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So last night I had an overnight type of sinus surgery patient I'd not had before. Usually a sinus surgery patient would go home in the evening but this one was 'veak and dizzy' so she spent the night. Which means I went over her discharge instructions with her this morning. I have a warped sense of humor so there were a coupla doozies in there I just have to [over]share.

First off, when people are waking from sinus surgery, before they're even awake fully, of course they sense their schnozz full of drying blood and sometimes gauze and the first thing they wanna do, naturally, is honk it all out in their twilight sleep. This would not please their ENT surgeon much. And since the patient has usually had medication that makes them temporarily amnesiac, they don't remember that you told them three seconds ago not to blow their nose. "DON'T BLOW YOUR NOSE. DON'T BLOW YOUR NOSE. HEY. YOUR SURGERY IS OVER. DON'T BLOW YOUR NOSE."

It's Terrific Fun!

Anyway. The discharge instructions. Right there in black and white. KEEP YOUR FINGERS OUT OF YOUR NOSE. You wouldn't think it has to be said, but apparently it does. Mind you I am talking to a Dade county big mucky muck and I am telling her to keep her fingers out of her nose and if you understand these directions, sign here. Later on in the same paper, "Be sure and schedule your next ENT appointment in approx 7 days for your "Nasal Debridement".

So I have a brand new word for what people do while sitting in traffic - nasal debridement.

(Debridement is a medical term referring to the removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue.)

Here is the Dexter Season 3 preview (mature themes, you've been warned)
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1681694363/bctid1688292415
If that link is not working, try http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/comic_con.do

Here's the Short Attention Span summary:

^ Starts Sept 28 ...

^ Deb has short hair

^ Jimmy Smits with a questionable accent

^ No more Doakes (boo hoo!) I will miss him!

^ If you are into it, dexter_caps has some cool third season promo shots at http://community.livejournal.com/dexter_caps/7170.html

^ By the way the community maintainer there currently has one of the funniest Dexter icons I've ever seen (see below)


(Doakes was very tenacious ~ )

^ I'm a big fan, but even *I* think a Dexter BOBBLEHEAD is a bit weird~
http://shop.fullpond.com/show/productcompact10.aspx?catalogid=10&categoryid=6917&productid=7528

That is all.

Whoda thunk that Tom Jones would be able to help me stay awake, and get me home from work?

The radio was playing "It's Not Unusual" this morning, and laughing at the Carlton in my head got me home :)

( New Doll In The Works )

( Pendants and Ornament )

I really should have been doing my accounts today... Oh well.
Here's the first of my winged unicorn sisters, Moonshine. She's the romantic dreamer of the three, the middle sister. 
When I was seven, I always drew her with Flouro yellow hair and tail.... I decided against that colour scheme this time :)

OH MY GOSH I THINK I FINISHED MY WEBSITE


Although there are two or three items that are "coming soon". I'll get on those as soon as I can. Let me know if anyone sees any glitches. Ive looked at it too long to see anything!
Thank you again to Aaron and Jenn for letting me photograph you gorgeous people in my jewelry. And thank you to my fans that sent in photos and let me use them on my site.


As of now I am exhausted. I have been making that website while completing all my wholesale orders and while preparing my jewelry and art for FaerieWorlds next week. Which, I am still planning for.

Who else is going to FaerieWorlds?
Im thinking of doing an you-know-me-from-lj promo thing.

There's alot of Leo energy on my f-list, so I thought I'd slather you guys with a little Leo adoration and share this "Spotlight on Leo" article from California Psychics.

This week's birthdays~
ana723 - July 23
thehotpinkheat - Jul 26
jewelz_star - Jul 27
mysticfedora - Jul 27
psychobrig - Jul 28
greynightshirt - Jul 29

Are you ready for more passion in your life? If you are, then embrace the heat as the Sun transits through fiery Leo from July 22-August 22. Romance and creativity are the lion's gifts. Actually, anything that springs from the heart is the domain of Leo, which is a fire sign that rules the heart.
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Hey Members....

