25 Random Things

OK, this post is a total cop out. I did this on facebook, and I'm just pasting it into my blog. :)

25 random things about me:

1. I have a headache almost all the time.
2. I ran Cross Country in High School, but haven't run since.
3. I got married when I was 18.
4. I took ballet lessons for 9 years (ages 3-12).
5. My children are both my greatest joy and my greatest frustration.
6. I love to scrapbook. About a year ago, I switched to digital scrapbooking, and it's the BEST.
7. My husband is probably the smartest person I know.
8. I am ridiculously obsessed with Twilight and Robert Pattinson (and it took a ridiculous amount of effort not to put this as number 1 on my list).
9. I sell Twilight Scrabble pendants on ebay, but I'm not brave enough to sell them on etsy. I just don't feel like I can compete there.
10. My 2 year old daughter is laying on the floor in only a diaper, waiting for me to finish this list.
11. I spend way too much time on the computer.
12. I allow my kids to play video games and watch TV way too much.
13. I like to laugh. I make a joke out of everything. I think it's a defense mechanism.
14. I can't stop buying Twilight merchandise (jewelry, shirts, buttons, blanket, etc.)
15. I've seen the Twilight movie 10 times (so far) in the theater.
16. I'm going to try not to mention anything else Twilight related in this list.
17. I have watched every Star Trek movie and TV episode ever made (from every series).
18. I miss living near my mom, but I love Dallas.
19. I love to blog, but haven't felt like doing it for the last couple of months (maybe Facebook is to blame).
20. I'm done having kids.
21. I hate calling people (except my mom). Even friends. Calling people scares the crap out of me. But once I start talking on the phone, I never stop.
22. When I'm hungry, I'm really mean.
23. I have a bachelor's degree in Family Sciences.
24. I love to sleep.
25. I didn't put very much time or effort into this list. I just wrote the first 25 things that came into my head.

A Little Bit Neurotic?

Emma likes to line up her toys. She's very particular about it, too. If one of them falls over she gets really upset, throws herself on the floor, and screams. The funny thing is that Isaac used to do the same thing with his toys (minus the screaming).

Oh, and see all those stuffed animals in the top picture? Emma sleeps with ALL of those in her crib. And she knows if even one of them is missing. They must ALL be there, ALL the time. Craziness!

Texas Weather

The only thing consistent about Texas weather is that it's inconsistent. At least in the Winter (the Summer is another story). Some days it feels like winter in California. We can wear short sleeved shirts without a jacket and be completely comfortable. On one of the days like that during January our family headed over to the Arbor Hills Nature Preserve in Plano. It's not so pretty over there in the winter (because the trees are bare and the grass is dead), but the weather was beautiful! The kids had fun riding their bikes (actually scooters and tricycle) and playing on the playground. Emma got tired after a little while, but didn't want to get off her trike to walk, so David took off his belt and hooked it up so he could pull her along. Good idea, David! :)


All in all, it was a good family day. And I'm glad we took advantage of the nice weather, because 3 days later was this (ice):


The good thing is, if you don't like the weather in Texas, you can just wait 5 minutes. :)

Just not in the mood

A couple people have expressed concern at my lack of blogging. No worries. Everything is great with me, I just haven't felt like blogging. I'm not exactly sure why. But here are some of the things I have been doing instead of blogging:

1). Facebook: It's just so much easier to update my status with a quick one liner than it is to blog. And I love how quickly and easily I can connect with friends and see what they're up to.

2). Twilight Mom Altered Book Round Robin: I signed up on the Twilight Moms forum to do an altered book round robin. For those of you who don't know what altered books are, here's the definition from Wikipedia:

An altered book is a form of mixed media artwork that changes a book from its original form into a different form, altering its meaning.

An altered book artist takes a book (old, new, recycled or multiple) and cuts, tears, glues, burns, folds, paints, adds to, collages, rebinds, gold-leafs, creates pop-ups, rubber-stamps, drills, bolts, and/or be-ribbons it. The artist may add pockets and niches to hold tags, rocks, ephemera, or other three-dimensional objects. Some change the shape of the book, or use multiple books in the creation of the finished piece of art.

Altered books may be as simple as adding a drawing or text to a page, or as complex as creating an intricate book sculpture.

And what "round robin" means is that a bunch of us are collaborating together. We each started out with a copy of Twilight (13 people are participating, so there are 13 copies of the book total). We do whatever we want to create a spread in the book, then we mail it to the next person on the list. The books are passed along like that (every 2 weeks) until our own book comes back to us. So, sometime in July I will get my book back filled with all kinds of coolness. :) This is the first time I've ever done altered books. I'm not very good at it yet. Most of the people participating paint and do all sorts of cool stuff in the book. I'm scared to death of paint, so I'm sticking to what I know... scrapbooking. I'm going with the collage style (basically paper and embellishments, just like what I would put on a scrapbook page).

Here is the spread I did in my own book:

This is the spread I did in the second book I got (Cameo's book):

These are the sign in pages I created at the front of the book. Each person in the round robin signs in on one of the tags:

3). Scrabble Pendants: I've been selling Twilight Scrabble pendants on ebay. Yeah, I'm sure you're starting to notice a Twilight pattern here. What can I say? I love Twilight and doing Twilight crafts is a good outlet for me. :) Here's some of the pendants I've been selling:


4). Reading: I really recommend "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins. That one was really good.

5). TV: Most of the year I watch little to no TV. But since "Lost" and "24" started up again, I've been keeping up with those. I know. That's not really an excuse to not have time to blog, but whatever.

6). Spring (actually Winter) cleaning: I actually cleaned out and organized my craft/scrapbooking closet. I also re-organized the media room. I took all the kids movies and video games out of their cases and put them into disc binders. It makes it SO much easier for the kids (and me) to put movies away when they're done with them. No more searching all over for the case. Or opening up the case to find that it's empty. Not to mention, now if the kids are abusing the discs (by not putting them away, leaving them on the floor, that sort of thing), I can just pick up the binder thing and take all their movies away. *evil laugh*

So, I haven't really disappeared off the face of the earth. I'm still here. I'm still happy. I'm just a more flaky blogger.