Some things

Just thought I would stop by this blog for once and jot down a few thoughts!

Everything is great here in San Diego. Except, I am really really homesick. Like REALLY HOMESICK. I miss my family. I miss my friends. I miss my old job. I miss having more money. haha. (California is so expensive) I miss having Cafe Rio 5 min away. I miss the drive thru at Sonic. I will probably hate myself for saying this one day, but I am sad I'll be missing fall and winter!!! I miss everything about home! (insert the ugliest crying face you can imagine here--the kind with heavy tears, lots of boogers, and your face hurts so bad from squinting and whining... etc. know what I mean?)

But don't worry I'm going to be ok. It helps me a lot when I remind myself these things:
1. It will not be this way forever. You will see your family and friends soon. You will be able to live in Utah again eventually.
2. Yes i have to literally tell myself these things.
3. Hello! You are in San Diego, California, Kate! ENJOY IT!
4. You have an amazing apartment. You are near the beach. You are part of an incredible ward. You have the perfect job, and are already making friends!
5. You have Clayton.
6. It will ALL be worth it in the end.

Whoever is reading this might be thinking.... "This girl has serious issues." And you are probably right! But this is what I am going through. I wish I could have a better attitude about it without having to remind myself those things (1-6). It really is silly.
But this is me. We all deal with things in our own way, that's really all I can say.

So with that said, I have decided to change my attitude. No more being depressed and feeling sorry for myself. I have an amazing life that I need to start living.
Thank goodness for inspirational photos/glimpes of perspective from Pinterest. Here are a few of my favorites lately...

Good stuff, huh? 

In other, less depressing, news I've been dreaming up new crafts left and right people! Here are some photos of my nifty shower curtain project!

 First I did some math and taped off my zig zag lines. This took me SO long. I don't even think I actually used math. I'm still confused about it. 

I planned on making more zig zags but just how it all got lined up I ended up only painting the bottom ones. Long story short, I probably couldn't do it again.

I laid newspaper down so I wouldn't stain the carpet.

Then I mixed just regular brown acrylic paint with some fabric medium (2 parts paint, 1 part medium).

 I painted the perimeter of the zig zags because the shower curtain has bumps all over it and I had to press down the tape really hard where I painted so that it wouldn't leak through and mess up my straight lines. And then I just painted away! I used a foam paint brush. Let it dry for the night and it was done!

And voila. The before and after photo. See how it just adds a little "umph" to our once very plain bathroom?? 

I used a pencil to mark where I was going to tape and I tried so many times, there's these little pencil markings all over it. I tried going back and erasing them but I'll probably have to try something else to lift out the led. And unfortunately the paint did leak through the bottom of the curtain-it would have been bad if I hadn't laid down newspaper. But there were still some spots it got super saturated and even the newspaper didn't help. Whoops! And now I have some newspaper stuck to the back from when it was drying. Just lovely. 

Lesson: Nothing ever goes as smoothly as you hope it will. 

BUT 

Luckily I have the awesome Instagram app to make my crafts and me seem so much prettier than real life!!!! Yay!