Healed Crow Tattoo!

Look at that face!

This is my most recent piece from the wonderful Alena Chun at Icon Tattoo in Portland Oregon.  This one is a little longer than the owl, and harder for me to snap a full pic with my handy dandy iPhone.  I'll eventually do a post with nicer pictures of all my finished pieces.  For now, this is what I've got.  I believe this finishes up the bird tattoos (but one never knows).  Once again, I couldn't be more pleased with how it turned out!  On to the next... (October-yay!)

Healed Owl Tattoo!

I realize this isn't the greatest picture (the bottom is cut off), but considering I took it myself with my iPhone I feel pretty happy about it.  My owl is another fabulous piece by the one and only Alena Chun at Icon Tattoo in Portland  Oregon.  It took a few sittings, but it was worth every single minute!  I am so pleased with how it turned out.  On to the next! ;)

Meh

I look at this (neglected) blog (that I love) and realize what a boring person I am.  Okay, maybe not completely boring, but I look boring if I judge myself by this blog (which I do some days).  I hardly ever post, and when I do it's kind of a whiny post (like this one).

Maybe part of the problem is pictures, as in I used to take a lot more of them and would post them here along with the adventure behind them.  We are still going on adventures, I just haven't been taking pictures.  Then I wonder, why have I stopped taking pictures?  It's not because I hate having my picture taken (I do).  I don't hate our camera.  I usually don't mind dumping the photos to my laptop (but it is kind of a chore).  Have I really become that lazy?

We've had a few lovely trips to our new place on the coast and I didn't blog about it, or post pictures (except for a few on facebook).  I don't think I've even pulled the pictures off the camera.  Now, we are getting ready to go on another get away (YA *kermit flailing*).  I am going to try harder to post about this one.  

We've also been busy taking care of some things around the house (planned and then the unplanned).  I am so thrilled with the changes, I'm sad I haven't even blogged about those!

I just need to brush aside the lazies and get blogging about some of this stuff.  There may or may not be a onslaught of posts coming. 

So...

I hate having the feeling like I have a lot to say, but then when I sit down and try to blog nothing wants to come out. It's like my brain and vocabulary are constipated and I am clueless about what to use as a laxative.  You don't even want to know how long it took me to put that sentence together.

David and I are doing good.  We've continued on our path to getting healthy and it is paying off.  We have come far, but there is still a long way to go.  The weight is slowly coming off for me, and I'm sure the medication I'm on for my hella high cholesterol don't help with that BUT they have helped with the hella high cholesterol so I will try not to get too bent out of shape about it.  It's all for the greater good.  And I just keep telling myself that if is slow to come off (the weight) then it's gonna stay off.  

We are both still employed.  

Puppy is still crazy, cranky, and OCD about her fur.

I guess that's all that's going to come out today.  /sigh

Wednesday-Sleep 3

Did battle with a stupid shelf that will be going back to the store as a rejected piece of crap.  I had fun with that, can you tell?  Working on de-scumming the shower head.  Trying something I saw on Pinterest.  I'll know how it did in 2-3 hours (or tomorrow morning).  Working on getting the energy to do battle with some really dirty floor boards.  Yeah, I should do that instead of trying to blog.  I'll be back.

So... due to extreme dirt and grime I have blown through the cleaning crap I bought and am unable to continue until I obtain more.  Which will be tomorrow.  While cleaning, I discovered my shelf building and tearing apart left me with a blister on my thumb.  On a higher note, I did battle with the cat fur that has taken over the house and I think I did some damage.  The cat is certainly pissed off at me.  I expect to come home tomorrow and find even more fur than I sucked up.  This is the way of things.

Tomorrow is gonna be a busy day, I'm going to see my parents at the coast.  I should probably try to get some sleep so I have my wits about me.

I'm one day closer to my David coming home...

Tuesday-Sleep 2

Things that are when David is away:

• I don't sleep well
• Puppy is far more creepy (I believe she feels she has the upper hand with one of her people are gone and her chances of eating one of us is far greater)
• All the noises the house makes are creepy-it's possibly haunted
• I don't sleep well
• Lights on good; lights off bad
• Walking with David is better than walking without David
• I have a lot of girl movies-I could spend the entire time sobbing over fictional characters dying/getting married/falling in love/falling out of love (etc)
• Puppy deposits the same amount of fur whether we are here or not
• I don't sleep well
• My ability to deal with bullshit is greatly less without David
• I don't sleep well

Yeah, that's just some of it.  My brain just isn't working.  I know David is out of town working, and isn't exactly thrilled that he had to go.  I feel bad complaining.  I'm actually incredibly lucky.  He would rather be here with me and the scruffy-looking fur-herder than away from us.  I get to come home to him every day, I get to spend lovely evenings with him.  He's my best friend, and the one person in the world I can confide in and trust.  It's no wonder I'm a little off balance, and lost when he's away.  

As I sit here, the cat is sitting on David's footstool with her back to me, tail twitching.  She's out of sorts too.  I don't know if I tell David enough how important he is to me.  Frankly, I think I've been a bit of a moody poop lately.  I know I'm being a little mushy, but there it is.  I miss my best friend and I'm looking forward to his return.  3 more sleeps sweetheart!

Monday-Sleep 1

It's that time again, David is out of town for work this week and I'm going to put on my big girl panties and try not to miss him too much!  We had a really lovely weekend before he had to head out, and then had a lovely cheat meal breakfast before he left.  I had to leave before he did this morning, so I still have the "shock" of empty house in my future.  It's not as bad as it sounds.  The cat is there.  I'm just used to coming home to him cooking something wonderful and pouring wine.  Man am I a lucky lady!

This week I'm hoping to start doing some things around the house to show him I really do care about how the place looks, and that I appreciate all his hard work that he's done around the place.  My list is long, and painful, and I won't finish before he gets home.  But it will help pass the time and it will feel good to be moving around and getting things done.  I just have to survive the rest of the work day, a quick errand and then I'm home.

----Fast forward to being home----

Had a package waiting for me from Amazon-we have a new French Press (pics later).  As soon as I got out of the car I heard puppy meowing, I think she was tired of being alone.  She's used to have David around during the day.  And I think even though she is off doing cat things I think she misses having him in the house.  I am pretty sure that's a compliment.

As I was putting away some DVD's a spider as big as my head crawled out and tried to eat me.  I think I'm done cleaning for today.  Tomorrow is a whole new day.

4 sleeps sweetheart-we can do this!

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