I AM Painting

I'm working on a painting that I wish I could show progress pictures of, but like most of my paintings (the one's I actually finish, that is..) It is a commissioned portrait. And like most commissioned portraits, it is a gift for someone. Since I am always paranoid that the giftees a portrait is for might stumble upon any pictures I might post before they receive their gifts (from the gifters...I think I might be stretching grammar here..) I never post pictures until a portrait is finished and given to the end recipient.
So. All I can say is I'm having a lot of fun painting something different. And I hope to get more commissions of this nature in the future.


In non-art-related news: I got a kitten. I now have two dogs and two cats (and a horse and a turtle). I don't think that's too many. Just enough, really.

I kid.

Here's a picture of the new kitten. His name is Roman. He was born on the farm in Luther and I've posted a picture of him before. He likes to ride like this in the car:

Siri, You're Not Helping

This has been a stressful last couple of weeks. Good stress and bad stress. Lack of sleep. Anyway, since I got an iPhone at the beginning of the year I have found it unbelievably useful. It helps me remember some things. It's probably even useful enough to be worth the high phone bills. Siri, however, has been soooo un-useful.
She really makes me mad. Maybe different people get different Siris.
Or maybe she's just retaliating because I've been too mean to her. But I can't help get mad when she doesn't know where ANYTHING IS! (Ask her for gas and she'll take you to a gas station 9 miles away when there's one less than a mile from you...she doesn't know where any of the stores in Edmond are, she can't understand anything I say, AND she miss-pronounces my name!) Well everyone mispronounces my name so that one's kind of forgivable...

Transformation

This is how stormy looked when I met her. She hadn't been ridden in a while but was certainly not under-fed. Note her neck...(horses get a crest of fat on their neck when they are overweight). Her neck looked like a draft horse it was so thick. 

And here is a pic I took last friday after a ride (if that wasn't already obvious from the saddle shaped sweat mark on her back) Note how much more muscular her hindquarters are. and her neck..there's definition now! Her chest also looks very different. she has chest muscles now whereas before there was no definition there, and her neck just kinda merged into her chest. I was told by a new friend recently that I should try showing her in halter classes. which makes me sooo excited to think about.

Here's another picture...and in-between shot. Taken last summer. I just think she looks purdy in it:

Feeling Very Blonde

I hate it when I make air-headed mistakes. It seems to just confirm the whole dumb blonde stereotype, (also hate when I do something stupid driving-wise because it helps the whole women can't drive stereotype.)

So what did I do that was so air-headed? Well, lots of things...but lets see if you can guess what I'm actually talking about in this instance.
It has to do with my giveaway I had recently.

That's right. I forgot how many winners I was supposed to have! I feel so dumb....

So, without any further ado, in the order that random.org picked them....the OTHER FOUR WINNERS ARE.......

comment #19---Tricia Vaughan
comment #1----Tiffany Ann Grimm
comment #3----Jamie Shipman
comment #12---Nicole and Arlo

Meeting Notes

Grainy Small Photos

I had NO IDEA that I could instagram-ize any pictures in my "camera roll" until yesterday. I thought you just had to take the picture with instagram. I'm a little slow with technology stuff. So I've had fun since then. 

Stormy's muzzle-area is kinda old-looking and wrinkly and lumpy and whiskery and I love it. I don't kiss her on the muzzle, though. Not because that would be gross, because her whiskers are seriously itchy. I kiss her on the bridge of her nose instead.
And that is Katy the sweet mamma kitty and her two babies who are named Rascal and Dancer. Dancer is coming home with me in a few weeks (shhh!)
Next is one of the dilapidated houses on Main st. in Luther, Oklahoma.
And then Stormy again (the first time I saw that face I thought, she's so cute! Next thought was..wow...she's big.) And the last picture is Bella. Doesn't that face just cheer you up? Well it does me.

Winning!

And the winner of a kitten pillow is...

Comment #10, Annotations!

Thank you everyone who entered!