What could she possibly mean by BBQ in Jan? You might be asking yourself that, or not, but let's just pretend shall we? And so I will answer...by that I mean BBQ Pork in a crockpot for dinner! YUM! Now I am not a big crockpotter(is that a word?) per se', in fact, this is possibly the second time I have ever used mine that I have had for years. Not because I don't love the idea of it and most certainly the finished products but because up until now I have had children who were very picky eaters and it makes A LOT, so unless you know people will eat it, making that kind of meal always seemed like a waste to me.
Now however, we have arrived...at that stage anyway! Now I can cook roasts and chilis and bbqs and my kids will not only eat that but the veggies that got cooked along with it!!! Time to Par-tay around here! And so we enjoyed a wonderful aroma filling the house all day, also a perk to the crockpot cooking style:), and then a scrumptious dinner. Although I may change the recipe a bit as the sauce wasn't nearly saucy enough for us and so it didn't really cook into the meat as much as we would have liked. But all in all a nice first try back.
I do plan on continuing to experiment with it and hopefully do at least one meal a week that way and frankly I can't wait! Hope you all had a nice weekend. It was nice and sunny and absolutely wonderful around these parts:)
Have a good Monday all-
K
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Wild Life
We have wild life all around us. We have the squirrels, bunnies and birds who congregate in our yard to avoid the possibility of a lurking four-legged fiend that could attack them at any time from all of the rest of the surrounding yards making our yard an uber safe sanctuary since there are none of those here! Then we have all of the surrounding woodlands areas where there are deer, fox, coyotes, raccoons, turkeys, and I am sure many more. But I think best of all is the animal park/sanctuary right down the road from us. We get to drive through and see elk, geese, deer and if you're lucky Bison! Today we were lucky and got all four!!!
Plus it was just a beautiful day to be out. A fresh dusting of snow so it was mostly a white forest floor with just a few spots of brown showing through where a fallen log protruded higher than the surrounding undergrowth made for a sparkling clean and crisp backdrop to the animals and the cold but sunny day.
And then we made it a family night by watching Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which we have seen before but still love:) Of course we all have parts that we sit and cover our eyes for. Mine, as always, relates to the snake part because...I don't have to watch if I don't want to-so there! But it was still fun to snuggle up with the girls on the couch and see Harrison, hey, what can I say…I love me some Indy;P.
Now I am watching SNL as I type, hoping I will get done before 12 and since its 11:55 now, I'm wrapping it up :) Hope you all had a wonderful Saturday and stayed warm and safe in this crazy weather we're having the winter!
Blog ya later-
K
Plus it was just a beautiful day to be out. A fresh dusting of snow so it was mostly a white forest floor with just a few spots of brown showing through where a fallen log protruded higher than the surrounding undergrowth made for a sparkling clean and crisp backdrop to the animals and the cold but sunny day.
And then we made it a family night by watching Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which we have seen before but still love:) Of course we all have parts that we sit and cover our eyes for. Mine, as always, relates to the snake part because...I don't have to watch if I don't want to-so there! But it was still fun to snuggle up with the girls on the couch and see Harrison, hey, what can I say…I love me some Indy;P.
Now I am watching SNL as I type, hoping I will get done before 12 and since its 11:55 now, I'm wrapping it up :) Hope you all had a wonderful Saturday and stayed warm and safe in this crazy weather we're having the winter!
Blog ya later-
K
Friday, January 29, 2010
To snow...
or not to snow, that is the question every winter in St Louis. I am sure if you have ever discussed winter with me you have heard my theory that because we have a giagantic magnet(the Arch) at the convergence area of three rivers we are destined to never actually get snow.
I should clarify even more...by St Louis and we I don't actually mean St Louis as a whole I mean me, us~my family, my neighborhood, our neck of the woods only because there are parts of St Louis(north of the rivers) that routinely get snow. We don't. They will get an inch or two and we may get flurries if we're lucky! I guess that is what being further south does to you in that river weather pattern. Not that we are that much farther south mind you, we're talking the difference of 20-30 miles max....so we still get the bitter cold, just none of the snow.
It does seem that the major storms that are icy or snowy tend to go around St. Louis as a whole though. And yes it could be the jet stream except...it doesn't go around us with rain....just snow! So since they have been forecasting maybe 1-2 inches here I am expecting the ground to be barely covered and that is all:)
Please prove me wrong, PLEASE, nothing would make me happier than being wrong about this!
So sweet dreams all....mine will be will be filled with cold, white, beautiful dazzling white things.....and maybe my morning too!
Blog ya later-
K
I should clarify even more...by St Louis and we I don't actually mean St Louis as a whole I mean me, us~my family, my neighborhood, our neck of the woods only because there are parts of St Louis(north of the rivers) that routinely get snow. We don't. They will get an inch or two and we may get flurries if we're lucky! I guess that is what being further south does to you in that river weather pattern. Not that we are that much farther south mind you, we're talking the difference of 20-30 miles max....so we still get the bitter cold, just none of the snow.
It does seem that the major storms that are icy or snowy tend to go around St. Louis as a whole though. And yes it could be the jet stream except...it doesn't go around us with rain....just snow! So since they have been forecasting maybe 1-2 inches here I am expecting the ground to be barely covered and that is all:)
Please prove me wrong, PLEASE, nothing would make me happier than being wrong about this!
So sweet dreams all....mine will be will be filled with cold, white, beautiful dazzling white things.....and maybe my morning too!
Blog ya later-
K
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Thursday
Ok..I really don't think I can do this everyday... really.
Maybe that says more about my time management skills than I would like to admit...or maybe it just says that my life is not nearly as interesting as a every day blog requires....or maybe that I am forgetful from chemo brain...ohhhh.....
I think I will take option 3 :P Which on that subject...is still here, but very limited...it is still the word issue....I know what it is I just can't remember the word....like I can describe the attached section on your house where you park you car and have tools and stuff....and then someone says garage and I say Yes!!! Because I truly could not remember that....or maybe I'm just getting old! ;P
Anyway, it has been a sick week around our household. Ed has been sick for over a week and Lexi has been feeling icky for a couple of days. I feel ok but my knees hate the barometer swings! And sweet Belle has been good if stuffy and so I just didn't get to it yesterday, plus that was all that happened!
Onto today which was actually jam packed! I helped at school and Belle's class gave their teacher a mini baby shower-which went very well. We used the last 1/2 hour of the day and the kids watched her open a few gifts and then they did a word search while we played the game "Guess the mommy's waist size"! Which consisted of the guesstimating how big around their teacher was using squares of toilet paper as the measuring tool. I thought it worked out perfectly since we were using math time and technically it was mathematical.....regardless it was great fun to see the kids try and guess how many. I have played his game at showers before and maybe one guest will get the right size......6 kids did!!! I thought that was pretty amazing myself:) Lastly they had pink cookies since the baby is a girl and I think it was a smash all around:)
Then onto Scouts with the Juniors who are really working hard to get things ready for the fair they are doing next month. I am only slightly worried that it won't happen.....but only slightly.....cause I have a whole month to get panicky about that~sheesh;P LOL ...kidding....mostly...eventually I will go into my 'event frenzy' as it has been referred to by some...I prefer to call it my awen. I go into overdrive and magically it all works fine:)
Then lastly for me I had a meeting up at school about how to help our kiddos via the "7 Habits" framework. It was a small group (probably due in part to the Pinewood Derby in the gym) but it was very informative and I think people took away some good ideas, including moi! So if you are a fellow parent at our school I highly recommend getting to a Parent Coffee this year if you can:)
And now....I am headed to bed...to dream of some pretty sparkly white floaty things....that will probably go right past us...sigh.....
Blog ya later-
K
Maybe that says more about my time management skills than I would like to admit...or maybe it just says that my life is not nearly as interesting as a every day blog requires....or maybe that I am forgetful from chemo brain...ohhhh.....
I think I will take option 3 :P Which on that subject...is still here, but very limited...it is still the word issue....I know what it is I just can't remember the word....like I can describe the attached section on your house where you park you car and have tools and stuff....and then someone says garage and I say Yes!!! Because I truly could not remember that....or maybe I'm just getting old! ;P
Anyway, it has been a sick week around our household. Ed has been sick for over a week and Lexi has been feeling icky for a couple of days. I feel ok but my knees hate the barometer swings! And sweet Belle has been good if stuffy and so I just didn't get to it yesterday, plus that was all that happened!
