Daughter of Bast

Holy Canoli, Batman!

Wow. Okay, so I am the uber lame. I wasn't even in here in September, and so missed the great typepad overhaul. I was hella surprised, that's for sure.

So many things and so little time. I am back in school. Massage school. And it is great, and hard, and then some more great.

Things at home are lovely and even lovelier when I have finished studying for the week. Which sometimes doesn't happen soon enough. I finish and then I begin again less than 24 hours later. Whew!

Am running of the KC again this weekend, apparently there might be a baby rather soon. No guarantees, but maybe.

Can't promise to be back here as often as I'd like, but hopefully!

From out there somewhere...

Yeah, things have been strange, lately. Not in an earth shattering way. But in a way that leads to more free time. So you would think that with more free time I'd be more inclined to blog more. But unemployment somehow leaves you with this feeling that you have very little to say. Or very little to say that anyone would be interested in. "No really, the dog took a 2 hour nap this afternoon, it was incredible." (which is only funny if you currently have or have had a puppy recently).

Granted I am at home getting crafty and am enjoying it very much but well, it's that time of year. My ow brand of melancholy strikes late October early November (yay for me) and add to it unemployment and instead of enjoying it as I should be, it's a little too quiet.

Things to keep in mind: I can't stop exercising, even when I no longer feel like it. That only makes the downward spiral worse. I should also go get some tanning. I am trying to hold out hope that extra vitamin D might be a good thing for me. As I am not working I could actually do some extra exercising. Might actually be a really, really good thing. Plus the weather is absolutely gorgeous.

Late night post (for me anyways)...

So, I've been bit by the sewing bug yet again, hee hee. It's never really far, truth be told. I have had the green lady finished for some time, but have yet to be brave enough to put her on the bag part. I will be getting some help on that one. Much too delicate to attempt by myself, and I know someone who can help, so I am going to beg for help. And then costuming for belly dance got in the way, now, however I am outfitted for the performance season.

In the meantime? I have started the Green Man. As soon as I have some basic pics I will add those. I am finding I love him too, and am wondering what next?  I'm hoping my artist has time (okay, she's not MINE, but she is the artist who designed the Green Man and Green Lady bags) will have time to fit a few more projects into her schedule. Not a ton, but a couple would be nice, to give me somewhere to go. Mental note* Email her.

Anywho, went home for the weekend, did garage sale stuff. Jumped in the pool (while the weather held) and sewed my little fingers off. Whee! I just realized how close we are to September, and while it seems like a ways away, it really won't be. It also just occurred to me to stop being so lazy, and get to work designing more of my own bag designs. lol! In truth I am in love with making the project, but the actual sit down and draw it on paper or whatever has me a little freaked out. I'm not the artist type, I can't draw to save my soul, so sitting down with the purpose of "drawing" out a design so that I sew and piece and embroider it? I would rather chicken out and ask the most talented artist I know for help.Chicken...bock bock bock bock. Bock!.

Meh Take 2.

Apparently everyone everywhere is having a bad week. If you are not, please let me know. But it seems like everyone I know is. (And no, it's not just because they know me). What I am most thankful for today? That it is freaking Friday already.

We are at T minus 19 days to HPF 2008. Super Duper excited about that. Whee! So now we're down to the making sure the blow up beds stay blown up, and grocery buying and packing. If only the weather would start to cooperate. It looks as though we will need to pack some cool weather clothes because with the way April and May are currently going, it might not be all that warm. One can hope, right?

Also, I would like to say a warm Friday morning woo7! to my skinny skirt. I love you my friend, and can now wear you again. The bestest part? This is the skirt that fit way back when, when I was 20 lbs lighter than I am now. The differnce? Exercise. Whoo hot mama. This comes at an excellent time when I am plateauing (my own fault, weakness in the face of cookies). So yay! Plus incentive.

Also, my pedometer is awesome. It is encouraging me to get more walking in to meet my numbers and it's helping me stay more active. Whee! I can't wait for month two when it's not just a # of steps challenge, but a number of aerobic minutes challenge (and since the bellydancing doesn't count) it's that much better for me. WHee!

Hrm...And Happy St. Paddy's day!

At least my website has green on. Okay, if I'm honest,  my underdrawers are green. So there, I'm covered. Anywho, there isn't much to say about us apart from the dog being on house arrest due to a nipping a stranger incident. Poor guy. He only has to go through the rest of this week until the monday after Easter.

Ostara is this week, I don't have anything planned, but I need to get some ideas. Maybe dye some hard-boiled eggs and use them in my working. I don't know. It's a weird week.

In the meantime, we finally figured out that we can make our camping trip this year. We are excited to go. I'm just ready for the weather to be good enough so we can put up the tent and sweep it out and purchase a couple of items (some tarps, and an outdoor table) so that we're fully equipped for whatever weather Kansas throws at us. Here's hoping the weather is better this year, since it rained almost non-stop the entire weekend last year.

I am glad that the weight loss is going so well. I'm able to stay away from the sugar now (yay, plus I also know how sick it would make me feel). I've identified some places I need to work on. So I've got someplace to focus. The other thing I noticed, is that I need to take my inch measurements so that I can track both kinds of weight loss since I seem to be putting on some muscle.

