From the darkness, something emerges!

Hello, Peoples!

*Blows a thick layer of dust off the keyboard.* 

It's so nice of you to drop by and visit me. I've been a jolly awful host lately. *Sweeps a pile of rubbish under the rug and sheepishly straightens up the blog.*

The story of my life....I work all daaay...I work all week ...and only rest on Sunday. 
THE STORY OF MY LIIIIIIFE! 

(I totally just sang that.)

So yes. I've been working an insane amount of hours lately--Like for the past three months. And I'm totally burnt out.

Tired. 

Physically and mentally.

Hence me going all A.W.O.L on you. My creative juice dried up faster than a puddle in the sun. I'm just twiddling my thumbs over here, waiting for some rain.

Still, I don't want to completely abandon my blog and I decided to slap out a quick post before I crash on the couch and nap. ;) *Pats self on back*

I'm prioritizing.

So what's new with me? Almost nothing. And that's a fact.

I've honestly been too busy to have anything remotely interesting happen. I'm still sitting here going, "When did it become July? Why am I still not tan?"

So I'm going to just sum up my life in a few pictures. The slightly less sub-par moments are always captured on camera. Unlike the really awesome moments. Like Christmas or birthdays. In which case I'm usually having way to much fun to take any photos.

I drew that.

One of the best ways for me to unwind after work is to spend my evening sitting by the lake. Sunsets are the most soothing things ever! They make me feel so peaceful inside. 

I live here, you guys!

The sum total of my 4th pictures. 

My sisters and I took a picnic to the lake. A different lake than the above lake. It was glorious. We ate. We swam. We did our ancestors proud!

Today is Monday.  I totally didn't feel like going to work. I felt like getting coffee and muffins and reading. But I knew that wasn't going to happen. So off I went, bleary eyes and all. And Monday oozed ever so slowly by. 

And then, something celestial happened. My freakin' awesome sister brought me a FRAPACCINO!  I can't even express how much better that made today. 

One word. Caffeine. 

My day was so much better after that.

I feel pretty good about myself! I blogged. Go me. 

See you later. 

God Bless

Amy

My forth of July~

Hey there! How is everyone doing? I had a wonderful five day weekend (yes, that is possible) and am finally getting around to some blogging.

I really enjoy the 4th of July. I like the BBQing and the games and the whole patriotic thing. The American Revolution is one of my favorite parts of American history and I've done research on it here and there ever since 10th grade when I decided to write a book about a spy in that time-frame. That book is still not done (And I sometimes wonder if it ever shall be!) but I have a definate fondness for the 1700's. *Ehem*....Anyway.

I felt more WWII in my choice of clothing though. I think it was the Captain America earrings that did it. I planned my whole outfit out around them. *Grin* They are my favorite earrings for the now. What can I say? They are cool.

We spent the majority of the day reading in the shade. That's how we party. I'm not sure what that says about us. We read in companionable silence. ;)

We talked and lounged. Quite honestly, it was rather too hot to do any real moving. So lounging it was. 

Once things cooled down we played some random games. There was a bit of badminton.

But then we destroyed the only birdie we had and we moved on to other things. 

Like football.

(Which I am rubbish at.:)

And other games that we didn't take pictures of. 

Drank water from the hose. 

(It's delicious!)

Oh, don't mind me. I'm just air guitaring--well I guess it's more air banjo, really.

Doing my best impersonation of this:

                 

It's only 28 seconds long. Watch it. Seriously.

Then there are the watermelon pictures. So...They are hilarious. *Nods* Let's just hope my family doesn't kill me for showing y'all. But they are too funny not to show!

Things really got fun that night when the sun started going down and we started a fire, drank coffee, made s'mores, told stories and at the end of the night, sang the national anthem. 

Oh look! Stars!

If you wanna see more of the pictures, Treskie  did a really good post. So go check it out!
That's all I've got. It was just a really fun day.

Cheers!

God Bless
Amy