Happy Halloween!!

Mr. Squirrel here and I wish you a very Happy Halloween!

(Shhhhhhhh!!! Photo courtesy Avanti Press)

Woot!

Exciting news in the land of Naarah:

1) The fact that I have exciting news! Considering the shitty, shitty week I had last week, good news is more than good news, it's awesome!

2) Rob and I went to the U2 concert Monday night. It rocked (of course). We had nosebleed seats, but I didn't care. :-) They put on a good show. And a long one: 2-2 1/2 hours. Of course, due to traffic, it took us 2 1/2 hours to get there (that includes the half hour it took to find a bleepity-bleep parking spot at the Palace!)

3) I got a job offer Tuesday morning! It was only for part-time, seasonal work. But, still, it made me feel real good. It was demonstrating Kodak cameras at Best Buy for $14.00/hour. Too bad it wasn't full time. For that pay, I could learn to love Kodak cameras!

4) I had an interview yesterday (Weds) with an upscale jewelry store in Brighton. Everyone keep their fingers crossed for me! I would love to get back into the jewelry business! Not to mention the pay increase that would come with the job! I had to take one of those personality quizzes, though. I wonder what it will say about me. I worry that I may have similar issues with this categorizing as Carrie had. Still, I have lots of sales experience, I'm a kick-ass sales associate, and I have knowledge in jewelry and gemstones. They really need look no further! I'm their girl! I just hope they realize it.

5) My website is LIVE! It's not finished, by any means. But, I'm up and running. Check it out and tell me what you think:

www.fireandlightstudios.com

I hope my week continues to go well. I have a bird show on Saturday. Hopefully we'll sell all of them. ;-) That'd make me, Rob, my mother, and especially my father happy. That and winning the lottery would be nice. :-)

Old news...

I. HATE. MY. JOB.

That's it. Nothing else to report. My job sucks. I hate it. Really hate it. Need a new one. Now.

INKED!!

At last! The eagerly awaited photos of our tattoos!



The full view of my back tattoo: a sable ferret in mid-war dance chasing a butterfly. It spans my lower back







Close-up of the ferret (he's a cross between my boys, Chief and Ryker.)









Close-up of the butterfly.








Rob's tattoo of Penelope on his calf, which is based off of this photo. It's still a little red.












Close-up of Penny.

Reunions, Tattoos, and a Clean Apartment! Oh My!

So last week I got an e-vite for my 10 year high school reunion. Yes, it's been 10 years. Ten years since I left that hell hole, that place of four years of torture, and they think that I want to go back and see all of them? Like I'm going to pay to $60/person to go to the Italian Epicure see a bunch of people I don't like. Like any of them actually remember who I am, let alone care. I, personally, could care less. If I care, than I still talk to you. If I don't, then for 99.9% of you, go fuck off.

Since, we're going back in time, I got my first tattoo around nine years ago. It's a lovely little purple and yellow bearded iris on my left ankle. I got it at Splash of Color in East Lansing. On Friday, I got my second tattoo, and Rob got his first. We went to Spiral Tattoo on Packard in Ann Arbor. The owner, Leo Zulueta, is a world-reknowned tribal art tattoo artist. We were reccommended to him by one of Rob's co-workers. About a month ago we went in and talked to his partner, Diane, about what we wanted. She has us bring in pictures of our fur-kids, and went to designing. After a few sketches, we had what we wanted. Rob's tattoo only took about 45 minutes, an hour, to do. He got a caligriphy/tribal version of Penelope on his right calf. Mine took nearly two hours. By the end I was so ready for it to be over! Mine is on my back and is a stylized sable ferret weasel war dancing after a butterfly, footprints and all. It's all in black, the only color is on the butterfly. I'll post pictures after they've healed a bit.


And now the most shocking of all things: Rob and I have a relatively clean apartment! Well, clean for our apartment, anyway. Jennifer and Mike came over Saturday evening. Oh my, guests! And they had computer questions! That meant I had to find my desk under the piles of papers and cds and photographs. Wow, believe it or not, there really is a desk under all that! So, Rob and I cleaned, vaccumed, and tidied. When Jennifer and Mike came over we had Pizza Hut for dinner, then we computerized and camerized, and bounced with ferrets. Mike was loving the fur kids! He had all four of them in the tunnel at one point. Of course, what's not to love about those, bitey, pouncey, bouncey, adorable little fur kids? Ok, so Rob and I are biased. Jennifer thought the rats were adorable. Which, by the way, they are! All in all it was a good night. Then we get a call around 11:30; I had left my cell phone in their car when we went to dinner. Oy. So, the next day, on our way to Rob's mom's for dinner, we detoured to Northville to pick up my phone. Maybe I really do need yarn to tie everything to me! :) Or so, Rob says.

Well, I'm going to watch Supernatural now.