One Crafty Mess

Lemon Garlic Spaghetti and Pinterest

2012-02-09T21:37:00.001-09:00

If you haven't discovered Pinterest yet, discover it NOW. (Seriously. Amazing. Check it out here.)

Pinterest is my current form of crack. I can get lost in the pages for hours and feel like i've been a creative and productive person all day.

While perusing the many pins I came across this recipe for Lemon Garlic Spaghetti and put the ingredients at the top of my shopping list.
I made an amended version of Lemon Garlic Spaghetti for dinner tonight and it was very, very good. Its pretty much the same version with garlic sauteed portobello mushrooms and it was yum!
Here is my version...

Lemon Garlic and Portobello Spagetti
serves 4

1 16oz pkg of dried spaghetti noodles
2 tbsp of olive oil
2 tsp butter + 1 more tsp for mushrooms
4 cloves of garlic + 1 clove of garlic for the mushrooms, minced
4-5 basil leaves, chiffonaded
juice of 1/2 a lemon
2 tsp pine nuts
approximately 1/2 cup of freshly grated parmesan cheese + extra for topping
1 portobello mushroom diced (I did it fairly large as the mushroom I bought was already sliced)

First, start the water for the noodles and gather the rest of the ingredients.
In a separate pan start 1 tsp of the butter and 1 clove of minced garlic heating.
Once the butter is melted add the mushrooms to sauté
A few minutes before the mushrooms are ready add the pine nuts to the mushrooms to toast them lightly.
Once the mushrooms are nice and brown and the pine nuts lightly toasted, remove from the pan and set them aside.
When the water is ready, put the noodles in to boil and start the oil, two tsp butter and the remaining garlic heating in the same pan you sautéed the mushrooms in.
Once the butter and oil is warmed and the garlic has cooked for a few minutes at the basil to the pan and turn the heat to low.
When the noodles are ready, strain and add to the pan and stir to coat the noodles.
Next add the lemon, and stir again.
Add parmesan and the portobello mushrooms and pine nuts.
Toss gently and serve with more fresh parm over the top.

If you try my version, please let me know how you liked it!
Goodnight!
B

Insomniac creativity

2012-02-09T01:12:00.000-09:00

Do you ever have those nights when you want to sleep?
When your body wants you to sleep but your mind JUST WON'T LET GO!!!!

This is one of those nights for me.

Image by Paul Roca

My eyes sting, and my body aches but sleep eludes me because when I close my eyes visions begin to swirl and one idea leads to the next and they are all fabulous and I must write them down and oh that chocolate was good tonight and oh wouldn't this painting idea be new and creative and amazing and OH! that reminds me that you were going to do that once and I like pink and swirls and Did I lock the door and Oh! The dogs want out....Do they need water and...water....I like watercolors I should paint...

You get the picture. So here I am blogging at midnight and still the ideas are there.

Taunting me.

I'm going to write them down and then maybe I'll be able to sleep but even as I type the words "write them down" more ideas spring into my insomniac brain.

Before I do that though, I am going to share something with you.
This blog has recently come to my attention.

Emilie Griottes is simply amazing. She is a french stylist and author who's work simply inspires me in so many ways.
I found out about her through Decor8 blog. I already look forward to my daily fix from Decor8 but now I have even more to look forward to as Emilie will be a regular contributor to the blog! Please be sure to check her out because I know you will be as inspired as I was.

I'm off to write down my ideas and attempt to shut my brain up.
Goodnight!
B

JUST kidding!!

2012-02-09T00:33:00.000-09:00

Did I say tomorrow? Hahaha....

I actually meant someday.

As you can see (or maybe not) my blog is a mess.

Kind of like the title except without the crafty part.

(I'm working on it!!!)
(Kind of.)
(Sometimes....)

I am inspired to blog. I have a schedule and lots of fun ideas in mind.
If you have stuck by me this long....
DON'T GIVE UP ON ME YET!!!

