Work, School and Work

So we are moving into midterms, so I asked my lovely manager to lessen my hours, so I can study and work on projects. Of course he doubled my hours and I work 6 days out of 7. If this keeps up I may have to quit, which I dont want to but school is WAY more important. Schools going, as usual, my digital media teacher isnt a fan of my idea's, this seems to be the thing. but I usually pull it off. It started raining this week, and was beautiful!! I love the rain, even if I have to wonder through it between buildings. The garden is looking awesome for fall! Spider plants are going crazy this year, and Im glad, their one of my favorites

Went to the hardware and garden store with the Aunties, and of course fell in love with a christmas dino display! :D Afterwards I hung out with them, as it was my only day off, and got the CAR ALARM INSTALLED!! Yay!! So I had a deal with the alarm guy to do a mural in exchange for the alarm, but he ended up having someone else do the mural cheaper? So I am going to do some ads for him I guess. Weird clients. but the Darlene is safe!! 

 In honor of the rain, I made lentil soup! :) So yummy!!! I have been ,unching on it all week for lunches and dinner.

Great Weekend, Great Fall

So this weekend was epicaly amazing. I will go into more detail tomorrow when I have more time, (today just got a break between class and work :) ) But basically Gentleman Friend and I visited the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin and Art Festival, Worlds Largest Corn Maze, and Karaoke!! Then Football, and my best moment ever...

"Hope you enjoyed your trip down the stairs slut lips!" -Dana Gould in the basic cable commentary of Showgirls

Ya, I fell down GF's stairs. Had to skip work, and have a 6 inch by 6 inch bruise on my rear, but no permanent damage :) GF was really sweet and took great care of me. So strange to see him all worried!

My Garden is looking fantastic for it being fall. And for being a container garden :) So here are some shots of it to tease you with. Tomorrow I'll get all into our adventure!!

Proud of My Size #2

For those who don't know what this is, the lovely and amazing Rachel of The Near Sighted Owl is running a fat acceptance, love your body no matter what your size campaign. I have had a lot of body issues in my life, and my sister had as well. She's a 00, and for her people calling her skinny, bean pole, anorexic, etc are just as painful as calling a heavy person lard ass. Especially those who accuse her of having eating disorders. Sorry guys, turns out chasing horses for 12 hours a day and owning 3 large dogs will increase your calorie burning immensely.

So here we are, my sister and I, at one of her horse shows! she is a Riding instructor for a large barn and was taking her students. I'm in one of my favorite summer dresses, from Target a few years ago! Super fun!

So I have been commissioned for my first mural! :D Hurray!! I'm really excited! I'm going to be painting an 8'x40' wall for a local alarm and stereo company. In exchange the guy will do my alarm and kill switch!! :D WOOT!!! So rad! So there will be pictures and updates on THAT shortly.

Also signed up for twitter. I dont know if I'll actually be using it much, but I'm untidyvenus. We will see :) It will prolly be much like my facebook and just random comedic quote from Adam Carolla, Christopher Titus, Alison Rosen and the like.

So the plants are doing REALLY well. I discovered that putting red pepper flakes in the pots keeps the squirrels out- mostly. also the tomatoes are so close!!! Finally!!!

And kitten went for another walk yesterday evening. He also climed his first tree, and fell out of his first tree.... He's my special little guy ;) lol poor dump kitten

Pickles felt left out

Picture Heavey Food Edition and Plants

-AKA  Izzy downloaded her dumb-phone. So I realised my last few post have been... meh... Not like my writing is stellar, but its not been interesting, and Im sorry to anyone who may wonder by.

 I recently discovered that Reeses makes an amazing, delicios abomination known as a Big Cup (its for peanut lovers). Some of you may say "Didnt you see the comercial for them?" well, no... Still in the I dont have a TV and when I do get to watch everyone has a fast forward button mode. I can tell you it was AMAZING. You know your jealous. I consumed it while working on my Art History discussion in case you wanted way to much info...

Also this weekend I had a lovely treat of Nations, the local GIANT HAMBURGER PLACE OF AMAZINGNESS. I kind of love it. I had consumed a few beverages before entering and decided a snack would be in order (With you know who). Seeing how it was like Midnight-thirty I opted to try something new, the chili cheese fries. So basicly its fresh made fries, Hormel and American singles (for meeeeee, que Justin Farren). OMG. Perfect late night snack. Go eat it. NOW. Even my classy date who had consumed massive amounts of Etufe before seeing me (we're still not technically speaking, lol) consumed them with vigor!

