The Potiron *** family

***Potiron is pumpkin in FRENCH
hahahaha
Babe is going to be next ......or as the family calls him.....'lil sprout'






ok guys....watcha think???
vi

Worrying the chicken

as you all know, or would know if you read this blog.....
we are to get chickens.....
more specifically CHICKS
6 of em
even though I don't WANT 6
they come by either 6 or 25..........( who the hell figured out THOSE numbers????????? a dyslexic math challenged brainiac?.......never mind)
So they tell me half will be BOYS.........we don't WANT boys, as they make NOISE....
( yes ALL males are annoying like that....human, animal............. Extraterrestrial.......they got testosterone they are annoying like that)
But that is 'OK, CAUSE we will take them back when they crow, we won't however GIVE YOU A REFUND'
gee they will be about 10 weeks old......... broiler size...........hmmmmmmm
what is the fate of male chickens that no one wants.........?

BARBECUE sauce and a rotiserie.........

with a side of slaw......

yes I see where I am going to raise chickens for someone else's dinner...............
NOPE


ok my dilemma is
where do I KEEP all six babies while they are under the grow light...... ( it is actually a HEAT lamp but hey)
I can't let HIS highness the imperially fluffy MR THADDEAUS Peabody......... or his great great grannie, FAWN anywhere's near them......or we will have 6 DEAD and dismembered chickens.....

I can't keep them in the basement NOR outside.....
( that would be like a bit of a chicken nugget for the hawk........ three day old baby chicks and there ARE 6 of them........just like a FAMOUS fast food joint huh? only for raptors, with fly IN service......... WHAT kind of sauce would you like with that there mrs hawk????)

I have boxes and an X pen.........
or an old aquarium, but these little birdies are going to get BIG.........
orpingtons are one of the 3 BIGGEST breeds of chickens...... ( just so the soup pot isn't lonely incase we get ALL roosters.......... vi-heartless bitch)

so anyone have ANY ideas that will help me here
please please post them to comments...........????

oye
how do I get myself into these things Ethel?

vi

this insurance is killing me

they paid the physical therapy claim
they took it back
paid it
took it back
paid it
took it back
paid it
took it back
paid it
took it back
paid it
took it back
paid it
took it back
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are you as sick of this shit as I am???
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I turned them into the state insurance commission
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I've had it
EVERY single freeken bill they tell me I went out of network......I did not
they try to charge me 500........and then they don't pay it
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I do NOT have high blood pressure when I started trying to get this crap all paid.........
AND
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we pay 100.00 a WEEK for this insurance..........
doing the math.........
we are paying through the nose.
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vi is soon to be dead
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and the autopsy report will read
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DEATH by insurance company

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I swear that my CATS could run the insurance company better, and I swear Larry, Moe and CURLY are the ones in charge of my insurance company........

just remember at my funeral...

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the insurance company did me in........

vi

All is quiet on the violet front

THANK GOODNESS
I cleaned the kitchen a bit....... ok so I did an archeological dig in the kitchen......ya happy now?
I am not saying that I rarely clean.......
ok so I AM saying that I suppose....
but it isn't actually dirty, it is just VERY VERY cluttered.
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hey what do you want, it's a small house, no closets and NO kitchen countertops
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No shit......no counter tops........ yes yes I DO sleep with my contractor however did you know that bernie was 'doing' the kitchen????
He is also 'doing' the hallway, soaproom and library....... as well as making a stab at the studio......and putting a FENCE up in the front of the house........
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Not doing too well with it all you say???
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yea I know, but he is really really cute and has an ass you can bounce a quarter off.......
(we won't tell him he is a little stud muffin ok??? I am happier if he doesn't actually REALIZE that)
ok where was I ?
ah......... what's going on.....
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a

big

fat

nothing!!!!

nice huh? for a change.
the mentsruation tide has turned............ I am much happier.......
at least until.................
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hushed voice

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OVULATION
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh NOOOOOOOOOO NOT ovulation........ please say it ain't so
I am still thinking females get a partial dirty deal here.
I mean it is all cool and all the way we fill out a sweater....... but some of the side effects of that whole sweater filling out thing are kinda hard to live with.
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now on to wildlife.....NO not the moron neighbors....
they been doing the whole WARD & JUNE cleaver thing and I for one have found it really scary!
no one is going OFF of the property there......
who the hell is going to pay the bills?
oh man
and they are swimming in the green pool........ewwwwwww
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ok enough of the freak show
I was talking about actual wild life.
specifially the deer.
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we went over the mountain to get cat food, litter and some groceries for us.
if we saw one deer we must have seen 15 per MILE going over the mountain, and it is about 14 miles to go.
That is a shit pot load of deer................
one big ass buck meandered across the road............. I didn't see his head but I did see his shoulders........ talk about loaded shoulders.
I saw a littler pointer buck who thought he was ALL that..
hahahah
he was so cute....... ah............. I mean stagly and stately ( he thinks he is a hunk 'O' deer, shhhh don't tell him he is a little boy yet)
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In feline notes
Thaddeaus Peabody is getting his bath tomorrow........
everyone had thier little toes clipped.......and is it me or is Thaddeaus getting even BIGGER daily?
his paws look like lion paws to me now.
damn that cat is big.
little Calpurrnia and Gramma Fawn have tiny little paws and tiny little nails....
not the big boy......... he has him some big ass talon claws.......
wicked strong to cut too....
but I loves me some big boy Thaddeaus..........
even though today he was in NO mood to have his feet touched.
not after I cleaned his ears.............................
nope he was not a happy camper.
Fawn laughed at him ....................
then it was her turn
hahahahaha
Calpurrnia hid
smart girl for one we keep thinking is so dumb but beautiful huh?

ok til next time
vi

I am closing comments for a while

I have been getting a ton of comment spam
so I am going to close the comments for a while folks.
you all can email me if you need to
vi

just flying around

I dreamt I was flying last night

I was flying around the bedroom

the bedroom had bright yellow walls

the bedroom really has eggnog colored walls

I had a blast flying around

I stuck my tongue out at thaddeaus, who was enviously watching me fly around the room

nanananana

I am on the ceiling thaddeaus, and you are NOT.......

hahahahaha

FLYING around........ not a care in the world

just flying from corner to corner in my room

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ok tomorrow I am going to the FARM
yeah
I miss my goaties and sheepies
I am going to see my pony princess...
love me some goaties and sheepies and miss my pony.......
It is Carole's birthday, she is 48.................... she is much YOUNGER then me........
anyway, I can't wait to see her too.
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I have decided on an A frame chicken tractor, and I am going to build it myself........ with a bit of help maybe from either bernie or kris.........
but maybe just by myself if I feel well enough.
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SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
DO NOT tell Mengele........
she will have a fit, as anything I do now SHE will have to undo when I finally get back to her.
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ok the chicken house, I think that 2.5 feet wide by 8 feet long and 3.5 feet high to the peak is good........ with the actual coop above them as that would make them less visible to nosy moron's.
and would still fit through the basement door if I needed to keep them inside during really really bad weather.......... no?
I need some metal feed bins for their food.
I also am going to put WHEELS on the back at least, if not also on the front..........
I think I need some tent stakes too, for when it is out on the slope by my garden.
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I may just pitch a smallish tent out there to shade my birds from hawks and the moron neighbors while they fertilize, weed, and turn my garden beds.
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I really need a couple goats here right now to clear out the brush out back.
hmmmmmmmmmm..
if moron does leave soon I will lease the goats and let them clear the back tract.............
I will see if I can get a temporary permit to have them clear the land.
hahaha
oye
ok I am not quite alive yet
but soon
probably after seeing my goaties and sheepies tomorrow
til next time
vi

The saga continues..........

now we have a lot to cover so pay attention my beloved chicklets.
( and remind me if I forget anything)

UPDATES

Moron neighbors : apparently at the moment elle mae is trying to appease her soon to be former penis ( the legally? wedded one) Meanwhile back at the 'sty o lust' , current penis continues to lay low.......( did I just SAY THAT?) while moving out as fast as he can. HIS neighbors wanted the soon to be former penis to run over that trailer with the dump truck as it smells......... really really bad, like dead bodies, even when the windows are NOT opened.....
ewwwwwwwwwwwwww
I really don't like the pictures that is bringing up do you?
oh and their pool is a lovely glow in the dark shade of GREEN.


