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I took this picture in December. We were driving home from a wonderful Christmas in Colorado with family. On the way back we passed through Snowville, Utah. Of course… I HAD to take a picture of the Snowville sign… as we drove snowly slowly through the snow storm through Snowville… Say that 5 times fast. I dare you.
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I let Olivia run wild with my camera on her last day of kindergarten - way back in June. It is very educational to see images of life through her eyes… After looking through her collection of photographs, I learned something about people her size… Eye level for our precious kindergarteners is approximately at adult butt level… Thus, a very flattering picture of *ahem* Olivia’s mother’s butt.
Does my daughter’s eye level make my butt look big??? Continue reading ‘The last day of kindergarten…’
And in 10 days we should be feasting like rabbits kings!
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Not too long ago, my husband’s aunt (a.k.a. - my aunt too!!!) emailed a few pictures of her son and his new fiance’. Perhaps I should be more specific - pictures of their butts! Can I just say, I love this family. How can you not love people who send you pictures of their butts so you can poke fun at them and publish their butts on the world wide world of internetting? I know. You are jealous. Yes you want them to be your family too. I never knew, that when I said “I do” nearly 14 years ago, one day I would be cropping and “touching-up” my husband’s cousin’s butt . Never knew.
Without further ado, another branch of my family tree.
Ummm, Matthew? I must ask my public -
I’m sorry… I had to do that Cuz.
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Now Cousin Matthew wants to know:
I can’t tell - your BUTT is in the way!
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Look at these crazies! I think I love them more than ever!
1, 2, 3… A regular methane triple threat!
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Drum roll please……………
I love you crazy family! My hubs didn’t get to choose his family. However - I did have a choice. But(t) I said “I do”, and I married him anyway… I guess what I am trying to say is… … … “I’m glad we’re family!” Thanks for stinking your butts out there for me. **smoochy, smoochy, huggy, hug, hug**
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Serious. Ya heard of Face Your Manga? Well, I first heard of it this morning from Evil Chef Mom when she commented on my last post. Girl, you are so cutting edge, becuase you know what happened???…
I logged onto Twitter and all the tweetples were all “What’s with all these avatars?…”Whut, whut, whut!!!” Twitter was all a-twitter! And I was all - waving my hands in the air with my “already know about this thing attitude” and not Twittering because my hands were waving and not typing! And then Mamikaze of Life on the Run @’d me on Twitter and was all, “http://faceyourmanga.com“ and I was all - “I know! I know!”
And I did totally face my manga this morning, but didn’t save her because I wasn’t happy about the curve of my chin…
But that’s it folks. It looks like I am going to need to commit here. Manga - game on!
Ooops. Wrong picture… Lemme try this again…
Me. Then… 
Manga Me!
My only complaint - no braces… no nose stud capabilites… and my eyes are not the same size. Golly I’m tired.
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Well, if I wasn’t full of myself before, I should be now because look who I look like - A LOT… On a likeness scale of 0% to 100% (with 100% being identical twin-ness), me and this hottie are like at 90%:
I. Know! I have no idea who she is, but I don’t care because she’s not ugly. OK, now I know who she is and well, save the inappropriate content - we have something else in common beside our good looks - she’s Czech, and word on the street is I am part Czech too!
I would like to thank The Bloggess for introducing the My Heritage site to me. It is just what I needed to prove to the world what I have been trying to prove since I discovered mirrors — I should have ben a model… at least from the chin up.
Oh wait. Da@# it.
Did you hear that? My ego balloon just popped. I’ll give you 63% of a likeness why:
and Myra at We Make Three recently asked if I would like to be part of her very fun and very brilliant musically-minded weekly post - Mixtape Monday. I! Know!
In keeping with the bent of my personality - I said, “Yes!” I mean, a whole post about ME and music and ME? Like, of course! I love to serve my public. I’m a giver. I was born that way. My middle name? Giver. Mmmm-hmmm…
Aaaaanyways… on Mixtape Monday, Myra features a different blogger who has made the world a better place all due to her fabulous taste in music and his/her top ten songs on his/her iPod. Mixtape Monday - isn’t that a great title! Isn’t that a great idea?! Oh, AND she asked for a picture. Dudes, I totally grabbed a picture that one of The Retro people took at one of their gigs. I was all “in the zone”, either dancing with myself or rockin’ the Casbah. Or both.
