Milestone -

They are a tad tight, but they are on and zipped/buttoned and I can even sit with them on...I am wearing denim shorts - last time I had these on was 3 years ago (yes I still have clothes from that long ago - it's a fat thing).

Also, ran into a friend of mine today and she said that she could really see the difference. :)

This is a lil off topic, but since I have never been called this (except from family), I have to share.
I was told that I am Beautiful...I've never been called beautiful before - I don't think my husband has ever said it - I told him this and he said 'if you weren't beautiful, I would never had married you', I said 'sure you would have because I am the only one that can put up with you'.

- I don't have a green thumb -

I remember the 1st sunflower I tried growing...it only grew to about 6 inches tall and then died.

Since we moved to Idaho - I have stuck to wild flowers...my theory is 'if they can grow in the wild then there isn't anyway that I can kill them'. I have a pretty little garden around my mailbox.

Last year I planted several sunflower seeds and I was happy with the results - I had a few sunflowers that grew to over 6 foot and I hand some dinner plate sized flowers.

This year - I planted more and I LOVE the result. The flowers have gone crazy the past couple weeks and the tallest is over 9 feet. All the sunflowers are in our backyard. I love the natural fence. I love the privacy they give us and not to mention the beauty.

Paintin Fool -

Our dining room like the rest of our house was a dull color - plain beige - had no life, no character...no being.

I painted the living room this past May. I was planning on using the same poppy red on the far wall of the dining room (you walk into our house and the far dining room wall is what you see). But hubby wanted orange (he wanted the poppy red wall to be orange, but I could not commit to that much heat - oranges and reds are hot colors, just like blues, greens and purples are cool colors).

Me and the boys went to the store yesterday morning and I got PAINT! I picked a field poppy (orange, looks more like a burnt orange than a California poppy to me tho) and a pale yellow (Beautiful Blonde) - to go on the other 3 walls and ceiling of the dining room.

As soon as I got done with the 1st coat of orange, I knew I loved it!

Painting the pale yellow, just brightened the room more. I went to stand by the front door to see what it would look like and the 1 thing that I noticed is that you can actually tell that there is a 2nd room there - rather than just 1 really long room. It looks so much better - IMO.

I also picked up a cream for the upper cabinets in the kitchen, a dark olive for the lower cabinets (we have black and stainless in the kitchen and I figure dark cabinets - rather than the honey color they are - would look so much better) and a pistachio green to repaint the kitchen walls (I painted them a couple yrs ago, but I dont like the green - too much like a sea foam green than the jade/pistachio I was originally going for...Now I have pistachio).

I am going to be a paintin fool this week. :)

No Name ---

To call this piece or to categorize this piece as Blue Period would give one the idea that there are more, but this is the 1 and only, for now.

I had a canvas that I used in a previous art piece that didn't turn out so well...I sat it aside til I felt the need to do something with it.

A few months ago I covered the piece in plaster and then also used a make shift stencil to add texture to it (diamonds) - I painted over that, but have never been happy with where that painting was going. Today, I got a wild hair and decided to go BLUE. This is the completed piece - it has no name (7/28/9).

23 days out...

I've moved to solids foods (Yay!). I haven't had a fill yet, so I am eating more than I was 3 wks ago - more than I was means 1c - 1 1/4 c rather than 1/2c - 3/4c of food at a time. I get 1 protein drink and 3 meals. I try to eat as much cottage cheese as I can (protein, protein, protein) - My fave foods right now are squash and onions & scrabbled eggs - I will eat 1/2c of one of these and 1/2 c of cottage cheese. So Yummy.

Are we that busy?

That people need a home phone (we do not), cell phone, a work phone, home email acct, work email acct, twitter, a blog or vlog (video blogging), personal web sites, Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, and all other forms of social networking sites? Do people still have/use pagers?

What happen to the days when you didn't answer a phone at dinner time? What happened to the days of coming home from work and relaxing with the ones you love - rather than coming home and checking your email, blackberry, etc?

Do people even talk face to face anymore?
Does anyone actually sit and hand write a letter anymore?

I really can't say much in the way of this, because I am one that has email, cell, blog (Duh, right?), twitter, web site, FB & MYS. But I don't think it is because I am busy, but more that my family and friends are that busy.

Back to art...

I traded a painting for a treadmill. A girlfriend of mine wanted their name on an art piece and I wanted a treadmill....my husband calls that 'horse trading'.
She told me what she wanted on it and I went to work...I think it turned out pretty good. She said it was 'perfect' and other friends that have seen it said that it was 'totally her'.
It is about 2'x5' - they say that they are going to get old barn wood to frame it out.