Things that make me...crazy?

I have a cat who likes to lick my legs and toes...and nose!  She also will sit in my lap while I'm going to the b.... T.M.I. probably.  This never happened!!!

Wall color!  You know, wall paint?  The stuff you paint onto your walls?  Yeah, I'm crazy about the idea of painting the walls amazing bright and fun colors!  The problem...I only get to go crazy in my room and in my bathroom...however, both of those are green. 

Here are my dreams in color:


velvet evening

soulful music



They basically look the same...I don't want my blues to

 ever look grey or purple.

  But I want a nice dark calming color

 for my future master bedroom!

cran brook

mission wildflower

One is brighter than the other. Sometimes dull colors still look 

very bright so I figure it's better

 to just go duller in the first place.

bright star

peach butter

dessert glow

Now, I know I want a yellow kitchen...

I've been dreaming of that one forever! 

But I saw a picture of an orange-ish-yellow

living room and I thought it was brilliant.

Herbal

 I really like this color. 

My friend Jill would always paint

 her room this kind of color any place she moved.

So enjoyable!  I'm not sure where I

would use it but...it's amazing either way!

Madagascar

This is the color that I have in my bedroom

 right now and it's amazing!

It has to be in just the right space

or it might look terrible.

No one loves this one as much as me.

I envision this in a guest bedroom (if possible)

 so I can make up my "old" room in there for

 when my hubby has to be away or something. 

Poor fig tree...poor me!

Not sure what happened to those kittens around Brandt's place, but Roof Cat is still hanging around.  I feel like I should bring her home!

Our fig tree stopped ripening.  I picked 3 figs (that didn't get eaten by bugs) hoping to get enough to make some fig cupcakes.  However, for whatever reason, our figs aren't ripening anymore.  There are about 8 figs just stuck! So sad.  I froze the figs I did pick so I can probably still use them for a smaller batch of cupcakes I guess.  That makes me feel good!

Well, I thought I had a list of things to talk about on my phone but I guess I deleted it or forgot to save it.  I'll just have to think of some things right now!

-Buck saw
-Keeping the "A" in Manchaca
-Lasagna
-The Graduate
-Paper punches
-I love lists...

BUCK SAW...I hope that's not some alternative slang word for something inappropriate!  The other night I woke up to the sound of a saw.  The two ideas that sprung into my head was that someone was sawing the door open to our truck OR someone was playing a cruel joke by sawing off all of the lower limbs to our trees.  I know, my mind is a crazy place.  I got out of bed and turned on the porch light and opened to the door to a sound of running through the grass...I couldn't see past the porch, but I assumed it was that buck who's been hanging around, rubbing off the felt on his antlers.  Apparently he's already taken out a small tree in our backyard doing so!  Bad buck saw!  Haha!  I'm glad I figured out what it was.

Apparently someones trying to change Manchaca into Menchaca.  Which is totally silly!  There's a petition online to keep the "A" so go here if you care to help out our town!  It's pronounced "Man-Shack" though I've always just said "chack".  They sound the same anyways.
http://tinyurl.com/keepitmanchaca

Lasagna...it doesn't matter if it's made from scratch or not...Stoffer's is the best!  I bet their mac'n cheese is better than momma's!  Should I have said that???

The Graduate.  Once someone referred to me as The Graduate but they laughed and took it back and said something about not being the movie.  Or that he hoped not!  I had no idea what he meant so I decided to rent it on netflix.  Bahaha!  No, I'm not an adulterous and I can't get someone to run away with me after they've just married someone else by force.  It just isn't a problem you see, haha!

Paper punches...should I really just get my scissors out and stop returning these darn paper punches that aren't perfect?!  I have OCD when it comes to paper having clean lines and cuts...it's just silly how hard it is to get things that work just the way you want them.  When I punch paper into a shape I shouldn't have to clean up the edges with scissors or flatten out the crinkled corners!  Anyways, I'll be going back today to return the darn thing and perhaps just invest in something else outside of the punch world.  Hmmmm...I'll just have to beeboop around in there...I love that store!

I love lists! Duh!

Undecided...

