It has been a long seven years since I have had to do yard work.
Being allergic to grass kind of makes it difficult to mow and weed whack. But, I love doing it. Even though I end up looking like a giant red bump, I love it.
I used to have beautiful flowers in my flower beds. I haven't had anywhere to show off my flowers in so long I forgot I could even do it! But, this weekend, we are getting our yard ready! We got our sod MOnday and are going to put in a flower bed out front, and down the side of the house. We will be working the back yard as well, making raised beds for a garden, getting our plans for the back put together and then spreading more grass seed on the areas that will be needing grass. Dirt will be brought in by truck and flowers will be planted from the pots I have on my patio. Firepit will be lined up so that we can then put a path to it one of these days. The extension of the patio we will put in later on will be lined out.
While we don't have to mow yet, I do have a bright side. A fourteen year old! He has mowed the last two years for my grandparents and has gotten practice! We are going to get a reel mower (think old school non-powered) and he is going to be mowing for us. Along with some of our neighbors it sounds like.
Anyway, I am super stoked to get busy on making my yard one of the best in Westfield! I may be just a little biased! But I will be sure to post some pictures when it is complete!!
Until then!
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Whirlwind
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind. We closed on our house, finally. We moved. We celebrated Resurrection Sunday. All of this all in the same week!
This year at Easter, I was feeling sentimental. Because of our closing, which happened on Good Friday, we didn't get to go to church for Good Friday services. I was alittle disappointed. We have been attending College Park Church for several months now and enjoy it. I really wanted to experience Good Friday and Easter services there. But, alas, it didn't happen. We did go to Easter service and it was awesome! Pastor Mark is so passionate about Jesus! His sermons pack a punch and they bring on a challenge.
While this church is wonderful and we love to go and listen to the sermons and music, I must say that I don't feel like it is our forever church home. I think that God has put us on this path to College Park to rest. We go to church, we listen, we sing, we go home. We have no obligations. We have no jobs to do. We sit and rest. While this has been a nice change, I must say that I feel a pull to go to a smaller church and get involved again. God gives us all gifts to use. Shane and I at this point, have not gotten a chance to use our gifts for many months. When we left our old church, it was difficult, because we had been such a huge part of the worship that we felt let down. Like we had nothing left to give. We wanted to hop right back in and start leading again at a new church. However, that wasn't what God had in store for us. Even at College Park, we tried to jump right in and start leading. We had the opportunity to lead the kids worship and to be in choir and handbells, but it just didn't feel right. It felt all wrong. So we stepped back and are just sitting in worship and enjoying a time of rest.
But, I still feel that pull sometimes to get back to where we were before. I know at this point in time, it isn't going to work with Shane's job, but someday, I hope that God leads us in the right direction to where He wants us to be forever. And perhaps be able to use our gifts.
But through all of thes trials, we have been so blessed with health, happiness, opportunities, friends and family. God is rooting us on and we love Him so much. Thank you Lord for all yoru many blessings!
This year at Easter, I was feeling sentimental. Because of our closing, which happened on Good Friday, we didn't get to go to church for Good Friday services. I was alittle disappointed. We have been attending College Park Church for several months now and enjoy it. I really wanted to experience Good Friday and Easter services there. But, alas, it didn't happen. We did go to Easter service and it was awesome! Pastor Mark is so passionate about Jesus! His sermons pack a punch and they bring on a challenge.
While this church is wonderful and we love to go and listen to the sermons and music, I must say that I don't feel like it is our forever church home. I think that God has put us on this path to College Park to rest. We go to church, we listen, we sing, we go home. We have no obligations. We have no jobs to do. We sit and rest. While this has been a nice change, I must say that I feel a pull to go to a smaller church and get involved again. God gives us all gifts to use. Shane and I at this point, have not gotten a chance to use our gifts for many months. When we left our old church, it was difficult, because we had been such a huge part of the worship that we felt let down. Like we had nothing left to give. We wanted to hop right back in and start leading again at a new church. However, that wasn't what God had in store for us. Even at College Park, we tried to jump right in and start leading. We had the opportunity to lead the kids worship and to be in choir and handbells, but it just didn't feel right. It felt all wrong. So we stepped back and are just sitting in worship and enjoying a time of rest.
