Category Archives: musings

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Get Stuff Done!

Happy Monday!  I was able to get a little extra rest this morning, so I’m feeling pretty good besides some mild back pain.  I want to get stuff done!

I need to work on my research paper.

I need to work on a mini swap quilt.

I should take some pictures, it’s a beautiful sunny day outside.

I need to spend a little time with God this morning. (and write my post on heygoditsmelissa)

I need to meet w/ Pastor Mark for the next Bible study. (And then watch the church office during a staff meeting)

aaaaaand maybe a little housework.  Maybe.  =)

 

Update:

I did find two more sources for the impending paper, and talked about it with my friend Kevin, who also has a paper to work on, but he’s the worse procrastinator, his is due at Midnight tonight, mine on Thursday. =)

I started the embroidery for the mini quiltswap, I’d say I’m a quarter of the way done with that, and I’ll pick it back up in a few…

wrote my post, and did some volunteering at the church after I met with my co-group leader and Pastor Mark.

Made a roast, wasn’t done in time for Joe, but it will make great lunches for the rest of the week!

Did some dishes!

 

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X or Y and a Bunch of Ranting

So from time to time I hear people talk about their generation. I am sort of generationless.

I was born in 1986. I vaguely remember 1990, I remember 2000 well, and most recently 2010.

We didn’t have a computer until I was a teenager, and I didn’t have a cell phone until I was an adult. My first phone could make and receive phone calls-Period.  It wasn’t the size of my head, but it wasn’t an ultra slim touch screen.

I remember cancer going from a sure death sentence to becoming highly treatable with early detection.

I remember when you didn’t drink a bottle of water, you drank water from the tap.  Fluoride treatments were becoming a big thing, and tasted like crap.  The last one I had actually tasted like mint.

I remember us coming out of the last real estate crisis, and President Bill Clinton being elected.  I remember wondering why we were so hung up on his personal life.

I was taught that you say please and thank you, and you don’t make a scene at the grocery store.  Be careful of how you speak to others, in person or in email.  Don’t slander all over the internet.

My favorite shows included Ren and Stimpy, Step by Step, Full House, Anamaniacs, MTV (real music videos and only one interview show, as well as Beavis and Butthead), America’s Funniest Home Videos (with Bob Saget, not Tom Bergeron) and Double Dare on Nickelodeon, where everyone was slimed at some point.

I liked Neon and glow in the dark the first time around.  I remember Angel Dust being the problem drug all over the news.

Am I the last of generation X, or am I thrown into generation Y?

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No Rainbows Today

There are no rainbows today in the little KurtzCrafts world.  I try not to dwell on it, but I’m in a fair amount of pain- almost constantly.  I have a turned disc in my neck, and a bulging disc in my lower back, as well as some pinched nerves.  Some days I do okay, others I wish for something else.  I try to be positive, and think I’m lucky to have use of my legs.  (Sometimes, I’m not so positive)

Thursday and Friday were a special kind of bad, and then I visited the chiropractor for an initial visit and adjustment.  I visited a chiropractor before, but he was more expensive, and decided to move to South America… Random, I know.  So the new chiropractor x-rayed away, and then prodded, and stretched me, and then made a few adjustments.  I’m better than I was last Thursday, but I’m sitting here in my office chair with my lower back yelling at me.  If I hunch over really far, I get a little relief, but then the rest of my back is angry… *sigh*

 

Okay, I’m done with my little brooding session.  Thursday, Friday and Saturday I will have a booth at 2nd Chance Wood in Corunna, Michigan.  I believe the hours are from 9a-5p.  I won’t be there physically on Thursday, I have to work.  If you happen to wander out and say hello, the fair grounds are right around the corner, and the Shiawassee County Fair is going on this week!

 

I’ve been making tags and earring holders, I’ll have to post some pictures of my handiwork later tonight!

