arbitrary thoughts

1. Packing for vacation is so much fun.
2. Especially when it is just for a few days in a hotel.
3. Instead of a whole week in a beachhouse where I must transport a ton more stuff.
4. In contrast, unpacking from vacation is like, the worst thing ever.
5. I've got Lady Gaga blasting and everything is all organized.
6. The luggage leaves with mom and dad for FL tomorrow.
7. They are driving.
8. We will meet them there (via airplane) on Friday.
9. I love how I already packed my blow dryer and most of my make-up.
10. Because I know I won't use any of it before Friday.
11. Now I just have the dreaded short list of things I need to use in the meantime.
12. That also need to be packed to come with.
13. And yes, this vacation falls into the category of "Things Lisa Should Have Said No To In Order To Stick to Her New Frugal Lifestyle."
14. But it's too late now.
15. And darn it, I wanna go to Disney World!
16. I hope the weather in FL is better than the weather here.
17. It has been rather chilly and gray lately.
18. Which I felt bad. It has been 70s/80s/90s for the past few weeks.
19. And so I advised my sister to pack more summer clothes.
20. Now of course she is here and it's freezing.
21. I'm craving brownies.
22. I will settle for sucking on a few chocolate chips.
23. I've been trying to come up with a reponse post to this and the posts/comments referenced within it.
24. I think I could start write about twenty typed pages about feelings of "not belonging" at church.
25. So who knows. If I could get my thoughts together in a coherant way there could be a post about it soon.
26. Apparently Isaac has been begging to learn piano.
27. My folks pulled out all the old basic piano books from the basement for him.
28. I have to admit, that one overwhelms me.
29. Piano lessons were so painful and not fun for me that I almost don't want to go there with him.
30. We'll see though.
31. In online dating anecdotes: my friend Jenni was checking her e-mail at lunch today on her iphone.
32. She announced that she had recieved an e-mail from a guy saying "Damn, you have some hot friends".
33. Needless to say, she hit ignore.
34. This guy at church the other day was straight up clipping his daughters toenails in the middle of the service.
35. And as if that weren't bad enough he was using the little file part to scrap junk out from underneath them.
36. I'm not exaggerating, I almost threw up.
37. Am I the only person left in the universe that has to do T9 texting?

That's all I got tonight...

What I've Been Listening to Lately

These are the ones I keep skipping ahead to on my ipod.

What are you listening to these days? I need some fresh songs...

This is what I need...

to make it through work today. And it's the end of the year, so tissues are a hot commodity at school.

thoughts on being a mom

These are my days:

But this is my life:

*bang, bang*

If listening to "The Warrior" by Scandal on repeat play for roughly an hour is wrong, I don't want to be right.... Whatever helps you keep your heartrate up, right? Even if it means embarassing yourself because you don't see your neighbor in his front yard with his dog at the moment you decide to belt out "Viiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiictory is mine!"

...yeah

So I have a question for all you excerciser types out there.

What do you do to prevent this?

I'm hoping there is another answer besides "Wear thick dorky socks".

Will my heels eventually develp calluses?

Or will the insides of my shoes just forever be a bloody mess?

"Besties with testes..."

Pretty accurate, no?

50 random thoughts

1. I made enchildas and spicy rice for dinner.
2. It's rare that I cook on a school night.
3. However, today I took a sick day to get my teeth cleaned.
4. And to take Isaac to kindergarten orientation.
5. My mom had dressed him adorably in a light blue polo shirt and his red crocs.
6. He was so nervous.
7. He did seperate from me and go with his class.
8. I had to sit through a very boring presentation on kindergarten.
9. It was a mix of explaining kindergarten activities (yeah very familiar with those), and convincing us full day kindergarten is better than half day (very controversial in the district, but A-ok with me)
10. Isaac left very excited to start kindergarten.
11. He said his favorite part was doing "hallway hugs" and walking quietly to the classroom.
12. Not sure why this was more fun than riding the bus, hearing a story and playing and coloring in the kindergarten room, but whatever.
13. Of course, I forgot the camera.
14. But I WILL remember to send it with my mom for the first real day.
15. Whatdaya think of the new blog layout?
16. The header is a little craptastic but it will do.
17. I finished Anne of Green Gables today.
18. I started Anne of Avonlea immediately after.
19. They are such wonderful books.
20. Next I am going to Netflix the old PBS specials of them.
21. Or rather, ask my mom to Netflix them for me.
22. Obviously something like Nextflix would not be in the new and improved budget.
23. Isaac hurt himself in the bathtub tonight doing push-ups.
24. When questioned why, he answered "Because they make you healthy and strong".
25. True.
26. But who's kid is this anyways?
27. Clearly not mine
28. Or his dad's for that matter.
29. (just saying)
30. I feel like I have a terrible headcold.
31. But my eyes are itchy so it must be allergies.
32. Or I could possible have pink eye AND a head cold.
33. In which case, I definitely should NOT return to work tomorrow.
34. It was so lovely to sleep in today.
35. I'm giving Margie Clark an Undomestic Goddess shoutout.
36. She's a stealth reader apparently.
37. I really like my new dentist.
38. He and his wife have a practice together which I think is so cute.
39. I really can't wait for summer vacation.
40. I'm mentally SPENT.
41. I have some students this year who are real pickles and I think we would all enjoy a break from each other.
42. I also have some adults I could use six weeks break from.
43. Things can get tense in a non-air conditioned elementary school.
44. Especially when you add 26 five years olds to the mix.
45. This will be the first year though that I will be giving up students to other teachers in the building. Last year I kept them all and the ones I didn't keep all ended up leaving the school for various reasons.
46. It will be a little sad to see some of my guys as SECOND graders next year.
47. But whatever, life goes on.
48. I sucked up one of Isaac's toy cars in the vacuum.
49. I cannot find it in the hose or anywhere in the vacuum though.
50. The vacuum is still working at about 50% capacity though, so who knows.