Noner Says

Here are some more calendar grids in my journal.  It seems to be all I'm doing lately.

First is August's "finished" calendar.  I stopped filling it in about halfway though the month.You can also see August's Before calendar HERE.



I didn't even make September's calendar until the end of the second week, but have gone back and filled in the days I missed.

I couldn't think of anything I wanted to paint, or colors I wanted to use for backgrounds.

The background is from a local newspaper called Skirt.  It fit my pages almost perfectly to use as a background.  I just cut out and glued down white squares for my dates.



If you click the pictures or visit their large flickr image page you can read what is written in the squares, if you so wish to do.

July's calendar all filled up. Well, finished anyway, I guess its not all filled up yet.



I painted August's grid last night. Its brand new and empty.

I've not logged in here for a while.  It looks a lot different.

1. Have you seen the new Star Trek movie, and if so what did you think?

I saw it opening weekend, and loved it.  I thought Kirk and McCoys characters worked well together.  Zachary Quinto was a perfect Spock (though I kept expecting him to cut someone's head open to steal their power because he's always going to be Hero's Sylar to me.)

I wanted to go see it again, but hubby (who is the Trek fan between us) HATED what they did with the alternate timeline, and has done nothing but complain about it ever since.

2. Which popular sitcom character (past or present) are you most like?

I've never really watched too many sitcoms.  The ones I did watch were when I was a kid, and I don't remember the characters well enough to say who I might be.

3. What kind of dreams do you have?

It depends.  I dream a lot about spiders.  A lot about work.  A lot about my dad.

4. Bugger it. Go get a tattoo and come back. Right, now answer me this, what ees eet?

Funny, I just answered this somewhere else yesterday.  I'd love to get a rat tattoo.  Some I've seen on deviant art that I love are these:

http://wildspiritwolf.deviantart.com/art/Yin-Yang-Rats-Tattoo-74141575
http://the-artistic-rat.deviantart.com/art/Rat-Tribal-Tattoo-74186429
http://recese.deviantart.com/art/Rat-tattoo-77636995

5. Do you think you could be on American Idol with the singing voice you have now without any voice training?

I would never make it past the audition stage.  My singing voice has been known to make ears bleed.

6. How much wood, would a woodchuck chuck? If a woodchuck could chuck wood?

A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck COULD chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

7. If you were a tree in a Dr. Seuss book, what would you look like?

Don't all of his trees look about the same?  Colorful candy canes with pom-poms at the top?

8. Twilight? I'm addicted/Who cares/What the hell is Twilight?

I'm pretty much a Who Cares about Twilight.  Not interested in reading the books.  Didn't care to see the movie.  I prefer my vampires to either be bloodthirsty killers or to be James Marsters or David Boreanaz

9. Do you think Kimber and Berleen do a dube while writing these questions?

Sometimes the questions are odd enough that I do wonder.

10. What the worst injury you've ever had?

Does surgery count as an injury?  I was cut open from just above my belly button down to just above my pubic area.  First tiem I'd ever had stitches.  Biggest hole in my body.  Worst pain I'd ever been in before or since.

11. What is your favorite dessert?

Bananna pudding!

12. What do you prefer...beach or mountains?

I'm a forest girl.  I like trees and grass and green things.  So I guess that makes me a mountain person.  Unless its one of the mountains with nothing but snow.  Then I'd prefer the beach.

13. What movie have you seen that still make you cry?

Movies that do now and will always make me cry would be"
Old Yeller
The Velocity of Gary

14. Why are you making me submit a question? Are you too lazy to think of one yourself?

I have a hard enough time thinking of one "what do you want" question a week for I want Wednesday.  Asking me for me is just...wrong.

15. how often do you do laundry?

Every Thursday I do 5 or 6 loads.  I'll also do some on Wednesday if we have a crazy lot of towles cause of hubby washing the dogs.

16. What is your favorite movie of all time, and why?

Empire Records.  The story is not THAT great, but I love the characters.  I want to work at THAT record store.