But, I still feel that pull sometimes to get back to where we were before. I know at this point in time, it isn't going to work with Shane's job, but someday, I hope that God leads us in the right direction to where He wants us to be forever. And perhaps be able to use our gifts.
But through all of thes trials, we have been so blessed with health, happiness, opportunities, friends and family. God is rooting us on and we love Him so much. Thank you Lord for all yoru many blessings!
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Excuse me while I puke.
My stomach turned as I read the Time magazine article. I literally felt like I was going to vomit. I happened upon it and had to read it. With all the controversy that has been going around about this particular person, I felt the need to read this article. Rob Bell. His name brings back memories of Nooma videos that I watched in a small group we were involved in once. The creep factor already had me turned away from it, but then the actual meat of the videos were just weird. They didn't make sense. They were odd. I have never been a fan of Rob Bell, nor will I ever be. I was facebooking and looking at a church facebook page and saw that they liked or followed Mars Hill church. This happens to be the church that Rob Bell "preaches" at. I went to its facebook page and was flipping through its information and happened upon the article. So I was more than a little interested in what Time magazine had to say. Love Wins is Rob Bell's newest book. I have not read this book, I do not expect to read it, I will not waste our hard earned money on garbage. Period. Now, some will say that I am judging a book by its cover, but I have read enough. I have read many quotes from Rob Bell about this book and I have seen the videos about the book. I read this article in Time and am definitely sticking to my guns on not reading this book. I believe in Heaven. I believe in Hell. I believe in Salvation. I believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that He died on the cross for me. His blood shed for my sins. I believe that only the people that have been saved by grace will go to heaven. I believe that homosexuality is wrong and that the bible says it quite clearly. I believe that adultery is wrong and that the bible says so very clearly. The ten commandments are not there to look cool on the wall in your living room. They are there for a reason. While we are not without sin, we are forgiven by the blood of Jesus. I believe that the church should be full of praise to Jesus, celebrating His death and resurrection. We should have crosses lined up everywhere around us so to remind us of what He did for us. We should be on our knees at the altar rejoicing that Jesus is there to wrap His loving arms around us when we fall. Now, back to Rob Bell and my disgust for him. I know there are some out there that follow him and love him. They sit every Sunday at his church and listen to him and love it. There are churches out there that follow the gospel according to the prophet Rob Bell. I know there are. There are people that will follow him and judge people like me for not liking him or his blasphemous spewing. I know there are pastors out there that will stick up for him and say things like, "we don't know for sure that he is wrong." "we don't know for sure that there is no hell". I say there is nothing more to explain. Just look at the cross. Just look at Jesus. Read His words. Read the bible. Pray. Open your eyes to Him. In fact, last week, our pastor of the church we have been going to since the fall said if you don't want to hear about Jesus and the Cross, then you don't belong at this church, because that is all we have. All we have is Jesus and the cross. Here is the statement that most bothered me about Rob Bell's interview. When talking about the Minister in Florida or wherever it was that burned the Koran. Rob Bell said he didn't agree with that and that Jesus doesn't either. He said "I am pretty sure that Jesus is p!$$ed off about that." Can you believe that? I couldn't even read it out loud to Shane when I read that. I was so taken aback to his audacity to actually put words to Jesus. And in that way. To say He would be "p!$$ed off". I literally felt the acid burning in my throat. There are so many people out there that are seekers wanting to find out more about God and Jesus and they might happen apon this book since it is getting so much press and then end up reading this garbage and then getting the wrong idea about Christianity and God and Jesus. It makes my heart so sad to think that there might be people that fall for this man's spewing. I feel sorry for the people of his church. He is what I like to call a "warm and fuzzy" preacher. He tells you that you should pat yourself on the back for coming to church and then goes on and on about good qualitites that make you a good person and then sends you on your way. "Good for you for coming to church and giving me your money, now go on and live a good life until next Sunday". No mention of Jesus or the Cross or God. No flowing scriptures. Just a bunch of fluff and that's it. Too many churches are going that direction so as not to offend anyone. PREACH JESUS!!!! IT IS ONLY BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS WE CAN BE FREE!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, off my soapbox now. If you have a different opinion, feel free to voice it. I am open to discussion. :) I would love to hear what you have to say.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Writer's Block
Writer's Block
The time in a writer's life when they can't seem to find an idea to write about. I go through fits of this. I took a class several years ago on writing children's books. I enjoyed the class, but there were times when the assignments would be something I had to make up from scratch, without any prompts. I would sit and think and think and wonder what to write about. Sometimes, I woudl put it away and not think about it for a few days and then an idea would just pop in my head. I would sit down and feverishly write until it was finished and boom, there was my story.
