Mmmmm

Christian is in Philadelphia until Wed. It's weird not having her around or easily accessible to talk to. And, although I miss her, I know that this trip is good for her. She is learning how the flags are made that she sells. The images of her sitting on our front porch sewing flags has come to mind. It ain't happenin' people.

So I went to dinner with some friends that decided after the delicious buffalo wings we needed gigantic doughnuts. So we went to Gourdoughs (This is just the menu, but it's worth a read). Oh, my, it was delicious. I have driven by the trailer a million times. I just had never stopped. My waistline is going to be angry with me, but the gym will be glad to know that they have me as a client for years longer.

I wish there was more to say. But right now, Lola is barking incessantly out in the back yard and I need to tend to her.

Collision Course

There was once a bad world. I lived there for too long. Full of lies and heartache and people that never could understand.

The new world is the best world ever. I am understood.

These two worlds shouldn't ever combine. Something like a science project. When you made a volcano with baking soda and vinegar. I'm sitting peacefully in my new world, or the baking soda as i'd like to think. Soon, i'm worried vinegar is going to be poured in and the worlds will collide. It's almost inevitable.

Hopefully the volcano is tame.

Boundaries...

Why don't people have them? It's amazing to me how people don't think about what they are doing before they do it.

I typically would post this on facebook, but facebook has become a breeding ground for cliques, bullying, opinions & overall ridiculousness. So I will post to the emptiness that is the internet.

People need some boundaries. Maybe we should be teaching our children about boundaries in school instead of arguing about evolution and God. I think it would get them further in life.

Hilarious!

Christian and I started cracking up last night when we heard this song. Couldn't resist.

Motivation

I should be drawing. I am supposed to have 8 drawings for my technical illustration class tomorrow morning at 9a. I have 6. My motivation is lacking. I am exhausted. I was up late and up early this morning. I blame vacation. A good vacation. Filled with baseball, yummy fried tacos, outlet mall shopping and relaxation.

My mind likes to move at the speed of light. Constantly jumping from one thought to the next. Sometimes it's difficult to tame. Recently, it's been slow. Slowing down, thinking about life. The big picture. Being that my entire life I have felt much older than my actual physical age, I think I could possibly be in some sort of mid life crisis. OR, maybe this is what happens to people when they are close to 30.

I got a fortune cookie from my favorite place, Pei Wei, a few weeks ago. It said something about following the dreams of your youth. Although my path is not exactly what I thought it would be, I can feel that I am on my way there. I feel like I have grown a considerable amount in the last 5 or so years. I have had help. I have had friends and family do everything in their power to help me get to where I am going. I am grateful for them.

Procrastination is a funny thing. Even with the classical music playing in the background, the left side of my brain is flying. The right side, my creative, drawing side, is numb. At least my IQ is 5 points higher listening to Mozart!

Today

I had government class this morning. I have a project due next Tuesday and have to get up in front of the class to present it. I'm already nervous. After class I went to the pet store to get some stuff. I picked up some puppy food for "Wiggles" (Scout) and when I took it over to the house we hung out outside for a bit. I wandered around the pond and when Scout was having a drink



I looked closely I saw this...

What is it you ask? Lilly leaves? Nope, it's under the water. There is a huge cluster of tadpole eggs! Just waiting to make lots of noise and probably some will end up being turtle food.


Then, when Scout looked closer...

She saw this...


I think she wanted to play with the tiny orange koi, but her puppy A.D.D distracted her away.

So Cute!

Been Awhile

I've slacked on this whole blog thing recently. School, work, work, school. Oh, and some softball in between. I've been working on this website: www.francarlisle.com. It's almost finished! YAY!

Back in September I headed down to the Austin City Limits Music Festival. I wasn't planning on going, but as it turned out, I went for a day. I missed my sister. It's just not the same...

I was able to see Robert Plant and Alison Krauss on Sat. night of ACL with the Carrs. That was fun. I had to ask Jeff who Robert Plant was. Shhhh, don't tell anyone. I knew he was important, just didn't know he was Led Zeppelin important.




I've been messing around with Photoshop too. Distorting pictures and colors of photos that i've taken. I know I am a little late jumping on this train, but never had the desire to teach myself until now.

Here's one from the kite festival.


and T's Luna.

There's more. I know. I'm tired.

Typing Test

I hit 400 points, position 3420 on the ranking list. I typed 525 characters per minute with 94 correct and only 1 wrong!

