It's Tuesday - what am I going to do with myself today. 

Bathroom almost done - shared an edit photo on yesterdays' blog.  Guess I will go shopping?

There's a little of that tee hee thing going on this afternoon...Like I'm 7 and just drew on the walls and know daddy will be so excited when he gets home because it is beautiful
The old color

and the new

It is actually more aqua than green...observe in the lower/middle the lovely kitty potty trainer   He has to do the trim because I'm a very dirty painter    woo hoo

edit:  almost done...

Color is a lot more aqua...camera just can't pick it up...  Thinking I'm going with sand and black rugs, etc...or maybe just black and a new shower curtain?

I think "he" and I made some decisions in the truck yesterday without calling them decisions.  We finally got ourselves on the same page...not that we weren't before...but talking about it cleared things up.

The most lovely decision and the one that will keep me getting out of bed for the next 3 months is - I'm pretty sure we only have 2 more winters in this ice box state.  Sick of it, hate it, can't do it anymore..I suppose about that time, we'll have a democrat governor again.  Not ready to give up the summers - especially out here in the boonies where we can pretend we are totally alone because we are enveloped in trees...but this winter stuff...nope...DONE.  I love to think about it....talking and thinking about it makes it more real....my mental flapping helps (miss you Brett).

I'm going to go paint now - I hope I'm not disappointed, I can't paint that bathroom very many more times...the walls are getting thick and it could become a tight squeeze.

Until next time....

One of those lonely Sunday nights...Kids were home this weekend and left this afternoon.  We went with Katy and Luke to Hu Hot in  Ankeny to meet with Russ, Becky and Henry (my favorite child)!  Jenny headed back to Kansas City.  We had a fun weekend...stayed up way too late Friday night..I think I only got about 4 hours of sleep but I was running on joy.  We got Luke the Awkward Photos board game...very fun!  We giggled until our stomachs hurt.  Just for the record, I was the HUGE winner .  They were all very pleased to see the winner so happy.  

He's watching 60 minutes..some horrible show about some gawd awful place where big animals eat each other and there is lots of angst about lack of water etc etc.  I had to put on Spotify and my ear plugs because I can't bare to hear the talking about the Wilderbeast and his dramatic ending.  I don't know how anyone can watch this stuff!

Got the babies an electric litter box for those who don't master the toilet training.  Got a little box that is supposed to keep the dogs from barking outside?  I don't even mind Marly barking but Frannie sounds like a freeking annoying high pitched horn with a short in the electric cord.  Drives me nuts. 

Painting the big bathroom some time this week...going with a very interesting color of blue..I would say islands color - sunny, warm and tropical.

Boston - Rock and Roll Band to take me over to Facebook and Words With Friends.

Until next time.....

I was kind of surprised yesterday that several people took my rant about the news via Paula Deen was about Paula Deen and diabetes rather than the control media has over us.  But then I posted via my work mate on Facebook an article from Gawker and it was about Paula Deen and her "add another penny to her piggy back" media frenzy and it made sense.  First..I'm the first person to not bad mouth Paula Deen's weight or diagnosis.  I'm simply quite irritated that her enlightenment is money related...and before I hear that all of these "celebrities" are getting rich doing what she is doing..I say...YA do I need to say more?  I don't have to listen if I don't want to listen to it.

Likewise...I really dislike the media no matter how they dress themselves up.  I hate what it has become...but I also know that there is value in having the media lurking over the liars and cheaters making decisions about my livelihood.
I don't want politically correct news.  If there is nothing going on today, anywhere, that you can enlighten us with - send me back to the Young and the Restless or Housewives of ___________.  That's where I go for fluff, the ridiculous and the entertaining.  Report the news and leave the entertainment to those who get paid big bucks to do it. .....and this insane idea that we want to see the anchors have personalities...I walk out of the room when they are doing this little poo poo giggly because it drives me crazy.  I want the news...I want it straight and I want it delivered by someone who looks like they really know about it and care about it...and when I said straight..I didn't mean straight vs gay...

I'm irritable today - but I feel better now....let me have it if you don't agree...it won't bother me...it may lead to another rant tomorrow...but you don't have to read it.

Until next time....

Back in the late 70's and early 80's, I really wanted to work in commercial radio...I took some classes..did some training at KSO radio in Des Moines and got a job as News Director of the local radio station KCOB after I got married and moved to Newton.  I loved that whole playing music, disc jockey thing but had no experience, wasn't confident and generally didn't want to spend all of my off time coming up with Wit.  I really enjoyed the news director job and would probably still be doing it 30 years later had the pay been better and the hours shorter....even back then, I was doing things I didn't think were right - one of them - getting the required information for suicides, writing up the copy for the day and having to read it on the news.  I differed with the general manager as to the public's right to know and some poor dead person's right to privacy.  I HATED IT.  Which leads me to this tangent.

It is not possible for me to care any less about what's her name's diagnosed diabetes.  Why is this news, why does even the local news constantly beat me until my ears bleed telling me about her diabetes.  She is a middle age woman with some extra weight who obviously doesn't cook healthy...why is this news...why did she release the information...ratings?  She could have done something inappropriate with butter which would have been a lot more interesting and possibly news worthy.  She has diabetes...she's not the first, she's not the last and it isn't even like anyone should be shocked about it.  Stop it.

