staying busy.

i'm not sure what i've been up to all month, but apparently i've been too busy to blog. :]

school has been a little bit hectic. my plan of not going to my anatomy lecture in order to have more time for other things pretty much backfired. despite studying a lot for my last exam, i didn't do as well as i would have liked. point taken. lesson learned. ok. i'll go to class for the rest of the semester even if my professor annoys me to no end and wears skirts with boots that have the boys in the row behind me making comments of a particular variety even if they know she's married and has kids. i wish i was kidding.

i haven't been scrapbooking lately, as i've had no inspiration. i keep pulling things out and attempting, but i just haven't had any luck. this is why i set my layout goal for the year on the low side. i definitely have long periods of time where i don't make anything. instead i've been reading lots, which has been awesome. i go through periods with reading too... sometimes i read every night and sometimes i might not read for a few weeks.

james was in a winter "deep freeze" softball league with his friends. i didn't make it to very many of the games partly because they were on the same night as my anatomy lab and partly because it was way to cold for me to be interested most of the time. but i did make it to a few games along with some of the other girlfriends. during one of the games when we were huddled together in blankets in the dugout, we decided that since the boys tend to spend sundays watching football or whatever sport is in season, the girls should initiate sunday craft days. i'm not even the one who brought up the idea of crafting because i generally shy away from letting my peers know that i'm a grandma at heart with my scrapbooking and knitting hobbies. but you can probably imagine my delight when it was mentioned. :]
during the subsequent chatter about crafting, someone brought up the clay canvas. i hadn't been to the clay canvas in probably four years, but ever since that night at the softball game, amanda and i kept talking about how we definitely wanted to go paint some pottery. so we set a date for a friday night, and sarah came with us. obviously being on a friday, it wasn't an official sunday craft day, but for some reason i felt the need to segue into this photo with a very long explanation of how we decided to go to the clay canvas.
i picked up the pieces today, and i'm pretty happy with the results. i painted a spoon rest for no good reason besides the fact that i couldn't decide on anything else. i really planned on painting a mug for tea, but they didn't have any i liked. so after the spoon rest, i painted a bowl. i'm not sure yet if i will use it in the kitchen or just to house some craft supplies. we'll see.

this week marks spring break, and i have nothing exciting planned. instead my week will be spent grading lab reports. i can't complain too much because i was able to go down to las vegas on thursday and spend the weekend with my family. and my sister is coming to town on wednesday for a conference, after which we'll hopefully be able to enjoy some quality time together. james' birthday is in a couple days and while he has a softball tournament all weekend, i'm hoping that he'll be able to take friday off work and perhaps we can take a day trip to sacramento in order to see alice in wonderland at an IMAX theater. i've been dropping hints like crazy lately, and although i've been reminded several times during our relationship that he's not a mind reader, i think he's learned how to pick up on my hints. :]

i'll be back shortly with a few photos from my trip to las vegas. i hope you're all enjoying march!