Showing posts with label Yard Sale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yard Sale. Show all posts

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Break dreams

Good Morning! First time I've seen 5am in awhile. The boys got up to go fish and made so much noise I'm awake. I figure since I have to get up and go at 4 am tomorrow for the beach I might as well put in some early hours so I can sleep tonight. I've been staying up till midnight or later and sleeping till 8 or later. The girls sleep around all day and are out for the night be 10 then they are rearing to get up by 8. Stella's awake now. Shocking.

I have got to amp up the workouts this summer. I am constantly surprised at how little free time we have in the summer. You'd think since we aren't working out regular jobs we'd be left with tons of time but no. We are still hurrying around and fighting to get in bed at night. I'm sure it will change but I've been trying to get ready for the beach, the boys have been on 2 fishing trips already, I have another beach trip in July and they have another fishing trip. Sad to say we are going in such different directions this year but they want to fish and I, well, don't. When they were going to Key Largo I would trade some fishing time for some Florida time but not Lake Sinclair. Not sure I'd enjoy that much. They are waanting me to go this next time with them but I think not.

Yesterday I got to looking for last year's girls' beach trip scrapbook when I realized I don't have one! I have no pics from 2011 scrapped and not ever 2010 is done! and it's 2012! Wow I need to scrap like mad this summer and get caught up. This is insane.

Yesterday the boys continued getting their act together for tournaments, Hubs mowed (that takes forever) and Bubs finally detailed my car. Hubs then was need to take the pontoon up to help some elderly people from the local nursing home, Bubs had basketball and then they both had weightlifting, and we all finally met up for a concert planning meeting. Our church small group is bringing Building 429 to Blanchester in August. They are a large group so all the details are mind blowing. We have to talk to multiple agents, get prepared for 2000 people and then have faith the money will fall into place. So far it has. Amazingly people come out of nowhere to make this happen. Really praying that all the details will be covered. Lots of work ahead.

I finished The Seminary yesterday. That's the book my friend from church wrote and asked me to help edit. It was really good and I enjoyed it. I don't think he thought I'd find so much since when I called to tell him I finished he asked if I found anything. Yeah. 71 things actually. I hope he is still speaking to me after this. Students come in all the time and ask me to read things. They are expecting me to spew accolades. You got the wrong gal. I give an honest opinion. Not to say it isn't great! It is but I see errors and tweaks and if there is the opportunity to fix it, well I figure that's what you want right? I hope so.

The girls have gotten comfortable together.

Spring yard sale items
 Prom favors
 OOTD with scary hair
 The new girl got her pic taken by the resident 14 yr old.
 Some Pinterest in action
 Summer wedding OOTD
 One day I thought I lost Stella... found her, can you?
A trio of bunnies have moved into the field

 80% of their day


 OOTD for book club at MJ's

 the other 20%


 the girls see the bunnies who amazingly come to the fence to play!
 the girls realize they can't leave the fence
 so back to napping

And this my friend is how I plan to spend my entire break...



Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Morning Pages and Summertime Plan/Goals/Dreams

Wrote a whole post yesterday and poof it's gone. Poop. So here we go again...

I started reading The Artist's Way by Julie Cameron and she assigned morning pages. 3. I'm going to tweak it a little and make blog posts each morning. I know not as private as she wants it but seriously who reads my blog anyway? If you are then beware this is stream of consciousness stuff.

So I've put on some tea and letting that steep while I come out on the back porch to type for awhile.

Yesterday was the first day of summer I was home all day and trying to work on my Personal Plan Summertime edition. I started the pile of laundry that doesn't seem to be shrinking! I can't even blame it on the boys since they've been gone almost a week. I have got to kick it into gear.

I put dishes away, cleaned off the tables and put laundry up and yes that took relatively all day. Today's task is cleaning my studio. It is a disaster.

Mom's having a yard sale today through Saturday and I need to get a ton of stuff to her tomorrow morning. Yuck. Last year was so unbelievably hot so at least the weather appears to be cooperating today.  I have got to get some things done before the boys come home tomorrow. Amazing how I saw a whole week ahead of me with them on vacation and all the things I would get done only to end up scrambling to get the house in shape before they returned. Scary.
Tea's ready!

And look at that, blogger just auto saved my post. Why oh why couldn't you have done that yesterday when I worked on a post all day long? Too much to ask? Of course.

Well I'm falling in love with this borrowed MacBook from work. I checked yesterday to see if I could afford one. Alas not yet. Hard to reason I need it with my desktop, iPad, iPodS and such. But it's so nice!!! I can work on my blog outside and in bed. The iPad objects.
The dogs are in heaven that I am home 24-7 with them. Well 24-2 but I took them to Yolanda's Sunday Afternoon and we stayed till Tuesday morning together. All the dogs got along very well. My two are meant for each other. Really. They hang out and wrestle and share and generally drive each other crazy. I really think Marina loves Stella.

