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WHAT IS A NUMBER ANYWAY?
WHAT IS A NUMBER ANYWAY?
Today I turn 65. 65. Sixty~five. LXV. Three score and five. 6.5 decades.
I can’t believe it.
It just does not seem possible.
Where did my life go?
How does time go more quickly each passing year?
When did I get to be “old”?
When I look in the mirror, I see me. Not an “elderly” person. I see a few wrinkles around my eyes and some lines that were never there before.
But I do not see old.
I…
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Reason #1 why I hate Halloween
Reason #1 why I hate Halloween
Today is six days after Halloween. I would assume all Halloween parties are over. Stores have their Christmas decorations out so Fall/Halloween is officially kaput.
So are you thinking it is the history of All Hallow’s Eve that bothers me….yes, but it is not #1.
Is it the official end of Autumn that bothers me? Ya, but since our Autumn’s are so stinkin’ short, I expect it anytime after the…
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THE MAGIC OF FACEBOOK
THE MAGIC OF FACEBOOK
Say what you will about FaceBook, but sometimes it brings wonderful surprises into our lives.
I just had one of those surprises!
Last week I had posted a group of pictures that I had taken from another FB group I am in of a unique and brilliantly colored wedding….very non~traditional but being who I am and loving colors the way I do, it so spoke to me and so I wanted to share it with my peeps in…
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Why Funerals Are For The Living.....
Why Funerals Are For The Living…..
The older I get, the wiser I become.
When I was young and foolish, I was of the opinion that funerals and wakes only made the intense grief of the families last longer. I thought they were cruel.
Yesterday, I was once again reminded that instead of being cruel, they can be a like a healing salve gently placed over a wound.
I was at the memorial service of a young man who died suddenly and…
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A KEN BY ANY OTHER NAME IS A BOB.......
A KEN BY ANY OTHER NAME IS A BOB…….
Not only do Scott and I have two businesses on the same property, we also own three storage unit buildings on that said property so I see various and sundry people who stop into my shop looking for my husband or to pay their storage unit rents.
Since becoming ancient of days, my photographic memory has run out of storage and I have no iCloud to pop all those useless bits and bobs into so I can…
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WHEN YOUR PAIN BECOMES MY PAIN
WHEN YOUR PAIN BECOMES MY PAIN
Yesterday a woman with whom I had recently become friends with on FaceBook, wrote a post that she was saying goodbye and she was committing suicide. And I did not take her seriously because she had written just a couple of weeks ago that she had taken 70 pills and had called for help and had been in the hospital for however long you have to stay after trying to kill yourself and it did not seem…
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ANOTHER BEAUTY & THE BEAST BITES THE DUST.....
ANOTHER BEAUTY & THE BEAST BITES THE DUST…..
I am not a huge follower of celebrity hook-ups but who really thought this match up would last? I do believe that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” but when you are 25 and a world class celebrity, hooking up with a man not as good-looking as you are and certainly not anywhere near you in status and monetary value….well, the odds of it lasting are pretty slim…..let’s examine some other short…
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Games that are really made for Adults
Games that are really made for Adults
Ooooo, it’s been quite a while since I have had a good rant so after babysitting the Fearsome Foursome this past week for two days, I have much to rant about!
I am not a Grandma that likes playing house (I do not play house even when I have no grands here….I play, ” What do you mean, what’s for dinner?” and “How should I know if you have any clean underwear, I don’t wear it!” and my personal…
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All the King’s Winches and All the Kings Lifts, Couldn’t get the Queen off her Throne......
All the King’s Winches and All the Kings Lifts, Couldn’t get the Queen off her Throne……
I almost died today.
Well, I could have died.
But I lived to tell the tale and tell it I will…….
The King and I are babysitting the 6 year old and the 2 year old. The King and the Princess were out on the royal 4-wheeler and the Queen was trying to entertain the little Prince. Both the King and the Queen are running on just a snooze here and a snooze there, since the big royal bed was occupied…
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My Super Power is in Maximum OverDrive...
My Super Power is in Maximum OverDrive…
I never asked for this power. If given a choice, I would have chosen reading minds as my power and then my marriage would be so much easier. But no one asked me. One day it just showed up. At first, I thought it was a weird snafu but as time went on and more and more things started to happen, I occurred to me that this indeed was my super power.
This past weekend I had the power to make my new…
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News from The Lumberjack & The Gypsy My shop (The Lumberjack & The Gypsy) is just about ready for a Grand Opening Weekend. This goofy Minnesota weather has delayed me a bit as well as a host of other things but once I get the outside painted and the decking stenciled….I will have it. Of course, it has been open for business […] via Just About Ready for Grand Opening…… — The Lumberjack & The Gypsy
Boredom is never a good state for a Creative*
Yesterday was a day someone should have been here with me.
Someone who actually would have some control over me….hmmm….gotta think about who that could be….we all know it isn’t my hubs or my mom….and none of my friends are big enough to wrestle me down….besides if God didn’t want me to shorn myself, He never should have allowed hair clippers to be invented. (And yes, I do know that the Bible says it is a shame for a woman to have shorn hair. But I can live with that!)
So I got out my nifty new little clippers….so much easier to handle than the bigger ones…..and I used to use them on my dog but don’t tell my sister cause I gave them to her for her hair!!!
I loved my teal hawk and cut-in shapes of all colors but the hair in-between the shapes had started to grow in and it looked skanky. Besides being a Creative, I am also an Impulser*. When I want to do something, I want to do it NOW.
I have always wanted to shave my head and a couple of years ago I went down to a quarter inch all around and the world did not end so I figured, “What the heck…it will grow back” and went to town (not literally, I never go out).
