Laws to Remember

I needed to google directions to a location this past weekend and just needed to say how incredible street view is.  I knew immediately as I went past the location that I had missed it and immediately turned back.  Even though I'd never been there before, it was as if I had been!  The wonders of technology!

And these 'Laws to Remember' are hilarious, enjoy!

 1. Law of Mechanical Repair - After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

2. Law of Gravity - Any tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

3. Law of Probability - The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.

4. Law of Random Numbers - If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal and someone always answers.

 6. Variation Law -  If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will always move faster than the one you are in now (works every time).

7. Law of the  Bath - When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.

8. Law of Close Encounters - The probability of meeting someone you know increases dramatically when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

9. Law of the Result - When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.

10. Law of Biomechanics - The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

11.. Law of the Theater & Stadium - At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle, always arrive last. They are the ones who will leave their seats several times to go for food, beer, or the toilet and who leave early before the end of the performance or the game is over.  The folks in the aisle seats come early, never move once, have long gangly legs or big bellies and stay to the bitter end of the performance.  The aisle people also are very surly folk.

12. The Coffee Law - As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

13. Murphy's Law of Lockers - If there are only 2 people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

14. Law of Physical Surfaces - The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor, are directly correlated to the newness and cost of the carpet or rug.

15. Law of Logical Argument - Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

16. Brown's Law of Physical Appearance - If the clothes fit, they're ugly.

17. Oliver's Law of Public Speaking - A closed mouth gathers no feet.

18. Wilson's Law of Commercial Marketing Strategy - As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.

19. Doctors' Law - If you don't feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there you'll feel better..  But don't make an appointment, and you'll stay sick.
 
 

Sunday Sketches - Dove

Welcome to Sunday Sketches! Please visit the other talented participants!

This 9 x 12 acrylic is called 'Dove Landing on the Rocks'. It's based on a fabulous photo by Jim Steele pictured below.  I was pleased to get his permission to paint it.  Jim also photographs the daily sunrises on Canada's East Coast where he lives and I'm on his email subscriber list.  Isn't that a neat observation he made?

Jim Steele

Too Helpful

My daughter L had her 20th birthday recently and this is the gift I got for her. It's a Katy Perry fragrance and some tangerine nail polish because I think it's the colour of the season!

So my girlfriend S gave me these flower plants and they were doing so well,
I didn't even have to water them due to the recent rain. So I go out to
check them and at first I thought the rabbits had got to them, but no, my husband M mowed
them down thinking they were weeds. urgrhhh! Hopefully a few of them will survive. He's
done this before.  S said these flowers grow really tall like sunflowers but she doesn't know
the name as she had originally got them from a neighbour.

Paint Party Friday - Mother's Day Card

For Paint Party Friday, I made a card for Mother's Day. I'll actually give this one to my mother. It's on cardstock paper (9" X 5 1/4").

Please do visit the other participants in this ever growing art co-op.

ColonSentry blood test

So I got a Mother's Day gift, some pretty tubes of hand cream in various flavours for my mom this year. I paid an extra 50 cents for the wrapping which will be donated to an environmental cause.

And when I was at the lab the other day doing some tests, I noticed this ColonSentry blood test that is now being offered for testing colon cancer. Based on the results, you can decide if you actually need to undergo a colonoscopy.

Pretty Pathway and the Sample

 I took this photo on a walk a couple of weeks ago.  The trees likely have a lot more leaves on them by now.

Pretty Pathway

My mom and I went for routine fasting blood tests at the lab last week, as a result of our annual physicals at the doctor. We also had to leave urine samples. My poor mom went to the washroom but forgot to actually collect a sample! So the technician gave me the container and we decided to go McDonald's for breakfast. I made sure to get an extra cup of water with our cups of coffee! And all is well that ends well, I was able to deliver the missing sample shortly after breakfast!

And a couple of days ago, we got our Shingles shots.  When I went to pick them up, the pharmacist told me I had to have them administered (by the doctor) within 15 minutes even if they are kept on ice!  Well, that didn't happen, it was more like half an hour, so hopefully they will still be effective.  In fact, I had to sign off that I was accepting the 15 minute terms of use.

In other news, my daughter L's well-used blackberry phone erased her entire contact list yesterday.  She was so mad and not to mention panicked!  Looks like it's time for an iphone!

Creative Tuesdays - Lovebug!

Welcome to the month of May!

Creative Tuesdays is weekly once again!  Please visit the other talented participants, or better still, join us!

For the Lovebug theme, I was inspired by this pattern I noticed in the local paper. It's a floral pattern into which circuits were embedded, a design for an electric blanket.   My version is painted in acrylic on cardstock paper (9" x 5 1/4 ").