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• I heart Hero. Yesterday, he & Boo were cranky with each other. They're both so stubborn and they were both so tired which didn't help matters at all. Late last night, he took the time to write her a note telling her he loved her and couldn't wait to see her when he got home from work today. When he put the note on her nightstand, she woke up and she was just so tickled that she ended up being awake for quite a bit. She wrote a lovely note back to him and gave him a bag of chocolate chips (I'm going to have to hide the chips today because I DID NOT KNOW SHE HAD A STASH IN HER ROOM!) She ended up being restless and he stayed up with her even though he had an early meeting this morning. All because he knew that I needed my sleep if I were to be a good mom today. That is, a headache-free mom.


• I'm drawn to crafty/creative/zesty blogs. I had an epiphany the other day after wistfully saying to Hero, "I want to start sewing/making/creating (fill-in-the-blank)." I realized that I don't REALLY want to make all these wonderful things. Really - I have so many unfinished craft projects and I don't want to saddle myself with yet another craft project that will surely just become another dust-collector. I just am drawn to these blogs because they're so pretty, full of zest. I'm lacking that in my life right now and I need to stop, nay, LIMIT the time spent reading those blogs and focus on my REAL life and put some zest back into that. Except.... have you seen this blog? Or this one? How about this one? I have more but like I said, I'm going to limit my viewing of them and if I start listing them, guess what? I'll start spending more time checking them out again and I really must get this post done and start my turbo-kicking.


• I'm sad that Boo is so frustrated right now. She has absolutely no girlfriends right now. Her best friend is out of town, the only girl in her primary class is out of the country, and classmates are not the best of influences so I limit her time with those. I know, I'm a bad mom. I don't care about that - would YOU like it if they taught your little one how to dance provocatively, obsess about boys, think that all there's to life is how many kisses you can get? At SIX? NO. Let's just focus on sunshine, rainbows & lollipops please. Unicorns, castles, & fairies are good too. (And not the Disney fairies. They're so sexed up, it's not even funny.)


• After living in a condo at the beach for a week, I learned that we don't really need STUFF like we have at home. Well, not ALL the stuff that we have. They're just dust-collectors and I certainly don't want to keep dusting for the rest of my life. What a chore! It's time to simplify. The stuff in storage, I don't even know what's in there. Okay - I do. I do know that I have some quilts that my grandmother made and some books from childhood... and my journals that I'm too embarrassed to read. But the other stuff? I don't miss it. So - why are we paying for storage? Argh! Guess what I've got planned for when Boo goes back to school? Yep! Storage clean-out!


• I seriously HEART my hearing-aid. It is so freaking cool. I plug in my TEK (a little remote thingy) into the portable DVD player and don't have to use the bulky headphones. The sound is just directly transmitted into my aid! Same thing with the TV. My cell phone. My MP3 player! It's so cool having these new high tech toys! Although I'm sure gringa gets bugged every time I'm with her and I pull the TEK or my CELL out. Sorry gringa! ;-)


• I have no desire to read the latest book in the "Twilight" series. Bella bugged me. Needy & whiny. Never grew up. Not even a little bit by the end of the 3rd book. Then I happened to read on a blog about the 4th book. Meh - not for me. I'll do without. Maybe when the general interest dies down, I'll check it out at the library.


• I'm really into music. I've always been into music. It's just, lyrics are speaking (singing - ha.) to me. Cheesy. What's even cheesier? Egad - I'm blushing even just typing it! It's - I've been watching the 1st season of the Muppet show. YES. A grown, 30+ woman, by CHOICE. I've watched the show when I was a kid but guess what? I can't read Muppet lips. Really. As phenomenal as a lip-reader I am, Muppet-lip-reading is just something I've never been able to add to my repertoire. But I digress. I've been watching them as they're subtitled. They're hilarious! Some stupid parts but mostly, hilarious! Anyway, some of the songs that the guests sing - have touched me. Isn't that silly? Why would it be that a guest on the Muppet show, singing a song would touch me NOW? Perhaps it's because... amidst all the silliness & hokiness, there are some serious parts and now, as I'm viewing these shows like it's the first time, it's .... I dunno. I'm rambling on this bullet point. Time to move on.


• But wait, I want to talk more about music. What are some of your favorite songs? No, scratch that. Don't tell me. I'll ask questions about that in a later post.


• My family has sworn off fast-food. I've already quit the pop thing over a month ago (I used to drink Coke for medicinal purposes. Seriously - for migraines.) We've been slowly reducing our out-take on the take-out...? You know, that whole thing about eating healthier? Hero & I have been working at making healthier choices since the end of April and it's been interesting how our bodies react to fast food now. Before, we didn't really pay attention to how we felt. Then, as we started eating healthier and exercising more - we found that when we ate junk, we felt yucky. Crabby. We noticed our kids were the same way. Then, while we were at Ocean Shores, we stopped at McD's because - I don't know why, oh yes I do. We fell into the trap of needing FAST food. We should have just made up a lunch but we didn't. Anyway, wow. EVERYONE got crabby and FAST. It was quite the phenomenon. Hero and I discussed it later and said, "Nope. No more." The crabbiness is just soooo not worth the so-called convenience of driving somewhere and picking up nuggets. No thanks. Besides, we're both good cooks and if we're smart about it and plan our meals like we should be, we should be able to provide healthy/yummy meals that are also quick & filling & UPLIFTING.

That's it folks. My thoughts, or at least, SOME of my thoughts for the day.

This was found on a log... and seriously grodied me out. I just had to share with you all. I can't figure out what they are though. The insides of barnacles minus the volcanic shells? Hero talked with a senor who said he thought they were clams. I don't think so. What grodied me out even more was when we were back at our van, I happened to turn around and I saw this senor plucking them and putting them in his pocket, furtively looking around to see if anybody was watching him. Gross.

Beautiful moment...

*More details soon!*

Last night, Sam & I went and KIDNAPPED la gringa for a belated birthday celebration. We went out to Funtasia (a video parlor) and played air hockey, skee ball, car races, and a bunch of other games. Sam & I bought her jewelry.... We bedecked her in jewels. (Aren't you guys just so jealous that you don't have us to buy you jewelry?) Yes! Sam & I used the tickets accumulated to "buy" Gringa some jewelry. Ring-pop, candy necklace, bracelet & stick-on earrings. Can't get fancier than that at a video parlor!

Afterwards, we went to Baskin Robbins for ice-cream and then browsed & giggled our way through a dollar store. (Seriously Sam, do NOT get those sunglasses!)

Gringa? I'm so glad we finally became REAL friends. It took forever, didn't it?