Hello, everyone. The weather today is glorious. Warm sun and cool air, moderate temperatures (okay, warm temperatures, considering it's January) and a largely cloudless sky. And since we all know how dependent I am on the weather, we will not be surprised in the least to hear that I am feeling happy.
Happy, happy!
You know, I live a great life. Yes, we are worried about money, but I am not worried about losing my house. Yes, I would like to get a good job, but I am technically working for the school district, and I know a lot of people would give much to have that. Yes, I oinked out at Christmas and need to eat right and exercise, but I can do those things, without limitations from my own body. (Well, I hardly count the back trouble. Something tells me I wasn't going to rush out and do some aerobic bungee jumping anyway.) In fact, I just took a walk. YAY! I love walks, and forget sometimes that I don't need to wait for the whole family to go on one. And how often do we take for granted that we are in possession of all of our limbs, or the ability to control them? Yes, I worry about how my children are going to turn out, but really they are bright, reasonably well mannered, and happy. I'm already way ahead of many people.
Look at the things we worry about! If this is really the undesirable part of my life, then I'm doing pretty good, wouldn't you say? Life is great. Especially when the windows are open.
I just re-read a book I own called The Peach Keeper, by Sarah Addison Allen. I really like her writing. It's charming. I wanted to check another of her books out from the library, but my library is chronically disappointing. It didn't have anything of hers in town. In fact, anything I wanted (and I had quite a list again) had to be sent for, if, in fact, they had heard of it at all, which was a big negative in several cases. They didn't even have Daisy Miller! I found the experience repulsive, and so I didn't reserve anything. I have a gift card to Barnes and Noble, and I am even more anxious than ever to use it now. However, I do get tired of buying books I've never read and then not really wanting them anymore. Maybe I should grab a box full of those and donate them to the damned library!
Tonight I am making my easy meatloaf. I'm looking forward to it.
Taiko last night was detail intensive, and I enjoyed it. we had a workshop with Kris and Maz from On Ensemble. For those of you who don't follow the "sport", On Ensemble are world famous, and also somewhat experimental. Kris and Maz are ridiculously talented, fun, and fascinating guys. We had a great time. We were fine-tuning the strike when the taiko is on the slant stand, which our group refers to as a Sukeroku stand, as it was first implemented by Sukeroku Taiko.
Oh! Did I not tell you about our busy weekend? Last Friday was Abbie's 7th birthday. She had macaroni and cheese shells and hot dogs for dinner. On Saturday, I made a white cake with chocolate icing, and we had smores ingredients, Muddy Buddy/Puppy Chow, depending on what you call it at your house, apples with caramel dip, and pringles. We popped two kid tents in the living room, and I put orange ribbons on the grate of one of the living room vents, to be our campfire. Abbie invited 7 kids from her class, and I invited many family friends, and a boy from Grant's grade to come play with him during the party. I think about 4 people RSVPed, and they were all family friends. Zero calls from the school friends. Two girl buddies showed up. We actually had a great time, and both girls spent the night. We made a ton of popcorn and watched a movie, too, because when you are camping indoors, you have the best of both worlds. They told "Scary Ghost Stories" too. It was hilarious. One girl wanted the zombies to be vicious, and the other one wanted them to have a nice dinner together. They slept in the tents, but one of them talks in her sleep, so I didn't sleep at all! If she was just talking, that would be fine, but she screams, "NOOOOO!" so I was constantly thinking the dogs had gone in the tent. Not counting that, there were no upset words the whole time. A success! We ate doughnuts and played pirates in the morning. It's good to be in elementary school.
Funny story: It was time to put on daytime clothes, so I took the girls to Abbie room and made sure they had everything. I was sitting on the couch, when Amelia walks in with her clothes saying, "I'm going to change in here!" I said, "But there are boys in here." She turned and headed back to Abbie's room, muttering, "They're everywhere you go!!" Hee.
Amelia lives in O'Fallon, so we met her family half way, in Wentzville, for lunch. I got bullied into getting a huge chocolate shake at Steak N Shake, when I only wanted a kids sized one. Otherwise, the food was great, although the service at that location keeps getting worse and worse. Our waiter was nice enough, but he screwed up the check, and the guys in the kitchen really didn't get our orders right. Just fair warning to any of you who might consider going there in the future. Actually, now that I think about it, no other chain gets our orders incorrect as often as Steak N Shake. I hope someone out there is listening and can fix that, because we really enjoy eating there...
We went straight from lunch to a diaper party for our friends the Colburns. They are about to have their 4th boy. They are wonderful and sweet and I am very fond of them all. We hadn't been out to their home before. It was a little awkward, because we were the only non-relatives present! However, everyone was super nice, and we had a great time. We were the first to leave, because we didn't want to wait for the kids to start showing how tired they were. It was still after 4 when we came home. For family game night, we played Abbie's new Angry Birds card game.
I got my hair cut finally, and did some grocery shopping today that I've been needing to do. If I don't have work tomorrow, I'm going to do some taiko photo archive work.
I love sunny days!
My life is a happy thing, and wonderful, and good. I may be insignificant, cosmically speaking, but who cares - I don't need more than what I have. Well, unless it's a new book.
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Love you all!!!!!
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