OT: Things That Are Annoying Me

The kitten is trying desperately to get to my cereal bowl and is determined to run over my keyboard 653214.58798 times every second but I myself will hammer this out in the 10 minutes I have before heading out the door to work. 


I rarely watch the news any more - I used to be somewhat of a news junkie - but I kinda got a way from it for a while. However this past few days I have paid a bit more attention and I was completely shocked at what I was missing... 


The 33 Chilean minors trapped 2500+ feet underground and they can't get them out until CHRISTMAS???? The BF and I were talking about this after we heard CNN Report that nice little tidbit. Neither of us can believe that it would take that long to get them out - our thinking is if they can get food and supplies and ELECTRICITY down to them for the 'long haul' why can't they get the people out? I'll have to  look into that further I think but later. It just astounded me to hear that. 


Then, same day, there was this story about the British woman who put the cat into the dumpster. If you haven't heard or seen this - its mind boggling. 


http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/outrage-over-cat-tossed-in-trash-21579767#video=21579767

The cat was fine, a little hungry and thirsty after spending 15 hours at the bottom of a closed GARBAGE CAN, but otherwise ok. The part of this story that really pisses me off is the local authorities are not only NOT charging her with any type of cruelty - but instead are GUARDING HER from harm!!! Ok, I get that there are a lot of people that feel strongly about this (I'm one of them) but I would never fly across 'the pond' and do anything about it. However, there are people that will, and I get that she might be in danger. But not charging her for the act? Thats one of the most ridiculous things I've heard in a long time. 


What else was on my quicky "Thats Annoying!" list for today ....


The lady that won the Clinton Anderson DVD has not paid yet. Today is day 6, and still no word that she even got the 2 invoices I sent her. She contacted me prior to the auction ending and wanted proof the DVD's were not counterfiet, and she had no problems replying to that but now that its time to pay - not a peep. I'm starting to get worried.... its $65.00 I really need right now....


And really quick ... 


I NEED ADS! Lol. 


I just can't get the time for some new ads right now. I have a few that have been sent, but I don't even have enough for a full week right now. To make my life even MORE fun, my daughter wants to join Girl Scouts and because I was a Girl Scout for nearly 20  years, I have this crazy thought that I should start a troop... as if I don't have enough to do.....


But send them in. I'll start posting them again, I promise!

A Different Kind Of Fugly Featured Stallion...

Today I am going to poke a bit of fun at myself. 


I have my own 'Fugly Featured Stallion' sitting in front of me, staring at me, saying 'fix me, fix me!'

So this is one of the Breyer horses I have being worked on currently, and for those that don't remember, he started out looking like this: 

Then went to this: 

Then he got the start of wings, a better tail, and A HEAD!

Those wings took the better part of 2 hours to put together. The shape kept eluding me, and finally I had to cheat a little bit by printing out a skeletal outline of a hawk's wing structure to get the general idea of what they needed to be shaped like. 

That is what he looked like till last night. 

The wings got bulked out with Amazing Sculpt, and then I had the thought to create a thin 'membrane' to sculpt the actual wings over but wasn't sure how to do it. Some digging around in my sculpting box uncovered a brand new package of cheesecloth, so it got picked for the job. 

My hope was that I could squish it into the under bones of the wings, and when the Amazing Sculpt dried, it would be permanently affixed. Which is mostly what it did. About halfway through the curing process I tested it in a corner and found that it was sticking, but with enough force, would lift up. 

So I grabbed my super glue, and ran a thin small line of glue down the long, main bone on each side. That did the final trick, and now that cheesecloth isn't going anywhere. 

Now, I need to figure out what to put over the cheese cloth to make it look even more wing like. I was originally thinking more Amazing Sculpt, but a quick test on that last night proved that it won't stick to the cheese cloth very well at all. Initially it would, but when I started the attempt to smooth it out, it lifted right up. 

So, now I'm thinking maybe liquid latex or something of the sort. I'll have to search around some and see whats out there to use. 

