What I'm loving Wednesday

Linking up with Jamie for another edition of What I'm Loving Wednesday.


I'm a bit all over the map today. Work is hectic and I'm trying very hard to get some of my most time sensitive work done. This is the first day in months that I've been able to focus on my work and not filling in for someone.


I'm lovin' that for sure!

I'm loving my dog, Chiquita, because let's face it, she's super cute! This is her cuddling with me before bed last night. I let her into bed for a bit before I go to sleep and she always gets very excited and tries to lay on my face, lol. And give me doggy hugs.

I'm loving (and excited) to go camping this weekend.

Lack of photos this week...Not lovin that.

However, my present to you is a list of my current fave blogs!!  In random order:

Diary of a reporter

A Fabulous Disaster

Confessions of a 20 something

Joyful Ramblings

The Inner Circle

My Twenties Blog

Dancing with Sunshine

Living a barefoot and crazy lifestyle

A complete waste of makeup

A babbling brunette

The glamorous life of a housewife

Enjoying the small things

All in my twenties

Carly Chubby Cheeks

There, your welcome!

And if I missed someone, sorry!  And if you read me and your not on the list, leave a comment and I'll come check you out!!

Happy Wednesday!

Joyride

Yesterday we went cruisin'.  In the jeep.  No doors, no roof.  Had a FANTASTIC time.  Was such fun!

I have no time to write about it, but here are a few pics :)  Happy Monday!

And for some stupid reason, blogger won't let me turn the photo sideways...grrrrr....

It's ok...

Today I'm linking up with Neely for It's ok Thursday.  I'm a bit off today so this one is short.

It's ok...

...that I'm cranky when I'm sick, like right now.

...to not be able to start my workday without reading a few blogs.

...to be reading several books at one time, depending on my mood.

...to not want to come into work this Sunday.

...that when I'm sick I like to watch corny chick flick movies and insist that R watch with me.

...to look forward to fall and putting away the shorts and pulling out my sweaters.

...to want to go back to bed.  Right.  Now.

What I'm Loving Wednesday

Today I'm linking up with Jamie at This Kind of Love for another week of What I'm Loving Wednesday. 

(Sorry for the crap-tastic picture) I'm not feeling very well this week.  I'm fighting off a cold.  In the process my Chiweenie, Chiquita has been cuddly with me.  Here she is watching me cook.  This is her perch, I swear she thinks she is half feline. 

I'm new to the Big Bang Theory.  We've just started recording it and I've only watched a handful of shows.  I really find it funny.  I love the DVR as well, so easy to use.  I love skipping the commercials and that I can watch whenever I want.  How did I live without this for so long??

I love my blue strappy sandals.  They are super comfy and I get a ton of compliments on them.  Bonus - again my love for crackle nail polish!

Raspberries and Saskatoon berries from our yard.  I'm picking a ton of raspberries every night.  As in a 10 cup bowl.  We have a ton of them!  I'm past the eating them stage, haha and I'm just freezing them.  We made jelly with the Ming Cherries from the Cherry tree so we might do the same with the other berries.  Yum!

Photo Credit I'm meeting up with my sisters and ESM sometime this month to make homemade salsa, I can't wait!  Love my girls weekends.

I found this chunk of cheese with a bite mark in my fridge last week.  It made me laugh.  I'm assuming that when my sister was visiting my 2 year old niece went shopping in the fridge, lol.

My cricut!  I love this machine.  I still am not fully sure how to use it, but I need to make a display for a career fair and I plan on bringing it to work with me in the coming weeks so I can use it to make the display POP. 

What are you loving this Wednesday?

Random Thoughts

I should be sleeping...but I can't.

I have thoughts in my head that keep me awake.  Frustrations, hurts and confusions.  Emotional outbursts that lay awake yelling at me and won't let me sleep.

My family is in a crisis right now.  I am fine, it's not me.  However, I hurt for those involved.  I won't go into detail on such a public space for privacy of those involved, but I hurt for them.  I cry for them.  I pray and wish I could change things, but I can't.  All I can do is show my support and love and be there.  It's very hard and I feel like there is a hole inside me.  R doesn't understand how I'm feeling and I have no ways to explain it to him.

