that was the bumper sticker i saw this morning at 7:07 a.m.
yes, it was early. do you want to know why i was on the road that early?
here's the story of how i actually got to work on time for the first time this summer.
i went running yesterday afternoon, and decided to get in a run this thursday morning to compensate for not doing anything all week and going out of town tomorrow for the weekend. so i set my alarm for 5 a.m. now, for those of you who know me well (or even just know me a little bit), you know i do not do mornings. so this 5 a.m. run thing was pure paving-the-way-to-hell good intention. anyhoo, i did not get an uninterrupted night of sleep due to a unsleepy husband who does not like the air conditioning as much as i do. so i naturally turned off my alarm at 5 and reset it for 6 a.m. like a good employee.
woke up from a crazy heat-induced dream at 7:21 a.m. panic ensues. my teeth are probably not as clean as they should be, and definitely are not flossed. coffee the law student was supposed to make is not made. makeup is not on. oh well, i'm more late than usual, so i forego the coffee and makeup. as i dash to the car, i look at my phone to calculate my ETA. it says 6:53 a.m. i do a double take, walk in the door to check the dvr clock, and realize it is not a dream. i am on time.
when i reset my alarm, i inadvertently set my clock forward an hour. so i put on makeup, make the coffee, water the plants, potty the dog and put her in bed with the law student and wake him up to tell him the story. i arrived at work at 7:10 a.m. this morning. model employee.
told you i was incident-prone.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
giveaway
i totally did it.
i totally signed up for a blog giveaway. and signed up a lot. like, did all the little extra stuff to get extra entries. i'm not really sure why, as i'm not that big on intials, and i hope to god they are not pink. but hey, who doesn't need a new pair of free shoes?
i've never won a contest in my life. well, that may not be true. at least the contests like the radio/tv/website entry stuff where you have to call or send something in. so, this is my little experiment. i'll let you know if i win these from her.
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just in case you forgot, wednesdays are for wussies. everyone acts like wednesday is the big weekly benchmark, but this is simply not true.
this is me being a wednesday wussy: it's rainy here, and i don't want to work. at all. i'm ready to be at home with the law student (and his new haircut). it's cold in our office and i had to steal a co-worker's fleece (yes, fleece in mississippi in july) to ward off the artic blasts from the ceiling vents. i have several art projects i need to finish, and now i'm afraid one may not work like i want it to. not good. and i had to totally abandon one last poor glass of pinot noir last night because it was too late, and i can't chug wine. wine waster wednesday wussy. that's me.
i totally signed up for a blog giveaway. and signed up a lot. like, did all the little extra stuff to get extra entries. i'm not really sure why, as i'm not that big on intials, and i hope to god they are not pink. but hey, who doesn't need a new pair of free shoes?
i've never won a contest in my life. well, that may not be true. at least the contests like the radio/tv/website entry stuff where you have to call or send something in. so, this is my little experiment. i'll let you know if i win these from her.
***************
just in case you forgot, wednesdays are for wussies. everyone acts like wednesday is the big weekly benchmark, but this is simply not true.
this is me being a wednesday wussy: it's rainy here, and i don't want to work. at all. i'm ready to be at home with the law student (and his new haircut). it's cold in our office and i had to steal a co-worker's fleece (yes, fleece in mississippi in july) to ward off the artic blasts from the ceiling vents. i have several art projects i need to finish, and now i'm afraid one may not work like i want it to. not good. and i had to totally abandon one last poor glass of pinot noir last night because it was too late, and i can't chug wine. wine waster wednesday wussy. that's me.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
best sunday ever
did that post title make anyone think of jessica simpson and her terrible song "you're my sunday?" just me? ok then. moving on.
today is a fantastic sunday, for a few reasons.
