Check me out, I finally learned to "embed" music videos within a post. This is far better than just giving you guys the link! Hurray!
Today I have chosen a bit of a melancholy little tune, it makes me cry - which may or may not have anything to do with the fact that it was used in an emotionally wrenching scene during the series finale of Chuck - but I still like the song. I'm in a slight melancholy mood today so it just felt like what I wanted to share. Don't worry, I'm ok - just a wee bit reflective and seeing changes in my life and relationships with others and processing it a bit. Trying to get back into my "one day at a time" mantra.
*Side note - if you're already in a melancholy mood, don't watch a movie called Melancholia - while it is a very well done movie, I guarantee it will not help!*
3/14/12
What's up 3/14
Happy Pi Day! You know 3.14blahblahnumbersIdonotremember....
We had such a lovely weekend - could not believe the weather, still can't believe the weather right now in fact, but the weekend weather was awesome too. We ran a bunch of errands on Saturday, played some cribbage and had dinner out at Brasa. We had hoped their patio would be open, but it wasn't quite yet. It was busy and there was a wait, but they let us order beers and sit over by a bonfire they had off on the side. So the wait wasn't too bad.
Sunday we slept late, made breakfast and I was a crazy woman and went and sat in line to get my car washed. It actually didn't take as long as I thought it would. Of course it rained on Monday and kind of ruined the whole thing, but I was happy to have the inside all vacuumed out and cleaned from all the sand accumulated from the winter. We finished out Sunday with dinner at my in-laws - they grilled burgers and it was awesome.
This week Nate is lucky enough to get a couple of days off. He's off tomorrow and Friday and also on Monday. He really needs it, I'm happy he's getting a couple of days for himself. He has made a few plans, going to make sausage for Easter with his dad tomorrow. Might brew beer one day. Sunday we are going to a service that is a tradition in the Russian church for Nate's grandpa - 40 days after the person passes away they have another ceremony that is essentially celebrating that person's arrival into heaven. Kind of the final closure I guess. The Russians really want to be sure you get into heaven, that is for sure! The family is having a lunch afterward so that will be nice.
So that's the view from here. Just continuing to take life one day at a time!
We had such a lovely weekend - could not believe the weather, still can't believe the weather right now in fact, but the weekend weather was awesome too. We ran a bunch of errands on Saturday, played some cribbage and had dinner out at Brasa. We had hoped their patio would be open, but it wasn't quite yet. It was busy and there was a wait, but they let us order beers and sit over by a bonfire they had off on the side. So the wait wasn't too bad.
Sunday we slept late, made breakfast and I was a crazy woman and went and sat in line to get my car washed. It actually didn't take as long as I thought it would. Of course it rained on Monday and kind of ruined the whole thing, but I was happy to have the inside all vacuumed out and cleaned from all the sand accumulated from the winter. We finished out Sunday with dinner at my in-laws - they grilled burgers and it was awesome.
This week Nate is lucky enough to get a couple of days off. He's off tomorrow and Friday and also on Monday. He really needs it, I'm happy he's getting a couple of days for himself. He has made a few plans, going to make sausage for Easter with his dad tomorrow. Might brew beer one day. Sunday we are going to a service that is a tradition in the Russian church for Nate's grandpa - 40 days after the person passes away they have another ceremony that is essentially celebrating that person's arrival into heaven. Kind of the final closure I guess. The Russians really want to be sure you get into heaven, that is for sure! The family is having a lunch afterward so that will be nice.
So that's the view from here. Just continuing to take life one day at a time!
3/12/12
Music Monday - Little Talks
Today's Music Monday is a song called Little Talks by a group called Of Monsters and Men. I cannot get enough of this song right now - and I can't even really tell you why, other than I love that it's a guy and girl singing together. The video is....trippy. But the song is good! Check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I&ob=av2n
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I&ob=av2n
3/9/12
Fabulous Friday 3/9/12
It's Fabulous Friday! And just what am I finding fabulous today?
1. My
2. Weekend
3. Is
4. Free
5. For
6. Whatever
7. I
8. Want
9. To
10. Do
Can you tell I'm a tad excited about that? Happy weekend everyone!!
1. My
2. Weekend
3. Is
4. Free
5. For
6. Whatever
7. I
8. Want
9. To
10. Do
Can you tell I'm a tad excited about that? Happy weekend everyone!!
3/7/12
What's up Wednesday
Yeah, not sure what I'm calling Wednesdays yet, but I'm starting on my resolve to make Wednesday my "what we're up to" update type day. So, what is new in the world of Beth and Nate?