When I thought about writing a novel, rather than a children's book, it seemed like a task that I wouldn't be able to finish. I had so many ideas and has written some children's manuscripts, thinking I would send them in to a publisher and see what happened, but then this novel idea came up and I felt like it needed to be done. So I sat down and started it while in the waiting room when Shane was having the second surgery on his foot after he broke his ankle. This would've been in fall 2006 I think. I then took the time to take the idea I was writing about and it turned into an 83 page novel that was published in May 2007. It only took me three months to type the manuscript. I have read many times how some author's can write a novel for years while the plot develops, while the characters get personality, etc. For some reason, the characters in my story were in my mind for a long time. The plot was in my mind already. I knew I wanted it to be young adult. I knew I didn't want to write a children's book when the words first started pouring out of my fingers.
I was surprised that the first publisher I sent my novel to accepted it and sent a contract. It was a dream come true to me. I have always been a writer. I have always had composition books full of poems, stories, etc. I had heard in the writing class I took that it was typically hard to find a publisher to accept a manuscript the first time. I was expecting to be declined and have to move on to the next guy, but it happened. Like it was meant to be published.
Since that time in 2006/2007 when my book came out, I have felt like I have had a sort of writer's block. Like all the stories in my mind are just jumbled up in my head and I can't get them on paper. When I get something started, it just doesn't look right or read right to me. I get started on a new novel, and the words just stop at an idea. I think the plot will start to come to me as I write, but alas, it does not.
I sat in my bed last night after Shane and I finished chatting online and I sat there in the quiet and thought about writing. Now that I have time on my hands with Shane being on the road and Cameron still in school, I have a lot of time to sit and think about my characters. My plots. I have a couple novels started, but none of them have gotten past the first initial character plots. Nothing has become of them. I am starting to get the writer's block out of my mind again and starting to get ideas on how to shape these characters and how to move forward with their stories. Now to get the ideas on paper!!
Who knows, maybe I am a one and done author. One novel and that's it. I will probably never be a bestseller, but I can at least write and hopefully someone will get something out of what I write about. Who knows? Maybe the two children's manuscripts are the next book waiting to be printed....
You never know what the future holds. But for now, I can at least start writing about it......
The time in a writer's life when they can't seem to find an idea to write about. I go through fits of this. I took a class several years ago on writing children's books. I enjoyed the class, but there were times when the assignments would be something I had to make up from scratch, without any prompts. I would sit and think and think and wonder what to write about. Sometimes, I woudl put it away and not think about it for a few days and then an idea would just pop in my head. I would sit down and feverishly write until it was finished and boom, there was my story.
When I thought about writing a novel, rather than a children's book, it seemed like a task that I wouldn't be able to finish. I had so many ideas and has written some children's manuscripts, thinking I would send them in to a publisher and see what happened, but then this novel idea came up and I felt like it needed to be done. So I sat down and started it while in the waiting room when Shane was having the second surgery on his foot after he broke his ankle. This would've been in fall 2006 I think. I then took the time to take the idea I was writing about and it turned into an 83 page novel that was published in May 2007. It only took me three months to type the manuscript. I have read many times how some author's can write a novel for years while the plot develops, while the characters get personality, etc. For some reason, the characters in my story were in my mind for a long time. The plot was in my mind already. I knew I wanted it to be young adult. I knew I didn't want to write a children's book when the words first started pouring out of my fingers.
