For anyone who might be interested…Fast Food

better be good for $10

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Celebrate! It’s your day ! Have a fruity drink, on me! You rock. Love you!

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Time for a positive post! Riley turned six on sunday and we celebrated by removing his car seat! He’s a big boy now! No we can legitimately put him in the big kids area at the Y, too! hee hee!

My day started fine. I had a good run, did some sit ups. When I got home from the gym- I got ready, kids ate and off we went. They were going to day camp while I worked in my classroom. We decided to take a quick trip to the library to get some books in case they were bored after going to the water park. So, loaded up with good reading material, we head back towards Ventura. As I make my way onto the freeway, I notice an Oxnard Police Officer sitting in the middle of the road. He sees me, flips a u turn, and follows me onto the freeway, then hits the lights. I’m really trying to wrack(?) my brain as to what I could have done. So I pull over. He walks up…tells me he’s pulled me over for not wearing my seatbelt correctly. My thought is that he THOUGHT I wasn’t wearing it all, then saw I was and came up with a lame excuse for pulling me over. So, in the end he gives me a ticket for “no seatbelt”. I didn’t notice the wording until after the fact and now I’m ticked. I’m gonna fight it. Lying jerk! By niw I’m totally flustered and realize I forgot all the kids stuff for the water park. So I have to go get it. Finally by 12 pm, I’m in my class working. To complete my day a parent comes in and is pissed at me becuase she says I lost some pictures of hers. All in all- not a picture perfect day. I did finally get rid of the over 300 National Geographics in my classroom. Here’s to little accomplishments. I should have just gone to the beach with the girls. Now, I’m gonna go have a margarita. That will make it all better, right?

After going the whole summer without the screen on my laptop w0rking I finally called to see what it would cost to fix it. And the grand total is…$438! We already spent close to that on getting something else on it fixed about a year ago, and after shopping I found I could get a new laptop for only $200 more than the repairs this time. If I repair it, I’ve then spent more than the cost of a new one. What makes sense? I’m pretty sure with cars when this happens, you buy the newer car. Now, this is not open season on PC’s, just sound advice searching. And Macs are more expensive. Jared left his phone at home today or I would call him for advice.

Aboout 4 years ago, I met a car wash guy, right about the time we got our Montero. After realizing that I was not gonna ever be able to make my car look very good washing it on my own, I hired him, he gave me a good deal. He’s been doing it up until about 3 months ago, when I called him to do it and he never showed or called. In the meantime I’ve introduced someone else to him. Come to find out, he’s washing “their” car, still. What the heck did I do?

And my day just gets better.

I would settle for the Motel 6 down the street. Just get me out of here for a bit! Anybody got a spare room, garage, closet?

That picture way way too big. Don’t miss it too much.
Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.

I will run. I have heard some complaints lately (no, it’s not you.) about things poeple can’t do because…blah, blah, blah. I swear people are really great at coming up with every excuse in the book. Anyway, it’s not about you, it’s about my realization. I was thinking while running yesterday and watching my legs in the mirror. I am so happy to have legs, and ones that work. I was imagining if suddenly I was not able to run anymore and how bummed (to put it mildly) I would be. God, help me never to complain about doing anything. My new exercise motto is “As long as I have legs that work, I WILL run.”

If you can’t read the picture it says:

I have thunder thighs

And that’s a compliment

Because they are strong

and toned and muscular

And thought they are unwelcome

 in the petite department

they are cheered on at marathons

50 years from now I’ll bounce grandchildren on my thunder thighs

And then go out for a run

Just do it.

Anybody have any inside info on how to get cheap airline tickets? I wanna take this trip in October, but don’t want to spend $300 on the flight. Please pass along your knowledge if ya got any.