an apple a day didn't work

i have been m.i.a. for a bit thanks to a sinus infection and my body's dislike of z pac antibiotics. you know you take those pills and you have so much faith they will work, and they do, for a few days... just long enough for you to clean the house and serve thanksgiving dinner to 12. and then... the pain in your skull comes back with a vengenance. thankfully you have a wonderful doctor who calls in a new prescription, and after a few days in bed you feel so much better. so, the apples all alone had no effect on my nasty sinus germs, but give me some drugs and i am up and running... well, not literally.

paying it forward

apparently i thought i posted this last year, but when i went back and looked i couldn't find it and then realized that i only saved it as a draft and didn't post it, so here it is...

so i am joining the club that i found out about here.

i am going to pay it forward. this is how it works...
1. Anyone with a blog can join,
2. The first three people to leave a comment on this post will receive a handmade goody from me and i have 365 days in which to send it to you,
3. In return, you have to pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog!

so basically, that means that jen will be leaving a comment and i don't know who else reads this but hopefully someone or two will. :-)

i'm cool

i am so cool!!! i am a part of this...

i am so excited and now i just can't decide what to make. i am so new to this whole craft community on the web, but it has been so encouraging and inspiring! now i have so many ideas i am having trouble picking one!! i know, my life is hard. thank you for sympathizing.

ouch!

apparently i am old. i have come to this conclusion because i hurt my knee. now when i say i hurt my knee i was not proactive in trying to hurt my knee. as a matter of fact i wasn't doing anything. we were at some friends' house for dinner and watching the football game and as i was sitting in their rocking chair (see i am old) my knee started hurting. i came home and iced it and when i woke up this morning i thought, "great! it feels better!" and then i got out of bed. so my mantra for today is "ouch" "ow" "geez that hurts" or something else that sounds like an old lady shuffling down the nursing home hallway. i mean really - sitting in a rocking chair. REALLY?

addicted

i have an addictive personality. i can admit it. but just recently i have realized that my addiction to blog reading is more important to me than work. i find myself thinking about what is going on with my bff or with super crafty her and her. and then i just have to stop doing payrolls to go and find out and then they write about someone super cool so i have to see what they are talking about and then their friends are pretty cool too and i just have to see what is going on there. and a lot of them are australian and talking about how warm it is and that makes me want to read about their super cool lives with their super cool accents and then i get all jealous because i am an american and have no super cool accent and can't even impersonate one very well. then i start thinking about what other countries look like from the air (google earth ROCKS!!) and so i have to check them out which makes me wonder if they have updated my house yet and i need to find that out so i do and wonder about the rest of my neighborhood and then i am back thinking about her house and i check it out to see if i can spot any snow. by that time it is five and i wonder where the day has gone and why i have so much work to finish.
so now i am on rations. creative & blog reading rations. for every 4 hours of work, i get one hour of creative exploration. now i find myself rationalizing that this and this aren't really creative exploration and that i would be a really bad friend if i didn't check them every hour.
is there a 12 step program for this?

craftines

so i have been reading tons of crafty blogs lately and getting really inspired. i have been playing around with starting a school spirit line of bags and accessories for high school students. i'm not sure. i need to do something creative - accounting isn't getting all that excess creative energy out of me. i think about quilting and sewing all day while i am doing payrolls - that has to be a sign. anyways i LOVE the blogs of these two supercool ladies - Anna Maria Horner (nevermind that her last name is the same as the guy i was madly in love with in college - who subsequently broke my heart) and Heather Bailey. i read their blogs religiously every day and find myself wishing i was one of their little daughters so that they could teach me everything they know about sewing. i have learned so much already. Heather had a tutorial on sewing yo-yos and i took my scraps and started handsewing all these beautiful little yo yos that will one day be on my favorite quilt. i love that we can inspire one another on these blogs. thanks Anna Maria and Heather for blogging so that the rest of the world can learn from you!! you guys ROCK!!

I won! I won! I won!

...the Amy Grant signed photo. Of all the things to win, that was the best. Mel will love it!! and since she doesn't read my blog, it will be a surprise too! :-)

I <3 free stuff!!

okay. i have a confession - i LOVE free stuff. it is the whole reason i love to go to state fairs. when i get a free sample in the sunday paper you would think i won the lottery. so you can only imagine how excited i was to find the bloggy giveaways. and then a few days after my discovery, they had a carnival of giveaways!!! so i have spent the week entering over 600 giveaways. i gotta win something, right?