Yesterday started out a little rocky. It could have gone one of two ways, like they all can, up or down there Twisty, just like a handstand can go. I chose up. It looked a little shaky there for a bit but in the end it was all good.
I couldn't seem to get out of the house yesterday morning. I had a long list of things to do (you know, like a million) and I needed all the time I could wring out of the day. It just wasn't taking though! I kept getting side tracked. So finally I was ready to go. The pool guys were in the back yard closing the pool for the season (cause I live in one of those states where it gets cold) and I had my gym bag ready to go and was on the phone with a really awesome friend of mine that I haven't talked to in a while. I was so happy chatting away, while trying to get out the door.
I was putting my big German Shepherd in the mudroom (cause the pool guys were outside in her backyard and she can't be trusted anywhere near the kitchen without adult supervision) to stay while I was gone. All of the sudden she started to spin around and fell hard on the floor. She was having a seizure. This is very scary to see. It's also scary when it's over because her brain has to regulate itself from where ever she has gone and it can be a little unnerving because she is very agitated. Once she came out of it and was a trying to come back I got her to eat two valium (yum) and started to clean up. That was almost the last of the valium. She needs that! I called the vet. I am going to get her some more. Now, not that I care about this, but did you know dog valium and people valium are the same thing? Just a side note there.
Then I got it all together and she was calm and I made her a comfy spot and she rested while she was in there and probably didn't mind being inside while the men closed the pool at all cause she was all relaxed and comfy. So that could be considered good.
I finally left. When I got halfway to the gym I looked down on the seat next to me and realized my wallet wasn't there. I totally knew it was gone. I had a feeling it wasn't going to have fallen between the seats. A little something in my head told me I had left it somewhere. I mentally retraced my steps and saw it in the front of the grocery cart the night before. My daughter had called me right when I was unloading the groceries in the car and I got distracted and left it there. I called 411 (although I was itching to dial 911), I got customer service from the store and they had my wallet in the safe! See, that could of gone bad too but it didn't. I learned a little lesson, got my wallet, all good.
I figured I had at least one more good thing coming to me because these things happen in three's. I ended the afternoon in the Apple store for a website lesson. I love the Apple store people so much that even though I don't bake I always feel like bringing them a big old tub of brownies. Yesterday's lesson was the same. Fantastic.
Just making some lemonade.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Go Big or Go Home
So cool to see. This is from Weeds (the best show on tv) This is Michael Franti's, "Say Hey." Totally fun song.
Oprah got 20,000 people involved because she's Oprah. This made me smile ear to ear.
Music is the answer. I remember when I was a kid wishing they made boring lessons go to songs. I couldn't figure out how I knew every lyric to every song on the radio but state capitals and vice presidents just wouldn't stick in my head.
I think this little number, this three minute ditty shows that sometimes we can all just get along. If we try.
Oprah got 20,000 people involved because she's Oprah. This made me smile ear to ear.
Music is the answer. I remember when I was a kid wishing they made boring lessons go to songs. I couldn't figure out how I knew every lyric to every song on the radio but state capitals and vice presidents just wouldn't stick in my head.
I think this little number, this three minute ditty shows that sometimes we can all just get along. If we try.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Dinner and A Show
It was a nice good old fashioned hang out night tonight. Japanese/Chinese food (thank God we ate that before I started reading blogs!) and a movie.
My daughter got braces today and wanted lo mein and my son loves sushi so choosing the food was no problem. And luckily after an afternoon of getting food stuck in her braces and a very unpleasant to look at eating of a California roll the lo mein was pretty easy to eat for her.
Choosing a movie was a little bit more of a discussion. My daughter likes girl movies, my son likes movies he has already watched and I like movies that I think will make them laugh that are a little more old school. In the past when I get to pick they have seen Reality Bites, Stripes, Father of the Bride and a host of other 80's give or take movies. Tonight Chase wanted to watch Bruno (he'd already seen), Saige wanted Bridget Jones Diary ( I liked that idea too) but then I saw Burglar. I won. I won cause I'm an adult and what I say goes.
