I’ll most definitely start with the good news -

I have a nephew!

my new nephew

His name is Ozzie and was born last night at 11:43pm.
8lbs even and 20 inches long
Poor kid is the only male grandchild in the family. No pressure.

The bad news might actually be good news to some of you…

Spot Of T has to go on sabbatical. I have big things brewing and no time to update for now.

If you want to find me I’ll be blogging and designing on two sites:
http://teresalea.net
http://sinclairportfolios.com

Don’t bother clicking either link, neither is up and going yet… but keep an eye out, they will both be masterpieces shortly!

I’ll still be tweeting from @teelea and @sccportfolio

Sorry I’m late to the party with the pics - but that’s how I roll.

Even tho I have a whole “T day” post ready to go, I figure I’ll tell my tweet up story while I’m here.

When I was 18 (for those of you counting that was 13 years ago) I met this really cool chick named Amy.  I was going to OSU and working at The Cooker on Lane Ave.  Amy and I, along with two other friends Jessica and Courtney, were a 4 pack of awesomeness - they also spawned my affection for alcohol and taught me that wine with a screw off cap was probably not very good (but we drank it anyway).

Over the years, I had lost touch with all of the 4 pack until one day when I was reading the Cincinnati Womens Bloggers site and as I scrolled down the page I saw a post for the blogger of the month, and there she was AMY!!

Long story short - we tried and failed to meet up a couple of times over the next couple of months and when I saw she was planning on attending the tweetup (along with one other person I knew) I figured what the hell.  I didn’t know any of the Cincy Tweeters, but I <3 meeting new people.

Sure enough, they were all awesome peeps, we had a great time and I got to see Amy and meet her husband.

The End.

I feel all backed up…

MY FAMILY RULES!!!

May I present, my brother in law, Scottisha…

Merry Christmas!!

The wonderful pre-Christmas weekend.

My yearly reminder of why Thanksgiving rocks the socks off of Christmas.

So ya, that’s pretty much all I have to say about that… here’s some pics.

I’m so far behind here, I don’t even know where to start. First, let’s do a little catch up:

• I finished my 5 mile turkey trot, and I did not die. I did however, get very sick the next day. It could have been the jogging in freezing rain, idk.
• I finished school (for the quarter and I’m on winter break till January) and I got my first “C” - @#$#in art
• I’m having some sort of mid-life crisis, even tho I’m only 30 and not quite to the middle of my life- or maybe I am WTF
• I am in the middle of trying to get in the Digital Design program at UC on a scholarship- and it is kickin my ass - AND I’m not even sure if I want can do it, (see above) I definitely WANT it
• I need a job- badly
• I hate Dayton(and I lie)
• This is what makes me happy (minus a few peeps- dave, dad, mom, but it’s close)

Ok, so, that’s that.

This week I am having my friendly reminder of why I did NOT have three children. As much as I love this kid, and I LOVE having her around, I’m still done on FRIDAY! My sis and Scott are in Atlantis (bastids) and I hope they are having a great time. This is their first time away from Harper, and I’m glad for them.

You two better be having lots of sex, and the good kind too.

That is all.

Oh, and if I haven’t shown you my new website design, holler at me (not gonna post it cause my contact info is on it).

New song up top, check it out.

That word about sums it up for me the past two weeks and I have a lot to ramble on about…

Of course I’m not going to now cause I need to go finish vacuuming!

But, I just wanted to remind all of ya tomorrow is the BIG DAY, and my baby went to pick up my runners packet for the Turkey Trot…

How cute is SHE?!?!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! This has always been my fav holiday, and I think this years is going to be the best yet.

AND FOR CHREEST’S SAKE, DON’T FORGET TO BRINE YER TURKEYNESS!!

I’ve been meaning to post for well over a week, and well, here we go…

School:

I can’t believe the end of the quarter is already rearing its ugly head.

Art is kickin’ my arse again. Drawing more than one thing in the same composition is harder than drawing just one, who knew. I was actually so frustrated yesterday, I left class an hour early to prevent my head from exploding.

Printing class is da bomb. I designed a pokerslut tshirt to make for my screen printing project. I should be able to start my strike offs next week. w00t. It’ll look a little something like this:

The front
The back - Ive actually changed this a bit since the screenshot for obv reasons. positioning/redability etc.I was going for the early 90’s rock tour look, obv. There’s a sleeve shot too, but well, you’ll have to wait for the real thing to see that.

Dreamweaver - oh dreamweaver - feed me to the wolves would ya? My hands on midterm made my blood begin to boil, but I got an A on the written part. I need to get started on my final project, which is designing an entire website (OMG) I should get hrbek to do it for me. I decided to make an online portfolio, since that would be killing two birds with one piece of stonage.

Yoga is fabulous, I forgot how much I enjoy doing yoga and how much it helps my back. Although, last week my instructor started giving instructions on a pose and when he got to “once you feel the pull in your leg, start to work your heel to the back of your head….” he received an evil eye from the T. Just sayin.

And last but not least…

Design Survey is a BS class they make us take. I was dreading it. It is one of those 2.5 hour BS classes that make you want to pull your hair out, lots of busy work etc. But my instructor RAWKS. We haven’t had a class last over an hour yet, AND he has taken HALF the work out of the class, including a paper and tests. And, AND none of our work is actually due till the end of the quarter. GG Jack. Only thing is, he jabbers on and on and on and on quite often. I didn’t know dudes had so much to say. Right now he is having us design a logo for a made up automotive company. My company is called KADUB. sfobv.