I was surprised that the first publisher I sent my novel to accepted it and sent a contract. It was a dream come true to me. I have always been a writer. I have always had composition books full of poems, stories, etc. I had heard in the writing class I took that it was typically hard to find a publisher to accept a manuscript the first time. I was expecting to be declined and have to move on to the next guy, but it happened. Like it was meant to be published.
Since that time in 2006/2007 when my book came out, I have felt like I have had a sort of writer's block. Like all the stories in my mind are just jumbled up in my head and I can't get them on paper. When I get something started, it just doesn't look right or read right to me. I get started on a new novel, and the words just stop at an idea. I think the plot will start to come to me as I write, but alas, it does not.
I sat in my bed last night after Shane and I finished chatting online and I sat there in the quiet and thought about writing. Now that I have time on my hands with Shane being on the road and Cameron still in school, I have a lot of time to sit and think about my characters. My plots. I have a couple novels started, but none of them have gotten past the first initial character plots. Nothing has become of them. I am starting to get the writer's block out of my mind again and starting to get ideas on how to shape these characters and how to move forward with their stories. Now to get the ideas on paper!!
Who knows, maybe I am a one and done author. One novel and that's it. I will probably never be a bestseller, but I can at least write and hopefully someone will get something out of what I write about. Who knows? Maybe the two children's manuscripts are the next book waiting to be printed....
You never know what the future holds. But for now, I can at least start writing about it......
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Real Estate
"I never get what I really want. I always get a lot of stupid toys, or a bicycle or clothes or something that."
"What is it that you want?"
"Real estate."
Lucy and Charlie Brown get into a conversation during the Christmas season and they discuss what they want for Christmas. Lucy reveals that she never gets what she really wants, and when Charlie Brown asks her what she wants, she says real estate. A girl after my own heart!
Ever since I was a kid, I remember my dad taking my mom and I on little cruises around the Hamilton, Marion and Boone counties, showing us the big huge houses he had delivered trim or doors to the day before. I distinctly remember sitting in the truck and looking in awe at these huge, beautiful homes.
When I was a teenager, it never occured to me that I could be a realtor. I loved houses, had a passion for them, but it never seemed like at career day, the choice of realtor was ever available. It was always doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc. I swore up and down I wanted to be a meteorologist, then I wanted to be a guidance counselor at a school, then I wanted to be a teacher, then I wanted to be a......you name it. It wasn't until we lost our home to mold and bad dealings with an unethical realtor that it really hit me. I could still be a realtor. You don't need a college degree. You don't need to spend exorbitant amounts of money to get started. (I mean large student loans and stuff like that you would need for college. If you count the fees for the board of realtors, you would think it is expensive) I could do this.
I spent several years saving up for the real estate class. Finally I got to sign up and go. I finished with flying colors and went to take the exam for my license. Passed on the first try. Got it all done, got my license active and paid my MIBOR fees. No luck with finding clients, but I got my feet wet in the business. Then I got a few clients and it all was good. Until I couldn't afford the fees and had to walk away from my career that I loved so much and go back to substitute teaching to pay bills.
Finally, after 3 years, I get to be a realtor again. I have changed companies and am very excited to work with my broker, whom I actually went to high school with! Such a breath of fresh air to have a moral, ethical person to work with.
So, I am active and ready for all the people out there that have real estate needs. Call me up, email me, facebook message me. I am ready and eager to help you out. If you are looking for a moral, ethical person to work with, you have to look no further than right here.
So excited for all the exciting things going on in our lives right now. We have a closing date for our house and are packing and ready to move. Shane starts his sales job in 2 weeks and is so excited. So much to thank God for right now in our lives. And I fall to my knees to think that He loves me so much to give me so many blessings in my life.
"What is it that you want?"
"Real estate."
Lucy and Charlie Brown get into a conversation during the Christmas season and they discuss what they want for Christmas. Lucy reveals that she never gets what she really wants, and when Charlie Brown asks her what she wants, she says real estate. A girl after my own heart!
