GRANDMA'S WORLD

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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Grandma's world is a penniless one...so, adieu for awhile...

Received payment for various jobs and they weren't enough to keep all the juggled balls in the air. So, I dropped the internet ball and it will be cancelled today sometime and it always takes me about ten days to get it back. Shall miss my writing outlet and guess I'll have to resort to pen and paper and family communications only. Back soon, enshallah. Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Grandma has been overworking. I filled one entire huge debris trailer

all by myself. I have really groomed the property this past month. So, today, when the landlord stopped by to see whether I had finished filling the trailer, I picked up the final two garbage cans of cactus after loading all leftover bamboo debris. My hands are sliced with razor bamboo shoots. My knuckles ache with arthritis, ants attacked me on my legs and I am wearing Isotoner gloves to bed for my hands relief, and they really work in reducing this hellish pain. So, today, I am on youtube,... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Grandma's World has a headache the size of Australia right now.

Digging in boxes under tables on the back porch, wallowing in dust and spider webs and mold from the rains, gave me a sinus headache that four pills of various responsibilities have failed to change. Maybe the wine at my friend's house will make me not care. No, forgot, I have wine allergies and will get a slight headache from drinking my glass of Vino Verde from Portugal. I hope that I win the lottery. Dunno why I said that. Maybe so that I can live somewhere without spider webs and dust and... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Grandma has gone into another nu nu nu nu, nu nu nu nu world.

I was perusing the Think Geek store, I think it was, and they were offering a Wi-Fi detecting shirt. The t-shirt had the Wi Fi logo on the front and the waves emanating from the tower move when the shirt detects a WiFi area. How cool is that? The wonderful young geek that I was speaking to on the phone at that moment said that he probably couldn't use that shirt but could envision when a t-shirt would have a picture on it, or video or somesuch and THAT would appear only in the WiFi zones....how... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

I knew that coffee was bad for me...but I love it so.

I have been getting so much done around here again. I get up at dawn and cut and gather dead bamboo, piling it high in the back garden. Then, when neighbors are up and around in the light, I turn on my reciprocating saw and start the real party. If you could see the front of my house today with approximately one ton of nopal cactus on the ground. The drought this year is killing everything that is not super water indulged. You MUST turn on the hose, walk away for awhile and let it soak the... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

I have a tici tici tic in my left eye and sometimes one in my right.

I think, suspect that I might be overdoing something, but just which thing is the overdone one is hard to tell, as so many things feel unfinished and awaiting my attention. I just might need some counselling about priorities and obsessions. But, just which ones to talk about in sessions, I am not sure about how to choose. I decided to get out of debt. HA!! So, I followed the money, painting acrylic pictures as they seem to sell at about one or two a week this month. Then I remembered that the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Too cute hamster that makes me cry over the mice in my house.

On a good day, I would capture them all and put them in cages and then feed them forever, but they are all over the house and garden. Mosinha keeps catching them. Sigh...... Here is the too cute baby hamster eating his first broccoli. I hear my mice gnawing on dog food pellets at night. http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2253641/7101161&cache=1 Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Grandma's world smells like mice...and she has just bought

Mr. Clean and Pine Sol and bleach and is about to scrub this place to perdition. Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Costuming, peace vigils and social conscience, I'm there.

If you are an artist, and you may be, you cannot just arise and throw on any old thing out of your closet and dresser. Your clothing, and I see all clothing as costuming, must reflect your state of mind that day. Or, your clothing must help to create your state of mind. Today, in my town, is a peace vigil at the Benedictine Chapel on Country Club Road. I had planned to be there ever since it was first organized. I cannot go now, other responsibilities arose. So, my clothing must be my peace... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Walked into the Unicef Store and had trouble leaving.

My sister told us to gather somewhere and I only remembered the three stores that she had mentioned, all next to each other. I wandered into one and no one was there. I walked back out on the sidewalk and I heard the secret family Brasilian whistle call. My sister gestured me into the Unicef store. Mom and my other sister followed. A wonderful fellow named Walter Duron was there with his wife. They were delivering hundreds of Guatemalan textiles, huipiles and skirts and pants and purses, etc. to... Sign in to see full entry.

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