My eyes did not explode!

Yay for that! Not sure how I would take pictures without eyes, but there was an NCIS episode about such a thing.

Here’s my list for the day. Because I know you are so interested in my Very Unrealistic Lists that I make each day.

Things I Really Must Do

1. Shower
2. Make bed
3. Fold laundry
4. put it all away
5. blog, because it helps me procrastinate
6. start ‘Spelling Power’ with kids
7. make flash cards for Sage
8. cook beans & rice
9. go through all of girls clothes
10. clean fridge
11. clean my bathroom
12. clean off my desk
13. organize papers
14. balance $
15. pay bills
16. find tax info
17. email kelly about taxes
18. finish baby McCullough’s editing
19. make baby slideshow
20. work on baby Frisbee’s pictures
21. return library book
22. upload photos to smug mug
23. make a big salad
24. make salad dressing
25. work on daily routine
26. work on school planning for the kids & myself
27. go slightly insane
28. find some chocolate [possibly at grocery outlet]
29. grocery list for quick grocery roundup
30. Create something beautiful
31. take a nap?
32. finish reading the book of Ezra

Scenes from the Recession is quite interesting.

Have you seen this pirate?

I’m still here

I have not abandoned ship. If I weren’t feeling so tired I’d find a really cool picture of a wrecked ship I have that I took at some beach up north. But, I am tired. I was ready for a nap at 9:38 a.m. I did not stay up later than usual. I actually slept longer & deeper the past several nights. My eyes are watery & burning. My sinuses are killing me. My head hurts. And I’m so very tired. I was taught in college prep english to never start a sentence with the word ‘and’. I break rules. Creative people do that. I’m pretending to be creative today.

I have a reader who has never had peanut butter & chocolate together. Please try it. It’s dreamy. I love peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. I’d send you some, but France is a long ways to send cookies.

Did I mention that my face hurts?

My friend, Beatrice, made breakfast today. It was yummy. I’m supposed to family portraits with her family today, but it is raining. Why do we have 3 days of bright sunshine then a day of rain? This reminds me to find a place where I can take indoor pictures.

I don’t have much to say today, but writing sometimes helps me think. So does sleeping. I may take a quick nap before I tackle a major, and I mean MAJOR, cleanup/declutter session in the girls’ room. How did they get so much stuff? People keep giving us stuff & I’ve gotta say no. I’m only letting them keep 2 dolls each with a couple of outfits for each doll. There’s so much stuff in there that they’ll still get to keep, but really, how much do they need.

My oldest daughter has her first sport bras now. So weird. She’s 9. I hear that’s normal.

I plan on doing a garage sale in April & listing my house on the market by the end of April. I know it isn’t a good time, but we’ll what happens. I won’t be any worse off for getting it ready for a sale.

Okay. If any of this doesn’t make sense please accept my apologies. I feel like my eyes are going to explode!

I feel like this:

Monday Morning Randomness

Look at those marvelous flying girls! I love that they a zany & totally up for any idea I have for them. I even tried having one of them jump over me as I sat on the ground, but that made me scream like a little girl. Yeah, the thought of a rogue foot smashing my precious camera into my face was a tad on the scary side.

Are you ready for all my discombobulated thougths on this fine Monday morning? We’ll do it in bullet form because I like bullets, but not the kind from guns. Don’t like them at all.

• My Cecelia is on her way to Cambodia as I type this. (She’s the one in the first picture.) I will miss her. I already miss her. Hold on. I’m going to re-read the 2 cards she left for me…..ok, I’m all crying again.
• I’m having far too many migraines. Had a whopper of one yesterday! It came on like a brick wall! Horrid, I tell ya!
• Went to a leadership retreat with my church’s network. So much stirring in me right now.
• Looking at college programs. So overwhelming. I want to serve Christ in whatever do.
• Trying to figure out how to get my house on the market in April sometime. We’ll see what God does in this.
• Wanting to ever grow closer to Jesus.
• I am thankful for my long-term friends. There is nothing better than spending a day with them. How is it that we never run out of things to talk about? I’ll have to find a picture of the three of us & blog about us…
• I am recognizing the goodness of God in my life & I’m almost ready to share a big story of how I got to where I am today
• I want deeper relationship with the people around me. Not all of them, obviously, but I realize I lack in the area of building relationships.
• Did you know there are 639 unengaged, unreached people groups. That means that nobody is getting to those people. They’ve never heard the news of Jesus. How can that be?!
• There are people in my community who don’t know Jesus. I need to build relationship with these people, too.
• I do not think I’m called to live in a bubble where everyone thinks just like me.
• I really like this Organic Santa Cruz lightly roasted creamy peanut butter.
• I miss cheap tofu.
• Popcorn with brewer’s yeast sounds good, but it’s so much work to chew.
• Somewhere in blogland I read that one woman doesn’t do a to-do list, but a list of intentions.
• Chocolate with peanut butter is dreamy, but I think I’ve written a post on that somewhere before.
• What is the “emergent” church, exactly? And why do some say it’s bad? I’ve been reading about that a bit.
• How do we reach the lost without sounding like we want to sell the product of Jesus?
• I have lots of photos to get onto my computer from the weekend.
• I also have baby photos to edit.
• I think I need to end this list & get on with real life, don’t you?