Well I'm slacking apparently. I'm tring really! So much so that I will have a long post with pictures. Yes people it's time to bring you up to speed and even showing you insights into my little world. At some point I will have this whole site updated. I'm getting hooked on flickr so maybe more pics more often. Here's the year to date though...
actually this is last christmas (yes, I realize it's almost April, but really we all like bite sized chunks of information don't we?) Below are the result of our first trip to a local ceramic studio where you basically paint pottery, they glaze it and you pick it up and show everyone how creative you are :)
i think it's adorable to see cute men paint pottery. and the fact that this marks our first Christmas makes these really special. We actually ended up going back and making more ornaments that commemorated other events like our Vegas trip and the Sandcastle contest. We're going back this year for a few days and bringing the puppies...I can't wait. I'll try to get pics of the other ornaments up here soon. the girls also got hand painted bones with their names on them.

Ah yes, George Bush came to town...this is out of order actually I think it was before the election even. The Bush family came to visit College Station. They were well received. The lady sitting next to Scott was apparently going to be neighbors with the Bush's once they moved back to Texas.
New Year's a James and Beth Creel's house. James makes realllllly good Long Island Iced Teas...like better than anyones....

Valentine's Day - :)
My sweetie knows how to do Valentine's Day. Messina Hof Mystery Dinner...Not sure what's going on with my hair, but after 5 glasses of wine, I don't think I cared. All of these pics are taken with my iphone as i always forget my camera. I will remember for the sandcastle contest though.
Latest Obsession: Cupcakes.
We're planning a dinner theater event of our own in May and for some reason, I've decided I can bake and am determined to make kickass cupcakes for dessert. So lately I'm doing trial runs. No one seems to mind as I try to give most of them away so i don't end up consuming them.
Let's see...I'm slowing down a bit in the freelancing which could be the economy but really I don't mind as I'm really wanting to learn new things and that can't happen if I'm always doing the same old thing and putting every waking moment into other people's projects. I'll miss the income, but maybe I can get a better income at some point by being more marketable. The exercising thing is still on my mind. While the bootcamp thing didn't turn out to be the best solution for me it gave me some ideas on how to keep moving. The eating thing is a little better as I'm trying to watch the portions more. But really I dont want to get obsessed over this but more mindful of it.
yes it's true....i am a touch obsessive compulsive and i don't want to skip a month of entries....so here tis! the February entry (crowd goes wild.) (yes, really...) i guess i can just put an update type tps report snapshot on everything....
1. started bootcamp last week...and while i'm in pain, I always feel awesome after class so it's sorta ok and hopefully the pain will go away at some point. I'd like to keep it up if possible but not pushing myself just yet and taking it slowly...and that's apparently how i run too...(damn little old laadies passing my slow ass up) someday, lady, someday....
2. managed to get a large format graphicy campaing up at work: see below:
and see more:

so that was pretty cool. stuff tends to feel like it goes at a turtles pace it seems so it's always a fun thing to actually check it off the ol list there
3. oh Valentine's day with cuteboy was awesome. Scott earned major brownie points (at some point i may actually have to make him brownies
) but My awesome valentine took me to Messina Hof winery for a mystery dinner theater (which has sparked another event to come) and brunch the next day at Christofers and then went shopping with me (!) so yes a lovely weekend with awesome company... i heart you sweetie. you make every day awesome!
4. other random things...got my mom's old fridge which is huge...and makes me look like i have no food. but it's still better than the old one and beats me having to buy a new one..which i'd still kinda like to do but meh not really needing it.
5.freelance work is still kinda busy but my personal interest is waning just a bit...*sigh* always happens when i have to pay taxes on it as i work really hard and it sucks to have to give so much of it away. always makes me want to just quit doing it.
6. girls are doing great. they cuddle with his cuteness every chance they get.
ok so maybe this entry wasn't soooo lame after all...
Yes people, There's yet more in the exhilarating saga that is my life...( I almost typed sag....freudian slip, no?) I have admitted the unhealthyness of my life and trying to aim to do better. I've put cuteboy on notice we need to be doing more active things together as we have fun, but really cnn and movies don't do much for my ass. at least freelance pays me to grow my ass bigger. It's also so pretty outside that i'm opening all the windows every weekend lately. This last week cuteboy and I decided to excape on Thursday and go see the State Fair of Texas...why? cuz I never been and it was an excuse to go somewhere. So Thursday walked all over fairgrounds, had funnelcake, won a stuffed dolphin and got a henna tattoo...which proved to be kinda embarrassing since i had to hold my shirt up to let it dry for 20 min. (This is where the gee honey I really need to be more active conversation came about)The funnest part I think was Friday though. we went to see King tut exhibit and then...you ready? we went to Celebration Station right next to the hotel....go karts, bumper boats, and mini-golf...and slot machines! I think cuteboy really liked the gokarts....they were fun..I'd never ridden them before. On the way home, we decided to go Geocaching and took cuteboy's best friend until he had to turn off to head toward Austin. The cache we went for had zebras in the area! yes! someone owns live zebras in Ennis TX.
In other news, I got glasses. After almost nearly failing the DMV drivers test to renew my license. Thought it was time to visit the eye doc. I'm not blind, but man can I see clearer.
Anyhoo, after visitng a few other caches and the Russell Stover Factory we came home and had a relaxing evening after picking up the girls from a co-workers home. Mia has been acting weird since i brought her home...I think she was a bit nervous that I would give her away again. poor baby. Cuteboy in his never ending total awesomeness helped me around the house without provocation....mmmmcute men doing housework...oooo baby. I lurve you, babe!
I've never felt more like a juggler in my life. I'm trying super hard to get everyone situated so i can leave town for 5 days....yeah i know just 5 days! arrrggg. I really think i've developed ADD from doing what i do. I'm amazed I can have my brain focusing on so many things at once. then there are days like this....

