How did I never tell you about Spain?

I never told you about Spain.  And it's not that I just didn't tell you about Spain, it's that I didn't write down and capture all my wonderful Spain memories so I could go back and read them a thousand times over, because I'm pretty certain that I read this blog far more often than anyone else.  Public diary/journal/notebook of sorts, you know?

So I might throw in some bits and pieces of Spain here and there as I flip through pictures and remember the moments.  Which is why I took 3,067 pictures (yup, that's me) over the course of twelve days or so - because I've found that sometimes it's helpful to click and snap away to capture little moments to trigger bigger memories.  Even if I'm now going to throw those written-down memories into the 2013 section of the blog when it happened in 2010 (holy...whaaaaat now?!? that's why I'm so much skinnier in these pictures...I like to call the additions my love pounds).  But it's also reminded me to pick up that camera more and just capture the days.

Excited to try and fall asleep faces...

...to really excited to be walking the streets of Barcelona faces.  Kinda awesome what a plane ride can do.

Working on my projects

I have a lot of "projects" going on...most of them house related in some form or fashion (and I just don't think I'll ever be DONE with house projects.  Ever.  There's always going to be something...).  Oh yeah, and we moved in well over a year ago, so some of these works in progress have been in progress for way too long, and Craig asks me when I'm ever going to finish anything, and I say "it hasn't been that long!" and then realize it HAS been that long that things have been sitting half-done and so now I'm trying to actually do them.  Plus Pinterest overwhelms me with a plethora of "ooohhh, I could do that!!" ideas, so I'm trying to narrow those down to the ones that are actually realistic.  Oh, interwebs, how you clog my brain with useless bits o' stuff.

In the interest of filling up empty space (the top of the kitchen cabinets, which would probably be just fine naked, but then the giant dust balls would get lonely up there) without spending a bazillion dollars, I went to Goodwill and picked up a bunch of vases...

shouldn't I be taking things to Goodwill to clear out our crap instead of buying things from Goodwill and bringing more crap into our home?  hmmmm.....

...and commandeered part of the garage to set up spray-paint central.  I have an unnatural obsession with painting things.

And along the way I did find the motivation to slap another coat of paint on the table and chairs that were cheaply acquired about eight years ago, hauled halfway across the country and back, and still manage to be functional...

Oh, and the curtains.  Curtains everywhere.  The dining room curtains are alllllllmost there, just need hems - although I think Harrison would prefer some extra hiding room at the bottom.

Time to go sew and actually finish things...