Category Archives: Life

I’d have more to offer on the finished project front if I weren’t so totally wrapped up in working on gifties for the new nephew who will be arriving sometime around the first of September. I don’t know if my brother reads my blog, so I’m not going to post a thing.

I’ve also got about 7 other things going on in the background, at least one of which will be seen soon. So I’ll have some, you know, actual content. LOL.

Have to work today, which is always a joy. I think half the world will be at the parade. Bad for sales, good for my sanity. Fingers crossed.

Firefly cupcakes!

(Via CraftyCrafty)

I’m a wicked big country music fan. Sort of.

See, the thing is this: I grew up listening to country music. Hank Williams, Jr., Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, George Strait, and many, many more. I remember my dad being upset about what was happening to country music back in the mid-80s…a particular dislike of Randy Travis comes to mind, though I may be misremembering.

I’ve listened to a crazy amount of country since then. And it’s seemed for a while now that as time goes on country seems more and more likely to exercise its particular propensity for terrible lyrics. We know not the line between whiny and sad, or cheesy and meaningful. Not to mention all of the bending metaphors until they snap (I’m looking at you, Carrie Underwood. Jesus will not be driving my car for me any time soon.).

Point being that I don’t necessarily expect a ton out of this stuff, lyrically, but “Love You This Big”? Really? I mean, really?

There’s hope for the other song, though, and I might not even have to turn off the radio if I hear it there. You see, it’s got a traditional streak in it, no matter how crossover it may sound: it’s got mama. It may not have trucks, or trains, or prison, or getting drunk, but it’s got mama.

And that’s something.

Been an odd couple of months personally, and it’s not much worth getting into here, though I have set up a fledgling blog for the sort of thing I don’t necessarily want to discuss here. Not sure whether I’ll really use it, so I’ll wait before linking…might well take a while before the thing is truly underway, if ever.

There are never enough hours in the day.

Most of them go something like this: drag ass out of bed. Go to work. Hide with a book at lunch; can’t knit/crochet because then I have to talk to people and all they want to talk about is work, and 9 times out of 10 in a nasty, gossipy fashion that I really don’t want to even listen to, much less participate in. Come home to howling kids, shove them through the evening with varying levels of help, depending on who is more exhausted at that stage, drop into bed, telling myself that tomorrow I’ll manage to get something other than the gruntwork done, pass out.

Rinse. Repeat.

Note that crochet, knitting, and blogging have lost their places in this scenario. And man is my personality getting crispy around the edges. I’m wicked burned out and tend to feel like I don’t have much to say, anyway because of that.

Well, and it’s hard to keep up a crochet and knitting blog with no crochet or knitting. Heh.

Anyway, I never announce that I’m back to blogging because that invariably winds up with total fail, but I thought I’d drop by. Just, you know, in case. Because I might just actually manage to pull it off someday…