So... if you haven't heard:

So... if you haven't heard: Our event at Sarah Cavender Metalworks raised $2000 for S.A.V.E.  We can chop off a lot of balls with that kind of money!  WOOHOO!  😃

The S.A.V.E / Sarah Cavender Metalworks event went great.

The S.A.V.E / Sarah Cavender Metalworks event went great.  We were busy for most of the day - even before the event officially started.  I'll see how much money we raised tomorrow.  I don't have an exact figure, but I think we did great.  😃  Thanks to everyone who came out!

So I am just sitting here resting up and plotting my next paint job.  I got some nail mail today - woohoo!  They are coloring-changing, scented polishes.  I swatched them on some nail tabs and I was pleasantly surprised that the smell was not overpowering.  Or bad.  😃  I have one that is SUCH a pretty color, but the smell gives me a headache and topcoat doesn't tame it so I never wear it.  That's a bummer!

Since my birthday is this weekend and I have coupons for both Ulta and Sally I plan to do some polish shopping.  Nothing crazy, but I like to look even if I don't buy a bunch of stuff.

I also plan to eat my two cakes.  And hopefully go bike riding. Pain-free bike riding, even.

Shaun ordered a new seat for my bike and it is supposed to arrive tomorrow.  I also bought some bike shorts.  I don't know how common this is, but my bike seat was KILLING my cooter.  I really like riding, but I haven't been able to do it for more than a few minutes without being in a world of hurt.  My new seat has a cut-out all the way down... for your lady-junk.  The shorts are gel shorts, so that should help.  And I am also seriously considering buying some "chamois cream" - whatever the hell that is.  All I know is that it is supposed to make your down-there not hurty when you bike ride.  Maybe I'll give the shorts and seat a chance.  I just hate to risk it.  😳

If any of you ladies have experience with this let me know what has worked for you.  With my precarious car situation I would really like to be able to bike to work if I needed to.  Shaun can usually drive me, but I hate to be so dependent on someone.  😕

Well, I am in bed about to go to sleep.

Well, I am in bed about to go to sleep. Gotta be all rested up for tomorrow! Ready to raise some spay and neuter money! 😃

I hope a bunch of my friends show up. We'll be open from 10 - 7, so that's pretty much all day. No excuses! 😛 See you tomorrow! 😃

I don't know what this pattern is supposed to be, really..

I don't know what this pattern is supposed to be, really... but in green, it made me think of something like moss. I was really at a loss as to what else this paint job needed and then I saw one of my fairies blowing a dandelion tuft and thought "This will be good." I like it. I like nature and fairies. 🙂

I am about to...

I am about to watch some TV with Shadow, and do my nails, and try to get un-mad.  It does no good to be mad at shit I can't change.

Unfortunately, "mad" is like, my default emotion when I'm not ok.  I'm really good at being mad.  😐

If I could pick up a car and throw it right now, I would.

If I could pick up a car and throw it right now, I would.

So my Hyundai won't stay cranked now.  😳

Shaun had to jump me just so I could drive to work.  It cranked when I tried to leave, but I turned the lights on and it died.  I'm sure that it's just the battery / alternator, AGAIN, but I am so beyond tired of being stranded and pouring money into something that is just gonna break again in a few months.  Therefore, I am getting rid of it.  If the Kia is gonna be a dick, I'll get rid of it, too.  I am just so done with all of this.  I will learn the hard way to ride my bike where ever I need to go and I can ride with Shaun to work when I need to.

My biggest issue is taking my animals places.  Shaun isn't a fan of having animals loose in his car.  Nappy has a hair appointment at Piper's tomorrow, but I'm gonna have to cancel.  I don't have a crate large enough to put her in.  And we'd have to pick her up to get her in the car, anyway, and that is hard because she's so huge.  That is the one great thing about the Hyundai.  It was low enough that it wasn't hard getting the dogs in and out.

Anyway, I'm pissed and annoyed and ready for a serious change.  I would just go out and buy another car, but I'm not made of money.  If I have $10 in my pocket after paying my bills every week that's a damn good week for me.  I will get tax money early next year, but I am not living through another year of my house and yard flooding so it's pretty much already spent.  The year after that Shadow is getting a car, and the year after that I am putting better windows in my house.  So my extra money is spoken for for the next few years.  LIFE SHOULD NOT BE THIS FUCKING HARD!

Sorry for the rant and the angriness - I've been holding it together for the last few weeks, but it gets hard - especially when my freedom is at stake.

Feeling ok on this Monday.

Feeling ok on this Monday.  I'm up and not mad about it, so that's something.  LOL

Here's hoping that my Hyundai feels ok.  I drove the Kia to Munford yesterday and almost didn't make it.  I think my brakes must have been locked up because I couldn't even kick it into neutral and coast down a hill.  It was a struggle just to drive it.  When I made it to my dad's house he could feel a lot of heat coming off my front tires, so right now we're thinking brakes.  He said he would take a look at it, so I just left it with him and bummed a ride home from my mom.

I wish Anniston would just finish the damn bike trail.  Or put in some bike lanes.  I'd totally start biking to work just to avoid having to deal with cars so much.  I am pretty scared to ride a bike on the real road even though I see people do that all the time.