I have plans.
Big ones.

Stay tuned.

Love,
B

Work In Progress...

2011-12-12T22:17:00.000-09:00

Happy Holidays!

Please forgive my weird messy blog. I'm in the midst of learning how to manage it again and re-doing my blog.

Wow. Nearly a year since I blogged. I quit referring to myself as a blogger a LONG time ago but there may be another term for me.

Perpetual procrastinator. I think thats it.

Anyhow, I've had blogging on my mind a lot lately and I'm going to give it another shot but with less pressure on myself and we'll see how it goes.

I have photos of my holiday decorations to post AND a super easy tutorial, coming (hopefully) tomorrow.
(Crosses fingers)

For now, its 10 pm and my brain is mush.
Goodnight!
B

The Mile

2011-01-24T21:39:00.000-09:00

My oldest child ran the mile in school today for P.E.

This evening she came to me and asked me to write her an exuse note for "being too lazy and in pain to run" tomorrow.

Here is what I wrote to the teacher.

To the gym teacher -

My daughter will not be able to participate in class today.
There is no real reason why.
She's just feeling the pain and being lazy.

Sincrely,
Bridget Atchison

hehehehe.

I told her i'd give her $5.00 if she actually gave it to her teacher. We shall see....

Owning Up & Evidence of Chaos

2011-01-24T11:50:00.001-09:00

So, Im not the gratest blogger. I mean to blog, I think of awesome blog posts. Sometimes I even take pictures to blog about. But......I never get it done. I hold myself back because there are always things I SHOULD be doing instead of blogging. I should be in the laundry room right now folding laundry (fresh out of the dryer or it just NEVER gets folded) so that I can continue to do more laundry so that my family will stop complaining about not having clean underwear, or their favorite top, or that pair of jeans or........! (whew!) You see where I"m going with this. Also, I think blogging is a bit daunting. I always have things I want to say but then I wonder....who cares really? My grammar is poor and I know my sentence structure comes from a fourth grader. THEN....I also think, well I didn't get a picture for that and who wants to read a blog with no pictures.

But the biggest reason I don't blog is I sit down on the computer and without thinking about it I open my web browser to start blogging and see all the blogs I haven't read today....then I read the 1000+ blogs I LOVE to read and oh....no more time to blog. Well...maybe tomorrow. Yeah right.

So that is me, owning up. I"m a sucky blogger who wants to blog but doesn't. Thats ok. If you gave up on me because my last post was last summer. Thats ok. I would too probably, but then again....maybe not.

This is a new year and I"m hoping to blog more. I'm going to tell my reasons to not blog to shut up and just blog for me. We'll see how it goes. No promises.

On that note....

It IS a new year and I didn't set any new years resolutions this year because I never keep them anyway and it just get discouraging so, I've set my goals to be a bit more realistic. This year, I"m going month by month with my goals for the most part. (I've also resolved that I'd like to loose 30 lbs by the first week in April also but thats another blog)

For January: The one goal I set for January is to FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY get my craft room set up and useable so I can actually, oh I dunno.....CRAFT. And I'm happy to say that I've made a lot of progress. I went through all my craft items and purged them (again, probably for the 4th time since I've moved into this house so that would be in under 1 year) and I even managed to sell some of it! The rest has been donated. However, since the purge was done in a speedy fashion, the stuff that got kept is just halfhazardly strewn in piles all over my craft room with bits of dog hair thrown in. (eww!)

I thought that posting the evidence of the chaos would be good to keep me on my toes as it is approximatley a week until my self imposed deadline is up! So here it is....don't judge too harshly...this is post-purge-pre organized!

My cluttered little "command center"

that white thing in the middle of the room is supposed to be a work table. ummm...ya

there is a super cute apron on that mannaquin....I think.

(sigh) the closet....

my fabric storage and....something else

Scary Twitters!!!

2010-08-05T10:38:00.001-08:00

Good Morning!

