one more

Thank you to everyone who told me which picture I should submit. Votes streamed in from all over the internet!

Okay, not really. But some people voted and the winner was...

Choice 4!



So now I have to ask one for one more teeny tiny favor: will you vote for my picture? Tell your friends, neighbors, random strangers on the street. If my picture is one of 10 with the most likes, it goes before a panel of judges.

You have to like Modern Bird Studios in order to like my photo, but they're awesome folks and totally won't clutter up your FB feed.

Ready? Set? VOTE!

a favor, please

Do you know Modern Bird Studios?

You should. Not only do they make the most gorgeous art from YOUR photos, but the people behind it -- Megan and Gregg -- are hilarious and wacky.

And now they're having a contest. For a piece. And I can't decide which picture to use. Can you help?

choice 1

choice 2

choice 3

choice 4

choice 5

Vote in the comments, please!

on the plus side, there's a chance of free ice cream tomorrow

Fred's in Houston this week, and so I've switched to working all day shifts so I can chauffeur Emma to and from school and not have to find a sitter to watch her at night. Twice. I love being home in the evenings, but this arrangement also means that I spend four hours in the car every day with every single idiot in Illinois.

I also sleep very lightly when Fred's out of town, which means waking up every 45 minutes or so. I'm tired. And so this will be short.

Here are some things I've been thinking about today:

Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Great discussion. Great ideas. Really need to consider implementing that one.

I'm considering switching to a Blogger or Tumblr blog. I like Wordpress but the .com blogs (as opposed to the Wordpress.org sites) are kind of wimpy. There's a lot I'd like to do and my hands are tied. Plus, all the pretty pretty blog templates I see are for Blogger.

I haven't scrapped anything in months. MONTHS.

Given that my original degree is in writing, I'm thinking about teaching it at work. To people. Who are awake. I'm simultaneously pumped and wicked nervous.

These.

Possibly bringing back Music Wednesdays. For those who didn't read the old blog, every once in a blue moon (see what I did there?) I'd write about something vaguely music related on Wednesdays. Wow. I could have just said, "Music Wednesdays: just what it sounds like." At any rate, there's so much music I want to share with you. For tonight, however, I'll leave you with the last song I heard tonight.

my version

I don't have an exciting life.

I'm a public librarian. I'm married to an academic. We have one (most of the time) mild-mannered child.

Exciting is when I'm home for lunch and can have a grilled cheese sandwich instead of the pb&j I usually take to work.

Exciting is when I paint my nails alternating colors.

Exciting is when our small town DQ starts the countdown to opening day (and what we consider to be the official arrival of spring).

Exciting is when Emma can wear rain boots instead of snow boots for the first time this year.

Exciting is when a song I really like comes on.

What's your version of exciting?

guess what i did?

citation

It occurred to me that I didn't tell you the names of the polishes yesterday. Also, I cannot take credit for the ideas of the food.

Ulta Polishes:

OPI Polish:

The sushi idea came up when someone at work mentioned it as a program idea. I did a little hunting and found this tutorial. And the neapolitan cake? Totally ripped off from Annie's Eats, only I didn't make a damn thing from scratch and hers looks like a cake whereas mine looked like a pink nightmare.

Completely off-topic, I'm currently battling one of the worst cases of heartburn EVER. I woke up around 11 last night clutching my throat and demanded Fred sit next to me while I writhed in pain and moaned and I think he thought at the end of it all I was going to deliver a baby, so guttural were my moans. He brought me milk and Pepcid and eventually the pain subsided enough that I could consider lying down. This morning I still have that nasty burning in the throat and the desperate need to punch someone. That second item may be unrelated to the first, but I'm rolling with it.

things i want to tell you

It's warm here today. Springlike. I'm wearing flats without tights. At this rate, tomorrow will find me in my bathing suit.

Yesterday I saw this adorable post on pugly pixel about glittery confetti nail polish, and when I found myself quite unexpectedly at Ulta later in the day and spied something similar, I grabbed it.

I painted one nail this morning, squealed with glee, and then painted all of Emma's nails. Because c'mon, confetti nail polish?

It's like my thumb is having a party and no other fingers were invited.

Should we continue talking about nail polish?

I thought the confetti would look fantastic layered over this shimmery polish I bought specifically for holiday festivities but never got around to putting on... but I do have a party to go to on Saturday night...

I also grabbed these two beauties, and I'm thinking alternating fingers with these two colors will look adorable:

Now, onto food. Today, I had both strawberries AND blueberries in my cereal. It was quite patriotic.

And coffee in my new favorite mug that I picked up at WDW last year.

She just needs some bags under her eyes and it would be PERFECT.

More food? Sure thing.

For dinner at a friends' house last weekend, I wanted to do a fun dessert for the kids and a Valentine-themed dessert for adults. I then proceeded to lose every remaining bit of sanity I once possessed.

Witness:

Yes. That IS candy sushi. The last picture is blurry because all of my nerves were shot to hell at that point.

The next day, I made the biggest, ugliest cake ever:

It was neapolitan. Because I'm insane.

Fin.