Things I love at this moment

Ah, summer. You know what I'm talking about. More daylight hours and less work (read: none) mean endless possibilities. "But don't you get bored?" Only if you're boring. Here are the things I love at this moment:

1) Let's get the shallow love out of the way first. I love window shopping. Okay, not in the literal sense because I would have to drive three hours - and there still wouldn't be an Anthropologie store in the state. So I have taken to online window shopping. In case you are unfamiliar with the term, window shopping involves browsing, looking, and falling in love with items without actually purchasing anything. I like to look at Banana Republic's site and then try to put together similar outfits from my own closet. I like to browse Anthropologie dresses and open source sewing pattern sites and remind myself that I really should improve my sewing skills someday (e.g., I want to make this). But that would involve conquering my fear of sewing clothes and I have conquered a lot of fears over the past year so I'm not ready for that one. Most recently I am in love with window shopping...wait, Firefox shopping, for blue shoes. I have loved shoes as long as I can remember, and blue has been my favorite color for that length of time. Currently on the repeated viewing list are:

Some overpriced, darling flats

Pumps to remind me of my former figure skating costumes

And, the never-functional with sweaty feet and a dirt lane blue suede shoes

2) I am having to learn a lot about yard work and gardening. Thanks to my wonderful friend the internet, it is easier to find out what kind of plants I have and how to prune them. I am also trying to grow a variety of herbs. Okay, so I'm not as passionate about gardening as about shoes but I have been spending several hours every day outside pulling weeds, transplanting plants, and pruning shrubbery. I don't think it looks like I've made two weeks worth of progress, but my perfectionist tendencies keep me from going too fast. Recently viewed sites include:

Two days worth of work

I think those holes are from slugs...and I drink a lot of coffee

Try to ignore the dreads and Crocs. I whole heartedly believe Crocs are tackier than dreads though.

3) And that last one brings me to...reading blogs. I try to follow my friends' blogs but I have gotten behind on some and need to catch up. I had to un-follow someone (don't worry, not a friend) this morning. I thought I would have a lot in common with a blogger who moved from North Carolina to Iowa but as it turns out I most certainly did not. I felt a little bad un-following someone who only had 10 followers, but since I only have 6 (and I think I am 2 of them) I didn't worry about it too much. I mean, her link was published in a Des Moines Register column and she still only had 10 followers. So maybe I wasn't alone in my boredom. Here are some that I do like:

Steph

Misha

Creativity

Well, those are my passions at the moment. This was a nice little break. Back to pulling weeds and moving rocks.


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