Art & Life of SwarDrawS

Finally after living in this shoebox for 10 years, we are ready to get rid of the nasty pink living room carpet. Why this hasn't happened earlier is because carpet shopping is overwhelming to me.

RAW has been ripping up the old stuff exposing the nasty floor underneath. Looking at it I can't imagine how anyone would ever have that in a living room. It is like old school room tile. He started laying out new flooring to go over the tile and to kind of level things up a bit.

Anyway, today me and Hollace painted the living room and it is now time to pick carpet. I don't know where to start. I want to try Empire Today and have them come over and show me samples, but what texture, what color? Also I am afraid they will pressure me into something or it is going to cost more than it should. I have no idea how much something like should cost.

I guess I will have RAW measure the room and get estimates from carpet stores, then call Empire to see what they offer. They say the give free no obligation estimates but we will see.

I like their one year, no interest or payment thing because it time to pony up a few grand to fix the darn transmission.

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Printing return address labels are the bane to my existance. I could never get it right so I just found a template to use in Illustrator. Normally all the templates are for Word. My gripe is that I will print on a plain piece of paper and it appears to line up perfectly then I put in the sticker page and all of a sudden it spread where the rows on the edge are falling off. I just don't get it. Why does it print on the plain paper but not on the stickers? Ug

This weekend RAW went to Ft Wayne. I am kind of bugged by this because this week he decided it was time to do the living room floor by pulling up the carpeting and putting a layer of floor down. He put a few sheets down then he left. The living room is unlivable.

Today I finally got around to painting the ceiling. Now I see why to buy the "goes on purple but dries white" ceiling paint. I can't see what I am missing. Tomorrow we (me and the kid) paint the living room

Today we hauled out three large garbage bags of stuff from Hollace's room. That was productive.

Right now I am procrasting working on something in 3D. We are so slow at work still and everyoone is busy doing exercises to learn new skills. I did some trainer soft demo. Everyone else is doing 3D and getting awws and ooohs. I love 3D and have been trying to get going with this. This competition is lighting my fire but not enough to get me off this blog entry and onto it.

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RAW's 50th birthday was yesterday. Normally he likes to go off and be by himself on his b'day and ponder life. My plan was to paint the living room...finally.

He decided not to go and I decided not to paint yet.

I went over board in the shopping for both his birthday and in general. I got him a digital camera. I think I was using his birthday to get a point and shoot camera for the family. On Sunday I went out to get him a nice cooler so I could put all of his gifts.

I made a pound cake and cut up some fresh strawberries. For dinner I took him out to a Japanese steakhouse. We fed Hollace first and brought her to the restraurant for entertainment. I think she was overwhelmed with the crazy chef and the big flames. He tried but Hollace just sat close to me and kept mum, even when he asked her questions.

I don't feel like writing much more. My fingernails are apparently too long.

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Today it occured to me that if I just wrote in a journal I would be more proactive on whatever whoas me. Aww shit, that above sentence made no sense but I am keeping it anyway.

I can't believe how fat I have become again. I am totally disgusted. I don't know what it will take to get it through my thick skull that I can't do this to myself, the sabatoge eating.

In Fort Wayne right now

All the words are hiding in my brain right now. I could of swore they wanted to come out and play which is why I started this entry. I guess they are shy.

I am trying to fix too many things with me lately at the same time. They are all top priority. I got to lose 100 lbs, I got to get self confidence, I got to let everyone at work know what I am doing and that I am as capable as my co-worker, I got to get out there and take chances and quit showing Hollace a bad example of how to deal with people.

Probably working on all of these at the same time isn't a good thing but I can't pick which to concentrate on first.

Blah

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Last night I had a dream I was stuck in Chicago trying to figure out when the last train leaves. They apparently redesigned the time table unto a convuluted brochure where I couldn't find the info I needed. Even after I asked the train station people where the info was, it was still hard to read.

After visiting the aunties in Indiana last week, I was on a quest for expensive toys for the cat. Well it is her first year anniversary living with us. Aunt Jean had a cute remote controlled mouse and Bobbie had a nice laser pointer.

After we got home, I found the mouse at the pet store so I bought it. Hollace had more fun with it than Cloudy did. The darn this however would only go in circles so I took it back. I then went to Office Max for a laser pointer. I had to go two different stores to get the one that took AAA batteries (instead of those harder to find button ones).

I get the thing home and try to put the batteries in and pulled off the wrong side and sheered the button off. I think about taking it back. I then try to glue it back on but I drop the little button and can't find it. Then the glue bottle was dried up, then I had to pee badly. I was begining to think maybe I should keep this laser pointer. Hollace didn't want me to get it because she was afraid we were going to blind Cloudy with it.

The next day the button falls off again so it is time to super glue it. No super glue to be found. Today I got some. I make a mess trying to glue it back on and now the button is hard to press. Ug. I guess I will get another expensive toy as Cloudy is very crazy about chasing that red dot around.

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