::: Updates :::
start taking photos ::: see above
i have two skullies kicking around my dining room table that have to be snapped before i can gift them. also made a fairly adorable little pink stuffed thing (that my daughter calls a bunny - which has inspired her demand for a yellow bunny of her own)
purchase more envelopes ::: done!
i love the sleek bubble mailers - - particularly in orange. i have only one bbl mailer left in my possession and quite a few items to be posting out sooner than later. i have to get some more or else, shudder, rely on express mail envelopes from the post office.
mow the lawn
it looks like an effin meadow out back... soon the grass will tower over the pumpkin patch (of four bonsaied plants - - i think i stunted their growth by keeping them in the pots too long). if only the ground would dry some. i am still holding out hope that i will be able to complete this task this week, before my husband comes back from NY.
empty the dishwasher
full of clean dishes with dirty piling up in the sink.
wrong wrong wrong
wash more and more laundry ::: did one more load
also must be done before the husband returns to increase the always growing pile. what's that process called where one cell splits and becomes two? with the pointed exception of socks, my dirty laundry does this
make truncated trip to fabric and craft store ::: ok - not so much - bought a lot. a. lot.
i need stuffing stuff. and buttons for noses. and white thread.
i do not NEED anything else.
still, there's no telling what i'll walk out with.
get back to work... sigh.
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14 August 2007
23 July 2007
comforts
new socks - especially if they are cushily
a good GOOD cup of tea
thoughts of autumn (and hallowe'en)
a box in the mail that i didn't have to pay for
laughing out loud regardless of my location
"i love you, mama."
warm (but not hot) sunshiney blue sky days
letters from friends
the smell of new leather goods
this
my cat at my feet, purring
the bunny, when she doesn't pee on me
a good GOOD cup of tea
thoughts of autumn (and hallowe'en)
a box in the mail that i didn't have to pay for
laughing out loud regardless of my location
"i love you, mama."
warm (but not hot) sunshiney blue sky days
letters from friends
the smell of new leather goods
this
my cat at my feet, purring
the bunny, when she doesn't pee on me
18 July 2007
Recovery and Random
I'm doing better today. Thank you.
I have housework to do. Lots of it:
- laundry
- dishes
- vacuuming
- dusting
- sweeping
- and mopping
- - - MOVING THE CARDBOARD BOXES OUT OF EVERY CORNER OF EVERY ROOM
- random tidying
- packing up donations (LOTS of donations)
add to that my overwhelming desire to be baking something (anything) and it adds up to agony.
there aren't enough hours in my week to work AND housework. I don't want a maid or a cook either... though one of those professional organizer people would be a boon.
OH - speaking of boons. I watched the last episodes of Carnivale Season 2 last night. I'm extremely un-gruntled. So very much so that I had a hard time falling asleep last night because of it. Just grrr.
I'm throwing together menu ideas for a mexican dinner. Right now it's looking like corn and black bean salad, do it yourself burritos, and home made salsa and guacamole. Simple and relatively easy. I'm making the taco seasoning on my own because what's out there in the stores is lethal. I'm just sayin' My husband will make the guacamole because avocados turn me off. Ew.
If I don't get my pumpkins in the ground in the next two days, I won't have any more reason to worry about it. They're gathering forces for a revolution of sorts... kamikaze pumpkins, threatening to die if I don't take care of them. They're heartless.
They should make excellent jacks o lantern. Heh heh heh.
Many of my boxes of Hallowe'en have arrived, by the bye. I have faces to start painting, a spectre to build, and after a quick trip to the H Depot (because that's where I have the gift cards for) some fog chillers to build. I'm very excited by all of this... and already cursing the fact that it's half way through July and I haven't even started!
Also, the fabric for my daughter's princess dress has arrived. She's requested one for playing in. I've very pointedly been advised that this is NOT for her hallowe'en costume - - she wants to be a horse this year ("and you can be a cowboy mama, and ride me!" me: "a cowgirl, sweetpea" she: "ok, you can be a cowgirl") . It ticks me off, because I know I'm not going to be able to make anything at all like a convincing horse suit - so again, I'll be buying her hallowe'en get up. At least, though, I'll be able to make her a butt-kick princess costume. Now I just have to get around to building it.
Ok, that's enough randomness.
I'm going to go try getting some work done - heigh ho Silver, away!!!
I have housework to do. Lots of it:
- laundry
- dishes
- vacuuming
- dusting
- sweeping
- and mopping
- - - MOVING THE CARDBOARD BOXES OUT OF EVERY CORNER OF EVERY ROOM
- random tidying
- packing up donations (LOTS of donations)
add to that my overwhelming desire to be baking something (anything) and it adds up to agony.
there aren't enough hours in my week to work AND housework. I don't want a maid or a cook either... though one of those professional organizer people would be a boon.
