nothing amazing

I've been walking with Mom Tuesday and Thursday. Taking the kids to their various activities, keeping the house to it's usual not quite disaster state, and just hanging out. So life is nothing amazing right now.

My big excitement, I guess, is Sunday at church we're having our annual festival of choirs, it's the last Sunday where the choir(s) sing/ring, so we do the entire service. It's fun. This year is extra fun for me, as I joined the handbell choir and we're ringing on Sunday.  I'm hoping to have a couple friends of mine there too so I have my own "aundience" hehe. 

The kids are all good... Beth's done with school next week, the other 3 have 2 more weeks after that. I think the first day Beth's off we're going to Disneyland just the two of us. We've also got some movies to see.  I've started the annual plan the camps on the calendar for the kids...it's getting a little easier as the years go by, I don't know if that's just me getting better at it, or what.

Now I'm off to enjoy a lovely lunch with two very dear girlfriends. :o)

Walking fool

Being that gas, as of last night, was 4.15 per gallon, I started walking the kids to school this week.  Today I'm meeting my Mom at the park so she can get herself a walk in. If she chooses the short loop, that with my school drop off / pick up walks I'll get a total of 4miles in.  If she takes the long loop I'll total 5 miles. WOW! :o)

This should help my physical fitness, and maybe even my appearance a bit.  :o)

What to do....

So due to conflicts I found myself all alone last night and today. What to do?? Then I woke up unusually early for me, with no reason to be up, I like to fall back to sleep, but not this morning. I was awake. So  after getting some other stuff done. I went to Disneyland with a good friend of mine.  We weren't sure how it was gonna go as it took us 15mins. just to get into the parking structure.. another 15 to get through the security check.. but in the end, it was PERFECT! The longest wait we had was about 30mins. and that was for Splash mountain.. where we both got TOTALLY soaked.. like OMG, my cell phone was in that pocket.. please still work, wet. I wrang out my socks, and jacket after the ride. It was cool after getting wet, but it was still fun. We got to ride a lot of rides which was a shock, we saw the new Indiana Jones show (great for kids). And just enjoyed hanging out together. I didn't go home after that, I had bell choir rehearsal, one of the conflicts. We picked up a new song. We'll ring while the vocal choir sings. Thankfully my music-mate is going to copy our music so that it doesn't show the vocal parts, otherwise, I'm doomed. My eyes go to the top line, where I sing. Not good when your bells are bass cleff.

Now I'm off.. I'm totally tired after a day of fun, and am truly ready for a good nights' sleep. :o)

Freaky weather

So living in So cal, it's not often that we have the ems system come on the radio with more than a test.. let alone a TORNADO warning. WTHeck!  Yup, not near me, but still.. only an hour maybe 90mins. drive away. WOW!  My house, got rain.. a bit of thunder, which totally panicked my younger 3 children.. I tried to help by telling them the angels were bowling with Jesus, thunder only happens when they get a strike. It seemed to help.  Now it's just WINDY!!!! no not a nice breeze, thankyouverymuch.. I said WINDY!!!! Like I removed the patio tables' umbrella from it's base and laid it next to the house on the ground windy... all our patio chairs are stacked and against the house. 

And of course it's supposed to do this all weekend, and we're supposed to go to a lovely Scottish games and festival tomorrow. I promise not to complain if it's just wind.. but if it rains, I'm whining. hehe.

My sunburn from last weekend is peeling, so I'm itching... I am lotioning 2-3times a day. Today is actually the first day I'm wearing sleeves. I've been wearing strapless tops for the last 6 days. It's not comfortable, but I'm not going to die from the irritation today, so that is definately an improvement.

Ok.. off to finish some work before a lunch date.

 

Fun in the Sun

Saturday and Sunday were the Doheny Blues Festival days for this year.  The kids and I went both days... omgoodness.. I do love the blues.  Now, unless you listen to blues, you aren't likely to know any of the regular performers... but I'll tell you anyways.. Watermelon Slim, and Pinetop Perkins (don't you love these names).. were AMAZING. Watermelon Slim plays guitar and harmonica.. slide guitar, on his lap. Just WOW!  Pinetop Perkins is 90-something, pianist..damn if I could play 1/64th as well as he does I'd be amazing. hehe.  Johnny Lang was Saturday nights headliner. Bonnie Raitt was Sunday night.  The one downer was that it was HOT, like 90-something hot. I'm sunburned on my shoulders, upper back, and chest, I stupidly wore strapless tops both days.. now I get to wear them for the week while my burn heals. @@  Thankfully the littles aren't burned, and Beth just lightly burned a shoulder.. and yes, we did use sunblock.. it just wasn't enough in that sun.

Now to catch up on all the chores I didn't do over the weekend. sigh~ anyone wanna come do laundry with me?? The mound is only 2 feet tall.

I can't believe I did that

I got up this morning, put on my "work jeans" as I intended to mow the yard, and finish clearing the last section of the parking strip to plant the flowering ice plant.  I am dressed to shoes to take the kids to school. Beth desperately needed an item from Wal-mart so we dropped the others and backtracked to the store. got her item, and headed to the car.

When I first sat down (taking the kids to school) I thought I'd sat on a piece of paper. But didn't bother to check. After walking through Wal-mart when I returned to the car I had the same feeling.. so I went to remove the paper/item... yup, you guessed it. The left side of my jeans is torn.. BIG hole, like the size of my hand. So I'm officially total white trash as I've now shopped Wal-mart with my cheek showing. 

Sad part is, I care more about the fact that my FAVORITE work jeans are basically dead. :o(  

Lots of nothing

I don't have any grand things to talk about... I've done dishes, helped with homework, laundry, all the usual stuff.. but nothing fun, cool, or noteable.

The only semi-noteworthy news is that Beth has requested her bike get a tune up as she wants to start riding to school now that it's warmed up. I'll be dropping it off at the shop on my way to a lunch date. 

At least the Lakers won last night!!!!! :o)