Some of you may know (well, actually no one knows..) Ok, so a GREAT snack, one of my faves, is dunking Triscuits/Trader Joes Woven Wheat Wafers in Greek Yogurt. YUM!! WEIRD! But you'll like it. So I was happily munching along the other night, around ohhh.... well... morning time... and noticed something...

 Read UNDER Rosemary and Olive Oil... Natural flavor with other natural flavor... WOW. Thats like.. double the flavor.

I stopped home to feed the felines (still house sitting, hence the acutal posting) and water the plants. Turns out Im actually growing some things!! My experiment with a hen and chick living with a pineapple sage is going quite nicely, and both are blooming on the deck. Ya, thats a beaver tail cactus on the step above. The spiders are all great, and the all green one is shooting out babies once again! My buddy who almost didnt make the trip from Detroit! Also, Aloe Vera Wang is ready for a repotting here quick.

My baby tomatoes are thriving as well. Well, half are amazing and the other half are almost dead really... The ones I didnt wait to plant are super happy! lol. Their even starting to shoot out some tomatoes!! Lookie there!!! What kind of toms did I buy? Bah, buying is for chumps. I got these from my dear Aunt Nan, from mystery heirloom seeds. Looks like there are 3 types, so I have about 2 of each. I'll try and remember to keep yall posted ;)

And lastly, today after taking Crazy Uncle shoe shopping, I stopped off to get the felines some feed. While wondering through the local corporate petshop (competitior to terrible Corporate Petshop) I saw they were cleaning the critter cages. Upon passing I saw possibly the CUTEST act of controled instincual behavior EVER!!! 

 

Mice are friends not food

Not only am I now having dog withdrawls but I also miss my mouse. Look how CUTE they all are!!! :D All furry and snuggly and fou fou-y..... Ok, Ive lost it... Im gunna go do something now...

Adventure time!

So my lovely Gentleman Friend once again is spoiling the CRAP out of me :) Tomorrow night we're heading to the Excelsior in Monterey with his best friend and wife. Friends wife, not GF's. .. .. . . Not repeating bad history.. Anywho! After that back to the bay, then up to Sonoma where the GF will use his wonderful business cards to get us drunk for freeeeeeeeee!! Oh ya ;) Im quite smitten. And he's good looking to boot... RRRrrr ;) Cats are already suspicious

ANYWAY.... Job is well, got the weekend off which is FAB. I guess the joy of part time. Gatta work my BDay but so is life. Got the Sat after off so party time with GF

Tomatoes are started! got some flowers so a good sign! Update on the house plants, Aloe Vera Wang is fab, needs a new pot because she's way outgrown this one. The spidies are all goin crazy in this weather and the wondering jew is the brightest Ive ever seen it! The hen and chicks is doing well also. and the one that was a gift from my neighbor is flowering!! :D The African Violet 2 got a little dry but i think will be ok

I can grow things!!!

Fire on the West Side

Yesterday I should have covered this. Ont he west side of town there was a huge fire in a very old school due to the lightning. The storm was really beautiful, I was up at 5:30 am to get ready for work and watched it for an hour. Im weird.

I am about to become a full blown Michigan resident!! I signed up for my Michigan drivers licence! And its special so I can go to Canada. Im gunna to out of country!!!! two weeks. gatta wait two weeks....

Also, no pictures (Sad face) but I got two new little hermit crabs. I think Herman might have passed on T_T but   have this fantastic set up so why waste it. I hope to fill it with crabbies again one day. I also picked Cooper up a chewy house, one he can eat and- he hates it. of course. Why would he want a $6 house when he can eat toilet paper tubes? Gerbils...

I repotted the plants in between jobs. Everyone got a new pot, even the spider plants, which means I wont have babies for about a year, but they will live longer. Got some good deals at WalMart on pots, colorful self wattering pots for $1 each, but the service was terrible. I wondered around for 45 minutes looking for potting soil in something other then 5 cup bags, and everyone I asked pointed outside. I kept looking but it wasnt there. Finally I left in a huff and a sweet gal said she found it outside in the parking lot. Thats nice, but I already had everything else, like i could just leave, right? So I went over to target and got a big bag of Miracle Grow self feeding. Yay for me getting to be lazy!