GJ Willis' Art Notes

I’m doing overtime again this Saturday. I hope to make it into work around 8AM. Then after I get out hopefully I will start the second phase of my Christmas shopping.

I still have no idea what I will be giving 15 people. I saw these boxes of cookie which were nicely priced. Then I saw these boxes of chocolates which were also nicely priced. Cookies or chocolates? Would buying these offend anyone?

I already bought the the candy canes that I put on the Christmas cards for co-workers. This year they’re Starburst flavored.

My niece and nephew’s presents will be the usual, cold hard cash. I promised my nephew, Little David $300 which is what I gave him last year. I guess I’ll give his sister, Alexis $150, she’s an adult and she works and goes to school.

She’s also a young 20something breast cancer survivor. She told me last week that she noticed that she was gaining a little more weight. I suppose this is a good thing she didn’t sound upset about it. She’s always been skinny. Her mother, my sister used to model. Not to mention her father’s sister also used to model. So her natural body disposition is on the slim side. She had clothes last year that she couldn’t fit into now she can because she gained a little more weight.

I’m not quiet sure if I should give her sister, Arlesea anything for Christmas. In years past when I asked her she would usually say to just buy something for her daughter, Adrianna. This of course irks me a bit. Of course I’m going to get something for her adorable 4 year old daughter but what does SHE want....

WHAT I’M WEARING: Today, I have on the paisley print mock turtleneck along with black slacks and black canvas shoes.

I have to get around to buying some winter shoes. The blue suede booties I own are getting raggedy. I’ll have to buy another pair of all purpose winter booties.

It almost looked as though I would be late this morning. The bus was five minutes late. I had to hustle to get to the light rail station in time. When I got to the stop it took a while for the train to come. I guess it was lucky for me that the train was late as well.

OVER WORKING?: I’m not quiet sure if I’ve been overworking. Yesterday was the Christmas party at the old office building our company used to occupy. As according to ritual I stayed late. I debated on whether or not I should go. I decided not to but stayed late.

WHAT I’M WEARING: Today, I have on a blue striped mock turtleneck along with black slacks and beige Muppet shoes. I wanted to wear the black canvas shoes but they were still wet from the rain last night.

The #20 bus was on time this morning. It was being driven by the stern looking woman. The light rail train was also on time. It looks like I will be on time this morning.

WHAT I’M WEARING: Today I have on this striated green sweater with a white turtleneck underneath along with blue jeans and black canvas shoes.

Today my usual bus the #20 came a few minutes earlier than usual. I caught the next bus after that #2. I had to jog down the street to catch the light rail train on time. The train station looked a little more crowded than usual. All in all it looks like I’m going to be on time this morning.

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING PHASE I: Yesterday, I officially started my Christmas shopping. I went to The Gallery at Harbor Place. I started off wanting to get change so that I could buy snacks from out of the vending machine at work. I wanted to get something inexpensive like incense. I went into the Necessities variety store. I only saw incense for close to 4 bucks. They were imported from India.
I wanted to get change for a 5.

I tried to decide between getting cookies or chocolate which ever was less expensive. I think I may have worried the clerk in the store. He went around the back and fumbled around with sodas I got the feeling he was shadowing me. I ended up getting a pack of Snackwells vanilla cream wafer cookies total Weight Watchers point total 5.

Then as I was leaving I noticed that they had a number of cute figurines on sale 50% off. These would make really great Christmas presents for my coworkers.

Afterwards I went to Bath and Body Works. I bought a candle for Linda. The candle is exchangeable. So if she doesn’t want it she can just exchange it for something else.

WHAT I’M WEARING: Today it’s allegedly supposed to be getting up to the 60’s. So I came to work wearing a light fall jacket instead of my heavy winter coat. I feel chilly like I should not have bothered listening to the weather people.

I have on the long sleeve lavender pullover, blue jeans and black canvas tennis shoes. After Christmas I suppose I’ll go on a shoe and clothes buying rampage. I love how all the prices go down after Christmas. This is the main reason I have a lot of green long sleeve blouses and sweaters. Apparently green isn’t a very popular color for clothes in Baltimore. Hence, they can be found in abundance on the January after Christmas sales rack.

Today, is Pearl Harbor Day. The anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This is the attack that got the US into World War II. Today is also the first day of Hannukah.

Right now it’s cold and rainy outside. Luckily, the bus and light rail were both on time. It looks like I’m going to be on time as well.

HEART PALPITATIONS: Recently, I’ve been suffering from these heart arrhythmias were I can feel my heart beating. I’m not overly exerted when it happens. I could just be sitting down and my heart starts to race out of control. I think this may have been caused by drinking too much caffeine in order to stay up late to do overtime. I will for a week or so limit my intake of caffeine to see what happens.

This last happened in September. I took out caffeine and my heart rate went back to normal.

Then again this whole thing could be stress related. I’m probably stressed out from working six days a week. For all I know it could be a combination of stress and caffeine.

All in all if this dosen’t clear up by the end of the month I guess I’ll have to see a cardiologist.

WHAT I’M WEARING: I have on a dark blue mock turtleneck pullover, blue jeans, and black canvas tennis shoes.

This morning the bus was late. There were five people standing on the bus stop including the female bus driver. This was an unusually large group of people.

Some how I managed to make it to the light rail on time. Luckily the stop light had just turned red. There was only one other person aboard the train.

I suppose a large majority of buses will be late this morning. I guess a majority of drivers must have done overtime this weekend and feel too tired to start up again for another go of bus driving.

WHAT I’M WEARING: Today, I have on blue jeans beige Muppet shoes and a purple mock turtleneck pullover. This is the one that has lavender and beige colored leaves on it.

I did something today that I never did in my entire life, I went to church.

I went to The First Unitarian Universalist Church of Baltimore. Like I’ve written before they are a very liberal church. So I can go there and not have to renounce my primary earth based religion of Wicca.

They were having a Winterfest service. From the description of it on their website it sounded like it might be fun. I figured it would have the feel of an elementary school play. I was right.

For a long time the Baltimore Unitarian site looked screwy on my computer. I finally gained access to their website yesterday when I noticed a sign on their homepage that said that the page worked for Mac computers that used Mozilla. Luckily, I downloaded Mozilla sometime last spring. So I switched over from Internet Explorer to Mozilla to view the site, found there list of services and the rest is history...

As I looked around the church I wondered how many had decided go there like me because they read up on Unitarianism on the internet and in books. After the service I noticed that they had free packets of peanut butter cookies out in a basket. I wonder if they’ll still be some there next week?

WHAT I’M WEARING: Right now I have on blue pajamas and blue fuzzy slippers.