17. If you won a million dollars in the lottery, would you keep working?

More than likely.  Sadly a  million dollars won't go too far these days.

18. If there was a war of the gummies, would you be on the gummi bear side or the gummi worm side?

Gummi worms are endangered.  I never see them anymore, except for the SOUR ones which I hate.  So I'd probably side with the gummie worms, just cuase they need the extra protection, but I'd somehow set up the sour ones so that they get blasted into oblivion by the other gummi warriors.

19. What's your favorite comic strip?

I love Garfield.  I also like Close to home.

20. Close your eyes… imagine you are in the perfect room/place… describe it.

A small cabin in the woods.  There must be an open fireplace.  Other than that I'm really easy to please.

This weeks question is:

What fancy trick do you want to teach your pet? (If you don't have a pet, what type of pet do you want to have, and what do you want to teach them?)

I have often thought it would be awesome to teach Boomer and Rusty some neat tricks, but really, the pets I want to teach most are my rats.  I'd love to see them run a rattie agility course, or, actually, just come to me when I call them.  I know they are capable of doing such things....just too hard headed to learn!

Erika Jean is holding a contest on her blog.

The contest is to enter a raffle type drawing to win a $25 gift card from Best Buy.  Its a Birthday card, but if you win and its not your birthday, you could celebrate your unbirthday.  -grin-

You can enter this contest too, but I'm not going to tell you how.  In order to enter it you'll have to go to HER CONTEST BLOG ENTRY and read all the nitty-gritty details for yourself.

But, while you're at her blog anyway you might as well stick around and read a bit of it.

I found out her contest was going to be in celebration of her 700 post, which turned out to be her 667th post, but why not celebrate that number too?

She's participating in Doodle Week, which is always a lot of fun.  Its also how I found her blog in the first place and how I found out about her contest.

I particularly like her doodle for lust (the "lust at first site" quote made me smile), but her doodle for gluttony looks a little bit like my own belly (only smaller - haha)

She also has one post about taking picture underwater with her digital camera.  It takes one smart cookie to think to put it in vacuum seal bags to use it but keep it safe too!  She's even shared some of the pictures and they turned out great!

Back near the start of September she shared some pictures of a hawk that stopped by her place.  She even managed to catch a bit of fluff on its beak.

So, needless to say there is a love of picture taking going on around there, and she's seeking Flickr friends.

If you're a reader she's got a book review section going on, and if you're overwhelmed at all the bloggy goodness, she has collected all of her favorite posts in one place for you to browse though!

So there you go.  You can stop reading me now and go read her blog...its far more interesting anyway.

This BEAUTIFUL little one is named Nibbitz.  I don't know where I got Nibbitz from but I like it.

When I get two rats I always name one myself and let hubby name one, so I was going to let hubby name the other little one.  Of course, I do veto the names I really hate.

A friend (Jeanine) suggested a few star trek themed names and I ran them by hubby and he liked one of them, so the rat in the hat has a name too!



Her name is now One of Two (Rattus of Borg....grin)

One of Two needs a lot of socialization.  She is horribly afraid of my hand, flinching, running and hiding every time I reach for her.  She's afraid I'm going to eat her or something.  So I'm touching her A LOT.  Picking her up and gently putting her right back down.  Letting her know that my hand does not equal death.

I take them into the bathroom and hold them there.  That way if one of them jumps or wiggles out of my hands they have nowhere to go and can be captured easily.

Sitting in there playing with One of Two today, she kept trying to hide in the crook of my elbow.  Then she climbed onto the back of my neck, sat under my hair and was quite content to sit there for some length of time.



Nibbitz does not have any of those "I'm so very afraid of you" problems.  She's very curious and comes to my hand, though she does try to run a little when I first try to pick her up.  Once I have her out she's all for a little love, affection and exploring.

She's a self-assured little rat if there ever was one.

(this post has been cross posted on most of my blog sites)

My husband is going to kill me.



