My dad started this on his blog, Life In Lansing, KS (I figured out how to do links! Yay!) So now that you have come here to read this list, it is now your turn to do your list.
4 Things I need every morning:
1. Glass of water
2. Warm robe (You wouldn't think I need one in AZ, but I do)
3. News
4. Jerry sleeping still
4 Things that turn me off:
1. People who don't listen to others opinions
2. Cigarette smoke
3. Inconsiderate snobs
4. Anyone who doesn't take responsibility for their own actions
4 Things I believe in:
1. Love at first site
2. A creator
3. The strength of family
4. Spirits, ghosts, angels, and guardian spirits
4 Things I am afraid of:
1. Growing old alone
2. Losing my memory
3. Egomaniacal politicians
4. Being taken for granted
4 Things I do everyday:
1. Read email, blogs
2. Watch way to much TV (It's on even when it's not being watched)
3. Crochet
4. Read books
4 Things I want to have/do:
1. Live until I'm 104
2. A complete understanding of my abilities (Psychic, metaphysical, paranormal, whatever you want to call them)
3. Respect and acceptance
4. Travel
4 People I want to see:
1. George W. Bush
2. Sylvia Brown
3. Condeleeza Rice
4. Stephen King
4 Numbers that rule my life:
1. 7
2. 104
3. 3
4. 6
4 favorite colors:
1. Deep purple
2. Navy blue
3. Magenta
4. Silver
4 People to do list:
I'm not sure what is meant by this category, so I'm leaving it blank until I know what is to be put here.
So this is my list of fours, when you have made your list, either post it on your own blog and let me know where to find it, or post the list in the comment section under this post.
Live fully....
Friday, February 24, 2006
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Nothing Unusual
There hasn't been anything unusual happening around here, which is a good thing. Everyone is busy with school, and work. It looks like Maggie will be off probation (or is it parole? I an never keep it straight) by the end of April. Yay! She has been doing so good. Kyle's Drill Team has been doing good. He's on the junior varsity team, this last week they didn't get a trophy, the varsity team did walk away with the most trophies though. Greg has been exercising every night, running a couple of times a week, his recruiters are giving him a hard time about losing weight, all he's losing is what little flab he had and turning it into muscle.
I had a telephone survey group call the other night, I like giving my opinion especially when someone is asking me for it, the survey was about fast food restaurant's. One question was, what is your favorite fast food place? I answered Fazoli's. There was a pause on the line, I don't think it was on her list of possible answers, I love Fazoli's. Then she went on about other fast food places, which were all burger places. It got me to thinking, we have been to a lot of fast food places, thanks to Maggie, none of them have been burger places though. They have been Chinese, subs, Italian and the like. All of them good, all of them fairly good for you.
Live fully....
I had a telephone survey group call the other night, I like giving my opinion especially when someone is asking me for it, the survey was about fast food restaurant's. One question was, what is your favorite fast food place? I answered Fazoli's. There was a pause on the line, I don't think it was on her list of possible answers, I love Fazoli's. Then she went on about other fast food places, which were all burger places. It got me to thinking, we have been to a lot of fast food places, thanks to Maggie, none of them have been burger places though. They have been Chinese, subs, Italian and the like. All of them good, all of them fairly good for you.
Live fully....
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Quiet Observations
As Greg and Kyle get ready to go to basic training, their friends are not handling their transformation well at all. With all of them being boys, they have been well programmed not to show their emotions, the friends have started doing dumb things. I'm not sure exactly what they are doing, all I know is that both Greg and Kyle are finding them annoying. To be fair, not all of their friends are acting strange, just some of them. When they told me which ones were acting up, I realized it's the ones that don't have a goal, or a plan for their future. It seems they didn't think that anything was going to change and now that it is they don't know how to handle the inevitability of time and change. I can only hope that these boys' will find their way, both Greg and Kyle are good models of setting a goal, and finding a way of achieving that goal.
I haven't set a date for their party yet, still working out which weekend will work best. So far it looks like it will be towards the end of June. Will keep everyone posted as to when it will happen in enough time to make plans for those that can make it.
Live fully....
I haven't set a date for their party yet, still working out which weekend will work best. So far it looks like it will be towards the end of June. Will keep everyone posted as to when it will happen in enough time to make plans for those that can make it.
Live fully....
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Yay Kyle!
Kyle had his first Drill Team Meet on Saturday. His team got first prize! Hip, Hip, Hooray!!!
Live fully...
Live fully...
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
A day in the life....
I have been giving the idea of writing in this blog on a daily basis, yet even though I have a houseful of people, my days are fairly quiet. So I decided that I would describe what a typical day is like for me. As for schedules, Maggie's is the one that changes the most, depending on the day depends on what her work schedule is like. Here is what it's like around here.
