I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Anonymous

Bren - so sorry you are having difficulty communicating with the people you're working with - can't imagine what more you can do but to keep telling them what the situation is. FRUSTRATING.  Think if you keep positioning it as you want to HELP the company, and the best way to do that is to listen to you....

Soft Pastels - I had a lot of trouble, UNTIL I started using slightly "sanded" papers...allows much layering, with out turning to Le Olde Mud, which it did on the unsanded papers meant for pastel.  Also I LOVE the Pan Pastel, they are so painterly, and much LESS DUST than sticks.

http://www.dickblick.com/products/panpastel-artists-painting-pastels-sets/

I call soft pastels "finger paints for grownups" - still love the look of watercolor, but need something a little more forgiving for a while - more play less art...

Snow is falling horizontally now....we'll definitely get a lot more than a foot.  Snowshoes ready near the door.

IllinoisLady

Forgot to say....since we don't have the sleet and it is ONLY snow, it is quite pretty out here where we live.  It is something I really missed when we lived in southern California for so long.  Of course, can't say I missed the brutal cold and icy roads....but then I don't think we were getting as bad as we have the last few years.  It looks life tufted layers of cotton from inside.

My little snowplow dog, Baby Boss ( Pomeranian ) will go out and do just that....put his nose down and plow through.  I think since he was descended from Chow sled dogs,  somewhere in his genes, he must have been the lead dog.....plowing the snow out for the rest.  When I first got him ( rescued ) I thought he would freeze outside and truth is.....it seems mainly he can't seem to wait to get outside and DO his thing.  Make a trail for everyone else.  I'll see if I can find one of my pictures of him and get it in here.Came in on top but it did get in.  Hope it stays there when I send this.  He is a cutiepie and in that pic was about 4 yrs. old.  He is going on 9 now.  His owner passed away and the daughter couldn't have a dog where she lived so was going to have him put to sleep.  I just couldn't see that....so that is what made him a rescue for me. 

Jackie

pupmom

Jackie, Baby Boss is so adorable! We're snowed under here in Kansas also. All local schools and the universities have been closed for two days. I'm finishing up my second apron for oldest DD. Also getting a lot of reading done. Could be worse.

bluedahlia

That was really good of you Jackie!  He is sooooo cute.  My two do their business on pee pads.  They don't like the snow.

Glad to see some posting on this thread.  Where would we be without it.  Contrary to popular belief, this is a friendship thread and we discuss many things on it, not only politics.  We don't come to a breast cancer forum to make fun of idjuts.  There are idjuts that do just that!

Anonymous

Hi, Blue - have you been back to your acupuncturist?  helping with the pain???  In my case, wonky arthritic knees, the good effect is definitely cumulative, and does seem "fade" back to crunchy if I stop treatments.  I go once a month now.  Hope you are WELL.  Stay warm....

bluedahlia

Staying as comfy as I can Sunny!Will be seeing acupuncturist next week.

As an addendum to my last post...I love what Stanley says to Blanche.  It is what it is.  Some idjuts should take note!   hahahahaaha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVNxwNQYQKU

P.S.  I love Blanche too!  Such a femme fatale!

pupmom

Anybody relate? 

bluedahlia

Hahaha Yorkie!

crazy4carrots

Morning all!  It started snowing last evening around 11 and we expected to wake up to several inches of the white stuff this morning here in Niagara.  Well, this blizzard is more like the "huff and puff" angry old geezer who is full of hot air and not much else ("Get off my lawn or I'll shoot ya!").  Mostly it seems as though the snow that is falling is just being blown up and around and down again -- less than 3 inches in any one place.  But enough whiteouts to cancel any notion of driving anywhere today.  Guess it's a good day to organize my drawers.

Enjoyful

Flying from Augusta GA to Boston today for my trial checkup and med refill.  I hear there's a little bit of snow falling in Boston.  Keeping fingers crossed for my flights! 

Anonymous

E - flying?  to Bawsthan.  Ok, I believe you, several up here might not , but as Gov Cuomo has closed 84 from PA to CT, driving would NOT be fun.

