I'm a planner.

And I'm planning my crafty 2012.  I'm gonna need you all to hold me what I'm about to say. 

I WANT TO DO A FEW 12 IN '12 CRAFTS.  I want to do a 12 inch crochet granny square each month.  I want to do an 18 inch quilt block each month (if I can find them....I may have to settle for 12 inch blocks).  I want to make a potholder each month (crochet, knit, or sew, just a potholder).  I want to make a state star quilt -- this one will need to be like, 12/13 blocks a month which seems like a lot so this may (will) get edited. 

Things I know:

1- I will need support.  Y'all are gonna have to ask me how I'm doing!

2- I will need to keep track, so probably on the first/last day or the month there will be an update post.  Again, I will need to figure out how I want to do this.

3- I'm about 99% certain that if this works I will be spending the majority of my 2013 finishing all of the projects hahaha

Anyone want to this along with me? :)

Bookworm Wednesday!

Better late than never right?  :)

Alright.  Imagine you are a mom.  Imagine you are a mom with some dibilitating psychological issues.  Now..imagine your children become best-selling authors writing about how you raised them.  How would you react?  How would reflect on those years?  Would you feel the need to write your own book?  Well, Margaret Robison, the mother of Augusten Buroughs & John Elder Robison, did....and her book is moving and unbelievably heartbreaking & almost beautiful at the same time.  It is quite haunting.  And, as someone that has been "manic depressive" for years, this book touched a chord I wasn't expecting it to.

Psychology?

I've gotten "psychology?" with a definite change in the voice often the last few days.  How in the world was I supposed to draw a line from working in a bank for more than six years to the strong desire to analyzing people's minds?  Each time I answered it sounded something like this: "I want to help kids, I want to help them get through tough times & losing loved ones & dealing with physical disabilities."  And you know what?  Each of them five-ish times I said that answer, I felt more like it was what really was deep in my heart & what I *WILL* do someday. 

Hiiiiiiii!

I've been neck-deep in interview stuff this week/weekend so I've been mia everywhere.  Today, though, I'm trying to destress a little and take some time to breathe before tomorrow morning.  So.....I'm spending cuddle time with El on the couch.

Bookworm Wednesday! (v.19?)

Gosh, I really need to keep better track of these version numbers! Ha!

Phillippa Gregory is an author that writes some of my favorite historical fiction.  It is a genre that I love and she's, in my opinion, one of the better writes in it because she writes in a way that feels like she's a friend telling you a story.  I found her via The Other Boleyn Girl and have since devoured everything I could find!  I haven't read this one quite yet since it is a newer purchase but the back description includes: 1920's music halls, finding yourself after deep hardships, and romance.  Yep, just about everything I like!  Haha. I'm really excited to get into it but I have a couple other books I'm in the middle of first.

(In other news....my bestie needs warm wishes tomorrow around 7am and I need warm wishes Monday around 10am -- mine is for an assessment test/interview for a job I really want, and I had a dream last night the guy interviewing me was wearing jeans and asked me things like what's my favorite picture saved to my phone right now [a pic of B and me was my answer!].  Then he asked to see it.  Yep, I'm kinda freaking out!)

My weekend.

It was spent in front of my sewing machine (with the exception of some time spent with my bestie and B).  Why?  So that I could breathe some life into this: etsy.com/shop/scarlettkey 

Visit.  Let me know what you think! <3

Elroyb update, day 9

Sorry I missed Bookworm Wednesday guys!  I spent most of the day with El.

Yesterday ended up being worse than it started out.  I took off for errands around 12, he hadn't eaten much if anything at that point, but I left his food out.  When I got home after 2 the puking started....and lasted until 3-ish.  I'm quite immune to him puking at this point but it is far from pretty when it happens.  When I went to bed around 1230 (I laid in bed with him until like 3 just watching him....) there was still some food left in his bowl.  When I got up at 9, he wasn't really pushing me to wake up, but when I said 'food' he meowed like he was hungry.  There wasn't anything left in his bowl so he must have eaten in the night sometime.  I gave him about 2/3rds of his normal amount of food which he promtply ate.  Good sign!  Then we curled up on the couch and I fell back asleep (more on that later....) until like 1.  That put a huge wrench in my to-do list plans!  Anyways, he was meowing around 230 for food so I gave him a little bit.  Around 615/630 he really started meowing for food like normal so I gave him a full scoop of dry food (what he would normally get in the morning) instead of canned food since this was my test day on if that's making him sick.  The test will be tomorrow.  If he's funky and sick tomorrow then I'm not sold on the canned-food-is-bad thing.  However - he hasn't gone potty today.  At all.  So, if he eats, but isn't going potty, what's the issue?  I guess we'll see what happens tomorrow....