Becky Higgins Project Life

Yes, I’ve managed to stick to doing Project Life for two whole weeks.

Though I’m still two weeks behind, so not quite as impressive as I’d hoped.

But I did include my first full 4×6 photo this week, in case you’d feared all the excitement and milestones were behind us.

Becky Higgins Project Life

I hope you enjoy my theme – family visits and texts to Lindsey clarifying a fox’s level of sexiness.

(It’s always important to have a theme.)

Becky Higgins Project Life

My second addition to the Embarrassing-Scrapbooking-Foibles section.

(For the second week in a row, I hadn’t noticed the error myself until Skye pointed it out.)

(Why I don’t have Skye edit my journaling before I commit it to my pages is unknowable.)

(Except that would require me pre-writing down my journaling and I’m terribly lazy.)

(So somewhat knowable.)

Becky Higgins Project Life

As I didn’t take nearly enough family photos of us sitting around doing crossword puzzles and eating, I added an insight into my everyday routine.

Then I realized I might have issues with meal planning.

And sleep.

But I already knew that.

Becky Higgins Project Life

I added a new journaling section this week, Stalking Loved Ones.

(I only stalk ’cause I love.)

(And because your life is at least marginally more interesting than mine.)

Becky Higgins Project Life

I probably should have shared the date card at the beginning of this post.

But I’m just wild and unpredictable like that.

And I’m far too lazy to change photo order now.

Becky Higgins Project Life

Have I told you lately that I hate glitter?

A hatred that is balanced by my love of stalking woodland creatures.

Making that my second stalking reference in a single post.

(I’m going for the title this year.)

(Which I hope comes with a belt, ’cause I’ve always thought I’d look fabulous in belts.)

(They just seem like they would take so much effort to buy.)

(And then wear.)

(And then make sure they aren’t hanging around, just waiting to be used by an intruder/serial killer.)

(You never know.)

Becky Higgins Project Life

And thus was #ExcitedFace immortalized forever.

Or at least until my kids throw this album in a landfill, after realizing that the key to happiness is freedom from material possessions.

Becky Higgins Project Life

And the Lincoln quotes just keep on coming.

Naturally.

I’m quite proud of myself for having finished week two

Though, no, I haven’t started week three yet

Get off my back, okay?

You imaginary responders, always demanding so much,

Megan

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Equally Awkward Reads

* My Own Awkward, Belated Project Life

* Project Life Week One

* I Do’s and Dont’s: A Wedding Scrapbook

Awkwardly Project Life, Week Two

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3 Best Pirate Adventures

January 28, 2012

Pirate Book Review

Lots of delicious pirate cupcakes

Traditional pirate adventures might involve finding a buried treasure or instigating a mutiny or trying to discover the cure for scurvy.

Or so history would lead us to believe.

But the truth is, real pirates had far greater, dare I saw more awkward, adventures.

1. Pirates Discovering a Mermaid

While most pirates pretended to be in the pirate game for the money, it’s well known (source pending) that they all truly became pirates in hopes of one day meeting a mermaid.

(Manatees need not apply.)

This is also a useful thing to know when dueling with a pirate, given that shouting, “hey, look at that rather attractive mermaid sunning herself behind you!” is always guaranteed to have the pirate turning around.

This will give you just enough time to jump overboard and swim to safety.

(Before employing such a maneuver, please first verify you know how to swim.)

(Or have a handy supply of floaties.)

Awkward Pirate Recommended Reading

A single delicious pirate cupcake

2. Pirates Staging an On-Ship Production of The Pirates of Penzance

Deep within every pirate, there is an actor.

And deep within every actor, there is a love of Gilbert and Sullivan.

And deep within every Gilbert and Sullivan lover, there is an adoration of tenderhearted pirates.

And thus the circle continues.

Until the play is interrupted by cannon-fire from your pirate archenemy.

Then there’ll be an extended intermission.

Which can be quite a relief, ’cause comic operas can last quite a bit.

Awkward Pirate Recommended Reading

Delicious pirate cupcake, the aftermath

3. Pirates Finding a Laminated Copy of the Odyssey

Within buried treasure there’s a hierarchy of booty.

