Kristi Chestnutt's Blog, page 26

some writerly advice....

Go Write!


HA!  There it is. My very own words of wisdom.  Yes, I know, it's deep and inspiring.  Just sit there and think on it for a moment.  LOL. 

Seriously though - this is what I've been telling myself all week.  Sometimes finding the time and energy to get some writing and reading done is hard when life tends to get in the way.  My motto is and will always be, live life, don't write it.  My family and building memories with them will always come first...but what about those days that I'm ...

Ummmm....Progress - Sort of?

This is what I actually accomplished last week:

Here is my beige room before paint:
And my "Granite Dust" room post-paint:

For the amount of work and fumes that were involved, I would have hoped for more dramatic photos.  You can barely see the difference.  Quite disappointing.  I was hoping for more of an HGTV/DIY network "reveal" but oh well.  I swear you can notice the difference in person!  To be honest, I totally love the color and it's much more "grey" than the photos appear, even still...

Answers!

It's finally Friday *as I let out a little cheer and do a happy dance*!

Been a long, busy week and I don't know about you, but I'm ready for the weekend.  I'm hoping it allows me to catch up on my reading and writing...

BUT first, my answers to yesterday's Creative Liar award - looks like no one guessed the right one!

1 - I've changed career paths four times so far, not that I'm counting or anything.
Nope - I've pretty much been doing the same thing since graduating college...with writing on the ...

Holy Awards Batman!

Ok, so, first of all - painting is a bear!  But gleefully over!  I spent Sunday and Monday nights painting my bedroom (photos to come later) and was so worn out that I deemed last night a television veg-out night.  Hence my blogosphere absenteeism!  But it appears I have some catching up to do...

First of all - thanks to Kristin for this beauty of an award that means oh-so-much-to-me since it came from such a fun, lovely, Austen-loving lady!


I'm passing this one on to:Jennifer ShirkKimberly...

Wow. Crazy Cool Stuff.

Here's a little run down of my weekend.  I took Friday off from work and headed to IKEA, which is about two hours from my house.  I LOVE to walk around the store and look at all the cool stuff they have but I rarely ever end up buying too much...okay, well, exept for that one time that I bought the super cool filing cabinet for my office that I love, and the wine rack, and the really cool mirror...okay, wait...I'm getting off track.  I really went all that way to get something very small:
What...

...and the Winner is...

ME!  I hit 100 followers on my release day!  Thank you all so much for sharing your lives with me!  How much cooler does it get?  An honestly great day for sure.  It snowed this morning, we ate entirely too much for dinner (Japanese tonight...my choice and yumm), had Champagne (double yumm)....now time for bed (major yawn).  BUT FIRST...

Ok, so I promised I'd try a vlog, but I honestly didn't think that one through too well.  A lot of preparation and planning probably go into doing that your f...

with a quickness

Ok, today's post will be short and sweet.

First of all - if you have time today, please go check out my interview over on Kim's blog!  She is full of awesomeness and fun and I'm honestly just honored that she wanted to interview me.  This is just too cool and way too much fun.  No, I take that back, I'm not sure you can really EVER have too much fun.  If you're not a follower of her blog already, well, shame on you and you really should be because she cracks me up almost every day and I swear ...

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

ummm...I think the photos capture what I was trying to say perfectly.  :-)

and this was just too hilarious not too post! this is my boxer as I'm trying to blog...too bad there wasn't video...the sound he was making was quite pathetic. 

Monday Interview up at Kristin's Blog

I should have titled this post "in which I am really lazy". 

Instead of blogging tonight I'll just ask that you go check out my interview over at Kristin's blog. 

Give Kristin some mad love while you're there because she's totally awesome, not to mention talented.  I've met so many very cool people while blogging that I'm honestly just amazed that I could ever function without it.  By the way - don't tell her I told you - but she has a birthday tomorrow so make sure to stop on Tuesday and wish ...

Gaining motivation and interview excitement!

I can't believe the weekend is really over already!  Wow.  That one was quick.  And I didn't get much of what I wanted to done.  Being sick really seems to throw me out of balance.  Especially my multi-tasking skills.  Normally I'm up to date with my awesome critique groups, working full time, writing here and there, reading, and still managing to spend time with my family.  I get sick, feel miserable, and barely manage to work at my normal job and sleep.  Really all I want to do is lay aroun...