Blue Skies and Spinning Worlds

So yesterday and the day before wasn't fun, even a little tiny bit.  You see for the past four days or so I have been getting these dizzy spells which kept getting worse and worse.  Finally I got to the stage where even if I moved a hair then the entire world would go into overdrive and I would fall down.  Not fun...in fact it sucks the big one.  So I ended up in the ER, where they were nice enough to put an IV thingy into my arm and pump some anti-world-spinning medication into me.  It didn't stop the world from spinning, but it did stop me from wanting to projectile vomit.  It turns out that I have a wee bit of an inner ear infection which is playing wonky-nuts with my head.  Today is the first day where I don't feel the need to chuck my cookies.  This might be because of the medication they gave me, or perhaps it is because I am actually starting to get better.  Either way, I am joyful that the world is keeping solid. 

The fact is that it is a lovely day...in the pluses...and I feel so good that I want to go out and partake.  Hubby thinks that this is a bad idea (seeing as I was full of needles in the ER just yesterday morning) and has given me the hairy eyebrow look.  So I will be a good girl and sit here and type.  The dog says, "get off your lazy butt and take me for a walk."  But what does she know?  After all she goes around sniffing dead things and poop. 

Another Day Another Snowfall

Well this is the second go round for my Internet connection saga.  Today the tech guys came back and reset my thing-a-ma-jig to the who-lanny-bob.  So far, knock on wood, fingers and toes crossed, hell and even eyes crossed, it looks like I am once again up and running.  If I can go another year or so without having to call those guys in I will be a happy camper. 

Things here at Kitpu Estates are rolling along with little dips and bumps, but most as status quo.  Which means that not much is going on.  My studio is within a hairs breath of being finished, the only hold back is the flooring at this moment.  It has been a long time in the coming so I may have to cave and put something on credit.  I hate buying stuff on credit. 

I have this daydream where I get up in the morning, pour myself a cup of joe, and then wander out into my studio and create amazing works of art, astonishing bits of creative writing, and have some serious deep intellectual thoughts which will revolutionize the world.  Just image that...have flooring...will fix the world's problems. 

Connection badddddddddddddddddddddddd.....

My internet connection is still fubared.  The tech guys are coming tomorrow.  Maybe then I will have more than five minutes at a stretch to do stuff here. 

Merry Last Week of 2013

Well the year is coughing out its final breaths and 2013 is almost over.  This year has been relatively quiet, but a little busier off the ranch than on.  Renovation Central has come to a hop, skip, and a stop.  We continue forward when we get some money now and again.  Most of the main floor is done, the basement is still in its 1970's glory and is in dire need of some deconstruction.  But this too shall happen...eventually.  The deck still isn't, although we did add a smallish deck down by the lake.  Mostly so when we go and sit there with a rum and pepsi in hand we don't tip over and fall down into the lake.  Although small, at least it is a beginning and we kind of, sorta know where the gas shack and dock will eventually live.

The Wookie Cave is done.  All that is required is for the final coat of paint and a little thing called heat.  We have been kicking about different possibilities, and I think we finally know what we will do.  Once that is done I can move ALL of my stuff out there and start doing some serious painting...and writing.  The Hubby is champing at the bit for me to get all my crap off the dining room table and out of the house.  Neither of us has actually eaten a meal there in weeks...perhaps months.

The weather this year has been...wettttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt...and wet some more.  I am hoping for a tad bit more dryness next year. 

Oh man...my internet keeping kicking in and out so I will finish this when I have a better connection.....

Fifty Years

Its been fifty years since JFK was killed, that just seems so bizarre.  I remember discussing it in school when I was a kid and back then it seemed like history.  Not ancient history, but historical enough.  Now it doesn't seem so long ago. 

The odd thing is that although being somewhat toddler like at the time I actually do remember some of the stuff surrounding this event.  I remember being at my grandparents house and watching the procession, and being bored.  I knew something tragic had happened but did not know what it was exactly.  So I can only imagine what it was like for people who were into their adulthood, perhaps something like 9/11. 

But November 22nd is also my dad's birthday.  He would have been 85 years old today.  It would have been nice to see what type of old codger he would have been.  I was pretty young when he died, but I still miss his quirky sense of humour, and his dimpled smile. 

Chilliness

Yup it officially feels cold enough to be winter out here in the sticks.  I took the hell hound for a walk this afternoon, the thermometer said -1, but the wind said it was a hell of a lot colder.  I walked three k out with the wind in my face and it felt frigid, then I walked three k back with the wind at my back and I felt warm...then my butt turned into an assicle.  Bad news is that when it thawed it was still as big as ever.  Good news is that there still isn't any snow and I am pretty happy about that. 

I finished the last of the wood yesterday...serious relief.  I actually had all the heating wood done a couple of weeks ago, but still had the "slabs" which have been out most of the summer drying.  The slabs are what we use to make our kindling.  And although we have had a lot of moisture this year some of it was actually dry...although some was so wet that one slab was almost too heavy to lift.  Win some, lose some. 

I put the first coat of coloured paint on the Wookie Cave, but I don't have enough to finish all the walls.  I keep going into Home Hardware to look for mistinted paint, but this time of year there are few and far between in that department.  Come on people!  A good inside project would be to repaint your house, mama needs some light pastel colours.  So I may have to "gulp" buy some, and pay full price.  That's just not right.  I did find a gallon for $8 bucks but it was dark grey, almost black...not exactly something I want to use for a studio.  I guess I will wait another week before caving to the inevitable. 

This afternoon was spent doing a little bit of painting, as in canvases, I usually love that but today for some reason it just wasn't doing what I wanted it to do.  I'm hoping that tomorrow things will behave themselves a bit better.  Nothing sucks like not being able to get the colours right.  (Well that isn't true, going to the dentist sucks worse than that.  Breaking a bone sucks.  Losing your favourite toque, getting a boot full of water, pulling quills out of your dog's nose, running out of gas...I could go on.)

Well I'd better go, I'm in the middle of critiquing a piece of writing and I still haven't had any supper.  So supper first, cause I can get pretty cranky on an empty stomach, and critiquing second.  Then off to bed because it is almost 8pm.  Yikes! 

Writing

The days are flying by in a blur or activity.  I am refurbishing furniture, painting pictures, writing stories, and hauling wood.  There doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, most especially because the days are quite a bit shorter then they were.  I turn into this giant pumpkin of inactivity when it gets dark outside.  My brain seems to tell me that it is time to "shut er down" even when it's early.

Mind you I'm not complaining.  I may sound like it, but I'm not.  I love it all, even the dreaded wood hauling ass workout.  I could do this forever, and I hope that I can.  Well maybe not the wood hauling part.  I'd really like that to be finished so it will free up some more time in my life.  Each load takes me about 3 or 4 hours from start to finish, and that is a LOT of time in a short day.

Of course because of all this stuff I've been doing I've been neglecting other aspects of my life...kind of like this blog thing.  But this is another one of those "things I like" and am loath to give it up.  And because there is nothing to say that I have to, I won't.  Hopefully I will keep on bopping in here every once in awhile so my blogging skills don't completely go down the toilet.  (Funny that...what the hell are blogging skills?)

Today I ended up sleeping in because I was up until 2am last night.  I have no idea why.  But when I did get up I managed to put a couple things on Kijiji for sale, repaint the top of a coffee table, bake some cookies, and write part of a story for this weeks submission to Life As A Human.  It needs work...lots of work.

Speaking of needing work...I'd better scoot and finish it up.