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Crap, I am so tired I don't feel like writing about my life.  Not really a loss this week.

So, HI MONTY*.




*aka Legion, Del Monty Peaches, etc etc




Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday.

scattered thoughts for sunday.

+ First and foremost, I for real got to meet Lanna last night! Blog crush turned real life! Rob and I went and saw her husband, Matt, and our friend Kile's band The Waking Point at the Underground last night.  They played with some other local bands, including A Wayward Heart, This Love, and Irela.  All were very talented and it was a very good show start to finish which is sadly very unusual for the local music scene in Cincinnati.

+ My laptop passed on to the fiery underworld on Thursday night.  That thing was literally a Satan-made piece of crap.  NEVER BUY HP.  Seriously guys.  Don't do it

+ Luckily, my dear brother Jake recently purchased a new iPad and was willing to sell me his year-and-a-half old laptop for only $150!!!!!!  So I instantly remedied my no-computer problem.

+ I am currently uploading all my music onto said laptop.

+ I'm also doing laundry (vom).

+ Later I plan on dragging Rob to Ikea.

+ The Appleseed Cast is playing in Columbus on May 1 and I AM SO GOING.

+ Frugal Chipmans is working out surprisingly well with little effort.  I mean, we aren't actually being frugal.  But we are managing to live pretty comfortably off of only Rob's income, which I honestly didn't think was going to happen.

+ Rob and I bought Sims 3 and have been playing it waaaaaaaaay too much.  It's actually really embarrassing.  On Friday we stayed up until THREE A.M.  I am going to be paying for that one for days to come.

+ Warm weather, please come soon to say.  I want to open up the house and feel fresh air all the time.

+ Sadly, that's all I can pull out of my little brain at the moment.  I need a hobby.

back when i was an entrepreneur

I used to make friendship bracelets like nobody's business.  Srsly.   I was selling these things for a quarter a pop when I was twelve years old at a stand in front of my house (I lived on a cul-de-sac in the suburbs...needless to say, not much business).  I still have like sixty bracelets left over from those days.

Tonight my I was at Urban Outfitters with a friend and I saw a basket of these things they were selling for six dollars apiece!  What the!  I guess I need to get back in the game!  

P.S. I had to look up how to spell entrepreneur.  It still doesn't look right.

my life is out of control.

That's not even really a joke.  

I have been sooooooo exhausted this week.  Losing an hour last Saturday/Sunday has literally destroyed my body.  It's weird because I never remember suffering this much in past years.  But I have had no energy to do anything this week.  I haven't cooked.  I haven't cleaned (see below).  When I wake up, I feel like I haven't even slept.  I have been late to work every single day because I just can't seem to get going in the morning.  Well anyway, there is hard physical evidence to the fact that I am out of control of my life right now.

This is where I sit every day.  This is MY chair.  I eat in this chair. I use my laptop in this chair. I [attempt] to crochet in this chair...you get the picture.  Well, this is what my chair looks like when I have failed to clean up after myself for an entire week. 

Wow, I'm gross.

Sorry Rob.

I'll work on it tomorrow.

<3

happy st. pat's day!

I'm going to be honest, I don't give a flying hoo-ha (?) about St. Patrick's Day.  I'm not Irish and I don't like beer.  I suppose there is some merit for celebrating the arrival of Christianity in Ireland?  Maybe?  I don't know. I'm not Catholic, either.  But green is my favorite color, so I guess that's cool.

Anyway, when you work with kids you learn to make a big deal out of things that you would otherwise not make a big deal out of, and today little girl and I celebrated aforementioned holiday by decking out head to toe in green.  And going outside alllllllllllllllll day because hello?!  It was s e v e n t y degrees today!  WIN.

Isn't she precious?  The best part is obviously her robot shirt.  Girl looooves robots.

So, HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY, in spite of myself.  

scattered thoughts for sunday.

+ Losing an hour of sleep is beyond stupid.  Springing forward better involve actual spring weather coming immediately.

+ Why am I such a frickin' invalid when it comes to crafts involving yarn?

+ I haven't done any laundry all weekend.  Oops.

+ Newport Target opened a week ago and I have already been four times.

+ When I think about tomorrow being Monday, I literally want to cry.

+ Yesterday was my dad's birthday; we got him this.

+ Yesterday was our nephew's birthday party; he is one and very, very cute.

+ The Adjustment Bureau was a disappointing movie.  I was hoping for a lot more Matt Damon badassery, and less wimpy love story.  Not that I have problem with love stories, per se.  I just have a problem with cheesy love stories that are stupidly unrealistic.

+ I am obsessed with Etsy.  I want so many things I absolutely do not need.

+ Speaking of, I am on Etsy right now.

+ Tomorrow is my second attempt at healthy living after a two-week hiatus :)

+ Purchasing Rob Dragon Age II may have destroyed our marriage.

+ I really want to go to Atomic Number Ten in Over-the-Rhine.  I have heard so many good things but I do not get out much. Haha.

+ Holy crap I need a nap.

+ Chipotle.

rainy days & chocolate cake

About today.

All I want to do is eat sugar.  

Like, I can't get enough of it.  

