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I am a novelty to many (and I'm fine with that).

I have a very silly sense of humor usually riddled with malapropisms (and I'm fine with that, too).

I ask too many questions of Life and I expect all the answers.

I trust people too easily when I shouldn't; however, I respect everyone regardless…unless they do something to make me think twice.

I don't cheat. I am tactful yet will give the truth up front (and never mean to hurt anyone's feelings with it).

I like to help the people who have helped me, and even those who have not.

I never forget... but sometimes I misplace things.

I never lose hope.

I am awesomely blessed for the people who have come into my life, and I am blessed for the people who have left because I realize I didn't need them anyway.

I honestly feel that laughter is the best medicine you can have.

I believe in being strong when everything else seems to be going wrong.

I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. In other words, I'm human, and definitely not perfect.
But tomorrow is another day, and there's so much cheese to be had...

(thank you to Ranae S. for this bit of inspiration!)

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Where the heck have I been!?

Wow, seriously neglecting my life blog here it seems! I do have a perfectly good excuse though - I've been making a serious go at being a "professional" artist, and posting about all that sort of hoity-toity art-ness on my other blog. My, ahem, ART BLOG. The MacabreWebs one. I've done several art shows (got another one coming up in late September that I am personally putting together), have opened an Etsy shop, and have for the most part, at least for now, "retired" from a day job.

Several friends who had been following my Quirk Shop blog had asked, "Hey, when are you going to do some updates?" Guess I can't put it off any longer. Gotta give the peeps what they want!

Just got back from a long (two week long) drive-vacation across the southwestern US. It took me and Mark (that's my hubby, aka "Poopy") through seven states and then back again. All I can say to sum it all up is, holy moley. What a gorgeous stretch of land we went through in our fancy rental car. Of course, me being, well, me... I took a few photos. As in, a bit over 1000 photos. So for the past three days straight, I've been downloading, adjusting, re-sizing, trying to pick out some truly worthy ones to post. And that I will! That will take me a bit of time to do, as I don't plan on merely dumping a bunch of picks here, I want to write about our trip.

Being a born & raised west coastie girl (Los Angeles, CA), I loved the terrain and the weather along the way. A DRY heat. Very unlike where I live now (the Nashville, TN area hills). Don't get me wrong, I love being here in Tennessee, I love the south, love my friends and home here, we have a great quality of life that I did not find in southern California. Just being out in the semi-arid rocky high-altitude desert made me a little homesick. New Mexico in particular, I fell in love with! The "Land of Enchantment" did just that to me; worked its magic on me in a big way. I'd been through all these states (Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada) many times when I was younger, but for some reason, it really got to me!

Another amazingly breathtaking region I fell in love with is northern Arizona. We stayed in the Cottonwood area, Sedona, and the town of Jerome (more about Jerome in a bit). WOW! High altitude means a much more varied landscape with many pine trees and cooler air.

Photos to follow as I update this and get my 1,000-plus photos readied!

Be back in a bit...

The Occasional, Introspective Quote from Poopy: Words of Wisdom to Grill Cheese By

4/05/10:

"Honesty is the best policy... especially when you have to explain to the Wife why the stove hood is missing, the surrounding cabinets are burned, and the ceiling is stained with black soot."

- His delicate explanation of the not-so-small grease fire he caused (and is having to clean up and repair)

12/30/09:

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself."

- Concurrence with a friend

12/15/09:

"If time flies when you're having fun, then do people having the most fun die sooner?"

- lunchtime ponderings

12/1/09:

"When I was growing up, I used to hear about a drug called 'acid' that caused flashbacks. Now I take a drug for acid that refluxes."

- workplace ruminations on growing older

9/22/09:

"Yada yada yada. Here it goes again. Back on the job."

- upon returning to work after a 10-day vacation break and finding it slightly difficult to get focused and motivated

7/31/09:

"Now that I'm older, wiser and more aware of who I am and what I can do, I realize that I can no longer do what I used to when I was young enough to do it."

- bittersweet realizations when pondering mowing the daunting 5+ acres of lawn before him

7/10/09:

"There's always someone willing to do your thinking for you, if you let them."
- deep philosophical musings during a caffeine-infused meeting with a friend

6/26/09:
"It's fun to see where life has gone... and to wonder where the hell it's going."
- when on the internet, looking up old friends from the past

6/10/09:
"Next time, use protection."
- in response to a friend's claim that he discovered 'unexpected' pumpkins growing in his yard

5/26/09:

"I don't know, I don't have anything smart to say. I'm a dummy, remember?"

- a very tired hubby, mid-way through a 10-day work schedule (and no, he's not a dummy at all, actually)

5/7/09:
"We grow too soon oldt, and too late shmart."
- uttered in German accent - on why people make the mistakes in life that they do

5/6/09:
"It's too far to be close, and too close to be far."
- on asked why he (the Husband Unit) was not using his bifocals to read my blog

11/18/10:

"Dear, you're hard to see, because you've gone around the bend."

- his explanation of my silliness during one of my laughing fits

8/29/11:

"The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for groups of animals. There is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows, a School of fish, an Exaltation of doves and, presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls.

"Now consider the baboon. The loudest, most dangerous and aggressive of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?

- a Congress.

"Sometimes, the jokes just write themselves."

- just tellin' 'em like he sees 'em

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Where the heck have I been!?

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