Meet Quintin
February
26
2007
Eye Ate It Paintings #4
February
25
2007
These should be easy guesses, and now I’m starving – because my kids ate all my painting subjects. Dangit. I swear, as soon as I had the painting finished, they snagged it and ran. In fact, Chickey is standing right in front of me right now saying “Are you done painting the Eye Ate It’s?” and I said “yeeeessss” and she said “Can I go get the rest of the candy now?” and of course, my reply was “yeeeessssss”.
(that’s my tummy)
Eye Ate It Paintings #3
February
24
2007
One more set to go in my “Eye Ate It” series to finish – did you guess on the last set? This one may be easier – although that one to the right may stump a few people since the image isn’t a very big one.
(Yes I’ll put them all together when I’m finished for you to eat up, you know, that’s a lot of Eye Candy. Save your appetite eyepetite. :winking:)
Happy guessing!
P.S. Got ice? We do! On a normal day, that bush is not so vertically challenged. I think it may split in half. Can’t go out, you might get pelted by the ice cube sized stuff breaking off the trees. One more – look at our coated power lines. (Hoping they don’t snap!)
Eye Ate It Paintings #2
February
23
2007
The next three in my “Eye Ate It” series are complete, 6 more to go to complete this series. Go ahead and name these goodies!
Eye Ate It Paintings
February
22
2007
Three of 12 are complete, 9 more “Eye At It” paintings will complete a 16 piece series of 4″ x 4″ square bite sized edibles for exhibition.
Can you name all these goodies?
5 Painting Days Remaining
February
22
2007
Just 5 days remain until I need to have everything ready for exhibit. I will be around to visit everyone soon, thank you all so much for your understanding and support!
Down Pillows Give me Crazy Dreams
February
21
2007
We finally got around to “upgrading” our pillows from smashed down polyfill to down and down alternative pillows this weekend. JCP was having a home sale, buy one and get another one for a buck! Who could resist? So we treated ourselves, and it was good.
We’re both sleeping great on our new pillows. Me, I’m out as soon as my head hits it. It’s so soft and squishy and I feel like I’m drifting away in a suite in some fancy hotel room. Little luxuries. I enjoy them very much.
Except for the crazy dreams. My sleep is deeper now, so my crazy dreams have returned.
Imagine being in a room on the second floor of an apartment or hotel, opening the front door to find stairs too steep to climb with kids and luggage (the stairs weren’t like that when we arrived), and the back door had a platform to leave that was about 2 feet wide and deep. No railings, just a big piece of wood that I guess we were supposed to pull around to the side and slide down on? I don’t know – but imagine then turning around to find your 5 year old in a pouncing position at the ledge just happy as a clam to jump right off and down a full story to the ground.
I love my pillows, but jeez. Do they have to scare the crap out of me every night now?
Kiki – Completed Calico Cat Painting
February
20
2007
(view the work in progress here.)
I’ll show you a better pic tomorrow.
Updated with more accurate daylight pic (you may need to refresh your browser a couple of times to see it), and also – here’s a closeup of her face.
Everybody Wants Something.
February
20
2007
I think it was an old episode of “Friends” where Phoebe asked Joey to come up with one selfless act. Anyone see that show? I’m stumped on remembering if he ever did figure something out.
This phrase keeps running through my head (name changed to protect the innocent):
Why does it keep running through my head? Because no one calls anyone unless they want something. If people called people when they didn’t want anything, wouldn’t there be an awful lot of dead air after “hello” was spoken? I mean, as soon as you say hello, you’re done. And even hello is selfish, because you dialed because YOU wanted to say it. That’s not selfless. And say you were to ask “how are you today?” You’d do it because YOU wanted to know.
So, the next time someone calls you? They want something. They probably want to know how you’re doing. Maybe they need a favor. But if they didn’t call? Wouldn’t that mean they don’t want anything, not even to know how you’re doing? Wouldn’t that suck way worse than them wanting something?
I think so. I think everyone ought to appreciate the people who want something from them. Just remember, if you didn’t have any impact on that person, they wouldn’t want anything at all. And if no one wanted anything from you, you’d be really lonely.
Let me clarify further – I refer to the more positive “wanters”, not “users”, people who keep in touch really when they just want to use you for stuff. To me, there’s a big difference between a wanter (ie. everyone) and a user. :winking:
While you’re pondering that one, please do throw me your two cents on the whole selfless act hing though, is there such a thing?
