It's the Great Pumpkin, Cuddles.

Cuddles strikes a happy Halloween pose.

My right foot - the pain continues

I am ticked off. I was supposed to have foot surgery yesterday. But, of all the luck, the doctor was sick yesterday, so no surgery. Now I have to wait til the 28th (which is my mom's birthday - lol) to have it done. So I have to continue to hobble around with my painful foot for a few more days. Go figure.

Look what I bought for myself - hehe

I have wanted a die cutting machine for just about forever. Michael's was having a 40% off sale on all their Sizzix products, so I caved and bought me one ... and some dies too :) Sales are so great! I can't wait to start using it!!!! Woo hoo. I am in craft heaven :)

Long time, no blog (again!)

Ok. This is so sad. I haven't posted a blog since August! Oh man. I am such a lazy ass! lol

Well, tomorrow morning is my foot surgery to remove this Tailor's Bunion I have and to realign my little toe. I am kinda dreading it, but will be glad when it's all over and my foot is all better so I can actually go walking for more than a quarter of a mile before the pain is too unbearable to go any further. Yes, that is the point I am at now. I was able to make it thru half a day at work before it started aching and hurting, and after work I didn't even want to go to the grocery store or anywhere else because it just hurt too much to do anything. But hopefully, by this Spring, my foot will be good to go again. I am thinking "Road trip" already - lol. Ah, the power of positive thinking

My foot pre-operation:
(warning: extremely UGLY foot!)




















I will be off work for 2 weeks. I just wish it was an actual vacation instead of 2 weeks laid up in bed and not being able to drive anywhere - grrrr. But oh well. I have plenty of craft projects to work on (Christmas will be here before I know it, and I have plenty of cards to make and ornaments to paint) and loads of files to unzip and organize. So I doubt I will have a lack of things to do.

I can't help but be a little nervous. After all, it has been at least 10 years since I have had any kind of surgery, and that was oral surgery. I guess I am just a scaredy cat after all.

Wish me luck!

Lots of me's - hehe

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I'm sharp! hehe

You are a Knife

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Long time no blog, part deux

Shoot, it has been a long time since I blogged. I have been busy road trippin' on the weekends. But with gas being over $4.49 a gallon nowadays, am gonna have to limit my trips to maybe 2 a month. And I already met my quota for this month - lol. But I am going to the Easter Sierras next month. Already have a campground reservation at Rock Creek, near Mammoth Lakes. I just love that place. The Little Lakes Valley hike is gorgeous! I can't wait to go! I wanna take a drive to Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite on the way back, because that place is absolutely beautiful.

You can check out my TRAVEL BLOG if you wanna check out the pictures I took on my recent trips.

I had some good news from the doctor. My MRI came back normal. Thank goodness. My back has been feeling so much better. Of course, now my knee has started hurting. But my doctor gave me a cortisone injection yesterday, and tho, while sore, it has already started to feel better. Now I have a freakin' bunion on my little toe, so I have to go to a podiatrist. But that ain't gonna stop me from that Little Lakes Valley hike. No how, no way!

I got a new car, too. A 2008 Saturn Aura, and I love it. My little Chevy Cavalier took me so many places, and I miss it, but my new car is bigger and has 4 doors, which makes it so much more convenient when I go grocery shopping....or any shopping for that matter. It has OnStar and XM Radio too, which are great. I had hit a big rock on one of my road trips (it was an unmaintained road that had a rock slide recently). Came around a hairpin turn and it was right in the middle of the road. I tried to stop, but was unable to avoid the rock, and it just messed up the poor Cavalier's transmission, oil pan and radiator. It was either hit the rock or go tumbling down the side of the mountain - lol. I am going to stick to the good roads in this new car from now on! No more rocky bumpy roads!

It has been hotter than the devil's crotch here in Bakersfield. Shoot! It was 112 or some ridiculous temperature last weekend. And it is setting up to be a blazing hot weekend this weekend too, with temps getting up into the high 90's. And with all of the wildfires burning in California, the sky is an ugly brownish color from all of the smoke. Yeah, it is just soooo lovely here in Bake-O.

Well, that's all for now. See you in another few weeks - lol.

Bork, bork, bork!!

