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on the cusp

so, I know i've been without posts for awhile now. It's really not for any reason besides that i've had nothing important to talk about. I feel like I'm on the cusp of so many things. My new camera comes sometime this week and my suprise is next week. I promise, i'll update more then

I know I know, Boring

Again after another week of being absolutely boring, I'm going to end with a post. This week has just flown by!  I started off my week with being sick. Went to the doctor, took bunches of tests, still haven't heard back. I'm guessing it's a "we have no idea what's wrong with you" kind of situation and less of a "there's something horribly wrong with you" kind of senerio. I'm ok with that.

Tonight, the boy is working for most of the night, so i'm going to use my evening alone to catch up on all the wonderous projects I'm planning. I hate when life takes so much time yanno? I'm planning on going to the pet store after work to pick maggie up something delicious that will keep her busy for a few hours, heading to the track to run a few laps, and then head home to a wonderful thai soup that I love and some diy crafting projects. I MIGHT even go to the Riteaid and grab up some new nailpolish (i recently quit biting my nails). I haven't ever bought nailpolish so I need to start creating a stash of nail paint. What is it with crafters and stashes? I LOVE stashes! Nailpolish really is a whole lot of fun. At the moment however I only have red, orange, black and white. Literally, I hate them all and don't want to wear them. You can see why because it makes my fingers look scary. I only own them because I used them to paint my nubs at halloween. Upgrade? Yes!

Hm, what else...

Oh yeah! the boy, is taking me on a suprise trip! It's in the middle of November and he wont tell me anything else. It's eating away at my soul to not know what's up. All I do know, is he spend an extroidinary amount of time planning it (aw), it's big, and I need a dress to go there. (yikes) lets just say, me and clothing have been at odds as of late and i'm dreading what I look like in a nice dress.

*Sigh* any hints on how to lose 50 lbs in 25 days?

[update]

I have decided that I am going to create a new pattern for my legwarmers tonight. This huge coldfront just came in, and it got 10 degrees colder almost instantly. It's about that time for warm fleece legwarmers. Once I make a pattern, i'll be able to make tons of them. So exciting!

Postcards, Books & Cupcakes. Oh my!

The title says it all folks, that's what I've been doing as of late. If you do however notice, there is no "craft" in that title. It's because I haven't been. I actaually haven't even walked to that part of the house. It seems this week has been sort of up in the air. We began painting our kitchen (horray) and have applied 3 coats so far and it still needs at least one more. This paint is so thin that everything shows through. We even put a tinter primer on before we started but to no avail. The primer was the color of pepto bismal. As you can imagine, the boy was moderately distressed with the thought of a pink kitchen (not to say I wasn't) So hopefully, when we get the painting finish we can reclaim the kitchen. It's a huge wreck in there.

We tried out a new italian food place that just opened up down the street. Our neighborhood is lacking in the restaurant department, and luckily this place was absolutely wonderful, so hopefully we wont have to drive 20 minutes just to get to a good place to grab a bite.

I'm at work, and I don't want to do anything at all. Suprise, Suprise. Luckily however, I spend my entire day on the computer so there's always something else to do. ie TYPEPAD!

I did day number 2 of my Couch to 5k Plan and boy, I didn't realize how sore I still was from monday. I did however make a plan last night that I think is a little more suited to my fitness level. Instead of trying to complete the plan in the 8 weeks as specified, I'm going to take a little longer on the beginning weeks then they recommend. There's really no rush for me, and I feel that I'm carrying such a large amount of weight that it might actaully not be good for me to be running so far so fast. SO, instead of moving to week two next week, I'm going to do week 1 again. I couldnt even get through the whole routine yesterday. Instead of the 29 minutes I was supposed to run, I only got to 20. I think it's a huge improvement for myself so i'm not worried. Actaully, i'm proud that I got off my ass and started doing something to improve my health and the way I look.

In other news, our adoption paperwork is still underway at the great dane rescue. The boy and I are extremely excited to add one more to the herd. I never thought I would own a Great Dane, let alone become such a fan of the breed. Huge: yes  Stupid: Pretty much. Personality: Fantastic. Fighting over who gets to sit on the couch, Priceless.

updates

So it seems as if last week I had a pms meltdown nervous breakdown and absolutly had nothing positive to write about. I promise, you would have not wanted to read what I had to say. However, this weekend turned out lovely. The boy and I bought a bigscreen tv on saturday after a teeny tiny joke from me. We happened to walk into a store and the boy drooled over appreciated this brand new 46" sony lcd tv. I said jokingly "how about we just buy it." and well, we did.how did we afford it? well, financing! It's not real money till 2008! But, I must say, it's way better. I'll never go back to an old tv. I feel really fancy when I watch animal planet. I told my mother that we bought it for the season finale of Project Runway. She believed me, and questioned my ability to manage money. tsk tsk.

