Sunday, October 9, 2011
Be Careful What You Wish For
I think my dog reads this blog. Last week, I posted about how I wished that my dogs would give me a little leg room at night, and the day after that, Madison just stopped sleeping in the bed. She'll come up with Josh as usual, hop up on the bed, lay down for about 10 seconds, and then hop back down and come sleep downstairs. I guess she needed some more leg room too.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
I Would Like To Wake Up With My Legs On The Bed
I don't have human babies, but I have these babies:
Madison
and
Yoko (I love how mad she looks in this picture).
I love these babies as much as if they were my human babies, and as people sometimes do, I have a hard time saying no to them, even though I know I'm supposed to. For instance, I know that we are not supposed to let the dogs sleep in the bed with us, at least according to Victoria Stillwell, anyway. But I just can't say no to them sleeping in the bed. These dogs love to sleep:
And they really, really love to sleep in the bed. Who am I to deprive them of that? I do wish, however, that they would maybe give me just enough room to sleep on the bed without waking up every morning with my feet (and half my legs) hanging off the side. Oh well. I guess it's a small price to pay for making these babies comfortable.
and
I love these babies as much as if they were my human babies, and as people sometimes do, I have a hard time saying no to them, even though I know I'm supposed to. For instance, I know that we are not supposed to let the dogs sleep in the bed with us, at least according to Victoria Stillwell, anyway. But I just can't say no to them sleeping in the bed. These dogs love to sleep:
And they really, really love to sleep in the bed. Who am I to deprive them of that? I do wish, however, that they would maybe give me just enough room to sleep on the bed without waking up every morning with my feet (and half my legs) hanging off the side. Oh well. I guess it's a small price to pay for making these babies comfortable.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Whoops!
Okay, so I did not keep up so well with the 30 Day Blog Challenge! I didn't even keep up during that first week when I was off. I also didn't quite get all the sewing done that I thought I would do. Instead, I had a perfectly lazy week, during which I watched a ton of tv, made and commented on Etsy treasuries, and was generally just a bum. This is my second week back at work, and I'm already ready for another vacation! Luckily, it's only a few weeks until we are off to San Francisco for a long weekend and Portishead! I'm can't wait!
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Soulmates
The question for the day is "Do you believe in soulmates?" I guess it depends on how you define "soulmates," but the short (and not really helpful) answer is no. When I think of soulmates, I think of the idea that there is some one person for some other person, and the two of them, and only the two of them, are truly meant to be together. That sounds terrible! I mean, what are the chances of those two people actually finding each other? That leaves a whole mess of people who are just settling for each other because in this world that is jam-packed full of people, they didn't happen to run across their intended person. I definitely don't believe in that.
I reckon that if you look at it a little differently, you could interpret soulmates not to mean that there is one person for each other person, but that it's just two people who happen to share a deep, spiritual connection. Do I believe in that? I don't know. I mean, Josh and I have this great relationship most of the time. We love each other, of course, but besides that, we make each other laugh, we try to do things to help each other out, and we mostly don't want to kill each other. We often agree on what kind of music to listen to, what kind of food to eat, and what kind of movies to watch, but we also appreciate that we don't always agree on those things. We've lived together for almost 12 years now, and we still enjoy being around each other. Does that make us soulmates? I just don't know about that, but I am pretty sure it makes us lucky.
I reckon that if you look at it a little differently, you could interpret soulmates not to mean that there is one person for each other person, but that it's just two people who happen to share a deep, spiritual connection. Do I believe in that? I don't know. I mean, Josh and I have this great relationship most of the time. We love each other, of course, but besides that, we make each other laugh, we try to do things to help each other out, and we mostly don't want to kill each other. We often agree on what kind of music to listen to, what kind of food to eat, and what kind of movies to watch, but we also appreciate that we don't always agree on those things. We've lived together for almost 12 years now, and we still enjoy being around each other. Does that make us soulmates? I just don't know about that, but I am pretty sure it makes us lucky.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
My Top Five Favorite Board Games
I love playing board games! It's such a great way to pass time with your friends and family, without sitting plopped in front of the television. So, here are my top five (in no particular order):
1. Boggle - You know those silly games on Facebook and AddictingGames.com, like Text Twist and other word games? I went through a period of time where I played those games compulsively (okay, not literally compulsively, but I played them a lot). Apparently, they flexed my word muscles because I am unbeatable at Boggle. Unfortunately, that means that now, no one will play it with me. Seriously, the last five people I've played with quit after two games and refused to play with me ever again. So, I guess this makes me some sort of Boggle Queen. Maybe not something to be terribly proud of, though, because I'm pretty sure this puts me in some sort of league with Peggy Hill. Yikes!