OH - speaking of boons. I watched the last episodes of Carnivale Season 2 last night. I'm extremely un-gruntled. So very much so that I had a hard time falling asleep last night because of it. Just grrr.
I'm throwing together menu ideas for a mexican dinner. Right now it's looking like corn and black bean salad, do it yourself burritos, and home made salsa and guacamole. Simple and relatively easy. I'm making the taco seasoning on my own because what's out there in the stores is lethal. I'm just sayin' My husband will make the guacamole because avocados turn me off. Ew.
If I don't get my pumpkins in the ground in the next two days, I won't have any more reason to worry about it. They're gathering forces for a revolution of sorts... kamikaze pumpkins, threatening to die if I don't take care of them. They're heartless.
They should make excellent jacks o lantern. Heh heh heh.
Many of my boxes of Hallowe'en have arrived, by the bye. I have faces to start painting, a spectre to build, and after a quick trip to the H Depot (because that's where I have the gift cards for) some fog chillers to build. I'm very excited by all of this... and already cursing the fact that it's half way through July and I haven't even started!
Also, the fabric for my daughter's princess dress has arrived. She's requested one for playing in. I've very pointedly been advised that this is NOT for her hallowe'en costume - - she wants to be a horse this year ("and you can be a cowboy mama, and ride me!" me: "a cowgirl, sweetpea" she: "ok, you can be a cowgirl") . It ticks me off, because I know I'm not going to be able to make anything at all like a convincing horse suit - so again, I'll be buying her hallowe'en get up. At least, though, I'll be able to make her a butt-kick princess costume. Now I just have to get around to building it.
Ok, that's enough randomness.
I'm going to go try getting some work done - heigh ho Silver, away!!!
12 July 2007
it's all MonkeyButt to me
mostly this means that the day is doing its own thing...
i'll be able, i suppose, to join in again at some later time, but for right now, i'm just bumbling through and trying to appear like i have even the slightest idea of what's going on.
in a half an hour i'm walking around the block (1.29 miles) with my friend belle.
we'll probably talk about marriage and homes and crap like that. the good stuff that gets me grounded again.
in the meantime, i'm just being pleased that my blue-sky wish list of how to make my job more manageable seems doable to my boss... and enjoying an icy cold diet coke (whose rewards code was entirely unacceptable to the folks at coke... i have lodged a complaint).
today after work Foo and i will be digging out a small garden and planting our pumpkins - and maybe the peppers (that in spite of the seeds being harvested from grocery store peppers, are growing well and making flowers, and will hopefully bear fruit later this summer). depending on how we feel after that, we'll likely do a load of daddy's laundry and make some cupcakes, or maybe some brownies... even though our dreamy dinner sounds as much like dessert as anything else (boneless pork chops jubilee - - covered in a tart cherry 'sauce').
have i mentioned that mom and i are doing dream dinners?
once a month we drive an hour or so (the franchise i signed up at is closer to work than home), spend a couple of hours building dinners (usually 72 servings between us), laugh a lot and have some quality us time, pack it all into our coolers, decide what we're going to make 'next' month, and drive home... usually talking about husbands and home and the things that get us grounded again.
this weekend, Saturday, my man (ugh... i still can't find a moniker for my husband that I REALLY like... sigh) and i are going to have an "us" date at Cedar Point. i'm VERY excited. it's the first really fun thing that we've done alone together since our honeymoon... or maybe Lamaze classes (that was a joke, kids). then, on Sunday, because we both feel guilty about leaving foo out of the roller coast (she loves roller coasters - - never mind the fact that she's only 39" tall and can't ride anything but the baby stuff) we're taking her to our favorite Potter Park Zoo. She really enjoys the camel rides, and while it's not a roller coaster, she'll have fun. As an aside, we're taking a 'lesson' from old friends, and until she's taller (and more expensive!) Foo's annual trip to Cedar Point happens during their Halloweekends calendar.
Well, it's time for me to spellcheck and publish so I can get my shoes on and go walking.