I went by the new pet store in town today.  Its called Rare Earth.  They have lots of fish, some reptiles and a few bunnies and guinea pigs and feeder rats.

Welllll....the feeder rats were out where I could see them and THEY WERE GORGEOUS!

 I have been wanting boys, and they only had one boy, but 3 girls, and they were prettyful.  I ended up asking my MIL to buy me 2 girl rats.It was actually this little girl who I fell in love
with:


I'm a sucker for rats with pretty face markings.  PLUS, she has a white belly and her "hoodie" strip, but she also has a TAN BACK!  I've never seen markings like that before personally.



Isn't she just stunning!  I bet the tan will fade as she ages though.One of the 3 females looked like she had a tumor one one side of her belly (they said they thought she might be pregnant, but she didn't look pregnant to me), so I left her (poor thing) but picked out a second female.  She has a cap, but not a stripe down her back.  She also has a spot on her forehead.



I have them in the aquarium I use to put the girls in when I clean them right now.  They seem healthy, but I want to make sure nothing pops up PLUS I want to be super sure they're not pregnant since they were in with the one male.

Neither of them LOOK preggers to me.  They are young still, but PLENTY old enough to have gotten knocked up.If one (or god forbid BOTH) of them turn out to be pregnant I guess I'll be looking for homes for rats. 

WE NEED NAMES!

I had been planning on getting boys and had boy names picked out (Kirk and Spock) but since I got girls, neither of them have names so I welcome any name suggestions!My MIL said I should name one of them Petra because she's "petrified" of rats.I'll be asking hubby for name ideas too.  He likes naming things (even though I have to shoot down some un-original names before he comes up with something good.)

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This is my art journal.  I sat down at my desk tonight meaning to clean my desk, but I found a face, and a bottle cap and a mirror and a bag of wiggle eyes and inspiration....all in the top drawer.I dug a hole in the top right corner of the book and rand a split ring through it.  (think key-chain ring) and then strung some random bits of yarn though it.  Added a few charms, you cant seem the too well though.I have a few more things I want to put ont he cover, but I have to find them first....

I coudln't skywatch this friday on account of the whole sky is pretty much one flat shade of grey.  Its also full of water falling downward and wind blowing sideways.

I've become more or less dependent on Memes to have anythign to write about on this blog.  The thrill a minute life I lead working on a sales floor (sometimes cash register) just isn't the fertile blog content that grows a great crop of comments.

Maybe I should have a sulty affair.  Any takers?

No?

Maybe I should make up a sultry affair.

Maybe I should just post a cute picture of my dog.



Did you all go Awwwwww.

No?

Well, then look at the pillows.  One is a batman pillow.  The other has a star-wars pillow case on it.  They both belong to my hubby.  I married a giant kid.

I posted a fiction on my writing blog tonight.  Read "The Last Flight of Bastet"

I've you haven't visited Toodstoal's Garden recently, you're missing ladybugs pirate adventure.All the Little Things

1.  Janet is a gramma!  Twin girls born this morning.  Izzy and Jordan.
2.  This LOLcat made me laugh.3.  The smell of coffee.
4.  Coffee, coffee, coffee, koolaid.
5.  Washing machines.  How cool to not have to do that by hand!
6.  "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb.  This book sucks me in every time I read it.
7.  Fearnet.com = Free horror movies online.  How cool is that!

Everywhere I go today I'm seeing ads for Wendys' baconator sandwitch.  Man, I'm TOTALLY craving one of those things right now!

The funny thing is that when I was logging into myspace the whole pages background was Bacon and there was a giant buger with bacon all over it on the page.  I thought....this must be HELL for the vegitarians.  I thought..."Anyone in PETA must have their eyeballs melting in their head right now."

I might be morbid, but I loved it.All the Little Things

I'm thankful for.....

