Weekend with my family

After waiting 72 hours for the floor to fully dry I moved all my stuff into the new space and realized I had no idea how to arrange it. So, it may be a little while before I "unveil" it to the world! Right now it looks like a big junk pile. But, with all the stuff in the room, the orange is not quite so overwhelming. Thank goodness.

Spent the last few days at my parents house. My sister was in from Colorado so we all got together. Drove up through an eerie thunderstorm on Thursday night. On Friday my mom, sister, mammaw and I went to a flea market up near Fort Worth. I took my newfound toy, my digital camera, and took pictures of design elements that inspired me. Man, I am totally in love with the camera right now! I bought a disk to hold more images before I left. I took 204 pictures over the weekend! It is so fun when you know you can erase the bad ones. I played around with the settings and used macro and av settings to get close up images of the flowers around my mother's house. Unfortunately, I didn't figure those things out until Saturday so some of the images I took at the flea market came out a little fuzzy. Those pictures are mostly for inspiration anyway. While I was there I bought some great old jewelry including some neat old beads that are red, white and blue. I also got a cool vintage clock for $2 and a pair of horn rimmed glasses for $3 that I really want to have my prescription put into. I have been wanting some cool new glasses but everytime I find a pair I like, they are too expensive. I recently found this guy down the road who repairs glasses so it gave me the idea to find some neat old glasses and have them fixed up for me. I think it will be cheaper. Ideally it would be neat to have multiple pairs of glasses and change them out like accessories. Someday I will get the surgery for my eyes but until then, I think I really need some fun glasses!

On Saturday Crystal, mom and I hung out around the house all day. I took tons of pictures and we made a fun lunch together. We started off the morning with the whole family having coffee together on the back porch. My parents have such a nice place for that! It is so beautiful there in the morning. There are birds and a nice breeze, my mother's flowers and yard are all so lush. They really have a little piece of paradise! Later on I went up to the high school weight room with my brother. That is one cool thing about small towns - people trust each other to just give the key to the weight room to former students. Anyway, it was fun to work out together. My brother is in such great shape! He gave me some good advice and showed me his workout. I did a couple of sets and then just played with my camera. In the evening there was a reception for my dad's cousin's son who just got married. We had so much fun! It was held in an old American Legion hall where I remember going when I was little for family reunions. I danced with my dad, sister and brothers all night. We danced the waltz, two step, cotton-eyed-joe and Jeff taught me a new dance called the half step. They had kegs of beer and barbeque. It was such a great experience and brought me back to my roots. I love that I have a family I can go out and have fun with like that. I feel very fortunate. When we got home my parents went to bed and the four of us kids stayed up pretty late drinking and talking and laughing our asses off.

I came home on Sunday, tired as hell, moved my stuff into the new space and laid on the bed the rest of the day!

This week I really need to accomplish a lot. Next week I will be back at my parents house as my mom is having a hysterectomy and I am going to spend the week with her just to be there in case she needs help. Hopefully I can get the rest of the book case painted and the room kind of organized before I leave again next Sunday.

I set up a Flickr account with all my pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dewdropfalling/