We could learn a lot from crayons:
Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box.
**My family is definitely crayons, but we haven't quite managed the "same box" part!**
- amberjane
- On the Road, But at Home in Texas, United States
- I'm a 30-ish woman who lives her life on the road, is obsessed with something new every week, and loves coffee more than life itself (at least at 4am). I have an old house that needs to be completely renovated, two adorable nieces whom I love "the sky and the beach," and dreams that change from day to day. Let me tell you about them...
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
I miss home often. People like this are one of the things I DO NOT miss about my hometown!
Yeah, big gator.
But you know what my first thought is? Stupid redneck idiot assholes want to kill one of what is only a few any more. I know they are there in the river bottoms and the like, but there aren't enough of them that you get to see them often, like in Florida. I think it’s sad. I’ve lived there for how long? About 24 years or so. And I’d never seen one until the dead one I saw on the side of the road when I was teaching at Cayuga. (I was nearly thirty by that time).
Let's be honest -- Mr. James doesn’t care that alligators can be a menace to the people who live around the area. He only cares that he now has a great big gator body to do an idiot thing like HAVE STUFFED. So he can decorate with it? That's what it says, right?
Pathetic. And stupid.
Maybe he should spend more time studying interior design and less crawling around on his belly out in the underbrush. We (and the alligators) would all be better off.
But you know what my first thought is? Stupid redneck idiot assholes want to kill one of what is only a few any more. I know they are there in the river bottoms and the like, but there aren't enough of them that you get to see them often, like in Florida. I think it’s sad. I’ve lived there for how long? About 24 years or so. And I’d never seen one until the dead one I saw on the side of the road when I was teaching at Cayuga. (I was nearly thirty by that time).
Let's be honest -- Mr. James doesn’t care that alligators can be a menace to the people who live around the area. He only cares that he now has a great big gator body to do an idiot thing like HAVE STUFFED. So he can decorate with it? That's what it says, right?
Pathetic. And stupid.
Maybe he should spend more time studying interior design and less crawling around on his belly out in the underbrush. We (and the alligators) would all be better off.
Monday, June 11, 2007
NutriSystem Notes
My mom and I started NutriSystem together a little less than two months ago.
She is doing fabulously and I am so very proud of her. Almost 40 pounds in about 7 weeks! Way to go mom! Her health is not the greatest and yet she still sticks to her diet, chases those little maniacal heathens we all love so much around the house all day, and is always only a phone call away when any of us need her. It's a bird, it's a plane- No, it's SUPER MOM!
I, on the other hand, am in the throes of total suckage. As always, I have dedicated myself only half-heartedly to what I am doing. I know no other way. Work, friends, fun, NutriSystem. I treat them all the same way -- as if I can take it or leave it and I'll still be okay, sometimes even a little defiant that any of those parts of my life might require something from me that I don't want to do. Well, hello...That's how I ended up so fat in the first place, isn't it? Deciding to just do (eat) whatever the hell I wanted and however much I wanted, whenever I felt like it.
That's not to say that I don't like my job or love my friends. I do, very much so. But I don't put into either of them the effort they deserve from me. And who doesn't enjoy having fun? That's kind of the meaning of the word, right? But mostly I don't like myself very much and it's difficult to put your whole heart into something you don't love. Think about it this way: it's hard to justify spending $100 on a perfume you don't absolutely adore, right? Or paying asking price for a house that's not your ideal.
Well, I am not my own dream home, fans, and maybe I just don't have it in me to do full renovations. Or at least, I don't know where to shop for construction supplies...I don't know where to start with changing my mindset on certain things and I really feel like it's my head that's holding me back, not my eating habits. They are simply a small part of the whole that has had major impact over the years.
She is doing fabulously and I am so very proud of her. Almost 40 pounds in about 7 weeks! Way to go mom! Her health is not the greatest and yet she still sticks to her diet, chases those little maniacal heathens we all love so much around the house all day, and is always only a phone call away when any of us need her. It's a bird, it's a plane- No, it's SUPER MOM!
I, on the other hand, am in the throes of total suckage. As always, I have dedicated myself only half-heartedly to what I am doing. I know no other way. Work, friends, fun, NutriSystem. I treat them all the same way -- as if I can take it or leave it and I'll still be okay, sometimes even a little defiant that any of those parts of my life might require something from me that I don't want to do. Well, hello...That's how I ended up so fat in the first place, isn't it? Deciding to just do (eat) whatever the hell I wanted and however much I wanted, whenever I felt like it.