1. um, hdnet concert sundays are awesome. ben folds with guster was concert numero uno, and i'm currently rocking out to o.a.r. with a paintbrush in hand. 'cause that's how i roll. not really--i just like painting to music. more on this. (i fear, dear readers, this will be a lengthy post, as it's been unattended for too long)
2. breakfast at bbb's (big bad breakfast--overpriced and crowded, but so worth it) with the law student after a wonderful lounge-y morning in bed, of which there have been too few. my personal favorites: the with signs following, which i enjoyed today, and the dear american airlines, which features all your breakfast stars--eggs, ham, cheese and bread--cooked together, eaten with a spoon out of a little tin cup. and the fresh-squeezed o.j. is a must.
3. i'm still in my pajama pants.
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just want to share a few thoughts and goings-on with you on this lovely, 75-degree-july-in-mississippi-what? day. heck, it's been like this all weekend. first we get an actual spring, and now breezes in july. i must bring this up with those in charge of such things.
-there is no decent place in this forsaken little college town to get a decent hair cut, which, with all its vanity plate citizens and undergrads, annoys and confuses me. so i have to drive all the way home just for a wash and a trim. vegas, possum town, or bust. it's true. i'm so tired of hairstylists here who are able to mess up a hairstyle that consists of long layers and bangs that hit my cheekbone at an angle, and a husband who ends up looking like lloyd from dumb and dumber. seriously. the law student deserves better, don't you think?
(aaaand there's my attempt at uploading a photo into blogger. thanks for all your kind praise.)
-so, on my way home from possum town last night for above-mentioned ear-lowering, i pass the golden triangle's little gem and favorite strip bar, the pink pony. and i noticed there were a lot of minivans in the parking lot. we all know who drives those. gag me with a spoon.
-ever wonder what it is about the united states post office that drives all those female workers to get the mullet haircut? is this in their manual? take a look around next time you wander into that time trap.
-the song "whip it" is now playing on hdnet. whip it good! (ha, now it's in your head too.)
-the law student had a birthday! he's 29. i'm still 23, with a few years of experience. neither of us look even 25. so on his birthday, i promised to paint him a few canvases of his favorite sports teams and gave him a card (it was really a sweet card). on this card i write a few things, one of them being, "enjoy your last birthday in your twenties!" poor thing. he's handling it well though. i tell you that to tell you this: my mom wrote him the same thing. it's true--i am becoming my mother, and at a young age too. this is not the first occurance. once last winter, i tucked my camisole into my pantyhose (man, i hate those things. a man must have invented them). two thoughts went through my head: now, that looks better, nice and smooth, followed immediately by oh my GOD my mother does that! i also now listen to NPR programming and enjoy it, and a little AFR (american family radio) just to agitate me.
speaking of...on AFR last night on my way home, stephen baldwin and some other dude (ken mccullough or something) were duking it out over the religious conflicts of harry potter. really? harry potter? please. it's children's literature, not the paperback handbook of satan. ken doll took his wife to see it, posted it on facebook, and received assaults and judgements over his faith. and everytime a caller called in with a comment, mr. not-alec-but-stephen baldwin put words in his mouth and took it five steps to the right. no, stephen, that guy did NOT say parents could use harry potter books as a substitute for the Bible. he just simply said parents can use this, as they can use other situations with their kids, to teach them about God and what is real versus what is not. this debate issue was preceded by the topic of racism. racism and harry potter in the same conversation. which is more important? the more you fear something, the more power it has, and as christians, we do not have a spirit of fear. Christ has defeated all.
*disclaimer: i have not read the books (simply because i did not want to give in to trends or sensationalism--same goes with that whole twilight series, which seems far more sinister for a few different reasons) but have seen the movies and talked with others who have read the books, and seriously doubt these stories are evil/the gateway to the occult. i also do not have problem with parents being careful of what their children see/read.
(ahem...stepping down from soapbox now)
-it's 4:37 p.m. and i am still in pajamas. aaaaaahh.....
