Monday, January 30, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Yay for Saturday!!
Good morning, friends!! How are you on this beautiful Saturday?
I, for one, am in the mood to get outside, so I think I'm going to bundle all these kids up and make them come on a ride with me!!
Last night I watched "Aftershock." It's a Chinese film with subtitles, and depending on the quality of the movie and the mood I'm in, sometimes subtitles can seriously get on my nerves, but this one was so good that I stopped even noticing them about 5 minutes in. It was kind of like a foreign "Sophie's Choice" with a twist, and I really quite enjoyed it!
Also caught part of "Pretty Woman." As I'm sure most of you already know that it's pretty much a federal law that all women of childbearing age are REQUIRED to absolutely love that movie (and also "Dirty Dancing!"), but in case you had somehow missed that memo, now you know! That movie makes me happy every single time I watch it!
There are very few movies that entertain me enough to watch over and over... Shawshank Redemption is another... Every single time I run across that one, no matter where I come in along the story arc, I just can't seem to stop myself from dropping whatever else I'm doing and watching the rest. It's up there with my favorite movies ever, for sure. The novella is also excellent, and I have found that Stephen King novellas, specifically, seem to be the rare exception to that whole "the book is always better than the movie" thing. Most of his other works translate pitifully onto the big screen, but Shawshank is another matter altogether!
Okay, enough of that, now on to force all these short people in my house to pull on some layers and get their video-game-playing, best-friend-texting butts outside for some sunshine!!
Happy Saturday everybody!!
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Random Comments
Okay! So... we've been a little busy! Guess that's nothing new. SO... anyway, here is a list of random thoughts/happenings that come to mind at this very moment!
1. I had my body fat percentage checked today... They used that little electronic machine at FAC to check it, and it came in at 15.1% Well, for a woman, that's really low, so I decided to drop by Your Total Fitness Shop on the way home to have them double-check! Their machine said the same thing, and then I had them do a 7-point caliper measurement analysis, and it came up with 13.43%! Holy Workout, Batman, I am definitely done with all that baby weight nonsense! Woo too!!! : )
2. Currently reading "Lady Chatterley's Lover." I bought it to gather inspiration for a writing project I am working on that may or may not involve a love scene. I'd always heard of how steamy the book is, so I figured it would be a good bet for what I was needing, but I have to tell you... This book is simultaneously quite overrated and quite underrated. The steam level is way over-rated... It barely even registers by today's standards. But the quality of the writing by DH Lawrence is just incredible... Very inspiring. His prose moves me, and his subtle observations are witty without trying to be so. I completely adore the book, which means that even though I only picked it up yesterday, I'm already over halfway done. *sigh. Such is the double-edged sword of reading a book that is truly wonderful.
3. WE PAID OFF THE PILOT!!! This means no more car payments for us... EVER! We will just drive our current cars until the wheels fall off, and when that happens, we will buy whatever car we can afford to buy with cash. It is incredibly liberating. I'm seriously pumped. THANK YOU DAVE RAMSEY!!
4. We went to the Cotton Bowl - had lots of fun, and some day when I grow up and stop being a horrible blogger, maybe I will get around to posting pictures of it! Remains to be seen...
5. This is related to #2... I have started writing again. This makes me happy. : ) In honor of this, I am now typing this blog post from my new MacBook Air. I acquired it so that I have a fantastically portable way to work on my project from wherever I might be. I must say, I have admired these things from afar for years, but I had no idea how much I would love actually owning one until I had one... It is absolutely tiny and fits in my purse, but it has a very comfortable full-sized, backlit keyboard. <3
6. The kids are great... Autumn's cheer squad won 1st out of 10 teams in their last competition, and out of three competitions so far this year, they have brought home three first-place trophies! Wow! Bear is loving the New School,and loving 3rd grade. It is exactly where he needed to be. Norah Claire is just as feisty and hysterical as ever, and Shiloh is like her little shadow... He follows her around everywhere, trying to do everything that she does. Yesterday, when she got put in time out, he even went and sat right by her and cried along with her. I tried to explain to him that he was not in time out, Norah was, but he would have nothing of it! So precious!
7. I guess it's 2012 now, and the only resolution I made is a secret one, but I just want to say how very thankful I am for all the blessings in my life!
Okay, now back to the real world! Happy Wednesday everyone! : )
1. I had my body fat percentage checked today... They used that little electronic machine at FAC to check it, and it came in at 15.1% Well, for a woman, that's really low, so I decided to drop by Your Total Fitness Shop on the way home to have them double-check! Their machine said the same thing, and then I had them do a 7-point caliper measurement analysis, and it came up with 13.43%! Holy Workout, Batman, I am definitely done with all that baby weight nonsense! Woo too!!! : )
2. Currently reading "Lady Chatterley's Lover." I bought it to gather inspiration for a writing project I am working on that may or may not involve a love scene. I'd always heard of how steamy the book is, so I figured it would be a good bet for what I was needing, but I have to tell you... This book is simultaneously quite overrated and quite underrated. The steam level is way over-rated... It barely even registers by today's standards. But the quality of the writing by DH Lawrence is just incredible... Very inspiring. His prose moves me, and his subtle observations are witty without trying to be so. I completely adore the book, which means that even though I only picked it up yesterday, I'm already over halfway done. *sigh. Such is the double-edged sword of reading a book that is truly wonderful.
3. WE PAID OFF THE PILOT!!! This means no more car payments for us... EVER! We will just drive our current cars until the wheels fall off, and when that happens, we will buy whatever car we can afford to buy with cash. It is incredibly liberating. I'm seriously pumped. THANK YOU DAVE RAMSEY!!
4. We went to the Cotton Bowl - had lots of fun, and some day when I grow up and stop being a horrible blogger, maybe I will get around to posting pictures of it! Remains to be seen...
5. This is related to #2... I have started writing again. This makes me happy. : ) In honor of this, I am now typing this blog post from my new MacBook Air. I acquired it so that I have a fantastically portable way to work on my project from wherever I might be. I must say, I have admired these things from afar for years, but I had no idea how much I would love actually owning one until I had one... It is absolutely tiny and fits in my purse, but it has a very comfortable full-sized, backlit keyboard. <3
6. The kids are great... Autumn's cheer squad won 1st out of 10 teams in their last competition, and out of three competitions so far this year, they have brought home three first-place trophies! Wow! Bear is loving the New School,and loving 3rd grade. It is exactly where he needed to be. Norah Claire is just as feisty and hysterical as ever, and Shiloh is like her little shadow... He follows her around everywhere, trying to do everything that she does. Yesterday, when she got put in time out, he even went and sat right by her and cried along with her. I tried to explain to him that he was not in time out, Norah was, but he would have nothing of it! So precious!
7. I guess it's 2012 now, and the only resolution I made is a secret one, but I just want to say how very thankful I am for all the blessings in my life!
Okay, now back to the real world! Happy Wednesday everyone! : )
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Go Jewels!
Autumn and her cheer team took home another 1st place trophy this weekend in Branson. I am loving their new routine this year... It seriously blows me away!
On another note, I find this Jammie guy that shows up at all of the JamFest competitions to be mildly terrifying.
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