Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Quoted

"God is not in love with some future version of you."

- Matt Chandler

Monday, March 29, 2010

Meh




I have seriously lost my blogging mojo. It was going so well and then the month of March attacked me. Between Ava's birthday, spring break and a super awesome trip to Sin City, I have much material to share. I make no promises though, April is shaping up to be stupid busy too.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Monday, March 15, 2010

Quoted

"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important."

Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Saturday, March 6, 2010

My Facebook Status


So you may have noticed I have a lot of pet peeves. It's not my fault. It's just that I know so many stupid people. It's my cross to bear. So here's my latest one. Facebook statuses...mainly from my female friends. I love to read my friends' statuses. I have many funny friends whose daily antics provide me with much joy. But...some of these people just don't seem to have any kind of filters. Here is what my status could be on any given day.

Woke up at 5AM. Stumbled to the kitchen to start the coffee. Walk dog in cold, creepy darkness. Finish packing 4 to 7 lunch boxes. Double check backpacks for whatever. Pack a couple of snacks for the two littlest girls. Pour first cup of coffee. Sit down. Take two sips of coffee. Go upstairs to wake up two of the kids. Make those kids breakfast (bowl of cereal, yogurt smoothie, toast - nothing that involves a lot of cooking). Sit back down. Read Bible and attempt to pray before getting up again and waking up two more children. Make those kids breakfast. Drink more coffee. Take vitamins. Wake up last child plus teenager. Start nagging younger kids to get dressed. Go wake up teenager again. Continue nagging kids to get dressed. Text teenager to make sure she is awake. Get little kids into the van after hair and teeth brushing. Drive very short distance to their school and drop em off. Return home. Pick up dirty clothes and dishes that kids have left everywhere . Walk dog...again. Have five minutes of conversation with my husband. Yell at teenager to remember her lunch box as she heads out the door. Take middle schooler across town for school. Return home. This gets us to around 8:30AM


You see how annoying that is? Nobody needs that kind of information about my life. Why would anyone feel the need to detail every friggin thing that they do? I can only guess that they want to document each and every minor accomplishment throughout the day to reassure the world that they are DOING something. I love FB and Twitter a bunch. The minutiae of life interests me but I don't plan to start liveblogging the laundry anytime soon. Unless, of course, you guys want to read that...

Friday, March 5, 2010

Quoted

"I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing."

Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Slow Motion Hummingbirds

Kevin hung a hummingbird feeder outside his office window last summer. This provided us with much enjoyment and the cat with much frustration.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Book Review




This book ripped me to shreds. Seriously, I may need a therapist...and a cupcake or twelve.

The book is written by Frances Kuffel who was fat for most of her life. At one point she lost a huge amount of weight. She detailed the experience in a book called Passing for Thin. After she wrote the book but before she began doing media events to promote it, Kuffel regained almost half of what she lost. This book talks about the experience of regaining. It's hardcore.

Some of her quotes hit way too close to home.
"We obese women overtip, get pressured into buying more expensive cell phones and laptops, all the while that we are fawningly thanking clerks and telling stores it's not a problem that it will take another week for delivery. We do this as an act of begging pardon for taking up so much space, for stepping out of the invisibility of being fat by asking for things."


Ouch

My first thought after finishing this was "anyone who really wants to understand me should read this book." After having some time to reflect, I find I have changed my mind. Fat/Thin is one of those issues that you either get or you don't. Even this book won't change that.