Things that I have seen lately....

Scene in Roseburg....what a combo! Look closely, then look again.

My sweet boy and his love of my umbrella.

Super-man and dog breath chews.

Super-man in repose.

These are just a beginning, I am kind of fixated on this weird lolly-pop holder. It not only holds the pop, but if you press the "S" the lolly rotates and his fist pumps up and down. I think that I might ask my son if Superman can travel with us. He LOVES Superman.

I think that I might also.

JMB

Movies, ones I might be embarassed about...

Last night I was talking with some friend about movies that you "just LOVE", but you are sort of ashamed, or maybe just a bit shy about admitting to. It was really funny, mostly because I have a horrible head cold and I felt like I was inside of a tunnel and I was desperately trying to remember bad movies that I liked.....and I was trying SO HARD. I just couldn't think of anything. I came up with some thing like "Adventures in Baby-sitting" which everyone knows is actually a stellar flick. Finally I remembered "The Core", which is really bad, but SO good!! It also made me feel better that someone else had seen it and also respected its awful-ness.

So, I am needing some help, to dig out from the recesses of my mom-addled brain "good/bad" movies. I would like to hear yours too....they don't have to be total stinkers, but ones that, perhaps, people might not know that you know all the dialogue to, or that you're totally "crushin' on" the "McDreamy" of the "Can't Buy Me Love" era. These are also movies that, given a free Sunday afternoon, you would SO watch them yet AGAIN!

Here are a few of mine:

Can't Hardly Wait---Seth Green is mighty funny as "Special K"

Blast from the Past--Brendan Fraser is so charming with his 50's dorkyness

Anaconda--J.Lo and Ice Cube...need I say more?

10 things I Hate about you... Heath... what a dish!

An incomplete list, yes, but I want to hear yours!!!

JMB

Ta Daaaa....

So here it is....

My completion in reverse....not to be poetic, just because I can't figure out the format of this crazy blog page. Oh well...

So I finished it, completed. It felt great to put that last stitch in. Then there was this other feeling, what next?? What next? What do I fill my (few) extra waking moments thinking about or doing?

Ok, so this is the downside to finishing something, the obsession wanes and then there is a void. In the past there was no void to fill because I could always obsess about what I should be doing to finish whatever "it" was.

I think that I am going to have to get used to this "finishing" bit.

JMB

My secret, if I sent it in....

Not me, not my kid....Yes, it's my life. Here I am one year later, sorta tired sometimes....but the bad stress is gone....my late night panic attacks are about my art/craft desires not if I shut off my FIA. Thank goodness.

NO (emphatically), I don't miss the rat race one bit.

Especially not on an exceptionally lovely March day that I spent with my kids at the park. They got totally coated in nasty water and sand. Luckily, I had candy cane striped PJs for the oldest one to slip on to his knobby, colty legs. I can't believe how much can change in a year.

What a beautiful life!

JMB
(again picture from postsecret.blogspot.com)

PS
I talked to a wonderful woman at United the other day and she let me get a ticket.....I am so gonna love it!!!! Watch out you Swedes!

trying not to scream!

I am frustrated

Let's say I am trying to use some of the gobs of frequent flier miles that my dear husband has accumulated over the past 3 years.

Let's say that I want to go to Sweden to visit a friend.

Let's say that I deserve to go, I miss my friend, I need a trip. Did I mention that while my husband was on his work trips I was the single super mom?

Let's say that I was on hold, waiting for a human to help me because a certain airlines (bad, bad UNITED!) website keeps pooping out on me.

Let's say that after 30 minutes a human finally says hello to me, yet when he finds that I want to book an international flight and that the web site is not working that he can "transfer me"

Let's say that this "human" transferred me to a busy signal......

That's it

kicked off.

CRABBY!

JMB

PS

I know that this problem is not life-threatening or on par with war or famine.

But I am still irritated.

Secretos....

First off, I would like to state that I love my Mother-in-Law mucho.

But I had to share this piece of art from another blog, http://postsecret.blogspot.com/, I laughed and laughed and then thought of my dear pseudo-Swedish friend Yasmiene and 5 pounds of bacon and then I laughed some more....my Mother-In-Law has a very keen sense of humor, so I think that she will laugh and laugh also.

JMB

Saying grace....

So, I am wondering how "Grace" before dinner goes at other people's houses.

At our house, for at least the last few weeks (maybe months, since summer) it has gone thus:

Mommy: I am thankful for----(insert different item here daily)

Daddy: I am thankful for---(insert some equally nice thing here)

Eldest son: Me and [my baby brother] are thankful for a

wonderful brother,

wonderful day,

wonderful meal,

that we will never die for a long long time,

and

for mothteetoes (mosquitoes)

All: Amen, Grace

Seriously, day upon day, so it goes.... a love of life and a fear of death, ahh, to be three.

What is it like at yours?

JMB