So, I got married. Six weeks ago on New Year's Eve. We thought it was a good idea so the whole world could celebrate with us. My life is vastly different than it was a few months ago, and I'm wondering what happened....? It's good, of course, but very different. Just sayin'.... I definitely wear better underwear these days. I also do more laundry. But I don't have to cook, so it kind of equals out.
I forgot how wonderful married life could be. I think I was super smart to have married this amazing man I found.
We are working on home improvement projects. The yard is now cleared and ready to garden. We bought the laminate for the living room and dining room (VERY expensive--you KNOW how frugal I am!), and are doing some stuff here and there. Devan finally unpacked all of his bins that were stacked up in the bedroom--I was starting to think he was afraid to commit to living with me! (LOL!)
Well, my break is over, I PROMISE to blog more again. And I really mean it this time.
Monday, February 17, 2014
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Sorry for the Delay!
Oh my goodness, it's been a long time! I have been a horrible blogger--and I have a lot to say.
The last few times I tried to blog, blogspot just froze and I couldn't save my work or edit it, or anything, so I kind of gave up. Whatever, it's working now. So I'm back, probably with a vengeance.
A lot has happened since I posted last... I am in "a relationship" now, and nobody is more surprised than me. I was just minding my own business, living my life, enjoying my job and coworkers, loving my family, and BAM! An innocent dinner date with someone I had met months ago and didn't really hit it off with started it all.... I decided to go to dinner with him because he made a special effort to email me a happy birthday message and that seemed really sweet. Thank God I did! That has been maybe the best decision of my life. I did not think this was in my future. I'm almost 50 years old, for goodness sake!
So let me tell you about him....Devan is quiet and shy, but very funny, and so smart he can hardly stand himself. He can fix anything and likes to cook, which is good since I don't. Everyone he knows thinks very highly of him, which I think says something about him and he loves dogs, old people and kids. All pluses for me! Plus he's crazy about me, which is difficult to resist. He has the sweetest face of anyone I know--I'll probably marry him one day. And yes, I do see the irony in my making that statement, but it just is what it is. And what it is is wonderful.
The last few times I tried to blog, blogspot just froze and I couldn't save my work or edit it, or anything, so I kind of gave up. Whatever, it's working now. So I'm back, probably with a vengeance.
A lot has happened since I posted last... I am in "a relationship" now, and nobody is more surprised than me. I was just minding my own business, living my life, enjoying my job and coworkers, loving my family, and BAM! An innocent dinner date with someone I had met months ago and didn't really hit it off with started it all.... I decided to go to dinner with him because he made a special effort to email me a happy birthday message and that seemed really sweet. Thank God I did! That has been maybe the best decision of my life. I did not think this was in my future. I'm almost 50 years old, for goodness sake!
So let me tell you about him....Devan is quiet and shy, but very funny, and so smart he can hardly stand himself. He can fix anything and likes to cook, which is good since I don't. Everyone he knows thinks very highly of him, which I think says something about him and he loves dogs, old people and kids. All pluses for me! Plus he's crazy about me, which is difficult to resist. He has the sweetest face of anyone I know--I'll probably marry him one day. And yes, I do see the irony in my making that statement, but it just is what it is. And what it is is wonderful.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Sunday...
Normally I like a Simple Sunday, but today doesn't seem like it's going to be very simple. The dog is snoring while sleeping in my chair--she's so loud I keep going to check on her. It doesn't sound good. Geesh. Maybe she's having a bad dream. I wonder what dogs dream about.
I slept in a little because I was out very late last night at a charity event, and that was after I worked in my school's garden for three hours. First things first.
My school had an event where families and volunteers came and weeded out our huge organic garden, used landscape timbers to build frames for the garden beds, laid down boxes, newspaper and mulch in the pathways and generally cleaned up the whole garden. With all the rain this summer, it's kind of gotten out of hand, and the beds weren't delineated in any way, so everything kind of got overgrown. It is really amazing what a group of people can do in a short period of time when they work together. Pictures to come.
The charity event was really nice--it was a casino themed dinner, and I learned to play craps (kind of)--I rolled for a long time, which other players said was good. It's a very complicated game. I also played Black Jack, and overall I won quite a bit, but I don't really find that game fun. I wanted to play Roulette, but I didn't really understand it and there were too many people at that table to ask. I didn't win anything, although my date tried really hard to win me a Dooney and Burke purse in the silent auction. He got outbid at the end though. It was fun.
I'm doing some laundry now, and I think I'll plant some cool weather veggies today (broccoli, beets, and lettuce, maybe carrots), and everything needs a good drink. Later I think I'm going to pick my mom up and take her to the bookstore and Sweet, the cupcake store. She can't eat much, but she does love a cupcake.
