Calgon take me away

Ha, It has been so busy at work and full of callenging situations that all I've done lately is get up, go to work, come home, go to bed and start all over again the next day.  Of course I do the whole bath and eat thing too, LOL.  It's great to be busy and I feel like a squirrel that is stocking up for the winter.  This busy holiday season will be nice to help get thru Jan, feb and march.  I'm just dissapointed about my work environment.  I'm reminded why I wanted to try it out in my own place in the first place, LOL.  At first I was all excited and felt like we would all support each other and help each other out yadda yadda.  Well, it ain't all like that.  It's amazing how much attitude and drama, and gossip that can go around.  Of course your gonna see that anywhere you go but GEESH!  So its kinda like screw you just give me your booth rental and fend for yourself.  So ya just let it roll off your back and go in do your job and go home.  The nail tech in the place is the most professional person in there and you can actually have fun with her but the drama that goes on with some of the others is pretty interesting.  Actually, I'm going to attribute it all to the full moon that we've had since everyone was just acting wackhy including me, LOL. 

I LOVE THIS!!!  Hip chick meets vintage pincurls.  This is the nailteck at our salon and it was her birthday.  She's been wanting to try a pincurl set for awhile so I did it for her birthday do.  She's got the perfect texture of hair for a pincurl set and it came out great.  I love the picture of the back with the tatoo .  Reminds me of the episode of Split-Ends that featured the motorheads salon. 

Here's she is with it finger combed.  She was going to wait till she went out that nite to brush it out.  I hope she got a pic of herself with make up and her outfit.  It's a great time of the year to be doing all these fun do's for the holidays.  Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.  TTFN 

ITS ALIVE!!!

Woo Hoo, I was cleaning off the back patio of all the leaves and branches and twigs after this nor-easter and look what I found.  This little bugger survived and is blooming.  After the slugs ate all the others this last one was around and I was hoping to see it bloom and it did  Me so Happy .  It's got two more buds on it so hopefully they will get to bloom too.  I put a little bamboo trellis behind it to support it and keep it safe from any more windy days.  What a treat to see that after the storm was gone.  I got to hang out two weeks of laundry too, Woo Hoo!  I got up at the butt crack of dawn on sun and saw it was dry and the sun was coming out so hurried up and chucked in 4 loads of laundry and got it on the line.  While, the laundry hung out I got to raking and picking up all the branches and twigs that fell outta the trees.  6 bags of leaves, a bag of twigs and a pile of branches (I'll get to those later) and it was all looking spiffy.  So today I think I'll put a few of the pansies in.  While I was over in NC I bought some yellow pansies that had an awsome fragrance at the Wal-Mart there.  So those will be going next to the front door

In knitting news I'm still working on a pair of purple socks outta Peace Fleece yarn for R and hope to get those done in time for the holidays.  I sure like the green ones I made that were too small for him.  They keep my feet nice and warm at nite .  Also got several unfinished projects to get done so not trying to start too many new things right now. 

Went and bought some apples, golden delicious and fuji, to make some baked apples.  I've been craving those and want to bake some up so that we can just take one out of the fridge and heat it up.  Hmmmmm, maybe I'll make up some coleslaw today, YUM!  Well, got the laundry done, did the banking, went to the post and got up early and finished some paper work so lets see what else I can get done today before my work week begins.  TTFN

Especial, Day of the dead

Ola,  Catrina here, giving you all a shout out!  The Day of the Dead celebration was a wonderful time filled with food, friends, shared stories of loved ones who have passed on before us and fun times.  Here are a few pictures to show the decorations.  Cool huh

Here are some pics of the ofrenda and a close up of the new scull that R bought while we were in Mexico earlier this year.  If you look closely you can probably see the butterflies (Mariposa) that are on the top of the skull.  It's beautiful and made out of paper mache.  The food was awsome and (T and D) brought a chocolate mouse that was to die for. 

As of now we are experiencing the Nor-easter at this moment and all my customers have cancelled and I'm going to call it an early day since the city is flooding and I want to get home before it gets too nasty.  The winds are something else. 

Well, if your out in this mess here's wishing you dry and warm moments throughout this all.  TTFN

Here's a pic of my new favorite marigold .  I love marigolds.  This is a variety that was recently discovered in Mexico.  The little flowers are dancing around on the fern like foilage.  They had the seeds at Lowes and I bought 2 packs and planted them this summer.  Well the high number of slugs ate every last one of them except for one lone stuggling sprout that survived.  We also don't really get enough sun here with all the trees.  But since I've had the tree guy come out and cut way back everything its all airy and open now and we get more light so I hope that next year I can get some of these going.  I wonder if this one lone one will do much of anything since its getting cold now.  I'm going to move it to the sunny side and see what happens.  Those slugs were awful and they were everywhere.  Never seen so many and I'm guessing it was because we had so much rain this year.  It wasn't till they had reaked so much damage on the back yard patio that I had discovered their hiding place which was under all the flower pots.  That's where they hang out when they arn't eating up everything.  Didn't want to use any of that sluggo stuff after reading its warnings.  So a good sweeping up in the dust pan did great.  There was even a red tomatoe on the vine yesterday and there are 6 more smaller ones but not sure if they will ripen with it getting colder now.  There are even 4 green peppers out there .

Ha, here's my hangin out the laundry photo.  Can you see the basket in the left hand corner where all the clothes pins are.  The tomatoe and pepper plants are in pots surrounded by the laundry.  I use one of those retractable clothes lines that ya just let it all go back into the little wheely thing when your done.  Its so cool.  And I got a back up on in case the onther one craps out.  But this one has lasted for like 10 or so years .  Last week I did my laundry at work.  I had to go over there to finish up some paper work and the weather was rainy and yuk so did it in the shops washer and dryer.  I'm a hang your laundry out nut and really enjoy it when I'm out in the country at R's cause we hang it out on the big ole line and its so nice.  My friend P has this umbrella type of clothes line that she ordered from Austrailia.  We dug a hole in her back yard and put cement and a pvc pipe in there so you can just put the umbrella clothes line up and take it down if you want. 

Have a good Thursday  TTFN