And almost immediately after we walked in the door, this happened:
It’s like I don’t even exist.
A list of things that have prevented me from making regular blog posts.
- My excitement over Alton Brown announcing his live tour
- An impromptu trip to the Outer Banks
- Fighting the urge to nap every second of every day
- The new Animal Crossing game
- Don’t judge me
- It’s amazing
- Actually reading a book for once
- Not writing
- Not writing takes up a surprisingly large chunk of my time
- Buying things off Amazon
- Simply being too lazy
I’ve decided that I’m only going to run races with my little sister.
Because, when I do, I get to enjoy pictures like this:
And this:
And this:
Allow me to tell you, through pictures, how awesome my Arrested Development viewing party was.
We started the day off with some Tobias’s “I Blue Myself” muffins.
Then moved on to chicken fingers… with spicy club sauce…
Then moved on to dessert where we had the obligatory Bluth’s frozen banana.
And a special surprise…
Basically, my friends are way cooler than your friends.
So I hopped on the Instagram train.
So, naturally, I immediately took a picture of my idiot dog.
I wonder how many stereotypical Instagram pictures I can take before it stops being ironic and I actually start to kind of like it…
A list of things that I really want to do, but I don’t really have the free time for right this second.
- Some serious cross stitching
- A new sewing project
- Reading a fun, new book
- Painting my bedroom
- Working on the frame wall in my office – and by “working on” I mean start it…
- Find something to replace an awkward little table in my living room
- Get some selves and maybe a chest of drawers for my craft room/guest room/Rusty’s bedroom
- Go to California to visit my family
- Make every single drink in this book
- Watch all of the movies
- Yes, all of them
- Oh, and, you know, actually write something…
So this is a thing.
It includes such gems as: Vermouth the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Amaretto, and Gone With the Wine.
OMG.
I had way too much fun this weekend.
Probably because it was a three day weekend.
Also, probably because I got to hang out with some cool people.
Also, probably because I got to eat way too much delicious food.
But it’s mostly because of this:
LOOK AT IT.
That is a Washers board. What is Washers you ask? Basically, it’s Cornhole, but you play it with washers instead of bean bags.
Anyway, Luke created the above Washer boards. He even designed the paint job. How cool does this look? The answer is: super cool.
I can feel you rolling your eyes at me, Luke… “It was sooooo easy to make. It’s not a big deal…” Wrong. I think these Washer boards are beautiful. And my brain does not work well when it has to try to build things. Or do math. Or remember the names of people I’ve just met. So let me think that you’re magic. Geeze.
Can we talk about how cute this coffee cup is?
My twin sister bought me this coffee cup for our birthday. It’s from the first Starbucks in Seattle. It’s also adorable. It also holds 14 oz of coffee.
That makes it even more adorable.
I know I’m a ways away from actually getting to be in a classroom…
… but this Buzzfeed article very appropriate to my life.
Is it weird that it’s just making me even more excited to become a teacher instead of scaring me away?
Probably.
I think of that as a good thing, though. They need relentlessly hopeful newbies like me to counter-balance all the jaded veterans.