I killed a wasp!!!

Technically heat and lack of water & food killed the wasp.  But I am not gonna lie, I did NOT mourn its death.

Wasps = bad
Bees = good

Celia and I watched it perish as it was trapped between the screen and the window.  Neither of us felt bad for it.  Muhahahahaha.  (Evil laughter)

Fontana Beach @ Lake Geneva

This morning I woke-up not really motivated to go to Lake Geneva.  Is that not the saddest thing you've read today?  I mean - WE ARE TALKING ABOUT LAKE GENEVA!!!!!  HELLOOOOOOOO!  It's the place I daydream about while sitting outside on my breaks at work.  It's the place where I've spent many-a-mental health day.  Why was I not in the mood to go to one of my favorite places...and BONUS there's a really nice coffeeshop, resale shop, and Goodwill all near the beach.

After consuming some coffee and breakfast, I went to the gym.  Might as well get that checked off my list before taking a shower.  Yes, I went to the gym with crazy hair.  Not too crazy as I had controlled the nonsense with a headband.  One of those stretchy cloth headbands that Audrey makes look soo cool and hip.  I said to myself, "What would Aud do?"  Clearly that girl would wear a fun stretchy headband.  

While at the gym, my phone chimed and said my library book hold was ready for pick-up THUS SOLVING MY BEACH CONUNDRUM!!!!  You see - before said text - I did not have a good beach read readily available.  I had a book for mini-stories...which I really wasn't enjoying.  I mean, I am 200 pages in to this book but I do not like stories that are 50 pages.  It's a bit Janette Oke-y.  (Okey....LOL!)  What I mean is - how is it real life if you meet someone and marry them the next day?  Disclaimer - the book of multiple stories did not have anyone meeting on a Saturday and marrying on the following Sunday.  My biggest pet peeve was I wanted more storyline.  Well, I guess I should not have picked a book with 300 pages and 9 separate stories.  Do the math...30ish pages for each...although 1 story had 50ish so that means one was shorted 20ish pages.  My book / story struggles are very real.  

Soooo where was I?  Oh yes - the library text me that my hold was ready.  A book that my best friend recommended and I have been trying to be patient while I wait for it.  Someone had the nerve to check it out before me...and then I had to wait.  Is it appropriate to pray for the other patron to "speed read and devour the book so I may read it sooner rather than later"?  I hope that's legit...cause I may or may not have prayed as such.  

I grabbed the book from the library {and 5 others...one of which said on the cover "If you love (insert the name of my held book), you are going to love this book!!!!}, consumed lunch and was happily leaving Rockford at circa 12:25.  Oooh and I had an iced-mocha-made-in-my-Ninja in hand.  Not to brag because pride comes before the fall, but I think I have managed to master the art of made-at-home mochas.  It took a couple tries...one of which pained me to drink it.  Note:  If the recipe says "liquid" sweetner, substituting SUGAR IN THE RAW (crystals) will not have the same effect.  It will not sweeten the beverage.  The trick was the brew coffee and then pour it into a glass measuring container and add Sugar in the Raw and let the crystals melt.  Jackpot!!!!  

When I arrived at Fontana, I selected a place in the sand near the entrance...where the wave wall keeps the water at bay.  I wasn't in the mood to swim today - perhaps next time.  Today I was there for the waves and the ambiance.  

What does one need to have in his / her beach bag?  A twin flat sheet to place on the sand - for an extended area.  A beach towel to place ontop of said sheet.  Sunscreen - Sun Bum spf 50 is my preference.  A bottle of water, a snack, and a good read.  

After nearly 3 hours of spending time reading...time staring at the clouds...time staring at the beautiful lake, I was ready to head home.

I packed up my bag and headed for Rosie.  

My GPS (Marge) took Rosie and I a different way home.  I've gone the way of Marge, but not recently.  It was a nice country-ish drive...which I always love.  Don't get me wrong - I like the highway when it comes to work days...but on the weekends, I like not being in the city.  The drive home was lovely and laidback.

And now it's Saturday night...my washing machine is whirling.  There's a beautiful praise song playing on the radio.  The hum of my air conditioner unit is a peaceful reminder that it will be a cool night's sleep.  {I haven't had my AC on all week.  It cooled off...and then the low humidity kept it nice inside...but today it was 92 degrees AND humid. Humidity...ick!  It does bad things to my curls...and it makes for miserable sleeping.}

I do hope I get to repeat this day atleast a couple more times before Autumn.  

Plans and cancelled plans

I have gone and over-booked myself for the month of March.  If you were to walk in to my kitchen and glance at my adorable coffee calendar, you would see that every weekend has plans.  Some weekends have multiple things scribbled in the too-smallish box.

This weekend is a prime example...

Friday:  Dentist appt to get double crowned.  After work thrift with Rhonda.
Saturday:  9-1 p.m. introduce 2 friends to thrifting.  1:30 hair appt.  3 p.m.(ish) go to Michael's to stamp with Nancy.
Sunday:  Teach Sunday school.  Hit the gym after church.  Sunday evening church.  Bed.
Monday....meh.

My plans totally got rearranged starting with Friday.  Crowns have to be rescheduled.  Not sure how I feel about this...relieved.  And now that I had my weepy-cause-I'm-nervous moment in the dental chair yesterday, I think the next time I will be ready to get crowned.  Twice.  I imagine the Queen of England has 2 crowns.  I will be just like her.  Sort of...

My Saturday morning thrift introduction plans had to be rescheduled too...which meant I could sleep-in and make pumpkin muffins for my overnight house guest and then send her on her merry way and I could hit the gym before returning home to gather my card-making supplies.

Speaking of card-making.  I've always wanted to be ultra-organized with my cards.  I have them crammed in to 2 photo boxes with dividers.  That's fine for a novice.  But HELLO - I'm the card gal.  The Encouragement Ministry Coordinator.  I made up that title...but I'm a coordinator of this ministry.

Sooo last time photo boxes were $2, I bought 3 extra.  This morning I used Open Office to make cute labels which identify the type of cards in each box.  Some boxes have multiple types of cards - like holidays.  How many Easter and Thanksgiving cards does one really need?  Not multiple boxes worth.

Now that my cards are divided up...I can see that I need more Thank You notes.  I just never seem to have enough and/or one handy which is sad when you take into consideration the quantity of fun paper and thank you stamps that I own.

Tonight my goal is to work only on Thank You notes.  Not sure if this will happen, but I should get credit for having a goal of some sort.

Happy Saturday!!!