Funky Kim

Twas the week of Thanksgiving...

And I'm going a wee bit nuts here in beautiful West Valley City, Utah!  We're leaving for Montana in the morning and I'm trying to get a bunch of stuff done and bought and cleaned and packed before we leave.  I must thrive on this last minute stress thing.  I tend to do this frequently.

Anyway,

• I have 5 pairs of pajama pants cut out for Vincent.  I'll sew them up when I get home.  They needed to get cut so I could resize the pattern.
• I need to finish resizing the pattern.  But I spilled some water on it and its a tissue pattern, so it's laying there, drying while I blog and stuff.
• I'll cut another pair of pj pants out of the resized pattern, resize it again, and cut one more pair.  Then I'll race to the sewing room and sew them up.
• Then I'll break out a new pattern, cut two more pairs of pj pants, sew them up and be ready to give them to Heidi for her kids for Christmas.  Very exciting stuff, Christmas!
• During the sewing part of my day, I'm doing laundry.  I want all of my clothes to choose from when I pack for our trip.  And I want to come home to clean clothes and a freshly laundered bed.
• Next I'll go shopping.  Must hit JoAnns for a pillow form and sewing machine needles and extra bobbins, hit a thrift store for queen size sheets for the new bed at the cabin, and then hit the grocery store for this and that to take up for the big feast on Thursday.  We'll be at the hunting cabin, so there won't be a store nearby to run to.  I have lots of lists going!
• I'll finish my day by baking 5 pies.  Two to take with me, two to leave here at home for the home troops, and one to take to my dad who only gets his favorite raisin pie once or twice a year and would be heartbroken if I didn't drop one off on my way out of town.

In the midst of all this, I take the time throughout the day to be thankful that I have such abundance to throw me into this chaos.  It wasn't too many years ago that I dreamed about having this life I have now.  And it's good.

7 Quick Takes Friday

1 ~ Jennifer at Conversion Diary does a 7 Quick Takes Friday thing and I'm gonna try it out here.  Of course, most of my entries are quick takes.  Heh.

2 ~ Zen Habits has an amazing entry about life lessons learned while training for a triathlon.  After I got over my initial distaste for anything involving running, I really enjoyed reading this article.

3 ~ My magazine habit has come to a head this week.  Seems like all my magazine subscriptions came in the mail in the past 3 or 4 days and I have a big old stack to read.  And they all have red themed covers.  Must be Christmas.

4 ~ Speaking of Christmas, I have 3 crafty/sewing projects in various stages of completion that are meant to be gifts.  And there's one other project I need to start and finish for a gift for my grandma.  And several sets of Christmas pajamas that need to be sewn.  (I went a little nuts at Walmart last week and bought 35 yards of flannel)

5 ~ I'm still futzing around with my bread machine.  This morning's loaf was much better overall, but still needs something.  I have to say that having a slice of warm bread fresh from the machine is much more satisfying than a piece of toast at breakfast.  Much!

6 ~ Gas is $1.89 a gallon at my neighborhood gas station.  I wish there was a way to buy a whole bunch right now to save up for the future. 

7 ~ Profound thought for the day:

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.”  Howard Thurman

Note to self: Read more Shakespeare

"Oh Brave New World, that has such people in't."  ~  William Shakespeare - The Tempest

I attended Ballet West's performance of The Tempest last night.  I wasn't familiar with this story.  Or, as is with a lot of Shakespeare's plays, I didn't know what familiar stories and sayings had come from this piece of work.  There was a scene where the three characters who were drunk through most of the first act are bitten by dogs.  Hence "hair of the dog that bit you".  It's the little things.

Anyway, this ballet was incredible!  The dancers showed off skills that I hadn't seen in the ballet's I had attended in the past.  Such athletic dancing!  It was just wonderful!

If anyone lives in the Salt Lake City area, I'd recommend seeing this ballet.

I can't wait to go back and see this year's Nutcracker Ballet!

Veteran's Day Concert

My wonderful step-son, Jeff, had a solo at our state's Veteran's Day concert.  He was pretty nervous, but I think he did a wonderful job.  This concert was shown on live television, so we have it on our DVR.  Soon we'll record it on DVD to have forever and ever!  LOL

I recorded his bit on my camera.  Not the best recording in the world, but you'll get the idea.