Handsome Hankies

Some of you may know that I have a terrible acquisitive instinct. I sometimes blame it on my Clark ancestors (I need one of these, therefore I should buy 3), but I'm afraid I probably can't actually blame it on them.

Over the past year or so in my jaunts to the antique-mall and estate sales I've been collecting hankies. I have about 20 now and I just washed and ironed them all today. Still deciding on their destinies, but even if I just end up using them at church, I'm happy. I get a lot of pleasure out of looking at them. All the pretty colors make me happy. I love feeling their softness and a connection with the past.

Now that I think about it, as things go, hankies are a pretty harmless thing for me to buy, small and relatively inexpensive. :) (like I need any more justification, I'm trying really hard to move to no-buy mode since I moved to only working part-time).

Dirty Dash

Last Saturday four friends from work and I ran the Dirty Dash in Midway. It is a run/obstacle course in the mud. :) We ran the whole 10k and jumped in mud puddles, climbed over stacks of hay bales, went over and under wood barricades, through giant metal tubes, through a 1/2 mile of lake water, over a rope thing, on a rope swing, and down a slide. It was utterly fantastic. I have a cold now, but it was totally worth it. :)

Carpooling
Gettin' pretty
Mid-Race (a lady from work was there and took some pictures for us.) This is post .5 mile walk in thigh-deep water, so we're not that muddy.
The Grand Finish
Other pics

Hearting the As-Is

There's this couch at IKEA that we've been wanting to buy for our kitchen for a long time. We have never bit the bullet, though. My Mom and I were at IKEA buying me a bookcase on Thursday and when we did our customary wander through the As-Is section right before leaving low and behold there was our couch! 40% off! With no noticeable defects! The kindly IKEA men helped us smoosh it into our CRV (who needs leg room?) and twined the back hatch down since it wouldn't close the last 6" and homeward bound we were!
There's still a bit of re-arranging to do sometime, but it's already the most popular seat in the house.

There's Always Hope

So, I've been trying to decide what is next in my life and which direction to go. It gets a bit discouraging and over-whelming at times. I'd been having one of those weeks, I was in the car with my Mom and my sister and we were driving up 3rd South and I saw...
Good to know if nothing else works out I could always go and live the dream!