I remember getting asked this numerous times growing up. I remember thinking "I'm only TEN for crying out loud - how do I know??"
I'm not ten anymore, but at least i know the answer to that question finally.
I hate to tell you - it just came to me last week. At age, well, not ten.
Old enough that i should be thinking about putting more away for retirement than what career I want, I'll tell you that.
I guess I'm a late bloomer of sorts.
My own ten year old son actually gets credit for my "AHA!" moment, bless his heart. Someone asked him this same question and he was telling me the story the other night when I was tucking him into bed.
I said to him, "Well, what did you say?" Very intrigued by what might come out of his mouth next. And he said "Famous".
I started laughing and I said, "I think they meant what job do you want to do when you get big".
He said, in all seriousness, "Well, that's not what they asked". Duly noted.
He turned the question on me, asking me if I was doing what i wanted to do. He asked me if I liked it. I had to think about how to answer this.
I do like it. Enough. I feel fortunate to even have a job when so many are out of work. So that's what i said to him. But, he was like a dog with a bone, this one. "But is it what you want to do?".
Life's questions never get easier no matter what age you are.
"Uhm, no, I guess. I really don't know what I want to do."
He looked at me and said "I know what you want to do." I laughed. "You do?"
"Yeah, you want to cook. and fish."
"Cook??!? Why would you say that?"
"Because mom, you always say you love packing a lunch and getting out on the water."
Yes. I guess I do say that. Apparently, I say it a lot.
So, maybe you'll see me one day packing box lunches at a small marina for boaters as they head out for a day on the water.
I can think of worse things.
....when my money should be spent elsewhere - like Christmas gifts, the holiday party fund...etc?
That's what i get for getting caught up on my blog reading i guess. If you read Rene's post today - you'll see these awesome chairs from World Market. I think my jaw dropped when i read World Market. No offense, WM, but i'm used to uhh, not so great merchandise from ya.
i very rarely fall in love at first sight - but oh... the worn grey patina - the old appearance - can you blame me?
At some point i'm getting a table like this back from a friend (you know who you are) OR i'm buying a new one if she can't part with mine. I would understand the reluctance of giving it back - it's beautiful. And paired with those chairs up there - it's pretty much perfection.
And of course - now that i've fallen in love with chairs - i had to go look at barstools - AND CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS...I MEAN GET OUT OF TOWN ALREADY....World Market, i may have to marry you.
These would be great at my kitchen bar. I think i'm off to sell some stock. I mean, a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do right?
Linking to The Picket Fence for Inspiration Fridays!
It's been wonderfully cool this past week here in central Florida. Like in the 60's. At 3 am.
It's still short and flip flops weather here during the day, but the temps are perfect. A little breeze. At night a light sweater (if you're like me) is perfect.
it's been just gorgeous this weekend. I found myself nesting a little more. Trying to add some scary and at the same time, cozy up the house for the holidays.
And while i'm not the one to embrace the orange and black - i do like pulling the scary stuff out hiding, even for a week.
This guy cracks me up. He's got a motion sensor so he goes off when you walk by. Says the funniest things. Nothing scary. But my boys absolutely hate him. Says it creeps them out. So...of course...it stays right there. LOL.
I love the eyeballs in the jar, stuck with an olive fork. The skull smoking Vance's dad's pipe.
And what's a halloween display without a beating heart and a scary rat?
I've been away so long i forgot my password to sign into google. I don't think that's ever happened before.
Life has been crazy lately - not in a bad way - just gas pedal to the floor for a few months. The little time i had free i spent either at kids' games, practice, or gathered with friends and family - and that equals a pretty good time. No complaints. Life is good.
I am still reading blogs when i can't sleep and keeping up with everyone - there have been so many great things to catch up on out there - i think fall does that to everyone. The whole "gotta get the house in order before Thanksgiving" thing.
We kind of did the same thing this weekend - it rained for almost 48 hours straight between Friday afternoon and Sunday mid-day, so with games canceled, and kids playing with their cousins (in the rain no less - no idea what makes a kid want to be outside in a deluge is beyond me) - we decided to re-paint the kitchen and family room to match the PB curtains we finally bought.
This open floorplan thing really throws one for a loop when trying to decorate and coordinate. At least it throws ME for a loop.
It was very hard trying to find what worked with things we were keeping from the merger of 2 households, and me," Ms. Holdmycashwithaclosedfist" , not wanting to spend anymore money than necessary.
This is what it started with - realtor pics b4 we bought. Very gold. i called it 'walk on the sun' yellow'. Yellow is not a favorite color of mine. This house is very odd, the way it captures colors on film, good or bad. Trust me when i say it seemed even brighter than this when i was standing in the middle of it.
So, now the kitchen is in it's 3rd revival since we moved in a year ago. We painted it blue the week we moved in. Ok, really, my dad and husband painted it blue. I was in Vegas. (on work people, really!)
which i really liked, but i didn't have window treatments to consider at the time. Now we do, and they are more gray-blue than this pretty powder blue.
So now we are here:
Notice the light differenct in afternoon light (blue paint pic) and morning light (last gray blue pic). That's part of the reason this whole paint issue made me batty.
Here are the PB drapes that you see when you walk in the front door, and you can see how your eye goes all the way thru the breakfast nook into the family room? Crazy madness.
But it is coming together - even though we still have a ladder left in the room. Not quite finished yet...Oh, and a little Halloween scarifying thrown in for the boys....cute, huh? TJ Maxx is the bees knees for stuff like that. They've got little bats instead of snowflakes, so when you shake them little glitter bats fly around. Adorable.
And, what would a decor post be without a decor dilemma. And here is mine. That entire area around and above the desk. Right now i have a few tins from Homegood up there, that you really can't see in this pic - and the entire ledge is very short - so i've had a hard time knowing what to stick up there.
Also, i think it needs a sink skirt even though it's not a sink. We don't use it as a desk and the only thing i want to put there is my cookbooks. The underneath becomes a catch all for pet food bags that are too huge to fit in the pantry - so i might as well go with it and just hide the darn thing with some cute fabric.
And if you're thinking that the corkboard is too low - it's because it had it's twin chalk board above it until yesterday. When it fell, hit the floor and broke into about 5 pieces.
So this my friends, is my kitchen. I would LOVE any input. Oh, and the color is SW Sea Salt.
Linking to Cottage and Vine's Room by Room series.
