Saturday, January 26
I'm glad the weekend is here. There is so much on my plate, and I needed the weekend to take a few things off so I can focus and relax a bit.
Thursday night Tim, the boys and I met Julie, Kevin, Evan and Elizabeth at Suterra's for dinner. Our friend is a coach for the men's Oral Roberts University basketball team and he had tickets for us to watch them play UMKC. Larry met up with us at Suterra's but wasn't able to stay because Evan was not feeling well, and took him home.
It was good to watch a college basketball game again. I enjoy collegiate athletics, especially basketball. Something about the energy of the kids playing. Wow, was ORU good. They wolloped UMKC. I enjoyed seeing Coach Chris too. I miss going to NMSU games, and it brought a comforting feeling to watch him on the sidelines. (Chris coached with Mr. Henson at NMSU. Also, Chris and his family lived on our street in Las Cruces.) They played at Kemper Arena. I am used to 8,000+ being at a college basketball game. It seemed like there were only 200 people in that arena, but the real number was probably 2,000. Hardly made sense to pay the people to open the concession stand.
Had a stressful day in the office yesterday. We had employee meetings for one of our clients and the carrier rep showed up totally unprepared. I wanted to shout out, a la Donald Trump, "YOU'RE FIRED!"
Tim finished painting the powder room. The color he chose was 'antique white'.
It is pretty, and a calming color. He wants to take on the kitchen next. That's a bit much for me, because I don't want the kitchen to be in a disarray for very long. I rather him take on the master bathroom first, or maybe the dining room.
The boys are getting so big. I am noticing especially in Jack. Taylor started her new semester. I am relieved she doesn't have her dad for four classes again this semester. Not sure how he pulled that one off, and the school allowed it. Hard to believe she only has 3 semesters and then done with school. She's too young! Slow down life.
I was thinking this morning about the age difference between William, Jack and me. I am 40 years older than Jack and 38 years older than William. My mom was 30 years older than me. William was lieing next to me in bed this morning. I was wondering if I have a certain smell to him, like my mom did to me. It is a comforting smell, to have your mom near. I hope I give him comfort like my mom did me. I wish I could smell my mom right now................ Maybe I will, I hope so. I smell my grandmother sometimes, when I am not even thinking of her. I know it's her way of letting me know she is still with me. We always promised each other that whomever died first, we would come back and let each other know we are there. Grandmother and I were close, and had a special relationship. Most kids have a special relationship with their grandparents, but grandmothers and my relationship was spiritual too. She gave me a lot of spiritual books, which I have all around me; home and office. My mom and my relationship wasn't spiritual, it was more of a 'being of one', if that makes sense. Ah, too deep for me right now, so I won't write about that anymore. Hi Mom! Hi Grams!
I made cinammon rolls a few minutes ago, and thought the boys would come eat them. Apparently, Playstation 2 is more interesting. What would boys do without video games?
Oh! I finally fixed the computer with all of my documents and photos on it! It has take me months, and this morning, it is working! I am so excited!
We don't have plans for this weekend, gotta love no plans or agenda. I think Tim will take the boys to watch Evan play basketball. I need to do some work on my marketing plan. Also, clean this house. It's filthy, as mom would say. Dust everywhere. Why is there more dust in Kansas than in New Mexico? I would think the desert would have more dust.
Ta ta for now.
Came back on to write more, 9 PM, 1/26/2008, Thinking about mom again. Miss America was on tonight and I watched it. Mom and I used to watch Miss America and Miss USA for as long as my memory goes back as a little girl. We once even went to the Miss Texas pageant and saw many Miss USA's and Miss Universe from years past. We didn't go places without my dad very often, so it was a special memory.
Mom loved pageants, and women who had interior beauty, as well as exterior beauty,charm, grace and talent. Mom was 5'6" and entered pageants as a college girl. Jane Ann and I have never been known for our long legs and swan like movements, so we never entered pageants. However, Jane Ann was a Prom Princess at Mayfield High School one year. When I fell in a hole at the age of 9, I hurt my leg severely. One of mom's first reactions at the hospital was, "Oh no, she will never be Miss America now." Mom, Jane Ann and I hate to tell you, but at 5'2", I doubt we would have made it in the Top 10.................of Miss Mesilla Valley. ha ha Kind of a joke between Jane Ann and me.
I flipped through the channels during one of the commercials during Miss America and ice skating was on another channel. That was something else I used to watch with mom, ice skating. We loved to watch it. National championships, International Championships, and the Olympics, we enjoyed it all. She also took me to the Icescapades in El Paso. Again, without dad, so it was our time to share. I have taken Taylor to ice shows, as well. She keeps a group photo of the last ice show we went to on her bulletin board with the following legends that mom and I loved to watch: Kristi Yamaguchi, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, Elvis Stojko, Peggy Flemming, Nancy Kerrigan, Brian Boitano, Kurt Browning.
