Moving Day!

I have all of my belongings packed up...

In a small, empty Pampers box...

I'm moving to gmail.

I'm scared.

What if my friends don't receive my change of address card?

What if I miss important information because managing three email accounts, one facebook, one blog, and countless other logins/passwords/freaking crazy combinations of letters and numbers and security questions and retina recognition software is about to drive me insane?

I guess I will deal.

On the bright side, I did not break a sweat today. Whew. Easiest move I have ever made.

Like Mother...Like Daughter

I'm frightened. Scared out of my mind.

She's just like me. Mini-Marcie.

I have heard that I should think of myself, double it, and that is what I'm going to have with my daughter. She's going to the basement when she is 5. I will feed her, bathe her, and allow some daylight to get to her...but that's it. (Of course this is a joke... no need to come and take her from me. But I'm really scared.)

Proof positive:

She went to the drawer where I keep the koozies and selected one. Then she put her sippy cup in it. Oh my.

Can you see why I am scared? I know I didn't know what a koozy was until I was at least 7 or 8. She's 2.

Goodbye to an old friend

I did it. Yesterday. I said goodbye to an old friend.

My nails. *sob*

I have had these nails on since the spring of 2001 with a short, one-month exception in the fall of 2002. But I had them. The same person has been doing them since November 2002. Every three or four weeks. A shiny new coat of red nail polish. Beautiful nails.

I took eight of them off myself over the course of a few days (nerves, I think). Then I had Becky take them the rest of the way off and clean them up. Now I have short fingernails. And I feel ugly.

Hideous.

But the funny thing is that no one has noticed. Not one person.

Except me.

I have an appointment on Wednesday to have them put back on. I am weak. And I can't feel ugly right now.

One of those days

Everyone in the ville was out driving Maple today. Crazy January day after people have been trapped inside and everyone chooses to be on Maple at the same time.

Went to Wal-Mart. Not my typical WM, the one on the north end. Went there b/c I thought it would be faster. Faster because I was headed that direction anyway. Faster b/c I could not imagine that everyone and their brother, mother, sister, and cousins would be there. (Hence the traffic on Maple, I think.) Why aren't all Wal-Marts set up the same? I did the Wal-Mart 500 today looking for chapstick. I also did it looking for gum, which I did finally find. But no luck on the chapstick. Heaven forbid I stop to ask for directions.

This morning I wanted to wash the salt off of my car so I went to the car wash. It was not working. I went back this evening after I left a birthday party, and it was working this time. Only it wasn't. I put my $7 in (splurged to have the undercarriage done too) and pulled in. I stopped. The lighted sign told me to back up. I did a hair. Then it said, "Thank you. Please exit." I paid $7 to pull into the car wash, back up, and then pull out. What? So then I had to go inside and get a code to get it washed. It actually worked the second time and now my car is shiny and clean. Whoop.

Speaking of the birthday party, I ate so much good food that I probably won't have to eat again for a week. Whoop.

Back to the list

Not doing a good job of blogging often, eh?

1. Flannel PJs.
2. Blankets.
3. Living. {My} Life.

Happy Friday!

Fab Friday

Today is my childhood best friend's 30th birthday. I went to see her for a few minutes today and gave her a card and a small gift from my gift closet that I had been saving for this exact day. I was going to send her flowers also, but I am glad that I did not. Her "desk" at work was covered in them. It was great to see her, and she called while on her way home/parent pick up/drop off at daddy's house and we talked for 1.5 hours. Just like when we were kids. Isn't that the best thing about childhood friends? The old friends (no, I didn't mean that she is OLD...just that she is an old friend) that you can pick up exactly where you left off with. The ones who know entirely too much about you and will tell you how YOU handled the situation long before you can formulate the words to tell HER how you did it. I love it!

So - happy birthday, Danielle. Ya old fart.

A few things for my list today:

1. Mascara. Without it, I would appear dead.
2. Idiots who work at Burger King. I paid someone else's bill today instead of my own. His was cheaper. In my defense, I didn't realize it until I got home.
3. 1/2 and 1/2. Just makes my coffee taste so much better.
4. facebook.
5. Bob and Sheri in the mornings to get me going.

A short list today. I need to try to find the notes I have been writing down. It would be helpful if I could keep everything together in one spot. I'm not quite sure how to accomplish that.

Is it only Tuesday?

Went back to work yesterday after a few weeks "off" and am so blasted tired tonight. It's only Tuesday. I swore it was Wednesday or Thursday already. Really. I did. I thought I slept through the end of the week and have the weekend staring at me again. Not so much.

