randomly chaotic and frequently mundane

this weeks picture was taken… last night. what can i say, i saw the moon and it was just so beautiful i had to get the camera.  i had WANTED to get the shot about 30 seconds before this… the moon was half covered by that cloud.  i wish i had a camera that was really good for getting pictures of the moon.  mine might be… if it is i haven’t figured out the setting for that.  either way, i think this is a great shot.  i’ve got 2 more pictures of the moon that i took yesterday.  one right after this one, and one a couple of hours earlier… when the sun had set, but it wasn’t dark yet.

ok, i’m a little slack this week. a day late, but hey, i’m posting it now! this weeks picture of the week is of something that gage painted. well, we painted it together. he picked the colors and poured them on the canvas while i tipped and turned it. it swirled in a really cool way.  i’m tempted to get more canvas and paints to see what gage does with the same process… now that it’s dried completely, it’s got a cracked surface and looks really cool.  this picture was taken while it was still a little bit wet.

two photos this week, essentially of the same thing, and i couldn’t decide which one i wanted to post. so both it is.  they’re essentially taken of the same thing.  one with flash, one without, and a slightly different angle on each.  what can i say, i’ve alwys loved the way the leaves of a rosebush look.  especially when they’ve stil got that reddish tint on them.  they’re still lovely when they go all green, but there’s nothing quite like the way they look with the red.  so pretty, so festive.  the rose bushes have no buds yet, probably because of all the late snow we had… but they will soon i have no doubt.  when they do, perhaps a picture or two of the roses will be used for the photo of the week

well, i transferred some of my rejected payperpost entries from my ujournal to my livejournal.  i’ll continue to do that as rejections come in, since the ujournal will now be down until fucking june.  i can’t wait until this blog qualifies for payperpost.  another 30 days, i think.  unfortunately, some of the opps i took don’t allow posts on livejournal.  which means i’ll lose those completely.  i’ve already lost several.  pissed me the fuck off.  i’ve lost about $40 in opps because ujournal is down and didn’t bother letting people know it was going down (if i’d known, i would have copied and pasted the entries to private entries on livejournal and activated them when i got the rejection notice).

gage took a bunch of pictures yesterday.  most of them were of nightmare before christmas.  it was funny going thru the pictures on the camera and seeing them all.

i got books today. books i’d ordered from paperbackswap. stephen king’s song of susannah and a book with tips on how to make $ selling crafts. since i enjoy doing them so much… might as well make something from it if i can, eh? saturday i got a couple of books that i ordered for woody… tao of pooh and te of piglet. he was surprised i’d gotten te of piglet… apparently it’s not an easy book to find. but find them both, i did and they’re in great condition. the copy of tao of pooh that we had isn’t in very good shape. we got it at a used bookstore and it’s got water damage and the cover’s starting to come off and stuff. i might use that copy for a wild release (after reinforcing the cover with tape, that is)…

gotta get shipping supplies and send off the latest batch of sold ebay stuff.

going to have to take gage for birthday pictures soon… perhaps this weekend. i’ll just gel his hair back or something so it’s not in his face. i wish we could get it cut, but he’s so against having it even brushed…

speaking of gage… he loves nightmare before christmas. he sings along as best he can to the songs and stuff… and he’s also started singing AND dancing along to jack’s lament.  i’ve gotten a couple of pictures.  for the record, YES his shirt IS on backwards… but he picked it out himself (it’s one of his favorite shirts to wear) and he put it on all by himself.  he usually does a really good job putting shirts on right… this one, for some reason he keeps putting on backwards.  this is the only scene/song in the movie that he mimics all the way thru, which is funny, because it’s my favorite song in the movie.

it’s not a really great picture… but it’s got a great story behind it. gage brought his pillows into the living room one night and put them in the middle of the couch.  since i was starting to get sick (and he was still a little sick) and i was feeling a lot like crap i put my feet up on the arm of the couch and laid my head on the pillows.  gage got the blanket off the back of the couch and covered me up, then he grabbed a blanket from his room and laid the other way, covering himself up.  since the camera was on the coffee table and in reach, i couldn’t resist getting a picture (albeit a bad picture) of the cuteness.

i took this picture on a walk last week. the day it started snowing while me and tiger were walking. we took a walk a different way than we usually go. it was nice. pretty. so i took a picture.

this week there are 2 photos of the week . we had snow easter weekend this year, which most people would be surprised by. in denver, of course… it’s no biggie. this is why we don’t plant our vegetable gardens until may. because even then we might get a little snow. if i remember correctly we had a blizzard a few years ago in early may.

the first picture is the grass i the yard with a sprinkling of snow on it. the second is the flowers that grow on the border of the flowerbeds in the yard. they’re pretty flowers, i just have no idea what they are. one section of the yard they’re starting to get out of control, lol. in a few years they’ll be all over the yard, no doubt. if only it killed the scotch thistle on its way, lol

gage has discovered the digital camera. mostly he turns it off and on. sometimes he presses the shutter button. it clicks, he’s amused and viola, he’s taken a picture. so far we’ve got about 25 pictures that he took. i also gave him a disposable camera to play with recently… i’ll get that processed and we’ll have some photos that gage took.  here’s one of the digital pictures he took… of tiger.  he doesn’t seem to get the whole point at something specific and take a picture of it… he’s more into the let me push this button and make it do something.  he seems to dig it.

so i got a book from paperbackswap that i was waiting for. fat smash diet by dr. ian smith (of celebrity fit club fame). the first phase of the diet lasts 9 days… it’s a detox stage. no meat, no bread… mostly fruits and vegetables. basically for the first 9 days i would eat as much (freshh) fruits and veggies i want except for white potatoes and avocados, and water.

plus limited quantities of brown rice, beans, lentils, tofu, chickpeas oatmeal, soy milk (other milk is allowed but i don’t drink that), yogurt, egg whites, herbal tea.

after the first phase i would be able to add meat/chicken/fish to my intake as well as more milk, cheese, egg yolks, cereal, sweeteners, coffee, etc.

missing out on bread and potatoes for awhile will be difficult… but i think i can do that. i like that i don’t have to try and keep track of calories with this diet. definitely worth a try.

i took a cute picture of myself today… what can i say, i was just in the mood to play with the camera. *g* did makeup and hair and took a few photos. this was my favorite i should play with the camera more often. i used to all the time and had all these pictures of me that i loved… and that woody loved, he he. i haven’t really taken many pictures in the past year or so. i should start again. i need to take some pictures before starting the new diet… which is really just the next phase in my personal “i’m hell bent on getting back in shape” program. i didn’t take any true pre-diet pictures… so i’ll take em 10 lbs down from my starting weight.

i want to get my hair cut. it’s been waaaaay too long since it’s been trimmed or cut.