The Chicken Project: Progress is being made, as I found a Buff Orpington breeder right over by CAROLE's house!!!
All I need to do is make a chicken tracker, get some metal feed bins, some chicken feeders/waterers and we are in business.........so to speak. These will be pets that will help cultivate the garden and fertilize the soil, and give us eggs all year round.
I think three is the right number, don't you?

Our furry family: Amber isn't as senile as I thought, she is just doing her bit to piss me off. She tried to pee in the living room, I caught her and asked her

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'what the hell are you doing?'

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SHE RAN to the litter box, jumped in and peed in there....
Senile my patoot.........
she is trying to kill me.
it is as simple as that.
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Calpurrnia told the mouse exterminator that he was her daddy.......... good thing her REAL daddy didn't see that......or Calpurrnia would be back sleeping in the living room without her own comfy mommy pillow.
Mommy would not like it either.
Fawn could not be reached for comment as she was too busy telling off Thaddeaus' knocked up squirrel girlfriend off.
Thaddeaus is watching Wilbur the ground hog out back.
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My monthly: Full blood has arrived along with the assorted aches, pains, annoyances and irritations that entails.
I am officially engaged to the porcelain goddess upstairs in the bathroom now.... I mean I am spending so much time there that I may as well be.

WARNING

don't piss me off as there is a broom with your name on it.......who ever you maybe....
But I will be fine in a day or so........
after my entire lower body drops off into the sea.
( one could hope can't one?)
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Anyway, the actually accomplishment of any real work at this 'special' time is a freeken joke as I can't remember shit .......( there is a pun somewheres in that statement) and my legs won't hold me up even if I could remember what the hell I was trying to do........
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THANK goodness for having cooked ahead like I did.........cause we all would have starved if I didn't.
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the dolls: are coming along.......... of course everything comes to a screaching halt when the 'MONTHLY" shows up, but in a day or so I will be back at work........
until then you all should be sending me cheesecake..
sniff

Knitting news: I am half way done with the 'wonderful wallaby' it is going to be for the yarn store as a sample and also as a support for one of the sweater classes there, the one I will be teaching......
I have discovered teaching is a lot of fun......... and I get to be a real smart ass and no one throws tomatoes at me.........ha.........

ok that is all she wrote
til next time
vi

I didn't die** WARNING mature content

so you all get back in your seats....
there is no inheritance YET....
( gimme a few more days of this new med and maybe)
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now onto other news.....
my new reason to LIVE
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The moron neighbor show.

Starring....... Moron neighbor aka, soon to be former penise

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The boyfriend aka current penise.

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and Elle Mae, *** names are all changed to protect the guilty.

It is like a regular soap opera here lately,

I keep hearing 'old mcdonald had a farm' only the new words are

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''and a cheat cheat here and a cheat cheat there'

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well actually I could care less who is boffing whom...... ( is that currect grammer for this situation?)

I mean if it aint me doing the boffing or being the boffee....... I really don't care who is boffing whom.

however

I do care about moron neighbor NOT living next door..........

which is what appears to be going on.........

so that for me is great

no more dog feces over the fence,

no more dog barking ALL DAY

no more worries about bulldozers in my yard,

no more worries about bulldozers running over me.

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and most of all

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NO MORE WORRIES ABOUT my TREES being cut down

I am ready to dance nekid in the moonlight........ (thud, thud........... the sound of owls turning to salt and falling out of the sky)

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Now before they do leave however I do intend to fling their dog feces back over the fence.... preferably flaming. I think a medieval seige engine is just the thing for that no?

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I also intend to get the lawn chairs and the popcorn, for the final showdown.

(REALITY TV? beat this!!!!)

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I am also hoping that the pool they put up without a filter, that is about 4 feet tall by 12 feet across doesn't wash out my fence out back when it falls down or he runs it over with his bulldozer. ( that would be HIS penis extention no? the bulldozer?)

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Ok now enough of my happiness

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FAST studio updates,

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BIG little pumpkin headed guy is done. I need to take final pictures of him and he can go to his new home, his sister is partially done.

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I got some new yarn.........and the 2nd stitch treasurey by Barbara walker...... ( I had the first since 74)

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I got more classes scheduled........

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AND

after moron neighbor LEAVES forever............ I plan on getting some CHICKENS...... yup here not at the farm.

In a little Chicken tractor.

just enough for us and the neighbors to have EGGS.

ha

buff orpington chickens here I come.

shhhhhhhhhhhh

we won't tell the town.......

I mean moron neighbors had over 60 rabbits in one tiny hutch, they were 'pets'

yeah I don't eat my pets, do you?

I can have pet chickens........

RARE BIRDS I say..............

well have YOU seen a buff orpington lately???

til later

vi

ps: due to the overwhelming curiosity ( or nosiness of you all....)

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ella mae has had current penis for about 2 years, the newest spawn is probably his, but she isn't sure.......... (HUH?)

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moron has been caught with a 260.00 an hour hooker, when they can't pay the taxes or mortgage........ HE IS smarter then the average road kill you see.

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and the star crossed lovers have had to find a new sty as moron tried to go with the dump truck and run them over 'in the act' so to speak.

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gee talk about getting in deep.

How hot does it have to get?

to melt this fat offa me?
I had to go to NJ again today for a carotid artery scan.....( they wanted to see if my elevator goes all the way to the top....... be advised it doesn't)
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Now it has been hot, no news there..... the entire North American continent has a heat wave right? ( and if you are IN North America and are NOT having a heat wave......... BITE ME)
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So me driving down to NJ in a OLD truck with leather seats, on a LARGE 4 lane interstate, no Air conditioning, on the HOTTEST day of the year to see if I have blood flow to the BRAIN.........
doesn't exactly make SENSE now does it?
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OBVIOUSLY, the above statement proves that the blood flow is stopped somewheres near the ankles or so...... right? NONE of it is reaching my brain.
Cause if I was in my RIGHT mind, I would NOT have GONE....... duh..........
or at least I would have made someone ELSE who has AIR CONDITIONING DRIVE..........
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so what is this all about???
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My FAT

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I can not understand how it is possible for it to NOT have melted off on the way down....
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I mean, when you fry bacon at even HALF the heat that was out there today, it shrivels up and the fat turns in to a clear liquid that you pour off and dump in the garbage right????
Isn't that the WAY fat is supposed to behave?
what do I have?

super fat?

fat that only melts at the temperature of MARS or Jupiter?
( is Jupiter hot btw?-what do I know..I've never been there)

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Is there some sort of ADDITIVE that is preventing the melting of this fat in this extreme heat?