The Skinny

Well so far I’ve lost about 34lbs and I’m happy about it. The last time I weighed, the scale actually said i had put 3 lbs back on, but I’m not buying it. It was late in the day and I’ve been training for a 5 mile run on Thanksgiving. The new jeans I bought that are two sizes smaller than before are getting a bit loose already too, so I’ve lost interest in the number. I feel great, which is the best part and I’ve been sticking with it.

Exercise had been getting a bit boring after the whole prop bet thing to make it entertaining, so I decided to really challenge myself to do the Turkey Trot. I don’t know if I will be able to jog 5mi by then, but it’s fun trying!

Hey SCOTT are you still gonna do this with me or what playa?!

So anyhoo, last night I was talking to someone about this pic I saw of myself on my brother’s picasa page that was the catalyst for the decision to lose weight. It made me wanna puke. the convo went a lil something like this:

me: omg u should see the pics i saw of myself that made me realize i had to lose weight. not that i would ever show them to you, but still
person: show me
me: no fraking way
person: come on
me: gfy
person: you could be like the person in the commercial that holds up the big pants
me: still not gonna

Well, here’s the pic, right next to a pic of me in the same shorts that Anna was so kind to take of me this morning.

Might wanna turn your sound down - the first one MOOOOOOO’s

Life

Big changes going down in T-Ville. They aren’t quite bloggable as of yet, but I’ll get to it when I can. Good changes tho.

Zooks was in town this past weekend. It was pretty sweet having her here, cause well, I like zooks.

Pictures were taken, obv, if interested.

Lots of kid stuff, and poker on Saturday night at Ritze’s (smboatdrinks) house, which was a blast. My bro even came with us, and had Zooks cracking up in the car the whole way home, sfobv. To top it off, I’m going to HER house THIS weekend! When it rains it pours… w0000t.

All is well in kidville too. Maya had PT conferences last week and straight As on her report card (standard) and Miss Anna made this kick ass dinosaur out of construction paper at daycare yesterday. Altho, (spell check says altho should be alt ho - lolorz) today she felt the need to make another construction paper creation, and made a Mermaid with a gun. NOICE.

So that’s all the tidbits for now, carry on.

Today I had an epiphany. I could take out an equity loan for home improvements to pay for Anna’s full time child care. sersly. The chick is a fraking tornado destroying everything in our home.

The T is at a breaking point with Ms. Anna. And I have no idea how I’m gonna do this 3 days a week while tackling school and work too. (and that doesn’t include the weekends) Maya has always understood my limits, and acts accordingly. Anna on the other hand finds my breaking points to be cause to go find something else to piss mama off.

WARNING: this could be detrimental to your health and safety, kid.

I thought school started today, but today is the 4th and school starts the 5th, and since I changed my schedule around to only have classes on Tues and Thurs - I don’t have class till Thursday.

Funny how things work out just as they were supposed to all along and I still get surprised, ain’t it?

Those are the two days a week I won’t be watching Anna. Thank god for school.

I had a few more things to add, but right now I have to go save my photo album collection from becoming part of Anna’s re-creation of the first scene in Ghostbuster’s.

ta ta

Really, I leave out so many important things when I do get around to posting… it’s sad.

BIG DAVE aka UNCLE DAVE had a birthday!! The weekend of his birthday coordinated with my last week of school, so that could have been the reason I was too pre-occupied to post about it.

Regardless, there shouldn’t be any reason for not posting a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the best brother and uncle EVAH!!

Here’s a pic of the big guy himself sporting one of his lovely gifts from his nieces. The enormous flower was accompanied by a yummy smelling candle and a pretty bell. It must be nice having THREE nieces and NO nephews.

The next even wasn’t forgotten about, I was actually waiting to post about it, and then didn’t post. My Harper turned ONE yesterday!!! We had the party on Sunday, so I was waiting to post till yesterday — but then it turned into the usual pish posh of stressfulness that is my life.

She had a GREAT party and I put together a little montage of it here if you want to have a look see.

I really can’t believe she’s one already!!! It seems like yesterday I was posting about her being born, then all of a sudden shes walking and even saying words!! Frakin’ kids, they never let ya catch up.

One of the cutest things about Harper is how she shares. No matter what she has, she is always right on top of seeing who else wants to check it out. She shared her bday cake with her TT. She loves to read too! She is always grabbing books and bringing them over to the closest person to see who will hook her up with the story first. Shes a great kid, and it has a lot to do with her great parents.

That reminds me! She’s coming over tonight! WOOOOT.

LOVE YOU HARPER LEA!!!

Ok, and last but not least… the prop bet is ovah tomorrow and I’ll go ahead and post my final count today as I think it will be accurate

-21.5 lbs

J did a great job too and the bet is a push. But it was a lot of fun. J is a very funny guy and so easy to get along with. He made it a lot of fun thru txt msgs and the like… a little ribbing and humor go a long way. Thanks for going thru it with me J. <3 onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2an3x6D8xR4/RtbcG3OiuzI/AAAAAAAACG0/ltQQPsthwxI/s1600-h/preFATpic.jpg">

The first is a pic of me pre weight loss in vegas — I mean I still have a long way to go (I want to lose 50 lbs more) but not a bad start.

WOOOOOT. 35% to MILFdom.