Onto today which was actually jam packed! I helped at school and Belle's class gave their teacher a mini baby shower-which went very well. We used the last 1/2 hour of the day and the kids watched her open a few gifts and then they did a word search while we played the game "Guess the mommy's waist size"! Which consisted of the guesstimating how big around their teacher was using squares of toilet paper as the measuring tool. I thought it worked out perfectly since we were using math time and technically it was mathematical.....regardless it was great fun to see the kids try and guess how many. I have played his game at showers before and maybe one guest will get the right size......6 kids did!!! I thought that was pretty amazing myself:) Lastly they had pink cookies since the baby is a girl and I think it was a smash all around:)
Then onto Scouts with the Juniors who are really working hard to get things ready for the fair they are doing next month. I am only slightly worried that it won't happen.....but only slightly.....cause I have a whole month to get panicky about that~sheesh;P LOL ...kidding....mostly...eventually I will go into my 'event frenzy' as it has been referred to by some...I prefer to call it my awen. I go into overdrive and magically it all works fine:)
Then lastly for me I had a meeting up at school about how to help our kiddos via the "7 Habits" framework. It was a small group (probably due in part to the Pinewood Derby in the gym) but it was very informative and I think people took away some good ideas, including moi! So if you are a fellow parent at our school I highly recommend getting to a Parent Coffee this year if you can:)
And now....I am headed to bed...to dream of some pretty sparkly white floaty things....that will probably go right past us...sigh.....
Blog ya later-
K
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Technically speaking...
the last post was dated Monday so I missed Sunday....if you want to get technical that is, if you want to know what happened, I just plain fell asleep last night!
It wasn't an overly crazy day, just exercised and had a good meal and I think the clincher was the shower after the girls went to bed that got me all warm and relaxed and sleepy!
Today I had a wonderful lunch with some very good friends who always make me laugh just when I need it...and cry sometimes too, from laughing so hard that is! In fact I do believe we either entertained or drove away customers at Bread Co today, depending on their tolerance for women who would every few minutes break out in hysterical laughter…sometimes unable to stop even! But I wouldn't have it any other way:) Even in sadness we are strong together and that is so nice to have. That and the fact that we are all slightly zany(I blame it on the kids~they turned our minds to mush I tell ya) always makes for an entertaining and wonderful time.
Then I spent some time with my Lexi and I realized just how grown up she is becoming. I mean, I know she is, I see it every day, I think I'm resisting it or something because all of the sudden I looked at her today and went, "Who is this confident, beautiful young lady and where is my little baby Lex?" and had to do a double take as she looked 17 with her hair blowing in the breeze and this Save the Planet shirt under a cute zippered sweatshirt and her "so stylin' " duck boots....or maybe it was because she just so casually dismissed my horror and chiding about the fact that she had no coat on as we ran from car to the building with a, "Whatever mom, its sunny out and warm, besides I have my sweatshirt duh!" Yeah...maybe that was what made me think she's growing up!
Anyway, I have always thought of Lexi as Lexi and Belle as Belle. The features that I have thought they have taken after me in have been more their body; long legs, elbows that hyper-extend, long skinny feet but not really facial features. But that is because they are them.....the funny thing is lately I have had sooooo many people tell me the Lexi looks like me! I think she might have similar facial expressions, after all...she learned hers by watching me ya know....but I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, maybe she looks a lot more like me than I thought! And Belle who everyone used to say looked like me, no one has said that lately....more that she's a mix of both Ed and I...but they used to say that about Lexi too...hmmmmm.....
Ok...well that's really it for the moment. They are forecasting snow and some cold this weekend so we should get nothin' but extremely frigid weather the whole time...cause that's how the Lou rolls don't ya know.
I will be snow dancing personally as I would like a nice 4-6 inches of pretty powder...that you can pack too, and temperatures in the 20s with little or no wind....that sounds like a completely reasonable snow forecast to me...and not even that demanding either........maybe if you agree you should snow dance too:D
Blog ya later-
K
It wasn't an overly crazy day, just exercised and had a good meal and I think the clincher was the shower after the girls went to bed that got me all warm and relaxed and sleepy!
Today I had a wonderful lunch with some very good friends who always make me laugh just when I need it...and cry sometimes too, from laughing so hard that is! In fact I do believe we either entertained or drove away customers at Bread Co today, depending on their tolerance for women who would every few minutes break out in hysterical laughter…sometimes unable to stop even! But I wouldn't have it any other way:) Even in sadness we are strong together and that is so nice to have. That and the fact that we are all slightly zany(I blame it on the kids~they turned our minds to mush I tell ya) always makes for an entertaining and wonderful time.
Then I spent some time with my Lexi and I realized just how grown up she is becoming. I mean, I know she is, I see it every day, I think I'm resisting it or something because all of the sudden I looked at her today and went, "Who is this confident, beautiful young lady and where is my little baby Lex?" and had to do a double take as she looked 17 with her hair blowing in the breeze and this Save the Planet shirt under a cute zippered sweatshirt and her "so stylin' " duck boots....or maybe it was because she just so casually dismissed my horror and chiding about the fact that she had no coat on as we ran from car to the building with a, "Whatever mom, its sunny out and warm, besides I have my sweatshirt duh!" Yeah...maybe that was what made me think she's growing up!
Anyway, I have always thought of Lexi as Lexi and Belle as Belle. The features that I have thought they have taken after me in have been more their body; long legs, elbows that hyper-extend, long skinny feet but not really facial features. But that is because they are them.....the funny thing is lately I have had sooooo many people tell me the Lexi looks like me! I think she might have similar facial expressions, after all...she learned hers by watching me ya know....but I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, maybe she looks a lot more like me than I thought! And Belle who everyone used to say looked like me, no one has said that lately....more that she's a mix of both Ed and I...but they used to say that about Lexi too...hmmmmm.....
Ok...well that's really it for the moment. They are forecasting snow and some cold this weekend so we should get nothin' but extremely frigid weather the whole time...cause that's how the Lou rolls don't ya know.
I will be snow dancing personally as I would like a nice 4-6 inches of pretty powder...that you can pack too, and temperatures in the 20s with little or no wind....that sounds like a completely reasonable snow forecast to me...and not even that demanding either........maybe if you agree you should snow dance too:D
Blog ya later-
K
Monday, January 25, 2010
Again
So..maybe I should rethink how I am going to tackle this daily blogging. You see, its not like I don't have ideas, I do. I even compose entire blogs in my head when something strikes me...but...that's the problem. That usually happens when I am not near a computer and I don't get it down. Maybe I will have to bring paper and pen to write things down-lol-that seems wrong! I suppose I could just take my recorder but that makes me feel kind of silly too as it is almost always when I am in the car or otherwise indisposed and that wouldn't work and possibly be a safety hazard even! So I am going to have to think on this a bit.
Anyway, Sat was a day of change! B is getting a new bed!!! It is a loft bed with a shelf underneath that will hold her keyboard and other musical tools and then she can have her desk back-yay! SO we spent most of the day cleaning. First the girls did a wonderful job of sorting into donate, recycle, pitch and save piles to clear out her closet and the 'pit of despair' (as we dubbed her book nook corner which became a catch-all spot) so that we could store other things from under her bed and move things to get ready for the new loft! It was a nice project which now we have to finish by actually doing the bed part. Did I mention that in this process we also decided to expand the basement computer/work area to include their desks and free up space in their rooms?...ummm yeah...we never do just one thing, it is always an intricately woven tapestry:) but it works! ) So we embarked on getting her bed today.
It was an interesting journey, complete with borrowing of a van (thanks mom and dad:) ), rearranging of seats in a parking lot and minor mishaps with the hardware. We did however get it put together and it is stable and secure-woohoo! Belle is actually sleeping in it as I type! And of course she loves it, although she is already talking curtains so she can make it a very private creation station area underneath:) So now she is so very happy and with a few tweaks in furniture like a reading chair for the corner and a tall lamp for behind that, it is lookin' good....next up Lexi's!
She does not want a loft bed and so instead we will just remove her desk too and then she will have a reading nook and bad and dresser and bookcases and that is all...and she seems pretty happy wit tah for right now too so I think we're on track!
Well...at least as far as the girls' rooms are concerned, ours is a whole different story! Plus I still have to finish the Living Room...and by that I mean hang up paintings and pictures and ...that could take eons to choose and place! We did let the girls have free reign back in the hallway with their artwork and it is pretty cool, maybe I will have to have an all art post :)
Ok..I have a minute left on this clock so...blog ya later:)
K
*Stupid spellcheck jockeying making me miss the deadline by two minutes...grumble, grumble, grumble
Anyway, Sat was a day of change! B is getting a new bed!!! It is a loft bed with a shelf underneath that will hold her keyboard and other musical tools and then she can have her desk back-yay! SO we spent most of the day cleaning. First the girls did a wonderful job of sorting into donate, recycle, pitch and save piles to clear out her closet and the 'pit of despair' (as we dubbed her book nook corner which became a catch-all spot) so that we could store other things from under her bed and move things to get ready for the new loft! It was a nice project which now we have to finish by actually doing the bed part. Did I mention that in this process we also decided to expand the basement computer/work area to include their desks and free up space in their rooms?...ummm yeah...we never do just one thing, it is always an intricately woven tapestry:) but it works! ) So we embarked on getting her bed today.
