Horrible, terrible, no good very bad day...

Sorry for my lack of posting. I haven't been feeling very creative or inspired lately. Hopefully my trips to Round Top this weekend will get my artistic juices flowing!

And I apologize in advance as I use this post to vent just for a moment. Today was one of those days that you feel like nothing is right with the world. It started off with me sleeping in way past my alarm, which I can usually handle but it seemed to throw my whole day off. Then I get to work and am bombarded from the get-go with one issue after the other. Which is somewhat normal given the nature of my job but I stayed up late with Robin last night and was a bit off my game. With my sleep deprivation, came my heightened sensitivity to EVERYTHING so no matter what someone said to me I interpreted as they hated me and I sucked.

So in no particular order here is the horribleness that was my day: a process I have been helping fix at the hospital completely fell apart this morning, my hair looked ridiculous today, I had to calm several angry physicians for various reasons, a co-worker hurt my feeling, the chicken noodle soup in the cafeteria was disgusting, I'm pretty sure another co-worker wants my job, one of the flowers I planted is dying and I can't for the life of me figure out why, I got stuck in traffic on the way home, which never happens, and I felt like a failure on more then one occasion.

Driving home I was feeling so much anxiety and for really no reason at all, and it dawned on me how do people live like this without God. How do people have days where nothing goes right or makes any sense and not have the hope of the heavenly Father to come home to? Don't worry, I am not going to get out my soap box. All that to say once my thoughts were no longer focused on myself and were properly focused on more important things i.e. the Lord, my horrible, terrible no good very bad day didn't seem so awful after all. I will try to remember this next time, hopefully at the beginning of the day instead of the end! Thank you for listening to my silly rant.

Tennis anyone?

I used to play tennis all the time when I was little, but have not had the opportunity for the last few years. I'm not interested in getting involved in competitive tennis, just something fun and active to do on a Saturday morning. Since I have been out of the tennis loop I have no clue about racquets. I dont want anything fancy or too expensive, just a good basic one that will allow me to play every once in a while. So all you tennis buffs out there please advise! And anyone interested in playing with me let me know!

Embroidery!

We had our monthly sewing circle on Saturday and it was super fun! Even as I wrote that last sentence I could feel myself morphing more and more in to a little 80 year old woman who loves to talk about needle point and her azaleas...back to the post at hand! I came fully prepared to create something with the new fabric I got from Ikea, but once I got there I wasn't really in the sewing mood, I just wanted to talk to everyone. I didn't, however, want to walk away from my dedicated sewing day with nothing to show for it, so I decided to expand my crafting and learn how to embroider. It totally opened my eyes to a whole new side of sewing! Now I can add fun little details to all the things I construct! For my first attempt I did a simple cross stitch of my initial "C" in a pretty blue turquoise color. I was searching online for some more embroidery ideas and came across sublime stitching. This site has everything you need to start embroidering, and the patterns don't look like something my great-grand mother would choose!

I love new experiences

The past few days have been filled with new experiences and I have loved every one of them!

+ New fabric from Ikea...there fabric is amazing!
+ Letter press class with Casey...read her blog for more details and pics!
+ 10K run with Julie and Christy...we beat our pace time from the half marathon we did in Jan!
+ Ft. Bend Cares Gala...I've been to gala's before but never a casual "denim and diamonds" one!
+ Trip to Enchanted Forest...we are updating our garden and I have been researching different nurseries. Enchanted Forest was like stepping into a fairytale!
+ Watching The Three Amigos...I've always heard references to this movie but never seen it for myself and it was hilarious!
+Boiled chicken tacos for dinner...last night we boiled chicken for the first time and it was delicious and so healthy!

Try something new a different this week. It will surely brighten your day!

New arrivals!

I love at the beginning of every month getting a little email from JCrew announcing their new arrivals. This particular batch of new arrivals looks amazing! Here are a few favorites that are getting me excited about Spring!

Pictures taken from JCrew.com

I think I broke it

I was working on a sewing project last night and the fabric I was working with was very thick. I passed it under the needle and my machine made a weird noise and just stopped. I ripped the fabric out from the knotted thread, and put in a new needle that is for heavy weight fabric. But again the machine would stop after a few stitches and make a funny noise. I then decide maybe my machine cant handle this type of fabric, so I tried to sew a few stitches in something very thin. And again the same thing happened. Have I broken my brand new sewing machine??? Please help!!

Get to know your Candidates

The Texas primaries are just a week away, and I hope everyone is going to go vote! I want to encourage everyone to take a few minutes and get to know the candidates. Check their websites: here, here, here, and here.

I went to Austin a few weeks ago with my leadership class and we got to meet with several state representatives. It was very enlightening for me to meet the people that are making the laws that govern our state and our country. It also got me thinking… All of these people are very real, ordinary people like you and I. They all have a sense of civic duty to make a change in the world, and they all have a heart for the people that they represent. It became increasingly more important for me to get to know who they are. These people make decisions that can dramatically affect our country and our own lives, and for the past 25 years I haven’t really taken much of an interest in them. Why not? Sometimes I feel like politics in this country is only for a closed group of people. Like not everyone can understand it…very much not true by the way! So I resolve to get to know my candidates before I vote for them. And I want to be more involved in supporting the candidates that I vote for with my time and resources. I strongly believe that ever vote matters! I know it does not always feel that way, and it’s usually easier not to care, but you should! Go get involved…it’s a lot easier then you think!