1.  Getting smacked on the back by a co-worker cause she thought I was in on a joke to scare her with a halloween display.  I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and it was funny as heck!  She passed me later and I pretened to cringe and said, "Its gone, don't hurt me again."2.  The people I work with are great.  Always good for a laugh.3.  WARM hugs from Phil when my back was wet and cold.4.  Getting the grocery shopping done BEFORE the rain started today so we didn't get drenched.5.  Rain but not storms (so far) off off Fay.6.  Tasters Choice singles.  7 cups of great instant coffee for a buck.7.  Adventure Quest...my newest addiction. (battleon.com)8.  I remembered to get icee pops at the store!9.  Tater tots and fish sticks for lunch made me feel like a kid agin.  -grin-

Made Me Laugh

This spread I call Rose Garden. It was inspired by Art Journal With Suzi Blu: Start With a Flower on youtube. I took several pictures alone the way and have a slideshow of them at the end of this post.

Many layers are on this. Crayon and colored pencil, then a layer of white acrylic. Then foam stamps with paint, and then a layer of white watercolor. Then rubber stamps, then glue and paper and embellishments. (The flowers in the bottom right are from a napkin from my birthday this year.

You can’t see in the picture, but the whole right page is covered with glitter as well. And the swirls on the paper on the left is glitter too.

The text on the left reads:

“I beg your pardon,
I never promised you a rose garden.
Along with the sunshine,
There’s gotta be a little rain sometimes.
When you take, you gotta give, so live and let live,
Or let go.
I beg your pardon,
I never promised you a rose garden.”

And that flap lifts up to show:

All the Little Things

Today I’m thankful for

1. Sunflower seeds.
2. Rain without storms.

This was so wrong, but so funny.

4.  Art journal

Now I just need to sit down and WRITE in it.

I’m not an artist.

That is to say, I can’t draw a stick figure. I can doodle a ’shroom, ladybug and a childish looking gnome and thats the bulk of my tallent.

Still, for some reason I have a DESIRE to create. I always have. And I’ve always been jealous of my oldest brothers wonderful artistic talent.

I’ve kept a journal for a long time. (Since 2000) but I seem to have been journaling less and less and less, and I don’t want to let that go.

So, after seeing someones art journal, then looking at pages from lots of peoples art journals via flickr, I decided to try an art journal of my own.

So, I looked at more art journal pages and discovered this video on youtube:

After watching that, and listening to what she said in that video I said, “Thats it…I have to try”

And while it might still end up being more writing than art, at least I’m journaling again.

Tonight I got some oil pastels and I created:

The owl came from a magazine. I added puffy tape to make the “Whoo’s there?” pop out from the page.

All the Little Things

1. Best comment ever: “Proper organic bacon is one of the tastiest foods I know.”
2. Hugs and comfort from Rachel.
3. Coffee, peanut butter and Ice Cream
4. Watching 2 episodes of Eureka with my MIL.

Went to the aquarium yesterday.  Just a small one here, with only a handfull of tanks, but I got to play with my camera and take some halfway decent pictures like:
























Took over 300 pictures in the 3 hours we were at the aquarium and on the walking trail behind it.

Today we went to see the newest mummy movie and.......I was bored.  It had some okay moments, but mainly I just wanted it to be over.  I got very antsy and squirmy and restless.  Don't have that problem when I'm ENJOYING a movie.

Hubby's been on a rampage all week, making it hard for me to enjoy myself.  Now his camera's not working and he's in an even more evil mood than ever.

Today's Thankfuls

1.  The new blank sketchbook hubby bought me that will HOPEFULLY get me paper journaling again.
2.  Saw The Dragon Emperor for free.
3.  Leftovers...cause I didn't feel like cooking.
4.  I have one more day of vacation.
5.  Coffee.

I couldn't't find any interesting cloud formations in the sky today, but I found a bird with a lovely sky background.

A pretty brown red breasted thing.

Today's Thankfuls
1.  The Hawk I saw on the way to work yesterday (the second hawk I've seen recently)
2.  The clouds I saw that looked like a hillbilly riding a camel (wish I had my camera with me)
3.  Scribefire.  Now that I fixed my "i don't know my password" problem, I'm enjoying using it.
4.  Even though vacation was ruined, I still have several days off work.

