I've had a lot of bad news in one particular area the last few weeks. I'm not sure I can take any more and right now probably isn't the best time to decide to write a blog post about it, due to the sensitive nature of the topic and the potential eyes that may be watching.
For now, until I have clearance to give a bit more detail and I've gathered my thoughts a bit more into something coherent (and perhaps done a little research on the topic), that's really all I have to say about it.
I'm going to work on the post (saving as draft for now) now. No crafty pics, no cloud pics. I'll be around.
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Gigantic Update Woooooo
I wasn't kidding when I said I suck at the whole "keeping up with a blog" thing. So, things I didn't talk about when I posted last was actual life stuff. So I'm going to start with that before the other things (I have pictures to post).
For those not in the know (so basically anybody who doesn't talk to me regularly or doesn't actually know me IRL or isn't my friend on Facebook), Matt and I are staying with his parents for the summer. We moved in May 18th, and we move out August 7th. We have 23 days to go! You better believe I'm counting every second. Honestly, it's not horrible, I just feel a little more restricted than I like, and I'm not used to living under someone else's rules, being 27 and all. We had some initial bumps, and now we're either smoothing out or nobody is communicating anymore. Not sure which. In any case, that's the current living situation.
A few days before my last post, Matt and I were involved in a car accident. Thankfully, we weren't hurt. The truck also was not hurt. We hurt some grass, though. And we totally went on two wheels before we got very friendly with a ditch. I thought we were going to roll and die, and since I'm not a ghost, I can tell you that neither of those things happened. Basically, some girl (who I think was probably playing with her phone instead of paying attention to the damn road) randomly came into our lane (we were on a 2-lane highway going 65 mph), Matt swerved out of the way, and then she hit the two cars behind us. She had to be medevaced to the hospital, and both other drivers also went to the hospital. Here's what two of the cars looked like:
It was a pretty scary experience, but we're fine and life goes on. We still haven't used that road since that day, though, except when Matt's parents have been driving.
Moving on to happier things, at the beginning of June I went to a Backstreet Boys concert with my friend Erin. We've been friends for about 18 years now, so it was a pretty cool experience. Here's a photo:
We had a blast. We've decided next time we have the opportunity to do this, we're taking Matt as our DD and we're going to get a little trashed and really let loose. We totally acted like 14 year old girls instead of grown women, screaming and jumping and the like. It was a fabulous night.
Also this summer, we went to our friends' daughter Vivian's first birthday party, which was pretty neat. The birthday song freaked the birthday girl out and made her cry. Aww. We also took home from the party our other friends' daughter, Aubrey (all our friends are also friends with each other these days), who we were supposed to keep for five days and then give back, but we ended up with her for nine (and it was supposed to be like 18, but her mother couldn't stand being away for so long). There were some family health issues Aubrey's parents were helping with, and it would have been very complicated to bring her into that situation, so we kept her since she was already with us. Got to try on the parenting hat again and all that jazz. We miss having her and plan to steal her again for a weekend sometime after we move.
After Aubrey went home, I went to visit Heather again for a few days, partly to get my curtains made finally and partly because we like hanging out. While we were on the way, we stopped at a Sonic to get drinks and stuff, and we saw this:
I love classic cars. They are just awesome. They don't make them pretty like that anymore.
When Heather's grandma found out how much the fabric I bought cost, she decided to just do all the sewing herself, so I learned all about pinning. Pinning takes longer than the actual sewing. I spent probably five hours pinning, and I think she spent maybe a total of 30 minutes sewing. But they're done and they're gorgeous and it is just killing me that I can't hang them until August. And I kind of need to buy a curtain rod still. Ha. Here's a picture of the curtains hanging up:
I still have to iron them (oh goody) before I can hang them, so I'm going to have to leave them here until we buy a curtain rod and then I'll have to come back over to Matt's parents' house and borrow their iron because we don't own an iron. I don't iron anything! I love these curtains, and even though they cost a bazillion dollars, it was money well spent because they should last a long time and they're exactly what I wanted and I'll use them forever.
Speaking of things I'll use forever, I'm almost done making my Christmas tree skirt. I underestimated how much yarn I'd need and need to buy another skein of the sparkly green I've been using to finish it off, but I'm just about there. Here's the process (begun June 24th, last picture taken today):
Here's some other projects that are either finished or near completion:
In terms of crafty things, it's been a pretty productive few weeks. I need to get a move on on the placemats, though, because I'd like to have those ready to go when we get moved. I also want the tree skirt done before school starts so I don't have to scramble to finish it when it comes time to put the tree up for Christmas this year.
I guess I've exhausted the topics of life stuff (not much is happening so not exactly a whole lot to tell) and crafts (I still haven't finished that pillow, either, because I'm afraid to mess it up), so I guess I'll move on to weather stuff. I'm still not paying a whole lot of attention to things, but I will say that it's currently unseasonably cool for Kansas right now and it's amazing. I should be outside enjoying it but that requires wearing real clothes and I don't wanna make the effort. I might try later though, when there's less sunlight. What a vampire, ha. I do have a lot of cloud pictures to show, though, since it's hard not to pay attention to the sky with that whole always being there thing.
So, overall, nothing particularly special, looking forward to the next 3 weeks hopefully going by very, very fast. Next week, we're going to see about getting my favorite ring repaired. I haven't been able to wear it in 3 years because the band snapped (thankfully palm side) while I was vacuuming. Yay.
Other than that, nothing exciting going on except laundry and crocheting until August gets here. (Laundry never does seem to have an end.)
