Birthday Girl!

On May 13, Jordyn has reached the ripe old age of 2!!!! It really seems like she just got here! We had a fun time at her birthday party....I think she looks a bit overwhelmed by it all here....
She loves Dora...so of course the party had a Dora theme and many gifts were Dora as well. At age 2, she was not the least bit interested in opening gifts.

24

I am still sick at how 24 ended last night.....who is the guy that is running the president? I really hoped that would be a question that got answered! But yeah....at least the pres got his come uppance! But what really made me ill was the fact that my hero is now with the Chinese....how on earth will he get out of that one? I should have more faith...after all Jack Bauer seems to always make a comeback!
Isn't it sad to get so involved in TV?
And tonight is American Idol! I will be happy with whoever wins...they are both unique and fun and talented!

Woo Hoo!

Wow...this has been a week....first off....in one day I was asked to be on 4 different creative teams! I was so surprised...I figured maybe....MAYBE....one would ask me...surprise...all four did! It was very hard to decide who to go with as I love them all!
Anyway....I will be designing for the very talented Khristy of DigiSchmidtDesigns....Lara Payton who sells her lovely kits at Digital Freebies....and on June 1 a new website is opening called 2Bscrapped! Wish I could figure out how to link to all of the blogs on my website....still can't get that one figured out!

Also....interviewed for a different job...I got the job if I want it...but I don't know if I will take it. I want to cut back to 4 days a week....plus I have never had a raise the 4 years I have been at my current job. I love all my co-workers...the dentist is a great guy...and I love the location...Kansas City Country Club Plaza....The office I interviewed at is quite similiar...I would have a yearly cost of living raise and a 4 day work week. But no vacation pay or holiday pay...so that kinda cancels out the raises????

Gotta get to bed....tomorrow is Sesame Street Live with Jordyn!

My view of the world.....

Last year, Art gave me this darling birdhouse for Mothers day and we put it on an old porch column in my flower bed. I am loving how nice it is all looking! I can look out the kitchen window and see this beautiful fence row with the iris in bloom and the cat mint...plus a grapevine is twining itself along the fence now. It is a work in progess, but I love it! 

Running into the sun but I'm running behind

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-on-one
I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on
Running on-running on empty
Running on-running blind
Running on-running into the sun
But I'm running behind
Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
I don't know when that road turned into the road I'm on
Running on-running on empty
Running on-running blind
Running on-running into the sun
But I'm running behind
Everyone I know, everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe......Jackson Browne

Ok....53 sucks big time! Turning 40 did not bother me...I guess I thought I still had half my life ahead of me....50 bothers me big time and now 53.....so what got me in the funk?

I so desperately need a career change! I am bored! I am not challenged! I need to do something that interests me and I have been doing some soul searching. I think the only way to make a career change is to go back to school. I'm seriously thinking about a 2 year degree in graphic design. Ok...that has me excited! I'm looking at the courses...seeing how to work them into my life and still work full time.

Then I go to Starbucks at lunch for a cup of hot tea and I sit and think....and I think "ARE YOU NUTS? WHY DO YOU THINK YOU CAN DO THIS?"

Every day, I go home dead tired(not because I work hard)....I'm just brain-dead from lack of stimulation and burn-out! So how am I going to have the energy to go to school and do the projects? Right now I feel like I am running on empty...I can't get it all done! Housework...yardwork...laundry...familytime...Art-time....I guess I want too much and I want it all! Maybe the schooling will energize me and give me a purpose....or have I waited too long?

I could easily be 56 before I get finished...and would anyone hire me because of my age? If the free-lance market could use me, I guess I could do that....so much to think about! Gotta keep talking myself into this and looking into. I think I will sign up for at least one class to take over the summer and see how it goes.

We are off to the lake for a fun weekend of scrapping and fellowship! My scrappin' girlfriends and I are taking off tomorrow afternoon! Happy Dance!

Bad blogger!

I am so bad about posting to my blogs...I think of things I want to post...then the day gets away from me and I am brain-dead! Sometimes I think I get absolutely nothing accomplished other than going to work...fixing supper..and going to bed. Seems like a vicious cycle...then the weekend comes and I try to cram more into it than I can possibly accomplish...and get frustrated and give up! Maybe if I write down what I actually do in a day, then go back and read it, I might not be so frustrated with myself.
My job does not challenge me! I am so burned out on dentistry! I have done this for 28 years! I don't know how to do anything else!
OK...no more whining!
I have decided to simplify my life a bit...2 weeks ago I decided to sell my lake house. Much to Art's dismay! But it is a 2 1/2 hour drive each way, gas is only going UP and UP...it is a lot to take care of 2 households! It seems I am always being pulled on weekends and wind up feeling fractured. Think I will take the profit and buy a house here in KC that is big enough for friends and family to come and stay. My plan is to have it paid for or nearly paid for by the time I retire...or at least have payments that are easy on the budget.
The realator says that lake front property is in huge demand, so we will see if my timing is right! One day after it was on the market, there was a bid, but it was $15000 below my asking price...so no to that one. Tomorrow there is someone going to look at it..so we shall see.
We are off to the lake after work tomorrow.....it looks like it will be a beautiful weekend! Hope the fish are biting!!!! I love to sit on the dock and watch the world go by! I know I will miss sitting on the deck and I will miss the incredible view! But I all ready feel like a load has been lifted and if it is meant to sell it will!

Caleb ratted me out!

There are M&M's in the cup and of course the bag of Cheetos! Caleb went home and said that Gramma gave him cheetos and M's to eat! We need to have a talk! Can't be telling our secrets, Caleb!
We had so much fun this weekend! We gave him a wooden tool set and he had a great time "fixing" everything! It is so fun to watch him play!
Late Sunday evening, I started in with the vomitting and diaherra again...seems like it has become my friend lateley. Going to the GI man today...hope he can figure out what is going on!
Living in a bathroom is no fun!