Off Again

TG and I are heading off to Indiana tomorrow to go visit his family. I will attempt to take some pictures, but I make no promises. Especially since I think I'm out of batteries for my camera...

Also, I started jogging with TG this week. He did it all last week, and I decided, heck, why don't I start too. All I have to say is: ow. I'm in worse shape than I thought. This is probably why it's not even 10:00PM here and I feel exhausted. I think I'll turn in early and attempt to throw everything I need into half a suitcase tomorrow.

Talk to you all again when I get back!

Bits of Happiness

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- Thoroughly enjoying a day at the Oregon Coast, despite inclement weather (in fact it was kind of cool)

- Listening to The Chronicles of Narnia with my husband on our roadtrip, watching for his fresh reactions to my favorite bits

- Finally making a craft project I've been dying to for months

- Going over my 2008 NaNoWriMo, with timid optimism over the few nice sentences

- Knowing my sister will be in Utah shortly, and I haven't seen her since Christmas

- Only having six workdays between vacations

What I've been busy with

I'm terrible at posting about traveling, and I always forget to take pictures, so we'll keep it short:

-Oregon is lovely! At least, western Oregon is lovely. Eastern Oregon is surprisingly barren (at least the parts where we were at) but I loved all the delicious, actually living trees and plants we got to see out towards the West.

-The wedding went off great. TG's friend and his new bride were very happy, and she was beautiful, and I'm glad we were able to be there for their day. They also drove us out to the coast the day before their wedding, and I got to dip my feet into the (cold) Pacific Ocean again.

-I don't think I ever want to drive for more than 30 minutes ever again.


I've also been rather busy this week with a brand new Etsy product that I've been working on. I got the concept a month or two ago, and made all the little polymer clay charms then, but I was only just able to get the fabric and fillings this week:

Video Game Inspired "iSpy" Bags!

You can see more pics and buy them here.

Now it's off to bed for the doomed Early Morning Custodian! *whisks away*

Happy Moments Friday

-- A big, juicy, delicious watermelon all to myself. Well, and to be shared (a little) with TG.

-- The silly, playful banter that permeates my marriage

-- Falling in love with Shannon Hale's writing all over again with her new book

-- A 2 hour nap after a long day

-- Tickle fights

-- Clean sheets

-- Finally getting a vacation again

Off We Go! (to the wild blue yonder?)

Well, TG and I are off to Portland tomorrow for a friend's wedding. Neither of us have been to Oregon, and we're both quite excited. Mostly our vacation will consist of: driving. As well as: more driving. But it's our first roadtrip together, so I'm excited. (Although he loves his air conditioning, so I may freeze to death as we drive).

Sorry I never posted a recipe. I realized the food I make isn't particularly pretty, and also I'm lazy, so it just didn't happen. I think I'll work on Friday's Happiness before I go, so anything on that list will be pre-vacation.

Oh, and I'll try and take some pictures. But not of me. Oh, no, not of me. Maybe of blurry landscape as I try and take pictures of sagebrush from the car. Yeah, that's good.

See you all when I get back!

Happy Moments Friday

(Photo from here)

Moments of happiness this week:

-- The first good rain of the summer... and drifting, wandering clouds fading between white and gray that follow

-- Audio books from the library

-- My family insisting on coming to my rescue

-- New baby smell from my new niece

-- Coming home late one night, in the dark, and turning the corner to find the porch light on to guide me home

-- A testimony of tithing, found in many forms

-- Making chocolate cupcakes in ice cream cones... even if they didn't turn out perfect

-- Learning about Nepali wedding traditions from my Nepali co-worker

-- Having my 5 year old niece hug me at all the right times

(Edit: If you're confused, this is going to be a weekly post every Friday about bits of happiness from the week preceding it. I shamelessly stole the idea from a blogger I greatly admire.)

Alrighty Then

For those of you who missed my last post (because, seriously, when was the last time I blogged two days in a row?) I'm trying to figure out some new ways to refresh my blog. And to keep me interested, along with all four of you lovely readers. ;)

We'll tinker with some stuff for now, but I think I'll try and do a Friday "Happiness" (needs a cooler name) post along with a Monday (maybe?) post with a recipe I tried out in the last week. Because I've been cooking and baking a lot lately, and frankly, it's been awesome. We'll probably start off with a fabulous Pepper-Lime Chicken recipe I've fallen in love with on Monday.

As for the rest of the days in the week, I'll probably be skipping days regularly like usual, but I'll try and keep you all informed (in a most entertaining way, of course) as to my goings-on and whatnot. Perhaps it will be a good writing exercise for me. How can I make my boring day sound interesting to my readership? Oh yeah, I'll totally be selling book-rights before the month is out. ;)

So, why not begin with today?

Lucky lucky me got to sleep in today. Who doesn't love to sleep in, especially with a job as horrifyingly boring as mine? Ah, yes, sweet sweet sleep. Except. Oh yeah, I went to bed with the Flu. That kind of sucked.

No, I have no idea if it was Swine Flu. Quite frankly I don't think it'd matter if it was the normal or baconified version, because either way I still have a sore throat today. Thankfully the fever/chills I had last night broke sometime during the night, which caused me to cast off my blankets and trade in my long sleeved PJ top for something lighter, so as not to get all sweaty. My husband was also very nice to me when I went to bed, as I was clinging to him for warmth, but he didn't seem to mind, for some reason. ;)

Yeah, good times.

So, there you are! Some of my goings-on. Hmm. Perhaps I should start editing my posts before, you know, posting them. So I don't ramble so much. Oh well. I hope you enjoyed!