Pepsi Refresh Grant voting!

Its voting time again!  I am in the running for a $5000 grant for art supplies and training from the Pepsi Refresh Project. You can find me at http://www.refresheverything.com/art-for-survivors-of-domestic-violence#, and see some information about it. 

Ways to vote!

While you are visiting me at the site,  you can vote by signing up for a pepsi refresh account.  

You can also vote with your mobile phone: Text* 105676 to Pepsi (73774) to vote from your mobile. *Standard text messaging rates apply.  

Drink pepsi, save your bottle caps!  some of them are worth 100 power votes!

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or on twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/visaliaartnews

Thanks everyone, I AM SO EXCITED.  Please feel free to share with everyone on your mailing list, to get as many votes as possible

http://www.refresheverything.com/art-for-survivors-of-domestic-violence#

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http://thirtyzone.blogspot.com/

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A new Class

I picked up a new class, it is another free one.  I will be doing expressive art classes at one of the local teen foster homes.  I am very excited about this, and am looking forward to having some fun art time with the girls.

and now a word from spam...

So this morning I get the following email:

 A Valentine's Day Offer for:

SHELLEY HUFF.

A special Valentine's Day starts with HomeTown Buffet.

For any guests who've been married more than 50 years, 

we're offering this sweet deal.

Purchase two adult meals at lunch or dinner on February 14th and you'll receive TWO FREE "BE OUR GUEST" MEAL PASSES, 

valid any time through March 16th. 

Just be sure to bring your marriage certificate and photo IDs!

So if you have been married for more than 50 years, you have to buy two meals in order to get two free meals!  I mean really... in this day and age, you should give it to them!  A congratulations for sticking it out that long, for beating the odds, for not holding a grudge at each other's imperfections... I can't imagine there are a whole lot of people who make it that long with death and divorce around.   How about  a real present.

That is a

A space for me

For the last several months I have been getting more requests for classes, and expressive art classes... which is really exciting, however I am without a space!  I guess I should get on that.  Ideally it would be nice if I could find someone who will trade something like janitorial services for a space, wish me luck people, and pray... lots of prayers would be cool!

losing weight and losing the gym

Well in my quest to get back on the saddle of health things are going well.  At first we went out and got a gym membership hoping that by going to the one that is closer to us that somehow it will make a change.  And for a day or two it did, I noticed that when we did we would always hop on the treadmill.  Well we decided to loose the gym membership (thank the Lord for 30 day trials) since we quickly went back to old habits. 

We did however buy a treadmill, it is a cheapy we got it at Sears for $400, figuring that if we wear it out from using it so much, then we can get a better one.  So far so good, we have worked out much more than we did when we had a gym membership.  My dad says walking outside is free, but with my health condition the way it is, I have gotten stuck about half way out and have had to sit and wait out the pain till I can manage it back home. At least with a treadmill, when I start hurting my couch is only a few feet away!

So it looks like we have found our weight loss solution, what works for one, may not work for others.  Like weight watchers, I have watched a friend nail that thing and still keep it off GO GIRL!  I will update with a monthly see if my new pants fit yet.

God... is that you?!

I was picking up my daughter from school, and it is busy, as always. I parked the car and walked halfway up the school yard before she seen me and ran to me. On the way back to the car, I swore I heard someone call my name. As I looked around to see who it was, my daughter looked at me and said "Mom, what are you looking at" When I told her I thought someone called my name she said to me... "Maybe God wants to talk to you" 


LOL

plateau

I feel myself in this weird place where I just can't seem to get up and create.  I have all these ideas of sketches swimming around, however I lack the motivation to get up and do, I am obsessed with watching movies about artists... that seems odd.

I am lost

Number Silliness

a friend posted this earlier today, it worked for some of us.. I am curious if it will happen to anyone else too. Math makes my head hurt LOL:

This year we will experience 4 unusual dates ... 1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11, 11/11/11 ... NOW go figure this out ... take the last 2 digits of the year you were born plus the age you will be THIS year and it WILL EQUAL 111. Try it! its freaky! I did and it came out to be 111.

Mertzwiller

Someone sent me this game on facebook... it was really fun and creative!

1 - Go to wikipedia.com and hit random. The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to quotationspage.com and hit random. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr.com and click on “explore the last seven days”. Third picture no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar (picnik.com is a free online photo editor) to put it all together.

5 - Post it with this text in the "caption" and TAG the friends you want to join in and me so i can see what you've created.

Here is what I did.

Name of Band: Mertzwiller

Album Name: Show up to get it

Before:

After:

Goldfish Antics

We just watched the commercial for 'goldfish crackers'  where all the flavors of goldfish crackers are trying to save pretzel flavored goldfish from breaking to pieces when he jumps down from a shelf. So they each take a corner or this cloth to create a safety net... 

When suddenly I heard "EWWWWWWWWWWWW mom look... nobody wants to eat a pretzel cracker when it falls onto underwear!" 

What!  it's actually underwear.... what were the writers thinking!   My kid is very aware... LOL