So. kids, get the mom filter instead of pretending you're not there.
I am being deluged by animal rescue sites lately, todays wants me to support bear cubs for $15. Instead I will just box up my garbage and send it along. The thing is, what the hell do you DO with a bear cub when it's cubby-ness is over? How do you return it to the wild when it's used to people handling and feeding it? I guess I have been giving too much money to animal rescue and I am on their radar now. But what to do now? Of course I want to save 'em all, but after that, what? I know, put 'em on Facebook!
Had a major meltdown financially yesterday when my card was REJECTED at Whole Foods. OMG, it was humiliating. I raced home to find out what the problem was and it seems there was 'unusual activity' on my card and they shut it down! Yup, somebody in Chicago had been charging at a food store and again at a UK shoe store and they caught it! I knew immediately that the shoe store was suspect because they only spent $32, and I have never gotten shoes that cheap! Imagine thinking that food and shoes for me were 'unusual activity'!
The thing is, you cannot get phone help without punching in your card number but mine had been cancelled so I was in phone hell and couldn't reach an actual person because I didn't have a number! When I did finally find someone they only half solved the problem so I had to call again, got disconnected, called again and got disconnected again! Like I said, Phone Hell, but Saturday afternoon in bank-land is like a desert at noon- everybody is hiding under a rock.
So, now I have no debit card. It took three calls (three different people) and 2 hours on the phone to get this straightened out and a new card should be (!) on the way this week. Meanwhile don't ask me to go out to dinner because I have to make the tiny cash in my wallet last until that happens. Had friends over for dinner last night and had to drink the cheap wine.
But I made good use of the studio the other day and got my pumpkins painted. Orange just doesn't make it when you live in an orange house, so two coats later (and two brushes because I was in a hurry and forgot to wash the first.) here they are. In years past I wouldn't have even considered a non-orange pumpkin but in Florida the damn things rot before you can even get to carving them so these are actually faux-pumpkins that are molded from real ones. 'Everlasting. the sale sigh said. Poifect. They will live in my garage the other eleven months and three weeks. (The picture was snapped at dawn and the light coming in was pink- they are really slightly off white, a combination of white and tan gessos.) Who knows, maybe they will come back as Christmas red or Easter purple- gotta get my investment back.
But I made good use of the studio the other day and got my pumpkins painted. Orange just doesn't make it when you live in an orange house, so two coats later (and two brushes because I was in a hurry and forgot to wash the first.) here they are. In years past I wouldn't have even considered a non-orange pumpkin but in Florida the damn things rot before you can even get to carving them so these are actually faux-pumpkins that are molded from real ones. 'Everlasting. the sale sigh said. Poifect. They will live in my garage the other eleven months and three weeks. (The picture was snapped at dawn and the light coming in was pink- they are really slightly off white, a combination of white and tan gessos.) Who knows, maybe they will come back as Christmas red or Easter purple- gotta get my investment back. 
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haha, Sandy you're funny. Try some Birkenstock, it's the only shoes I can wear these day. But they cost more than $32, even on sale :)
I think that video is hilarious. My kids insisted on showing it to me when I was at their house, since, of course, I am the mom on Facebook and have friended them. .
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