Tried and True

I've been trying to get centered. Focused. I've been feeling a little harried lately. I've had it easy for awhile now, and I was starting to let the summer creep up on me. Now that I've started working again I really haven't had any time to self indulge. So to combat that, I really am focusing on yoga again. There are many benefits to yoga, but for me I love how alive it makes me feel. It reminds me that there are few precious hours of this life that we walk, and if we don't take the time to stop and center ourselves, and focus on the really important things, than those things tend to get neglected or taken for granted.

I was driving home today and the kids and I were talking. I mean really talking they weren't all looking for my attention, we were taking turns, and really listening to each other. We were driving along and having a good time, a really good song was on the radio, I look over and there were some sandhill cranes walking along the side of the road. I slowed down to show the kids, I always do when we see wildlife. (We are still fortunate enough in our little neck of the woods to still get to see real live animals) Sandhill cranes are nifty. They make a really cool noise and they are big, as big as me sometimes, and they can be mean. They are common enough around here, but I really love to see them. In the springtime it is an amazing site, with their families, walking around. Today they were just meandering alongside the road, and as I watched them I had this blinding shock of clarity. That life is not harried, life is good. If I am lucky enough to get to drive around on a Saturday morning laughing and goofing off with my kids, then I am going to love and thoroughly enjoy every minute of it. We jammed along comfortably in silence while I strived to see the beauty in this construction laden town of mine, and miraculously it was there.

I guess it was there all along I finally took the time to center and find it.

Party pictures

If you missed our party this year....

actually it was pretty tame compared to other years.

Here are the pictures to keep

you in the know.

rockin' good times.

To tide you over

I found this on someone else's site and thought it looked cool. It was interesting, pretty right on, they give you a little bio at the end that tells you about yourself based on the pics you pick. I wanted to do another one, because on a lot of the categories I had a hard time choosing just one picture, but decided first thought, best choice. Or some such nonsense.

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Musings

Well the beginning of summer is upon us, and I have been busy. I deep cleaned my house for two weeks, and then had a weekend long party and destroyed it. (pictures soon) Deep cleaned as in scrubbed down every room top to bottom. May not seem like a big deal to you but I fucking, yeah fucking, hate cleaning. How much do you say? Kenan asked this very question, (because he couldn't believe that I would hate cleaning more than him. The answer I gave him follows.) I said " If someone told me that I would never have to clean again for the rest of my life if I would but give away one of my children, I would seriously consider it." He was shocked and hurt by my answer. I didn't say I would do it, just that I would lie awake at night trying to justify it. :)




Anyways, that's been the whole of my summer so far. I have made a promise to myself to go to the beach at least once a week. You might wonder why, I, the surfer girl have to force myself to go to the beach. I wonder the same thing, as I can't recall the last time I went. So I put it on my summer schedule.

My book reading is going. I can't really say much more about it. I've read two books so far and the first one was alright, the second is not even worth mentioning. I start the third one today. I must admit that I liked trashing the second book in review. Evil? I don't think so, new career for me? maybe. Why, oh why, do you have to have a degree for everything in this country? It didn't used to be like that, right?

and oh yeah, I'm in the work force again. Hopefully just for the summer but we all know how 'the best laid plans of mice and men' work.

current plans: