Life Lately: August 2nd, 2013

Good heavens! It's been over a month since I last posted. How did that happen? Summer always seems to go faster than any other time of year. After graduation, my other roommates moved out so it's just me and George (my cat).

I have to admit that I have not been doing much crafting.  I've been working a lot and my job takes so much energy out of me.  It's incredibly chaotic where I work and my brain just can't take much more by the time I get home. See what I have to deal with:

All that stuff belongs to individual people and must be catalogued, priced, entered into the computer, tagged and put away. *sigh* I won't bore you any more with complaining about my job. The good news is that I accepted an AmeriCorps position with the Boys & Girls Club that starts this September so, I only have one month left of this job! Yippee! 

When I am not working, it's almost impossible to not be outside enjoying the perfect Pacific Northwest summer.  We may get a lot of crap for having grey, rainy winters but, you can't beat our hot-but-not-too-hot-bugless-beautiful summers.  Here is some of the beauty that I've been traipsing through lately:

I've spent many an afternoon at Lake Padden

Teddy Bear Cove

Mt. Baker from Skyline Divide

someone brought their pet goats hiking!

I recently joined the incredibly addictive smartphone world (candy crush anyone?  I seriously cannot stop playing that game!).  I've been watching people Google things on their phones with envy for quite some time and now I too have joined the technology dependent ranks.  I'm going to have to work hard to not become one of those people who is glued to their phone all the time. Maybe the newness of it will wear off at some point but, right now, I am still simply in awe of all this little square of metal and plastic can do.  One of the things that I enjoy the most is being able to take pictures of my life without dragging around my ancient, battery sucking brick of a camera.

my little patio garden / chicken at the community garden where I volunteer
favorite color, favorite dress / mead and cake with good friends
you don't have to tell me twice! / teacups at my favorite antique mall

I haven't been completely negligent.  I do have a few craft projects that I have been working on (slowly) here is a sneak peek of one:

Stay summery,