Thursday, February 08, 2007
Carving Foam, pic #1
In design class today we started carving out giant popcorn pieces. Mine is named Herbie. I had to pick a specific kernal of popcorn and mimic at the largest size possible. This gave me flashbacks of carving my 14foot statues for 'Scapino'. EVERYONE in class was shyly nipping at corners on their styrofoam cubes, but I was chopping out huge chunks. This is old news to me. I got this much of Herbie dug out in 90 minutes. We have all of classtime on Tuesday and Thursday to work on these. They are due the following Tuesday. It's a major project. If it wouldn't be super messy to do at home, I would do it over this weekend. Besides the mess, if I finish early I wont have anything to do during labtime and attendance is mandatory.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Sickly bunch
Jim is in bed. He's been throwing up. He said that as soon as he ate dinner he felt worse. Today I slept in until almost noon. My throat is all torn up from the sinus drainage and I'm achy from painting. I painted last Thursday for the next play "The Kripple of Inishman", and then again on Monday,Tuesday and today. I thought I'd be able to finish my canvas today, but I kept getting lightheaded and feeling groggy.
Cracker Barrel is getting on Jimmy's back, which is sad because he loves working there. When he got a peek last Thursday at his work schedule for this week, he saw that there were tons of time conflicts again. So immediately he filled out a form to have his schedule changed and another form listing AGAIN when his available times are. And he told a manager that he didn't have childcare for that time of day on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday (while I'm in design class/lab). The manager said she'd take care of it.
Then today while Jim was working at the Elk's lodge, he got a call on his cellphone from Cracker Barrel asking why he wasn't at work at Cracker Barrel. He told this different manager about filling out the schedule change form and that it was supposed to be fixed. It's frustrating for me that they didn't follow up his written request with any sort of conversation about what the changed schedule is...IF they changed it at all.
When I missed a class last week because Cracker Barrel scheduled him to work at that time, my grade took a bite. I'm not missing class again unless I'm at death's door. Tomorrow we are starting a new project in class. It's gonna be a big undertaking. We are carving styrofoam into the shape of popcorn kernals. I named my 12"x12" styrofoam cube, Herbie. Jim laughed at that. I had to go to the dollar store to buy these knives to cut the styrofoam, so I walked to the dollar store from the theatre around 6pm tonight. I got some "road trip" scrapbooking stickers for $1 that will be perfect for Jimmy's babybook. I'll show yall when I use them.
Cracker Barrel is getting on Jimmy's back, which is sad because he loves working there. When he got a peek last Thursday at his work schedule for this week, he saw that there were tons of time conflicts again. So immediately he filled out a form to have his schedule changed and another form listing AGAIN when his available times are. And he told a manager that he didn't have childcare for that time of day on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday (while I'm in design class/lab). The manager said she'd take care of it.
Then today while Jim was working at the Elk's lodge, he got a call on his cellphone from Cracker Barrel asking why he wasn't at work at Cracker Barrel. He told this different manager about filling out the schedule change form and that it was supposed to be fixed. It's frustrating for me that they didn't follow up his written request with any sort of conversation about what the changed schedule is...IF they changed it at all.
When I missed a class last week because Cracker Barrel scheduled him to work at that time, my grade took a bite. I'm not missing class again unless I'm at death's door. Tomorrow we are starting a new project in class. It's gonna be a big undertaking. We are carving styrofoam into the shape of popcorn kernals. I named my 12"x12" styrofoam cube, Herbie. Jim laughed at that. I had to go to the dollar store to buy these knives to cut the styrofoam, so I walked to the dollar store from the theatre around 6pm tonight. I got some "road trip" scrapbooking stickers for $1 that will be perfect for Jimmy's babybook. I'll show yall when I use them.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Grumpy
We went to Garland yesterday (Saturday) and met David for lunch, then saw Margo, Karen & Linda. We picked up Christmas and birthday gifts for the kiddos that were at Margo's house. Karen gave me the rose she said she'd crochet, but she also gave me an additional crochet flower that is more 70's. They are cool. I did the dishes around Margo's kitchen and then we headed over to Allan, Fumie and Steven's house. Steven's sister Mary was in town with 4 of her kids and Gina. Steven gave Jimmy a new power source for his computer. They picked up chinesse food... SO GOOD.
My little runny nose from yesterday was MUCH worse today (Sunday). Allan's runny nose is worse and Elaine's is just a trickle. Rule of thumb that I learned growing up in doctor's offices: clear= all clear, yellow = sick, green= infection. Jimmy handled the kids all morning to let me sleep in. At noon his brother arrived for super bowl fun. The guys went to the store to fetch medicine for the kids and I, some lunch from Quiznos and snack food to go with the football game.
I should be reading for my personal development class (ironically the chapter is about time management), but the medicine has me all light-headed, feverish and grumpy/groggy.
I have to decide which scrapbooking challege to prepare for the scrapbooking ladies by tomorrow. And so far no one has submitted anything into the competition. Only one lady participated last week. i've never had more than 3 ladies do the challenge. I may call it quits on the challenges, since no one seems to care. I dunno. I'm gonna go lay down. TTYL
My little runny nose from yesterday was MUCH worse today (Sunday). Allan's runny nose is worse and Elaine's is just a trickle. Rule of thumb that I learned growing up in doctor's offices: clear= all clear, yellow = sick, green= infection. Jimmy handled the kids all morning to let me sleep in. At noon his brother arrived for super bowl fun. The guys went to the store to fetch medicine for the kids and I, some lunch from Quiznos and snack food to go with the football game.
I should be reading for my personal development class (ironically the chapter is about time management), but the medicine has me all light-headed, feverish and grumpy/groggy.
I have to decide which scrapbooking challege to prepare for the scrapbooking ladies by tomorrow. And so far no one has submitted anything into the competition. Only one lady participated last week. i've never had more than 3 ladies do the challenge. I may call it quits on the challenges, since no one seems to care. I dunno. I'm gonna go lay down. TTYL
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Friday, February 02, 2007
Work in Progress
I drew my image in pencil before painting. I looked at some of my favorite scrapbooking paper for the pattern.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Back-To-School Shoes
Jim took me to Payless last night for my new shoes. He laughed when I told him how comfy the green ones are. "They feel like barefoot, but warmer." :p I like that the slippers are kinda retro. I wanted MaryJanes, but these were the closest thing in a size 11.
Liss LOVES
I did most of this layout about a year ago, but I finally finished it. It's gonna be an example for the scrapping group of an 'about me' layout.The small journaling says
"Liss LOVES
cold nights
an empty kitchen sink
Allan's smile
painting scenery
my cracker jack t-shirt
organization
pigtails
Eeyore pajama bottoms
eggnog
coloring with Elaine
post-it notes & highlighters
Pawpaw & Margo
"scraplifting" ideas from magazines
beef fajitas
Elton John & Garth Brooks
'Lonesome Dove'
sweetchair or mint tea
Criticizingtheatre
cinnamon in my coffee grounds
"my" dancersVanilla's scent
Rocky Horror Picture ShowLIVE
purple roses
Victorian or 1950's ephermera
writting inmy blog
mint chocolate chip ice cream
window shopping
popping my knuckles, back, neck, ankles, elbows...
loaded salads with almost anything
labeled containers
breadcrumb stuffed artichokes
Reality "crap" Tv
Boneless Buffalo wings
Shiloh Church
Argyle socks
Getting mail
drawing with Charcoal
California rolls with ginger and wasabi
London
Strawberries
watching movies at Home"