Is it snowing yet?
Happy Thanksgiving!!!

All cleaning and no art time makes Luna a very dull girl! (As I will be 58 on Saturday perhaps it's a stretch to use the word "girl", but then I refuse to grow up entirely so perhaps I can pull it off.)

So sorry I haven't been commenting on LJs or answering comments. The cleaning project has consumed almost all my time when I'm not seeing clients. But my house is looking pretty good and I won't be embarassed to have company. :-) Even a white gloved church lady could walk in and what she notices isn't even worth spit! (In Tom's first parish I had open house after an Advent service and one of the men from the congregation actually swiped a finger across the top of the refrigerator and looked to see if there was dust! I had cleaned even that! He was embarassed when he saw that I noticed what he had done. Too funny!) I think we have about worn out our little Dirt Devil carpet cleaner! I cleaned my office, Julie's room and the upstairs hallway carpets yesterday before going to see clients. Today I have a few area rugs to wash, beds to make and the bathroom to clean and a bit to do in the kitchen before baking a pumpkin pie and starting other prep for tomorrow's meal. Church tonight if I haven't collapsed by then! Oh, and I still have that one tiny area in the kitchen that remains to be done. (The rest of my art supplies) This year I decided not to use paper plates so am anticipating a lot of dishpan hands) Just one small step in going a little greener. My hands are rough from all the cleaning, but now that it's done I'm in the mood to get out our small Christmas tree and put out a few decorations. Must stop at Ben Franklin when I am in Baudette today to see if I can find some small candles to fit our glass turkey candle holders for a small centerpiece on the table. They're very cute and I haven't used them in years. I am so excited about this holiday!

Tomorrow I have to tune into the Macy's Day parade on TV! Nephew Martin Johnson's band Boys Like Girls is performing! He's the lead singer. We are all so proud of this fine young man's success! He's a great kid! He and the band work so hard!

Arrgh!! Time to shower and get out of the house to see my client at 9:00.

Have a great day! I intend to! :-)

if u can read this tha bitch fell off.

M has gone out of town for the holiday and doc is at work and i'm all alone. for hours. i'm looking forward to having control over the remote all night. other than that i'm stressed the fuck out. only the cats to keep me company.

i guess i could have twittered that.

wakin up next2 a boy. 8am enchilada breakfast. morning movie watchin. and then alone time. soothing tones of bad brains. munchin fake sushi and donut holes in bed wif hot tea. casual convoz wif roomies. livin tha life. doin laundry. readin books. bein gay. snow outside. midday napathon. u kno, another day.

sometimes i see slow ppl carrying pizza boxes like breifcases and sometimes seconds later i see men wif two swingin stumps where it's assume arms are and i feel liiiike.... and moreover, i like life more than i don;t like life so that's cool 222. kno wut im sayin...

maybe soon imma go2 hawaii wif heather 2 get up in sum tropical luxury.
sounds cool 4tha new year. but 4now i go 2work.

turquoiseTruck at sunset : st joseph missouri : november 2009

just another picture. as the week passes quickly. last weekend to the city with the poet, a lovely time as always. but we find we don't like Jerusalem Cafe as much as we used to. we need a new cheap dive. a hike in a new woods, very good. An Education, also very good. sleep and odd dreams. always odd dreams at his house. i wonder why. home. now the office. one more day and then ... LA! here i come! Betsy! Margaret! even David! (their dad). we shall all have a strange feast together on T-giving eve if there is a nearby grocery open. if not, Betsy states there is iHop. i am excited to see my family *and* to see a new city!

happy thankful holidays!

Not much to write about today. I'm sure that if people are still reading they are getting tired of reading about my housecleaning and how the diet is going. LOL

I still have one small area in the kitchen to clean that I'll get done this morning. I put away most of my "witchy" items, that might seem disturbing to someone who doesn't understand wicca/paganism, and thorougly cleaned my office yesterday to get it ready to put up the bed where Matt will sleep, all that needs to be done in there now is wash the windows, steam clean the carpet and put the curtains back up. It's not that I'm trying to hide who I am, it is more about the comfort of my daughter and her boyfriend who means so much to her. I do not have to be "loud and proud" about my spiritualty to be who I am, an ecclectic spiritual mutt. I am who and what I am without the external trappings. I'll smudge the room and bring them out again after Matt is no longer sleeping in the room. I used the opportunity to "purge" a lot of stuff and old papers that I no longer use or find relevant. It was liberating to let go of some of the junk I have been holding on to and now can't even remember the emotional attachment I had to them. I also threw out some items that had negative significance to me and wondered why I hadn't thrown them out before.

