And...here we go!


1. My car _is a van with two sliding doors, but this week? my drivers side slider is stuck and according to my Hubbie and the guys at the shop it's going to take a LOT Of work to get it unstuck because it's not just stuck but locked and stuck and in order to fix it we have to get the unlocked to work! I'm not happy. I did get to drive the new car this week. I don't like it, it's a sporty car I feel small on the road____.

2. ___My Hubbie's Birthday________ is coming up next.

3. Lately, things seem ____rushed, now we have band, bowlingX3, Cross country Running X2, and me trying to fit in my work out time_______.

4. _____The bathtub, with a book,______ is one of my favorite 'hiding' places.

5. What happened ____to those days when my kids were tiny and liftable? Now I've got kids as tall as my shoulders or belly button_______.

6. _____Losing weight______ is not impossible! (not gaining it back is the hard part)

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _my big walk while the kids are home playing with hubbie, and then maybe some movies with the kids____, tomorrow my plans include ___take the kids bowling, playground hopping while it's still warm enough, late night walking for me before the sun sets__ and Sunday, I want to __have great a Sunday mass experience as last week,I didn't have to waggle my finger or whisper to anyone in my family about their behaviour, it was calming and I was one happy Mommy, Praying we get a Sunday like that this week too___!

Walking Motivation and Me time

Oh look it's me again, back for another post. This totally come under the "me" part of my life. I love walking and walking fast, and getting the job done. It works much better when I have someone to walk with or music to listen to. This fall I'll be listening to music. I've lost my walking partner. We were slowly drifting apart for different reasons but this past year was the end. Her daughter is in her last year of Highschool, my youngest hasn't even gone to school yet. Her youngest is a year ahead of my oldest and that was our connection. My boys play with her boy. Her daughter was our sitter. Not now. Another wedge.

So my walks are a bit less then I'd like, when I had someone with me I'd go every night when I have no one there to go too, it's hard to motivate to get it done. My boys are not good walking company. It's hard to walk when you are telling other people to stay out of the middle of the street. My hubbie of late has been 'doing stuff before it's dark' and that's cutting into my walking time. I'm struggling. If only my bloggy friends would walk with me! I can't though walk with a laptop and I don't have a cellphone and I'd end up walking into traffic so I use my music. I plug in my earbuds (repeatedly they never stay in) and off i go. If it's getting dark fast? I've been known to run the last 1/4 mile. I'm not a runner. It's dangerous, there's that fear of concussion and possible chest related injuries.

Maybe I need a dog? A puppy wants to run fast right?

Random Tuesday Thoughts, Boys to I Ramble too Much?

It's Random Tuesday Thoughts Day! So I'll get myself started here.
Got my badge (check)



Got my thoughts (half check)
Got the MJ entertained (half check, he's on the sofa laying under his favorite blanket sucking his thumb... it will hve to do)

Tried to win me somme money today but I guess my fingers just aren't fast enough. Didn't make it to the 10th caller. next time they will do it again before noon.

Groceryday, must get food! you know real food so I can continue cooking meals. Tonight as AJ says "you have to go to school too today", it's Meet the teacher night.

i'm stuck on my laptop this week because my desktop wont show me anything! I suspect a video card was killed/maimed/distroyed in the rebuilding of my computer. The personal tech has been using and creating words I don't like.

This laptop keyboard drives me to insanity. I just accidently highlighted the whole post and it vanished into 1 letter. ACK! undoooooooooo

I think MJ might just fall asleep there. Maybe if he does that I can go back to bed? no that would be lazy, pushing almost 400.00 worth of food should be a workout right? I wonder if that's what the sign outside the grocery store means? "need a work out?" it came be the gym upstairs because those people just look to happy bouncing around. They all smile after they leave? it can't be a real work out, I've never smiled after busting my ass and leaving 400.00 at the cashier?

The Fall fair is over, I didnt' go we didn't take the kids and we didn't fork over 26.00 a person. YAY! that reminds me my van does need gas, I hate putting gas in my car, I need me a full serve gas station.

My Gas station likes me though because I get loyalty points also for buying various bad for me things in their convenience store and bread and milk and eggs! They are actually cheaper there which totally goes against what it used to be growing up. Convenience store = more $, not here.

That reminds me our babysitter now makes pizza down there instead of babysitting and that means I've got to book a different babysitter this month. GRRRRR


I feel bad that Patrick Swayze has died at 57! that's so young but I have to say it's not many in Hollywood that can say they were still married to their original wife! Pancreatic Cancer is so very scary. Is it just me or do you hear of more people having it? I can count 5 just in my head without thinking long about it.

Fall has been beautiful so far. Oh and I did get the tent to fit back in the bag! I worked hard saturday morning nd realized that I had to roll both tents that were in the bag and the fly around the long poles! win, I got MJ to sit on the bag while we zipped it and then we also zipped the extension down to small again. YAY!

The ShopVac got all the sand out of my van, I was tempted to get out the hose.

Oh and the laptop does know how to get my pictures off my camera YAY me. I did that yesterday but tell me how many of you have paper pictures in your home since the invention of digital cards? Both boys have asked for pictures to bring to school of themselves for projects. It took me a hour to figure out how to copy some pics from FB and then send them to my printer on this. Of course my little helper dudes were telling me they knew how to do it. Sadly they learn on Windows at school which doesn't always work the same for me and my linux machines.

Oh and the critter count increases, we were sitting at the dinning room table and I hear a scratching, I look out the closed patio door and see a chipmunk (ground squirrel the one with stripes) trying to climb up my patio window. MJ and I investigated and then thought about feeding him a single serving cup of Kraft PB but then I got all worried that his poor tiny jaw would stick together like a dog and a piece of gum? we took the PB back in. He'll be back I'm sure just to see MJ try and let him in. It was the funniest when he first started scratching because my window looked like one off those "squirrelized" pictures.


OK I've rambled enough, if you're still here head on over to Keely's and get yourself a badge and ramble on yourself or just find yourselves some better Random Ramblers. OK now Ive got that song Rambling Rose? (is that a song?) in my head.