If Maggie has to go in at 6:45 am, she gets up at 4:30 am. Kyle gets up at 5:00 am so that he can be at Drill team practice by 6:00 am. Of course both of them have to take showers in the morning, not an easy feat since we only have a 20 gallon hot water tank (we live in a single wide mobile home, for those who don't know), and the tank takes at least an hour to completely heat the water. Some how the two of them manage to do it without freezing the other one. At 6:00 am Greg's and my alarm goes off, hopefully he will get up to his own alarm, most of the time he does, I always hit the snooze button. At 6:10 am my alarm goes off again, at which time I get up to make sure that Greg is up, if he isn't then I have to wake him up. If Maggie has to be to work by 6:45 then she goes to wake up Jerry at 6:15, it's always fun to wake him up, she really likes it when her Dad takes her to work. Otherwise, if she has to be in later then she doesn't get up until about 6:00, at which time she has to wait until Greg is out the door, he's usually gone by 6:30.
With Greg out the door, I go back to bed. I'm really not a morning person, I don't get to bed until after midnight. Jerry goes back to bed after he's taken Maggie to work, no matter how early she's had to go in. Since Kyle is taking classes online, he comes home after Drill Team practice is over, so he's home around 7:30. If Maggie has to go in at 9:00, then Kyle will take her to work. Somewhere around 10:00 I get up for the day. At this time I don't really have the house to myself, even though it is quiet.
For those of you that are morning people, this would be the time to write, not me. I will say it again, I am not a morning person. I may be out of bed, talking, and walking around, I'm not really awake enough to write coherently. So I turn on the TV, and I pull out one of my many crochet projects to work on. I get more stitching done at this time, than just about any other time. At about 10:45, Kyle leaves to go back to school for the ROTC class, it's this class that is making it possible for Kyle to start as an E2 when he goes into the Navy. At noon is the one show that I have to watch, Starting Over. It is the one reality show that helps women learn to be better to themselves. Around 1:00 pm, Jerry gets up for the day.
Kyle gets home from school around 1:30. This is when the kids start coming over. Some of their friends have half day schedules. Greg gets home about 2:30, with at least one one friend with him. Two or three more of their friends will show up as the afternoon goes on, Jerry has a hard time with the kids coming over. He feels that we are the only house that they all show up at, ours isn't the only house that they congregate at. Ours is usually where they start out at, they then manage to go to other houses. I happen to like being the cool Mom. Anyway, Jerry gets ready for work during the afternoon, and leaves for work by 4:00 pm, he starts at 5:00. In the midst of all the chaos, both boys manage to do their homework. By the time Jerry leaves for work, the house is not completely quiet, even though my room is. This is the time that I would love to set aside to write, unfortunately this is also the time when the phone rings, the boys are in and out of the house, they don't need me until I try to sit and write.
Around 6:00 pm, Maggie calls to get a ride home. I send Kyle after her if he's home, otherwise I go to get her. During the evening there can be trips to the store, laundry, and sometimes trips to the video store. If Maggie has to get up early in the morning, she will go to bed early, and since she sleeps in the front room, the rest of us head off to our own rooms. I can still watch the satellite in my room because Jerry ran cable from the front room to our room. Again one would think that this would be a good time to try to write, yet after having kids running in and out of the house all afternoon and evening it is difficult to be creative. I'll read, play games, or just watch TV for a little while. Both the boys are in bed by 10:00 pm usually, it's at this time that I pull out my laptop and get online to check my mail, read blogs, get bills paid, and maybe write in this one. Jerry gets home about 1:00 am, and it's lights out for us around 2:00 am.
So even though I don't work outside the home, my day is very full of activity. It doesn't usually make for interesting writing. Somewhere in this schedule I have to find time for myself for writing or any other creative endeavor that I want to do. It won't be to many months before this schedule will change, Kyle leaves in July, and Greg leaves in August, then the only person we will have to get up for will be Maggie. Then I will have a lot of time to write, and crochet. There won't be kids hanging out anymore either. It will be very quiet.
Weekends can be even more hectic, kids get to wander through for even longer periods of time. The second Saturday of the month is when the crochet group I belong to meets, every other Saturday Jerry works, and Maggie works every weekend. Every Wednesday Greg has DEP (Delayed Entry Program) meetings for the Marines, Kyle has DEP meetings every other Thursday for the Navy.
So this is a typical day for me, with a few variations depending on the day and what is happening in everyone's schedules. Yet, somehow I don't have enough to write about every day.
Live fully....
If Maggie has to go in at 6:45 am, she gets up at 4:30 am. Kyle gets up at 5:00 am so that he can be at Drill team practice by 6:00 am. Of course both of them have to take showers in the morning, not an easy feat since we only have a 20 gallon hot water tank (we live in a single wide mobile home, for those who don't know), and the tank takes at least an hour to completely heat the water. Some how the two of them manage to do it without freezing the other one. At 6:00 am Greg's and my alarm goes off, hopefully he will get up to his own alarm, most of the time he does, I always hit the snooze button. At 6:10 am my alarm goes off again, at which time I get up to make sure that Greg is up, if he isn't then I have to wake him up. If Maggie has to be to work by 6:45 then she goes to wake up Jerry at 6:15, it's always fun to wake him up, she really likes it when her Dad takes her to work. Otherwise, if she has to be in later then she doesn't get up until about 6:00, at which time she has to wait until Greg is out the door, he's usually gone by 6:30.