This morning one of my friends called me with some horrible news about my blog! Apparently, if you log onto my blog from Internet Explorer my twitter feeds show scary, inappropriate messages. I hope I have fixed the problem by removing the twitter feed. (Which, incidentally shows normal on Safari, so I dunno what's going on there.) Anyhow, I just wanted to blog very quickly to let you all know that I did not post those terrible tweets! I am going to go check my twitter account next to see if its been hacked of if its some freaky internet explorer bug.

Thank you for checking my blog and I hope that there aren't any scary messages the next time you visit!
B

Update: I just checked my twitter acct and it is as boring as it was before, no freakyness. So, it must be a creepy internet explorer hack.

My Grandma

2010-07-20T17:51:00.000-08:00

Her favorite color was Red. She loved my Grandpa and her family more than anything and devoted her entire life to taking care of them the best way she could. She taught me to knit, crochet, sew (what little I can), cook, be a mom, be a wife. She loved to watch football, game shows and old movies. She never cared when I dragged a herd of friends home from school with me in the afternoon. She knew the importance of a stocked snack cupboard. She took care of me when I needed her. She made me laugh. She was as much a Mommy to me as a Grandma.

Very early Sunday morning my Grandma joined my Grandpa in Heaven and is finally at peace after being sick since November. I miss her more than words can say and I think of her constantly. I will always miss her.

For now, I'm overwhelmed and fuzzy brained and it's hard to do much but sit and stare at the walls. I think that my sister, Mrs. Wright said it very well. "It just seems weird to be here on Earth without her."

Checking in...

2010-03-11T15:51:00.000-09:00

It's been a crazy few weeks at our house(s)! We finally closed on our beautiful new home in Wasila!! Yay!!! We have been moving all our ~~crap~~ household items from Anchorage to the Valley and slowly, but surely we are getting there. The trouble for me isn't moving the stuff I have its where the heck do I put it at the new house!? Also, we are currently without internet till the 16th so that's why you aren't seeing or hearing much from me right now.

For now, here is some springtime inspiration I found online last week.

Found this here. Love how full it is! I have a ton of plastic flowers I picked up while thrifting earlier this year and this would be an amazing way to use them! Very pretty for spring.

So pretty! If I wore necklaces I would be savagely hunting down beads to make one! Maybe a bracelet??

source

These little chicks are too cute for easter decorating! Find them here.

Oh yes, I want one. And I would wear it too. (source)

Hope you are all having a great week and Thanks for stopping by!

Decisions .. Decisions

2010-02-28T00:13:00.000-09:00

So I have a dilemma. The house we are buying is brand new and has yet to be properly painted. The builder will do it some time this spring/summer and the earlier I get my colors picked out and on their list the earlier I get my house finished.

My dilemma is what color!?! I have always loved yellow houses. They are SO pretty if they are painted the correct color of yellow. Also, I've always loved faded grey houses. I think they can look so classic. Either way, I plan on having a red door. Any thoughts?

These two colors are similar to what I'm thinking. Both with a bright red door and white trim.

My Granny and MIL both vote for the yellow and I have to say that I probably am too. Fortunately for me, my hubby likes both.

What do you think? Which would you vote for?

Dirty little secrets.......

2010-02-27T00:31:00.000-09:00

I talk on my cell phone when I drive. ALL the time.

Now that I have my iphone, I'm on it so much my kids make fun of me. Yep...I'm addicted.

I LOVE old houses. I think they are so charming and hold so much potential still. So what do I do...I go and buy a new one.

While purging fabric I got rid of 3 folds of fabric. Tonight I took this one back. Just because I "might" someday get to making that really awesome tote bag with it.

We are scheduled to close on our new house next week (Yay!) and I got one box packed tonight. One.

All images are from weheartit.com

So? What are your dirty little secrets?
Hope you all have a fun weekend!
B

Snow snow go away...

2010-02-27T00:02:00.000-09:00

SO was not happy to see this when I got up yesterday! Spring was almost here!

