Days Off

I know I should have been working on painting my living room, the walls aren't going to paint themselves, but I didn't.  I finished some crocheting projects I'd begun and had become obsessed with and then, I wasted time on Facebook.  I did do some light reading as well.  Still, I have time before work tomorrow when I can get some painting done.  I'm not writing at the moment either - writer's block has become a writer's iron wall, and it's proving to be difficult to overcome.

I'm hoping my four day weekend at the end of this month will prove medicinal in many ways.  Terry, my man friend, is supposed to come up from Galveston to visit me, and we have some fun things planned - some of them we can actually do out in public without being arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior as well as public nudity. :-D  I can't wait to see him. He calls and texts me several times a day practically every day - the man is awesome.  He looked for me for 10 years which says something about how strong his feelings are for me :-)  If he'd found me before I'd left Texas with Jamie, I would have left Jamie for him - he has always meant that much to  me.  When things got rough with Jamie, I'd actually started making plans to find Terry myself and go to wherever he was......   Funny how life works things out when you least expect them to.

Painting Projects and Stuff

Last post, I showed you the before and after photos of my accent wall.  I have another two walls in the living room that need to be painted, but I don't have the main paint yet.  I'm going to do the remaining walls in white with a semi gloss finish and do the trim in the soul chocolate I used for the accent wall.  I have a hall section that will also be white with brown trim.  The kitchen will have the brown trim as well but won't be white.  I am going for a Tuscany feel in that room.  I'll post before and after pictures when I finally get all the painting done.

Meanwhile, I'm still working hard at Lowe's.  I've almost finished getting all my computer training validated not only for my department but also for Tools, Home Decor and Millworks.  I'm self training in those departments since they are neighbors to my department, and we try to help each other out during lunches and breaks.  It's helpful to actually know something about the department you're attempting to assist. :-)  I plan to start self training in Paint after my current training is all done.  I love learning new things, and I eventually want to move into a new department so I can continue to grow and develop in the company.

Wall Project #1

As I promised, here are the pictures of the wall my son and I just repainted - me doing most of the work of course.  The big deal about this is that I've never painted a wall before so I'm pretty proud of what we've done.  My next project is to repaint a second wall in the living room.  This first wall is the accent wall.  I'm not sure if I'll paint the other walls white or a lighter shade of brown/gray I have chosen for my kitchen.
Anyway, here are the pictures:

Before:

In this picture the light from the window makes the urine colored wall look blue.



After:

This picture is a bit blurry so I'll take another later and replace it.  However, you can see how much nicer the new color is over the old one.   This is a Valspar Signature color called Soul Chocolate.

My Wall

It's almost done, and I had to get my son, Joe, to  help me because my step ladder ended up being too short for me to reach the ceiling.  I just need to tidy up some of the edges and then, the wall will be completely painted. :-)  Oh yes, the baseboards need to be done as well, but that won't take long.

I'll be posting before and after pics of the project so you can see what a big change the paint job has made. :-)

I plan to paint the front door and the wall surrounding it next. :-)  Might as well since I have the paint and the desire to do it.

Catching Up -Again

About 8 months or so ago, I decided to call it quits with my husband.  He has shown me he's not going to change even when he gets out of jail so I'm not going to put myself through the stress and emotional pain again.  It was bad enough the first time.  Since that time, I've pretty much resigned myself to spending the rest of my life alone.  My work schedule keeps me from having any kind of real social life - it doesn't help I don't have a car to drive around either.  Then, Fate decided to smile on me and reward me for dealing so well with all the crap I've been through for the past 5 years.

About a week ago, I got an email from a young lady I knew when I dated her dad almost 13 years ago.  He and I dated for about 5 months or so, and we split fairly amicably I thought.  Anyway, she informed me her dad had been searching for me for the past 10 years, and she hooked me up with his phone number.  He and I talked, and he reminded me that we broke up because he'd been a drunken asshole at the time and had ruined my 30th birthday.  Apparently it wasn't that major a deal to me since it took me several days to remember the entire incident and the days following that led to me breaking up with him.  Long story short, he came to visit last weekend, and it was as if we'd never lost track of each other.  Oh we've both aged, but we still look and sound a lot like we did back then - chalk it up to good genes.  :-)  We've decided to give things another try so I'm going to see about getting a divorce from my husband.  Terry, my new beau, knows all about the husband and knows I'm going to get a divorce so he's not worried.

Meanwhile, my writing has suffered.  I haven't done much of anything until tonight. Tonight, I've begun work on rewriting Blood of a Friend.  It's going to take some time since I'm doing almost an entire rewrite, but it's going to be done before the end of the year.

I've also begun repainting the apartment.  I got tired of looking at urine yellow walls in my living room so I got out the chocolate brown paint I'd bought from work a month ago, and I painted an accent wall. I'm going to do the trim in the same brown as well.  I'll post before and after photos of the wall once I'm done with the project.  After I get the accent wall done. I have two more walls to do in the living room.  I might do the kitchen as well. :-)

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving.

I'm going to be alone this year, and I don't plan on going out.  I'm going to stay home, watch the game and work on the new choker I've got partially designed in my head.  Don't pity me, please.  I knew I'd be alone this year.  Hubby is still in prison, and I have no way of moving back up to Illinois to be closer to him despite what he wants.  I can't afford to move, and there are no job openings at the Lowe's in the city I need to move to.  I can keep busy, and I won't think about it.  Today will be just another day.

I miss Hubby very much.  Mail runs way too slow when you can't afford to send things priority.  I don't have a phone he can use to call me either so that's out.  :-(  I'll be glad when he gets out, and we get back together again.  Being alone sucks, and our 10th anniversary is coming up soon.

21 Nov 2012

I couldn't think of a good title for this post so I didn't bother.  The date will suffice I'm sure.

I have to work tonight.  It's going to be a mad house because tomorrow is Thanksgiving and the next day is Black Friday.  My employer already has sales going on so we may run out of stuff for Black Friday before the day even gets here because the all mighty dollar is more important than anything else. Ah well.

I am still plugging away building up my product line for my own little business.  I have a sale going on that will last until this coming Tuesday.  I'm hoping to move some product, but we'll see.  It's very hard to promote something when you're struggling just to survive personally.

Yes, financially I'm in a mire.  I'm living paycheck to paycheck barely.  I know lots of others are in my shoes so I don't complain a lot.  I just suck it up and drive on.  I don't ask for help from my local welfare office because I feel that people with family and disabilities deserve it more than I do, and I don't want to take valuable resources away from them.  It's why I don't go to the food pantries in my area either.  I'll do without so others may have something.  I have a job at least which is more than I can say for a great many people.

Because of my financial difficulties, I'm going to have to put off getting anything for anyone this year for Christmas and birthdays.  This includes getting the printer and camera I need for my business.  They're just going to have to wait as paying my bills so I have a roof over my head is way more important.