September the sixth

New experience: My husband making me Spaghetti-Os

I don't know what is going on but all day my head has been hurting me it probably didn't help that we were running around and swimming today. However, I had fun. So once we came home my head just begun to kill me, and it kills to stand up and makes me dizzy. So Franklin is taking the puppy out and getting me water and made me some dinner. <3

I am so excited that we went to Red Robin today as a famillia. I could get any burger they had with a boca/veggie burger patty. Best idea ever. Franklin and I got a new video, Its been hard to pay attention with the head ache, but something about being a person in the French resistance during WWII. Its definitely an US game.

September the fifth

New experience: Being FREAKED out beyond belief


Explanation: Our Matroshkas (Thankss for the spelling) our set up on a shelf and the middle sized one is in the middle. Yesterday I noticed that it was turned around so I fixed it. This morning it was turned around and I asked franklin if he kept turning it around and he said no so I fixed it when we came home from church it was turned around. Ghost? Someone in our house? Franklin doing it to me as a joke even though he said he wasn't. (panicking by this point). So Franklin said a prayer and fixed it and i looked at it and I said ok. it is facing me. I began to blog and stopped worrying and looked up and it was facing Franklin. So Franklin put them all inside each other. All I know if the big one starts to move I will FREAK out. Or if they are all undid when we leave and come back I will die of fright. Now they are mocking me and smiling at me and looking at me.

September the fourth

* I drove the speed limit all day. It was my new experience that was very painful...
My maja and I had lots of fun on her birthday extravaganza! We went to the mall and I bought her one of everything and we were looking at sunglasses and some man was like, "you have a price tag on you." So I told him I was selling myself to pay for my mother's birthday extravaganza!  Then we went bra shopping for me... all I have to say is that I have never had a bra that fit so well in my LIFE!

Then, I watched little girl pageant on TV... it was very creepy. Yet, it was like a train wreck that I couldn't stop watching.

My husband is the best.  (By the way)   :)) He is been working all day to support my shenanigans.  I love him and his sexy new haircut, it's even better when he plays the piano. :) I didn't even know he could play that well!! I can't wait to get home and give him an Arizona burrito from Filiberto's as a token of my love. <3

Beauty

"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks."

Its easy to find beauty in life. Specifically nature.

Flowers. Clouds. A vine growing.

A baby.

A puppy or kitty.

A blade of grass.

A zebra.

Art.

Music.

The sounds certain trees make in the wind.

"In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty."

Yes, "man" has created beauty. It is his mind to perceive. However, wouldn't life be a little bit nicer if we all perceived a little more beauty in the world? To not walk past the flowers, to not be in a hurry, to notice the tiny, small, almost unnoticeable things.

I feel as if one were to perceive more beauty, they will be happier. Also, I feel as if more people were happy they would be more beautiful inside and out. The happier a person is the more keen they are to notice the tiniest little things and see them as blessings and to be grateful for them and for life. 

An Ant working.

Meeting someone new.

people being kind.

An elephant.

The moon.

An unbeaten path.

Smiles.

Prayer.

Life.

Death.

"There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise."

September the third

No music or tv for the day.

Now, I should really say it like this, "no radio or tv shows". Although I didn't listen to any music I kept humming and whistling so I dont know if that really counts as "music". Also, I didn't turn on the tv once today. However, Franklin is playing his video game right now but I am not participating.

I am excited for tomorrow. I picked up a shift tonight so that I would have extra money to spend on my mom's birthday. We are going to have so much fun tomorrow it is probably illegal.

I am excited we got a new couch from DI and it looks so good in our house, and it matches our previous couch so well!  Now we can both actually lay down. We also some how acquired a piano??? I don't know all the details but our living room looks a lot fuller and more like a home.  (pictures to come).

Ragnar is getting bigger and bigger or i should say taller and taller. Today I accidently dropped a piece of bread while I was making Franklin his sandwiches and Ragnar took it to eat it (which I am fine with) but he took it on the carpet. I didn't want him to drop crumbs all over the carpets so I went after him to take it and put it back into the kitchen but he ran and hid under the couch dropping crumbs all over of coarse. Then I dropped a piece of Ham a little while later, I am pretty sure his eyes rolled back in his head. So I started to train him with ham. He now follows and "comes" really well.

Life is well.

September the second

Well I am not very good with this whole  new doing something new thing. My  new experiences were holding a piece of ice until it was completely melted and being partially blind (for some strange reason I could only see partially out of my right eye it sucked). It is only the second day and I had already forgotten about it. So I couldn't use some of my "new experience day". Hopefully I will remember tomorrow.

I worked  a double today so I am extremely tired, and of coarse I picked up a shift tomorrow night. Oh the joy! Today was just a wee bit frustrating. I was just frustrated with my schedule and the people at work and the customers. Oh, and I just love when a party of seven with a tab of 100 gives you ten dollars (this was roll-over frustration from the night before). Rant, rant, rant.

I haven't checked my plants today. They are probably all dead in this Arizona Sun.

I am confused on which metaphorical path in my life I should take. I know what I should probably do, but I know what I irrationally want and can't  really have.

I can't wait till Saturday when I can go to the mall and celebrate her birthday with her.

Oh and something that I learned from my cousin-in-law, Nate (which is a new experience for everyone) is that todays date is 90210. CLEVER!

September the first

So someone sent me this thing over facebook, and I usually ignore things of this nature. However, I thought this idea would be a little fun! Its called 30 days has September. It is suppose to be a donation thing toward a certain charity, almost like the cancer walks... where people support you... but a different concept. The idea is every day in September the person must try new things.  For example today I chose "getting stuff done that I have been meaning to do" no excuses no procrastinating. I paid all of our bills, cleaned, got our laundry done. helped Franklin at work, gardened, and blogged. phew. now all I have left is to go to work and make some money!  :) It has been good but tiring, I think perhaps one day will be a do nothing day. 

When I went out to garden I found two beautiful blossoms on my hibiscus. I must be doing something right! My little side yard is becoming prettier and prettier, I can't wait for it to cool down though.

I know its childish but, "I know something you don't know!!"  :))