Life Lately #17

Reading: I just recently started Spaceman by Mike Massimino but I haven't gotten very far. Life and all that fun stuff. 

Watching: Isaiah and I have started rewatching House lately after Imogen's in bed, and we also completely blew through the new Lost in Space series in about a week. I really like rewatching 

Listening to: Imogen rolling around in her crib* and talking to herself instead of falling asleep like she should be doing. It's the most talkative she's been all day, of course.

* she did finally fall asleep!


Smelling: The coffee I just made. Bless it.

Eating: No-bake peanut butter chocolate oatmeal bars I just made. I shouldn't be eating them because I made them for Isaiah to take to work and Lord knows my hips don't need them, but he doesn't know about them yet so...

Loving: The aforementioned cookie bars. Here's the recipe, they were stupid easy (which makes them extra dangerous).

Not Loving: All the issues we've been having with the USPS lately! Isaiah ordered a knife online, and the company accidentally put some other city/state/zip code after our correct address on the shipping label, and the post office delivered it to Kentucky. I'm not sure HOW they delivered it considering it's highly unlikely there's a house in Kentucky with the same house number and street name as ours, but they apparently delivered it somewhere and it wasn't to Sitka.

Then, a week ago, I ordered something online from Vistaprint that was supposed to be delivered yesterday, but around noon the tracking said "Held at post office per customer's request." Huh?? I didn't request for it to be held, but now I have to wait until Monday to figure out what they're doing with my package. My guess is they forgot to put it on the truck and scrambled to make up a reason why it wouldn't be delivered the day it was supposed to be. 

Then, over a month ago, Isaiah ordered something from an Etsy seller. The last tracking update was April 10th and said "in transit to next destination." It's May 6th and there are no more tracking updates and the item hasn't arrived. The seller is thankfully sending us a new one, but what is with the USPS and their losing packages, delivering them to wrong addresses, holding things at the post office when I never requested them to be held...??

Annoyed with: Anyone and everyone who is anti-second amendment or thinks I don't have the right to own weapons to defend myself and my family.

The house right down the drive from us is turning into a legitimate drug house. Three well-known drug dealers (and users) in town have ALL been hanging out at the house the last few days, Isaiah has arrested every one of them at some point, and my guess is they've already figured out that we live next door. Another guy whose truck Isaiah confiscated recently as evidence in a drug-related crime has also been showing up at the police department demanding his truck back and just the other day demanded to know Isaiah's home address so he could "come talk to him in person." 

Guess which house THAT guy has also been hanging out at? Yep, the one next door with the drug dealers. If he hasn't figured out we live here already, he will soon.

I literally have to either look up Facebook pages, or have Isaiah text me mug shots of these people so I know exactly who they are if they come to our front door.

THIS is reason #2348023 why I am so pro-second amendment. Nobody but nobody can tell me that I have to sit here all day alone with my baby daughter while drug dealers come and go from the house next door, planning who knows what, and if they decide to come up here and threaten me I have to hope to God they don't try anything while I wait 5-6 minutes for the police to show up. If you think that drugs don't make people violent, think again. We had a shooting here a few weeks back over a drug deal gone bad, and another stabbing just last week because some dude was on a meth trip and thought his "friend" had given him bad drugs. This isn't Pleasantville.

So, screw anyone who thinks I shouldn't own a gun. 

And yes, I'm a little bit passionate on the topic. 

Creating: A new Etsy shop and small business, and that's all I'll say at the moment, and I'm not trying to be purposely mysterious but...oh wait, yes I am. Smirk.

(Side note: Does it annoy the crap out of anyone else when bloggers are super mysterious and act like they don't want to talk about something and then it's like, well why did you even blog about it then?)

Wanting: A bigger house. Don't get me wrong, I am beyond grateful that we were able to afford to buy a house in this town at all, but a 900 square foot two bedroom house with completely inadequate storage and living space is simply not enough for two people and a baby-almost-toddler. I'm getting a huge urge to do a giant purge (I'm a poet and I know it) because I feel like I'm about to be crushed by all our stuff. There isn't really a lot I can get rid of that belongs to Imogen because we only have things she needs and/or plays with, but if we're going by the KonMari book and deciding whether we love things and/or whether they're useful, there's a lot I could do without.

Laughing at: This new book release from the Babylon Bee. I've been previewing some of the pages on Amazon and cackling.

One of the marks of a healthy church website is the frequent use of heavily filtered stock images that perfectly encapsulate the aesthetic you need to truly worship the Lord. If the church site you're checking out has pictures of people with a realistic level of attractiveness, close your Internet tab right away and try again. Ideally, the church you target will feature several images of young, unrealistically attractive models smiling and raising their hands as if worshipping with reckless abandon or desperately trying to wave down a passing car.

I mean...that's funny.

Wishing: It didn't rain more than it's sunny around these parts. I get all excited because we'll have like 2 days of sun and then it's back to solid rain for the rest of the 15 day forecast. I'm bored, Imogen's bored, and then I end up doing things like making no-bake cookie bars for Isaiah's job and eating them myself instead.

Anticipating: July. Isaiah's taking a couple of weeks off work and my mom will be here for the first little bit because she's coming up for Imogen's first birthday, but after she goes home we're debating where we want to go to get out of town. So far we've thrown around the ideas of a road trip to San Diego, a short cruise out of LA, flying to Hawaii, driving to Montana to see Glacier National Park, or a road trip around Europe, ending in Norway, the next country on our bucket list. We scratched off Europe just because we decided it'll be more fun maybe next summer when Imogen isn't on such a strict nap schedule. I'm not really wanting to take a 6 hour plane trip with a one year old so we probably won't do Hawaii. That leaves one of the USA road trips and we need to decide where to go soon so I can start working on an itinerary!