Ever since I was a kid, I remember my dad taking my mom and I on little cruises around the Hamilton, Marion and Boone counties, showing us the big huge houses he had delivered trim or doors to the day before. I distinctly remember sitting in the truck and looking in awe at these huge, beautiful homes.
When I was a teenager, it never occured to me that I could be a realtor. I loved houses, had a passion for them, but it never seemed like at career day, the choice of realtor was ever available. It was always doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc. I swore up and down I wanted to be a meteorologist, then I wanted to be a guidance counselor at a school, then I wanted to be a teacher, then I wanted to be a......you name it. It wasn't until we lost our home to mold and bad dealings with an unethical realtor that it really hit me. I could still be a realtor. You don't need a college degree. You don't need to spend exorbitant amounts of money to get started. (I mean large student loans and stuff like that you would need for college. If you count the fees for the board of realtors, you would think it is expensive) I could do this.
I spent several years saving up for the real estate class. Finally I got to sign up and go. I finished with flying colors and went to take the exam for my license. Passed on the first try. Got it all done, got my license active and paid my MIBOR fees. No luck with finding clients, but I got my feet wet in the business. Then I got a few clients and it all was good. Until I couldn't afford the fees and had to walk away from my career that I loved so much and go back to substitute teaching to pay bills.
Finally, after 3 years, I get to be a realtor again. I have changed companies and am very excited to work with my broker, whom I actually went to high school with! Such a breath of fresh air to have a moral, ethical person to work with.
So, I am active and ready for all the people out there that have real estate needs. Call me up, email me, facebook message me. I am ready and eager to help you out. If you are looking for a moral, ethical person to work with, you have to look no further than right here.
So excited for all the exciting things going on in our lives right now. We have a closing date for our house and are packing and ready to move. Shane starts his sales job in 2 weeks and is so excited. So much to thank God for right now in our lives. And I fall to my knees to think that He loves me so much to give me so many blessings in my life.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Saying Hello to the Future
Our good friends moved on Saturday. They moved to a different state. We had lunch with them last Sunday after church and it was nice to sit down and catch up. I realized at that point that we took the fact that they lived so close for granted. It is always hard to say goodbye to someone. No matter what the circumstances are, it is never easy to say goodbye.
As they were moving to a new home and new life, we were painting our house. We are doing the paint equity in the house to help with our down payment. It is nice they have that option. We had plenty for the down payment, but if we can get an extra $2026 out of them, bring it on! It is rough work, on your knees on concrete floor, caulking, getting dirty, getting paint in your hair, making sure the primer is on thick enough, semi-gloss vs. flat paint. You get the picture. As I was sitting, taking a break, drinking some water, I looked around me and I looked at what we were doing and it hit me. Like a ton of bricks it hit me. This is real, this is the future I had all planned out for us. A nice sized house for the three of us, Shane has a great job, a college degree, I have a great job, one that I can still be at home, work from home even, and still be there to take care of all the minute details of the finances, the cooking, the cleaning, the caretaking, etc. CWe live in a great, safe area, in the suburbs. Our little piece of heaven right here on earth. It didn't occur to me before until I was inside this home working, that we are saying hello to the future! A future Shane and I discussed when I was pregnant with Cameron so many years ago! The things we dreamed of for our lives. The goals we had for the future, here it is. All of it. We couldn't ask for anything else.
As we say goodbye to our past, we say hello to the future. God has richly blessed us.
As they were moving to a new home and new life, we were painting our house. We are doing the paint equity in the house to help with our down payment. It is nice they have that option. We had plenty for the down payment, but if we can get an extra $2026 out of them, bring it on! It is rough work, on your knees on concrete floor, caulking, getting dirty, getting paint in your hair, making sure the primer is on thick enough, semi-gloss vs. flat paint. You get the picture. As I was sitting, taking a break, drinking some water, I looked around me and I looked at what we were doing and it hit me. Like a ton of bricks it hit me. This is real, this is the future I had all planned out for us. A nice sized house for the three of us, Shane has a great job, a college degree, I have a great job, one that I can still be at home, work from home even, and still be there to take care of all the minute details of the finances, the cooking, the cleaning, the caretaking, etc. CWe live in a great, safe area, in the suburbs. Our little piece of heaven right here on earth. It didn't occur to me before until I was inside this home working, that we are saying hello to the future! A future Shane and I discussed when I was pregnant with Cameron so many years ago! The things we dreamed of for our lives. The goals we had for the future, here it is. All of it. We couldn't ask for anything else.
