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  • Life, Love, and Critters – of course!

    Thursday Thirteen #3

    August
    25
    2005

    13 Super Sweet Morsels about Leanne
    My other Thirteens


    1. I’m switching hosting accounts! Yay!

    2. I’ve been debating scanning and posting the MRI of my back. I haven’t done it, thinking “who on earth really wants to see that?” LOL

    3. Lots of people (wonderful people!) played Thursday Thirteen last week, and I smiled really big, and got to “meet” a couple of new folks. (Make sure you link my 13 so I can go visit your friends, and their friends!)

    4. My sweaters arrived from Coldwater Creek and now I would like it to get just a little chilly outside so I can wear them.

    5. I’m going to be preparing for a garage sale today!

    6. I have ants in my studio.

    7. I had the pest control folks out to spray the other day, and he bought a dresser that I was going to put in the garage sale!

    8. I’ve lost almost 5 pounds since last Friday.

    9. I’ve got 25-35 pounds to lose before I’m back where I was 15 years ago, all in an effort to make my back stop hurting and being stressed. (I’ve lost 40+ since March 2004!)

    10. I love Dobbie from Harry Potter. I can totally relate to Dobbie. I didn’t think I would like HP at all until I watched the movies! So I probably spelled his character name wrong.

    11. I have a very strong urge to go buy something pretty. Right. Now.

    12. I’ll resist the urge, because I don’t go anywhere that requires me to BE pretty. Really. Comfort comes first. (Right Paige?)

    13. I totally forgot to fix the Thursday Thirteen code until late yesterday afternoon, so I hurried fast and hope it works for everyone who uses it! My host and I have not been having a very good week, call me stressed!

    Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

    1. Lily’s Thirteen
    2. Crusty’s Thirteen
    3. KB’s Thirteen
    4. Wavybrains Thirteen
    5. E’s Thirteen

    Get the Thursday Thirteen code here!

    Thirteen things is all I ask for, and what do you get in return? Linkage! If you do it, leave a comment here and link me to your Thursday Thirteen. I will be sure to update my entry with links to yours, and then you can continue the chain if you like! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!

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  • First Day!

    August
    24
    2005

    Today’s Catybug’s first day of 4th grade.

    Finally.

    Oh it’s not that I don’t love the little bug, but boy she was ready to go back! She was bored. Oh, so very bored with everything. I don’t think magic tricks would have entertained her that last week of summer vacation!

    One down, one to go. Tomorrow I’ll register Chickeymonkey, and she’ll be starting preschool in a couple of weeks. Phew. They grow so fast, don’t they?

    Me, I’m ready for it. I’ll be starting therapy after the Chick heads off to school and hopefully in about 5-6 weeks I won’t be writhing in pain most of the day. I had an appointment yesterday at Neck To Back, and they have this neat stretchy machine that will give my 2 bulging discs space to de-bulge. I’m also going to begin swimming (prior to therapy sessions) for 30 minutes a day, because it’s about the only thing left that I can do until I’m healed.

    For now, I’m over here scurring about like the madwoman I usually am! I’ve been getting kids ready for school, finishing one custom graphic illustration and starting another, updating pages in my gallery, maintaining a constant (and long) to-do list, and planning out a last-minute garage sale I’m going to have this weekend.

    Those of you who experience Fall, the trees are changing color. Have you noticed? This, I believe, is what has me in a tizzy over here. Once the chill hits the air, I hate being outside. Runny noses, goosebumps (aka “growing”!), layers upon layers of clothes. Blechy. Now I’m going to cram all of those things I’ve been wanting and needing to get done into the next week or three!

    For your eye candy today, I took this photograph in downtown Rock Island this past weekend. I thought the composition was striking and interesting, and of course the bonus is that it’s art! It’s just not my art, but hey! It’s still purdyful!

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  • Carbon Dating Challenge

    August
    22
    2005

    I’ve been reading a little bit tonight on carbon dating, and I have one question. Everything that I’ve seen says that it is a “fact” that the half-life of C14 is 5,730 years.

    I’m sure someone, at some point, had to figure out that the number 5,730 was the stick by which to measure the age of really old stuff. Anyone care to point me in the direction of how the half-life of C14 was determined?

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  • Facelift Completed!

    August
    21
    2005

    I’ve just gone LIVE with my new gallery setup! Please, browse away!

    New features:
    – Photography gallery
    – Graphic Illustration gallery
    – Easier browsing, faster loading
    – Comment feature enabled, client feedback is ALWAYS welcome and appreciated!!
    – The Print Shop! I’ll be adding prints of paintings and photographs here!
    – Large Projects Gallery: my catfish “Trapped” is here as well as one of my frogs, “Toronto Swampy”, I’ll be adding the other two frogs along with detail pages, too!

    Notes:
    – Firefoxers, still need to tweak some code for alignments’ sake, but it is viewable!
    – I’m still adding content and updating information that’s been moved over from the old layout.
    – The top thumbs are *not* clickable to the item detail. We disabled the links, and I’m considering re-linking them. (Let me know your thoughts on this, thumb links are “live” on the search page, so there’s a sample of how it works there!)
    – I will propegate each painting with keywords so that the search function is more inclusive. Right now you’d need to be pretty specific about what you’re looking for. Expanding search terms is on my to-do list!

