Author: Dina

Here’s a peek of my next Inspired by Amelie blog project…

I should be cleaning or laundrying (hey, I made a new verb!) or showering or erranding (look, I did it again!), but instead I’m browsing the internet for things I need. Yes, need.

• The Random Dawdle Pad from Patina.

• These Tokyo Boots from Karmaloop. Yes, I know I’m 38 and I know I live in the desert…but I still need them.

• Bird on a Branch vinyl wall stickers from Lekker. I don’t have a place to put ’em but I need ’em.

• One of every kind of journal that Nantaka Joy makes. There probably aren’t enough thoughts in my head to fill up all those journals, but you know how I love a good blank book.

I seem to have survived Spring Break intact…we went to the beach…

Then saw Shamu…

And frolicked with the cousins & Uncle Mike…

Back to real life, now. Sigh.

It looks as if CJ has inherited my "really bad bed-head" gene. Poor kid.

I have to give my 30-minute talk today for the Phoenix Art Museum docent program. Pray for me. ha.

That "7 weird things" tag is making its bloggage rounds again…and I’ve been tagged twice, once by Celeste and once by Mye. I thought I’d refresh your memory to the other times I’ve done this tag…

It started with this one…

Then there was This Post…

And this post…

And this one, too…

And one more…

So…armed with all of that random/weird knowledge, here are "7 Weird Things About Me, version 6.0."

1. I saw Marie Osmond in the grocery store in Orem, Utah once. She was buying fruit snacks. Her hair was very big. Hey, it was the early 90s.
2. I own a wheat grinder. And I know how to use it.
3. I  spent over $7000 at Target over the course of a year. P.S. Quicken graph charts are evil. P.P.S. I don’t spend quite that much there anymore. Darn budget.
4. I read really fast.
5. I have never once in my life balanced a checkbook.
6. I’ve had stitches on my upper lip.
7. I’m really good with numchucks.

P.S…one of those 7 things isn’t true. Can you guess which one? heh.

Peeks from my work for the March kit…full reveal coming March 9th.

then I need to repent. May I present the Nikon D300…

It’s reasonable to have a $2000 camera to take pictures of my kids in the backyard…right?

Edited to Add: I haven’t purchased this camera…I’m just lusting after it…I think I need to get a job. Heh. I do have a D70, which is…adequate. Ha.

Why oh why do smoke alarms only freak out in the middle of the night? All of ours had a party last night (for the 3rd time in 6 months) at 2:30 a.m thanks to hard-wiring….and we had no idea which one had the low battery because we didn’t hear any of them chirping. After 1 middle-of-the-night trip to Walgreens and 5 batteries later, we had peace. Then I could not go back to sleep. I started worrying about everything. And my ears hurt (seriously, physically hurt…those smoke alarms are LOUD).

And now, here’s for the shocker. I got up & showered this morning…did not go back to bed despite the temptation. I have too much to do. So I had an Excedrin and a Yoplait for breakfast, and I’m ready to go.

Sort of. I think there’s more Excedrin in my future today.