Well, I've been sort of busy. Doing super secret government business. Seriously. I had to take an oath, honest to gosh, never to reveal, blah blah blah.
But anyway, I re-read my last post and thought to myself I should have not belabored my gloom and focused more on the recent trip I took to California. First,I went to see my Sissy who has been staying in Oceanside. We HAD A BALL. We attended a farmers market and street fair one day, bought all kinds of great Mediterranean food and coconut pancakes which were the bomb. And we ate at various taquerias I don't know how many times. Let me just say the carnitas were fabulous. We visited my nephew who has this amazing pergola going on at his house just outside his bedroom. Lots of incredible exotic plants, hanging baskets and the like. And he is very fussy about how the colors all go together. He and my sister frequent the nurseries in the area a lot in his quest for the perfect plants.
And we went to the beach. Several times. What a world away from the cold and grayness I had been experiencing. And we shopped. We went to Encinitas one day and went to several of the most amazing places. At Gardenology we by chance met Deirdra Doan, a doll artist who has a great blog: http://www.deirdradoan.blogspot.com/
I hated to leave but from there I went to visit my daughter and her family in the Bay area. I had a layover in Los Angeles where I poked around in a couple of bookstores and was aghast to discover that the town I live in right now is written about in "Don't Go There!" by Peter Greenberg. I shouldn't really say I was aghast because it really comes as no surpise. My town STINKS! And that's just the beginning of why it is listed along with such other dubious places as Bhopal, India and Chernobyl. Lovely. Just lovely.
Had a blast at my daughter's, too. I hadn't been to the Monterey Bay Aquarium in years and we went one night and it is just wonderful. My granddaughter is quite the expert about all things "fishy". Wouldn't surprise me a bit if she becomes a marine biologist someday.
Got back home just in time to greet The Bustmeister as he got out of the kitty hospital. Poor thing, he had to have his left eye removed. He has been blind in that eye ever since I got him but lately I could tell that it was looking different and I wondered if he was in pain. He was just a perfect little patient while recovering. He didn't scratch at his stitches or anything. He seems to feel so much better and insists on a lot of "play time" with us.
More later. I've been experimenting with Acey brand Apoxie Sculpt I bought in San Jose. The jury is still out on this stuff. See a related article on it in Spring 2009issue of Belle Armoire Jewelry. Let me just say this if you have been thinking about trying this out. Buy the white kind if you are going try to replicate what you see in the magazine.
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