i am giving serious consideration to becoming a full time vlogger. it is so much quicker than typing up a post and aligning it all correctly and finding, editing, hosting pictures... with a vlog i can just do a quick recording and actually talk to you (even though i mostly just pretend there is someone sitting across from me talking back!) and three minutes later it is done.
anyways - alissa from rags to stitches and i had a nice chat last night about all kinds of things from dishwashers to blissdom to my shop and the future of my blog. that girl is full of indie biz goodness and marketing know how. if you haven't gotten to know her then i highly suggest you do. it was lovely to get to "hangout" with her last night! i hope that our future holds many more biz-talking sessions... *hint-hint alissa...*
anywho, without further ado, let's have some early morning coffee, eh?
August 24, 2012
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August 09, 2012
50 shades of cray cray
say a prayer for my husband yall. i'm about to fill you in on my basement of crazy that he so wonderfully puts up with.
ps. today is our anniversary too! love you honey!
pss. - this list does not have fifty items. i'm not that freaking crazy.
1. i don't clean the bathrooms. i refuse to. it completely grosses me out. and chris is way better at it than i am. soi make him do it he does it with so much grace.
2. in the same vein - i cannot clean up dog poop, dog vomit, or any other dog/animal/human excrement that might find itself in our floor. i've even been guilty of leaving it there for chris to clean up in the mornings when i leave for work. (oh the shame). luckily it doesn't happen often.
3. i'm deathly afraid of roaches and i will not be in the room with one. i had a terrible experience in the eighth grade and have never fully recovered. i have even called my friend's husband at 9:30 at night to come over and kill one for me when chris was out of town once. yeep.
4. i leave all the lights in the house on and then blame it on chris.
5. i like to push buttons and open things. especially in the car. chris especially loves this about me.
6. my hair falls out by the handful and i usually leave it stuck to the shower wall and forget about it. when chris is especially lucky - i write messages with it.
7. i refold every towel, washrag, and dish towel he folds. i'mocd particular.
8. i will stop in the middle of everything to check a text message, instagram a picture, or just look at my phone. i know this drives him nuts. i'm sorry honey.
9. i chomp ice. i'm terrible about it too - taking absolutely no heed for anyone remotely near me who can't hear for me crunching it.
10. i have regular emotional breakdowns about having children. like three or four times a month.
11. sometimes i cuss like a sailor for no apparent reason.
12. i have to be the one to check the mail, every day, or i get angry. i love to get the mail! it is one of the happiest parts of my day.
13. i refuse to walk through the house barefoot. i always have on house shoes.
14. when i wear house shoes i drag my feet. like a five year old full of despair being pulled out of disney world.
15. i'm a total control freak. if there is a trip - i must plan it. i go behind chris and re-clean the kitchen because he didn't do it like i would. i like for people to take the same route i would to get somewhere. i like for him to cook things the same way i do. this i just the tip of the iceberg.
16. when we travel i insist on leaving a hotel room better than i found it. i will leave all our dirty sheets and towels in a pile, wrapped in a clean towel. (1. it makes sure they get washed and 2. they don't have to touch my dirty towels. ew). i put everything back where it came from and wipe down the counters in the bathroom.
17. i pick all the skin off my lips.
18. i love to peel sunburned skin. (sorry nina).
i truly feel sorry for my husband some days - and then i remember that he asked me to marry him, at a point in our relationship where i didn't think he ever wanted to get married. he wanted to be with me and he was already in my basement of crazy. he loves me even more because of it, i think. so that makes him a keeper in my book. i'm pretty sure he is the only one who can handle my fifty shades of cray cray and that is why God put him here for me to marry.
thank you for these awesome, exciting, adventurous, and life-changing four years dearest. you mean the world to me. let's have a go at another!
ps. today is our anniversary too! love you honey!
pss. - this list does not have fifty items. i'm not that freaking crazy.
1. i don't clean the bathrooms. i refuse to. it completely grosses me out. and chris is way better at it than i am. so
2. in the same vein - i cannot clean up dog poop, dog vomit, or any other dog/animal/human excrement that might find itself in our floor. i've even been guilty of leaving it there for chris to clean up in the mornings when i leave for work. (oh the shame). luckily it doesn't happen often.
3. i'm deathly afraid of roaches and i will not be in the room with one. i had a terrible experience in the eighth grade and have never fully recovered. i have even called my friend's husband at 9:30 at night to come over and kill one for me when chris was out of town once. yeep.
4. i leave all the lights in the house on and then blame it on chris.
5. i like to push buttons and open things. especially in the car. chris especially loves this about me.
6. my hair falls out by the handful and i usually leave it stuck to the shower wall and forget about it. when chris is especially lucky - i write messages with it.