Not on the topic of undecidedness...but wouldn't it be just the icing on the cake to live like you're in a movie for just one day?! You wake up and BOOM! Action Action Action! or Experience falling in love again!  Maybe see if you'd survive the Hunger Games?! Then you just wake up the next day back in your normal life.  Like a dream you have control of but you actually have to try! 
      What I don't like about dreams is when I'm trying to run, my feet in real life are stuck under the covers so I'm trying to run in my sleep...so in my dream I'm trying to either show off or get away and I have to go as fast as my feet stuck under the covers can go.

I think it'd be really cool!

Undecided on who to vote for this up and coming election? Apparently a lot of people are.  Do I want to give my vote to Obama so he can have another for years to "finish" what he started or start what he's put through congress, or do I want to give my vote to Romney so we can see a new face up top and see if his plans work for the better?  Tough stuff.  All I know is that everyone makes mistakes and everyone at some point is going to make a decision that is going to create negative opinions towards them.  The Obama campaign talks about bringing the military system out of the places at war to let the natives of the land who were trained take charge.  Romney's plan is to keep them there.  I honestly don't know what's best.  I don't know what's best for anyone because just because someone says they're going to follow through, it doesn't mean that it will keep priority.  Like, is that 1,2,3 list on every topic actually going to be written down on the black board of to-dos?  I don't know, you don't know...maybe even out future 2012 president doesn't know.
      Why can't we just set up an all-American poll to vote for which answer we like best? Then we really get a say and the only people we have to be upset with is the majority.  Maybe the majority will always have the right answer. 

Confusing!

Through vs. Thru!  I knew that it wasn't proper!  I always want to just type thru but I never thought it was supposed to be a real spelling, just a shortcut.
      That's basically what it is, a proper shortcut!

All of my questions have been answered! (On the topic of Through vs. Thru that is).

What makes me feel good is when I don't see negative comments on people's YouTube posts.  I mean, sure sometimes I have the same negative opinions, but I'm not going to post it so all of their friends can see.  Sometimes it's just constructive criticism but still, if they wanted that they would be taking lessons...which not many YouTube "stars" care to do.  Obviously.
     I've thought about starting a channel for singing on YouTube but I don't play a solo kind of instrument and you can't sing while playing the recorder...haha!

Be nice on the internet!

My ART&WATER campaign now has $40.25 in it!  Not much compared to the $1000 goal.  It takes $5000 I believe to build a well. 
      Wish me luck on getting my art show up and running by the 17th of November!

Oh it's gonna be some work!

Peach Cobbler...makes me feel real good!

Share a little bit of your love my friends...

I am about to give you the best Peach Cobbler recipe known by me.  Best eaten a la mode!!!

You're going to want to double the recipe because it's even good cold...or you might even just eat it all!

1 Cup - Unsalted Butter
2 Cups- Flour
3 Cups- Sugar
1 tsp- Salt
6 tsp- Baking Powder
2 Cups- Milk
6 Cups- Canned Sliced Peaches (We've discovered that when you bake fresh peaches they just lose their sweetness...you might also want MORE PEACHES! If I recall last time we finished of the pan we all thought it needed more peaches).
2 tsp- Cinnamon
Vanilla to taste

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 
2. Melt butter in 10"x14" baking dish.
3. Sift together flour, 2 C. Sugar, salt and baking powder, and blend with milk.
4. Pour mixture over melted butter. 
5. Spread peaches over this and sprinkle with other cup of sugar mixed with cinnamon.
6. Bake for 1 hour.
7. Crust will magically appear and cover the surface of cobbler.

Serves 12...or 6 if you're crazy like my family.

This recipe came from A Texas Hill Country Cookbook that first printed in 1976!

Enjoy!!! AND DON'T FORGET THE VANILLA ICE CREAM!!!

Short and...apple juice sweet.

It's mushroom season!  There are so many kinds too!

      Well, I'm off my meds.  I'm not going to tell you what kind of meds though because that takes away all the fun of you perhaps thinking I might snap any moment.  So if you don't send me a donut through e-mail I might have to put you on my list.  My list of non-givers.

      I have no idea how people train cats...it seems impossible.  I can't get my cat to just walk on the leash...she has to run then wait for something else to pop up to chase.  Run STOP Run STOP Run STOP!  I did possibly train her to not eat Nerds...She ate the first one with some difficulty, but then I tried to give her another one and she actually licked all the color off and got to the tangy part and WAAAAH!  She didn't like it.

