Posted on 01/09/2006 9:56:26 PM PST by Billie
It is! It is like therapy for me. I start working with something, like that little bear, and have not a clue where I am going with it. I just keep trying different things and playing until I like what I have. That is how I have learned photoshop, just from playing and experimenting. Haven't read a bit of the manual. The nice thing is, nothing that you do in these editing programs is permanent until you make it so and, even then, it can often be undone.
I am beginning to venture (again) into animations, but I find it frustrating and tedious, for some reason.
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Believe me, on my Clinic visit yesterday the 6 tubes of blood drawn and the IV infusion of iron monthly; and yesterday, the Hepatitis B vaccine and the tine test, were totally painless for me - well, with the exception of the Hepatitis shot having to go into a muscle, and that was not much worse than a mosquito bite.
The peritoneal dialysis nurses love to handle me, chatting away as they do their handiwork, and we laugh and joke.
The same was true of the 11 months of wound care, handling with aplomb the surgeon scraping clean with a currette all the places on the legs (2 to 7) each visit, for a time digging deep to extract gangrene from 3 of them. I dubbed the original bad one The Black Hole of Calcutta..:))
I have been on insulin injections since 1975 - for 9 years (1986-1995) pioneered the insulin infusion pump in North Carolina, without *any* improvement in control, conferring at any time I desired with my Endocrinologist across the street from the hospital where I worked 15 years - and as a rule every day since 1995 must give myself 4-5 or more shots, based on the results of each test of the blood glucose.
Every physician and dentist I've had throughout life has remarked on my unusual ability to be extremely compliant, and to handle pain/setbacks. I see them as God's provision for my particular walk.
It allows me to face the unknown without fear or "woe is me," standing firm on His promise that He will never forsake us...I indeed trust Him to always be acting for my own good, and for His, and know He will equip me with strength should my own falter...
He always has been there through decades of adversity and outright hardship, and I rest in that...
It is tedious, and it has to be more *exacting*, or the animation is jumpy. I have to be *really* in the mood to work on animations.
Of course, making wolfie's tail swish or his buttons pop is fun to do 'cause he knows just how to *work us*! LOL
Isn't that a sweet kitty face, and I love the mauve colors with her/him!
Now I have to go over to my MIL's house and start packing up all of her household and getting it ready for storage. This is a BIG job, but fortunately I am not under time pressure to get it completed. She has decided she likes it over at the assisted living center and wants to either sell or rent her house.
She has all of her "important stuff" with her in her new apartment, but I have taken a cursory look at what is left at her house and what lies ahead of me.....my goodness, she sure had a "thing" for Tupperware! I don't think there is one thing that company made that she doesn't have at least two of. LOL.
It is a sad job for me, I feel as though I am packing up her life - the things she collected over a lifetime. It makes me realize that her life is ending. I am trying not to get all maudlin about it, but when I come across things, like boxes of pretty cocktail napkins left over from days gone by, it reminds me how she love to entertain years ago when she was an officer's wife. I have to stop this or I am going to end up in tears. :-(
TTYL, friends.
I should have made a frame for the kitty graphic but was going with the tables you provided. Did have to change the font color, the one you provided didn't show up on the silver bg.
Ain't THAT the truth!!!
So pretty!
Thank you MEG. You've come a long ways since you started posting pictures at Christmastime. You're doing fantastic!
Try again? The color under the thumbnail was for the bgcolor - the last table - it was the exact color as the background of the kitty graphhic. :)
I have a weakness for it too! In fact, my MIL insists that I take anything I can use, so I have already brought some of it home. Probably will end up with most of it.
Sorry you're having to take care of the painful details, guess someone has to do it though.
Yes, and better me than JK. He wouldn't know where to begin, and, if it is this upsetting for me, I can imagine how much more difficult it would be for him. It just seems to be a job a woman should do.
Have a great day, Lil' Sistah. :-)
Oh, I hate to see her rent it, but guess I just feel that renters as a rule don't give a home the love and care that a homeowner would. I'm sure it's not true of all renters.
(((Hugs)))Packing up my mother's things was a really tough job. I put it off when she was in the nursing home..knowing she could never return. She had cleaned out through the years and still there was so much there to pull at my heart.
There was no storage ..just giving away to the family what she had designated and what she had not and the rest to the church. I kept some things that mean nothing to any one but me..my dad's old records, a dress she wore to my daughter's wedding, a pan I recall made particularly delicious meatloaf(It's not the pan that made it delicious).I am going to have to get rid of those old Britannicas I keep for sentimental reasons..
Well..there I go.I think I'll stop,too!
a pan I recall made particularly delicious meatloaf(It's not the pan that made it delicious)
It was that comment that "got" me.
I realize I am stalling. I should have been over there already, but I'm still here talking about going. LOL.
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I had to look at the "job" to get through it and I had to sell the house so I could settle her estate..I had no choice and that made it easier to make decisions, I think.
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