Mondays

I should've added a sidenote to my previous post. NO PROMISES :) hehe. Seriously, though. NO PROMISES.

Ee-gads! Mondays I feel SO disoriented. Hubby and I went over to Irish Girl's little cottage yesterday and ended up spending the evening there helping her set up her new desk from IKEA (gorgeous corner cabinet). It took the three of us girls 3 or 4 hours and the help of Hubby and his power drill. He was so sweet, he ran home to get it and came back with dinner, printed poster's for our missing remote control plane (that we managed to both buy and lose all in the same day), a toolbox full of the basic tools as a(nother) housewarming gift for Irish Girl, and his entire set of tools. Oh and his computer and a movie so the kids would be entertained. Needless to say we ended up having a TON of stuff in her house and I just KNEW I would forget something, especially when Hubby started rushing me out the door at 9:30pm and I didn't have a chance to clean up and get everything together, although I really tried. Turns out I left my KEYS. My darn freakin' keys. Among a few other things.

As we're trying to coordinate to get together today to pick up the stuff that was left my brain can't even think. I ended up driving up to Scotts Valley to try and meet her if I got ahold of her, which I didn't, but the kids and I had the nicest lunch we've had in a long time, I actually got them the full kids half sandwhich chips and a drink (water) they actually ate their meal - man, I'll have to do that more. Any way, I had talked to her earlier about meeting up later but after getting off the phone realized I really did need my keys earlier than that if possible because I didn't exactly want to leave my house unlocked all afternoon, so I tried to get a hold of her and left two messages. And things still ended up being the same. Ah, such is life.

I took Big Guy around to all the house where we think the plane may have "landed" in the back of their yards or surrounding trees and he had such a blast running up and down to the front doors and putting the posters rolled up between the doorknob and the door. At the last house he told me he was going to get me a flower doorknob for my birthday. I said, did they have one at that house? He said no, but I saw the flowers in their yard, and the door knobs kind of look like flowers any way, and they would be pretty that way. What a creative mind he has. I LOVE the idea.

That's all I got. I'm still disoriented. And my keys, my precious keys.

Shhhh

Hey look at me, I've posted every day this week. Don't expect to see me on the weekends but I just may be back during the week. At least until life gets busy again.

A Story & Commandments

Here are two really great articles that I saw printed up and posted in a local store. I looked them up on the internet and posted them here for you:

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody: There was an important job to be done. Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry with that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.

and also:

Ten Commandments for a Long and Peaceful Life

1) Thou shalt not worry, for worry is the most unproductive of all activities.

2) Thou shalt not be fearful, for most of the things we fear never come to pass.

3) Thou shalt face each problem as it comes. You can handle only one at a time.

4) Thou shalt not cross bridges before you get to them, for no one yet has succeeded in accomplishing this.

5) Thou shalt not take problems to bed with you, for they make very poor bedfellows.

6) Thou shalt not borrow other people's problems. They can take better care of them than you can.

7) Thou shalt be a good listener, for only when you listen do you hear ideas different from your own. It's very hard to learn something when you are talking.

8) Thou shalt not try to relive yesterday for good or ill. It is gone. Concentrate on what is happening in your life today.

9) Thou shalt not become bogged down by frustration, for 50 percent of it is rooted in self-pity and will only interfere with positive actions.

10) Thou shalt count thy blessings, never overlooking the small ones for a lot of small blessings add up to a big one.

PS: I edited the top of this post out and pasted it into my other blog, where I thought it was a little more appropriate to what I usually post over there, i.e. ramblings. Thanks Girl for your support : ) . God I should go by these commandments today, especially #9, that was my favorite. But my head is KILLING me, damn the sinus pressure. Does that mean I get to ignore them? Please? Pretty please?

Shhhh

Hey look at me, I've posted every day this week. Don't expect to see me on the weekends but I just may be back during the week. At least until life gets busy again.

A Story & Commandments

Here are two really great articles that I saw printed up and posted in a local store. I looked them up on the internet and posted them here for you:

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody: There was an important job to be done. Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry with that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.

and also:

Ten Commandments for a Long and Peaceful Life

1) Thou shalt not worry, for worry is the most unproductive of all activities.

2) Thou shalt not be fearful, for most of the things we fear never come to pass.

3) Thou shalt face each problem as it comes. You can handle only one at a time.

4) Thou shalt not cross bridges before you get to them, for no one yet has succeeded in accomplishing this.

5) Thou shalt not take problems to bed with you, for they make very poor bedfellows.

6) Thou shalt not borrow other people's problems. They can take better care of them than you can.

7) Thou shalt be a good listener, for only when you listen do you hear ideas different from your own. It's very hard to learn something when you are talking.

8) Thou shalt not try to relive yesterday for good or ill. It is gone. Concentrate on what is happening in your life today.

9) Thou shalt not become bogged down by frustration, for 50 percent of it is rooted in self-pity and will only interfere with positive actions.

10) Thou shalt count thy blessings, never overlooking the small ones for a lot of small blessings add up to a big one.

PS: I edited the top of this post out and pasted it into my other blog, where I thought it was a little more appropriate to what I usually post over there, i.e. ramblings. Thanks Girl for your support : ) . God I should go by these commandments today, especially #9, that was my favorite. But my head is KILLING me, damn the sinus pressure. Does that mean I get to ignore them? Please? Pretty please?

Want to See Something Weird?

Check out Christo & Jeanne Claude's site and their many art projects, found by way of research through mention on Flickr of The Gates Memory Blog for one of their projects in Central Park. They have completely funded each of their projects with their own sources. Although some of their projects are very strange, it seems they are trying to make a statement, as any artist is. Only theirs is on one very huge scale. To me it seems they are trying to make a statement of community by making them on such a tremendous scale that they can't help but be noticed by the entire community, and by bringing them around the world, noticed by the entire world.

Want to See Something Weird?

Check out Christo & Jeanne Claude's site and their many art projects, found by way of research through mention on Flickr of The Gates Memory Blog for one of their projects in Central Park. They have completely funded each of their projects with their own sources. Although some of their projects are very strange, it seems they are trying to make a statement, as any artist is. Only theirs is on one very huge scale. To me it seems they are trying to make a statement of community by making them on such a tremendous scale that they can't help but be noticed by the entire community, and by bringing them around the world, noticed by the entire world.

Shavings

Little Guy watches Hubby shave every morning, sitting on the bathroom counter. Tonight he is laying on the bed telling Daddy, "I want that when I grow up." as he's playing with the stubble on Daddy's chin. Daddy says, "You want facial hair when you grow up?" and Little Guy says "No, I want that." and motions again to the afternoon shadow on Daddy's face. Daddy says, "Oh, okay. What is that called?" Little Guy says, "Shavings."