30 Days of Me - Day 3

Today is "post a picture of you (me) and your (my) friends" day. I happen to love this picture of my VBF (Very Best Friend) and I that was taken in about 1990. Geeze, 20 years ago! Anyway, look at that youth, that vim, that vigor! We were hotties for sure! My VBF has retained her hotiliciousness, if I do say so myself and in as non-erotic way as possible, while I have become twice the woman I was back then. Okay, maybe not quite twice, but there's definitely much more to me now. I'm working on it, though.....

This is a picture of me with my best boy friend. Granted, we are not looking our very very best because it's from the zombie crawl that we did last year, but I still like the picture. It's a zombie kind of love. This boy is the most fun I've ever had......I picked good!

30 days of Me - Day 2

Today's prompt is "The meaning behind your blog name".

I must say that my blog name is pretty self-explanatory. I didn't come up with something mysterious or use some carefully crafted anagram, I just thought about my life and where I am right now and *kablooey* my blog's name was born.

I do like my little place here in the country. We moved from the middle of a bustling metropolis of approximately 15,000 people to our 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom Craftsman house on five acres in June of last year. We can see our neighbor's houses but not see our neighbors, if you know what I'm saying, and since we're only a mile and a half outside of a small town we are close to, but still away from, society. You've probably already guessed from reading some of my past posts that I'm not necessarily a "people" person.....

Short post tonight but I'm hoping to get to bed early and sleep late. Hope in one hand and poop in the other and see which one fills up first, right?!?!? (Who in the heck came up with that saying? It's gross, and the answer seems pretty apparent. I'm just going to sign off now.)

Night all!

Friday Randoms and Mystery Link

I am sooooooo tired. I made the (huge!) mistake of drinking a couple of iced coffee drinks last night at about 10:00 p.m. and was up until about 2:15 this morning. I then woke up at 6:15 and couldn't get back to sleep - of course - so I did what any sane, logical person would do and put on a pot of coffee. Coffee this morning, more coffee with lunch and I was still dragging by about 2:30 p.m. Where was my 5-Hour energy drink when I needed it? I've seen the commercials - one shot would have banished the "2:30 feeling" and given me energy to get through the rest of my day.



I am soooooo digging this granny square blanket that I found in this blog from April 2007. Unfortunately when I clicked on the link to try to find the original source of the picture, the blog could not be found. I can only imagine the other stunning projects that are now forever hidden from me. At least I found this one! I really hope that one day I'll be able to be this free with color and completely disregard my deeply-ingrained need for order. Baby steps away from the blues, greens and grays that I usually stick to and towards the bright random color chaos....








I am sooooooo excited that we finally got to go to The Bale Out when we went to the City Museum in St. Louis this week. You can imagine my elation when we got to the third floor of the City Museum and saw that the stairway was open and people were ascending to shop, (or at least you will be able to once I tell you just what The Bale Out is). Apparently The Bale Out obtains actual bales of clothing from who-knows-where, pulls out the pieces, puts them on racks at generally ridiculously low prices, and waits for people to discover the awesomeness. I walked out with six corduroy skirts/pants (each about 1 1/2 yards of recoverable fabric as well as the zippers, snaps, buttons, etc.) for six dollars. Was I psyched? Yes, yes I was.



I am sooooooo hoping that you will trust me enough to click on this link to see what I picked to share with you today. Go ahead, do it! Would I steer you wrong?





Okay, I'm gonna do what I gotta do (sleep!) and you go do what you gotta do. Later!

30 Days of Me - Day 1

So here we are on Day 1 of the 30 Days of Me blog challenge. Or experiment. Or endeavor. Or project. Whatever, because I'm sure you know what I'm referring to and I don't think we should get hung up on the name of whatever it is I'm doing here. It is what it is, right?

Okay, so the prompt for Day 1 is to post a recent picture of yourself (myself) and 15 interesting facts about yourself (myself). Off we go.


I hate taking my picture or having my picture taken, so it was actually a bit of a challenge to find a recent picture of me. I took this one one night after Shad and I got back from an all-day motorycle ride. As you might guess from the particular shade of red that I have attained, I forgot sunscreen. Burn*ouch*burn.

15 interesting facts about me - in no particular order

1. I was bitten by a zebra in Virginia.
2. The first concert I went to was Bon Jovi. Skid Row opened for them.
3. If I'm at home and not expecting company, I might not be wearing pants.
4. I don't eat seafood, but I like sushi (veggies only please!)
5. I knew that I wanted to marry Shad three weeks after we met.
6. I do not like being called "Sue".
7. I have an atrocious memory.
8. I spell-check my blogs before I post them. I also check the spelling on my facebook posts so as not to seem like an idiot.
9. All of my pets are male and have "people" names.
10. I spent a semester abroad in Switzerland.
11. I'd rather drive than fly for vacations.
12. I have to have the TV on (usually to cartoons) to fall asleep.
13. I can spend up to two hours in the bathtub with a good book.
14. I'd rather work 2nd or 3rd shift but can't because of my profession.
15. I'm a huge fan of zombie/end of the world movies.

1 down, 29 to go!

Ooooh - I'm doing it! 30 Days of Me

I saw this blog challenge on Pamplemousse's blog here and she saw it on another blog whose author saw it here and so now in the fine tradition of jumping on the bandwagon, I shall also participate.

