The Great Outdoors

My parents just bought a new camper (well new to them, to the rest of the world it's two years old). My mom is on vacation for the next two weeks so they decided to park it up at a campground in the next town. It's actually a pretty nice setup. There is a pool, access to the lake, a sauna, Game room and playground. Best of all, it's three miles from their house.

Setting the camper up was apparently a high stress situation. I only say apparently because I wasn't there. I had the good sense to stay away during the packing/setting up process. My sister and I joined the twi-hards for an early showing of eclipse. It was pretty good. I mean, my life didn't change, but it was a good two hours.

I expect to spend a lot of time reading and being outdoors this weekend. Also, i will be eating ice cream and I can't wait.

Footloose and Fancy Free

We are all packed up and on our way to visit my family in Maine for the fourth of July weekend. It's seven and we are actually on the road, which is probably the closest thing to a miracle that this small no kids, one dog family has ever seen.

I wanted to document this momentous occasion with a blog entry, but as Hubby just angrily reminded me, I get ferocious motion sickness. Instead, here's an adorable picture of Guinness

Today is the Day....

I was scared at first, but I've decided that I'm going to do it today.  I'm going to take the plunge.  I've decided going to jump off that cliff and into the clear blue waters with my eyes closed.   Today I'm updating my iPhone to OS 4.0.

 

Sounds melodramatic right?  Basically, it is, but I LOVE my iPhone.  I'm pretty please with my current operating system, and was waiting for the kinks to be ironed out of OS 4 before I downloaded it.  But yesterday, I was having my weekly iPhone chat with another phone user that I work with, and he had already updated.  He was loving the update.  I introduced him to how there is a zoom feature on the camera in OS 4.  We tried it out right there.  Amazing.

 

Do I want this zoom to be on my camera?  Do I want to be able to multitask.  HELLS YA!  He told me that you don't have to leave your app to answer a text message in OS 4.  That will seriously change my life.  As we speak I am syncing and backing up my phone.  In a few minutes the update will begin. 

 

I know I have no chance of being able to go to the gym today, since there were awful computer boo boos this morning in my realm of software understanding.  I'm going to be correcting spool files all afternoon..  I'm not even going to explain what those are, because if you don't know, then you are just better off..

My Reader has Spoken!

I check my email on my iPhone each morning before I shower. It's incredibly pathetic, but I almost feel like I am catching up on everything that transpired over the night. This morning I had an email from my good friend Anne (who I'm meeting for dinner tonight yay!). She is apparently my lonley only avid reader, and was upset with me for going two days without an update.

I was (and continue to be) extremely flattered! Someone actually looks forward to reading my daily musings!

I won't bother my reader(s) with a litany of excuses for not having an entry for the past two days. I won't even make one. I'll simply promise it will never happen again. (I mean I did buy an app for my phone so that this wouldn't happen!)

Thanks to Anne for readig an loving my blog! It gives me confidence and the energy to continue!! So, continue I will, after I get to work and get my coffee. Why can write without coffee? Obviously, as you can see by this entry, not me.......




Ps. The picture has nothing yo do with the entry but don't you love it? I took that with my iPhone, if you can believe.

Day of Sewing#2!

Guinness woke me up early this morning. He wanted to go out (pee pees) and he likes to do this at around the same time everyday. Hubby takes bathroom duty during the week, so I get the weekend. I really did want to sleep for a little longer, buy Guin was persistantly licking my face. I gave up.

Once I was up, I was up. While waiting for Guinness to do his business I noticed that the garden needed to be watered. Then I remembered the dress I had cut out Wednesday when I was off. I got my machine out and got ready to sew.

Cutting out the dress had been a trying experience. It felt like there was a million pieces between the main color, contrast, and interfacing. I was expecting thr construction to be pretty tricky. I ate my cereal first, for strength. But, as I started, I realized that it was a lot easier than I thought. I had that dress together in no time. The bodice was together before Hubby woke up.

There was a lot of day left when I finished the dress, so I decided to make another project I thought sounded easy. Apparently it wad opposite day, because it was so not easy. Hopefully, pictures I'd that tomorrow, but for today, here's the dress. What do u think?

Thank God Its FRIDAY!!!

Man, this week has been a doosey for me an the Hubster. Most of the week was filled with your usual family drama. The kind of drama that superceeds everything and consumes all your thoughts (but what drama doesn't). When it finall subsides you think "thank god, this can never happen again". It usually does happen again, but in my case, I hope that was the end of it.

Last night we stopped at Hubbys mom to do a little Christmas vacation planning. I know it's only July, but we are planning on taking a family trip to Disney and needed to book the house before we lost it. My sister in law, I call her Peanut, was upstairs in bed sick. She had been there all day. Mommy in law was pretty sure she had strep and decided to tale her to the ER when we left (around 8).

Around 10 Hubby's mom called. We thought she was just calling to let us know what happened with our Peanut, but no. Peanut was still in the ER, and they were about to start an IV drip of fluids. She wanted us to come down. So out of our Pjs we changed and back into clothes. Thank god the hospital is very close. Peanut is terrified of needles, and we needed to be there to distract her from fainting. Hubby's mom is a helper to the elderly for a living and needed to run off and get her lady into bed.

We stayed with Peanut for a little over an hour. She was six and a half when a started dating my husband, so I've watched her grow up. We spend a lot of time together, so she was a lot more comfortable with us there.

When her mom got back we went home, since it was almost midnight. We got a call later when they left to tell us what was wrong, but I honestly am not sure I got it right. I was so tired.

Now, (thus is much less dramatic) this morning I go to turn on my Nook to read on the train and it's DEAD!! Let's just call this the cherry on top of a bad week.

I'll get through it, but thank god it's Friday!!

Un-Hemmed: Day of Sewing Dress

Doesn't the title sound like it could be a show on MTV? Basically any title with a colon in it could be an MTV show.

So, my friend Mo, demanded that I take pictures of the day of sewing dress. I am happy with how it came out, buy I had wanted to put some elastic detailing in the waist. I probably should have made the next size up I'd I had wanted to do that. Really, the dress fits and when I tried to do the elastic detail it just got too small.

So, here are pictures. (Disclaimer: my hair is a mess.) I tried first to take the pictures myself:








That obviously wasn't working so I asked Hubster to take a picture. I'm holding my hair up (it is so long) so you can see the straps and my other arm is on my hip cause, as my sister in law tells me, you've got to give the camera a little attitude.








Nice underwear right? (Note to self, different panties when I wear this for real)

Did I mention I haven't hemmed it yet? I'm not sure if I should keep it this length or go shorter? Any thoughts (sister, hubs, anne or my other probably imaginary readers)?