With Greg out the door, I go back to bed. I'm really not a morning person, I don't get to bed until after midnight. Jerry goes back to bed after he's taken Maggie to work, no matter how early she's had to go in. Since Kyle is taking classes online, he comes home after Drill Team practice is over, so he's home around 7:30. If Maggie has to go in at 9:00, then Kyle will take her to work. Somewhere around 10:00 I get up for the day. At this time I don't really have the house to myself, even though it is quiet.
For those of you that are morning people, this would be the time to write, not me. I will say it again, I am not a morning person. I may be out of bed, talking, and walking around, I'm not really awake enough to write coherently. So I turn on the TV, and I pull out one of my many crochet projects to work on. I get more stitching done at this time, than just about any other time. At about 10:45, Kyle leaves to go back to school for the ROTC class, it's this class that is making it possible for Kyle to start as an E2 when he goes into the Navy. At noon is the one show that I have to watch, Starting Over. It is the one reality show that helps women learn to be better to themselves. Around 1:00 pm, Jerry gets up for the day.
Kyle gets home from school around 1:30. This is when the kids start coming over. Some of their friends have half day schedules. Greg gets home about 2:30, with at least one one friend with him. Two or three more of their friends will show up as the afternoon goes on, Jerry has a hard time with the kids coming over. He feels that we are the only house that they all show up at, ours isn't the only house that they congregate at. Ours is usually where they start out at, they then manage to go to other houses. I happen to like being the cool Mom. Anyway, Jerry gets ready for work during the afternoon, and leaves for work by 4:00 pm, he starts at 5:00. In the midst of all the chaos, both boys manage to do their homework. By the time Jerry leaves for work, the house is not completely quiet, even though my room is. This is the time that I would love to set aside to write, unfortunately this is also the time when the phone rings, the boys are in and out of the house, they don't need me until I try to sit and write.
Around 6:00 pm, Maggie calls to get a ride home. I send Kyle after her if he's home, otherwise I go to get her. During the evening there can be trips to the store, laundry, and sometimes trips to the video store. If Maggie has to get up early in the morning, she will go to bed early, and since she sleeps in the front room, the rest of us head off to our own rooms. I can still watch the satellite in my room because Jerry ran cable from the front room to our room. Again one would think that this would be a good time to try to write, yet after having kids running in and out of the house all afternoon and evening it is difficult to be creative. I'll read, play games, or just watch TV for a little while. Both the boys are in bed by 10:00 pm usually, it's at this time that I pull out my laptop and get online to check my mail, read blogs, get bills paid, and maybe write in this one. Jerry gets home about 1:00 am, and it's lights out for us around 2:00 am.
So even though I don't work outside the home, my day is very full of activity. It doesn't usually make for interesting writing. Somewhere in this schedule I have to find time for myself for writing or any other creative endeavor that I want to do. It won't be to many months before this schedule will change, Kyle leaves in July, and Greg leaves in August, then the only person we will have to get up for will be Maggie. Then I will have a lot of time to write, and crochet. There won't be kids hanging out anymore either. It will be very quiet.
Weekends can be even more hectic, kids get to wander through for even longer periods of time. The second Saturday of the month is when the crochet group I belong to meets, every other Saturday Jerry works, and Maggie works every weekend. Every Wednesday Greg has DEP (Delayed Entry Program) meetings for the Marines, Kyle has DEP meetings every other Thursday for the Navy.
So this is a typical day for me, with a few variations depending on the day and what is happening in everyone's schedules. Yet, somehow I don't have enough to write about every day.
Live fully....
The trials and tribulations of growing up
Even though Greg hasn't changed, he is at least 6 months older than his friends. Lately he has noticed that his friends are behaving differently, younger than their age. It has started to bother him, even some that he has known for awhile are now closer to Kyle. I think what has changed is that now Greg knows how he is going to meet the goals that he has set for himself, and his friends haven't done that yet. This hasn't changed him, just how sees life now. He is ready to get on with the business of becoming an adult, and deep inside his friends are still scared of growing up. Kyle is getting closer to deciding that he needs to take on more responsibility for himself, he's just not as far along in the process as Greg. They are becoming young men, and I am very proud of them.
Live fully....
Live fully....
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
A quiet week
This has been another quiet week, which is good in a way. No upheavals in the routine, everybody is doing what they should. The boys are doing good in school, Maggie's working hard, Jerry's working in the evenings, and I'm reading and crocheting. What I've been reading lately is about developing my psychic abilities. Something I've been interested in for quite some time. I've learned quite a bit already. I have been studying reading runes and ogam sticks for a few years now, and find that, while I need to keep practicing, this is where my talent is. So I will keep reading and practicing. I have discovered some very interesting things while reading runes and the ogam sticks, mostly that following your heart is a good way to live.
Live fully....
Live fully....
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