Dang, I've got a sore throat.

Dang, I've got a sore throat.  It's been slightly irritated all week, but today it all out hurts.  🙁  And I'm nauseated.  Yay sinuses!

I found out last night (I love how he's known for 2 weeks but JUST told me) that Shadow is playing at the football game tonight.  Not marching - just in the stands to get a feel for what marching band is like.  That should be fun and will probably make me miss my band days.  I know I'm more excited than he is!  I just hope it isn't too cold.  😳

Anyone feel like being helpful or good?

Anyone feel like being helpful or good?  I've just caught wind of a situation where not one, but THREE dogs have been abandoned without food or shelter when the owner moved out.  And they are tied, of course.  🙁  The landlord and one of my former neighbors are feeding them.  I'll have photos tomorrow, but for now they are being described as two pit bulls and a fox-looking dog.  Unfortunately, if a shelter gets the bull dogs, they probably won't last long, and my inn is full.  I sent some dog food and all the meat from my fridge home with my former neighbor so they'll eat good tonight and tomorrow.  But they can't stay there.

So... anyone up for lending a helping hand?  Anyone want to try out fostering?

Nails from last night.

Nails from last night.  I did another mani with Saran Wrap.  LOL  I liked how the first one turned out so much I had to do it again.  But this time I used 3 colors instead of two, and glequins!

Honestly, I don't see me laying off of these anytime soon.  The textured look is nice alone, or would look great with stones, stamping, etc.  And it's SO EASY to do.  I love the way water marbles look, but they are so much trouble that I rarely bother.  But not this.  If you like painting your nails, you should TOTALLY just try it out at least once.  For realz.

I know those orange glequins look like they might not belong with that mostly pinkish paint job, but the last color I put on was a metallic pink / orange flip, so they totally go.  It's just not always easy to capture it in a photo!

I'm about to shower, eat, and do my nails.

I'm about to shower, eat, and do my nails.  Nothing else.  It's been a "blegh" kind of week and today I got some news that pretty much bummed me out.  Oh well.

Music nails!

Music nails!

Ok, so these weren't anything like I envisioned.  Like, not at all.  LOL  I wanted to put my piano key and sheet music stamps on there (because it was Amanda Palmer, duh!), but that did NOT go as planned.  First of all that really pretty flaky paint did not go down smooth, so it was not easy to stamp over.  Secondly, when I tested out the stamps they were all warped.  When a stamping image is, well, anything but straight lines it will usually look fine - even if it's not perfect.  But piano keys and sheet music both have a lot of straight lines and it's hard to make that look nice stamped over a curved nail.  My designs kept coming out warped and I just didn't like it.  🙁  So, I scrapped that idea.  I might have to practice with those and see if I can make them work because I like the images and I will be bummed if I don't get to use them.

Anyway, this is what I wore last night.  They were totally pretty when the light hit them.  🙂

Have any of you had a pet spayed or neutered through the clinic in Irondale?

Have any of you had a pet spayed or neutered through the clinic in Irondale?  Or do you know anyone who has?  Have any of you heard of S.A.V.E and all of the great work they are doing to prevent so many animals from being needlessly killed every year?

Between the work of the Spay / Neuter clinic and SAVE, shelter intake has DROPPED, meaning that fewer and fewer animals are having to die.  This is the only way to humanely end the needless killing.  Now the clinic is being attacked again.  The Alabama State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners is trying to have the clinic shut down, and are using blatant lies to do it.  WE CANNOT LET THIS HAPPEN.

Please read this letter and do your part.  If you had a pet fixed there, please let them know how it helped you to have it done affordably and if the care was adequate.  We have to speak out.  The board is trying to take from us something that we DESPERATELY need.

Just got home from the Amanda Palmer show.

Just got home from the Amanda Palmer show.  It was amazing, as usual.  🙂

She had these saxophone players that covered Don't Stop Believing by Journey.  And then mid-show, she busted out with some Careless Whisper by George Michael.  Loved that!  There was also this one song about fish... something about being a bottom feeder.  She wore the huge sheet-like thing and crowd surfed.  It was pretty.  And I really liked that song.

Shadow went, and he had fun.  He was bummed that he didn't get to meet her, but maybe next time.  Me and Shadow went to the back - we didn't even hang with Shaun.  Shaun likes to be up front and close and I kind of prefer the back.  Like, so far back that I can see over the crowd.  LOL  It's easier on my ears and doesn't kill my neck (when I'm up front, I have to look straight up to see anything).  And Shadow would have hated all of that, too.  There was another lady with a kid in back and it wasn't crowded, but we could see.  It was nice.  🙂

Aaand... the icing on my cake:  Despite me leaving my poor dogs locked in for all those hours, no one crapped or peed in my floor.  I'm about to bring the poor babies in, love them up and go to bed.  🙂