After spending three hours out in the yard working, I may have looked like I had just stepped out of a swimming pool fully clothed. I would like to apologize to anyone who happened to be downwind and had to smell me, but I have gotten it into my head that I absolutely positively must finish the pond before we hit the one year anniversary of moving into this house. If that means I have to haul around concrete blocks and dig through coal and clay and mud in 90 degree heat, so be it. I WILL CONQUER THE HOLE IN THE GROUND. I have a week and a half to do it.
In the spirit of I Have a Zillion Blisters and Can Barely Move My Fingers and I Must Dedicate My Time to the Hole in the Ground, you get a random list of stuff. Consider yourself lucky because if there's not a liner in that hole in the ground in the next 48 hours, you'll be looking at a whole lot of photos posts.
Dedicated. That's me.
- Dear, sweet Virginia continues to hold on to a very tiny shred of insanity. I've offered her a lighter and maybe even a grenade so she can blow up the Pirates Bandwagon and be done with it before that bandwagon splashes into the Mononghela and she ends up trapped between rickity boards and rusty nails and dies a fiery (Have you seen all the margaritas the believers have on that bandwagon? That spectacle is going up in flames at the first sign of a spark), water-logged death, but she's not ready to give up just yet.
I know. It's amazing.
All of that is to say you still have time to come on over to my side. Toss in just $5 and you have a very good chance of winning one of many fab-u-lous prizes. Even if you're not in Pittsburgh, it's worth entering into the mayhem. You may win something and you will definitely do some good for kids. If you have already thrown in your $5, THANK YOU! and how about you throw in another $5? It's for the kids!
- Speaking of kids, I posted over on my Review page about the shenanigans that will be happening next week. Epic shenanigans. Have I ever mentioned that I just plain love the word shenanigans? I do. Shenanigans.
- Did you know I've been posting to the Review page? Well, I have. Sporadically. Soon I will share the magical contraption that has converted our master bedroom into being hotter than hell, rather than hotter than hell plus 400 degrees. Seriously, I found something for $40 that is reducing the temperature in that room a tiny bit. Given how bad it is up there, a tiny bit is FANTASTIC.
- Did you know that I added a blogroll except that it's not really a blogroll so much as it is posts about blogs I love? Well, I did. I might even update it sometime soon. Also, no worries if you haven't been mentioned there yet. Your time will come. Although, I will say that I am thinking of playing favorites based on people who regularly comment or who have been known to comment around these parts for a long time. I'm just sayin'.
- Shenanigans.
- If you go to leave a comment and get a message saying that I banned your adorable but rude and insulting self, no worries! I finally took the time to figure out that you've been commenting under multiple names and, really, I just don't have time to deal with you being rude to meh peeps. Sorry. Buh-bye.
(P.S. I pink puffy heart Squarespace's comment controls SO MUCH. I should start paying attention to them more often.)
- I caught Alexis teaching a friend how to smile and pose for the camera today. It was kind of like Ursula from The Little Mermaid teaching Scar from The Lion King how to be nice. Even after ten minutes of back and forth, they still both sucked at posing and smiling, but it was cute watching them be all awkward and dorky as they tried to understand a concept that is clearly way beyond their abilities.
It's a good thing candid shots suit the child just fine.
