Conversations

We talk to people everyday. Talk, talk, talk, all day long. Some people are excessive talkers, they never seem to shut up. Others are listeners, you have to pay attention or you might miss what they have to say. But between all this talking and listening is anything ever said. I think not often
Mostly it is a lot of noise to fill out days and time. But once in a while in just a few sentences you can learn a world of information from someone. If you are paying attention.

That is a second issue, paying attention. So many of us are sounding board bouncing back as much noise as we hear, do we listen to what is being said? What really happened in that last conversation?
Those little important facts are there, find them, they may be the ones you need. The ones that will get you through the next day or week or lifetime.

Remember we have two ears and one mouth. We should listen twice as often as we talk.

Morning From Hell

Some days are better than others. Then there are mornings like today where you just want to go back to bed and try to start it over.

5:30am Dh wakes me to tell me the little one threw up in her bed. Great way to start the morning

6:30am Little one comes back in, she is poopy. We are talking Toxic smell could evacuate a building poopy. No Snowday or Delay for us, had to wake the other kids.

7:00am Older kids trying to get ready, little one throwing up in bowl. Cat suddenly makes furball noises and throws up all over blanket, animal bed and floor. I was hoping for that to add to my morning.

7:20am Oldest falls down stairs on back, knocks wind out of herself, I am with little one who is throwing up again. Dad gets out of shower and helps oldest.

7:25am Oldest can't find winter boots, must be in locker. Middle can't find favorite hat and gloves, momma finds them in living room. Also found sneakers in play area that need to go in backpack.

7:39am Bus arrives, takes away two children, finally. Momma waves goodbye in relief.

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Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is."
--Mary Anne Radmacher

Real Age WOW MOM!!!! Not wow in a bad way.

I have a Google homepage, and for those of you who don't have one Basically you have an empty page and you download a bunch of widget like things to fill it up. You can also have rss feeds on it. It can have mail and quotes of the day, pictures, games, all kinds of crazy shit. One of my widgets is called real age. It does exactly what is says, it calculates your real age. Today mine is 36.682, the other day my oldest DD saw it.

Her: "Real Age, WOW!"
Me: "wow?"
Her: "Well, not wow in a bad way."
Me: "Oh, okay, sure."

Now anyone that believes "Not wow in a bad way" Come see me about a bridge.

New Blogger, Let's see how different it is.

Well, I just upgraded Blogger so let's see how it goes.  It doesn't seem to like to keep the old with the new, but I am going to try to if I can. 

I am feeling up and down.  Somedays better than others.  Today my arm is giving me a great problem and I don't know why.  I might have strained it lifting wood or maybe it is just having a bad day, who knows.  I sure don't lately.  I want out the other day and ended up on the couch for 3 days with a headache and I was wearing a heavy winter hat and only went grocery shopping.  I hate this weather and this body lately.

Hermit Pays the Price for leaving her Hollow

So, I did go out yesterday, just for some grocery shopping and I am
paying for it today. I have been feeling too unwell to go to
Christian Formation or much of anything else. I have an awful
headache and am really dizzy. I hate the dizzy thing, it is so
disturbing. I managed to shower and stick sweats on my body, but that
was a HUGE task. I am too nauseous to eat or sleep. I just sit on my
couch.

I am telling you, Not leaving again until June. That's it JUNE!! It
is so cold out today and only getting colder. The kids are going to
school tomorrow and then I think I am climbing IN the wood stove. Rob
can knock when he gets home.

The Hermit Left her Hollow for Real Today and..

She don't like it out there!!! It's snowing and blowing and cold
and just plain bleck!!!
I think I am staying in until June. It's going to get colder again
starting tomorrow, single digits during the day and below zero at
night. This body is no longer meant for this weather.

I was talking to my mom today, she went to a memorial for a family
member. She said she is very worried about me. My mom was talking to
her aunt (it was her son that passed) and her aunt said a child
should never die before a parent. My mom said she could only think of
me and last spring when I had my first real attack from this disease,
she was afraid I was never going to make it back from it. Then I just
recently had another much less one, that I am still recovering from.
Which is why I have been such a Hermit. The cold makes me so much
worse. I prefer to stay home on my couch by the wood stove and play
on my laptop and be happy.