I was delighted to find a pair of favorite earrings I bought in April '97' to celebrate the completion of my grueling written comps in graduate school. It was a celebration of completing the coursework of 4 years of undergrad and two years of graduate school. The flood of 97 that forced the entire evacution of Grand Forks ND delayed my graduation until December of 97 so that I could finish my master's thesis as the population I was using as subjects were UND professors/spouses and employee workers/spouses. My thesis was on the possible correlation of perfectionism with marital satisfaction. I found no correlation, although my undergrad research project was on the correltation between perfectionism and creativity in which our team of three found some correlation. Perfectionism is so fascinating to me. Perhaps because I struggled so much with self-oriented perfectionism most of my life. Funny now, how I laugh at my imperfection and accept my own limitation, allowing myself to be as imperfect as anyone else. Funny how I could be so tolerant of others' imperfections and so hard on myself. I think I was under the delusion that I had to be "perfect" so others would like me. I like myself better the way I am now, and I think my imperfection is part of what others like about me as well. As a pastor's wife there seems to be a "mold" that some want you to fit into. I broke the mold and think that my imperfection and ability to take myself more lightly is part of what draws others to me. There is little joy in trying to be perfect!

The class at the hospital last night was fun! The 90 minutes passed so quickly! I lost 4 pounds this week, and it seemed so painless. I think that the extra effort at exercise I have been making and all the physical oomph I've put into cleaning paid off. I have not been very hungry at all, have been eating only when hungry, not by what time the clock says it is, and yesterday actually had to add food to come up with a healthy level of calories. I don't want to eat too few and slow down my metabolism. I do enjoy the coaches, and the others in the class.

I've only one client today, at 4:30 this afternoon so am going to spend the day working on the upstairs, leaving the bathroom to tomorrow night. I'll bake our pumpkin pie tomorrow as well. I am really looking forward to the long weekend coming up. We get both Thursday and Friday as holidays. :-)

Time to get off the computer and to get busy!

TO DO LIST:
1. Prepare new chart for new client.
2. Write progress update on client for her Guardian ad Litem.
3. Clean the office carpet.
4. Vacuum and dust Julie's room and the hallway and steps.
5. Clean the carpet in Julie's room.
6. Clean the hallway carpet and steps.
7. Clean the bathroom and kitchen rugs.
8. Exercise 30 minutes.
9. See client/family this afternoon.
10. Finish the small kitchen area remaining.
11. wash and put the curtains back up in my office.

Acrylic and paint marker on canvas, 20x16"

For Sale, PM if interested

reloaded a better image!

No youtube vids, or any other BS.

This is what I've been working on this week....

These two paitnings (sorry about that horrid flash, lol)

Are headed out to VA to the Torpedo Art Center's Target Gallery for their going postal show.


These dudes, were created for Art House Gallery's Sketchbook Project.
My theme was "Superheroes in Everyday Clothes"
The theme had me stumped for quite a bit...then the light bulb went on, and I decided to make them all cross dressers. :-D

They are in the process of being "placed" into the journal now.

Am doing another Art-O-Mat run.


Just started on it...could ya tell? lol!
I also have a new venue for Art-O-mat pieces.

Took the child to see these guys a while back.
Cuz, I'm a cool ass mama! lol!




That's all for now.
Hope y'all are doing well.

Hi! I write a sort of visual poetry webcomic, Secret Vespers. Here's an example:



It actually has its own LJ feed: secretvespers for people who use LJ for their RSS.

I hope you like it. What stuff are you making, and do you know any other web projects aesthetically similar to mine?

Dee Sunshine - writer, artist and musician, has set up a Facebook Page where you can stay posted about his various projects. Soon to be announced, the launch of the free e-book version of his novel, "Stealing Heaven From The Lips Of God" and his 3rd Poetry collection, "Visions Of The Drowning Man" which will also be available for free download. Port-folios of drawings and paintings will be posted up presently, as will links to sites where you can download his music for free. See http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dee-Sunshine-Writer-Artist-Musician/201729451659?v=wall# for more details.