On Tuesday I went to my local Target store, because I needed my insulin before Sat. and did NOT want to be near a store or mall this weekend. I love holiday decorations & they were all over the store, so I was slowly making my way to the registers through the home section, which was filled with all kinds of Christmas stuff. After spending 15 minutes playing with snow globes, the next aisle had soft sisal squirrels, which had cute potential, but some of them looked as if they had eye infections. Another aisle had much nicer ones, white, with fluffy fake fur tails. Those came in sitting up pose and also with 4 legs on the ground. I didn't even look at the prices of any of them, because I was trying very hard to resist them(I did!). They also had some cute foxes and lots of deer in different styles.
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I joined a new book group a couple months ago after having to leave the one I'd attended for 16 years last summer. This one is closer actually, at a nearby library, but no one wears name tags and even though I'm recognizing faces, I don't know their names or they mine. This month's book was Barbara Delinsky's "Sweet Salt Air", which was an alright book taking place on a Maine island. The main character would go on walks after dark and a couple times the author had her seeing chipmunks in the woods at night. When the discussion turned to the author's accuracy about various things, I piped up & pointed out the chipmunk error. No one else noticed, so they were surprised & thought it amusing. It became a running joke in the meeting and one lady even told me I ought to email the author & tell her about it.
So, I know they are going to think of me as "chipmunk girl" from now on....
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My last craft show of the year is coming up next weekend, Dec. 7th and I can't seem to get things together. Part of that is because a lady who had seen my work online had been talking of buying one of my new pictures, but I haven't heard one way or another and I really need to know which ones to frame for the show. I'm also trying to prepare a demonstration piece and finish off a mini painting for the box of matted pictures. Both of those are almost ready, so I shouldn't be so concerned. My mother is scheduled to have cataract surgery on her eye on Wednesday and a friend is having another type of surgery on the same day. I know that's adding to the stress and feeling of disorganization. It's just going to be a bad week and I need to do what I can to get through it.