Trust & Appreciation

Caution:  This may be a "whiny" post but I need to get some of this out of my head.  I trusted my friend so much that I quit my job and went to work for her.  If it were only the business we were working toward, as I thought in the beginning, we'd be fine.  I had my suspicions last week, and found out yesterday that the business was also paying bills at home, catching up on rent and utilities.  

That leaves no moola left for me.  I don't have a job, and they owe me money that I need right now.  

Which brings us to the appreciation part.  The bather has his job, the groomer has her job, so I took on the responsibilities of cleaning.  Kennels, towels, floors, etc.  

I  think they will appreciate the part I played.  I hope so.   The customers will ask where I am, too.  

And another thing, they brought a dog home from her son's house.  A dog that does not like me, which is so odd.  It really bothered me that they insisted every time she growled to say, "she doesn't growl at me, she ran right up to me and Ken..."  Tell her no, tell her to be nice, to me, like you do the dogs.    

So, my plan is to work on my art, get back to creating.  Hopefully selling.  

I knew I shouldn't have gone with her, I should have waited until she got settled in...but we'd talked all Winter about opening the shop, and it was always us, so I would have felt like I didn't support her when it was time.  

With any luck I can get my job back at Twin Pines.  Sweetheart is going to talk to the guy that is running the Pro Shop about it.  I'd work for cheap, and that would be more than I've made since May.  Plus, it will give me a lot of time to kick back and stitch.  

With all that being said, I do realize that this is something she has to do with the goals she has set, and I will still support her.  We've been friends for a long time, and I have no plans of un-friending her at all.  Nor will it be weird.  I knew getting this in writing would calm me down.

I just transferred my prescriptions to the drug store across the street from the shop.  Good excuse to visit once a month, huh?  

Gonna take a week off, rest, stitch, get some yoga going, back to eating clean.   I've eaten so much bologna the last 2 months, I never want to taste it again.  Got sick from one of those little pkgs of mustard, too.  

Handmade by Cosmo

Play Nice!  xxoo

A little absent (minded)...

Wait, what?  Just kidding.  My sweetheart, (from this day on he will be called Mr. Stubborn) has been ill.  Ill enough to take himself to his bedroom across the hall Thursday evening.

And there he's been, except for his sneaking out of his bedroom to do things I'd prefer him not to do when he's sick,  like emptying the dishwasher, folding towels, getting a snack...and doing things he shouldn't even be worried about, like the litter box.  I told him the first day to stay in his room and not germ up the house.  Then he has the nerve to say, "I hope you don't get this."

In my trying to take care of him, all he's done is piss me off & put me in a cranky ass mood.

So...I'm not saying another word to him.  We've been cooped up in here since Friday...well, I "got" to get out of the house to go to the grocery store this morning.  While I was gone he was all over this place.

I have kept myself occupied, during this duration, by watching LOST and making critters.  I know there's at least one new picture up there.  I'm trying a new technique with the eyes, which led to new ideas and techniques in my mind...

He just slipped down the hall again.  I'm going to shut my door a little bit so I don't have to see him when he comes back through.  And then I'm going to finish up a couple of critters, and hopefully my head will not explode before the end of this day.

Why Oh Why

Why do I keep posting here day after day, especially if no one is commenting?  Because just because.  One of these days, someone will stumpleupon or hit one of my tags, and they'll read it and enjoy it so much they will tell all their friends, and pretty soon everyone will be reading it and that will be so cool...  Oh the things I will do!

It is a blowy but very warm day here.  My sweetheart is out golfing in this, or playing cards...30 mph gusts would be hard to play golf in, much harder if you were outdoor playing cards!  Ha, that image just flashed through my head,  seemed funny to me, thought I'd share.

I made three new Critters over the weekend.  Here are 2 of them:  

I made a Dragon, too.  I'll have a pic of it tomorrow.  

xxoo

Cindy

Blue on Blue Pig

I like how he turned out.  The Donkey, I am still working on.  I hadn't slept very well the last couple nights, so I decided to hit the feathers early last night.  And I did sleep very well, until I woke up at 3:00 in the morning, having to use the bathroom...

