Life from a Diva's Point of View
Seriously been on a rock painting obsession! Here are the most recent:
Attempted to fix Jimmy Stewart's face; now he looks like a 12-year old and Grace Kelly looks like Sandy from Grease! Also attempted Shirley Temple but wound up with Fanny Brice. I'm happy with Judy Garland and Elizabeth Taylor.
Viking came to visit Friday. He wanted to see the Toutle River and I was happy to serve as tour guide, perhaps due to the fact that's where I snag my painting rocks. Without being asked, he even grabbed a bag to help grab rocks for my latest artistic outlet. He's a good man!
Next stop was Michael's for more paint (and browse the 80% off clearance) then Bob's Sporting Goods in search of fish lure paint for Viking. While he looked, I wandered and stumbled upon a $2.99 blue spiked collar for Stubbs.
Grabbed Chinese food to go from Yan's then back to the house to eat and watch The Highwaymen with Kevin Coster - great flick. Followed that up with one of my fav's Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Been sending sister Erin rock art when she mentioned she'd love to have a bullfight painting with yellow and red. Of course that got my imagination going. After running errands in the morning, returned home Saturday and began to paint and binge Hitchcock - Psycho, Saboteur, The 39 Steps. Even watched All About Eve since had that on my mind since painting the Bette Davis rock.
Finished Erin's painting today, then sealed a Rosalind Russell rock, painted a Carol Channing rock, then created a Rear Window rock. My attempt was to paint Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart; unfortunately they wound up looking like Mae West and Peter Lorre. Have decided to label it "in the spirit of" Rear Window in order to maintain my pride!
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday so I will be spending my time studying for the test for the last CRM course I finished on Friday. Will be completely done with the classes, studying, and tests for the certification around February 15 and cannot wait!
I LOVE this rock I finished tonight. Fasten your seatbelts - it's going to be a bumpy ride!!!
Also finished a few others this week including:
Betty & Wilma, along with Lucy & Ethel, I posted on PNW Rocks as they were having a best friends challenge.
You know that feeling when you are swamped at work yet everything gets thrown at you? Yeah, my life lately. Cannot stand to have tasks hanging over my head and for that reason put in 7 hours of OT today. Uninterrupted time ticking off tasks one by one. Feels great to have a big chunk of my backlog caught up.
This evening finished off rocks I began painting over the last few days. Love the mermaid!
Viking treated me to dinner last night and we were actually able to dine in! Well, sort of. Sat in the outside covered area of Fiesta Bonita. At first we were seated away from the heater but thankfully moved closer once a table became available.
After dinner came home and watched Deadpool 2. Movie was hysterical! Haven't laughed that much over a movie in a long time. 🤣
Just finished watching The Handmaid's Tale series with Elizabeth Moss. So addicting as well as disturbing. Especially since you could see a future like this occurring in today's political environment.
On that note, ran across a picture of congressional aides removing locked boxes containing the electoral college votes from Congress during the D.C. riot. Immediately this image reminded me of the Wives from Handmaid. Not sure of the correlation but it's an unexpected comparison.
Spending New Year's at the beach was relaxing. Wandered antique shops in Astoria, browsed Warrenton Goodwill, and downtown Seaside, which was just a few steps away from the hotel. The Kathryn Riverfront Hotel was scenic, cozy, and included a balcony and fireplace. No dine-in restaurants so ate to-go seafood in the room. Took my partner in crime Viking so even received a kiss at midnight!
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| View from hotel |
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| Ilwaco marina decor |
Friday adventured to Long Beach on the very rainy day. Wandered downtown first in search of a bathroom because I had to go and it was not going to be in a Honey Bucket! Stopped off at public restroom #1 - locked. Public restroom #2 - locked. C'mon! Asked a cashier in a souvenir shop and she pointed us to a restaurant or bakery as if they served food there had to be a restroom.
Made it to the bakery and I spied with my floating eye an open restroom! Yay! Ran in there, locked the door, and began to unbuckle my belt when I saw there was no toilet paper! Dammit! The gods were working against me! Pants up, opened the door and hollered to the doughnut gal, with sweaty desperation, "Do you have any tissue?" She tossed me a roll and it was smooth sailing from there! Whew!
Crisis over, we hopped back in the truck (well, truth be told, after we picked up a bag of bakery delights) and made our way first to Ocean Park then Oysterville, trading childhood stories along the way. We did find another antique store which was huge and thus sucked us in for way too long. Didn't make it home until later evening where we indulged ourselves with Chinese food.
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| Oysterville |
Saturday night showered then rolled my damp hair in a "bun maker' which I don't typically use. OMG talk about curl central! Once I tamed it have to say it was pretty cute. This technique is going to be added to my arsenal of hair tricks.
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| Weird hair bun wrap |
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| Wrap = Wow! |
The first weekend of 2021 was pretty much one of relaxation, bonding with Stubbs, and cleaning my room. Also spent time with Jimmy and Sam catching up.
Now it's Monday and back to work!