Big fat nothing to be quite honest. Ok, that's a bit extreme. It's been quiet as of late though. Our weekend was a bit choppy as Nate worked super late on Friday and also on Saturday for a bit. But, we managed to salvage some nice time together, while he did skip out on mass, we went out for a nice dinner afterward at Red Lobster. Yeah I know, it's Lent, we should be eating seafood on Fridays. But it just worked out for us to go there on Saturday.
Sunday we slept super late. Later than I have in a long time. I must have needed it. I know Nate did. Anyway, we got up and made some breakfast and then did a little shopping so I could bake cupcakes again. I made chocolate salted caramel this time - they turned out the best of all my cupcakes so far. But oh my goodness were they SWEET. They tamed down a bit after a day or two, but I'm kind of glad Nate took the majority of them to work because they kind of almost hurt your teeth with sweetness!
We went and had dinner with Nate's parents Sunday night and it was nice to spend some time catching up with them. We also played one of the games they got us for Christmas and it was so much fun. I'd like to play it again with a few more people, it's a word game you play with two teams. Lots of fun!
Nate hasn't made anymore sausage yet, but he will be doing so while he is on a little vacation from work. Since they finally hired a second Mac tech, Nate's taking some MUCH needed time off next week and I'm so happy he'll be getting a little break.
Speaking of breaks, we have a rare weekend coming up with no Praise Project gigs or even rehearsals. We can do what we want, when we want and I won't lie, while I love Praise Project, I'm kind of excited for an entire weekend off. Especially when last weekend was so disjointed with Nate working and such. I have made no plans for us right now and I plan to kind of keep it that way at the moment, maybe be spontaneous this weekend. I think Friday will be a movie night at home, got one from Netflix sitting at home just waiting to be watched. After that, who knows!
And that's about it from here. Nate's also been talking about brewing beer again soon, as two of our kegs are empty, so I'm looking forward to that! Maybe we'll do that this weekend!
Big fat nothing to be quite honest. Ok, that's a bit extreme. It's been quiet as of late though. Our weekend was a bit choppy as Nate worked super late on Friday and also on Saturday for a bit. But, we managed to salvage some nice time together, while he did skip out on mass, we went out for a nice dinner afterward at Red Lobster. Yeah I know, it's Lent, we should be eating seafood on Fridays. But it just worked out for us to go there on Saturday.
Sunday we slept super late. Later than I have in a long time. I must have needed it. I know Nate did. Anyway, we got up and made some breakfast and then did a little shopping so I could bake cupcakes again. I made chocolate salted caramel this time - they turned out the best of all my cupcakes so far. But oh my goodness were they SWEET. They tamed down a bit after a day or two, but I'm kind of glad Nate took the majority of them to work because they kind of almost hurt your teeth with sweetness!
We went and had dinner with Nate's parents Sunday night and it was nice to spend some time catching up with them. We also played one of the games they got us for Christmas and it was so much fun. I'd like to play it again with a few more people, it's a word game you play with two teams. Lots of fun!
Nate hasn't made anymore sausage yet, but he will be doing so while he is on a little vacation from work. Since they finally hired a second Mac tech, Nate's taking some MUCH needed time off next week and I'm so happy he'll be getting a little break.
Speaking of breaks, we have a rare weekend coming up with no Praise Project gigs or even rehearsals. We can do what we want, when we want and I won't lie, while I love Praise Project, I'm kind of excited for an entire weekend off. Especially when last weekend was so disjointed with Nate working and such. I have made no plans for us right now and I plan to kind of keep it that way at the moment, maybe be spontaneous this weekend. I think Friday will be a movie night at home, got one from Netflix sitting at home just waiting to be watched. After that, who knows!
And that's about it from here. Nate's also been talking about brewing beer again soon, as two of our kegs are empty, so I'm looking forward to that! Maybe we'll do that this weekend!
3/5/12
Music Monday - Go Your Own Way
I grew up with Fleetwood Mac. It was a group my parents both really enjoyed. My mom and I would listen to Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks albums on vinyl - yep I remember vinyl - and dance around the living room. It's one of my best childhood memories.
So I'm driving to lunch and I hear this cover of "Go Your Own Way" from Rumors and I was super impressed. I don't always like hearing covers of my favorite bands, but somehow whenever I heard a Fleetwood Mac cover I ended up really liking it. And this one is no exception.
