Finding Krissi

For Angie: Shut Up And Let Me Go - The Ting Tings For Willow Prisoner of society - The Living End My Favorite Verse Cos I'm a brat And I know everything And I talk back Cos I'm not listening To anything you say For Me: Because the video was filmed partly in Oahu. I'm so ready to go back. Jason Mraz - Im Yours (Official Video) -

Each year right before summer vacation I start to plan. I mean I have the kids all to myself for 12 weeks and I have learned that 12 weeks can either be the longest 12 weeks of my life or the shortest. One way to keep it on the short side is to keep the kids busy. Some swim lessons, maybe some tennis, maybe a short camp or two. Before you know it the summer has flown by. The way to make it on the long side. Say to yourself, "I'm tired of being busy, I'm just going to take the summer off and relax." The kiss of death mums. Kids are use to being gone and busy at school give them a whole summer off and it becomes ugly. Part of my plan has always involved a reading list for each of the kids. One thing I insist on is that they read all summer long. I make sure this happens by keeping my request list at the library full. Keeping bed time as close to normal as possible and letting them read instead of sleeping. I have to admit I have so much fun spending days researching th...

Listen to the MUSTN'TS by Shel Silverstein (of course) Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child, Listen to the DON'TS Listen to the SHOULDN'TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS Listen to the NEVER HAVES Then Listen close to me- Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be I need a very big dose of optimism right now. I was wondering if anyone has seen at the pharmacy lately a bottle that said optimism? I'm hoping that with a little more optimism I can weather this up and down life just a little more. As I mentioned a day or two ago I have been in a slump and feeling like a lump. Yes, obviously I have been reading to many poems. I keep trying to rhyme everything and I am having a good time. We are almost done getting all the beds ready for planting. I have cheated and done a little bit of planting already. Hopefully, Mother Nature is kind and doesn't throw any freezing temperatures at us. A neighbor said to me today that she sees me outside all the time and wonders what I am...

Last Friday was Al's birthday. Everybody say HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL!!! She is now five years old. Okay, not really she is seven. Okay, FINE she is NINE! Yes, nine! My little girl is getting big. I don't know where the time is going but every time I look up a year has passed. Al, had a pretty good birthday. After going to a very cold, very wet, very long soccer game, we headed to Salt Lake to Build-a-Bear. Everybody say hello to Jacob Yes, my cute little (FINE almost big) girl made a boy, basketball playing turtle, named Jacob. Whom she loves. As long as it is a stuff animal I'm okay. The birthday that she brings home a basket ball playing "boy" named Jacob, whom she loves, will be a whole other story. After we got home dad made her favorite meal and the rest of us got busy making birthday cupcakes. Mom baked Kid's Decorated Pink and Purple of course! I still have one girl who loves pink and purple. Then we ate, sang happy birthday, ate the cupcakes and are still wo...

I have been in a little bit of a funk. The weather is driving me mad and making me a little sad. I push on and try to forget and pretend that I am not in a funk but at last I am still in a funk. Tonight we ran over to the library to grab a few books. Al asked that we pick up a Shel Silverstein book. Brent has never read Shel Silverstien and asked, "Why does she want a book of poems?" On the way home I read a few to him. I think he understood. Any way I ran across the following poem and it just reminded how fun this life can be. Put Something In by Shel Silverstein Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-gumble song, Whistle through your comb. Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before. I told Brent that Shel Silverstein is one of my all time favorites and I use to spend hours reading his silly poems. I think he would have been a real fun person to know. I think it is time for me to f...

Have you ever fell in love with a song? Every time it comes on the radio you turn up the volume and sing. You bee bop down the road with a great big smile on your face. Thinking this is the coolest song, I love this song! You listen to the song a million or so times and then one day you just stop. In fact you don't even think about it for a while. Then one day out of the blue it comes on the radio and you find your self with a big stupid grin on your face. Memories flood back to the time that you loved this song. Maybe you remember a car you had at the time a love or maybe just a great vacation. I love how music does that. How one minute your driving down the street, zoned out, bored, duh ta duh, the next second you are belting out a song and remembering something great. Currently I am reading a book called, "The Healing Home," by Suzi Chiazzari. Honestly it is a little hockey, a little over the top, a little crazy. You know all the things that I love. I don't th...