So I turn it on and inform them they will really like it. I go in the kitchen as it starts and I hear Saige say, "Oh, it's rated R Mom" I think for about thirty seconds and say, "Yeah, but that was from a long time ago, they didn't do bad stuff in movies then," and then I tried to think how a more responsible parent would so I said, "Well, maybe we shouldn't watch it," a little sad cause I'm like Chase and like to see movies I have already seen. Then Chase says, "It's fine Mom, there won't be anything bad." Oh, okay ten year old boy, I'll listen to you.
So we watch The Burglar, with Whoopie Goldberg. I hadn't seen this movie in a long time and I was right, it is so funny. It has Bobcat Goldwaith who in his day I found very annoying but in this movie is so funny. Dan, that husband from Roseanne as a cop before he became a superstar as DJ's dad and G.W. Bailey. G.W. Bailey from all the Police Academy's, A few Murder She Wrote, some made for tv movies, some episodes of M*A*S*H and even a couple episodes of Flo after she left Mel's Diner. Let me tell you something G.W. was so funny. One time, at band camp, he got mad at Whoopie while they were chatting on the phone and to make his point he started banging it against the window in the middle of the conversation! He did it three times at which point we were all giggling so hard I knew I had made a good choice.
During the movie Saige asked me if I had seen Caddyshack."Well of course I have, it's a classic," I replied. "Is it funny?" she asked. "Hysterical," I say. "Amanda says it's a must see movie," she said, Amanda being her adorable little friend. "Well that Amanda always has been clever."
Although Caddyshack is being saved for a later date. The next movie up is "What's Up Doc," one of my favorite of all time movies. That movie was released when I was 3 years old but I have a memory of laughing at it in the movie theater. Is that right Mom? I can't wait for them to see it. They better like it or else. Or else no Caddyshack for them.
My daughter got braces today and wanted lo mein and my son loves sushi so choosing the food was no problem. And luckily after an afternoon of getting food stuck in her braces and a very unpleasant to look at eating of a California roll the lo mein was pretty easy to eat for her.
Choosing a movie was a little bit more of a discussion. My daughter likes girl movies, my son likes movies he has already watched and I like movies that I think will make them laugh that are a little more old school. In the past when I get to pick they have seen Reality Bites, Stripes, Father of the Bride and a host of other 80's give or take movies. Tonight Chase wanted to watch Bruno (he'd already seen), Saige wanted Bridget Jones Diary ( I liked that idea too) but then I saw Burglar. I won. I won cause I'm an adult and what I say goes.
So I turn it on and inform them they will really like it. I go in the kitchen as it starts and I hear Saige say, "Oh, it's rated R Mom" I think for about thirty seconds and say, "Yeah, but that was from a long time ago, they didn't do bad stuff in movies then," and then I tried to think how a more responsible parent would so I said, "Well, maybe we shouldn't watch it," a little sad cause I'm like Chase and like to see movies I have already seen. Then Chase says, "It's fine Mom, there won't be anything bad." Oh, okay ten year old boy, I'll listen to you.
So we watch The Burglar, with Whoopie Goldberg. I hadn't seen this movie in a long time and I was right, it is so funny. It has Bobcat Goldwaith who in his day I found very annoying but in this movie is so funny. Dan, that husband from Roseanne as a cop before he became a superstar as DJ's dad and G.W. Bailey. G.W. Bailey from all the Police Academy's, A few Murder She Wrote, some made for tv movies, some episodes of M*A*S*H and even a couple episodes of Flo after she left Mel's Diner. Let me tell you something G.W. was so funny. One time, at band camp, he got mad at Whoopie while they were chatting on the phone and to make his point he started banging it against the window in the middle of the conversation! He did it three times at which point we were all giggling so hard I knew I had made a good choice.
During the movie Saige asked me if I had seen Caddyshack."Well of course I have, it's a classic," I replied. "Is it funny?" she asked. "Hysterical," I say. "Amanda says it's a must see movie," she said, Amanda being her adorable little friend. "Well that Amanda always has been clever."
Although Caddyshack is being saved for a later date. The next movie up is "What's Up Doc," one of my favorite of all time movies. That movie was released when I was 3 years old but I have a memory of laughing at it in the movie theater. Is that right Mom? I can't wait for them to see it. They better like it or else. Or else no Caddyshack for them.
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