Friday's American Beauty - Kelly Preston

Friday's American Beauty Kelly Preston

Man oh, Man! What a woman, she had me the first time I saw her in "Space Camp" with Lea Thompson (another FAB for a future post). Now, I'm all grown up and so is she. Unfortunately for me, she is married to John Travolta. I don't know if she fits into the blonde or brunette column because she changes her hair all of the time. The only way I have not seen it is red. Then again, I think she would look good bald!

I froze it off this morning, but I finaly got the pictures!

A while back, I blogged that I had missed the fog on the pond at Loose Park, even though I had gotten up at the same time God did on that Sunday morning. Ever since I have been waiting for the conditions to be right, and for the fog to start rolling in again. Two days ago, It happened. Yesterday, I took my camera with me to work, since I drive right by the park on my way, but no such luck. No fog to be found at all. However, this morning it was only 45° when I left the house that 6:30. After taking the kids to before school care I made my way to Loose Park. God was with me this morning, to show me all of his wonders, and I was able to capture it for you. Head on over to Kansas City In Focus for a peek.

Are you braggin' or complainin' ?

Actually, I am doing both. Two weeks ago, I bought a new pair of jeans, because the last pair was two inches to big in the waist. All I did all day long was pull up my friggin pants! #$%^&@* If I didn't always wear button supspenders ( I simply hate belts, even when I am thin. ) My pants would have hit the floor on several occations today.

Tonight, just before I sat down to blog, while wearing my sheckshey new glasses, I slipped my suspenders off my sholders and with no more effort on my part my britches hit the floor! If loosing weight didn't inflate my ego so, I think I would be pissed about having to pull up my g.d. pants all day long.

New Peepers - Bad Hair Cut

New Peepers

While I was having my hair cut tonight, my cell phone rang. My new glasses were ready for me to pick up. Whooptie Effen Do! So the kids and I hauld ass over to Target and got there just in time to pick them up before the Optical Dept. closed. When I got home I looked in the mirror and decided I should have left my glasses off, then my haircut would have looked better to me. Actually, I am sure it is fine. I have been going to the same gal for years. It always looks better after I wash it once. As far as my new glasses are concerned, I think they look Fan"Friggin"tastic! I think they are the best looking glasses I have ever owned. (At least wait till you navigate away from my blog before you start laughing at me. LOL)

Diabities Update

Since I was diagnosed, I have lost 17 lbs. which I intend never to go looking for again! FYI - That is just over 1 stone to my british readers.

WOOOO EFFIN' HOOOO!

Enter "The Muse"

Enter "The Muse"

First of all, I must give a HUGE hat tip to Troy over at TT & DB Photos for sharing with me the Art Supply Warehouse Express web site, and the Creative Mark Carolina Deluxe Studio Easel that I have had my eye on for 66% off Retail. CHA CHING BABY!

Now that the important stuff is out of the way, let me begin my post...

Let me start first with a little background. As most of my regular readers know, I had a really awful marriage, which produced an ex-wife not short of devil spawn. For most of our marriage, and the entire time after our divorce, I put my entire life on hold because of her. Mostly due to the fact that I was practicing the fine art of self preservation. I am not complaining, just being factual. Since my ex-wife's death, all of the hard work I did in the self improvement vain is now blossuming.

One of the things I had put one hold for the last 13 years was my creativity. My music suffered and my recently discovered abilities in art were repressed. Frankly, it is pretty hard to be creative when you are living "Hand-to-Mouth." Now that my life has changed for the better, it is like my creativity has popped the cork, and burst the dam wide open.

There was, however, one defining moment which caused the flood waters to gush forth, and that was when I took brush in hand for the first time and painted the sun on "Big Sister's" bedroom wall. I can not begin to explain how it felt to control the paint with the small brush, and the joy at discovering I could manipulate the paint into the vision from my mind's eye, and translate it to the wall. I have goose bumps just thinking about it again.

Since that day, my mind has been flooded with images. Photographs I have taken, and the artwork they have become at my hand. It is as though someone has flipped an invisible switch in my head, and I once again posses the eye of an artist. These visions have haunted me to the point that if I do not act on their urging I will explode!

