Need a theme song! This is a good one! Song to live by perhaps!
I want to do something that matters..........
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
WHAT I'M READING NOW?
Get On the Road.....HERE
On the Free People blog Book Club
they just started for their first book they are reading this. I decided to join in.
Monday, December 7, 2009
MERRY CHRISTMAS TIME
Christmas time is in full swing around the Far from Perfect household. Decorations are up and presents to be wrapped. Some photos of the decor this year.
We made Candy Christmas Trees
How to make your own...HERE
The mantle is my favorite thing I decorated this year.
And we have even already had snow....IN TEXAS!
And two visits to Santa Clause already.
Hope you all are having as much fun getting ready for Christmas as I am.
Next weekend will be Christmas candy & cookie baking weekend!
I've had a camera mishap AGAIN. This time it's Drama to blame. So my camera is trashed so my pictures are crap because they are with my phone. My apologies.
We made Candy Christmas Trees
How to make your own...HERE
The mantle is my favorite thing I decorated this year.
And we have even already had snow....IN TEXAS!
And two visits to Santa Clause already.
Hope you all are having as much fun getting ready for Christmas as I am.
Next weekend will be Christmas candy & cookie baking weekend!
I've had a camera mishap AGAIN. This time it's Drama to blame. So my camera is trashed so my pictures are crap because they are with my phone. My apologies.
HOME IMPROVEMENT
Getting sick of my factory home color paint.
Took of my first toilet seat back as seen in this itty bitty photo. :)
Time to Far From Perfect it up. First project the half bath.
Paint color of choice.....drum roll please......PRAIRIE GRASS.
It's like a warm yellow and much brighter than it looks in this photo. I will get some better shots once the whole process is complete & redecorated. I can't wait to see the finished product outside of my head. :)
Took of my first toilet seat back as seen in this itty bitty photo. :)
Time to Far From Perfect it up. First project the half bath.
Paint color of choice.....drum roll please......PRAIRIE GRASS.
It's like a warm yellow and much brighter than it looks in this photo. I will get some better shots once the whole process is complete & redecorated. I can't wait to see the finished product outside of my head. :)
TEENAGER IN THE HO-OUSE
I've been so busy l-i-v-i-n my blogging as been.....well...worthless.
But on November 27 my #1 born, my big P, my Drama, my P-Nut, my Peter Pan....my beautiful baby boy....who changed my whole life and turn my world from wrong side up to upside down. My "angel from God" who saved me when all my cards were down. My beautiful wonderful son Parker turn 13 and became a teenager.
Happy Birthday my angel from God!
But on November 27 my #1 born, my big P, my Drama, my P-Nut, my Peter Pan....my beautiful baby boy....who changed my whole life and turn my world from wrong side up to upside down. My "angel from God" who saved me when all my cards were down. My beautiful wonderful son Parker turn 13 and became a teenager.
Happy Birthday my angel from God!
THE GAME PLAN - WEEK 1
Well I have to say I am not ecstatic about week 1, but I am satisfied. Day 1 weight was 157.4 and day 7 weight was 155.2. So 2 pound goal for the week met. I do great at the beginning of the week and pretty good during the week, it's the weekends that get me. Well more like Thursday, Friday, Saturday...I'm just pooped. But I'll take what I can take & 2 pound goal reach....so shut your pie hole , right? :)
I'm still working on it, so one week down.
Until next week....KEEP ON MOVING!
I'm still working on it, so one week down.
Until next week....KEEP ON MOVING!
Saturday, November 28, 2009
THE GAME PLAN
With Thanksgiving done & over with & a trip to LA right around the corner in February there is a new game plan on the table. The plan to lose 25-30 pounds in 8-10 weeks. Dropping 2-3 pounds a week. YIKES! LA bound I want to look good & I'm just ready to drop these extra pounds I've put on over the past year & a 1/2 since my move to the Lone Star. I weighed this morning & I can't believe I'm sorry this out loud, but current weight is 158 pounds according to my scale.
The goal weight is between 125-130 & I will even be cool with between 130 & 135 as long as it's muscle & not jiggle. :) So starting tomorrow November 29th through February 7th IT'S ON! Running, Yoga, Pilates, boot camp work out, abs, push ups, better eating, cutting back on my sugar intake - it's all on. Got to do it. JUST DO IT!
It's time for a life style change.
I will save the before & after picture when there is an after. :)
Wish me luck! :)
BTW I know I have been out of touch, but I promise to catch up on all my blogging tonight.
The goal weight is between 125-130 & I will even be cool with between 130 & 135 as long as it's muscle & not jiggle. :) So starting tomorrow November 29th through February 7th IT'S ON! Running, Yoga, Pilates, boot camp work out, abs, push ups, better eating, cutting back on my sugar intake - it's all on. Got to do it. JUST DO IT!
It's time for a life style change.
