I have been really busy lately what with procrastinator parties and kids and all that jazz. I do want to thank everyone who commented on my chairs. I had fun doing it under the time crunch and will most definitely do another project party again.
Once I got the dining room finished I turned my eye toward the back porch/office this weekend, and threw out the door all the junk that was cluttering it up so horribly. I am one of those people that will clean my bedroom in the middle of the night if I can't sleep because of the clutter. So out it all went! One pile for garage, one for the yard sale this Friday, oh, did I mention that while I was doing this de-cluttering I thought that it would be a great time for a yard sale? So now I am into it for the duration.
Jay even took out the old built in work space that was out moded for us. At the time he built it we had 2 desk top pc's and now we are using laptops, so out with that, too! I cleaned the carpet and brought in my new love seat and my old handmade desk, a reading lamp and table that I repainted white, hung curtains and made a tiny little space just for me! I picture myself early mornings, curled up on my cozy love seat with a cup of coffee in one hand and my online devotions on my laptop on the table next to me. Ah, it's the little things that make us happy, yes?
Also, I stopped babysitting. I need to concentrate on what I need to be doing here. Like exercising regularly.
Jay and I will be taking a mini-vacation the last 4 days of this month. We are going to Nevada to see a dear old friend for a couple of days, by ourselves, no children added. We really need this!
My garden is growing, albeit slowly, but it is past the danger of being frozen. There is some small bit of pride in that I started it from seeds, every bit! We also planted a june berry bush and a honeysuckle vine and they are thriving as well. Our grapevine looks very sweet with its blush colored leaves just beginning to unfurl. I always tell people that in our yard all we have to do is dig a hole and plop whatever it is we want to grow and it will take off on it's own. Which reminds me, it's dark now and I can flood my yard and garden unobserved.
One more thing: I am reading Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott; Thin Within -a Grace oriented approach to weight loss- by Judy and Arthur Halliday RN & MD respectively; and Chuck Colson's How Now Shall We Live?. One meaty book let me tell you. I read fiction at night to help me go to sleep and if I wake up and can't sleep I can think about what I just read and if that doesn't seem to work then I will pray. That usually does it pretty fast for some reason.
I found yet another website that has tips on living "Green". http://www.greenlivingtips.com/How easy to remember is that?
Why am I having so much trouble controlling my appetite?! I saw myself in a picture from Harley's birthday party and for a second there I didn't recognize myself. I wanted to wire my own jaw shut right then and there but I got up and ate instead. This is what I ate all day.
1.Two egg omelet w/o yolks no cheese just a few diced onions. Blech!
2.Lunch was a very small hamburger w/lettuce, tomato, onion.
3.Supper, a leftover hot dog w/ ketchup and sweet relish and a baked potato with a couple spoons of salsa. I think that was the picture shock. I don't even like hot dogs.
4.A bunch of goldfish cracker and a cup of hot chocolate..(hey, its cold outside, AGAIN!)
All food bought by Jay. The saboteur? We have a bag of frozen spinach and a bowl of salad.
Well at least he doesn't consider corn and fried potatoes the only edible vegetables...I sent him out to the store, he mainly does the grocery shopping so I can't complain.
I have an eliptical in my bedroom but I use it like once a week. It makes a great clothes tree though. I know, apparently it's my own fault.
I realize why some senior citizens are mean. I think they are angry because they are getting older and there is not one dang thing they can do about. I sometimes find myself getting angry over the fact that I forget stuff, or that I am simply not as strong or have as much stamina as I used to, or the pure and simple fact that there are fewer days ahead than there are behind and I don't want to waste them but sometimes I'm too tired so I waste that day anyway. There has to be some sort of compromise here. Really.
Mind you I am not whining. April showers bring May flowers. But when it's 34 degrees out, a steady rain turns to pounding hail. I had just set out some plants but they must have been protected in the corner I set the planters. They look fine. I think the cold might be harder on them. We will see. But the grass looks great now. And our irrigation ditch started running a couple days ago, too. Yay!
My friend Kyndra is pregnant with a boy baby!! Exciting news for me, shocking for her and Rob. They have 8, count 'em, 8 daughters. I can't help but chuckle. Doesn't God have a great sense of humor? That's what my mom said when I found out I was having twins.
I need to lose weight. I gained at least 10 pounds over the winter. I need to exercise a lot more and eat a lot less. I hate the fact that the older I get I have to be more active with less energy, and eat less when I feel more hungry. (And I am a much better cook now, too.) What's up with that, really? That can't be God's sense of humor there, can it?
I have been really busy lately what with procrastinator parties and kids and all that jazz. I do want to thank everyone who commented on my chairs. I had fun doing it under the time crunch and will most definitely do another project party again.