07/20/05

lance is still up by 2:46, heading into a difficult day of riding tomorrow...

a busy, busy, busy day which was helped by our field trip to the bowling alley...i had forgotten how much fun bowling is!...the day was otherwise stressful and more stressful due to having to move all of our things back into the youth center...it hasn't really bothered me before, but today it was very irritating and frustrating and i will be glad when the summer program is over and school starts again!!!!!...

also we are not going ice block sliding this summer like we always do, so that is disappointing...

i am still praying about and trying to trust the Lord about this possibility of moving into a townhouse, so whatever happens there we will just deal with...

i haven't yet made a doctor appointment, nor have i made a veteranarian appointment for tigger...he needs some more of those "soft claws" applied, and he won't let me do them, so i will have to take him in...

so it's almost 5:00 and so i will end this and go watch the local news, then the nbc nightly news with brian williams, then the local news at 6, then probably read for an hour until a rerun of "frasier", then i will probably go to bed, since my alarm goes off at 4 am, then again at 4:30 am if i just can't get up at 4...

later...

7/19/05

a good day...lance leads by 2:46...it's looking good for his seventh tour de france...a busy, stressful, fairly okay day at work...the best part was swimming...i spend as much time underwater as possible...it's peaceful and quiet for those few seconds at a time that i am floating under water...swimming is a great stress reliever...

i am looking into us moving into a 3 bedroom townhouse here at our apartment complex...when i was married, we lived in a 3 bdrm townhouse here and i really loved it so much...downstairs has a living room, dining area, kitchen, washer/dryer area, half bath, patio, then upstairs there are 3 bedrooms, a vanity area, and a full bath...lots of storage area and i pray that if it is to be, that we can move into one, and if not, then we will stay here and just be thankful for what we have...

tomorrow we are going bowling, that should be fun...

i still can't wait for school to start...

i have a lot of paperwork to do for my health insurance and for my substitute teaching for the upcoming school year...i try to do as much as possible on my break at work, but i should be doing it now...i don't like the word "should", so i will say, i could be doing the paperwork now, but i am choosing not to...that's better...

i need to make a doctor's appointment, as i am feeling tired...i think i can diagnose myself...i already know that i have an underactive thyroid...also i have temporarily stopped walking 3-4 miles a day and i have swam only twice in the last two weeks, and it makes me more tired to do less...i don't know if that makes sense, but i do much better and feel so much better when i am active doing things that i like, such as walking, swimming, doing pilates...

that guy from law and order who is also a politician was just mentioned as a possible supreme court nominee possibility...fred dalton thompson, i think...

okay, i am through...until tomorrow...or later tonight...

07/14/05

seems fitting that a frenchman would win the stage of the tour de france on bastille day...

lance still has the yellow jersey...

i'm so unusually tired right now...will be going to bed as soon as i am done writing...after work matt and i played pool, then i was too tired to swim...

work was really good once again...still, i can't wait until school starts...

ok, i'm done until tomorrow...

later...

07/13/05

lance still leads...we're into the mountain stages, so this is where he shines...

a really fun and great work day...we have a medieval theme at the program where i work, and i went crazy with it...kids were making their coats of arms, hats with long flowing ribbons, shields, playing chess, stratego, or risk...i had typed their names in olde english and they used them on the coats of arms...also compiled a list of modern english common words and sayings alongside how it was said in olde english...imagine these youngsters greeting each other with "good morrow, my lady...how are thou?"...it was classic...also came up with the different ways to acknowledge kings and queens, barons and baronesses, dukes and duchesses, knights, etc...very fun and it really makes me miss teaching school!...can't wait for the school year to start!

we also had field day with water balloon fights, potato races, capture the flag...very fun day...

i'll write more later...

07/09/05

well, it is about 5:00 pm and i haven't left my apartment all day, and that is okay...matt will be back shortly and kim is having dinner at konnor's...i have been reading my blog entry archives, and i am so thankful to have this blog to capture so many memories that i seriously would not remember...the good and bad, exciting and boring, you know, life!...i was feeling somewhat depressed this morning, but i awoke at 5:00 and just sat and thought for a while, then at 6:00 my favorite radio show came on...it's called "weekends around the northwest" and it highlights various resorts, parks, hotels, etc. around mainly washington state, but also oregon, idaho, northern california, montana...i think i have mentioned this radio show in at least one previous blog...this morning the resort on the show was the "kahler glen resort" near lake wenatchee in washington...it sounds like a cool place to go for golf and skiing and hiking, etc... the website is www.kahlerglen.com or something like that...i don't know why i am so obsessed with travel shows and stuff...so i guess the rest of the night looks like this: the local news at 6:00, then nbc news at 6:30, then csi at 7:00, then who knows?...i think matt and brie (his girlfriend, who i will discuss more in a future entry) will be here and we will probably watch a movie or two...i have known brie for a few years and she has become very special to me...

so tomorrow i will go to church and what else?...i don't know...since i have to be to work monday at 6 am, i am in bed by 8 pm, so that means i have to do everything rather early...that is ok...i have been walking the almost 2 miles to and 2 miles from work each day, plus i walk to and from church almost the same distance...so 4 miles a day just getting to and from work..actually, the church i attend is directly across the street from my summer work place...i have hardly driven at all this summer...so the high gas prices haven't really affected me...

so my hands are hurting, and i don't know why....so i will stop now...

07/08/05

this has been a tough week...

what happened in london yesterday is disturbing and troubling and not really at all surprising to me..not that i expected it to happen in london, but i just expected it to happen somewhere...

i have been reading a lot about the situation in idaho with the young girl who was literally rescued from her abductor and wondering what has happened to her brother...the alleged killer of family members and friend has a blog on blogspot.com...i inadvertently went to it from a link on an msnbc.com story and i have gone back and read from different parts of it several times...i don't know what to think...i don't know how blog entries are monitored, obviously they are in some way...it feels so strange, that i wish i could go back in time and reach out to this person who possibly did such heinous crimes...at any time of day there are people contemplating horrendous crimes against people and maybe even using their blog to vent and rage...if only they could just stop there and not have to go any further with their violent fury...something needs to happen so that people can be safe to walk the streets or even just live in their homes!...things are much better, i'm sure...because of things like amber alert and the center for missing and exploited children, but it still happens...children are so vulnerable...i say this as a mom and a school teacher and a child care provider and mainly just as a fellow human being who just wishes that people could be safe...i need to stop because i don't seem to be expressing my opinion in a way that could actually do any good...so i'll stop...

later...

it's july, and that means only one thing: it's tour de france time! if you read my blog last summer, you know that i love the tour de france, so i am following yahoo:uk and ireland's information ...if you have cable tv, watch the tour on outdoor life network...i don't have cable, but will spend much time in the rec room of our apartments to watch it...

go, lance!

and happy 4th of july to all citizens of the usa!