      Do you ever just crave juice?  I crave Apple Juice when I'm dehydrated.  Once Brandt and I were coming back from a hike and I got him to stop by the convenient store to get a bottle.  Too bad it would be cheaper to just get the huge bottle from HEB than to spend $1.50 on something you could have 10 of.  We got Juicy Juice for free with the meal deal these past couple of weeks and I was really wanting that tart taste of grape juice.  Don't go for Juicy Juice if that's what you're looking for though...the first ingredient is Apple Juice.  Yeah I'm a huge fan, but the doctor ordered grape, k?  (The doctor being me- highly qualified folks).

      The cat obstacle coarse has started...or maybe it ends on top of the china cabinet.  Who knows really?  Boo is a psycho cat.

      What about all of this makes me feel good?  To clarify...I feel better already not taking those darn drugs.  They all have scary side effects anyways....  It made me laugh to see the cat spit out that nerd.... There's a bottle of Apple Juice with my name on it in the fridge.... That highly active cat makes me laugh, but I'm sure glad April doesn't try and do what she does around the house.  April sticks to running back and forth from the rug in my room to my mom's bed. 

You don't want to use just any ol' butter.

Yup, these are gingersnap cookies.

Well, it's nothing like a trip to the dentist to depress me.  Then what do I do?  I watch the newest episode of Glee and it depresses me even more!  So what do I do to fix it?!  I make cookies!  AND THEY TURN INTO SOUP!  Apparently, you don't want to use just any ol' butter.  I used the spread in the big tub...and boy did it spread.  They still taste good!  Now it gives me an excuse to use that cookie coupon I have!  Break and Bake baby!!!

About the dentist:  I've been going to the same guy ever since I was a kid.  His practice is basically in a mini mobile home.  Now that I'm really into making my own decisions I grabbed my insurance card and took a stab at the place I keep getting postcards from.  They loaded me up with X-Rays and hooked me up with toothpaste that I had to pay for and pointed out some about-to-be cavities.  This guy who runs this place is definitely reminding me of that guy on the Dr.'s Travis Stork...flocked by ladies of course.  Only men want to run dentistry?  Overall, I'm really glad they are up to date with technology and include me in the reviewing of my X-Rays...that was neat!  Next change is my doctor...I have a wonderful Ob/Gyn and hope to find a wonderful overall health Doctor (whatever those are called).

About Glee:  I too, just like Fin & Rachel, Kurt & Blaine, and Brittany & Santana, am going through a long-distance relationship.  We're an hour away from each other and have been able to work out seeing each other every other weekend. BooHoo right?  No, it's not as bad as it could be...but boy am I ready to move on with my life.  I'm stuck here going through the motions waiting for him to graduate and find a job.  I am just having a hard time, and seeing how it ended with all of them it crushed me.  I'm a hopeful person and they all just slapped me in the face.  Ruuuude! It does make me feel good that I'm not far from him and that he calls me practically every night unlike those Glee folk.  I am thankful for the love I have and hope to keep on keepin' on!

Have you been paying attention to the Primetime on Demand commercials???  I haven't!  My sister-in-law just opened a whole new world to me!  Screw Hulu and it's setbacks with having to work through a temperamental computer...I'm gonna watch what I've been missing out on ON THE TV!

Now!  The other day I remembered this shirt I had that I later despised wearing.  It was a black long sleeve shirt with a bunch of different nail polishes with funky names printed on it, and there were bows.  My last day of wearing that shirt was at church camp when I read the conservative sign in the bathroom saying: "LET THE YELLOW MELLOW."  As I read through the many names of nail polish I later discovered that the bright yellow bottle was named "Yellow Mellow."  No, I never would associate those two words with a song...not after reading that sign.  Since disposing of that shirt due to embarrassment that only I would ever feel and understand, I have come to terms with letting the yellow mellow.  At night it's nice not to wake anyone...and then it's also great when you've had a lot of water to drink that day because then you visit the lou a lot.  Be a conservative and save water!  Maybe that's called a conservationist?  Or is that just with land?  I am not affiliated with an electoral party. 

