We’ve Merged

That’s it for this blog folks- I have just successfully finished merging this blog with my business blog, thus making it one bad-ass personal/business blog. Remember to update your links and/or rrs feed to the new one! Thanks for sticking with me!

Must. Post. Something.

So now I to write the sentence that is such a pet-peeve of mine to read when I stumble upon other blogs. Here we go; Boy, it’s been a while since I last blogged. *Cringe*. But honestly it has, and it needs to stop. For me the longer I have a silence on a blog, the harder it gets to come up with something to write that in my mind properly ‘breaks the silence’. So I guess me forcing myself to write the sentence I so dislike is me saying to myself, ‘get over it already, and write whatever you dang well feel like writing,” so I get a move on and stop feeling pressure of making the new post worthy. This way it’s definitely not worthy, and I can just get over it and blabber about whatever pleases me.

One of the reasons I have been somewhat silent on here is because I’ve been playing with the thought to merge some or all of my 3 blogs (my biz blog, my family blog, and this one.) I think in the anticipation of the possible merge I’ve just been unsure of the direction I’ve wanted new posts to go. Lots of people have been kind enough to chime in on the options, and I think I’ve finally made up my mind. I think for now I am going to merge this blog with my business blog, and leave the family blog on it’s own. The reason behind me feeling the need to merge this blog with the biz blog is because I feel like I want it to be apparent what an integrated part of my personal life my business is. I still don’t know what it’s going to look like to have these two blog merged, I am not much of a planner but I am kind of excited at the thought and curious to where it will go. I *almost* decided to merge the family blog into it too, but then a few of you had some good points when stating reasons not to, so I am going to keep that separate. For now. May change my mind later. We’ll see.
And having said all of that, I may just decide to pull both blogs apart again (could I?) in the future. Who knows, I enjoy doing things by the seat of my pants.

What else is going on? Well, I am dealing with a stupid bout of afternoon energy loss again that is annoying the crap out of me. All these different things that keep messing with my energy levels (low iron, allergies) it drives me nuts. Iron and allergy are supposedly taken care of my taking the daily pills for those (and how I have taking pills) yet things still pop up to rob me of my energy. For pete sake, I am thirty- why do I keep feeling like a 80 year old granny that needs to take a nap in the afternoon. Where is this youthful energy that I am supposed to still have plenty of?
In an attempt to actually gain some energy, aside from eating healthier (which I have already been doing since January) I have started trying to get my booty back into the gym for some hopefully rejuvenating exercise. Sofar I’ve made it in there two out of two mornings and I hve enjoyed it an awful lot. Hopefully I can keep at it, and hopefully it will do for me what I need it to. I will attempt to update here if I am sticking to my guns (if you know me you know I can’t write ‘guns’ without lifting my arms and kissing my biceps), so I can be kept accountable.

Today I am hoping to not have my 2pm slump to I can make it to the farmers market and finish my grocery shopping for the next two weeks. Keep your fingers crossed.

June Lucky Blog Contest

Head over to the Lucky Accessories blog to 1) help me make a decision that’s been bugging me for months and 2) with your comment get a chance at winning either a vintage wallpaper pendant necklace or earrings! I am drawing two winners this time, and you have all month to enter. Do it! Now!

Randomness

• I have procrastinated to refill my allergy medicine for weeks. It took me 3 minutes to click the button I needed to order them. Now my allergies have been killing me for days, and will continue to until my prescription arrives in a few days. Why do I do this to myself?
• Due to twitter I have been an extremely lazy blogger.
• I have finally succumbed to the facebook gravitational pull. Consider me in the fold.
• I am late on paying my sales & use taxes from the 1st quarter because I hate entering my sales into quickbooks? Why? Now I will have to pay a fine when I do pay them. And you know I just have wads of cash sitting around to pay fines with.
• I am dying to get some truckloads of mulch into our yard to I can have something more pleasing to the eye out there other than dirt and weeds pretending to be a lawn.
• I need to get back on to my Dutch diet. It makes me feel alive.
• Sometimes I resent the internet for being such a part of my life.
• I am considering closing my myspace accounts.
• I really really want to get a haircut again, and go shorter than I have ever gone before.
• There are many sides of me I used to hate, but now embrace
• There are still many sides of me in need of embracing. Especially the procrastinating side.
• We finally handed the digital cable box back in and are on basic cable again. This actually makes me happy.
• I wish the need for sunblock did not exist.
• I am considering starting project365 again. This would be attempt #4
• I play computer games, lots of the time.
• I have mixed feelings about Nolan having no school this summer. This makes me feel like a terrible mom.
• I wish we could make up our minds about having another kid.
• Wow, it shows I’ve been quiet on here for too long!

