I did something stupid today :/

So Michael did some shading on my arm today. I have really bad wrists – just tattooing over the nerves and tendons fucks them up, as well as makes my entire hand do some funny things. Well, he hit the magic spot today! I jerked my arm back (something he said no one has ever done) because I felt what felt like a jolt of electricity down my thumb! Normally I keep pretty still on those areas, I’ve never had a reaction to it like that!

So after letting me settle down (I was almost in tears, it really scared me because everything I do involves my hands in one way or another and what if this was fucking me up worse, you know?) we got back to work and just avoided that area.

He did some work near it, and it was similar, but not same. Not as bad as that actual spot anyway. Crazy!!

We’ll take photos tonight after I uncover and wash up.

Today’s Special

Anyone remember that show? There was a male mannequin that came to life, people, animals I think? I don’t remember exactly. He had curly brown hair, and a great plaid cap.

Today’s melon isn’t exactly special, but it is a first for me. Michale make me document it. I wasn’t going to. I  thought it was a train wreck.

I did this today and Michael has assured me it isn’t the train wreck I think it is. I told him some of (not all of) my “problem” was that the ink was darker on the towel (for the grey wash) than in the melon. I plan on doing a color study, black to water, before I shade anything else on a melon so I can see what’s what.

So yah, first grey-wash (crash course in grey wash lol), not too bad. Not great by any stretch of the imagination (I said it looked like I was doing high contrast to make a stencil to cut out and spray paint lol) but not the train wreck I see it as.

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Totally Bragging!

This is the swing set we bought the kids. I think we’re putting it together this weekend. We got it from BJs for 999.99 (not the 1599 that it’s listing for).

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The Allegany has an oversized raised fort with wood roof, end gables and windows. There’s a 12 sq ft sun porch up there too! Climb up to the fort using the standard ladder or the solid rock wall. Sail down on the super speedy wave slide. Two belt swings and a trapeze bar provide hours of fun swinging and hanging. Under the fort there’s a lower deck with picnic table.
Features

* Oversized raised wooden fort with railings, roof, gables, and windows
* Raised sun porch
* Super speedy wave slide
* Lower deck with picnic table
* Solid rock wall ladder and standard ladder
* 2 belt swings and a trapeze bar

I am totally excited about this, we’ll be having a real, kids invited, birthday party next month and we can do it outside and still keep them occupied!! Um, the kids are excited too ;) We’re going to pick up a net-swing (it looks like a hammock folded in half) to do some home-based therapy with Mal, and the kids will have fun in it too. I think we’re ditching the trapeze bar for the net swing.

New hair makes the world go round

Got my hair done this morning – going back next Wednesday to fix the bottom. It didn’t lift the old red out, so we’re making it blue! It’s supposed to be light (gold) on the bottom, coppery in the middle and bright red on top. Chrissy used a 10x peroxide first and it didn’t lift at all, so she went back and used a 40x and it still didn’t pull the red. We were going to try again next week, but blue it is! That way I am not killing my hair. I’m excited! We were out of time, so she did a quick messy up-do. Next week we’ll have more time and it’ll be more of the usual run-way love she tends to do.

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We did major shopping today

Well, school was canceled today, impending storm and all. So what did we do? We went shopping! We left the kids home with Sara and went up to BJs and got the swingset! Yay!! I’d link to it, but I can’t see to find it anywhere. It’s pretty bad ass though. It’s got two swings, one something else IRIC, a slide, clubhouse, climbing side, it’s cool. I can’t wait to get it set up. I also picked up a new 8 gig highspeed sd card for my camera, yay! I run out quickly with the 2 gig card I currently have.

Took Malachai to therapy, got a flat tire on the way there. Took care of that, therapy went well. I was shown hot to do joint compression with him and he worked on strength and whatnot. Fun stuff! He also started speech today.

Came home, did… something. Played MouseTrap somewhere in there with the kids. Michael is making sloppy joe for dinner. I dyed my sisters hair, I haven’t seen how it came out yet. Ordered a couple of new machines for myself (a rotary machine and a craptastic cheap one to use as a learning tool). And that pretty much wraps up my day! I so want to go out, I don’t want to be home. Oh well.