Adoption...

...is something that has been crossing my mind a lot lately. The thought of someday adopting a little person to love and care for as my own.

Everyone knows that I do not wish to have more children.

A little of that is due to my desire to be free at some point - free to travel the world, see the sites, lay on the beach, make it to that over water bungalow that I have promised myself I will sleep in someday (with the man of my dreams), you know all that stuff. After all, I started having children when I had BARELY tuned 19 years old.

A little of it is also due to my desire not to WRECK my body all over again.

But maybe it's just the idea of actually bearing the children that I'm not cool with. Because lately, for some reason unknown to me at this time, I can see myself adopting someone, and a part of me feels that I will.

Of course there are factors that it depends on. The main factor is having a husband. I will definitely not do it if I don't have a husband...

Anyway, just felt the urge to blog about it.

It's ON!!

A little background so you know where I am coming from with this blog:

My office ALWAYS has a wide assortment of snacks available for the eating. To make it clear, when I got this job I gained 10 pounds in a month. Yes, I was stressed out, but that wasn't the main problem. The main problem was that people in my office want me to be FAT!!

There is a lateral file cabinet in front of my area (ok it's a flippin cubicle lol). The cabinet has SNACKS on it ALWAYS. Lots of snacks. And they vary from day to day because someone named "Steve" keeps bringing stuff in. For the first few months of this job, I would ask where the food came from when I got in. Like, "Hey, who brought that giant tray of brownies?" OR "Who dropped off the Panera bagels??" The answer was always the same: "Steve." I wondered why Steve, a former employee in our office who had moved over to IT about a year before kept feeding us. FINALLY, after a long long time of people laughing at me behind my back, I realized that Steve wasn't bringing in the darn food at all. Instead, all kinds of different people were bringing the food in, blaming it on Steve so I wouldn't give them the evil eye!!

Last week sometime, I took it upon myself to move all the snacks over to the other side of the building, in front of a different department. Granted, it's still only feet away from my desk, but at least it's not right in front of me. The other department was pissed! On Friday, a lovely woman named Diann decided to move all the snacks back to their prior home, right in front of me. To this I exclaimed, I'll just move 'em back! So today, I put a bag of miniature candy bars on her chair and then I went on an afternoon break. When I arrived back in the office, this is what I saw before me:

Can you BELIEVE THE NERVE?!?!

OK Diann...no more Miss Nice Girl.

It's on baby cakes!

It's ONNNNN!!!

10K: Mission Accomplished

I did it! I ran my first 10K race today!! That's 10,000 meters - or 6.2 miles. It was sooo much fun and God blessed me with a knee and leg that held up under pressure. :) The boys ran too...a 1K for Ethan and a 1/2K for Brenden and Sarah. Therefore, the big blog on this topic will be over at our sister station "Three's Company."

I do wish I would have ran a little faster...I was trying to maintain a pace that I thought would leave me with enough energy on the second loop...but I had too much energy! It was great! I finished something like 415th with a time of 57 minutes and 12 seconds. I think it was 12...it was either 12 or 16. I ran fast the last three feet to beat this old man who was trying to beat me - it was hysterical. He patted me on the back and gave me a high five. Next race I will try to keep a faster pace I think.

Before the race, I wished I had gum so I asked a man who was chewing some if he had any more. He ran to his car to get me some. How nice! Then he talked to me for a minute right before it began. He wished me luck and I did the same. My fan club set up shop on the corner next to Starbucks....Mom, Grandma Doris, Kellie, Ethan, Brenden, Sarah and Ryan. I ran by them 4 times and every time they were cheering as loudly as possible. It was awesome!! I waved to them and blew them kisses. After the race, I wandered back toward Starbucks to find my family and I passed the nice gum man again. He asked how it went and I told him it was great and told him my time. He said I did awesome! :) He did the race in 45 minutes. That's 12 minutes faster than me folks!

It was a totally wonderful experience and a beautiful, wonderful day. I will post pics in the next day or two and write more here as well as on Three's Company. The boys ran their races so well and made me so proud!!

Obama it is!

Barack Obama - our next president! Wow!

When he first came on the scene I thought I definitely would not vote for him.

But he won me over.

Just like the majority of the rest of the nation apparently.

I have a really bad memory so I am trying to remember why didn't like him to begin with. I think it was because he had so much negative press with the vocal preacher man and all of that mumbo jumbo.

But my views have always been pretty liberal. I have never really thought like a hard core Republican although I was a registered Republican. (Really, I was only registered Republican because the guy who registered me in college got extra credit if I registered Republican. I know, that's kind of lame, but hey I was like 18 so whatever.)

I liked Bill Clinton. George Bush kind of annoyed me. But certain issues sway me back to the Republican side. Really, I'm just me - so when I re-registered because of my move, I registered with no party affiliation. In my opinion, there are too many issues out there to stand behind someone strictly because of their political party...or even a little bit because of their political party.

So, it's Barack and Joe.
They are only two men.
Let's see how they do in this great big world.
God be with them.

Serendipity

It's been over 2 weeks now I think...over 2 weeks that I have been dying to watch a particular movie. I don't know why I have had the urge, I just have. The movie is Serendipity. You know, the one with John Cusak and Kate Beckinsale...
I tried to buy it about a week or so ago at Wal Mart. The friendly cashier and I looked through the movie log under S with no luck. So I finally rented it tonight....the story of Jonathan and Sara (I didn't remember the characters' names until I saw the movie again tonight)...they meet randomly at Bloomingdales, they click instantly, they hang out a bit, and then Sara gets all new age on everyone and leaves, deciding to let fate bring the two back together if it is meant to be. So after lots of running around and craziness, in the end Jonathan and Sara are brought back together (although I didn't get to see the end tonight because the DVD was so scratched that it wouldn't unfreeze [hmmm is that a sign?]) and they live happily ever after.

Webster online defines the word Serendipity as "the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for" Hmmm interesting, yes? Phenomenon...wow...that word makes serendipity sound magical for sure. So is there some magical, serendipitous event when finding your soul mate? Does the kind of fate portrayed in the movie Serendipity actually exist? And do soul mates actually exist? My jaded heart is telling me yes! One thing I've learned is that the heart doesn't lie. So if the heart doesn't lie then heart = truth. And if heart = fate and soulmates exist then truth = fate and soulmates exist SOOOOOO fate and soulmates do, in fact, exist. Can't argue with math!

Floors, paint, floors

For months now, I have been assisting my parents in the remodel-ization of their house. I'm not exaggerating when I say that every single room was a complete wreck before. I wish I had before pics. But slowly but surely, the efforts of all of us have turned most of their house into a home again. And I have become a painting pro, a floor installation queen and a master decorator. A couple days ago, I took a few snaps with my phone.

Please don't make me do any more work...

Let Kellie do it!
I'd rather just lay here...