230 Project - Week 8

It is a quite Saturday here at my home.

:)

Barry is out on a yab (that is what we call a job - anyone
seen House Bunny? Awful movie but funny quotes.) and
Billie is out doin' what Billie do. So I'm finally allowed
to use the computer!! Yay! lol


Day 50: Week of 7/4/2011

This was pretty cool. I was on my couponing trip to CVS
and some nice person left coupons on the shelf to use. :)

I fully plan on doing this, kind of. I have a TON of coupons that
I really have no use for. I can A) send them to The Krazy Coupon
Lady who will in turn send them to families of the troops or B) just
place them in my local stores when I do my shopping. I could also
sell/trade them but seeing as I can barely remind myself to make new
listings for my etsy shop, I don't think I'll be doing that.

I'm actually kind of torn between helping the troops (who are
freaking awesome) and helping my local community.

hmm. Anyone have thoughts?

Day 51:

It was freaking raining! Holy guacamole!

I was reading that Texas is in a worse drought than
in the DUSTBOWL! The only reason why we are not
in a dustbowl again is because of the artificial irrigation being
done by farmers who are pulling water from the water table
underneath the ground.

It is a great idea for now...but what happens when the
water table dries up?

Day 52:

I. Love. Words With Friends.

It's kind of an addiction. Well, mostly it fills my
time when I'm outside with the dogs, waiting in line, etc. I
used to play more than I do now.

I have to say that I am really proud of this play.

108 POINTS! Holla!

:)

Day 53:

Desta being cute. I love this dog...when she is sleeping lol

She is super high energy and verrrry needy - needy as
in when I go to the potty, she waits by the door to see if
we are going to do anything fun when I'm done.

Kind of like a toddler.

Day 54:

It's Slickers!!!!

This is our fourth cat that doesn't count lol.

We never see this cat. She is not really a dog cat like our
other cats. I found her under the hood of one of the trucks where
I used to work so we think a dog chased her up there and
now she doesn't care for dogs...except for Desta which is
really really weird considering her high energy which
Slickers usually hates. It really is weird.

Anyways, she is a super sweet cat and she likes to talk. :)
Lately, now that I have been home all day and the dogs are
calmer, when it is quiet in the house (like when I'm knitting
for a couple of hours and the dogs are sleeping on the couches) she
comes and sits on my lap. At this point, I don't move until she
feels like she is done napping lol. I want her to know that she
can come out whenever she wants to and that we love her.

If you are curious as to how she got her name: when I found
her in the engine and finally got her home we discovered that
she had two black spots on her head. We tried to get them off,
thinking that they were oil, and we found out that that was actually
her coloring lol oops! So we tried different names like "grease monkey"
and a ton of other engine/oil related names and we settled for
Slickers. Now it is about two years later and the dark spots on
her head have disappeared and she is so freaking dainty
that Slickers doesn't seem to fit anymore. :) But we
keep our pet names the same no matter what but we have
taken to calling her "The Snowball" due to her pure whiteness and
her great affinity for cat food.

Day 55:

Le Poof (aka Scarlett)...in an Ikea light fixture that
Barry brought home from a shoot.

Day 56:

It's my little squatter! She got a heavy head.

:D

-Ri

Things I Love Thursdays: Charcoal Drawings!

I know this statement should go without saying since
the title of the series is Things I Love Thursdays but...

I LOOOOOOOVE charcoal drawings, ballet art,
this artist, her drawings and so on.

(I think her drawings are graphite but I like the way
they have the charcoal quality of them)

:)


Listing Here: the black swan

This drawing speaks to me. :)

I really like the poise, the way the hands are drawn
and I really like the way the face goes into darkness.

This is most definitely my favorite.

Listing Here: dying white swan

Again, I love the poise. The only thing that I could
possibly pick at would be the smudges. But
I will happily take those smudges!

Listing Here: swan lover

I like this drawing. I'm not in love with it, but I really
like it. :)

Listing Here: pointe shoes

Another one of my favorites. She has a couple of
versions of pointe shoes. I picked a random one since
I couldn't decide which one I liked more. :)


All in all, I really like this shop. She does fantastic work!

Her shop is here: BalletArt

She has an array of ways to buy her art. You can buy
the hand drawn art or you can buy a print! I haven't
figured out the difference between her shop sections
"prints" and "just prints" but whatev. :)

I really want to do a collection of her work but I can't
decide where to put it. I don't necessarily want to put it
in the bedroom because some of them are kiiiiinda creepy
lol but I don't really have a place to put them

I must work on this dilemma.

:D

-Ri

230 Project - Week 7

Ok so I'm a little late on updating. :)

I blame the holiday weekend. yeah.



Day 43: Monday 6/27/11

We went to the new hibachi/sushi restaurant two minutes
from our house! I freaking looooooove sushi (it's a problem)
and Barry loves the hibachi grill. Good for our tummies,
bad for our wallet lol.

This photo is of my glass of plum wine. They didn't serve
my preferred brand (that makes me sound so fancy! lol)
but this one was still pretty good.

I really like taking photos of drinks. I haven't figured
out the fascination but I really enjoy it.

Day 44:

I've started couponing! It is a great outlet for my organizing
addiction. :) This trip was an okay success. I can't quite remember all
the details and I can't seem to find the receipt but it came out to
around $65.00, I paid $32.00 and I received a $6 coupon
off of my next purchase so really I paid $26.00. Not too shabby!

I do remember that the big deal was on the dove soap. Walgreens
had it on sale 3/$18 then there was a $4 coupon on one soap
that you used 3 of so it came down to $6 total but it came
with the $6 next purchase coupon so it was free!

Day 45:

My pets are my children. No one can tell me that having pets
isn't like having children. I refuse to believe it.

If you have to pick up vomit and diarrhea - you either have
pets or you have children.

If you spend more money on their food than on your food -
you either have pets or you have children.

If you have trouble planning adult vacations because you
can't find a babysitter - you either have pets or you have children.

And these are only a FEW of the similarities. :)

Day 46:

We had a birthday party to go to on Saturday so we went
to Walmart (hurl) to pick up a doll for the little girl and
while we were there we saw t h i s. I could go into a tangent
on how weird/stupid/speechless-inducing this is but I don't
think I have to.

Day 47:

I didn't get any photos of me at the birthday pool party
but this is a really cool little bit of history left over from WWII.

We were in Hitchcock, TX for the party and the house we were at
sat across the street from these massive towers. Apparently
there was an Aviation Base in Hitchcock during WWII. The house
actually sat on the land of the hospital that treated the
soldiers at the base. A historical society came in a couple
of years ago and dug up their front yard looking for artifacts
and they found a TON of stuff. Pretty interesting!

At this Aviation Base they had blimps that would patrol
the Gulf of Mexico, looking for U-boats and escorting
ships around the Gulf. These four towers are the pillars
of the hangar where the blimp was held.

I'm going to do a little more research on this site to do
a post on blogger and then I will link it up here.

Day 48:

This is the traffic that we would have been caught in,
had we not had the handy dandy gps map on the
iPhone that allowed me and Barry to navigate the back
roads of League City. :)

We don't really use the gps navigation feature since
the program sucks as far as picking routes but I
actually love reading maps so I just find out where
we are on the map and then I choose the route
we take. It's kind of fun. :)

Day 49:

Ha!

I was dusting when I suddenly noticed the similarities
between Scarlette Le-Poof and my swiffer dusters.

lol!!!!

-Ri