Between now and the time my easel arrives I must clear a large spot in the basement by hauling all of my possessions that can handle temperature changes to my storage unit. Once that has been accomplished. I will begin with the Spiderman mural for "Little Man's" bedroom. I will be painting it on a large piece of luan-ply then attaching it to his wall when I am done. I am excited and scared all at the same time. Only I, the Incurable Savant, would be stupid enough to bite off a hunk that would choke a whale for my first project. Hey, if you are going to goof, goof with style, I always say!

One parting thought...

"Where there is fear, there is no creativity."

Christopher Lowell

Another One Done

Confessisons of an Ugly Stepsister

I finished this one today. Another one from Gregory Mcguire. While it wasn't even close to being as good as Wicked, it was still really good. Defenitely a new perspective. Now on to the pain of looking for another book to read from the piles and piles of unread ones in my library.

Oktoberfest & Cub Scout Hike at the Arberitum

We attened the Oktoberfest on the Waterfront Friday night after work. The Bratwurst and the Warsteiner Dunkle (dunkle = dark) were Wunderbar!

Then Saturday Afternoon Little man and I went on a Cub Scout Hike. Those pictures can be seen at Kansas City In Focus.

Oktoberfest am der Wasserfront Face Paint 

Oktoberfest am der Wasserfront Face Paint 

Oktoberfest am der Wasserfront New Pin 

Oktoberfest am der Wasserfront Last years purchase 

Oktoberfest am der Wasserfront Last years purchase 

Oktoberfest am der Wasserfront Last years purchase 

Oktoberfest am der Wasserfront New Pin 

Oktoberfest am der Wasserfront New Pin 

Oktoberfest am der Wasserfront 

Friday's American Beauty - Jill Hennesy

FSB1

I fell in love with Jill when I first saw her play "Claire" on Law & Order. I had all I could do to keep from licking the screan everytime she appeared. Since I have followed her to Crossing Jordan, where she plays Jordin Cavinaugh a Boston M.E. She is a wonderful actress, and one class act.

Friday's American Beauty - Jill Hennesy2

FAB2

What a Looker!

W.T.F!!!!

I can't get to my blog. It keeps telling me that it can't find the server. W.T.F is up with that? I am not even sure this post will go through.

Update:
Yep, I was right. It didn't let me post until this morning.

Gasp! 2 New Harry Potter and the Goblett of Fire Trailers!

I just went to rewatch the Harry Potter and the Goblett of Fire trailers at Comingsoon.net and to my suprise, I found 2 all new trailers! Both of which had much never before seen material in them. I will have to watch them again tomorrow when the kids aren't asleep in the rooms across the hall.

Stat Counter - Just more to worry about

I started using Stat Counter. Now I can actualy see the IP addresses of those that are visiting my site. Of course, I can tell the regulars right off, but there were a few regular/returning visiters that I didn't know. I actually was able to google the IP address and found out what sites this person was visiting, and I was also able to discover his true identity.

I do not think for one minute that he is a stalker. I think that he is just a faithful reader that choses to remain unkown. What scares me is the ease in which I was able to find out so much about this person. Their name, age, address, email address, hobbies and intrests, internet surfing habits (porn), where he went to highschool and who his friends were while he was there. Truthfully, I only spent about 30 minutes and I found out all this about him. If I was willing to spend a little green I could have found out far more about him and his family.

Like I said, I don't think he is a cyber stalker, he just wishes to remain unknown, and I intend to keep it this way. So fear not if you read this. I just, frankly, scares the shit out of me that someone could do the same thing with my IP address. I am sure if I was of a mind I could have eventually have gotten his social security number and far more damaging information about him and his finances.

It's a good thing I am not harboring evil intentions or he would be in trouble. I will also tell you that I tried this with other wayword IP addresses and was not able to get this much information. His downfall was that he commented on several websites using his real name and often adding his email address in the same comment section. Just be careful all of you with the amount of information you are sharing in comment sections!

Friday's American Beauty - Jackie Kennedy

Oh Jackie Oh Jackie Oh.

I think that this picture was taken while Jackie was still a Kennedy, or at least prior to becoming Onasis. Not only is Jackie a beauty beyond compare, she is one of the strongest women I can think of. The list of tragedies which befell her, are far too numerous to list. She was an A-1 Class Act till the day she died.

Today

Job interview this morning. Don't think I'll get it but need to try anyway.

Storm's a Brewin

Yep, a storm's a brewin' over at Kansas City In Focus . Got home just in time to snap these. But not quickly enough to catch all of the pink in the ski that I saw as I drove down my street.