PREGNANT GOATS.  They're looking like they're about to pop!!!  Wish the mommies and babies luck!

Hey! Hey! Hey!

Some neat little bugs I saw on a plant at the park.

      There is this movie called Fly Away Home and it's about a little girl who bring up a nest of baby geese!  They end up seeing her as their mother figure and she has to prompt them to flying south by getting in a small plane and leading them away.  The reason I bring this up is being I love quoting that movie.  It goes like this: "HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY!"  Something like that.  That's not the only reason I'm bringing this up though, that would be silly!  So, as I was walking to put the mail in the mailbox yesterday (which didn't get sent because it was a holiday- go figure) I overheard a goose.  When I looked up, there it was!  A goose flying solo south!  It may have been more Southwest than just south.  Just sayin'.  To answer your question, yes I did start saying "HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY!"
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      Another great thing about yesterday was the weather!  It's probably the end of the coldfront and around 4PM will probably be back in the 80s but you have no idea how weird it was to say the other evening, "It's 57 right now."  Like I've said before, anything below 100 is just fine for me.  But seriously, lets respect Fall and have some nice cool weather. 
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      With Fall comes the falling of acorns.  Every now and then I get spooked because another one falls off onto the roof and since we have a tin roof it can get pretty loud.  I still haven't been knocked in the head by any, but there's still time.  Last year I picked up a lot of the caps and made acorns by gluing a cotton ball wrapped in fabric to the inside.  They're cute!  Not sure if I should get some sparkly string and glue loops on them for ornaments or just set them out somewhere.  They're top heavy so they roll over and quit looking like acorns.  The ornament idea is probably best.  They'll go well with our little blue tree my mom invested in last year.  I thought getting another tree meant 2 trees, but boy way I wrong.
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      Besides falling acorns, lactose intolerant people have a leg down in the foods of Fall category.  Egg Nog has dairy, hot chocolate has dairy, the pumpkin pie I ate the other day had dairy...it's cruel really!  Queso has dairy and it's staring me down when I open the fridge.  And I've been opening the fridge a lot lately!  I go to the TeaPioca Lounge by my house and get a Jack fruit cream drink and it's creamed with dairy.  I never learn I guess but they do have just ice drinks...maybe I'll get the Kiwi one today instead of a cream.  I seriously need to cut back on this dairy!!!  A gurgley tummy is not fun, okay?!
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      On another note, not including Fall... I've just sold a necklace and matching earrings to a friend who took them to an auction.  I do wonder if they sold.  My G.P.(Granny Pat) took a painting or 2 with her and sold one.  It was one I did in High School.  It was neat but I wasn't attached to it.  You can't really be attached to your artwork because someone, that being G.P., is going to want everything you make.  However, I've been telling her that she can't have everything because then she's the only one who knows me.  Make sense?  Sure it does!  BUT YEAH!  I then got inspired to make some jewelry for my art show!  It's hard though!  I made one good piece yesterday, though I also made a goofy one, but couldn't figure out how to put earrings with it...so I ditched the set idea and I'm going to stick with just necklaces.  I can tell when I really don't care for some of the older stuff I've made because I envision taking it apart and trying again.  Sometimes the outcome is 10X better though!
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      I wish I had the push to be in my studio more often, but it's just not happening.  I went there to other day and did another boyscout popcorn mountain scene (which is basically the same scene just on a different sized canvas) then yesterday I tried to do a mini still life that I made up from my head.  I didn't feel like finishing it...so I didn't.
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      Send good feelings my way!  And, send good thoughts that don't result in me eating tons of dairy!

"I'm gonna wash that [smell] right out of my hair."

Some pretty flowers I found at the park!

The title quote is sort of from that musical South Pacific...but I changed "man" to "smell" because it's more practical.  Apparently it was a song based off of a commercial about washing the grey out of ones hair.  What is the difference really...grey vs. gray?

This cat...she'll sit under our feet at the computer chair and no matter how many times we forget she's there and step on her she still comes purrin' back.  Psycho.