That's all for now.
Thursday night Tim, the boys and I met Julie, Kevin, Evan and Elizabeth at Suterra's for dinner. Our friend is a coach for the men's Oral Roberts University basketball team and he had tickets for us to watch them play UMKC. Larry met up with us at Suterra's but wasn't able to stay because Evan was not feeling well, and took him home.
It was good to watch a college basketball game again. I enjoy collegiate athletics, especially basketball. Something about the energy of the kids playing. Wow, was ORU good. They wolloped UMKC. I enjoyed seeing Coach Chris too. I miss going to NMSU games, and it brought a comforting feeling to watch him on the sidelines. (Chris coached with Mr. Henson at NMSU. Also, Chris and his family lived on our street in Las Cruces.) They played at Kemper Arena. I am used to 8,000+ being at a college basketball game. It seemed like there were only 200 people in that arena, but the real number was probably 2,000. Hardly made sense to pay the people to open the concession stand.
Had a stressful day in the office yesterday. We had employee meetings for one of our clients and the carrier rep showed up totally unprepared. I wanted to shout out, a la Donald Trump, "YOU'RE FIRED!"
Tim finished painting the powder room. The color he chose was 'antique white'.
It is pretty, and a calming color. He wants to take on the kitchen next. That's a bit much for me, because I don't want the kitchen to be in a disarray for very long. I rather him take on the master bathroom first, or maybe the dining room.The boys are getting so big. I am noticing especially in Jack. Taylor started her new semester. I am relieved she doesn't have her dad for four classes again this semester. Not sure how he pulled that one off, and the school allowed it. Hard to believe she only has 3 semesters and then done with school. She's too young! Slow down life.
I was thinking this morning about the age difference between William, Jack and me. I am 40 years older than Jack and 38 years older than William. My mom was 30 years older than me. William was lieing next to me in bed this morning. I was wondering if I have a certain smell to him, like my mom did to me. It is a comforting smell, to have your mom near. I hope I give him comfort like my mom did me. I wish I could smell my mom right now................ Maybe I will, I hope so. I smell my grandmother sometimes, when I am not even thinking of her. I know it's her way of letting me know she is still with me. We always promised each other that whomever died first, we would come back and let each other know we are there. Grandmother and I were close, and had a special relationship. Most kids have a special relationship with their grandparents, but grandmothers and my relationship was spiritual too. She gave me a lot of spiritual books, which I have all around me; home and office. My mom and my relationship wasn't spiritual, it was more of a 'being of one', if that makes sense. Ah, too deep for me right now, so I won't write about that anymore. Hi Mom! Hi Grams!
I made cinammon rolls a few minutes ago, and thought the boys would come eat them. Apparently, Playstation 2 is more interesting. What would boys do without video games?
Oh! I finally fixed the computer with all of my documents and photos on it! It has take me months, and this morning, it is working! I am so excited!
We don't have plans for this weekend, gotta love no plans or agenda. I think Tim will take the boys to watch Evan play basketball. I need to do some work on my marketing plan. Also, clean this house. It's filthy, as mom would say. Dust everywhere. Why is there more dust in Kansas than in New Mexico? I would think the desert would have more dust.
Ta ta for now.
Came back on to write more, 9 PM, 1/26/2008, Thinking about mom again. Miss America was on tonight and I watched it. Mom and I used to watch Miss America and Miss USA for as long as my memory goes back as a little girl. We once even went to the Miss Texas pageant and saw many Miss USA's and Miss Universe from years past. We didn't go places without my dad very often, so it was a special memory.
Mom loved pageants, and women who had interior beauty, as well as exterior beauty,charm, grace and talent. Mom was 5'6" and entered pageants as a college girl. Jane Ann and I have never been known for our long legs and swan like movements, so we never entered pageants. However, Jane Ann was a Prom Princess at Mayfield High School one year.
When I fell in a hole at the age of 9, I hurt my leg severely. One of mom's first reactions at the hospital was, "Oh no, she will never be Miss America now." Mom, Jane Ann and I hate to tell you, but at 5'2", I doubt we would have made it in the Top 10.................of Miss Mesilla Valley. ha ha Kind of a joke between Jane Ann and me.I flipped through the channels during one of the commercials during Miss America and ice skating was on another channel. That was something else I used to watch with mom, ice skating. We loved to watch it. National championships, International Championships, and the Olympics, we enjoyed it all. She also took me to the Icescapades in El Paso. Again, without dad, so it was our time to share. I have taken Taylor to ice shows, as well. She keeps a group photo of the last ice show we went to on her bulletin board with the following legends that mom and I loved to watch: Kristi Yamaguchi, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, Elvis Stojko, Peggy Flemming, Nancy Kerrigan, Brian Boitano, Kurt Browning.
That's all for now.
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