Wren Emily Audine Jackson is now 2 years old...just over actually. She turned two in July. We've lived here a total of four months and she's changed SO much in that time. She's now saying almost complete sentences. She can count pretty high...although she does miss 5-7 for some reason, skips right over them and counts right to thirteen. She always wants to play now. So I hear, "Come on, mommy! Mommy, come on! Come on! Come on! My room! Play! Come on, mommy! Come on! Come on!" all day now. It's really is awesome but at the same time I can't ever get anything done. I just can't believe how smart she is though. We've hung out with some other two year olds before and Wren just seems so much more advanced to me....maybe I'm just bias.....maybe not. ;) I definitely look forward to seeing what kind of person she develops in to, but for now, at this very moment, I know she's the coolest person I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. :D

Ah, Mr. Blog...how I've neglected you so. Between roller derby practice, my two year old, housework, business ventures, meal making, laundry, etc., I just haven't been able to find the time to just sit and type it up.

There's so much in this house that needs to be done. Since we've moved here (five months ago) some of our house projects have fallen by the way side.  We still need to paint both of the bathrooms. There's a crack or two in the dining room that needs fixing before we paint. I have a couple of yard work projects I should finish before winter gets here. We have lattice that needs to be attached to the fence outside our bedroom. Most of the windows need washing (previous owner was a smoker - the windows are nasty!). The doors in the house need a good wiping down too. The list is basically endless. I'm hoping we get to a lot of this stuff before spring of next year.

Then there's just projects in general that don't really involve the house. I would like to be able to find some time to work on the wood lathe I got for my birthday back in July. I have so many dreams and aspirations when it comes to that piece of equipment. Alas, I can never find the time to get out there and work. It's hard with a two year old that's into everything.

I've decided to take a break on the eBay sales. I think this is taking away from my craft time. Since I've started my Etsy business I've made three or four sales. So that's not only inspiring but quite motivational. So when I have a bunch of eBay sales to deal with it tends to hinder the time I need to get crafts done and posted on Etsy. So goodbye eBay.....just for a while anyway.

Roller derby is taking a lot of my time currently. Although I only skate 3 days a week it feels like it's taking a lot more than that. I'm usually beat by the time I get home. So the hours following derby practice are usually spent just veggin' out, watchin' tv or taking a nap....maybe Facebooking a bit. Last night seemed to be a different story though. I got home, showered, did the dishes, finished the laundry and put the little girl to bed. Maybe my endurance is growing. *shrug. Derby is good......real good. :D

Gotta roll.....

Peace!

I've been goin' through paperwork trying to figure out our homeowners insurance. Man, there is A LOT of paperwork involved in this home buying business. I can hardly keep everything straight...especially in my brain. Seems to me there's a lot of useless photocopying and printing going on. Most of these papers have the same information. Can't they consolidate some of this stuff? I keep thinking of all the waste and all the trees. Just think of all the trees we'd save, or use for better purposes, if the home buying process wasn't so paper oriented. Granted we received much of our paperwork information via email but somewhere in the process they either get printed or another representative involved needs a copy. It's all so wasteful and I don't like it. Not to mention the HUGE space it takes up in my file cabinet.
Then there's times like these where I need to figure out and detail what's going on before I give someone a call to figure even more stuff out. I can't seem to find the right information because it's on one little piece of paper buried in a stack of a million. Is it all really necessary?
Here's a novel concept. You know how you can go 'paperless' on your monthly bills and statements? Why don't they try and do the same with home buying? Why not? Sounds pretty brilliant to me.

Today I'm making a brief note about how thankful I am to have my husband-who is still employed, my happy little 2 year old daughter,  my newly owned house and of course my happiness.

After having a long conversation with a friend about what's going on in her life, as well as a lot of our mutual friends, it put many things into perspective again and I'm truly thankful for that. I am one of the rare few that get to experience such happiness in content family life. :D

Well, here I am. First blog ever....well, outside of MySpace and Facebook that is. This is a real live blog! Now that I sit here though I'm not even sure what to write about. This might actually be a good thing as I look at the piles of projects I need to complete and put on eBay or Etsy; but alas, I feel like just sitting here on my ass on the computer. The window is wide open, fresh breezy air fill my nostrils. We just had our first real hard downpour. It was just lovely; and I welcome the fall and even the winter at this point (that more than likely will change in about 3 months). It makes me happy. I love my new house...but that's an entirely different post.

So onto this fabulous first new post!! I keep asking myself how I'm going to possibly keep people interested in reading my posts. I have several blogs I read frequently. One in particular posts something new about every other day or so. I can't help but keep going back to her blog...over and over again. Check her out: www.bonzaiaphrodite.com. I honestly don't know how she does it but I would say it's truly her calling. She's an amazing writer and incredibly intelligent. She definitely has one of the best blogs I've ever read. I look up to her as a blogger and can only aspire to be like her. However, my aim is not to have a blog like hers. My goal is to just have something where I can write and write and write. I tend to be quite verbose. My brain is cluttered with ideas, details, opinions, projects, knowledge and well, just everything! Hehehe. I think if I could get it out on "paper" I could clear some of this crap out and start getting a little more organized?? (Yeah right...good luck with that Tenise! lol.) I'm gonna have a hard time keeping my blogs organized even......unless I make some sort of plan, and that's probably not gonna happen. But back to my point about keeping people interested in my blog. (So I get side-tracked sometimes...I can't stay focused on one subject at a time...back and forth, back and forth.) I've decided to keep my blog slightly hidden, or quiet really, from the public; and what I mean by that is I'm not going to be telling everyone I have a blog and to check it out....only for the time being. If some random Googler finds my blog, fine. I'm just not telling family and friends about it quite yet. (And for those of you that do know about it right now.....you best feel privileged. ;) ) I feel like this needs to be more of a journal or *diary* (Yuck! Diary? Really?). That way I don't have to think about others and their interest in what I write. It's MY blog anyway, right? So who the fuck cares. I gotta get used to just putting thoughts down anyway. Plus, I always write as if I'm talking to someone else. So I won't be able to talk to myself for long. I'm gonna have to share it sooner or later.
My current mantra: No regrets...no deleting...no editing (okay, maybe I'll edit if I find a misspelling, grammar or punctuation error - I can't help it!).....this is what I write...THIS IS ME!!! Take it or leave it!

So with that being said here's my first post. My journal, my diary, my ME! 'My me'....lol...I kinda like that. ;D