That's not to say that I don't like my job or love my friends. I do, very much so. But I don't put into either of them the effort they deserve from me. And who doesn't enjoy having fun? That's kind of the meaning of the word, right? But mostly I don't like myself very much and it's difficult to put your whole heart into something you don't love. Think about it this way: it's hard to justify spending $100 on a perfume you don't absolutely adore, right? Or paying asking price for a house that's not your ideal.
Well, I am not my own dream home, fans, and maybe I just don't have it in me to do full renovations. Or at least, I don't know where to shop for construction supplies...I don't know where to start with changing my mindset on certain things and I really feel like it's my head that's holding me back, not my eating habits. They are simply a small part of the whole that has had major impact over the years.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Today I'm a Little Bummed
I realized, truly realized, this morning that I was going to have to miss the entire family vacation this summer at the beach. I had hoped to maybe have a couple of days off, but I'll probably be working the entire summer, and we'll really be kicking off right about the time that my mom and sister and everyone else heads off for ten days of playing in the sand and surf (or just watching it from the deck, which is more my speed). I'm really disappointed.
When we were kids, we went every summer and some of my best childhood memories are from those weeks of fun with cousins I might see rarely otherwise. As I got older and my family moved farther away from the coast, we eventually stopped making the trek. A couple of summers after we moved to Palestine, Mom and Poppy continued to organize the trips, but it became too much of a chore and we became teenagers and my dad never liked the to go or to have us gone for so long, so they just died out. We've been trying to revive the memory making so Isabelle and Natalie will have similarly joyous tapestries tucked away in their heads for years to come, and I really wanted to be a part of it.
Even though I cringe at even the thought of a bathing suit, there is something about the smell of ocean on the air that rejuvenates me, that heals something in me I never know is torn until I get there and I am suddenly reminded what peace of mind is like. I am really going to miss that this summer...
When we were kids, we went every summer and some of my best childhood memories are from those weeks of fun with cousins I might see rarely otherwise. As I got older and my family moved farther away from the coast, we eventually stopped making the trek. A couple of summers after we moved to Palestine, Mom and Poppy continued to organize the trips, but it became too much of a chore and we became teenagers and my dad never liked the to go or to have us gone for so long, so they just died out. We've been trying to revive the memory making so Isabelle and Natalie will have similarly joyous tapestries tucked away in their heads for years to come, and I really wanted to be a part of it.
Even though I cringe at even the thought of a bathing suit, there is something about the smell of ocean on the air that rejuvenates me, that heals something in me I never know is torn until I get there and I am suddenly reminded what peace of mind is like. I am really going to miss that this summer...
Saturday, June 09, 2007
EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT: Missing woman found under rock!
There are absolutely no excuses that can hold any legitimate reasoning for abandoning this blog for so long. So I’ll be honest. I just haven’t felt like writing. When I’m at home, I rarely turn on my laptop, and when I’m at work I’m not really supposed to do personal stuff on paid time (so don’t tell anyone, okay?). But I thought today, after my work was completed….”Oh, yeah, I should write something in my blog, huh?”
Truthfully? I was embarrassed that it has been so long. I used to think no one ever read it, and then when I quit writing in it on anything near a regular basis, I got notes from people asking me how I was b/c there hadn’t been anything on in ages. So maybe I'm back for good, or maybe it will be sporadic and sparse, but I am going to attempt to undertake this task yet again.
Think about it -- Now I'm up to 2 posts for 2007, and it's only June! Imagine what I can do with this baby before the year's out!!
Seriously, though, stayed tuned for future programming b/c I am not going to give up on this thing. A girl's gotta have a place to vent, after all!
Truthfully? I was embarrassed that it has been so long. I used to think no one ever read it, and then when I quit writing in it on anything near a regular basis, I got notes from people asking me how I was b/c there hadn’t been anything on in ages. So maybe I'm back for good, or maybe it will be sporadic and sparse, but I am going to attempt to undertake this task yet again.
Think about it -- Now I'm up to 2 posts for 2007, and it's only June! Imagine what I can do with this baby before the year's out!!
Seriously, though, stayed tuned for future programming b/c I am not going to give up on this thing. A girl's gotta have a place to vent, after all!
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