It was an interesting journey, complete with borrowing of a van (thanks mom and dad:) ), rearranging of seats in a parking lot and minor mishaps with the hardware. We did however get it put together and it is stable and secure-woohoo! Belle is actually sleeping in it as I type! And of course she loves it, although she is already talking curtains so she can make it a very private creation station area underneath:) So now she is so very happy and with a few tweaks in furniture like a reading chair for the corner and a tall lamp for behind that, it is lookin' good....next up Lexi's!
She does not want a loft bed and so instead we will just remove her desk too and then she will have a reading nook and bad and dresser and bookcases and that is all...and she seems pretty happy wit tah for right now too so I think we're on track!
Well...at least as far as the girls' rooms are concerned, ours is a whole different story! Plus I still have to finish the Living Room...and by that I mean hang up paintings and pictures and ...that could take eons to choose and place! We did let the girls have free reign back in the hallway with their artwork and it is pretty cool, maybe I will have to have an all art post :)
Ok..I have a minute left on this clock so...blog ya later:)
K
*Stupid spellcheck jockeying making me miss the deadline by two minutes...grumble, grumble, grumble
Friday, January 22, 2010
Once again
it happened, I missed a day...and again for no real good reason. Yesterday wasn't overly packed but it was busy. Belle was in the spelling bee in the am, and she did awesome as did all of the kids, they were a good bunch:) then I had lunch with a dear friend and we talked all kinds of things and before ya know it I was headed up to school to help and then afternoon stuff and laundry and dinner and bedtime and...again before ya know it, just gone, another day slipped away. Not in a bad sense, just in the sad stillness when you realize you can never quite capture that moment again....sigh.
Anyway, today was similar in that I met a friend, actually the same one:) , and we did some work and then had lunch and then I came home and did some work and then up to school to help. I will say this, it just happened to be "Popcorn Friday"...no idea, don't ask, but I got a brown bag of fresh popped popcorn and a soda! Nice to help out at the end of the day Friday I guess:)
Then home to some quiet actually as Fridays are my girls' long day and it was nice to sit and FB in peace:P
And then dinner and now we are watching Splash as I type in fact!
Sooo. hope you all had a nice week and maybe...just maybe if we are all reallllllly good this weekend Mr. Sun might come back and visit us sometime next week...maybe?????
Blog ya later-
K
Anyway, today was similar in that I met a friend, actually the same one:) , and we did some work and then had lunch and then I came home and did some work and then up to school to help. I will say this, it just happened to be "Popcorn Friday"...no idea, don't ask, but I got a brown bag of fresh popped popcorn and a soda! Nice to help out at the end of the day Friday I guess:)
Then home to some quiet actually as Fridays are my girls' long day and it was nice to sit and FB in peace:P
And then dinner and now we are watching Splash as I type in fact!
Sooo. hope you all had a nice week and maybe...just maybe if we are all reallllllly good this weekend Mr. Sun might come back and visit us sometime next week...maybe?????
Blog ya later-
K
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Healthcare
Ok...I don't go political here for many reasons but mainly because politics is not what I care to get into in my blog. I would be happy to discuss with anyone in private thoughts about political ideologies, parties, the government and such, but not here. I will however, talk healthcare.
Let me preface by saying I did not always feel completely this way...but my life has changed since this idea first came into 'official' public discussion. Here is the bottom line. I am a 37 year old who has had breast cancer. That is a pre-existing condition. I plan on continuing to beat it and live well into my 80s or even 90s. At this point in time as long as Ed keeps his current job I am good. If Ed ever loses that job or would even want to find another at any point in time I am screwed. They will not cover me for health insurance under the current laws. We could effectively lose everything we have if I did get sick again just trying to cover the bills, let alone deal with any of the emotional realities that me being sick again would mean. And lets say I don't get sick again, awesome....but I still have to go get check-ups, and x-rays and blood draws and medicine.....it's not cheap now....basically, we are very glad that Ed likes his job and that they are a good employer.
Now...the bills for healthcare are not perfect by any means. There are definite flaws, but they are being exacerbated by both sides. However, I would be safe. I would never have to worry....about that anyway. Just a thought as you go about your day....the scope is broad reaching and the effects could be devastating in this upcoming year so don't be hasty in your choices folks...think big picture and how they will affect everyone, not just yourself in the long run.
Maybe the mists will finally lift around here today.
Blog ya later-
K
Let me preface by saying I did not always feel completely this way...but my life has changed since this idea first came into 'official' public discussion. Here is the bottom line. I am a 37 year old who has had breast cancer. That is a pre-existing condition. I plan on continuing to beat it and live well into my 80s or even 90s. At this point in time as long as Ed keeps his current job I am good. If Ed ever loses that job or would even want to find another at any point in time I am screwed. They will not cover me for health insurance under the current laws. We could effectively lose everything we have if I did get sick again just trying to cover the bills, let alone deal with any of the emotional realities that me being sick again would mean. And lets say I don't get sick again, awesome....but I still have to go get check-ups, and x-rays and blood draws and medicine.....it's not cheap now....basically, we are very glad that Ed likes his job and that they are a good employer.
Now...the bills for healthcare are not perfect by any means. There are definite flaws, but they are being exacerbated by both sides. However, I would be safe. I would never have to worry....about that anyway. Just a thought as you go about your day....the scope is broad reaching and the effects could be devastating in this upcoming year so don't be hasty in your choices folks...think big picture and how they will affect everyone, not just yourself in the long run.
Maybe the mists will finally lift around here today.
Blog ya later-
K
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Not yet
You can't be that old that you roll those eyes at me all the time, I remember your baby belly laugh, not yet.
You can't be that old that you sometimes look grown, I remember your first words, not yet.
You can't be that old that you're picking your 6th grade classes, I remember the second you were born, no, not yet.
Sooo....Lexi went to the middle school today for a tour and then an introduction into the extra classes that she now gets to choose. She of course had already chosen by this evening and filled out her sheet and I signed it and it is now ready to go back tomorrow! She wanted to go get a lock for her lockers too!!!! While yes, I am thrilled that she is excited about middle school as that is half the battle....part of me is just not ready yet for a middle schooler. Part of me will NEVER be ready for a middle schooler!
So, I am issuing this formal protest here that we somehow freeze time or something...just for a sec, so I can catch my breath because....whew...nope, still not ready yet, this may be harder than I thought!
Blog ya later-
K
You can't be that old that you sometimes look grown, I remember your first words, not yet.
You can't be that old that you're picking your 6th grade classes, I remember the second you were born, no, not yet.
Sooo....Lexi went to the middle school today for a tour and then an introduction into the extra classes that she now gets to choose. She of course had already chosen by this evening and filled out her sheet and I signed it and it is now ready to go back tomorrow! She wanted to go get a lock for her lockers too!!!! While yes, I am thrilled that she is excited about middle school as that is half the battle....part of me is just not ready yet for a middle schooler. Part of me will NEVER be ready for a middle schooler!
So, I am issuing this formal protest here that we somehow freeze time or something...just for a sec, so I can catch my breath because....whew...nope, still not ready yet, this may be harder than I thought!
Blog ya later-
K
Fipples
Ok...I debated doing this but I just have to. You see ever since finding the page on FB I have been thinking a LOT! Not just about bras and swimsuits, which I think I may have found another solution too...but I'm not jinxing it yet;P but there were some amazing photos on the page of what women had or hadn't done after their mastectomies in the fipple area.
~There were of course the blank foobs. Just globular blobs with possibly a faint line across from the scar (which gives me great hope for the fading future of mine! ).
~There were some with actually stick out fipples. Which if you have been following know I am against those for me because of the principal of never wanting to have to wear a bra again and why have a fipple that is always 'alert' but with no sensation....not my thing.
~Then, and these were cool, the 3D fipples. Yes, I said 3D!!!! So while there was not actual projection and no need for a bra, there was still the illusion of a fipple when you looked at it. Which may seem somewhat silly considering that in all honestly the only people who are ever gonna see my fipple are family and women at the gym...and maybe if I ever go to the Big Easy on Mardi Gras I will let them do what their predecessors never got the chance to....naw, prolly not:D, but...I see them. Every time I look down and every time I get out of the shower...ok, I guess we could move that particular mirror too but still...I see them. And right now....they look like Barbie boobs with scars...and...scars that are not even symmetrical! Not that I am a big symmetry person, I'm really not. But our eyes have been trained to view certain things in certain ways and the scar across my right foob is angled whereas it is a straight line across the left foob. So when I look in the mirror I see the illusion of everything being off because of the scar, with clothes they look even and fine. But anyway I am thinking that perhaps I should create a different illusion on the foobs to fool my brain when I look at it and that might help.
And then...I saw it. The. coolest. photos. ever.
~Some brave woman had her foobs 'cupped' in a "garden design" tattoo of flowers and vines and a bee and a humming bird. It was amazing! And...one would have to think that technically she would no longer need a bikini top either! (Although that is not my solution for the time being, it is an intriguing idea isn't it??? LOL )
Anyhoo....just some thoughts I had of late.
