New wiring

Today I had the internet people come out to fix my internet that hasn't been working for the last few days. It turns out the probably the original wiring to the place finally stopped working. So that lady had to re-sting the wiring. I now have internet back up and running and am very happy about this. Another thing that I'm happy about is my house is finally starting to looking like a neat person lives there. I'm slowly cleaning and going through everything, getting rid of what I don't need. I'm also changing how things are set up in the house. The only thing with all of this cleaning is the space is starting to feel a little bit bear. I am going to have to make art for the wall to feel up the place.

Worried

Today is the start of my days off and I'm already worried that they are going to be just as busy as if I was working. My mom is coming down, I still have to go back and froth between the two houses, and I don't thing my internet is working.

My day

1. I'm finally off work for two days after working five in a row.

2. Watching Mythbusters for hours

3. I'm getting better at my running and I love doing it down by the wash, I just wanted to go on forever.

4. Made sun tea for the first time ever while I was on my run tonight.

Oh dear

I just stayed up to late watching True Blood. I'm going to pay for it tomorrow I know, but I couldn't help myself. I just had to know what was going to happen next and last track of time.

Where did it go

With my house sitting I feel like I have no time. I'm running from place to place with a set time table and once I get a chance to sit down at night it is time to go to sleep. Like tonight I got sucked into watching Say Yes to the Dress on TLC. I don't have cable at home, but when I am by it I end up watching hours of it and doing nothing else. I have dvds of True Blood from Netflix that I should be watching so I can get new things, but I'm not doing this.

Falling asleep

Last night I stayed up late watching Mythbuster, I love that show. I learned not to put out a grease fire with water, very bad. The flames were 20 feet high and you would not live. My lack of sleep didn't bug me today, but tonight I'm just zoning out on the couch.

Funny thing of today is, this afternoon the sky was getting dark and I was worried about rain so I went outside. While I was looking to the east were the clouds were coming in a strong gust of wind can bring with it a neon yellow inner tube. It was funny to watch it fly over the homes and I ran around the building next to me to find it.

My day

1. Today starts my house sitting job so for the next few weeks I will be going back and forth from my place and there. Also there is a pool there which will be nice to have now that it is getting warmer.

2. I can't stop eating the cookies that I made the other day, they are so good. I took some to work and tried getting other people to eat some of them, but no body wanted a cookie today.

3. I have seen a lot of wild life this evening. There was a lose little quail in my courtyard, it didn't know how to get out of it. While I was on my run by the wash I saw bunnies, bats, and a coyote.

4. Really liked my run today down by the wash with it being one long starch. Also I am getting really good at running almost to the point were I don't need to walk for a rest once in a while.

5. After seeing this article on tree houses I want one.

Cookies

I did everything I said I was going to do today, just not how I thought I was going to. When I woke-up I feel like knitting, so I made two little stuffed balls for my cats and started another one. After that I spent a lot of the day cleaning my back bedroom. There is a lot of stuff packed in to that little room since it is my art room, spare bedroom, and storage all in one. I'm trying to get rid of things while I clean it and organize what I did have in there to take up less space. While I was cleaning I did a little baking too. I made Cinnamon Sugar Biscotti from If You Give a Girl a Cookie. They come out great and I was worry when the dough looked a little gooey to me when I was putting it on the pans. I think is the best thing that I have cooked from scratch so far.

Today, maybe not my day

This morning I slept in which pushed back my day. I wanted to finish my movie that I had started last night, so I then had to go to a later showing of Toy Story 3. I movie was great, but after wards I so how loss a few hours wandering around. On the way home I stopped at the library and go two movies and have been laying around watching them. The internet has been fighting with me this evening so I am hurrying write this so hopefully it will go through. So for tomorrow because it didn't get done today; cleaning, cooking, and something crafty. I have been seeing these paper rose, where you cut a circle into a spiral and glue it all over the web lately and feel like making some.

Wish/ To-Do list

1. go see Toy Story 3, my friend at work saw it last night and said it was very good

2. do more cleaning, my never ending project

3. bake chocolate scones

4. do something crafty, don't know what yet

Movie day

Today was movie day. I watched High Spirits the movie I was just telling my friends about earlier this week. I fell asleep during it and had to go back and watch it again. It drought my childhood for me, It was a movie that I had watched many times when I was little. The other movie that I watched was In July a German movie which for some reason I remember being a French movie when I was looking at in on netflix. It was different, but good. It was about a guy traveling to go see a girl and falling in love with the one he is traveling with.

Ireland

Just finished watching Leap Year and remembered how much I want to go to Ireland. It is so green and beautiful. One day hopefully soon I will go there.

What I did today

1. cleaned a little bit

2. watched 3 movies; one hindi, one new, and one old

3. went searching on netflix for movies to rent, including an old one that my friends thought I was just thinking of an old nightmare that I had when I was little

4. danced around in my living room to some music turned up loud

5. went to the library and got 5 movies and a book

6. wish I had made chocolate scones from here, maybe tomorrow

Out with friends

Went out last night to Ethiopia food last night for friend's birthday dinner. The food may look different, but it is good and spicy. After dinner just made it time for frozen yogurt before they closed. Then a few of us came over to my friend's place to play rock band. I did ok on it even though I have not played it in a really long time. Now I have two days off and it is time for some rest. I love having friends back in town and hanging out all the time, but it messes with my exercising and eating right. With going out after work I only have time to do either run or do yoga not both, they take half an hour each. Then like yesterday you get tired from going out the last few nights that you take a nap and don't do either.

Birthday

It's one of my friends birthday and we are going out to karaoke.

