Excuse me while I clear away the cobwebs over here.....
It has been far too long, and to think I was doing so well in 2013 with my blogging....
tsk, tsk.
Well, the truth is that I have been working.
Actual working.
While getting paid.
Crazy, I know.
I started subbing at Riv's school, and I think they like me because I keep getting called back!
I am also going to be working there on staff next school year, since it will be Riv's last year in preschool.
I want to be there...and allow him to have experiences away from me.
(Just not too far away...)
It really is a magical little school, and I couldn't be happier to be a part of it.
I won't be teaching at his age level, as they keep parents away from their children,
but I do see him in passing in the halls.
It is cute to see him out on the playground, without him knowing I am watching.
So, I have been a busy bee filling in for different teachers, and experiencing new things.
Yesterday I taught Art to all the classes, and let me tell you, it was a full body workout!
I loved it!
Ok, enough about me....
I will give you a Justin update.
So, as you know he has been training to go to the Phase II selection for the Combat Rescue Officer job, and he was supposed to leave this week.
That isn't happening.
Long story short, he fractured a small bone in his wrist, which caused a domino effect of problems for him. The swelling in his hand, wrist and forearm was so severe that it completely cut off the circulation in his hand for a time, and he had to be rushed in an ambulance from the main base over to the Veterans Hospital to prep for possible amputation, because his hand was essentially dying.
(This is not a fun phone call to receive, FYI.)
It was a horrible experience, but ultimately was just a good wake up call for Justin to take it easy. He did not lose a hand, or even a finger, but we sure got a good scare.
(Sorry to my family for the roller coaster ride of texts and phone calls.)
So, what this meant was that he would not be medically cleared to participate in this selection.
You simply cannot do push-ups on a wrist that can't be bent, let alone hundreds of push-ups and pull-ups.
We were depressed.
I was angry.
We got over it.
He has another shot at this in October, so we are looking at this as an opportunity to train for 6 more months, after he heals properly. It also means we have to wait 6 more months....and Justin is sure feeling his age these days. All those Ultramarathons seem to be catching up to him (mainly knees and hips), and he has to work so much harder than his 23 year old competition!
Other than little bump in the road, everything is great.
Paige and Riv are both signed up for soccer, and it starts this Saturday, which will be FUN.
At the very least, it will be FUNNY.
More on that later.....
If you are still reading.....
you are the best.
LOVE YOU!!!!
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Friday, March 22, 2013
Thursday, December 13, 2012
eat. pray. love.
Missing my Fairchild "Book Club" and excuse to walk down the
street and enjoy a girls night in with good food and great women. We
read quite a few books together, some winners, some losers.
This was obviously a winner.
Here are Some favorite parts of Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert....
which I have now read 3 times.
Hopefully I am not in some copyright breach here, by writing all of this, but I am referencing page numbers, and all...trying to reference correctly.
Thanks Liz...
You have my gratitude for this book...entirely.
Every time I read it, I get something new and powerful.
This go-round....no exception.
"Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit." (10)
In the end, what I have come to believe about God is simple. It's like this---I used to have this really great dog. She came from the pound. She was a mixture of about ten different breeds, but seemed to have inherited the finest features of them all. She was brown. When people asked me, "What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is raised, "What kind of God do you believe in?" my answer is easy: "I believe in a magnificent God." (14)
A sad-faced Russian woman tells us she's treating herself to Italian lessons because "I think I deserve something beautiful." (44)
Giovanni's sweetness, in my opinion, makes him a national treasure of Italy. He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find words I wanted in Italian, and he put his hand on my arm and said, "Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new." (56)
When I get lonely these days, I think: So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. (65)
Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses, and this makes the senses stronger in Italy than anywhere in Europe. This is why, Barzini says, Italians will tolerate hideously incompetent generals, presidents, tyrants, professors, bureaucrats, journalists and captains of industry, but will never tolerate incompetent "opera singers, conductors, ballerinas, courtesans, actors, film directors, cooks, tailors..."In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real. (114)
I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I eat and read and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life--- whether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can't rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, because I'm feeling too damn sorry for myself, I can choose to keep trying to change my outlook). I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts. (177)
God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. ...... Always wanted to be the quiet girl. Probably precisely because I'm not. It's the same reason I think that thick, dark hair is so beautiful---precisely because I don't have it. But at some point you have to make your peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with thick, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein. (192)
If you haven't read it yet...you may want to ask Santa...
XO, A
This was obviously a winner.
Here are Some favorite parts of Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert....
which I have now read 3 times.
Hopefully I am not in some copyright breach here, by writing all of this, but I am referencing page numbers, and all...trying to reference correctly.
