It's been a very busy couple of weeks and I've been away from the blog for too long!
Summer has finally arrived on the coast and everyone is enjoying the good weather because we all know it's not going to last much longer. We've has a lousy summer this year - not cold, not hot, not really all that rainy, just blah! The flowers have been lackluster with insipid colour and long gangley stems. Finally now that the summer sun has arrived they've perked up and are looking happy and robust.
Work, as usual has been crazy busy. I come home most nights exhausted and totally lacking in any ambition to do anything at all. I'm loving every minute, however it is definitely both emotionally and physically exhausting.
I'm starting into the 2nd busy season of the year for my business. I'm working on Christmas samples and the fall season kicks everything into high gear. Christmas is only 4 months away and time will fly between now and then. I'm also working on 2 travelling journals and 2 journals for my journal partner swap. I plan to make a run to Be Creative this afternoon and then will come back and hunker down to work in my journals. Tomorrow is sample day and then back into the craziness of work next week. Thank God for weekends!
Gotta run. Caio!
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Ok - so this is going to be one of those rants I warned you about. You might want to leave now....or not.
What is up with the fascination with Casey Anthony? I am so sick and tired of listening to the media and seeing her stupid mug on tv every other minute of every single night and day. Enough already!
That creature has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. She is a total waste of skin, air and space and I'm so DONE with her. I am sick and tired of hearing what she did, where she went, what she ate, where she's going and where she's coming back from, what she's wearing....Enough. I could care less about her. With any luck at all she'll get run over by a truck or bitten by a snake - now that would be poetic justice - and die. Good riddance! Or maybe she'll just crawl back under whatever rock she crawled out from under and we can call it a day. Move on already!
I told you it would be a rant.....don't say you weren't warned !
What is up with the fascination with Casey Anthony? I am so sick and tired of listening to the media and seeing her stupid mug on tv every other minute of every single night and day. Enough already!
That creature has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. She is a total waste of skin, air and space and I'm so DONE with her. I am sick and tired of hearing what she did, where she went, what she ate, where she's going and where she's coming back from, what she's wearing....Enough. I could care less about her. With any luck at all she'll get run over by a truck or bitten by a snake - now that would be poetic justice - and die. Good riddance! Or maybe she'll just crawl back under whatever rock she crawled out from under and we can call it a day. Move on already!
I told you it would be a rant.....don't say you weren't warned !
Monday, August 01, 2011
Today is BC Day which means that all government workers get today off so it makes for a nice long weekend.
I've been busy on the home front. I dug out my garden at the front of my townhouse. There were a bunch of rhodos and azaleas that were way too big and overgrown. The roots were a bit of a challenge to remove on a couple of them but we managed, with the help of a friend at the end, to get everything out and the bed cleared. Turns out there were only 4 rhodoa and 3 azaleas but it was a veritable jungle in there. Everything was way too big and overgrown to be even remotely estetically pleasing. Just a big blob of green. I want colour !!
I sent my plant list into the strata and I'm waiting for thier approval to proceed with the planting. However, I did go ahead and buy a few things yesterday as the deal was way too good to resist. The local nursery has a huge sale on as it's getting near the end of the season here. I scored 3 roses for the price of 2 so that was a big saving of $25. WoooHooo! As the roses are in the plan I submitted to the strata and everyone around here has them, I can't see there being any problem with going ahead and planting them. Famous last words?
I had intended to do some overtime at work this weekend but changed my mind at the last minute. I have so much to do here at home I just decided that I needed to be here instead. And clearly I made the right choice! I made and delivered a bunch of wedding cards for the store - my guy is soooooo patient! I hope to get another batch finished today so DD can deliver tomorrow or Wednesday. I did the nursery trip and have some other artsy projects in the hopper so it's all good.
Friends are coming over today to help me ---- well actually, there is no "helping" involved -- he'll do all the work and we'll watch. They are such good friends - I don't know what I would do without them. DD and I try to do things but sometimes it's just beyond us. Sometimes it would be so nice to have a man around! My friend will replace my thermostat with a programmable one so hopefully we can save some money on heat. He's also installing a new smoke detector which I replaced after I had my place painted. We're a little intimidated with the smoke detector because it means turning off the power. We've been told that this might require the gas pilot lite to be relit afterwards....I'm not touching that with a ten foot pole. With my luck, I'd do something wrong and we'd all get blown to china! Best not to go down that road.
Well must run. I want to water my garden and then grab some breakfast. I'm hoping to be able to retreat to my studio for a little while and finish up some cards before the day gets away from me.
Caio!
I've been busy on the home front. I dug out my garden at the front of my townhouse. There were a bunch of rhodos and azaleas that were way too big and overgrown. The roots were a bit of a challenge to remove on a couple of them but we managed, with the help of a friend at the end, to get everything out and the bed cleared. Turns out there were only 4 rhodoa and 3 azaleas but it was a veritable jungle in there. Everything was way too big and overgrown to be even remotely estetically pleasing. Just a big blob of green. I want colour !!
I sent my plant list into the strata and I'm waiting for thier approval to proceed with the planting. However, I did go ahead and buy a few things yesterday as the deal was way too good to resist. The local nursery has a huge sale on as it's getting near the end of the season here. I scored 3 roses for the price of 2 so that was a big saving of $25. WoooHooo! As the roses are in the plan I submitted to the strata and everyone around here has them, I can't see there being any problem with going ahead and planting them. Famous last words?
I had intended to do some overtime at work this weekend but changed my mind at the last minute. I have so much to do here at home I just decided that I needed to be here instead. And clearly I made the right choice! I made and delivered a bunch of wedding cards for the store - my guy is soooooo patient! I hope to get another batch finished today so DD can deliver tomorrow or Wednesday. I did the nursery trip and have some other artsy projects in the hopper so it's all good.
Friends are coming over today to help me ---- well actually, there is no "helping" involved -- he'll do all the work and we'll watch. They are such good friends - I don't know what I would do without them. DD and I try to do things but sometimes it's just beyond us. Sometimes it would be so nice to have a man around! My friend will replace my thermostat with a programmable one so hopefully we can save some money on heat. He's also installing a new smoke detector which I replaced after I had my place painted. We're a little intimidated with the smoke detector because it means turning off the power. We've been told that this might require the gas pilot lite to be relit afterwards....I'm not touching that with a ten foot pole. With my luck, I'd do something wrong and we'd all get blown to china! Best not to go down that road.
Well must run. I want to water my garden and then grab some breakfast. I'm hoping to be able to retreat to my studio for a little while and finish up some cards before the day gets away from me.
Caio!
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