Thursday Thirteen - 13 things I've been doing instead of blogging

Okay, been VERY busy the past couple of weeks so That's what I'll 13 about :

1. Sketching, resketching, etc...

2. Turning said sketches into finished drawings

3. Helping out with school bookfairs - I will never fully be able to quit this job :)

4. Stretching copious amounts of silk onto stretchers frames

5. Missing my Illustration class to do actual illustrations...

6. Painting finished illustrations onto silk

7. Listening to books on tape while painting

8.Gathering more paperwork for "the chase"

9. Traveling to NYC for Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

10. Meeting Tommie De Poala (sp?) - that's right

11. Scary critque from Art Director of Bloomsbury Press ( actually went rather well)

12. More travel

13. Work at the bookstore and general getting myself back together

So, that's what I've been up to and why I've been incomunicato for a while.

Thursday Thirteen - Things I Did Yesterday To Get Ready For The Home Visit

1. Took down 2 of the nude paintings in the house ( left three up but two were full frontal and in the Bible Belt you just never know...)

2. Got on my hands and knees to scrub the bathroom tile grout. How does cat hair get stuck there??

3. Made sure there were no Bubba boogers on the walls. Yeah, you read that. He can sneeze snot rockets from two feet above the baseboards to five feet. Gotta keep an eye out for that sort of thing!

4. Read, reread, and reread again the list of documents to be handed over.

5. Asked hubby to pick up muffin mix on the way home from work so the house would smell "muffiny" this morning. Didn't realize the muffin pan was rusted so made "muffin loaf" instead. It wasn't done before she left but the house smelled great!

6. Swept, swiffered, mopped the floors.

7. Actually moved furniture to make sure animal hairs were ALL GONE. Did I really think she was gonna look behind my dresser?

8. Repotted and trimmed (in one case tossed) house plants. Don't want DG seeing that I can't keep a plant alive. LOL.

9. Moved some furniture around- just a bit- so the house would be more Feng Shui. It does look more "harmonized"

10. Washed the bedspread in the guest bedroom (something I normally only do the night before guests arrive) so as to remove mounds of cat hair. All four cats immediately converged on bed for the rest of the day and night. Shit, that reminds me. I think I left a blanket in the washing machine overnight.

11. Cleaned off the back deck and washed the table out there. Now completely covered in snow.

12. Restacked the linens in the linen closet. Yes, I know that was anal.

13. Despite supposed diet ate a Take Five bar and then had frozen pizza for dinner (at 9:45pm).

One more thing checked off !!

The DG came for our Home Visit this morning at 7:30am. She drove through all of the snow and ice. What a woman. The visit was a lot easier than we thought it would be. She just walked through the house ( which was spotless due to my maniacal cleaning spree yesterday) and then we sat down and talked over coffee. Easy-peasy. Only one more visit to go and the Home Study will be complete. Now I must go and have MORE COFFEE :)