Blog - Stuffed with Aloha

I totally forgot to post this...

7/31/2015

update on the piece I did when I was "Waiting for the Squab". So sorry, I blame everyone else. Because I can.

Obviously the my more astute readers will have noticed that the new banner pic at the top of the blog page looks vaguely familiar. If you are one of those folks that doesn't recognize it, don't worry. I've been staring at it since I put it up there & it never clicked that I hadn't told you guys about it.

So, to refresh/recap, the piece started out as a kamaboko board (click the link in blue above to see the original post). It was cleaned & sanitized thoroughly, then stained with alcohol ink. I'll go ahead & re-post the pics for you.

See that wooden board under the pink stuff? That's what I started with.

Cleaned, sanitized & alcohol ink stained.

Finished off with a paper plumeria & words in permanent marker.

So there you have it. Late, but finally posted.

I'm thinking of attaching some hangery type things, so it can be a door sign, but haven't decided one way or the other.

It is currently chillin' on the desk in my CoW. Because I haven't decided if it's finished or not. Because I don't know if it will live with me or someone else. Because it hasn't told me what it wants to be when it grows up.
Neither have I.

Aloha hugs until later,
-Clare

Phoning it in again...

7/29/2015

In the middle of writing what was certainly going to be an epically rambly blog post, my (thought) train got run off the tracks by distractions in human form. And then I totally forgot which rail line I was using, what state the train was in, lost my tickets & couldn't even find the nearest station.
***Imagine the annoyed mother/wife's growl here***

So of course I turned to my go to helper, The Google. I am not lying, I went in to the image search on The Google & typed "google,help me with my blog". As always, The Google did not fail me. I give you the first image that came up...

Thank you The Google for The Giggle.

To prove that I am not making this up, here is a screenshot. (Mostly because I finally figured out/remembered how to do this on a computer, without having to ask my poultry.)

See? I didn't make it up & I posted the screenshot by myself. Yay me!

So yeah, that's it for today. Because I keep hearing that damned train whistle & I have a feeling it won't stop until I find it & finish the other post.

Yes, this is my chosen tiny bit o'joy for the day. What can I say, I'm a cheap date.

Aloha hugs,
-Clare

A different kind of hoarder...

7/28/2015

Or...What do you do with old magazines?

Memory Loss Monday

7/27/2015

Forget Throwback Thursday & Flashback Friday, it's Memory Loss Monday! No seriously, what was I doing?

I know I'm not the only person in the world who suffers from memory loss. Certainly not the first & definitely not the last. But I am the only me to suffer from it, so as you can imagine it is more than a bit disconcerting to me when I can't remember what it is I've been/am doing. Even more so when it happens in the middle of a sentence, in the middle of a conversation, in the middle of a group of other people!

Yes, it's not just writing blog posts that are afflicted by the dreaded "thought train" derailment. I find more & more as I get older, that I either go totally blank mid.... You get the idea.

I honestly, completely forgot where I was going with this, again. Not that you're surprised right? I mean, I seldom have a clue & usually when I do, I forget what it was before I have a chance to prove it.

So once again, I leave you with a post that doesn't even make sense to me. But I'm publishing it, because let's face it, I don't have anything better to post. Not even this absolutely perfect YouTube video I found on Pinterest that any of my fellow 'Supernatural' fans will love as much as I do.

Because I can.

Aloha until next time m'luvs,
-Clare

Please excuse the bad photography

7/26/2015

Seriously, any of the pictures you see on this website that are blurry, unfocused, over exposed, under exposed or basically sub-par in anyway, I took them. Really, I do not have the eye of the Squab, who can snap a good picture blindfolded in the dark. ***No I am not biased in anyway, both of my kids truly are the best things to ever happen to this universe.***

Lessons from A Fire, Part One

7/24/2015

****Warning this post is about an extremely personal & emotional subject for me, that may be too upsetting to some people. I'm not kidding, it took so much out of me to write it & I may have short circuited my keyboard with tears. Read at your own discretion.****

Something only a Whovian would understand....

7/22/2015

******Spoiler Alert******

Chew on this....

7/20/2015

98.375% of the time I have no idea what I am saying. Honestly, I'll start writing a sentence or having a conversation & by the time I get maybe 1/3 of the way into whatever it is I'm trying to say, I've forgotten what it was I was trying to say. Been that way for as long as I can remember, although I have actually become increasingly annoyed with it the more my age advances (because you know 40 is the new 300).

Does this ever happen to any of you? Seriously, I occasionally get concerned because I feel like people who don't really know me (& even some of those who do) might think I don't care about the conversation.

I don't think it's attention deficit, so much as it's a case of a steam engine on solar powered tracks. Well, in my case it's be a bubble headed engine on electric tracks. You know what I mean. (Actually if you do, welcome aboard! Sit back, relax & enjoy the scenery, because I can promise you'll never see anything like it on any other railroad.)

Anyway, when I started writing this post THREE DAYS AGO, it was about something completely different. (Don't ask what, because half way through the second paragraph I forgot what it was & even rereading what I'd written didn't help.) I've rewritten it several times & finally decided to write about the fact that I really don't know what I'm writing about. Works doesn't it?

Well, now you know one of my not so well kept secrets (as I'm sure anyone reading any of my blog posts could have discerned quite easily that I'm off not just my rocker, but everyone else's as well) I hope you will forgive me in the future for riding a pony on the train tracks. Just go with it & you might actually have as much fun as I do.

Aloha,
-Clare

Man this is rough...

7/17/2015

Warning! This post may or may not contain...

I know this didn't come from The Google or Pinterest, but cannot for the life of me remember where exactly I did get it.

Everything is just peachy...

7/16/2015

Because I'm a fickle pickle...

7/13/2015

I realize this has nothing to do with being fickle, but The Google sent me to it so I am using it.

I just wanted to mention that there will be some changes coming to the website in the next few weeks or so. Not to worry, I won't be selling radioactive confetti or anything strange like milk.

Nope, just my randomly annual change it all up because I'm occasionally a chameleon.

So, if you have any suggestions on content you'd like to see or things you think I can do better here, please let me know. Because now is the time for change; the ice cream man still charges a reasonable amount for his product, so the change will actually get used!

Aloha hugs until later,
-Clare

Thinking is hard...

7/8/2015

Why be "normal"?

7/7/2015

Did you know that taking a vegetable peeler to a bar of soap is not considered "normal"? Shocking isn't it?

Let's see who's paying attention

7/6/2015

Just because I'm nīele (inquisitive), I'd like to know how many of you have been following my blog recently & have taken to my idea of looking for everyday joy.

So do me a favor if you have been trying it, drop me a quick comment on something joyful or even just a little bit positive that you've noticed & acknowledged in your life today.

I'll start. I finally got to pre-order a book I've been wanting & found out that the author, a man I have come to admire, will be doing a US speaking tour & will be coming here, to Idaho! (For info on this awesomeness, click this.)

Now it's your turn.

SOmetimes it's the little things...

7/3/2015

Okay, I've never claimed to be hard to impress. Yes I have my standards, but I generally try not to expect too much, which has left me open to a world of wondrous surprises. While it is true that following this philosophy, I have also been disappointed & heart broken I have realized that there is more wonder to be had & that the bad things also have a way of adding to it.

So on that note, I will share with you my yummy good thing for the day. Please note that this does indeed confirm that I am fairly easy to please, which does not make me a "cheap date" or someone who does not need to be impressed. It just means that I choose to find joy whenever & wherever I can.