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Can't I cut a break here ANYWHERE?

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Goodness knows I sweated enough........

I stuck to the seat

I turned magenta with the heat

I had HIGH blood pressure for the first time.

( add all that to my icepick injuries and you have a VERY unhappy camper........... but I did get yarn today so I am a bit better adjusted now)

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so's I am just saying...... ( and so's is a WORD if you come from NEW JERSEY)

what's it take to melt the pounds off?

or do I really have to get that chain saw out of the basement and do some 'rough carving' first???

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inquiring violets want to know

vi

Almost alive again

Ok let me tell you all first off.
I am STILL dented.
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and the other thing I have to tell you is I know what it feels like to be stabbed in the back. LITERALLY ........ that doctor stabbed me with that thar ice pick.
Mengele is going to have her hands full when I get back to her
cause I can't get my shoulders out of my EARS right now
I won't tell you about the back..... believe me
better you don't know
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ok
now onto other items on the list.

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IPA *** ( *** imminent period arrival)
so again it is almost that special time of the month set aside for one of violet's rants against the joys of being a girl.

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(WHAT and disappoint you all?)
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When I was a little girl, and doubled over with cramps that now I know would lay out a defensive lineman.........
I asked my mother
'oh mother
look at all I have to suffer
the bloated pubescent breasts
the rubber legs....... ( not to be confused with the rubber chickens they resemble)
the MOOD swings..........
nose bleeds
general achyness and malaise
not to mention these cramps that make walking impossible.
and the food cravings...... '

( I was a precocious kid what can I say)

'Oh mother......... with all this I have to suffer .........
what do BOYS get'
Yes I really was that naive at that point....... shit I was young.......
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and my MOTHER ( lieing through her false TEETH....... the bitch)
said to me
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'never mind dear, they too suffer'
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now I am an old old lady........ with visible panty lines....... when I am NOT wearing panties.
and the lines on my face match the graining of the leather seats in my van.......
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and I have discovered that MEN......... don't get ANYTHING
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have you recovered????
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ok so at about 65 or so they can't get it up and have a problem peeing........
( damn by that time we aren't interested in what they got anyway..... are we?)
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*** as an ASIDE I did not say we weren't interested at all, just that we were not interested in what a 65 year old had........ now if someone say...... oh.......... 30 or so was available.......... now that could be another story......****
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have you gotten your righteous indignation on yet??
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yes my darlink chicklets......
they get off basically scott free
so they lose their hair....... ( ok so everyone but BERNIE........who still has enough hair for 3 people, yeah right....... you all still doubt that 3 Stooges thing huh?- ONE more piece of evidence)

WE get the labor, morning sickness, stretch marks.
WE get the saddlebags, drooping boobs........ varicous veins
WE get mamography, speculums, internals and dowagers humps
and with all this crap.......
WE get to LIVE longer.....
gee thanks
isn't that special

so if they don't drop dead at 49 of heart attacks........ WE get to take care of them in their old age.......
then the little bastards drop dead on us...........
who takes care of US in our old age???

gees all this from a bad case of PMS?
AND I finally have totally realized.....

MY

MOTHER

LIED

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ME

and if you can't trust your mother........who can you trust???

til next time
vi is getting a shovel to dig that broad up and scatter her old bones to the crows

I was impaled with an icepick and then stun gunned

(Mengele click HERE AND HERE)

this is MODERN medicine?
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what there wasn't a stray voodoo witch doctor around?????????
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I am sure I would have been MUCH more comfortable with someone shaking bones over my head, even if they had to sacrifice some chicken feathers or something.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I get some ICEPICK
test
followed by the STUN GUN test.
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Invented no doubt by a MAN,........ the same one that invented MAMOGRAPHY...
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and no one warned me.......sniff
and you all call yourselves my FRIENDS?
sniff
so
here I am, impaled, both arms, one leg and part of my neck and back......
THEN I went to see Mengele.....( that actually was the highlight of my day HIHI June and HIHI Kathy)
ok I have imminent period arrival..... IPA, so I had a san napkin and old clean but ok to be stained undies...... so what does the doc make me do?
lay on my stomach and he sticks pins in my BACK.............
oh
and the best part
every single time he zapped me
and I SCREAMED......
he said he was sorry..........
if he really was FREEKEN sorry he would stop FREEKEN zapping me........
my little body is now all dented where he zapped and stabbed me.....
my arms and legs kicked and contorted all by themselves.....
I am STILL in agony.........
sniff
now Bernie has yet to hear this whole ordeal
( and the first one that feels sorry for Bernie that he didn't get a chance to WATCH......and LAUGH....... may you pee yourself........... )

I can't even give anyone the finger as that finger was impaled and is protesting mightily......
sniff
so is my back, neck......legs.....
actually NOT one FREEKEN spot on my body feels normal

sniff
vi
send cheesecake, icecream, and amazon gift certificates.........

OH OH OH AND one more thing....( OK two)
I am DENTED
yes that's right
all that impalement and stunning dented me!
plus I really think I should have turned them stun gun thingies on his testicles .........no?
ZAP This big boy
damn
vi
who is going to go back to nursing her boo boos with some milk and a peanut butter sandwitch

Lil pumpkin headed guy.....new larger size!

here's him with a body....... no clothes yet however
he is getting ledderhosen.....
hahaha


there is his head again
he is going to be a LE of 3
then comes his sister, baby brother..... and momma, poppa, and aunt matilida........
hahahaha
oh man I am having too much fun here
vi

talk to you all after the neurologist

Been busy with THIS!!!

lil pumpkin head.........


oh and here is a blurry picture of a doe and fawn taken last night
they are out back under the apples

Due to public outcry

Ok so it was one outcry........someone who shall remain ( Minnie) nameless
that I have yet to post after my rant about getting old.....
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meanwhile I was busy doing that very thing.....

Snap
Crackle
Pop

Sad really when you wake up sounding like a breakfast cereal........ maybe that is why my husband channels bacon? He hears my Snap, Crackle, Pop and thinks of food???

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I sit on the side of the bed in the morning and replace bones back to where they belong before I can even attempt to stand vertically. They make noise........... LOTS of noise.

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ok on to my half ass post for MINNIE..........

(you all can blame HER when it isn't all that funny cause I been busy working--- Everyone turn and look at MINNIE and wave now)

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I am in the studio, I am working on some pumpkin headed guys...... only bigger ones this time.

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I have run into a few snags.

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you would think.........( you really would have, iffen you would have been here)

after 40 years of doll making.......

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I would remember that really really LARGE things such as LEGS

would not fit through neck openings which are way smaller then they are....

if you don't believe me go look in the mirror.........

hurry now.. we'll wait.

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are you back yet? did you see what I mean???

ain't gonna happen without either major surgery or something.....

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ok so what does vi do????( dumb ass broad that apparently she is lately?)

sews the legs INSIDE the body..leaving an opening at the neck........

ok so today we have engineering 101.........where in vi re-visits anatomy and construction..
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( Another Larry, Moe & Curly moment brought to you by ................... whoever is running this end of the universe........ WHY can't I have the publishers clearing house guys running this end......and my CHECK arriving???)

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ok so that is on the list today, as well as direction getting for the neurologist tomorrow.....

( where in violet discovers squirrels in her brain pan which would explain a lot)

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I tell you all............I really could use a secretary....... cause I also need to explain to the insurance company that they yet again screwed up the medical payments they are to have been making to the doctor and to PT.

