No! This is not ending!

This blog will continue with art and photography!!  Just saying.

I guess I created much confusion when I asked you to visit the new blog.  Sorry about that!!  The new blog is all about writing and imagery.  I wanted to stretch myself this year so I will be doing two blogs!  Just so you know.   I would love for you to visit me at Suddenly Speaking and follow me there as well.

As always, I treasure your comments and feedback!!

Have a magical and blessed day
Hugging you
SueAnn

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Random Tuesday....And other such things!!

January 17th???  OooooMmmmmGeeeee!!  It wasn't but yesterday we were preparing a Thanksgiving dinner...turkey and the works!!??  And then we were decorating our trees; knowing Santa was preparing his reindeer and loading the sleigh!!  2011 faded away and 2012 is now looking us dead in the eyes!  Resolutions; words of determination; and here we are....January 17th!! 

Now my tree sits, barren...waiting for Valentine's day decorations!!  Ha!!  And a new year has begun.  We have already talked of what we want for motivation...now what!!  Guess it is time to get to work??  So I started in my studio and we got about 1/2 of it organized!  Whew!  Took many things to storage...Christmas decor and such!  Will finish up today and start working on that painting.  Do you remember the painting?

So as you can see...it is almost done!  I started applying reeds and grasses to the middle section to create a new layer!! 

As I said last week...this I will enter in the El Paso art show...due Feb. 1st!  I better get cracking!!  Ha!!

This coming Saturday night is John's company's Holiday Party!!  It will be held at a Country Club on the west side of Albuquerque.  Our son and his wife will be going as well. Our son also works for the company.  His office is in Gallup...which is about 2.5 miles west of Albuquerque.  Dinner, dancing and karaoke; fun night!!   I will take plenty of pics.  Dr. John always sings...Ha!!  My granddaughter, Emma will be going too!  Soooooooooo......more next week.

The snow is slowly melting and I just got a glimpse of my rock garden...my pride and joy!!  And, oh boy...it looks sad.  Forlorn even!!  Going to have a lot of clean up and trimming to do.  But I look forward to that!  The snow has been hanging around forever...time for it to go.  I am yearning for spring!!!!  Here's a reminder....SNOW!

We did our errands last Saturday and picked up the dry cleaning.  When we got home...Dr. John took the cleaning back to our bedroom while I put groceries away.  I heard him call me.  So I went back to see whst he wanted.  He was standing in the middle of our bedroom and said, "Look at this?"  He was standing ontop of a large wet area on our carpet!!!!!!!  WTH???  On further investigation, it was soaking wet from our bedroom into the hallway!!  We were now experiencing our worst fears!  Our home is on a slab...so all the plumbing runs under the slab!!!  Do we have a busted pipe??  Crap!!  So, Dr. John turned the water off and I called a plumber...Roto Rooter!!  They couldn't come until the following day!!  Crap again!!

We pulled back the carpeting and pad and found no cracking of the concrete??  Where is the water coming from.  I called our son, Lee, and told him what was going on.  He said he was packing his bag and he would be here in three hours.!!  Awwwww!!  My son!!!!!!!!!  Love!!!

Meanwhile, Dr. John is thinking...maybe not coming in from the floor.  So he goes up on the roof.  We have a flat roof.  There he discovered a ice dam!!  And it was located all around the plumbing stacks.  There was cracking in the caulk at the base of the stacks!!  Ah ha!!!  Dr. John comes down and says, "The water is coming down the wall!"  Huh!!!!????  We figure it was coming down the wall...the melting snow that is, and running across the floor and soaking the carpet!!  Whew!! 

Meanwhile, Lee is on his way here.  He is bringing a coring machine to do a hole in the concrete!!  Sigh!!  Our bedroom and hallway is a disaster...carpet all pulled back and it is so wet!!  And our water is off....!!!!  And I have to pee!!!!  Ha!!

To end this saga...Lee arrived!!  Coring machine and suitcase in hand.  Dr. John and he has a confab and decided Dr. John was right.  Lee checked, also, the north side of the house.  The snow had been pretty high against that wall...and now the the whole north side was saturated.  So he dug a trench to get the water to drain away and get it away from the wall.  Up on the roof, the snow had pretty much melted away from the stacks and they removed what was left.  So both water sources dealt with!  Sigh!!!  Color me happy!  Water back on...I got to pee!!!  And carpet is drying out!!!  We are now dry...everything is all back together and instead of costing us over $3000.00, it cost us $110.00.  Carpet re-stretched and caulking!!!!  Woot!!

Who has more fun??  Ha!!!

Cheri and I went shopping at Victoria's Secret!!  Woot!!  They had undies on sale!!  A must for sure...!!  Ha!!  Then we met up with Ramona and went to see the movie, "A Joyful Noise"!!  What a fun movie!  We thoroughly enjoyed it.  Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah!!  What a combination...and it worked.