The high for today in Austin was 63!  Can you believe it???  I can!  I was in it!  My boyfriend and I went to McKinney Falls State Park and hiked both trails all the way around!  I haven't done that in forever.  Plus, there was a trail I had never taken before.  I loved that people were out on picnics.  It made me want to have a picnic but instead we went to Taco Bell.  I tried that new taco shell and it was pretty good.  However, their burritos suck.  Therefore, I'll stick to crispy tacos.  Now, if I'm at Taco Bueno...then I want Muchaco tacos.  Yup.  That's what I like.  Enough about food!  Let's talk about foooooood.

Just kidding...gosh.  I need to keep up with a point journal so that I don't keep posting blah blahs.  I'll go do that!

Random poofs!

Rain Lily...or that's what I call them.

Marketing towards women...
      I've been watching a TV channel where they market Cinnamon Toast Crunch towards women.  Guess what I'm eating?  Yes, I'm a sucker.  Heck, Eggo Waffles came on and my mom was practically salivating.  Guess what she got at Sam's Club?  Yup.  I'm a bit put off by that one because I love making waffles with the just add water mix.  The truth is you have to cook it after you add water so you don't just add water.  As for Magnum ice cream bars and 100 calorie brownies...I don't care about those.  Those commercials make women look desperate.  If she's desperate for anything it better be a man, not a damn brownie. 

Painting my nails...
      That's what I'm doing right now.  I hope ma doesn't mind yellow speck on her keyboard.  Hopefully that doesn't really happen.  I see the coolest ideas for painting crazy designs on your own nails.  Having said that I'm just going to paint them yellow and then slap a coat of gold glitter on top.  My nails grow pretty long without me realizing it.  When I was inspired to play a little on my dads guitar I just cut the 4 on my left hand.  Those were getting long again, and though I lost inspiration to keep the guitar pluckin' (once again) I decided to cut them all.  I got to my right hand and screamed!!!  Not.  But they were getting pretty long, so I'm glad I haven't pulled one back on anything...like that time that happened at work when I was trying to pry open the vacuum cleaner.  Pain...pain.  I'm going to have to retire this yellow polish because it's getting stringy.

Lists...
      I love making lists.  I'm trying to not use as much paper so I put them on my phone or on my dry erase board that I turned into a weekly calendar.  I printed one out the day before yesterday because I felt like type...but then I felt bad for using a whole sheet of paper just for that.  It was a list for my boyfriend and me on what we might do when he comes for a visit.  I've really been wanting to go with him to a pumpkin patch type deal.  I though farmers market but most are only open until 1pm and I wont be done at work until 12:30 at least.  Plus the dude wants his hair cut.  Therefore, I've revised my list since I printed it out. 

Silly Drawings...
      I love sending letters to people.  Plain and simple!  When talking on the phone last night I drew a lovely border to a future letter including Dragons, a chicken, and a fish.  I figure it will give whoever gets it a good laugh.  I made a copy of it so that it can go out to more than just one person.  Two persons! 

Sitting around and doing nothing...
      I consider reading and blogging not doing much because I'm not moving my legs and I'm not making anything.  It's the easiest thing to do since I don't want to drive anywhere...or put on clothes to wear in public.  At least on some slow days where I just wait out until 3PM or so I make it out for a walk down the road and back.  I may still be in my night clothes and just be wearing flip flops but I like being able to say that I did that.  I need to go to the studio though...I have a nice painting idea.  Simple...but intriguing.

Eating...
      I want to eat more.  I had cereal and a banana.

Life....
      Why doesn't America have a school of Witchcraft and Wizardry???  Haha!  I guess I wouldn't know about it.  I want to intrigue someone to make a decent movie about the American version.  Scratch that!  I like their accents. 

One word: Coupons

Found this online...if I'm going to have an ode to coupons I better have a photo.

I bought a handful of things from HEB the other day and had a coupon for practically everything.  I saved almost $7.00!  Impressive?  I'd say so!  We got 6 lbs of bananas free...we have a lot of bananas.

I purchased some birthday gifts online yesterday.  Green gifts.  I can't say what they are because I live with the people and if they wanted to read about what makes me feel good then they'd figure out what they got. 

My friend Rachel is visiting from New York!  I hope we get to do something together today...or I'll be sad. 

I bought my cat some healthy weight food...but Peaches keeps stealing it from her.  So not cool dude.  April still eats out of the other cats' bowls though.  Come on Ape!