5 Things

2010-02-25T10:38:00.000-09:00

I found this on the RVA blog and thought it would be fun! (Be sure to visit their blog to see what they came up with! What awesome creative ladies!)

5 things I am looking forward to: moving into my very own house, working on adorable beautiful crafts in my new craft room, cooking meals in my new kitchen, spring, garage sale season

5 things i did yesterday: made cajun chicken, had lunch with my hubby, packed, watched the Olympics, picked out exterior paint colors for our new house

5 things I wish I could do: wiggle my nose and have my house clean so I can craft, speak a foreign language, go on a long vacation in a warm place, fly, go back in time

5 places i'd like to travel: Italy and Portugal (with John), the UK (yes, all of it), Bora Bora, I'd like to cross the U.S. with an adorable little travel trailer and stop at all the hokey road side attractions.

5 cute things i've found online lately:

This super cute hat! Found here.

My youngest would love this in her room! found here

Love this bed and wall art! source

I'm SO making this! Elsie Flannigan has an awesome tutorial on her blog found here.

When I see this chair I daydream of having an Alice in Wonderland garden. Magical.

source

Valentines Day ....one year later.

2010-02-14T23:14:00.001-09:00

Last year Valentines day was probably the best Valentines day ever, that at is until my husband and I were in a head on car accident that left us both injured.

This year, John and I still celebrated Valentines day , we just didn't leave the house! He surprised me this morning with a beautiful bouquet of red tulips and by making me breakfast.! I couldn't have asked for anything more. However, I got it.....

This afternoon, after months of house hunting and stress and waiting.....

We got our HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No short sale like before. This is the real deal and if all goes well we will close on or before our beautiful new home within the next 4 weeks! I'm so excited I could burst. I could babble on for hours about all my home plans and ideas and hopes and blah blah blah. Anyway, I thought I'd share.

Who could ask for a better Valentines Day.
I hope you all had a wonderful day as well.

Dear Readers....

2010-02-11T19:21:00.000-09:00

Dear Readers,

I know that this blog is called "One Crafty Mess" and that is what I originally intended it to be. I wanted to blog about all the awesome crafting I was getting done an post pictures of it all on here. However, lately I haven't done a lot of crafting. In fact, I've barely gotten my housework done enough to please my in-laws. (There's more to that story......but later. ) Anyway, I just wanted to apologize to you all for not blogging about crafty messes or anything else. My blog will be undergoing some changes soon but I'm not sure what they will be. I just know I want to change it. Please check back in soon to see what I've come up with!

Also, some of you may follow me through the Craft Garden blog. If so, you know the store is closing soon and that blog will be shut down. Please check in periodically and I will share what myself and the other Craft Garden girls have going on!

Thanks for reading!
B

Good times.

2009-10-18T10:18:00.000-08:00

This week has been an awesome week!!!

On Tuesday morning we got pre-approved for our very first home loan! I'm SO excited. Finally, after two years of living in my in-laws basement, (Which has been a struggle for ALL involved. I'm still very grateful though!) we are able to go and search for our own home. My real estate agent is hopeful for us that we will find a place soon. So I'm sure you can imagine the struggle I faced when Thursday loomed and I had to decide whether to go on my previously scheduled Scrapbook Retreat weekend or not. Part of me was really wanting to go and get some scrapping done and the other part of me was screaming GO HOUSE-HUNTING NOW!!!! In the end (despite serious protests from my children) I decided to go ahead and go scrappin.

I am very glad I went. I had a nice, laid back, creative weekend with some neat ladies and I even made some new friends. (In fact, I'm still here! We will head home later this afternoon.) The lodge we are staying at is on the most beautiful peaceful lake and right now there is the cutest family of ducks just hanging out by the dock out in front of the lodge, the sun is shining on the trees across the lake from us and looks like, hopefully, it will begin to thaw the frost that covered the ground last night.