I tried to be funny in class this morning and apparently I had had more coffee than my students because not many of them laughed at my jokes. Yes, jokes. I told multiple. By the time I had threatened them to laugh at least once or I would reduce all grades by multiple letters, I had a few chuckles. Do you think they were being kind? Oh well. It'll get better.

It can only get better. Trust me. I wanted to escape the classroom. But I was trapped. Like a monkey at the zoo.

On with my list.

1. Books and reading (can this count as one or two? I am thinking one since they are so closely related. We'll see when I get to number 99 and need one more. Then I might split them up. But it's my project so I can change the rules if I want.)
2. Coffee.
3. My red fingernails. I haven't listed that yet, have I?
4. My cell phone. It's red too. And it plays cool music. I love music.
5. Music. (I'm not cheating...it was really next.)
6. Flip flops in the summer and for house shoes.
7. Firewood. My house is warm. All the time. And I'm not paying a fortune in gas bills. Which is a good thing since I have no fortune. (Mom - could you perhaps hurry up and find yours so you can give it to me? Thanks!)
8. Paper. Any old kind of paper will do, but I particularly love pretty patterned papers for scrapbooking and card making. And post-it notes. And plain old notepaper. And any kind of wrapping paper, cards, gift tags, receipts, etc. I am always buried in a pile of paper. I love it. The way it smells and feels. Ahhhh...
9. Tiaras. Like old 80s hair - the bigger the better.
10. Photos. (See #8 regarding paper...if I can obsess that much about note paper, imagine how bad it is when I see people I love [even ones I don't] in a photo!)

Can you tell it is way past my bedtime and that I have had entirely too much coffee today? As if four cups were not enough before I left home today, I had another at work and then made another small pot (two cups) when I got home from work tonight. Whoa. I will be amazed if I sleep at all. Thankfully Wednesday is my early day and I do not have class tomorrow night! Thank goodness for conferences in Baton Rouge (where my prof will be and the reason for cancelling class)! Enough with the ! I am off to bed!

Great Quote for Today

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes
action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
-- Gillian Anderson

Love this! In the spirit of posting my list of things I love, I'll add one more on here today:

1. Great quotes.

I think this one is a keeper and I will be sure to share it with my students when they begin to freak about looking for jobs.

Random Things I Love

I have been working on a list for a scrapbook page idea I stole from somewhere. The gist is that you place words on a page representing things you love. The idea was 100 things. My list is growing, but I am not quite at 100 yet so I don't want to actually start the scrapbook page until my list is final. Aside from the obvious choices of family and pets, I am going to list my 100 loves on here in no particular order (10 at a time so don't go running away from a boring list counting to 100). I think this will be a yearly project for me to see how much things change in one year.

1. Pepperidge Farm Creme Filled Pirouette Rolled Wafers (french vanilla)...my current snack of choice.


2. My flatiron.


3. Water.


4. Chapstick.


5. Clinique Happy.


6. Sabon soap.


7. Shoes.


8. Jewelry.


9. Bud Light.


10. Peanut butter.

I am finding that this list is a great summary of me. Well...100 things isn't quite a summary, right? More like a short story.

The first of the new year

Happy New Year! 2009 has so far been one of new experiences and lots of laughter. So far so good.

I have decided my word is going to be journey for this year. After all, isn't life just one long journey to our final destination? I am going to be making many small trips this year (and not to the land of crazy!) and experiencing new things. Each day should be an adventure as I learn to navigate through life.

Yesterday, for example, I took the entire Christmas tree down by myself. I started on Thursday with only the ornaments (and that took 2 hours). Friday, during Ella's nap, I tackled the lights, ting ting, and the branches. I put everything away in a very organized fashion so that I would not have a huge struggle next year trying to get it back up again. I reorganized one storage space so that I could fit more of the heavy stuff in the main level of the house (smart thinking, eh?), and then had some help carrying the tree and the big box of ornaments downstairs for final storage.

I said goodbye to an old friend yesterday - a couch. A couch that had belonged to my grandparents and that I purchased for $50 when the majority of their things were sold. It moved three times with me and until moving to my current house was the couch I sat on, napped on, and cleaned regularly. It has been in Ella's room since moving here. Since I am tired of Toys 'R Us dumping its contents in my living room, I have decided to take the couch out of her room and make room for most of her toys in there. That process will continue today.

The couch got a good home and will continue to be loved.

I got my refund confirmation for the shoes I sent back the other day...an extra $140.16 is now mine! Whoop whoop! (Yes, if you are scratching your head...three pairs of shoes went back. They were all on sale, but when I look at the amount of the refund for three pairs of shoes I kind of scratch my own head...)