For example, everyone wants to find a crown.

‘Cause crowns are cool.

But nobody wants to find a scepter.

‘Cause scepters seem cool at first.

But after a good twenty minutes, you’ve run out of people to beat and places to pound them in emphasis.

Yet the greatest buried treasure find is a laminated copy of Homer’s The Odyssey.

Pirates can easily relate to Odysseus’ trials and tribulations and really need a good story to get into during those non-windy lulls.

The lamination requirement has arisen ever since it became pirate tradition to throw grog on any pirate found reading.

  Awkward Pirate Book Review

This list was provided as enticement to read The Pirates! in an Adventure with Napoleon by Gideon Defoe.

I mainly purchased the book because of the author’s description on the back flap, but I finally got around to reading it this weekend and I truly can’t express how hilarious it is.

But I shall try, through quoting a giant squid suicide note.

To whom it may concern,

I cannot go on any longer. I know people think us giant squids are just unfathomable monsters of the deep, but we have feelings too. And it is time the world learned the terrible truth. For several years now the Pirate Captain and I have been carrying on an illicit affair. Many times I have asked the Pirate Captain to do right by me, but he refuses, always telling me that he cannot be seen having a relationship with a giant squid because of the harm it would do to his public image. Also, sometimes he hits me. Anyhow, just yesterday I discovered I was pregnant with the Pirate Captain’s secret love child! I told the Pirate Captain about this and he flew into a rage and said he would never help support his half-squid/half-pirate progeny and then he hit me some more. So now I am going to commit suicide by beaching myself. 

Goodbye, cruel world

The Giant Squid

Awkward Pirate Recommended Reading

Arrgh,

Megan

3 Best Pirate Adventures

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Weekly Movie on Monday

I love Movie Monday.

This is because I need order in my life.

This is because without it, I’m too lazy to ever get out of bed.

(Which reminds me, how heavenly does bed sound right now, right?)

(Oh bed, I long for you.)

(Your fluffy sheets, your old pillows, your random clothes hangers – it’s like heaven, but smaller.)

(The clothes hangers aren’t necessarily there on purpose, but rather as a result of the aforementioned laziness.)

This past Christmas, I gave my Grandma a pile of movies, matched in awesomeness only by their eclecticism.

So now, every Monday, we get together and watch one of the movies.

(Skye also attends.)

(So just pretend she’s in any of these photos.)

(See, it’s like she’s really there.)

(Which she was.)

(So well done.)

Monday Movie

It’s possible my Grandma doesn’t share my love of photographing every action.

(I think it’s because she grew up without owning a camera.)

(Stuff like that really messes with a person.)

(It’s like being an evil Canadian.)

(No, no I won’t let it go.)

(Apparently not, at least.)

Monday Movie

She also has quite a fondness for talking animals.

I don’t know what caused that.

But it might be a sign that in 1920s St. Louis, animals had the ability to speak.

I mean, you never know what could be happening out west.

It’s like a foreign planet.

Especially if there’re talking giraffes.

(Why giraffes?)

(‘Cause they have the most to say.)

(At least that I’d want to hear.)

Monday Movie

She’s clearly thrilled with Movie Mondays.

As anyone would be, when a weekly activity is forced upon them as part of a present.

Plus, I gave her a Donkey Chia Pet, so it’s not like she can complain.

Monday Movie

Not that she gives the Movie Monday photo shoot the reverence it clearly deserves.

Though in her defense, she does have a strong fear of flying and I bought her a movie about a plane that almost crashes.

(In my defense, I totally didn’t get that from the cover.)

(Really, it’s inscrutable.)

(And entirely possible it’s going to be a movie about tying small rubber figurines into knots.)

(Which sounds thrilling, personally, so if any screenwriters are listening, you’re welcome.)

Monday Movie

I have found a photo shoot dilemma solution.

I keep saying weird things to trick her into laughing.

And if that’s not the essence of photography, I don’t know what is.

My grandma’s awesome

Not just because she’s fabulously awkward

(And by that, I mean creepily into Skye),

Megan

Movie Monday – Grandma & Me

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