Listening to ...
The Milk Carton Kids- Maybe it's Time
Afrojack-Take Over Control
Kelly Clarkson-Whyyawannabringmedown
Bare Naked Ladies- One Week

Sipping Green Tea
Eating PBJ

I felt like I made headway yesterday upstairs. Closets straightened and laundry starting to be taken care of, and counters cleaned off but geesh so much to do still. Are normal people like this? Several houses I frequent puzzle me with all the sparseness they have. No hobbies, no passion, no creativity. That's not what I want but neither is this .... cluttered mess. Happy Medium. That's what I'm looking for.

Summertime.... sipping Arnold Palmers, reading/napping in the hammock, roasting hotdogs and marshmallows on the fire pit, playing board games on the porch in the evenings, watching movies in the evenings, reading on the boat, visiting farmer's markets, riding bikes, actually doing projects on pinterest, kayaking- that's a new one, sitting on the porch morning and night.

And some things to do... deep clean the house, BASEBALL ROOM: organize papers to scrap upstairs, complete some scrap projects, LAUNDRY ROOM: catch up on ironing, catch up on hand washing, fix things on counter in the laundry room, MASTER BED: clean the trunk downstairs and bring up to the bedroom for sweater storage, BUB'S ROOM: help him get his act together in there with the fridge and tv, SPARE BED: hang old hats, find a better way to store scrapbooks,
use up food stuff and restock with clean eating food, and then that STUDIO- whew that's gonna take some time to pare down and get some projects done, mainly get caught up scrapbooking and ordering photos, get cards stockpiled,
get Bub's started on some SAT problems via counselor who says he has a chance at a Merit Scholarship if he keeps his test taking skills up- that's very exciting since apparently that means a full ride!

Watching 2 hawks soaring. Wonder what they are looking at?

Okay back inside working on the studio.
Watching and listening to The Pelican Brief. I forgot how wonderful this movie is. Amazing and has so many stars in it!


Sunday, May 6, 2012

Yard Saling

Lorelei yard sales were yesterday. Some scores: books, DVD's, a wooden bowl, acorn ornaments, clothing, a Bybee pitcher, dishtowels, a Grolsch bottle, necklace, a halloween rug, a little birdcage, and a lighter.
The lighter is a Ronson Queen Anne Lighter I bought for a quarter. It's worth 15-60$.
Bub scores 2 chairs for his room, a safe and a pocket knife.
I really enjoy going with him. He called late the night before to ask if we were going early the next morning. We've been running in different directions lately.
Prom was last night at Newport Aquarium. An awesome location!
We ate at Mitchell's Fish Market for dinner. Hubs took Bubs to his fishing tourney so I went with some friends. There was a photo booth with props. We went to Jefferson Hall afterward and it was really fun. Danced till the wee hours of the morning.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Me and My Girl

 Yolanda, Henry, Marina and I attended a dog fashion show at the Lexus dealership last Friday night and Dog Patch Pix took our photos and I am particularly proud of how well my girl photographs.
I paired an Anthro shirt with some Anthro clogs for this new favorite outfit.
 Goodbye September... here are the before photos. I'll be cleaning and decorating for Oct this week.


We've already added an 85 lb pumpkin to the kitchen autumn decor. 
 And these smaller guys
 Today was my neighborhood's yard sales and it was the worst one yet. Wow that sounds pathetic but IT WAS. I picked up a few blouses, books, CDs, a pair of shoes, a straw dispenser for work, and a sign. That's it. 3 hours and that's it. OH and I bought a clothes rack for the boys but they'll need the truck to pick it up. I'm hoping they will HANG their camouflage in the basement.

We welcomed a new little on to The Family. Our small group of couple friends has grown by one pair of angel wings.
I'm so behind on my blog reading. Today I'll have some time to peruse. 
From Anthro's email a beautiful display of labels I love...
I finished listening to The Cat who Moved a Mountain by Lilian Jackson Braun- # 13 in the series. Audio is the way to go here with George Guidall narrating. Comforting murder mysteries, lovable cats (I do not like in real life), words like 'munificent' and 'belligerent' alongside lyrical descriptions.
Hubs and Bubs went fishing on the Ohio River today and brought me home a Starbucks pumpkin latte and Wendy's Chili. Love 'em.

came across an article in Allure I read this summer...
just so right

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Book PJ's?!?!

Catching up on some summer activities...Finished reading Infidel and really eyeopening about the Muslim faith, the Middle East and such. Here I am at Yo's in my new book pjs. Marina got tired of watching all the little dogs sleeping in this little bed so she crawled in to check it out.

 Every body took a turn in this little bed while I worked or read in her craft room.
 We went to Olives for dinner. Yo had eaten there recently and raved about it. Well deserved it was delicious.



 The pizza baker finished up right when I walked up with my camera but he offered to do another just so I could take some pics. He was actually pretty flattered by it.
 The fabulous salad, pizza, and such.

 Bub's ordered pasta alfredo.
 Later at home my veggies started coming in... and I tested out Yo's OPI Russian Navy.
 We took one evening to take some friends out to Mongolian Grill since they had never experienced it.

 Finally an OOTD!
 We took a late evening swim across the street and down at the lake beach.




 And yet another OOTD returning from helping my mom hold a yard sale.
 Bub's has spent an unbelievable amount of time on this machine I can't stand because it worries me so...