I forgot my photo card reader so I borrowed a picture from the lodge web site so you could see how beautiful it is here. Here is a link if you would like more info. http://www.longmerelakelodge.com/ The family that runs the lodge is wonderful and I'm definitely a fan of their awesome dog Sadie!

I got a little scrapbooking done, two small paintings finished (photos tomorrow!) and all the journaling done for an upcoming mini album. I even spent a little time making my to-do list for the upcoming week so I won't feel frazzled. All in all, its been a great weekend. I am however looking forward to getting home and getting the laundry done, and resuming the househunt!

Saturday treasure report

2009-09-16T09:50:00.001-08:00

Last week I didn't go garage sale-ing with my mother in law as I was just disgusted with myself for not having a place to put everything. Some of you were upset though however that I didn't post on my treasures from the previous weekend. Honestly, I've already forgotten what I got two weeks ago...So no update on that sorry J!

However....this week I was lured into going again even though I still don't have a place for some of my treasures yet. I'm glad I did too cause I SCORED! We stopped by my favorite garage sale spot of the summer and I got a TON of vintage craft magazines, fabric, ribbons, trims, and more!

Here is my attempt at photoshopping the pics into a panorama for you. Too much crap many treasures to fit into one pic.

This is just some of the fabric I picked up. The blue box is a vintage sewing kit that I'm planning on cleaning up and making useable again. I found the rest of a kit I had gotten earlier this summer too! I'm so excited to make it though I have no idea what the lady who cut it all out intended it to be!

And, for those of you who don't know my husband personally. He refers to himself often as "The Big Stinky" among other things. So, I've gravitated towards skunk figures this summer. Anyhow, these two were so itty bitty I had to have them.

Ready or not...

2009-09-11T16:45:00.002-08:00

Yesterday, I promised office pics today, clean or not. Well, It isn't clean thats for sure, but its better than it used to be. I suffer from a serious lack of space, but my office is my little command center and I love it. Last week I wasn't brave enought to post a photo of it as the desk was completely buried and I couldn't use it at all.
Posting these photos is an incentive to keep cleaning until I can post my real "after" pic. I would say that this pic is mid-way.

Thank you Jacqueline for the Confined Space sign! Everyone (including me!) loves it!
The towel is covering the bunny cage - not another pile of crap. FYI.

Here is the real before. (Photo taken April 2009)

Scary huh!
Now you've seen it!
Now you understand when you see tweets about how I'm cleaning my office "again"!
B

Today I...

2009-09-11T00:35:00.002-08:00

Today I....

- Finally FINALLY got my blog looking more the way I want it to. Its not quite where I want it yet, but almost. I really had to dig into my HTML memory as well as some serious online research to get what I wanted but finally I did. And, I'm very pleased with my new hand-made header.

- I actually managed to do 5 loads of laundry and get them hung out on the clothesline. Unfortunately, It looks like it may rain on them before they dry. Keep your fingers crossed for me as I still have no dryer backup.

- I made Mesquite Chicken for dinner. And the best part ....there were leftovers!

Here is the super easy recipe:
2 packages Mesquite Marinade
1 3lb package frozen skinless chicken tenders

* marinate chicken with seasoning, 1/2 c water, 1/2 c vegetable oil
for about 15 - 30 minutes.

Add chicken and marinade to 9x13 pan and bake for 45 - 60 mins.

I served this with Garlic Dill pasta salad. Everyone loved it!

- I was feelin' a little old school today and listened to 80's Heavy Metal while I worked. My kids were not pleased.

- I pretty much got nothing else done today. I am taking pictures of my office to post tomorrow. Its definitely not clean, but I'm beginning to think that will never happen. EVER. At least I can see part of both desktops.

- I made a nice loooong to do list. I did actually manage to get three things checked off on it today. Two of them are listed above. Fix blog, make dinner. The third was a phone call but it still counts!

For now, I'm on my way to bed as its after midnight.
Office photos tomorrow. I promise!
Night!