This artist's name is Lissie - I have heard and enjoyed some of her other music too and had no idea she had covered this song. Apparently she has an entire album of covers, though this one is not on it. Odd. Anyway, here is the song, enjoy this first installment of Music Monday!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OltcXMV-9Vk&ob=av2e
So I'm driving to lunch and I hear this cover of "Go Your Own Way" from Rumors and I was super impressed. I don't always like hearing covers of my favorite bands, but somehow whenever I heard a Fleetwood Mac cover I ended up really liking it. And this one is no exception.
This artist's name is Lissie - I have heard and enjoyed some of her other music too and had no idea she had covered this song. Apparently she has an entire album of covers, though this one is not on it. Odd. Anyway, here is the song, enjoy this first installment of Music Monday!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OltcXMV-9Vk&ob=av2e
3/1/12
The great balancing act
Some days I think I've got this balancing thing down and other days not so much.
How is it possible in this day in age with technology and various gadgets and what not that you could end up overbooking yourself in a given day? I haven't figured that out quite yet. I suppose part of it stems from my people-pleaser personality of never being able to say no. At any rate, sometimes choices need to be made and all I can do is promise to do better next time. I'm not perfect. I make mistakes.
There is also the matter of this blog here. I have talked a bit about how I started a daily fashion blog and I have to admit that right now, I'm enjoying blogging there a bit more. Perhaps it's because I'm a crazy narcissist who needs to take their photo everyday and share it with the world (yeah, I'm being sarcastic here). I think it has more to do with this little community I've found myself in - I've met all these awesome and inspiring women (some of whom live right here in MN) and it's become a daily routine of almost having virtual coffee with each other. They're supportive and engaging and I have just been having so much fun with it that it's become my top priority in blogging.
And that's the main problem - I just find myself putting more energy into that blog and then I think about writing here and some days I just have nothing to share. I could talk about the weather, I could talk about a whole host of trivial and boring things, but I think that would get old to read about every single day.
I don't want to abandon this blog all together though. When I set out to write here, it was to be about Nate and I and our daily lives - and it still is to some extent, but it's been a sounding board for a lot of other things too, some of which include my musings on life and I've started putting some of that into my other blog as well, so then I also find I don't want to be posting such things twice, especially when I know some of you read that blog too.
So where does that leave me? I have some ideas to breathe new life back into this blog while still maintaining my other one as well. I'm going to attempt to bring back theme days - such as Music Mondays, as I've wanted to get back into those again, and hopefully more Fabulous Fridays. I want to try to do a "What we did Wednesday" kind of recapping the week and hopefully sharing more of our activities and more about our life again. Right now, I'm shooting for those three days of the week for this blog, if I can do more than that, awesome, if not, it'll hopefully help me balance a bit better.
Life can be like a tightrope - it takes a lot of practice to balance just right so you don't fall off.
How is it possible in this day in age with technology and various gadgets and what not that you could end up overbooking yourself in a given day? I haven't figured that out quite yet. I suppose part of it stems from my people-pleaser personality of never being able to say no. At any rate, sometimes choices need to be made and all I can do is promise to do better next time. I'm not perfect. I make mistakes.
There is also the matter of this blog here. I have talked a bit about how I started a daily fashion blog and I have to admit that right now, I'm enjoying blogging there a bit more. Perhaps it's because I'm a crazy narcissist who needs to take their photo everyday and share it with the world (yeah, I'm being sarcastic here). I think it has more to do with this little community I've found myself in - I've met all these awesome and inspiring women (some of whom live right here in MN) and it's become a daily routine of almost having virtual coffee with each other. They're supportive and engaging and I have just been having so much fun with it that it's become my top priority in blogging.
And that's the main problem - I just find myself putting more energy into that blog and then I think about writing here and some days I just have nothing to share. I could talk about the weather, I could talk about a whole host of trivial and boring things, but I think that would get old to read about every single day.
I don't want to abandon this blog all together though. When I set out to write here, it was to be about Nate and I and our daily lives - and it still is to some extent, but it's been a sounding board for a lot of other things too, some of which include my musings on life and I've started putting some of that into my other blog as well, so then I also find I don't want to be posting such things twice, especially when I know some of you read that blog too.
So where does that leave me? I have some ideas to breathe new life back into this blog while still maintaining my other one as well. I'm going to attempt to bring back theme days - such as Music Mondays, as I've wanted to get back into those again, and hopefully more Fabulous Fridays. I want to try to do a "What we did Wednesday" kind of recapping the week and hopefully sharing more of our activities and more about our life again. Right now, I'm shooting for those three days of the week for this blog, if I can do more than that, awesome, if not, it'll hopefully help me balance a bit better.
Life can be like a tightrope - it takes a lot of practice to balance just right so you don't fall off.
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