Thanks Liz...
You have my gratitude for this book...entirely.
Every time I read it, I get something new and powerful.
This go-round....no exception.
"Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit." (10)
In the end, what I have come to believe about God is simple. It's like this---I used to have this really great dog. She came from the pound. She was a mixture of about ten different breeds, but seemed to have inherited the finest features of them all. She was brown. When people asked me, "What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is raised, "What kind of God do you believe in?" my answer is easy: "I believe in a magnificent God." (14)
A sad-faced Russian woman tells us she's treating herself to Italian lessons because "I think I deserve something beautiful." (44)
Giovanni's sweetness, in my opinion, makes him a national treasure of Italy. He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find words I wanted in Italian, and he put his hand on my arm and said, "Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new." (56)
When I get lonely these days, I think: So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. (65)
Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses, and this makes the senses stronger in Italy than anywhere in Europe. This is why, Barzini says, Italians will tolerate hideously incompetent generals, presidents, tyrants, professors, bureaucrats, journalists and captains of industry, but will never tolerate incompetent "opera singers, conductors, ballerinas, courtesans, actors, film directors, cooks, tailors..."In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real. (114)
I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I eat and read and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life--- whether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can't rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, because I'm feeling too damn sorry for myself, I can choose to keep trying to change my outlook). I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts. (177)
God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. ...... Always wanted to be the quiet girl. Probably precisely because I'm not. It's the same reason I think that thick, dark hair is so beautiful---precisely because I don't have it. But at some point you have to make your peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with thick, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein. (192)
If you haven't read it yet...you may want to ask Santa...
XO, A
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Be An Explorer
Have you found any good buys lately??
I know these aren't really a good deal as far saving REAL money
but they are fun and a novelty for only $20.
Mixing things up is always good~ plus there is so much to look at
and ooohhhh and aaahhh at over there.
I love Cost Plus!
Sign up for the World Market Explorer program here
Links to some of the products mentioned:
Sticky Fingers Scones
Pocky Snacks
Gia Russa Pasta Sauce
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
I know these aren't really a good deal as far saving REAL money
but they are fun and a novelty for only $20.
Mixing things up is always good~ plus there is so much to look at
and ooohhhh and aaahhh at over there.
I love Cost Plus!
Sign up for the World Market Explorer program here
Links to some of the products mentioned:
Sticky Fingers Scones
Pocky Snacks
Gia Russa Pasta Sauce
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Monday, March 21, 2011
Take it off, and make it great!
So I thought I should start Monday off with
something I actually do get questions about.
My Eyebrows
enjoy.
And, because Sometimes Sweet is setting goals
to make her week ah-may-zing, I thought I should too.
One Week to a better ME!
Nutrition: Take the sugar out! Cut back, and be smart. Enough said.
Exercise: Do Zuzana's workouts all week, and 2 long (6miles) runs.
Relationships: Spend some quality time with each of my 3 people, by themselves. Steal away with Paige for a girl date, take Riv on a walk...just him, and wake up early to spend a few with Justin before he goes to work...he leaves at 6....coffee at 4:45 it is!
Creativity: push on getting things done for the new shop....yee haw!
Me-Time: Paint my nails, toes too....and enjoy some quality time with my new book(s). I picked up The Pillars of the Earth, and The Zookeeper's Wife in case you were wondering.
What are you doing to make this week great??
xo
something I actually do get questions about.
My Eyebrows
enjoy.
And, because Sometimes Sweet is setting goals
to make her week ah-may-zing, I thought I should too.
One Week to a better ME!
Nutrition: Take the sugar out! Cut back, and be smart. Enough said.
Exercise: Do Zuzana's workouts all week, and 2 long (6miles) runs.
Relationships: Spend some quality time with each of my 3 people, by themselves. Steal away with Paige for a girl date, take Riv on a walk...just him, and wake up early to spend a few with Justin before he goes to work...he leaves at 6....coffee at 4:45 it is!
Creativity: push on getting things done for the new shop....yee haw!
Me-Time: Paint my nails, toes too....and enjoy some quality time with my new book(s). I picked up The Pillars of the Earth, and The Zookeeper's Wife in case you were wondering.
What are you doing to make this week great??
xo
Thursday, July 24, 2008
The Twilight craze!
Have any of you read the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer? They're fantastic!!! I def. recommend reading them if you haven't already. You can find a trailer of the movie on YouTube. I tried to post it but it was having trouble. The movie comes out in December. I'm not kidding, it's a sexy, sexy, series, but very clean. Stephenie Meyers is a Mormon gal.
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