Some people just piss me off. Some might say what's the big deal? It's not really... just a mtter of principal I guess. And dammit, we're paying for it.

Friday is trash day. Each unit gets a 90 gallon can, and if they wish, 3 recycle bins. We produce usually one kitchen bag full in a given week. And, some recycle stuff of course. Well, last week( I saw it but it didn't register really), and now tonite, someone has added some of their trash to our can. WTF??? I know.. and it's not like there is no room for our one small bag... but dammit, it's ours and we pay for it. We do our part to recycle to reduce our trash, other's should do the same and they wouldn't have such issues as not enough room in their 90 gallon can. Maybe I'm wrong about the size. I can't find the bill ...wait... looks... here it is... it's a friggin 96 gallon can !!!

So yeah. It pisses me off. I dont know if it's someone here who has no room in theirs, or if it's someone in the units behind us, or someone driving in here looking for somewhere to dump their trash for free.

Next week I wanna find a way to stop them. My first thought was plastic wrap over the opening. Or cardboard telling them I know what they're doing... something. Then after that, I think our can may just have to go in the garage.

Ok, I'm going to bed now. After I fold the clothes on the bed... I hate folding clothes... sigh.................

So I've ditched my old ways of editing pictures.. no more Adobe photoshop and stuff. I now have Jasc Paint shop pro 9, Annimation, Studio, and photo album deluxe 5. I have no excuses for not getting to work on making some great pictures now. I'm excited too. I mean look at the fun I had with the simple free downloaded program... I should be able to produce some awesome shit now... Well, I have to learn a little. Wait, alot. But that's okay. I'm excited to learn it and play around with it. (big thanks to my daughter & eBay)

One of the things I look forward to making is a photo album CD for my mom. That may have to wait a little tho. Since the season is coming fast, I need to work on a some gifts first.

Speaking of gifts... holy shit. I printed that one picture for my Mimi last week. Well, I got a simple (plastic even) frame with glass for it. I took it to the local store that packs and ships. I dont have the right boxes here at home. So... she tells me what all has to be done to it cuz of the glass. Including shipping, it cost me over 35 to send it. I about freaked out. She was telling me that pictures are one of the most expensive things to send. So..... I need to frame them from now on with a plastic film or plexiglass or something. I refuse to spend that much to ship a simple picture. I only did it because I didn't want her to wait forever to get it. Her birthday is Saturday, and as it is, this wont get to her until Wednesday. 2 day service was outrageous.

So... I went on eBay.... yea, I know... bad me. I was well behaved tho. I was looking for frames to see if there were any in the sizes I needed (12x18 or 8x12) but no luck. I did find some people who sell matting for cheaper than the stores, even with shipping. So that was cool. I dont know what I'm going to do about frames. I may have to resort to poster frames, with matting or something, for now. What ever I get, that will end up mailed... will not have glass...

Ok, I think that's all for the moment.

You know, having PMS is never easy on me anymore. I get all teary eyed over nothing. I cry at sappy commercials, and tender moments on TV. I stop and think how much I miss certain people, and I cry..... I hate being overly emo for this week.

Losing one of the greatest wrestlers, Eddie Guerrero, doesn't help. I cry. I get all choked up. You can't really explain it to people, and they can't really say or do anything if/when you tell them why you are in such a state. You can't say "I'm sorry for your loss", it wasn't anyone I knew personally, or family. But I bet there are a countless amount of family, friends, and fans in mourning today after the loss of Eddie yesterday morning. It was all over the internet, GJ comms, and I'm sure water coolers and work places all over. We lost a legend. Not one like Elvis, but in his own right, a legend nonetheless.

I've watched wrestling for years now. I feel like I lost a good friend yesterday. There is a lot of soap opera stuff on these shows, but there is some glimpses into their real lives as well.

Now, as I sit here, I'm watching and recording the WWE Monday night RAW. Everyone is sharing their thoughts & feelings on Eddie. They opened the show with Vince. They rang the bell, 10 times (?) in his honor, while the crowd stood in silence. I dont know how the guys can wrestle tonite. The tears in their eyes are real.

Ok, back to recording and doin some around the house stuff.

 R I P Eddie 1967-2005

I made this one for my grandmother's birthday. Can't wait to see how it comes out in print. I blew it up to 12x18 and get to pick it up later today. Then I'll frame it, and send it off asap. I'm thinking a black frame would be striking.. yes?

Tootsie Roll Pop

It only takes three licks to get to your center!

But this is just a lil perverted... or is it just my mind??

This is copy & paste from my GJ. let me know if you can't go see the pix.

I was messing around with Fast Stone Image Viewer 2.27 which I uploaded for free earlier last week.

See, I accidentally deleted my ACDViewer thingie a few weeks back thinking I didn't need it since I had other ways to view pictures on my computer. Well, now I have to open a viewing program to see images. I can't just double click on images to open and see them.

But anyways.... what ever.