When I got done, I looked at myself in the mirror and thought…..”Well, my mom is going to have a heart attack if she sees this”. I gave what my hubs might think a thought but after almost 34 years, I’m pretty sure nothing I do anymore surprises him and he’ll get over it.
Do I like it? Not especially. We keep our house at a chilly 66 degrees and I sleep in the lower living room where there is no heat unless we have a fire or an electric heater on and I don’t like to sleep with either one on so I had to sleep in a head-tube-thing that cool, outdoorsy people wear as bandeaus. I bought it when I had dreads and thought I was cool.
So today I slapped on a ton of make-up to take some photos for ya’ll. In the process, I reminded my self of Anthony Hopkins, Mr. Clean, a drag queen before they stick on their gorgeous wigs and myself at 95.
Please let me know who you think I resemble. I promise not to be offended. Seriously….how could you possibly offend me…..and to think I did this willingly to myself. Well…at least I didn’t pay someone else to do it to me. (I wonder if I had, if it would have turned out like this? And where did all those scars come from? I hit my head a LOT but I do not ever recall ever bleeding and I would assume you would have to have cut open your head to have a scar? The things you find out when you shave your head….ya’ll out to try it at least once in your life.) “No guts, No glory” is what I always say……(Okay, I really mostly say is, “Well that didn’t turn out like I thought” but it is basically the same thing.)
Your Queen of “OMG, did you see what that idiot did now to her hair”
Robyn
I Had Nothing Else To Do….. Boredom is never a good state for a Creative* Yesterday was a day someone should have been here with me.
I am pretty sure I have Creative Attention Deficit Disorder. I cannot seem to finish most every thing I start creatively (and in every other aspect of my life). I am all amped up and buy everything I need (and more) to get me going but halfway through I get distracted by something else and I am off on a different creative path.
It makes me crazy that I am that way but I seem to not be able to change. I don’t know if I was always like this, but it has been my modus operandi for the past two decades.
Someday I may seek a therapist to help me understand why I do the things I do (my mom and hubs would say it is a form of rebellion and perhaps, they are right….but don’t tell them that or they will think they are right all the time and my life will be a living hell!)
So getting back to my hair…..I did bleach it all out for October to go Opal but as these photos will reveal, the blue did not bleach out and I was not about to bleach it again as my scalp goes numb for a good 24 hours after a bleaching session and even I think that can’t be healthy. So I just added an ash blonde toner to it and as it washed out it became opalescent but I have no photos to prove it. (I did but because I am so technically challenged I thought if I added photos from my general photos to a “Hair” album that I could delete them from the general photos and they would stay in the album. Either that is not true, or I did it wrong because all the photos that I deleted after putting them in albums are now gone from my ipad. Whether or not they are up in that elusive “Cloud” I do not know as I have no idea how to access this “Cloud”. It is such a challenge being me…..)
And in keeping with the technology challenged thread, it just took me 20 minutes how to figure out how to access my photos from my ipad to post these pictures since WordPress changed the format on my blog….no wonder I have high blood pressure.
So, since October was a bust, I kinda was dishearten about November and knew that if I colored it Topaz for November, I would have to bleach it all out for December and I just wasn’t up for that so instead I buzzed the sides and back down to the nub. I REALLY wanted to just buzz the whole thing but no matter what I do, I just can’t rock that Uncle Fester vibe.
So here it is, December’s look……the teal on the faux hawk is beautiful in real life…..the shapes are my husband’s doing….I KNOW, right…….but I must have gotten him in just the right mood cause he was game to try it. He just said to me today, that he needs to recut the shapes since they have grown in since we did it two weeks ago. I have not left the house so I have no idea how this look will fly in public. It must be my most dramatic do to date. The first photo is my inspiration….the others are pure me!
This is right after Scott did the coloring so it is wet and in real life it is no quite that vibrant and the faux hawk stands straight up. If I ever go anywhere and actually put on make-up, I will take a photo and show you how it looks today.
As far as next month and going Garnet…..we will just have to see…..
The Queen of the Oddest Hair in the Neighborhood,
Robyn
My latest hair do! I am pretty sure I have Creative Attention Deficit Disorder. I cannot seem to finish most every thing I start creatively (and in every other aspect of my life).
Saving My Mailman One Good Deed At A Time
Saving My Mailman One Good Deed At A Time
I don’t wish to brag, but I did a very selfless act this morning. In doing so, I expect I saved the very life of my rural mailman.
Before I humbly re-enact my heroic deed, I should explain how rural mail carriers are a whole different breed than your basic urban carrier. Besides having to have cars with either the steering wheel on the right-side (which I know for my British readers, that is…
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September Blues
This month is Sapphire Blue. Took me two tries to get it this color. But I think it is close!
I think I am going to invest in mock turtle-necks as the skin around my neck looks like I am a toad….now that I think of it, I am beginning to really look toadish. Great…thank goodness this is only my temporary body. My eternal body will be much less toadish I am sure.
Well, for better or worse, here…
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Getting Ready to Live The Dream
Getting Ready to Live The Dream
Pop on over to my shop/studio blog: thelumberjackandthegypsy.wordpress.com to see what my first artsy-fartsy class will be. My goal is to make quick and easy projects for gals on the go who do not want to commit to several weeks in a row that the community ed classes tend to be.
One night and bam….you are done, project in hand. Plus, you will get a chance to see what is in the shop before…
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Lost Photo Ops Today
Lost Photo Ops Today
I am NEVER camera ready….ah..both physically (you will rarely ever see me with make-up in a photo taken at my house at a gathering because I am “time challenged” and am honestly stepping out of the shower as guest arrive, so there is no time to put on “my face”) and literally (oh, how this word is misused and abused).
Today was no exception.
I was driving to my studio (how fun is that to say!!!!)…
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