The war on Categories is still raging!  If you have a wordpress and you want to tackle your categories, go to your dashboard, and then on the left of the main pane, there is x number of posts, x number of pages, x number of Categories, and x number of tags.  If you click on Categories, it will show you a master list that you can add and subtract from.

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Musings and Clouds

I feel like I am two people inhabiting one body.  The more I explore this, the more I realize other people are too, they just aren’t willing to acknowledge it, or they aren’t ready to voice it out loud.

There is a reserved, book-wormish me that loves muted colors, and things in nature, and wants to spend the rest of her life helping animals.  She believes in magic, miracles, God, and spirits of Nature.  She is easy to get a long with, and compassionate.

There is a loud, boisterous me that loves wild patterns, staying up too late, and making mischief in any way possible.  This me should have been a celebrity, probably an actress or a model.  She is cynical, sarcastic and hard to get close to.  She thoroughly enjoys rubbing people the wrong way.  She believes her universe is hers, and no one can change it.

Maybe there is a third me, because the culmination of the two makes something totally different.  The reality of every day: I am an I.T. Helpdesk technician, not a vet or a star.  I am married, something I never imagined I would be.  I have an African Gray Parrot, not an entire zoo.  I create crafty things, but not nearly as often as I’d like.  I go between approachable and utterly impossible.  Half the time I love my life, and the other half, well, I don’t even like spending time with myself.  I go between happy, angry, and guilty.

Is this so really abnormal?  Am I as crazy as I suppose?

Life isn’t about what you’re thinking, but what you’re doing.  If it was about what you’re thinking, then I would be considered a totally different person, and people wouldn’t like me very much. (At least in my own opinion)  What counts is that I am committed to doing the right thing, no matter what cynical, sarcastic, awful thing that might be going through my head.  I believe God can cheer me on for that.

I’m kind of a hoarder with craft ADD.  I think a project is an amazing idea, and then I gather the supplies, then totally forget about the project, or start it without completion.  Sometimes I even complete something, but then I’m sick of it and don’t want to take the time to photograph it and put it up for sale.  It’s not that I don’t have the time, it’s that I don’t have the willpower.  The loud one? yeah, she does what she wants, and is exhausting to fight against.    (She has also saved my life)

I’m not sure why I wrote this, just in a funny mood, and felt like sharing.

On a different note, I just spent a little cash at Fire Mountain Gems.  They were having a good sale, and I wanted more sparklies.  I’ll post pics as soon as I receive them =)

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Musings Volume 1

Today is a day of observations.  (I spent most of my day photographing Take Your Child To Work Day at Asahi)  I have a feeling that this will not be the last in my “Musings” series, so I’m calling it Volume 1. 

We had 40+ children come to work with their parents, all over the age of 8.  The kids made up marketing plans, picked a mystery basket that had certain ingredients in it, and were told that they had to make their ice cream sound the best.  The kids came up with some great schemes.  They were all little sellers.  All profits went to our local charity we support, the Family Impact Center.  They made about $100 at $1 a bowl of ice cream. 

They were quiet and respectful of the rules we imposed upon them, kept themselves busy during lunch down time, and hawked their little hearts out when people came out from the plant to buy ice cream.  We had visitors from Japan at the office, and our President gave them each a ticket to get ice cream.  They seemed delighted and a little overwhelmed by the scene before them.  (Imagine groups of 7 children in bright yellow shirts, holding up signs and yelling about how much better their toppings are)  It was quite a spectacle.  I promise to post pictures just as soon as I can get them off of my camera.  (Tonight is quilting at a friend’s church, but I’ll try!  If all else fails, I’m home tomorrow so I’ll try to get some sewing and blogging done.)

You know, it’s funny- when you buy a domain?  People start seeing your blog.  It’s been substantial for me.  I don’t have a whole lot of followers, but people are consistently visiting my blog every day, and that is a helluva lot better than my free blogger account that I was lucky to get one view per month.  Granted, I’m writing more, and trying to do a better job of it, but that’s because I’m paying real US currency to have this blog.  Thank you for dropping by.  =)