On to the Next Party

Lesley Gore passed away today.  That makes me sad.  I loved her.  I remember going to see her perform live in Boston with my parents as part of the Oldies 103 free concert series.  Oh swoon.  She was just wonderful.  For me the Holy Trinity is made up of Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark and Lesley Gore, now only Petula remains with us.  Luckily they will all remain with us forever and will always be held dearly.   She truly was special for me.

Happy Valentine's Day

I hope you all had a great Valentine's Day!  You are loved and so that makes every day wonderful and not just today.  In deciding what to post I thought I would put up an image of what is my heart.  I picked all the words and filled up my heart.  The results made me smile.  Tons of crap going on and things to work on but its ok.  I have a smile right now and that is wonderful.  Enjoy!

Follow the Signs to San Diego - Happiness is Calling

LOVE THIS!  It just came out and they did such a good job.  Looks great, sounds great and is fun.  Matt and Kym watch this!  Whoever they paid to do this, they really got a great return on their investment.  This so perked me up in a time when I wonder just why do I keep hanging in there.  Big smile.

Almost

My friend's mother passed away last year and my friend asked me to go through some the mother's stuff to see if it was of value.  I said sure, especially since now I have a lot of free time on my hands.  Well the other day she sent me a picture she found in the garage and asked me to look into it.  I could not find anything so I asked yesterday if there was a signature and so she sent me it to me.  It took a little bit this morning but I identified the signature of that of JH Sharp, a well know artist that was based in Taos, NM.  As I was looking around I found an article of someone who has a JH Sharp painting in their home, did not know the value, brought it to the Antiques Roadshow, and it was appraised it for $400.000.  I was like WOOHOO.  I was less excited about the value but more excited over possibly finding a treasure!  I love stories like that although I wish on one of my Salvation Army visits I could true Faberge egg or something like that!  Well long story short she sent me the original picture the other day and I only looked at it on my phone.  I did not realize that it was just a lithograph not a painting.  I said she still needs to have it checked out.  I know lithographs can do well also but there are so many variables.  I was still a bit excited but not as excited when I thought it was an actual painting.  In my text to her today I wrote, "I liked this game better when it was a $400,000 painting -lol".  Oh well :) 

Always A Challenge

When one door closes then another one opens.  I have kinda come to hate that fucking expression.  Things were really looking bright for 2015.  I thought I had finally gotten things lined up but now I no longer have my part time job.  Cut backs do to poor store sales and I am below part time and full time so off they sent me.  Although I did a good job I always knew I was totally disposable, everyone working there is just a number and they know it.  They get a regular customer satisfaction score and it was always in the toilet overall for the whole store even though I got numerous 10's (the best possible score).  One month I got 8 surveys on me rated as a 10.  Management does not want to see that since everyone knows they are nothing but a number it reflects in the overall score being sucky.  No one cares because they are not cared about.  Anyway I can't solve their problem and just need to focus on my own.  I am scared because the money really, really helped but I still have my full time job and it is going well.  I was getting tired of working so much so maybe the universe is saying I need a break.  I absolutely know I need to focus on my weight too as it is atrocious.  I can get by on my day job it just keeps me on a tight, tight budget which I am used to.  I do have eBay stuff I can post.  I can get back to that.  I enjoy doing that.  I dunno, so many doors but I will figure out which one to open.