Today was a pretty good day. I worked both yesterday and today. The cool thing was that today I could tell I am getting better at my job. It doesn’t seem like the opportunity to see improvement happens very often, so it is cool when you can look from one day to the next and see how you did things better.

It is interesting how listening to music can affect what you think or even write. For example I am listening to a song right now that has the word “cool” in it a bunch, which caused me to incorporate the word into my previous paragraph a couple times.

Sometimes I wish I had a video camera to capture all of Pounce’s funny antics. Although he would probably do the same thing he does when he sees my regular camera and stop doing whatever it is that he is doing at that moment that is cute. Since I can’t capture it, I will just say that it is pretty funny to see him try to play with an empty kleenex box… (he ran towards it and stuck his head inside like he thought there was going to be a mouse in it.)

Life is busy and I miss my sister. I haven’t talked to her in awhile it seems, but that happens when you grow up and have real life to attend to. No more Saturday afternoons playing outside with Kittie in our white with blue trim playhouse that Dad & Robin built us. Let’s reminisce sometime soon, call me…

I just couldn’t resist posting this. It is such a funny & too true poem…

“When I purr
Don’t infer
It’s because you pat.

No, you pat
Because I purr.

I am the cat,
Don’t forget that.”

It is almost the start of a new week… (I know that technically the week starts on Sunday, but in my world I prefer that it starts on Monday). This week should be a good one hopefully, although fairly busy. I work of course and have ballet, plus I have my sewing class again and I am going to get my hair cut this week. Nothing too exciting though with my hair, just a trim since the layers are growing out kind of funny. I am wanting to do something exciting with my hair soon though as I am getting bored of the black. I did have sudden inspiration today of an idea to try, but I will keep it a secret until after it is done:)

What does everyone else having going on this week?

I just thought I would post this adorable picture of Pounce. Hope everyone enjoys it!

So yesterday I had two 40% off coupons for Hobby Lobby. You could only use one per person, per day though so Ben went with me to Hobby Lobby last night and we looked at fabric and patterns. I bought a pattern to make scrubs and with the two 40% off coupons I got two fun fabrics to make scrub tops with. Since I can’t seem to find any scrub patterns with pants that I like, I am just going to buy some of the kind that I like in solid colors to go with the two tops I make. Here are the two fabrics that I bought…

It should be fun to see how the two tops turn out. Maybe I will post some pictures of the finished product (that is if they turn out good enough to show everyone:).

I believe I have handed in a total of four reading cards at the library as of today. That means that since mid-January I have read 20 books (5 books per card). It is kind of cool to get to enter a contest based upon how much I read. Sometimes I wonder where I get all this free time to read all of these books though… especially when I wish a lot of days that there were more than 24 hours in a day!

I had my very first sewing class last night and it was pretty cool. We didn’t do too much actual sewing this week, but I still learned quite a bit. One of the ladies in the class has the same sewing machine as me and she already knew a little bit about sewing and her machine, so that was kind of helpful. We are working on sewing a shirt (my teacher calls it a blouse:) and we are actually using a pattern that you trace rather than just cut out. I like that because switching to one of the cheap cut out patterns will be easy, but if it was the other way around I probably would have a hard time learning how the tracing works all by myself.

The teacher for my class is an interesting lady, she is from Germany (so she has a pretty heavy accent despite living in the states for a long time) and she seems like one of those sweet, but yet spunky grandma types. Of course, she prefers the higher-end sewing machines, thread, fabric, scissors, patterns, etc., (and she can since she has sewn a long time), but when you are first learning I don’t really think putting a ton of money into something is always such a great idea. Although I must say that I have a very nice sewing machine and a pair of very fancy scissors (which I actually found very on sale, thanks to Ben’s help). Anyways, I think the more high end patterns will be fun to sew, but for now I think I am going to start with the cheap cut out tissue paper type of patterns and fabric that I won’t cry over ruining if the pattern doesn’t turn out.