Monday-4:15am

Not a lot to tell you over the long weekend I was away. I never do as well when I am sleeping days...as I still am. It's like I am stuck in a pattern of sleeping from 11-12pm until 6-9pm. Not really making my way around the clock very quickly this time, I guess.

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Karma is still trying to get used to the loveseat. She remains jumpy when I move on the loveseat or bump her cat bed so I wake her up a lot. She still parks herself on the footrest between my feet a couple times a day--can't really relax there but it doesn't stop her from trying. I disturb her sleep enough that she regularly goes off to odd spots in the apartment to sleep. She's still not eating well. A slow adjustment.

I am also adjusting. Mostly physically--getting used to the sliding down and having to push down with my legs to get out of here--LOL! Probably good for my body to use some new muscles, but it's rough on the fibro and OA. I can tell this cranky body is slowly getting accustomed to the crazy new acrobatics, though--LOL!

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I had a stuffed head and ear this weekend. It hasn't gotten worse and seems to be getting better, actually. I hope it continues in this direction. ;)

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I started playing around adding a little random color with distress ink pads in the SOAR journal.

Just kind of smeared a couple different colors all over the page spread. Getting ready for Saturday--two blues.

I did catch a gorgeous sunrise.

Most of the sunrises have been pretty blah with clouds and grey skies. We had another light dusting of snow a few days ago.

Saturday. The original "cut and paste"--LOL!

Getting the page spread ready for Sunday and a new week--brown and yellow.

I can get lots closer pictures of Miss Karma when she's so near now. She does like me laying a hand on her side while she sleeps or reaching over to pet her so easily...even if it startles her at first.

Yesterday...we had snow!

Enough snow that the plow has been working away in the parking lot since 4am this morning.

White everywhere!!! :):)

I know. Don't hate me because I love it.

They said we actually got 3-5 inches, even if it doesn't really look like it here.

I'm sure the plow companies are delighted and why they're out long before dawn because now we are getting freezing rain--arg!

I was happy to see everything all clean and white out there, though. I have missed the snow.

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I never did watch the sky painting class on Saturday because of my sawing logs by that time. And I am sooo disappointed that there was no replay that I could find anywhere. In fact, all I found were some previous classes that you could pay for the downloads. Makes no sense to me to sign up 4,000 people knowing you can only handle between 1-1,400 for the streaming and then have no replays for people to watch. Duh! So--if I happen to catch them, fine. If not, too bad. I had already signed up for a waterfall painting class for February before I discovered they had no replays. Oh well. Live and learn, right?

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I got tagged by Tori. I don't pass them on, but welcome anyone to answer the questions if they'd like to. I think it's always fun to read people's answers. :)

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1. What was your first pet? And what was its name?

My very, very first pets (around age 8 or 9) were some guppies in a fish bowl and they never got named, but I got to see live births--awesome!

2. What's your earliest memory?

I wrote a story about it in college.

Mommy and That Baby

3. If you could live anywhere in the world, in any type of home, where would you live? And what kind of home would you live in?

I'd live in Minnesota in a house big enough for two creative rooms--one large one for an arts/crafts studio and one smaller one for a writing den--on some land where there's woods and a creek or river. Enough land where I couldn't see my neighbors, but enough room that I could hold classes to do fun things and have an extra room for company to stay.

4. If you had to pick just one meal to have every day for the rest of your life, what would it be? And why?

Goodness! I just don't know. Maybe if I picked something like stir-fry or hot dish so that you could switch the ingredients up all the time...you know how I love variety! ;)

5. What would your ideal job be?

Can't work anymore. I was an English Writing major in college...if I ever decided on something that was worth giving up everything else in my life for to write, I could write I suppose. But I do love variety, so I'd have to fall into intense passion, that's for sure. ;)

6. Do you love to read? If so, what are your favourite types of books?

In my little one-bedroom apartment I have four bookcases with books. I have books on writing, on arts & crafts (painting, drawing, polymer clay, aromatherapy, cardmaking, calligraphy, etc, etc), on spirituality and religions, self-help, cookbooks, chic mysteries (from my cleaning girl), literary journals and collections, some historical, novels, mysteries, memoirs...quite a variety. I go in cycles where sometimes I am reading compulsively and sometimes I only have a couple books I'm reading at a snail's pace (like now).

7. Are you a fan of watching movies? If so, what are your favorite types of movies?

Ha! Am I a fan of movies! Always was, but especially now since I have been housebound and the Universe sent me Netflix--LOL! I like some popular (although the comedies have become so raunchy I am not liking a lot of them anymore), independent, sci-fi, thrillers, some action-adventure, period pieces, old black and whites, classics, TV mini-series and movies, documentaries, nature, animated, dramas, foreign...lots! :)

8. It's a cold, dark night in the middle of Winter; the snow is falling thick and fast outside the window... What are you doing?

Inside--nice and warm--either watching one of those movies, reading, writing letters, making cards, working on some journal or another...or on the laptop as I am right now in that very scenario--LOL!

9. It's a beautiful, hot day in the middle of Summer; there's not a cloud in the sky, and bearly a breeze... What are you doing?

Inside--nice and cool--see number 8. ;)

10. If you could meet any fictional character, who would it be? And why?

I'm terrible with these type of questions. Too pragmatic. They're fictional. I can't talk to them. I'd rather talk to the author.

11. If you could have a conversation with any person - alive or dead; just as long as they really exist (or have really existed in the past) - right now, who would it be? Why them? And what would you discuss?

Again...does this mean I am weird? I have no desire to talk to anyone famous. I'd be much more interested in talking with a pioneer family, or somebody who worked at building the pyramids, or a maid from a big house in England back in the day, or a monk from an old Tibetan temple, or a family following the reindeer in Scandinavia, or a Chinese family of rice farmers. Those are the people who interest me. The common folk, you know? They fascinate me. We already know quite a bit about famous people.

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Anyways, that's enough for today. Karma's mostly asleep at my side in her comfy bed (her ears give her away that she is not totally out). My ear is mostly unplugged. Everything I do, I do slowly. It's now 6:15am and I can still hear the snow plow. They have to be thrilled to finally have some work. They're predicting it to be around 30 degrees the next few days, so most of this snow could be gone once again.

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The start of a good week ahead, right? Stay safe and well. :):)

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"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."

Emily Dickinson