whatever

halfway to seventy!

today is my birthday.
it's going to be great because i keep saying "it's going to be great" to myself over and over.
to convince myself.

remember my list i made last october?

 

i did GET photoshop....i just didn't learn how to use it yet.
i did make a painting but it wasn't the one i was dreaming of in my head so i don't want to count it.
i did NOT sleep till noon....once i slept till 10:30 and stayed in bed till 11:00.
i did NOT lose ten pounds.  i lost 5 though...that is better than none.
i did NOT learn how to cook pork but crystal b. is helping me on that.
i did NOT go dancing.  BOO.  i should have done this...i love dancing.
i did NOT even once think about painting the trim in the craft room.
i did NOT send my friends b-day cards.  good intentions.....
i did NOT do the weekly meal plans.  that was never going to happen...my brain does not work that way.
i did NOT make peppernuts.  THIS is the christmas.  it has to be.
i DID start to sew a quilt.
i did not paint the laundry room....because we are going to gut it eventually....so yay.
i did NOT take a trip with my sister...but we will travel together in the end of october...so we can count that.
i did NOT go camping in a tent outside.  that is a funny one.
i did NOT host a craft weekend at my house....i still want to....something to work on.
i did NOT do a freezer meal swap.  that is ridiculous.  i have to do that again soon!! 

and even after reading all that i do not feel i have failed.

i DID got to africa.
i DID start running.
i DID give up sugar for 3 months.
i DID spend everyday with my kids all summer.
i DID go down a slip n' slide.

 those things count for at least three things each....right?

i don't think i will make another list.
because my everyday to do list is already so long.
but some times i surprise myself.

today....i am going to have a carmel apple martini WITH MY LUNCH because i want to and i can.
i am thirty-five.
the guy didn't card me at walmart for my spray paint OR my beer.
it's official.
i am all groweds up.

craft thursday #11

this craft came from Art Projects for Kids.
she has a great site full of ideas for all ages.

my kids were missing their craft time because they were WAY into it today.
which makes me so happy.

i gave them square paper (the sketchpad paper cut smaller into a square) 
and a pencil.
they had to draw a tree with no leaves where each branch went off the page.



then with a crayon or oil pastel....color the tree.


then fill in every space with a different color.









they loved this craft.
i was surprised by that but i am not complaining.

the girls made two each.

sean took two days to finish his because it had to be perfect.

 

 

just a normal day.

hello.
my day today has been like any other normal nothing day.
boring.
but i have some pictures to prove it. 


spray painting anything that doesn't move.


 "hemming" the curtains with no sew iron on tape.


admiring my 31BITS necklace in every mirror i walk past...and windows too.

sonic happy hour large cranberry limeade.


watching the kids play zingo....talby won four games straight! 


make craft thursday (on tuesday).

making chicken tortilla soup for dinner.

excited that craig brought home season one of Mad Men from the library!  
we are hooked.
now we just need to figure out what is going on...starting in season 4 wasn't the smartest way.

also loving Parenthood again this season.



the daughter driving with the mother....it was PERFECT.  dead on.
like....THAT could have been filmed in our home word for word. 

until the end when the daughter apologizes!!!
what?!
that scene....doesn't happen in real life....at least not in our house.
and i was ticked at the show.
but i will still watch.