So, while he's not an actual 'real' horse, he still started out as a stallion, and I'd say right now he's still in some pretty ugly stages! *giggle*

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I am also going to take this moment for a shameless promotional plug, and inform everyone of something I have currently on ebay. 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Problem-Solving-Clinton-Anderson-DVD-/170528219017?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0#ht_634wt_930

Two years ago, I bought this off of his website, watched it once, realized I already was doing or knew how to fix all of these 'issues' and was a bit mad at myself cause I wasted $160. Its been up in a closet since, and I'd rather use the money to fund my sculpting habit. 

Its got some bids on it now, so I'm not so much looking to 'drive up the price' but if there is anyone out there looking for this, or might be interested, there you go. If someone on the blog ends up buying it, I'll take the shipping charge off. 

Ok, Well, Maybe Not Yet

Please forgive the sudden start and then nothing for 4 days. 


I feel like a car where the starter is beginning to fail, but its intermittent. The car wants to start, it turns over, the desire is there, and then something fails somewhere, some spark that is supposed to happen, doesn't, and then it just dies. 


I just need a few new spark plugs, a new starter, maybe some new wiring in there somewhere too - 


or maybe just one good nights rest. 


Keep hanging with me, I'll get this jump started back to where we were! 


And hopefully - it won't cost me $300 to repair! hah.

Time To Restart This Thing, Yes?

Today is a good day. The kids started school today (all five of them! and no, only two are 'mine', the other three are unofficial step-kids) so all you parents out there - shouldn't the first day of school be granted national holiday status? 


I sure think it should! 


So, while the house is blissfully quiet for the first time since MAY, I thought it would be an excellent time to restart this blog. 


Before I do that, for those that have been following along, My father is doing better, he is in a temporary nursing facility due to some complications, but they are not life threatening, and overall his outlook is pretty decent. Thanks for all the kind words and thoughts, and for being so understanding when blogging had to take a backseat to everything else for a while. 


But now life is slowly returning to some sort of normalcy around here, and that means its time for us to return to our regularly scheduled blogging fun! 


I was on craigslist this morning (actually not looking so much at horse ads, but instead posting an ad of my own - more on that later) and was checking out random ads for fun. 


And then fell in love. hehe. 

I think she's gorgeous - and I have to say I'm not a huge fan of dappled greys, or really greys in general. Too hard to keep clean, IMO. But the owner of this mare has done a great job of that - the first thing that caught my eye was that WHITE TAIL! If you've never had a white tail before on a mare? UGH! Trying to keep the yellow out of that white is a daily battle. Even putting it up they still manage to get urine on it! (Trust me, I've tried every trick in the book.)

They even have a decently worded ad for her, and it looks like in a better market, this mare would be a really, really, REALLY high priced horse. 

Miss Frosty Jay *** What a Beautiful Girl (She has pnts with AQHA ) 8year old Grey sired by *** Master Jay *** , check him out Has Her Reining CERT. Also trained in Cutting Roping and even has a Halter point!!! She is very quiet and Anybody can ride her even Bareback to go check your mail !!! Such a Sweetie. No bad Habits. 15 H ..... Vet checks welcome. asking $5,500 602 --- 1258 Bring Your Trainer / Vet/ Girlfriends and Boyfriend/ Husbands and Wives They will All Approve!!! ((( May Consider part trade ))) 

I have contact info if anyone wants her lol! 


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So why is the CL Horse Ad Queen posting an ad on CL? 


Actually because of this:


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170528219017#ht_552wt_930

I also posted an ad locally in the Farm & Garden section for those that might be interested. 


Have a good monday all!

Update

Chrome is still really screwed up when it comes to blogger. I haven't yet contacted the support staff about it because of other events in my life this past week. I'm using IE to do this and I absolutely can't stand IE.