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I suspect that I need a stun gun to explain to them.................

although they may want to see THAT in triplicate then tell me that it is a duplicate.

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So postwise today is light.......

I imagine that after the doctor on wednesday..... that things will pick up a bit?

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meanwhile I got three laperms running around here like all the hounds of hell are chasing them......

damned if I know why..

oye

til next time

vi

PS: and for the record.......I woke up with a ZIT on my NOSE.......

they are migrateing and it isn't pretty

what's a nice old lady like me

doing with acne?
for the first time in my life?
on the BACK of my NECK?????????

HUH?

( over the top of my HUMP no less)

ok so I accepted the decending boobs into footstool thing.

I didn't complain much about when my waist slid down to my ankles...... leaving lumps and bumps all over my thighs on the way down....

and who actually notices GRAY hair when you are loosing ALL your hair.....

the mustache and beard thing...... goes with the menopause that won't FREEKEN PAUSE already.........

And I don't argue I just twist and creak my bones back into place several times aday now..

I avoid raw vegtables if I have to appear in public within a day of eating them. ( ditto on the chinese food)

I wear my orthopedic shoes, and wonder how the hell I ever wore them 'candi' shoes when I was cute.

I actually do USE my reading glasses

I am looking forward to collecting social security and again being adorable and cute in grown peoples eyes.......

but I draw the line at acne.............. on the BACK of my neck over my HUMP......( wouldn't you??)

oh and the off handed comment from bernie doesn't help much.....

'it isn't nothing but a ZIT'

yet I am still married to him and he is still walking around BREATHING!

so I didn't break his legs or strangle him

( gee bernie I didn't mean to put this here broom in the way of you going off in the dark to the bathroom in the middle of the night....... how many stairs DID you fall down???......... BOTH legs you say??? ........... can I pick the color of the casts?......I'm here for you dear.)

now I want to see the owners manual, I am NOT kidding around.

I want to talk to customer service and I want to know WHERE in the owners manual it says.........

MAY develope acne prior to DEATH??????????????

hello??

excuse me

who wrote this stupid ass book???

Lemme talk to someone in charge I don't want any smart ass gum chewing clerk with perky boobs either.....

I want to talk to someone OLDER then me who understands......

someone who knows the thud you hear every morning about 5 minutes after you get out of bed is your ass hitting the floor and following you.........

someone who looks in the mirror and has SEEN their dead mother.......... and not realized they are looking at themself.

someone who has to get up at night 75 TIMES an hour cause their bladder is the size of a pea, and apparently they drank Lake Ontario before they went to bed.........

someone who knows the JOYS of night sweats.................

Someone who almost considered a duct tape bra to slow the decend into hell..

Someone that knows that the senior citizen specials really are a very good deal.......

AND

I want that person to show me the twit that designed old age...........

because I want to beat the living crap out of them and leave them for dead on the side of the road with my acne and hump strewn over thier limp body, with a broomstick enima to remind them I am serious..........

if I actually remember

next time

vi

just a glorified cat pillow

as I sit here and attempt to type this entry, I have amber sitting on my chest.
( she is so old she weighs a feather so it isn't the lung crushing experience that Thaddeaus is)
I realized that mostly, for all the things I do
all the accomplishments in my life....
I am really just a glorified cat pillow.
complete with internal heater.

This comes as a new idea to me......
imagine that......
however the cats have apparently known this forever.....and taken me for granted.

they are cold.....they lay on mommy......
tired,.... mommy
feeling under the weather...forget the chicken soup....... we got mom!

I began to get an inkling of this today while trying to knit a smoke ring in iris...... ( a neck thingy in a purplish color for the knitting impared) I kept having to gently remove (by twisting sideways and jumping up......) one of the four felines that decided that I needed 'company'

FINALLY they settled for hanging out on the back or arms of the sofa and giving me vile looks....

wonderful I get contempt from the cats.......

( hey you feline fur faces......... let me remind you WHO opens the cat food cans????????? and it ain't DADDY)

I also realized that I spend almost 24/7 with four cats............ I spend about 3 hours quality time per day with Bernie...... the rest is with the cats.....
It's a wonder I am not hocking up hairballs myself.......

well as long as I am not attempting to use the litter pan and covering it up I imagine I am still safe

til next time

For our Beloved La Bella Mengele

Ok June I Fixed your link it works now and brings you HERE

Dear June, here is a bunch of funny links for you......
and when I finish this post I will put a clickable link down on the bottom of the blog just for you...... ( above Ashley and Kathy's............ ok but we don't need to tell them that huh?)
that way I can also add to it for when you need a laugh
so anyway I did go through and pick a bunch of really funny ( to me anyway ) posts for you......
I have to find the bat one as well. that was pretty funny if I can remember where the hell it is
til next time
vi

http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/are-you-sure-you-are-cat.html

http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/insert-clever-title-here.html




http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/not-playing-favorites.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/08/whats-nice-old-lady-like-me.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/as-i-will-be-unable-to-post-for-few.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/thaddeaus-ate-it.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/as-menopausal-turns-caution-female.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/my-ta-tas-are-now-ha-has.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/06/there-should-be-constitutional.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/we-interrupt-this-blog.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/shower-day.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/my-husband-channels-bacon.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/woo-hoo-vis-getting-squished.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/06/make-notethings-to-not-do-again.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/coffee-and-daylight-and-laperms-oh-my.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/whole-lot-of-nothing.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/what-exactly-is-normal.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/talk-goatie-to-me.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/01/4000-year-old-cat-and-cookie-dough.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/as-cat-turns.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2004/12/caroles-back-from-indie.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/01/januarys-slump-cats-life.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/woodpecker.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/how-did-shrew-get-in-attic.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/wisdom-of-posting-prior-to-coffee.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/larry-moe-curly-really-are-running.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/thank-heavens-for-boring-days.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/dust-bunnies-are-not-to-be-confused.html

http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/larry-moe-curly-part-2.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/update-or-you-say-what.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/i-have-survived.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/on-road-again.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/new-tranny-is-thing-of-beauty.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/of-course-my-van-is-broken.html

http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/04/one-of-those-days.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/06/poked-and-prodded.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/06/can-you-spell-insanity.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/06/dont-hate-me.html

http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/85-strawberries-finished.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/bathing-mrs-bigglewood.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/i-fear-plague-may-have-arrived.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/and-word-for-today-is.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/02/is-it-me-or-is-world-spinning-faster.html

http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/03/jolly-for-day.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/06/someone-freeken-shoot-me-now.html

http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/shhhhhhh-we-dont-see-any-violet-do-we.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/doctor-mengele-is-got-to-be-my-pt.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/ah-tape-is-marvelous-thing.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/i-misplaced-what.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/you-know-its-bad-when.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/dr-frankenstein-lives.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/05/today-i-again-have-physical-therapy.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/la-bella-mengele-strikes-again.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/06/mengele-is-winning.html
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/2005/07/thaddeaus-ate-it.html

I am STILL alive

like a timex.......... I am still ticking!
I drove to NJ in the heat without air conditioning in Bernie's truck.
right there you have to wonder if I am all there in my mind........

on the HOTTEST day of the year so far......I am driving at 1:30 in the AFTERNOON, so in the hottest time of the day as well....... down to an even HOTTER state.......

however it was all worth it...
I have good news.
because I have fought this disease so hard, watching to stay on a high protein low carb diet....
excersizing, and not eating processed foods I only need metformin & the other one....spirlactin?
NOT the chemical cocktail that normally PCOS patients get.
and NO hormones.......!!!
yeah!
I do have to take extra fiber daily before dinner and then take my meds AFTER.