Cuteboy and the girls are best buds and I think it's totally awesome he's a dog person....makes me love him even more. Anyhoo, he convinced me that the dog park was not full of ravenous pitbulls looking for my schnauzers to snack on. Really, this is a deep concern for me, my puppies don't know evil meaness and i'm quite protective of them. We started out by keeping the girls on their leashes and giving the park a "sniff over" mainly for me to make sure no dogs came to see the buffet so to speak. We had a couple of dogs escort us around and eventually we let the girls off the leash. Maisy immediately became miss socialite and promptly made the rounds introducing herslef to everyone and every dog. Mia, who had never been to one of these places (maisy went all the time in san diego) stayed mostly wedged between cuteboy and me for protection and ventured out every now and then to find maisy. Twas a good time had by all and best of all made me not fear the dog park.
We went agian the next morning to an empty park but came with an assortment of balls to play with. Maisy and mia got to run their butts off. The picture above is what happens when maisy decides that she needs to cool off..NOW. and this dog doesn't really like water. so baths were had after this lovely trip. I do enjoy spending time with them and cuteboy...
there apparently is a category that goes beyond country to 'texas country' wtf?are those the songs that involve marriage to your sister or cousin? truly it has to be a different category? Must we really spread the toxic audio poison of country music? and yet i live in the midst of it. i must be a glutton for punishment. *sigh*. I should be in a much better mood. I actually got off my ass and did half an hour of treadmill. I did feel pretty good afterward. But certain things I've read this past week have been somewhat haunting me....this is why i don't go to scary movies or can deal with the news. I take all of it with extreme sensitivity. That and one of my friends is moving away to Dallas. yet another one...but i have no real compulsion to move there. If I were to move to the city it would have to be austin....and for a really good reason. i do feel the need to escape though. perhaps that's why I'm a little bummed too. or the fact that i wear my heart on my sleeve and can't seem to grasp what is reality. boy did i feel old yesterday. *sigh* this really should be simple. it seems simple for everyone but me....like i've been singled out....conspiracy theory! i knew it!
eh...i think i just need some R&R. window will finally be measured next week and tub color has been selected and hopefully put into the cue for fabrication. I so need this. I don't have any reservations about what i'm doing regarding the house.
flashback song: Gilda Radner - "Let's talk dirty to the animals"
well really i don't have a huge amount to talk about....except for just absurd crap. truly...do people really spend that much time on facebook? anyhoo....project bathtub has seeming come to a standoff at the moment. I don't think the contractor gets the imperative aching need for me to have a bathtub that works....must ...have....bubble bath!!! seriously...it's getting bad. showers are the bathing worlds equivalent of a quickie at lunchtime that was just that a quickie and nothing more.....no..no..it's just wrong. I may be able to start paying it back before i even start though which will be nice....too much debt is bad but really i need to seal the place up better.
I've decided to target my geocaching endeavors to movies shot in texas. i got my cute little geocaching boxes in yesterday and have started to research films that had scenes shot in texas. hopefully, the idea will go over well with c.b.
. i skulked over the film commission of texas' website today....i wanna be about 10 years younger and go through the production assistants bootcamp....i think it would be exciting to be part of the process...although not sure i could deal with the egos. i have trouble with snark period but entertainment people tend to be filled with it. but for now i think i really like my little research project and will hopefully turn into more...in more ways than one.
My friend Amy has made some interesting decisions for her life/career lately...i wish her the best and a little envious..but not too much in that I think i'm in a pretty creative challenging job for now. I'd like it to grow into more. I'd like a lot of things to grow into more frankly, but we don't always have control over everything do we? I'm getting to be creative, I'm able to take on outside work without too much effort, I'm making a nice little home for myself....hopefully, it won't always be just me, but i'm taking that into stride. I'm really progressing ithink...aside from needing more exercise. i do dislike the mirror lately. i've slacked and i shouldn't beat myself up over it but just get my ass back on the elliptical or just start doing more outside. so far that's been a fun thing...the company i was with helped a lot too. I'd have to say that i'm fairly content at the moment...sch a rare thing for me in my life but i'm sure lovin' it. I hope it gets even better.
Happy Easter everyone.... today was rather boring and I can't really figure out why the hardware stores were open while everyone else but the restaurants were closed...so everyone just eats then goes home to do house repairs? odd. i hope this coming week will bring about some answers though. It's kind of like that old sitcom SOAP... will Tina hear back from the bank about her home improvement loan? will the other contractor remember she exists and make a an estimate that she can afford? will she ever hear back from her dentist or is she doomed to wear the same invisalign tray forever? will she ever get good timing and figure out when exactly she should be vulnerable to others instead of setting herself up for disappointment? will she get paid from her freelance project to pay off uncle sam? I used to think being a grown up meant having control over your life....HA!
i have to laugh at myself. seriously...uhm i really am clueless so all i can do is just hope and try not to lose my nerve or sanity. I did my taxes today....oooo fun filled good friday fun. and i owe da guvmint. it's not horrible and the the rebate we're supposed to get will help...i wish they'd just allow me to take it off what i owe them. again...it's not gonna break me but it will take a few months to get back to normal.
i have to say my behavior the other day was rather remarkable in what once would've been a nerve wracking predicament. I simply just didn't notice. well I did but i really truly didn't care. really. nothing. I can't tell you how good that felt and then sent me into a new level of real progress and hope for someone truly caring. much much better. even if the new doesn't turn out the way i hope...it still means the past is really finally gone....thank God. even better, I'm not even angry anymore...I just want to leave it behind because there's so much better right in front of me.
big sigh of relief...hopefully, i'll be able to do more with my house this year...soon. I'm finding out new windows would give me a tax break next year...I'll need it. :P
I realize it's been a little while since i've written. Actually, I was trying to think of how to write about everything without exposing too much. heh. not not THAT...perv. good things have been happening. and I'm trying really hard not to overthink things and get all anxiety ridden i think i need to get my butt exercising again and that would help tremendously. I so don't want to screw this up. nothing major has happened just me actually being comfortable for once.
One new thing is i've discovered geocaching...and it...is...cool! aunt jemima's grave, a talking bee, and good company. I had so much fun. (it doesn't take much to make me happy can you tell? :))
no major discussions yet, I thought for a second i would bring up the whole thing but brain got the better of me and i'm not interested in freaking people out just yet....including myself.
I got to order a new monitor for home tho so i should hopefully have less misspellings..
. I am attempting to grow things...besides my ownself which i am needing to shrink...lord one should not evaluate one's body during that of the month its just masochistic....but i do need to be eating better and working out more* sigh*

