busybee

Dear Florida... its been nice knowin ya!

 

So here I sit in the Tampa airport, waiting to board my plane to get me HOME!

Oh home.  I miss you so. 

I am just a home-girl at heart.  Keep me on the ground, and give me my couch and my bed and my kitties curled up on my lap. 

Florida was good.  Weather was deliciously sunny and warm.  Wish I could pack that up in my suitcase and take it home with me.  But, alas, I head home to cold and snow and rain and ice.  Joy.

I also head home to kids and Jeff and kitties who have been deprived of warm laps to lay on...  Well...  The cats.  Not the kids and Jeff.  Though my lap is always open to them as well. 

The carpet at the airport is giving me motion-sickness at the moment.  NO JOKE.  So I think I am going to pack it in and be still for a while.

See you in NH!!

leaving on a jet plane...again.

 

Heading off to FLA (again) for some software training for a project that is upcoming at work.

What's exciting about this trip is not the wealth of knowledge that I will return home with, but the fact that while in FLA I will get to see Bird...  I've missed him a TON these past 4 months...  Very happy about that!

I hear it's chilly in FLA right now.  So I packed sweatshirts and socks.  But I'm thinking that compared to snowstorms and -28 degree days, 60 degrees is going to feel BALMY.

Palm trees.  (That's all that needs to be said.)

I'll be blogging from the road.  Oh yes.

dining room banter.

Right now I am supposed to be packing for my business trip which I am leaving for tomorrow.  But I am between loads of laundry and I am digesting the pizza that I just ordered.  And my kids are gone.  And Jeff is on vaca with his kids & fam. 

I.  AM.  BORED.

I've been working on decorating my dining room, and snapped a couple pics...  I found this REALLY CUTE little buffet/sideboard at Target in the 70% off section.  Score?!  YES, THANK YOU!  I would eventually get a table that is dark wood to match.  But for now, the one I have will do...  Also picked up some new candles, and snapped a shot of my little wine cork collection!  Check it out:

  
 
And...  My parents gave me a cool little shelf that I tucked into the corner of my staircase...  the perfect spot to stash this vintage kitchen scale I picked up at a flea market a couple years ago!

   

I am still working on finding cool things to put on my mantle shelf...  And still looking for the perfect table runner...

It's weird...  But this really feels like my first HOME. 

That is all for today!!

better late than never.

 

This was intended to be shared on Valentine's Day...  but sharing it today is just as good.

Yes, the above picture is of a textured sidewalk, something that Jeff and I joke about often since my discovery of his secret lust for them. 

But the serious truth is...  Sometimes something good is made better by just one little extra addition.  

Jeff is my texture.

Because, let's face it.  Sidewalks are pretty cool on their own, but when you add the texture, you potentially save a visually impaired person from becoming winshield-salad.

And that, my friends, is pretty great!

(I love you, Babe!!)

hi internet!

The kids and I tried out our new webcam last night.  Alyza was particularly interested.  We are new to video-blogging, so we did not know what to say.  It ended up being a small speech therapy session for Keegan, and a lesson on the important things for Alyza. Riveting material, my friends...

Anyway.  Enjoy. 

Also...  If you would like to contribute to the "shoot-Steph-in-the-face-for-having-such-an-annoying-voice" fund, please let me know.  We'll set something up on Paypal.

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oh luuuuucy!

Yes.  I have some s'plaining to do.

I know.

I KNOW!

Firstly.  I'd really just like to thank you guys.  You checked in, you worried, and you cared.  I did not intend to make you worry, but it means a lot to me that you did.  I guess I just needed a sabbatical.  I didn't realize that I did, until it was 3 weeks later, and I was sitting here thinking...  "Oh crap."

No joke...  I was struggling for a few weeks...  I struggled at work with a very stressful situation, which is still not resolved, and is still causing me much anxiety...  I struggled as a Mom while my daughter vocally expressed her excitement over the fact that her Dad was moving in with his girlfriend and his girlfriends daughter, and she was excited to have a new family and a new sister...  I needed some time to come to terms with that, and let it go.  I struggled as a girlfriend while Jeff and I fumbled through some bumps in our road.  I was stressed.  I was sad.  I was exhausted.  And then my body rebelled, and I got sick.  And one day I sat here to write something witty, and my brain farted so loudly that it exploded, and it was then that I realized...  I needed a freaken break.

Dear life.  Sometimes you suck.  Love, Steph.

But.  I am back.  Ready to resume regularly scheduled blog posting.  And full of great stuff (accumulated over the past 3 weeks) to share with you all!  Maybe even some video-blogging from my new laptop (oh yes...  Thank you to the IRS for the lovely gift!   Thank you to the sucky economy for the SWEET DISCOUNT!)

So thank you for caring, thank you for being patient, thank you for my little unspoken sabbatical...

I am back.