Make-up

Alas, another thing that I love. I am not as bad with make-up as I am with some things, but I love to get new make-up and to try new things. I don't have to wear it all of the time. There are times when I go days without it, but I love to play with it.

It is so much fun to get that new eyeshadow or compact. I love lip gloss. I used to be a lipstick person. I would have to dress up for work so I wore it almost everyday. Since I have had kids I am all about the lip gloss. It is less messy, it doesn't smear as easily and can be put on without a mirror as I run out the door (or in the car or the store or not at all).

Duels

I have been giving a lot of thought to the comment Darkthane made on my last post. He suggested that dueling was a source of entertainment. The idea has merit, but I discovered a few flaws.

It seems that the duel would be between two men that I liked, one man that I liked and one I didn't or two that I didn't like. The first would be bad because someone I liked would be wounded or dead. The second could have the same result and to add insult to injury I would be stuck with someone I didn't like. The third wouldn't be any fun at all because I wouldn't care or would again get me stuck with someone I didn't like.

If my understanding of period etiquette is correct a proper lady couldn't watch anyway. That is if the men involved actually told her about it in the first place. If you chose to go, you were most likely not proper in which case you would have just run off with the guy in the first place.

Finally, if everything went well and it all turned out for the best, your hero would be sweaty and/or bloody. He would want some kind of a kiss and that would be the end of your dress. Can you imagine trying to get blood out of lace or velvet? Your maid would surely give notice and without a good ladies maid there is no telling what you would look like.

I am afraid that when all is said and done duels are much more fun if you are the duelist. Hmmm I think I need to get a sword.

Lady in Green

Do you see her off to the left? Sitting there in her pretty green dress. I bet she never has to do laundry or clean the house. I bet someone else does her hair, gets her dressed and makes sure her shoes match what she is wearing. I bet she spends her time walking in Tudor gardens while handsome young Lords quote Shakespearean sonnets. She gathers flowers and sings. The only thing that she has to do is be polite and pretty.

Some days that sounds like something I would like to do. Hmmm, it might be fun for a day or two but with my luck I would be bored senseless in a very short amount of time. Drat my practical side. Oh well, it was a nice thought while it lasted.

Ode to a nap

This is bliss. I sit in the living room in silence save for the clicking of my keyboard. Both, I repeat both of my boys are sleeping. No one is climbing on me, yanking at me, yelling at me or telling me that if they don't have crackers they will starve to death right now. I really should have taken a nap myself but I could not stop sitting here and reveling in the quiet. There are so many things I could/should do. None that I actually want to do and in a very few minutes they will wake up and the bustle will begin again. But for now I sit and think about how nice it is to sit and do nothing.

To cake or not to cake...

Some how I have gotten into birthday cake decorating. When I think about it, I know which steps I took to get where I am now, but I don't totally understand the escalation. I spent more hours than I want to think about decorating a Winnie the Pooh cake that got eaten in about five minutes. I love my kids and if this makes their birthday special than I will do it happily. I just never saw myself as the cake decorating type. I don't really even like cake decorating. I don't hate it and I don't love it either. So I spent most of the day coated in frosting of one shade or another. It doesn't help that their birthdays are right on top of each other and I have to do two cakes in less that two weeks. I am just glad that birthdays are once a year.

Technitis Part 2

My Mother-in-Law just recently bought a new camera. I am now suffering from a major case of camera envy. I am hopeless. I have spent most of the evening doing research on different cameras. As my dear Cardinal says when I get an idea in my head (especially tech toys) I can not let it go until I have a list ten miles long as to why I need said object. Heaven help me if the object in question can be found in the color purple. I think the only thing I love more than purple is Dr. Pepper.

Technitis

Somewhere along the line I got addicted to technology. I am not sure exactly when it happened but I am fairly certain that it happened after I got married. I know that I am addicted I have to be. How else can I explain a day spent "tweaking" my blog, adding and organizing music on my ipod, checking email, playing on the Internet, and finally posting to my blog. To make matters worse I discovered why Cardinal was so excited to get a 24" monitor. It is fun to open multiple windows and be able to see both at the same time. I am not sure what has happened to me. I don't know what to do if I don't have my laptop, wireless Internet, ipod, palm pilot, cell phone etc. I just have to hope that technitis is not fatal. I doubt that I will find a cure and what is worse I am pretty sure that I wouldn't want to be cured anyway.

Today's Special

On our menu tonight we are featuring an old favorite Left-over Mommy. This dish comes with a side of exhaustion and a dash of impatience.

Some days just get to you. I got caught up on some chores around the house and the laundry is no longer an avalanche waiting to happen. The kids are outside playing (I love warm weather). I am actually starting to wind down and feel something vaguely resembling normal ( at least as normal as I ever get).

Maybe tomorrow I will feel better. Maybe I will have time to think.

Oh no I did it again

I started a new project, finished the dragon book and did not work at all on the shawl that is almost done. My life is a series of unfinished projects. My house is still a mess. I still have not settled on the background for my blog. My Saturday was way too busy. So I start the week in pretty much the same place that I started last week. Hopelessly behind on my to do list with more to dos appearing as I sit here blogging.

I did get to go to the theater last night. I saw "The Miracle Worker" at the Hale Center Theater.
It was an excellent performance. I love to go. It reminds me that I have an education and a brain. I have always loved the theater. It opens a window to a new world or a new way of seeing the world I live in. Lately I have been more interested in costuming and set design than anything else. It is especially fun when it is a play that I have seen before and I can see how the differences change the feel of the story. It gives me something to think about for the next several days.

Babble

Life can be so noisy. You get used to the noise and then when it is quiet you are not sure what to do with yourself and you can't think because it too quiet. Sometimes I think that I concentrate better if I have something to ignore. My favorite way to ignore things is to read. I read to escape. I love to read fantasy. Once upon a time in a land far, far away.... How I love the feelings that come with those words. The possibilities, the vistas, the potential that opens before me every time I open a book. I rarely meet a book that I don't like or isn't worth reading at least once. I could spend most of my life buried in a book. (Cardinal with argue that I do that anyway.) I am in the middle of a lovely book about dragons right now. Dragons have been done to death. It takes a skilled author to do dragons well. I will have to let you know when I finish the book.