffees tomorrow morning before we go do it, I'd better keep an eye on my cup. Heaven forbid they put some in my coffee, I'd be playing my kazoo in Texas. Or maybe jail.

Not much to say tonight. I had a great weekend, got lots done. Today was OK, but I had a migraine and so didn't work out. Not sure if it's the weather or what. Went for dim sum yesterday with the Red Hatters and had a really good time, the ladies are all really friendly. That makes it easier for someone like me to get to know them.

That's it for tonight. time for bed.

Things I love

I've been thinking about my favorite things. What are they and what do they say about me? My top 5 are massages, the library, construction sites, my bed and eating out. Well, let's see, I like to relax and sleep, read and go out to dinner. But construction sites? Not only construction sites, but any big plants like cement factories, automobile manufacturing plants, even the rebar mill not far from here. I love them all. I wonder if there is a travelling group which visits great big places which do great big things on their summer vacation? Maybe not.
But if there is, I should join. Absolutely, I should join.

I hear she's working on something new, have you heard anything?

I've been staying up (too) late working on my art journal and the metal box to keep it in this week. I love it. Stippled various paint and glitter to cover, made a dancer-paper doll, did some mosaic work on one side and shredded some strips of a patterned paper and laid them on top. Added one of the polymer clay flowers I made to finish and a lovely shabby flower from SugarJen's tutorial on A Year of Color.

Then of course that process led to another altered art page on which I wove the remaining strips of paper onto a page which I embellished with glimmer mist and a tulle flower. Am I ever going to get back to working on Cuba? Likely the Americans will be there before I do.

Hey, does anyone know what's up with Google? why don't I get my history when I type in the first few letters of where I want to go? Instead, I get all this useless crap that is someone else's idea of what I MIGHT be interested in. I thought maybe I had accidentally installed the Google toolbar, but nope, it's not there. Is this more Big Brother?

This LO, by the way is done from a newspaper article I cut out, let's see, over 20 years ago. I scanned it and did a digital piece. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and it does represent the BEST memories. We had so much fun, if you look real close you can see me down there in the crowd, under the fireworks, partying hearty. Look REAL close now. :-)

Had a good long weekend, K & I scrubbed the house from top to bottom. It feels so much better in here... now I can concentrate on my art. It's almost bedtime, but I think I shall stamp and emboss something on a piece of lime-green foil I have. Come to think of it, I have some lime-green embossing powder. Oh! Cool! gotta go!

My Imaginary Friend

The current Mojo challenge is to do a LO on my imaginary friend. My gosh, I have so many, it was hard to choose. (That says something disturbing about me, I think). At any rate, this little buddy, Christian name: Harold, spends the day connected telepathically to me and catches all of the thoughts I have that you wouldn't want me to say out loud. THEN, when I get home at night, Harold makes bail and we spend the evening muttering together about:

a. urfy-durfs I have met that day b. what I would like to do to those urfy-durfs c. how superior both Harold and I are to the urfy-durfs. (Reality programs provide the same sort of support for me).

At the end of each day, Harold returns to his little room to sleep and prepare for the next day's activities.

I love Harold.

Had a wonderful day today, it's like summer outside! K & I went to Kublai for supper and I tried to talk her into walking around downtown with me to take pictures, but she wasn't interested. Actually, she was hungry. I did convince her to walk to one construction site with me so I could check out the big hole in the ground, but couldn't see it as well as I would have liked. We heard on the news that 3 railcars had derailed in the city yards and were going to be righted by a crane, but we couldn't get close enough. I would have LOVED to have see that and taken pics! We saw the cranes, but K wasn't willing to drive the truck into the yards. She was probably right, railway police can be pretty nasty.

How Much is Too Much?

Challenge 102-the question is "How Much is Too Much? I'd say, Nothing is too much.

But then, we all know that I like lots of activity on my LO's. This one was way fun, I just kept going and going-the site and their challenges are the perfect vehicle for me. They inspire me and, as the site says, I get to use up my all-too-plentiful stash of supplies. My name is Patti and I'm a scrapbook-supply-aholic. Maybe I'll go to a meeting and recover. or maybe I won't.

It's a fine spring day and I have a massage booked this afternoon-I'm outta here!

