My mind races...

at the worst time, 11pm, every night this week.

I blame it on Gilmore Girls. I made the mistake of watching the last two episodes right before bed a few days ago. Too much, too late. I didn't sleep for at least two hours. Lots of crying, lots of laughing, lots of mourning. And this scene, I just can't seem to stop replaying it in my head complete with the "la la la's". The end really was perfect. And how much do I love the Obama Gilmore tie? It's so meant to be.

But no, this isn't the only thing keeping me up. My irrational takes over my rational, and it doesn't stop until my body is just too exhausted to keep up.

2. Why do I always feel like I am being tailed living here. I don't drive slow, in fact I usually drive just above the speed limit. But there is ALWAYS a car just a few feet behind me.

3. How is it that I can exercise, sweat, drink gallons of water, and my body either gets bigger or stays the same? But the second I cut out refined sugars and flour, I finally see something change. It's so frustrating.

4. When am I not going to feel so isolated and lonely living here? and I'm still waiting for that moment, that "ah ha" when I know moving back was the right decision.

5. Is there a future for Rory and Logan? I have heard that if they were going to come back for an 8th season there was talk he might too. He really grew on me, and I was a Jess fan.

6. Death Cab for Cutie. They are coming out with a new album, which means they will be touring soon, which makes me really happy. I have a thing for Ben.

7. I have been struggling to figure out how to be the right kind of support to those I love. How do I provide hope to those that don't have any?

8. Another reason I can't wait for summer. I want to see a good movie!! Indiana Jones, Clone Wars, Batman, I have high hopes for all of you. 

9. Why can't I seem to get going on teaching violin? I have really been procrastinating this. I guess I feel a little bit overwhelmed when I think about how much I have to do to get started. And let's be honest, I would rather sew.

10. And spring dresses. I have so many ideas, I just don't have patterns to make them. If I take this pattern, do this to it, alter it a little here, and there...I actually think about this all day, not just at night.

Surprisingly though, I get really tired in the middle of the day and have no problem sleeping when I should be doing a lot of these things.

Our weekend review

I am still recovering...many activities, sugar overload, late night sewing. But it was great and memorable. A little more sleep would have been nice, but thanks to my procrastination, I just powered through the fun. Poor me.

Tom took Luke off my hands for a bit, a friend of ours was visiting from NY. I had around three hours to get some sewing done and make the easter egg chocolates I had been procrastinating on all week. Very yummy though; coconut and peanut butter variations dipped in white, dark, and milk chocolates. We ended up staying up way to late, partly due to me sewing too long, and partly to us getting sucked into watching Deceived, a movie I have embarrassingly seen way too many times. Then Luke showed up and wanted to help dip the chocolates.

Saturday morning, our community hosted an easter egg hunt for the kiddies. We invited Luke's closest friend Chloe and her parents, and had a great time helping them find the eggs amongst the brush and shrubbery. We followed up the hunt with my favorite breakfast of German pancakes and cinnamon rolls. Why not start the sugar fest weekend off with a bang?

Being that Saturday was also our anniversary, Tom surprised me with an indulgent afternoon of kid free spa time including an hour full body massage, manicure, and pedicure. I have never been able to justify an hour massage the way I can a new top, so I have only had one other massage that I can remember, and I think it was only a half an hour. And ever since I heard about a report on 20/20 of the risks of pedicures and infections, I have avoided the jetted foot tubes, and have been to cheap to pay for anything better.  But I enjoyed every minute of it, and even spent some time in the sauna.

Tom picked me up in my lethargic state, with just enough time to grab some dinner before heading to my anniversary gift to Tom, tickets to see Jose Gonzalez. The music was perfect and beautiful. If you have never heard Jose Gonzalez, I suggest you click here and listen to his beautiful cover of Heartbeats, accompanying my most favorite commercial ever. Its kind of old, but I could watch it over and over.

The rest of our night was spent with me finishing up my easter dress, I had to do it, especially since the weather promised to be at least 60 degrees. But before I knew it, midnight came, and I was too tired to finish the matching tie for Luke. So I got up early.

After Luke's nap, we had our easter festivities, all revolving around him. He hunted for eggs hidden around the house, refused to put down his chocolate sucker, and enjoyed digging through the easter pale filled with as much as my mom could find from the dollar store.

Tom and I have started a month long diet of fruits, vegetables, and lean meats just to recover from the weekend, and way too many similar to it.

Six years...

And happy as ever!

It's actually not until tomorrow, but whats a day early when every day is like the first.

Love ya Tom

My toes need to breathe...

I am really ready for spring.

I want to break out my fun colored jackets, I want to wear cotton sweaters instead of wool, I want to see color on people, but mostly, I want to  wear dresses, lightweight ones, with sandals instead of boots. It's killing me that I'm letting Easter Sunday pass without a new spring dress. I have some great fabrics I am excited to whip up into a new spring wardrobe, but it will all just have to wait, wait for warmer weather. I mean, who wants to see a cotton dress dress paired with wool tights and boots? Dresses NEED sandals.

I can't wait for an excuse to buy some new ones. I will have to narrow them down to just one or two, but there so many cute ones out there already, do I choose comfort over cute? feminine over androgynous? I love so many of them, I guess my budget will have to decide for me this year.

My most favorite pair:
I have been obsessing over these for the last 2 1/2 years. They are by K Jacques. Maybe this year will be it for me. Gladiators aren't going anywhere yet.

My sort of second favorite pair:
I'm still sort of on the fence here with these.  I saw them all over Brooklyn last year and hated them at first, but by the end of summer they really grew on me. And of course they scored major bonus points when I saw them on her.

My favorites from Urban Outfitters. 

Matt Bernson, where did this guy come from? I love every pair I have seen of his so far.

And because they are so inexpensive & comfortable, maybe another pair of salt waters.

Here it is

Posting a gigantic picture of myself is very uncomfortable...

We decided on a combination of the two haircuts. A thick blunt side-swept bang, and some layers. Not too drastic, but when both the bang and hair get a bit longer I can easily go for the Urban Outfitter girl's look, which I really love!

In other unrelated news, I am almost done with Gilmore Girls, just a few episodes left. I know I am a year behind everyone else, but I didn't get into it until November. I have watched seven years in the short span of four months.  These ladies have been such a constant in my daily routine lately, I try to sneak in at least one episode in during naptime, thinking about the end is really upsetting me. But what I really don't like is the direction season 7 is going in, does it even have a happy ending?

Anyway, I will quickly need another show to wallow in after I finish this one up. Any suggestions?