As we say goodbye to our past, we say hello to the future. God has richly blessed us.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Painting and Priming and Houses OH MY!!!!
Paint is bought, caulk is bought, rollers are ready. Painting commences in T- 3 days. We have two full weeks to get our entire house interior primed and painted. I am looking forward to getting in there and getting it ready to close. They will have the cabinets and countertops already installed, the trim and doors up, all ready to bepainted and then the flooring will be put down, some finishing touches and then we close!
While it has only been a 5 month timeline, I feel like it has been a year to complete this house building process. I guess when I worked for Davis homes and was the salesperson, it seemed like they put them up in no time, but now that I am the homeowner and on the other side of the process, it seems to take forever! I know I am just being impatient, but I am so ready to be a homeowner and get settled into our home. We have been kind of like drifters since we moved to Westfield, living a year or so in one place, then moving on to bigger and better. Finally, we can settle down. Nobody thinks we will stay there long, but I am going to prove them wrong. I never can settle into a house or apartment very long, because it isn't what I really want. I always told Shane from the day we got married, and talking about our goals in our married life. I wanted a 3 bedroom, 2 bath ranch home. I wanted a big bathtub and a kitchen with an island and a little front porch so I can sit out there in the rain and not get wet. I want a nice sized backyard with the ability to put in flower beds and a small raised bed garden and a fireplace. So, now, I get what I have always wanted except more because we have an upstairs bonus room.
So, we have this week and a month left until we close. So 5 more weeks basically. I cannot wait. Finally our hard work has paid off and we are ready to settle down. So many changes in our life this year. A house, Shane's job is changing, I am getting back in real estate probably later this week or so, Cameron going into high school. Lots of changes. But I am ready for all of them.
Here we go!
While it has only been a 5 month timeline, I feel like it has been a year to complete this house building process. I guess when I worked for Davis homes and was the salesperson, it seemed like they put them up in no time, but now that I am the homeowner and on the other side of the process, it seems to take forever! I know I am just being impatient, but I am so ready to be a homeowner and get settled into our home. We have been kind of like drifters since we moved to Westfield, living a year or so in one place, then moving on to bigger and better. Finally, we can settle down. Nobody thinks we will stay there long, but I am going to prove them wrong. I never can settle into a house or apartment very long, because it isn't what I really want. I always told Shane from the day we got married, and talking about our goals in our married life. I wanted a 3 bedroom, 2 bath ranch home. I wanted a big bathtub and a kitchen with an island and a little front porch so I can sit out there in the rain and not get wet. I want a nice sized backyard with the ability to put in flower beds and a small raised bed garden and a fireplace. So, now, I get what I have always wanted except more because we have an upstairs bonus room.
So, we have this week and a month left until we close. So 5 more weeks basically. I cannot wait. Finally our hard work has paid off and we are ready to settle down. So many changes in our life this year. A house, Shane's job is changing, I am getting back in real estate probably later this week or so, Cameron going into high school. Lots of changes. But I am ready for all of them.
Here we go!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
TV = Blah.
I don't watch a lot of tv. I have never been a huge tv watcher. I have had a few shows that I got into and watched religiously. I have been off and on watching One Life to Live since I was 13. I still look forward to watching it now. I like to watch Glee, and I was once addicted to Dawson's Creek.
I would rather listen to music than watch tv. I have always been a music junkie.
however, yesterday Shane was home sick. There is two things to notice in that sentence.
