simple, yet fulfilling words

6 rounds of BODY-WEIGHT PULLUPS!!!

and that's all i have to say about that.

deep thoughts by girlfriday

(not to be mistaken by the more betterer ones from jack handy)

• i despise being cold, can summer please come back?
• custody: much more complicated than a single piece of paper
• sorry is just 5 letters put together and is never enough when you've hurt someone
• parents should not have to pay a fee to watch their child play a sport
• perhaps being a nomad is my destiny
• satan's way is easier and more enjoyable than God's way
• i'm allergic to mornings
• i miss my addictions on a daily basis
• i have 3 teenagers. when did i get old?
• i dream my fairy godmother turned me into sydney bristow
• the countdown begins at 22 today

but i'm not ready!

summer vacation has ended and 'back-to-school' chaos has taken my brain by storm. it's fantastic to have the 2 arch enemies in school instead of fighting all day. but the drive is definitely a hassle, and the transition into fall is always a tough one for me.  even though i have homeschool schedules planned through the end of september and have everyone starting off on the right foot, i still feel like the sky is falling.  supplies aren't unpacked or organized. everyone needs a piece of me and individualized time is so hard to come by.  football season has started and is crimping into my crossfit time.  3 kids now in seminary and even though i'm not doing the driving, i still feel like i'm not sleeping.  the plan was to take a passport-worthy trip with doc macgyver in the fall.  but now i'm wondering who in their right mind would handle the kids for us for a week with all that driving?

at any rate, i know it will all pass.  it happens to me every fall and i seem to get through it every year.  but every year it feels like i've never done it before.

so in honor of my stress, here's some dr. seuss:

~~~~~~~~~~~~

The alarm can ring.

The birds can peep.

My bed is warm.

My pillow's deep.

Today's the day I'm going to sleep.

...................................................

I've never been so sleepy

since I can't remember when

You can take away my breakfast.

Give my egg back to the hen.

Nobody's going to get me up,

no matter what he does.

Today's the day for 

WOOZY-SNOOZY

ZIZZ-ZIZZ

ZIZZ

ZAZZ

ZUZZ.

........................................

I don't choose to be up walking.

I don't choose to be up talking.

The only thing I'm choosing

is to lie here woozy-snoozing.

So won't you kindly go away.

I am NOT going to get up today!

~~~~~~~~~~~~

celosia spicata

 

 

 

 

lofty goals

-own an entire dr.seuss book collection, and maybe some artwork to go along with
-scuba dive in roatan
-own residences in more than 1 country
-learn to speak chinese
-have a personal seamstress
-get luigi his own cooking show
-drive a toyota mr2
-learn how to surf
-find someone who can cut and color my hair exactly as I like it
-find friends that will travel the world with me
-host a masquerade ball
-design my own wedding ring
-experience an african safari
-ride a bull
-compete in a spelling bee
-visit the village in china where my dad is from
-learn to latin dance
-see a concert in a foreign country
-teach an illiterate adult how to read
-take a trip to a third world country with a plane full of medical supplies and stay while the doc provides free medical care
-fall asleep to someone singing to me

happy thoughts...

any of you who are old enough to remember "deep thoughts" from SNL back when it wasn't even called SNL... well, you're at least as old as me.  right in this very moment though, i need some happy thoughts in a bad way to cure this pit in my stomach - or at least attempt to.  here are some things that take me to my happy place:

• the sun
• doc macgyver
• the smell of the inside of a book, especially old ones
• being alone outside with my camera
• potatoes
• the smell of the ocean
• the violin intro to josh groban's version of "you raise me up"
• any amazing male singing voice

the list isn't very long. it's difficult to get to my happy place. and unfortunately, the only thing on this list that is available to me right now is my doc.  hopefully it will be enough.

tweets that should've been

too much private stuff going on the past 6 weeks or so.  perhaps that's the reason the blog has been neglected.  too much to list in a 'catching up' post.  so here are some highlights in twitter-verse...

• Sent 2 boys to EFY and they were blaring the EFY music throughout the house about 30 min after they got home #heavenly
• Switched from green band to blue band for pull-ups
• Was able to get luigi to read 2 classics so far as a result of bribery by tokens; now the rest of the yahoos want in on the ‘special’ treatment
• Tried closing a vent in the ceiling with a wooden dowel and am pretty sure I looked like something out of a scene from Mr. Bean
• Spent 3 days with good friends while they prepared for their move out of town. We’re always the ones leaving and not the ones staying.  I’m thinking ‘being settled’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
• I find it hilarious when a person can’t even correctly spell the name of their own profession
• Luigi: this guy sings like elmo,  Me: his name is andy gibb,  Luigi: does he have a speech problem?
• Luigi got his haircut at a salon. So dash decided he would spend his bday money for the same. $25. Wonder if it will ever happen again.
• Just recently discovered how to get hand soap out of the pump and not get water all over the sink
• me: marz do you want to go to school with toby?, marz: only if i get bigger
• if a person just changed a queen size bed every day, i'm sure they could lose weight quickly
• "mom, how will we move the fish? will we drive them to our new house?"