Monday, October 22, 2012

Mani Monday


This is what I do while hiding inside my house. I do Sudoku puzzles, draw doodles, or paint my nails. Obviously, the longer each activity takes the better. Which is why my nails are ridiculous recently. Although actually I haven't even taken that many pics of the crazy designs I've been doing. Except today, in a fit of anger about all the stuff I want to accomplish but haven't, I CUT THEM OFF! It may not look like my nails are that long, but my stubby fingers kind of hide the length of my nails. Anyway, they are gone at least for a week or 2, which will hopefully help me concentrate on more important things. As will uninstalling Sudoku from my phone. And the 3 1/2 hours I spent writing (remedial) notes on old chapters in Statistics today, since apparently I only understand concepts for the time that I am totally focused on them.





Friday, October 19, 2012

Last Minute Crafting :)

What do you do when your kid (probably looking to stall bedtime) starts BEGGING to do art with you?

This:


I had no time to come up with anything good, so I just had him take white crayon and draw a pumpkin picture ("Push REALLY hard, Buddy! It's OK if you break the crayon this time!") and then we painted over it with watercolors.

Quick, easy, not very messy, and turned out cute! What more could a girl ask for :)

Drawing the 'secret picture'

Adding the first colors (I think it's hilarious that he was wearing his blanket on his head at this point!)

Starting to see the picture!

He takes after his mommy, and he's OBSESSED with his 'new' camera from Uncle Ryan!

Anyway, super easy, a great craft to do after a long week so we could unwind and have some fun without too much stress. I like it.
And I think he did too!



Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Fall

The weather has officially turned fall-ish here. Last weekend I had to go to Target and buy a new hat and gloves for Buddy, since his old stuff was too small, and it was lucky I did! That same day we got a few snow flurries and it was windy and cloudy and cold.

But we went out to Harvest Fest (a local kiddy fall festival) anyway, and enjoyed ourselves (mostly)!




Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Blah.

I'm having a tough time finding anything to write about. You all know me by now, know that I obsessively take pictures and document every moment of Buddy's life...

Well, I haven't been doing that. Honestly, I don't even see Buddy very much right now. I wake him up around 6:30am, drop him off for school around 7:45, and that's where we say goodbye for the day. Then I work until 7pm, so by the time I get him home from his dad's house or another babysitter it's at least 7:30. His bedtime is 8.

I feel like I don't have any idea what's going on in his life. I don't like it at all.

Added to that, I've been really depressed and anxious lately. It's hard for me to leave the house. Most days after I drop Buddy off for school, I crawl back into bed and just lay there for an hour or 2 before moving to my computer, to sit and do mind-numbingly easy homework for hours. I sometimes manage to do some housework, but not very often. Most weeks the only social interaction I have is at work, and that's with preteens.

Sorry if you've been enjoying following me here, but I just am not feeling the greatest and don't want to write a bunch of posts about how shitty everything feels right now. I'll pop back up in a few weeks I'm sure, and then you'll get crafts and field  trips and cute kids again.