A rather embarrassing 20 questions.

2009-09-03T13:01:00.000-08:00

My sister, Mrs. Wright of Mrs.Wright Gone Wrong, did this post on Monday for her "Friend Making Mondays". I didn't get around to it on Monday but still thought it would be fun so here it is! Feel free to comment back with your own answers!

1. Do you cook every night?
Pretty much every night, yeah. If I'm home at dinner time, I cook it. And I always have to cook extra because If I don't, someone always shows up!

2. What kind of laundry detergent do you use & why?
Tide. I've tried cheaper detergents but they don't get the clothes as clean. Let me know if you know of a really good cheaper version please.

3. Do you do laundry every day or loads at a time?
I try to do a load at least every other day. However, since we live with my in-laws currently, and the dryer is broken. I have to wait for a sunny day to do laundry and hang it out on the line. So, every sunny day, you know what I'm doing!

4. How often do you eat out per week?
We don't eat out for dinner very often anymore. Our downfall is being out running errands or on our way somewhere and the kids say they are hungry. We eat way too much fast food.

5. Where do you usually eat out?
We tend to favor whats close. Arby's, McDonalds, Subway.

6. What is your favorite retail store?
Target.

7. What's your favorite thing to drink?
Coffee

8. Do you take vitamins? What kind?
When I remember to take them......Vitamin C, Magnesium, Zinc, and Vitamin D

9. What percentage of the household chores to you do?
Hahaha! Thats a trick question I know it! That depends on who you ask. I'd have to say that IF it gets done, 95% of the time its me. My kids have their specific chores but they need a lot of prodding to get them done. My husband will do the things that I ask of him, but he won't think to do them himself.
My in-laws would say that I do nothing at all besides sit on my rear and eat bon-bons all day.

10. Do your children do chores? {Or will they, did they, etc}
LoL. Read #9

11. Do you go to church?
No, not really.

12. Do you have a housework schedule?
No, not really. I just clean the messes that bug me the most first. If it doesn't bug me, I might be a while before I get to it.

13. Do you keep a working budget?
Kind of. It isn't where I'd like it to be yet but I'm working on it.

14. What do you do at night as a family?
We eat together, not around the table really but in front of the tv. Sometimes it's on, sometimes it's not.
Usually by the time everyone is home, my husband is exhausted so when we do watch tv, he falls asleep so we make a game of keeping Daddy from snoring.

15. How do you prepare yourself for a new week?
I don't really do anything to prepare for the new week. I try to keep ahead of things but I do a little bit every day.

16. What do your mornings look like?
Our mornings are pretty peaceful. My oldest gets herself up at the buttcrack of dawn to get ready for school and when its time, I tumble out of bed and drive her there. (Yes, still in my jammies)
Then I help my youngest finish getting ready for school and take her and a friend to school. At least once a week I have to run to one school or another to give someone something they forgot.

17. What time do you get up in the mornings?
My alarm goes off first at 6:30 am. I spend the next hour hitting snooze. I do it just to make sure I'm actually conscious enough to get up when I actually HAVE to.

18. What time do you go to bed at night?
In the summer I'm a total night owl because its so light and pretty out. Now that school is back on and we get up early, I don't usually last too late at night. I went to bed at 11:30 last night and had fought for at least 4 hours to stay awake because I wanted to get a project finished. I don't remember my head hitting the pillow.

19. How do you manage all of the paperwork that floods into your household? {bills, school work, magazines, ads, etc}
I set up a little "inbox" setup with a spot for school stuff, mail, and "other". Usually everything gets put on my desk first, then, so that I can find my keyboard, I make myself scan over everything and it gets put in either the right inbox, signed and handed back to a kid or filed. By filed I mean hid in the drawer next to my desk that only gets emptied when I'm hunting for whatever bill needs to be paid or until the drawer won't close properly anymore. When I actually get the drawer emptied I have a very organized file cabinet that everything goes in the correct file, but that only happens once a year or so. Magazines get put in a pile that I plan to read when i have that two minutes to sit down and enjoy it. After they sit untouched for 6 months, I give them away to friends or charity. My system is chaotic, but it works. Kind-of.
20. How do you keep your household organized?

