Mountain Girl Silver - Hand-Stamped Customized Silver Jewelry - Portland, Oregon

I swear,,,  when you get home from Disneyland, it literally takes you a week to process the whole trip. Considering we’re Oregonians and it RAINED while we were there (for only 6 hours on Friday),, but STILL. Who likes to be at Disneyland in the friggen rain??  It was a little comical walking around in our sweatshirts watching all the So-Cal-Ers freak out that their boots with the fur were getting soaked, and that it was clearly obvious we were all having bad hair days.  ha ha.. But what a great trip. We got to do every ride about 3 or 4 times…..  and this year, Maggie was above the 40″ height requirement, so the trip for her was more of a wild ride than in years past. She was hanging onto me for life on Space Mountain….. which I KNEW was a bad idea the minute hubby suggested we all go on it. And we got to eat In N’ Out burger twice while we were there,, and got to hit the Long Beach Aquarium on our last day before heading to the airport. All in all it was a great trip. What a way to spend Valentines Day ;c)  It was hard tho’, to know that I was only a mere 4 hours south of all my family…. just a short distance….. and didn’t get to see them. Kids and I are headed to California for Easter this year, which was the only thing that helped me get thru the weekend w/out shedding any tears. 

So the sun is shining today…… a rarity. I’m pretty sure that Spring is on it’s way. Daffodils bloomin, crocus almost at the end of their short life. I’m always kickin’ myself this time of year for not planting any new tulip bulbs… blah..   But, we are inside today because Maggie refuses to get dressed, and I’m way past the point of bribery and/or demanding that she get dressed. I just have no tolerance for it anymore. No matter how many “If you don’t get dressed, then we can’t go outside and enjoy the day” ’s I throw at her…….  so frustrating.  And it’s Friday… thank you LORD it’s Friday.  I’ve been pretty busy lately despite the crap economy. Mother’s day is right around the corner, was just Valentines day and there are so many birthdays in Feb/Mar/April I swear!!  Spring babies!!  Been stamping a lot of similar things for basketball teams and things like that. I love my sports stamps…   

Drum roll please……………….   and…. just got a new font made, and it should be here w/in the next few days. When I get a new font,,, it is a very and I mean V E R Y long choosey process. Because when you drop money on a font set, you better make sure it is the perfect one for the look you are going for. Daneen actually found it this time…. and I agreed the moment I saw it. I had to buy the rights to it tho’…..   because it’s not just a traditional font.  With luck, it will be in my hot little hands next week, and I will get to PLAY with it!! Love playing with a new font… it’s like Christmas when you’re a kid. So exciting. 

Enough for now… I think I just may go try and get Maggie off her hiney and get outside and dig in the dirt. I guess the upside of her wanting to veg inside this gorgeous morning is that I managed to fold all the 27 loads of laundry in my basement. I have no problem physically DOING the laundry… like putting it in the machine , adding soap and walking away. Even doing the dryer trick is no thing…   but man o’ man (and anyone who knows me can attest) that I LOATHE folding and putting away laundry. I just assume leave all of it in one HUGE pile on the spare room bed and just forage thru it when I need to get clothes. Wrinkled and cold and all… I could care less…   But when the pile gets to be as big as it was this morning, where you can’t even see the mountain paintings on the wall behind it,, THENNNNNN (and typically only then) will I break down and fold them. And I mean it takes some serious pumping up to get me to fold clothes. Chances are tho’, that they will sit on that bed, all nicely folded for another week until I can pump myself up enough to take them up two flights of stairs up to the bedrooms. Then… they will sit there, in the bedrooms, in their bins, and get pilfered thru for another week, until they are all totally unfolded and messy again… and then by then, the madness starts all over again. I can’t honestly recall the last time I actually got clothes out of drawers or closets for myself or the kids.  What a waste of space a dresser really is….    What can I say… I’m a slob when it comes to laundry……   a dirty slob….   But I always get my work done!!   ;c)

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