The Week in review: March 24-30 (and a birthday shout out to my sis!)

the week in review

I spent most of the week at home crafting and reading and working on school projects. I did a wee bit of thrifting in honor of my mamos and squeezed in two lunches. One lunch with a friend who has a thing for fountain pens and the other was a thai food fest with some of my most favorite people. Yay! During the weekend, the husbandman and I went on a mini hike, brought grandma Portos and celebrated the sister a-go-go's birthday with a yummy filled breakfast. I nw have oodles of cleaning and laundry and crafting to finish up not to mention all those school projects I'm slowly but surely eeking out.

Did anybody out there participate in the lights out hour? Our fair city did not, of course not, which is quite disappointing. Mister a-go-go and I turned off all our lights and such and took an hour long walk around the neighborhood which was sadly all lit up. Earlier in the day we were just talking about how we wished the city and businesses would turn their lights off at night. We're so close to Griffith Park and the animals there are getting all screwed up with the lack of true darkness and it would be really swell if we could actually see the stars in the sky. Sigh. We got home all depressed after our conversation and then found out early in the evening that there was a lights out hour for that night. We did it. We actually are pretty good anyway but still, we did it in honor of all those big cities (not ours) who did it. So, if ya get a chance to think about it, turn off your lights one night for an hour and take a walk or play games by candlelight or pop some batteries i nthe boombox and dance by the moonlight. Happy almost April!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIS and SISTER-A-GO-GO!

photobooth friday: vroom vroom

This shot is from a strip taken back in 2000...maybe 2001. Oh how I loved that shirt! I had three sleeveless motorcycle t's that I wore daily it seemed. There was this one here and then the same shirt but in red and then another black one with a flaming motorcycle. Yep, flaming...I was so cool. They were made out of some funky blend that felt like tights and they wadded up tiny and oh but I wish I still had at least one of them. It would prolly fit me as some sort of scary belly baring cropped throwback...that wouldn't be too keen but I would still be a rebel in it...

check out more booth fun here and here.

Happy Birthday Mamos

I wanted to write a beautiful post about all the ways my mom and I laughed. I wanted to write a letter to her sharing everything I am doing now and how proud of me she would be. I wanted to write about the ache of missing her and how sad I feel that she never got to meet the mister but when I started to write, I started to cry and today I don't want to cry. I want to remember her life with a smile on my face for all that I learned from this remarkable woman.

Oh bother...where did I leave the tissue?

The Week in Review: March 17-23

Well folks, it looks like a got a lot done regardless of the sick. What really happened was I had one good day where I did everything fun and colorful only to be paying for it now. Yikes! This cold or flu or virus or whatever it is that everyone out here seems to be coming down with is a chameleon. You go to bed feeling ever so crappified and you don't sleep for all the ickiness and then you drag yourself out of bed feeling even more crappified so you sit and whine and moan and complain. Then, after you have been up for a few hours you feel fine so you start thinking you are well and you start doing things like cleaning, crafting, cooking and visiting. The next thing you know you are wiped out on the sofa wining all over again. It ain't fun or pretty my friends. Today I have discovered an alien living in my chest. Not pretty at all.

This week I will be playing catch up on schoolwork, projects and swaps (of course). I didn't get to visit with granny because of the sick so hopefully I will feel better this week so I can visit. I also missed out on a family Easter breakfast and a evening with some nifty kidlets. I hate being sick! Hate it! All I want to do right now is go back to bed but I just woke up not too long ago and I have school. today. Sigh. I don't know how you parents do it. Your kids get sick then you get sick then they get sick again and there is no one to take care of you. I give you fresh baked cookies and flowers and pretty handmade blankets, I do. Take care of yourselves!

Happy Easter!

a weekend wip

I'm still sickish...bah! Here's some eye candy instead...