2. Scrabble - Now, I was never the cool kid. We can go ahead and clear that up because I know you were probably thinking I was, what with that last paragraph about Boggle and all. Anyway, I spent all of my summers growing up in Kentucky with my dad's family. The last summer before college, I spent probably 60% of my time playing Scrabble with my grandmother. That might be an understatement. We played a lot of Scrabble. So, Scrabble will always have its place in my heart because it reminds me of that summer. Josh and I play some now, but we just have the super-lame flat, cardboard board, and not the big, deluxe plastic board that you can fit the tiles down in. It shouldn't make a difference, but it does. Besides, he says I get too much practice now playing Words With Friends. I've got about 15 games of that going on right now. Is that a lot?
3. Taboo - Doesn't have a board, but I think it counts. I love Taboo! That's all I have to say about that.
4. Scattergories - Okay, so this one time, my friend Misty and I went up to the lake with my family. We had a :lake house" (It was fancy, let me tell ya'. Concrete floors, musty smell, tv that got one channel.) that was just down the hill from my parents' friends' house. So, on this particular occasion, my parents' friends' son was there with his lady friend, her kid, and her kid's friend. Misty and I dubbed the kid and his friend Doogie and Vinnie. What can I say, we were creative! I don't remember their real names, so we'll stick with that. Anyway, Misty and I get bored, and we go wandering up to this other house without telling my parents. When we get up there, they are playing Scattergories. They invite us to join in. We do, and we sort of lose track of time. Who knows how much later, my mom comes knocking on the door in her nightgown, mad as hell, wanting to know where we've been. It's one of the few times I remember my mom really being mad at me when I was that age. So, that's what I think of every time I play Scattergories, which is rarely because you can't really play it with two people (you can, but it's not much fun).
5. Trivial Pursuit - Depending on the edition, I can be really good or really bad at Trivial Pursuit, but I still love it. The problem with it is that when we get a new version, Josh and I will sit down and play three or four games at a time, which means that we can only sit down and play like three times before we go through all the questions. And then, on the rare occasion that we have someone else around to play, we can't play it because we already know all the answers. Recently, we got this big book of Trivial Pursuit questions, so we just used one of our old boards and went through the questions in order. That lasted us a ton of games, but eventually, we exhausted that as well. For now, we are Trivial Pursuitless.
So, those are my five favorite board games. What are yours?
1. Boggle - You know those silly games on Facebook and AddictingGames.com, like Text Twist and other word games? I went through a period of time where I played those games compulsively (okay, not literally compulsively, but I played them a lot). Apparently, they flexed my word muscles because I am unbeatable at Boggle. Unfortunately, that means that now, no one will play it with me. Seriously, the last five people I've played with quit after two games and refused to play with me ever again. So, I guess this makes me some sort of Boggle Queen. Maybe not something to be terribly proud of, though, because I'm pretty sure this puts me in some sort of league with Peggy Hill. Yikes!
2. Scrabble - Now, I was never the cool kid. We can go ahead and clear that up because I know you were probably thinking I was, what with that last paragraph about Boggle and all. Anyway, I spent all of my summers growing up in Kentucky with my dad's family. The last summer before college, I spent probably 60% of my time playing Scrabble with my grandmother. That might be an understatement. We played a lot of Scrabble. So, Scrabble will always have its place in my heart because it reminds me of that summer. Josh and I play some now, but we just have the super-lame flat, cardboard board, and not the big, deluxe plastic board that you can fit the tiles down in. It shouldn't make a difference, but it does. Besides, he says I get too much practice now playing Words With Friends. I've got about 15 games of that going on right now. Is that a lot?
3. Taboo - Doesn't have a board, but I think it counts. I love Taboo! That's all I have to say about that.
4. Scattergories - Okay, so this one time, my friend Misty and I went up to the lake with my family. We had a :lake house" (It was fancy, let me tell ya'. Concrete floors, musty smell, tv that got one channel.) that was just down the hill from my parents' friends' house. So, on this particular occasion, my parents' friends' son was there with his lady friend, her kid, and her kid's friend. Misty and I dubbed the kid and his friend Doogie and Vinnie. What can I say, we were creative! I don't remember their real names, so we'll stick with that. Anyway, Misty and I get bored, and we go wandering up to this other house without telling my parents. When we get up there, they are playing Scattergories. They invite us to join in. We do, and we sort of lose track of time. Who knows how much later, my mom comes knocking on the door in her nightgown, mad as hell, wanting to know where we've been. It's one of the few times I remember my mom really being mad at me when I was that age. So, that's what I think of every time I play Scattergories, which is rarely because you can't really play it with two people (you can, but it's not much fun).
