This week's challenge is for Pinwheels for Peace. If you get a chance, pop over to I am the Diva's website, do the challenge, then enter to win a set of Pocket Pages for your Zentangle tiles.
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Our interwebs went crazy last week.
Seems that when CenturyLink installed our DSL, they installed a "temporary" line running from the pole to the house. There's this thin orange cable running down the road (through the ditch and trees), across our driveway, around the back of our house and to the box on the side of the house. They were supposed to come out and bury this cable a few days after installation.
That was on August 12.
It has not been buried yet.
We've had road crews repaving our street and adding gravel and doing shoulder work the last two weeks. And last week, they broke the cable. Oh, they didn't tell us or anything. They just tried to twist it back together, then throw it up under some trees like it wasn't their fault. So every time the exposed wires would touch, the internet connection would go out.
A tech came out and fixed it last Saturday, so we finally have internet again.
As of yet, NO ONE has come out to bury that cable, despite us calling and bitching and CenturyLink claiming they've put a ticket in and someone should be out within 24 hours to bury it.
And we STILL have road crews working on this street almost every day. Who knows how much longer we'll have internet, if the crew cuts the cable again.
I have a few posts I'm trying to write, but it's been so difficult with the Little Man deciding not to take naps during the day EVER, and nursing CONSTANTLY. I'm pretty much tied to the couch feeding him, since he eats every hour, on the hour, all day, every day. It takes 30 minutes to feed him, he gurgles and kicks and squeaks for 30 minutes, then he wants food again. Not a pacifier, not formula... no he wants me, the all-he-can-eat walking dairy bar.
And don't tell me he's just going through a growth spurt. He's been doing this routine for the last three weeks. It was actually worse when he was going through a growth spurt -- he'd nurse for 10 minutes, doze for 5 minutes, then nurse again for 10, allllll day for about 3 days. Then he went back to the hourly feedings.
Supplementing with formula does no good. He can eat a good 6 ounces of formula, and STILL want Mom within 30 minutes.
I'm doing my best to give him what he needs, but there are days when I don't get to shower. Days when I feel guilty just for putting him down so I can go pee. Days when I don't eat until dinner because I can't disturb him or put him down long enough to fix something to eat, let alone eat it.
I hope it will get better soon. Mainly because I'm tired of smelling like a hillbilly from lack of bathing. And because I want to make a sammich and eat it all without dropping crumbs all over my baby.
And because I want to get back to blogging and photography and making MORE art. I still make some art because I can draw Zentangles while I'm nursing the Little Man, but I want to be able to make the scrapbook pages for him, and draw his nameplate for his room.
Seems that when CenturyLink installed our DSL, they installed a "temporary" line running from the pole to the house. There's this thin orange cable running down the road (through the ditch and trees), across our driveway, around the back of our house and to the box on the side of the house. They were supposed to come out and bury this cable a few days after installation.
That was on August 12.
It has not been buried yet.
We've had road crews repaving our street and adding gravel and doing shoulder work the last two weeks. And last week, they broke the cable. Oh, they didn't tell us or anything. They just tried to twist it back together, then throw it up under some trees like it wasn't their fault. So every time the exposed wires would touch, the internet connection would go out.
A tech came out and fixed it last Saturday, so we finally have internet again.
As of yet, NO ONE has come out to bury that cable, despite us calling and bitching and CenturyLink claiming they've put a ticket in and someone should be out within 24 hours to bury it.
And we STILL have road crews working on this street almost every day. Who knows how much longer we'll have internet, if the crew cuts the cable again.
I have a few posts I'm trying to write, but it's been so difficult with the Little Man deciding not to take naps during the day EVER, and nursing CONSTANTLY. I'm pretty much tied to the couch feeding him, since he eats every hour, on the hour, all day, every day. It takes 30 minutes to feed him, he gurgles and kicks and squeaks for 30 minutes, then he wants food again. Not a pacifier, not formula... no he wants me, the all-he-can-eat walking dairy bar.
And don't tell me he's just going through a growth spurt. He's been doing this routine for the last three weeks. It was actually worse when he was going through a growth spurt -- he'd nurse for 10 minutes, doze for 5 minutes, then nurse again for 10, allllll day for about 3 days. Then he went back to the hourly feedings.
Supplementing with formula does no good. He can eat a good 6 ounces of formula, and STILL want Mom within 30 minutes.
I'm doing my best to give him what he needs, but there are days when I don't get to shower. Days when I feel guilty just for putting him down so I can go pee. Days when I don't eat until dinner because I can't disturb him or put him down long enough to fix something to eat, let alone eat it.
I hope it will get better soon. Mainly because I'm tired of smelling like a hillbilly from lack of bathing. And because I want to make a sammich and eat it all without dropping crumbs all over my baby.
And because I want to get back to blogging and photography and making MORE art. I still make some art because I can draw Zentangles while I'm nursing the Little Man, but I want to be able to make the scrapbook pages for him, and draw his nameplate for his room.
Whew! My little Squeaky Burrito has decided to space out his feedings to every 2 hours today, and take naps in between. I can write another post! Woohoo!
