If you had an extra day each month - that no one else had - how would you spend it?
If it was a day that no one else had, I would keep it as a very secret day and take a few hours to do all the things that I can't do on the other days - sleep in, write, draw, read, knit, cook a leisurely meal, eat a leisurely meal with my husband, take a long shower, exercise, call a friend, and perhaps do one useful task to organize or beautify our home - but now that extra day is getting rather crammed..... I would do all the things that I need to do for my inner well-being but which get shunted aside because of other time constraints and obligations.
I would also kiss and hug and love my baby. I do that every day but I still wouldn't want to miss a day.
Fancy Fast Food does makeovers of fast food meals and gives it a gourmet presentation. I wish I was better at plating dishes....
We threw my daughter's half birthday party (her real birthday is Christmas) this past weekend, but I saw this and think I have inspiration for her next birthday celebration.
You can see more here.
Just a short update here (that doesn't exactly fit into a twitter post). With the weather turning better (and our trip quickly approaching), I've begun to run once again. As silly as it is, one of the reasons I'd been hesitant was because I couldn't find my iPod nano, so I couldn't record my runs on Nike+ (and thus, what was the point of running, I guess is the logic). Anyway, I never did find my iPod, but I did research a few alternatives.
I made a skirt for Jaclyn a few days ago (see photo below for a photo of the fabric) and she sent me this in my thank you email and it makes me smile:
I was feeling a bit down and out
To my mailbox was the route
Small and brown, I did see
A package waited there for me
Carefully I cut a rift
My eyes beheld a glorious gift
A luscious sheath, ahoy ahoy!
Reminded me of Ode to Joy
Next time my spouse is in a nap
I'll play the tune that's on my lap!
Cool.
I've actually completed a few things, which in my book is pretty darn good. The shirt's fabric is way more awesome in real life. It looks a little silly in the photo. I learned how to shirr last night, which turned out to be super easy. My other long dress is finished, but doesn't look really flattering. Not sure how I'm going to manipulate it yet. I might just make it short. Last but not least, I finished up Ella's dress. She came to visit us in Texas for two weeks (with her parents) and she couldn't be more adorable. Yea for finishing things!
I tweet (uhm, therefore I am??)...you can follow me as KelarSkye.
I have a Facebook page...I am easy to search.
I am LinkedIn.
I post photos at Flickr.
I have another blog where I am trying to make myself write and churn out some interesting thoughts...to date very little is interesting. But hey, you can see what I am doing sometimes so I suppose that is comforting on some level.
I am rather bored in general right now and I feel that is reflective in everything. That and I feel like I don't have any time, but I am not sure why because I don't know what is taking up my time (I supposed 11+ hours at work or commuting is a time suck).
In one thousand years, how will we be studied? How will the future even know we were here when our cheaply-constructed buildings will long be dust and our intellectual property scattered ones and zeroes in the wind?
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I'm not sure whether it's because I'm a new mother and these articles are catching my eye when before I would have ignored them or whether there has been a surge in articles about breastfeeding, but I'm seeing articles about breastfeeding everywhere. A friend sent a link to the following article to my husband, The Case Against Breastfeeding, and I thought that this one is worth reading. To be honest, I found the article more angry than empowering but it talks about the pressure exerted on new mothers to breastfeed, something that I never thought about or dealt with until I had my own baby. I'm not sure that I trust the writer when she tries to debunk the science since she comes off as very biased and not an expert, but I did think that the discussion of how women's bodies are politicized in the case of breastfeeding worth discussion.
