Erulisse Dances

It's Wednesday my "day off" and I have a list that will take me all over town, cost me lots of $ and keep me running all day long. I will be driving all over town, clipping rogue trees at the small house, buying all of my extra Renaissance Fest tickets for Chickie and Sharon (we all go out for one day together) and my less expensive pre-purchased admission tickets and Cheap-skate books for the State Fair. I need to make a doctor appointment for my DH, get some measurements on my eyes so that I can order new lenses for my eyeglasses, and call my accountant to make sure that an extension was filed for a tax return. I also want to drop by my broker's office (I've never visited there) to find out why I can't order checks for my savings/checking account and get some extra dollars transferred in. I need to renew my DH's car license and make an ear doctor appointment for him. And I have to continue cleaning my house - only fifteen days left until Sharon arrives and I want my house cleaned up. Whew!!! Too much to do!

( What am I reading? I'm totally involved in....the circus! More below the cut )

Today is my studio day, and even though I doubt I'll have time to play with art, I do have several stories waiting in the wings to be written for B2ME, and I have errands to do all over town. So I'll be driving around, doing some shopping, doing loads of laundry when I finally get back home, and writing, writing, writing. Because of that, I feel a need for pretty pictures today, so I'll show you lovely things that have no relation to my text - LOL. I love clouds, so I'll share some wonderful ones with you.

( because I love unusual clouds, I have a few to share with the text below... )

I'm cashing in a certificate today. Each year for the past few years, I have been gifted with a certificate allowing me to take one extra day off. I'm using my 2011 certificate today and taking that extra day to do a bunch of errands and try to finish the first round of my holiday cards. I worked on them yesterday for the afternoon and got a lot done, I'm very happy with how they turned out so far. But I want to add glitter and crystals to them. So, still work to do.


( too much to do...too little time to do it in... )

Yesterday was a busy, busy day. But in the main, I accomplished everything on my list. I even found cards that will work well for my holiday cards and began cutting them out on my Silhouette. But I wasn't able to get clean cuts on more than just a few.

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 I can offer no reason for the delay in posting today.  It's not like I overslept.  Indeed, I couldn't sleet well at all, and finally gave up on that after waking up more than eight times between 1:00 and 1:50 am. 


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I had a long list of errands.  1) Open up the shop - while there I emptied the garbage and took the cardboard out for recycling.  2) I had some time to wait until Target opened at 8am, so I went to Perkins and had breakfast - a potato flip, a potato pancake enveloping scrambled eggs and bacon with a side of fresh fruit.  Nummy!  3) 8:00 am - called DH to wake him up, then went to Target.  Needed some hair conditioner, toothpaste and other silly things.  4) 8:15 am - crossed the street to get to Staples.  Good sale going on - with their instant rebate, got two reams of paper for the shop for 50 cents each!  Great deal!  5) 8:30 am - back in the car and heading to the post office to mail two Priority Mail packages.  6)  8:45 am - headed to my accountant's place to hand in an IRS notice about a charge they are assessing in error.  I talked to Paul yesterday and he'll handle this for me, so happy, happy.  7) 8:55 am - on to the city Licence Bureau to get the new license tabs for DH's car.  8) 9:15 - Dropped by the local convenience store to get Renaissance tickets for Chickie and Sharon for Labor Day weekend.  No luck though, they haven't received their tix yet.  No problem, I have time on this one.  9)  9:30 - Home again and catching up on Emails and notifications.  First load of laundry is in the washer. 





I still have to go to the drugstore and the grocer later today, and I have one more load of laundry to get done.  Then I have to clean, clean, clean.  And if I can get a short nap in, I'm sure it would be a positive thing.  Oy!  Too much to do :-)  

 So, the electricity is being re-done at my father-by-marriage's home.  It is rather amazing what can be found when people are climbing around in floor joists and ceiling passages. 

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Love these arguing lizards - so cute!

Today I'll get the shop up and running and then take my car to the repair shop.  I won't actually be getting the work done until tomorrow, but I wanted to let them get a look at what they will need to do so that they can order the parts and have everything ready to go tomorrow am.  I have a bunch of errands to do today, so I can't spare the car today, but tomorrow DH can drop me off at work a bit earlier than normal, I have my laptop and my Nook, so all will be fine. 

Happy Birthday, Zhie!

And birthday waves go out to my friend Zhie.  She lives in Milwaukee, and I am looking forward to actually seeing her when I am there for Bead & Button Show in a little more than a week.  Tick tock...I'm running out of time to pack and get my act together - LOL.