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It’s still early!

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Well, it was… I set my clocks back already, and I was so excited because it was only 11:30, yippee! But that was over an hour ago, where did it go?? Honestly, how can an hour zip by so fast? You’d think I’d be used to that by now. geez.

OH my gosh, I had so many things I wanted to share with you, but now I feel rather discombobulated… racing against the clock (hyper much?!). ack!

So I came across this cool idea for making gift bows out of a magazine page. Isn’t that neat? Imagine the possibilities! I feel like doing Christmas with a little more flair than I have the last few years, enough with the Scrooge. Maybe it’s because we’ve now entered the world of having to share our daughter with her new family on the holidays, her in-laws. We get them on Christmas this year and will be “Skyping” with them on Thanksgiving. s’okay, that’s the way it goes, right?

Did I tell you that we visited with Jennie & Brian 2 weeks ago? It was wonderful. And we got to meet their new greyhound, Doris. What a sweetie pie! I’ve never met a greyhound before and it was so different because we’re used to a stocky, wide-nosed furbaby as opposed to a narrow, pointy nosed pooch. This is Doris. And you know Rosie, yes? A-n-d, you know what else was a little mind-blowing? They live right next to South Bend Indiana (Mishawaka), and the Notre Dame game played at home that weekend. My nephew Ben is a punter for ND, and it just so happens that my sister & niece were in town (from Florida) for the game and we didn’t even know it. Imagine that.

Ho-hum. Ok, now I’m winding down. That’s a good thing… time to get this butt to bed. THE GAME!! The SOOper hyped up, boo-or-cheer, Brett returns to Lambeau Field tomorrow as a VIKING! Can’t wait to beat them. Go Packers, Go Aaron!!

Go Packers!

*whoops, just realized this kittykitty still has a #4 jersey on.
Oh well, you get the idea.
;)

Old book smells & animal art

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Yesterday I was excited to received one of my latest purchases from eBay, the 26th ANNUAL OF ADVERTISING ART, 1947. I had barely made a tear in the packaging when I smelled that scent… that old, in-the-basement smell of stored books. You know what I mean, right? As I tore the wrapping off I inhaled deeper, “ahhhhh, just what I was waiting for” and of course I got all excited!  Hubby always asks me “What did you get that for?” Well geeez dude, I love to look at it. What does anyone buy books for? Silly. Great ads abound inside that book, not to mention a piece of history when they used dexadrine and cocaine (in Coca-Cola) for additives in every day items, such as in this Paul Rand ad.

Speaking of art, I’m looking forward to visiting the Tory Folliard Gallery for a new exhibit called When Animals Talk

I just wish my art touring buddy was going to be with me. Actually we’ll be taking a road trip down to vist Jennie & Brian soon. Can’t wait!

can’t sleep

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It’s unusual that I *can’t* sleep. I used to choose not to, but my routine has changed—I go to bed earlier and I get good sleep as a rule. I think because I’ve been so involved in redoing business stuff for Ink2Art that my brain is in a turbo-charged mode, and it just takes a long time to get it quieted down. Ha! just reminded me of yesterday when I was getting my hair done and my hairdresser was irked that she paid lots o’ $$ for the cords on her equipment and they still wound up getting tangled. She showed me a trick where she put the end of the cord under her closed door, then spun the thing around about 5 ft away to stretch it out—kind of like playing jump rope. Ya, my brain playing jump rope!

Actually, you know what popped into my head when I was trying to get to sleep? Crate boxing. I was crate boxing and I couldn’t stop. What the hell? I just kept visualizing the whole “body-in-a-box” kind of thing and was watching myself trying to box my way out… whoa! I just had a flash of an image that I used awhile back on an old site… now I must find it. Hang on a sec.

ah-HA! I found it! In fact there was a site I had up briefly associated with that image, “pulseless.com”, where I put a bunch of my domain names on… dang, why did I let some of those go? The old “keepsomethingforever-thenyougetridofit-andthenwantitagain” thing, right? I found the site on the Internet Archives, but I doubt the link will come up for you. You could try I s’pose. That was from May, 2001.

Boy, nothing like going off on a tangent, hmm? So where was I? Oh, in a crate. ya.

I think why I finally just stopped trying to fall back asleep is I figured I’d get stuff done now then take a little siesta later, right? What’s the dif what time I do it other than when I’m able to? Of course.

You wouldn’t believe what I was just doing. Well, you might have at one time… but I just looked up a handful of the domain names that I had before and many are still available! ooooo, you don’t know how tempting that was to me! *for those of you who may not know this little tidbit, I used to be ca-RAZ-y for domain names. Never particularly knew what I was going to do with’em, but any time a word or phrase would strike me, I’d think “Oh, that would be a cool name for a web site” and then I would register the domain name if it was available. mm-hmm, sure dodid.

Shoot, I’d better get back to what I was supposed to be doing before I started crate boxing! dork. c’yall later. xoxo

Pushed out by a 20 lb dog

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Actually, I don’t know how much Lucy-psycho-dog weighs, but every time I hit the snooze on my alarm clock, I have to lean and reach out to do so. Since Lucy is usually snuggled up against my back, gravity causes her to roll towards me a little more each time… so it’s not so much that it’s time to get up and turn the alarm off, I have to either squish Lucy when I roll back on top of her, or fall on the floor, or just get out of the damn bed. Realistically I don’t even need an alarm, but I still like to get up early before anyone else does.

Speaking of, it’s getting so dark in the a.m. already! Dang. So sad…. ugh.

I also just spent about 20 minutes going through the entire guide on the t.v. to see what I could watch tonite. Hubby went to a reunion thingie so I could be having a big ol’ shindig, but out of about… oh… 900 or so channels including OnDemand (hell, I would have even paid to watch something) I couldn’t find a darn thing. Geesh, how boring. BUT, since I’m kinda-sorta doing work related stuff, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to follow anything that was on anyway.

Sooo, I went from p.diddy’s “Making his Band” show to the CMAs. Go figure. But that’s ok, I’m getting necessary stuff done in spite of crappy background noise.

And that’s the latest poop around here. What about you?

Work Ambiance

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So sure, I’m laboring today, no biggie. But I just don’t know what to listen to while I’m working. Had various tunes on all morning so far… eh, done with that. TV? blahblah news channel? movie? Can’t be too interesting of a movie or I’ll get distracted or not pay attention, what’s the sense… maybe I’ll just go with HGTV. Sometimes ears pick up something interesting and I’ll look over at the tv.

Yes, quite often, especially first thing in the a.m. I go for the silence. Engages all brain cells better with that 1st cuppa in quiteness.

OHhhhh, I’m sure I’ll figure something out. ’tis my day, my routine, my space…
Have a good one!