I have this new viewer now and I like the fun you can have with it. Check out my fun stuff folder on GJPix. Yes.. I uploaded some to here for a change. All I did was do some color enhancing on some and I played with the frames they have. I like em. They have 94 different effects for framing. Pretty cool I think. I used the same frames on several, but I think they just fit. I'll have to play with more pix and try the rest of the frames too.

Anyways, I'm babbling. Go see my new pix and tell me what you think.

http://gallery.greatestjournal.com/thumbnails.php?album=358126

This friggin sux ass. Since early this evening, my internet has been messing up. I have no idea if it's my connection, or what. I can get to some things, but not others. The site I get my email thru, I can't get to, which means I am not able to get ANY email. That sux ass big time cuz i have a couple eBay things expiring that I'm bidding on. I can't get to eBay either. Sigh. I tried unplugging the modem and router, and pluggin em back in. nothing. I did a virus scan, a system defrag... Turned everything off, and back on... I'm out of ideas. Maybe by morning things will have corrected themselves. Let's hope so or I'll be sooooo upset. I even got my laptop out and tried from there. Same problems. This makes me think its not my computer. Which to me, is a good thing. For once it's not my fault? Seems like it.

Other than that, I'm just kinda here. A friend on here says people are all in some kind of funk. After thinking about it, I have to say she's very right. I have to include myself in that too. I feel like I'm in a funk too. I know if I had a way to get around, or some friends to hang out with, or some photo work, I'd be much better. But, I dont have any of that.

Let's hope I dont lose all this when I hit the update journal button LOL

Other than this crap, I'm not doin all that great. I'm worrying alot. We have a dwindling savings account that is not goin as far as we need it to. And we're going to have to shell out 500 for our deductable for the dang car crap from a few weeks ago. Then, we need to find another car so we have 2 and I wont be stuck home. There goes more money. We want to try to save a little so we can have at least something to put down on a house when we can. Looks like I'll have to go flip burgers or something if somethings dont change soon. Hubby does get a raise in a little while. That should help a little.

I'm so lost sometimes. i feel so useless sometimes. I feel alone. Sad, yet happy. No, it's not the hormones either, I dont think. Just how I've been feeling lately.

Oh well. My thoughts are so jumbled these days. I'm gonna go for now and hope when I get up the internet in my world has straightened up.

My home page thingie is Verizon now that we use them for our service. Ok, whatever.... It has my daily horoscope on it. A quick review and an overview one. This is what my overview said for today.....

Someone new, exotic and extremely different from anyone you've ever known is due to cross your path, and soon, too. If they turn out to be a coworker, expect to learn a lot from them -- and not just about work-related matters, either.

I doubt it'll be a co-worker since we dont have a dependable means for me to get to a job right now. But hey, I'm all for meeting new folks. Especially ones as described above.

So last weekend we went out to do some shopping. On the list was a loaf pan so I can make some bread...

We were also looking for some exercise equipment. Which brought us into ShopKo. We stroll thru the store and into the kitchen section. So, not only do I find my silicon loaf pan.... but it was 60% off. I bought 2. Along side was some Anchor Hocking frosted bakeware too. 40% off. So I got a slightly bigger glass pan too. I'm so easy to please. 15 bucks and 3 pans. I'm all set now. Woo Hoo. I made the bread last night. It was yummy. And I love how it just popped out of the pan. Now thats nice. I just may have to invest in some more silicone bakeware. I bet it would be nice to have a muffin pan too. And mabye a mini muffin pan. No more wasting money on the lil paper cup thingies when makin cupcakes. They'd pop right out too. And the cleanup was super easy too. All around very nice so far.

I have to watch for the potholders to go on sale too. I want some of those. And maybe a couple of utensils.

We didn't buy any equipment tho. Looked at several stores for an elliptical trainer and a home gym type thing. We figured in the long run, its cheaper than a gym and we can both use em at our leasure, on our time table. Now we just have to decide on one and buy it. I hate choices sometimes. We're also looking at the Ab Lounger Sport. The sucker sure works. It looks too easy.. but thats just not so.. LOL.

So I've had my photographs sitting out for awhile now in hopes of organizing them, getting them into albums, and finding work within the piles, pages and envelopes suitable to begin my portfolio. We decided rather than have all the SCA pictures amid ours, I'd make a separate album. I just finished that. 53 pages, which have 318 pictures on them. Whew. Now I get to work on our pictures. I really wish I'd dated a few things better. I've got to remember to do that in the future.

And I wish I had all the same type of albums. Dunno why, I just like it that way. Oh well. And now that I've gone mostly digital, I have to remember to keep printing out pictures still. Having them on the computer, or hosted on some site is nice, but they'll never replace a photo album in my opinion. It's nice to be able to pick up a book and flip thru it. Especially on cold nights when there is nothing on TV, or when the power is out and you need something to do. Or when friends or relatives come over and you want to just sit and share your memories. I think technology is great, and the fact we can share our memories online rocks. I just hope it doesn't replace completely the real album and printed pictures.

So now I face putting the pictures we've taken since December 2003 until now, into albums. And I really need to from now on remember to do it on a regular basis. Like, when I get the pictures, sit and put em in there, right then. But wait, that would make sense huh? All I can do is try....

