The D'Stasios

It's getting close to the two year mark since I last blogged personally. A lot has happen. Jan 2013

was the last post. In Feb we started looking for houses. Man at the misleading ads with great photography. There was at least 3 I was in love with that I have no idea how they even shot the 

properties. Really, like one had a killer HUGE kitchen and a sweeping front yard. We got there, secretly I knew this was my house, but then we pull up. Uh......where is the yard? My kitchen, where is my kitchen? This is a miniature scale but where is my kitchen? Needless to say we carried on until April, this is when we decided to look out side our current school district and somehow, there.she.was. I knew from the moment the listing came up she would be M.I.N.E! 

I will spare you the nightmare leading up to moving, but now it July 15th, we sign papers and move the same day with movers who show up at 4pm. Yeah, I am sure you can see where that is going but I will again spare you and fast forward to 1:30 am and this little nugget. Do you see all that joy? Worth all the shenanigans leading up to that moment. Fast forward to Aug and you can see as we begin the huge overhaul in my work space. Then a little over a month later, oopsie! Not really, but yes we tore down an entire wall of pink faux marble to find brick, only to discover the industrial grade adhesive has damaged it beyond repair. So eventually, in Jan 2014, we built this. Slowly but surely we are making it ours. 

I took the summer of 2013 off and I really enjoyed it. As Dec rapidly approached I decided after speaking with Jami to take a break, a much needed, extended break. See I worked all through my illness, drove myself to surgeries, oncology appts, continued mammos with biopsies and GI with biopsies. I felt like I was on a damn hamster wheel in lab and I needed a fucking break before I was broken. I guess the lesson is deal with things as they come rather than pretend all is fine? I'm guessing that's not concrete yet and I will be facing that lesson again.  Anywhos, took a break from Jan 2014-Sept 2014 and played hard, well in my way. I learn about quilting, embroidery, tried new tools.......SO.MUCH.FUN. Honestly, I didn't think I would go back to patterning and started the idea of maybe working outside the home. No go. So then as Sept rolled around the strangest thing happened. I began to get excited again about work.

So here we are, I am back at work and might I say.......I am more excited about work than I have been EVER! I have ideas just pouring out of me. I have to take notes 24/7 to keep them all from being lost. Work is my life and for a while there it wasn't even my friend. I got a little distracted but now it's full steam ahead. Wahooos!