Doing Things I Want to Do – The Results

A few days ago, I posted about how I was torn between what needed to be done around the house and what I really wanted to do. On Friday, I got a lot of the “Want to do” list done. Here are the results of my craft room cleaning/organization and subsequent craftiness (click through to Flickr for photo notes!):

The neatly organized sewing area. My label-maker came in very handy.

My catch-all bookshelf.

Paper crafts organization, random gift bags and bulky fabric items are relegated to the closet area.

Yarn and needles. I’m horrible at knitting and get so frustrated.

Clean worktable. I press fabric and quilt pieces, here, and also do my papercrafting.

Some detail on my bookshelf. Can you believe I have 15 coloring books?

After all the cleaning, it was time to do some actual crafting. Here, I was cutting strips for binding. Like knitting, I suck at binding and get very frustrated. I need a bias tape-maker.

Being Happy Isn’t Enough, I Guess

It’s been a while since I posted. For those of you who ask me on a daily basis if I’ve posted anything, yet, I apologize. You probably won’t like this one because it’s not going to be super interesting.

I’m in a funk. I know I say that a lot, but I am. My life has undergone some pretty significant changes, lately, and I’m really happy about them. However, there have been some less than stellar consequences and it’s completely my own fault.

I have eaten total crap food for the past two months. I could also probably count on one hand the number of times I’ve worked out in those two months. What the hell? I was all fired up about becoming more healthy and it took something so small as rearranging my schedule to completely lose track of that? It’s not even that I don’t have choices. I really haven’t had anyone forcing me to eat unlimited quantities of junk food and fast food. I’ve also had no one physically restraining me from working out. So, what’s stopping me? Who the flock knows.

I also haven’t read very much, lately. I love to read, but it’s really something you can only do by yourself. It’s not highly enjoyable to read novels aloud to other people. I just haven’t felt into reading, lately, despite my goal of reading a bunch of The 1001 Books You Must Read Before Your Die. I don’t want to turn into my mom, who reads, nightly, by the muffled glow of the bedside table, trying not to bother anyone else. I like light when I read.

So, basically, I’m just complaining because being happy is apparently not enough for me. I am the spoiled brat that people keep trying to convince me I am.

For YOUR Most Wanted Lists

This item should definitely appear on everyone’s Christmas list, this year. It’s the creation of a member of Team GDT and includes submission from many of the team members. It’s the Eat for the Cure Cookbook and is currently available for order at Lulu.com:

The book reflects the diverse geography and heritage of the team members and includes some excellent, and surely tasty, cuisine. I only hope that my kitchen hopelessness can be overcome by the sheer genius of the recipes’ authors.

Get yours today and help support Team GDT and the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.*

*If you happen to be a family member of mine who also really likes to cook, maybe you should wait on the purchase and see if, perhaps, this is included in a nice little present.

Reading

Yesterday afternoon was one of those where all I wanted to do was take a shower after work and crawl into bed. So, being the independent, unable to prioritize chick that I am, that’s exactly what happened.

I finished reading Asking for Trouble by Elizabeth Young. It is the book upon which the 2005 movie The Wedding Date with Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney was loosely based. The book was so-so, very much in the vein of the Bridget Jones books or Jennifer Weiner’s early novel. Late-20s single female complains about weighing 140 pounds and being single. Said female is of the witty, self-deprecating variety and eventually bags the young bloke in the end. That said, it was entertaining, which is what I expected. There were a few British-isms that I didn’t quite understand, and the main character often used abbreviations that seemed uncalled for and indecipherable.

Other than that, I wrote in my little diary, which has sorely been neglected since I started this thing. However, there are just a few little things I’m not willing to expound upon at great length in this public forum. Relationships are one of those things. So, too bad so sad for you — no juicy gossip here. Well, I’m not willing to gossip about myself here. I have heard about two new pregnancies in the past few weeks. Both were planned and/or welcomed, so not as much fun to gossip about!

Last night

I cooked, studied, read and slept last night. I told you guys my life was a fucking exciting rollercoaster.

I made dinner and ate it while reading my latest chick-lit novel, Undead and Unemployed, which is really the chick-littiest series I’ve ever read. I feel like I’m going back to the good old days of reading a Nancy Drew novel in three hours except that these books are much more sexually graphic and have language I would have shit myself over in my Nancy Drew days. However, it’s fun, which is completely necessary when you follow it up by studying for the Regulation section of the CPA exam. Uggh.