I'm on the home stretch

School is so close to being over that I can taste it (it's kinda tastes like cream puffs)! The French final is over, the English class is long gone and I just have a writing portfolio and zine piece to put together to call this semester good. Seems easy enough, aka: will probably be a lot of work. My biggest challenge is getting started. I actually like to write, but the build up to writing is what hurts. I stress and fret and finally start and realize how easy it was. One of these days I'll learn that stress never solved anything (someday).

Anyway, it's definitely easier to just pretend the reason for stress doesn't exist and go camping! That's exactly what we did last weekend. We went to Antelope Island for Simon's birthday. The boys played football, us girls talked about coming babies and I received several bug bites on my scalp. This turned out OK though, after the sun went down they all went and died or something and I gave a speech about married life and getting older, Shai described what kind of food everyone was, and Simon and Ann arm wrestled - All a part of a fun game they invented for the trip.



I got to forget about the stressful aspects of school and had a great chat with Ben about literature and all the good parts of school. This guy (Ben) can remember every thing that ever happened to him and quote from every book he's read. I'm impressed! I'm hard up to remember the story line of the last book I read, let alone quote from it!

Although, that's a lie, I just finished "The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets" by Eva Rice and I can clearly remember scenes from this book. Possibly because I read certain passages over and over again just to give myself butterflies in my stomach again and again. It's absolutely delicious! It's about life in post war England for the young kids, the parties and the wonderful weirdness and love. So it gets to me, I promise I don't read romances much, but this book is romantic in all aspects. The house, the culture, the music, and of course the people. It was one that I couldn't stand to end and have been kinda depressed about today because there's nothing left to read. I did see that a new book from Eva is coming next year in England, so I guess I'll just have to pine over the new Harry Potter for now.

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I had to post my monster name in celebration of seeing the double feature GRINDHOUSE last night. The 1st feature, Planet Terror has so much over the top gore that even I could handle it. And the 2nd feature, Death Proof is just way too cool for words. I think if anybody else had made this double feature, I wouldn't be able to stomach it, but Rodriguez and Tarantino are awesome! And the missing reels were genius!

Just in time for Easter

I usually don't dye eggs for Easter. At my house, they will just look pretty and then spoil, unless I really, really want a huge batch of potato salad all to myself. But this year I have found some really pretty natural dying techniques that are actually tempting me to dye eggs just for the fun of it.

These are sooo gorgeous! I love the leaf designs. I'm a bit put off by the blowing out part, but maybe as long as I'm not planning on eating the onion eggs, I won't have to blow them out.

This is a list of natural household dyes, surprisingly the colors turn out really bright and pretty.