As I wait for the baked chicken I made for dinner to finish cooking, I decided to upload a few of the photos from the festival this weekend. While it was exhausting, it was also a lot of fun. The only things I attended myself were the street dance, fireworks and the airshow. It rained off and on all weekend so I didn’t really want to frolic around the arts and crafts show or the carnival — it was pretty soggy out there from what I heard.

Here’s a warning though.. lots of pictures to follow the first few (Blue Angels, parachute fellow, and some of my nephews) , click to view the rest of the entry to view them all. These aren’t the best photos of the Blue Angels by any means, but heck.. they’re hard to keep up with at their speed, ha ha!

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Guilty as charged. Behind again, on this blog and catching up.. which I haven’t gotten a chance to do yet. There’s just been a lot going on and I’ve been working a lot.. A LOT.. which is good, and I love it.

This weekend is going to be packed full too, so I’m trying my hardest to complete all of my design work by late tonight. This weekend is the Onion Festival. Friday night we’re taking the boys to the fire works show. We’ve decided against the street dance though — too many people, and it would be hard to keep up with the boys since they tend to run off from all of us at times. My absolute favorite part of this festival is the air show. We’re going to that Saturday. I can’t wait to see the Blue Angels. They’ve been practicing some this week, so it’s getting me super excited about Saturday. I’m not sure what events they have for the air show other than that. Usually they have the stealth flyover but yeah, not sure that’s on this year’s schedule. I’ll have a look at the website later today.

I bought some furniture from an antique store a couple of months ago, so my dad went with me yesterday to pick it up. I can’t believe they didn’t have someone there to help us with that, especially that chest. It’s solid wood. Even the smaller two top drawers are heavy. I noticed some pain in my lower back shortly after we did it, which makes me think I did something to it when we moved it. My back is still sore today, but not nearly as bad thankfully.

With all of this beautiful sunshine we’ve had lately, I decided to change out my bedding. The previous bedding wasn’t really that dark, in fact it was really bright colors — pink, aqua, lime green, yellow & purple (plaid quilt set). I just wanted something that wasn’t really so bold. My mom bought a really lovely set by Simply Shabby Chic for me, so I changed it out to that. I’ll post a picture below, but it’s a little dark so I’m not so sure it’s going to do this bedding justice!

I need to get back to work. I have a lot on the agenda today. Hopefully after this weekend I’ll have time to finally catch up with everyone!

Sorry. I’ve been busy. Very busy.

Finally fought off both bronchitis and acute sinusitis (the sinusitis resulted in acute left and right middle otitis) after a visit to the ER and 7 days of antibiotics. Relapsed for a couple of days, fighting off a bad sore throat, weakness and coughing. I do feel better now, but I’m noticing that I’m still having a lot of wheezing and coughing — could be the pollen, I guess?

This week has been spent with Tyler, Landon and Trent — Spring break. Fun times.. well, not so much at times.

Busy with designs.. whipping them out as fast as I can. Trying to keep up.. so far, so good.. I think.

A little sad. The family is selling my grandma and grandpa B’s house. So strange walking through there now. Different wall color.. different floors.. no furniture… nothing that connects that house to our family anymore.. the memories are still there of course. Going back there doesn’t feel “right” somehow. Life goes on though. You have to move on.

I’m going to take this entire weekend to get fully caught up. That’s my plan anyway. Whether or not I actually meet that goal.. guess we’ll see!

Weather has been rough today. Tornado watches, severe thunderstorm warnings… Ahh! My favorite time of year.

I must go. I’ll update better soon. And catch up with all of you. Promise!

First off, I am happy to announce that my divorce has been granted — that nightmare is finally over. My attorney’s office contacted me Friday to let me know they were mailing my final decree. I am so happy that I can close that chapter in my life, for good.

I’ve come down with a rotten illness. I originally thought it was just allergies and sinus trouble, but since Friday I’ve become very weak, congested, lose my energy and to boot, I’m very wheezy and coughing A LOT. It’s rather hard to catch my breath. I slept until well after 2pm today, and trust me.. that is almost unheard of with me. I’m usually (on most occasions) in bed by 11pm or so and up by 7-8am. I must have dozed off around midnight-ish last night, so to sleep that late is odd. I guess it’s the medication I’m taking, since it warns it could (in this case, will) cause drowsiness. I hope I get over this soon.

On top of that, I’ve injured my knee. I twisted it, and I swear, it was just like I could feel my knee roll. I just cringe thinking about that feeling. To make things worse for the knee, it’s the knee I injured back in middle school, which they operated on to repair the ripped cartilage (it was hanging by a thread and nearly confined me to a wheelchair). I’m not sure if it’s a result of twisting my knee, but I have been “Charlie horsing” myself. I’ve done it half a dozen times at least. I’m trying to keep off of my feet as much as possible, but that’s honestly making me feel worse. I’m so tired as it is, from the medication, so giving me an excuse to not really do anything on my feet… yeah, that’s not helping.

I guess I shouldn’t complain though. At least I’m working through several designs for clients today. I’m hoping to get mockups out by the end of the day, to those I’ve recently booked. I’ve sent 2 out so far today, hoping to send out at least 2 more and launch 2 others. Hoping.. hopefully I don’t pass out again.

“Picky” (not sure why my sister named her that, but I assume because the cat is much like other cats — picky/finicky) would like to introduce her kitt-lets to you, but please excuse the kitty bum in the background — tehe.

First we have “Trash Jr” (male) — given the name because his “daddy’s” name is Trash (got in to the trashcan a lot as a kitten).

Then we have my two new babies, Izzy (female) and the unnamed kitten seen in the kitty bum picture above (male).

I love Izzy’s little pink nose.. and I love how the unnamed kitten looks so much like Bella to me — long haired, big face. In case you can’t tell, I’m a cat person. I can’t wait to get these babies home. I hope Jynx is OK with them. I’m hoping that because they’re much younger and she’s had a couple of litters herself, she’ll behave. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.

But seriously… who can resist such cute kitties??? Not me!!

I guess I need to sit down and think up a name for fluff-butt kitty. Hmm..