    Suggestions or comments on the new site? Leave those here! Comments on my paintings or photographs? Leave those in the gallery!

    Links to the gallery and main index page of my website are here in the blog, over to the left. I plan on implementing the same design here on my blog as a skin option, but the one you are vewing now will still be available. That change is still a few weeks away.

    I just love it. I hope you do, too!!

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  • Fishy Weekend

    August
    20
    2005

    This is it!

    This weekend is gonna be a busy one. Between finishing up my new gallery and going live with it today, heading down for a signing and fish-spiffy-upping, tomorrow with the events and auction – I’m going to be bouncing off the walls!

    Not really, I’m not allowed to bounce anymore.

    Or bend or lift, either.

    Back soon to let you know when the site has gone live, I hope you’ll have time to stop back later today and check it out!

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  • Thursday Thirteen #2

    August
    18
    2005

    13 Super Sweet Morsels about Leanne
    My other Thirteens

    1. I just rehung my hummingbird feeder after seeing a hummingbird perched on the tree in my front yard this morning!

    2. I am fairly certain that hummingbird will come back when I'm not looking, or when I am looking but without my camera poised and ready to shoot.

    3. I haven't written a check in 7 days.

    4. So far this morning I've had 8 cups of coffee, and I've been awake for 3 1/2 hours.

    5. I was really kidding when I said that I'm famous. I know I won't be famous until after I'm dead!

    6. I just canceled a dentist appointment I had tomorrow to get my tooth filed down for a crown. This is the 5th time I've canceled this appointment.

    7. I don't want to reschedule that appointment, 'cause I hate going to the dentist!!

    8. I have three new illustration orders to work on.

    9. Another one of my photographs is going to be published in a book this fall!

    10. My studio is a mess, there are boxes full of paperwork that I need to file and I keep putting it off because those nice storage filing boxes? Cost a whole bunch each.

    11. I gave a print of my Cecada photograph to my nephew, framed and "autographed" and he squealed his little head off in excitement and that made my day.

    12. I mowed the lawn yesterday.

    13. Because my girls cleaned up the backyard of their toys while I mowed the front, I treated them each to dinner of their choice, and it took an hour of traveling to and from to get Hardee's for Chickeymonkey, and McD's for Catybug. My Children Are Spoiled.

    Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

    1. The Crusty Crone

    2. Tommi's Morsels

    2. The Neville Farm

    3. FondofElves

    Get the Thursday Thirteen code here!

    Thirteen things is all I ask for, and what do you get in return? Linkage! If you do it, leave a comment here and link me to your Thursday Thirteen. I will be sure to update my entry with links to yours, and then you can continue the chain if you like! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!


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  • Oooh That SWEATER!

    August
    17
    2005

    Do you remember when I Went Away? Specifically, when my friend and I shopped at Coldwater Creek, and we both oogled over this fabulous sweater until one of us gave in and bought it? Of course it wasn’t me, because (gulp) I don’t spend more than two dollars on anything I own as far as clothing is concerned.

    Coldwater Creek has been sending me catalogues for over 10 years. I have sighed many the happy dreamy sigh thinking “some day, over the rainbow…” I’ll wear such wonderful fabrics with such beautiful patterns, so earthy and oh-so-soft. Some day.

    Some day is now 5-7 standard shipping days away! BAAAHAHAHAAA I did it! I did it!

    I bought the sweater (in turquoise). OH, and a dress, too!

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  • The New Improved iPod

    August
    17
    2005

    On the way back from Catfish painting today, I started pondering shopping for an iPod. Feeling more and more out of touch with technology every day, I decided to ask Catybug if she knew what one was. Then I would know not only how “hip” she is, but how long it will be before her gifts start getting pricey!

    So here’s how our conversation went:

    Me: “Honey, do you know what an iPod is?”
    Her: “Yeah, why?”
    Me: “Really? Well what is it?”
    Her: “It’s that thing that holds your eye in place!”
    Me: “Really? What makes you say that?”
    Her: “I read it in a book!”
    Me: “Hm. Interesting!”

    So now she wants to know what an iPod really is. And now I really don’t want to tell her, because I think that’s a really funkadelic new term for “eye socket”. I like it.

    I’m a mean mom, I know, I allow my children to be misinformed purely for my own selfish entertainment.

    🙄

    (memory jolt courtesy Michele)

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  • A Wink & A Smile

    August
    17
    2005

    This pic of Catybug is a few years old, my sister and I ran across it while looking through photographs last week. It made me laugh, she is a total ham for the camera! Alright well she used to be. She’s grown into a shyness now where she really hates it when I share pics that show her or her creativity. Waaaah! She’s even telling me how to spell her nickname now! Jeesh!

    I finished a custom blog illustration yesterday, and it turned out SO neat! The designer has yet to implement the illustration into the layout, so once that happens I’ll share a screenshot. I don’t like to post those until the entire project has been completed and you can see it in full context. The E.Webscapes team does have some new designs up though if you want to check them out!

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