not feeling too hot.

I totally had it in mind this week that I was going to try and take control of my schedule so I would stop feeling so stressed.  I had this stupid theory that if I went to bed earlier and got enough sleep, and then woke up in the morning with adequate time to prepare for my day before I headed to work and actually made it on time, that I would perhaps have a less stressful week.

Well that was only a theory.

Because, here it is, Wednesday, and I am about to curl up in the fetal position.  

So, just to get it off my chest, a list of complaints in my life (in no particular order)

1. My back.  I get it fixed, then I move furniture, and now it is destroyed again.
2. Period.  Yeah, I said it.  Period.
3. Nannying for a work-from-home mom.  GAH.

4. Wanting to quit but having absolutely no idea where to go from there and also not wanting to screw over my current employer.

5. Going to my brother's facebook page and seeing a whole slew of flirty comments from dumb, skanky teenage girls.

6. My stupid driveway that is crumbling apart.

7. The wrinkles starting on my face and I'm only 26.

8. Speaking of, the fact that my entire body is aging like I'm 10 years older than I really am.

9. All the dumb things I see and hear every day that somehow make me 20x more irate during this special time of the month.

10.  I don't know, probably something else.  But I felt like I needed 10.

Rawr. 

weekend summary

I cured my bad mood on Friday while Rob was off at a show with our friend Sam at the Southgate House by spending the evening watching Parks and Recreation (LOVE) and crocheting fun little pieces from my new book I got in the mail:

This book totally caters to my desperate need for visuals when learning a new crochet pattern.  So if you enjoy crocheting, I would recommend this book.  I am pretty slow and have a pretty limited skill set but still came up with a few:

Saturday & Sunday count as mild successes.  I had been wanting to clean the hardwood floors for weeks now but finally got around to actually doing it.  Saturday morning I did make it out to the chiropractor and he fixed my cursed shoulder and then I went about undoing his grand work by moving furniture and mopping for three and half hours.  So things did look about like this for half the day:

Ooh, ooh - and perhaps you noticed in my photo of the crochet motifs, I found a new little friend this weekend:

I know that I really need to get over this owl thing, and I don't want to be one of those people that has a house little stuffed with owl trinkets, but he was just too precious I couldn't pass him up.  Also I found him in the Halloween section at Hobby Lobby of all places?   

Well, here's hoping I get my stress under control this week.  Hope you had a great weekend!

an end to a long week.

This week has felt like an eternity for me.  My back has been hurting so badly for the past month and I have had literally zero time to go to my chiropractor.  At this point falling asleep takes hours and when I do I don't sleep soundly because it is so uncomfortable.  Sitting in soft chairs with no support for my lower back is a joke.  And the fact that I am in pain and running on little sleep has been making me..how shall we say..snippy?

I hate the feeling of carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.  Seriously.  When I get like this it feels like some super-strong giant person is pushing down on my shoulders and all I want to do is scream.  It's the stress that really gets me.  I am completely and utterly incapable of managing my stress, which, apparently, comes from nowhere?  The smallest thing and trigger me into hours worth of bad moods and make my body tense up so tightly.  Yesterday I went on a 50 minute walk by myself after flipping out at Rob to try to take the edge off of the tension in my shoulders.  BLAH.  Luckily my chiropractor is in tomorrow and maybe I'll get a bit sorted out.  Though I could really go for a massage.  For an hour. Or forever.

scattered thoughts for sunday

+  I am attempting to organize the bathroom closet tonight, it is mission: impossible I'm pretty sure but whatever, I'll try again.

+ There was a meeting for people at church interested in teaching today.  I went.

+ Today my mom gave me some random wooden household knickknacks so I could paint them.  I used to love picking up old furniture from thrift stores or garage sales but since the bed bug scare of '09 I avoid used items (that I don't know where they came from).  Seriously.  I for a fact know of someone who had bed bugs in their house and all the clothes and furniture they got rid of were DONATED TO GOODWILL!!!!!!!!!!  Also I had a friend pick up a couch from a yard sale only to find out it had bed bugs. Too risky these days.

+ I love that I haven't had to run the air conditioning this weekend.  I think I have expressed here before that open windows are my favorite.

+ I made dinner tonight and felt proud so I took a picture of it:

+ Also, this song has been playing on repeat in my head for the past week:

+ Um...the end.

thursday, thursday

The truth is, I'm sitting in the dining room eating chocolate ice cream straight out of the carton.

(I don't feel bad about it)

Also, the weather in the Cincinnati area has been marvelous today.  In fact, Rob and I had dinner outside on the deck, something we haven't done at all this summer due to disgusting amounts of blazing humidity.  Now I have shut the air off and actually have the windows open!  And there is a glorious breeze!  My favorite!  Now all I need is a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks and we'll call it autumn.

Hopefully this weather, or at least lack of humidity, sticks around a while.  It would be an excellent weekend to go to the drive-in.

Well, my ice cream is gone so I guess I better get up and walk it off.

tuesday chipotle date

Today Rob met little girl and me for some Chipotle dinner.  Her mom is out of town on business so we have had some extra hours the past couple evenings waiting for her dad to get home.  As you can see Rob acted as mature adult and put his chip bag on as a hat.  Little girl followed suit, except she put it on upside down and spilled chips everywhere. 

sunday photos

Today my lovely cousin Hannah and I went on a photo adventure.  These are a few pictures I snapped during the day.  She's such a natural beauty.