You want to know my top ten? I’m not telling! You ned to go visit Myra at We Make Three! Oh, and leave a comment - it’s like a virtual hug! Give her a hug for me!!! Go there as I do my part to spread the linky-love that makes to blog-world go-round in perfect circles… and also to read all the yummy, lovey, ever-so-true things she wrote about Me - lil’ ‘ol Me!
It is August 11th, and I have blogged everyday of 2008. Man am I tired. It hasn’t been hard to come up with things to write about, but it has been hard to find the time to write about the things I really want to. It is even harder to keep up blog reading! My feeds are out. of. control. I have 15 drafts in que - all incomplete. I have several post-its filled with ideas, a Word document folder with incomplete stories, and a file on my desktop filled with sites and blogs I want to write about and link to.
The summer rolled in like a steam train and I guarded my family time in the beginning… floated in the pool, went to the park, tried to keep things a little tidy around the house, and sorted through mountains of hand-me-downs that had been filling my basement for a year. I kept up with training after my half-marathon the beginning of June, and rolled half-heartedly into my triathlon training. Then Blog Her ‘08 came and went, a week-long visit from my parents, then my triathlon… Soon, Grandma will be here for a week and then a couple of other short family excursions will wrap-up August. School shopping needs to get done, neither of my 2 older children have had their check-ups, I need a blood-test to check on my thyroid levels, and there is a local sprint triathlon coming up the beginning of September, and I really want to do it. I gave up on the whole “Half Iron” tri - for this season. Oh, should I try a full marathon in November? I chalked the October marathon option last week. Too soon. If only I had no interests…
And NOW… the Olympics! I could gorge my eyes on all that is swimming. Michael Phelps… go! I watched his mother cheer for him on Saturday… my word it was precious. I cried with her. She doesn’t know it, but we cried together in celebration of her boy’s first gold in this Olympics. And then there’s Dara Torres, who could be my nemesis, except I’m not fast like her so I am just green with envy, and 6 years younger.
Did you see the Men’s 400 freestyle relay??? Me. Neither. !!!!! Why? Because I needed sleep. I set my alarm for 4:10 so I could get a sufficient workout after taking almost a week off. To assure I would get better rest - I took a tablet of melatonin. It takes me forever to get to sleep… except with this new tablet of magic takes over. I love thee melatonin…
SO. Whilst my husband laid in bed next to me and cheered the US mens freestyle relay to what look like the single most incredible swimming race any human could ever see !!!!!!!!!!… I slept. Hard.
And that, My Dears is a post in which I clear my head.
How do people do it??? Live. Blog. Eat. Mother children. Read and comment on blogs. Twitter. Work. Have an iPhone. Exercise. Go dancing. Blog. Sleep. ???? Any secrets? I am feeling like something has to give. And right now, I am thinking I am not ready to give up that melatonin…
Oh, here’s a first step… I’m not linking in this post. I’m sure Google will take you to all the hot Olympic coverage. I already ran 4 miles, but now (instead of linking)… I have to do some dishes, fold some laundry, sort some bills, make a hair appointment (roots are not pretty), get the spawn their breakfast, remind them to brush their teeth and wash their faces and find their shoes, and then we must catch a ferry and pick up Grandma from the airport. I wonder what I should make for dinner.
***rusting in pantry for Hamburger Helper***
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Remember when I wrote about the oldest Olympic swimmer - Dara Torres? Remember? She’s the one who has 2 stretchers - because, when your body is 41 - a girl kinda needs professional stretchers to gain that extra edge over the youngies. Like me, Momma K was a bit beside herself over this “stretcher thing” too.
Aaaaanyway.
I can’t recall how the conversation came about, but I mentioned something about stretchers and Dara to my friend Katie today. Katie, my running/triathlon partner in crime. She replied,
I’d need a stretcher too… bit it would come out of an AMBULANCE!
BWAH - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
I love Katie. I bet you love Katie too.
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Welcome to my new series, Note to Self. In this series I will simply post the mental notes to myself I usually leave and lose in my mind. Without further ado, my very first…
When your 6 year old daughter asks to listen to music “with a girl singing” - don’t play Madonna. Songs titled “Into the Groove” and “Lucky Star” seem innocent enough - until you watch your daughter lip-syncing the lyrics, “…touch my body…”. That’s just wrong. Very. Wrong.
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