Happy 4th of July!
Today's plans are to sew and hopefully see a local fireworks show if it isn't rained out. An exciting way to spend the birthday of the country, I know... What are you doing today?
Okay so yesterday the kids and I went to the Cincinnati Zoo with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law. Of all the zoos in the county, it's the one I know best probably because I was a biology major at a college in Cincinnati and we were required to go the zoo at least once a semester. And also both sides of my family like to go to the Cincinnati Zoo Festival of Lights at Christmas time and freeze. I mean, see the lights.
Today I'm playing catch up with the bill paying, LLC forming, laundry, cleaning, sewing, um, everything. In preparation for the Stitches Midwest show in August, I've set a goal of sewing 10 items a day in July. I'm already 10 behind and if I don't get my act together today, it'll be 20 behind tomorrow. It's going to be an interesting month...
Will try to upload zoo pictures to my flickr account later. Oh and a huge thank you to everyone still reading and hopefully you'll be around at the end of July as I'm afraid most of this month will be "argh, must sew!" and "argh, the kids driving me nuts and not letting me sew!" I'm sure I'll sneak in at least a few more "before and afters" on different rooms in the house (my craft room is almost finished) so stick around for that.
Argh, must sew!
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(July 2nd: Cause I forgot to post yesterday and I'm afraid with my current blog archiving system that the entire thing will implode if I don't post something on the 1st of every month.)
Currently in boxes I haven't located yet: my printer cables (have the printer, just not the power and usb cords) and guest room comforter. I did find the sewing machine cords and guinea pig food.
First impressions of Guitar Hero Aerosmith
: I didn't care much for the first set of songs but the second set looks promising. Haven't played any further yet though.Other than that... It's Monday and I have like five hundred things to do before July 1st. (Tomorrow, eek!) 43 more days until the kids go back to school but who's counting? hehe
As hard as it is to believe I've found a few things that I miss about Maryland.
I miss the Staples next to Target next to the grocery store in Maryland. My new Indiana Target is a stand alone building here and Staples is miles away. I've always really hated the idea of driving from one parking lot to another all day long so I miss that Maryland shopping plaza.
I miss being a hop, skip, and a jump away from Washington DC. We probably made a dozen trips into the city and it's kinda cool hanging out in a world known city. Cause as much as I love Indiana, I'm not sure anyone beyond the USA borders knows about it. This "miss" hit me the other day when I was listening to National Treasure 2 (the kids were watching it in the van while I was driving, hence I was only able to listen). The characters were in the Library of Congress and I thought, oh we should go see that! And then I realized instead of being 45 minutes away, DC is now 10 hours away. Hmm, guess we won't be popping in there over the weekend then. Greg also pointed out we never saw a show at the Kennedy Center. I blame his travel schedule. He blames my inability to pick up the phone and schedule a babysitter.
Quote of the Day: "Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway." -Author Unknown
Still teetering on being overwhelmed.
If I hadn't mentioned it before, my darling wonderful husband had the garage floor epoxied. The day we moved in. Which meant all the garage items (shelves, camping gear, his tools, work bench, etc) couldn't go into the garage for at least 2 days. So the movers placed all that stuff in the dining room and front room. (What's that room called anyways? Living room? Parlor? Stupid little room that isn't good for much?)
Anyway it's safe to put the stuff in the garage now and unfortunately I'm without the 4 burly guys who packed and moved all this stuff in the first place (i.e. the boxes are a lot heavier than I would have packed them myself). Course it's starting to drive me nuts that this stuff is in the dining room and stupid little room so I'm trying to move it all out in the garage by myself.
But lately I seem to have the attention span of a gnat so I quit moving boxes and unpacked a few. But didn't quite put everything away since we needed to go grocery shopping. And when we returned home, I needed to make a meal for the kids and then I realized I should sew and oh, I should water my tomato plants (3 for $6 at Whole Foods, woot!)
Overwhelmed and scatterbrained do not go well together.
While I'm completely not doing what I'm suppose to do, a few random blog questions I will answer (and Yoda like, I want to talk):
The house: I do not take any credit for the paint or furniture. I just do what my designer says to do or buy (my father-in-law by the way, he's awesome). The kitchen is "Yogurt" but the color name is from an old paint deck so I don't recommend just asking for "Yogurt". In our Ohio house, we had something similar called "Winter Wheat." Your best bet would be to ask for the generic designer's beige and paint a swatch on the wall and see how it does in your lighting. (Too pink will look fleshtone, too brown will look tan, too yellow will look well, yellow) The paint itself is Lowes Valspar Signature Series in eggshell. I don't like flat paint (shows everything, doesn't scrub well) and I spent the extra bucks for one coat coverage. And it's truly one coat, I would have painted 2 if necessary but one worked perfectly. (Then again I did prime everything too.)
The archives: I have the archives set up goofy (i.e. not correctly) so I have to manually move the files around and type in the codes for you to be able to see them. Obviously it's a monthly To Do list type thing that I don't quite get around to monthly.
The drivers license: I will go back when I don't have the kids with me. There are a few neighborhood girls who have offered to babysit and I will either do that or wait for Greg to return home. I'm not so upset about it now and your comments really helped me feel like less of a doofus head.
And with that I need to go clean/unpack/move boxes/sew/cook/water plants/run errands/hide in a corner knitting socks...
I flunked my Indiana written drivers test this morning.
As the "follow the rules, straight A student, perfectionist" type, you have no idea how freaking upset I am right now.
Technically I didn't flunk. I filled in the correct answers in the wrong circles. You see I didn't realize I was going to be taking a test this morning when I took the 4 kids (Zach's at Boy Scout camp with Greg in Maryland) into the BMV. Going along with my usual "follow the rules, straight A student, perfectionist" type, I made sure to have my passport, birth certificate, social security card, current license, and proof of residency (which considering none of the bills are usually in my name, this was no small feat). I figured I could keep the kids entertained long enough to smile for the camera and answer some questions.
Instead I got hit with a 50 question multiple choice test. The test was printed loose leaf front and back and then there was a separate answer sheet to fill in the circles. So after about 5 minutes my kids started throwing their Webkins at each other like footballs and Kelly was running on the seat cushions down a roll of chairs. After getting them settled down, I returned to the test and was so frazzled I didn't notice one test sheet was flipped. I was near the end too and just ready to be done and I screwed up the remaining answers. Cause for goodness sake, who gets the "Pedestrian Crossing" sign wrong? I felt like such a complete idiot when I was told I didn't pass and she showed me the test and I saw how I had screwed up. That on top of being embarrassed by my kids' terrible rotten behavior.
And all I wanted to do today was get my freaking drivers license so we could go to the library and check out some books.
Instead I burst into tears as soon as we were out of the BMV and the kids have never been so quiet on the drive home.
As much as I'd like to mope around the house (I never flunk anything! Well except that one test in organic chemistry in college but everyone failed it) I need to suck it up and go back out to buy groceries and stop by the post office.
I know one of these days I will look back at this and laugh but right now with all the other random stresses in my life, all I can do is cry.
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