You Are the Swedish Chef

"Bork! Bork! Bork!" Your happy and energetic - with borderline manic tendencies. No one really gets you. And frankly, you don't even get you. But, you sure can whip up a great chocolate mousse

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What Your Feet Say About You:

You are pretty average in your expressiveness. You can express yourself well, but you don't always want to. You are a very passionate person. You are highly charged and easily inspired. You are an assertive person at times. You'll pull out all the stops to get what you want, if it's worth it. You don't fall in love easily. It's hard for you to connect to people, and you don't have many attachments. You are not afraid of anything. You are brave and courageous, even when most people would be terrified. You are very practical and down to earth. You're more concerned with action than thoughts. You are an amazingly hard worker. You aren't spoiled and you don't mind getting your hands dirty. You are easily influenced by other people. You're quite impressionable, so you should only be around people who are a good influence.

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Your Slogan Should Be

Kimberly; What You'd Eat if You Lived on Mars

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Just when you have learned to live with something....

...something new comes your way. They always say, "when it rains, it pours." And ain't that the damned truth?

Well, I had x-rays done on Friday to see what was going on with my bones. I have been in so much pain lately. It hurts to walk. It hurts to sit. It hurts to lie down. It hurts....well, it hurts to live! lol.

The doctor called me back today. Ugh. You know it is never good news when the doctor calls you.

The doctor said there was inflammation in my spine. She can't rule out ankylosing spondylitis yet (basically it is a form of arthritis that affects the spine, hips, knees, etc, which could lead to spinal fusion and all that good stuff). I need to have an MRI. But she said there is a high probability that I have that, and that I will need to go on new meds (steroids and something else).

I had accepted the rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis and prepared for the road ahead. But this new possible diagnosis is really freaking me out. It sounds pretty debilitating and I am just not ready for that. I hope it isn't that. I hope I just hurt my back or something and that the pain and inflammation will go away. I am not gonna get too stressed out til I have the MRI and get the results. In the meantime, life will go on.

With a whole lot of pain, that is - lol.

Isn't getting older just soooo much fun???

Long time, no blog

I know it's been a damned long time since I have actually posted a blog, and I have no real excuse. I have been busy going on road trips on the weekends. But instead of going into detail on every darned place I have been, I am simply going to say that if you want to know where I have been or what I have been up to on the weekends, you can visit MY TRAVEL BLOG to see. I am not about to re-post all of my pictures - lol. I am somewhat of a photographaholic, you know.

I was so sick on Sunday and Monday that all I did was lie in bed and curse my fate. But I am feeling a whole lot better, and the weekend is nearly here, so I am already planning my next road trip. But with gas averaging around $3.71 a gallon here in town (and it is higher everywhere else it seems), my road trip days are going to have to come to an end eventually. But not before I see Sequoia National Park, Yosemite National Park, Mammoth Lakes, Mt Tamalpais, maybe the north rim of the Grand Canyon and a drive up to the Sonoma County area...lol

Yeah, I'm the wanderer. I roam around, around, around ;)

Been a' rambling...

I have been off on roadtrips most weekends, so not too much time to blog. But you can check out my other blog (click HERE) to see what I have been up to if you want :)

Sometimes you feel like a nut...

You Are a Hazelnut

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What Your Easter Egg Says About You

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...and the saga continues

Ok. Now I have 2 addresses in the DMV system too. Apparently I live here and in South Carolina. And I am a truck driver. I have never even been to South Carolina. And I have never even driven a pickup, let alone a damned commercial truck! lol

I tell you, it just keeps getting better and better.

I'm wanted....dead or alive

I am so pissed off!!! I have never been so mad in my entire life. Seriously!

