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Happy Birthday one day late, Wonderingsoul!  I didn't know about it til just now.  Hope you had a glorious day, today and forever.  Your friend in ice cream, Ubu ;~)

Thank you Ubu....while I didn't have any ice cream on my birthday, I've been told that it's perfectly acceptable to have a "birthday week" celebration.  So, there shall be ice cream!! 

At my age (almost 64), I find it is a good thing to have a full week's birthday, plus a half birthday, and any other time during the year when you want to celebrate!  Have that chubby hubby any old time, as long as you watch what you eat most of the time (I saw on your blog you have a diabetes "challenge").  Best to you wonderingsoul!!!!

Know what I had the other night?  Cinnamon Buns ice cream.  Caramel ice cream, cinnamon swirl, dough chunks....SO good.  It has been in the freezer for a few weeks now, and every time I walked past it was crying out "eat me", so I did.    I do need to watch it, as I have the diabetes "challenge" which also adds the weight "challenge" to it, along with a slew of other things, but diabetes isn't a death sentence either.  Gotta keep living.  So, since tomorrow is Wednesday, I think I'll celebrate that!    (Actually it's my last day on campus for class this semester, so that really is cause for celebration!)

Yahoo...yes, you need to celebrate.  I need to wait til I've seen the doctor next Thursday, before I have Chubby Hubby or Cinnamon Buns.  I've got, let's see, high blood pressure, high cholesterol (all under control, now that I'm almost 64) and also Graves' disease, which is supposed to make you skinny, but made me fatter instead.  My whole family has autoimmunes, including diabetes, and I wound up with the Graves' (my mother - Lupus, sister Graves and Sjogren's, other sister - diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and yadda yadda).  Yes, not death sentences, but we have to watch out.  Since there is Type 2 in my family, I have to really watch it also, but man, I get sooooo sick of plain old food with no treats.  In my next lifetime, I am coming back skinny with none of these "challenges" ;~)  Have a great last day on campus.  What are you studying?  My majors were anthro and psych, but with tons of art thrown in too - pottery and photography. 

I'm studying Human Services....kind of a Psych/Social Work kind of a thing.  I'm really passionate about working with domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse.  Ya know, those upbeat topics, lol.

 

Today I celebrated Mothers Day (I have a mother, even though I'm not a mother)....Dairy Queen. 

Good for you - your field of study.  I started out in social work, and did community organizing for a while, in an earlier lifetime.  Yeah, very upbeat topics and I understand.  That's one of the reasons I got more and more into artwork as I got older. 

 

Hope you enjoyed the Dairy Queen (with a curl on top ;~)  I can't wait til my yearly is over, this Thursday, then it is Chubby Hubby or that cinnamon thingie, for sure.  But darn, I got some kind of yukky cold thing from my unchubby hubby. 

The artwork plays a huge part in my field...or actually my agency.  I am an intern at a women's agency and they have a wonderful art program that's gotten a lot of local recognition.  Art therapy is a really helpful thing.  Have you used your art in the "helping professions" at all, or is it more of a separate career?

 

The DQ was alright....my tummy has been yucky lately, so I didn't enjoy it quite as much as I would have otherwise.  French Silk Pie blizzard.  Yum.  There was too many ingredients and not enough ice cream.  But....it was a nice treat.  I can't get used to it.

Back when I was really interested in art therapy, there was only one program available for me (1968), and it was at the University of Pennsylvania, which I couldn't afford.  Much later, I was once again interested, but was going more in the direction of ethnographic photography (anthropological photography).  Once again, there was only one program, and it was pretty far away from here, and I had two young children at the time and couldn't commute into San Francisco for it.  I had to make do with as many photography courses as possible, doing lots of photojournalism, as it was closest to ethnographic photography.  Then, after I finally graduated, at the age of around 45 or so, I wound up going into pottery and loving it.  I did that for more than 10 years, until my back couldn't handle it anymore.  I am retired now, and doing photography for fun.  My next lifetime, I will come back to do art therapy ;~)  Have you taken lots of art courses? 

