No Strings Attached

Posted By Kathleen David on February 27, 2013

It is amazing to me how fast something can vanish around here. I firmly believe we have a couple of house gremlins and I am not talking our four footed furry friends who walk off with hair ties and other small objects that they find interesting.

Caroline and I have an agreement that library books when finished go back into the library bag (a cloth bag we use to bring books back and forth from the library). No, she is not perfect but she does pretty well at getting the books back in the bag. I got my e-mail from the library about the books that were going to be due in a few days. This included book 8 in the Captain Underpants books entitled Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People which has vanished off the face of the earth. We have looked in all the usual places and all the unusual places. She didn’t take it to school. I know it is around here somewhere I just need to find it.

I have been keeping the medical paperwork in one place. And there is a letter that was in the file that has disappeared from the file. This is a letter I need to answer yet another form that needs to be filled out. I need a bulletin board and a larger calendar.

Tai Chi this morning was hard but it did help the neck a bit. I am just a very tightly wound person and smooth movement is not in my nature. Except when I am operating a puppet. Then it all makes sense and I move very smoothly. Yep, I am a riddle wrapped in an enigma dipped in chocolate and covered sprinkles.

Dealing with a clothes washer that has picked up a little problem that needs a part or two to solve. Life continues.

Hugs your loved ones or call them up and tell them that you love them. Life can change in the blink of an eye. Nothing dire just some more 2013 rump biting.

I am grateful for gremlins that put things back.

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Posted By Kathleen David on February 26, 2013

And the unraveling of some planning.

I really don’t think I am going to be showing at LunaCon this year. My ability to go to LunaCon is dependent on so many things that I have no control over. I’ll probably apply unless I missed the deadline(s).

I am hoping to show at Shoreleave. By that point I am hoping to get my mojo back in action along with my schedule.

I am severely limited as to how much sewing I can do because of the neck pain which is getting better unless I do something stupid (and yes I have not always been smart but I am learning).

DragonCon will be my big show for the year. Part of it will be in the Art Show and part of it will be the puppetry track. And I already have a costume idea for the convention. More on that later.

And I have a really wacky puppet idea for DragonCon but I am going to need help with it. I gave Beau the rough idea and am now refining it.

Dolls are also running around in my head. My next project is Tik Toc for an OZ doll group. I know exactly how I am going to do it but I need to find the right materials for the project. The hard thing is going to be keeping it within the size recommendations/rules. But I think I have that sorted out.

I have another project that I will talk about after it is approved.

My mind is back to racing around with ideas of things I would like to try to do. I have lots of things in the que.

Time and body issues are my bane but I will work around them.

So anyone have any clever ideas that they think I would be good at creating?

I am grateful for my creative brain seeming to get itself back in gear.

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Posted By Kathleen David on February 25, 2013

Even though I am not on the train going into the city to work, it just has that Monday feel.

First thing I had to deal with was the front left tire which had a metal object lodged in it causing a slow leak. $15 later, my tire is fixed and I now own the odd piece of metal that was in the tire. It looks like a bolt that needs a cotter pin to hold it in place.

Peter blogged the Oscars with me typing until he fell asleep and then I took over and finished it. It did go a little late. It was fun. I am not sure what was proven by the awards given. I know they are trying to go for a younger demographic and not make it seem like the stodgiest awards ceremony of the season (they are trying to keep the Tonys there). Seth McFarlane did a good job. Some of the jokes did fall flat but overall he managed to keep it light and moving. I have to admit I was as surprised as him to the reaction of the Lincoln joke. And X-Men: Days of Future Past now has an Oscar winner in its cast.

Thank you to everyone with all the help with the art auction. We still have a couple of pieces going including an original Flaming Carrot piece. The links are at JK Woodward’s blog . Because of your generosity and good will, we can pay off the first round of medical bills as we await the second set to arrive. We will never be able to thank y’all enough for all that you have done for us in our time of need.

I found my lost portfolio with pictures of my early work including the first set of Doctors, Pinhead, and other things I have made. Ester Friesner sent me some photos of me and the original little Morphie and Neil, Puppet Neil, and me from somewhere back in time. I am thinking of scanning the photos into the computer and putting them up on a site for people to view my work. I look at these photos and remember all the other puppets I have made over the years and it is a pretty impressive total. There are a number I have no record of because I wasn’t thinking about building a portfolio.

Onto the next thing that needs to be done in the day.

I am grateful to the auto shop that takes care of our cars.

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Posted By Kathleen David on February 24, 2013

As in I have a tendency to what I call turtle in which I curve my shoulders in and push my neck forward. I am working very hard at improving my posture and how I hold my head/neck to take pressure off the neck. This is not easy to do since I have been turtling for a while and one can’t change over night years of a bad habit (OK maybe some people can but I am not one of them.)

I have to adjust the screen on the computer to try to keep my neck in the proper position. I think I am doing it right. Trying to find a corner of the house where I can do my exercises has been a bit of a challenge.

Peter has been doing his exercises (aka homework) as well. He is continuing to improve but it can be a hard process. He can get both arms over his head, which is a big step up from even a week ago and he says his right leg is feeling stronger every day.

Today Caroline and I are going to the library to get some more books on her science fair project both on animal behavior and cat training. We need to firm up how we are going to do this experiment. She needs to start her paper for the project.

I am grateful for cats that are willing to learn.

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Posted By Kathleen David on February 23, 2013

I just got schooled on the differences between panthers and pumas. Not just a little schooled but right down to the scientific names for each.

At least she doesn’t rub it in.

Yesterday was a day of less driving. One of the places I took Peter was to his barber who has been his barber for many years. He got Peter to Peter’s pre-stroke look. Peter says he feels better now.

Today is about household chores and library going for science fair project.

The weather is about to turn strange again. I am going to get try to get the cat boxes done before it starts to rain/snow/sleet/ or what ever it is going to do.

Oscars are tomorrow. I am doing better than usual for seeing the various films nominated. Thank you Shana and Tim for helping me catch up on the shorts.

I really don’t care to repeat any of the wacky dreams I had last night. I can’t say I had a restful night’s sleep. And the neck is not in the best of places. I did my stretches and couldn’t get as far as I had the day before.

But life goes on.

And that’s my mantra right now along with this too shall pass, forward is the way that we must go, and can’t change the past.

And of course Oogway’s famous quote, “You are too concerned about what was and what will be. There is a saying: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the ‘present.’”

Right now I have to live in the present because that is the only place I can affect the future.

Off to stretch and deal with kitty droppings before the precipitation starts in whatever form it is going to show up in.

I am grateful for things that will help me both in the now and the future.

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