I have a few minutes before I am out the door. I'm always on my way out the door. Sometimes I wish my house had no doors then I could just stay home and not leave and tell people, "Sorry, can't do that. You see my house has no doors and I can't get out." But at last I have doors. However, before I once again take off out the door I thought I would tell you a bit about my bike ride. Good News: It was AWESOME! It was the perfect weather to take off into the wild. I passed ponds, rivers, little ducks, big ducks, geese, goose, mamma cows looking ready to pop, one mama horse and her new baby, can you say ahhhh, and a baby goat.  Do you know the further you get out into the country people tie goats up in their yards to keep the weeds down.  Talk about a win win. The goat feeds itself and you don't have to mow the lawn. I know my neighbor hood has a no farm animal rule but do you think I could claim it was a lawn mower and not a farm animal? I finished 30 miles right...

We have sun people. Real sun. Real warm your buns, leave the windows open, play in the garden sun.  It is wonderful!  So wonderful that I am having a hard time finding the motivation to do anything but play outside.  I am forcing myself to keep the house clean. I am forcing myself to go to work today. I am forcing myself to acknowledge that the kids still have a month of school left. Oh, and I have to pull off an assembly for the school.  Anyone have any great Reflection motivation ideas? Anyways, all in all I have to say it is wonderful to have some good weather. It is making me feel all kinds of motivated in the bike department. Brent helped me dig a five hour block out today and I will be hitting the road for a 60 mile bike ride. Yikes and Yipee!! Little Red is in just 7 short weeks. I am having a hard time believing I am still doing this. Who rides there bike for 100 miles? I'm looking forward to the accomplishment but YIKES! Why can't they have a 100 hour garden parties no...

What seems like yesterday but was really a few years ago I was at a meeting. It was a meeting with a group of women for an organization I belonged to at the time.  At the beginning of each meeting the president would ask a question. A get to know you type of question. At this particular meeting the question was, "If you could have any kind of super power what kind of super power would you want?" Those questions are always fun. To hear the answers and to listen to the reason's why. It is always this little glimpse into a person.  As we worked our way around the room I wondered and thought what kind of power would I want. At the time I had three children the oldest approaching four and the youngest about six months old. I was feeling overwhelmed with motherhood, wife hood, and certainly womanhood.  When it was my turn I said, "If I could have any power I would want my super power to be desire, desire to clean  my house, desire to exercise, desire to do the laundry. Des...

I have to say that I loved every ones picks.  The interesting, the sad, the fun and umm the strange.  Willow, where do you go that you even hear those songs to begin with?  Also, I think the song your thinking of is Blasphemous Rumours by Depeche Mode.  Don't you think Ang ? Anyway, it was fun to listen through your choices and Angie I did find your song on YouTube found the lyrics too. Gee I wonder why it changes your mood.  I will have to think hard about that one.  I had fun listening to music and ignoring the weather. By the way it did turn to snow today. One day I am going to accept the fact that I live in Utah and it snows in April. Meanwhile, I am going to continue listening to cerebral music and seep into my great depression.  That is until tomorrow.  Tomorrow is the day I am suppose to register for school. The deadline of decision, "Am I returning to school?"  I'm having a hard time with this decision harder then I thought it would be. So tomorrow tune i...

After a week of enjoying beautiful sunshine and warm weather it is raining. Add to the rain a very high chance of snow storms. I am so depressed that I can't even work up the strength to rant and rave.  So instead I am listening to what Willow calls cerebral music and working up a great case of the blues. It is all very awesome. Want to join in on the fun?  Shoot me a comment of your favorite, "I'm to sad to deal with life song."  I will try to track the video down.  By the end of the day we will have the ultimate today could have been better song list. Fun right! Okay, whatever it gets me through the day so come on join in. Here is my first choice and the song playing on my computer right now. Joshua Radin, "The Fear You Won't Fall" if you are a Grey's Anatomy fan you may recognize it. Oh and if you have a song that makes the blues run away. Makes you jump up and boogey hey throw it in maybe it will chase the snow away. Songs are being posted below ...