Hope you get to make it up here....wear woolies ;-)

bluedahlia

It's a blizzard out there!

kayfh

But Blue, we live in the Great White North.  Might as well embrace it 'cause its not going to change until the end of March 

bluedahlia

Tons of snow this year!  I think we are phucked!

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pip57

E...so good to see you.  I hope your plane is able to get through.  I am watching the Boston news right now and they say things are looking better.  

Anonymous

March?  MARCH???  Our last freeze date is June 1.  But I gotta tell you, all this white stuff is beautiful.  Still snow, there was supposed to be sleety stuff in there, but still seems to be all snow, too windy to tell how much, and still falling heavily, traa, laa, traaaaa, laaaa....

Fingers crossed for E.  Al Capp, being interviewed on an old TV talk show in the 1960's, once joked about Logan ( Bawsthan) Airport saying " A sick chicken wouldn't try to land at Logan."  For those of you not familiar with our seaside airport, one of the main runways starts what feels ( when you're looking out the wing looking down) like inches from da waataah....auughhh...

Everything crossed for E, don't think fingahs will be enuf

QuinnCat

In Sunny California, we were calling January, Juneuary.  Your snow is our sun as the high pressure sitting over the Left Coast is pushing the jet stream further south into the eastern half of the country.  Suppose to be changing this week, for us.  Some cold air with snow flurries moving in tonite and a sub-tropical air mass by the weekend - gads if those two air masses meet.  We all just say "seeing is believing," but maybe there's some relief in their for those of you east of here.  Why we have this persistent high pressure out here is a big ?

I've learned, from all of this, I might want a home in AZ during the winter.  It has been glorious.

bluedahlia

Alyson

Keep warm you lot on the Eastern side lots of snow about for you it seems.

bluedahlia

I'm snowed in so just taking it easy with FB pics!

bluedahlia

kad2kar

Kam---The grass is always greener.  I want to go back home to SoCal.-----kad2kar

GatorGal

E - hope your trip to Boston works out .... Seems like they are canceling lots of flights.  We haven't gotten much in Maryland this time though they are saying freezing tonight.  I am leaving on Monday to drive to my mom's in Florida and despite my Stepfather's political views, looking forward to a few days of warm weather.  My mom is in the hospital with congestive heart failure .  When they get things under control they will transfer her to a rehab/nursing home.  Don't know what the future will be ... Do any of us?  Just finished my chemo regimen and have the next two weeks off.  Yeah!!  I want spring and I want it NOW!  

Bren, do not envy you transcribing ESL docs .... I would absolutely have a hard time with that.  I like the "help is not a four letter word" comment.  I'm going to remember that!

Blue - I'm also planning a wedding with my daughter.  Ours is May 17 and will be at the beach at Assateague Island, Virginia.  Supposed to be a low key event but we will see .... Things change by the day.  No more grandchildren in my immediate future.  We'll be looking for pics when the little guy comes along!

Am not a cat person so have nothing to add to that conversation except that Claritin has saved me from lots of runny eyes ... LOL!

Enjoyful

Safely arrived in Boston after the obligatory delayed flights.  Now tucked into my Boston lodging and looking forward to starting my meds again.

gardengumby

Hello ladies - I watched the Seahawks game and simply loved it.  After hearing day in and day out about how GREAT Peyton Manning is and how the Bromcos were going to beat the Hawks, I simply loved watching the entire game.  If the Hawks had made another 20 points, I would have just sat and laughed.  I hadn't seen Elway's comments, but they certainly don't surprise me.  Her just seems like so many people who feel they are somehow better because they are rich, and then want to gloss it all up.  They just make themselves look even creepier IMO.

I have FB, but rarely log in.  I have about all I can do to keep up here.  Otherwise the computer would simply consume all my awake time.

It's been COLD here (for us).  I'm hoping for no snow.  I was glad to hear that California is supposed to get some moisture.  They certainly need it.  Hopefully it will come down as rain????  Well, cept for in the mountains where it probably ought to be snow, so that there is some water in the summertime.  Our mountains look pretty well covered when I looked at them from down here, but I haven't been up there, so don't know what the snow pack is.  I'm hoping it's a good healthy one.

OK, gotta go back to bed and see if I can sleep/