Theories

I did a blog last year, and enjoyed, but I am a blog novice and it took me a year just to figure out how to put a photo on it. I deleted it and my sister and I were going to do one together, but new Blogger sucks, so that ended too. But I really missed the writing and mind wandering I do when I write, so I started a new one, and theoretically, I will show you things that I make. But the fact is, I don't get a lot of things made that I think are blog-worthy. I am trying so hard to sell my house and so much of my stuff in is a storage unit in the new town, and I really miss it, but just cannot go get it and bring it home and clutter up my house again.

SO, I made a mosaic for a benefit auction that a bunch of friends are putting on for a girlfriend with breast cancer. I will show that. I love it. And I make paper things- paper garlands, party favors, silliness.

I have 2 older sisters who have had some health issues- one had heart bypass a couple of years ago, and one had colon cancer, and has been well for 4 years. They both have high cholesterol, and have been fussing at me to go get my fluids checked. I have always been blessed with low cholesterol, and nice healthy blood pressure. So, since I don't have insurance, I went to my local hospitals cardiac screening. I am pleased to say my cholesterol remains ok, under 200. My HdL could be better, but my LDL is fine. My blood pressure is fine. But, my blood glucose is not so good. Well over what is considered safe. Just under what is diabetes. And, I am a bit freaked out. I am very overweight and sedentary, and that will fix it if I get moving. Oh, and sugar is my drug of choice. So I have to stop that right now!! So, I am reading all the stuff I need to read and trying to be better with my diet. I have to work up to moving around more. I hate sweat. For some reason, I always sort of figured I wouldn't get the health issues that have been prevalent in my families, but apparently, that was foolish of me. So, now I have had my butt kicked and things have to change.

I will keep you posted.

Big pink cupcake

I have a girlfriend who was diagnosed a few months ago, to have breast cancer. She had a mastectomy within 2 weeks and chemo started shortly thereafter. She is a single mom of 3 young boys with little or no help from their dads. She can't work right now and her funds are limited. We live in a tiny little town, and she is well loved and has lots of support. She works in a popular restaurant, and the restaurant has been buying her food when they get stuff for the shop. A few generous customers have been supporting her monthly with bank account deposits. And a handful of us are putting together a fundraiser/party for her in June. We are having a Mardi Gras theme, because she did not want pink! We have lots of good stuff to auction off, and we, the organizers, decided we would wear costumes. So, I thought I needed a big pink bee hive hairdo, and I could make it out of tulle. I went on ebay, and wound up buying a non beehive, hot pink wig. Then I decided I needed a prom dress look. I am quite overweight, so if I tried to do the prom dress look, I would look like a giant pink cupcake. So, I decided I would embrace the cupcakedness, and make a pink dress with yards and yards of pink tulle. That is my task on this rainy day. I will let you know how it works.

I also have 2 upholstery jobs and I need to make some sample cushions to see what I think the style should be. I was panning to paint my shutters, but it is raining, but that will help with the inside jobs. I am predicting there will be glue involved in the dress. It only has to hold up for one night!

Sunny, sunny days

I am a happy girl today. The sun is out and my house is being painted and life is good. I started a second job on Sunday, just a little deli and espresso spot, but it is growing to a grocery store and it is a fun difference from a liquor store. I have 2 upholstery jobs that I didn't even solicit, which is huge to me. They came to me. ANd my feet stopped aching fromt he 2 days at the new job! I have been sitting on my butt the entire 10 years there, and now I am standing for 8 hours a day, and I am heavy and my feet are not used to that crap. SO, it is a transition and it's okay.

Ode to Lorelai Gilmore

I only started watching the Gilmore Girls right after the Kiss. So I had to catch up, and it was on every afternoon at 5, so that worked out well. I adore the Gilmore Girls. They were smart and did not dumb things down so everyone would just get it. You had to really pay attention to catch all the pop culture, literary, obscure other references. It was so well written that most women I know wanted to be best friends with Lorelai. One of my favorite bloggers used the phrase, which I immediately adopted as my own, "What Would Lorelai Gilmore Do?" I use it often.

I like to think that Lauren Graham is like Lorelai, though she probably isn't. But I love her and it makes me happy to think they are alike. I want her to date and marry Matthew Perry, too, because I like him a lot too, and I like to think they would be happy and funny, though it probably would be a little angsty.

