Just another day

Have you ever felt the urge to blog knowing that you really have nothing specific to write about? That's me.. bout nearly every day. Sometimes I am in the middle of driving somewhere and I think, " I should blog that" and then of course I forget to.

The last couple of weeks have been filled with... stuff. Same shit different day type of stuff. Except that it also included:
Building a garden bed at the younger kid's school of which I am wrapping up my run as PTO President, for the second time. That's right I ran this group when my older son attended this school too. I have since been voted in as president of the PTO at the elementary school where both boys will be attending in the fall. oy.


This is about to be a butterfly garden and to the left there we plan on adding some butterfly bushes. Due the the rain the last couple of weeks, progress is slower than expected. Rain happens it's okay.

We are also experiencing sewer line work on my street resulting in 1/2 my front lawn missing and a new walkway to be installed (silent "yay!") I drive a little Hyundai Accent, and because of the mud on the street, it looks like I took my car 4-wheeling... and I might as well have. They are starting to do finishing work as of this week, so we no longer have a dirt/mud trench down the middle of the street, and the frame it set up for pouring our new walk, hopefully on Tuesday morning. We'll see..

I also had my birthday this past week. I turned a whopping 32! *gasp* I know, I know.. "I'm just a baby" as most people tell me when they hear my age. I have taken to the habit of telling anyone who is younger than me that they are a baby and I'm the old lady... lol true story. Other people say, "you're *only* 32?!" Christ people! How old do I look?! I've also gotten carded a couple times this past month... woohoo!! I look under 30! I know that since I turned 30 I have lost my ability to guess people's ages with any accuracy.

As a result of my birthday I am throwing my annual Birthday/BBQ this weekend. We are also celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary because my husband is going to be away in Kansas City for work.. he'll be grading AP exams... all day... for an entire week.. I win!

oh! I had pictures done of the kids.. my one of my besties Melissa. You can see them here ColorsofHerHeart.com They came out pretty awesome! She also helped me design some new business cards for my Pampered Chef business. Also pretty awesome.

So now it's almost 12:30, and my brain is shutting down.. maybe next time i will share something worthy of sharing! Maybe.

unintentional

Have you ever given thought to key things about who you are and how or what made you that way? One of my favorite bloggers wrote a book about what makes her tick and how she became who she is. I have purchased her book but haven't read it yet. I will, soon too. I'm actually very excited about it, but have to finish my current book first. If you've never read her blog, you better do it.

There are several things about who I am as a grown up that are unintentional results of my childhood. I have come to these conclusions over the last several years as something triggers my recollections:

1. I don't like to throw things away that I no longer need that are still good. My husband likes to do dump runs when I'm not home, because If I were home I'd take half of it back and try to convince him to let me have a yard sale. "It's still good! Someone might want it!" is my argument. This is a result of being poor all through the first 2/3 of my life. When you work hard for the things that are yours, it can be hard to let them go even if you don't need them anymore.

2. I have an uncontrollable need to be accommodating due to an incident at girl scouts once when I was around 8 years old. I was left out of eating ice cream on root beer float night because I do not like root beer. I remember asking the troop leader if I could just have some ice cream and she said okay, only I didn't get any because they ran out and I had to WATCH everyone enjoy their floats- including the troops leaders. Scarred. For. Life.

3. I *really* love & respect great guitarists. My mother played guitar growing up and apparently had a huge impact on my musical tastes. I totally dig rock music. I get nostalgic when I hear Crosby Stills & Nash, and Foreigner

4. I am Wonder Woman. I bought an apron to help me out when I'm feeling stressed and need a boost. It makes me awesomer. I grew up in a single parent household since infancy. My mother never remarried, and barely dated. She did everything on her own, and I feel like I need to as well. But really I need to feel like I am able to do things on my own, because that's how I saw it done.

5. Major holidays included the whole wide family, and there was a feast to be had. I miss this. We are spread all over now that we are grown and don't get together nearly enough. Thanks to Facebook though we all keep in touch fairly regularly!

6. German Shepherds make me very nervous. I was 5 when I witnessed my best friend get attacked by our neighbors dog. It was on Halloween in 1985 and I remember watching my mom pry the dogs mouth off my friends face.

Tell me about you. Can you recall a specific instance in your childhood that is still with you?

and now we have Summer?!

I'm not complaining.. REALLY I'm not, but our winter was like spring with a touch of snow and now we have summer and it just became spring (technically) WTF mother nature... what's going on in your brain? It's almost like she might be an ADD blonde on crack with the weather...

that said I am LOVING this gorgeous weather! I nice reprieve here in New England after last winter's never ending wrath. This time last year we had a foot of snow on the ground with another foot on the way on April 1st.. or something. We had a crap ton of snow last winter.

The only thing I'm not loving about the weather is the wardrobe I own that goes with it. I need new warm weather stuff. My stuff is worn out and ratty and I only own a few pieces because I had to get rid of some after last summer because they were so worn out. Maybe I will buy a couple things. Even if it gets cooler again, it will be warm again.. It's New England and our motto is that if you don't like the weather wait 30 minutes, it'll change.

Damn you mother nature! *shakes fist*

Ok, it is 83 degrees in my lab right now, and I'm wearing winter attire. So I'm wicked hot, but I digress.

I do like me some snow, I know, I know, I'm weird. So I have been mentally sad that we have had no snow more than an inch deep since Halloween. However now that it's FEB 28th, now is not the time to conveniently remember that you have forgotten winter... or that you have suddenly realized that, "F*ck,  Europe isn't part of the northeastern US? Shit, now is my chance.. here have some snow, and then it'll be 50 again".

We're about to be bitch slapped and there's nothing we can do about it..

/rant

RANTS FROM MOMMYLAND: Who Doesn't Love a Cuddly Scrote?

I almost just spewed coffee at my work computer.. just for that it may not be safe for work... however you MUST read this.. it's hilarious!

RANTS FROM MOMMYLAND: Who Doesn't Love a Cuddly Scrote?: Remember how I made a video of all the toys that my precious little cupcake named things like Lionsack and Crack Rabbit and Horny? Then I ...

Day 2- "words"

Feb photo of the day contest!

A dear friend who is a professional photographer has a contest going on via her facebook page involving this:

My friend Melissa takes amazing photos! You can find and like her Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/ColorsofherHeart Don't forget to tell her I sent you. I will get brownie points :) but also check out her work here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ColorsofherHeart and while you're there buy something if you like it!

oh! so why not join in on the picture taking fun??

Here is my picture from Yesterday

My View- Work equipment waiting for more work.