Oh boy...

I got maybe 3 hours sleep last night.  Maybe.

Woke up hot and sweaty and in a HORRIBLE mood.  Had to go to work.  Work sucks.

As my FIL dropped me off there was a big truck pulling around the side of the building.  “Someon’s getting a shipment” he comments.  “Not ours,” I say.  “Ours got here at 5 this morning.

Wrong, wrong and wrong.

Trice was at the door when I came up and said something to the effect of “Ohhhh, don’t come in here looking like that.  You already look pissed and the truck JUST got here.”

That was OUR truck.

Sooooooo.......

Everyone is in a pissed off mood from the get go.  Tempers are short.  People were snappy.  Feelings were hurt.  People cried.  (Not me this time.)

D was all pissed because R gave her a hard time for a crappy close the night before.  D was looking for someone to take it out on, tried to take it out on me.  She came up to me all attitudinal saying, “You closed last night right?”  And I was like.  “Um, no, I went home at 5.  And did ALL of the returns in the bins before I left.”

I was thinking, I had to take this shit from you Sunday, I so am not taking shit today.

While they were unloading the truck T told me to get D to help me take the trees onto the floor.  I told her and she said, “I ain’t carrying that shit.  My leg hurts.”

WTF!!!!!

So I’m hauling these big ass trees out on my own and she FINALLY gets the SMALLER ones in a 2x4 and rolls them out.

Later she was talking about stepping down and replacing Diana, who has been a no-call no show for 3 days in a row.  I told J that if D quit I wanted her job.  He kinda laughed at that, so that’s not a good sign.

Meanwhile, counting Diana, we had 3 people not come in today.  One of them came in but left crying saying “I can’t take this today.”

Apparently she left without telling T or R and is going to be written up because of it.

So now the truck is late, we’re short 3 people, everyone is pissed off and I’m working my ass off in the floral dept while D is off god knows where doing god knows what.

And we’re told the DM is coming!

Somehow I managed to be in a good mood.  (Maybe it was the cherry coke I got this morning) I was singing and humming and laughing and everyone was looking at me like I had lost my mind.

When the truck was finally unloaded C told me to go behind the flock (I call it the flock....a group of people who work together as a group to get stock put out) and do the overstocking since the lady that normally overstocks is on vacation.

So after about 4 dozen trips up and down a ladder my bad foot is screaming at me.  It hurt all the way up to my knee.  Tori gave me something that barely took the throb off and I was limping around so bad it wasn’t funny.

All I can say is I’ve never been so happy to see a day end as I was for today to be over!

Todays Thankfuls

1.  I’m thankful for this fella:



Rusty’s a red fluffy bundle of pure love and is SUCH a mommas boy.  He’s always excited to see me.  Gives freely of the kisses and is good for a cuddle on the sofa while watching Eureka, Psych, CSI or whatever else I pop in the player.

2.  The fact that though the day started off with bad tempers and hurt feelings it seemed to level off and ended with laughter and playful teasing.

3.  The first episode of Eureka Season 3 re-brodcasts at midnight (cause I forgot to watch it at 9)

These Made me Laugh
(you kinda had to be there)

“Dude!”
“Sorry.  I told you I was a special kind of clumsy.”
“Clumsy?  You just went Mike Tyson on that clip strip!”
“Yeah, I didn’t like the way it looked at me.”

“I’m getting a little whiny.”
“GETTING?”

“Monday is my birthday.  Monday is my birthday. Monday is my birthday.”
“Hey, C, did you know Monday is Tori’s birthday?”

“R, I’m going home now.  If you feel an invisible presence standing behind you being mean, that is me being here with you in spirit.”



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I've taken MANY MANY MANY hours to convert this icon BY HAND into a cross stitch pattern:

Tomorrow I start stitching.
How long do you think it'll take me?

The rescue rat didn't survive the night.

Details are at http://yummydown.com/rattitude