the one where i ramble on and on…

my mind is still packed in boxes.

up close and windblown in hawaii. maybe i left my mind there...

 

really truly, i think it is.

i have spent much of the last few weeks trying to get out from a fog and wrap my mind around all that needs to be done/made/paid for/set up/organized, etc. makes me tired just thinking about it! so, do you mind if i share some random randoms to un-jumble my brain?

  • car shopping is for the birds. our poor little nissan pathfinder is about to die painful death, and finding a suitable replacement is proving difficult. i may actually bite the bullet and become the owner of a swagger wagon.{embarrassed.} what do you think? minivans: discuss.
  • sometimes rosettes give you funny tanlines. ha! makes me laugh. so, if you are going to spend the day wandering around used car lots, pack your spf or leave the rosies (of the necklace variety at least!) at home. so silly.
  • even though i would never claim utah as home, i feel the strange need to defend all residents of the beehive state after watching the bachelorette and the last season of the bachelor. i promise utahns are (sometimes a little weird) but not full on crazy-town like michelle or bentley. (had to get that off my chest)
  • fruit is the best thing ever. can’t get enough. watermelon, strawberries, grapes, oranges, you name it. obsessed.
  • i love my new neighborhood. there are like 35 kids on our cult-de-sac. LOVE.
  • i should have started running again and getting back in shape before I moved to a town with the word HILLS in it’s name. oy. i’m paying for months of laziness now!
  • i’m still in awe of pinterest. how come i didn’t think of that?!?
  • i’m dying to add a new color to the shop. what do you think?? what’s missing from the line-up?
  • did you know we are already in the works for another QBM in august? are you coming to Blogher? we’ll be right next door. BOOYAH.
  • i am finally starting to feel like my boys are getting to the age where i can handle both of them. is that crazy? it’s been over 2 years of complete chaos and feeling like i couldn’t deal. and no, i’m not pregnant ;) i may just have to soak it in for a spell.
  • i got to spend part of the weekend with my very best friends from high school. it was soothing to my soul. AND i haven’t laughed that hard in a LONG time. yay for 31 yr old slumber parties!
  • i started going through pics of our hawaii trip and got a liiiiiittle overwhelmed. i really do hope i have it in me to blog about it! i will blog about it. i will blog about it!
  • life is stressful sometimes, but it is pretty dang amazing too.

what about you? what is going on in your life to jumble up your brain?

 

 

in memory.

wishing you a happy memorial day!

a free printable for you:

thank you to those who have given their lives that i might enjoy mine. you are loved.

patience.

patience.

not a practice i can say i have fully mastered. or even begun to, really.

but you, my loyal readers and customers have exercised such exquisite patience with me over the last few months. i thought by now we would be up and running smoothly without problem. alas, i was wrong.

found here

we have now been in our new place for a week, and still SPOTTY internet access at best. d-day was yesterday, but here we are today with pro-blems. (i am typing this in my closet hooked up to the only jack that is working whenever it feels like it.) inconvenient to not be able to spend hours on pinterest or catch up on shows on hulu, yes – but when you run an online business and are VERY reliant on forms of social media (twitter, blogging, facebook) to promote your business -that’s a BIG problem. orders are still coming in (thank you very much!) and i still have internet access on my phone to receive those. so, this shouldn’t affect my workflow at all. phew. if i owe you an email – i am so sorry. soon. (fingers crossed.)

so, if you are wondering where i am? i am in the corner in fetal position praying to the internet gods for some mercy. and maybe some patience.

you, however – you are wonderful. you are amazing. you are so good to me. and for that, a reward:

how about a free earring friday?

every order over $30 today and tomorrow gets a free pair of earrings!  perfect way to try out a pair if you aren’t quite sure you can pull them off.

thank you so much for being so understanding!

p.s. thanks for your love and prayers for the boys with the transition. they are really adjusting well now that we are here, and other than the internet drama, we are IN LOVE with our new place. thanks!!

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