Now, a HUGE shout out to http://www.littlehillswinery.com/ in St. Charles for a fabulous meal last night. I love seafood and had the lobster ravioli and it was sublime. Although it should have been called seafood ravioli as it had crab meat, shrimp, scallops and lobster in both the ravioli and the sauce, which was perfectly fine with me, but just a clarification should anyone go and get it. And the sauce was perfect. A lite yet creamy white with just a hint of sweetness and brandy but not too much so it was an ideal compliment to the slightly spicy tang of the ravioli mixture. YUM. Really. I am not a food critic...just a picky eater but Ed agreed with me:) The crab stuffed mushroom appetizer was wonderful too, and the Baileys cheesecake dessert was also delish, as was the wine, we had a Riesling:) Basically everything was great. Add to that the fact that there were only two other couples and then they both left before our main dishes came so we had the place to ourselves! They also have a huge patio area with roaring fire pits that we are going to go back and try out as they looked incredibly inviting but we didn't see that until after we were done. Anyway...I highly recommend it, we will be going back:)
And...I started this LONG before midnight on Monday the 18th but somehow I got rid of spellcheck in blogger and so I am having to cut and paste between Word and here for that and it takes a lot longer! But this is technically Mondays's blog:)
So blog ya in the mornin'-
K
~There were of course the blank foobs. Just globular blobs with possibly a faint line across from the scar (which gives me great hope for the fading future of mine! ).
~There were some with actually stick out fipples. Which if you have been following know I am against those for me because of the principal of never wanting to have to wear a bra again and why have a fipple that is always 'alert' but with no sensation....not my thing.
~Then, and these were cool, the 3D fipples. Yes, I said 3D!!!! So while there was not actual projection and no need for a bra, there was still the illusion of a fipple when you looked at it. Which may seem somewhat silly considering that in all honestly the only people who are ever gonna see my fipple are family and women at the gym...and maybe if I ever go to the Big Easy on Mardi Gras I will let them do what their predecessors never got the chance to....naw, prolly not:D, but...I see them. Every time I look down and every time I get out of the shower...ok, I guess we could move that particular mirror too but still...I see them. And right now....they look like Barbie boobs with scars...and...scars that are not even symmetrical! Not that I am a big symmetry person, I'm really not. But our eyes have been trained to view certain things in certain ways and the scar across my right foob is angled whereas it is a straight line across the left foob. So when I look in the mirror I see the illusion of everything being off because of the scar, with clothes they look even and fine. But anyway I am thinking that perhaps I should create a different illusion on the foobs to fool my brain when I look at it and that might help.
And then...I saw it. The. coolest. photos. ever.
~Some brave woman had her foobs 'cupped' in a "garden design" tattoo of flowers and vines and a bee and a humming bird. It was amazing! And...one would have to think that technically she would no longer need a bikini top either! (Although that is not my solution for the time being, it is an intriguing idea isn't it??? LOL )
Anyhoo....just some thoughts I had of late.
Now, a HUGE shout out to http://www.littlehillswinery.com/ in St. Charles for a fabulous meal last night. I love seafood and had the lobster ravioli and it was sublime. Although it should have been called seafood ravioli as it had crab meat, shrimp, scallops and lobster in both the ravioli and the sauce, which was perfectly fine with me, but just a clarification should anyone go and get it. And the sauce was perfect. A lite yet creamy white with just a hint of sweetness and brandy but not too much so it was an ideal compliment to the slightly spicy tang of the ravioli mixture. YUM. Really. I am not a food critic...just a picky eater but Ed agreed with me:) The crab stuffed mushroom appetizer was wonderful too, and the Baileys cheesecake dessert was also delish, as was the wine, we had a Riesling:) Basically everything was great. Add to that the fact that there were only two other couples and then they both left before our main dishes came so we had the place to ourselves! They also have a huge patio area with roaring fire pits that we are going to go back and try out as they looked incredibly inviting but we didn't see that until after we were done. Anyway...I highly recommend it, we will be going back:)
And...I started this LONG before midnight on Monday the 18th but somehow I got rid of spellcheck in blogger and so I am having to cut and paste between Word and here for that and it takes a lot longer! But this is technically Mondays's blog:)
So blog ya in the mornin'-
K
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Strange
How life works!
Let me start off by saying that while I did say that Mishmash wouldn't be focused on cancer and the implants, it is about me and that is a part of who I am now so today we are actually going to go back to focusing on my foobs. That is what I am going to call them from now on. Fake + boobs=foobs :)
So I start with this. At the PJ Party, one of my dear friends and another devoted GS leader, said to me at about 12:30 as we were telling the girls to head in to the movie that I should watch it cause if I fell asleep she would freeze my bra! I looked at her and honestly for a second I was like crap…and then I thought HA, I have foobs!!! And laughed and said what do I care? And she laughed because we had forgotten. It was so weird because for an instant I had forgotten about the foobs and that was so nice, I was just feeling normal, and then I got to feel even better! But see that is just one of the many perks of having foobs, I no longer have to worry at slumber parties about the dreaded frozen bra trick.....LOL...I mean I no longer have to worry about bras and it really is liberating. It felt so nice to be reminded that I didn't need one. Don't get me wrong, I still actually wear one sometimes, but only to exercise or if I have to because my scar is showing through.
That is something that does bother me, the scars, and while I get they are ‘badges of honor’, so to speak, they are really inconveniently located ya know :P ...and maybe over time they will fade, I do hope so because I would like to be able to just wear a tank top....that was kind of the goal!
See lately I have felt bad about how the foobs looked and now I figure they look just fine if she forgot about them! But still, I have felt this strange, need almost, to have an actual non-athletic style bra to wear if needed. Maybe because I thought they weren't looking right. They do look forgein in the mirror, and maybe that has to do with the fipples, but that's a different post:) Back to the bras, it has not been a successful endeavor, much like the swimsuit shopping which I was happy about starting and then finding something and now has turned into not actually being able to get what I want at all and possibly turning to sewing it... But I was feeling very depressed. While I am happy to be alive with the foobs...I don't know...maybe it was somehow feeling less like a woman in that I couldn't wear what women are "supposed to'' wear...bras and a swimsuit top.....anyway. It was just a bad thing and I was honestly feeling very alone in it too...until recently.
I found a group on FB, yes, I am addicted to FB. I freely admit it:) Anyway I found a group about mastectomies and foobs and a woman had just found it and posted her link to her diary of her foobs and her feeling exactly like I did. EXACTLY. It of course made me cry...but they were mostly tears of joy and that was nice, because I feel so much more at peace about them, the foobs that is, than I have in a long time. Long being relative but you know what I mean:)
Anyway, I titled it strange because....it just is. How FB has literally connected me to so many women I would have never known about that have each touched me in such an amazing and unique way that has helped me make it through this journey. Geeze...now I'm thanking FB!!!! I am becoming such a sentimental sap! And then how my life keeps working where I have dear friends who remind me just when I need it of the perks of my life now, even when they don’t know I need it!
Hope you have a nice Sunday afternoon. I am going to enjoy some Blue Skies and a local winery with Ed.
Blog ya later-
K
Let me start off by saying that while I did say that Mishmash wouldn't be focused on cancer and the implants, it is about me and that is a part of who I am now so today we are actually going to go back to focusing on my foobs. That is what I am going to call them from now on. Fake + boobs=foobs :)
So I start with this. At the PJ Party, one of my dear friends and another devoted GS leader, said to me at about 12:30 as we were telling the girls to head in to the movie that I should watch it cause if I fell asleep she would freeze my bra! I looked at her and honestly for a second I was like crap…and then I thought HA, I have foobs!!! And laughed and said what do I care? And she laughed because we had forgotten. It was so weird because for an instant I had forgotten about the foobs and that was so nice, I was just feeling normal, and then I got to feel even better! But see that is just one of the many perks of having foobs, I no longer have to worry at slumber parties about the dreaded frozen bra trick.....LOL...I mean I no longer have to worry about bras and it really is liberating. It felt so nice to be reminded that I didn't need one. Don't get me wrong, I still actually wear one sometimes, but only to exercise or if I have to because my scar is showing through.
That is something that does bother me, the scars, and while I get they are ‘badges of honor’, so to speak, they are really inconveniently located ya know :P ...and maybe over time they will fade, I do hope so because I would like to be able to just wear a tank top....that was kind of the goal!
See lately I have felt bad about how the foobs looked and now I figure they look just fine if she forgot about them! But still, I have felt this strange, need almost, to have an actual non-athletic style bra to wear if needed. Maybe because I thought they weren't looking right. They do look forgein in the mirror, and maybe that has to do with the fipples, but that's a different post:) Back to the bras, it has not been a successful endeavor, much like the swimsuit shopping which I was happy about starting and then finding something and now has turned into not actually being able to get what I want at all and possibly turning to sewing it... But I was feeling very depressed. While I am happy to be alive with the foobs...I don't know...maybe it was somehow feeling less like a woman in that I couldn't wear what women are "supposed to'' wear...bras and a swimsuit top.....anyway. It was just a bad thing and I was honestly feeling very alone in it too...until recently.