It turns out that my son can't come home for a visit before he leaves for Japan, which is sad for his wife especially--I think she's a little overwhelmed, but for me too. I like to SEE my kids now and then so I can see for myself that they are okay. It's a mom thing, I think.
I'm still a little tired, so I may lie down and read this morning for a little bit--my favorite thing to do! I'm kind of a lucky girl today. I hope everyone I know and love and who reads my blog has a great day too.
I slept in a little because I was out very late last night at a charity event, and that was after I worked in my school's garden for three hours. First things first.
My school had an event where families and volunteers came and weeded out our huge organic garden, used landscape timbers to build frames for the garden beds, laid down boxes, newspaper and mulch in the pathways and generally cleaned up the whole garden. With all the rain this summer, it's kind of gotten out of hand, and the beds weren't delineated in any way, so everything kind of got overgrown. It is really amazing what a group of people can do in a short period of time when they work together. Pictures to come.
The charity event was really nice--it was a casino themed dinner, and I learned to play craps (kind of)--I rolled for a long time, which other players said was good. It's a very complicated game. I also played Black Jack, and overall I won quite a bit, but I don't really find that game fun. I wanted to play Roulette, but I didn't really understand it and there were too many people at that table to ask. I didn't win anything, although my date tried really hard to win me a Dooney and Burke purse in the silent auction. He got outbid at the end though. It was fun.
I'm doing some laundry now, and I think I'll plant some cool weather veggies today (broccoli, beets, and lettuce, maybe carrots), and everything needs a good drink. Later I think I'm going to pick my mom up and take her to the bookstore and Sweet, the cupcake store. She can't eat much, but she does love a cupcake.
It turns out that my son can't come home for a visit before he leaves for Japan, which is sad for his wife especially--I think she's a little overwhelmed, but for me too. I like to SEE my kids now and then so I can see for myself that they are okay. It's a mom thing, I think.
I'm still a little tired, so I may lie down and read this morning for a little bit--my favorite thing to do! I'm kind of a lucky girl today. I hope everyone I know and love and who reads my blog has a great day too.
Friday, October 18, 2013
What to do... what to do...
I've been stressing out all week. I'm getting sick of myself. I just need to relax and let whatever is going to happen just happen. Sigh. It's like I've been in this loop of feeling stressed, which causes me to stress over every little thing that comes up. I know that some people work best under stress or seem to enjoy it--I DON'T! So my motto for this weekend is "let it go".
Speaking of this weekend, I have a busy one, but in a good way. Today after work I'm going to visit my mom--I just don't get to see her enough. I want to see what she's been knitting. She sounds really good, so that's a definite blessing. Then I'm going to come home and do some laundry or maybe go see my sister (if she's home).
On Saturday morning my school is hosting a volunteer day and I'm going to pick up my niece and nephew to come with me. We will be working in the garden, building planting boxes, digging up beds, etc. My job is to wood-burn signs for the centers outside. Very exciting.
Saturday night I have a date to a casino charity event that should be fun. Maybe I'll win something.
Sunday I'm going to relax--wash my sheets, read, whatever. I'm hopeful that my son Brett will be home that day and he's requested lasagna for dinner.
I also want to plant some cool weather veggies this weekend at some point, probably Sunday morning. It's not too cool here, but I'm trying out year-round gardening.
I'm going in to work early this morning to get ready for Ms. Spider's Tea Party. My class is really looking forward to that, and we're kind of known for our awesome parties.
Not much else to report. Everyone is fine. Work is fine. My hair looks pretty good today. What else can a girl ask for?
Speaking of this weekend, I have a busy one, but in a good way. Today after work I'm going to visit my mom--I just don't get to see her enough. I want to see what she's been knitting. She sounds really good, so that's a definite blessing. Then I'm going to come home and do some laundry or maybe go see my sister (if she's home).
On Saturday morning my school is hosting a volunteer day and I'm going to pick up my niece and nephew to come with me. We will be working in the garden, building planting boxes, digging up beds, etc. My job is to wood-burn signs for the centers outside. Very exciting.
Saturday night I have a date to a casino charity event that should be fun. Maybe I'll win something.
Sunday I'm going to relax--wash my sheets, read, whatever. I'm hopeful that my son Brett will be home that day and he's requested lasagna for dinner.
I also want to plant some cool weather veggies this weekend at some point, probably Sunday morning. It's not too cool here, but I'm trying out year-round gardening.
I'm going in to work early this morning to get ready for Ms. Spider's Tea Party. My class is really looking forward to that, and we're kind of known for our awesome parties.
Not much else to report. Everyone is fine. Work is fine. My hair looks pretty good today. What else can a girl ask for?
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Challenge: Day 30 (Last Day)... and a few other thoughts.
Today, as a final nice thing, I'm thinking of spending the day in bed. A nice thing for me. It's kind of too late to spend the whole day actually IN BED, but I can spend the day in my jammies and read all day. Or watch movies. Or knit. It sounds lovely.
