No flowers blooming.
Snow and ice still lurking on the ground and occasionally in the sky.
More overcast than sunny.
No robins or hummingbirds.
Yet…
Skeeter found a stick in the backyard today and found it more satisfying to chew on than an icicle.
Skeeter dug a hole in the dirt and not in the snow and she loved it.
Maybe spring really is coming?
Maybe?
I knew it was going to be a suck ass kind of day but I underestimated the ass suckedness of it. For some reason I forgot that a shit day is made worse if you’ve had no sleep the night before.
I keep saying “Why in the hell am I so exhausted?”
TW kept looking at me like I’d lost my mind.
Oh yea. I didn’t sleep last night.
Shit.
At least I made progress in Candy Crush Saga.
Damn, Mrs Lincoln’s Dressmaker — it’s a little too slow and I’m having trouble finishing.
Damn, Words With Friends — my letters are really sucking.
Damn, Candy Crush Saga — it’s sucking my soul.
Damn, Damn, Damn.
On Sunday, I finally sat down and created an instagram photo album of photos from 2012 and it was a pain but the book arrived and it makes me happy. It makes RJ happy, too. I don’t know about anyone else but who cares about anyone else, right?
I also ordered some stickers from Prinstagram and those are fabulous, too. I can’t wait to use them in my JMP tag book and who knows where else.
While I was wandering around, I decided to order some magnets from Stickygram. Those arrived today and I love, love, love them. I’m a bit of a magnet-aholic and I couldn’t help myself, I had to order.
I love instagram not just because it’s fun to take photos and share them with my social media streams but also because I can use my instagram shots so easily in other places.
My favorites are:
– Postagram
– Printstagram
– Shutterfly
– Stickygram
Are there others I should try?
Joy gave me this little calendar thing and it’s never set at the right date, unless a child has recently come along and fixed it (which is rare) but I love it anyway — it makes me smile because it makes me think of Joy. It also causes me to stop and take a minute to figure out what day it really is, which can be very useful at times.
It’s been a rough month. Hell, it’s been a rough year. And I have a cold (obviously). Rather than be all down in the dumps about everything, I decided to do something to cheer myself up.
I changed the calendar to March 23, the day TW and I head off on our mini vacation. Now, every time I look at my little block calendar, I’ll smile even more.
I’m sick. Too sick to type anything that’s very interesting, which is too bad because I actually have a wee blogging calendar and I was supposed to write something really interesting today. If I was good, I’d write it anyway and you’d never know I was sick at all.
But I’m not good. I’m sick, sick, sick, sick.
Do you remember the Dr. Seuss book…. Silly Sammy Slick Sipped Six Sodas and Got Sick, Sick, Sick? That was one of my favorite pages in that book and while I did not sip six sodas to get sick, I have been sipping more soda than usual because coffee tastes like ass and food doesn’t taste much better so a can of orange soda here, a can of dr pepper there, some bottled lipton tea, some hot ginger tea from time to time. And a ton of water.
I’m hydrating but that’s not helping much.
At least the stuff that occasionally drips out of my nose isn’t green. And I’m not coughing up much of anything and what’s there is definitely not green.
I have started feeling green around the gills today, though. That queasy feeling on day three of the flu? Not going to barf anything (green or otherwise) but I’m definitely feeling green and not in the new, spring green sort of way, either. Maybe I’ll go eat something and I’ll feel better? I can always hope, right?
Hmph. Hmph. Hmph.
I love the idea of digital scrapbooks and photo books but I’m really bad at making them. Bad at taking the time to make them AND bad at the actual making of them when I do make time for them.
I made JMP a little tag book type photo book for Christmas. It turned out pretty OK but it was a royal pain in the butt. And not because the site I used had bad tools, they don’t. They have good tools.
I tried making a Blurb book a couple of months ago and cursed them before I made it past the first step. I blamed them but really, it was probably me and my impatient self.
I’ve tried Shutterfly a half dozen times and always given up after about a half hour of frustration.
Yea, it’s me, alright.