There are some days when I can't even watch my local news because it is a production, many times not well presented and frankly, reminds me of the tabloid gossip shows on the big ole networks!  It's disgusting. 

By the way...I have no interest in how skinny and unhealthy Demi Moore looks.

Until next time.....

It's just the critters and me here today...A perfect day to get things done.  I seldom just sit around on days like this.  I wish I could give myself permission to scrapbook or watch daytime TV and crochet...but haven't been able to do that for awhile.  What has happened to me?  The prevailing thought is that sometimes we relax more because we are accomplishing tasks that we may feel guilty for not accomplishing thus negative, rather than accomplishing what we enjoy which is positive.  I'm trying to  think this thru and correct it just like I'm trying to give up caffeine...hahahahahaha

Our little Benny poo'ed in the pot again this morning...if there is one cat that will get this toilet training, it will be Benny...I'm so proud...

Off now to price some things for the antique store...may go get my nails done if I'm in the mood for the 25 minute drive, while I'm out, I may get a new shelf and redo the bathroom...we'll keep that as our little secret..he doesn't need to know it yet. wa ha ha

Until next time....

You have to keep reading and get thru this with me...I don't feel well...I'm also a very, very bad sick person.  I'm sure it is someone's fault....You know how men are always stereotyped as the whining pansies when they are sick...well, I can beat any of them.  I'm thankful that the stars were aligned in such a way when "he" and I met that we are total opposites - interestingly enough - even when we are sick.  Do not "X" out of this!!! I've had a headach since between Christmas and New Years...yes..it comes and goes...my ears are plugged, I'm not on antibiotics..I want to kill the person who wrote the neti/nepi (whatever it is) pot article that got me started doing it...it is awful!!!  If you have ever jumped into a swimming pool without completely holding your breath or squeezing your nose, then you have experienced the neti/nepe pot.  But I think it helps.  My antibiotic makes my stomach hurt and makes me feel queezy...sometimes when I'm hungry, sometimes when I'm full, sometimes when I just think about food... 

I had an MMR shot 2 days ago for our trip to Ecuador because I couldn't prove I had had one when I was young...he doesn't have to have one because he was shot up with all kinds of things when he was in the military...woo hoo for  you!

It's cold outside...it's January - but in the mood I'm in...WHY IS IT COLD OUTSIDE, DAMNIT!!!

Look forward to tomorrow - I'll be back...

I've always been like sweet nectar to therapist, self-help authors, narcissists and manipulative people along with pure cane sugar.  Dad died 10 years ago and that's when I started to put things into perspective...I wallowed in hatefulness, guilt and self pitty for the next 8 years then mom and Aunt Frances died and I started getting really pissed that people pleasing and anxiety were running my life...it was the only exercise I was really getting.  I seem to be on a continuous rolling sidewalk trying to be content with the person inside my head.  Why do some people struggle with who they are while the next person just accepts their angst and gets on with it?  There are a whole lot of people passing us on the street everyday who have come from disfunction, including mental and/or physical abuse.  Some people accept their plight and appear to live their life without a thought about it, while others bloody their hands trying to climb up the hill to a better life.  Is our societal hatefulness and anger a symptom of not liking who we are inside?

  I also questions this "holier than thou" mentality that I pin onto the far right political conservatives and religious zealots...are they making up for parental abuse of perceived perfection?  Giving them the belief that they are the absolute right (pun intended) and everyone else is wrong...what happens when they fall - what happens when something happens to burst the allusion of perfection..how do they explain in their own minds that perfection is impossible to achieve.  Do they go back to the "do as I say, not as I do" mentality, the allusion of perfection or do they move closer to the left and realize that no one person has the right to control another person....

Conscience - at one time, I believed everyone had one.  Seems striving for a clear conscience  in making decisions rather than relying on allusions of our own grandeur and/or our sexual appendages we would be on the first rung of the ladder to solve all of the problems of the world.

Until next time.....

Some of you will understand when I say...People - shut up...This Ain't My First Rodeo.
Then I question ain't...the apostrophe...it's a contraction for ai not?  Well that makes no sense!
Great Day yesterday -

• Picked Dave and Christa up at the sheriff's Office...they left their car there - they didn't just get out of jail.
• Met with real estate broker in Iowa City
• Ate at the Food Coop in Coralville - was going to say just coop but I don't trust you people and your jokes.
• Best Buy - got an IPAD - $75 dollars off  because we bought an opened box...no idea why it was opened and really don't want to know...it was certified by a Geek.  We looked at both the IPAD and Fire - when I looked perplexed he motioned with his head to go with the IPAD...no commitment that way - just an opinion.
• Drove around northern Coralville looking for a good coffee shop...settled on convenience store coffee.
• Drove around Corallville Lake and Lake McBride took the long route - that's all I will say, Christa...had our eyes peeled for sailboats - nadda
• Did a short stint at the Williamsburg Outlet Mall - bought a couple of back packs
• Dinner at the Grinnell Steak House
• Dropped D and C off at the Sheriff's Office.

Watched some lame movie starring Jennifer Anniston and Jason Bateman..it was predictable, yet entertaining..probably what I needed so I could fall asleep easily at 9pm

Debbie and Bob coming this afternoon for a visit....

Until next time...