Hi and Bye for now.
Just a few words (and no pictures) to say that I am traveling 'en famille' at the moment. New York, (Yipiiii!!) then Vermont and Canada.
Just a few words (and no pictures) to say that I am traveling 'en famille' at the moment. New York, (Yipiiii!!) then Vermont and Canada.
... with AT&T for the last hour and fifteen minutes. They were ripping me off, big time. Pay careful attention to your bills, guys! It pays. I will be saving $40 monthly and will receive a $50 coupon to reimburse me for charges they could not justify. All it took was persistence... and PMS. Actually, we're in the MS zone at the moment. It reminds me of the yellow 'police line' type tape i use to own, only it said "PMS LINE DO NOT CROSS." Hilarious.
via Swissmiss.
Clue # 1 Friday: Got all chocked up watching a class of fifth graders reuniting with their mothers …after a field trip.
Clue # 2. Saturday: Laughed hysterically during You don’t mess with the Zohan.
Clue #3 Saturday. Intense and unexplained burst(s!!) of libido (just in time for father’s day, though.)
Clue #4 Sunday. Wrote a very public bitter and angry post about my dead father. (Thanks for the support girls, it went straight to my heart.)
Clue #5 Monday. Three hours of frenetic and masterful writing. Perhaps my life’s best work. Realized an hour later that it was, in fact, absolute crap.
Clue #6: Monday. Went off on best friend for forgetting my birthday a month and a half ago (note: turns out she hadn’t. I am the one who somehow forgot her card and the rose bush she had brought me the week before.) Scene ended with sobs and professions undying love on my part.
Oh, wait… Could it be..? could it be..?
Yep! IT’S PMS!!!!
Funny how it always comes as a complete shock.
Now that I finally know, I better stock up on bonbons and put a pillowcase over my head for the next few days.
The damage done so far: priceless.
Here: a picture that perfectly illustrate how I'm feeling at the moment:
via Design Scene.
But I must: I keep coming across such inspiring images. And you know, when you get your hands on some (eye) candy, you simply have to share with your friends. Thanks to someone (? can't remember, please tell me if it's you.) I discovered the photographer Sandra Lane, represented by Sarah Kaye. What a gorgeous, gorgeous world this woman inhabits!
It is so hard to chose just a few images.
Not to mine, sadly.
I'm in awe of those who can not only make pretty things with their bare hands, but come up with entirely new ideas. One day I fell in love with this little guy I discovered about a year ago in Molly Chicken.
From reading everyone's blogs, it seems that quite a few American 'bloggeuses' are planning a trip to Paris.
I'm all over the place today again. At the moment, the insanity versus enjoyment of life quotient is high. Maybe when school ends, so will insanity. (Though it could get worse. What do you do with your children for two long months? Us: we argue. It's quite stimulating, really.)
But blogging is still fun. For one Apartment Therapy L.A. talked about my blog today. The sudden influx of traffic is baffling. But even more puzzling to me is that they know my blog exists at all.
But back to design,and art.
Thank you How About Orange for being up as early as I was, because I had painstakingly emptied my google reader the night before and had nothing to feast my eyes on. And I was up, and cranky, and anxious.
Now I have a personal affection for children drawings. I can't trash my kids most mundane doodle. It's becoming a problem because my 9 year old is a heavy producer. At age two he went through an entire ream of paper and covered them with crisscrossed lines, in what we now believe were train tracks. (There was also the possibility that he was satan.)
How About Orange posted about the art of Korean artist Yeodoo Jung, and it brought a huge grin to my face, not easy to do at 5.a.m.