Confession

I have a confession to make.

I have been buying myself lunch for a while now. I am saying this not because I want you all to look down upon me ... but because I need to stop it. So today I brought a whole bag of food from my pantry. This food should sustain my lunches at least the rest of this week.

In other news, I have a million and a half things to talk about.

1. New book to read. My good friend, Mountain Man loaned me a book from the library. On this subject I have two things to mention. A. I am very excited to read this book. I just need to find the time. I am planning to read it on the plane to Dallas, so I need Mountain Man to renew it for me. (Mountain Man? Would you be so kind?) B. Secondly, for those of you that don't know ... PLEASE DON'T LOAN ME THINGS! I get all anxious about it and I am terrible at it. For some reason, every time I mention this to somebody they take it as an invitation to loan me their whole life! (Dear friends, I mean that with the utmost care and respect. If you like your stuff, I implore you to not loan it to me!!!) I lose things very often that are loaned to me. It's terrible, I know. I am just not good at it. It probably traces back to the time my best friend in 7th grade borrowed my favorite sweater, wore it, washed it, then hung it to dry on a wooden stained chair. Oh no, wait. That was me. Yeah, not so good with the borrowing.

Having said that, Mountain Man, thanks so much for lending me your library book! I promise I won't hang it to dry on a wooden chair.

Oh I almost forgot to mention the book. It's called Not Buying It: My Year Without Spending. Who knew this was such a "thing" to do? I have met a few people who have done the same thing, that's fascinating to me.

2. Yeah, on Monday I was evacuated from school because someone called in a bomb threat. Weirdos. I got all kinds of shook up by it too. Not because I was afraid of a bomb, but because the Dean walked in and said, "You guys need to pack your things and leave immediately. The whole school is being evacuated."

Um... hello! WHY, can you tell me WHY we are being evacuated? I had thoughts of Columbine, or some crazy stabber person. So my adrenaline starts pumping and I was all shaky. YUCK.

There was no bomb. It was fake. Missed sewing for no good reason at all. Thanks a lot.

3. LOST is on tonight, WOO! Good friends, good BBQ, good TV, good Xbox-ing. Love my life. Seriously.

Okay, I have taken up enough of your time for one day.

-S-

One Thing I Want To Do The Most...

So, I never used to go garage sale-ing, or good-willing. But I have been seeing SO many good things that people have done it makes me so JEALOUS!

I mean, it's not like I have decorated my house completely. There is always room for improvement. But you should see the makeovers I am missing out on!

Stevie always has some cool things, and I don't want to brag, but I know Stevie in "real-life". She always has some great finds. My favorite one was this tall dresser thing she made-over.

The Nester always has something great she has made too. There are more, but I need to get back to cleaning my bedroom (I have cleaned half of it and don't feel like doing the rest).

Anywho, don't get me wrong, I have a few makeovers up my sleeve. I have a spot I would like to put a vanity at in my bedroom now that it is (half)clean. Which I think would be great because I think I can keep the bathroom counter cleaner this way.

Okay, enough of my computer... back to work for me.

Hugs,

Sarah

People's Revolution

Sometimes I wonder if my parent's, or grandparent's had thoughts of the world ending like I often (as much as I would like to say it's not often, it's pretty often) do. And, I say this not out of, like, depression or something, but rather from the aspect of the world has never been THIS crazy, right?

I realize that the economy is horrid, um, Obama maybe wants to pretend to be Democratic, but really probably is a Socialist. I am aware that sometimes our lives aren't all we have hoped, and sometimes things we don't understand happen. And, like my dad has always said: "Life's not fair" - thanks for that by the way. :)

But, as cynical as it is, it's true. Life is not fair. So we make of it what we can, right? Right. And we count our blessings, right? Right.

I think the grass is always greener on the other side of the hill (yes, I am trying to use as many cliche's as possible, thank you very much.) so make the best of it I say.

Which is sometimes really hard to do.

I had lunch with my oldest (longest) friend yesterday. She is a beautiful mommy to two beautiful boys. She makes me happy. She reminds me of how when we were kids we would get bent out of shape over some dumb boy that didn't notice us, or some embarrassing- yet insignificant thing happened. But we were happy kids. And, after having lunch, I realized, we are happy adults. And that is a blessing.

Our lives may be slightly different than what we had imagined, some things better, somethings not as great. But, we are happy. I am thankful for that. I think we have both learned equally well that happiness is in the smaller things. Your adorable little boy laughing the sweetest laugh. Lazy evenings spent with your hubby and puppy. The rewards, though sometimes really small, that all your hard work brings.

Food is here.

I pray you will be happy.

Sarah

Back to Normal

Back to normal for a few days anyway.

So, I can't say that there is anything new with me. Ryan and I celebrated our 5th anniversary, that was pretty cool. We walked to dinner in our neighborhood, there are quite a few restaurants that are in walking distance for us, so that was nice.

He was very sweet and sent me flowers to my office. See:


That was very nice.

I got a manicure and a pedicure - but I didn't pay for it myself :) My lovely boss gave me a gift certificate as a birthday gift. OOOOHHH! The other part of her gift was a cute little bag and a sewing book! And, OH MY WORD! There are the CUTEST things to sew in it, and it came with a bunch of patterns and WOW oh WOW is it my new favorite book? I think so! Here are some pictures from the book (courtesy of John Gruen):






My sewing class is going really well. I actually have to work on a report, and my final project, which are due so very soon.

I mentioned that I was going to talk about summer plans ...

I am taking a swimming class at school. I will say that classes at the community college have been the BEST way to not spend, but stay occupied with some really great, productive things! So, yes a swimming class in the summer. We have two camping trips semi-planned, which is always a really fun, relaxed, inexpensive way to get away with great friends.

Hmm... what else.

My brother-in-law has deployed again, some of you know he is a Marine. His (I always butcher this...) batallion's (I think that's what it's called) families are doing a walk to support the guys, so I am participating in that, and it's free. It boils down to logging how many miles you walk each month from now until September something or other, and those miles are counted in support of your family member (my brother-in-law). So far, I have walked three miles. Ha! That sounds really funny. But it just started on the 1st. So we will see how many (FREE!) miles I can walk from now until September. I will keep you posted.

Okay, long post, so ta ta for now :)

Sarah