The 12 of 12 Challenge was created by Chad Darnell and picked up by a number of random bloggers who linked back to him and vice versa. Chad stopped doing the 12 of 12 Challenge in December 2011, but passed the torch to someone who [sadly] hasn’t been keeping up with it. I am giving my shout-out to Blobby of Blobby’s Blog as he is the one who initially inspired me to do the Challenge, and he still does.
This is my 55th “12 of 12.” A Tuesday. We got home yesterday evening from our July walkabout, so it’s a “down day” to get things in order before we return to our regularly scheduled lives.
9:02 AM: Laundry. So much laundry. How do two grown men go through so much laundry on a 10 day trip? I can’t even guess how many loads it’ll take.11:20 AM: Hanging out the camping equipment from the trip. It was still… moist… from camping in Glacier National Park.1:10 PM: I mostly got the interior of the Jeep clean. Mostly. I wiped it out with a wet towel last night, then had to do it again this morning. I think most of the dust is gone. For now.1:50 PM: Luna resting a moment. She was outside with the Husbear running around the yard with him.1:56 PM: The Husbear finishing up some weed eating.3:21 PM: Both milli and micro in one picture! Resting on their cat tree.3:51 PM: On my way to the studio, and stopping in at my local Sonic for a drink.3:52 PM: And… me! After seeing the photos from our trip, I decided maybe I needed to tone down the gray in my beard a wee bit. While I like the gray, I don’t think I’m in fact ready for it.5:19 PM: Grabbing some supplies from the studio after doing paperwork. I have some drawing to do, and would just as much do it at home today.6:00 PM: Our cucumbers grew a lot while we on our trip. They’re huge!6:59 PM: The Husbear and Luna relaxing on the couch.7:22 PM: Importing the GPS data from our trip into Google Earth, with the other trips we’ve taken that I’ve recorded.
No “plus one” this month. I’ve got a pile of stuff to do still before tomorrow starts…
The 12 of 12 Challenge was created by Chad Darnell and picked up by a number of random bloggers who linked back to him and vice versa. Chad stopped doing the 12 of 12 Challenge in December 2011, but passed the torch to someone who [sadly] hasn’t been keeping up with it. I am giving my shout-out to Blobby of Blobby’s Blog as he is the one who initially inspired me to do the Challenge, and he still does.
This is my 54th “12 of 12.” A Sunday. A very sad Sunday. The attack in Orlando early this morning still has me rattled. The family and friends I have in the area have all been accounted for, but for a lot of people that’s not the case.
12:04 AM: Shiny bar top.1:04 AM CST: Beveraging with my bestest buddy. Probably about the same time events were unfolding in Orlando. It could happen anywhere.10:38 AM: Locking strap for the spare gas cans modified and installed. Sometimes you just have to beat things with a hammer until it fits.11:07 AM: milli attempting to be cute.12:13 PM: The Husbear looking for some new tank tops for the summer.12:18 PM: Trying on some shorts. Well, one pair of shorts. And is it a pair of shorts if it is only one?1:08 PM: Back road drive with the Husbear.4:00 PM: Someone likes to eat her bones on this one particular rug.4:01 PM: The rain has finally slowed to a gentle trickle, as compared to the buckets it was dumping for a few hours before.5:56 PM: Almost done ripping all the DVDs we have, so we can stream them from the media center.8:03 PM: The tomatoes are starting to develop.8:04 PM: This dang Wisteria needs a haircut at least once a week.
The 12 of 12 Challenge was created by Chad Darnell and picked up by a number of random bloggers who linked back to him and vice versa. Chad stopped doing the 12 of 12 Challenge in December 2011, but passed the torch to someone who [sadly] hasn’t been keeping up with it. I am giving my shout-out to Blobby of Blobby’s Blog as he is the one who initially inspired me to do the Challenge, and he still does.
This is my 53rd “12 of 12.” A Thursday.
7:32 AM: After the Husbear wakes in the morning and leaves for the salon, Luna has started coming back upstairs and sneaking into our bed. To stare at me…9:42 AM: This is more a picture reminder for me that I need to motivate myself to get to the gym. At least once. This year. And that I still have LOTS of skin that needs ink.10:05 AM: Stopped at the grocery store to pick up some foods for lunch. So many chicken choices. I hope I don’t choke.10:54 AM: One of the routers in the studio decided to give up it’s magic smoke. So it had to be replaced. Lucky for me I do tech. Still.1:18 PM: The first tattoo of my day. Some people are really big Star Wars fans apparently.2:22 PM: My jack arrived today for the Jeep. Free Prime shipping, thank you Amazon. And still less expensive than I could find anywhere locally.3:11 PM: This is becoming a tradition, apparently.6:35 PM: Waiting for my client to return from the restroom. I’m not sure why I look… startled.7:39 PM: Finished a rendering of The Trinity, an icon created by the Russian painter Andrei Rublev in the 15th century. See, sometimes I get to do actual artwork.8:33 PM: The Jeep. On the way home, I decided to stop and take a picture of it. Because why not? Actually, I was just checking the lighting on it. Yeah, that’s what I was doing.8:56 PM: Luna thinks I have fleas, apparently. Or need to be groomed. Or whatever it is that dogs think humans need.9:11 PM: Tucking the Husbear into bed for the night. It’s our 2 year legal wedding anniversary today. But it’s a “school night”, so we aren’t really doing anything. And one of these days we’ll get around to taking down that ivy wallpaper that was in the house when we bought it…Baker’s Dozen: 9:20 PM: milli. Snagging some time on my other leg, avoiding making eye contact with Luna who is on the other leg.
