I'm A Hacking, Pinning , Sickie Girl

What's a girl to do when she's stuck at home, sick in bed, and not a drop of energy or motivation to do anything, all weekend?
Well, in between blowing my nose and hacking up a lung, I wasted a pretty good amount of time on, Pinterest, I re-read the book The Help, and I caught up on all my favorite shows. I'm really enjoying the series on Netflix called, Call The Midwife. Have you heard of it? It's keeping me preoccupied while we all wait for the next season of Downton Abbey. Sigh. I miss you Downton Abbey.
I thought I would do some blogging while I'm on such a roll here, but my head is fuzzy and congested so I fear the only thing I have worth sharing with you are my recent pins.  This sounded like a good idea at the time, but if it all comes out mumbo jumbo-ed then please forgive me.
Oh, did I also mention my phone is on the fritz, and I'm not receiving text messages right now. It's so sad and strange that my lil buddy is so quiet all of a sudden. I thought that nobody loved me until I talked to a bestie today and found out that in fact they really DO love me and that they thought I was just being aloof ... Psh... imagine me being ALOOF!!
So shall we get this pinning party started?

 It all started with the idea that I should go on Pinterest for some embroidery ideas, and then of course run off right away and embroider, but alas I'm sick and so I forgot that last part of actually doing something besides lying in bed and pinning.

I found these two beauties while looking up embroidery. The top one is something I can and WILL re-create but the bottom one well.. that lil clutch purse is a masterpiece of not only embroidery but sewing as well. Those little purses are not as easy as they look to make. I have tried and failed miserably at making a clutch purse.

I may or may not have sewn the zipper on inside out. 

I'm not sure why I'm admitting that to you Beloved Reader... Oh that's right, I'm sick and would probably admit anything to you right about now.

I think I started to get hungry right about then, and that's how I ended up on this pin.

Have I told you that I dream of making my own pasta someday? Yep, that is the next attachment for the ole' Kitchen Aid. It has always been a dream of mine because my mom told me of how her Italian grandmother used to have the pasta hanging from coat hangers all over her kitchen. I want to me that Italian grandma someday. This is a Zucchini Pasta with Avocado cream sauce, and it's literally making my mouth water right now. If only I had the energy to go downstairs and whip it right up. MOSES!!! Oh that's right, I can't even yell cause I sound like a dying frog right now.
I then found a few funnies on my quest of Pins and this one with Lionel Richie ...

   Bah HA HA HA HA!! I just can't stop laughing.  Maybe it's not even that funny, but to this stuffy headed sicky girl... that is some fun-nay shit right there!!
Well, and then my Pinning took a turn for the worst. I started going down that road that is so easy to do on Pinterest. Ya know, the road of NEVER GONNA HAPPEN BUT IT SURE IS NICE TO DREAM?
I started looking at items like this

This ring right here probably cost the same amount as my firstborn's college tuition(for one year at Udub) that is right around the corner.  It probably cost the same amount as raising 4 kids has cost all these 16 years. No joke. It costs way more than all the money I will ever have alloted for jewels in a lifetime and yet...
It had me at Yellow. Cheesy line, I know but it's just so purty. Sigh.
I of course started thinking more realistically with my pins and immediately pinned something more attainable like this...

Just looking at this scene makes me feel better. I wonder what must it be like to live in a cottage so beautifully surrounded by a garden so green and lush?
Then I remembered my little slice of something like that in Redmond, Washington. 
And I was brought back to earth by this quote from C.S. Lewis

He was a wise man that Mr. C.S. Lewis.

Pinterest and Other Such Rambles

Tonight I'm flying solo while My Captain Oh Captain, aka My Giant, aka Hubs, aka Moses is away at sea. I made that sentence much more dramatic than what was necessary and used far too many aka's, but if I haven't lost you yet with drama and aka's then lets move on shall we.

(Now that is Butt A$$ COLD right there!)
While my Giant is gone away for work I tend to stay up way too late, drink way too much wine,and Pin way too many things on Pinterest.
Do you do the same beloved reader ? No,Huh? Ok... Well tonight I realized a few things while happily pinning away.
One- that I haven't been on the site in quite some time. AND Two- I think I kinda know why.

( I need this Santa PLEASE)
It's not because I haven't had any interests worth pinning it's just that I have found myself to be overwhelmed with the interests I already have.
I'm pretty sure not everyone Pins things with the determination to actually accomplish those interests, or even come back to them for that matter, but that is exactly what I set out to do when I started my Pinterest site.

I quickly realized how foolish I was to think that was even humanly possible. I mean I am a Sanguine for goodness sakes, and we are just all over the place. Can I get a witness?
So as I dusted off the shelves in my Pinterest account I thought, ya know what I need to just look at this site in a whole new way. It can just be a place like, oh I don't know, maybe your favorite Department store. For some that's Macy's, maybe Ross, for me it's Value Village.  Now these are places that I don't dare set foot in unless I have the money that earns me a spot in the buyers department.  Ya know what I'm saying?
Pinterest can be a place that if I have the time, using all the time management skills I can muster up then I can allow myself to walk the aisles. But I dare not roam the streets of Pinterest when I have say... Oh I dunno so, so, so many ...  Christmas Crafts  Wrapping Gifts Writing Letters Laundry Shaving my legs Advent Calendar clues to write  Bible Study reading Praying Wives book club reading Emails to read Showering Dishes Laundry and  Etsy Shop clean up 
TO DO!!!!

(I'm a tad bit Garland obsessed these days)
Not to mention a reasonable bed time awaiting so that I can wake to the Fab 4 kids in the morning with a smile on my face(that never happens) and a cheerful skip in my step. Bah-ha-ha... the visual of me smiling and skipping out of my room in the morning just made me LOL for realz!! My kids would be like, "Who put a nickel in YOU?" Needless to say tonight, CAN YOU SAY EPIC FAIL  in the time management department... cause I can! What a major time suck you are Pinterest. I mean how dare YOU?!?
And well so there ya have it my friends.  My Pinterest account might go untouched until the next time My Giant is out at sea, but for tonight it sure did keep me company. As did YOU.