meatballs

OK. If you haven’t taken the time to watch Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs you are missing out. We’re not even all the way through and we’ve been laughing like crazy!

You really should be watching it right now. Go! What are you waiting for??

so tired

How tired? Did anyone realize that I wrote essentially the same post on the 5th and 6th? Heh. I guess traveling to the east coast for a week and a half (and getting sick), then the day after I get home we drive 3 hours to pick up our little Leeloo. As you’ve probably guessed it’s been non-stop with her highness the bundle of energy since. So tonight was my night to relax. I lounged around all evening and now it’s time for some much needed rest.

See you tomorrow!

not a puppy post

So besides playing with the ball of cuteness that arrived on Saturday. What have I been up to? Not a whole lot actually. But before she arrived I was working on this beautiful shawl. I’d made some good progress on it too and now I’ve totally stalled out. I knit one row Sunday night and then ended up having to pull back 3 rows because, really, I’m that awesome.

So here is my Orchid Thief in her unfinished glory. I have grand plans of spending some leisure time this weekend knitting and hopefully at least getting through one repeat before it’s Monday again. One can dream…

moving objects

Have you tried to take a picture of a feisty fast moving pup? It’s tough.

More blur.

Finally!

Or you just wait till she’s sleeping.

And just so you, she’s sleeping on my lap right now. It’s hard to type a post with only one free hand…

not much

Do you have any idea how hard it  is to photograph a moving target?

When she does sit still she must obviously be facing the wrong direction. Obviously.

Looks like I will have to enlist Joe for some decent photo ops.

new arrival

Today we welcome our new addition to the family.

Say hello to Leeloo (from The Fifth Element). You may have noticed that we did not go with Peaches as we had originally planned. Minds were changed. Oh, and her full name is Lady Leeloo Van Meter. That may not be Joe approved, but it’s going on her papers regardless.

She’s a super ham.

She may have stolen my heart… now if only I can get her to go potty so we can settle down for the night.

right now

I’m flying through the air on my way back home. It’s been a long trip filled with family, friends, and a stop over into the land of crud, but I wouldn’t have traded it for anything*!

For the past couple of hours I’ve been catching up on my blog reading. I started with about 140 and I’m down to 42. I either need to cull a few from the herd or learn to skip a few posts here and there. It’s a sickness the way I feel I must read them all or else! I wonder if the world would truly end of I dared to mark them all as read and move on with my day?

Tomorrow is puppy day! We will be picking up or 12 week old miniature schnauzer, Peaches, around 11AM and I think I might die of excitement! This is going to be a tough few months with all my her training and settling in, but I know it will be totally worth it! Keep your eye out for pics… I have a feeling there might be one or two.

 

* well, I definitely would have traded the crud for a few extra days to visit friends.

do one thing

Not surprisingly, the topic of productivity came up at work today. During the discussion our manager said his motto is “do one thing”. This really struck a cord in me and I feel like this could be a theme I need to adopt for my everyday life. The point of “do one thing” is to not literally do one thing and then take the rest of the day off, but to be sure that no matter what else comes up or gets thrown at you that you keep coming back to that one thing until it’s done. Then, you focus in on the next item. Rinse. Repeat.

I like this since some of my home productivity issues are due to a spot it and do it mentality. I may have my list of things to get done, but if I walk into the bedroom and see a glass that needs to go in the kitchen I’ll pick it up and take it down. There I see the dishes need washed so I’ll do that, oh and then I need to take those dirty dishtowels up to the laundry and start those in the wash, but I get sidetracked by the shoes that need to go in the closet. My afternoon of cleaning becomes an unproductive hodge podge of half done activities. Yes, those things did need to be done, but they either weren’t priority or were done halfway cause I flaked out half way through to start something else.

Do One Thing

This may be my new motto…

a new goal

And… she’s back, again. This time with yet another ambitious project.

This month I’m joining NaBloPoMo, which I believe I tried once a while back and if I remember correctly I failed miserably. So here I am, try, try, trying again. This month’s theme is Zeitgeist, which they are defining as “capturing the mood of your culture and your life as they exist right now.” December is going to be a busy month and I expect I should have plenty to write about. Of course, that typically has not been my downfall. My downfall has been actually taking the time to sit down and write about it. I am a born procrastinator. Doing those absolutely non-essential things just so that the essential things can be done in a panic at the last second and with great anxiety. I am awesome.

In order to attempt to cultivate some better habits I have joined a site called Health Month, which is a pretty fun site where you can set goals for yourself and then check in daily to see how you’re doing. I’ve done it for the past two months and did great the first round and miserable the second. I’m back for a third try in December to try and get back on track. My goals being:

Take vitamins 6 days a week
Meditate 3 days a week
Blog every day

My goals may not seem particularly difficult, but for me goal setting can be challenging in my personal time. I’ve never seemed to have to much trouble with this in a work setting, but when it comes to my own time it seems an impossibility. Strange, I realize, but true none the less.

So keep your eyes open and feel free to send me nasty grams if I start to slack off. Motivation is key!

done! well, almost

I know everyone has been waiting so impatiently on an update of my craft room. Seriously. This has got to be high drama for the people of the interwebs.

The thrilling part is that I actually did not procrastinate at all on this project*. With Joe’s help I sorted and arranged every picture we owned and tossed the dupes, of which there were many. Once I had a grasp on how many we were talking about I promptly ordered the correct box for shipping. Thursday, after having said box for only two days, sat down and packed it up. I know! All that was left was to get this sucker in the mail Saturday** Well, not entirely all. I’ve ordered a second box that will take care of the remainder and then all of our pictures will be officially part of the digital age!

So what to do with that extra space? I’m sure it will be put to good yarn storage use. Next up is magazines… srsly? Why on earth do I feel the need to save/buy all those magazines? Anyone? Anyone?

I think it’s now time to get back to knitting on Serenity. Cause I’m worth it!

 

* at least so far…

** the box weighs approximately eleventy billion pounds and I’m not going to haul it around the city on a bus to get it to the post office.