My Chaotic Realm

Ever wonder what a "day off" (no school, no work) looks like for me? Callie wakes me up to let her outside at some ungodly DARK hour... NO. Throw her out of bedroom, shut door, go back to bed. Alarm goes off @ 6:30am so I can work on essays before choir practice @ 8am. Hit snooze, ignore essays. Make it to practice almost on time. Church over @ 11am so I head to The Salute Italian Restaurant to hear a friend play piano ( John-Westley Hodges) while I mentally prep for essay writing. Afterwards, pick up free bicycle and, instead of heading home, I detour to this pier I've been eyeballing for last month... take egret, heron & dolphin pics til 3pm. FINALLY write essays to BF will let me watch final Harry Potter movie. But, before starting movie, I start some smothered T-bone steaks in oven and split pea soup on stovetop. Meals for week now prepared & packaged for week, movie ovr, dishes washed. Laundry in dryer and I am heading to bed. Not too bad for a DAY OFF. :-)

So, have just printed off my confirmation reservation info for trip to see folks... am hitching from MS to TX and then renting a car to head west to my eventual destination. Should be there Christmas day. Hurray!! I will be traveling light (as hitchhikers tend to do) with nary but a toothbrush, some flash drives and my laptop...and a change of clothes or two. The laptop is to stay in touch with others... barely. No signal in Parental Unitland, unfortunately. But what I really want it for is to show them all the pics I have been taking of the MS Gulf Coast area. Hence the flash drives :-) Will be seeing a few others in my limited time there, so will be wonderful trip. Have just started 3rd term at school... here is where the REAL homework starts, it seems. ARGH. Have made Christmas card sets to sell but been so busy with school & work & homework that I haven't really been out & about much to vend :-( Promoted to HBA/GM manager at work which has changed up my schedule ...

Well, had to work ALL FREAKIN; WEEKEND.... but December is here and I am READY! Final grade in Patient Care/Clinic Fundamentals I was a 99...can live with that... Have set plans in motion to visit parental units in Texas for Christmas... ride lined up...only bummer is that son will be at work in Carlsbad and not back to Tx until Jan 4th... I will be back here by then.... but other than that.... SHOULD be getting promoted to my own department sometime this week...they have been telling me that for last 6 wks or so so waiting (STILL) to see if it actually comes about... stay tuned. For now, I have a few mins left to rustle up some grub and head out the door to my 8am class... SEASON'S GREETINGS!!

so.. up early (for a Sunday, anyways) and made it to choir practice... then church.. then catered dinner (by Salute`... YUM!) before heading back to Best Buy for a card reader. Seems my poor OLD laptop (1 year...WTF??) cannot read the spiffy memory card (SDHC) in the Canon camera.... the reason it could read the one in the Sony was because it was 1GB, not 16GB. Oh well.. problem solved then headed to the beach (d'uh!) for some test shots. Here is one of them... :-)

the pic on left is the NOT KEEPING pile, the pile on right is the KEEPING pile of my rubber stamp collection. I am in the process of my usual winter purging mode.... the temp has dropped so I am streamlining my art supplies. Rubber stamps 1st, then on to the rest.