I am on a Quest

It's a fashion quest and I blame Pinterest. I want chocolate tall boots that don't cost $400 and I want cute boot socks to wear with them. Damn you Pinterest!! Seriously no reason boots should cost that much. Fashion quest #2 is the holy grail of quests... finding a pair of jeans that fit. Old navy came close yesterday, I purchased but we aren't quite there. Bring on sweater weather!

Seriously Where in the H does 24 hours go?!

As I sit here trying to get through my normal internet searching schedule, I happened to glance at the time... already 10:19 serious?! This is getting a bit old, this will be night 3 or 4 where I don't feel like I have gotten my daily amount of slacking done. Now that may sound counter productive but lets think about this.... an average person should get about 8 hours (give or take) of sleep, a normal work day is 7 hours 45 mins, lets call it 8. That is already minus 16 hours out of 24. Take into account the rounded 2 hours in travel time daily and bam that leaves a measly 6 hours of slack time. I feel like this isn't enough time, I have blogs to check, gossip sites to catch up on and squeeze in some good pinning in there too, oh and dinner, and I'm trying to get my walks in which is minus another 50 mins or so... yowza.

Tonight I bought a wireless printer, did I need one? No not really. But it's super awesome! No more messy cords and I can print emails etc from my iPhone too, fantastic! If you're in the market for a new printer, Target has the one I got on sale for $50 (down from 80) and you get a $10 Target gift card to boot! Side rant: Target really is the land of let me enter the doors and see what I don't really need but will buy anyway. Tonight's victim was my mom, she saw a package of six colors of socks on clearance and couldn't pass it up, did she need them, nope, Target strikes again! Also I didn't realize that tricking you with a gift card had become Targets new "thing" whoever came up with that idea needs to get a big fat raise. In your mind you minus the $10 against competitors, but really you are just encouraged to come back and spend more than the $10 they gave you... well played Target, well played.

One of my summer goals was to take a class, well the community college didn't have a whole lot to offer in the summer but the fall schedule is out and now I'm overwhelmed with options. I'm thinking about the sewing classes, I know how to sew but I'm not terribly good at patterns. Or there is the knitting and crocheting class. I know I sound like an old woman and please feminists don't hate me, but stuff like that for my generation is kind of a lost art. I might add that I have glamorous dreams of becoming a wonderful artsy fartsy crafty person and will make millions with my Etsy shop. Maybe the Page Turner will let me have a corner of her hippy/All natural store. PT is whipping up batches of all natural body scrubs and shaving cream and all kind of stuff. She's kind of becoming a voo-doo hippy/witch doctor. It's the farm, it makes everyone go crazy lol jk PT, jk.

The time is now 11:10 and I feel I have so many other wasteful internet browsing to do (the intermittent surfing/blogging/surfing/surfing wasn't enough), but alas, I shall call it a night. I'm finally getting most of my things put back after the ambitious effort of rearranging my office/TV room. I have big plans for a digital organization fest in the coming months, deleting old files on my computers and maybe a winter project can be printing off my pictures and making my year scrap books a dream come true. Who knows, don't forget the world is ending in December so maybe it's best to not be quite so ambitious.. ya know, just in case.

Can you feel it?

The crisp cool air, teasing us with the touches of fall. If you know me at all you know fall is my favorite time of year, I love everything about it. I've loved being able to have the windows open at night, the best kind of sleeping weather.  The cool weather has also inspired me to get out and start walking. I walked a total of 8 miles last week, not much but I'm stepping up my game, I've got to get ready for the screaming pumpkin 10k coming up. I even had the energy to completely rearrange my tv room, man is that work.

I keep noticing that there is not enough time in the day. I want to read, watch tv, surf the net and get a walk in... too many options. AND new shows will be starting soon too, what's a girl to do?! But I have been making time to watch the drama fest they call Bachelor Pad, and wow... how these girls think they will find love on a show like this is beyond me.

Oh and not to forget but I am also taking care of a wild kitten who occupys a good portion of my time...

... although it's hard to tell it from these pictures. 



Cell Phone Pictures

I was just charging my iPhone and noticed that I have 5.5 GB of pictures/video on my phone. That is 1,146 photos and 40 videos. What are they of? Well too many pictures of my super adorable kitten, don't judge. They are only cute and little for so long before they grow into adulthood. Other pictures are vacation pictures, some are stupid and pointless. Some of them are Instagram'd pictures, concerts and storm clouds. Why do I take pictures when I never do anything with them, I can't just delete them. I just like to take pictures. So now I sit and ponder what to do with them all. I can't remember the last time I printed any pictures anyway, I really need to do that. If my computer ever crashes bye bye pictures :'( That statement actually makes me really nervous. I need to back them up. I have a friend who uploads all her pictures to Walgreens then prints a whole bunch when they have their 10cent sale, I should do that and keep photo albums of all the pictures I take in a year, they don't have to all be fancy and grouped by only a vacation here and a vacation there, I should just be like here this was 2012 and all the pictures I took this year... enjoy future generations. I'll have to remember to write on the back and date them, that's always appreciated by the future folk.