I found a group on FB, yes, I am addicted to FB. I freely admit it:) Anyway I found a group about mastectomies and foobs and a woman had just found it and posted her link to her diary of her foobs and her feeling exactly like I did. EXACTLY. It of course made me cry...but they were mostly tears of joy and that was nice, because I feel so much more at peace about them, the foobs that is, than I have in a long time. Long being relative but you know what I mean:)
Anyway, I titled it strange because....it just is. How FB has literally connected me to so many women I would have never known about that have each touched me in such an amazing and unique way that has helped me make it through this journey. Geeze...now I'm thanking FB!!!! I am becoming such a sentimental sap! And then how my life keeps working where I have dear friends who remind me just when I need it of the perks of my life now, even when they don’t know I need it!
Hope you have a nice Sunday afternoon. I am going to enjoy some Blue Skies and a local winery with Ed.
Blog ya later-
K
Saturday, January 16, 2010
I'm still alive!!!!
Don't worry...I am just referring to the overnight PJParty with scouts that I did last night. 150 K-5 girl scouts + helpers for a night of crazy fun!!!! It actually was a lot of fun though and went off quite well! At least that's what everyone who wasn't on the planning committee said, so I am smiling big right now! Those of us on the planning committee just thought it was complete chaos, but hey, what do we know, right? :) I guess when you are in charge you have a vision and...Well let's face it; rarely does that go as planned when you have 150 girls those ages who are this uber excited! Fortunately, all of the leaders are very flexible and we just went with the flow and it worked.
It was an Olympic theme and Lexi's troop, the fifth graders, did the opening ceremony with a welcome, a parade of troop #s, flags and banners, pledges and the National Anthem. It was great. I am very proud of how well they did and thankful for the help with the troop #s from a few fourth graders:) Then it was the craft/game rotations and then ice cream and closing and of course....swaps!
And then the real fun began! You see at 10pm we kick the K-2nd graders out and the 3rd-5th (and some wonderful, amazing, awesome, I love you, please do it again next year:) ) moms stay overnight at the school!! Everyone gets their various sleeping apparatus ready in the gym and laid out and then the girls do 'beauty parlors' with nail-painting, massages and hair styling in the cafe and there is a movie in the gym. We get pizza at 11 and then try and start winding things down with the hopes of having the 3rd graders in watching the movie and drifting to sleep with the older ones to follow shortly. Which, honestly, worked for the most part!
There have been years where the girls(5th grade mostly) were allowed to stay up all night in the cafe but the leaders who were in charge, including yours truly, decided that was not going to happen this year since none of us wanted to stay up with them! Most of the girls were asleep by 1-ish(YAY) There were a few hold outs, who were quiet but still awake, but....I was tired and so at quarter to two I went over and said, "It is now almost 2 and unless you are over 21, which only I am, you are not allowed to be awake anymore. Good night," and walked away. They were asleep by 2:15 :) I was not, obviously, and the last time I looked at my watch it was 2:50. But that was not due to the girls at that point but to me trying to sleep on an air mattress with my knee throbbing from standing for like 12 hours straight since I spent all afternoon getting ready! I will say the wakeup at 5:15 by Belle having to go to the bathroom kinda stunk as I never really fell back asleep before the alarm went off at 6.....and then you have to get 68 girls up and packed up and ready to go by 7...which was not too hard either, had to help stuff a few sleeping bags but heck, I need help with mine! Then a donut and juice or milk in the cafe and parents taking very tired girls home! All in all a success.
There was of course the minor drama incident, but to have only 1 between 68 girls, several of whom were siblings, and not until 11:15pm was a testament to how great these girls are. I feel so fortunate to have ended up at the school we did with all of the other families that we did. My girls are so lucky to have the girls in these networks that they do. And I have to think that is all due to the parents, who Ed and I are so lucky to know. The women last night were amazing. The dads who got up and came to get the girls were amazing, or at the very least earning Brownie points:P Geeze...maybe I should thank their parents and ours too as if it wasn't for the foundations that they laid we all wouldn't be the parents that we are, thanks.
Soooo, I'm gonna start rambling since technically I have only had about 5 1/2 hours of sleep at this point, and in case you're doing the math, I came home and napped for about 3 hours this morning. But that is why I didn't blog yesterday, spent most of the day doing stuff for it and then was at it! Hopefully you all will let this one slide (talking to you Mr M.W. and you Mz C.W. .... :P )
Have a great day all.
Blog ya later-
K
PS....if I seem less coherent than usual, sorry, my brain is just not completely functioning and I can't keep rediting this because I just keep changing it and I'm starting to think I'm "going in circles" on the phrases that I'm changing!
It was an Olympic theme and Lexi's troop, the fifth graders, did the opening ceremony with a welcome, a parade of troop #s, flags and banners, pledges and the National Anthem. It was great. I am very proud of how well they did and thankful for the help with the troop #s from a few fourth graders:) Then it was the craft/game rotations and then ice cream and closing and of course....swaps!
And then the real fun began! You see at 10pm we kick the K-2nd graders out and the 3rd-5th (and some wonderful, amazing, awesome, I love you, please do it again next year:) ) moms stay overnight at the school!! Everyone gets their various sleeping apparatus ready in the gym and laid out and then the girls do 'beauty parlors' with nail-painting, massages and hair styling in the cafe and there is a movie in the gym. We get pizza at 11 and then try and start winding things down with the hopes of having the 3rd graders in watching the movie and drifting to sleep with the older ones to follow shortly. Which, honestly, worked for the most part!
There have been years where the girls(5th grade mostly) were allowed to stay up all night in the cafe but the leaders who were in charge, including yours truly, decided that was not going to happen this year since none of us wanted to stay up with them! Most of the girls were asleep by 1-ish(YAY) There were a few hold outs, who were quiet but still awake, but....I was tired and so at quarter to two I went over and said, "It is now almost 2 and unless you are over 21, which only I am, you are not allowed to be awake anymore. Good night," and walked away. They were asleep by 2:15 :) I was not, obviously, and the last time I looked at my watch it was 2:50. But that was not due to the girls at that point but to me trying to sleep on an air mattress with my knee throbbing from standing for like 12 hours straight since I spent all afternoon getting ready! I will say the wakeup at 5:15 by Belle having to go to the bathroom kinda stunk as I never really fell back asleep before the alarm went off at 6.....and then you have to get 68 girls up and packed up and ready to go by 7...which was not too hard either, had to help stuff a few sleeping bags but heck, I need help with mine! Then a donut and juice or milk in the cafe and parents taking very tired girls home! All in all a success.
There was of course the minor drama incident, but to have only 1 between 68 girls, several of whom were siblings, and not until 11:15pm was a testament to how great these girls are. I feel so fortunate to have ended up at the school we did with all of the other families that we did. My girls are so lucky to have the girls in these networks that they do. And I have to think that is all due to the parents, who Ed and I are so lucky to know. The women last night were amazing. The dads who got up and came to get the girls were amazing, or at the very least earning Brownie points:P Geeze...maybe I should thank their parents and ours too as if it wasn't for the foundations that they laid we all wouldn't be the parents that we are, thanks.
Soooo, I'm gonna start rambling since technically I have only had about 5 1/2 hours of sleep at this point, and in case you're doing the math, I came home and napped for about 3 hours this morning. But that is why I didn't blog yesterday, spent most of the day doing stuff for it and then was at it! Hopefully you all will let this one slide (talking to you Mr M.W. and you Mz C.W. .... :P )
Have a great day all.
Blog ya later-
K
PS....if I seem less coherent than usual, sorry, my brain is just not completely functioning and I can't keep rediting this because I just keep changing it and I'm starting to think I'm "going in circles" on the phrases that I'm changing!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Looking glass
as in through the!!!!
I just had a day with a couple interesting moments where my life was defined ...for the moment anyway:)
First, before I went grocery shopping today I had a yogurt because I was a bit hungry and shopping on a hungry tummy is a very baaaad idea you know...leads to all sorts of delicious foods but that is kind of at odds with my plan of fitting into my clothes. So I'm in my kitchen eating my yogurt and suddenly I look down at myself and then realize...I am the yogurt commercial!!!! Whaaaaat...you may say, and I would explain thus....I am a mid-thirties mom who was casually leaning against the counter in her kitchen with her hair swept up in a little flip-twisty thing wearing a fitted t-shirt, exercise pants and tennies.....eating a yogurt.....I am the commercial!!!! Egads...when did I become the target audience?
Then...and I literally just had this epiphany...I am one of the old guard....so to speak! My eldest daughter is a 5th grader (ack, gasp, cough) and therefore I have been doing many of these school related things sometimes the longest! As I was sending an email I realized that it was like other emails I had received years ago when the kids were first in school and I always thought wow these women know so much and have it all figured out and I have now realized the truth....nu uh....they just had more experience wingin' it :P I kid...some....I do know more about how some of the things work cause I have done them several times and other things cause I raise my hand at the most inopportune times, like when someone is asking for volunteers, but I didn't always and it was really strange to suddenly see that...in print too!