5. Trivial Pursuit - Depending on the edition, I can be really good or really bad at Trivial Pursuit, but I still love it. The problem with it is that when we get a new version, Josh and I will sit down and play three or four games at a time, which means that we can only sit down and play like three times before we go through all the questions. And then, on the rare occasion that we have someone else around to play, we can't play it because we already know all the answers. Recently, we got this big book of Trivial Pursuit questions, so we just used one of our old boards and went through the questions in order. That lasted us a ton of games, but eventually, we exhausted that as well. For now, we are Trivial Pursuitless.
So, those are my five favorite board games. What are yours?
Friday, September 2, 2011
30 Day Blog Challenge - Days 1 and 2
It's time to really get this thing going, so I'm going to follow along with MyHobbyShop's 30 Day Blog Challenge! Hopefully, this will be a great way to get me jump started. Luckily, today is my last day of work before 9 days off, and I'm not going anywhere, so I will have plenty of time in this first week to post here. Since I'm a day late, I'm going to do Days 1 and 2 together today.
Day 1 - A photo of yourself and a description of how your day was.
Day 1 - A photo of yourself and a description of how your day was.
This would start with something like this. I do not like pictures of myself. I do this thing where I smile and push my head back, so that I have about 4 chins. It's not attractive. But in the spirit of things, I will post a picture of me.
I'm not doing the thing in this particular photo. The sun was in my eyes, so it was hard to smile.
So, I can't really tell you how my day was today because it hasn't happened yet. As I type this, it's 7:00 a.m., and I haven't even had a shower. So, I guess I'll describe how my day was on the day I took this picture. It was great, actually! We were in San Francisco. I woke up that morning and took the MPRE. I had studied like crazy, so I knew I had done really well. Then we took the BART into the city and walked around. We took a boat trip around the Bay and under the Golden Gate Bridge. We tried to find Haight Ashbury, but realized that we would have had to walk way, way far from where we were to get there, so we didn't get to see it, but we saw lots of other great sights, took lots of pictures, and had a fun day exploring!
Day 2 - How many languages do you speak?
I speak English. That's really about it. Between high school and college, I took something like 7 semesters of Spanish, but all I can really do now is tell you my name and ask how to get to the bathroom. And although I would try really hard not to, I would probably do so with a Southern accent. I just can't seem to kick this thing! I don't think my accent is as strong as some folks, but it never fails, when we go out to eat out here, I still get asked, "Where are you from? Because I'm sure it's not here!"
Okay, since I'm doubling up today, I'll stop with relatively short answers, but tomorrow (my first day of my vacation!), I'll be back with a longer post for Day 3!
Friday, August 5, 2011
I lied
About taking pictures of my sewing room. I did clean it up, but I didn't organize my stash or take pictures. I think I've decided that I need to get some shelves before I can even think about organizing the stash. As it is now, it's all in a box, and even when I go through and fold and inventory, it's really hard to access things in there. I think shelves would be really helpful.
I did start a tutorial for how to make a Halloween Trick Or Treat Bag, but my camera battery died in the middle of it. I am awesome at this, right? :) Maybe I'll try to get that done this weekend. I also need to get finished with a bag I'm making for a friend at work. But my main priority this weekend is a hike in the mountains, so we'll see how much work I get done!
In the meantime, I've been busy on etsy.com making Treasuries! They haven't done a ton, so far, to get interest in my store, but I've been doing challenges to try to win and get featured in one. Hopefully, that would spark some interest. But really, I just think they are so much fun to make!
I did start a tutorial for how to make a Halloween Trick Or Treat Bag, but my camera battery died in the middle of it. I am awesome at this, right? :) Maybe I'll try to get that done this weekend. I also need to get finished with a bag I'm making for a friend at work. But my main priority this weekend is a hike in the mountains, so we'll see how much work I get done!
In the meantime, I've been busy on etsy.com making Treasuries! They haven't done a ton, so far, to get interest in my store, but I've been doing challenges to try to win and get featured in one. Hopefully, that would spark some interest. But really, I just think they are so much fun to make!
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