We are hoping to see a decrease in the visible symptoms.
meanwhile I am continuing on my pt excersizes........ ( Can't let our beloved la bella mengele down now can we???)

So todays little preview of hell actually was a very good thing.

ok Cat news......
there isn't any! the bad boy of our little laperm universe decided that it was too hot to get into trouble!
my ladies are respectable today as well. Although great granny Fawn continues to be her active little self.. She is so cute when she hangs from the cat tree by one paw.......... our little monkey...hahahahaha

ah..................
peace reigns in our tiny abode.

knitting news,
I cast on for the 'smoke ring' from heartstrings in Alpaca cloud from Knit picks in the Iris color way.
I am using size 9 needles as it didn't look like it would be big enough on size 6......
gee I hope I am right about that. I seem to remember that someone said theirs was too small in lace weight.
however I am thinking of doing a second one in either dk or fingering.

In neighbor news.....
it looks like the neighbor that has been causing all the trouble and we are sueing is indeed going to be moving on if his wife has any say............... YEAH cause since he has been here he has caused us over 10,000. in damages to our property alone......

life is indeed looking up from my current vantage point.

and I go BACK to the doctor at halloween!

meanwhile I am free to work and start my medicine..
next week is the neurologist........and then we get me a new warrenty!
til next time
vi

where in violet pulls her arm off......

ok first off MENGELE was here!!! ( June, you can also drop an email... click over on the email thingy and take out the inappropriate things and replace with normal email thingies.. @ and a .************* oh and I left a voice mail for you)
damn and I missed her.....
she was here at the blog......
( yes mengele dear, I can see that if I remember to look.......)
you know I do miss you so you can call.......
and tell them Fairlawn girls to call also.... (KATHY has the phone number you know.....oh and Kathy you better miss me too big time.......hahahahahaha)
I may try and stop in when I go to the neurologist......

Ok I have been again having a bit to shoulder trouble but I discovered if I hold onto the door way and stretch and lean................ it loosens up a bit and I can do my excersizes.........
( that earthquake you all just heard was our beloved la bella mengele dropping in a faint)

ok
now my next project is a OLD OLD woman doll........ she will be all in light colors......( what's up with that whole light colored thing lately????)
I am trying to figure out how I am going to do her now....... needlesculpt or maybe with either a clay or what?
I don't have time to do it in porcelain as this will be also entering the fair august 20.

I don't know if I mentioned it but I got juried into Art of the Doll.... that made me very happy as it is all original artists.
ok now it is time for dinner.... Bernie is making sandwhiches so I am setting on my fat ass typing this
but HEY I did clean half the living room today.......so that has to count for something no?

hahaha
vi
who tomorrow will be off to meet the vampire doctor and be drained of all her pints.......

Where in violet takes a picture

Here is the finished Halloween doll..... She looks totally different from what I had first envisioned however I went with what she wanted to be......***



the furry flank you may see in the left side of the picture......is Thaddeaus'
he decided that he needed to help me as obviously I did NOT know what I was doing.
one second after the picture was taken he tried to eat the little cat...
I took it away from him and informed he that cannibalism would not be tolerated here.


*** violet has finally lost it and the nuts and squirrels in her head have taken over.... send cheesecake


Ok on the furry side of the family, Fawn has decided that necterines are a cats best friend..... better then catnip even....
Calpurrnia is getting a thing for bleach... ( you really don't want to know......but no one was hurt)

And Thaddeaus scared the crap out of a client when he WALKED down the stairs..........

Her comment?

"CRAP he is HUGE"

yes he really is as big as I say he is......all 20 pounds of romping stomping solid feline muscle.......
he can reach up about 42 inches as well........
and he reaches up when I am at the computer and taps me on the top of the head.....
so he is Big AND a smart ass...........

but you all knew that about our favorite bad boy cat........( visions of little motorcycle jackets and tattoos of catnip plants MUST dance in his head)

ok now
tomorrow is the endo.......
they will drain my blood and replace with sawdust.........
you all feel sorry for me ok???
send gift certificates to knitpicks and amazon............****



**** and this is funny cause WHERE to send them is unknown........
hahahahaha
ok til next time for real
vi

NOT playing favorites

Dear Calpurrnia,
your father expressed an observation that I am always addressing things to your brother,
thereby leaving you in the corner playing with a leaf.

My darlink blue eyed innocent baby.......MOMMA loves you dearly.
(not at 3am mind you.. when you jump with all your 4000 pounds squarely on my stomach, but that is another post)

After all my precious little blue eyed one, who ELSE would think to tear ALL of the garland off of every surface it was attached to and then sit in the center of the crime scene blinking up at me in all innocence.........
( the phrase..***good thing she is really pretty*** comes to mind here dear)

And my tiny baby girl........... I am so happy that you have so little on your fluffy little mind that you are happy in the corner playing with a leaf that you stole off of momma's patchouli plant.....which by the way...... please tell me it was your BROTHER and not you that put all those tooth marks in that poor poor plant???

I am happy when you are happy.........

But since your father wants me to talk to you as well as your brother, I feel perhaps I should mention that purring in momma's ear at midnight will not get you another helping of canned cat food. Churkeling in that same ear won't work either.......... try your father dear, he can't resist you......

And this whole thing that we turn into blue eyed kitten eating monsters as soon as we come downstairs to the main house........ well darlink.........that has to stop..... you don't realize that your meow is now drowning out police and fire sirens......
however WE do realize that and are looking for hearing aides as I type.

As to the little presents you left momma by the front door.. I don't find them quite as endearing as you probably do........
and even your great great gramma is ashamed of you.......
however I did NOT tell your father....... let him be happy in his ignorance.

I also do know it was Thaddeaus that disemboweled that doll in your crate.........
however I also know it was YOU that took off with wigging fiber........after all I saw it all over your mouth and back........

And my little lovely, I also know it is YOU that keeps stealing the Q-tips off the workbenches and out of the medicine cabinet in the bathroom....... you have a stash of Q-tips all over the house........ people already think we are slobs..........could you PLEASE put them somewhere else...... try the black hole that Thaddeaus has deposited all the cat toys into.

And darlink, stop sneaking up on poor ancient Amber and bopping her on the head while she sleeps, you know it takes her a while to wake up and then I HAVE TO EXPLAIN to her what happened........ she doesn't always believe me.

and my darlink........... one more thing......... those little pumpkin headed dolls are NOT cat toys...... no matter what you think......... they are not.
so stop taking off with them......... and don't tell me your BROTHER made you do it dear, Daddy may buy that one but momma knows better............

so my little darlink blue eyed one who can do no wrong................
momma loves you very much
it is just that your brother needs more 'reminders' then you do dear.........

with love
mom

Are you SURE you are a cat?

Dear Thaddeaus,

I love you dearly, however something has come to my attention.......

namely your ah........ Un-cat like behavior.

I can deal with retrieving you from the top of the book cases.....
and also from the top of the pot cabinet......
( I don't care what anyone says about that one.........YOU WERE ON THE DAMN CEILING......If 80% of the cat is touching the ceiling....... the CAT is considered to be ON the ceiling)

I have been able to ignore your chewing every FREEKING thing in sight....
( please stop chewing daddies purple insulated lunch thingy... he gets upset when his ICED TEA gets HOT at work )

I am resigned to the fact that every thing in this house has tooth marks in it.......Including me.....
and some thing look like an advanced case of termites have feasted.