RE: Fae Forum

We're doing a newer php version upgrade on the forum tonight and it's causing some errors, so if you go to the forum and run into glitches, we apologize....please be patient while we work out the bugs.  We have our resident techno-wizard ON IT!  

THANK YOU! 

I still haven't posted about my cards. I did a massive draw on my "thirteen favorite" card decks, the night before I flew to Vegas. They were out on my glass coffee table and then I knocked over a big glass of water .. soaking at least 2-3 cards from EACH DECK! I tried to mop all up as best I could, but they were still moist when I left the next day, and warped by the time I got back from Vegas. I placed the warped cards inside heavy books for a week - no change. Now, when I shuffle and try to take cards from the deck where they break naturally, my usual method, I usually get one of the warped cards... which irritates me highly. That's like $200 worth of card decks. I'm very annoyed. If I get new decks of my favorites, I will def be getting them discount from somewhere.

Probably streamline it down to about 3-5 decks instead of 10-13.

But anyway.

My akashic instructor said something like "Well, maybe it was supposed to happen. You were probably using those cards as a CRUTCH." And I said "Noo... I use them as a tool, not a crutch." (grrr)

Now today the Conscious One site I'd use for free draws is changing, too. WTF?
http://www.consciousone.com/c1Cards/

Some of these made me snort!

43 As a 1930s wife, I am Average Take the test!

Posted on Sun, Jul. 20, 2008

Go Ahead, Panic
by Dave Barry

(This classic Dave Barry column was originally published Sept. 21, 2003)

Every so often, I head for Sun Valley, Idaho, because I have friends there, and because Idaho contains large quantities of nature. The problem is that my friends are never content to sit around with a cool beverage and look at the nature from a safe distance, as nature intended. No, my friends want to go out and interact with the nature in some kind of potentially fatal way. ( Read more... )

I just finished this one today I wanted to get it completed today as Im back at the office until the weekend and I just couldnt leave it until then.

I have been working on it for the last 2 and half weeks or so.

I was really getting in touch with my inner child on this one and I have been a bit obsessed with owls lately, even having dreams of walking in the night and seeing owls.

Acrylic Paint on Canvas panel
Total hours - 20 ish hours.

Also I have some cool mouse pads available from my shop HERE with more items coming soon!



  

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Plight of the iguana (Sun-Sentinel/Scott Fisher/October 10, 2001)
Rob Cohen of Palm Beach County Fire Rescue holds an iguana after an hour-long standoff with the beast at the intersection of Glades and Lyons roads in West Boca Raton. The lizard brought traffic to a halt as it ran Northbound across Glades Road. After a short time hiding under a van in a bank parking lot, it made a break Westbound across Lyons Road before finally being captured.

No idea why they are re-running a photo from 2001 but .. there you have it. That's about the fugliest thing in Florida I hope to never run across. :)

And the iguana is pretty bad, too. (ba-dum-bum ... JUST KIDDING!!!)

The Rachel Ray knife I ordered via eBay came via the mail Monday night as I was leaving for work. I just grabbed all my mail and put it in the car. It seemed really weird that you can ship this big damn blade in the regular US postal mail. Seemed even weirder to unwrap it in the car and then wrap it back up again and hide it under something else, so my car is not parked in downtown Miami with a big dang knife showing as laying in the backseat. Furthermore, I forgot to take it in the house when I got home from work, so it is still there tonight. This gargantuan orange handled hacker. (Maybe I've been watching too many Dexter reruns)

ana723's friend said something the other day about "it's been a long time since I visited Miami" and I responded "you're not in Miami". It probably seemed nitpicky to them, but seriously, Miami is a hot mess. I took a picture with my phone the other day as I was coming to work, while I was behind a Miami Dade corrections van. Tra la la. It's like saying you're in Oakland when you're in Berkeley. Or confusing Tampa and Sarasota. Long Island and Brooklyn. There's a difference.

