another saturday is almost done...

just watching the olympics, taped of course on nbc...the 5000 m race is being shown...earlier i watched springboard diving, rhythmic gymnastics and basketball...i stayed home and cleaned, as i earlier had threatened to...matt is sleeping, actually waking up and looks very exhausted...kim was at james' house, then went to the fair...the fair ended tonight, essentially "ending" summer in the local area...schools are starting, the fair is over, september is on its way...this is a great time of year in some ways, not so great in others...i like the change of seasons, the crisp coolness of the mornings, the red-orange-yellow leaves that burst onto the scene only to fall dry to the ground and are eventually crunched into nothingness...leaves undergo a life cycle much like humans do...we begin small, wet, green (as in inexperienced), we develop and grow from nourishment, blossom, then dry up and die...oh, that was depressing and not necessarily true...i dried up and died, only to be reborn, in a way, in different ways...i think faith and salvation was the main rebirth, my divorce was another, and some of the trials of my life helped me be reborn again, too...it sounds strange that 1 awesome thing and 2 seemingly awful things would positively shape my life...this has been a weird blog...my tiredness and fatigue are affecting my thoughts and my rambling is getting weird...what to do tomorrow?...i plan to go to church, not sure i will though...still have much organizing and throwing out stuff before school really gets into swing...laundry...final olympic day...republican national convention starts soon...it's just after 10 pm and for some reason, cbs is not rerunning tuesday's amazing race...oh well, i watched it already and matt is asleep and therefore will not be watching...

for some reason i feel compelled to describe my surroundings...as i type, the irritating buzzing and droning of my el cheapo computer continues...it sounds like a car engine that has something terribly wrong with it...next to the computer is a ps2/dvd given to the kids by their grandparents...a couple of matt's ncaa video games are in front, along with a johnny depp dvd fest including secret window, sleepy hollow and oh, sorry, seven, without johnny depp..to the left of the computer is the useless printer and the tower from which all of those buzzing and droning noises emit, and some computer paper, and some school stuff of the kids...then the tv attached to an old vcr with cry baby and an old er episode on a tape, the karaoke machine with eric's vocal improv cd, a cardboard box filled with hundreds of photos from 1962 to current...the "coffee" table with phone, water bottle, wicker basket and remote, plus my two earrings of fake pearls purchased for $3.99 at rite aid...under the table are many board games, including monopoly and scrabble, plus a chess game with the figures of the seattle mariners and new york yankees...surrounding the table are my couch and small sofa...a small table, mission style like the coffee table, sits next to the sofa...kleenex, my waterproof jacket from the thrift shop, kim's school box, and a candle are on the table, while a candle lite candle thing is under it, and my bible and other bible study stuff are in a wicker basket next to the table...by the window is the card table from mom and dad, the three chairs from before (when there were 4 of us0 and on the table are a briefcase, movie posters from the return of the king and pirates of the caribbean...also the posters i made for matt's graduation...next to the air conditioner is an old bag of cat food that tig can't eat because of his health problems...also that shelf is next to the window with my curling iron, mirror, backpack and matt's cell phone charger...the comfortable orange recliner and the spinning dark orange chair are under the ceiling fan, and in the middle is grandma's old bookcase, on which i have displayed many of the books i used in becoming a teacher...kim's cool green lamp is on the top along with a couple of my books...okay, i have just described most of the living room area of my one bedroom apartment, the one in which at times all 3 of us live, and at times we have had like 15 kids over watching movies and stuff...those are good times when that is happening...i hope that with school starting, matt and kim's friends will start coming over again....maybe i will have friends over too...okay, tomorrow we will discuss the rest of the apartment...or maybe not...tune in tomorrow for "extreme makeover (needed) apartment edition"...