Shtuff That Is Awesome

In no particular order...

I love that his hair is growing out and that all summer mohawk signs are gone.  The boy does not share in this love, but that's okay.  I also love that he is doing so well in school, loves to read and is embracing teamwork in soccer like nobody's business.  We received a postcard that there is a season of indoor soccer starting in December and are excited about that....I played indoor soccer in junior high and high school and it was FUN!

Jezzie is becoming a proficient huntress.  She is catching more and more baby lizards like this one.  I'm glad I am able to save most of them.  Check out his long toes!

Jez also caught and killed this little snake which Todd found inside the house and asked me to pick up and remove (I'm so thankful he takes care of insects and spiders...I can deal with vertebrates!).  Although I was a little disturbed by the markings on this one.  Hmmm...anyone know what he is?

Okay, finding snakes in the house isn't very awesome.  But it fits in with my randomness.  Moving along.

Blogger added a tab for Stats to our admin functions so I can see things like this

That's right.  People searching for molar tooth shaped lampwork beads (something I have never made or attempted), how to get a ring out of your drain (people land here weekly for this video!) and wire wrapped stone like nina bagley (I enjoy nina's blog, outlook and creativity, but I don't recall ever mentioning her on my blog).  Apparently there is something for everyone here.  :D

I flew up to Syracuse this afternoon to spend the weekend with Lorelei.  I can't wait to see all the work she and Joe have put into their house and yard this past year and that I have only seen in pics.  I can't wait to have a weekend without an agenda or commitments.  She promised her husband will be making these chimichangas tonight.  They are my absolute favorite!

I think it's cool that both kids have been taking an interest in photography this year.  Owen was spending the night at my Mom's on this particular evening and we took Chloe out to eat.  She wanted to take pics of Todd and me and thought it was pretty cool that if she just held her finger down, she could take 67 pics in 4.5 seconds.  This was about the point that I was asking for her to hand back my camera.  There are only so many pics of myself that I want to see at a time.  Sixty seven in a row exceeds that limit...however.  I do love this pic of Todd :)

I worked over 40 hours in four days this week and wrangled my work email inbox from close to 500 down to 134 last night.  I tied up an inordinate amount of loose ends yesterday and that felt so good.  Not so awesome part is this is week two (in a row! boo. hiss.) that I have had very little chance to read blogs and see how everyone is doing.  Or set up my own blogs, which I normally do in the evenings between making beads.

Only 47 more days until we visit Disney.  I'm not sure what I'm more excited about...seeing my kids' faces and wonder over the Magical Kingdom for the first time or just spending the week with my family, mom, grandma and in-laws over my favorite holiday.

I didn't get any time on the torch this week like I had planned.  Probably because I was working every night after putting the kids to bed and then collapsing in exhaustion.  It wasn't intentional and I would certainly choose the torch over work any night, but it was a nice little break from creating after my marathon weeks of making headpins and mixed bead sets and buttons.  I am looking forward to next week and time back on the torch (I hope work behaves and quiets down)!  I have more ideas that I want to put into action and see what they look like when I pull them out of the kiln the next morning.

I made chili last night.  I lurve chili.  It makes me happy.  It makes my husband happy.  I would be happy to make it during the summer, but my husband thinks it should only be eaten in cold weather.  We have had a burst of fall this past week and temps that never climbed out of the 60s (that's above 20 for your Celsius folks).  Some people think it is insane to be such good friends with the 90s like I am, but I love summer and am having a hard time letting it go this year.

I will ship out any Etsy purchases on Monday once I return.  I hope you have an excellent weekend and look forward to showing you pics of my trip to Upstate New York once I get back!