So, it's the weekend and it's time for weekend randomness. I normally post it on Saturday. Oh well. I know ya'll have been just dying to hear my thoughts. LMAO! So, in no particluar order, we begin.
  My hands hurt. A lot. I know what it is. I've strained the tendons in my hands again. Usually it's from typing too much. The 'cure' for it is some anti-inflammatory pills and not using my hands until they are 'healed'. Can't really do that. Have to cook, semi-clean, and take care of my kids. Steven likes to be picked up a lot. That in and of itself aggravates it. Oh well. I think I'm going to research some herbal anti-inflammatory stuff. If it exists and the side effects aren't too bad. I saw some ace bandage type things for hands, may do that also. Support them for a while, like I do with my ankles when they need it.
  Steven's pretty much potty trained. They haven't 'painted' their room in a while. They are fighting over toys now. I suppose it's just a sibling thing. Steven bit Mikel hard enough to leave marks yesterday. You'd think it'd be Mikel doing the bullying, as he's 2 years older. It's so funny to watch. They share so well and play together then all of a sudden Steven decides he wants to do what Mikel is doing. Steven smacks, pushes, or whatever to get his way. I do my best to curtail it, but he's only 2. Mikel's still mostly independent, likes to play by himself. Not so much as before Steven was born. Mikel has been saying the wildest things lately. He has some imaginary pet bugs. There's also the tiger that lives under his bed. It's very friendly. Some monsters too. For some reason the tiger only plays in Mikel and Steven's room, but the monster is usually in my room. Unless it's bedtime. LMAO! They are getting so big. A couple weeks ago we dressed up a 2"x12" so Steven could stand on it to pee. Just last week Steven didn't need it anymore. He grew 2" in a week! Damn. It worries me a little, my older sister had some extreme growth spurts when she was younger. She was in a lot of pain at that time. I guess that's where the saying 'growing pains' comes from. I keep an eye on Steven to see if he seems sore or cranky. I am so paranoid when it comes to my kids. Steven talks up a storm. I was worried for a while. He didn't speak pretty much at all until after he turned 2. I knew he would eventually as I could tell he heard and understood words. I'm sure it's a natural thing to be worried about your kids. I need to relax about it a little. It's a bit obsessive. One of those things that keeps me from sleeping.
  I need a new book. I've started jonesing. I still have the 10 books from the library, but they are no longer enough. I can tell, I've been getting a bit jittery and am obsessing over things to read. I re-read the first 3 of my dragonrider series books again. Oddly, it's not enjoyable this time around. I still like the story, just not reading it. That has never happened before. I'm starting to get very bored.
  Haven't been making anymore bars or buttons. I want to, just can't seem to find cooking pics I can use to make them. The clipart I found in searching has to many conditions attached to them. I think I'll be searching my harddrive soon. I'm pretty sure that word and works come with a lot of clipart. It's just a matter of searching for it. I want to put some up on Tina and I's recipe blog. Link is on the left.
  I never did tell ya'll what my secret passion was. If you remember me bringing it up. I can't get my folder back. It would take too much effort, I am not dealing with the bitch just to get it. I can replace most of what was in it. Not my drawings, but the things I use to draw from. Basically it's something that I love to do that almost no one knows about. I guess some of it is in my genes, and some lingers from having a childhood that was cut short. I have a collection of coloring books. I color a lot. I have my own special set of crayons and colored pencils. No one is allowed to use them. Many have not respected my art stuff, so I no longer allow them to be used. I have a special pencil sharpener just for my colored pencils. You cannot use it for regular pencils and have it still sharpen colored ones properly. I can draw anything except mickey mouse and peoples faces. All I need is a picture to draw from. Inevitably the drawing I make and the picture I use are very different sizes. It seems I draw bigger. For some reason there's a block there when I try to draw something from the pictures in my mind. I have to have a picture. Then I color it. I've always wanted to use color pastels ever since we messed with them in an art class I took. I found some rather cheap at Target. I also picked up canvas paper. As soon as I figure out what I want to draw on it, I'll produce one. It should be a fun venture. I'll need a picture though. I like color pastels because they are like crayons except you can smudge the color and mix it around with your fingers. To get the proper color you want. It's not like paint. I do, however, want to do that too. My grandfather painted until a back surgery left him nearly blind. His artwork is awesome. He is no one anyone knows, he has never sold a painting. I'd take a pic of the fire painting, but it's at my father's and I will not go there. Maybe I'll have someone take a pic of the one grandma has. I asked her for it once. It's her favorite, so no. My grandfather did oil paintings, textured paintings, and crayon melting ones. They are really neat too. He used our crayon left overs to make his pictures. I think he came up with that one after all the grandbabies, us, broke crayons and grandma bought us new ones. I remember watching him do one. I was probably around 8 or 9 so I asked a lot of questions. It was neat to watch. I do have an eagle painting he did. It's not as good as the fire ones, but then those are my favorites. Maybe I'll take a picture of it and show ya'll. I want to create something and then give it life. That's the way I see it. You sketch with your pencil, then color it and it comes to life. Hmmm. My hands need to get better before I can draw again.
  Cartoons yesterday were awesome. I almost missed digimon, it was a rerun but I still liked it. 'The Batman', which I still think is a very lame name, was still very crappily drawn. Yuck! Rave master was confusing, but then I missed quite a few episodes in the story line. Full Metal Alchemist was awesome. I thought for sure we'd solve the puzzle of what Ed couldn't tell Al before, but would when asked this time. Nope. Have to wait until next week. I want to see it now!, but then that's the point. Ghost in the Shell was as confusing as ever, but it was still good. I still don't understand why I watch a cartoon that I cannot understand. Inuyasha was a rerun. If anyone missed those last 3, there will be a rerun of them on Thursday night on the cartoon network. ;)
  Hubby came home after work last night and said he had bad news. They want him to work next weekend too. I asked him why it was bad news. He doesn't want to, I guess. I told him to say no then. He says he can't pass up the money. I said you can too. He's working with his brother during the week now, and he pays well enough. He's pretty tired, I don't think he'll do the weekend thing much longer. Whether he likes it or not, he's getting older. Long hours are taking more of a toll than they used to. I just have to get him to come to that idea without him knowing it. It's an art telling your man what he needs to do and how to do it without him knowing. I don't do it often, just when he needs it. If I don't he'll be burned out by next month. Too tired to even play with his boys. That I cannot allow. Not for my boys, not for him. Playing with the kids restores his sanity and takes his mind off the adult things, and his kids are very bitchy when Daddy doesn't play with them every day. They miss him. Yesterday they asked me all day if daddy was home. The bond between them is hard to explain, it just something you have to see. Most people take it for granted. I don't, I know what it's like to not have that bond. My kids have that, it's wonderful. I know I picked the right man to spend the rest of my life with. I know I made the right choice to have children with him. My kids will grow up knowing their parents love them.
  Well that's it for now. Have fun with what's left of the weekend! |