The 12 of 12 Challenge was created by Chad Darnell and picked up by a number of random bloggers who linked back to him and vice versa. Chad stopped doing the 12 of 12 Challenge in December 2011, but passed the torch to someone who [sadly] hasn’t been keeping up with it. I am giving my shout-out to Blobby of Blobby’s Blog as he is the one who initially inspired me to do the Challenge, and he still does.
This is my 52nd “12 of 12.” A Tuesday. Normally a day off for me, but I somehow managed to jack up my schedule and have been working six days a week the last couple of weeks. And will be for the next few. Ugh.
I’m publishing this post late because our home computer had a hard drive failure, and while I’ve replaced that, I haven’t had time to “be myself” with trying to get the taxes done and working too much.
But here you go. My weak attempt at the 12 this month.
9:36 AM: I woke up to The Husbear moving some stuff around so he can put out compost in the flower and vegetable beds.9:58 AM: Working on getting the computer up and running. It’s been saying this same thing since last night.10:00 AM: The Husbear being… manly? He’s back at the gym finally after the tractor accident.11:55 AM: One of the tattoos I’m doing today. It’s been a long time since I’ve done a Bugs Bunny tattoo.3:35 PM: We only made it this far before the client had to tap out. She was having a rough day today, which translates into somebody’s ability to sit or not for a tattoo.3:54 PM: A picture more for myself, but these were the pigments I used on the client. So I remember to use the same ones for her next session.4:11 PM: A little quiet time before my next client arrives. It was at this point that I realized I was starting to feel a migraine coming on. I rescheduled my next client and headed home.4:43 PM: So many hard drive replacement decisions. On my way home, I stopped at Best Buy to pick up a replacement hard drive. I know it’d be less expensive to order it online, but I needed a new drive now.7:09 PM: I had to run back to the studio to grab some files. My head is hurting a little still, but I managed to head it off with enough medication. I was trying to switch music stations, and hit the camera button instead.7:44 PM: Attempting to reinstall Windows on the new hard drive. Buy my license wasn’t working. Damn. Time for another option.9:42 PM: I needed a snack.10:58 PM: I slaved the dying hard drive into The Husbear’s new computer in an attempt to repair the drive enough to clone it to a new drive. ScanDisk was finding all sorts of errors.Baker’s Dozen: 11:16 PM: I’m tired. My brain still hurts. And I’m going to bed.
It’s March! A time for madness. March Madness, if you’re into the whole basketball sports thingy. I was thinking about the March Hare originally. But there really aren’t a lot of songs I know about rabbits. Or hair.
So we’re playing with madness this month. Actually, I play with madness every month. Just not in the same way that Spo does. But this month I/we (being the Blobby) am/are showcasing some of the songs that–to me–are about madness.
I’m posting this from a Love’s fuel stop somewhere in Mississippi, on our way to NOLA for Easter weekend.
I don’t know if this counts as a “happier” song, especially compared to last weeks selection. But it feels like it deals with mental issues to me. Things my brain fights with me about on the daily.
Matchbox Twenty’s “Unwell”:
All day staring at the ceiling
Making friends with shadows on my wall
All night hearing voices telling me
That I should get some sleep
Because tomorrow might be good for something
Hold on
Feeling like I’m headed for a breakdown
And I don’t know why
But I’m not crazy, I’m just a little unwell
I know right now you can’t tell
But stay awhile and maybe then you’ll see
A different side of me
I’m not crazy, I’m just a little impaired
I know right now you don’t care
But soon enough you’re gonna think of me
And how I used to be, me
I’m talking to myself in public
Dodging glances on the train
And I know, I know they’ve all been talking about me
I can hear them whisper
And it makes me think there must be something wrong with me
Out of all the hours thinking
Somehow I’ve lost my mind
But I’m not crazy, I’m just a little unwell
I know right now you can’t tell
But stay awhile and maybe then you’ll see
A different side of me
I’m not crazy, I’m just a little impaired
I know right now you don’t care
But soon enough you’re gonna think of me
And how I used to be
I’ve been talking in my sleep
Pretty soon they’ll come to get me
Yeah, they’re taking me away
But I’m not crazy, I’m just a little unwell
I know right now you can’t tell
But stay awhile and maybe then you’ll see
A different side of me
I’m not crazy, I’m just a little impaired
I know right now you don’t care
But soon enough you’re gonna think of me
And how I used to be
Hey, how I used to be
How I used to be
Well, I’m just a little unwell
How I used to be
How I used to be
I’m just a little unwell
The 12 of 12 Challenge was created by Chad Darnell and picked up by a number of random bloggers who linked back to him and vice versa. Chad stopped doing the 12 of 12 Challenge in December 2011, but passed the torch to someone who [sadly] hasn’t been keeping up with it. I am giving my shout-out to Blobby of Blobby’s Blog as he is the one who initially inspired me to do the Challenge, and he still does.
This got posted a little late. I had some technical problems with my blog I had to get corrected before I could post.
This is my 51st “12 of 12.” A Saturday. My “Friday”. It was a very long day, at the end of a very long week. Well, the length of the week didn’t actually change. It just felt that way.
9:57 AM: I’m awake, albeit a little later than normal. And apparently I woke her up from her nap on the couch.10:03 AM: Replacing the shower curtain. And yes, I know, the tub looks filthy.11:12 AM: I had this and another one in my office, and forgot about them. Until today.11:13 AM: And one is now in my tattoo work room.3:39 PM: Finished adding some color to this one on my buddy Patrick.3:39 PM: Speaking of my buddy Patrick…3:54 PM: A quick snack break between appointments.6:30 PM: Started on this cover-up. The client had to call it quits after a couple of hours through.9:08 PM: And that’s what causes me to get in trouble…9:08 PM: My buddy Patrick playing pool.9:22 PM: I may have attempted to abscond with one of the bar decorations…11:48 PM: Leaving JJ’s…
