Brixey Banter

"Sometimes I felt that I'd lost my mind"

Sunday! Oscar evening!

We watched part of it and then had to watch our newest favorite show, Shameless. Now we're back!

I went to Springfield on Friday night to visit a high school friend of mine, Adam. We had dinner and just hung out. It's nice to see people you haven't seen in ages! I might try to go see Rusty this weekend if he turns out to be not so busy! Of course, it's been a lot less time since I saw Rusty than since I saw Adam!

Mom and I have tackled several more projects. We've painted 4 frames in preparation for a project in her basement. I painted 3 frames for a project for Mema. I also am painting at least one more canvas, if not two.

Tomorrow is a trip to WP to my favorite unemployment career center. Woo. I also need to pick up a couple more canvases at Big Lots (cheap!) and run to the bank. What an exciting day!!

Gabby has been keeping Mom and I thoroughly entertained. She has been continually carrying her toy on the end of a stick to me. Then, when she gets tired, she just lays down and rolls over, legs and fur splayed out everywhere. She's so silly!

OMG. Helena Bonham Carter's hair should win its own award for Best Costume - it's wild!

Ugh. I've been working on a model for Mom's den. Randy saw me working on it last night and went and downloaded SketchUp onto his computer. I think I've created a monster! He is love with it! It IS very fun!! Images when I finish the model.

Okie dokie. My belly has been killing me all night long so I had better get going.

Good night internet'rs.

"I think you know I'm damn precious and hell yeah I'm the m***er f***ing princess"

Yo.

Thought I was going to miss a day, didn't you? Well, I fooled you! 1 hour and 7 minutes left until tomorrow! Ha!

Gabby is helping me compose this post. More like she's just sitting on my left arm (very hard to move it) while I type and she either licks my left thumb...and fingers...or stares at the screen. She loves watching me type. Or rather, the motion of the letters moving on the screen.

Have I ever mentioned how she's really hot natured? She will only be on my arm for about another 5 minutes and then she'll get hot and flop onto the floor or Mom's coffee table. If she sleeps with me at night, she sleeps at the end of the bed at my feet.

Anywho, today was a BORING day. It was raining and I woke up late. More like, I woke up and stayed cuddled in bed (Farrah and Gus' guest room has the bestest bedding in the world - easy to snuggle in) and faked sleep while Taffy came to check on me every 15 minutes or so. She would tick tick tick into the room, look around and waddle back to "work" with Gus. For those of you who don't know, Taffy is my niece...who happens to be a Corgy (that's a dog, y'all).

After I got up and toodled around on the computer (oh sh*t...Gabby's going in to bug Charles!!!), I went to get a haircut. If I have not mentioned it before, I want to take the time to send a big ole kudos out to my hairstylist, Kelsey. Not only is she the sweetest and most fun gal ever, she can do the most amazing things to hair! She did Fe's hair for the wedding and cuts (trims) mine and I am just happy as a lark to go to her. She rocks. Big time.

Speaking of rocks...ha ha. A rock star friend of mine texted me that he was going to be in town last week but alas...I no longer live in KC. Thank goodness. A night out with him damages my liver in ways that I can not even speak of...I got the text and immediately my liver starting spazzing. Whew. Close call. Although, I will admit, we ALWAYS have a super fabulous time when we hang out.

In other rock star news, the Scissor Sisters are coming to CoMo. Dudes. I heart the Scissor Sisters. As a matter of fact, yesterday's post quote came from Kylie Minogue's dialogue on "Any Which Way." I think I love Kylie more, but whatever...back to the SS. It's the only night that they are NOT playing with Lady Gaga (they are on tour with her). I kind of doubt she would make a surprise appearance at the Blue Note, but who knows? I think I should go! Trying to talk Colleen into making the trip...we'd have a blast!!!

Oh. So after the haircut (awesome!!!), I packed up the last of my junk being stored in Fe's garage and headed home. When I left for my haircut, it was sleeting tiny little balls of ice. When I left Headlines after my cut, it was snowing big chunks. I had to go by my old place to get mail and it felt like I was driving through a Sonic slushy - if that were at all possible (only in my dreams...with a little vodka). By the time I left for WS, it was just super duper cold rain. Yeck. It was POURING. I drove like a granny (not my granny - she drives fast - her friend drives even faster!) because there was so much standing water on the highway! But I made it safe and sound.

When I got home, I napped. I have no idea why, but that particular trip exhausts me.