Well, I finished the first while watching/taping LOST. Guess I'll work some more while I now watch/tape Invasion.

Sigh

Something sure smells good. The slider is open and I can smeel somebody is baking something. Gawd it smells good. I had taken a box bread mix out. Pillsbury banana bread. Was gonna make it tonite. No, I'm not. Not until I go to the store and buy a new loaf pan. The ratty one I had, I left when we moved. I never bought a new one yet. Guess I'll go to the store in the morning and find one. Cuz now, I want a slice of bread, with butter. Yummy. And a cup of hot tea.

Maybe I'll go ahead and buy one of those cool silicone pans. Been wanting to try them anyways. I want one of the mini muffin ones to make jell-o shots in. hehehe.

Ok, I'm off to find something suitable to substitute for the bread for tonite.

So, I'm sitting here, and taping the TV in there. Wrestling is on tonite. I just saw a commercial for Wrestlemania XXII. It's not til April 6th 2006. The commercial was showing all the crazy folks who wait in line and how long they'd been there. Not to mention how far they flew.

It's sold out. Didn't say how long it took, but it's 7 months away. Wow.

http://www.americangothicdvd.com/

I loved that show soooo much. It was such a shame it got cancelled without having a real chance. I bet if they brought it back, it would work now.. But that would require the same actors and everything so I doubt it.

We have some huge ass walls in here. Mostly just the living room and dining area. I'm tryin to hang some pictures we have. So you know those prints you buy that are in the thin black plastic frames, but look cool anyways? I have 3 that are 16x20. Normally thats a nice size. Not on these walls!!! So they are Ansel Adams B&W prints. One is hung wide, the other two tall. I also have a colored (kinda dark tho) print that is 22x28 and hangs tall. Can I put them on the same wall? You know, seperately, yet on the same wall? The bigger print kinda off by itself and the Ansel Adams ones kinda grouped together... Goddess knows I can't afford huge ass prints to "fill" the wall space.

Ok, I'm gonna go start dinner for when hubby gets home. Guess these will wait till tomorrow. Once I have some hung, I'll take pix and share.

so.... besides putting your pictures here on GJpix...

what photohost do you guys use? I've got a buddy building me a couple sites that I'll be able to put pictures on. Until they are ready, I'd like somewhere to put somepictures I wanna share with some folks and forums.

So what do you all like??

http://www.milehighkit.com/makelovenotwar

It's funny... I dont do politics, but had to click the link.. it made me giggle.....

not to mention the neat kit the site sells is pretty cool too.

I'm going to do this in baby steps this time. Maybe then it will work. Moving forward. Doing something worthwhile with my time.

Last night I bought the rights to www.nicolecastille.com for me. After talking with a neighbor, and a new friend, taking pix has again come to the forefront of my life. I was told I am a professional photographer. Why I asked? He tells me that if I take pictures for others, have worked as a photographer, and sometimes forget to have fun because I'm too busy taking pictures.. then I'm a professional photographer. Well, something like that anyways. I do enjoy it. Alot. I see pictures where ever I go. I love to capture the beauty of nature in a still moment, frozen forever in time. I enjoy taking pictures of people, those who want to be photographed.

Anyways, I'm going to make that domain my online portfolio. I'm going to get business cards printed and start circulating flyers. All of it will be slow, but thats ok. Slow and steady is better for me than diving in and losing steam.

I have ideas. One is to advetise party pictures. You know how it goes. Your child or some family member has a party, for whatever reason. Someone always ends up being stuck taking pictures and not being able to enjoy themselves. Let me step in. I'll take the pictures of the party. Everyone else enjoy the fun... Sound cool?

I'm also going to work on pet pictures. Pictures of just your pet, or family pix with pets. I know it's a hot thing nowadays.

Another avenue will be casual sport pix. Your child, or you, in their sport team uniform with any accessories. I know there are companies that specialize in that. Well, this would be more casual, but good enough for family and friends, and hopefully cheaper. This would also include racers. We have the Wenatchee Super Oval here.

so thats a start. I'm sure there is going to be competition. That's fine. But I think there is enough room for all of us.

My digital camera will allow me to take pix and blow them up to 16x20 without showing any pixelation. That's plenty big. I'll have to invest in a few more memory cards, and some other things, but thats okay too. Slow and steady.....

Another thought will be to find classes, and books, and software. I want to be able to offer your pictures on CD. A digital photo album. Like flipbook. A friend uses that and recommends it.

So, any help out there... I'll welcome anything you may have to offer, advise wise, software wise.. anything.

Oh, and I'd love a good icon that has a camera in it or something cool. Something to use for these types of posts...

OMG.... what a show. The series premiere was on tonite. I cried. She's got a special gift that allows her to see spirits who have not yet moved, or crossed over. Tonite she helped a soldier from the vietnam war go home.

Now, I'm an emotional person to begin with, and then you give me an emotional show... I really cried. My hairs stood on end... I got all choked up. Sigh...

I firmly believe in them. I've seen spirits. Felt them. But I've never communicated with them directly.

What a cool show. Can't wait till next week.