We had nothing immediately available tonight when I got home so instead of going without, I baked a cake.  Yep, at 9:00 PM I baked a cake out of sheer desperation for a sugar fix.

Also, the rain.

Whatever, rain.  

Whenever it rains, I want to listen to Moving Mountains.  Really, I always want to listen to Moving Mountains. I love this band so much, you don't even know.  

This band is one of two shows I have ever attended by myself.  The first was Aqualung.  I can't help it that I was obsessed with the song Strange and Beautiful.  That ended up being solo because the guy I was dating at the time did not want to go (lame).  Moving Mountains was solo because Rob had Capstone at the time (lame).  Let me tell you, this band is the LOUDEST live band I have ever seen.  It's okay though, because they rule.

my feet hurt.

Today little girl and I decided to go to the park.  Now, they live in Oakley - right behind Hyde Park Plaza, so when we say we are going to the park, we either go to Oakley Playground, or venture a little further up Marburg to what we call "Marburg playground" as I am unaware of an official name.  However, today was so nice we decided to walk to Ault Park.  Now driving distance, Ault Park is not far from her house.  But walking, even at a brisk pace, will take you at least forty minutes.  In the summer, we did this usually two or three times a week, which was fine, because I was generally prepared for it, wearing proper shoes and whatnot.

Today I was not prepared.  And I was wearing flats.  Flats with no socks (duh).  After the eighty-minute round-trip that was largely up hill, my feet are frickin' destroyed.  I have so many blisters it hurts to walk.  Major fail.

In other news, after work I visited my friend Aly and she made us dinner.  It was super fun and good to hang out with a friend on my own.  I have had approximately two other girl times since before Christmas, so I am more of less socially out of practice.  Honestly, I just need more friends.  Being married is awesome, but I can definitely feel the isolation from my unmarried friends.  And most of my friends are unmarried.  Sad but true. About the isolation, that is.  Not the unmarried part.

That may or may have not been a desperate plea for friends.

Now Rob is finally home from work so I am going to go snuggle him.  So umm...bye.

not even trying to brag,

but i actually do believe rob chipman is the cutest boy in the entire world.

factors contributing to making this day awesome:

1. sunshine.

2. little girl took a *THREE* hour nap <<HOLY AWESOME.

3. donato's with almonds & pepperoni.

4. reiteration: cute husband.

+++++++++++++

Also to note, I made some effort in updating my header temporarily.  However, I am apparently not tech literate enough to do it properly.  Halp?

weekend summary

This weekend was pretty uneventful.  I mainly wanted to be productive, but that didn't work out so much.


Friday - After work, I went straight to my momma's house to fix those bangs that I hacked on a few days ago.  I now sport super shortie bangs, similar to, but not-possibly-as-hott-as, my girl crush, alison sudol.

 

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Saturday - Clean. clean. cleancleancleancleanclean.  That is mostly what I do on Saturday.  When I wake up, I immediately start laundry.  And then I s l o w l y make my way through each room.  Of course, by Sunday evening, you can hardly tell anymore.  Then we spent the rest of the night watching tons and tons of Monster.  The plot is getting increasingly convoluted, no thanks to the blatantly obvious translation issues with the English subtitles.

Sunday - Church, and then Hannah and I went to the museum center.  Um.  Then Rob and I went to the bank and accidentally went shopping for five hours.  We checked out the Newport Target which opened today.  Holy crap. Do you even know how excited I am that Target is now two minutes from my house?  Budget: compromised.  Now finished the evening watching Independence Day.  And realizing, after reviewing my weekend activities, that I am extremely unexciting.

ideas i will not use but thought i'd share anyway.

So if you perhaps are one of the people lovely enough to read this blog from time to time, you may remember me mentioning I was going to work on some ideas for a site logo/header/whatever.  Well, I sketched some junk the other week and finally got around to slapping them over some backgrounds in Photoshop.  Now,a couple disclaimers: 1.) I am in no way proficient in Photoshop.  In fact, the last time I messed around in the program was when I was a sophomore in high school in my computer graphics class.  Luckily Rob was grading in the same room as me so I could holler for him every time I had an issue (approx. every 30 seconds).  2.) I wanted it to look like rough sketchiness on paper slapped over another background, preferably water color (mixed media = <3) so the crappiness is on purpose :) and 3.) I know these are not so great and I will not be using them.  Back to the drawing board (literally.)

community?

Since Rob has started his solo teaching effort at ye olde Cincinnati State Community and Technical College, he has experienced what so many of us who have ventured into the field of education battle with on a regular basis: student apathy/laziness/idiocy.

Every Tuesday night, I can almost guarantee I am going to fall asleep to the sound of him ranting about the kids in his class and how inept they are.

Tuesday night has continued on to Wednesday evening as he has been grading their midterms.  You can bet he is yet again blown away at how poorly they have done.

"Just because you go to a community college doesn't mean you are an idiot." -me


"True.  But there's a greater chance that you are." -rob

He can say it because he is a community college grad.

I think next Tuesday, if I get off of work in time, I am sitting in on his class to see if I have any 'pointers' on teaching effectiveness.

lolz.


This is funny.

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hahahahahahahaha.


I'm currently enjoying stalking the circa 2004-2007 version of myself.