Archives for 2008

I know it’s 1am on Friday and all but I had this post in my mind since I woke up and I don’t feel right going to sleep without posting it.

Appreciating Normal.

That’s what I’m thankful for today.  You know those days where you’re sick or something really wrong is going on and you just want normal back?  And then you get normal back and you don’t even think of it because, well, you feel normal.  Well, today I feel normal and I’m thankful.  Nothing hurts, I have no pain, no major issues.  Yes, life is busy and I have some frustrations but overall, I’m just…normal.  And I’m stopping to say it feels good.

Today was so frustrating.  We just moved servers on my OTH site and it has been CRAP since we moved.  SO slow and errors to the point people were emailing me complaining.  And you know I can’t handle that!  I wanted to ball up in a corner somewhere and cry.  I finally sent my host the “this is ridiculous and you better handle me ASAP or I’m moving” email and that seemed to jumpstart them a little.  With the help of a genius friend of mine, wordpress forums, and a lot of googling, the site is plugging along just fine right now.  And if you need to set your open_basedir in your php.ini file on your Apache server, I’m your gal.

My kitchen junk drawers to be exact.  This post is all in honor of my sister Heather.  She will be so proud.  Heather, look!

You could hardly open ANY of these drawers due to papers getting jammed.  In fact, the papers had started falling out the back and down into my pots and pans.  Nothing like finding a receipt in your small sauce pan!

I bought the drawer organizer in the second picture while I was with Heather at Wal-Mart the other day and it was just the thing I needed to jump-start this project.  Tonight I was just going to do one drawer.  I figured if I could just do one drawer, it would be a start and not be so overwhelming.  But in true Type A fashion, I had to do the entire project at once after getting started.  And really, it only took about an hour or so to finish up.

LOOK!  An (almost) EMPTY drawer!  NO papers.  This was the worst drawer for the papers jamming up and now, the papers are all put in their place.

And look! I even went through all my current to-do papers and organized them..

Yay for the organized kitchen drawers!

If you haven’t downloaded the Jesus Mii and you have a Wii, please do.  It’s hilarious to hear things like

“Jesus just passed me!”

“Daddy, what if Jesus passes you?”

“Jesus is doing step with us!”

“Jesus is throwing you a hula hoop!”

I finally have one of my own.  I feel like doing a victory lap around something seeing how hard it was to find one of these things except for the fact that I kind of feel sore and don’t really feel like running at all.  If I were to actually DO the Wii Fit every day which of course I plan on doing *ahem* you really could get quite fit. 

Apparently, however, Mr. Balance Board doesn’t think I’m so fit at the moment though with messages like "your lower body is lacking strength" and "i can tell you fell off the board, work on your balance".  Mr. Balance Board wasn’t very nice to me.  At least I have something to work on I guess.  Let me show you the excitement from tonight…and no, I did not make one of those crazy little hula hoop videos.

We opened the UPS package…I love mail!  Especially boxes!

They got IN the box while I installed batteries

Then got all comfy in with snacks to watch

While I got ready and prepared to hurt.

But it didn’t take long for them to join in…

Let me pause here to apologize for my outfit.  And yes, I did change because I couldn’t get my leg to stay in the yoga Tree pose with the pants on.  And no, the top and pants don’t go together but I was too lazy to completely change into a matching outfit.  It’s not like I was going to get someone to take pictures and post them on the Internet or anything though sheesh.

Here’s the yoga Tree pose. I love how Lexi has her foot on her knee in the front.

We hula hooped.  I seriously wasn’t going to post this but I love Emma’s mouth in this and the fact that she looks like a mini me.  If I were to post the other pictures, you’d see she was following perfectly.

And wow, the RUNNING. I barely made it!  I know I look like SUCH A DORK.  In fact, it looks like I’m about to punch myself in the face.  Can I just say the soccer head butting thing was hilarious when you got hit in the head with a shoe?  I could barely concentrate I was laughing at it so much.  But we really had fun exercising together.

Looking forward to using this thing more.  I really do miss going to the gym and haven’t gotten into my elliptical.    Maybe with this, it will jump start me back into it.  Then again, I think it all depends on how my relationship with Mr. Balance Board pans out.