FIVE HUNDRED POSTS TODAY!

My horror-scope today: You are right at the edge of a big shift, yet you can't make things change any faster than reality will allow. It's as if your speed limit is being set by external events, rather than by your own intent. Frustration can be a result of impatience, for the real transformation will take more time. The days following tomorrow's New Moon will offer important clues to what comes next.

Awww nuts, I gotta wait for the future- what kind of fun is that???

I admit that this 500 mark was not met any excitement on anyone's part, but you would think Blogger would send me over a cupcake or something, eh?

Today I have taken the doggie for her bikini wax and 4 pawed pedicure, spent $400 at Target, and gone to a specialty tea place because the lady at William Sonoma yesterday took me aside and whispered to me that they have teapots there. So I went and hated all the prissy English flowery teapots. I need a very contemporary teapot- any ideas? Also I was out at o-dawn-thirty with my camera taking pictures of rolls of tarpaper at the new house construction site- had to do it early because the guys get here at seven and don't appreciate people taking pictures of the site. Hell, I only took EIGHTY (I just downloaded them and had to make a new album for iPhoto!) You'll be seeing them soon, know you can hardly wait.  Oh, the other thing I did was mail the baby quilt off to the other grandma so she can give it to my daughter at the shower-  do you know that UPS charged me $28.50 for that?  That is the LAST time I deal with them, even if it does make it on time.   That price was for regular delivery, no fast stuff, and $5 worth of insurance.  Sigh, no more brown men in my life.

This cartoon, complete with copyright violation, appeared in my mailbox the other day because of my new class starting this week- she is right, I should be photoshopping myself and not the pile of available stuff for the class- including now some high res tar paper shots! Maybe it's vitamin B-12 I need? But I think it's coffee.

So, in honor of my too-wordyness, here is my very first post:  
March 24, 2004
Posted 10:19:21 AM

Opening Blog Day...

And coincidentally my anniversary which is being celebrated alone this year. I may get a slice of pizza for the festivities- I think there's a beer in the refrigerator too so the good times will roll: me and HGTV. TY did try to give me a massage but between the little details that I would have to be naked and alone with a stranger in my house and the fact that I hate being touched, it wasn't the greatest gift choice. And apparently it was my ONLY gift choice. Oh well.

I am a fiber artist, but it seems I am currently 'on hiatus' because the muse hasn't shown her fuzzy head around here in awhile. I am anxious to get home where the pace is a bit faster and there is a bit more artistic stimulation. I am currently being exhibited here in Town Hall, a piece about the demolition of the local high school last year. On Sundays when the crew was gone I would climb over the caution tape and wade around knee deep in fluffy white stuff (asbestos perchance???) taking digitals of the recycleable mountains. It was quite cool how all the wiring was in one mountain, all the wood in another, all the sheet metal in another, and all the broken chunks of cement the size of Volkswagons in yet another. I took 500 pictures over three weeks, picked the best and printed them onto cotton before collaging them together into a quilt.

Of course I cannot figure out how to include an image here- that must be day #2.
But, trust me, the quilt was a good one, and I really wanted it to be hung here in town with the idea maybe someone would open their wallet for it. Ain't gonna happen because who knew the show was on the second floor and only seen by the folks who work there. If they can see it around the fake palm tree.

I did get to wear my fabulous new Basque sardine skirt- apparently the company is in Spain on the coast somewhere and every year their fabric designs are based on what is happening in their little village- this year they did sardines schooling and another red fabric of barnicles that I liked even better but they only had short skirts in that one. I just happen to have a sardine pin that 'goes'- the kids gave it to me for Mothers Day years ago, a little silver real sardine encased in resin. I love it...well, I love sardines. so it was a perfect match.

The other thing on my agenda today is to get to the knit shop and exchange a needle- Needle Exchange Program? Hey, maybe I am on to something. I had bought a size 8 circular needle just the other day and it was knitting up too tight so I changed to 10s and it's much better, but I need a very long circular needle, not the short straight one I have. So I go to the store yesterday and what do I get? Another size 8, like my brain isn't in gear. Sure hope they will take it back. Also I think I don't have enough yarn to finish up the kimono I'm working on, found it on line this morning but will wait utnil it's closer to going home so I get the package.

This living at two places has some drawbacks, don't know how my friend D does it with three. Such problems, eh?

Guess I better go do the errands so then I can come back and Do The Work in spite of the Mad Muse who won't visit. Will entice her with some juicy new paint offerings on the kitchen counter.

Oh my goddess,  NOTHING has changed!