It's happened again! I've had one of "THOSE" days. First, Penny wakes me up early as hell after I was stupid enough to stay up most of the night. My fault, but it still wasn't a great wake up call after such little sleep. Then I get a call from FL Hospital that scared me to death. I thought Joel was hurt or something. Turned out it was the wrong number.....THANK GOD! Then Joel called and told me he has to go out of town AGAIN for about a week to Kansas City. Oh joy! After his boss had told him he'd get a break from travel until after lightning season ended. Then when he gets home he has to go to bed extremely early because he has to get up at 3 and go to Ft Myers (I think that's where?) for work. Hey, at least he got a rental and was able to burn THEIR gas for a couple of days until he turns the rental back in. There's a silver lining for ya. So anyway, it felt like he had just got home when he had to go to bed. Then I took my meds and ran out of my drink, so I got up to go get more. I had a drink glass with ice in one hand and a plate and fork in the other and the glass slipped outta my hands. Well, in my attempt to hold on to it I also dropped the plate and fork. So it all went everywhere! All over the rug in the living room. So I got my handy little spray bottle full of water/vinegar and started scrubbing. See there was a little bit of drink still in there and I didn't want the carpet stained. It sure isn't fun trying to clean up something that was dropped from hip level that splatters! lol Okay....in the ranks of bad days mine wasn't terrible, but it seemed like one thing after another to me. There were other things that happened, too, but sheesh...who wants to read about all of that? Much less type it all!
On to something good................Damn...........I know there's something? Okay, I'm just going to come up with random things I'm thankful for since this blog entry has been nothing but complaints so far. Here goes:
- I'm thankful my little man, although he's in GA, is such a great kiddo. I know all parents say that about their kids, but Kolby really is a special person. He has never given me trouble like most teens and kids do their parents. And I can't really take credit for it. He's just a good egg. God gets all the credit....I have just steered him clear of danger and kept him fed. lol
- I'm painting again and loving every second of it.
- My Mom came through her gallbladder surgery okay. She's still recovering and in some pain, but the pain pills help she says.
- I have Joel and he's just perfect for me. I could go on, but I don't want to give him a big head. lol
- I come from a normal family that loves me.
- Somehow I have managed to find some awesome, supportive, caring online friends from all over the globe.
- I'm not homeless.
- I have a cheesecake in my fridge.
- I have the coolest wiener doggy in the world and her name is Penny-Penny.
- I live in Florida where the weather kicks much ass! lol It's warm year round. Can't beat that!
There....now I don't feel like such a whiner.
Oh, I know what I can blog about. Mother's Day! As I mentioned, Kolby is in GA helping take care of the farm while Mom is down from her surgery. Even though my kiddo wasn't here Joel made sure I had a good Mom's Day. Kolby sent me a text that said, "Happy Mother's Day" first thing that morning. Then he called later in the day. Joel asked what I wanted and I replied, "books". So we went to Books-A-Million and I found one of the books I was looking for called "Acrylic Revolution". Joel then found another book that looked interesting called "Acrylic Workshop". I've started reading the first one and I'm enjoying it. Hopefully I'll learn a thing or three. I've already learned some from it. Anyway, for my mom I painted her a little something. I took photos and put one up on my art blog. And guess what....I'm not going to show you here. You have to visit my art blog to see it. Hehe Hey, I have to generate blog traffic somehow, right? The link is on the left or you could click here --------> www.artist-haven.blogspot.com
Hmm...what else? Oh, My mom's friend, Fern, asked me to make something for her so she could give it to Mom. They've never met, so she wanted me to make a photo look like they were together. Here's one of them.....
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And the other......
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I made several versions of that last one, but I like the b/w best. It was really hard to get the colors right as Mom's photo was taken outside and Fern's was inside. So I had to create shadows and tone some things down on Mom, etc... I think the first one looks best as far as realism goes because they were both in similar situations.....both inside. But Fern was holding that thing up and almost covered Mom. Anyway, that's my PS work. I haven't done much else in PS.
I'll post more later. I don't like for these blog entries to get too long for fear of IE crashing or the electricity going out and losing all I've typed. It's happened before and it's not fun.
See ya!
Sorry you had some bad moments this day but happy to read what you are thankful for and what makes you feel better. I love the pictures of Fern and I that you fixed. also love the cup that she sent me as a result of the pictures you fixed for her. Yes, I am looking so forward to meeting her in person one day. I feel so close to her already though. Cyber friends can turn out to be great...she is, and I know you have some too.
You don't even have to get me started on what a great kid Kolby is. There is not enough room on here for that.....all of my kids and grandkids are great.
Thanks for all of your work with everything...can't wait to see the picture you painted. What about a peek at it????
Hope every day from now on will be just wonderful for you.
Love Ya Heapes, Bibbi
Posted by: Bibbi | May 15, 2008 at 09:15 AM