Then we had a wonderful lunch/dinner at the Plum Cafe!!  Yum!  I had honey chicken with fried rice and fresh veggies!!  So tasty and fresh!!  Loved it! 

Whew!!  Quite the lengthy post!!  Time to close...but don't forget to visit Stacy at Stacy UnCorked and see what other Randomizers are doing!!    And as we continue marching on, go and encourage Keely at The UnMom to pick up the banner and run ahead of us all!!

To all, be well!  And have a magical and blessed day!
Hugging you
SueAnn

Silent Saturday ~ Part Ninety-one!!

Pocket Dreams

I walk through this world with a pen in my hand,

and a paint brush in my pocket;

looking for colors

and words that refresh

I walked through a sunset,

tawny and gold;

savage, yet scorching

searing my soul,

melting ideas; my dreams.

I walked through a forest; tall pine trees,

cool and mysterious, shadowing my mind;

halting my step with a sound.

I walked on the oceans; beaches of sand,

softly textured and bronze -

Suffocating my thoughts;

grasping my music and songs.

I waked through a garden,

flowers bending with dew;

dazzling colors, crushed and forgotten;

faded like days long gone.

I walked through this world,

with a pen in my hand;

and a paintbrush in my pocket.

The pen was forsaken,

the brush dried and worn;

all I have left is my pocket.

Have a magical and blessed day

Hugging you

SueAnn

Written by SueAnn...images by SueAnn...hope you enjoy both!

Random Tuesday....And boy am I feeling it today!!!!

Random that is....feeling real random for sure!!  Snow is still on the ground and wow is it cold!!!  Feels like 10 below!!  But the early morning sky has been so dramatic...full moon and thick clouds.

See...frosty and awesome!!!

Saw the movie..."Contagion".  It was okay...and I mean "just" okay!!  Starred (for a very brief time) Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon.

The books written by Robin Cook...ie. Coma...are far more exciting.  Contagion is about a super virus...kind of like the Swine Flu...that spreads like wild fire around the world!  Scary because it could happen!!  But for a movie...not so scary!!  Ha!!

I have so many shoes!!  It is so obscene!!  Probably over 45 pairs!!  Anywho...I have an over the door shoe rack that I use in my bedroom.  It hangs over the main door and it prevents the door from closing all the way!  Tis okay until we have company stay the night...then not so much!!  So I am designing a rack that I can put on the blank wall behind the door to hang this rack.  I will take pics when I finish.  And I better quit buying shoes!!!  Ha!

Silent Saturday hit ninety this past Saturday!!!  Wowzers!!!  When it hits 100...it will be giveaway time!!  Any reason to celebrate I say.  Giveaway and martini's all around!!  Woot!!

As you can see...I have cleaned house here on the blog and had it re-designed!!  I love it and hope you do too!!  It was done by Heather Albrecht of Adora Bell Blog Design.  The Original Belle !!  Stop by her blog and see her work.  She is super to work with and oh so reasonable.  Thanks Heather!!

The snow is slowly melting!  Yay!!!  But boy has it been cold!!  Brrrrrrr!!  We (Cheri and I) were going to the movies on Sunday but it started snowing again!  So we decided to stay home and do steaks and martini's!!  After two of those...martinis that is...we didn't care how much it snowed!  Ha!!  Glad I only live two doors down from her!!

I started taking down my Christmas decorations.  So far I have cleared the dining room and both bathrooms and the kitchen.  Today will be the tree decor and the mantel!!  Whew!  Then we begin Valentine's day decorations.  Woot!!  Next stop...SPRING!!!!  

I cleaned out a closet and found my old poetry and short stories.  Now I can start my second blog.  All about the art of words!!  I will be working on it over the next few weeks.  When it is ready for it's maiden voyage, I will let you know.  It will also motivate me to get back to writing again too.  I even have a children's book I wrote!!??!!  Should get serious about getting it published!  So much to do..so little time!!

Been feeling so lazy these last few weeks.  I have my painting to finish and a commercial sign to repair and they both sit in my studio wondering when they will get some attention!!  Sigh!  Wondering the same thing myself!  Ha!!  Next week...I will get back to work!!

My New Year's word is COMPLETE!  So I better get on with it!!

Hey!  How about that Tebow!!??  Some good football this past weekend!!  Dr. John and I sucked on our beers and cheered away!!  Onward Giants and Broncos!!  Go and kick some A##!!

They started printing Dr. John's book!!  Woot!!  It is already available for pre-order on Amazon!!  OoooMmmmGeeee!!! 

Well, it is time to get your Random on!!  Take a gander at Stacy at Stacy Uncorked and see all the Randomizing that is going on over there!!  Then go and knock on Keely's door at The UnMom and tell her quit dragging her feet and get back to Randomizing with the rest of us!!  I mean...seriously!!

Have a terrific, magical and blessed day!
Hugging you
SueAnn