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Thursday Thirteen #11

October

2005

Thirteen Things about Leanne, Thursday, October 27, 2005
My other Thirteens

1. There are 3 days left to enter the Pumpkin Carving Contest. I have 3 new entries that I need to add, plus whatever YOU send me! (GREAT BIG GIANT HINT there, in case you didn’t notice!)

2. I had another Armegeddon type dream lastnight. This time a meteor plunged into the earth causing a forest fire in the middle of the town I was in. The ground opened up and there was a brown gooey lava flowing, and some old guy almost put his hand in it to “see how warm it felt”. I was surrounded by idiots, at a carnival, during Armegeddon. Lovely dream. Then the phone rang and woke me up. ((Thank you for waking me up))

3. I swam 10 laps yesterday, just over 1/4 mile.

4. I bought some things from Coldwater Creek the other day. They’re having a 50% off sale on everything, and if I could have bought everything, I would have.

5. I was up a lot of the night pulling the hair back from my 4 year olds face as she hugged the toitie. She’s pitifully sick, and even more pitiful when I mention “can’t go to school and throw up on your friends, honey”. 🙁

6. I varnished Bindi’s Portrait yesterday and hope to scan it today. I’ll post it when I do that. I also have to put the work in progress images together for his mom. She’s making a scrapbook of his portrait, isn’t that too sweet? What a good meowmmy.

7. I have to call three people at the school when my little one is out sick.

8. I’ve done three graphic & illustration projects that I took screenshots of yesterday. I have to post those and get them up in my gallery, too.

9. The Schwan’s guy showed up yesterday wearing a Batman costume.

10. I bought pizzas from him anyway.

11. And tried to give him our guinea pig (I’m allergic to her, and she lives in my studio now that the dander has gotten to the kids, too). He really likes her, and he’s not allergic to her. (He couldn’t take her.) My eldest kid accused me of trying to sell her guinea pig. I told her “that’s not true! I was trying to give her away for free!”

12. I watched The Wedding Planner lastnight and cried at the end. I’m such a sap. My three favorite sappy movies that I’ve cried to are Serendipity, Sleepless in Seattle and The Notebook.

13. It’s going to take a lot of caffine to get me going today. Man I’m sleepy!

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!
1. Momma K
2. Phoenix
3. Colleen
4. Tommi’s First Thirteen!
5. Better Safe Than Sorry
6. Terrilynn
7. InterstellarLass
8. Texas Ivy
9. Mrs. Fun
10. UziQ
11. Sallwood
12. SleepingMommy
13. Dee Jay
14. Maggie
15. MommyD
16. Trinity
17. Lily Bleu
18. Jak
19. Jen
20. Renee
21. Sugar Mommy
22. Catherine
23. Keb
24. Marie
25. Jessica
26. Squashed Toad

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Google Meme

October

2005

Google: The Oracle

Who needs a fortune cookie or a psychic reading for the latest predications or insight into yourself? Just type your own name like this “Leanne is” in a google search engine and see how accurate the oracle can be.

Leanne is both cute and dressy.
Leanne is available in BLACK, RED, WHITE, OCEAN, PINK and BLUSH.
Leanne is a sassy shoe.
Leanne is dropped off at the hill home by a burly female trucker.
Leanne is one of close to thirty artists involved in this program.
Leanne is very motivated to work with you in fulfilling your real estate needs.
Leanne is always right!
Leanne is a great leader.
Leanne is the only person on our staff, and perhaps in the country, who’s experienced 9-Gs in an F16 jet, jumped out of a Hercules in a tandem jump with the Skyhawks, swam with sharks and ridden with the RCMP’s Musical Ride.
Leanne is as comfortable in the kitchen with an octogenarian champion bread baker as she is backstage with stars like Harry Connick Jr. Leanne loves people.

(Snagged from Colleen)

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147:43

October

2005

147 minutes and 43 seconds later, my sister posted her first entry in her new Blogsome Blog (Big Sis modified & personalized her design for her in the same period of time!)

