Random Crap

It has been a week and I don't have much to say really but I bet you anything by the time this blog is finished it'll be quite long. I do that sometimes.

The Cowtown Classic is off for me. I'm not ready. It was a sudden and eager decision; this year is just too soon. I do want to do it though, so expect me to bring it up again next year. I'm also going to continue riding my bike. I'm really looking forward to cooler weather so those rides will be more enjoyable.

The 3 day weekend was good. Leading up to it was hectic but since then things have been laid back. We had friends coming in Friday night for a visit so I freaked out and worked to get the house in order the couple of weeknights before. Other than 3 boxes, everything finally has a place in the house and it is CLEAN! That just isn't the norm, but now that it is, I like it and have kept it that way since.

After the friend visit we spent the weekend relaxed without any pressure from unfinished projects. Sure there are things to be done, but almost everything is in order now and the general maintenance of the home has been easy. It was nice to realize on Saturday that I didn't have a pile of boxes in the living room to deal with.

So I went plant shopping and bought a bunch of things to fill in the front beds around the boxwoods. I had purchased plants earlier this year for that spot but they didn't last the summer. I've learned a lot since then and bought new plants that WILL last our long hot summers. I spent some time Monday morning putting some of them in the ground but not all of them have been tended to. I'll get the rest of them in this coming weekend.

I also spent some time painting. I whipped out 2 watercolor paintings just for fun. I haven't drawn or painted anything in a very long time. Years. I'm pleased with them only because I didn't set myself up to do something fabulous, I just wanted to get some color on paper for fun and it WAS fun.

Yesterday I came to the conclusion that I need to reign in my fast food consumption (again). I go through phases and it has been getting increasingly worse to the point that I'm starting to see how much money I'm just throwing away on garbage. So I promised myself that when I got home last night I'd put together 3 bento lunches for the remainder of this week.

Now a lot of the time I have the grand plans of what I'm going to do when I get home and by the time I DO get home I'm so tired from the long ass drive (46 miles) that all my dreams and motivation for the evening projects is gone. So last night I allllmost bailed on the lunch making but I stopped myself and said, "Nope. You promised!" So I got out all my bento bits and dug a bunch of food out of the fridge and built myself 3 little bentos!

I was so proud. I even made peanut butter hummus and cooked some rice to incorporate into the lunches. By the time I was finished putting them together it was time to cook dinner. So yea, maybe I did prepare food for over 2 hours last night but I tell you what, it sure was nice to be able to spread everything out all over my perfectly clean kitchen counters and have zero stress while doing it.

I guess the whole point to this brain dump is this, after a year of being in this house; things are finally starting to come to a place where I feel normal and settled. Life is good. Really good.

I told you it was going to be a long post. ;)