Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Wow, It's Been A Week

since I last touched this blog. Let's see, California actually has a budget, such as it is. The Governor has held true to his promise to veto all budgetary bills. It's 9/30/08 and still in the 90's in Northern California. However we are expecting rain this weekend. Love the contrast. I'm sitting here with my air conditioner on before I head back to work. I'm working on a couple of things that I'll post in the next few days. In the meantime, this isn't mine, but I got a chuckle out of it. It was part of an e-mail from a Travel company. Go Obama


Monday, September 22, 2008

Day 84 of the California Budget Hostage Situation

Rumors abound that Arnold will sign the budget today (haven't seen it yet). However, there's no telling how much he will blue pencil out. Apparently the proposed compromise budget only gets California through one year. Then we go through this again next year. It may be time to move out of State. I say we impeach them all and start over. Kind of like when you can't balance your checkbook and you close the account and open a new one.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Momma Mia that's Abba

I just saw Momma Mia! What a cute movie. Actually it was a fun movie. It's a little strange to have main characters break into Abba songs (and I never knew they had so many), especially Pierce Brosnan. I love Pierce Brosnan, but he's not a singer. Points, though, for giving it a shot. So now I'll be going to bed with Dancing Queen stuck in my mind.

And, for those about to Rock...I get home to find an email from one of my best friends husband telling me that he has tix to see AC/DC in Oakland in December. Quite the contrast from Abba. I'm on a highway to Hell............

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

I MADE A KIT!

I'm so excited. I made a kit for the Digital-Scrapbook.org color challenge. As I was sitting here in my backyard, I was inspired by my patio furniture, which just happened to be the right colors. Here's the Freebie preview:




and here's where you can get it. Enjoy.



http://www.4shared.com/file/63429036/f86a3965/ld_Patio_Furniture.html

Beautiful Weather and the Proctologist

A month or so ago I had to make an appointment to see my doctor since she was holding my meds hostage. I only go to the doctor if I'm bleeding or hurting real bad. So she decided to get even...scheduled me for a mammogram & a colonoscopy and for good measure gave me a tetanus shot. Today was the consult for the colonoscopy. They like to talk to your face before they get to the other end. I'm scheduled for the day after Veteran's Day.

So to make me feel better, I took the rest of the afternoon off. It's beautiful here today...light breeze, mid-80's. I'm currently sitting in my backyard, on the computer with the waterfall and classic rock. I managed to figure out how to turn on the surround sound speaker in the backyard. Actually I think I just hit the right button and got lucky. Cabana Boy is at a meeting, so it's just me and the boys, who should be waking up at any minute to try to convince me its 6:00 and feeding time.

For those that aren't in California, there is a pissing contest going on between the Governator and the legislature over the State Budget. The legislature is going on 3 months late to pass a budget...a very bi-partisan fight. Demos want new taxes, Reps want cuts to social service programs. They finally agreed on something yesterday, but Arnold is threatening to veto it because it isn't what HE wants. So the legislature is threatening to override the veto, prompting Arnie to say he won't sign any bill on his desk. Geez - children! In the meantime, good programs are closing because the State isn't paying on contracts and State workers are technically working for the Federal minimum wage of $6.55. However, last month, the State Controller ignored Arnie's executive order and paid State employees their full wages. Can't we just play nice?

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

When is Too Many Tributes Enough?

This tribute band thing has gotten out of hand. Good Morning Sacramento
featured a multi person band with a fru fru name (bubble something) I can't
remember that does, are you ready? ... Donovan songs. Come on...Donovan? He
was OK in the 60's, but definitely over now. One of the lead singers had a
voice that more than faintly resembled Yoko Ono. The worst part of this whole
thing? I have "First, you have a mountain, then there is no mountain, then
there is" stuck in my mind in that high pitched Yoko Ono voice.

Enough!

New Virtual Toys

Found a link to this sight on another blog. Let's me keep track of where in the world or US I've been.


visited 33 states (66%)
Create your own visited map of The United States or determine the next president



visited 24 states (10.6%)
Create your own visited map of The World or determine the next president

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Phoenix Airport


Here we sit in the Phoenix airport. Thank goodness for WiFi. Lark thought our flight out was 9:45. Turns out it is 10:45. We've been here since 7:30. The CK Scrapbook Convention was great. Took 6 classes in the 2 days I was here. Lark played golf twice. Found a new scrapping company called Keller's Creations. Great kits...very simple and quick. The SEI class was great as usual. I've made two templates for the Stone Accents Studios template exchange and I'm now working on a kit to go with the Color Challenge. When I get it done, I'll post a link here. My husband sent me the joke at the right. Isn't it great?


Saturday, September 6, 2008

Splash Mountain


Three good friends and I took my mother's electric wheelchair to her sister in San Bernardino, then went to Disneyland...on Labor Day weekend! It was packed. We were there from just before 9:00am to 10:30 that night. Saw all the parades, the light show and the fireworks, plus rode everything we wanted to. This was taken just before we got absolutely soaked on Splash Mountain.

Wow! I have a Blog

Today is a day of firsts. I created my first template for the Stone Accents Template Exchange, zipped it, and then established an account on 4Shared to share it. Zipping it was a chore. I bought the real version of WinZip so I could zip files, only I couldn't get it to work. I tried my evaluation version of WinRAR and it worked perfectly! $36+ to find out I could use a trial version. Go figure. So now I've added creating a blog to my list of firsts.

Let me explain the title. I first used this as a password when I was in school working on a project and my older cat was hissing and hollering at the new kitty I'd just brought home. A few years later, my husband made his first batch of home brew beer. He was trying to think of a name as we were testing it. Timing is everything...we were sampling at the 6:00 feeding frenzy time and the cats were wailing. So we called it Bellowing Cat beer. The name has stuck.

I'm going to try to start designing digital scrapbooking items, so I'll try to have freebies to entice people to my blog.