Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious!

Are you ready for
Disneyland Through the Viewfinder???!!!

(In case you need to review TTV, go here...)

Oh wait, that's Self-Portrait with Phinney Overbite...snort.
(We all have it, ya know...
Maybe not my sistor, but she's perfect!)

Walt & Mickey

Swans by Sleeping Beauty's Castle

Snow White's Grotto

Matterhorn and Abdominal Snowman!
heh!

Mad Tea Party
I love these colors!!!

You know it, and now its stuck in your head!!!  LOL!!! 

Sleeping Beauty's Castle!

Sailing Ship Columbia on the Rivers of America
I think that's one of Tom Sawyer's rafts too!

There's something peculiar about this photo...

Cutest little girl in line at the Haunted Mansion,
she was with her Mini Me Sister!

Balloon vendor in DCA

Mickey's Fun Wheel!

I did take some regular pictures...

Not this one, I asked a young woman to take the traditional  Mickey Icon Head shot.
Next time remind me to suck in mah belly!

Ticket!!!

The first look at the Castle always gets me excited!!!

Lilo & Stitch in Its a Small World!
Sing it Baby!!!

Single Rider gets to go in FRONT!!!
(Actually, I asked...)

Yet another self-portrait.
Do you like the floating head in the corner?

Yes!  Single rider pass!

Minnie & friend!

Tower of Terror, EEK!!!

I get by with a little help from my friends...

I took a road trip to Southern California this past weekend...

I got to see these faces...I've missed them very much!

Little Dubin

Baby Mermaid and (mommy) KG

Baby Mermaid again!  who could resist the cute-ness!!!

Bonnie Lass!

my "little brother" Darrin...

and my "little sister" Kiley (KiKi Carumba) & her boyfriend, Darrel

(aren't they just darling?!)

Roma & Maurice are camera shy, 

as are Denise & Ron : .)

wii,

ballet and golf lessons,

great fuds and tropical beverages,

gor-met bbq, 

memory lane

and

great conversation...

it was very, very good : .)

a dream is a wish your heart makes...

I'm off to visit my boyfriend!!!  ; .P

believe me when I say that I got something for his punk ass...

I'm feeling a little feisty right now...

I got my allergy shots a couple hours ago 

and had a reaction,

itchy hives.

To stop that in its tracks,

the doctor on call gave me a shot of epinephrine,

I guess to avert potential anaphylaxis.

While I was sitting there twitching,

the doc also made me take a dose of benadryl.

I asked if they would cancel each other out, heh!

The doctor and 2 nurses (I am sooo important!)

asked if there was anyone they should call.

Uh yeah, NO.

I feel fine now...still a bit itchy.

OK, on with my list of good things for today:

1) This idea!  

One of the engineers @ work

 heard I like old school typewriters and

 sent me the link,

cool yeah?!

2) Distributing these cookies to 

people who make me laugh!

3) 3 more days of work this week!

4) finding perfect gifts for kid friends!

5) Keanu Reeves movies, sigh.

Scrapping the Music - Dream Big

This rounds challenge at Scrapping the Music is 

Dream Big by Ryan Shupe & The RubberBand.

I met Sharon Wheat while visiting an art show in SF 

and was invited to her studio to play.

She was teasing me about having an itchy

photographic trigger finger, 

which set off a gigglefest. 

Such a joy-full moment!

: .)

Come and play along!!!

keep feeling fascination...

1) opi shatter nail poilsh

{OMG!  I am in LOVE!}

2) lazy Sundays

3) a clean fish tank

{makes Mike really happy too!}

4) cute kid faces

5) dinner w/ "the family"  : .)

She put the lime in the coconut, she drank them both up...

1) Mardi Gras beads at every mile during the GOTR event today

2) Movie reference gigglefests!

3) Gorgonzola scramble with spinach, fried potatos, and an english muffin

4) Simon Birch

5) DT work

(pots outside a shop in Tubac, AZ)

here we go again, I think I wanna be more than friends...

blogger's been down for a day and a half or so,

therefore, no posting...

 so #1 good thing for the day is:

blogger's back up and I can post!

