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In a few short months we will be moving back to my hometown. THANK GOD! My husband will be done with law school and we will be able to move on with life, and maybe actually start having one! Needless to say, I am pretty damn stoked! We have a house there already and it will be very nice to move into a VERY cramped One bedroom apartment that barely holds all of our crap, to a 3 bedroom house that has a nice yard and an even lovelier view. Don't get me wrong...the views we have of parking lot, interstate and and a gravel pile here are great............but perhaps a creek and some trees and a field with deer will be better....perhaps.....

HA!

I just noticed that I wrote "360 'little moments'" on the last post....there are 365 days in a year.....idiot.

360 "little moments"

A friend of mine is doing something on Facebook that I think is a nice idea. She is making an album of one picture a day, for every day of the year, to celebrate the "little moments" that happen every day that nobody catalogs, but usually make the biggest imprint. While it might not be every day, I think that I am going to copy her idea, starting tomorrow, since it's bedtime.

Dakota

My husband and I have a dog named Dakota. She is a beagle/something mix...we think perhaps dachshund. She is the cutest, sweetest little thing on the face of the planet, and she will quickly become your best friend, with just a few short strokes to her belly. In fact, we joke that if we were ever robbed, she'd be there, showing the burgalers where all the good stuff was, as long as they rubbed behind her ears.

She's 5, soon to be 6 and in the last few months has grown a little grey around the muzzle. She loves to sleep on our pillows, belly up, legs splayed, snoring louder than any human I have ever heard. She recognizes the words "cookie", "outside", "bath", "Grandma's", "breakfast" and "dinner" along with various dog commands. Plus we have realized....she figured out what the spelling of "o-u-t" means. She is so smart and it baffles us at times, especially the first time that she was snuggling in bed with us. She moved a pillow around to her liking, layed down, grabbed the blanket in her mouth, and pulled it up over herself. She is at the same time a total doofus, and seems to have the occasional selective hearing.

Today, we had to take her to the Vet because she's peeing blood. Of course she's "fine". She has a Urinary Tract Infection. So we have to wrap half of a ginormous pill in a Kraft Single and feed it to her, which of course she doesn't mind, because she LOVES cheese.

My husband is beside himself...still worrying about what she may have eaten or drank even though we have gotten a diagnosis already from a trained, educated, professional. And I, of course, as usual, have to be the rational, "strong" one. Makes me wonder what kind of mess he'll be when we have kids and they get sick haha.

For now she is comfortably laying on a satin pillow in the lounge chair, snoozing away, but since dinner is ready, she will most likely be at our feet, hoping that we drop a tasty morsel her way, and because she is not feeling well, she will probably have more than her fair share of tidbits.

My Own Words

Since the last two posts have been somebody else's genius, I thought I should actually write something that is by...moi. Every time I log on and look at this, the song from Fifel Goes West pops into my head. "WAY OUT WEST, THERE'S ROOM FOR OUR DREAMING, THERE'S WIDE OPEN SPACES TO SEEEEEEE. WAY OUT WEST, THE SUN'S ALWAYS BEAMING, WE'LL BE EVERYTHING WE CAN BEEEEEE!!!!" Yes I watched that a lot as a child...in case you were wondering. That's not relevant to anything...just an observation I had on myself. Anyhoo, I am currently learning that it is -28 in Iqaluit, Canada thanks to the Globe weather thingy that is on our Wii. In case you hadn't noticed, I am completely random, so if posts jump around a lot, no worries, I'm not nuts...just random, and I have been forever...you can ask my friends, and husband especailly. I'm craving popcorn...so I'm going to go and make some. BYE!

Fight Like a Girl

Little girl alone on the playground Tired of gettin' teased and gettin' pushed around Wishin' she was invisible To them She ran home cryin'"Why do they hate me?" And Mama wiped the tears and said "Baby, you're brave and you're beautiful. So, hold your head high. Don't ever let 'em define The light in your eyes. Love yourself, give them Hell. You can take on this world. You just stand and be strong And then fightLike a girl." At 31 she was wheelin' and dealin' Kept on hittin' that same glass ceilin' She was never gonna be one of the boys, no She coulda gave up on her ambition And spent the rest of her life just wishin' Instead she listened to her mama's voice sayin "Hold your head high. Don't ever let 'em define The light in your eyes. Love yourself, give them Hell. You can take on this world. You just stand and be strong And then fightLike a girl." Oh, with style and grace Kick ass and take names Ten years of climbin' that ladder Oh, but money and power don't matter When the doctor said "the cancer spread" She holds on tight to her husband and babies And says "this is just another test God gave me. And I know just how to handle this "I'll hold my head high I'll never let this define The light in my eyes Love myself, give it Hell I'll take on this world Yes I'll stand and be strong No, I'll never give up I will conquer with love And I'll fight likeLike a girl

The Interview With GOD

I dreamed I had an interview with God.

“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.

“If you have the time” I said.

God smiled.

“My time is eternity.”

“What questions do you have in mind for me?”

“What surprises you most about humankind?”

God answered...

“That they get bored with childhood, they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.”

“That they lose their health to make money... and then lose their money to restore their health.”

“That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future.”

"That they live as if they will never die, and die as though they had never lived.”

God’s hand took mine, and we were silent for a while.

And then I asked...

“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons you want your children to learn?”

“To learn they cannot make anyone love them. All they can do is let themselves be loved.”

“To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.”

“To learn to forgiveby practicing forgiveness.”

“To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in those they love, and it can take many years to heal them.”

“To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.”

“To learn that there are people who love them dearly, but simply have not yet learned how to express or show their feelings.”

“To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.”

“To learn that it is not enough that they forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”

"Thank you for your time," I said humbly. "Is there anything else you would like your children to know?"

God smiled and said, “Just know that I am here... always.”

If you would like to view the slideshow that this is from you can go to www.theinterviewwithgod.com

This came to me from a friend at a time I really needed it...and without knowing, she helped me a lot.

Welcome!

Well...since it's a new year, I figured I'd start a new Blog. I had one for 2009, and after reading it I was so disgusted with how mopey everything I wrote was, I decided to delete it and start fresh! So here we go! There will be a lot of lyrics, photos, and musings in this here Blog. I invite you to follow me along this crazy path that I am on, hold on....it's gonna be a crazy year!