Inspiration lacking

I'm going to be super busy the next month or so. We've got a lot to do before our House Warming/Open House at the end of May. The problem is I'm not inspired to do anything right now. I want to get yard work done, but I don't want to do it. I want the walls painted, but don't want to paint them. These things will be eating up the time my heart really wants to spend being more creative, finishing my scrapbooks, writing and reading and enjoying life.

How do you force yourself to MAKE time for you? Where do you put it in your calendar so you don't fill it with some other thing that needs to be done?

This quote has been with me all day and I can't help but think I'm not doing a very good job listening to what lies within me. How do I fix it though?

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Soft Voices Don't Always Fall on Deaf Ears

Sometimes when you think you haven't made any headway, life goes and surprises you. Turns out the words I said did make an impact....We'll see where this goes, but for now this chick is happy :)

Still Waiting....

Good things come to those who wait...

Or at least I hope so. It's been almost 2 weeks since the talk and I'm not sure much has changed. Knowing it won't be an automatic switch, it's still hard to feel like I got through. While I did get the best foot rub I've had in years last night, I'm not sure it was done for the reason I'd hoped for.

Still waiting...

Awesome

I follow an awesome, in my opinion, blog - which you should totally check out here.

I am now addicted to Vampire Weekend's Oxford Comma and will have to go home and buy the entire album tonight. I love finding new music!

You can check out the band's site here.

This too shall pass....or at least I hope it will

When you find the one you're going to spend your life with, magic happens. You get butterflies, you smile, laugh and love more than you ever thought you were capable of. You learn from one another through the happy memories, and the difficult times. When you face obstacles you face them together. But what happens when you've finally settled in and gotten comfortable and one of you starts to miss the butterflies?

I've been in a bit of a "funk" for the last week. I had to really think about how to approach my issue with my husband, but I finally figured it out Saturday morning. I had planned to talk to him Friday, but when the man you love tells you "I'm happy. I love my wife and our little dog and the home we have here", how do you then say "I'm not so happy?". I just couldn't do it. I woke up with it on my mind Saturday though and after coffee and some random show on t.v., I turned to my hubby and bit the bullet.

I am a VERY passionate and romantic person, I always have been. It's a part of me I let get pushed aside a lot and it finally made its way to the front again. My husband is the logical one. He doesn't understand flowers and gooshy cards. I've been able to learn his "language". He however cannot get his brain around mine. Romance and "raw" passion do not make logical sense to him and he's let them completely fall from his vocabulary.

I knew the convesation wasn't going to be easy or pleasant (I cried, I knew I would), but it was absolutely necessary. If I can make an effort to learn his language, he must be willing to make an effort to learn mine. I probably made him feel awful and it was not my intention to do so, but he needed to know where I was and why I had been so distracted and distant for the last week.

I'll let you know how it turns out, this will not be an overnight change and I'm not entirely certain we won't have to visit it again, but right now I'm taking comfort in the fact that he knows and it is up to him to decide where we go from here. I trust him to make the right decision.

Drool

I've realized that the hubby and I both want slightly expensive cars. Someone get me a lotto ticket - quick!

This is my dream car. They don't make them anymore, but someday I will drive one.


This is hubby's car of choice.

It's not real...

Okay, so I'm still on the Vampire kick. I'm secretly hoping to wake up one day and have my hubby being standing over me ready to change my world....Seriously, what is my problem? I've finished the entire series and will probably read them again, though I think it wise to move on to a different subject matter for a while first.

Brian and I watched the movie last night, which I was nervous about doing because I had such high expecations coming off the books. It was o.k. Not horrible, not nearly as bad as some people have claimed (in my opinion), but I found myself making comments throughout the whole going "that's not how that happend" or "that's not the right color", etc. Brian kept shooshing me, but I couldn't help it, it just wasn't the image I had painted for myself from the reading. All in all I suppose they did the best they could, I know from the Harry Potter experiences that some things just have to be removed or changed.

I'm at a loss right now though, for what to pick up next. I'm afraid that whatever book it happens to be will pale in comparisson to my (new) fasination of Vampires and the romance I found in those books. Stephanie Meyer may have perfectly well ruined my taste for reading....Anyway, point of this post - suggestions on where to take my mind next? Anyone have a great read?