#2 - quality time with the Lindstroms

#3 - This photographer

(Annie hooked me up!)

#4 - Girls on the Run

(I'm doing a 5k with this org tomorrow am

I really want to volunteer for them too!)

#5 - I jogged 4 miles!!!

No Pain!

Yesterday's #1 good thing was...

My beloved Los Tiburones advanced to the next round in the Stanley Cup playoffs!

WHOOHOO!!!

(As for the top photo:
When I was in OR for Hood to Coast last year 
I stayed with Scott and his family 
and Scott took me on a tour of the
Columbia River Gorge
(where they filmed some of the Twilight movies).
We ate and drank a lot...  : .)
And after viewing prehistoric Sturgeon 
that were more than 7 feet long
 at Bonneville Fish Hatchery,

we went to the Big River Grill and had...
STURGEON PATE!!!
snort.   Is that cannabalism and sturgeon, or uh...)

on the street where you (I) live...

1) road trip discussions

2) seeing Sarah and making plans to run together

3)  THIS video...I was laughing soooo hard!!!

4) protein shakes

5) sweat!
one of the songs in spin class today
was the title of yesterday's post...
SYNCHRONICITY!
and a reminder, yeah?!
I LOVE IT when that happens!

hold on tight to your dreams...

1) this face : .)

2) pretending to be the hockey goalie glove fairy

3) pepperoni pizza (I cheated, again!)

4) dreams of cheesecake ; .P

5) free online strathmore visual journal workshops!!!

did I say free?!  FREE!!! 

hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...

that's all I have for today...

where soul meets body

on the trail today...

1) I jogged 4 miles : .)

2) I jogged 4 miles : .)

3) I jogged 4 miles : .)

4) I jogged 4 miles : .)

5) detox is o.v.e.r. tomorrow!

heeeeeeeee!!!

Worked in my art journal.  I sent this piece to Pens for Songs in My Heart.

Its Eddie of course.  I love him.

I was going to work on my piece for the next challenge at Scrapping the Music,
but crap, I don't know where the printer driver downloaded.
  I can't print photos.

Gonna have to figure out how to get it to work.
Where's tech support when you need it?!
: .)

I'm like Inception, I play with your brain...

1) Fast Five

ZOOM-ZOOOOOMMMMMMM...

hard to choose which car was the hottest, 

nevermind Vin Diesel & Paul Walker, swoon!

; .P

2) good hugs

3) quickie endorphin fix

4) Ghost Adventures

5) an entire weekend to fill...

I do have a sore throat, headache, upset stomach.  

hopefully that'll be resolved so I can run tomorrow!

turn up the radio, blast your stereo, riiiiggggghhhhttt now...

1) cycle class.

2) ummmm...

3) errgh....

4) yeah.

5) ....

oh, hard pressed to find good 5 things today....

maybe I'm not thinking hard enough???

: .|

its almost Friday???

summer like weather???

I decided to go wogging this weekend???

adventure in the cheese dept at Whole Fuds???

phew.

memories like fingerprints are slowly raising

it started out as a pretty craptastic day, 

but once I left work, 

almost all my angst & bad attitude just fell away.

the good stuff for the day...

1) IM with Ben

feel good positivity!

2) Sharks over the Red Wings in OT!

my Beloved Los Tiburones rock!

3) Fact or Faked, Paranormal Files

attractive & creative people debunking stuff

even if the show is utterly cheezy.

4) wishful thinking

magical...

5) bedtime

zzzzzzzzzz...

gorgeous boy!

this pix has nothing to do with this post, but I love it, so I'm puttin' it here.

I've been neglecting this lil ole blog.  

I realized that when I had to stop running, 

all my motivation & creativity just flew away.

I think once I stop feeling sorry for myself, 

I can get back on track...

anyway, to reroute that negativity into some positivity,

 I think I'll restart my 5 good things lists...

