Creepy Baby on the Tree - December 27, 2009 -

creepybaby on tree004, originally uploaded by swardraws.

this is another test. This one is probably too big at 500 wide on my narrow blog but I will check it anyway.

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oh look it is RAW and our dinner! - December 27, 2009 -

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I am testing the blogging feature from Flickr. It wasn’t working before but it should now.

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Merry Christmas - December 25, 2009 -

Here is this years holiday greeting. I put the ‘draw’ back in swardraws this year.

Christmas this year was lovely. As I finished up my wrapping late last night I felt guilty that the tree was too full for only us 3. After the wrapping paper blood bath this morning, it didn’t seem as bad.

Last night after we got back from Xmas eve service, we got big mugs of hot chocolate and watched Its a Wonderful Life while the rain washed away any chances of a white Christmas.

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mom and dad’s crazy neighbor - December 20, 2009 -

I grew up playing with her daughter and at one point her and mom were friends until her son and Paula or someone got in fight.

Lately weird little things are going on around the folk’s house. First it was a trail of dog food on the front porch. Then the shrub was trimmed (I was peeking out the front door looking at the shrub when she came out and seen me, I am sure that helped things!). Then there was one single black tennis shoe. There were a couple other things that escape me right now but the one disturbing one was when all four of us girls were home. There on the porch was an envelope with red paint on it under a rock that at first looked like a pile of shit. Once we determined that the rock was a rock and the red paint wasn’t blood we picked it up and opened it. Inside was two newspaper clippings of the word “DEVIL” and “ED”. It looked like a headline “deviled” cut appart. Bonnie’s ex husband’s name is Ed. A couple years ago Ed came over to use his new snow blower on her sidewalks and since he had a new toy, he did my parent’s sidewalk too. That sent Bonnie over the edge, she went ballistic. Another coincidence is that most of these oddities are tied around my visits home. I was home 3 times in November (Steely Dan concert, Thanksgiving and sister’s reunion). The year before while I was visiting, she left a message on my parent’s phone telling them the next time they mess with her car, she was calling the police. Dad says he never sees any of her kids ever over to visit. Of course he isn’t seeing her walk across his window to place her presents so who knows.

My parents went to the police to report the oddities after the envelope. Obviously they don’t have evidence it is her doing these things (and who know, maybe it isn’t her) but they did say they are aware of her and then did hint that it isn’t going to be getting better. So it looks like crazy lives next door. My parents better start locking their doors before she takes it to the next level and come in.

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I stand defeated… - December 20, 2009 -

by the printer. I managed to get the Xmas cards out but only one calendar before I waved my white flag. I set up the other 6 calendars I needed to print and sent them to MPix. That cost me $60 so now I know it cost about $10 a calendar. Doing them myself I have no idea. It cost about $85 for a full set of inks. Normally I don’t go thru that much even tho the printer is thristy. Where I am really saving however is in my sanity. I can’t get a decent print printed so that means even more ink (and card stock) wasted. Tonight I had to go make a run for cyan ink. I shouldn’t of run out. That is the last ink I ever buy for that printer. In the meantime I will use whatever ink I have left on general printing but then will buy a new cheap printer after the ink is gone.

Next year I have to rethink how I print Xmas cards and calendars. I will go out and get it printed and save the headache. The only disadvantage is that I have to get my act together early so I can get my order out and printed before it is too late.

Today I finished the card and got it in the mail. I then moved to cookie making. I now have to wrap stuff up and hopefully we will be ready to go to Indiana on Monday.

I am off all of next week. This last week was a challenge because I was already stretched thin getting the year end bookings done when H falls ill. Apparently she may have an aneurysm. Eek, just what she needs. She had one hot project that she was in the middle of that I had to pick up and pretty much start from scratch because she used Swift 3D and I didn’t have time to figure out what she did and how to match it with what still needed to be done so I felt the only way to get it done before Friday was to do it my way from scratch. I did faux 3d and the client was very satisfied. Now I am behind on my regularly scheduled jobs. Putting it out of my mind until the next week.

The interesting thing about H’s aneurysm. The night before, I had a rare headache. I took some Advil and it seemed to get worse. Since I never get headaches, my hypochondria kicked in and I even tweeted “the bad thing about never having a headache is that when you get one you think you are dying or something”. The next morning I find about H’s aneurysm when her partner shows up at my desk. Me and H always talk about having a second sense about things like that, I think I just had one of those with her.

Wonder how long H will be out. I have a feeling it might be awhile before we see her. Thoughts and prayers going out to her.

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just came on to say…. - December 18, 2009 -

that I am too busy to write. I am in the thick of getting ready for Christmas. And while I really want to tell you all about my reunion with the sisters and mom’s crazy neighbor and my co-worker’s aneurysm, I don’t have the time. Catch ya later!

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