7. i refold every towel, washrag, and dish towel he folds. i'm
8. i will stop in the middle of everything to check a text message, instagram a picture, or just look at my phone. i know this drives him nuts. i'm sorry honey.
9. i chomp ice. i'm terrible about it too - taking absolutely no heed for anyone remotely near me who can't hear for me crunching it.
10. i have regular emotional breakdowns about having children. like three or four times a month.
11. sometimes i cuss like a sailor for no apparent reason.
12. i have to be the one to check the mail, every day, or i get angry. i love to get the mail! it is one of the happiest parts of my day.
13. i refuse to walk through the house barefoot. i always have on house shoes.
14. when i wear house shoes i drag my feet. like a five year old full of despair being pulled out of disney world.
15. i'm a total control freak. if there is a trip - i must plan it. i go behind chris and re-clean the kitchen because he didn't do it like i would. i like for people to take the same route i would to get somewhere. i like for him to cook things the same way i do. this i just the tip of the iceberg.
16. when we travel i insist on leaving a hotel room better than i found it. i will leave all our dirty sheets and towels in a pile, wrapped in a clean towel. (1. it makes sure they get washed and 2. they don't have to touch my dirty towels. ew). i put everything back where it came from and wipe down the counters in the bathroom.
17. i pick all the skin off my lips.
18. i love to peel sunburned skin. (sorry nina).
i truly feel sorry for my husband some days - and then i remember that he asked me to marry him, at a point in our relationship where i didn't think he ever wanted to get married. he wanted to be with me and he was already in my basement of crazy. he loves me even more because of it, i think. so that makes him a keeper in my book. i'm pretty sure he is the only one who can handle my fifty shades of cray cray and that is why God put him here for me to marry.
thank you for these awesome, exciting, adventurous, and life-changing four years dearest. you mean the world to me. let's have a go at another!
August 06, 2012
something's gotta give
my life = crazy.
i am having such a hard time finding balance with all that i want to do and need to do and have to do. somewhere, something's gotta give.
i just spent the last week with my best friend and her family, pretty much completely disconnected from my phone and a computer, and it was blissful. i find myself very skeptical about stepping back in front of it.
i'm not going to admit to being a bad blogger lately. true, they have been sporadic and pretty shallow posts, but it took all i had in me to even get those published. but that doesn't make me a bad blogger.
i've also found that when every post i write comes from me wanting to apologize for not blogging, perhaps i'm not doing something right. i've mentioned lately that i really feel a pull to do some things in my life that will be drastically different and will keep me from blogging.
these new things, and focusing on other parts of my life that need improvement, will bring me much more joy than blogging will right now. my focus is completely fractured at the moment and my blog has fallen to the back burner.
and that is okay.
life is about much more than creating content for a blog. it is about living it. so for now i'm just stepping back. i may or may not sit in front of a computer and blog ever again. i may come running back screaming, pouring out my sincerest apologies for leaving you guys without my wit and candor. ;)
but i have to get some things straight before i go on. i've over committed myself in many different places and i've got to simplify.
i have some dreams i need to get to work on and in order to actually do them, i have to make room for them. and if making room for them means cutting back in other places then i have to. i don't want to. but i have to.
pray for me to be faithful to myself and to rely on God to put me on the path He has for me. i have some lofty dreams and without Him i can't do it. but because i have God on my side, I know I can. :)
i am having such a hard time finding balance with all that i want to do and need to do and have to do. somewhere, something's gotta give.
i just spent the last week with my best friend and her family, pretty much completely disconnected from my phone and a computer, and it was blissful. i find myself very skeptical about stepping back in front of it.
i'm not going to admit to being a bad blogger lately. true, they have been sporadic and pretty shallow posts, but it took all i had in me to even get those published. but that doesn't make me a bad blogger.
i've also found that when every post i write comes from me wanting to apologize for not blogging, perhaps i'm not doing something right. i've mentioned lately that i really feel a pull to do some things in my life that will be drastically different and will keep me from blogging.
these new things, and focusing on other parts of my life that need improvement, will bring me much more joy than blogging will right now. my focus is completely fractured at the moment and my blog has fallen to the back burner.
and that is okay.
life is about much more than creating content for a blog. it is about living it. so for now i'm just stepping back. i may or may not sit in front of a computer and blog ever again. i may come running back screaming, pouring out my sincerest apologies for leaving you guys without my wit and candor. ;)
but i have to get some things straight before i go on. i've over committed myself in many different places and i've got to simplify.
i have some dreams i need to get to work on and in order to actually do them, i have to make room for them. and if making room for them means cutting back in other places then i have to. i don't want to. but i have to.
pray for me to be faithful to myself and to rely on God to put me on the path He has for me. i have some lofty dreams and without Him i can't do it. but because i have God on my side, I know I can. :)
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