Friday, September 5, 2008
Mike,
I love you and I’ll see you in a few days. I hope that you don’t look at me going as being selfish… this is just something that I really needed to do. Ever since Cole was born I’ve just felt like I was slowly letting Jenny down everyday that I didn’t go there to see him.
I love you so much… you are the most selfless man I’ve ever met and I was truly blessed the day that I met you!
Take care of our beautiful daughter, and even though I know you do, I just wanted to let you know what was going on in my head before I left. I’ll see you Sunday night when I get home, and please, I’m probably going to need a big snuggle by then so be ready!
Love you,
Sheri
Monday, September 1, 2008
I don’t know why, but lately I’ve just been feeling like I’m being squeezed. My family at home is at me a little bit to get going and get back home, but I can’t really see that as being possible for a little while.
I kind of feel like I’m being torn in two different directions.
Part of me wants to go home, but I can’t spend that kind of money right now. The other part of me is so angry that with everyone begging me to go there no one has offered to come here. I feel like it’s okay to visit, but it has to be on their terms and in their environment. It has me feeling all different things jumbled up into a huge ball in my stomach.
I keep feeling like I’m just being pushed around by everyone… *sigh*
Guess sometimes, life just plain old SUCKS!
- Sheri
Thursday, August 28, 2008
I’m pretty comfortable with where my life is right now. And I don’t really want much, a walk-in humidor in the basement, a newer vehicle, maybe a dog. But one thing that I’d like is to spend more time outside, camping, walking in the woods, riding a horse through fields. That kind of thing is the only thing that’s missing in my life right now.
I’m not sure how to get that back though, that’s the really tough part. Part of me almost wants to get a tent and set it up in the backyard for a night or two before it gets too cold. Maybe I’m still just a big kid.
So I figured that it would be a good idea to get a little list together of some of the things I need to take care of. This entry is more for me then for anyone else, but it’s a good place to get organized.
clean garage (Only partially done)move stuff from closet upstairsmove shelves into closets upstairs- clean out basement to make a “kid free zone”
Phone calls:
- Transition assistance program
- Pension advocates board
- Tamarack woods
I think that pretty much takes care of things. Now I just need to actually do them.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
We went today for a couple of hours before it got too hot for Sienna. It was pretty good, we got to see the opening ceremonies and Sheri and I wandered around a little bit.
That’s about all I’ve got to say for now, so here’s a couple of pictures.
Parade
The Parade marching in.
Grandma, Sienna and Sheri
Grandma, Sienna and Sheri.
Band from Scotland
The Pipe band from Scotland.
Sienna and Me
One last picture of Sienna and Me.
I was soooo pleased and excited to go see Jimmy G at 5 Cents in Ottawa yesterday because we started laying down ink on my 1/2 sleeve of Lillies.
The first Lilly represents my darling husband, and the banner wrapping around it is the Latin I had engraved on his wedding band. The second Lilly is for myself with the Latin from my wedding band wrapped around that. The third Lilly is for my beautiful daughter, with her name and birthdate in that banner.
I paid tribute to both my daughter and my husband in this tattoo because without Mike I would never have had my darling Sienna.
I love them both so much, and I wanted to show it to them in a permanent way!
Sheri
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
whether what you’re writing is a novel, short story or a comic book?
I’ve got a few ideas, but the problem that I’m having is how to take them from ideas into physical form. The other parts are fleshing out the details and deciding where to start from.
One day I’ll post a few ideas, or maybe I won’t. I may just post a couple of comic pages, depends on what I can get done.
After sending an incorrect link to my mom tonight I realized that I should probably setup my .htaccess file. Turns out 110MB (my host) sells it’s 404 to make a little cash, and this time they sold it to the “Naked Womens Wrestling League”. From what I’ve been reading they sell it in two week periods and the “NWWL” has another 5 days or so, I noticed something was up when I was setting things up here, but it was Golden Palace Casino then. So I’ve now got custom 404s, etc. I’ll eventually set up nicer error pages, but for now, I don’t have anything inappropriate coming up. I’m really glad that I paid for .htaccess now.
I finally got started putting paint to canvas tonight. I’ve only started with a basic background, walls are in place and the floor is down. I’ll probably use a pencil to rough in the toilet and the figure next. After that I’ll rough them in and then work on finishing the background and maybe adding a few details. We’ll see though. After spending a half hour or so painting in the garage I realize that I need a few things, like somewhere to hold my paints, and a better seating arrangement. My back was really tight after just a half hour or so of working.
Just wanted to post a couple of pictures of where I work on my painting. Click for larger images (warning, they’re 1728×2304).
First is my easel.
I have it setup in the garage. It’s just something that I put together with some scrap wood that I had from a train table that I never got to working on (just too much work right now, so the trains and track are packed up for now). It will hold a canvas that’s up to 36″ tall and it’s about 30″ across the base so it’ll hold a nice big canvas.
Up next is a fresh canvas, pre-primed and ready to use from the store.
The main problem that I have with these is the weave pattern is annoying me for some reason and the blank canvas is imposing.
So I put two coats of Sludge (the thick version) by Tri-Art and it looks like this.
Sludge on a Canvas
And a close up to show a little of the “texture” that it gets.
Closeup of Sludge on a canvas
And that’s all for now.