I will save the before & after picture when there is an after. :)
Wish me luck! :)
BTW I know I have been out of touch, but I promise to catch up on all my blogging tonight.
Monday, October 26, 2009
ENJOYING THE PASSAGE OF TIME
Today is my birthday. I am 34 years old. Yea me! I don't feel 34 and yet I do. There is a part of me that is a 7 year old tomboy girl running bare foot all over the neighborhood in her Annie underwear & t-shirt on a blue bicycle with a banana seat and there is a part of me that is a woman who has had a journey of a life that is compared to a roller coaster and who has made many mistakes and learned from everyone of them even if I had to make some mistakes twice.This year I have decided to celebrate my birthday a little different. A day of doing what I want. A day of relaxing. A day of pampering. A day of reading. a day of exploring. A day of reconnecting with that 7 year old & that woman all at once.
I have been on a journey of change lately of which I will share someday, but for right now am keeping it close to myself. I've realized my entire life has been a journey & will continue to be. There are just some times in your life when you open your eyes & realize you are in the middle of a journey and in the middle of a change. I haven't always embraced the changes, sometimes my stubborness as tried to fight it tooth & nail, but these changes I am embracing & am looking forward to seeing where they will take me next, and I'm sure there will be moments along the way when I want to fight the changing and look back, but I will try my hardest to keep focused.
I have always been spiritual, but over recent months I have become more aware, and things have happened & light switches have been flipped on and other light switches have been flipped off and yet other light switches have been flipped sideways. The difference in me is not fighting it. Changing what I can and adapting to what I can't change. Embracing my anger and sadness and grief and happiness and joy and laughter all with the same awareness. I know I will come out stronger & more healed & more grateful this way.
Mostly I'm am grateful for this wonderful & ever changing life I have been given. I've been blessed with some of the most wonderful things & wonderful people in my life. And I am truly grateful & truly blessed.
So happy birthday to me & my birthday wish is that I may learn to enjoy the passage of time.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
STYLE-SPIRATION
I more of a see outfits & find a way to recreate them on the cheap. that is what style-spiration is all about.
Friday, October 23, 2009
BLOG NEGLECT
I'm the Karate Kid blogger. Wax on. Wax off. My blogging is one week on & one week off.Try to get some postings up this weekend.
HAPPY FRIDAY!
Friday, October 16, 2009
IT'S THE PHOEBE
Remember that episode of Friends where Phoebe runs like a maniac. This video makes her look like a ballerina swan.
Collection of People Running Like Idiots
Collection of People Running Like Idiots
BROKEN OPEN
Posted What I'm Reading Now earlier.
Here is a little snippet from the book:
"We are all half-baked experiments-mistake-prone beings, born without an instruction book in a complex world. None of us are models of perfect behavior: we've been known to be egotistical, unreliable, lethargic, and stingy; and each one of us has, at times, awakened in the middle of the night worrying about everything from money, kids, or terrorism to wrinkled skin and receding hairlines. In other words, we're all bozos on the bus.
This, in my opinion, is cause for celebration. If we're all bozos, then for God's sake, we can put down the burden of pretense and get on with being bozos."
So far I am digging this book.
Here is a little snippet from the book:
"We are all half-baked experiments-mistake-prone beings, born without an instruction book in a complex world. None of us are models of perfect behavior: we've been known to be egotistical, unreliable, lethargic, and stingy; and each one of us has, at times, awakened in the middle of the night worrying about everything from money, kids, or terrorism to wrinkled skin and receding hairlines. In other words, we're all bozos on the bus.
This, in my opinion, is cause for celebration. If we're all bozos, then for God's sake, we can put down the burden of pretense and get on with being bozos."
So far I am digging this book.
IN THE SPIRIT OF HALLOWEEN
A haunted lighthouse.
The spirit of a mourning mother haunts Heceta Head, a 115-year-old lightstation on the windswept Oregon Coast. Some say the ghost, called The Gray Lady, searches for her infant daughter, who tumbled from the 200-foot cliffs to her death.
A visitor can get creeped out just by the setting -- an isolated stretch of shore where sudden fog can blot out the sun. Mariners braving the pounding surf depend on the lighthouse to avoid smashing into the rocks below. The beacon, the strongest on the Oregon Coast, is visible 21 miles away at sea.
The Gray Lady, usually seen wearing a floor-length gray skirt, lurks in the attic of the lightkeeper's home, which is on the National Register of Historic Places and now operates as a bed-and-breakfast.
One worker saw the silver-haired ghost floating over the floorboards as he repaired a broken attic window. He fled, but the next day the shattered glass in the sealed room had been swept into a neat pile.
Others report a mischievous side to the spirit. Lights flick on unexpectedly, doors suddenly lock, and objects placed in one room later appear in another. Coastal Living: Top 10 haunted lighthouses.