GO SAY HI! :wave:

(p.s. I made a spare one too, just for giggles, artistbynature.blogsome.com)

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Tuesday Schtuff

October

2005

Just a quick recap of recent goings-on in my life:

There are new entries in the Pumpkin Carving Contest. View them HERE. They’re cool! Hey! Where’s YOURS?!

Thousands of people are looking for cool, wicked, animal, and even custom pumpkin carvings, designs, patterns, etc. I can’t believe how many people. Tons of people. Woah. LOTS. People. Go to Walgreen’s and pick up a pattern book, or flip through one, you’ll get ideas from it if not just USE one. That’s what they’re there for. And when you carve it? Go enter my (little, so far) contest, and tell all your friends to vote! Why not? You’re just going to be sitting around eating candy all day anyway! Plain-ol’ Jack-O-Lanterns would be WAY cool. Let’s not forget about Jack!

CAT scan results are in. Diagnosis? I’m making the stuff up! YAY!!! It’s all in my head! I’m just your normal, almost middle-aged hypochondriac. I drank all that chalk to find out something I already knew! Whew! Hey! WOW! The pain is gone! (No, it isn’t!) WHEE! I feel so much better.

I have a cold. No, really! I’m not making THAT up! I just make up all the other pings pangs and dings. Seriously. Colds are easy to self-diagnose. I make up the stuff that costs hundreds of dollars to try to figure out. Hah!

Before I forget this link again, BLOGSOME. For those of you without your own domains, stuck on Blogger and wanting more control over your own blog, they use WordPress. Some of you know WordPress rocks. Some of you don’t. The some of you who don’t need to get a WordPress blog and find out we’re not lyin’! Seriously!

I was going to give myself the day off, but now I’ve thought of a bunch of things I have to do. Including prepping for my next painting, which is going to be seriously interesting to work on.

Recommended reading for today:
Loose Leaves
Pamibe (she just Weathered Wilma)
Mr. MommaK’s Favorite Fall Things
Life (a tearjerker from a Soldier)
Mir and her Hair Experience (read: Trauma)

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Two New Pumpkins

October

2005

I just finished carving this beast. OooOooOOo isn’t it SPOOOOKY?! (ha!) Well I think it’s nearly Wicked, personally. I dunno if I should enter my own pumpkin(s) into the Pumpkin Carving Contest or not? Whaddaya think? Seems inappropriate for the host to enter. I figured I’ll just show mine off here.

BUT. My hubby can enter, right? Yes! He carved this next one…

Keep reading »

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Doubly Delightful

October

2005

If you think this just looks beautiful, you should smell it! I wish I could bottle the smell of this rose. This is a Double Delight from our garden that I cut yesterday and brought inside. I figured if it could make the driveway smell so nice, it could work for my dining room, too! Then this morning when I put it on the windowsill to get some light, well, you see what happened. Wowzers. A beautiful home grown rose on a clear fall day. Deep breath in… release slowly. Aaaah.

I’ve uploaded the first entry into the Pumpkin Carving Contest, go look! And get carving, wouldjya?!

Have a great Saturday!

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What’s Left Of It

October

2005

Did ya’ll think I’d look like Demi Moore in Gi Jane? Nah. Not quite. The #7 guard has left about 3/4″, and I’m really choppy at the top, maybe an inch? So. Here ya go, and just for reference? My shirt is yellow. Canary yellow.

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Fall Bling

October

2005

Fall has arrived. It’s so pretty, but why does it have to get so freakin’ COLD?!?! :cold:

Today is one of the nicer days, clear blue sky, a little chilly but not freezing (yet). It is supposed to snow. Yes, snow. This weekend. That’s just stupid. Snow is stupid. All due respect to those who love playing in it, but brrr. I cannot justify putting 50 layers of clothes on just to go outside, and still have my eyelashes and nosehairs freeze and break off. It’s just not right. It’s very pretty, as long as you’re looking at it out a window from a cozy room that doesn’t cost $5,000 to heat every month. See? There are fewer and fewer things to like about cold weather every year. haha!