I have even decided that there is an odd logic to liking your bath but HATING the evil and obviously torturious WARM TOWEL....... ( after all it has EATEN bigger cats then you......LIONS even)

But son, I have to draw the line somewheres.........

and that somewheres is the ceiling fan.........

I don't think you really would like going for a ride on the ceiling fan any more then I would like cleaning up what was left of you and the ceiling and the floor......
cause at 20 pounds ( give or take a whisker) I am reasonably sure that the ceiling fan would come crashing down on the floor......
taking part of the ceiling with it.
Now I do realize that the ceiling is Irresistible....... I mean it was just hanging there waiting for your little paws to come along.....
taunting you no doubt......
and I do respect that fact that you love a challenge.....
that is part of your charm.........

however son, believe me when I tell you.....
the ceiling fan will not do you any good....
so how about this one we decide to pass on???
or at least give it the old college try eh?

go back to piling up and dive bombing boxes in the living room......
or taking off with mommy's newly made dolls.......... and disembowling them in Calpurrnia's crate.....
or EVEN stealing daddy's MODEL cars and again hiding them in Calpurrnia's crate
( what does Calpurrnia know.....she is happy singing in the corner with her patchouli leaf)

but my darling curly headed son......
please for heavens sake.......
don't mess with the ceiling fan....
it really isn't a cat sized amusement park ride...........

love mom

vi is expanding........****

*** get your mind out of the gutter......

I have put up a beginning miniature blog.......sort of like my doll gallery.....
I am going to start to post the miniatures that I make there......
The live link is over there down in the link section.....
I am going to have it also live in the doll gallery as well
oh and in case you notice... my retail soap page is up there too.......
I needed a place to put the stuff I was getting asked to see on a regular basis.....so there you all have it.
Now as to the miniatures, yes actually I do sell them.
I used to do shows and now occationally they are on ebay.
drop me an email if you would like to know more.
The soap I have been selling wholesale only for the past 6 years.......I am starting to sell retail now.

WARNING

many of my miniatures are halloween miniatures, cause I love halloween

but the rest of my miniatures will be going there as well.

I just set up so you can don't expect much ok???

I will be posting a lot of past work as well as miniatures for sale there.

til later when I actually have a funny post

vi

YOOOO HOOOOOO

it's me....... vi.. didja miss me???

ok here is the pretty much finished halloween doll .......shhhhhhh

cause I am also going to post her on doll gallery link later

I am trying to get that doll gallery whipped into shape and it is giving me a hard time

but here are the pictures

a shower a day

certainly prevents air polution...........


pumpkin headed girl

I JUST out of the shower this morning.... ( having fought three little laperms to get INTO the shower.... they like water, unless we are actually BATHING them)

fawn helping me take pictures

drying off, when the phone rang.....

a friend of mine.......

she informed me I sounded a bit 'odd'

I said I was in the bathroom and toweling off.... having just gotten out of the shower.....

( actually if she had called about 2 minutes sooner....I would have sounded WATERY as I was IN the shower and yes I would have answered the phone...... I am pathetic huh???)

She expressed surprise I was just out of the shower and asked if I was going out.....

hmmmmm...........
I do shower regularly you know.............


another side of her


I make soap after all and need someone to test the batches........ not always will I want bernie to come out smelling like violets and roses.......

( although I don't actually want to smell like roses either........ but you know someone has to do it)

Anyway, I was then attempting to towel off, hold the phone

( and hold the phone NOT with my shoulder...... so as to prevent our beloved la bella mengele from crying when I would have to come back with my shoulders again in my ears)

getting dressed and fighting thaddeaus for a spot on the bed

This is a picture believe me..........that would cause blindness in about anyone.........

( oh and for the record........thaddeaus won........ and he is currently in the CENTER of the bed.. )

I just want to state here in black and white...........
yes I do shower regularly.....
the stench you may smell is actually the litter box........
THAT we don't exactly clean DAILY..........

just so that is clear now....

good back to doll making for me..
little pumpkin headed GIRLS

til next time
vi

What exactly IS normal?

first off here is the little pumpkin headed guy....... I like him but there is something not quite right about him....
any comments?

today is hopefully going to be a more normal day then we've had around here lately.
(last week and this past weekend seem so surreal)

I slept in!
THADDEAUS let me! Either he wasn't crying at 5am or I just simply did not hear him.
my toe...... yup still red/black/blue.........still curiously flattened...... hurts but I can deal with it
(hey after dealing with the pain from pt and my beloved la bella mengele........ a toe is NOTHING)

now it has come to my attention.......... that some folks are taking dibs on my bernie......
not to mention any names ( SHAGGY) however as I am not quite DEAD yet.....

I was wondering what brought that on?????
or am I actually DYINK
and no one AGAIN thought to inform me........

now given that in my family ........

the only difference between the dead and the living is the dead EAT LESS....

and that they

ALL STILL HAVE A FREEKIN OPINION

I would imagine even if I WAS dyink.......or even DEAD....

it wouldn't make all that much difference around here..... ( I would just eat alot less)

SOME folks would still hear my big mouth.................

( and just for that shaggy, If I die, I am going to CALL your sorry ass on the phone daily......... be fore warned and be very afraid)

now back to everyone's regularly scheduled day

til next time

vi

Insert clever title here

lets see............. since the stooges are in full force in my neck of the woods....
I figured I would update you all on some of that stuff...

first off......how stupid do you have to be to remove a boundary marker that you are ALREADY ( and currently) getting sued for removing once?????????????
hello???
is there a brain cell in there?
( he reproduced or I would say.....he really needs a darwin award)

now I had a lot to do today, going for mail, getting the pick-up inspected.... trying to finish up the CUTEST little pumpkin headed people.... cleaning the living room,
calling to see if medical records were transferred..... listing stuff on ebay......
you know.... LIFE.

what am I doing?
calling the police,
calling the insurance company
calling the surveyor.......
dealing with a thousand little details......oh and btw, the insurance company is referring this to their THEFT unit........

maybe that will help us
everyone that I spoke to that has had boundary issues with neighbors have told me......they moved..
that pretty much sucks but we are planning on moving.........

meanwhile I am dressed in 'town' clothes
which is not conducive to cleaning or even drinking Iced tea in.....

while I am beginning to LIKE primitive......... I don't want a primitive stain of tea across my somewhat ample bosom.......

( I don't see that on the covers of them supermarket romance novels...... tea stained ample bosoms.... actually mostly them bosoms are heaving.... well mine are in shock I think.......)

so I am waiting to find out if the cops are coming out and when the theft unit is coming out

and when the HELL can I get into studio clothes and get to real work here. I also need to excavate to find where the hell the living room has gotten to.

I know I left it somewheres in the house but I am not entirely sure where it is...... where ever it is......it has a fireplace in it....but so far I haven't found it yet.....

( I am not admitting to being a bit of a mess right now however, any semblance of that is surely in your own mind and has nothing to do with the two tables heaped with boxes and paper work that is right outside the kitchen)

now I mentioned the little pumpkin headed guys....... they are the CUTEST thing.......now I am not sure what to do about them...... you know..to finish them off.

I need something around their little necks.....maybe pumpkin leaves.....and a vest?

or bow?

they really are cute but I need them to be even cuter............... and finished looking........I am waiting for the pumpkin which I glued on to dry now.....

