4 posts from July 2007

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Dear Blog,
    Please know that I love and miss you very much. I miss our mutual friends. I miss doing stuff. I really, really effing hate moving!

    Please know too, that just as soon as I'm out of move purgatory, I'll be back with lots of sparkling stuff. And no, it won't all be crafting either!

    Hang in there, my love, I'll be back soon!

Ever so tenderly and faithfully yours,
Lulubird

After coming home from seeing Ratatouille yesterday with the family (cute, cute, cute movie! can't wait for DVD) I opened up my email to see my invitation to Ravelry from frecklegirl! Hoorah!

Oh, I have been patiently, patiently waiting to get into the fabulous wonderland that is Ravelry. I've been hearing about it on numerous podcasts, several of my Voxy neighbors have gotten in and raved about it, too many bloggers to count have been boasting about their entre into this beta world. Well, finally, I'm there!

I put in a few projects last night, and today is a sunny day, so I'll probably start uploading my stash. I love that I can see others' WIPs and FO of patterns that I'm currently working on, and also add to my queue of projects that I want to knit.

So if you're in already (which it feels like I'm the last one in), feel free to add me, I'm lulubird6 there too!

SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had started to write a post on Friday about whining wanting to get into Ravelry, but decided not to sound like a whiner! Yay for not whining!

Okay, so I've been tagged again. This time by the lovely Rachael to blog about my top ten favorite things about summer. Since summer's quickly passing, I thought I'd better hurry up and do this before it's over!

But I have to admit. I'm not much a summer fan. Gasp! Yes, folks! It's true. As I've often said before, although I'm bred to live in the tropics, I'm not really much of a tropical gal. I don't like heat. I don't like sweat. I don't like sand or getting dirty. So how to blog about summer things? Well, I think I could do top 5 things I love about summer and top 5 things I hate about summer...not necessarily in that order! That adds up to ten!

Drumroll please.........

Love #1: Sunshine, and lots of it! I love sunshine and totally get SAD when I go more than a couple of days without sunshine.

Hate #1: Sunshine, and lots of it! I tend to get splitting headaches and feel quite dizzy when it's too bright outside. Thank goodness I finally got off my butt and ordered contacts so that I could go back to wearing my sunglasses outside.

Love #2: The Heat. I like that I'm no longer subjected to Midwestern cold spells where the only way I can warm up is if I take a hot shower and then put on long socks and fleece pjs afterwards. Summer is so fleeting, we really only get 2.25 decent months of it a year.

Hate #2: The Heat. I hate being hot. I hate sweating. I really, really, really hate humidity. And let's face it folks. Midwest in summertime...it's humid, baby!

Love #3: Wearing sundresses and skirts and fun sandals. Nothing more fun than skipping around town looking all cute and summery. And wedge sandals make everyone's legs look long and lean!

Hate #3: Having aforementioned clothing stick to your body due to unbearable Hate #2.

Love #4: The long, long, summer days. I love that we have long summer days. So much to do, but so much more time to do it in! It's great!

Hate #4: The long, long, long summer days. Do you know how hard it is to make children go to bed when it's still light outside? I always hear, "But it's still wake-up time!" and have to fight tooth and nail to get those little mongrels into bed at a decent hour. Also, having both kids home leads to much bickering and fighting, which makes me want them to go to bed even earlier. Alas, no such luck.

I'm going to flip this last one around.

Hate #5: Summer in the city. I think the dirt, heat and humidity brings out all the crazies. They're hot, they're humid, they don't have central air (wait, come to think of it, neither do I!) Crazy people driving, smog, Ozone Action Days, much dust and grit from opened windows, crowded, crowded, crowded everywhere! Tourists! Underfoot! Everywhere!

but.....

Love #5: Summer in the city. There's so much to see, so much to do, so many places to go. So much good food. (The Taste is way better than it used to be, but the crowds are still horrific! but you can eat outside at many restaurants, unless it's super hot and humid.) Lake Michigan is gorgeous. Ravinia is just delightful! The park district is hopping. Music fills the air. Street festivals everywhere, all around! Farmer's Markets! Movies in the park! And despite all the dirt, sweat, bickering and sunshine, I still love it. It's wonderful! Until August. Then I hate it and begin wishing for winter again!

So now, it's time for the tagging...let me see...well, if you want to play along, then consider yourself tagged!

Okay, so Rachael busted me with the not-blogging-latelyness-because-I'm-avoiding-the-100th-post-blogiversery. But, luckily, I have found a way to circumvent the 100th-blog-post-woo!hoo!-let's-celebrate issue by deciding that the posts that I imported from myspace do not count. Therefore, I think that frees up a few more posts before I have to decide what to do. I'm thinking maybe a little contest or give-away, I'm not sure which yet.

So where have I been? Well, after coming out of the closet with the blogging about your children vs. protecting your children debate, I've been thinking an awful lot. I think I'm going to have to limit my posts with pictures of my children to be neighborhood only. That means those family and friends unwilling to register are just going to have to miss out on posts with pictures of my kids. Which is the only reason they read look at the pictures on my blog.

I've been a crafting fool. And a home-searching fool. And a drive-my-kids-and-MIL-all-over-creation fool. Mainly, I've been living out of my car, either looking for a new place to live that fits all my criteria while graduating my little preschooler, end of school-year parties and extravaganzas and toting kidlets to what feels like 80,000 violin recitals/concerts and camp and MILs to doctors appointments.

I'll post with pics and details later. Meanwhile, must catch up on y'all's blogs because, my friends, I am very, very, very behind!