decisions, decisions

The past 2 nights, I havenot slept super well b/c I have been stressed out about what color to paint my 3 bathrooms---yes, totally lame, I know...

so anyway-- i was talking to meredith today (she had to make a long wok while at work and called me to tok) and she was saying i should spend the last few days of my summer vacation boring myself so that I will be happy to go back to work. I was trying to plan on really getting a lot of house stuff done and then being happy for the change of pace. however, given that I can't decide on colors-- i have changed my plan.

I _know_ i want my kitchen to be a pale lemon yellow. I also know that I can't paint my kitchen by myself without buying a different ladder and possibly losing my sanity. So i am thinking-- hire Jeff to do that (he did a great job on my porch). This will have to be after sappa pachi sleep away camp for canine's is over. so that puts us into after school starts---which is fine by me. I also know what shade I want the dining room. I will paint that on my own with expert advice from alana. After that, I am hoping the rest of the color decisions come more naturally. like these 2 did. I can also do touch ups on the hall color myself. I kinda regret tha hall color-- i love it, but it is very dominating. maybe i should have gone for something more subtle. I cannot pain that myself either without purchasing ladders and sanity--so if it doesn't work with the dining room, i will pay Jeff to pain that also. so all color deciding stress is off-- i could pain the dining room now, and maybe i will--but the 3 bathrooms are off the to do list. i feel like I have accomplished so much-- but really, i have just scratched things off the list. I also had to scratch off make flower beds b/c i need 8 foot long boards, and i cannot fit that into my car. I am going to have to wait until i make a friend with a truck.

so all that is really on my to do list of chores for the summer is steam clean my carpets. And this will be good b/c once it is done, i can return this beast to akka and mark and my house will instantly have more room.

today has fully been given over to laziness. I am going to salvage a tiny part of the day by taking the dogs out back and grooming them. I was super productive yesterday. it all balances out.

tipping the scale

I am 160 lbs. There, I have said it. I have been embarrassed of my weight ever since I got to 140 lbs. Which is crazy, i know---b/c that is how much I am supposed to weigh. I had always prided myself on being underweight while being able to eat whatever I wanted.

That all kinda stopped around age 22. So it has been 10 years. I hate that I am so weight concerned. I am by no means obese and I do not feel unhealthy no matter what any doctor says. Diabetes Shmiabetes, i say. However, they do say losing about 20 lbs will cure me. yes, cure me--- i will no longer be diabetic. I would like to say that that is motivating.

but really, i just want to fit into my pants again. so yesterday I was good. I have tried all the healthy ways of weight loss--now i am going to tried and true calorie counting. I have been good so far today. I am going to keep this up for weeks. If I do not lose at least 5 lbs, i give up.

plants

starting today and extending until august 23rd AT LEAST, i am planting myself in my hometown. I have been on the go all summer and now i am on the stop. during these 22 days of being here, i hope to get back into shape, get ready for school to start back up, finish all my home projects, get a lot of coffee with alana, and watch a ton of movies with heather and invite everyone to my house one night.

i just got back late last night from a sort of family reunion. My mom's 3rd cousin (sounds distant, but they were very close growing up and went to school together and everything) is in the US for the summer---and so she and her husband and her son and his family ( wife and 2 kids) visited my sister in NOVA and my parents and I (and osk, of course) drove up there and we all stayed the weekend. They are all still there, but I had to come home b/c i have a doctor's appt in an hour.

it was a lot of fun. I realize that my family is fun to hang out with--just awful to actually travel with. I just need to drive/ fly/ whatever separately and then we will be fine. oskar for a lot of attention and he looks a bit tubbier.

i also look a bit tubbier, but we do not need to talk about that other than to say that markybear is a fantastic cook.

my nephews (nate and zach) and vying for the amelia bedelia award for literalism. They are so cute. One night, zach tried to hug a sleeping oskar and just kind of plopped on him and startled him and oskar ran away. Zach was heart-broken and I told him it was okay, that oskar still loved him, he just had to call him. So Zach started looking around and i said "Zachi, just call oskar. What are you looking for?" and he answered in his cute 2 year-old voice "Phone." And nate and I have a secret club (it is easy to have a club with a 3 year-old and tons of fun. We share a room when i visit and our club meetings consist of traditional bedtime routine activities) He hates going to bed, but somehow loves club meetings. I wonder how long we can keep this ruse up. Anyway. I told him that it was his job to come up with the club's secret handshake. which he did instantly--he said "Ok, here" and he shook his hands....like he was drying them. how cute. we tried to explain what a handshake was--but he liked his version better. both kids are very amelia bedelia-ish.

ok, it is time to wok the dog them go to the doctor.

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ok-- let us see if i can go this a different way.

ok-- it worked, but now it is at the top and not in the middle of the post. can i put it in the middle of the post? do pictures suck up my storage space. it says i am using 55%. is that bad?

didn't i used to know how to do this?

alright (still have no idea if alright is a proper word) i made it smaller. hrm. i am going to have to become a better blogger.

after all these years...

I am finally marrying meredith! My mom has been suspicious of our love all along.

Well, ok--meredith is tying the not with dean, but I just got ordained via the internets and I will be performing their ceremony. I am really excited.

I want to do the whole princess bride speech (and apparently, if you do not say i do-- it is not binding)

the whole ordination process seems a bit too easy. I wonder what the catch is. Oh well-- we will see.

Meredith wants me to wear a maroon sari-- i am going to see what I can do to pull it off, but chances are that if I wrap my own sari, the pictures are not going to be pretty.

I know this is vain, but i totally need to get rid of my fat face by wedding time. I do not want to look like a blob in these photos-- and i know i am not a blob-- but i do have the fat face blues. Are there crunches made for facial muscles???

family fun

the shenoys and ronlovs are in disney world! we are having a ton of fun. we are exhausted. the kids are doing well. I miss my dog.

the warm springs

it is so wonderful here. I am sitting in a room that feels like a tree house--- all of the windows are open and it is sunny and shady and breezy. My best friend and here baby are across the table from me working on a puzzle and my best dog is at my feet thoroughly content. Our innkeeper made us a french toast casserole for breakfast. It was here last night and we just had to bake it when we wanted it. I went on a 20 minute (very hilly so i didn't get far) jog right before breakfast. Then I cooled down, ate breakfast and studied some mythology via wikipedia while sipping some coffee....I had to have the myth lesson b/c reading _The Lightning Thief_ raised some questions. I then took oskar for a wok and groomed him (with my hands) on the footbridge of the creek on our property. The b&b is full of helpful notes-- and not grooming your dog in the house, but rather near the creek was one of them. it was a good suggestion. The wind carried the doghair away and there was no cleanup--well, except for on me b/c i stupidly situated myself downwind of the dog....i noticed this early on, but osk was a bit scared of the bridge and was not going to switch positions easily. this place is fabulous. the kitchen smells like a fireplace and the sitting room is so breezy and my bed is comfortable. i am so content that I can't even manage paragraphs....jenny brought some great raspberry merlot that we had last night after a great dinner at the gristmill. We are now headed to the springs after I hose off. Then I plan on attacking the hammock and _As I lay Dying_

bliss.....