Soundtrack to My Life- Gin And Juice

This album- Doggy Style by Snoop Doggy Dog, and specifically this song Gin & Juice is significant to me for a variety of reasons. It was really the first time that totally got into an album that from where I came from wasn’t in the mainstream. Listening to it also played a big part in the bonding process with my roommate Kimberly from San Diego while we shared an apartment in Milan during my third stay there.I am still friends with her ’till this very day! We bonded over Snoop Dogg and our prissy Utah roommate Amanda among other things. This song also guided me to my drink of choice during the years of club hopping whilst globe hopping. I was always guaranteed that no matter where in the world a plane would spit me out, the next club I would set foot into would have gin, and they sure as hell would have some juice.

So while searching on youtube for this song I came across this awesome spoof. It surely deserves a listen. Enjoy.

Soundtrack to My Life- No Ordinary Love

This album; Sade Love Deluxe, it’s significant to me because it’s the one I lost my ‘innocence’ to if you will. T’was in Milan Italy, with a handsome young American boy model. I ofcourse over romanticized the situation just by the sheer fact that he would think to put on such a romantic album for the occasion, and in my mind we were already 10 years down the road with two successful modeling careers in our pockets and 5 babies on the way. Where as he was probably just happy to have gotten into my pants, and to have a companion for as long as his stays in Milan would last. Heck, we had fun while it lasted. Come to think of it now, I should have paid a little more attention to the lyrics of this song. Sounds like Sade has a bit of a talent for foreshadowing

Soundtrack to My Life- Babe

This song attributes to my first and only boy band obsession; Take That, and the resulting boy band member crush. Though I couldn’t tell you now if my life depended on it which one of the boy band members got the honors of my crush. Maybe it was Timmy, or Bobby, or Tommy, or Robby, or Dasher, or Donner, or Vixen? It took me some convincing myself to actually like a boy band, as the commercialism behind the whole concept just drove me bonkers. But you know, Love conquers all, and love is blind. God, listening to this song shows that love is also very, very deaf. I used to think this song was written and sang by angels.

To Do List May

Today:

Work:
- process CC’s
- package orders
- ship orders
- HM check
- Book wilmington room
- bring $$ to bank
- whol. inq
- balance acct
- Send show check
- S&U tax
- April blog winner
- May contest
- lights pick-up
- start reminder order
- update reminders on site

Home:
- water porch plants
- G meds
- Hammock
- pick up around house
- allergy meds/iron
- finish laundry
- KNG blog
- groceries
- Ponds meal
- May banner
- Vaccuum

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This Week

Work:
- solder order
- mother’s day front page
- ship order
- pay PP
Home:
- write oma
- finish tax wb
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This Month

Work:

Home:

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Done

Work:

Home:

Posting my Lucky Accessories Newsletter here, because I can

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Soundtrack to My Life- Killer/Papa Was A Rolling Stone

I’ve been teased about this alot, but I really dig George Michael.  I think my appreciation started once I heard this incredible version of this song. I first heard it as a passenger in car on my way to some photo shoot in Paris. I believe I was picked up in Belgium by the make-up artist and we drove either really late at night, or really early in the morning. Either way I was desperate to get some sleep, while Mr. Make-Up was trying to keep his own eyes open by playing his music rather loud. I dosed off and on, until this song came on. By the time the song was over every cell in my body was tingling, that’s how much I loved it. Believe it or not, but it still has that effect on me when I listen to it on headphones and I can afford to do nothing but listen to the song. Pure bliss.