Sparkle where you're planted
Oh, my poor, neglected blog…*hugs it* Sadly, I’m not sure when I’ll start blogging again. My little cottage business on Etsy keeps me so busy (hooray!) that I just haven’t had any blogging mojo in ages. I do, however, seem to have an inexhaustible supply of Instagram mojo, so please do come follow me there. At some point I’ll post regularly(ish) again here, and when I do I’ll Instagram it. Because, obviously, one announces ones blog posts via a photo app. Obvs!
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m on a mission this year to spiff up my little outside space. Today I did something I’d been meaning to do since I moved in: put up a bird feeder. For someone who loves birds as much as I do & who keeps a pair of binoculars at the ready so she can spy on the local hawks & cranes & bluebirds & chickadees, you’d think I would have had my feeder up the second I moved in. Alas, no. It kept
This was the easiest DIY project ever. But first, a little background: One of my plans for 2013 is to really make over the outside of my apartment. I’ve lived here for over a year and have not really done anything with my little outside space—and the fact that I have it is one of the reasons I wanted to live here in the first place! Bad me! Well, in my defense, I’ve been so busy working that I’ve just not had time, and the ‘ole budget was tight enough
Well, here I am, posting a month after my last post. I’ve been in a blogging quandry, but I think I’ve finally gotten an understanding of why & of what to do about it, and it’s part of my little ritual of releasing stuff from the past year (and then tomorrow inviting in new stuff for the new year). So commence the letting go of 2012: I release feeling like I “should” do this or do that with this blog. I release the need to make it anything other than
*points finger at self* You’re supposed to be using this blog to actually blog, you know. *Self dons a sheepish look* Yeah, I know. *pokes self in chest for emphasis* So whatareyagonnadoaboutit? *Self pushes poking finger away* I’ll blog more! I’ll blog! Cut that out! Well, I’m not sure what it means when I start blog-talking to myself (let alone what it means when I poke myself in the chest for emphasis), but I suppose if I’d just start blogging regularly again I could avoid these kind of philosophical (mental?)
Does that sound like a strange thing to cheer for? LOL! I have found a peanut-less almond source…Wonderful almonds! My peanut allergy, which developed only a few years ago & put me on my real food crusade & led me to becoming mostly Paleo in my eating, can make buying certain foodstuffs difficult. A lot of things are made on “shared equipment,” i.e. on equipment that processes peanuts. Thankfully labeling laws require this to be disclosed, so I became a bit of a label-reading Nazi; first because I had to
Egad, it’s harder than I thought it would be to get back into the swing of blogging! But hey, it’s on my list, so it has to be done, haha. I’ve got a few ideas for trying out some weekly posts, but I know me…I hate regular schedules. So a weekly blog series might not be the best idea. But hey, maybe it’ll be fun for awhile… Today I’m leaving the house—gasp!—to meet a friend for coffee & a chat, and then might actually do some window shopping. I love
Although I decorated a bit, I’ve just not been that into Halloween this year. I’m actually really looking forward to the Christmas holidays for some reason! lol! (And I did not even get to a local Halloween event this year or decorate the outside of my apartment, despite putting these two things on my “41 in 41″ list. List fail! lol! I’ll go replace those with something else.) However, I have donned a black velvet skirt & orange Halloween shirt for today. Sadly, I can’t find my pointy hat… Later
On this gorgeous, cloudless Saturday, it’s finally feeling like fall here in Florida. The weather was wonderfully cool this morning, and while it’s going to get hotter by this afternoon, it’s still fall. So to celebrate the fall mood… MOVIES: Hackers is an all-time fav. Silly, yeah. But I have such fond memories from it from over the years, and it always puts me in a great mood. I can quote every line, haha! As someone who loves computers, I really love how cheesy this movie is regarding them. What
Over the weekend I got a little extra birthday surprise: My pic is in the Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Companion book! Woohoo! So how did it happen? Well, it’s due to my geekiness. As I’ve mentioned here & there on the blog, I’ve got a geeky side. This sort of confession may or may not cause eye-rolling…yet. But my geeky side includes going to big scifi conventions & it has been known to wear costumes. *waits for the eye rolls* Hang on, don’t write me off as hopeless yet! I’m
