Who me?!

A bad habit?! I have a baaa-aaad habit?!  Oh my!  Not me! 

Today's post is all about denial bad habits...

Now, we practice drama transparency here at the BLT house, we lay all our stuff out on the table, so I consulted with my fay-vor-eeet boys and asked them my bad habits things to work on...

the votes are in, the results are calculated, the time has arrived, the big reveal is here...

the superficial--staying up toooooo late

the down-n-dirty--being too hard on myself--being a perfectionist about wayyy to much

oh and procrastinating, like putting off this post until the nth hour...(the voting from the hubs weighed in heavily on this one)

Who can have a post with no pictures!  Not me, that's who!

These are my best 'habits'

don't forget to habitually check prenda le stelle for more bad habits

s:)

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Bucket List

Today's challenge in the chatty chain of posts is the top five things on your 'bucket list.'

1.  Travel!  Namely take my parents on an awesomesauce vacation and see

 the Great Wall

2.  See all my babies grow up, get married, and make me grandbabies

3.  Turn doing what I love into my own business

4.  Raise my children to love

5.  Learn something new every year--I better light a twenty-ten fire! Ouuuuch!

Dontchooo forget the other lovely bloggers at prenda le stelle--go see how they're filling their buckets!

s:)

ps--I must be super hormonal, I got choked up today looking at these and at this!

If you don't read those two blogs, you are seriously missing out!

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Where I (a)muse myself

Todays post in the month long daily record is all about where I blog, as in location, because my mind races around with ideas as I play taxi to the Gman and build fisher price cities with the little ladies...

(I apologize that I don't have pics of me actually sitting here--I am working this week and short on time)

I usually sit here at the counter...

right across from me, I see this vintage framed pic that makes me laugh all.the.time...it's a good muse.  Almost as good as my favorite parts peeps of this sandwich family :)

I also blog on the couch, while I'm supposed to be watching a movie with the hubster--much to his frustration, when I look up and continually ask--what happened?  :)

prenda le stelle has all sorts of blogging locales today!

s:)

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idyllic ageism?

Today's writing assignment is 'What is the ideal age?'

I have no insight for this really, I think so many ages have value

School starts at 5?  Driving starts at 16?  Voting at 18?  Adult beverages at 21?

Reduced insurance rates and rental cars at 25--maybe I should go with 25, it's kind of a big deal :)

My girls are at such fun ages right now--3 and 1.  My son is rockin' the teen thing.  hmmmm.

I'm in my thirties, which are quite groovy!  I think every age is the best you can make it.  Yes in fact, this is a cop out post...

(we both, the emster and me, wore this dress when we were 3)

feel free to check out prenda le stelle for more ageist advice :)

s:)

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Photo Phun

My friend Vanessa just won a contest at In a Yellow House!  For an awesomesauce photo she took on one of her groovy trips!  In a Yellow House is having a little contest for your best shot.  I thought I'd enter on a whim, even though I haven't had my camera very long...

this is my entry--I let the boy blts pick...

Here are the runner's up 

(just for kicks)

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Sports and Such

We did T-ball at the Y this weekend, it was pretty entertaining...

Do these look like the faces of focused athletes?

she kept the ball by her ear almost the whole time

Emster was back to soccer...

LB brought a favorite teammate to play short stop

I can't decide if this pic is very funny or very sad--you decide

how does this thing work?

forget the bases, it's the newest headwear

she didn't want to run (or even play for that matter), until daddy lent a hand...

then she loved it!

LB was concerned about ball placement...

eventually, she was ready to take her ball and go home
not sure if they are getting much out of the class, but the photo-ops are fun!
s:)

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give my regrets to broadway

I regret not being a Broadway star.  Hello lack of singing ability (though I'm a rock star in the car :P)

Yessirreeee, today's journal post is all about regrets.  hhmmmmm...

I don't think of myself as having many regrets--doesn't really seem to have any benefit, right?  I suppose I try to pre-regret things--like, I tell myself, if you don't do this or that, you'll regret it later--what a great motivator, right?
 Really doesn't everything happen for a reason?  I mean some of my past decisions were not exactly wise ones and I had some great lessons to learn from certain actions I took, but  that really doesn't translate to 'regret' for me.  Seems like too negative of a word.
 It was a really long weekend, I almost turned into a pumpkin Saturday night, so I am feeling a wee bit tired.  Until tomorrow peeps, I am excited to show you pics of the little ladies at their itty bitty sports and Saturday swim...

Don't forget to check out prenda le stelle for other regrets :)

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humble abode & a mural

today's daily diary dish is all about where this sandwich family lives...

this is kinda a funny post to me, as I'm all over lots of posts about our house.  Go ahead and click around on that sidebar, I'll wait...

I think I need to work up some kind of tour--ya know with a big umbrella that peeps can follow around?  I'm trying to think if I have something cool (and more importantly, finished to show you?)  I have a million and a half unfinished projects around these parts...

how about this instead--I talked about the things I miss from my old house (the pool is a big one right now), but here is one thing I have yet to bloggity blog up!
I painted this mural--totally free hand--at the old house.  One of my kiddos (who wishes to remain nameless) was a huge fan of spongebob!

so I painted this huge mural

Gary the snail has a special place in my heart :)

all those characters are so funny, even to an adult--they made me laugh

so there you have it!  something from my house for this post.  I loved painting it, except if I did it again, I think I'd get a projector and skip the 'free-hand' part.  Much simpler.  Whatcha think?  

Hope your weekend is groovalicious!

s:)

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