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hobbies
two current hobbies are pilates and the mid-town farmer's market on wednesdays and saturdays.
pilates is my new exercise of choice. it's fantastic for toning. you should see my arms, and i have abs again. my sisters are jealous. and i'm totally into it and would love to get certified. i'm teaching a class this summer, along with a dance class, so i always have to give the disclaimer and ask the class to please not hurt themselves. i hurt myself. i have a jammed sacral-iliac joint on my left side, which will now involve a few weeks of hydroelectric therapy (feels awesome) and some stretching to get me back on track, literally. dad (steve, the life professional) took me to his "bare-bones" chiropractic (fitting description) after my hair cut for a second opinion. i got adjusted all over the place--my back, my sides, and worst of all my neck-i'm always afraid of getting paralyzed. cowboy chiropractor literally had his knee on top of mine and jerking me back and forth. and then i got buffed. he had this large hand-held vibrating massager that he rubbed all the way up my back to my head. it all felt nice, and that little spot doesn't hurt when i bend over anymore, but i'll take that heated massaging water bed any day, thanks.
i try to go to the farmer's market every week. i'm really into eating locally grown food and eating healthy, non-hormoned, non-pesticided, non-processed foods, after reading animal vegetable miracle (see post here). at the market there is a large selection of fresh vegetables (way fresher than anything you'll find at the grocery store), pasture-fed beef, pork and poultry, free-range eggs (free-range as in chickens running around the yard, not free-range the legal definition which only allows for a door to the outside), herbs and now straight-from-the-cow, home-pastuerized sweet jersey cow milk. whole milk, with cream on top. it's like drinking a milkshake. it is sooooooooo good. a bit expensive ($5 for a half-gallon) but very comparable to organic milk* at the grocery store.
*which, by the way, is only called organic because they feed the cows organic feed, not because they let those cows roam around and eat grass like they are supposed to.
well, it's 5 o'clock here, which means i need to get on with a few things: canvases, cleaning up a bit after the law student and myself, and maybe dinner. dad always sends me home with meat and yesterday it was steaks and jumbo shrimp. i'll try to eat us out of house and home until friday, when we head to chicago with dad to see wrigley field. maybe i'll finally give him his father's day present.
hope you enjoyed catching up! now you can go rest your eyes.
today is a fantastic sunday, for a few reasons.
1. um, hdnet concert sundays are awesome. ben folds with guster was concert numero uno, and i'm currently rocking out to o.a.r. with a paintbrush in hand. 'cause that's how i roll. not really--i just like painting to music. more on this. (i fear, dear readers, this will be a lengthy post, as it's been unattended for too long)
2. breakfast at bbb's (big bad breakfast--overpriced and crowded, but so worth it) with the law student after a wonderful lounge-y morning in bed, of which there have been too few. my personal favorites: the with signs following, which i enjoyed today, and the dear american airlines, which features all your breakfast stars--eggs, ham, cheese and bread--cooked together, eaten with a spoon out of a little tin cup. and the fresh-squeezed o.j. is a must.
3. i'm still in my pajama pants.
****************
just want to share a few thoughts and goings-on with you on this lovely, 75-degree-july-in-mississippi-what? day. heck, it's been like this all weekend. first we get an actual spring, and now breezes in july. i must bring this up with those in charge of such things.
-there is no decent place in this forsaken little college town to get a decent hair cut, which, with all its vanity plate citizens and undergrads, annoys and confuses me. so i have to drive all the way home just for a wash and a trim. vegas, possum town, or bust. it's true. i'm so tired of hairstylists here who are able to mess up a hairstyle that consists of long layers and bangs that hit my cheekbone at an angle, and a husband who ends up looking like lloyd from dumb and dumber. seriously. the law student deserves better, don't you think?
(aaaand there's my attempt at uploading a photo into blogger. thanks for all your kind praise.)
-so, on my way home from possum town last night for above-mentioned ear-lowering, i pass the golden triangle's little gem and favorite strip bar, the pink pony. and i noticed there were a lot of minivans in the parking lot. we all know who drives those. gag me with a spoon.
-ever wonder what it is about the united states post office that drives all those female workers to get the mullet haircut? is this in their manual? take a look around next time you wander into that time trap.
-the song "whip it" is now playing on hdnet. whip it good! (ha, now it's in your head too.)