And I guess it didn't help with the whole 5th grade/future 6th grade parent meeting last night......really not ready yet! Of course....that does mean I will go back to the know nothing state of bliss as she enters the middle school jungle....maybe this time around I will just remember to keep my hand down......yeah...probably not-lol
Blog ya later-
K
I just had a day with a couple interesting moments where my life was defined ...for the moment anyway:)
First, before I went grocery shopping today I had a yogurt because I was a bit hungry and shopping on a hungry tummy is a very baaaad idea you know...leads to all sorts of delicious foods but that is kind of at odds with my plan of fitting into my clothes. So I'm in my kitchen eating my yogurt and suddenly I look down at myself and then realize...I am the yogurt commercial!!!! Whaaaaat...you may say, and I would explain thus....I am a mid-thirties mom who was casually leaning against the counter in her kitchen with her hair swept up in a little flip-twisty thing wearing a fitted t-shirt, exercise pants and tennies.....eating a yogurt.....I am the commercial!!!! Egads...when did I become the target audience?
Then...and I literally just had this epiphany...I am one of the old guard....so to speak! My eldest daughter is a 5th grader (ack, gasp, cough) and therefore I have been doing many of these school related things sometimes the longest! As I was sending an email I realized that it was like other emails I had received years ago when the kids were first in school and I always thought wow these women know so much and have it all figured out and I have now realized the truth....nu uh....they just had more experience wingin' it :P I kid...some....I do know more about how some of the things work cause I have done them several times and other things cause I raise my hand at the most inopportune times, like when someone is asking for volunteers, but I didn't always and it was really strange to suddenly see that...in print too!
And I guess it didn't help with the whole 5th grade/future 6th grade parent meeting last night......really not ready yet! Of course....that does mean I will go back to the know nothing state of bliss as she enters the middle school jungle....maybe this time around I will just remember to keep my hand down......yeah...probably not-lol
Blog ya later-
K
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Scattered
There's so many things going on I feel somewhat like I have been shorn into little pieces and tossed about so I can't actually reconnect and get anything done ...cause I don't have super powers like that-rats!
My thoughts and prayers are directed at Haiti and although they are with everyone there who is suffering, they are especially focused on the little girls that my parents visited on a mission trip last year. They have supported them for years and were thrilled when they actually got to go meet them. They had nothing and now they have less.....how can you have less than nothing?
And then I am back in my little world where I am the parent of a 5th grader which means next year a sixth grader which means a middle schooler which means she will be a full-blown certifiable pre-teen.....I am too young to have a pre-teen...dang nabit...I mean...geeze......I don't want to grow up.......
(I know most of you continued singing just like I did...stupid ToysRUs brainwashing us like that! ) but seriously...I don't want to grow up because ...well... do you know how early middle schoolers have to get up these days in our area to get to school?!?!?!?!?
Way.Too.Early.
And me not being a morning person~ not sure if you'd noticed but a lot of my posts come late at night:) ~that totally stinks.Totally. Add to that the fact that along with that comes the joys of raising a pre-teen(and yes....to all of my aunts, uncles and my parents~ha, ha, I get it, payback...yeah, yeah) and a twit, I mean tween.....it's almost too much. Ok, not really, but it was a bit much tonight when we got home from being overwhelmed about our oldest getting older to a bad babysitter night on our girls part and then a bad email night from other things that are way too complicated and annoying for me to spend more energy on now.
And since it has been one of those days, I will now go crawl under my comfy & cozy covers, stretch out and then curl up and drift off to what I can only hope is a less eventful dreaming sleep than today was on whole.
Blog ya later-
K
My thoughts and prayers are directed at Haiti and although they are with everyone there who is suffering, they are especially focused on the little girls that my parents visited on a mission trip last year. They have supported them for years and were thrilled when they actually got to go meet them. They had nothing and now they have less.....how can you have less than nothing?
And then I am back in my little world where I am the parent of a 5th grader which means next year a sixth grader which means a middle schooler which means she will be a full-blown certifiable pre-teen.....I am too young to have a pre-teen...dang nabit...I mean...geeze......I don't want to grow up.......
(I know most of you continued singing just like I did...stupid ToysRUs brainwashing us like that! ) but seriously...I don't want to grow up because ...well... do you know how early middle schoolers have to get up these days in our area to get to school?!?!?!?!?
Way.Too.Early.
And me not being a morning person~ not sure if you'd noticed but a lot of my posts come late at night:) ~that totally stinks.Totally. Add to that the fact that along with that comes the joys of raising a pre-teen(and yes....to all of my aunts, uncles and my parents~ha, ha, I get it, payback...yeah, yeah) and a twit, I mean tween.....it's almost too much. Ok, not really, but it was a bit much tonight when we got home from being overwhelmed about our oldest getting older to a bad babysitter night on our girls part and then a bad email night from other things that are way too complicated and annoying for me to spend more energy on now.
And since it has been one of those days, I will now go crawl under my comfy & cozy covers, stretch out and then curl up and drift off to what I can only hope is a less eventful dreaming sleep than today was on whole.
Blog ya later-
K
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Hmmmm
Maybe I should change this to 6 out of 7 days a week!
LOL-kidding-I don't have much of an excuse-I was tired as I exercised for the first time in months.....whew..I could still do it though, which was an encouragement, but my arms and chest muscles are tight...which is why I am glad I have 9 months to stretch them out until volleyball season!
Anonymity......it is a very interesting thing these days.
It used to be you could call and prank someone over the phone, ah, you remember The Good Old Days" before caller ID! I actually love my caller id, not because I screen calls...but because I think the invention of it changed how business worked over the phone and of course the no-calls lists help a lot, but it eliminated that forvever..my kids will never be able to do that themselves, not that I endorse prank calls, but....what about calling the cute boy in class and then panicking and hanging up?!?!(sorry to any parents who were the unintended recipients of my hangups in the 80s)..... the world has changed so much, gps chips, onstar, cameras on corners...our lives are so less private than they used to be. Now, it seems that the only way to be anonymous is hidden behind a screen. And even that is tenuous at best. And yet..it still inspires the confidence in some to say and do things they would not normally in front of others and all I have to say is, be careful what you say and do...not because you are being watched or judged, that's not for me to do...because your words are powerful. All words are. They can be taken to mean things that are completely the opposite of what you actually intended. I know I do it on occasion and I know I am technically anonymous here as K unless you know me...but I try and will continue to try to be nice just as you all should too.
So...in other news....I changed my blog settings and somehow lost the ability to spell check....and while I like the other things....I don't know if it's worth it!
Hope you have a great day-
Blog ya later-
K
LOL-kidding-I don't have much of an excuse-I was tired as I exercised for the first time in months.....whew..I could still do it though, which was an encouragement, but my arms and chest muscles are tight...which is why I am glad I have 9 months to stretch them out until volleyball season!
Anonymity......it is a very interesting thing these days.
It used to be you could call and prank someone over the phone, ah, you remember The Good Old Days" before caller ID! I actually love my caller id, not because I screen calls...but because I think the invention of it changed how business worked over the phone and of course the no-calls lists help a lot, but it eliminated that forvever..my kids will never be able to do that themselves, not that I endorse prank calls, but....what about calling the cute boy in class and then panicking and hanging up?!?!(sorry to any parents who were the unintended recipients of my hangups in the 80s)..... the world has changed so much, gps chips, onstar, cameras on corners...our lives are so less private than they used to be. Now, it seems that the only way to be anonymous is hidden behind a screen. And even that is tenuous at best. And yet..it still inspires the confidence in some to say and do things they would not normally in front of others and all I have to say is, be careful what you say and do...not because you are being watched or judged, that's not for me to do...because your words are powerful. All words are. They can be taken to mean things that are completely the opposite of what you actually intended. I know I do it on occasion and I know I am technically anonymous here as K unless you know me...but I try and will continue to try to be nice just as you all should too.
So...in other news....I changed my blog settings and somehow lost the ability to spell check....and while I like the other things....I don't know if it's worth it!
Hope you have a great day-
Blog ya later-
K
Sunday, January 10, 2010
It's a heatwave
ok..not really...but it did get warm enough that our pipes thawed at precisely 11:30 am today-whew-so nice to have hot water:)
So now we start the week being able to shower and wash dishes, which are really nice things to be able to do. Woohoo-short post tonight-see ya tomorrow:)
Blog ya later-
K
So now we start the week being able to shower and wash dishes, which are really nice things to be able to do. Woohoo-short post tonight-see ya tomorrow:)
Blog ya later-
K
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Argggh
Ok, so I missed it again.
This is going to be more complicated than I thought!
