Just Checking In

Hello!  I hope you are all having a charming Monday afternoon.  I wouldn't know, of course, because I haven't read anyone's blogs.  Or e-mails, for that matter.

Tisk, tisk.

I've always said I would blog only because I loved it.  Not because it was required of me.  Because it is my journal, after all :)

This is a time in my life that I'm not quite sure I want to chronicle.  I don't want to remember the summer when I didn't have a moment to myself.  The summer where I detested my job, and wanted to run away from it all.  Because really...what fun is that to remember?

I've been doing everything possible to decompress.  To try to relax.  TEN has been trying to help with this process.  When people converge on me, he swats them away.  He tells them I'm stressed, and that I need to relax and to leave me alone.  Sometimes it actually works :)

On the home front, I killed all of the bushes on the left side of my house.  They were irritating me, and so we wacked them down and then I doused the bed with Round Up.  I'm hoping everything dies in time to cover it all up with mulch before The White Party. 

(Casa T, needing some TLC...)

You see what I mean?  I am living a life of extremes at the moment, and I probably need to simmer down before I start putting my thoughts out into the land of the internet.

We went to a beer festival this weekend.  It was lovely to be outside, with friends, and to just wander to and fro.

(random photo bomber, The Cheerleader, me, H, BFF)

(BFF, B, me)

(TEN and I)

And then I did a little shopping on Ebay.  Ebay NWT makes me happy.  I know there are bunches of lovely clothes that are worn once.  Or new without tags.  But I like NWT :)  So, here are my new pretties....

(Lilly Sylvie Dress)

(Lilly Somesuchanother Skirt)

(Lilly Bowen Dress)

Okay, I think that's about all that's been going on here.  Louis is doing well.  He has been a bit camera shy, so no photos of him to share.

The cherry tomatoes are turning red in the garden.

Tonight I'm off to run errands, tomorrow night we are celebrating WIMP's birthday/temporary move to NYC, Wednesday evening I'm being fitted for my fascinator (the bridesmaids are wearing fascinators in Marilyn Monroe's wedding Labor Day weekend) and Thursday morning we leave for the bachelorette weekend. 

I've ordered a TCA facial peel.  The label says "use at your own risk".  I can't even wait to see what this is all about.

Until we meet again.....

T