Life lately.

Since we have been back from Hawaii time has been flying by.  I feel like I work, have a few days off and all the sudden two weeks has gone by!  It has been good to get back into the swing of life, picking up a few work shifts, doing regular household chores, and cuddling with my kitties. There is nothing like vacation that rests you up so good that you can enjoy your day to day life that much more.  

I LOVED vacation but I missed crafting.  When we got home I started using my silhouette more.  I made this little mobile for the wall by having the machine cut out the hearts, then I sewed them together, then attached them to a (wet) stick I found in the backyard.  So far the kittens have left it alone for the most part, and it is still intact and on the wall. 

We have had a few sunshiney days and I try to enjoy every minute of them when I am off of work. This particular day I had a ton of paperwork to do, so I was in my craft room all day long, and the cats loved it.  The craft room gets the warmest when it is sunny out because there are two windows and sun streams in both, I love it! 

Since I have moved to days Paul and I have a new little ritual.  If I work and he doesn't he (usually) cooks dinner.  I LOVE this.  This particular night he made sauteed pork and rice, it was so yummy and we had quite a few left overs.  He texted me the next day at work to say the leftovers had spilled all over the carpet. So sad :(  At least he knows how to resolve the carpet and it was perfectly clean with no stains.  

Crazy story about my friends engagement ring.  She took it in to have resized and they returned the wrong ring to her a month later and didn't tell her they had switched it.  The new ring (on the right in both pictures) was a whole half a karat bigger but the quality of the diamond was much worse and it wasn't set right.  It was probably worth less money than the previous ring.  Sara was upset they had done this and her and her fiance went back to Kay's jewelers and kindly asked (demanded) to have their money back.  Sara now has an amazing new engagement ring that she loves even more than the first.  Kay's lost her business forever. 

Paul and I decided to go out on a Valentines day date a day early, so we wouldn't be eating out with everyone else.  We were super classy and went in sweats to our favorite cheap mexican restaurant where you can get two amazing and huge burritos and a drink for $15.  This whole eating out a day early thing didn't work so well though because I had a particularly tiring shift on valentines day (and Paul was off) so we ended up going to a Thai restaurant when I got home because he didn't want to cook and I didn't want to clean.  

Eric is in love with this shoe string.  He drags it everywhere in his mouth and goes crazy if you try and take it from him! 

My parents came this weekend and my mom and I went and got our hair cuts together!   I hadn't had a hair cut in soooo long.  I had been wearing it in a pony tail for the last few months, and it feels so good to have it down and cute again.  I had a new hair stylist (my last one left to be with her baby, second time this has happened to me!) and she was amazing.  She has only worked there since December and said she wasn't having babies any time soon, so I hope to keep going to her.  She spent and hour and 15 minutes cutting my hair! 

Friday after work I decided I deserved a little shopping spree.  I went to Gap and Banana Republic at the Supermall and spent the $25 gift card Paul had given me as a little treat.  This cardigan and shirt cost $15 total, I love super sales, and using a gift card to get them! 

Yesterday at work I had to take care of an extremely rude and racist patient.  She didn't mind white females, well you may get called a bitch a few times but that is NOTHING compared to the other crap that came out of her mouth.  She told me her mother was going to get me and that Dr. Oz was against me.  Anyway, I had to sit in there for 15 minutes to relieve the 1:1 sitter and wear this beautiful isolation gown.  I sat there thinking about how awful she had treated some of the CNA's and how no one, no one at all should ever have to hear those things said about them.  I hope they refuse to take care of her in the future. And then I ate a cupcake and tried to forget about her.  It didn't work. 

I started watercoloring and made this little picture for my friend Ciara who just became a Nurse Nonpracticing at age 25.  I am so so proud of her and put this little ditty together as a congrats present.  It arrived at her place today and I can't wait for her to come home from work to it.  I need to start sending out little gifts more often because it is so fun! 

Ps, sunshine on an unmade bed makes me smile.  My bed used to NEVER be unmade, but now that Paul gets out of bed after me it seems like it is never made, oh well, who sees it that cares besides me? No one.  So now my bed is made on my days off.  It sometimes bothers me, but not when there is sunshine streaming into my room, I just want to jump in bed and snuggle under the sheets! 

AARP keeps sending Paul letters and invitations, how old do they think he is??  I have been cleaning up little areas around the house and found Paul has about a million name tags (he has a ton more that don't say assistant manager on them as well).  Before he was married (or dating me) he was always losing them.  Now I put them away on a regular basis and when he brings them home I make sure they go to their home.  I bet he has 5 more at work too! 

Another picture of the food Paul made, and a picture of me at costco,  I went for some fruit and spent over $100, I hate it when that happens.  At least everything was healthy besides the pizza and I finally bought a blender (I have been waiting for Costco to have a good semi cheap one so if it breaks I can return it even two years later).  Oh and I got two boxes of plastic bins to organize in.  They are the best. 

I have started making greeting cards from the scraps of the silhouette.  This is the quote I used for Ciara and when I was pealing the outer layer off I thought to myself, this would make an awesome card.  I did this with hearts earlier as well.  I love how they turned out!  

I had coffee and a cookie for breakfast one day and it was amazing.  I wish I could do that every day and for one stay full and two not get fat!  

I had to call into a conference for my grandpa who is in a rehab facility right now after losing some strength after a hospital visit and I colored throughout the phone call when I wasn't taking notes.  I forgot how much I love coloring.  I hope when I have kids they love to color because it is oh so therapeutic for me!  Oh and I dressed up for the first time in ages to go to church and it was oh so fun to wear cute clothes instead of yoga pants or scrubs.  Cute clothes aren't as comfy though so I think I will stick with the yoga pants 98% of the time. 

More watercoloring.  My m om got me into it, and I just ordered my very own set of watercolors from amazon that should be here any day now.  

On Saturday we all went to Seattle to have dinner with my brother for his birthday.  We went to this awesome little Italian restaurant at like 7:30 pm (we had to wait for Paul to get off work and parking in Seattle was a doozy).  It was so fun to all be together and just hang out while enjoying absolutely amazing food!   My brother grew his hair out on accident.  He said when he does get it cut it will be short.  It is not long (and curly!!- we never knew!) because he wanted it long, it was because he was too lazy for a hair cut. Now he is going to look crazy to everyone once he gets short hair again!  

And that my friends has been my last two weeks.  I work Friday- Monday now and am prepping myself to be very tired.  I have to psych myself up for my "long" stretch of work.  I know normal people work 5 days in a row, but wow, I just can't imagine! 

I have loved reading all your guy's posts as of late! :)