1. Shane was home
2. Shane was sick.
What does this mean for me? Well, it means taking care of him and being forced to watch tv all day. He started by watching a movie, then some tv shows he likes, then I got to watch one life to live then he took over and watched another movie or so until Glee came on. I have no idea what we watched. I was so busy trying to find something else to do instead of watch tv. If I watch tv for too long, my eyes end up all gritty and unfocused and I can't sleep.
Well, seems like Shane can watch tv all day with no problems. Cameron too. They can sit and watch movies all day long and be fine and content. I cannot. For one, ADD kicks in and I have to be doing something. Two, it makes me feel like crap if I sit in front of the tv too much. Ugh.
Thankfully, Shane is feeling better and went to work this morning. Thank goodness! Not that I don't like him being at home with me, but I cannot sit for another day and watch tv.
I am going to go outside today. It is going to be so nice out today. In the 50's and sunny! I can't wait!
I would rather listen to music than watch tv. I have always been a music junkie.
however, yesterday Shane was home sick. There is two things to notice in that sentence.
1. Shane was home
2. Shane was sick.
What does this mean for me? Well, it means taking care of him and being forced to watch tv all day. He started by watching a movie, then some tv shows he likes, then I got to watch one life to live then he took over and watched another movie or so until Glee came on. I have no idea what we watched. I was so busy trying to find something else to do instead of watch tv. If I watch tv for too long, my eyes end up all gritty and unfocused and I can't sleep.
Well, seems like Shane can watch tv all day with no problems. Cameron too. They can sit and watch movies all day long and be fine and content. I cannot. For one, ADD kicks in and I have to be doing something. Two, it makes me feel like crap if I sit in front of the tv too much. Ugh.
Thankfully, Shane is feeling better and went to work this morning. Thank goodness! Not that I don't like him being at home with me, but I cannot sit for another day and watch tv.
I am going to go outside today. It is going to be so nice out today. In the 50's and sunny! I can't wait!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Spring
I do this every year. I sit at home with my sweatshirt on, bundled up on the couch with a thick blanket, looking outside while it is overcast and cold, snow piled up and looking brown and dirty. I sit there and grumble and whine about how much winter stinks. Then it happens. The 7 day forecast comes up and there is a glimmer of hope in the drudgery of winter. It gets in the 40's or 50's for a week and I go crazy! Get the shovels back out happily to scooop the leftover slush away, clear out the sidewalk, driveway and anything in the way. I get my walking shoes on and go outside in the wet thawed out world and hit the pavement.
So it won't last. I know this. It happens every year. There is a nice thaw, warm temps and then boom, gone. Sometimes a big winter storm comes and takes away the hope for the spring.
So if you need me in the next few days, you might try the walking trails! I will be hitting the pavement all week to get the winter blahs our of my system!
Later peeps!
So it won't last. I know this. It happens every year. There is a nice thaw, warm temps and then boom, gone. Sometimes a big winter storm comes and takes away the hope for the spring.
So if you need me in the next few days, you might try the walking trails! I will be hitting the pavement all week to get the winter blahs our of my system!
Later peeps!
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Ahhh....memories.
I got in my big stereo the other day and pulled out some old CD's to listen to. They are my old CD's from high school, from the 1990's. Quite the interesting range of music. I have everything from classical music to broadway musicals, to soundtracks to movies, to angry chick music.
So I sifted through the CD's and decided to listen to one of my faves from my junior year, Alanis Morissette. Yikes! I guess when you're 16, you don't pay that much attention to the lyrics of the music you are listening to. As I was sitting there, I heard practically every curse word in the book, everything from being mad at someone to wanting to have vengeance on an ex, to being thankful, to going to confession. What?!?! She is an odd duck.
So as I was listening to my music, Cameron comes home and hears some of it and we get into a conversation about what kind of person I was in high school. As an up and coming freshmen, he wanted to gauge how it was going to be. Now, I am not that old, only being 31. But I know for a fact, as a substitute teacher, that high school is very different than when I was there. Some things are the same, but it is a vastly different place than what I remember. It doesn't help that Cameron is going to a huge high school and I went to a school that had less students in the entire high school than he will have in his graduating class!