Lost on the internet

Today was a good stumbling day on the internet found lots of cool thinks so I'm going to share.



Crayons make me think of first grade, but nothing I ever made then looked like this. Artist Christian Faur makes his own crayons and takes a digitized photo makes art from them.



Pictures of beautiful yet creepy abandoned places.



Just a beautiful picture.



Work by, Voss, a creative studio founded by Etienne Rey and Laurent Le Bourhis who work in resins, paper, acrylic, glass and polymers.




Bookshelf Porn a site for book lovers.

What I did today

1. I got up and watched one of my favorite Hindi movies, Kuch Kuch Hata Hai.

2. made myself an nice breakfast burrito for lunch

3. made another flower ball, this time attaching the two sides together the correct way which is what I get for not looking at the instructions t the first time

4. a little cleaning, I feel like it would be a full time job to keep anything clean

5. watched Practical Magic which has one of my favorite houses in it, I would love to have that house

6. did my yoga dvd, which I wonder if it will ever get easier

7. lost my shoe going up the stairs to see my friend and had to go back down to get it

Fun with catalogs

Today I made a paper flower ball, it came out pretty well for the first time making one. There is one spot where the thin paper tore because it got too wet from the glue.



I cut up an Urban Outfitters catalog into 2 and a half inch squares.



Finished gluing all the flowers together and getting ready to make the ball.



Finished!

To-Do list

I have the next two days off, here is what I'm planning on doing

1. cleaning every where, I always tell myself I will do this and then only pick up a few things and stop

2. finish the drawing that I'm doing for my friend

3. make paper flowers

4. hang out with friends

5. grocery shopping to maybe cook something

It's getting hot

Things are getting hot here in the desert. I'm mostly inside all day so I don't have to deal with the heat to much, but I still notice it. When I come home from work and walk into my house that has been shut up while I was gone, having to walk till it gets dark to do my run, coming home from my run with my clothes sticking to me, and doing my yoga with the fan blowing on me. As it gets warmer here I think I'm going to have a harder time making myself exercise. I am already seeing it happen. I don't want to eat my dinner to late, but with having to wait to take my run now I'm having problems. I have to know eat before my run, which sometime depending on what you have to eat you still fill very full while running and it makes me fill sick. Also I'm now trying to add the yoga in so I'm working on when to do that too.

Board game night

Going to play board games with friends after a hot day.

What I did today

1. wake-up and watched a Hindi movie

2. Went food shopping, but didn't know what I wanted so really didn't get anything. I need to start making list before I go.

3. Did yoga meltdown for my third time this week

4. Went with my friend to help our other friend move-in to her new place, so happy that she is moving back home.

5. Made blueberry cakes from here, but had to convert the recipe and don't think they came out right.

6. Went for a run

Food links

blueberry pie ice cream from Grin and Bake it

peanut butter cup brownies from dassant

sugar cookie bars from Annie's Eats

banana-maple upside-down pudding from Gourmet Traveller

100 days

Just thought I would first note that this is my 100th day of keeping my blog. While it may not be how I want it and need work still, I'm very proud of myself for sticking with it. It is a good exercise for sticking with something. I'm trying to carry this over into the other things that I do such as my yoga no matter how hard it is. Today was my second day of doing Jillian Micheals Yoga Meltdown and it really didn't feel any easier today, but what can I expected from only my second day. It is not like my running. I have been running since February and it is still hard, but this makes me sweat and tired. My hands still hurt from the plank poses and I have learned that I can't do push-ups. I'm bad even on the girlie ones.

Out of practice

This afternoon I did Jillian Micheals Yoga Meltdown DVD for the first time, it kicked my butt. A few months back when I first got my yoga mat I got really into for a few weeks, but stopped and didn't get back to doing it. I have been meaning to start doing yoga again because I really enjoyed the stretching and movement of it. I have also had the DVD for awhile, once I saw that Jillian Micheals had a yoga dvd I knew it would be good. So today was the day that I started back up. It is going to take me a while to get good at it. My hands were really hurting from all the downward facing dog and plank poses. I'm going to try to stick with it this time. I need something else to do besides my running.

Easy

I'm finding easier and easier to do nothing all day. Time just seems to pass me by. I also am tired a lot the last few days and don't feel like doing anything because of this. I have been able to watch several movies. This afternoon I sat down and read more of Jane Eyre, I'm now to about page 300. I love the book, even thou I have seen the movie may times and know the plot there is something about the book that has me hooked. I also want to get thought it because I what to start the four other books that I have gotten, including Jane Slayer a remake of Jane Eyre.

Needed rest

After a hard, long day at work I needed some rest. Came home and have been watching movie since. I also fell asleep for a little bit. My mom brought down her Mel Brooks DVD set. We watched three of them. After that I have been goofing around on the internet. Found PhotoFunia and been having some fun with pictures of me.

What I'm doing

1. Not cleaning my house like I should for my mom visiting tomorrow

2. Watching too many Hindi films then are probably good for you

3. Going to sleep even thou I want to stay up and read more of Jane Eyre, my current book.

Sleeping

I guess I was tired this evening. I came home from work watched the end of the movie that I had started yesterday and made myself dinner. Then after starting Alice in Wonderland that I rented from redbox I fell asleep. I have been going to bed late and getting little sleep lately, but I have not felt tired and was only a little bit this afternoon when I came home from work. It took me several times to actually watch the end of Alice, kept falling asleep. Now I'm up for a bit as long as I keep upright so I can get done a few things that need to be done for tomorrow before I go to bed.

Blog found today to go with the Wonderland theme, A Fanciful Twist, full of lots of pictures to get lost in.