I've been enjoying this blog.

for today...

1) Raising Hope

hysterical!!!  

("everyone wants candy, and I've got candy to give." eye candy, heh!)

2) speaking of eye candy  

the man-boy at the gym today with the biceps, hee!!!

3) dinner @  Aquis with Jack!

I wish I could have had a Sangria Swirl,

but...

4) I'm doing a cleanse/detox and boy do I feel GREAT!!!

ok, tired, but great!

5) bare minerals make-up, sparkly lipgloss & micro-fiber mascara 

: .)

oh, one more...

6) quality time with Karen!

Scrapping the Music - Falling Slowly

The current challenge for Scrapping the Music is 

Falling Slowly by Once

My homage to hummingbirds continues,

I was inspired by a card from my friend Esther.

I really wanted to do some hand embroidery, so I incorporated it with my lyric choice,
which I'd like to think of as a message to the hb babies.

Doncha just love the effect of salt in watercolor???

(click the photo to see a larger image, the smaller one doesn't do the piece justice!)

Good Days - Scrapping the Music

I've got a post planned for my Texas trip, just trying to gather my thots enough to sound articulate. 

Did you know that "articulate" (uttered clearly in distinct syllables) and "articulate" (using language easily and fluently; having facility with words) are spelled the same, but have different meanings???

Sorry, I digress...

Check out the current challenge for Scrapping the Music.

The song for this round is Good Days by Alain Clark. 

 I only now watched the video...previously, I had just listened to the song.  

Uh, Alain is kinda beautiful : .)  ok A LOT beautiful!

My piece (click on it to see it bigger):

You might recognize it.  Yes, I used a previously created piece, 

but my excuse is I had a deadline, 

and I was on vacation : .)

I ran out of time before I left on my trip to make a new piece.

Its a fav photo of myself at the Queen's Pool on Kauai in 2005.

A tropical paradise, sigh...

In other artistic news...

Here are some pages I worked on while I was at my Dad's.

(I'm playing along with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Art Journal Every Day.  

Click on the link at the right for details.)  

I didn't want to haul a lot of supplies with me, 

so I only took the journal, a set of watercolors, 2 brushes, a Sharpie marker, and a white gel pen.

I drew the circles first.  I painted them.  Then I realized that the paint dulled the ink, 

so I went back over them to make them stand out. 

I think it took about 3 days to finish the piece (its a 9 x 12 page!)

I really, really like it!

For this page, I used the bar code off that destination tag they put on your luggage.

Brain freeze, I can't think of the name...

and I cut out Texas and watercolored it like the Texas state flag.

It needs a star, or a heart in the middle.

Still incomplete, too.

I think I'll title it 

"Don't Mess With Texas!"

or

"Deep in the Heart of..."

This graphic is from a MGD box.  Beeah.  Isn't she cool?

This piece also needs more development.

I've got a couple more pages, but they're embarassing and not very creative.

Just trying to make it to the page.  

I think I've made it 10 out of 16 days so far!

My Beloved Los Tiburones are playing their 2nd game of the Stanley Cup Playoffs 

against the Los Angeles Kings!!!

I'm excited!!!

Gooooooooo SHARKS!!!

Hanging by a Moment - Scrapping the Music

The song for the newest challenge at Scrapping the Music is  

Hanging by a Moment by Lifehouse.

there are moments where I feel replete with life and love.

and times when I wonder

 when will that hole be filled?

I am...

 completely incomplete

*     *     *     *     *

I've been enjoying these posts by Amanda Johnson
called Outfit to Layout...
 Such a clever idea!
I scoped out the ensemble a co-worker was wearing on Friday
and turned it into my layout for my HbaM piece.

I kinda wish I asked if I could take a photo of her,
so you could see how I transformed her outfit to layout : .)

Imelda was wearing a tan cardigan, plaid shirt, jeans,
and red ballerina flats with flowers on the tops.
Cute and fun!!!

Come and play along!!!