Brief Hiatus.

It's Christmas break. I'm thinking I may delve into something crazy. Maybe I can make this? I have no idea really....

This is the Tuxedo Bedding from Anthropologie - and I think it's BEAUTIFUL.

wow.

Telephones.

I believe this is called "Telephone".

Miss Kayla Dawn

Dear Kayla, I feel like you need these.  I'm not sure where
this feeling is coming from, but it's definitely a feeling I am
having.  $35 - $38 via UncommonGoods.com

So here's how today goes.

It is day 3 of my little personal challenge.  I promised myself to do the next bouldering comp at the Rock Haus next time one rolls around, which is apparently in December.  Erk!  I shook on it with Brad, Tony, Trevor, and Mike at the gym and if I don't do it I have to buy each of them a hoodie.  Why a hoodie?  Wellll Brad and I have this little inside joke.... apparently he only has 1 hoodie to his name, or so it would appear, which he wears every day of the winter.  So.  I promised him I'm gonna get him a new hoodie if I don't follow through. Besides the comp, I made this goal to climb 4 out of 7 days each week.  SO far, I'm 3 for 3.  That's just because I rock.  This challenge is two-fold.  1.  Get in better shape.  2.  Control/mediate my spending habits. 

And the reward is a new iPod.  Shoot.  I want it.

 What I'm finding is I just need consistency with climbing.  I'm already doing so much better.  I am bouldering at an almost 300 level - I guess that's a V2 or V3 which isn't bad considering how terrified I am of heights.  I made some big moves that scared me so bad and I'm Sooooo glad I did.  I red-pointed some 5.10s and finished one with a little crack climbing, too.  I feel so good - which is the goal.

Not me... yet.  Climbing outdoors is a different beast.

 AND another little goal I've got is to brain wash myself into understanding my worth and my talents.  This little number is hanging all over my room:

I like it.  I think it's cute.  And I'm already feeling a little better.

Remind me to make these and throw a Halloween party.http://nicolehill.blogspot.com/

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Stolen!

Thanks to my lovely friend Nicole at sarcasmforbreakfast.blogspot.com, I am planning on making one of these for my mother for Christmas.  Maybe I'll even by one...?  Who knows?

d.i.y. MUST HAVE.

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homework diversion.

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Post Secret

Sitting at work.

So I'm sitting at work in the 'information commons' of the Merrill-Cazier Library.  For the most part, this is a pretty awesome job. I only wish that I had photoshop and illustrator to work on some random projects.


Last night, thanks to my self-imposed 'sleep pressure' that I always fail to fulfill, I didn't get much sleep.  I tried to go to bed AFTER Britt had already gone to bed.  This is always a mistake.  For whatever demented reason, my body knows when I want it to sleep - and it just won't comply.  Instead, I find myself tricking my body into sleeping by falling asleep with the bedroom light on and Britt still working on her homework.  This way, my mind/body THINKS I'm just doing what I want - as always - and thus has the choice to go to sleep or not.  When I turn the lights out and expect my body to fall asleep - oh contrare!  I lay awake for hours.  Thinking.  You know what I'm talking about, I'm sure.


ANYWAY.  Yesterday, Sheth (Shauna + Seth) and I made these muffins.  Ironically, the house was full of non and used-to-be Mormons.  How appropriate.  I went home.  Tried to sleep. And this is what happened at 3 in the morning. 

Mormon Muffin Recipe
	Ingredients
	2 5 1 2 4 1 5 1 4 2 1	cups teaspoons cup cups each quart cups teaspoon cups cups cup	boiling water baking soda shortening sugar eggs buttermilk flour salt All Bran Cereal 40% Bran Flakes walnuts (chopped)
Directions: Add soda to boiling water and set aside.  Whip shortening and sugar until light and fluffy.  Add the eggs slowly.  Mix well.  Add the buttermilk, flour, salt and mix again.  Add the soda water very slowly.  Gently fold the cereals and the walnuts into the mix. Spoon 1/8 cup into greased muffin tins.  Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.  Let cool for 5 minutes. Muffin mix must sit in the refrigerator over night before baking.  Muffin mix will last one week, covered and refrigerated.  Yields 3 dozen muffins.

Hard to see.  This is just a screen-shot of my email inbox, since I'm not on my personal computer.  Mary  asked if I would help her come up with a new design for her blog.  These are 3 quick little headers I whipped out.  Then, try as I might, I still couldn't sleep.  Perfect. MMMk.  So the other day I was sitting with my new co-worker, Tara, who is getting married.  This, (obvi), led to my searching and perusing wedding blogs.  Irk.  Zzzztt.  Well.  I found some preeetty neat-o stuff.  This is one of my favorites:  The brooch bouquet.   and and  Tell me.  How classy is this?  I don't know if it's something that I'd do for my wedding... but maybe. AND finally.  I love stumbling across neat things on the interwebs.  For example.  This little blog is a treasure and I can (bashfully) totally see myself doing this kind of crafternooning later on in life.  Hopefully I become thrifty in the near future.  Here is a favorite from her stuff:    Before.  duh. AND After.  Darling.