Okay, yes, I kind of fell off the wagon on some things, but I've still been doing P90X mostly. I've missed a lot of workouts, but I'm still seeing progress and I'm ready to recommit. Chris complimented the definition of my ass the other day and I'm less than a pound away from breaking 200. So even if I haven't been consistent, I'm still doing ( Read more... )

Which is precisely why I'm thinking about gardening. I can bundle up in some fleece indoors and dream of spring, with my online seed catalogs and my spreadsheets and junk. Normally, I'd just sit down with my notebook and my paper seed catalogs and some graph paper and come up with something I wouldn't follow through on. We'll see if technology ( Read more... )

So, you know how I posted that list of stuff I needed to get done in the costuming world of my life in the next *looks at calendar* 11 days? Yeah, so I got a stomach virus starting last Thursday, spent two days lounging and whining around the house trying to stay as comfortable as possible. By Saturday, Chris and I were both down to being mostly ( Read more... )

Yesterday I saw a crow steal an egg from a robin's nest outside my bedroom window and then a mocking bird and a sparrow chased it down instantly. It was the best day ever.

Two days before that, I saw an enormous, vivid double rainbowI'm starting to think there's a glitch in the matrix and I've been deposited in a program where everything is ( Read more... )

( The long,uninteresting story. )

I knew this was going to happen. Chris assured me just a couple of weekends was all it would take, but I knew better. It has been about a month since we ripped up all the old floors downstairs (except the kitchen tile, it's just coming up on it's own and we're not ready to remodel the kitchen yet). The house is still a construction site. We've ( Read more... )

Chris and I have been rocking out the outdoor projects for the past couple of months. We built a short fence out of cedar (which smells just like pencil shavings) around our A/C units with a gate so we could access the water faucet back there but also dampen some of the noise from the machines. It seems to work on both counts and gives us a ( Read more... )

Included in my last long post about all the things was a mention of a distant neighbor/professional handyman/musician (because that's Nashville for you) coming to take a look at our problematic gutters. We had a bit of rotting around our master bedroom window as well as some around the gutter that ends at that same window. We assumed it was the ( Read more... )

First, I want to say that, although I didn't go back and reply to all the comments on my step-mom, I really appreciate everyone's sentiments and well wishes and thoughts and prayers on the matter! It really touched me that people thanked me for the update, showing that our family are not the only ones thinking about it. So thank you guys so much ( Read more... )

A lengthy, photo heavy entry on our trip to Asheville is festering in the browser on my laptop, but there's other stuff going on... mostly gardening ( Read more... )