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Tagged by Crazy Better

I got this off Heather's blog.

7 weird things about myself:

1. I love the smell of a new car & new tires.

2. I have to go to sleep with Sportscenter on.

3. My little toe on my left foot bends in instead of down.

4. I brush my teeth in the shower.

5. I haven't owned a brush in 7 years.

6. I've only had one dentist in my life.

7. I'm pretty sure i've broken between 8 to 10 fingers playing softball. Some more than once.

Catching Up

I think lots has happened since the last time that I posted. I'm exhausted right now, so only a few pictures will highlight the last week or so.

4th of July, Keith Urban Concert, Pedernales Falls State Park and the new feature I found on my camera that allows me to pick a color and have the rest of the image black and white. I was excited!

There will be more...

Great Flood - June 07

Oddly enough, Austin isn't having too many problems (yet) with all the rain we've gotten. Surrounding areas have flooded a lot. Houses moved, looters...it's craziness! No worries, i'm ok. Today it was actually sunny. It's the first time i've seen sun in about 4 days. Although, tonight it rained again. The kitties were able to go outside and roll around on the walk way.

That's really about all there is. My exciting life. Tonight is one of the first nights that i've been home. It's been nice.

Since I don't have anything in my courtyard but rocks and cats, here are some pictures of el gatos. I also went by Tam's to feed her cats while she's out of town and took some pictures of Noodle. Tam's Luna wanted nothing to do with me and the camera...she's mad Tam's gone. Typical cat behavior...

Noodle (top) & Luna (Tam's - Yes her cat is named after mine...i'm that trendy):


























Luna (mine) with her scary eyes (top) & Zoey - I think her self confidence is low because I couldn't get her to lift her head. We'll work on that...
















That's all of my cat spam...for now.

Swim Meets

I just got home from my first swim meet. I was a spectator...not a participant. Franny & Grace were having their swim meet. I was there at 8a and left around 3:45. They ended up placing in the top three which is awesome in my opinion. Out of the entire city. I realized today that I probably would've enjoyed swim team. I would have hated mornings but the swimming would've been fun. Kay and I sat there wishing we could swim as well as the 13 year olds do...

I am now home for another 15 minutes before I go to the Round Rock Express game with a group of friends for Reg's birthday.

I am so exhausted...

Catching Up

It seems like it's been awhile. In reality, only a week. I went to GA last Friday for Erin's wedding. I flew from Austin to Houston, sat in the Houston airport for 3.5 hours and then finally made it to Atlanta around 1:30a. To bed at 2:30a to wake at 9:30a. I didn't want to sleep away my day that I was there. Jill and I made some lemon fluff for father's day. I realized when I got home that we didn't even get a chance to eat it! All of us forgot about it in the garage fridge. Oops! The wedding was great. I love my friends. We went to a Tavern after the wedding and were exhausted an hour in. We went to Liz's and hung out for awhile. Liz and Mrs. O did the Shag to Beach Music. It's apparently HUGE in the Carolina's. Comparable to the two step in Texas. They do the Shag. Sunday I woke up and Kat was there. We hung out, got dressed and went to lunch for Father's Day. There were more games and then I had to leave. I sat in the Atlanta airport for 4 hours before that delayed flight left for Houston. Then I ran to my flight to Austin in Houston. It was a HORRID airport weekend. I haven't had that many problems in a really long time while flying. Needless to say, I was relieved to be home Sunday night. Although, I still miss my family and friends more than normal.

This week has been seemingly busy. Softball on Monday and Tuesday and when I came home on Tuesday Zoey was stagnant. She wouldn't move or come to me. She hobbled around and limped up the stairs. I called the vet on Wed. morning and made an appt. The doctor, who needed his thick leather gloves, examined her and as of now she has arthritis in her hip. She's on some sort of anti-inflammatory medicine to see if that's the culprit. If this doesn't work they have to sedate her to x-ray her hips. It seems to be working. She walks around and comes to me now. Which is a relief. I was pretty worried when she wouldn't move on Tuesday night. Poor thing's just old (only 7!!!) and a tidbit overweight (13 lbs). I've been the food police for awhile now, but once this medicine kicks in i'm going to have to talk to the vet about how she can drop some weight to help her poor body.

I am going to go upload wedding pictures now from this past weekend...

After the Storm

This is what the sky looked like when I came home tonight from my rained out softball game.