Exercise and art?

This sounds like a plan right?  I just want to be silly sometimes.  I know so wrong for a "grown up"... but I guess that's the problem... I don't want to be grown up all the time.  This rendition of silly: Jogging photography?  Anyone seen "Yes Man"?  Well, I tried it!  You ready to see my first session of Jogging photography?  You know it has to be great!

Obviously missed the mark but it was fun to try!  You should get out there and try it yourself.  Only rule: you can never stop moving!

Moovooe on in

There is nothing quite like free food.  With eat bite you take the flavor come out further, richer and more fantastic.  This particular free food was all the more fantastic:  Chickfila

This is our first year and it was fabulous if I do say so myself.

Let me know what you think of our costumes

insane in the membrane

Ah, No not another red light!  With everything in me I hold back my urge to push the peddle to the floor when it switches shinning green.  All the sudden I am in a Nascar race internally mapping out the quickest and most direct route to weave between all the cars like it will get me there on time.

I hate being late.  I always leave with extra time... ok almost always.  There are specific times that I leave knowing I will be late when meeting people who are chronically late, you know who you are and I love you!  I hate those specific times when something goes wrong, your shoe breaks right as you go to leave, there is a fender bender further up the road which people must see, you get the idea.  It is at those times that I feel ready to boot up, get my gear on and put on my racing helmet cause gosh darnit I will get "there" on time.

Do you ever get this feeling?  Is it inate in all?  Are we all just one too many stoplights from going Danica Patrick?

My husband thinks I am insane which I can't really say much cause I am... at least a little bit ;P  Chris is even keeled when it comes to driving.  He doesn't speed (5-9 over max).  He doesn't often go through yellow lights (though I have tried to pull him to the dark side).  He lets people who shouldn't drive merge (another soap box for anther day: merging is a lost art that isn't taught and it makes me die a little on the inside... ok well at least not happy ;P)  You get this picture of my husband driving, so for him when I want to throw on my Go Daddy racing helmet tries to calmly tell me that I am reacting in a slightly more than reasonable way = over reaction.  To which I do not respond sweetly to... my inner being goes, "oh, you wanna see over reaction!"  Now blessing to me Chris is very sweet and generally, after some time, I pull up the lead that is my foot.

Insane I know.  Any one else insane?

Perfection in bathroom form

You walk in and it is done.  Is that too simple?  Is that too easy.  I don't know.  My husband and I are in the process of redoing an almost 30 year old house and we have been without a bathroom for TOO long.  Thankfully we have one functioning bathroom but it would be great to have a master bathroom.  Sad thing is we already have the flooring, toilet and sink... it is just getting it in place (and a vehicle to get some supplies... our Yaris just won't cut it).

Close your eyes and imagine: you open the door to tile floors.  To your right is a modern vanity style sink with a granite top.  Just past that is a oblong bowl toilet.  Directly in front of you is the shower.  The walls surrounding it all are a lovely greyellow or maybe a cool earthy blugreen.  Curtains and shower curtains are hung.  there is a cabinet above the toilet for additional space.  It is all straighten, clean and neat but with just enough everyday things to make you know that it is loved.

This sadly is my dream.  To wave my hand in front of my eyes and it to be in place and complete.

I don't need a huge space.  No garden tubs needed.  Just for it to be finished.  Done.  *deep sigh*  Just brings me a sense of peace just at the idea.

Now, just to begin...

Thanks for driving me to this pleasant thought process Gussy

Excited and sad as the end comes swiftly

Harry Potter count down continues...

So, my husband and I are huge fans of the HP book series and movies.  I know... so silly but I like to be silly at times.  I have already made scarfs for my husband, my sister and myself but I might now, in crunch time of only 2 weeks try to crank out 3 school robes... yes, we are dressing up for the premier at midnight.  I'm not sure you getting how much of die hard fans we are... I mean I painted my kitchen utensil holder to be the oak tree under which Dobby was buried... "Super geek, super geek she super geekie"  (to the tune of "super freak").

Point of all of this:  Tonight, we start the marathon.  Do to being... check that, acting like adults with jobs and what not we can't pull and all-night-er the night before because of work, we are doing it slowly through the 2 weeks leading up to the FINAL movie.

I'm kind of sad to see it come though.  I like being childish at times and dressing up and going to a midnight showing of ____.  After this movie there isn't anything that I know of coming out in which I will want to go to the midnight release.  Maybe it is because of my childhood desire to find Neverland and never grow up but I like to hold onto small things that make me feel silly.

Are there any movies that you have gone to the midnight showing?  Do you like silly?  Do you think I'm insane... 'cause that is legitimate. ;P

Up up and away!  Of to start my robes.

No cycling for me today, my legs are tired.

Do you ever feel like the week has cycled once again?   So often I feel like I am doing the same things over and over.  Don't get me wrong for the most part I don't mind... I enjoy the things I do, the people I see and the priorities I set but sometimes I like to deviate.  So today, right before I go mow my lawn, I decided that today I will do something out of the ordinary... don't know yet but I will, I am determined and if those I love can tell you nothing else about me it is that I am stubborn.  Short and sweet today  but stayed tuned and I'll tell you what I decided to do "out of the ordinary"... you should join me!