The CAT scan wen’t well yesterday, I guess. I mean I didn’t fall over dead, and didn’t get claustrophobic, not that I’d have any reason to. The highlights were that I drank a gallon of chalk, got there, and was invited to toast the occasion with yet ANOTHER full cup-o-gagmewithaspoon. The dye IV was wierd, just wierd. The whole thing really took the wind right out of me though, for some reason. I’ll get the results on Monday – always the last to know, know what I mean?

Ah well. I finished adding all of the Thirteen links, so go on and visit some new folks! Everyone seems very nice and I am going to try to go read everyone’s TT’s today.

Happy Friday!!

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Thursday Thirteen #10

October

2005

Thirteen Things about Leanne, Thursday, October 20, 2005
My other Thirteens

1. I kicked off the Pumpkin Carving Contest yesterday. I’m waiting for my first submission. C’mon, people!

2. I should have stopped drinking my coffee 1/2 hour ago. I’m not supposed to have anything 3 hours prior to my CT Scan today, but I’m not ready yet. Besides, aren’t appointments always 1/2 hour behind? In another 1/2 hour I get to drink 2 gallons of chalk. Yum. I bet you wish you were me right now, huh?

3. I’m 5’6″!

4. I dyed my hair Sunday. It’s like, orange, oh-mi-gawd! I was so frustrated that I got out my Wahl Clippers, threw the #7 attachment on them and shaved my head. There. Now I don’t have orange hair. I don’t have ANY hair at all! Oops. Good thing hair grows. Great thing, my gray hair grows SUPER fast. It hates to be ignored.

5. My favorite pants are my “Y” yoga pants. They are so cozy that I want to wear them every day. They’re in the washing machine so I can wear them to my appointment, since they don’t have any metal in them. I wash them a lot.

6. I sent MommaK pics of myself when I was (younger). She’s going to have a little contest today, and you should go play it. You can also see my goofy looking younger self. Holy crud, I just saw the one she put up of me. Bahaha! Okay. That’s hilarious!

7. I received final payment for the Catfish project yesterday, which was (supposed to be) 10% of the final auction price. See that (supposed to be)? Yes. Well. This is not the first time, but I think it will be the last. It’s no easy thing to paint these giant critters, and for being the 3rd one I’ve basically given away, I think I’ve met and exceeded my charitable contributions for a lifetime.

8. Now I’m reminded that I need to put my first two giant Frogs in my gallery. (Jotting that down in my handy-dandy-notbeook)

9. I saw my podiatrist yesterday, the one who removed the lump in my foot last year. She is absolutely adorable and sometimes I wish I had more foot trouble. She is fun to chat with and visit! I wonder if Doctors have a “no patients as friends outside the office” rule. Or in this case, “no patients mom’s as friends outside the office” rule. Hm.

10. I wonder how many people carve pumpkins anymore. Anyone? :bawling:

11. I hate Halloween. Really. I do. People are having a hard time believing that I carved a pumpkin let alone bought costumes for the kids. What’s wrong with me? Well. Halloween teaches children how to beg, this much is true. MY children already do that very well. They’ve had much training. So, I think they’re ready.

12. I bought a very cool model last weekend. I’ll buy her soulmate this weekend. I will get to use them on my next commission!

13. I had two paintbrushes floop over on me yesterday. They quit on the job, those meanies. No two-week notice or anything. I hate when they do that.

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!
1. MommaK
2. Jessica
3. Terrilynn
4. Phoenix
5. Jak
6. Colleen
7. Jen
8. InterstellarLass
9. Better Safe Than Sorry
10. The Toothfairy
11. Sanda aka The Crusty Crone
12. Catherine
13. Erikie
14. Marie
15. Keb
16. Texas Ivy
17. PractiGal
18. Sallwood
19. Jenny
20. Mommy D
21. Rashbre
22. Carlo
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