Have a better one...
i'll be able, i suppose, to join in again at some later time, but for right now, i'm just bumbling through and trying to appear like i have even the slightest idea of what's going on.
in a half an hour i'm walking around the block (1.29 miles) with my friend belle.
we'll probably talk about marriage and homes and crap like that. the good stuff that gets me grounded again.
in the meantime, i'm just being pleased that my blue-sky wish list of how to make my job more manageable seems doable to my boss... and enjoying an icy cold diet coke (whose rewards code was entirely unacceptable to the folks at coke... i have lodged a complaint).
today after work Foo and i will be digging out a small garden and planting our pumpkins - and maybe the peppers (that in spite of the seeds being harvested from grocery store peppers, are growing well and making flowers, and will hopefully bear fruit later this summer). depending on how we feel after that, we'll likely do a load of daddy's laundry and make some cupcakes, or maybe some brownies... even though our dreamy dinner sounds as much like dessert as anything else (boneless pork chops jubilee - - covered in a tart cherry 'sauce').
have i mentioned that mom and i are doing dream dinners?
once a month we drive an hour or so (the franchise i signed up at is closer to work than home), spend a couple of hours building dinners (usually 72 servings between us), laugh a lot and have some quality us time, pack it all into our coolers, decide what we're going to make 'next' month, and drive home... usually talking about husbands and home and the things that get us grounded again.
this weekend, Saturday, my man (ugh... i still can't find a moniker for my husband that I REALLY like... sigh) and i are going to have an "us" date at Cedar Point. i'm VERY excited. it's the first really fun thing that we've done alone together since our honeymoon... or maybe Lamaze classes (that was a joke, kids). then, on Sunday, because we both feel guilty about leaving foo out of the roller coast (she loves roller coasters - - never mind the fact that she's only 39" tall and can't ride anything but the baby stuff) we're taking her to our favorite Potter Park Zoo. She really enjoys the camel rides, and while it's not a roller coaster, she'll have fun. As an aside, we're taking a 'lesson' from old friends, and until she's taller (and more expensive!) Foo's annual trip to Cedar Point happens during their Halloweekends calendar.
Well, it's time for me to spellcheck and publish so I can get my shoes on and go walking.
Have a better one...
17 January 2007
one step closer...
we can use the toilets, tub, and bathroom sink now. finally.
on Monday my husband called the sewer line cleaner folks and they took care of the problem - just like that.
work has posed a couple of interesting / challenging requests lately. i'm always grateful for something new and fun and mentally taxing enough to keep me from rummaging through empty offices for pens and other office supplies to pilfer.
i'm a week away from 38. it's kind of funny because for the past 6 months or so i've been having to remind myself that i'm still only 37, and that 40 really is farther away than that. which is a really good thing, because the baby will be in school by the time i'm 40, and i'm not ready for that just yet.
it's cold and beautiful outside (not right now, because it's still dark, and will be for a while to come, but when the sun shines on the ice on the trees - - v. pretty)
work and diet coke beckon.
on Monday my husband called the sewer line cleaner folks and they took care of the problem - just like that.
work has posed a couple of interesting / challenging requests lately. i'm always grateful for something new and fun and mentally taxing enough to keep me from rummaging through empty offices for pens and other office supplies to pilfer.
i'm a week away from 38. it's kind of funny because for the past 6 months or so i've been having to remind myself that i'm still only 37, and that 40 really is farther away than that. which is a really good thing, because the baby will be in school by the time i'm 40, and i'm not ready for that just yet.
it's cold and beautiful outside (not right now, because it's still dark, and will be for a while to come, but when the sun shines on the ice on the trees - - v. pretty)
work and diet coke beckon.
04 January 2007
We Now Return to Scheduled Programming...
christmas week
- plague-ridden, loud toys, the christmas deer, and comfy new pajamas
this past week
- plague-ridden, recovering, everything but the bathroom sink and a can opener
this past tuesday
- pot hole -slash- gateway to hell ate my driver's side front tire, and 'did a number' on the rear tire, the baby's recollection of it unnerves me, it shouldn't have been so traumatic as to be something she's still talking about
today
- i'm trying to decide what i can eat that will satisfy my hunger, help me get healthy, and not destroy my daily calorie count - - chicken broth soup comes to mind, but turns my stomach - - sigh - - cheese and almonds sounds so good.
- oh yeah, and work, of course
tonight
- baby shower shopping (and wrapping?) , a dozen eggs and cool whip, and hopefully a couple pairs of socks - - if i have the time to do all this AND make dinner
right now
cheese and almonds
- plague-ridden, loud toys, the christmas deer, and comfy new pajamas
this past week
- plague-ridden, recovering, everything but the bathroom sink and a can opener
this past tuesday
- pot hole -slash- gateway to hell ate my driver's side front tire, and 'did a number' on the rear tire, the baby's recollection of it unnerves me, it shouldn't have been so traumatic as to be something she's still talking about
today
- i'm trying to decide what i can eat that will satisfy my hunger, help me get healthy, and not destroy my daily calorie count - - chicken broth soup comes to mind, but turns my stomach - - sigh - - cheese and almonds sounds so good.
- oh yeah, and work, of course
tonight
- baby shower shopping (and wrapping?) , a dozen eggs and cool whip, and hopefully a couple pairs of socks - - if i have the time to do all this AND make dinner
right now
cheese and almonds
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