On sunday, the boy and I drove to Gettysburg with the dog. It was a lot of fun. Very long and very parched by the end, but well worth it. I'm pretty sure there were tons of funny comments about Maggie (the dog). It's amazing that just by having a big dog people just cannot stop talking to us. We had no idea that people were going to react that way when we got her. We were hoarded at the visitor center for almost 10 minutes. We would have been stuck longer if I hadn't started dragging the dog away. She's an attention hog.

I bought a green ipod nano, nuff said. it's the shit.

 
Oh, and this is a picture of our pond. It's still in the process, but it's getting there. I like the lily a lot even though it wasnt the one I wanted at first. I just thought I would grace you with a picture. Christmas is coming, and that means a new digital camera for me.

Ah yes

So i'm sitting at work, sipping my cup of dunkin donuts french vanilla coffee and I'm honestly in a good mood. Now of course, my boss hasn't started annoying me yet and no customers have shown up thus far, but I feel good today. I'm smelling the delicious pearberry lotion that I applied an hour or so ago (to die for). I smell like ripe fruit, but i'm ok with that. I cleaned my glassses this morning and realized that 50% of the time, I'm seeing the world through dirty lenses. I must be missing out on alot. I'm going to attempt to get contacts sometime soon.

My grandparents are up from Delaware and the whole family is headed to a delicious seafood restaurant tonight. I don't think I could move from the east coast. I eat fish and seafood at least twice a week and i'm spoiled with it.

Not much in the way of art or crafting or knitting or designing this week. Sometimes, I just want to watch tv or play xbox. That's ok too. Though, last night I did clean, and I wished to do anything but that. I also realized that I drop a whole lot of "craft" on the floor. My carpet was filthy!

What else ... WELL, H.P Lovecraft has officially moved to a top spot in my list of authors. I really really like him. He uses just enough big words to force you to really think, but not enough where it gets overbearing and two "word-y." Don't get me wrong, every once in awhile I like a hard read, but not with scary books. I feel that when authors put big words in just beacuse they can, It takes away from a horror story. Just a personal feeling I guess, but Lovecraft does it so well; It's fantastic.

Hopefully I can make it through today without any jerks or morons and i'll be doin ok.

[update] no such luck

Running

So my fat ass curvey self decided to start running. I had attempted this feat what seems like a year ago and realized that I really needed to quit smoking. I quit smoking (yay) and now I should get back into shape. College did a number on my figure to say the least and now I'm hoping to get back to that highschool weight range. Ive deleted this sentence 3 times but I think it needs to be said (just for myself)  I weigh almost 165 lbs now. That's absolutely out of control! I have now set a goal weight for myself that by next summer I will be around 110 lbs again. This is not totally just for looks however. My health has been drastically affected by my quick weight gain, and I'm honestly just sick of feeling gross in my clothes. I haven't bought new clothes in over a year because I just feel so horrible. So this is it, I'm  starting my running schedule today. You're all witnesses to it!

19 Days

into my life in the blogging world and I'm not sure what to write about. Partly, I think it's because I don't have a camera yet. I could show you all the fun stuff I've been making, but alas, I may have to wait until christmas to get a digital camera. I could afford one now, but I would feel horrible knowing I could have put that money towards something important like that never-ending stack of bills. I'm one of those people who has a hard time spending lots of money on one thing. I easily plow through my paychecks with frivilous expenditures, but when it comes to spending it all on one thing, I just can't do it. I might just start saving money and see where it takes me. yay!

The List

 

So I decided along with the 500,000 other things I'm getting involved with recently, I decided to also try a read-a-thon because who doesn't like horror books, right? So, here's my list

1. Tales - HP Lovecraft (so excited about this)
2. Phantoms - Dean Koontz
3. The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
4. Horror: The 100 Best Books (I know it’s not a story technically, but i’ll at least get a book about books right?)
5. Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

I'm so very excited. I know that I dont have a lot of time, but after I got out of college I promised myself that I would keep reading books that challanged me. A few years later, I haven't read anything higher than a magazine since. This is the perfect (and my favorite genre too) opportunity to exercise the brain muscles again. So excited! I'm going to head to the library today and see what I can wrap my little fingers around.

Edward Gorey is my favorite!

Annoying

So there I am at Home Depot, delightfully carrying my way too heavy shelf that I had been longing for my office. I get home, rip open the packaging and begin my attempt at hanging it. Of course, Christopher attempting to do anything in his power to not help me. I rose to the challange; Unfortunatly, I came up dreadfully short. +2 holes in my wall and 15 pencil lines later, i'm still without a shelf and too annoyed to continue. I guess I'll try again tomorrow. If we didn't live in such an old historic house I might possibly be able to install anything at all without creating more of an issue then it should be. oh well, i'll get over the ugly pencil marks, but i'm sure the holes will drive me to drink soon enough.

Maybe i'll just paint the room orange to disguise my mistakes.

[update] i just retried to put up the shelf. Didn't work the second time around either. to finish off this  atrocity, i'm going to paint my whole room. that will make all the pencil lines go away. maybe burnt orange. o0o I feel better already