My father had a pretty big heart attack Friday night. He had been having chest pains on and off all day since around 1 or 2 am that morning but didn't mention it to me or my boyfriend - just his kids. Dont' ask why - I have no idea. Of course they didn't say anything to us about it - and it wasn't until around 6 ish that night that he knocked on our bedroom door and said he needed to either call 911 or be driven to the hospital. Luckily for us the hosp is less than 2 miles away, and we got there really fast.

He walked into the ER, leaned on the wall, and pointed to his chest. I had just dropped him off outside and had run to do an errand that I couldn't put off any longer. If I had known of course I wouldn't have done the other errand, but oh well.

I got done with the errand, and went home. Total time was about 30 or so min. Ten minutes or so after I got home, the hospital called with the news that he had had the attack right in front of them. He had just made it in time - another 10 minutes at the latest and he would have had it at home or in the car - and they figured that it would have killed him.

As it happened, they caught it starting, and were able to quickly get a balloon pump and stint into the right side of his heart to open up that side. The images of his heart show a severe amount of disease on the left side, including a clot just below the main fork (below the artery they call the 'widowmaker'.) That was about the ONLY good out of this.

They stabilized him, and he spent Friday night in ICU, awaiting transport to another hospital in the same network that is a heart specialty hospital. Tomorrow he will have double bypass surgery, and if he makes it through the surgery he will have three days of in hospital recovery.

During that time they will evaulate everything about his life, his fitness level, his health, and a decision will be made whether they will allow him to come straight home, or put him in a temporary nursing facility for further care. He'll have physical therapy sessions several times a week, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

If he doesn't make it, well - that will be its own mess.

I appreciate all the messages from before - basically I was contacted by someone in another state who had an issue regarding a comment on a blog post from like last month. She threatened a lawsuit if I didn't reveal who the anonymous poster was - which would be nearly impossible for me to figure out.

It was about 36 hours after that inital message that I had issues with Chrome and the blog. I don't belive now that they are related, but the timing was just a bit too weird. Especially since the intitial contact from this person wasn't even sent to the blog email - it was sent to my other, professional, non-blog related email. An Email that I couldn't figure out at first how they got, but I was able to figure it out sometime later.

As soon as I can get blogger on chrome fixed - I'll be back posting regularly again.  But at least through this week, its not at the top of the priority list - as I'm sure everyone will understand.

I will turn off the comment moderation and see what happens. I am sorry I had to do that to you all - I hate it myself.

Have a good week everyone. I'll post updates when I can.

Beth

My Chrome has gone insane?

Ok lets see if this works.

Chrome apparently has hijacked blogger?

I have NO CLUE what is going on but I log into blogger through chrome and I get nothing but text based html pages, and a frames script that keeps 'eating' my words. I tried to post at least 6 times, and each time the post was 'eaten'.

I am doing this through IE just to see if I can post through IE - but as I have to go to work in less than an hour, I don't have the time to sit here right now and mess with it.

I was actually going to post today that was planning on taking a break from blogging until my kids went back to school early next month. Life has gotten beyond hectic, and since I only have my kids from Sat-Tues - its been increasingly difficult to find time to go online on those days. Add in that my work schedule gets heavier during the rest of the week (because I don't have the kids, no worries about a babysitter then) that poses its own issues sometimes.

Then today, I go to log in to blogger via chrome, and everything is upside down, and I am getting some really weird screens - If I can't get that figured out I just MIGHT end up moving over to wordpress. I'll announce if that happens. The fact that this happened just days after I got some nasty emails - well I won't get to much into that but its starting to really make me wonder exactly HOW secure Blogger is.

Anyways there won't be any new ads posted till August most likely, save for a few random ones if they hit me hard enough to scream about - and I need to get this other issue fixed.

Those of you that wish to know more, can email me at the same email on the side bar.

Comments will be switched to moderated, please don't take offence, there is a reason for it. It won't last forever, I promise.

Until August - sionara!

The CL Horse Ad Queen.

Something is Very Wrong.