Summertime!

Wooo Hoooo! Summer is here. Finally.

Guess what I get to start off the new season with? A cold and body aches. WTH? I am so sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Anyway, this too shall pass, right?

So here are the plans for summer:

Paint the living room
clean out the garage
set up my craft room

Those are the big ones. I have a million other little things to do but I want to really hit those hard. I'd love to have the garage done by the end of June.

Here's a quote I like.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
-- Voltaire, 1694 - 1778

Totally random, eh?

I'm off to go out to dinner with girlfriends.

Schools Out!

No more recess
No more books
No more teacher's dirty looks!


I survived the first year of working at school! I LOVE my job. I would be lying if I didn't also admit that I am REALLY glad it's summer vacation time! Working with kids all day can tend to wear a person out and the thought of 3 months of downtime is pure bliss. Of course, my own kids started fighting the first day off.

I caught the blooming of my peonies this year. All three plants bloomed. This was my favorite. They smell so lovely, I wished they bloomed year-round. My gardens are an absolute mess and I don't feel much up to rectifying the situation. I didn't even grow any tomatoes this year.

My garden is a good indicator of how I feel right now. Kind of disjointed and disorganized. With gas being so expensive, and food being so expensive and just life being so expensive it is feeling a bit overwhelming lately. I am trying to take comfort in the fact that everyone is feeling the pinch these days and I am most definitely not alone.

We do have some upcoming fun. This Father's Day we will go to Safeco Field to catch an M's game. I have never been and now that I really understand what is going on in baseball (well, there are a few rules on outs and stuff that I don't quite get yet) I am really looking forward to it. T's Cub Scout group was given tickets from a generous company here in our town so that all the boys could go and take their families.

As to my other summer plans, I am going to try to learn to use my camera, clean out closets, clean up my craft space and keep up with my Weight Watchers. That's been a struggle lately. We have been eating a lot of junk during baseball season and I am trying to kick myself back into gear to lose weight.

I will write more when I am more coherent. I'm just feeling very disjointed today.