Now recently Miami did some very stupid things with high occupancy vehicle lanes.. they put up these candlestick barriers between the HOV lane and the other lanes, so that people could not change lanes until waay up I-95. I don't know if they announced this to commuters or just sprang it on them, but the first week or so there was a huge number of bad accidents. See, people trying to get out of the HOV lanes before their time would try to do this slalom move to get into the next lane, and they'd be slow and confused, only to get nearly t-boned by the next commuter coming down the way. Did Miami Dade take down the candlesticks? Hell no they just figured the more people that got maimed in traffic, that sooner or later they'd figure it out. And what's really stupid? I'm pretty sure those freakin candlesticks are made of plastic, you know what I mean? Not like they'd gonna hurt your Lexus as much as that SUV will when it hits. http://www.miamiherald.com/457/story/602322.html

Anyway, the stupid hurts my head sometimes. Ya know?

I was going to paint something else, but when I went to get my paper I found this artwork which had been sitting half done for ages. So I decided to finish it off first since it was a fun quick one. Three colour acrylic  "sketch" on canvas, something a bit different and fun...


What I was going to work on, before getting side tracked by this one, and am sketching up now is a set of winged unicorn ponies. I'm reliving my childhood you see... back when I was about seven, I think I was a little bit obsessed with My Little Pony. Anywho, I had these little pony characters I had created and wrota a bunch of stories about (I think I created them anyway, but they aren't exactly original, don't blame 7 year old me if I copied them from somewhere!). They were sisters, called Rainbow Wings, Sunset and Moonshine. They were given presents from the fairies that they used on their adventures. Sunset had a necklace that could take her (and her sisters!) anywhere the sun shone. Moonshine had a tiara that could answer any question, and Rainbow wings, the youngest, had golden horseshoes that could grant wishes. 
The point is.... I'm painting them ^_^
These paintings are going to be nigh-disgustingly sickly sweet. I'm even painting a rainbow in one of them!! But it's what I'm in the mood for at the moment :) They are all sketched up and ready to go except a couple of flowers for Rainbow Wings. They are going to be SO DAMN CUTE!!!!

Wow, I feel so much better today. It started this morning even, on my home from work. Normally after my first night shift I'd very drowsy and draggy. Maybe it was the energy work I got recently. Anyway, I stayed up watching a video till 10 and I've been awake since about 2pm. Not bleary-eyed and cranky, but ready to get up and *do* stuff. Wherever this energy is coming from, Thank You!.

So I gotta blaze out of here for another night shift soon, they said we'd have 7 overnight, I'm predicting 5. Hopefully after my little chickees are asleep, then I can catch up on LJ. You-all posted alot of interesting stuff today! :D

Laterz, dudes and dudettes.

More recent sketches that may become paintings...  And some of them are already  ;D
(will also be adding a bunch of new sketches to my website gallery sometime in the next couple o' days)



**Next week I'll post a teaser for the up-coming "Project 57" charity show at the Distinction Gallery**

Last weekend I had the time to finally paint the Zodiac Masks™: Pisces. So far there's also Sagittarius, Scorpio and Gemini. I started this serie last year, but I thought I would take my time and continue it little by little whenever new ideas pop in my head. The next one I'm going to start will most likely be Taurus, since I'm a Taurus myself. It will have very earthly tones; dark brown, warm red... I also have done a preliminary sketch of Leo.



I haven't had much time to paint this month because of the Fairy cottage, but I don't mind really. This almost feels like a small summer job and holiday at the same time in a way. I can just sit there and talk to people and answer their questions about my work and faeries. It's been all very positive and people have liked my work, which is always a nice thing to hear :)

I've been making prints, cameos, framed prints and greeting cards for our upcoming market day-event. Last year took me by surprise and I pretty much sold out in 5 hours, so I'll try to be more prepared this year. I've been feeling that I'm probably getting sick though and it's been slowing me down quite a bit for 2 days now. My throat really hurts and I feel really exhausted. This is really NOT a good time to get sick...better go and get some vitamins asap.

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