Evergreen

So unlike past years I actually got to cut greenery in the daylight when it is not raining. I felt special.
The house also looks more like Advent. Here are a couple before shots.

The end results are lovely but you can't tell. I can't take pictures. I will of course put them up, but they are not pretty.

Not once did I ever say it wouldn't be messy.

And the after shots.

I have resigned myself to the fact that December is not freezing and it rains and no snow and it just has to be a balmy 12 degrees, but Christmas without evergreen is not something I could ever come to grips with. So decorating in our house has lots of green. Lots. I only showed you the beginning.

Maybe tomorrow I will get in some baking. I want it started before St. Nicholas day. (fingers crossed)

And I will be back on all local stations tomorrow.

BEDA, kinda.

I am already a day behind on Blog Every Day Advent. Or a modified version of BEDA. I will not call it blogmas until after the 25th of Dec.

Yesterday was day one. I have not put up the advent wreath, I did not post. I went to work at 6:30 AM and got back to the house at 10:30 last night. I thought that was a legitimate reason for not starting yesterday. I was not at work that entire time, I went to a birthday party for my cousin. December and January are birthday months in my family, on both sides. Anyway, there will be updates, and from here on out I will probably still miss days.

So, shall we do this? Yup.

I needed to talk?

Olympics, weather, books, struggles with the parish priest, work, meeting new family, new shoes, these are just a few of the things that have been occupying my mind recently.

I could if pressed speak on any of these. Badly, but I could. Much to my shame trying to translate that into writing is harder.

I have been watching the Olympics. One observation about becoming an adult is that there is less time to obsess about things that when I was younger I had the time to fixate on. It was always easier with the Summer Olympics too because I wasn't in school, I could if I wanted to spend almost all day watching sports. I knew the stats, I knew the events. Bursting full of useless info I was. Now, not so much.

Saturday and Sunday this week I was on the mainland and hot. It was hot at home I heard, but I didn't care that it was hot here, I just cared that it was hot were I was. I was nowhere near a body of water and it was almost 40 degrees. Blarg.
Just in case anyone is curious I function in Celsius. Yup, I measure in feet and inches and drive in kilometers and temperature in Celsius. I am a child of parent raised in imperial taught both American curriculum and am still staunchly Canadian.

I finished Insurgent -Veronica Roth
Still good. It did not hold the tension as well as, say, Hunger Games, but still good.

Jeepers. I hope you didn't read all this.
We will talk aobut my new shoes later.

Family Pictures

It is so easy to not write on this blog, but I am trying to not disappear totally.
My family had a professional portrait taken for the first time in 20 years yesterday. My father and I have evaded mum and her desire to capture us on film for a long time, but we caved and the end results were more pleasing than I anticipated. When we get our copies I might scan them in and show the world. Might.

Quote: Life is simple, it's just not easy.  ~Author Unknown


Random Image Generator.

I think RIG is being cheeky. We haven't needed sunglasses yet, and I am loosing hope that we will need them at all.

Auntie Twink

I missed the last two days of BEDA for a very good reason. I was out of country without my computer. If that isn't a valid reason then I will never come up with one.
We went to the States for Easter to be with my oldest nephew, for his First Communion.
I spent a lovely two days being Auntie Twink.
But I am back on the wagon now, so expect more in the coming days.

DAY NINE

I don't prank.

First of all it is Palm Sunday. Just thought I would mention this so that you know I have higher thoughts in my mind, because I sound like a heathen for the rest of this. It is about...

Second, Happy April fools.

Third, it is the beginning of BEDA, again, so soon. And now if you want there will be material form moi, to read.
  
Back to April Fools. Imagination is used in so many aspects of life, and how it is used differs for the circumstance. Someone who is a brilliant creative writer might not be able to decorate a room. Etc. etc. and so forth.
I lack imagination in many aspects of my life. Pulling pranks is one. I cannot think up a decent prank, and most certainly cannot execute. Always wished I could, though. The camaraderie that pulls people together to pull off the trick has always pulled at me. I figure but don't know for sure that maybe a feeling like that exists between siblings. I had hoped that maybe they were close and that I could pull pranks and by proxy get siblings, but I can't prank. So, that was that. April Fools is just the first day of April for me. Not a day to show of a talent, and gain family. Oh well.

Post Script: I do have adopted siblings. They adopted me, so I didn't have to be spectacularly selfish. And suffer from unending Only Child Syndrome.

DAY ONE.

Post Post Script: It is the first day of April and the daffodils have not bloomed yet. Are we getting Spring? Ever?

Post Post Post Script: Should I use pictures more?