Hey! Guess what. It can be really hard being a single parent some days. Luckily for me the girls aren’t as sneaky or conniving. When I get asked about chores for the girls the one thing they do for me everyday is get themselves ready for school. I can’t tell you how much that helps me. Every day has the chance to start out nice, happy, if totally exhausted.
Maybe Halley needs to get more sleep?
Come On Get Happy – by Danny Janssen and Wes Farrell
“Hello world, here’s a song that we’re singin’
Come on, get happy”
or maybe…
“I’ll achieve every goal I have…
there’s not a thing I can’t be!
Just as long as I am happy,
that’s all that matters to me.”
Listening to GC while I’m coding today. This song makes me smile.
“Girls Don’t Like Boys,
Girls Like Cars And Money
Boys Will Laugh At Girls When They’re Not Funny”
🙂
This morning started out with a story on the local news about an 80 something year old woman who gave her husband a bracelet before he went off to europe in WWII. A week later he was killed in Belgium but the bracelet was never recovered. It seems there is a guy in Belgum that collects items he finds digging in old foxholes. He finds the bracelet and flies to the US to return it to her. When she sees the bracelet she weeps and falls apart, as do I, as she shows her husband (the bracelet) photos of his now grown son.
Quick turn that off finish dressing and go get the girls ready for school. There are a few minutes between Chelsey’s ride and Lindsey’s. Lindsey likes to catch a few music videos while she waits. Of course it is the first time I’ve seen the totally heart wrenching Good Charlotte video for the song “Hold On“.
“Hold on if you feel like letting go
Hold on it gets better than you know
Don’t stop looking, you’re one step closer
Don’t stop searching, it’s not over
Hold on if you feel like letting go
Hold on it gets better than you know
Hold on”
I missed the beginning, and it’s the abridged version, so I’m doing ok, until, the people pictured in the video start to cry.
It was a beautiful day today. Sunny and clear if a little cool, a beautiful winter’s day. I spent some time outside in the yard with the leaves from the big oaks that provide such wonderful shade during those hot summer months. There was a great woodsy smell from the fires in the fireplaces around the neighborhood, the sun was shining, and the egrets were out hunting lizards while I was bagging up leaves. When I think about the weather here sometimes I think I live in paradise.
This morning I thought about trying to make some cappuccino with the old Krups that’s been in the cupboard since that time Cindy tried making it and the thing exploded and we were washing coffee grounds off the ceiling. I actually got the thing out and started to set it up when I noticed the old Bodum French (freedom) pressed coffee maker. I opted for pressed coffee only because it provided the minimum cleaning required of all the coffee makers I have. Chelsey on the other hand went for the Strawberry Banana smoothy, to chase down another round of fireplace smores. So far the smores kit is one of the most used Christmas gifts this year.
Things that make me happy seem to be beautiful weather, yummy food and spending some lazy Sunday afternoon time with my daughters. Now if the Packers can just hold the Eagles here in overtime it will have been a perfect Sunday 🙂
Tonight it was really cold so we had a fire in the fireplace and made some smores.
Dave is forming a new company. I think he’s come up with a most interesting name for it, “Can I get back to you on that?“
WOW! I could have hours of excitement just reading Halley’s referer logs! My referers are so much more conservative??
I was talking with a friend the other night about losing loved ones. I can’t remember her exact words but she included imagery that described how our relationships with each other could be pictured as inter connections. She went on to describe how when we lose a loved one it feels like part of those connections are lost.
Tonight I was over reading Marek and he was writing similarly about some quotes from Joseph Conrad’s “Notes on Life and Letters” : “one can not help but to see a man fully aware of the passing of life, fragile skeleton we all build with our relationships to others, the others’ skeletons of life; and then to know that our constructions were only a mere temporary housing for the humanity we only have had glimpses of, and perhaps some of our pieces of construction material and methods shall be used as building blocks for others that will come after us to afford them better glimpses of humanity within themeslves, chance will tell.”
I would never have thought that I would feel like one of those “others that will come after us”, but I find myself in that place.
