Juggling Life

Yin and Yang

When I go to pick someone up at the airport I park in the conveniently located San Park cell phone lot. I have a view of a lot of other cars and a chain link fence.

When my husband I go together to pick someone up from the airport (in this case Danger Boy) he parks on the almost-as conveniently located Harbor Island. It's a bit more scenic.

I like to do the same things in the same, very efficient, way, so it's nice to have someone remind me there's another way to do things.

 

Because I have to get this out in the open . . .

(Also, I have a piece over at Mrs. G’s)

Many of you mentioned Zumba in response to what you do for exercise. Yes, I’ve heard of it. I’m sure you have quite a good time doing it. I know several people, including my SIL, who love it.

I will never (and by that I mean never, ever, ever, ever, ever) try it.

Why, you ask?

I have no (and by that I mean zero to the infinity) rhythm whatsoever. Like in a totally embarrassing way. On Dance, Dance Revolution I can make it through a whole song without hitting it right once. True story.

It’s a handicap I tell you.

But you all enjoy your Zumba without me!

Free Stuff Friday and First Grade Fail

To all those who were worried I would serve my darling first-graders virus-ridden cupcakes—rest easy. I had some blood work done today and am going to stay home until we figure out what I have or at least what I don’t have (it is definitely not H1N1). I may actually be having a reaction to the medication that has made my bronchitis improve. How frustrating is it that rest is the answer to so many problems and so hard to find the time for?

The sad part is that I won’t get closure with the students I’ve been with since their first day of school—a long time in the life of a 6-year old. Hopefully, I will be able to say a proper goodbye and deliver some homemade goodies in the next week or two—the school I’m going to has a different minimum day, so the timing should work out.

Now . . . onto the Free Stuff

Five—yes, five—winners will receive a copy of this just released CD. Now I would love to tell you how great it was, but the restricted release, watermarked CD that I received won’t play on any of the computers or CD players in my house. I guess that’s one way of ensuring I don’t engage in unauthorized copying or distribution!

Leave me a comment telling me your favorite love song and I’ll pick the winners two weeks from today. Hmmmm, now that I’ve asked you I’ll have to do some thinking about what my answer would be!

A Few of my Favorite Things

Books: This is very hard because I looooove to read. So, a partial list: The Poisonwood Bible, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Pigs in Heaven, Moo, The Deep End of the Ocean, The Good Mother, Glass Castles, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Pilot’s Wife, My Sister’s Keeper. As a child I loved all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, An Old Fashioned Girl, Little Women, Nancy Drew; as a teen-ager it was all the books by Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, James Michener, and Stephen King.

Movies: The Upside of Anger, High Fidelity, The Virgin Suicides, About a Boy, My Life as a Dog, Shawshank Redemption, Jerry Maguire.

Songs: Goodnight Saigon, Fortunate Son, Desperado, Crazy, I’m Still Standing, Get Off Of My Cloud, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Eleanor Rigby, plus the cast recordings of A Chorus Line and Chicago.