CAUTION: Woman In Progress

I had the perfect title in my  head this morning. I had the perfect opening lines. But did I write them down? No. I was swiping on mascara and talking to Libby in baby talk. ("You da cootest widdle be-beh in da whole wide world. Es you are.") Ahem. Anyway, so yesterday was a bit of a stinker. Definitely one for the books and not in a "Best day of my life" kind of way. As you may know, I've been working on a super stressful, heavily labored project for the past few weeks. A sweaty, on my feet for three and four hours at a time laborious project. I've been trying to avoid working on it during my reference desk duties because of the stinky sweat but I was entering in the biggest badest beast part of the project and I wanted to just dive right in and get it over with as soon as possible. Okay, so the project is sorting, shifting and labeling microfilm cabinets. No big mystery, I just, you know, try not to talk too much about the day job. But, well. It...

I used to come here excitedly every day and empty my head of ALL THE THOUGHTS. Or drop some silly nonsense. Or just leave a meme or something. I loved coming here and having my own space to leave things that mattered to me. And I used to have a small (tiny) audience. Friends I'd made on a couple of community boards. The odd passer-by might leave a comment on a rare occasion. I went through a brief period in the "blog boom" where I thought I would try to build this little space into a money-maker. I was inspired by the big money making blogs I'd been reading and thinking I could maybe follow their tips to build this little space into a full time job. Nope. Didn't happen. Just as in life, my little piece of the blog-o-sphere is still largely unnoticed and I'm not unhappy about that. When I think of some of the things I've written here? Yeah. It's such a blessing to not have to really worry about my mother or whoever finding it and being mortified...

So, Lyssabear turned eight Friday. Hard to believe my sweet baby girl is eight!!       I can still remember when she was born! So tiny and sweet. She's still super sweet but girl is getting tall! Her birthday party was Saturday and since I don't have any kids, of course I helped Sis2 out as much as I could.      The kids all got together and loaded the goodie bags. P.S. Emmy looks like a college girl!   The party theme was from one of Lyssa's favorite Barbie books/movies, The Secret Door which is basically (from what I gather) a story about how Barbie stumbles into this garden paradise where unicorns and mermaids and fairs dwell. We used her corresponding Barbie as the centerpiece decoration and I made two DumDum topiaries to decorate the buffet. Unfortunately, I didn't get a good photo of the topiaries, but you can see the top of one growing out of Lyssa's head in the photo above. haha (Also, it took about 600 DumDums to make...

I've had a very kid-centric life these last few days. That's usually the way it goes, though. I'll go weeks without seeing them and then BAM! All kids, all the time for days! Not that I'm complaining. I love spending time with the little ones. I love taking note of all the little ways I can tell that they're growing up and becoming regular people.   So Lyssa went home with Nana Friday night and begged her parents to let her stay at my house Saturday night. So that's what we did. We spent some time with Nana and everyone Saturday and then ran away to my house for a night of kid-style partying.   We ate supper first, because that's how I roll. I think she'd have been fine without supper...she's not much of an eater when it comes to meals. Snacks, though? She could eat snacks all day every day. Meal type things? Not so much.   After supper, though, we got down to business. She wrote me a four page cookbook with things like "sandwhich c...

I've had a few rough days this week. Days when I felt overwhelmed and even a little hopeless. There's so much going on at work...so much I'm responsible for getting done, largely on my own and it's so daunting. I went home Monday night and just had a long and tear stained talk with Jesus about it and he reassured me with some scriptures while I was reading my nightly devotion. Funny how frequently He seems to work it out that way for me. Now, I can't say that I'm not still a little overwhelmed but I am at least comforted. I try to keep  these verses in mind whenever I feel hopelessly overwhelmed and it does help to alleviate a lot of that stress. Along with all the work stress comes home stress. I knew when I bought my house that eventually there would be some maintenance things that I'd have to take care of on my own dime. Well, my friends, that time is quickly approaching. Thankfully it took six years for it to get serious so can't really com...

Way back in 1990, I was the guest book attendant at my aunt, Mary's wedding. I think I needed a bigger hair bow. lol

It's real and it's juicy.

Okay, so maybe not skinny, but since I've started working so hard in the stacks and on this current microfilm project we've got going, I've lost seven pounds. I feel like death and am exhausted but...yay me! lol I don't have much else to report. My weekend review goes a little something like,  "Saturday: Grocery shopping, ate a peach for breakfast, nap, half the dishes washed, nap, laundry, nap, laundry, nap, nap, nap, movie, nap, bedtime. Sunday: bacon and scones for breakfast, nap, nap, finished washing dishes, laundry, nap, television, laundry, nap, tidying up the dining room table, nap, nap, movie, nap, nap, television, bedtime. I was a SLUG all weekend but it did make my foot feel better to rest it so much. And I watched a really good scary movie, which, let's face it--they don't really make a whole lot of actually good actually scary movies anymore. But this one was. And it was on Syfy of all things. Anyway, this week is hopping already. Hot, ti...