Okay, due to Copyright laws these videos are not actuall videos but they are the song. How does that work? Anyway! Rock out people. HAPPY SCARY The Lyrics For Your Enjoyment Love me cancerously Like a salt-sore soaked in the sea. 'High maintenance' means You're a gluttonous queen. Narcissistic and mean. Kill me romantically. Fill my soul with vomit, Then ask me for a piece of gum. Bitter and dumb; You're my sugarplum. You're awful, I love you! (Chorus) She moves through moonbeams slowly She knows just how to hold me And when her edges soften Her body is my coffin I know she drains me slowly She wears me down to bones in bed Must be the sign on my head That says, oh... Love me dead! Love me dead! You're a faith-healer on T.V. You're an office park without any trees Corporate and cold Gushing for gold Leave me alone. You suck so passionately You're a parasitic psycho, filthy creature Finger-bangin' my heart You call me up drunk Does the fun ever start?...

Heather's Happy Song

Next time I am complaining and a griping and basically having a temper tantrum about the weather I want you to understand why. This is a picture of my parents soon to be old house. Taken this past week.  Notice the flowers, notice the green, notice the blooms, and look of spring. It don't look like that in Utah. Just so you understand. Twelve years of California living ruined me for Utah winters.

I don't know about you but I think it is time for a nap.

We have buds. Our first flowers have budded. It is with much sadness that I snipped the buds. In order for the plants to get bigger and bushier we have to remove the buds. However, right before I removed them I took these pictures. I am getting so excited to start planting! I want to do a happy flower dance!

I have spared you long enough. Here is another one of my goofy kids videos. I'm not positive but I think that this video says, "I watch WAY TOO MUCH TV!" What do you think?

If I could I would bottle the following: The thrill of a first kiss The fullness of love felt when you know that this is the one The whole world in your hands feelings felt on your wedding day The joy of meeting your baby for the first time The peace felt while cuddling with your little one The feelings felt after overcoming a great challenge The feeling of the sun The silence of the snow The smell of rain What would you bottle if you could?

I am continuing to train and prepare for the 100 mile bike ride come June 6th. The only wrench in my training is mother nature. I have had a couple of opportunities to ride outside and have discovered that a ride on a trainer is a world of difference from a ride on the road. Rides outside are full of ups, downs, wind, potholes, cars, and bike mishaps. I believe that in order to complete a 100 mile ride, I NEED some road training. Except that is not happening because we are still getting snow. Yes here we are solidly into April and it is still snowing. If you do a little blog hopping you will notice more than one Unhappy Utahan anxiously awaiting the end of snow. We are still waiting. I tried to get a ride outside this week only to encounter major wind. I pushed into the wind and against the wind the entire road. I even got a little sprinkle of rain that turned into snow later. All I can say is one little ride is not going to prepare me. I'm frustrated! On the other hand I h...

I have decided to take mercy on you and not detail every detail about our garden plants.  Really! There is no need to cheer that loudly. I have however created another blog where if you are just dying to partake of all our garden info you may visit.  Your still here aren't you?  Well obviously I don't think the masses are going to be lining up to read the blog but it is there if your curious. However, you are not clean off the hook.  You still have to look at pictures.  I will just save the words for the other blog.

With today being my Friday and the last day of a session and next week being spring break I'm in a good mood.  I know shocking!  One of my favorite good mood songs. Wash away my troubles, wash away my pain With the rain in Shambala Wash away my sorrow, wash away my shame With the rain in Shambala [Chorus:] Ah, ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Everyone is helpful, everyone is kind On the road to Shambala Everyone is lucky, everyone is so kind On the road to Shambala [Chorus] How does your light shine, in the halls of Shambala I can tell my sister by the flowers in her eyes On the road to Shambala I can tell my brother by the flowers in her eyes On the road to Shambala [Chorus] How does your light shine, in the halls of Shambala

Working at a swimming pool a strange thing starts to happen to you. You become less aware of the fact that you are wearing a swim suit. You become less aware that people around you are wearing swimsuits. Really in most instances you don't even notice the swimsuits. Which is ironic sense most people are so uncomfortable in what a swim suit discloses about their bodies. However, the truth is not that many people have fantastic bodies. It is an exception to the rule for a swim suit model to walk into the pool. Most people who come to the pool are everyday people with everyday bodies. That being said there are things us pool workers do notice. Things that I feel as your friend I must share. Things that have left young men scarred and us older ladies just plain grossed out. So here it is my first what not to wear swim suit addition. Rule Number One. Wear a swimsuit that fits. I see more women do harm to their figure wearing a suit that is two, three, four sizes to small then...