I feel a bit more emotional that usual lately and he is shorter on patience that usual.  Which of course leads to arguments or squabbles over senseless things.  Tonight for example:

R: What do you want to do tomorrow?

Me: What do you mean?

R: I have enough to keep me busy all day so if you want some downtime on your last day off I can be in the garage.

Me: Why don't we do our stuff until noon and then do something together?  Spend some time together?

R: What do you want to do?

Me:  I dunno.  We'll figure something.

And then it goes off course from there.  Him getting all agitated because I don't know what specifically I want to do.  Me because I figure that since we've had company and been very busy lately I'm simply happy for us to spend time together, even not doing anything.

I feel unappreciated lately.  I tell him this, he sighs and gets mad.  It's frustrating as hell.  I say he doesn't clean the kitchen, he says I don't give him the chance.  I say how much time do you need, he says more than an hour after the meal.

I am emotional.  I know it, but I don't understand how he can't understand why.  He knows what's going on with my family, he knows I'm hurting, but he doesn't understand how affected I am or how I feel.  He rolls over and goes to sleep.  I lay awake with thoughts running around inside my head.

When does life get easier?

What I'm Loving Wednesday!

Again this week I'm linking up with Jamie at This kind of love for WILW.  I don't usually have structure to my blog but I seem to be getting way more visitors this way, so I'll keep it up.  Plus it's fun!!

I'm loving my holidays this week! Today is day 2 and I'm loving every second of it.  Yesterday I went to the University and walked and walked and walked across the building.  I picked up my textbook, my parking pass and got a student ID card.  I'm set!  I also met up quick with my sister and then picked up the photos at Costco.  I was able to start my scrapbook - which I'm also loving!!

This is the first page that I did yesterday.  I'm pretty happy with it.  Although the pictures don't do it justice I'm afraid.

Again, so hard to see.  The colors are deep brown and bronze with sparkles and shimmer to them.  But you get the general idea.

I am absolutely loving my new workspace!   It seriously rocks!  I can walk away from the mess and not have to worry about cleaning off the table before supper.  I should have done this a long time ago!

I'm also loving my new distressing tool.  It's called Imaginisce and it does all the work for you!  2 pages up, with the lion on the bottom right corner, those edges are distressed - again, hard to see but it looks really cool.

Last night I baked up some Raspberry Bran Muffins - yum!

And super easy!  Including cooking time I was finished in a half hour.  I love easy.

I'm taking advantage of extra time to do some new or more involved cooking this week.  Last night I made a meatloaf and it wasn't too bad.  The flavor was good, but it needed more oomph.  Luckily I know how to do that, lol.

Tonight I'm not sure what's on the menu.  I'm kinda thinking Thai Coconut Chicken, but I might do that tomorrow as it's quite easy.  I think it's time for lunch though however, lol.  All this talk of supper has made me hungry!

What are you loving this Wednesday?

Progress

Today I decided to tackle the scrapbooking mess.  I say mess because it was all contained to appear like it was organized and put away.  It looked like this before:

It actually looked ok.  I didn't know where anything was, but it was contained in my travel case, a rolling set of drawers and a few baskets and boxes.  The plastic drawers on the left were given to me by my sister 2 weeks ago.  I opened everything up and it looked like this for awhile...

 It was a bit daunting...however, I tossed a bunch of stuff I won't use and stuff that was given to me.  I was able to clean it up in a few hours and now it looks like this:

The picture is a bit blurry...oops, guess I was just so excited lol.  Anyhow I know where most things are too! It's fully sorted and my travel cases are empty.  So I can use them for travelling, not storage.  I'm super excited to work in this space now!  I ordered a ton of pictures from Costco online on Sunday, not realizing they are closed for the holiday today.  So they will be ready tomorrow by noon.  And I'll be able to get started on my project.  I have almost 2 full days to work on it.  I still have to deal with this mess:

But it's only ribbon and nothing in the box, so I just need to think of a better system.  I have a ribbon bag, but that is more for short pieces not 10000 yards lol.  Although I love how pretty it looks and it is super useful for shorter lengths, it's just not practical for anything over 1 yard:

I need something like this:

Although a dowel would work just fine too.  Now that I don't need to keep my stuff as mobile, it's a lot easier to set up.

Apparently today was a scrapbooking tour!  I love organization.