I think I am also delirious with the red and curiously flattened toe I am walking around on.

ok til next time

I am going to now go and pull out what is left of my hair.......

vi

Dear Lori,

the little pumpkin guy is a tiny cloth doll sewn up and painted with a little fimo pumpkin head.

I will try and take his picture for you tomorrow

vi

oh man...... the stooges are in full force

we just found out that moron neighbor AGAIN removed a survey pin from our property.....
and also ripped a sign down... off one of our trees
and then

to make sure today wasn't a total loss........

I dropped a corning ware 3 quart casserole on my toe....
which is now black and blue..... hurts like a SOB.......
and is a bit flattened......

I know ( from experience) that I have a fracture....... not compound obviously.....but a fracture non the less.......
bernie of course thinks I am crazy.....
( well it isn't his toe)

add that to the mess that is my neck/back and shoulders......
and well.......
lets put it this way
it is probably a good thing mengele can't see me now......

she would be in tears..........
all her hard work down the drain.........

there is also no icecream in the house
and let me tell you........

If I could hobble to the gun store...... I think I would shoot the moron neighbor and put myself out of my misery
thank GOODNESS tomorrow is another day

til tomorrow
vi
who did NOT have the best of weeks

ARE you sure it is Sunday?

Bernie didn't wake up channeling bacon this morning!

I am assuming his internal clock is off huh?
I mean most Sundays I have to hear him tell me over and over.......' I smell bacon'

( I guess it is better then him telling me he smells dead people or something like that huh?)

Maybe it was because we had talked about maybe getting bagels for today's main event.....

Sunday breakfast for us, as for most folks it s big deal........ HE ALWAYS cooks Sunday breakfast.......even when his sisters were here visiting he cooked Sunday breakfast.

So right now as I sip my coffee (which is not very good today for some odd reason) he is cooking his bacon.


finished lace scarf for my lace class in Siskin red.

The laperms meanwhile have taken this special time to of course get into trouble.....
I just shooed calpurrnia out of a doll house.
the little blue eyed one who can do no wrong was stuffing her fluffy little body into a story and a half doll house after the accessories.......
remind me again how much I LOVE THESE GUYS??
quick before I have to crate them.............

Thaddeaus is to get a bath today.................
calpurrnia is not due one but if she pisses me off enough........ BOOM she is going to be in the tub.


closeup of that scarf pattern


long shot

***STATS, this is based on a pattern from The Knitting Fairy, however I modified it a wee bit....



Ok I am going to start a tiny personal journal............... not this blog it is a public journal
I am going to start a personal one........( for my eyes only........hahahahaha)

the reason???
I am thinking I am at another transition point in my life.......... ( they happen to everyone periodically) and I would like to work out the next segment for myself.

I have done this at other transitions in life, I kept a journal while dad was ill for a while, until I got too busy to do it...... ( and too exhausted.......Alzheimer's is no joke)

So I picked up a tiny little note pad, just until I get the signatures that are lying around the studio sewn into a book .......... I have been wanting to do a bit of bookbinding anyway.....

(what you don't have signatures laying around in YOUR studio???????????????
and you call yourself an ARTIST????.......... oh.............wait you don't call yourself an artist?....... ok sorry.....never mind)

I really could get into bookbinding on a larger scale if I had a bit more space in the studio and bookbinders press....... Or even a hot type letter press......

like I NEED another thing to do around here...

but anyway back to the transitions..........

I have to decide what to do with my business, close it, ? grow it? change it? sell it?
then what to do with my professional life........
after all........now that I am down to one chin, a loose hump and lost part of my stomach rolls.........
I need to do SOMETHING no???
til next time
as my breakfast is ready
vi

ohoh....... I think I did me in

as I was released from pt, I figured that I was ok to start doing heavy work again....
well wouldn't YOU think that???
I started by cleaning the living room and throwing myself into workbench work

BIG freeken mistake

can you say........ vi is a moron.......
yes I know you can cause I am

my shoulders are killing me and I am having a bit of trouble keeping them down again......

can you say STRESS?????

I am doing my pt faithfully.. ( I don't want to have to have mengele rip my head off and shove it up my ass........this time she may NOT retrieve it.......cause I was a moron)

ok so what do I do???
more stretches.........and ICE

ice is my friend.....
I am going to encase my sorry ass and painful shoulders in a glacier I loves me so much ice
I am going to bath in aspirin and ice.......
see that blue woman over there.............. shivering......
that would be me

ok in other news
bernie is picking up 20 pounds of on sale boneless skinless chicken breast so I will be cooking all weekend....
no I never do learn do I

someone come over here and hit me over the head with the frying pan I so richly deserve??????????
hurry before mengele gets to me

I may not survive her wrath...........


NOW the big announcement

THE VAN IS ACTUALLY IN THE SHOP AS I TYPE

and on the lift!

ok that is the good news........I am waiting to hear the bad.....

which I hope isn't too bad.

lets see......

I finished that lace scarf........did I tell you all already? it is washed, slightly blocked and ready to go to the yarn store.

that was my pt scarf...........knit throughout most of pt.

so that is also over.

am I the only one that gets a bit lost at endings???

the end of a project?

visit?

season?

LOVE beginnings so I need to have a new project FAST...

something all consuming and endlessly fascinating.......

til next time

vi

Rosemary

Rosemary Jayne Zook

Rosemary J. Zook passed away peacefully on Tuesday, July 19, at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, N.J.
Born on Jan. 1, 1936, in Villisca, Iowa, she was the daughter of David and Wilma Zook.
A member of Morristown High School class of 1953, she held a B.A from East Stroudsburg University, 1971, an M.S from the University of Scranton, 1979, and a Ph.D. candidate from Bryn Mawr College.
A licensed psychologist who practiced in East Stroudsburg for over 25 years, she was founder and director of The Center for Human Growth Inc., East Stroudsburg.
An accomplished musician and songwriter, who had several compositions featured at a variety of venues, including the Delaware Water Gap Jazz Festival, Ms. Zook was also a published author, recently featured in The Seattle Times and The Baltimore Sun. Her commentaries The Monster Under The Bed' and Color Me Scared' eloquently spoke to how best to confront our fears in this ever-changing post-9/11 world.
Ms. Zook was actively involved in numerous community organizations and philanthropic causes. A trusted friend, loving mother and grandmother, and mentor to many, Rosemary had an irreverent sense of humor, a sharp wit, and possessed a unique generosity of spirit that was unparalleled. She will be sorely missed.
She is survived by two sons, David Robert Anderson, wife Chilon, of Cary, N.C., and John Stephen Anderson, wife April, of Cresco. She was also the proud grandmother of Crystal Cervino Dawson, and husband, Corey, of East Stroudsburg, David and Jessica Anderson, of Cary, N.C., and great-granddaughter, Stephanie Gross Cervino.
In addition, she is survived by her assistant, office manager and devoted friend, Janice Rushen, of East Stroudsburg; one sister, Muriel Fancher in Easton, Md.; and three nieces: Elizabeth Fancher, Ellen Fancher-Ruiz, and Susan Fancher-Ruzicka.
There will be no public viewing. A cremation will take place on Tuesday, July 26.
The family will receive friends and visitors from 2 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 27, at the home on 3871 Cranberry Road, Stroudsburg.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to AMDA, The Acid Maltase Deficiency Association, P.O. Box 700248, San Antonio, Texas 78270, or www.amda-pompe.org.