What Trips Your Trigger, Musically?

I was just over at One Biscuit Hound and she had a post about the kind of music she calls, "Belly Rubbin' Music." Since it takes different kinds of music for everyone she asked all of her readers to tell her what kind of music starts their engines. It could be the artist (their voice), it could be a style of music, a specific song or lyric.

I commented that for me, and before you all start laughing and name calling, I was a really really weird kid/teenager, that the following is what does it for me.

When I was in High School Linda Ronstadt, along with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra, made three albums, just before Nelson's death. "Lush Life," "What's New?," and "For Sentimental Reasons." All of them where chalk full of the old Standards from the 1930's, most of which were torche songs. For me, it was mostly Linda's voice, although the lyrics didn't hurt. The woman can really melt my butter, and still does to this day, each time I put on the CDs I bought to replace my albums with.

Like One Biscuit Hound, I will also ask you, "What music makes you prrrrrrrrr?"

A Whale Of A Dream

Last night I dreamt that we had a killer whale in our back yard, but no pool to keep it in. I was running around trying to fill up this conreat area with a garden hose but the whale kept biting and kinking the hose on me. When I finally got enough water in the makeshift pool, the whale kept swimming over to me and biting my foot. Actually, more like holding it really hard with it's teeth, and not letting go.

This morning I decided to see what that meant, so I went to DreamMoods.com. This is what I found.

Whale

To see a whale in your dream, represents your intuition and awareness. You are in tuned to your sense of spirituality. Alternatively, it indicates a relationship or business project that is too enormous to handle.

I was shocked because I am dealing with a relationship between myself and someone at work, and all of my new and overwelming responsabilities that relationship has created. Cool, huh?

Download Saturday!

Ok, as you can see below, I have added shots from Big Sister's room. I actually finished with it last weekend, just didn't get them posted till tonight.

I have also posted more pictures over at Kansas City In Focus this evening, and plan to download more tomorrow afternoon.

Completed Room 1 

Completed Room 2 

Completed Room 3 

Jones'n for Harry Potter!

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Since I have recently finished "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince," The next chance I will have to get another Harry Potter fix is November 16th this year. I don't think I need to tell any other Harry Potter fans that the wait will not be easy, and far too long to boot! My jones is sooooo bad that I have to view the trailers every couple of days or so, just to maintain my sanity.

I sincerely hope that it will not be three years before the final book comes out, and that the producers keep their acts together long enough in order to use Dan, Emma, and Rupert for all of the movies before they are too old. Frankly, I would rather see Dan on the screen with a beard than to have some other "Boy" playing the part. It was bad enough that they had to find a new Dumbledor when the first actor died. I don't know if my heart could take a character change with Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

Friday's American Beauty

FAB

FAB

Ah, the first blonde on Friday's American Beauty! Helen Hunt....well let's just say I could sit and look at her all day. Also keep in mind that to be awarded an FAB you have to have a great personality too. No bitches here.

Way way way way way back Wednesday

Way way way way way way back Wednesday

40 years (almost) way back

The Long Awaited Unveiling!

It is with great pride and joy that I unveil to all of my readers, my new photo blog design at Kansas City In Focus! Created for me by H.R.H. of Blogdom Gemmak over at Design A Blog. Let me first say that Gemmak is one artistic chick! I myself have an artistic flair, however, I am absent of any talent in the area of HTML. The blog she designed for me far exceeded anything I could have thought up for myself. Frankly, I am quite jealous of her abilities.

Working with Gemmak was a wonderful experience. I told her in my last email that I got far more than my money's worth from her. I have seen other professionally done blogs, where the user paid far more than I, that I believe to not be nearly as well done as anything I have seen from Gemmack and Lisa at Design A Blog .

I have also added new photos, which I woke up very early to capture Sunday morning before church. I have been holding off telling anyone about so they could be a surprise along with the new look.

I consider myself truly lucky. Not only do I have a new look over at Kansas City In Focus, I have also gained a new friend in Gemmak!

Enjoy,

I.S.

Here Comes The Sun!

Sun 1

Stage 2 in Big Sister's Bedroom Re-do is the sun which was painted by yours truly last night. Today, after Church I will have to complete Stage 3, which is spounge painting clouds to go along with the sun. Then it is hang pictures and bird houses, shelves et. al.

Here Comes The Sun!

Sun 2

Close up of detail.