So, anyhow. I was insane busy today and when I finally stopped and looked at the clock and realized it was almost five and I hadn’t eaten and I was feeling like shit, I hit the pause button.

I really have nothing to say — I just wanted to use this icon.

I’m sort of an icon whore.

I went out and bought all new bedding today. New sheets and pillow cases and comforters. I can’t WAIT to go to bed.

So I’m on my lunch break, sitting outside on my balcony with the laptoppy, a steaming mug of french vanilla java, homemade chocolate chip cookies, a smoke (yes, I started again. shame. fuck off) and the urge to sigh a big, huge sigh of relief.
You would think that working from home would be easy.
And, yanno, [...]

Ugh.  I haven’t written a "real" post in almost two weeks.
Life has become exceedingly busy.
Weekends are spent out and about, riding and enjoying the summer.  And the weekdays?  Work, work and more work.
It’s been a long time since I put in anything resembling full time hours.  And even though I’m working from home it’s still [...]

So we’re out on the bikes the other day, cruisin’ around in the sunshine and heat, enjoying some country roads, lake views and prairie scenery.  All is good.  Everyone is mellow.  There’s next to no traffic and we can all just about feel the stress of the week melting off us.
We pulled over at one [...]

So I straightened and vacuumed the living room, wiped down the kitchen, got most of the laundry started…
Taylor is at the garage working on the bike…
I’m bored.
There are a ton of things I could do but I just don’t feel like it.
I hate days like this.
I woke up before I wanted to and I think it [...]

Kaya wrote a post today that has me thinking. (She actually wrote a couple posts this week that have me thinking.  Sitting down to write my thoughts just ain’t been happening – but the thoughts are there none-the-less.) She followed up on her blog post with a FetLife post, as well.
Curious?
I’ll go make some tea [...]

Taylor is thiiiiiiiiis close to having the bike put back together and running for the season and, guess what?
They’re forcasting snow for Saturday and Tuesday.  
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?????
Wisconsin sometimes sucks ass.
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I told Taylor to shut up this morning and had a damned fit over absolutely nothing.
There are times I am very glad he’s not easily [...]

I love Sundays.
Sundays are our “nothing” days.  We lounge around in jammies and do as little as possible.
Sunday’s in the winter are even better cuz it’s cozy and warm in the house and blustery outside and I feel, more so than any other time, the tight knit closeness of our family.
Today the kids Taylor and [...]

So school has started for the teen and I’m quite determined to get myself into some sort of routine.  There has been next to no scheduled sleep or eat or cleaning times since Taylor started working nights and it’s making me both crazy and vaguely depressed all the time.  I’m a creature of habit and [...]

Well…
I sure haven’t written here in awhile, have I?
Both lots going on and nothing going on at the same time, if that makes sense.
Let’s see if I can hit the major points, hmmm?
Taylor got a new job. He was working for a company thru the temp agency for two months and they finally hired him [...]

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.”~Maya Angelou
What a quote, eh?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Probably because Taylor and I work together so we, literally, [...]

Haven’t put anything in here in a long while…Life has been busy – filled with little things – and there just hasn’t been much to say.
I did, however, read something in a book yesterday that I want to share…“Life is not simple, but we live it. Complications provide spice.”
Thank gods I like spicy, huh?

Though why I feel the need to write about nothing is beyond me. Lol.
Seriously, I just like to keep this thing fairly updated.
Nothing much has changed. The house is still crowded, I’m still basically smoke free, I’m still fairly grumpy most of the time.
There are good things going on, of course. Colin (my twelve year [...]

Not much goin’ on in my life lately. Been keeping myself in perpetual motion to refrain from smoking. So long as I’m moving I seem to think about it less. I get to sitting down and doing nothing and I crave one constantly. (This shit about it getting easier is a lie. It’s been about [...]

So I’m supposed to be all happy and shit. I mean… the Dude I love just asked me to marry him, Christmas is coming – which is my very favorite time of year, our financial situation is looking up – despite some big debts… and here I sit, stuck in the middle of a bunch [...]

“It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham , ‘Of Human Bondage’, 1915
I think I’ve used this quote before but I reread it today and it sure did hit home. Nothing but troubles lately – car [...]

Haven’t had much time for writing lately. Too busy going temporarily insane. But that’s ok.
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
My character must, certainly, be growin’ like I have twenty masons workin’ on it. :)
Seriously, though…
Life has settled back down a [...]

“Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.”~Sarah Ban Breathnach
I believe this.Living in the past is something far too many people do. You cannot grow if you like your past you more than the present. What sort of life can you have if what has been is always better, [...]

Noon and I’ve got all my “chores” done. I could dust, I could mop the floor, I could do something with the bathroom but I’m entirely loathe to do anything extra when it’s so cluttered in here you barely notice anyway. And, besides, with a move in the future, there doesn’t seem to be much [...]

“It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all” ~Anais Nin
Some days I feel like I’m not allowed to be a human, much less a woman. I’m not allowed to be bitchy, crabby, snappish – or I pay for it with triple what I dished out.
And [...]

Vanilla coffee.Vanilla ice cream.
Vanilla candles in a steamy bathroom, vanilla salts in the tub…The sweet warm scent of butter cookies.
Romantic love and children and friendship.
Digging in the garden and splashing in a pool.
Movies and snuggles on the couch.
Hot coffee, a good book and a warm tub.
Big, fluffy towels.
Sheets fresh off the line.
So many vanilla pleasures. [...]