House/pet sitting  for the in-laws this weekend! :) It's really nice to have some time to myself. Not that I don't have time to myself at mom and dad's but it's different when there's nobody but you around, I guess. I was thinking about it and it's been like..months..since I've had days at a time to myself. So this is definitely a nice little vacation for me.

It's weird though, usually I feel like I HAVE to be doing something but I've been able to just chill yesterday and today. Slept a lot better too. Like a rock, in fact and that never happens anymore. Maybe it's being around all of Noah's stuff, hah. Definitely makes me feel like he's a little closer, somehow. Guess his presence is just here, you know?

Anyway. Random thought--I really want to learn how to sew. I know how to sew but not that well and I don't do very well with patterns (usually end up wadding them up and throwing them away and going by what I see on the cover...which doesn't work out so well in the way of fitting correctly, usually). I keep thinking about the stuff I saw on Baumholder's website. Granted, we may not even get stationed there...but I'm sure most bases have arts/crafts classes held somewhere. Anyway, one of them was sewing and the other quilting so I think I'm definitely going to try to do that. My grandma was a seamstress forever and a quilt maker. I've always wanted to be good at it and be able to make my own dresses and such (even though fabric is RIDICULOUSLY expensive these days. Which baffles me. If you're doing all the assembly work shouldn't it be cheaper? I mean, that's how it used to be, clearly. And it's nicer because you can make your clothes actually fit you. I could go on for days about how hard it is to actually find proper fitting clothes in stores. And I'm not a stick figure so that doesn't help matters). But I digress. I've been entertaining the idea of learning what I'm doing and then being able to do some seamstress type stuff eventually. But we shall see.

My mom keeps telling me I should consider trying to do some continuing education type stuff or something along those lines so I can get a decent job when we get back to the states or..whenever. I can't say I disagree. I'd still like to pursue the photography thing but without equipment and missing a chunk of important information which my university education somehow didn't cover (lighting, business aspects, and certain aspects of on location set up)...I still need some schooling to round out my degree. I have to say, though, I was pretty pleased with a photo shoot I did for my cousins and their significant others. The pictures turned out really nicely. 

Eh, but anyway. Just some thoughts. I'm off to enjoy the rest of my afternoon.