Anyhow, it will be interesting to see just how different things are for him than they were for me. I was the type of girl in high school that didn't care much about what people thought of me. I wore mismatched socks and my hair in a ponytail. I walked around with my friends and got called a band geek. I didn't care. I took pride in what I was involved in and didn't care what anyone else thought about it. I spent all my free time listening to music and singing along to broadway titles and pop music.
After Cameron listened to a little Alanis, he came to the conclusion that I was "emo" in high school. I told him that type of music was what was popular back then. Grunge, "emo" music, cranberries, alanis, sophie b hawkins, weezer, etc.
Anyway, it got me thinking, I wonder what Cameron will look back on when he is 31 and remember about high school? Will he be a band geek because he is in marching band? Will he be popular? Will he end up finding his soulmate in high school like Shane and I did? Who will he take to prom and what will be his best memories? Who will he be excited to see at his 10 year reunion? 20 year reunion? Will he still graduate wanting to be an archaeologist or biblical historian?
So many exciting times ahead of him. I am excited to see him through it. All the ups and downs of being in high school. Friends that come and go. Girlfriends and broken hearts. I hope he comes out of it as unscathed as possible. No long lasting pains.
While I wouldn't go back to high school if someone paid me to, I have lots of fond memories and some painful memories. What do you remember most from your years in high school? A certain boy/girlfriend? The Prom? Graduation? Extracurricular activities?
For me, I enjoyed marching band and winter guard the most. I learned a lot. I was a spelling bee champion, and a spell bowl nerd. But, all in all, I remember my friends and regret not keeping in touch with them as well after we graduated.
ahh memories.....
So I sifted through the CD's and decided to listen to one of my faves from my junior year, Alanis Morissette. Yikes! I guess when you're 16, you don't pay that much attention to the lyrics of the music you are listening to. As I was sitting there, I heard practically every curse word in the book, everything from being mad at someone to wanting to have vengeance on an ex, to being thankful, to going to confession. What?!?! She is an odd duck.
So as I was listening to my music, Cameron comes home and hears some of it and we get into a conversation about what kind of person I was in high school. As an up and coming freshmen, he wanted to gauge how it was going to be. Now, I am not that old, only being 31. But I know for a fact, as a substitute teacher, that high school is very different than when I was there. Some things are the same, but it is a vastly different place than what I remember. It doesn't help that Cameron is going to a huge high school and I went to a school that had less students in the entire high school than he will have in his graduating class!
Anyhow, it will be interesting to see just how different things are for him than they were for me. I was the type of girl in high school that didn't care much about what people thought of me. I wore mismatched socks and my hair in a ponytail. I walked around with my friends and got called a band geek. I didn't care. I took pride in what I was involved in and didn't care what anyone else thought about it. I spent all my free time listening to music and singing along to broadway titles and pop music.
After Cameron listened to a little Alanis, he came to the conclusion that I was "emo" in high school. I told him that type of music was what was popular back then. Grunge, "emo" music, cranberries, alanis, sophie b hawkins, weezer, etc.
Anyway, it got me thinking, I wonder what Cameron will look back on when he is 31 and remember about high school? Will he be a band geek because he is in marching band? Will he be popular? Will he end up finding his soulmate in high school like Shane and I did? Who will he take to prom and what will be his best memories? Who will he be excited to see at his 10 year reunion? 20 year reunion? Will he still graduate wanting to be an archaeologist or biblical historian?
So many exciting times ahead of him. I am excited to see him through it. All the ups and downs of being in high school. Friends that come and go. Girlfriends and broken hearts. I hope he comes out of it as unscathed as possible. No long lasting pains.
While I wouldn't go back to high school if someone paid me to, I have lots of fond memories and some painful memories. What do you remember most from your years in high school? A certain boy/girlfriend? The Prom? Graduation? Extracurricular activities?
For me, I enjoyed marching band and winter guard the most. I learned a lot. I was a spelling bee champion, and a spell bowl nerd. But, all in all, I remember my friends and regret not keeping in touch with them as well after we graduated.
ahh memories.....
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