Mountain Girl Silver - Hand-Stamped Customized Silver Jewelry - Portland, Oregon

Is almost over!!  Yah,, it’s not even here yet, but mother’s day starts a month out for me and Neen and Heather.   What a month it’s been… busting our humps to make mom’s all over the world happy as clams this coming Sunday……   And in case you don’t know… MOTHER’S DAY IS THE 10TH OF MAY!!   Yah,,,,   a week from tomorrow…. honor your mama….  let her know that you are grateful that she carried you in her womb for 9 months and then raised you to be an upstanding adult……   But if you order from me today.. or tomorrow.. or the next day,,, you’re running the risk of it not getting there…..   only because the USPService can’t guarantee that sort of crap….   I do however, ship fed ex for those of you that are procrastinators….  yah,,, you’ll have to pay extra, but if you’re waiting this long to order something for mother’s day.. then you should have to pay extra….. ehem….

So .. crazy thunderstorm warnings all day today.  While in my studio stamping, and listening to my radio station, the beeeeeepppp burrrrrrrmp… beeeeeeepp national weather service broadcasts came over like every 30 mins warning us that a severe thunderstorm warning was in effect for my county and the surrounding counties…..   I don’t know about you…. but I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE thunderstorms.. they are my favorite.  I hear a rumble of thunder and feel like shouting “Yeah baby”.. like some red neck at a demolition derby…  And Daneen has been known to take off all her clothes during a spring/summer rain storm and run thru the hills…….   noooo we don’t frequent demolition derbies either……   

Was just playing around with my photo booth application on my mac book here .. and just had to post the latest self portrait I took,, simply because the way my face looks in the above picture pretty much sums up how I feel at the moment.  A little coo coo .. a little nutzo.. a little whacked in the skull…   I’ve been going a million miles a minute today. I started stamping around 9am and didn’t stop but a couple of times for lunch and water. I finally finished stamping around 5:15pm. It was one of those days where I got to the end of stamping all my online/retailer orders, and then stared at the pile of the projects I’ve been putting off for months….. i.e.  gifts for old friends, gifts for new friends, I had to stamp a sample disk of numerals for a grass-roots organization down in the bay area that gives solid silver coins marked with serial numbers when someone does a good deed for the environment. I don’t really know all the details about the organization, but know that it is an upstanding one, one that I’m willing to donate labor to…..  So they are starting out with 50 coins, and I will be stamping the serial numbers on them after they have been minted. Pretty cool.  I’ve tried to attach a picture of them to this blog, but I can’t seem to figure out how to do that …  and I dare not replace my mac photo booth shot with a picture of a coin with a tree on it……  no way…  

So.. Anders is staying the night at his buddy’s house tonight. Oliver.  Anders isn’t very good at staying the night at a friend’s house. He’s tried and tried about a dozen times this last year. He’s been successful about 3 of the dozen times. 10:30pm rolls around, the phone call comes in and Eric and I bo-sham-bo for who’s going to go pick him up. I have a sneaking suspicion that he’s gonna pull it off tonight. He was soooooo tired when he went over, that falling asleep isn’t going to be a problem…… and even if he gets to bed at midnight, we have nothing going on tomorrow of importance, so he can be tired and a grumpy butt and I really won’t care. 

I’d like to write about the conflicting feelings inside my heart of moving…  but I wouldn’t even know where to begin with that one. How can one fall in love with 4 walls and a roof?  As Neen says, “It’s just WOOD!!”…  This house might be just wood to some people,,, but the vast horizon it looks out upon isn’t just wood……..  it’s a whole friggen forest that God put here…..  All the financial crap and all the loans and the payments and the interest and the “what-ifs” of the market and blah de blah blah….    Bottom line is that we put our earnest money down on another house the other day, inspection is scheduled for this coming Wednesday, and we are running a million miles a minute in our heads about whether or not we are making the right moves, the right financial decisions, if we are taking advantage of the shitty housing market, whether or not to rent or sell our current home (THE HOME IN WHICH I’M SO EMOTIONALLY ATTACHED AND IN LOVE WITH) …..  I know I’ve posted in the past some pictures of the view from my house.  It’s a great house, but not in the best neighborhood. It’s like a diamond in the rough. We love the house, we hate our yard (as it’s the size of a mousehole), not big fans of some of our neighbors, and just feeling the need for a change. I just wish we could put this house on a fork lift and hike it up the street about a mile……..  That would make both of us happy…..  

Tomorrow will be assembling all the disks, cuffs, affirmation circles and key chains that I stamped today. My ass will be in front of the computer listening to itunes most of tomorrow………. in other words……..    I’m sure it will be raining…..

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