Ewww, carrots.

I just read through the first year of my old blog and it was hysterical. College was fun, for the most part. I hardly remember the fun days, so it is great to be able to go back and read (in exorbitant detail) all about my friends, classes, teams, roommates, etc. And the music I was listening to and movies I was watching every day, too. I miss having the time and focus to blog like that. All I blog about these days is how I never blog anymore! Dumb. So....

A couple weeks ago a guy at work asked me to make a life-size cutout of one of our managers. Um, I didn't do so well at getting him to be life-sized, but he is even funnier since he is so little. Everyone looks like a monster next to him. Morale has been pretty low around here, lately, so it was awesome to be able to walk around with Little Matt and see people break out of their cubicles and shells and gather around to take pictures and play jokes. Fun fun fun.

We spent Thanksgiving house/dogsitting for our favorite dog's family. This little dude is the sweetest, funniest pet I have ever met and even Sam loves him. He has a little nubby tail, so when he gets excited his whole body wiggles and he loves to be picked up and carried around like a baby. We were taking family pictures in the back yard and every time someone would set the camera timer then run to get in the picture, Rascal would chase them and jump in the picture, too. So every picture either has Rascal posing with us or Rascal running or jumping. We can't wait to get a house so we can get a mini Schnauzer. :)

Crochet like there's no tomorrow

I found this cute little guy at a craft store and decided I had to make one for my nephew, for Christmas.


I sort of like mine better. But it looks like the Pop Tart characters...



Well, now I am stuck on a crocheting kick and in the last few days I've been crocheting nonstop. We are 'supposed to' go back to work tomorrow...hahaha- we'll see about that! My yarn collection is not quite depleted yet.


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Here's my back, so stab it already!

I guess if someone is going to read this, I might as well write on it, huh. I ususally do better with listing than prosing, so I'll give that a try. On the common theme, things I am thankful for:

country music
the amazing people I work with
nail polish
plaid
good hair days
my husband who loves the weird awful things about me
my baby nephew who opened new doors in my heart
being with my WHOLE family for Christmas
New Moon
I don't have to be perfect, broken is just fine
Glee
other peoples' stories, which are worth every minute
getting to know people better
the telephoto lense on my camera at work
organization
being unexpected
salsa aguacate (guacamole salsa)
dogs

Have I seriously not written anything here since July? Wow. It has been about that long since I had 10 minutes to sit and think much. The problem with people being expected to work 40+ hours a week is that there is no time left to live, only to eat and to sleep. I think it should be optional at review/raise time that you either get more money or fewer hours.


Clearly, life has been on the crazy side lately. In good and bad ways. We just started a new Sunday School class a couple months ago and we have been out of town every single weekend since the first class. This is a massive change from our former life of sitting at home and doing nothing all weekend. We do like having the freedom to be gone on Sundays since Sam doesn't play for our new church, but at the same time it is kind of stinky to be torn between going to an awesome class or going to California...


I was planning on writing more than that, but my brain is going in too many directions to form intelligent sentences. I guess that is why Twitter is so popular; you don't really have to say anything intelligent. It's moment-by-moment without thinking ahead or behind. Interesting. Or maybe not...I don't know, I'd have to think about it.

letdown to lovin' it! in 3.9 seconds

All morning I've thought today was Friday. Raise your hand if you understand what a bummer that is. To turn things around I thought I'd Google "plaid" again, since it was so much fun the other night when I made my Twitter background. Check out the treasures I found:

Is that me? Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is a photo of me in a parallel universe where I don't live on the surface of the sun, wearing my 65 layers of plaid and orange and brocade and wool. And I never would have thought it, but The Sartorialist posted this photo so apparently it is a total style-savvy look. Sweet. Although, really she could use a little more plaid. Something like this...