This is my attempt at the Diva's Weekly Tangle Challenge. This week it's a monotangle of Paradox, suggested by Maria (one of the creators of Zentangle). At first Paradox made me angry because I could never get it to look as awesome as everyone else's tangles. After practicing with it many times, I'm finally getting the hang of it and starting to love it. Reminds me of Betweed, and in some areas, Sanabel.
I used one of my 'bleed-through' papers that I cut into tangle tiles a few months back. I love the colors of bleed-throughs, especially this one.
This is one of my first attempts (but I like it less, so I'm showing it second). There's no shading, but I may go back and shade it later.
This is my attempt at the Diva's Weekly Tangle Challenge. This week it's a monotangle of Paradox, suggested by Maria (one of the creators of Zentangle). At first Paradox made me angry because I could never get it to look as awesome as everyone else's tangles. After practicing with it many times, I'm finally getting the hang of it and starting to love it. Reminds me of Betweed, and in some areas, Sanabel.
I used one of my 'bleed-through' papers that I cut into tangle tiles a few months back. I love the colors of bleed-throughs, especially this one.
This is one of my first attempts (but I like it less, so I'm showing it second). There's no shading, but I may go back and shade it later.
After two loads of laundry and packing up all the foodstuff in the kitchen (leaving us enough food for the rest of the week), I decided to take a break. Just chill out. What better way to chill for awhile than by doing the weekly tangle challenge. This week's guest post was from Carol Bailey Floyd. She had us create a Zentangle environment where fairies would feel at home.
I'm hoping to do another one later tonight while catching up on episodes of Battlestar Galactica, but not sure when I'll be able to post them. Hopefully we'll be in the new house by the end of this week, and we may or may not have internet hooked up yet.
I'm just hoping that we get into the house before Ian arrives. All of his stuff (crib, changing table, clothes, food, diapers) is all set up in the nursery, while all of our junk is still over here! My baby's got a nicer pad than we do at the moment (and less dusty/piled with boxes).
Why is it that moving always kicks up the most dust and fur and dirt? We have hardwoods, and apparently, cat hair and dust just collects in the strangest places you wouldn't think to look, so when you start moving things, all that dust and hair comes poofing out.
I'm hoping to do another one later tonight while catching up on episodes of Battlestar Galactica, but not sure when I'll be able to post them. Hopefully we'll be in the new house by the end of this week, and we may or may not have internet hooked up yet.
I'm just hoping that we get into the house before Ian arrives. All of his stuff (crib, changing table, clothes, food, diapers) is all set up in the nursery, while all of our junk is still over here! My baby's got a nicer pad than we do at the moment (and less dusty/piled with boxes).
Why is it that moving always kicks up the most dust and fur and dirt? We have hardwoods, and apparently, cat hair and dust just collects in the strangest places you wouldn't think to look, so when you start moving things, all that dust and hair comes poofing out.
For this week's Tangle Weekly Challenge, we had an awesome string to fill -- a Zendela (the fusion of a mandala and Zentangle).
Here's my smaller one (3.5"x 3.5"):
I'm still working on the larger one on 8x11 paper, but can only do one little section at a time since my hands fall asleep after holding a pen for 15-20 minutes. I probably won't get it finished by tonight. :(
I did last week's challenge too, where we had to make a string of stripes and tangle those in, but I didn't get around to photographing and posting in time, so here they are:
Or rather, 22 weeks. :) Only 18(+/-) more weeks to go, and Ian Alexander will make his debut appearance!
This week is my first week doing the Diva's weekly Zentangle challenges. This week was perfect for me since lately (and in the coming months) I haven't had much more than 10-15 minutes to myself to work on art.
This week's challenge is 15 Minutes of Fame, where you set 15 minutes on a timer and do an entire Zentangle tile. Since most of my work is so huge, I admittedly freaked out, thinking there's no way I can do a tangle in 15 minutes! But then I read that a tile is supposed to be 3.5 inches square, so I relaxed a bit, drew some 3.5 inch squares in my sketchbook, and started tangling!
Excuse the horrible lighting/picture quality this time. We're in for some major storms tonight/tomrrow, and I can't get outside to take better ones right now.
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I didn't get a chance to finish this one. I never realized how time-intensive my favorite pattern really is!
This week is my first week doing the Diva's weekly Zentangle challenges. This week was perfect for me since lately (and in the coming months) I haven't had much more than 10-15 minutes to myself to work on art.
This week's challenge is 15 Minutes of Fame, where you set 15 minutes on a timer and do an entire Zentangle tile. Since most of my work is so huge, I admittedly freaked out, thinking there's no way I can do a tangle in 15 minutes! But then I read that a tile is supposed to be 3.5 inches square, so I relaxed a bit, drew some 3.5 inch squares in my sketchbook, and started tangling!
Excuse the horrible lighting/picture quality this time. We're in for some major storms tonight/tomrrow, and I can't get outside to take better ones right now.
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Three
I didn't get a chance to finish this one. I never realized how time-intensive my favorite pattern really is!
