Tripping Over Cobblestone

Summer Heat Escape 101

    Ok it is a whopping 107 this week on average! I live in the center of Hell? No I just live in a very hot place. So I was talking with one of my girlfriends. We’ll call her Val.

    Val gal is keeping cool by "using pools".  Here is how her scheme goes down.

THE BAIT 

    There are a good portion of old people in Val’s church group. They happen to have all their children gone and grown. Val brings up to them durring a hall chat about how hot it is and how her three children love to swim. This almost always  triggers an invitaition from these wonderful folks who love to "offer" their useless pool to those in need durring the summer. Now I have had the offer given and it is almost always a "known" you don’t take up on said offer. Only she DOES! Now she has the Kelley’s on Monday, Weston’s on tuesdays, the  Johnson’s pool available on Wednesdays and Fridays, and even her neigbor named Jerry is in on the action! Pool owners are glad the pool is getting some use. And Val and her kids are keeping really cool. Val just added some of her husband’s work friends who offered at a work party. I am savy now for next year. I can buy a new summer wardrobe with the money I’ll save on my season pass to the public pool. And I won’t have to swim near great uncle Ned who thinks his "eurpopean" banana hammock is the new rage this summer!

    Val and I are also going to a secret undisclosed location to escape children and husband’s for a while. Details on that adventure comming soon!  

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MooooooVing??

    I think it is all over blog land. Selling buying and MOVING. I am not But for those of you who are go here to find out why your move maybe pretty easy. You may have to ready the first couple posts. So when you think that it may be bad….Think again.

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Stuff and more stuff…

    I love my bedroom when it is clean and right now it is awesome. I just have to run the vacume and it will sparkle.  That is not probably going to last too long since we are sick this week. It started with the weakest immune system child thing 2. Then it hit me. then it went to the Fish. It is so rare that Thing 1 gets anything. So of all of us he is most miserable because it is simply GORGIOUS outside. It is the weather change thing I am sure.

This past couple of weeks have been a total whirlwind of change. (updates in the next several posts)

    The business is going great right now. The details now can be found…… HERE….. I am going to keep this bloggy a strictly "Mommy blog" or "place to vent" or "update central for my friends and family" Or what ever this blog has turned into. Random is what I would call it.
 

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Alphabet posting…..A

    One of my favorite words is Amazing. I am pretty sure it is one of those words I say as a filler word. I have those tendencies to use some pretty wonky filler words. One is "you know what I mean" or "does that make sense". I am pretty scattered in my sentence structure sometimes I know this about myself and so I will make sure someone is picking up what I am laying down by checking in with my communication reception. I used to do this one a lot. Now I have caught myself and tried to stop myself from saying it so much.

    Another random thought that comes to mind when I think of A is astronaut. I was in first grade when the challenger blew up.

    I used to have a friend in high school that his nick name was "Akintubby" he was a nice guy. Man we had some really messed up nick names for kids in our high school. "Gup" "Digger" and a whole mess of them.

 I can’t remember if I had a nickname in High School it certainly wasn’t that creative if I did.

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Saggy Toes.

    Jack Johnson is not only good looking but I would have to say one great song writer. I have some fun memories of listening to him in days gone by.

    The scene is huntington beach California on a steamy hot afternoon in early May. I was leaving the tanning salon and riding in the car when "Bubbly Toes" comes on the raido. I have the infamous "duck butt" haircut and I am single. I remember the haze around the street lamps when it was nigth time there. I miss the salty air the beautiful cars that lined the streets and traffic. Oh wait I don’t miss the traffic.  

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First thing I would buy with….

    One billion dollars. Besides all debt, new cars and debt for my friends and family.

1. Hair cut and color (By John Edward’s hair dresser)

2. Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer (Yeah I  know)

3. Tour every island Nation. With my body amply covered in Fake tan….Umpalumpa style.

4. Purchase a Popular shampoo line.

5. Dyson Vacume Cleaner for my new maid.

6. A Steam locomotive for my Thing 1

7. A mini Horse for Thing 2. Equipped with a Stable Boy. (The fancy equivalant of Pool Boy)

8. Backpacking store for The Band.

9. A dance studio so I could show off my moves.

I still think i would rent this town house. Hummmmm Yeah we like it here.  

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Almost gone…..

    It is almost 11pm. I am sitting here and both my children are awake. The fish fell asleep about 15 minutes ago. I am in shock that 2007 is almost gone. like in an hour and fifteen minutes it is gone.

    Some of the bloggin buddies I had when I first started bloggin are no longer bloggin. There are those who have just slowed way way way down. And then there is me still writing.

    This year came my first major surgery, my third baby, my first business. Boy it has been a busy year.

This year will be the second year of bloggin. What a crazy ride this year has been.
 

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Novel on the blog. Chapter One (Well not all of ONE).

    I could see my breath on the air as my mind fuzzed. The car I slumped in wasn’t mine. In fact Lilah hated her station wagon ironically called "Celebrity". I turned the key without the slightest regret of stealing it. But that was all I had as far as get away plans go. She would never miss it. There wasn’t a day that went by that Lilah didn’t pray for this thing to be stolen anyway. I said I would be gone for a couple of days to visit friends in Virgina. The worn veleteen seat still smelt of McDonalds from earlier this morning.

    I wish there were something I could have said to Dane as he ended our week long relationship. The only thing that kept popping up in my mind was a resounding thank you. I was too young to deal with the waves of emotion he seemed to display. I was glad it was over. All that japanese food was making me gag. He thought it was so awesome to eat it for every consievable meal. What kind of a name is Dane anyways?

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What we’re really moving?

    I’m trying to see this move as renewing. A new place a new way of looking at things. I am so excited to meet new people. I am excited to go to a "big city" and beable to shop for things that are only ten minutes away instead of hours away.

    The bags aren’t packed but I am ready to go mentally-I think-. You see this is where two of the things came home from the hospital. Where I actually have lived the longest since before the mission. I haven’t lived in one city for so long since I lived with my parents. Oh my how this small town has really grown on me.

    I am usually pretty good with a move. This will be the first time it has been actually hard. Hard to say goodbye. Hard to part with the friends and people who have become family.

    I’ll be five minutes away from IKEA. I think I’ll find SOMETHING to do.

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Guest Post: This I believe

    I challenged and the challenge was answered. Here is the first "THIS I BELIEVE" not MPR style but bloggy style.

 Check out this stellar post!

Thanks EMMA! 

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