For today, July 19, 2010

(more daybooks at Peggy's)

Outside my window... hot and muggy. We had a reprieve this weekend but the heat came on strong this morning. Glad we got the hike in yesterday.

I am wearing... white microfiber top and gray workout pants and tennies. Had a session with Gilad this morning, which was not as nice as my sessions with Leslie Sansone. Noticing the workouts from the 90s are more uptempo and frantic, thus harder on the joints and not necessary more effective. 

Considering these words: 

" If you can't be a good example, then you you'll just have to be a horrible warning." 

-thanks to Jen for giving me my options lol. 

I am creating: Got the new little portable sewing machine set up this weekend and fixed hems. It works like a charm for a cheapie machine.  I didn't want to spend a fortune knowing I would be running it on a transformer. Definitely like the Singer better than the Brother machine. 

 

Also, picked up a new Photoshop Elements book which looks promising. Need to figure out all the "large array of tools, options, palettes, and menus."  I am an intelligent woman.  I can do this. I think. 

From the kitchen: fresh produce, German coffee, dinner taken to our friends with the new baby. Should probably add that pork chop dinner last week which my husband matter of factly pronounced the worst plate of food I have ever sat before him. Truly was that. Havent mastered the oven temps and everything gets hotter here, either due to the altitude or the voltage or both.  Those chops would have made very respectable hockey pucks, let me tell you. Ugh.

I am planning…  where the furniture will go when it arrives, a playdate for the boys, the new school year, and to walk the trail a few more times this week. 

(ps – plans altered before publishing – movers arrive in the am)

From the learning room: Last week was Irish dance camp. 

 

The big girls (above L) and Kieran will be enrolling in the dance school this school year. Very very cool. 

Looking at Teaching Textbooks.  Aidan began The Shining Company. Journaling all around.

I am thankful for… an evening of laughs and window shopping and TALK talk TALKing. Needed that, though I am more confused than ever about what I want the house to look like. And yes, it probably takes up more thought time for me than your average Joe. Not sure why that is. Design is terribly important to me even if no one else ever sees it. Beauty is its own excuse I guess.

 

I am reading… Blue Ruin is finished.  If I had to share one book with my daughters as they become young women who will be discerning future spouses this would be it. Fiction can be so much more effective at showing vs telling. I hope they bury this message deeply in their hearts. 

From my picture journal…

 

 game night on the patio in jammies