my little friend who hasn't quite gotten all of his friends with him, but they say their on their way over to play with him and have some lemonade. I got frustrated the other day while waiting for 3 things to get done at the same time -- so while waiting I got out my little pencils markers and watercolor pencils and worked out my seething anger at people who don't call back when they say they will. Especially when you have to wait...wait...grrr...

today I realized that it's the day AFTER valentines day...please pardon me for not wishing everyone a happy valentines day -- I nearly forgot to get cards for the husband and the youngest.so I made one for each of them. The husband didn't seem too impressed, but the youngest kept his right by the computer screen, so I think that means he likes it. And for the first time since I can't remember when, The Husband actually bought me something for Valentines Day -- ever know what it's like to stand and look at someone and realize you're mouth is hanging open..No No -- what he got me wasn't bad, it was quite spiffy. It was just the fact that I literally can't remember the last time he bought me something. And the little box was full of little chocolate turtles...OH YUMMM... I ate far too many of them, and if the doctor discovers I ate all those he'll probably have a coniption fit...oh well, he'll get over it. SO -- I do hope everybody had a wonderful Day, and that there were not too many chocolate overloads..hee hee...

There hasn't been any word from the realtor and I'm beginning to get perturbed again -- guess it's time to make another phone call to the guy and find out what the story is ..well... if he actually talks to me for longer than 3 minutes...this guy is always far too bizzy to have a real conversation with me, so I can't find out what the things are that we need to fix to get the house sold. We'd put an offer on a sweet little house just over the border, but that got sold last week. It took me 3 days to get over that loss...And our realtor hasn't spoken to us for squat...and I'm too leary to go and hunt down another company...grrr...what to do, what to do..

I found some of my watercolour pencils that were covered up by some other regular pencils in a little jar I bought on sale last fall. I think I'm gonna go play with those tonight after I go pick up The Husband and have some dinner. The other neat find is that there are some spiffy papers that didn't make it into storage where 80 per cent of our things are...so I'm gonna play around and post some little things I've come up with...they just need to get some color in 'em an' then they'll look better.

I've got some other tablets of drawing paper that also were buried and it was such a relief to find those...and one of the tablets hasn't even been used yet...I'd thot that all the paper I had was gone, and since most of our cash these dayz is going to paint and fix-ups around the house, it was another relief that I found the tablet...I can't get a tablet of paper, 'cause we gotta get some more fixtures for the master bathroom..we just got some new lights 2 weeks ago, and got new shower curtains and rods..now it's a new faucet and probably get a new track for the bi-fold door to our son's room. they aren't really expensive things by themselves, but once all of them get added up, it suddenly comes to over sixty dollars...ouch and ouch again...the last trip to home depot came to 97 buck-a-roos and I nearly fell over at the check out counter. I'm serious when I say me legs were actually shaking...it suprised me so bad. But all of the stuff is what we need to get, so there's no two ways around it..so finding the little tablet of paper was a relief, let me tell ya.

Got to run and clean up a couple things, then get in traffic and hope to my stars that I can make it down the highway to pick up The Husband at the truck terminal. He's sez there isn't any overtime this weekend, so guess where we'll be tomorrow...one more trip to the hardware store. Maybe I should just set up a tent in the parking lot so I won't have to use the gas in the car...ughhh

Lady of The Tulips -- who still can't figure out why half the keys on this keyboard are absoloutely refusing to work...one more strange thing in the house, I guess --