A Reminder As We Head Into Super Tuesday

Once again, this is why I love South Carolina. Where else do you find city names like "Prosperity"?

It's a New Month

Matt has asked his staff to incorporate new daily disciplines into their routines this month. He does this often and they are VERY hard to actually do. I am posting this months challenge as a challenge to those who read this blog to also take part in this. The season of Lent begins next week, so it is always helpful to consider this time of year as a season of self-denial and start to remove the grip that certain vices may have on our lives.

Some people choose to keep their disciplines private in order for it to remain something just between them and God, but I need as many gold stars in my life as possible, as well as a forum for public shaming in order to keep me on my toes and actually do the things that I attempt to begin.

So with that being said, here is the months challenge: Exercise 30 minutes a day, Monday through Friday. Exercise can be many things, so for me it is going to mean continuously moving my body for 30 minutes straight.

In order to keep myself held accountable, I will post what kind of exercise I have done for the day. I will also post the most motivating song of the day, so that by the end of the month I will have a kick-a** playlist to run to. I will also post on Saturdays what my starting weight for the week was and what my weight was one week later. This is NOT about weight, but it helps to see how effective I am at what I am doing. Also, if I gain weight...it might motivate me to work harder. If I lose weight, maybe it will encourage you to begin an exercise regimen.

Mostly, this is just about me and how MUCH it helps me to be a better mom, wife and person when I am taking care of myself physically. During the season of Lent, I will add more disciplines into my life for the 40 day period. But for today, I just have to get 30 minutes under my belt! And hopefully, I will be able to tighten that belt even smaller by the end of the month. How about you? Will you incorporate any disciplines into your life this month? Share them here! (keep it clean please)

Kickball Anyone?

Buncombe County Adult Kickball League
Here’s something a little different: Buncombe County Parks and Recreation is starting an Adult Kickball League this Spring. Anyone interested in putting together a team to compete?

The details:

Time: Tuesdays & Thursdays from 6 - 9 p.m.
Location: Buncombe County Sports Park, Field #8
Fee: $25 per person or $200 per team (includes shirts & awards at the end of the season)
Season: April 8 - June 5
Registration: January 15 through March 15, 2007
League rules: you must have a least 12 players per team. Season will consist of 8 games and a league championship game with trophies for the winners.

Anybody wanna play? If we can come up with a team from the blog---I will sign us up! Comment away!

Good News and Bad News

Good News? None of us have strep or the flu. Praise the Lawd.

Bad News?
NKOTB is back.

seriously Donny?
and anyone else familiar with an INSANE rumor when we were kids about Jordan and the contents of his stomach? Just checking if that rumor made it across the ocean from Korea to the states or if that was just an Itaewon Village rumor.

Obama Knows

I am not going to get too much into political doings, but I will say that Obama was campaigning in Columbia, SC this past week leading up to his VICTORY in South Carolina and made a stop at Harper's in Five Points. While Hillary was campaigning at Shoney's.

Shoney's people.

Would you rather have a pimento cheese burger with shoestring fries or SHONEYS?

That my friends, is what the political race has become. I just summed it up for you in one question.

He's Got A Man Cold

I just got finished putting everyone in my house to bed. By everyone, I mean everyone.

I had to take Matt to Urgent Care this afternoon because he came home with his teeth chattering because he was running such a high fever. How high? Try 105.

So, Robin Plemmons comes over and watches the kids while I take Matt to Urgent Care. They swab him and it turns out that he has Strep Throat AND the Flu.

Sweet. They said that he would be highly contagious until Thursday. That's right, Thursday. Oh and yes, ALL of us received flu shots in December.

Just to remind you what Matt can be like when he is sick just watch this again:



I just watched the first five seconds of this video again and it just made me roll my eyes at the sound of the mouth breathing and the pitiful little sighs. I am already SO OVER him being sick. I mean, I feel REALLY bad that he feels so rotten. But seriously.

FYI: Instead of a little bell, Matt is texting me from behind the door in our room. It is actually considerate because if he was yelling, the kids would want to go play with him. So he texted me, "Can you bring me my cold medicine?" Awesome. I am so looking forward to the next five days.

It's been quite a year

I am somewhat of a nerd and I own up to that.
So far this year, I have read The Life of Pi and A Thousand Splendid Suns and I just started reading Water For Elephants. Last night I started to read and it was so late, that I only got two chapters into it. But I went to sleep with that blissful feeling of a good book is coming in the next few days. I say days, because I don't linger with books I like. I read them, I eat them like food and I do nothing other than read until I have conquered the book. It is why I can't read or shouldn't read three books that over 300 pages each in one month. Everything else slides to the rear of the importance chain. When I was single, this was no problem. As a mom, wife and employee; this pretty much spells disaster for life around me. You should see the pile of laundry that I had to tackle tonight because I have not folded any laundry since I did it all three days ago. I haven't EVEN started my next book.

Argh.

Songs that make you think

This morning was my morning off from my kids because of my wonderful co-op with my Weaverville girlfriends. And I took the morning to myself. I made dinner in the crock-pot and because I am a crack head, I decided to go running. Outside. In 35 degree weather. I was cold when I started, but by the end of the run I was a sweaty mess and felt AMAZING. I haven't run outside in months for several reasons, two of them are named Lucy and Asher. But I was rocking out to my ipod on shuffle and NightSwimming by REM came on.
This may not seem like a natural song for many of you to run to. But, I was a freshman in high school when Automatic for the People came out. I remember buying the tape at the time, and it was so cool-clear YELLOW. How original! Haha. Anyway, it was one of the first cd's that I bought when I got my first CD player. (The CD was all yellow too) I can pretty much sing every word to every song on that cd right now. It was so great to hear a song that brought back so many memories, good and bad. Some were really sweet and others were that annoying dramatic high school moments when I just needed to listen to this cd in order to FEEL deep.
Anyway, I was loving the song, loving sweating while running around a frozen lake and looking at ducks. All without my children. Bliss.

Sorry that I haven't updated the blog with anything of substance lately. I got the flu over the weekend (just gave it to Matt) and have had no energy. Along with, I have been working a lot of hours trying to close my first sale and getting it kicked off the ground. Hurray for my new job!

Anyway, here are the lyrics to Night Swimming just in case you don't know the song!

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago,
Turned around backwards so the windshield shows.
Every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse.
Still, its so much clearer.
I forgot my shirt at the waters edge.
The moon is low tonight.

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
Im not sure all these people understand.
Its not like years ago,
The fear of getting caught,
Of recklessness and water.
They cannot see me naked.
These things, they go away,
Replaced by everyday.

Nightswimming, remembering that night.
Septembers coming soon.
Im pining for the moon.
And what if there were two
Side by side in orbit
Around the fairest sun?
That bright, tight forever drum
Could not describe nightswimming.

You, I thought I knew you.
You I cannot judge.
You, I thought you knew me,
This one laughing quietly underneath my breath.
Nightswimming.

The photograph reflects,
Every streetlight a reminder.
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night.

Has Anyone Seen This?

It is a couple from China that is kissing in the subway station and all of these Chinese subway workers are mocking them in Chinese as they kiss FOREVER. It is hilarious.
Enjoy!

How much do I love Conan?

This makes me want to own Rock Band just for the fun we would have around the house.

Pssst: Don't tell Matt.