Our Watercolor Life
Our lives are like painting with watercolors, sometimes the colors are vibrant and joyful, and sometimes they’re dull and sad, and sometimes they run together and make a new color that doesn’t have a name yet. This blog is a documentation of this wild, colorful life.
Welcome to Our Watercolor Life! I’m Michelle, and I’m TERRIBLE at small talk, so here are some tidbits about who I really am.
I’m a recovering procrastinator who is prone to laziness, and I have a frightening lack of self-discipline. I’m that person who needs an outside threat of doom to motivate me to do anything productive. This makes it difficult to feel content or present as I am always thinking about what I *should* be doing or running around like a madman doing the things I should have done last week!
I absolutely love reading and grew up surrounded by books of all kinds! Nowadays though, I find it increasingly difficult to put my phone down and pick up a book. *See above lack of self-discipline*
I am an on-again, off-again journaler. I love documenting the daily tidbits that I otherwise forget, and it gives me great peace of mind to know that I can go back and remember through my journals. Along the same lines, I’m hopelessly nostalgic and find it REALLY hard to get rid of anything that evokes even the slightest memory. I am especially attached to paper memories such as little notes jotted down, letters, posters, etc. I literally have boxes of cards going back to my 2nd birthday! Meanwhile, Husband is perfectly content with recycling a card as soon as he’s read it. The horror! Needless to say, I now keep all of his birthday cards for him. I am working on this and am learning that it is freeing to only keep the best of the best instead of every last bit. It’s a process though.
I can be a little bit sassy, but I have to come out of my shell first and then I always worry that I scared someone off. But I like my sass.
Mornings are not my jam. Never have been. No matter how much sleep I get, I naturally want to sleep until at least 10 a.m. The thought of being a morning person is lovely in theory, but it’s so absolutely wretched in person.
I love the Lord, not as I ought but only by his grace. I am in a season where I am slowly coming out of a valley, but he is faithful and kind and oh so patient, and all of my hope is in him. He is the reason I can have any hope at all of learning to be content and present in the life given to me.
Rapid Fire Fun Facts or RFFF:
I LOVE The Office and have been watching it on repeat for almost 10 years.
I have a deep desire to make a place feel like “home” and can’t stand blank walls.
We recently moved from Pennsylvania to California, and its’ been beautiful and messy and overwhelming, but I’m mostly just attempting to learn how to assert my dominance over the spiders.
We’re total homebodies and spend our Saturdays reading. Right now we’re reading The Lord of the Rings out loud, and it’s magical.
I’m prone to having a bad attitude and a mean tone of voice, even when I don’t mean it.
I am an unashamed Star Wars purist, and I will fight you on it.
I love going barefoot more than almost anything and wish it was socially acceptable to do so on a regular basis.
Mint is my favorite flavor for anything.
The smell of tomato leaves evokes the deepest sense of summer in me.
I hate cliches.
I literally stop to smell the flowers when out and about.
I wrote every single college paper the night before it was due, except for my thesis which had multiple deadlines (thank goodness).
I have dual citizenship because I was born in Germany to a German mother and American father. I grew up visiting my relatives over the summers.
I cried for a week when LOST ended.
I’m an introvert who enjoys a good party, but then needs to go home and be alone.
I really hate having a smartphone.
I love having houseplants, but sometimes I don’t water them and watch them slowly die (see above laziness).
I studied Political Science in college and am fascinated by American History and the political process.