Welllll hello! It's been a week or so, huh? I didn't intend to take a blogging break until it was already happening and then I committed to it. Go big or go home.
Mostly I just stayed home. Which was awesome. Here are some notes from the week I didn't blog on other things I did...
- Spent a chunk of time wishing I was at ALT Summit in Salt Lake City with Rachel and the rest of the internet. Well, not the whole internet was at ALT. Some people went to CHA the week before so they probably couldn't go to both parties. Anyways, I was sad about it until I saw this piece of news about Salt Lake City and felt a little better.
- Talked myself out of leaving the house for ice cream or candy on Sunday, Monday, Thursday and Friday. On Saturday morning, I caved and bought the worst Valentine sour gummies at Russell Stovers on my way home from UMKC. Fail.
- Read a lot of E Tells Tales. Rachel warned me not to start, and then I couldn't stop. I also reread the comments on Rach's baby blog posts five times because there were no comments on my own blog.
- Studied (kind of) for a test I took on Saturday so I can add a certification to my license to be an ESL teacher. No amount of cramming could make up for what I didn't learn that one semester of lingusitics.
- New designs! The one above is in the shop PLUS this one now too. I also did three custom designs that came out awesome. The creativity was flowing elsewhere, especially since it wasn't flowing here.
- Went to the gym and walked Belle. Nice weather in these parts!
- Text my mom on her iPhone. Yes, she texts now, and it's awesome. Mostly because now I don't have to interrupt her day with a phone call to tell her one little thing. Really, I'm doing her a favor.
- Picked out a birthday cake I'd like to make Erica in the February Martha Stewart. A-MAHZING. Her birthday isn't until April, so I don't know if I can wait that long.
- Ate brown sugar from the bag and Erica's grandma's apricot jelly from the jar. It's because there wasn't any candy or ice cream. Or flour to bake cookies.
- True story about the brown sugar: on the same day I was eating it from the bag, my sister text me to tell me that she got a tummy ache from eating too much brown sugar. FAMILY.
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But I can't figure out whether you intentionally took the week off from blogging or if it just happened. Either way, I missed you. And it is good to know someone else eats brown sugar from the bag. That's a bad habit I am trying to break. But I only do it when there isn't anything else sweet to eat!
ReplyDeleteYes, about Wednesday I decided to take the whole week off. And I didn't look back.
DeleteI love this post. I spent some time wishing I had gone to Alt but knowing that I would be so out of place there. I love the party design at the top - something about yellow and grey that gets me every time!
ReplyDeleteRemember when we ate so much candy it made us sick?
ReplyDeleteI was a total brat about the esl praxis entirely because of that linguistics class that was SO! HORRIBLE! I was/am so confident that I have zero skills to deal with the linguistics part, which is why I finished my masters in ESL more than four years ago but never took the praxis. ugh.
ReplyDeleteNow you know why I put the brown sugar in the freezer in the basement. And we could text from my bedroom on the farm in Jewell County, which is a huge technology step forward.
ReplyDeleteI told you that brown sugar story IN CONFIDENCE. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteDid you see above where Mom admitted the same thing?
Deletei have never eaten brown sugar from the bag. never even occurred to me. sounds like you had a busy and productive week- did you not have school? i'm confused.
ReplyDeleteNo school Monday. The rest of the week I was at work.
DeleteGlad you took a break! Welcome back. And I am now going to try eating brown sugar from the bag..
ReplyDeleteI found E Tells Tales last winter... great writer, and YES - you can get all caught up in her story!
ReplyDeleteYou have really brought the brown sugar samplers out of the closet. While I LOVE sugar, in most any form, I have never actually eaten brown sugar from the bag. I will inhale a half bag of marshmallows, though, which is basically the same thing.
ReplyDeletecute post. just like you. and LOVE the latest RV parties invites...is the peanut one for a certain E you and I both know? :) All so darn cute.
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