I've learned a few things during this challenge--as stated below:
1. If you do nice things on a regular basis, it's difficult to think of "special" nice things to do every day. I think I'll stick to doing regular nice things every day, and just do something super-duper nice when the opportunity comes up.
2. Some days you just have to give yourself a break.
3. It really did make me feel good to be doing all those nice things. It was worth doing.
4. I didn't tell other people (except on this blog) that I was doing this, and if I ever do this again, I will tell everyone I know. It didn't really occur to me until a couple of weeks into it that I decided to do it after someone else did something nice for someone, inspiring me to do the same. If I had told everyone, I might have started a revolution of nice things. You live, you learn.
I didn't go out and work in the garden this morning, so I will have to get out there tonight or tomorrow when I get home from work, I guess. I woke up with a sore throat and didn't really sleep well last night, so I've been lazing around all morning.
It seems to be cooling off a little outside, which is nice because the electric bill has been a little crazy the last couple of months. Also, it will be nice to be able to work in the garden other than very early in the morning and very late in the evening. That gets tedious.
I've been pinning things like crazy on Pinterest this weekend--looking for nice gift ideas for Christmas, and especially good ideas for my classroom. We have a lot going on this week in my class. A firetruck is coming to visit on Wednesday, and on Friday, we are having Ms. Spider's Tea Party. Those will both be a lot of fun.
What the heck did we all do with our time before we had the internet?
I'm also looking forward to my son Brett coming home next week(ish) to spend some time before he gets stationed in Japan. He's in the navy and I miss him a lot. I wish all of my kids could live close by.
Well, that's my Sunday update. I hope everyone has a great day. Does anyone want to share what they do on Sundays?
I've learned a few things during this challenge--as stated below:
1. If you do nice things on a regular basis, it's difficult to think of "special" nice things to do every day. I think I'll stick to doing regular nice things every day, and just do something super-duper nice when the opportunity comes up.
2. Some days you just have to give yourself a break.
3. It really did make me feel good to be doing all those nice things. It was worth doing.
4. I didn't tell other people (except on this blog) that I was doing this, and if I ever do this again, I will tell everyone I know. It didn't really occur to me until a couple of weeks into it that I decided to do it after someone else did something nice for someone, inspiring me to do the same. If I had told everyone, I might have started a revolution of nice things. You live, you learn.
I didn't go out and work in the garden this morning, so I will have to get out there tonight or tomorrow when I get home from work, I guess. I woke up with a sore throat and didn't really sleep well last night, so I've been lazing around all morning.
It seems to be cooling off a little outside, which is nice because the electric bill has been a little crazy the last couple of months. Also, it will be nice to be able to work in the garden other than very early in the morning and very late in the evening. That gets tedious.
I've been pinning things like crazy on Pinterest this weekend--looking for nice gift ideas for Christmas, and especially good ideas for my classroom. We have a lot going on this week in my class. A firetruck is coming to visit on Wednesday, and on Friday, we are having Ms. Spider's Tea Party. Those will both be a lot of fun.
What the heck did we all do with our time before we had the internet?
I'm also looking forward to my son Brett coming home next week(ish) to spend some time before he gets stationed in Japan. He's in the navy and I miss him a lot. I wish all of my kids could live close by.
Well, that's my Sunday update. I hope everyone has a great day. Does anyone want to share what they do on Sundays?
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Challenge: Days 25-29
Dang, sorry! I know I haven't posted since Monday, so here's the scoop.
Day 25: I got my assistant a gift. She likes to do cooking activities with our class and she was eying a cookbook at the Book Fair, so I got it for her. She loved it.
Day 26:On Wednesday I had a good conversation with my new boss. She is feeling a little "out of the loop" so I made sure to talk about some stuff that is coming up that she may not know about yet. We tend to plan things, let everyone know, then not really send out reminders as things come up, so this is not really surprising, and nobody means to not let her know things, but she was not here for the start of the plans going on now, so she wasn't notified. This is rectified now.
Day 27:On Thursday, my new boss went to a meeting with our big boss, and I reassured her about the things she wanted to talk to him about. This was her first meeting with him, and he's not always an open book.
Day 28:On Friday, I gave a coworker a ride to work. Her car is giving her a lot of problems lately, and I know how that feels! Anyway, we had a lovely chat on the way to work. I might try to institute an occasional ride together just for the chat.
Day 29: Today I made sure my daughter and I did something fun. We've been financially strapped a lot lately, so we went to the bookstore and had a nice drink and looked at magazines and books. I have really curtailed my book-buying over the last year. Kaleigh went to the pet store and took pictures of adorable kittens and puppies. Typical.
