Quote

"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day to day living that wears you out."
-Chekov

I read this quote in the book, "Captivating," the female version of "Wild at Heart." John Eldridge and his wife, Stasi co-wrote this one, it's good.

This quote made me stop and think. It's in reference to how women are tired and drained, but it's not from a life of shared adventures, it's from lives that are crammed with routine, chores, and hundreds of demands. It says that, "Somewhere between our youth and yesturday, efficiency has taken the place of adventure."

I think it can also be applied to men as well, we all have that sense of life being filled with demands that wear us out, instead of adventures that are fulfillingly tiring.

Any thoughts?

Wet Dog Stinks!

Tonight is my last night of house/dog sitting and I have to say that I am ready to be done. I always forget that it is more work than I think, until I get the list of pets/amphibians/reptiles to feed, not to mention the dog and cat.
There are always more things to do than you think.. like feeding the Bearded Dragon meal worms and lettuce every other day, watering the boy's jalepeno plant every day, cleaning out the water dish of the turtle and feeding it lettuce every other day. Oh, and once while they're gone feed the slimy tree frog some meal worms as well. The feeding just consists of tossing the worms in their cages, but first I use a fork to sift through the sawdust to find the nasty things. And this evening, while tossing the lettuce in the dragon's cage, it decided to lunge at my hand, the lettuce flew all over the cage and I quickly shut the top. ICK! What teenage girl in their right mind has an ugly dragon for a pet?? I guess this one does, but not me... I'm doing well to keep a fish alive for more than 3months.

I had to work later today and didn't think of how it was pouring outside, and the dog stays out all day long. OOPS... I got home to find the neighbor girl who walks the dog every day, standing with an umbrella waiting to tell me something about the dog. Turns out she "got her period" in the girl's words :). Yes, she went into heat and so that means she's dripping, so I kept her outside. But, the rain was letting up and did stop by about 7:30, so I didn't feel bad. I called their owners and he said it was fine to leave her out. I can have a clear concience(how do you spell that??). So, she was a wet stinky dog when I let her in to go in her kennel tonite. I'm not awful though, I did dry her off with towels as best I could!

I've come to the conclusion that I'm really okay with not having animals at this point in my life. I had a dog and cat growing up and loved them, but I've now grown accustomed to not having hair all over and not having the extra responsibility. I do think that I'd let my children have pets though, they are great for helping them learn responsibility... and good companions as well.

That's the long and short of it... until next time... free of pets...

toodles-

Have you ever?

This is a very random one today...
so anyways...

Today on my way to work I was listening to my new Jack Johnson cd... i should say new to my ears because it's Brushfire Fairytales, not the newest one, In Between Dreams, I already have that one. Okay, so as I was listening to the song "Mudfootball" I started clapping with the song at the end. It has the claps in it already, it was just the oddest thing, because I usually am not one to do motions to songs, especially while driving in my car. I must have been really into the song. It just made me laugh... ever do those things? It's kind of like speaking before you think, but in actions :) haha.

that's all for today...

toodles-

Always an Adventure!

My sister and I got together last night for dinner and much needed catch-up sister bonding time. We met in Albertville at the outlet mall because she moved up to Sartell in the spring, and that's about half-way for us.
A little way down the road from the mall there are some little retail stores etc., Coburns'(apparently my sisters favorite new(to her) grocer), and a "Majors" grille and bar. I had never eaten there, so we decided to give it a shot. They had a special going on, you could get a 10" one topping pizza for just $4!! Sweet... so we both did that.
We caught each other up on all the drama and not drama that was going on and I shared with her stories and pictures of Belize. When we finished eating we started looking at pictures and just five short minutes into it, 50cent and other bump-n-grind songs were pumped into the speakers. Wouldn't you know, we picked the DJ night to have a good sister bonding time, ugh... owell, we drove back to my car and sat in her Jimmy looking at the rest of the pictures and jabbered for another hour and a half or so.
Close to when we were just realizing we should probably leave (it was close to 11pm), we heard a few clicks. It didn't really do anything else so it didn't phase us. Well, turns out that if you sit in a car with the radio on for a long time, it just might cause the battery to die. DOH! What the heck were we thinking?
Here the adventure starts... we of course don't have jumper cables, that would be way too convenient. Not a big deal, we'll just go to the nearest gas station and buy some, then they'll be there for future mis-haps. We get to the first gas station... closed. Second gas station.... closed. Third gas station... you get my point, closed. Damn small towners and closing early, it's all the fault of those pay at the pumps!
Then we think, oh yeah, we'll go to Coburns, they're a store, they should have jumper cables...
nope, they'd be in the gas station connected to the store which was of course.. closed. And of course they are seperate entities, so you still can't buy anything from them.
So, with two sleeping children at home, I wouldn't ever think to have Pat come down and get Karen, so I drove her home. I decided to just stay there the night and get to work early this morning... so on the way I stopped at Target and had an excuse to buy a new shirt and unmentionables... i hate the words that describe them, so anyways... (i should have put the word "panties" on my survey from wed. night about what word you hate... but I don't know if that would've been appropriate... for those of you who don't know... the leaders filled out a survey of questions and they'd read random ones for the kids to guess which leader it is/was)

So... there you have it! I'm off to a Howie Day performance... a free show in fact! Hurray for free events! Mpls Aquatennial starts up.. woop woop!

toodles all...

Happy 4th of July!

Hello again my friends... what a beautiful day to celebrate our Nation's birthday!

As I sit here, this is the second day I've been back from the beautiful country of Belize and I'm glad to be home. Sometimes I have a hard time being home, but this time around it feels really good to not be sweating 24/7 and not have biting flies attacking me at night, or unrestful nights of sleep because of those two things.

Today I will be spending the day with my parents, my sister's fam, and our good friends The Robinson's. We're going to Lake Orono in Elk River... picnicing and playing in the water with the boat... tubing and what not. And at the end of the day I believe they shoot off fireworks over the open water. Fun stuff!

I'm off to do that, but wanted to post something finally after two weeks down. :)
Have a blessed and safe day!