Burried alive!

That's what it feels like. The snow is absolutely insane! The kids had no school yesterday, it completely made their week. They got a rare mid-week day of hanging out and playing their Nintendo Wii, a treat that is normally off limits until the weekend. I got a ton of work done around the house, and we had new carpet installed in the boys room. I just wish there wasn't *quite* so much of the fluffy white stuff. :)

Some new projects...

I'm not quite sure what these items will ultimately be, but I had this urge to start crocheting tons of granny squares in shades of red and aqua. At first I was thinking they'd be a blanket, but now I'm loving the colors so much that I am leaning toward a tote bag. I think I may line it with one of the fabric remnants below. They're leftovers from some craft aprons that I made my daughter. Anyway, I'll update more when I finally decide what lies in store for the granny squares. In the meantime, I just keep making more!

a new day, a fresh start.

I love New Year's. I am so typically enthralled with the idea of a clean slate. It's exciting, and rejuvenating. No matter how much stress I am under, no matter what challenges we face, I somehow feel like the insurmountable becomes possible, and all is right in the world, albeit briefly. The only comparison I can come up with, is that feeling that you get on the first day following a horrible cold. As one of my friends puts it, you feel week, and shaky, and tired as hell, but your fever is gone, you can taste your food again, and anything in the world seems possible. That's New Year's to me, the first day after a horrible cold. Wow, that makes my life sound incredibly exciting, doesn't it?? Well, I was never one for appropriate analogies, so just bear with me.

So, this is my blog. My fresh start. Me, slowly revealed, days, weeks, months at a time, in my rambling, sporadic, quirky, and sarcastics ways. Here's to the New Year, may it be better than a bad cold!