-the law student had a birthday! he's 29. i'm still 23, with a few years of experience. neither of us look even 25. so on his birthday, i promised to paint him a few canvases of his favorite sports teams and gave him a card (it was really a sweet card). on this card i write a few things, one of them being, "enjoy your last birthday in your twenties!" poor thing. he's handling it well though. i tell you that to tell you this: my mom wrote him the same thing. it's true--i am becoming my mother, and at a young age too. this is not the first occurance. once last winter, i tucked my camisole into my pantyhose (man, i hate those things. a man must have invented them). two thoughts went through my head: now, that looks better, nice and smooth, followed immediately by oh my GOD my mother does that! i also now listen to NPR programming and enjoy it, and a little AFR (american family radio) just to agitate me.
speaking of...on AFR last night on my way home, stephen baldwin and some other dude (ken mccullough or something) were duking it out over the religious conflicts of harry potter. really? harry potter? please. it's children's literature, not the paperback handbook of satan. ken doll took his wife to see it, posted it on facebook, and received assaults and judgements over his faith. and everytime a caller called in with a comment, mr. not-alec-but-stephen baldwin put words in his mouth and took it five steps to the right. no, stephen, that guy did NOT say parents could use harry potter books as a substitute for the Bible. he just simply said parents can use this, as they can use other situations with their kids, to teach them about God and what is real versus what is not. this debate issue was preceded by the topic of racism. racism and harry potter in the same conversation. which is more important? the more you fear something, the more power it has, and as christians, we do not have a spirit of fear. Christ has defeated all.
*disclaimer: i have not read the books (simply because i did not want to give in to trends or sensationalism--same goes with that whole twilight series, which seems far more sinister for a few different reasons) but have seen the movies and talked with others who have read the books, and seriously doubt these stories are evil/the gateway to the occult. i also do not have problem with parents being careful of what their children see/read.
(ahem...stepping down from soapbox now)
-it's 4:37 p.m. and i am still in pajamas. aaaaaahh.....
******************
hobbies
two current hobbies are pilates and the mid-town farmer's market on wednesdays and saturdays.
pilates is my new exercise of choice. it's fantastic for toning. you should see my arms, and i have abs again. my sisters are jealous. and i'm totally into it and would love to get certified. i'm teaching a class this summer, along with a dance class, so i always have to give the disclaimer and ask the class to please not hurt themselves. i hurt myself. i have a jammed sacral-iliac joint on my left side, which will now involve a few weeks of hydroelectric therapy (feels awesome) and some stretching to get me back on track, literally. dad (steve, the life professional) took me to his "bare-bones" chiropractic (fitting description) after my hair cut for a second opinion. i got adjusted all over the place--my back, my sides, and worst of all my neck-i'm always afraid of getting paralyzed. cowboy chiropractor literally had his knee on top of mine and jerking me back and forth. and then i got buffed. he had this large hand-held vibrating massager that he rubbed all the way up my back to my head. it all felt nice, and that little spot doesn't hurt when i bend over anymore, but i'll take that heated massaging water bed any day, thanks.
i try to go to the farmer's market every week. i'm really into eating locally grown food and eating healthy, non-hormoned, non-pesticided, non-processed foods, after reading animal vegetable miracle (see post here). at the market there is a large selection of fresh vegetables (way fresher than anything you'll find at the grocery store), pasture-fed beef, pork and poultry, free-range eggs (free-range as in chickens running around the yard, not free-range the legal definition which only allows for a door to the outside), herbs and now straight-from-the-cow, home-pastuerized sweet jersey cow milk. whole milk, with cream on top. it's like drinking a milkshake. it is sooooooooo good. a bit expensive ($5 for a half-gallon) but very comparable to organic milk* at the grocery store.
*which, by the way, is only called organic because they feed the cows organic feed, not because they let those cows roam around and eat grass like they are supposed to.
well, it's 5 o'clock here, which means i need to get on with a few things: canvases, cleaning up a bit after the law student and myself, and maybe dinner. dad always sends me home with meat and yesterday it was steaks and jumbo shrimp. i'll try to eat us out of house and home until friday, when we head to chicago with dad to see wrigley field. maybe i'll finally give him his father's day present.
hope you enjoyed catching up! now you can go rest your eyes.
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