If I were as funny as Conan

For my personal photos I have a face identifier program.  Meaning that it identifies each face, you label them as (Jane, John or whomever) and you then can pull them up via that name, seeing all photos of that person.  I really like the program for my own personal use but identifying them is time consuming (I have somewhere round 3000 photos unidentified).  Occasional I sit down for a few minutes to take care of a little... 1 hour later I can't stop. I mean I have been doing it for this long it has to be done soon!  How many faces can there really be?  But much like Bejeweled when it first came out (and for some still)... you just can't stop.  Why?

I can cook.  I can bake.  I can make sauces like no other.  But I can't make pancakes.  I try and try and they always come out funny looking.  They taste fine but they don't have that perfect rounded puffy smooth top you are looking for (you all know what I am talking about that wonderfully rounded and smooth top that IS pancakes... ).  Mine look like I fried them or something... they get the weird bubbled thing... I don't know.  I mean they taste fine but they do not look like what I know pancakes to look like.  Why?

I enjoy social media, obviously.  I use Facebook, Twitter, and obviously Blogger (I used to have  a Myspace though I think I got on it 4 times) but I don't get the "status" people put up at times.  Did we really need to know that you threw up because you were SO wasted?  Did I really need to know that your colon is clean... on your status?  Do you really need to voice your depressed "the world is horrible" Eeyore moments... common I mean at least try and make them witty or literary references?  Don't get me wrong my status is never a tweet from Conan (the ginger), but why am I inclined to think that everyone wants to know that I love Coke Icees and ironically don't like coke?   (I wish I were the Conan's and Tina Fey's of the world who genuinely think funny things and only post hilarious thoughts.)

I live life one movie quote at a time.  My husband and I really like movies and all art really but movies are our past time,  with that we tend towards quoting.  So much so that when we actually genuinely say something funny we have to stop and think, "where is that from?"

Silly, unacknowledged, and kind of creepy

I know it is silly but I get attached to characters on TV series.  I am not sure why.  I don't get attached to characters in movies.  I think the difference is that a TV series is a lot more invasive in your life.  In my mind, when I watched Friends they were my friends... unacknowledged and kind of creepy but still somehow a part of their life much like Gunther.  I am not a crier, really.  But when Friends ended I felt like people in my life died...  Yes, yes, you can all feel sad for me. ;P

What is even more weird about it is that I can only get attached when it is at least a halfway decent show with a good amount of character development.  So the really sad fact is that out side of friends for the most part all the shows I fall in love with end after their first season.  This is a real tragedy.  No, not for the actors who loose their livelihood but for me who looses these people I know.  Yes, yes, the world is about me?  This is all on my mind because I have recently discovered a great show, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, but going in I know that there is only one season.  Why then do I put myself through it... even if it is silly?  Because it is better to have known these characters and fall in love with the writing then to not know.

So this is my input for the day, silly as it may be.  I miss you, JD, Malcom Renolds, Chandler, Olive Snook, Eli Stone, Veronica (yes, I am a fan),  Joan, Georgia, The whole Bluth family, Veronica Palmer, Echo and many more!

A script of a day

Some days I wish I could just have it all together.  You know what I mean?  I see these people oh so fixed, determined and have it all together.  I wish I could be one of those people.

I want to walk out of my house looking like a crew of well trained professionals just got done with me, sashay my way towards the whatever it is they are headed towards and own it.

I think I must just be a little to silly or friendly for that.  For the most part I am great with that, I mean I love people, I love laughing, I love being orderly but willing to go with the flow but there are days when I think it would be nice to see life go exactly how I had planned.  A scripted day... sounds silly but I think for just one day it would be neat.  If nothing else to experience something different.

Well, for today I will go about my day looking about for then next thing that will cause me to adjust, smiling all the way.

Good luck to us all who aren't perfect ;P

A day at the beach

Still being somewhat young I find it disconcerting when I find myself acting old.  You know, getting in a rut.  Each day has it's schedule and that's productive and great but for feeling alive... not so much.  Recently, my husband and I decided to throw a wrench into our schedule, make ourselves act like the crazy days in college: road trip to the beach!

So off we will go wee hours tomorrow... piled in high with a picnic, blanket, sunscreen and for those of us from the British Isles who get guaranteed sun burns: aloe!

I look forward to the drive with our friends, to the smell of sunscreen, to the feel of the sea breeze on my face, to sit on the beach and laughing as we snack on our picnic.

I hope your weekend is great as I suspect mine will be.

Silly something

Do you ever just want to be a kid?

Sometimes I just want to be a kid... no responsibility, no job, no issues... just chill.  Playing, no worry about the future.  It's a fun idea.  But the greatest and worst thing about childhood it can only last for a small time.  Experience changes people.

Today I am going to do something playful.  Something fun, something silly.  What will you do?