I don't. We live in my in-laws basement. My mother in law is a hoarder, like the kind you see on tv interventions. She also is a bit OCD. So, I put things where I can carve out a little space for them. If I clean out a space and it sits there for more than an hour, she fills it with something.

Today was WAY better than yesterday....

2009-08-29T00:30:00.001-08:00

To those of you who read my whiner blog yesterday....Thanks for putting up with me!

I got to hang out with Granny a bit today and I got ALL of my laundry done! Yes ALL...every stitch! For me, not a usual thing so I'm pretty jazzed about it.

Our bunny Mopsy got to go along to Granny's too. She loves it there because she can be free!

I got to have lunch with my sister Gillian and my niece and nephew at Arby's. That was so much fun as I don't get to do that very often!

Gillian told me about a special Adobe is running if you are interested in upgrading your Photoshop Elements to Photoshop CS4 for cheap cheap! So...of course I came home tonight and bought it! It is downloading in the background as we speak. Photoshop....I've missed you.

Speaking of photos...I got to take some fun Mushroom photos today. (FYI: I've been a teensy bit mushroom obsessed latley) Photos will be uploaded tomorrow probably so I can play with them in my new PS4!

I threw dinner in the crock pot this morning and by the time I got home, dinner was done. I love nights like that.

After cleaning up from dinner I got to go scrap a bit with two of my favorite people ever. One of them even gave me a little mini class on how to use my new Alcohol inks! (I know I'm late on the bandwagon on this one but hey, better late than never right! I love them by the way!)

Yep, today was a much better day than yesterday.

Tomorrow is also looking promising as Saturday is Garage Sale day.
Night all!
B

Dirty little secrets.......

2009-08-27T21:10:00.004-08:00

I have my faults. Here are a few……

I sometimes overspend.

I have a tendency to say things sometimes that to others can sound bitchy. Though I don’t usually find out until I’ve made someone mad. I do not INTEND to be a bitch very often. I try very hard to be nice (even to people that I don’t like) but it just doesn’t work out so well for me.

I can be judgmental despite making an effort not to be.

I belive that hate is a horrible word. However, there are now three people in this world who have earned that from me. Possibly four.

I like my Mother in law best on Saturdays.

I clean every single day, yet my home is a dog hair covered, cluttery pit.

I procrastinate.

I don't give my husband enough attention. That’s the one thing I would say makes me a bad wife. I still love him more than words can describe.

I’m terribly impatient.

I have a super bad habit of taking on more than I can handle.

I start projects and never finish them.

A lot of days If I could just lay in bed all day and hide under the covers I would. (If only that would make problems go away!)

Those are just a few of my bad qualities/dirty little secrets.

Someone today described me as…and I quote…”That girl is as worthless as warts on a boar.”

It was one of the most hurtful things I’ve ever heard said about me. This was said because I went to scrapbook with a friend.

I have my share of dirty little secrets, but I bust my ass to be a good mom, good wife, and a good person. I am not worthless. Nor am I perfect. There are some people who will never be pleased with me. I can live with that because usually those people leave a lot to be desired themselves.

There…..rant over. Thanks for listening reading.

Whew!

2009-08-24T21:58:00.003-08:00

I'm baaack! Did you miss me?

This is the first post on my new blog here at Blogspot. I kind of miss my typepad but just couldn't afford it anymore, so here I am. I've been holding off publishing this new blog because it just doesn't look like what I want it to be but I figure I'll never get it started if I don't just suck it up and do the thing already.

If you stopped in to see my blog, I'm very happy you did! I will try to keep it updated for you and not disappoint!

Thanks for visiting me and leave comments!!