Random-ness

Happy Friday!

Time for another Random post, as my thoughts are flying all around my brain and I think it's best to set those thoughts free.

Is it really September? Really?

I'm so not ready for pumpkins.

Even though I could be tempted by my friend, Becky.

Very tempted.

I'm trying really hard to give up Sweet n Low. I hate this. 

I hate this because there is nothing better to me than a big, cold, icy glass of tea with lemon and that stupid pink packet.

Brenna's cooking teacher tells her classes that aspartame is from the devil.

sigh.

I love nothing more than my venti decaf coffee from Starbucks with TWO of those heinous packets.

Today I cut back to one and a half.

It was a big deal. Very BRAVE of me, in fact. Don't you agree? 

Someone please agree with me.

Maybe next time I will do one and then some sugar in the raw. (which doesn't dissolve very well, by the way.) But what if I go to a coffee place and they don't have sugar in the raw? Just the pink? Do I use the regular white sugar? (gack)

NO one has agave....I do like that in my coffee at home. I do NOT, however, like Stevia. I prefer metallic tastes to not be in my coffee.

I am trying to make our own bread.

 Have you read the ingredient label on a loaf of Sarah-Lee Whole Grain white? Yeesh. 

Brenna does not care for home made bread so much.(?????) She does like the pretzels as shown above. I regrettably gave her a turkey sandwich on a Sarah-Lee Whole Grain White hamburger bun for school yesterday.

I cave easily in the morning.

She also took Ritz crackers. If it weren't for the carrots and dip, I think my food police conscience would have locked me up and thrown away the key.

I will be strong from now on.

Especially when Brenna asks to buy hot lunch at school. Don't even get me started on the crap food they sell at school. Some things are just not o.k. for a person with a low metabolism and a bombed-out thyroid and a general dis-like of exercise.

I'm also realizing that in wanting to build up my art work, I actually have to DO art work. It's kinda intimidating when I think of creating for more than a week. Exciting, but intimidating. Please don't think I'm stalking your blog if I come and visit every day to see if you have done something new. It's just that I might need some inspiration.

Does anyone do Instagram??? I love it. It's an application for your phone and you can create cool pictures. You can also network with other people. I'm not sure how, though.

This is my favorite one so far. I took it while we were driving through St. Louis:

I'm learning a lot about networking from my class I'm taking from Kelly Rae Roberts. 

Good grief. It takes TIME. 

Facebook, twitter (does anyone do twitter?), fan page on Facebook, (which, by the way, you can see mine if you click on the face book logo under my profile. It's not much right now, but it's getting there.) Etsy, Linkedin, blogs, finding challenges, flickr, groups on flickr...

should I stop now?

I think that's all for today.
Maybe.
I might add more later.
xo
lynn