Photographer Steve Terrill of Portland recalls standing outside at dusk and seeing a translucent figure looking down on him from the attic.
"It moved and then it disappeared," he says. "We knew absolutely nobody was in there. I thought, 'Man this is weird. This must be my imagination.'" Steve and a friend were the only ones staying in the building.
The next morning his friend called out in alarm. During the night, the inn's guestbook mysteriously appeared in his room. It was open to a page describing a previous lodger's encounter with the spirit.
"I don't know where that book came from," Steve says. "I'm getting goosebumps now just thinking about it."
Check out Heceta Head Lighthouse website HERE.
The spirit of a mourning mother haunts Heceta Head, a 115-year-old lightstation on the windswept Oregon Coast. Some say the ghost, called The Gray Lady, searches for her infant daughter, who tumbled from the 200-foot cliffs to her death.
A visitor can get creeped out just by the setting -- an isolated stretch of shore where sudden fog can blot out the sun. Mariners braving the pounding surf depend on the lighthouse to avoid smashing into the rocks below. The beacon, the strongest on the Oregon Coast, is visible 21 miles away at sea.
The Gray Lady, usually seen wearing a floor-length gray skirt, lurks in the attic of the lightkeeper's home, which is on the National Register of Historic Places and now operates as a bed-and-breakfast.
One worker saw the silver-haired ghost floating over the floorboards as he repaired a broken attic window. He fled, but the next day the shattered glass in the sealed room had been swept into a neat pile.
Others report a mischievous side to the spirit. Lights flick on unexpectedly, doors suddenly lock, and objects placed in one room later appear in another. Coastal Living: Top 10 haunted lighthouses.
Photographer Steve Terrill of Portland recalls standing outside at dusk and seeing a translucent figure looking down on him from the attic.
"It moved and then it disappeared," he says. "We knew absolutely nobody was in there. I thought, 'Man this is weird. This must be my imagination.'" Steve and a friend were the only ones staying in the building.
The next morning his friend called out in alarm. During the night, the inn's guestbook mysteriously appeared in his room. It was open to a page describing a previous lodger's encounter with the spirit.
"I don't know where that book came from," Steve says. "I'm getting goosebumps now just thinking about it."
Check out Heceta Head Lighthouse website HERE.
WHAT AM I READING NOW?
I haven't really been reading much lately. Just kind of been more into crafting lately I guess. I do got some new (old novels) coming from eBay (yeah eBay is my friend) so I will probably be reading more now. I found a sight about the best novels or novels you should read before you die or something like that so I got a bunch of books coming. Can you say HELLO WINTER READING?
I picked this book up at the grocery store. It just caught my attention & my mood.
Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser. I'm only about 4 chapters in, but I find her very intriguing.
I picked this book up at the grocery store. It just caught my attention & my mood.
Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser. I'm only about 4 chapters in, but I find her very intriguing.
A WEEK OF COOKING WITH SOUP - DAY 4
CHICKEN QUESADILLAS
1 can (10 3/4 ounces) Campbell's Condensed Cheddar Cheese Soup
1/4 cup Pace Picante Sauce
1 1/2 cups chopped cooked chicken
8 flour tortillas (8 inch), warmed
1. Heat oven to 425
2. Stir the soup, picante sauce, and chicken in a medium bowl
3 Place tortillas on baking sheet. Top half of each tortilla with 1/4 cup of soup mixture. Fold over tortillas (I used tooth picks to help them stay folded over but the recipe says to moisten the edges and pinch together)
4. Bake for 5 minutes or until the filling is hot.
VERDICT: YUM! I think next time I may cook the tortillas in a frying pan with oil before putting in oven, maybe at more crunch to them.
1 can (10 3/4 ounces) Campbell's Condensed Cheddar Cheese Soup
1/4 cup Pace Picante Sauce
1 1/2 cups chopped cooked chicken
8 flour tortillas (8 inch), warmed
1. Heat oven to 425
2. Stir the soup, picante sauce, and chicken in a medium bowl
3 Place tortillas on baking sheet. Top half of each tortilla with 1/4 cup of soup mixture. Fold over tortillas (I used tooth picks to help them stay folded over but the recipe says to moisten the edges and pinch together)
4. Bake for 5 minutes or until the filling is hot.
VERDICT: YUM! I think next time I may cook the tortillas in a frying pan with oil before putting in oven, maybe at more crunch to them.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
THE AGNES RICHTER JACKET
OMG this is just so amazing The Agnes Richter Jacket. Apparently Agnes Richter was a mental patient in an asylum in 1890s. In attempt to write her life story she spent her time embroidering every inch of her her asylum uniform inside and out.
This is just one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. It makes me feel inspired and heartbroken all at once.
sources:
prinzhorn
lulubird
inspirationresource
This is just one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. It makes me feel inspired and heartbroken all at once.
sources:
prinzhorn
lulubird
inspirationresource
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