But, I wanted to give them a proper fan good-bye. So, here is to you, Lauren Graham, and Alexis Bledel, and I hope we see you in a lot more stuff, because you are wonderful.

(P.S.- I was really mad at the whole Luke and April debacle and there was really no need to do that stupid thing. I never liked Christopher, but didn't blame her one bit and even liked him for a little while there, because I was so mad at Luke.)

Mom's Day

As most women can say, I have had ups and downs with my mom. I know that she did the best she knew how, and that was not bad. SHe favors the only boy and pisses off the 3 girls over it, but she is very good to me. She annoys the hell out of me, but she is good to me and I love her. ANd her 4 kids are all productive, non-addicted, law abiding, honorable and moral people. Yes, we should be, but I look at some of my cousins and oh! dear heaven! we are all quite fabulous in comparison.

Shall I share?? I have a cousin who is a minister and oh, so pious and good, but apparently he has a fondness for other men's wives and a few hookers here and there. When he was in high school, he had a very sweet and good girlfriend, whom he pressured to have sex. When she finally gave in to the pressure, he dumped her, since she was no longer a virgin. He convinced his mom to give him her million dollar house in return for paying her expenses at an adult facility. He stopped paying for anything, saying since she has dimentia, she doesn't know the difference.

His brother is an exceptionally handsome loser who has latched on to women with money and never worked an honest day in his life. After his latest stint in rehab, he has now left his 3rd wife because he found his soul mate in rehab, but he will most certainly fight for a great divorce settlement.

They have a sister who is not pretty. The curse of having handsome brothers and never measuring up, even though she is the only productive member of that family. She is funny, smart, eloquent and an all around good person. But, she is not pretty, which is really what counts in that family.

My mother spends so much time worrying about her little sister, who's son has sort of hung her out to dry, and really she can't do too much about it. I am so mad at him for doing this because of all the stress it has put on everyone but him, it seems.

And so, our family looks really good right now. I am self employed, my brother is a contractor, and both sisters are retired.
So here is to my mom. Who really irritates the crap out of me at times, but, for all her faults, is a pretty good mom, who raised pretty good kids. Thanks mom.

Gorgeous Sun

We have had a very long winter. Like, till last week. In the Pacific Northwest, a cool Spring is not unusual. But for the last 4 or 5 years, we have had beautiful, hot, dry Springs and we have gotten spoiled by it. Sunday was the first day we have had above 55 this year. But, now it is sunny and glorious and I am happy.

I gave notice at my job, so regardless of whether or not the house sells by then, I am done the last day of August. It was a leap, but one I felt good making. I needed to be proactive, instead of just waiting, and waiting. I have also taken a new, part-time job to generate a bit more money, and if I still need a job here after August, I can add more days and I will be fine. The commute is about 100 feet. If I have to commute to town for work that would cost me at least $10 per day, because we have the highest gas prices around! So, things are changing and all will be well.

Inaugural Post

In the past, I have had a couple of other blogs, one of which I really enjoyed doing. Then I closed that one and opened one with my sister, but at times, blogger is a pain and makes posting hard. So I am killing that blog, too. I enjoy writing and started blogging to practice that. I have no aspirations to write a book, or anything. I just think it is a good thing to practince things that require thinking.

I am a crafter. I knit, I sew, I make stained glass mosaics, I am an upholsterer, I paint, I make whatever is trendy at the moment, just a little then I move on to new things. I love learning new art/craft skills, and have no need to perfect them, or continue. I just really like to experience something new and be able to say, I made this, not matter how bad it may be. These are things I want to learn- glass blowing and blacksmithing, are at the top of my list right now.

As anyone who read either of the previous blogs of mine (all 4 of you) knows, I have been trying to sell my house, and move to a new town and start a new business, and a new chapter in my life. I was divorced 4 years ago and I need something new in my life. Right now, I live in a small, isolated mountain town, far from a real city, and it is dark much of the year and cold way too much of the year. I need sunshine and warmer and water. I am only going about 60 miles away, but it is a coastal town and in a little sunbelt, so is warmer and brighter. And it is a little city, with everything I need and can walk to everything and breath sea air. My big sister lives there, and we plan to have adventures, big and small.

I will try not to whine too much about my house not selling, and I am about to go splash yellow paint on it.
Thanks for reading.
G