Car Trouble

• Me: My car won't start.
• Dad: What kind of noise is it making?
• Me: Like a "errr arrr eh eeearrh daaa..."
• Dad: What?
• Me: Like a "beh beh da da da da"
• Dad: Huh?
• Me: You know, like a "eh er er tic tic ahhhhh"
• Dad: I'll just go listen for myself.

Kramer  

Colored Chalkboards

(Via Elsiecake)
I got crazy excited when I saw that you can create your own custom colors. Martha Stewart is a genious. She recommends that you use latex paint, but I tried it out with acrylic paints with much success. Here's how you too can create your own chalkboard paint...

Supplies: 1/2 cup acrylic paint (choose any color you like, or mix colors together to make the perfect shade!), 1 tablespoon unsanded grout (About $12) (this can be purchased at most hardware/home improvement stores, we got ours at Home Depot), mixing cup or bowl, spoon, paint brush and an object or board you plan to paint on.

1. Measure out your paint and grout. The unsanded grout is a fine powder so be sure to work in a well ventilated area.

2. Stir the grout into the paint until no lumps remain. 3. Paint your surface with your new custom chalkboard paint! The paint will begin to harden once it is mixed, so only mix what you need at one time as it won't store as well as other paints.

Once your chalkboard has fully dried be sure to slate the surface before using it for the first time. To slate a chalkboard lightly rub chalk along the surface and then lightly rub it off.

Love You

"You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's alright."

Maya Angelou

From Me to You

Subrscibe to walk off the earth. I love their videos! Especially the guy on the left with the pipe & the noise-maker . . . !! Even the promo part at the end is endearing. Check emmmmmm. Thanks West of Whimsey for sharing :)

Sunny Side

Hey Soul Sister

My Beloved spoke and said to me "Rise up my love, my fair one and come away. For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come. And the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land." Song of Songs 2:10-12

Certain people play particularly important roles in my life. My sister Kasi, plays the happiness role. I find that no matter what my circumstances are, she is the source of tons of my smiles.

She makes me happy by being happy herself.

 

This weekend, my sister drove 8 long hours to see me.

So for this one weekend

I got to have her

all to myself

the weather was beautiful

the food was good

Laundry day was the new shopping day

Friday was the new Saturday

We decided to start every day out with frozen yogurt. We easily remained blissfully unaware of how many calories we were taking in.

"Whoever is merry and cheerful has always a good reason for so being, namely the very fact that he is so. Nothing can so completely take the place of every other blessing as can this quality, whilst it itself cannot be replaced by anything. A man can be young, handsome, wealthy an esteemed; if we wish to judge of his happiness, we ask weather he is cheerful."

"I vow to find reasons to find things funny. Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity. It is the source of social bonding."

 

I observed more happiness this weekend from her than she probably even knows. I hate that this weekend has to end. Love you so much.