Dare 47

Hah! I'm on the first of 4 days off in a row! I'm making the first day last as long as I can, it's now almost 3 AM. of course, I'll regret it tomorrow, but right now it's pretty OK. I got lots of art done today and loved every moment of doing it. Here's my take on the Dare 47: Life.

Life is good, Life is art. Life is the ultimate in creativity.

"Curiosita, Leonardo Da Vince called it.

Started feeling sick at work this afternoon, when I left, I began to feel even worse. So came home and went to bed. I missed kazoo practice and feel pretty badly about that, but sick happens. Back to bed now.

It's late, I just have had a guilt attack for not blogging for so long.

I need to be up in 5 1/2 hours. Having said that, Good night.

Lujack challenge

OK, so I read a newspaper article on Twitter this morning. I am NOT going to take part in that little "time-suck". Why anyone would want to read more of those meaningless snippets of life's minutiae that some folks post every 10 minutes is beyond me. I barely have enough hours in the day to play with my little Facebook pet. :-)

I love the site "Scrapjacked" and have finally taken the plunge with their current challenge on Lu's amazing LO. Here's what I've come up with:

I found this wonderful Challenge site a while ago, haven't been able to get my act together to participate so far. but their Challenge 46 is on the word "White" and I've done a page that replects that. We have snow here, lots and lots and lots of snow, even though it's almost April. I had to go back around the truck when I parked today to make sure my rear wheels won't be frozen in the ice that will be there in the morning, in what used to be a lake. A lake in the parking lot, mind you. Well at least we're not flooding like in North Dakota. I remember sandbagging many years ago when Winnipeg was balling the rising water and it was HARD WORK! I pray it all works out for them and that everyone stays safe.

Had to lay someone off today, that REALLY sucked. I feel angry that it had to happen. Took the Team on a tour of Remand this afternoon. It re-affirms my strong desire to never go to jail. I shall make a point of not doing anything that would get me there.
I was discharged from the Chronic Pain Centre today as well, that's a big success. I'm glad I don't have to go there anymore, it's been a long haul. I had hoped we would be finished today, and probably made things sound better than they really are. But that's OK. I have new skills to deal with the pain and just need to use them. It's a matter of discipline. It's all a matter of discipline, really.

Writing from work, had a challenging drive in today. When sitting in traffic I tried to meditate on Desiderata. You know, "Go placidly amidst the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence." Between deeply spiritual thoughts on that, I screamed obscenities at the drivers who cut me off. Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration, I only screamed at the 11th person and on from there. Why don't people at least wave and thank you for letting them almost take your front end off? I have to admit, I did fantasize at one point just gunning my turbo-charged engine and plowing into the side of the last jerk who made me slam on my brakes. Not exactly going placidly, I guess, am I?

Got up today at 4:30 AM, went to work so that an employee who is leaving early would know that I know he's leaving early. I need to get a real job. My my, left early and got lots of things done, including 65 5x7's. Then I worked out-lost 2.5 pounds this week, I'm sure it's because of the exercise, NOT the popcorn I had for supper one night. And there was Movie Popcorn!!! on the kitchen table when I got home. The popcorn fairy! Yummmmm. Laid down, bad idea, had a heck of a time getting up. But I AM up. For now.

Stayed up late last night playing with my alienskin demo download software. Too much fun.
I really got into it. Not sure I want to pay $200.00 for it though. No, make that, I don't want to pay $200.00 for it. I remember when I paid $200.00 for a car. Granted, that was a while ago, but there are a lot of things I could spend $200.00 on instead of that. Hmmm, if I were a rich girl.......

So on the treadmill yesterday, I told myself I would think about art projects. I didn't think about anything. Interesting how one can spend 30 minutes in mindless nowhereland. I suppose that's a good thing. Shared a meal at work yesterday with someone I like a lot-telling myself I'm too old for this. Maybe, maybe not, I suppose it will unfold in the way it's supposed to unfold.
Went inside Remand yesterday to interview a man, I haven't been in the units there before. it was a bit unnerving, one guy was banging on his cell window. I couldn't help but turn around and look at him, but the fact that the guards were ignoring him tells me he likely needed to be ignored. It was a bit diconcerting. I'm grateful I'm not in jail.