Well, as many of you know, school was again closed yesterday due to the extremely frigid weather which also meant that our GS PJ Party was a no-go last night. Belle was not happy, if her foot stomping protests were any indication of her tue feelings at least! Fortunately our principal, M2, was VERY helpful in trying to get this rescheduled as quickly and easily as possible for us....maybe cause he's scared of the minions who would blast him if he didn't....but I really think its because he is a good guy and knows how much the girls love it! However, in the long run it was probably for the best as the gym floor would have been veeeeeeeeeeery chilly, but we are working on another date for it that is asap and hopefully it will be slightly warmer on that night too!
As for things around here...well, its still freeeeeeeeezing and the fact that our house pipes partially froze overnight Thursday didn't help either! Fortunately only the hot water pipe froze so nothing exploded and we still have running water, which, yes, is running as I type. But that is what you get when the constructors of your house don't think about silly minor things like the fact that the wall they put the tub and kitchen sink on is a W/NW facing wall and that on occasion it does get subzero in these parts and we do often get Alberta clippers that bring arctic blasts and wouldn't it have been nice had they put in just a little more insulation around the pipes or in that part of the house!!!! But then again these are the same people who made all of the bedroom lightswitches attached to outlets and no overhead light wiring and because of closet placements, only one room has the opportunity for the bed to even be on an inside wall!!!!!!! Yes, I do have issues with the folks who designed this place and should I ever meet them I can not wait to hear the reasons why they designed the things they did! But needless to say...that has been my past 24 hours, checking to make sure the water still runs in all the faucets, cancelling things, and trying to keep the mini-mes busy!
Today I will even be braving leaving the house as we head over to N&P's(Nana & Papa) to shower later since I would prefer a touch of hot water when I do that!
As for other things in my life...I think I found a company that will work with me on a swimsuit top design!!!!!! Now I know it is only Jan., but you know as well as I do that suddenly it will be March and spring break and I do not want to be frustrated at that point trying to shop as I have been with bras, so I am trying to get a head start on it. It just makes me a little nervous that I can't try it on before I buy it...I know it will be sized specifically to me and that it will probably fit better than any suit I've ever had....and yet.....after years of wearing suits and trying on lots before I found one I was happy with(mind you happy...not ecstatic) I know how hard it is to be happy in a suit. And yes some of that is just being happy with your body...which these days I am more than happy just to be getting somewhat back to the me I used to be, but...its still frightening ya know!
But as for getting back to the old me, I wore my hair up yesterday!!!!! YES...I said UP!!!!!!!! I now have enough hair to pull it back and put it up in a cute little clip!!!! Granted....the front part doesn't quite reach, but luckily it is a great length to look like artistically cut "sweeping bangs" style so that worked too! And the best part was...as Ed said it perfectly, "Wow, all the curly is back and what's left is straight so it really looks like you again!" ~ sigh~yes, like me again, I've missed me:) Don't get me wrong, I love the waves...well..I am trying to love them anyway, but I do agree, it was nice to just see straight hair too!
Ok...so anyhoo....off to a chilly Sat....perhaps a tournament of the Wii variety is in order for the afternoon to stay warm and happy on all fronts:)
Hope you have a nice day and stay warm out there.
BTW...anyone else thinking "Day After Tomorrow" ?!?!?!?!?
Blog ya later-
K
This is going to be more complicated than I thought!
Well, as many of you know, school was again closed yesterday due to the extremely frigid weather which also meant that our GS PJ Party was a no-go last night. Belle was not happy, if her foot stomping protests were any indication of her tue feelings at least! Fortunately our principal, M2, was VERY helpful in trying to get this rescheduled as quickly and easily as possible for us....maybe cause he's scared of the minions who would blast him if he didn't....but I really think its because he is a good guy and knows how much the girls love it! However, in the long run it was probably for the best as the gym floor would have been veeeeeeeeeeery chilly, but we are working on another date for it that is asap and hopefully it will be slightly warmer on that night too!
As for things around here...well, its still freeeeeeeeezing and the fact that our house pipes partially froze overnight Thursday didn't help either! Fortunately only the hot water pipe froze so nothing exploded and we still have running water, which, yes, is running as I type. But that is what you get when the constructors of your house don't think about silly minor things like the fact that the wall they put the tub and kitchen sink on is a W/NW facing wall and that on occasion it does get subzero in these parts and we do often get Alberta clippers that bring arctic blasts and wouldn't it have been nice had they put in just a little more insulation around the pipes or in that part of the house!!!! But then again these are the same people who made all of the bedroom lightswitches attached to outlets and no overhead light wiring and because of closet placements, only one room has the opportunity for the bed to even be on an inside wall!!!!!!! Yes, I do have issues with the folks who designed this place and should I ever meet them I can not wait to hear the reasons why they designed the things they did! But needless to say...that has been my past 24 hours, checking to make sure the water still runs in all the faucets, cancelling things, and trying to keep the mini-mes busy!
Today I will even be braving leaving the house as we head over to N&P's(Nana & Papa) to shower later since I would prefer a touch of hot water when I do that!
As for other things in my life...I think I found a company that will work with me on a swimsuit top design!!!!!! Now I know it is only Jan., but you know as well as I do that suddenly it will be March and spring break and I do not want to be frustrated at that point trying to shop as I have been with bras, so I am trying to get a head start on it. It just makes me a little nervous that I can't try it on before I buy it...I know it will be sized specifically to me and that it will probably fit better than any suit I've ever had....and yet.....after years of wearing suits and trying on lots before I found one I was happy with(mind you happy...not ecstatic) I know how hard it is to be happy in a suit. And yes some of that is just being happy with your body...which these days I am more than happy just to be getting somewhat back to the me I used to be, but...its still frightening ya know!
But as for getting back to the old me, I wore my hair up yesterday!!!!! YES...I said UP!!!!!!!! I now have enough hair to pull it back and put it up in a cute little clip!!!! Granted....the front part doesn't quite reach, but luckily it is a great length to look like artistically cut "sweeping bangs" style so that worked too! And the best part was...as Ed said it perfectly, "Wow, all the curly is back and what's left is straight so it really looks like you again!" ~ sigh~yes, like me again, I've missed me:) Don't get me wrong, I love the waves...well..I am trying to love them anyway, but I do agree, it was nice to just see straight hair too!
Ok...so anyhoo....off to a chilly Sat....perhaps a tournament of the Wii variety is in order for the afternoon to stay warm and happy on all fronts:)
Hope you have a nice day and stay warm out there.
BTW...anyone else thinking "Day After Tomorrow" ?!?!?!?!?
Blog ya later-
K
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Snow Day
Well we did indeed have a snow day...in that the kids and Ed were home and there was snow on the ground outside but....it was freeeeeeezing! And as we happen to be at the top off a hill with a wide open yard...we get windswept, and by sundown the 3 inches or so we had received had been blown away across large swathes of our yard! So the girlies did not go outside and instead spent the day flitting around the house! They played, lounged, read and even did some minor cleaning of their rooms!!! Not a bad snow day all in all....just wish we would have been able to get out and really play in it...next time I will have to be much more specific in my snow dancing I guess...altho I don't quite know how one gets specific but I will try:)
Now we are just dealing with frigid temperatures and gusty winds! However...I will say I am glad! Yes, I said that, GLAD!!!! For you see...we need this, truly we do. If you think back on the past few mild winters we have had and then the horrendous summers with bugs and rampant allergens you should agree with me! This will be soooo nice, some things will actually die and their numbers will be greatly diminished-wooohooo! That is in fact a reason to jump up and down and run outside in the snow...provided you are adequately covered up that is:)
If we have school tomorrow, it will be a crazy day for me will an all night event with the girls and everything that I have to do to get all of that done too so it will be an early blog, maybe some morning news and coffee musings:)
Hope you have stayed safe and warm and continue to do so-
Blog ya later-
K
Now we are just dealing with frigid temperatures and gusty winds! However...I will say I am glad! Yes, I said that, GLAD!!!! For you see...we need this, truly we do. If you think back on the past few mild winters we have had and then the horrendous summers with bugs and rampant allergens you should agree with me! This will be soooo nice, some things will actually die and their numbers will be greatly diminished-wooohooo! That is in fact a reason to jump up and down and run outside in the snow...provided you are adequately covered up that is:)
If we have school tomorrow, it will be a crazy day for me will an all night event with the girls and everything that I have to do to get all of that done too so it will be an early blog, maybe some morning news and coffee musings:)
Hope you have stayed safe and warm and continue to do so-
Blog ya later-
K
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Snow, snow, snow, snow
Now if you know me at all you might have guessed that I have an affinity for the powdery white stuff we call snow:) AND we are actually getting some!!!!! I know there are many people out there who live elsewhere who are already sick of snow and the season has just begun, but not here and not me. We got some snow over the holiday where we were at and it was wonderful to have that beautiful white blanket covering for Christmas and then we came home.....sigh..nuthin', nada, zip, zilch, zero!