What I forgot was that the handle that attaches to the flushy thing broke yesterday...but at 3 am, well, I wasn't thinking very clearly, I'm sure I was quite anxious to get back to that dream I was having...finished up and went to flush...I gotta take the lid off the tank, find the handle to pull up, which slipped through my sleepy, fumbly fingers, which meant I had to plunge my hand into that cold water...

Needless to say, the dream was gone.  Being ever the optimist, though, I figured out how to use this as a fun opportunity...dried my hand, slid back into bed, placing my hand squarely in the middle of my sweetheart's back.  He jumped, flipped over to see what the heck had happened, and I faked being asleep better than I have ever faked anything!  *gs*

Nothing was said this morning, but he went out early and got the part to fix it.  I love my life!  

I've learned how to add a link (yay me), so that's exactly what I did over there to your right...

Free Felt Patterns and Tutorials.  

Nice to find a place like that.  

Y'all have a good day, please try to do something really fun and or funny today.  xxoo

Sleeping

I've not been sleeping well the last few nights.  Maybe staying up too late?  Maybe sleeping to late in the morning (8:00 ish)?  Maybe what I watch before I go to bed, maybe what I listen to while I sleep?  I am not doing anything out of the ordinary.

Does it drive you crazy when someone has earbuds in and you can still hear what they are listening to?  That drives me crazy.  CrAzy.  cRaZy.

These are the times when I repeat to myself, "I love him."

My brain says one thing, my heart says another?

My Chihuahua is bored.

She has done nothing for the past two days but lay on the bed and watch me sit here in my chair working on a Critter, or computering, or something...she got crazier than a cootie last night about 10:00, so I know she's going berserk in her little Chihuahua head.

I tried to take her with me to the post office today, but she was not interested.

Today, I am taking her for a walk.  The sun is shiny, the wind isn't blowy, a brisk walk around the block would do us both a world of good.

My darling Karma Carmella

Oh yeah, she was all, "yeah, let's go, come on, come on, come on..." and she made it all the way around the block (1/4 mile), only trailing a little bit there at the end, it's a little incline for you and me, but for a dog that is 6" at the shoulder, it's a pretty big incline.  ;)

We may go again, it is a pretty day.  

Guinea Pig I finished last night.  

xxoo

I Love my Weekends

The dilemma today...should I go up to the pro-shop this afternoon, of should I stay home in my Jammie's?  I could wear my Jammie's to the pro-shop, except they are Halloween Jammie pants, and I just don't feel comfortable wearing "seasonal" out of season.  Out in public, anyway (and I do kinda not like wearing them at home, but I like how these fit, just long enough, just baggy enough, perfect).  

My thought in the shower this morning - I am going to make a few simple shirts and pants, in a muslin or a linen fabric, neutral colors... (I feel very strongly about these thoughts I have in the shower).  I've had this thought before, but haven't acted  on it.  I'm not a fashion hound by any means, I'll be the canvas for the accessories.  

Because I just never know what my next phase of creating will be.  Right now I'm happy as can be with my little felt critters, but before that it was handbags (big ones), and I was seriously looking into making puppets.  I went through a "feed bag" stage, making what I thought were very cool dresses and jackets, and I did sell a few things...but my point here is that I just never know when a thought is going to occur to me to try something new.  

And I really love some of the handmade jewelry I've been seeing on Pintrest!  

There's a new picture in the photo stream up there.  If anyone were reading this, I'd offer up a shout out to the first one that picked out the new one, but that's kinda moot, for the moment anyway.  

(This is the new one)

(I just figured out how to put a pic there.  Woot for the noob!)

It makes my weekend so much more pleasant when the weather is so nice.  Especially in January.  He can golf, I have the house to myself.  Love That.

Tomorrow morning, I will have coffee while I go through the Sunday paper.  My favorite part of the weekend.   I especially like it when I don't actually have to go outside to get it, but I do now and then, it's not like I'm spoiled or anything.  

I have another elephant to put together this afternoon, for one of my daughter's friends that I really like.  Another friend of hers is crocheting a gray winter hat for me, she may get this little gray elephant in return.  

That's probably enough rambling for today.  Enjoy your weekend!  

xxoo