Here's a list of the days/challenges if you want to play along:

Day 1- recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself
Day 2- the meaning behind you blog name
Day 3- a picture of you and your friends
Day 4- a habit that you wish you didn’t have
Day 5- a picture of somewhere youve been to
Day 6- favorite super hero and why
Day 7- a picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you
Day 8- short term goals for this month and why
Day 9- something youre proud of in the past few days
Day 10- songs you listen to when you are happy, sad, bored, hyped, mad
Day 11- another picture of you and your friends
Day 12- how you found out about blogger and why you have one
Day 13- a letter to someone who has hurt you recently
Day 14- a picture of you and your family
Day 15- put you ipod on shuffle: first 10 songs that play
Day 16- another picture of yourself
Day 17- someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why
Day 18- plans/dreams/goals you have
Day 19- nicknames you have and why you have them
Day 20- someone you see yourself marrying or being with in the future
Day 21- a picture of something that makes you happy
Day 22- what makes you different from everyone else
Day 23- something you crave for a lot
Day 24- a letter to your parents
Day 25- what I would find in your bag
Day 26- what do you think about your friends
Day 27- why are you doing this 30 day challenge
Day 28- a picture of you from last year and now, how have you changed since then?
Day 29- in this past month, what have you learned
Day 30- your favorite song

In order to avoid doing three posts in one day, I shall begin Day 1 tomorrow. It's always nice to start on a Friday, isn't it?

*I must tell y'all that I am MUCH too proud of myself for finally figuring out how to do a link in my blog. I've got some fixin' to do in some of my older posts, so if you read something that references something and you were like "What the heck is she talking about?" you may want to go back and check for a link. Whoo-hooooo! Accomplishment!*

Bummer

So it was my sincere intent to accomplish Goal #3 this afternoon and obtain my motorcycle license, but the fates seemed to have a different plan in store for me. Despite my frantic rushing around after work, I arrived at the DMV five (5) minutes too late to take the test. It may have been for the best, I guess, since I went out to the course just to get an idea of how my motorcycle will handle and it seems that the weaving-in-and-out-of-cones portion of the test may be a little difficult on my bike. Fortunately my parents have loaned me the use of the "Angry Hornet" - a 250 cc Honda that's almost as old as I am but is much smaller and easier to manuver than my Shadow. Why the "Angry Hornet" you ask? Mostly because if you attempt to take the motorcycle over 50 mph or so it sounds like a swarm of angry stingy things are right on your tail. *Reeeen*Reeeeen* says the Angry Hornet....

I notice that I'm having a hard time coming up with different ways to say "my motorcycle." If I keep typing "my motorcycle" it's just too boring and repetative. If I say "my bike" it could possibly be confused with my bicycle and, although I don't ride my bicycle as much as my motorcycle, I have the ever-present good intention to use my bicycle more as well. I'm thinking the motorcycle needs a good nickname.

Any ideas? I really feel like it's a "she" (even though it may be slightly homo-erotic for me to be riding around town on a "she" - I'm secure enough to get past that). For some reason "Nelda" popped into my head but I just can't settle on it since it makes me think of an old, sick lady that I had frequent contact with a while back. If that Nelda is dead, would it be okay to call the bike "Nelda"? There's obviously no danger of confusion at this point.... :)

About three or four months back I found some work by an artist that really caught my attention. It's simple, straight-forward and rather child-like in its approach, but I'm not necessarily an art snob so I won't pretend to not like it. Fortunately, I saved pictures of some of this guy's work; unfortunately I didn't save a link or his name. I've done some google searches with "May" and variations of "outsider art" and "outsider painting" but it's not coming up. Anyone have any ideas?

That's it for now. Keep on keepin' on!

Welcome back!

Okay, so it's probably a little weird to welcome myself back to my poor little neglected blog, but I do so anyway. Gotta get up and back, back on track.....



So Elsie started this project on her blog and it seems like a fine idea to me. The idea is to pick four goals that will be completed before the end of the year - big goals, small goals, easy goals, involved goals, whatever goals you may choose. Best part of all? You are encouraged to reward yourself for reaching each of your stated goals. It's really a pretty free-form idea and Lord knows that I don't like to operate with a lot of constraints. I've thought about it for a couple of days now and I think that I'm ready to commit to my four.

ONE - Blog more regularly. Our home computer is finally back and I can no longer use the excuse that I can't add pictures the way that I want to. I'm thinking that at least a couple of posts a week is definitely do-able, and it shall be done.

TWO - Crochet a granny-square blanket. I just got back into crocheting after a twenty-something year hiatus and have really enjoyed it so far. Thank goodness for youtube and the pause button! Shad kept laughing at me because I was trying to get the grandmother-type lady doing the tutorial to slow down and she just wasn't listening. It's not my fault that it takes me twice as long to do three double crochets as it takes her to do it - come on lady, give me a break! Anyway I've already finished three or four squares, so probably only fifty or seventy left to do. Please notice that I didn't say how big the blanket would be!!!!

THREE - Get my motorcycle license. I've had my permit for a little over a month now and I'm getting really comfortable on my motorcycle so I think it's about time. Right now I have to have an "experienced" rider with me at all times and I'm not supposed to ride after dark, which means no riding to work for me. This will probably be my "easiest" goal to achieve - it's a one-time (hopefully) four skill test that should take about ten minutes.

FOUR - Try new recipes. On one hand I don't like this goal too much because it's a little too "Suzy Homemaker" for me, but on the other hand our finances dictate that we do more meals at home and my cooking repertoire is not large. I have cookbooks and access to the internet, so one would assume that it would not be difficult to locate some new, relatively easy recipes to try out. Since "try new recipes" is a little vague, let's flesh that out to "Try at least one new recipe per week" and let's put a two-month time frame on it. That makes goal number four "Try at least one new recipe per week for the next two months."

So now I've got the goals and I need to come up with the rewards. The reward for passing my motorcycle test is obvious - more bike time! I suspect the spirit of this challenge would dictate that I pick something more specific, so I'll work on that.

Okay, to bed with me! See ya soon, baboon!