For those not in the know (so basically anybody who doesn't talk to me regularly or doesn't actually know me IRL or isn't my friend on Facebook), Matt and I are staying with his parents for the summer. We moved in May 18th, and we move out August 7th. We have 23 days to go! You better believe I'm counting every second. Honestly, it's not horrible, I just feel a little more restricted than I like, and I'm not used to living under someone else's rules, being 27 and all. We had some initial bumps, and now we're either smoothing out or nobody is communicating anymore. Not sure which. In any case, that's the current living situation.
A few days before my last post, Matt and I were involved in a car accident. Thankfully, we weren't hurt. The truck also was not hurt. We hurt some grass, though. And we totally went on two wheels before we got very friendly with a ditch. I thought we were going to roll and die, and since I'm not a ghost, I can tell you that neither of those things happened. Basically, some girl (who I think was probably playing with her phone instead of paying attention to the damn road) randomly came into our lane (we were on a 2-lane highway going 65 mph), Matt swerved out of the way, and then she hit the two cars behind us. She had to be medevaced to the hospital, and both other drivers also went to the hospital. Here's what two of the cars looked like:
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| Red car is the girl who caused the accident, black SUV was the unfortunate guy who rolled. Matt's dad didn't take photos of the other car or our truck because they were quite a distance away from where these two ended up. |
Moving on to happier things, at the beginning of June I went to a Backstreet Boys concert with my friend Erin. We've been friends for about 18 years now, so it was a pretty cool experience. Here's a photo:
We had a blast. We've decided next time we have the opportunity to do this, we're taking Matt as our DD and we're going to get a little trashed and really let loose. We totally acted like 14 year old girls instead of grown women, screaming and jumping and the like. It was a fabulous night.
Also this summer, we went to our friends' daughter Vivian's first birthday party, which was pretty neat. The birthday song freaked the birthday girl out and made her cry. Aww. We also took home from the party our other friends' daughter, Aubrey (all our friends are also friends with each other these days), who we were supposed to keep for five days and then give back, but we ended up with her for nine (and it was supposed to be like 18, but her mother couldn't stand being away for so long). There were some family health issues Aubrey's parents were helping with, and it would have been very complicated to bring her into that situation, so we kept her since she was already with us. Got to try on the parenting hat again and all that jazz. We miss having her and plan to steal her again for a weekend sometime after we move.
After Aubrey went home, I went to visit Heather again for a few days, partly to get my curtains made finally and partly because we like hanging out. While we were on the way, we stopped at a Sonic to get drinks and stuff, and we saw this:
I love classic cars. They are just awesome. They don't make them pretty like that anymore.
When Heather's grandma found out how much the fabric I bought cost, she decided to just do all the sewing herself, so I learned all about pinning. Pinning takes longer than the actual sewing. I spent probably five hours pinning, and I think she spent maybe a total of 30 minutes sewing. But they're done and they're gorgeous and it is just killing me that I can't hang them until August. And I kind of need to buy a curtain rod still. Ha. Here's a picture of the curtains hanging up:
I still have to iron them (oh goody) before I can hang them, so I'm going to have to leave them here until we buy a curtain rod and then I'll have to come back over to Matt's parents' house and borrow their iron because we don't own an iron. I don't iron anything! I love these curtains, and even though they cost a bazillion dollars, it was money well spent because they should last a long time and they're exactly what I wanted and I'll use them forever.
Speaking of things I'll use forever, I'm almost done making my Christmas tree skirt. I underestimated how much yarn I'd need and need to buy another skein of the sparkly green I've been using to finish it off, but I'm just about there. Here's the process (begun June 24th, last picture taken today):
Here's some other projects that are either finished or near completion:
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| Matt's Christmas stocking, two ornaments, purple placemat and matching coaster (all of these things are finished), and the pink placemat is nearly finished. |
In terms of crafty things, it's been a pretty productive few weeks. I need to get a move on on the placemats, though, because I'd like to have those ready to go when we get moved. I also want the tree skirt done before school starts so I don't have to scramble to finish it when it comes time to put the tree up for Christmas this year.
I guess I've exhausted the topics of life stuff (not much is happening so not exactly a whole lot to tell) and crafts (I still haven't finished that pillow, either, because I'm afraid to mess it up), so I guess I'll move on to weather stuff. I'm still not paying a whole lot of attention to things, but I will say that it's currently unseasonably cool for Kansas right now and it's amazing. I should be outside enjoying it but that requires wearing real clothes and I don't wanna make the effort. I might try later though, when there's less sunlight. What a vampire, ha. I do have a lot of cloud pictures to show, though, since it's hard not to pay attention to the sky with that whole always being there thing.
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| June 25, 2014 - I took this because the clouds reminded me of the clouds Pixar uses a lot in their movies and it made me really happy. This was the best picture I could get, since we were going 70 mph on the highway and things like trees and hills kept getting in my way. |
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| June 26, 2014 - Not weather related, but we had an inch worm in the garage and he excited me greatly. I made Matt take him to a plant (he was climbing the doorjamb) so he would have a chance of survival. |
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| June 29, 2014 - Believe it or not, I actually took this picture with my cell phone camera, since that's all I had with me. These mammatus clouds were part of a supercell that produced a tornado (I don't think it did much damage if any) later on in the evening. I took this at about 8:30 PM. Best mammatus cloud picture I've ever taken. |
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| July 7, 2014 - Even with the edit, I can't make the picture look like it did in person. The clouds were gorgeous. The weather wasn't anything very special, just kind of wet and then just stupid hot because it's Kansas and it's July. |
So, overall, nothing particularly special, looking forward to the next 3 weeks hopefully going by very, very fast. Next week, we're going to see about getting my favorite ring repaired. I haven't been able to wear it in 3 years because the band snapped (thankfully palm side) while I was vacuuming. Yay.
Other than that, nothing exciting going on except laundry and crocheting until August gets here. (Laundry never does seem to have an end.)
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