What do you do with your cell phone pictures?

Olympic Thoughts

Does anyone else feel slightly lazy cheering for the Olympic athletes? I mean here I am sitting in my comfy evening clothes and I'm thinking to myself go faster swimmer swim faster!

Do you think that gyms see an increase of people in during or after the Olympics?

I am slightly annoyed at the lack of spoiler alerts, at least make us click before ya throw the spoiler headline out there.

I tear up almost every time I see the parents reaction.

Seriously how do they judge the synchronized diving, it all looks synchronized to me.

I read that one athlete dropped his medal in the shower and broke it.. oopsie.

Everyone is hatin on Michael Phelps, I don't get it. You go swim a lap let me know how you do.

Some people should keep their tweets to themselves. It's a kick in the pants to get disqualified for being a stupid.

Do you think if I got the Olympic rings tattooed on my arm or back people would just assume that I was once in shape and just let myself go?

At what point in youth does a parent realize the Olympic talent. Maybe my parents just sneezed when I had my moment.

Is McDonald's really the most responsible sponsor of team USA, how about Coca Cola?

I remember my sister and I used to skate around in the kitchen in our socks, I was always Nancy Kerrigan and she had to be Tanya Harding. It may have given her some kind of complex.

Parallel bars seem like it would hurt when you fall on your arms.

Do judges have to complete special training?

I'm still amazed by how much money was probably spent on the opening ceremonies. Everyone was in coustume and movie make up, that's a crap ton of people!

Mackinac Island, MI

A much needed mini-vacation is in progress. We thought about it long and hard, our first thought was to go to Memphis and visit Graceland. But after a little more thought, we figured Tennessee in July sounds hot, we already got hot at home and there would be just so much that we'd want to see in Memphis. So why not go north we thought? Well BINGO! We picked well, the high today was 77, PERFECT day to walk around Mackinac Island. I've always wanted to come and visit the Grand Hotel, I would have loved to stay there but dang it costs a lot of money to rest in luxury.  So we Priceline negotiated us a deal and stayed in Mackinaw City instead and got to take the ferry over to the island. That's what we did all day today, walked around the island and took about a 2 hour horse and carriage tour around the island. It was beautiful!

Our Ride 

Skull cave

Arch Rock

Fort Mackinac

The porch of the Grand Hotel, if you aren't a guest you pay $10 to peruse the grounds of the hotel, no worries its mucho cheaper than the $700 it would have cost to stay there. No thanks, I'll take pictures to make it look like I stayed there, memories are free and priceless ;)

on the porch of the Grand, what a view!

We weren't terribly impressed with the interior of the Grand, but I guess our tastes are a little more IKEA than turn of the century Victorian-we-have-too-much-money-so-lets-spend-it-on-ugly-stuff.

Just sitting on the porch at the Grand makes you feel luxurious. But slightly too poor to actually be sitting there. Never fear I saw cut off Harley shirts, so just because you have the money to stay there doesn't mean you have to be classy.

After 6pm on the grounds you must be in dinner attire, the gentlemen must have ties and coats and the ladies mustn't be in slacks. FaNcY!

Our ferry ride

This little gem is for sale on the island for a cool $3,250,000

click here to see the listing

oh and this could be your view... I think I could live with that.

Tomorrow if it doesn't rain, it's only a 30% chance, our plan is to sit on the beach and soak up some sun!

Pictures Soon!

How Retro

I just hooked up the old VCR just so I could watch these cartoons from 1987. Classic Casper the Ghost, it brought back many memories from when I was little and we would sit and watch this VHS over and over and over and over again. I would have cried a little had it not worked. Both impressive is the fact that I 1-knew where the VHS tape was and 2-knew where the VCR was and hooked it up properly to my flat screen tv that 1987 didn't know could exist. That is all.

Only In a Small Town

Only in a small town do you get excited about something as redneck as a Lawn Mower demolition derby. Which can only mean one thing... it's fair time! There's a first time for everything...

Busily Not Busy

Do you ever feel like you've been really busy only to notice you've been pretty not busy and actually rather lazy? Yeah I'm there.

I took a few days off the Thursday/Friday before the 4th to have some me time. I sat around and did nothing, and lounged in the pool alot. I've done pretty good about keeping my bucket list item of being outdoors as much as possible.. well until the heatwave hit. I've managed to get a little bit of color on my pasty white skin.

I've also had a cute little buddy to keep me company and occupy my time.... everyone meet Oliver! He will be 9 weeks on Wednesday. Find me something that is cuter than a kitten and I will give you a dollar.

I sat down to blog several times in the past two weeks but then I just ended up shutting the computer off. I've been pretty good about not being on the internet so much and it's been kinda nice. Like I said I've been pretty lazy which is kinda what I need.

We've got some fun little things lined up here at North of 10th so stay tuned!