Life in the Cracker Factory

cross-eyed from coloring

after a weekend of being laid out, i found myself with a lot of time on my hands. so i started coloring. figured i'd make a few cards start a stash going....who knows, maybe set up shop at the vendor / craft fair that i chair at aj's school.

then john saw what i was doing. he thinks it's cute. he loved my snowman stamp and decided that i should make those as our holiday cards - altering the colors for those who celebrate christmas and those who don't. snowmen, he claims, are winter...not tied to a holiday. i agree.

trouble is, i already stamped out all of my christmas cards and was planning on making a few hanukkah ones later in the month. but how can i deny a man who likes my colored snowmen?? gah.

so here i sit coloring in snowmen and adding ridiclious amounts of detail for something 98% of the people i send to will throw away.

but something good came out of this.

i now know that i could never sell my cards. no matter how damn cute or detailed. they just take too much damn time to do. it takes me at least 20 minutes to color one image - and that's without mounting or matting or stickling. that's just applying color. so figure at least 30 minutes per card.

so while he snores as he;s supposed to be watching the rays beat the sox, i'm cross eyed and cursing since i have perfectly good adn easy cards sitting here mocking me as i painstakingly color in snowmen.

one day i'll learn to color in private ;) till then, i suppose i'll suck it up and appreciate the fact that my darling husband appreciates what i love to do. may we all be so lucky!

too pooped to pop.

pop off pictures that is.

today is picture day. aj went to school sporting a cute wrinkly button down shirt from old navy complete with skull & cross bone tie (that i can't find a pic of online....damn), gap jeans and of course, chuck taylors.

my friend janice said he looks like a burnout who got his head shaved for picture day. teehee. but hey. that's my boy. and i wouldn't have it any other way.

i should have taken my own damn pictures this morning - in fact, john was surprised i didn't. but honestly, the dark when i get up and dark when i eat dinner thing is kicking my ass right now! i'm having the worst time adjusting to the light change. heaven help me when the time changes! so mornings around here have been a little....shall we say, hectic? yeah. that works.

on the upside, i did manage an hour of cardio this morning, and despite skipping breakfast i should be okay in the protein dept. i'll add in a high protein snack later. like i said, mornings are just a bit nutty.

well. i'm off to finish the laundry and find the stamp i bought for my christmas cards and promptly lost. i know i bought it. now to find it. this may take till next christmas. then i think i'll color. i love me some coloring. especially with my copics. thanks to marge. muwah!

later taters.

he has a secret journal

he just decided to do this today. and asked if he could.

i was just a wee bit shocked to say the least. then he did it.  he asked the most horrible question a mother of a 6 year old could hear.

"how do you spell Madison?"

uh. really?

apparently so.

sigh.

straight out of left field

came a funk.

i'm trying to pinpoint why. and the only thing i can come up with is the issues with my memory right now. i was asked to repeat my starbucks order, and couldn't find the words. ever since that moment, the funk came on.

i hate feeling this way. i hate not being able to recall random words and facts. i hate not being able to have an intelligent conversation. all i keep thinking is there has got to be something i can do. but i don't know what.

so frustrated. so scared. i feel like i'm loosing my mind. and i don't like it one bit.

here ends the pity party of the day. we will resume our regularly scheduled babble soon.

anyone know where i can get a copy???

check out the G....he's mine ;)

i so need a copy of this picture!!!!

the light is dim....

but i can see it! and that my friends, means everything!

i'm finally out of bookfair hell. once i get the financials done and drive to freaking cranbury to fix their error. i mean really, if i order 6 CASES of something for restock, why the hell did they send me 6 PIECES??? have you any idea what happens in an elementary school if the kids can't get what they want when they pay for and order it?? we're talking chaos, crying and parents screaming. yes, there are some parents who are just out of control when it comes to things like this.

but hopefully by monday, it will be resolved. hopefully.

as for the nursing home situation....they moved her that afternoon. with a little shit from the one nurse, but still. she was moved. her meds are being delivered on time, she is being showered and there is no food being left to rot on a tray. her new roommate is a bit odd, but sweet as pie. and she's supposedly leaving her room.  still have to hunt down the  admin  who is dodging my calls. but  now with the bookfair over, i can get back to being a major pita  until they comply. and she seems happy. for now.

so hopefully the neglect has been resolved. for now.

all in all, it's been an exhausting week. emotionally and physically. lessons have been learned. and hopefully today begins a new week in which i don't have to chase my tail constantly and can get something done for me or at the very least, my house! i long for a real meal, one that is cooked by me, not some random person in a hairnet. i like to think they're wearing a hairnet...so don't blow my delusions will ya?

but right now, i need to shower, finish breakfast, wake the boy, grab coffee and head to baseball - all by 9:30 (and its  8...yikes!).