Oye, if you could have an audio recording of what I am listening to, you would start wearing ear plugs... Yeah, four midgets can make a lot of noise. But we are making an effort to eat last year's halloween candy. The best stuff is long gone, but we still got sweets, and they don't go bad... Well, I posted some more, Yeah for Me! I have also opened up some old binders full of drawings I did years ago, and actually started to redraw some of them. I plan on coloring them and then posting them. I love going over my old stories, but looking at the drawings kind of annoy me since I know that I can do way better now. Even if I haven't been drawing lots lately, I can draw better than most of what is in my binders. If I am smart... I will even throw away the old drawings after they are redone so I don't have to look at them ever again. Have a large collection as it is of my progressively improved art. I look at what I did a decade ago, and I go, "why on earth did I think I did such a great job on that?" I mean, some of the art that I used to display on my walls makes me want to throw it out because it is so terrible that I don't want to see it ever again, let alone have someone else see it. And that is no exaggeration, I have a watercolor of a pinto/arabian horse that I picked up yesterday to look at, and was amazed that one of the legs was half the length of the other. That is actually a minor detail since the entire horse had major proportion problems. Anyways, my youngest is demanding my attention. Adios for the time being.

Well, thought that I should take the time to say "hi", since I haven't done so in forever... and yet I do this now, typing around a four year old, setting up her dominoes infront of the keyboard. I think she is trying to build a house. My arms are tired from the reach, so bye-bye.

I live on! (in my crazy insanity kinda way)I have been able to draw tiny amounts here and there. I would have a ton more art to show for the passage of time if I posted the art of an observant three year old. Thanks to her there is a "Bob the tomato" (from Vegetales) pen mural on her brother's bedroom wall and a green marker face on the back of a white long sleeve shirt... yes, I was wearing the shirt when it happened. I will be a ton better than before on updating and replying since I can now get on the internet at home now.

So long for the moment, I'll be back shortly with some art posted!!! Hurray for ME!

Well, a year later since my last entry. the deviations have sure piled up to four hundred. Luckily there are only three hundred messages. I hope to update more than just the journal. Give me another year or two. My excuse can be my poor memory, lack of time, and no energy. I have more little responsiblities than arms. Infact, it is past time to check on one who should be have woken up from her nap. So I leave this to go do other things... Bye for now.

This is the first time since the end of September since I have had my computer connected to the internet...sadly it took two weeks longer than it should have to have the floor in the kitchen laid down, and so I didn't have a date for the phone company to connect the line. I had this weird false belief that I would be able to do things on deviant, like commenting on new Deviations and replying to messages while staying at my in-laws, but their internet provider lacks many qualities which they complain about but never changes it. Well, I could go to Deviant Art, but I couldn't sign in for some unknown reason, and I know it had issues because every time I brought up the page, you could see problems in the way it loaded. It didn't make me suffer in only keeping me from seeing what was new, but the computer also refused to let me check one of my email accounts.

I am tired and worn out, did a lot of cleaning and stuff...a lot of unpacking, and it doesn't help when the previous resident seemed indifferent whether she left the house clean or dirty. We now own a broken swingset left in the backyard, although my hubby says that he can fix it up. As I am tired and spent my last energies on playing WarCraft III, I will comment and reply to the multitude of Deviantions and messages.

On the interesting side of things, this morning when I got up...I made a discovery that is under the category of "welcome to parenthood"
*On the kitchen table, a small plate with three waffles stacked on it
*Next to that is a now half-empty bottle of syrup
*And part of a stick of butter sitting in what didn't stay on the plate

A very sticky mess to have to clean up, and then I saw the now thawed package of three more waffles sitting by the toaster...and by the way, it looked as if the butter and syrup were applied to the bottom waffle which had a single bite taken out of it. The other two waffles were untouched other than being apart of the mess.

This was done by the same child that found daddy's arcylic paint set last week and hid under my solid wood computer desk and painted the nestbox for breeding parakeets. Fortunately, I found him in the process. At that point, he had painted the perch with great care, Bright Blue, and was a bit more sloppy with the Bright Orange as he attempted to paint the front of the nestbox. The clothes he was wearing were nice enough for a young boy to wear to church before he got into paint...fortunately, the orange was still very wet on the carpet and I was able to clean it all up, unfortunately, it sticks all too well to my computer desk...I suppose I could try to sand it off or something.

Anyway, I got to go now...a little girl is polluting to air with the stench of her diaper.