Hello, June!

This is what I think of, naturally, when I think of June: 

sunshine & flowers & green grass & pretty! 

And then I remember where we live - the gooooooood ol' Midwest, where the weather does what it wants, when it wants, however it wants, and we should just be thankful that we're not somehow drowning and burning simultaneously.. haha. Thanks for the rainy welcome, June! 

welcome to cincinnati :|

Anyway, it's all a state of mind, right?! RIGHT.

i'm on it! 

Consider it done, I said at 7am. I arrived at the office to greet the standard things of Monday: miniature fires needing to be extinguished and that generally-disorganized feeling that comes with a Monday.

Also, this is the weather that replaced what I would've liked to envision for the first day of June:

happy.... june? 

Wonderful, wet, dreary. Right?

I'm gonna go ahead and continue imagining this instead:

that's more like it. 

And that, friends, is how we're off to a blazing start for the month of June.
Let's all say a prayer for better weather tomorrow! I know we can do it, Cincinnati... c'moooon sunshine!

xo | cmd

[First] SSSSSSSSNOOWW!

Ohhhh, Sydni you lucky bug!

Here's one of those "old folk" moments where I get to say,

"When I was your age..... "

She had her first official snow day today, which did and didn't surprise me:
I wasn't surprised because it seems like it takes a lot less these days to warrant closing down, but a bit surprised, even offended in that joking-way as I thought back to the days when the drift would be halfway up our front door in the morning and we were still expected at our seats when the class bell rang.

Aaaaaanywho - it's our first snow of the year!

my backyard (: 

^^ (See? Noooot really that much snow)... Gorgeous, nonetheless!

Here's some shots I stole from my sister, back home at her property:

gorgeous work, sis! 

^^ She's up by my parents, which is North a few hours; their snowfall is usually a bit heavier than ours, and she's the lucky one of us who had time today to get out with a lens to capture it all. ♥ them!

Needless to say, it was a slow day at work, but I made up time afterwards on a couple of knitting projects that are kicking off the winter season. [Rob also warmed this place up with his signature turkey burgers; remind me next time to share that recipe!]

blueberry trinity infinity ["raspberry" stitch]
for elisa :) 

orange lorne infinity
for rebecca :) 

There will be plenty more knitting to come in the next several weeks as we prepare for Christmas. It's the perfect snowy day escape. Back to it!

STAY WARM & STAY SAFE, FRIENDS! 

xo | cmd

& A Bunch of Random Stuff I Find Online

Every once in a great while, I find myself saving random articles, pictures, tutorials and creative project/recipe ideas off of whatever source they originated. I discovered today that they're starting to overrun space on my desktop; not that there isn't ample room there to share, but it's looking cluttered.

So here's an entry where I use my blog as a personal remember-this-for-later type board..

First things first:
FOOD. [Don't act surprised]:
[also, click on the pictures to enlarge, if you can't see .08 font ;) ..]

1. Banana Burritos ... or, if you're in Asian mode, Sushana:

things to try with syd!

2. Jelly Worms [these look tricky.. but fun .. for Fall & Halloween!]

wiggly...

3. Casseroles. You can so rarely go wrong with giving me a casserole recipe. The fact that there is an entire stick.. of butter, makes me want to prepare this for and send it to Marianne. Haha.

"curse youuu, paula deen!!!"
[and jk, i don't think is a pd recipe...]

4. Cookies. Don't ask. Just make.

things i promise to only make once a week.. at work...

These things are gonna make me start drooling... I'm such a foodie.. not to be mistaken with critic.. just a fanatic.. of food.. more specifically, eating it. No shame. Haha (:

This one made me laugh. A random number called my cell phone while I was at work, so instead of answer it, both for the obvious reason of my being at work, but also because I didn't even recognize the area code, I let the voicemail pick up. I later Googled the number; apparently G+ thought I needed help pronouncing it... assuming I know each sound component of the English alphabet letters already.

ohhhh, so that's why english-inept speakers sound so strange to us:
"fahyv" ??

^ Really? Twenty-six letters to memorize, but you've not yet done 1 through 10? Hmm. "Fawr, fohr." I think I'll start handing out my number in that format. "Eyt,... too,... fawr..." Yikes.

And then there's this... making me appreciate cotton and satellites in ways I probably never would have before:

thank you, buzzfeed.

Yyyyup.

Lastly, for today at least, I found a shirt that I wouldn't mind owning. It makes no sense, which is part of the quirky fun about it, but it's part of a tshirt company whose claim is in the printing of fun stuff specific to various parts of the Midwest [USA]. As someone who hails [mostly] from the MW, I have to say that many of my non-MW friends certainly do this.. a lot. This made me laugh especially after having lived in Illinois, to which nearly everyone would immediately reply, "Illinois? Ah, cool! Chicago!" ....nnnnnnnnnnnnnn...o.

want.

^ Looking at that, I realized I should probably start forming my birthday and Christmas wish list... more for myself than for anyone else.. haha.

Anyway, that's enough menial stuff for today.

xo | cmd

Snow? I'm From Ohio, Dude.

One thing I've noticed in the short couple of years I've spent here in Illinois is that snow creates a very similar wide-spread panic that it does in the south [i.e., Alabama... etc.]. When I lived in Huntsville, I thought it perhaps more admissable for schools to shut down for the following day at 1pm the previous day due to "expected flurries" looming on the approaching nightly forecast.

Welp, it's not a whole lot different here, which baffles me to end because are are still in the Midwest, and as far as weather goes, there's not a massive difference in the weather, other than that it changes its mind more than a toddler in a funhouse, and just about as frequently, too.

I'm from Ohio. North-central Ohio. There were days when getting out of your driveway entailed driving backwards just to avoid getting stuck. We rarely got snow days, and usually they were dictated only when the principal was physically unable to shovel his way out of his front door. Kids these days ;)

I saw this earlier and had to laugh.

I'm a midwesterner at heart, and a hillbilly-raised one at that. This is perfect.  

Here's to any more snow days ;)

Just a random funny for today. It's almost Friday!

xo | cmd

It's Friggin' HOT Outside

I went out to Phoenix for a short stint this year, and it wasn't even this hot there [yet].

I'm pretty sure the midwest wants to be just like the actual west.
We're gettin' there.

i drive a nissan oven; what do you drive?

Holy hot.

Whoa.

xo | cmd