My friend Britt does this thing on her blog each month, where she organizes her life-right-now details using the progressive tense (-ing verbs, in other words). Today Becky copied her. Which felt like permission for me to do it, too. So, here is my Currently list:
blogging at Write. Click. Scrapbook. all this week. The topic is teens but I'm also including some general scrapbooking take away ideas for those scrappers who don't have teens. If you aren't a scrapbooker but you want to just write more about your teenagers, the ideas will also work for that!
drinking way too much Pepsi. It's the throwback style, but still. Once I finally work my way through what's left of the six boxes we had at one point, I will personally not buy anymore. Kendell loves it, so he might buy some for himself, but me? I will not. For some reason, it's easier for me to not drink it if he bought it. That's weird.
failing at conquering the conjunctivitis my kids keep giving each other. I think that both Kaleb (who caught it from a kid at school) and Nathan both now have the secondary infection that the antibiotic drops sometimes cause. Which means a trip to the doctor for a different prescription. Jake's got it now and he looks like a zombie.
making Jake, who is staying home from school today due to said pink eye, clean and vaccuum the basement.
celebrating that Haley didn't catch the pink eye before her Preference dance on Saturday, that she found the perfect red shoes to go with her dress, and that the pictures I took of their group (all TWELVE COUPLES) turned out OK. I still need to Photoshop them and find somewhere to upload them so all those anxious teens can get their pics.
reading One Day and The Best American Poems 2011. Last night I finished Salvaging the Bones, which was lovely.
loving blue cheese dressing. OK, I always love it, but recently I can't stop making meals wherein I can have some sort of carb-based item to dip in blue cheese. Or chicken is good to dip, too. Haley asked me why I don't just make more salad if I want to eat more blue cheese dressing. Because, honestly: I really don't love salad. Please don't revoke my Real Woman Card, OK?
scrapbooking lots of teen layouts for my week, and then I'm going to get all of Christmas scrapped.
writing an essay that is growing, sort of, out of this post.
mocking this race, the Outside the Ice Half Marathon. 13.1 miles on an indoor track? Seriously. That sounds like the most non-fun race I can imagine. It's "approximately" 47.75 laps. Sure. It's on the Olympic Oval, but still. Two hours of running in circles? With 250 people on the same track? REALLY? Is it just me or is this about as enticing as, say, meals of Top Ramen for the next six week? I think I'd pick the Top Ramen.
running hardly at all anyway.
going to the sculpting class at the gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I love it!
cooking meatloaf for dinner tomorrow night. My friend Julie's kids told me the other day that they don't like meatloaf. I think I need to share my recipe with her because, all modesty aside: I make a mean meatloaf!
wishing, hoping, praying and considering doing a snow dance for more snow. Or any snow. I hate cold, dry, brown winters. Please, please snow!
wanting to get better control of my sarcasm talent. As in...keep it to myself better.
wondering if my doctor is right and that my recent bout of brain fog can be attributed to my sleep talking. I have an appointment in a couple of weeks with a sleep disorders clinic. Hmmmmm.
wearing my favorite sweats. Wool socks. A long sleeved blue t-shirt.
needing to get busy on all the work I need to do today.
Happy -inging to you this day!
loving this post.
needing to do laundry.
wishing I could eat chocolate at RS tonight.
spending a few too many mintes on-line, considering all that needs to be done.
hoping you have a wonderful day!
Posted by: wendy | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 10:48 AM
That's funny that you won't drink it if Kendell buys it! And bleu cheese is a fave of mine too! (On another note, I've been trying to email you back, but I keep getting delivery failure notices. Check your FB inbox for a message from me. :)
Posted by: Angie Lucas | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 01:21 PM
Rock on, progressive tense!
Rock on!
Posted by: Fluent Brittish | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 04:42 PM
love this post. going to totally copy you on this soon!
Posted by: chris jenkins | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 11:31 PM
Love this list! I'm with you on the snow. Ugh. All we get is wind, wind, and more wind.
Posted by: Elizabeth | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 11:39 PM
Today we are cocooning, being seriously snowed in. I have finished breakfasting and should probably be showering soon.
Posted by: Helena | Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 09:51 AM