So there's the poop on us.

Lovely weekend.

I love nice lovely weekends. (Which this one was). We went to a hockey game, and sat one row back from the ice. So cool. Plus there was a prodigious amount of fighting, I've personally never seen them fight so much. Totally Cool.

That was Friday night, I went to bellydance on Saturday morning, also got some shopping done for costuming bits for belly dance. Got some material for my turkish vest, even got it cut out and now I just need to sew it. Which I believe I am going to do tonight. I pinned it together and tried it on and it fit, now to sew it together and do my finishing on it. I also need to try it on with my ghwazee blouse. The new belt is coming along nicely.

Took the dog out to the dog park yesterday. He got in two hours of playing with dogs his size. He had such a blast, saw some of his "friends" whom he hasn't seen in awhile.

We ate a lot of great food this weekend, just stuff that we were craving, but it all sort of came together to make a nice food weekend. Yay.

Now I have to get back to the week. The part I am least excited about, hey, but I am ready to get back to belly dance class. Keep working on it all. Yay.

It's Friday...

And I don't wanna work, and so I'm procrastinating today. Spent a good amount of time last night working on my new belly dance hip belt, this one is going to be sooo cool! I am making a triangle shape this time and I'm using katmandu fabrics, which are made to be embellished, so it's going to be awesome. So far I have most of it put together, enough so that I just need to put on the border and embellish and it will be ready to be mounted on the base piece which has the ties. Whee! Totally cool.

So yeah, I want to be home sewing my little hands off (because not only do I have the new belt to work on, but I also new a few other items for the next performance, like a turkish vest and I need to be working on it now). And cleaning for the Dr. Whoathon we have planned for tomorrow, since I will be cooking lots of tasty eats tomorrow and may not have time to clean. (Well, okay cooking is a loose term since I am mostly assembling the meal items, but I am baking and decorating a tardis cake, it's going to be awesome!)

Anywho, so here I am stuck at work for another couple of hours wishing I was at home, and making a grocery list so I don't forget the last few items for tomorrow. Okay, call me whiney, I deserve it. At least the weather isn't really great (like it's supposed to be tomorrow, it's 45 today with a cold wind, but tomorrow is supposed to be almost 60 with very little wind). That helps.

For Amy...

Quick note on an update. Okay, I haven't been posting very regularly, I am a naughty monkey. And boring, and nobody wants that. Not even me. lol!

So, Mid-February brings about the 3rd anniversary of Joe and my 1st date. Whee! Hard to believe it's been this long, doesn't so much feel like it.

I am currently belly dancing again, trying to lose some weight, and working on my bags. It doesn't seem like much, but when you put working in there, it's a full schedule. As for more bag pictures, I have run into a snafu with my camera, it's not a good details camera, so until Sundri can get some time to grab some pics, I can't put new ones up of the green bag (which is also not all the way done yet, but whatever). I did, however, get the webbing to stiffen up the fabric so that the walls of the tote aren't all weird and floppy.

Joe is good, the pup is growing (at 54 lbs he's not really a puppy anymore). But so very cute. Must post pics of him soon. See? Bad monkey.

Now? We're just waiting for spring. Stupid weather.

Well, this time...

Last time it was the cold that never fully materialized. This time? It's the s.o.b. that slapped me in the back of the head, overnight! And it's not even a head cold, it's a chest cold. Gah. So much fun, let me tell you.

The part I hate? I am scheduled to go out of town this weekend to a belly dance function, and I am still going, regardless, but I would love LOVE for it to not be filled with me being sick. Since that will put a real damper on how much I can participate. Stupid cold.

Meh!

This is definately a Meh kind of week. Ugh! It is almost over, which is nice, but not soon enough. So, you all will be proud of me, I made some decisions. See, I've been teetering lately on what to do about this baby making thing and there is just some general life stuff that has come up, and I finally made a decision. (Well, the appearance of AF sort of MADE me). But yeah, we/I have decided to take a break, for a little while. I'm not sure why I was in such a damn hurry to start all this, but I can honestly say it's a relief to take it off my shoulders for awhile.

We have some things to get accomplished this summer. I, for one, would like to lose more weight, and you can't really diet whilst trying to get pg. We also have an huge ton of home improvement projects we want to get done. Some of which COULD happen if we get the money for it. But some we'll just have to come up with the money ourselves. The porch needs replacing, the wood is bad, and we need to get fencing up so the dog has somewhere to run without making us crazed. And we really want to get the stairs moved so we can start finishing the basement. (that's the part where the money comes in).

And while the home improvements could be done while I was gestating, I just really think we need to get some stuff done. We found out that there really isn't a whole lot wrong with us reproductively speaking. And the more weight I lose the more I reduce the problems since they are all on my side (the PCOS with a side of Insulin resistance and a thyroid problem).

So it's time to step up. Get going on the weight loss. To that end I am back to belly dancing, which is great exercise, but I can tell I need to add more and/or go to class more often. PLUS I haven't even started on the food side (gah!). So that's where I am. Currently NOT trying to get pg and pretty comfortable about it.