ten for tuesday, I want...

1. a Gucci Hobo

2. to win the lottery
3. a good night's sleep
4. tickets to this show
5. a fanny pack for my gear when I walk
6. a Messy Sundae
7. a trip to Jamaica
8. to go to a Cube concert

9. to visit this awesome shop in the ATL
10. a cool necklace like this one
please feel free to hook me up :)

Happy Mother's Day!

Aww, my hubby and dear little boy greeted me with breakfast in bed. Who knew D even knew where the tray was but I am glad he did since they made me feel very special. Oh, and there was no kitchen to clean up since it is my favorite dish from the restaurant by our house. D took N out in his jammies ;)

Ten for Tuesday the Fitness One

Ten things that really should be exercise and unfortunately aren't :(

1. Wrangling a 31 lbs. toddler in and out of the carseat, up the steps and away from anything more enticing than Momma's numerous requests.

2. Bringing bottled water from my car to my classroom. And since it is not exercise it is reason number 256 not to bother with bottled water.

3. Laundry. Between the sorting, folding and putting away it has to count for something

4. Marathon phone conversations with Z. If that were exercise, I would be invisible.

5. Getting the attention of my students. Yeah, right!

6. Trying to maintain a family. The mental effort is seriously more than a dozen laps.

7. Grocery shopping. The coupons, the list, the remembering the canvas bags...yeah totally worth something.

8. Channel surfing. With a million channels the effort it takes to find something interesting to watch is ridiculous and therefore exercise!

9. Cleaning. Enough said.

10. Sex. Just seeing if you guys were still with me :)

A Song in My Heart :)

For the love homework from Man, Wife and Dog we had to pick a song to share with our mate and document the experience. Easy peasy, right? Well I struggled with this one. There are just SO many songs that make me think of D. And since it could not really be "our song" that made it a bit harder. I couldn't decide if I wanted something that addressed our playful side, our super duper we have so many years/experiences side or the romantic side. Well lucky for me I remembered a song that is so sweet and always makes me think of him, "Watching You" by Ayo. It is such a pretty song about him being a gift to her and she always wants to have him by her side, just perfect for the sentiment that I wanted to share with D.

So since it took me a long time to decide I had to get busy to share it before we get a new assignment on Tuesday. After I put N down on Sunday night we got cozy on the couch and I played the song for him. His response? You don't do that, it's a cool song, nice. Did he gush? Nope. He seemed to like it but it wasn't super moving to him, at least it did not appear to be. And then as we were replaying the song so he could hear the words again the Osama bin Laden story broke the spell was broken. So I would not rate the experience a 10 or anything but I always enjoy sharing with him how much I love him. I think he appreciates that I do that more than one specific gesture. He enjoys that I am always loving him up. That my friends is a 10! Hope you like the song.

Truly Fascinating!

Well there was a huge hullabaloo about this royal wedding going on and while I was interested in her dress (meh) and the look of the event I would be more interested in the weddings of Reese Witherspoon or insert celebrity name here. But her sister looked fantastic and the accessories were certainly noteworthy.

Of course anytime I see a wedding, I think back to that day nearly 4 ys ago (yikes) when I said my i do's. And look who was rocking a feather fascinator...how British of me ;)

10 for Tuesday!

well since i spent most of the day feeling like it was monday this one is a bit unexpected, but here goes...

10 annoying things about Facebook...

1. The constant format changes, ugh.

2. The random friend requests you get from the spouse of one of your friends.

3. The people who do not have profile pics and they have the most common names ever...James Smith, I am going to need a picture to refresh my memory.

4. The people who post ass backward things about my President...don't get a virtual beat down.

5. Friend request from co-workers who are ok but are not the people who I need in my personal life.

6. All of the farmville, horoscope, mafia wars and gifts that people get obsessed with and you have to hear about it. Why don't you not hit me with a pillow for 30 pts.

7. The relationship status... like what comment is appropriate for someone who goes from engaged to single or its complicated. complicated? really?

8. The ads. They are not obnoxious but I think it is creepy how they are ads that are targeting me.

9. People who over-share. You can keep some business to yourself.

10. The events area, man life seems pretty pitiful when you don't have anything going on and your FB page reminds you you are a loser.

Because

because i miss you, because i love you and because i came across this today while cleaning. and yes, i know it wasn't quite like this but it is here because it should have been. (ZNJ)

childhood innocence

summer days we sat and swallowed watermelon seeds waiting

to see whose stomach would explode into ripeness

remember how you held a mirror to the sun

and asked me to shield you from the brightness

so often we interlaced fingers and recited nursery rhymes

from preschool days

days spent giggling, with you across the hall

always peeping through the opening looking at me

and me looking back

everyday we sat on the pier and you braided my hair

asking me to sit still so you could decorate me

with flowers we picked from the field

you tried to hold in your laughter from jokes that i told

and failed only to let giggles burst from lips

painted raspberry by cool Kool-Aid

and we would smile noticing our shadows disappear

into each other

while mosquitoes nibbled our legs and we refused to go home