Personal points of view

My friend Marilyn and I were talking today, about view points.
She said that my view point is a bit unique from the average person.

Now I have always thought I was a forgettable type person, someone who blended into the woodwork.
Marilyn it would seem, differs with my opinion of myself.

I do however realize that I have a slightly left of center sense of humor.
As well as a rather distinctive voice......( stop me if you think I am wrong here)
beings as I am from jersey and all originally.

I was informed that it is highly unlikely that folks that have been exposed to me for any reasonable length of time would forget me........

I am not all that sure about that....... but Marilyn did say that so I imagine it may have some truth. As Marilyn would not lie to me

I am however not exactly shy when I do have something to say.

what brought this all up?

well as I am in the middle of endings and new beginnings....... I got to thinking if folks ever remember me after I am gone.

And In light of Rosemary's crossing, I wonder how my stint on this earth affects folks......

Also I don't know when or if I am going to be able to go back to pt, which in a way terrifies me as I am so afraid I will do my shoulders and neck in again. ( Will they remember me when if I have to go for my hands and knees???? )

NOW I realize how limited my world had become before, when my arms and shoulders did not work. ( MENGELE IS A SAINT I TELL YOU)

I did make the appointment with the neurologist so that they can start doing whatever to my hands...... which go numb FAST when I am actually working at my normal pace. Then the numb leg..........then the last thing is the knee that is numb and yet hurts all the time.

I also guess that with Rosemary having crossed over.. (the last day of PT) I wonder if she will remember me when I get to heaven???

( hush now I am going to go to heaven..........if for nothing more then the comic amusement-you all know how much Larry, Moe and Curly love me, and also in SPITE of all them folks that always seem to 'damn you to hell' hahahahah stubborn cuss I am)

I also just realized that I have to do some deciding on my business.
I have to change it to meet this new market climate, as well as my bodily limits....... no longer can I do 15 hours of production a day. So I have to grow it in a new direction.

The soap part will pretty much stay the same basically.. the marketing for it will change however.

The doll part is going to have to change the most. I am thinking of patterns and how to books now. With me only doing prototypes.

oh and I finished that lace scarf for the class I am teaching, I knit the entire scarf while doing pt.
it will always be my 'pt scarf'

gee true to the aries I am ...... I HATE endings.........

but I dearly LOVE beginnings..

til next time
vi

Endings & Beginnings

***First---------fast note to Kathy...... please go and click your link.......

well I have happiness and sadness today.
First the happy stuff.......
the doctor released me from pt, and said he was very happy with my results.........

that I did good in pt, YEAH for MENGELE!!!

I worked my ass off but if it wasn't for her magic hands......I would not be able to reach over my head.

( yes my beloved Bella Mengele, I did my exercises today and will do them tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow............. )

Now them folks down there at the PT place had BETTER miss me!
hahahahaha

ok I am now going to be going to get my hands done, so first I have to go to the Neurologist......who will look in my ear with a candle and wave to the squirrels that inhabit my head..............

well it is nerve stuff in my hands.....not bones....

After all that stuff then I get the knee done.......and I think then Mengele will have me back and be happily beating the crap out of me while I make smart ass remarks and document it all on this blog....

now on to the bad news,

a Person I respected highly died yesterday, she had MS.

In spite of her medical problems, she had courage and humor..... both things I respect highly.

I last spoke to her on July 6, and we caught up with what is going on.

Now while this was not unexpected, it still was a shock to me.

Rosemary, I know you can hear me...... And while I will miss you...... you are finally free of the prison that your body became.......

and now......

you can fly

I will miss you

vi

Thaddeaus ate it

fast note to Kathy...... please go and click your link.......

my little curly headed son, you know....... the one in the picture (click on his name to the right)
is such a darlink...... so innocent......... so sweet, mild tempered, loving, lovable.......( yeah right my ass)
he as some of you know.......will EAT anything
He disemboweled a woolen snowman I laboriously needle felted for Bernie.........
and now..... he ate my hat for my halloween doll........
and it was ALL FINISHED too......
sniff
he waited until it was finished
all weekend this hat has been kicking around the studio being pushed and pummeled into a remarkable semblance of a sugar loaf hat from the 1600's

in purple no less...........

sniff

not any more

now it looks like an ass wipe

with hair.

at least he left me the FEATHER that was decorating it

that was soooooooooooooo big of him.

ok in other areas.......

Mengele said I got about 75% strength and movement back in my left arm....... YEAH for mengele.

she didn't kill me today either......

ok you guys.......tell me the truth........am I dyink??????

after all mengele didn't rip my head off and toss it on the table...........she didn't forceable extract my shoulders and invert them......

so I ask you all again????

am

I

dyink?

you can tell me...........................

( after all you are all in the will.......)

ok so I called the orthepedic doctor and found out that my appointment is 9:30 on wen. I also told them....... lets do the wrists, elbow and my knees

damn, mengele gave me back shoulder and neck movement........lets see if I can again use my hands without them going numb every two seconds..

the woman is a miracle worker, but you better be good with pain if you go to her.

if mengele puts THIS body back together I want a 90K warrenty, and julia roberts legs.......

OH and if mengele pulls this off........she is deffinately going to cannonized....... saint mengele.......of the crushed and broken bones.

patron saint of formerly handicapped folks in this and any other world.

oh and she said my hump is moving around....... it is soft and pliable.

I don't know if I actually want a moving hump.............. ( shades of mel brooks frankenstein.....)

unless this hump moves off next door onto the moron's face.......and SMOTHERS him

with my luck this moving hump will slide down my back and add to my already impressively huge back end.........

hey but at least I can turn my HEAD

hahahahahahah

oye til next time

vi

rain rain............go away

it is overcast today, ordinarily I would adore it.
(yeah for misty overcast eerie fay type weather!!!)
however I wanted to take some pictures of the dolls and the knitting so today isn't all that great lighting wise to do that.

I am about done with the Halloween doll........ I made YET another basket as thaddeaus ate the first one.
this second one is oval and I think I am going to put a supportive bottom on it......
I have to make her little hat and cape next.....
I have the pumpkins and JOL's to fill her basket up
( thank goodness for sculpty huh?)

Bernie is going to recycling.......I am sitting home typing this.
He is going to online school for Kia today so I won't be on the computer.
I will finish my sample for my lace class.....and rewrite the instructions for my students.

I have a few more things to make for the fair and also halloween stuff to make.....
and I have to put some stuff up on ebay.

I don't know if I am going to enter any photo's yet in the fair..........I have a few I would love to enter but I don't have a color cartridge........ and I am not entirely sure that even if I had one, would this printer do the pictures justice????

TUESDAY night I am going to go to an online chat........... someone remind me ok? it is at 7pm

I am doing my pt excersizes faithfully and running around waving at the ceiling.........
I can't believe I can get my hands over my HEAD again!
oh MY
I feel so young!
Bernie even commented that my neck IS longer.... Bless mengele and all her descendants........

it isn't being held down and jambed up

And while I did NOT lose weight, I look like I did a bit
as there is a stomach, chin and part of a hump gone!
( that damn dowagers hump on my back.............ewwwwwwwwwwwww...... I remember my mom had one............ewwwwwwwwwwww)
my shoulders are down and back now instead of up and forward......
which means clothes fit a bit better as well!

ok
off to work I go
hi ho hi ho
til next time
vi

ALMOST done!!!

and this is how the wigging started

sorry about the blurry photo's

ok off to work I go
vi