Thoughts

We spent most of the day yesterday at the boat. I love our boat, but since we race with Hank on his Santana, we don't spend nearly enough time on our own. I realized yesterday how silly it was that we bought it (right after I justified buying a new stereo for it... can't wait to figure out how to wire that thing!). We race almost every weekend with Hank. And starting in May, most every Wednesday too. That leaves only Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings to get all chores, errands, and sailing in. Chores and errands usually win out. Which is why, yesterday when we went to put up the sails, we found a birds nest--complete with a bird and three eggs--IN our sails. Hopefully we'll be able to spend more time on our boat soon.

Thoughts

• I never seem to be able to finish unpacking/cleaning out boxes ... no matter what deadline I give myself.
• I'm having trouble figuring out how to finish decorating my bedroom. I have decent decor, but the walls are blank. I really want to spend about $200 on picture frames, but that just seems irresponsible
• I want to blog more. Here are some topic ideas - Things I love - Something that happened this week - Thoughts on life - Diet topics
• We got a puppy-- he's a Maltese. Malteses are known for having bad teeth. Ideally I should brush his teeth every day. If I usually find it to be a huge hassle to brush my own teeth every day, how I am I going to brush my puppy's teeth?

Off Work

I love the few days I get off work.Last weekend I spent a ton of time looking at evening gowns. I have to wear one this June, and I think I found the perfect dress!!!

While I was doing that, I found this pattern

Source: simplicity.com via Elizabeth on Pinterest

I'm thinking about making it in white in a jersey fabric. It just breathes summer to me... only catch is, I can't decide to make it into a long maxi dress, or to leave it knee length.  What do you think?

House

I don't know what it is about living in a place that makes it so difficult to keep clean -- case in point, I just jabbed a dry spaghetti noodle into my foot. I don't know what it was doing in the carpet under the kitchen table anyway... I mean I just vacuumed two days ago. Anyway, I'm sure that it has something to do with my new pinterest habit. I recently found out that I will get to attend this year's Miss Provo pageant, and that I'm going to get to wear an evening gown. Talk about fun! I've missed those types of things (they make me want to be a pageant director myself, ha). In any case, I spent most of the day looking for suitable dress. I'm tempted just to wear one of my old dresses, but they either seem out of style, or a bit childish. It's only been 5 years, but I feel like a completely different person. So far this green one is my top pick, but green doesn't look very good on me.

Source: lightinthebox.com via Elizabeth on Pinterest

I went ahead and ordered a somewhat similar blue dress that I'll embellish just a little. Hopefully I'll like it when I see it.