So sad that you're having to spend it in Barcelona. sad. truly. pitiful. *so jealous*
I finally got my butt back on the elliptical thing and I'm feeling much better now as opposed to being on the verge of tears and wanting to bitch slap the mailman for not bringing me the moolah that is owed to me. trying to refinance the house and looking to do the final updates. Amazing what I can accomplish when trying not to think about other things...who knew avoidance could be so productive?
Honestly, I just don't know what to do or if I even should do anything. One thing I think I can safely say is answer is most likely a resounding 'no'. so what i was planning will most likely not be happening. I'm just not important enough so why put my heart on the line. so trying to find new focus and be thankful that this didn't end too badly and that i realized it before i did something really stupid. kinda sad tho.
maisy the wonder schnauzer has decided that computers are evil and bad and frankly take up too much of my treat giving and belly petting time. Therefore she is barking her freakin head off which makes mia her younger counterpart go a little batshit and begins running around the house like a banshee. I on the otherhand am a clueless dork and probably a little insane..(but then who isn't) and biding my time until maybe a lightning bolt of competency or even just the ability to be less of a dork (they make lightning bolts like that don't they?) comes blaring down on me. In the meantime I've thrown myself into a massive pile of freelance and work and exercise to make me feel like i'm accomplishing something, but really just getting to the next day without too much dorkiness. Miss Doxie however, has it right in that maybe creating a billion dollar empire from The grinch's Who Hash is the way to go. Who Hash...pfffttt sadly no actual pictures of who hash can be found via google. I'm still searching for my x-mas spirit. I don't even feel like watching the grinch this year ...i always root for max the dog to bite the grinch in the ass but sadly he never does. The worst of the worst of the x-mas specials is "Nestor the Christmas Donkey" which holy crap, still makes me cry for some stupid ass reason...





good day. Keith...moochas gracias for the hospitality...i had fun! such a cool place and great people to boot.
btw...love the company name you gave me...

I'm Listening to "Make my funk the P-Funk" and really it's quite mellow...I can only imagine what it sounds like drunk...hrmmm. I've started looking at my posts and frankly...I'm weird. but really I like it that way...boring sucks. Obviously the blog has not been updated...*sigh* soon...got some more work to do this weekend...but shouldn't be an all weekend thing. Although making my ass exercise longer did the trick on the being whiney and stupid tho. I now hurt too much to whine. Mai actually gurgled at me in a very demanding maisy-like growl yesterday... I'm thinking Maisy is giving her obnoxious lessons when i'm not home. Whatever the party calls for