I have always been a closet Ralph Lauren fan. (Not sure why I've always felt the need to hide that fact... ) He makes the best huge, bold prints and he just blasts them in your face on skinny suits and floor length taffeta gowns and wow I wonder why more people don't wear them. And I wonder why he keeps refusing to design a wrap for my car. Oh well, look how awesome he is (bottom right photo), strutting his own runway in buffalo plaid.

Speaking of floor length plaid gowns, why didn't I think of this! Google didn't have any info about the origin of this dress, but the photo says it is a wedding gown. I cringe to think that I wore white lace when I could have worn plaid.

Thank you Apartment Therapy for sharing the joy of this room. I would like to guide your focus to the back wall and the white lamp. That is the only part of the photo that I see. I've been longing for flannel gray walls for a while but now I have to refine that longing to flannel gray plaid walls. Ay caramba! And check out the scale of that floor lamp. It looks like a gigantic table lamp and would make any other furniture look miniature. I am going to be thinking about the magic of that lamp for the rest of the day. That should make my ThurFriday go faster!

I was trying to figure out if I could talk my husband into wearing plaid every day of the week and lookie what I found. Zack Efron does it, so how can you go wrong? (Fashionably speaking, of course.) I'm sure that argument will go far when I try to talk Sam into buying stock in plaid. Hahaha, right.

I made a smaller version of this bow (from https://www.redvelvetart.com/) and it is so cute I want to wear it every day. I don't know what kind of salons they have down there in Springfield but all of the RVA girls have the best hair ever. I am still floored that my first DIY haircut looks as good as it does, but I'm always up for a new one... If I could have hair like those dolls where you cut it and then just tug and some more comes out, I would be ecstatic.

Since I lost my officemate last week I have been rocking out to whatever music strikes me every day. It's pretty awesome. I've had country day, alternative day, bluegrass day, and then today was "every artist Amanda mentions via Twitter or Doom for Darlings" day. She kept me pretty busy. The best part was that one of the Pandora stations I made ended up playing a Hanson song. HANSON! At this juncture I will pretend to post a VHS file of the Mmmbop music video my friends and I made 10 years ago...pretend with me now. See? Now you understand why that absolutely made my day.

More musical treasures in store tomorrow, as I attempt to 'inculturate' myself with decent music. I blindly followed MXPX for so long that I never bothered to find out if I liked any other music and now the world is new to me. Some favorites so far: Vampire Weekend, Neko Case, Lady Antebellum, Chopin, Feist and some rather oldies like Cake, Kelly Clarkson, Jason Mraz, Something Corporate. With a little techno/dance on the side. It's a work in progress.

three lost posts don't make a right

Alas, I have been posting my little heart out and nothing has actually appeared here for weeks. My words are lost in Cyberville. I believe a Double Stuf Chocolate Creme Oreo should solve the problem. Laptop Louie does not agree, but he is just concerned about crumbs in the keys. Too bad, Louie, too bad.

Hole.ly.granola. Harry Potter comes out in 15 days. Pardon me while I run out of sight and do a quick hoo-rah dance. 6 was probably my favorite book. The last one with some semblance of normal life for Hogwarts. Although it is Deathly Hallows (#7) that plays over and over in my head when I'm not otherwise engaged.

In other exciting news (alllmost as exciting as 7.15.09): Sam and I now work for the same company. It is pretty awesome. I work pretty freakish hours, but now he works the very same freakish hours and we can commute together. Plus we never see each at the office, so it's almost like we don't work together but still get all the perks. We're diggin' it. He's thrilled to have a job that doesn't work 16-hour days, pay commission or put his life in the hands of a meth addict daily. I mean, what's not to love about his last three jobs, huh? But yeah, this is far superior in so many ways. It is such a gift. Hahaha, we're still waiting to actually settle down, after 26 years each and 3 years of marriage we're still like little ping pong balls popping all over, trying to grab onto a wall somewhere and just hold tight. Maybe I'm a ridiculous optimist or just don't care much for reality, but I've never felt like anything was unsure even when everything was unsure. Another gift- to see the rock under the sand.