Long Time, No Post

So it has been awhile since I was able to post.  I had blamed it on the lack of computer before, but now I have no excuse.  LOL. 

Things have been incredibly busy.  Little man went to the doctor for a checkup and then had to go back a couple of days later to confirm that he had double ear infections.  Bah.  I think he’s finally getting over that now. 

We went to the Fair on Tim’s b-day.  The weather wasn’t great, so we didn’t stay long, but Kennedy did get to see his first farm animals.  He liked the baby pigs. 

 

Tim was on vacation last week, so I didn’t have much time to be on the computer or do anything else.  We did some odds and ends things over the course of the week, and it doesn’t seem like I accomplished many of my personal goals/to-dos, but it was nice to have him around a bit more. 

School is going full swing at this point.  Things this quarter are a bit different.  It isn’t poetry.  I’m taking my elective this quarter, so it is creative non-fiction.  So that is different and I’m kind of excited to have a change of pace. 

Also, I’ve been doing a lot of reading in the last couple of weeks.  Since I am not working and have no money, I decided to utilize the libraries.  I forgot how much I totally love the library.  We’re only three blocks from the library, so little man and I can walk over to pick up books.  They also have puppets you can check out, which is so much fun.  I’m also very excited about the fact that they have these great boxes/tubs of materials you can check out.  They are themed (ex: dinosaurs, roar, trucks, etc.), and the boxes have puppets, books, toys, and other things.  I can’t wait for little man to get old enough to enjoy those!  I also got a county library card so I can check out other books that the city library doesn’t have.  Too exciting. 

I just finished reading “The Financial Lives of the Poets” by Jess Walter.  It is a fiction book about a guy in his 40s who seems like he is falling apart at the seams.  It really doesn’t have much to do with poets other than the main character refers to a website he’d started that was attempting to combine financial information with prose.  But it is funny and touching, and I couldn’t put it down.  I started reading the first couple of pages the other night at almost ten o’clock, and I read it straight through.  I highly recommend it.  :)  I haven’t read a book that good in awhile. 

Tim just got a Kindle the other day.  I’m jealous.  But he has a 50-minute commute on the train (each way) every day, so it will be good for him to take back and forth.  Hopefully I can borrow it from him on occasion.  ;) 

We are starting to talk about our trip to England/Italy in January.  No real details yet, but I think he wants to do the touristy stuff and go to Rome, Venice and Florence.  Maybe this time I will actually be able to see the Sistine Chapel and more of Venice since I was sick the last time. 

Here are a couple of other pictures of little mr. that I hope to scrapbook soon.  They are just too precious though, so I wanted to post them now!  :D  He’s getting so big, it is just breaking my heart that he’s growing up so darn fast!

What is everyone else up to?  Kids back to school and fun on the horizon?  Any creative projects lined up?

Crafty

So does anyone else feel the burning desire to get crafty when the first sign of Fall is in the air?  I don't know what it is, but today I've been feeling inspired to paint canvases, make some cards, create noodles from scratch (although I have no clue how to do it), bake cinnamon rolls, and sew something.  Martha Stewart, look out!

Of course I didn't accomplish any of those things because the inspiration hit too late in the day and Little Man was being whiny for most of the afternoon (teething).  He did play in the Johnny Jump Up just long enough for me to get some dishes done and to *act* like I was on top of kitchen patrol.  Now he is in bed, but I am stuck entertaining my BIL (just arrived for the night) while my dear husband is out picking up a late dinner for us.  I need to get some writing done, so I think I'm going to sneak upstairs and do that once he returns from his errand.  I'm not in the mood to sit with two grumpy men.  :p

It is the start of the Labor Day weekend.  I'd like to try to get some things organized over the next couple of days and feel like I have things a little more under control once the quarter really gets into full swing (after next week apparently).  Maybe I'll have Jessica whip me up one of her infamous to-do lists.  She loves when I tell her I have stuff to do because she helps get the list together.  She should really be in management.  She is good about getting the "to-dos" down and insisting that they are done, but not as good at following her own advice.  LOL.

I saw an interesting class I'd love to take from Big Picture Scrapbooking.  It is called Saving Your Sanity: Throughout the Holidays.  I wonder if it can help with more than just scrapbooking and/or memory making?  ;)  My sanity can use a little saving.

OMG.  Tim just returned with our dinner.  I must say, it is amazing.  We called in an order to a Warthog BBQ.  We hadn't been there in years.  I got a pulled pork sandwich, and it is probably the best I've ever had.   Yum yum.  I guess I'd better end this before I get sauce on the keyboard.

Have a great weekend!

Fall haiku?

Beware the voodoo
that breathes in trees, bewitching
dreams from orange to red.

Quiet Time

I am on the verge. On the verge of what? I am not quite sure. All this week, I thought that it was going to be a nervous breakdown or a dismembered tongue (from biting through it) because I was trying to hold it together at work. Is the universe telling me to get out of my current job? I think so. Maybe I will listen.  It is just a whisper, and I'm straining to hear it.  But it is there. 

This weekend, I'm excited and looking forward to some quiet time. If Jessica reads this, she will undoubtedly throw a fit because I am a wee bit happy over this alone time, but she will understand in the not-too-distant future when she has her own child and has no free time. Tim is going to visit the kids over in Walla Walla.  I can't go because there is no one to watch the dogs and if we took them along, I'd just be stuck inside a hotel room with them anyway.  Jessica is going down to Oregon to baby-sit her five cousins (she's so crazy!), and I will be basking in the relative quiet of the house. I'm sure Kate & Bobby will keep me distracted, and there will be barking because of the Fair traffic down our street, but I won't *have to* do anything I don't want to do. Joy.

Tonight, is dinner with Eileen, and then I may hit Target for the necessities. Tomorrow, I plan to sleep in (YES!) and do everything in my power to refrain from cooking/cleaning. I'm going to work on writing and then tackle schoolwork.  I might take a nap with the dogs. At some point, I am going to whip out my Pottery Barn book of style/design and try to configure the pictures we need to hang on our office wall. I need to create a big ol' collage and throw my big black G up there.  The book I have gives lots o' ideas and I've got the laser level and am ready to try it. I also picked up a template at Michael's for like $1.99, but it seems that it may be more trouble than it is worth trying to use that. I don't know. We shall see.  But this weekend is all about me.  I never say that… and I never get to say that… but today I am saying it. 

Fall crispness is in the air, and for some reason, when that hits me, I get in the mood to write. I just read a blog post talking about how it is hard to write when it is sunny in the PNW. I never really consciously thought of it that way, but I think she's onto something there.  To me, Fall is all about back to school and time to get serious about getting things done.  I'm most productive in the fall.  Weird.  Hopefully that will be the case with my technical craft & form paper and also in getting some of my creative stuff taken care of.  I need to come up with a batch of new material for the upcoming module.  Eek!

Hopefully I will have accomplished everything I need to accomplish and can feel rested and ready for the week ahead. 

Shhhhhh…