Dude Looks Like A Lady

With long, straight, limpish hair and a tendency to abuse the snooze button in the morning, my daily hairstyle for the last several years has consisted of a single ponytail positioned high in the back of my head. This keeps it out of my eyes, and with that much length I can still pull hair in front of my shoulders if I want shaping around my face. But for whatever reason, I made a styling effort the other morning and wore my hair down to work for the first time in several months, possibly years. Certainly the first time at this office. I looked good and I felt girly.

The security guard in our building is required to see our badges every time we walk in, even though he sees me every morning and probably recognizes me by now. Today, of all days, he suffered a slip of the tongue.

"Good Morning sir. I mean ma'am. Good Morning Ma'am."

** facepalm **

Adding insult to injury - I told BizP about Security Guard's slip, and he dang near fell off his chair. I would have smacked him for finding it so funny, but the poor guy already couldn't breathe.


As if this was not bad enough. Later that day I went into the restroom to comb my hair. In front of the mirror, under apparently much BRIGHTER lights than I have at home, I found - 7 long gray hairs. Are you kidding me? Where have those been hiding? And why did they come out to play today of all days?


The one saving grace that day - Princess.

I got in the car after work, and told DigitalA about my day. He, of course, laughed. A good 10 minutes later, after having apparently spent much time investigating and pondering, Princess pipes up from her car seat behind me. "Mommy, your hair isn't gray. It's just tangles."


Awwww ... I love my little girl!

Top 10 Signs Your Blog Is Neglected:

10. You agonize for days to come up with a complete top 10 list, nearly quitting with only 8 items.


9. Your blog password is still l33t-speak for a tv show that went off the air in 2006.


8. One word - Tumbleweeds.


7. All the stories in your "to blog" notebook happened over 9 months ago.


6. Tap tap tap. Is this thing on?


5. Your weekly pageviews drops by more than 100%, driving users from every blog you've ever linked.


4. Your children have aged 4 years since your last "recent pictures" post.


3. Embarrassing stories about you appear in another person's blog more often than your own.


2. You want to track down the owners of the 2 resilient IP addresses that still check your blog everyday so that you can call them up and apologize in person. (L and Em - I'm sorry.)



And the number one sign that your blog is neglected:


1. Your username is LadyPatsFan. ;P




Hopefully this post is a sign of better (or at least more frequent) blogs to come. Stay tuned - same bat channel, some bat time to be determined at a later date.

Oops, I Did It Again

As if I don't have enough on my plate, I have decided to attempt Project 365 this year. I've been doing it since January, and so far, so good.

Project 365 has been around the photography world for several years, but has really taken the scrapping world by storm this year. The object is - take a picture a day for a year. Now, I'm a mom and a scrapper, you'd think I already did that. But believe it or not, there are days when I don't pick up the camera. But most of the time, I've been able to manage a picture a day, and an extra here and there to make up for any "missing" days.

I obviously won't be posting a picture to my blog everyday. I'm just not that organized. But periodically, as I finish them, I'll post my weekly layouts so you can see what types of photos we've been taking. Some photos will represent what we did that day. Some photos will represent something we do or use everyday. And some will just be cute things the kids do. I'm very interested in seeing how this looks when the year is finished.

Here we go!

JANUARY

I've decided to scrap my pictures in weekly layouts, with an additional monthly "cover sheet" so to speak. For January's monthly summary, I used close-ups of just part of the photo - kind of a teaser for what's to come. I used the larger photo blocks to spotlight some of the highlights of the month.

WEEK ONE

I'm following a Sunday to Saturday week, and 2009 started on a Thursday, so there are just 3 pictures for week one. This week's layout is a single pager, and will appear opposite the January summary page if I ever get this project printed or bound.

WEEK TWO

Starting with Week 2, my weekly layouts will be 2 pages. This week was a lot of everyday life shots - Squeegy hiding from the camera or playing with the dogs, an IM conversation between DH and Stringz, Giggles' Girl Scout patches, and Princess being cute.

WEEK THREE

Tuesday's photo is just Stringz standing by my desk, but the journaling is him explaining to me how they extracted the DNA from a strawberry in science lab that day. Giggles had a field trip to the aquarium with her Girl Scout troop, Saturday started Girl Scout Cookie season.

WEEK FOUR

Most of week 4's photos are everyday life - dinner, the fish, the cats - but it ended with my trip back to NH for my dad's 60th birthday. I was only able to back for the day, flying in Friday and home Sunday, but it was SO NICE to see family again. I can't wait until we can bring the kids back east again.

WEEK FIVE

This week we had an ice storm, our first dusting of snow, and Stringz became a teenager.


Credits: All the January pages were created with the Giggle kit by Digitreats.
The templates are:
January: January Template by Digitreats
Week 1: Project 365 Template 01 by MOriginals
Week 2: Project 365 Template 01 by Digitreats
Week 3: Project 365 Template 03 by MOriginals
Week 4: Project 365 Template 01 by Brenda Smith
Week 5: Project 365 Template 02 by Just 2 More Things