By popular demand, I've loaded a few of my photographs to a ProGallery at Shutterfly, which allows you to order prints (and mugs–I'm not so sure how I feel about the mugs yet) of my photographic attempts at artistic greatness…ok, I'm laughing out loud now.
Find the Shutterfly Girl at Large Gallery here:
Girl at Large Shooting Range
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Poor Ruby got her teeth cleaned today, which involved doggie anesthesia. Apparently, it hadn't quite worn off yet when I picked her up tonight. Walking into the apartment, she took a direct right turn…into the wall.
At least her breath smells better. -
Just a few more of the goodies I found this morning as I do my Saturday tidy-up after Mom's departure; enjoy:
two nail files
5 lighters
eyeglass lenses (yes, just the lenses)
2 glue sticks
Israeli marina flag
two blister packs of unidentifiable medication
Turkish Chicklets
a mallet
22 rolls of ribbon
two buckets, one coffee can
earwax removal kit
pink nail polish
a pack of foreign chewing gum called "First Sensations"
clip on sunglasses
AARP starter kit
Who leaves behind a MALLET? -
Mom left for Door County earlier this week, leaving me lunch-less, and leaving…well, what didn't she leave behind? Little reminders all over the house, let's call them "Mom Droppings":
2 tote bags
3 pairs of shoes
baseball hat
2 plastic tumblers
6 books
13 articles of clothing, not counting random underthings
1 plastic baggie of foreign coins
$12.56 in US coins
3 pairs of eye glasses (2 regular, 1 sun)
2 chinese take out menus
1 Milwaukee Bus schedule
electric toothbrush
2 paper cutters
6 People magazines
t square
sheets of paper, rolls of paper, paper and more paper
Turkish hotel soap and shampoo
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When Mom leaves for Door County on Tuesday, I'll miss her way with words. My favorites from this summer include:
the "un-empty cup of coffee" (bottomless cup of coffee)
"crudiments" (accoutrements)
being "kerflexed" (combo of kerfuffled and perplexed)
"that microwave guy" (Paul Allen) -
Dad and I took a road trip together this past week to his hometown of Edgar, Nebraska. We swapped Starbucks for Sanka…until we discovered a cafe in Nelson that served fully-leaded, real coffee. Thank god for small miracles. Thank god for small towns.
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I sell used furniture. There's no getting around that.
I was on site today for my first sizable installation of workstations–there to go over the design plan with the installers, watch the offload process, learn and …clean. By the time they get to the next customer, workstation components will have bumps and bruises and be in need of a cleaning–but at less than a third the cost of new (and green too!), that's ok.
Boogers, however, are not ok.
Someone sat at their desk for years (literally years), picked their nose and wiped it on the bottom of the pencil drawer. The flaky, crusty, smearing mess was spectacularly on display when the desk was staged on its end as it was being moved into it's new home. And yes, I had to scrub brush it off. -
I hate getting messages from long lost loves. If you're not going to drop everything, show up at my door and start making babies with me, then for heaven's sake go away and leave me alone!
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Mom's coming home for the summer! She called a few days ago, "I just booked a flight, I'll be in on Friday, it's too hot here" (she's in … Israel).
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I'm going to be painting again! I've got the studio space, I have the free weekends, I have the easel…I have no excuse.
Setting up again got me thinking that I still have a number of Antibes-era paintings left unsold. This announces a last chance to get one at the 2003/4 prices (in euros no less)! Visit the Gallery, send me an email of what you'd like. Click on a picture to see details, sizes and its sold status.
Stay tuned for updates from the easel.