I also cleaned out my closet this morning. I mean REALLY cleaned it out. Ruthlessly. I took everything out, and tried it on before deciding whether to keep, toss or donate. If I haven't worn it in the last couple of months (except for cold-weather items), I donated it. If it didn't look good or fit properly, I donated it. As the donation pile got bigger, it got easier to do. Anything that needed alterations went into another pile--ONLY if I was sure I would do the alteration. Anything that was worn out went into the toss pile. Very liberating. If the item made the cut, I went back into the closet where it belonged. I put my work clothes on the left (outfits together on the hanger), odd stuff in the middle with dresses, dress clothes on the right, and jackets, sweaters and winter coat on the far right. I'm not kidding when I say I have about 1/3 of what I had hanging in there yesterday. I immediately took the donate stuff to Goodwill, and threw out the garbage. I even got rid (GASP!) of several pair of shoes. While I'm not a proponent of that, I figure it makes room for new shoes. Okay, not exactly ROOM, but you get my meaning.
Tomorrow I'm going to tackle the sewing room. I'm a very messy sewer (seamstress, not something to do with sewage), and I want to get the room ready for the things I want to work on for Christmas presents. I have lots of quilt tops too, so I'd like to get some of those done.
Tomorrow I'm also going to pull out my green bean plants, they are eaten up by something. I have no idea what, but they look awful. The squash never had ANY female flowers, only male flowers, so I didn't get ONE, SINGLE SQUASH! Damn it! Very disappointing. Especially since I couldn't figure out why so I didn't learn anything to do differently next time. My passion plant has caterpillars on it--this is absolutely the mark of success. That means they will eat some leaves, but I will have more butterflies, which is a wonderful thing. The world needs more miracles, and butterflies are miracles for sure.
Day 25: I got my assistant a gift. She likes to do cooking activities with our class and she was eying a cookbook at the Book Fair, so I got it for her. She loved it.
Day 26:On Wednesday I had a good conversation with my new boss. She is feeling a little "out of the loop" so I made sure to talk about some stuff that is coming up that she may not know about yet. We tend to plan things, let everyone know, then not really send out reminders as things come up, so this is not really surprising, and nobody means to not let her know things, but she was not here for the start of the plans going on now, so she wasn't notified. This is rectified now.
Day 27:On Thursday, my new boss went to a meeting with our big boss, and I reassured her about the things she wanted to talk to him about. This was her first meeting with him, and he's not always an open book.
Day 28:On Friday, I gave a coworker a ride to work. Her car is giving her a lot of problems lately, and I know how that feels! Anyway, we had a lovely chat on the way to work. I might try to institute an occasional ride together just for the chat.
Day 29: Today I made sure my daughter and I did something fun. We've been financially strapped a lot lately, so we went to the bookstore and had a nice drink and looked at magazines and books. I have really curtailed my book-buying over the last year. Kaleigh went to the pet store and took pictures of adorable kittens and puppies. Typical.
I also cleaned out my closet this morning. I mean REALLY cleaned it out. Ruthlessly. I took everything out, and tried it on before deciding whether to keep, toss or donate. If I haven't worn it in the last couple of months (except for cold-weather items), I donated it. If it didn't look good or fit properly, I donated it. As the donation pile got bigger, it got easier to do. Anything that needed alterations went into another pile--ONLY if I was sure I would do the alteration. Anything that was worn out went into the toss pile. Very liberating. If the item made the cut, I went back into the closet where it belonged. I put my work clothes on the left (outfits together on the hanger), odd stuff in the middle with dresses, dress clothes on the right, and jackets, sweaters and winter coat on the far right. I'm not kidding when I say I have about 1/3 of what I had hanging in there yesterday. I immediately took the donate stuff to Goodwill, and threw out the garbage. I even got rid (GASP!) of several pair of shoes. While I'm not a proponent of that, I figure it makes room for new shoes. Okay, not exactly ROOM, but you get my meaning.
Tomorrow I'm going to tackle the sewing room. I'm a very messy sewer (seamstress, not something to do with sewage), and I want to get the room ready for the things I want to work on for Christmas presents. I have lots of quilt tops too, so I'd like to get some of those done.
Tomorrow I'm also going to pull out my green bean plants, they are eaten up by something. I have no idea what, but they look awful. The squash never had ANY female flowers, only male flowers, so I didn't get ONE, SINGLE SQUASH! Damn it! Very disappointing. Especially since I couldn't figure out why so I didn't learn anything to do differently next time. My passion plant has caterpillars on it--this is absolutely the mark of success. That means they will eat some leaves, but I will have more butterflies, which is a wonderful thing. The world needs more miracles, and butterflies are miracles for sure.
Monday, October 7, 2013
Challenge: Day 24
Today I did not get angry with my daughter in spite of her doing everything she can to make me that way. Believe me, this was above and beyond.
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