Distressing

Ok, so my dumpster desk has been pealed, sanded, glued, woodputtied, sanded more, and finally has it's first coat of primer on it.  I am quickly realizing why so many people are doing the distressed painting on their refinished furniture.  It's a great way to cover up all those painting and other mistakes.  So far, the neighbor has fluffed his cigarette ashes down on my desk, my cats have jumped on the wet primer and, unfortunately, my neighborhood produces enough dust to cover a small desert.  How am I ever going to get a nice flat, wonderful paint job done??  I probably wont. So, I have been looking up how to "distress" my desk. Ha!

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So, the bags for my nieces were a BIG hit!  I filled them with tons of my old crafting stuff and stuff I got on clearance at Joann's.  There was ribbon, beads, paint, felt, fabric, ricrac, pompoms, glue, small craft kits, and all sorts of stuff.  They were so excited!  They immediately dumped everything out on the table and started gluing stuff together.

My brother wasnt too happy about it.  He's a bit nervous that they'll become hoarders...which is understandable since it runs in our family.  But his wife loved the gift...because it means the girls have plenty to do for a while this summer. LOL

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The husband and I decided to go hiking this morning. We went up to Las Trampas Regional Wilderness in San Ramon.  We've never been there before and it was a treat!

It was the perfect day for it.  It started off really cool and foggy and by the time we got to the park and started our hike, the fog had cleared and the sun was bright.  Luckily there was also a nice cool breeze.  I imagine it's much too hot in the dead of summer.  Ok, yes, I know it's nearly mid July, but we are having perfect weather right now...only about 75ish during the day and down to 50ish at night. I love it!

The park is beautiful   grazing fields in rolling hills with oaks and brush going up the trail.  It was a nice wide dirt road.We saw a few people, but not too many and everyone was very friendly.  We even ran across a couple of cows grazing.  As you can see, the view was beautiful today!  The trail was a loop.  Coming back it turned into a small dirt pathway through the oaks and brush.  The sun was dappling through, and there was a small nearly dried up creek along the trail  We definitely want to come back in the spring when the creek is bigger. This is most certainly going to be a repeat hike.

I guess I havent had my picture taken full body in a while...boy have I let myself go! I havent really gained much weight, but you can really tell that I havent been doing my strength training.  My tummy has gone all flabby again! UGH!  Yeah, that's gonna have to change.  We talked about it this morning and we are going to quit World of Warcraft again.  We were looking through old pictures and last time we quit we were going out and doing so much fun stuff....and then as soon as we started again, boom...exercise takes a back burner and so did all the fun stuff.  We've both been thinking about it, but not saying anything to each other.  Our minds always seem to be in sync, we just need our mouths to express it more often!

It's going to be great. I am excited already.  I'll have so much more time for crafts and working on myself!  And we'll get to work on the husband's back problems a lot better too.  Maybe I'll get back to a few other things too that I havent been doing...more reading, writing, and whatever.  It's a good thing.