Girly Girl by Author Kristin Billerbeck

Accomplishment...

 
This is one of my favorite pictures ever of my boys.  They made a lemonade stand, and they have just earned $3 by themselves.  Nothing feels better than earning your keep, right?   

And I feel accomplished today because we have been trying to get old photos on my Mac forever, but we've been too lazy to pull them off the old PCs, so now I'm rolling.  I have them all, and I'm excited to see how the family has moved forward in the years.

Here's a place I am failing miserably.  When my daughter was young, her hair was always done, and she always matched.  Now she seems determined to prove herself the street urchin.  I did get her a pedicure today, but she chose black polish with orange glitter on top.  Oy, where did I go wrong?

 
When I see this photo, I wonder how I ever got a word written.  This is us at the Civil War reenactment.  One son got a Union hat, the other a Confederate.  I think that was telling.

 
Thank you for indulging me.  I'm feeling nostalgic and accomplished.  LOL  

First Soccer...then we fly!

This is two of my boys, with their best friend Kevin (in the middle.)  That's the soccer dog, Bella, an Italian Mastiff to the right.  She is a love and at every game.  Today, after Soccer, we're going to "skydive" in a wind tunnel across the bay for Jonah's birthday.  

I hope your weekend is full of fun and adventure too!
 

Words of Wisdom

First, Drew Barrymore introduced me to "AmazingConcealer" -- which completely rocks. Now, she has this little tidbit of wisdom, and I love it.  So I'm sharing:

"You could be a bag of toxicity or you could be a happy, good person who spreads joy." 

Drew Barrymore

That just about sums it up, doesn't it? 
 

Hoarders, The Gosselins & Oprah

For those of you who have missed my love of Peter Walsh.  I have a crush on Oprah organizer Peter Walsh, and let me say that's true, even if he bats for the other side. 

Anyway, this week he was on Oprah, which sends my kids running since Mom will probably want to organize something -- what can I say, my crush fires me up!  But they were featuring Hoarders from A&E's new reality show about people who have this attachment to stuff instead of people, and their house ends up looking like a bomb went off in the midst of it.  This one couple changed their sheets a lot because they all FIVE ate on the bed at dinner.  Okay, that so makes me feel like Jeff Lewis, because that utterly grosses me out. 

So this show Hoarders is just like "Intervention", the people have to work on the issues behind the alcoholism or addiction.  So in the case of this couple, they had to separate to get healthy because they were each others' "trigger".  They basically scrambled each others brains.  In my humble opinion, it was the guy who was really messed up because the woman's house looked normal and when the husband spoke about how "normal" he'd become...well, first off, he didn't look all that normal and secondly, the wife's face said it all.  Revulsion.  I think that's the best way to describe it.

But it got me to thinking about controlling people, and how they SOO mess with people's heads.  They will always find a people-pleaser and suck every last drop of blood out of them.  Emotional vampires.  So naturally, my mind went back to the Gosselins.  Those two have a SICK dynamic.  SICK SICK SICK.  And Jon, you may think you're "free" of her control, but you're still completely under her spell, or you could let it go.  You could stop fighting back publicly and both of you would give up looking good for your kids.  It doesn't matter who is right.  You're addicted to the only connection you have.  In the Oprah couple, it was the stuff.  In the Gosselins, it's the fighting.  They pull toward each other with the fighting and being "right".  That is just so wrong.  

I contend those two cannot get healthy together at the moment.  But I also contend that neither one of them is doing a thing to fix themselves while they point the finger at the other one.  If it's over, move on.  Get healthy.  Get rid of the anger and don't make some new slob pay for it.  Okay, if I sound like a bad Dr. Phil, I watched both "Monk" and "Flipping Out" back to back, so I'm ready to fix the world.  LOL  
Tell me, is he not the human image of Kermit the Frog??  So dang lovable!!

Time Out!

I need a time out.  I rode my bike to the coffee shop/library to work.  Gave a smart car a dirty look.  I was using foot power baby.  Top that for mileage!  

My coffee shop is closed on Monday, so is the library.  Which means, my office is closed and probably, my kids will be home.  This is not great news for me.  This week, I haven't gotten to watch "Biggest Loser", "Flipping Out" not even The Office wedding.  So don't spoil it for me.  On a happy note, I've been working, working, working.  Well, and making my stupid little videos, but that's an outlet.  

So before my DH goes back to work, I'm thinking I will take some time and finish this book at the beach.  Doesn't that sound lovely?  I'll get my office back when he goes to work.  I don't like people in the house when I work.  I talk to myself -- it's how I do the dialogue, and I don't like him saying "Huh?"  I mean, the dog doesn't even question me anymore, why should he?  

But yes.  The beach.  Or maybe Solvang.  I like Solvang.  SO if you were getting a time out, where would you go?  Money is no object since I'm poor anyway.  LOL  Not really.  

Mama has a new T-shirt!

Jesus, come...

Levi Johnston, father of baby Tripp (Sarah Palin's grandson) is going to pose for Playgirl.  First off, is there still a Playgirl?  And why?  Sheesh.  

What I loved about the article is it said that he's preparing for his photo shoot with a trainer at the Anchorage gym.  Why this disturbs me so much I can't say, maybe because he's studying harder for this than his GED?

Oh my gosh, it makes me glad no one cares about the losers in my history.  

Dang, go away, dude!   Your mama must be so proud.  Oh wait, she's in jail.

Your photo shoot might get her some free cigarettes.

M 
 

Ghostwriting

Bill Ayers, who Obama called an acquaintance, is claiming to have written "Dreams of My Father", the best-selling book by the president.

People have been screaming that Sarah Palin is stupid for not having written her own book -- but at least she was honest.  Seriously?  Why are people expected to write their own biographies?  If a movie was made about my life, would I suddenly be a screenwriter?

This is what irritates me about this story.  Writing is a business.  There is a format that makes a book successful.  Why do we expect everyone who has a story to know that business?  I'm offended when the ghostwriters get hidden.  They had to take your boring life and make something out of it  Don't underestimate that skill!Ayers wrote Dreams of my Father

Contrary to popular belief, and Lauren Conrad notwithstanding, not everyone can write a book.

NOOOOO!!!!

Just the way Luke said it when he found out Darth was his father, okay?  NOOOOO!! Russell Brand and Katy Perry???  No, Katy, No!!  I love Katy Perry, I think she's a doll, and Russell is you know, Russell.  Not a good influence.  Katy, come back to us, dear.  Step away from the scary British man.  Step away. 
 You do not want to wake up in Vegas with him!

Using my Embedding Skills for Good

This is for all you youngins who have no idea WHO Adam Ant is, or why he endures in my heart and on my T-shirt.  Now, you kids need to know, we used to RUSH home from school in the hopes that we'd get a shot at seeing Adam dance down that hallway.  Now, you kids just go to YouTube.  You have no idea how we suffered!

Oh and the video is wrong, it's not Adam and the Ants here, just Adam Ant in all his shirtless glory.  Don't you all wonder why my DH puts up with me?  He wonders daily.