I want to just click the pictures and have them all appear neatly organized with no cutesy bubbles around them or headers or funky text boxes. I don’t have time for those funky text boxes and clip arty things.
I did finally finish a book on Shutterfly today made from my 2012 Instagram photos. It was hell. Pure hell. But it was free (except for shipping) and I’m pretty sure when the book arrives, I’m going to love it.
But I don’t think I’m going to do it again, unless I have another free coupon code. I think I’m going to just go over to printstagram and print out the photos I want to use and then drop the suckers into an old fashioned photo album. I just can’t handle the frustration of trying to create a pretty album with all of those pretty templates.
Sheesh.
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(and Jenna)
So. Tired.
I thought I was going to write a post for today’s #17DaysofGreen. That’s not happening. Well it is, since I’m typing this post right now but no, I thought I was going to write a real post. One that I thought about and put a lot of effort into. Or at least some effort. At just before 4pm, I found myself staring at my inbox. Just staring at it. Not reading it. Not thinking about answering anything in it. Just staring. Watching it load new email after new email. At that point, I realized I was not going to be writing that post after all. I don’t have any real words left in me.
So I took a break to fold laundry and clean the kitchen and eat dinner with the family and then I wandered around trying to think of something green to photograph. There’s lot of green stuff in the house but nothing grabbed me. I was all “meh” about everything. The only thing that remotely caught my interest was the dead green grinch toy Skeeter chewed up before Christmas. I feel like the Grinch, chewed up and spit out and crumpled on the damn floor.
Since words won’t work and photos won’t work but I committed to #17daysofgreen and I do love Jenna (I also own her, but that’s another story) I decided on something I could do. Something I’ve actually enjoyed this week. Something I hope you’ll click and enjoy.
Links of Green
* Look at this green tartan backdrop from Salty Pineapple. It’s beautiful. Really beautiful. And this simple idea for making your own backdrop is fabulous. Anybody could do this. I love that. And the green, isn’t it pretty?
* Isn’t the Pangolin beautiful?
* I’m a sucker for a beautiful door and this is one of the best I’ve seen recently, Brooklyn Green Door.
* This picture of KarenLynnn’s made me happy yesterday today. It actually made me happy again today, too. (See, today was so long, that I thought the flowers were yesterday. Sigh.) All of her pictures make me happy.
I hope you like these as much as I did.
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When I was a kid, I’d ask my mom what her favorite color was. Sometimes because we were going to play a board game with a colored game token and she needed to choose a color. Sometimes because it’s a question kids like to ask… “What’s your favorite….”
Sometimes my mother would say something like, “I don’t know, just pick one for me.” Or “I don’t care.” Or just “I don’t know, what’s your favorite color?”
Those answers were obviously inappropriate and I would argue, tell her she had to pick one, and otherwise boss her into choosing. That’s what kids do.
And so, my mother would answer “green”. Every time.
As I got older, I was very sure my mother’s favorite color was green. Even now, if you asked me what her favorite color might be, I would immediately say “green”. If I’m looking for a gift for my mom that comes in different colors, I immediately gravitate toward green, though I know that this is silly. She might like green but it’s not really her favorite color in every situation. It never was. It was the answer she gave because, as a mom, it was a good, easy answer.
When I became a mom and was faced with the same questions from my kids, I’ve done it a little differently.
“Which color do you want to be?” I would choose green, unless I knew that a child playing would choose green (which was rare.)
“What’s your favorite color?” led me to respond with, “I don’t have a favorite color.” or “I like a lot of colors and it depends on why you’re asking.” But yes, my fall back if forced to choose a color for any question a child asks has always been green.
Because that’s what my mom said and my mom was smart.
I love Jenna’s 17 Days of Green game but I wasn’t going to play along. I like green but knew that I didn’t need ONE. MORE. THING. TO. DO.
But then I was talking to Sassymonkey about March to do lists and I decided I might be able to play along — in instagram. I might even write one more blog post about green. Or maybe two. We’ll see. Here we go.
Day 1 – My Keys.