It all started when I went to Death Valley National Park on Saturday. I left at 5 am, and I got to the park around 8:30 am. It started out as a beautiful day. The sun was shining. Not a cloud in the sky. I did a small hike in the sand dunes first, then I went to Scotty’s Castle and then out to the Racetrack (Which, by the way, is 27 miles of a rocky, bumpy dirt road), then to Ubehebe Crater. Boy was it cold up there!!! It was starting to get cloudy and windy, and I had to pee soooooooo bad, so I headed back. On the way back to Stovepipe Wells, I got pulled over by the park ranger because apparently I was speeding. I didn’t realize it, because I hadn’t seen a speed limit sign anywhere, and I was looking at the scenery and not at my speedometer. Well, the ranger proceeds to run my driver’s license and he comes back and tells me, to my utter shock and horror, that it had been suspended!! I was like, WTF?!?!?!?! He tells me it had been suspended due to failure to appear on a traffic ticket. In 2006! I hadn’t had a ticket since 2001. And that was the only damned ticket I had ever had in my entire life. I was dumbfounded! The park ranger was nice. He let me off with a warning. But he told me he could have had me arrested and my car impounded. I was so upset, I wanted to cry. I didn’t have a clue. Not this whole time. Apparently I had been driving on a suspended license for over a year and a half without ever having been notified. I asked the ranger how they could do that without even notifying me and he told me that California doesn’t always tell people this kind of thing. Again, more shock. Needless to say, my day was ruined. I stuck around the park and went to Badwater, Devil’s Golfcourse, Furnace Creek and Zabriske Point too, since, well, I was already there, but it just wasn’t fun. I drove the whole way home with my cruise control set to the speed limit. I was paranoid - lol.

But, wait, it gets even better.

So I called the DMV this morning. The lady there told me there was nothing they could do. The court had to take care of it. She gave me the number, and I called the court. The lady on the phone at the court told me that the ticket was for a mutilated or destroyed license, and that it was for a Kimberly Ann Perkins (That is NOT my middle name) and it was issued on a vehicle with South Carolina plates, and it was a big rig of all things! Do I freakin’ look like I drive a big rig?!?!?! The lady then told me that if a driver’s license is mutilated and they are unable to read the number, they send it to the DMV who then looks people up in their database who fit the name and date of birth. I guess I was the unlucky one, as this Kimberly Ann chick has the same date of birth as me. Of all the freakin’ luck!

She then tells me to go to DMV and explain the situation. So I took off from work and went to the DMV with my mom. The supervisor at DMV was an arrogant, rude beeeyotch. She treated me like I was a freakin’ criminal. Telling me that "how do I know you weren’t driving someone else’s car," and "you should have gotten something in the mail," and all this crap, basically trying to get rid of me. I was so pissed that I started crying (lol). And the lady was rude to my mom too. Ugh. She told me that the court had to fix this. Man, I was mad!

So, my mom and dad and I all went down to the court and spoke to them in person about this. I requested a hard copy of this ticket so I could see it. But I can’t get anything done about it til March 25th. I have to go before the judge and everything. All for something that I did not do!!!!!! I can’t believe this happened to me. But the supervisor at the court told me that DMV does this kind of thing all of the time. It is a scary thought.

So, now I have to have my mom take me to work and pick me up all week cuz I am too afraid to drive. I don’t want my ass landed in jail or something. It is so ridiculous! And just damned wrong.

So, be aware, all you California drivers. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.

Where is that damned Irish luck anyway? I want some!

I love spring!

I love spring! It isn't even officially here yet, but damn, I love it. The weather is finally getting warmer and with daylight savings time, the daylight is lasting longer.

And that is fine with me. I love it!

In the last 2 weeks, I have gone to a national park, a national monument, a state park and a wildlife refuge. Did I mention that I love spring?? Spring time means road trippin' time, and everyone knows I love a good road trip...even if it means driving all day and into the night. It gives me an excuse to use my camera. Not that I need an excuse or anything.

Anyway, I posted some pics of my trips on my blog. Click HERE to see them.

I plan on going to Death Valley this upcoming weekend. I heard it is purty out there right now.

I love spring!!! lol

mmm spicy!

You Are Cilantro

The bad news is that there are some people who can't stand you. The good news is that most people love you more than anything else in the world. You are distinct, unusual, fresh, and very controversial. And you wouldn't have it any other way.

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You Are a Question Mark

You seek knowledge and insight in every form possible. You love learning. And while you know a lot, you don't act like a know it all. You're open to learning you're wrong. You ask a lot of questions, collect a lot of data, and always dig deep to find out more. You're naturally curious and inquisitive. You jump to ask a question when the opportunity arises. Your friends see you as interesting, insightful, and thought provoking. (But they're not always up for the intense inquisitions that you love!) You excel in: Higher education You get along best with: The Comma

What Punctuation Mark Are You?