Rainy Thursday feels just right.

Seems like..probably..I'd maybe complain about the rain today but it feels good. I'm in mismatched clothes and an old sweater I dug out of a box. It's green, bulky knit, zips down the front. I washed it all up. I'm a super dork so I spent a small portion of the morning changing the blizzog. Do people even look at blogs or just read via readers? I know I've asked that before. I love looking at people's blogs.

Anyway, Beebs feel asleep super early last night. I was scared about what that might mean for night sleep. She woke up at 4:00 when it was storming and came to bed with us. She covered her ears with her hands when it thundered. Our window was open just a bit and I have to say, those next couple hours were hazy happiness. It was gray and dark, storming, pouring down rain. The 3 of us were all nestled in. We'd talk a little bit then we all dozed off awhile then at 6:00 we all got up. I made coffee, Roommate got ready for work, Beebs and I played. After Roommate left we baked oatmeal cookies and while they were still warm we packed some up and went next door to deliver. Beebs is totally in love with umbrellas right now so she was very excited that the rain was falling on her umbrella! I am simultaneously gagging and laughing at how sweet and warm our morning has been.

I'm reading Bossypants and the 100 Thing Challenge and perusing Mary Jane's ideabook. I'd like some book recommendations. I don't even know what my book taste is? I love books but haven't read much lately? I read Midwives, Room, Edgar Sawtelle (love!), portions of vampire books, started a cpl other random things. I've just sort of been dabbling in books about making life good and cooking food.

I really am having trouble with having commitments every weekend. We've had one since Easter and it's so strange for us. We are total home bodies so it's weird to have to be somewhere. The socializing has been fun, albeit tiring! ha. We also saw a lot of family like, multiple weekends in a row when usually we see them a couple times a year.

My sister in law graduated from vet school at Mizzou. Very proud of her. She worked really hard. Part-way through school she had a brain aneurysm that was crazy scary but..she did it! I'm sad for her as apparently vets don't make much at all starting out so that has felt pretty discouraging when she worked so hard to graduate as a doctor.

I still have some things to plant in our messy little rag tag garden. It's full of weeds and roots from the pine tree across our driveway but I'm going to consider anything we get a success. The process is fun, Beebs loves it. We're enjoying learning. I have to delve into some of these things rather superficially (I'm not sure that's the word I mean) -- it's just that if I get all perfectionist/read about too many other people's stuff then I'm like gah, I suck! I don't really know what I'm doing and that's ok. heh. for now.

We are just, kind of lazy around here lately. I don't know what to cook. On my days off work we wander inside and out, sometimes we meet up with friends for playing or eating. We sprinkle in some simple productive activities like laundry, sprucing up our upstairs a bit (like putting away a pile of laundry, sweeping the cat hair from the corners, etc.). Right after we moved in we hung a towel rack in our upstairs bathroom and one side fell off. A screw was stripped, Roommate replaced it, still fell, caulked the connector thing to the bar, still fell so it's been broken like that for going on a year. It is there, half hanging on the wall, just, useless. Absurd because I was going to return it for sucking and because um, really? Most of our money goes to mortgage and groceries. It feels annoying to spend money on things like a towel rack or other things to make the bathroom functional. It needs some help though. ha. I thought wow, wouldn't it be nice to get more use out of this space?! That'd be neat! I mean don't get me wrong, it serves fine for going to the bathroom and showering. I also have 8 million prints and such I started buying when I was pregnant (like almost 4 years ago?) that I've never hung. Spending money on framing also is expensive. Any other brilliant ideas for preserving/hanging these things! I'm thinking of it because the bathroom could use some stuff in there. This is obviously VERY pressing. Let's reconvene on this in 2013? 

My friend having triplets is back in the country. I have another friend that's pregnant. Her baby is due in a little over 7 weeks and is right now measuring 6 lb 8 oz! !!!!! and a few more !!!'s She's gestational diabetic but has been doing really well at controlling her sugars. whew. I think they're projecting 11 lbs? I know so many pregnant people or people that just had babies. My goodness.

Here are a few random pictures from our world recently.

new bag i got at the kc fiesta. love!

college campuses make me feel...something.

mizzou.

greensmoothie.

kansas.

picnic pal.