 

Well, I wound up with a very bad case of the flu right now.  So Thursday, after my yearly (sick and all), I most likely won't even be interested in ice cream!  That's OK, I'll putit on hold. 

I don't have an artistic bone in my body!    Actually the only art I'm remotely good at is scrapbooking.  I do okay at that.  I'm alright at photography - my aunt takes incredible shots that could be professional, she actually did my senior portraits for high school....I wanted some outdoors ones, so she took a ton of shots and they turned out amazing.  Me?  I take pictures of my cat.    I can't draw to save my soul, nor can I paint or sculpt.  I'd probably suck at interpreting art too.  My cousin - the daughter of the photographer aunt - was going to go to college for art therapy...she actually attended Milwaukee Institute of Art Design (?) for a semester but she ended up moving out to Arizona to be with her boyfriend and is graduating in Women's Studies.  She's still very interested in Art Therapy and I think it'd be an amazing career for her.  She's fantastic at it.  It's just not me....My stick people suck! 

 

I hope you feel better soon!!

I have a VERY different opinion about your art abilities, based on this wonderful wiki page.  You don't have to be able to draw to have artistic abilities, but just have a sense of design, color, etc., which I really think you do.

 

 

lol, um.....I didn't make those two graphics.....my friend butterflikisses did.  She actually does a lot of collages for art therapy.  I can tell you that I did make snuggs layout, including background, but that wasn't too difficult. 

Oh cool...I'll go to snuggs when I feel better (flu) and check hers out.  Well, butterfli did a great job here for you.  I don't even know how to mess around with my wiki page ;~)

Be warned, it's not that great.  Hope you feel better soon!

Messing with your wiki is much like posting pics on your blog if you know how to do that.  You just have to click on the spot at the top of the wiki page that says "Edit Page Content" right below "ubu13's Wiki Page".

Cool.  I will try to mess with my wiki page.  Just got back from my women's yearly with el-doktor and everything is copacetic.  And - tada - I had my chubby hubby.  Very Pennsylvanian (which is where i originated)  As people there eat pretzels with ice cream.  Next time, I will just have the real things (pretzels) and ice cream.  That way you get them fresher ;~)

 

I'm feeling a tad better today and maybe if it cools off around here, I will have the energy to look at Snugg's pages.  It's like 101 here.  We're having the earliest heatwave and fires that I ever remember in all the 35 years of living in Northern California! 

Have fun, go nuts!  (if you're like me, it's a short trip!  )

 

Wasn't the Chubby Hubby good?

 

I'm glad you're feeling better!  Hope it cools off soon....

Yes, it was a short trip ;~)  Got my fill of chubby hubby and now ready to move on.  The really good news was that all my blood tests were excellent - my thyroid was good, no diabetes (yay, as my sister and brother have it), cholesterol good, etc.  Yahoo!!!!

Whew...it was 101 yesterday and it looks like it is going to be that way for several days.  No air conditioning here either, as we usually have very few days like this and no humidity.  But truly, the climate is changing.  The last few years, we've had periods where we had heatwaves for 11 days in a row (before, there would only be 3 days, and the fog would come in from the ocean).  And we broke records for this date!  Ack...but, my virus is better.  The doc said it wasn't a cold but some kind of rhino-virus????  Or something like that.  Anyway, some nasty cruddy stuff going around.  Thanks for asking.  Hope all is well there and you are finished school?

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Hey babygirl, I hope you enjoyed your day today!!! Lots of hugs love ya bunches michelle

The blog land is buzzing with excitement over your birthday!  Hope it's a lovely one!  =)

LOL, I noticed a few blogs out there....thank you for the wishes!

Happy Birthday!

Thank you!!

That was a wonderful video you made of Amelia.

It was a Video Prayer of Thanksgiving.

Thank you...I think I prayed the entire time I made the video too.