A Day in the Life of the Mad Haderlies

I just decided, after the past couple of *fun* days that I've had (where I've actually taken pictures), I'd post about one of my summer days. I LOVE SUMMER. The sunshine really brings light into my soul, and so I get happy and do happy things like take pictures. :)

Ok and secretly this isn't all ONE day, it really is a couple o'days rolled into one. But it COULD be all one day.

So first, Scottie and I wake up late and make breakfast...

This one's mine. :)

Then Scottie and I decide we need to get the car taken care of (FINALLY). We get the tires rotated and balanced, get the brakes checked, and have the oil changed (the chips in the windshield just have to wait...*sigh*).

Scott was being a good, quiet little boy, playing with the toys...

and then started making faces at me. :P

We took a break from the toys and started watching this John Wayne/Dean Martin movie (yes, he DID sing, which is why I was okay watching it, since Westerns aren't my favorite). I saw a couple magazines on the chair next to me, and that's when I made this horrible discovery:





Unfortunately, I was too lazy to read the whole article, but I did gether that there we're a mixture of things: 5% Neanderthal (sp??), 3% some other strange thing that I can't remember, and x% of other stuff. I have no idea, but I decided I liked the magazine. It was kinda like the time in Primary when my teacher told me my mom and dad weren't really my mom and dad, they're my brother and sister (you know, in the larger scheme of things), that Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother are my real parents, and I just cried and cried. Yeah, it was kinda the same feeling.

So after that Scottie goes to his appointment for the day and leaves me to decorate the room. Yesssssssssss!! I didn't really do anything with it because I'd been planning on painting it this summer, and what was the point of hanging a bunch of stuff up just to take it down? But since it doesn't look like I get to paint any time soon, I decided to go "college room" on the master bedroom. I took out my box of decorations from my single days and do a bit to spice up the room, though it's by no means fantastic or finished. But now there's SOMETHING on the walls--it's not the bare, icky cream color it was before.

Then Scott comes home and works on the garage. Yay--it's clean now! I was like...I didn't know the garage went back that far! It's so nice to have more room to park. :)

huh...I should probably mention that I just realized these are all BEFORE pictures, and that I didn't take any AFTER pictures. Bummer. Maybe next time...
 

Then we hang out with Tee and Emma and make delicious homemade ice cream (thanks to Emma's class having leftovers). :D

ice cream!

I brought cookie dough to snack on, because I usually want to buy ice cream. But instead of buying, we MADE! And when we added the cookie dough to it, it was pretty dang delish.

 

We finish up the night using Scott's awesome telescope that I got him for his birthday! Yes, I did copy Emily, but it was such a fabulous idea...the moon looked sooooOOOOOooooo cool! ...but the stars just looked like bigger bright dots, lol. But it was still cool!

And then we go to bed. Sometime Scott reads to me, which I thoroughly enjoy. We're currently on the second Percy Jackson novel, thanks to the fabulous suggestion of Heidi. I love those books! But I love that Scott reads to me because that's what I fall asleep to.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is the end.

I enjoy my life.

I wish...

Does anybody else have those days where you're just full to the brim of wishes but total lack any sort of motivation to even leave the bedroom?

Today is one of those days. I'm sitting here in my bed (on the mattress pad because the sheets are in the washer) freezing my behind off because it's cloudy and rainy and cold AGAIN with my corn pad on my feet (it's getting cold, but I don't want to venture off into the kitchen because it's cooooooold out there), just wishing that my closet would all of sudden be full of cute dresses, belts, and shoes and that I'd get this fantastically cute hair style just out of nowhere that I would never have to fix.

I wish my house was painted warm colors and was clean all the time. I wish I had a broom and that the bathroom floor laminate wasn't torn. I wish I had the money/talent to fix up what I already have to make everything look cute and vintage-y.

Today is a day where I wish I was one of those cute girls that everybody loves and has the really cute house that's totally original and you wish it was yours.

And y'know, the funny thing is I think I could be...

But today is not the day I become all of these fabulous things and have the perfect house. Today is the day that I lay in bed, listen to Pandora, play solitaire, and think about the kitchen that is in some serious need of cleaning.

Maybe the sun will come out tomorrow and inspire me.

A Well-Spent Friday Night

Last night, Scottie, Tee, and I got to go to the Mindy Gledhill concert on campus. It was the first concert I'd been to in...well, too long. It was so fun!

We started out the evening by leaving Scottie in line while Tee and I went out to snatch Mindy posters. I mean, the concert was starting in 30 minutes and was sold out, so it's not like the promoter posters were doing much in the vacated buildings. So, off we went to scope out the Spori, Snow, and Romney, and Clarke...

We "stole" four posters: one for each of us, of course, and then one for Beth and one for Emma. The first three were were stealthy thefts, but Tee like, right up and took one in front of a girl at the Clarke. No shame! hah. We ran back at 6:58 because they opened seating at 7:00. Thank goodness for Scottie...when we got back, the line was huge. We got pretty good seats in the middle...until people sat in front of us. *sighs* Why do girls have to have such big hair??

Anyways, the stage looked awesome. There were Christmas lights and hanging fabric and globes and umbrellas...it was pretty cool.

The announcer told us about Mindy's family and that she was expecting another boy, so we all knew she was pregnant, but we didn't know just how pregnant she was, lol.

Anyways, it didn't affect the performance at all. She did awesome! She came out singing "California," which is a very fun song. She was too cute.

She sang *I think* everything from her album "Anchor." She began every song with the stories that inspired them. Come to find out, she's really not a creepy stalker like the song "Crazy Love" may lead you to think. Anyways, it was fabulous, and she's a really great live performer.

So yeah. She was pretty dang cute. After the concert (she encored with Burt Bacharach's "Close toYou," which is one of my all-time favs) we went outside to make some purchases. Tee and I were gonna buy her sheet music for "Anchor" (my favorite song of hers) and then have her sign it....but there were SO MANY people I thought I was gonna die. I do not do very well in heavily-crowded areas that are too warm and smell like BO...I get feverish. :S  And that's exactly what happened. I really thought I was gonna be sick. So, sad as it was, we left without an autograph. Maybe Scottie and I will sneak to the Civic Center tonight in IF to try for an autograph. :)