I common theme on this blog is ways to save money.  For instance: How To Fix Your Glasses Quickly and Cheaply and the recent post about free programs for resizing photos.  Today I want to talk about a free way to get your hair done without emptying your wallet or pocket book.

No steps involved, just one photo is all you need to learn all about it:

Peanut is the cheapest stylist around!  She’ll do your hair for free!

This week I got anew toy! I picked myself up a Wacom Bamboo Fun – a digital drawing tablet!    In fact, I am actually writing this post with it using handwriting recognition software!  Sure, it takes a bit longer, but it’s a cool experiment AND it’s giving some much needed practice using it!

My actual purpose for getting it is because I want to get back into drawing and cartooning.  Here’s a sample of a series I’m working on containing my cat, Peanut.

I know it’s Still a little rough, but I’m still learning so be gentle! In fact, I’d love any tips, tricks or suggestions anyone would we willing to give!

Soon I will be launching a blog specifically for my cartooning, so stay TOON-ed! It will follow my progress as well as highlight other artists and their cartoons. Maybe we’ll get into some tips and tricks-we’ll see.

Peanut: the personification of unconditional love and affection?  Well, kind of.

Meet Peanut, my cat.  Yes, Peanut is the one I brought into this marriage!  My mother found her in the newspaper as a kitten.  Appearently she was an abandoned kitten in much need of food, shelter, and love so she was brought home.  Pretty much instantly she became mine.  Cats are like that.  Apon entering a home, a cat will choose who will be their favorite and attach themselves.  Well, I became Peanut’s, and she mine. When I left home and married, she came too.  I’m not sure if Sarah realized that Peanut was part of the package but in time she came to accept Peanut as her own, too.

Peanut is the kind of cat who loves to be loved, but can’t settle down.  She’l let you pet her, scratch her, rub her, but she won’t always lay down and relax, she’s always got to be circling around on your lap, rubbing back, and popping her back straight up as if saying, “I love you, I love you, I love this, keep scratching, I love you…” but won’t just settle down.  You have to ignor her for her to lay down and relax and then it’s in your face as if trying to get your attention.

Just like any cat, she’s quirky like that.  Well, that’s my second love (don’t tell Sarah, I think Peanut is already trying to make her jealous!).  Don’t pick on me because of some silly notion you may have that cats are for girls because they are for all of us!  They help to keep us tender, loving, and even young, and what man doen’t need that?