But as of right now there is about an inch on the ground and it is still falling and the storm extends all the way back to Colorado so woooohooooooo! They are saying 4-6 inches and school has already been cancelled! I am just as excited for the peace it brings. To me that is what snow does. It quiets, calms, stills things. It cleanses the landscape and makes it pristine again after the dull, rough edges of late fall and early winter browns and where no chemicals touch it, the snow stays pure for as long as it is around.
So tonight I wish you all peace and safety in the snows out there, tonight and whenever they may happen this winter season, and that you remember and enjoy the peace it brings.
Blog ya later-
K
But as of right now there is about an inch on the ground and it is still falling and the storm extends all the way back to Colorado so woooohooooooo! They are saying 4-6 inches and school has already been cancelled! I am just as excited for the peace it brings. To me that is what snow does. It quiets, calms, stills things. It cleanses the landscape and makes it pristine again after the dull, rough edges of late fall and early winter browns and where no chemicals touch it, the snow stays pure for as long as it is around.
So tonight I wish you all peace and safety in the snows out there, tonight and whenever they may happen this winter season, and that you remember and enjoy the peace it brings.
Blog ya later-
K
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Aw Man...
missed one already. Not any good excuse for it, but a lesson learned! Want to know what it was?!?!?! Yes, no, maybe...well, I'm gonna tell ya anyway:) Always blog right away when you think of one!!!! If something else comes up later in the day...write about it and ..well...I'll figure that out later! But, to write it then and not wait for something better to come along...hmmm...that seems like such a simple lesson! And probably one I should have already known!
So that is what I learned and we'll call that my blog for today-:)
And here is my blog from yesterday...nothing big, just something that struck me at the time!
How do you know it is the first Monday of any given month? Well you know if you live in the Lou because of those wondrous sirens that go off. Now mind you, I think they are wonderful and I truly expect them when it is March, April, May, June and even July because well..it is tornado season then and that is their primary function and what they meant as far as drills as a kid, for me anyway. But see... the adult in me having watched apparently waaaaay too many war movies was jolted yesterday at precisely 11am when they went off and it being January and freeeeeeeeezing outside and no where near tornado season, with thoughts of , "Holy cow, what terrorist got a hold of one?!?!?!" Because in my mind for that instant....it was not a tornado warning siren but a siren of war and the end, and I was not happy about that. Fortunately I snapped right out of it and realized it was just the monthly warning siren and that was all. And I felt very lucky that all that siren had ever meant to me as a child was tornado(not that they aren't dangerous, because they truly are) preparedness and not preparing for a war....and I feel lucky that my kids only know that sound as the one I did too.
Of course now that begs the question of just what have I been watching and/or thinking that had me ready to label a warning siren as a harbinger of impending nuclear annihilation?!?!?!?
Anyhooo....getting ready to do some dancin' tomorrow~snow dancin' that is~as I don't particularly trust the forecasts around here:)
Blog ya later-
K
So that is what I learned and we'll call that my blog for today-:)
And here is my blog from yesterday...nothing big, just something that struck me at the time!
How do you know it is the first Monday of any given month? Well you know if you live in the Lou because of those wondrous sirens that go off. Now mind you, I think they are wonderful and I truly expect them when it is March, April, May, June and even July because well..it is tornado season then and that is their primary function and what they meant as far as drills as a kid, for me anyway. But see... the adult in me having watched apparently waaaaay too many war movies was jolted yesterday at precisely 11am when they went off and it being January and freeeeeeeeezing outside and no where near tornado season, with thoughts of , "Holy cow, what terrorist got a hold of one?!?!?!" Because in my mind for that instant....it was not a tornado warning siren but a siren of war and the end, and I was not happy about that. Fortunately I snapped right out of it and realized it was just the monthly warning siren and that was all. And I felt very lucky that all that siren had ever meant to me as a child was tornado(not that they aren't dangerous, because they truly are) preparedness and not preparing for a war....and I feel lucky that my kids only know that sound as the one I did too.
Of course now that begs the question of just what have I been watching and/or thinking that had me ready to label a warning siren as a harbinger of impending nuclear annihilation?!?!?!?
Anyhooo....getting ready to do some dancin' tomorrow~snow dancin' that is~as I don't particularly trust the forecasts around here:)
Blog ya later-
K
Sunday, January 3, 2010
We'll see!
Oh, the weather outside is frightful,
but the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let it snow, let it snow, LET IT SNOW!
At least that is the tentative forecast for us for Wed night into Thursday....but as I titled it, we'll see...I don't have much faith in forecasts around here as the polarity of the rivers and big giant magnetic monument tends to make it a wacky world that doesn't always end up with what they originally thought!
Personally I would prefer the snow...I always do..especially when it is this unbelievably cold!!!!
Blog ya later-
K
PS-the answer to yesterday would be 56 inches and that would be to below my knees...so I will most likely cut it before then..once or twice:)
but the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let it snow, let it snow, LET IT SNOW!
At least that is the tentative forecast for us for Wed night into Thursday....but as I titled it, we'll see...I don't have much faith in forecasts around here as the polarity of the rivers and big giant magnetic monument tends to make it a wacky world that doesn't always end up with what they originally thought!
Personally I would prefer the snow...I always do..especially when it is this unbelievably cold!!!!
Blog ya later-
K
PS-the answer to yesterday would be 56 inches and that would be to below my knees...so I will most likely cut it before then..once or twice:)
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Turn, turn, turn
a timeless lyric.....
reading through my blog as I prepare to put it into some other form I realized that life was indeed very different just one year ago. I honestly feel the most physically profound change is my hair. There were a few pics in the blog of it when it was first coming in and very curly and now one year later it is 8 inches long!!!!!! Blonde!!!!!! ;) And a mess of curls, waves and straight sections...oh well...it will always be its own boss:) But now let me blow your mind a little if I may......supposedly our hair has a seven year "growing cycle". And mine would have started from last year when it began growing from scratch after chemo....
So here it is folks..the first math word problem of 2010:D
K's hair grows 8 inches a year. It completes this cycle for seven years. How long will it be if she never cuts her hair during that time?
Bonus...if she is five foot seven inches tall...where will that have said hair end up falling at the ends?
Just a random new year thought!
Blog ya later-
K
reading through my blog as I prepare to put it into some other form I realized that life was indeed very different just one year ago. I honestly feel the most physically profound change is my hair. There were a few pics in the blog of it when it was first coming in and very curly and now one year later it is 8 inches long!!!!!! Blonde!!!!!! ;) And a mess of curls, waves and straight sections...oh well...it will always be its own boss:) But now let me blow your mind a little if I may......supposedly our hair has a seven year "growing cycle". And mine would have started from last year when it began growing from scratch after chemo....
So here it is folks..the first math word problem of 2010:D
K's hair grows 8 inches a year. It completes this cycle for seven years. How long will it be if she never cuts her hair during that time?
Bonus...if she is five foot seven inches tall...where will that have said hair end up falling at the ends?
Just a random new year thought!
Blog ya later-
K
Friday, January 1, 2010
Happy New Year
Greetings and Salutations to all:)
I hope everyone has had a wonderful holiday season and is looking forward to a new start in 2010 as much as I am...no matter how you choose to pronounce it:P
I have set a few resolutions for myself for this coming year...nothing huge...just things I actually think will be a true test of my moxie!
My resolutions for the year are as follows....to blog everyday...that I can! I include that clause as I know for a fact I will be at a couple Girl Scout events that I do not know if I would be able to get to a computer, as well as a couple of family vacays and iffy Internet connections there too. But aside from those I plan on blogging everyday for the year of 2010.
I also plan on putting up a picture on the family blog~http://www.awhitehouselife.blogspot.com
it will be something around that 'strikes me' that day.
This blog will be in a similar fashion in that it will be more about day to day life and will not necessarily be anything important or cancer related either...just my thoughts...as random as they might be for that day...watch out folks:D
To continue to be healthy and that means to say no sometimes and says yes to different things.
To love life with my family and live that life.
So in that vein-I hope you all have had a wonderful 1st of Jan., 2010.
Blog ya tomorrow-
K
I hope everyone has had a wonderful holiday season and is looking forward to a new start in 2010 as much as I am...no matter how you choose to pronounce it:P
I have set a few resolutions for myself for this coming year...nothing huge...just things I actually think will be a true test of my moxie!
My resolutions for the year are as follows....to blog everyday...that I can! I include that clause as I know for a fact I will be at a couple Girl Scout events that I do not know if I would be able to get to a computer, as well as a couple of family vacays and iffy Internet connections there too. But aside from those I plan on blogging everyday for the year of 2010.
I also plan on putting up a picture on the family blog~http://www.awhitehouselife.blogspot.com
it will be something around that 'strikes me' that day.
This blog will be in a similar fashion in that it will be more about day to day life and will not necessarily be anything important or cancer related either...just my thoughts...as random as they might be for that day...watch out folks:D
To continue to be healthy and that means to say no sometimes and says yes to different things.
To love life with my family and live that life.
So in that vein-I hope you all have had a wonderful 1st of Jan., 2010.
Blog ya tomorrow-
K
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