To the friends I have here, please come by and visit me at my new space, you're always welcome. 

Everyone, you will now find me at the new Livlife Blog. 

The direct address is: http://changelivlife.wordpress.com/ (for the bookmarkers)

Thanks for the start! I'll always have fond memories of Mindsay. 

~~Livlife

You know how people say they have a good hair day or a bad hair day? Of course, right? Everyone does. Well, I do, too, but I also have feel-good hair days and feel-bad hair days. 

What does that mean, you ask? 

It's like this. Sometimes, without looking in a mirror or seeing my appearance, I might FEEL like I'm having a good hair day. I haven't looked, so I don't know how my hair actually appears to others, but it feels good to me. Or the reverse. 

Today is a feel-bad hair day. It feels heavy, limp, like it isn't laying correctly. I feel like it might be frizzy. It doesn't swing nicely when I get up and move around. If I go and look in a mirror, it might look awesome and be just gorgeous (though I doubt it, have you felt the humidity lately? Murder on my curls), but it doesn't matter, because my hair doesn't feel good. 

By contrast, there are days when my hair feels awesome, it moves, it has body and volume, it feels like shampoo ad hair, but when I look in a mirror it kind of freaks me out how frizzy and bad it looks. 

Does anyone else have days like this? Is it only me? 

The absolute best days are when it feels good to me and then I look in a mirror and it looks good as well. Those are the days I wish someone was filming ME for a shampoo ad. 

Happy Hump Day!

He was happy, good-natured, and fun, every single minute I spent with him. Plus, he wanted to spend time with ME. We played trucks and toys. We had dinner together. We unloaded the dishwasher and had a sword fight with a plastic serving spoon and fork set until Grandma kicked us out of her kitchen. So I told him we should head outside. Then we hunted around the yard to find acceptable swords made out of sticks. Then we went to the middle of the driveway and had a sword fight. He was giggling so hard he could barely swing his stick at me (plus it was like twice as tall as his body, so that didn't help). Eventually, the mosquitoes were getting him, so we went back inside. 

We told Grandma all about our sword fighting adventures (even though she was watching out the window) and then it was bath time. We played in the bath and had a splash fight. I was nearly as wet as he was...and I was not in the bath! Then it was "settle down before bed" time. 

We went down to his room and put a movie in for him, his favorite. Since his last visit, a pack-n-play has taken up permanent residence. I told him he had to sleep there. Evidently I am hilarious, because he climbed right in. I ran and grabbed my phone to take a picture of him in the crib:

I was there to have an inspection and Mark was doing it for me. Sonya had to bring her kids, so we were all there. Kelly wanted to see the house so she brought her kids--and suddenly, it was a full house. I was so happy!

I love entertaining, even impromptu entertaining. I hope friends and family will drop by all the time, just because they love hanging out with me at my house. 

At any rate, while driving down the road, I started snapping pictures of the balloons, from my Iphone. 

Alternatively, there is nothing quite like it when I arrive at work and, overnight, someone has placed more work to do on the middle of my tidy desk.

When it was my turn, I started to go. Suddenly, the white car starting honking like crazy. I immediately slowed down, thinking something was wrong. When I looked over at them, they were both hanging out the windows with huge grins, waving like maniacs. I had no idea what was going on, I was pretty sure I didn't know them. I tentatively waved at them as they kept honking, waving, and smiling. 

As I turned, there was a moment when our cars were parallel. As I passed the driver's open window, the man leaned out and with a giant smile he yelled, "Hi Sarah!"

WTF?

They thought I was someone else! But they were so unbelievably excited to see this Sarah person, I couldn't let them leave disappointed. So I slapped a huge, silly, grin on my face, waved like a maniac and yelled "hi!" as I sped up and drove away. 

Hopefully, that made their day. It made mine, that's for sure. I laughed all the way to work. 

Last Thursday I got some incredible news. My offer was accepted and I am buying a house! Yep, that's right, I am almost a home owner. 

When Sonya called me with the news she said, "guess what, you're an adult now!" and it made me laugh. I guess I am....?

My little townhouse is in a gorgeous neighborhood, with wooded lots, tons of shade trees, quiet streets and wonderful single-family homes. Every person who has been there has said "I love it here!" "it is so nice here" and "your house is so homey" (which is odd since the house is empty at the moment...)

I'm so excited to have my own house. I spent the weekend with my mom, running all over town picking out paint samples. Good news is, I have every room now planned out. I can't wait until I can get in and start painting. I also bought a new bedding set for my new bedroom, a new bathroom set, and am currently shopping for dishes for the kitchen. 

I'm figuring everything out and trying not to get too overboard, because I really can't afford to have everything done right away. It will have to be a work in progress. 

Just promise me you won't laugh when you stop over and I don't have any furniture other than a couch and a chair. But, please, as soon as I move in, I hope you'll stop by for a beer.