When I woke up, Mom and I discussed her den that we plan on redoing and I had a brilliant idea! She wants to put a sofa bed in there and I suggested a  Murphy bed (Gabby just moved to the coffee table)!! I saw an article in the Winter 2010 of BHG's Do It Yourself magazine and that's what we're going to do! Mom needs more storage for her crafting and sewing and it would be a perfect addition to that room. Even after buying the hardware and making the cabinet, it will be much cheaper than a new sofa bed! Woo us!

I'm going to start working on a model of it tomorrow so we can space plan! Exciting!!!

Urgh.

It's time for bed. I have lots of things to do tomorrow!! Woot woot!

"I'm gonna find that man who has the right shade of bottled tan"

Why hello there! It's your trusty narrator here to tell you more useless facts about her day.

After you get over your initial shock from me posting two days in a row that is...

Today is Tuesday. Many things happened today. Many of those many things were not really very exciting.

First, I got up. I know, right? Exciting!!!!

Then, I took a shower...then...wait for it...wait for it...

I blow dried my hair AND I straightened it! Woah.

I better slow down on the details. I might be exciting you too much!

Anyway, la la la...the rest of the day went on by...I left for Jeff City around 11:40 but then forgot my coat and left at noon. I think.

So I got to town and dropped by the ole Hobby Lobby in seach of a 1/2" heart punch (why no...I am NOT a heart person. Thank you for asking. However, a future project involves hearts and my 1/4" heart punch is too small and the 3/4" is too big - I feel like freakin' Goldilocks.). There was none to be found. Then I went to not Kinkos and made some copies (makin' some copies).

I raced home ("home" referring to the Wagner-Fite abode) and changed clothes in lightning speed, applied makeup and went to my interview. At a real architecture firm. Like, with computers and plotters and people who draw buildings and stuff.

They liked me. I think.

I came back HOME and changed and went shopping because I wanted to and also because my closet is full of dingies. Lots and lots of dingies. And a girl needs to shop after a good interview, right?

So I bought some things that I can wear...like I said, I needed things to wear that aren't dingies. Then I toodled around until Farrah was done playing volleyball and met her for sushi. Yum yum! Tonight I had the Heartattack Roll and it was a spicy good time. Fire in my mouth! Yum! And a beer. Not an import beer though.

Then we came home and I showed off my new clothes and we watched the doggies pee and terrorize the neighbors yards. It was all good fun.

Tomorrow I'm leaving here...but not before my NOON haircut!! Woo!

Alright, enough happiness and typing. I'm sleepy.

"What do you do with the left over you and how do you know, when to let go"

It's been a trying couple of weeks. Nothing that I really want to get into again, but let's just say decisions were made and changed with a heavy heart at the last moment. However, I believe that I have made the right choices when it comes to myself.

I guess that's sound selfish, but as I have said before

"self-preservation is a full-time occupation"

Thank you, Ani DiFranco. Yet again you inspire and save my getting bigger by the day a**.

So life is as back to normal as can possibly be when I still don't have a job. Or a home at this point.

My new digs are now located in my mother's house. Okay. That's the cool way of saying that I have moved back in with my mommy. Awesome, right? Of course, her cooking is pretty awesome. So that's a plus. No rent...another plus. Living with your mommy at age 33, nearly 34? Not so much in an awesome category.

Gabby is loving life at her grandma's house. She gets to go outside and be crazy kitty. Her favorite place to play is in the rafters of the garage. To get up there, she has to jump on Mom's new MKX. She really loves jumping up on the garage door when it's open. She's not very car smart though.

In good news, I have a job interview with a bonafide architecture firm in Jefferson City tomorrow. Holy crap, right? Wow! Cross yor fingers!!

Moving on with my life includes a plethera of projects. Let's see...I painted a triple canvas for my Mama...got one planned for my Mema too. I'm going to set up my Missouri Loves Company etsy store and make some little felt critters in anticipation of mobiles...also I would like to showcase some of my graphic design stuff in hopes of doing some wedding work around Springfield or Jeff City. We'll see. I need to make some business cards for MoLovesCo...I need to design them first! I have a ton of other little projects: start/finish Christie's bday present, work on WPHS '95 addresses, lose 20 lbs, refinish some furniture pieces...

That just reminded me that I need to finish my cd for tomorrow's drive to JC! I have no cds in my car and it is BORING.

Mom's dogs either rolled or ran through a skunk stench because mom had to give them baths today. Grace smelled the worst, even after her bath. Those two have been into a lot of bad news bears lately. They've had to have several baths after rolling in cow poo, eating cow poo, rolling in something horribly dead (it might have been cow afterbirth) and other bad doggy things. Grace is so much healthier now. She's almost FAT! Hmmm...scrawny, hairless, starving dog to nearly fat, shiny coat dog.

Okay. I'm going to GO. I have to make a couple of musak cds for my drive! Woot!!