Goodbye Smoochy!

This past weekend on our way back from my darling neice's 2nd birthday bash- we made a few grabs in our old stomping grounds- the always safe, well manicured lanes of Irvine, CA! Learningbarefoot logged our 8th, 9th and 10th find and I've come to realize I'll not be able to blog about each although they are all so vivid and memorable, such wonderful adventures.

On our 10th find we said goodbye to our new friend Smoochy, our first Travel Bug.

See Photoshow.

Like a good steak...

Your Personality is Very Rare (INFP)

Your personality type is dreamy, romantic, elegant, and expressive. Only about 5% of all people have your personality, including 6% of all women and 4% of all men You are Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Perceiving.

How Rare Is Your Personality?

I suppose I haven't really changed that much in 15 years- a much longer version of this test in college returned the exact same results.

I liked the one I took at one of my jobs- the predictive index survey- it said I was an Adventurer- Discoverer (four categories- adventurer, builder, catalyst and discoverer) each person is zipped into their top 2 categories and a then the company "knows how to use it's most valuable resource"- anyway I liked the title I was dubbed with (one of only 3 AD's in the training department- I just love feeling rare and special!) and have been attempting to live up to my predicted index ever since!

Entry for March 05, 2007

HELP!! My computer has been hijacked by a pink bear and his 5 year old girl who loves BrainPOPjr! If I get another chance to steal the keyboard away I look forward to catching up with all of you!!

Kindy

After Grace's first day of "kindy" (see Pinky's Blog for details) we made orange banana muffins and played Clue Jr. Then while I was searching for ideas for our ever changing homeschool program, I stumbled on this site- we played together for an hour or so and she played alone for another hour- it is a very engaging site.

BrainPOP Jr. - Science, Health, Social Studies, Math, Reading, and Writing Animated Movies for grades K-3

Tonight I really need to enter the contacts from the book fair we did this past weekend, the Chino Family Festival of Books. I was once again reminded of why I love Barefoot Books as I shared them with other families who love reading. They must put something in the water there- everyone was so friendly and genuine. My mom and Grace came along and Shawn too- it was a fun event.

But I am also drawn to doing more research and preparing more for our new little schoolroom. I did Pilates again, 7th time in 2 weeks. My green binder is still working well for my organizational system. It's good for me to take time to note the things I feel positive about. This blog has begun to serve as a time marker; when we wonder "when?" about things we often search back to reference a date or event to refresh our memory and it's such a nice reminder of the good times- it seems I, like most people probably, tend to blog about happy events- sort of like distilling life into memories and moments that I want define us.

And 24 (S3D2) is distracting me in the background.

Geocache 5

Found it today at a local dog park which we want to take Ford back to ASAP. Welcomed a new TB (I Borg, the Duck) into our happy hectic home!

This one was easy, and lots of fun as we leaped perilous concrete crevices and ducked behind perfectly manicured bushes!

The log was in a shambles, and my OCD made me organize it by date align all the little papers nicely, and categorize the other swag.

Well I guess it is official that I have been overdoing it for too long. Yesterday I started feeling nauseous and achy- by evening I felt just exhausted, but I needed to get ready for the fair I was planning on going to with my Barefoot Books today. Plus we painted signs for the garage sale Shawn and Grace were going to do while I was gone. So I stayed up and got everything ready. I went to bed around midnight and Grace came in around 1:40am, and climbed in our bed, not feeling so good herself and I just couldn't get back to sleep, then suddenly I felt "winded", I could barely breathe, and I was sticky hot.

Apparently I experienced a "panic attack"; I should be fine after some rest and possible changes to my "diet & exercise routine"- which always confuses me- which is it rest or exercise? There has been talk of medication, something light, they say- but I just can't seem to bring myself to that yet. I want to try to naturally lower my stress (oh and blood pressure); it's also reccomended that I lose weight (duh!) - maybe I'll find a way to put some Tai Chi back in my schedule, that always helped with the stress and the weight.

It sure is scary getting older- it seems to just happen all the sudden. At least for me- not that I am old, but I miss that feeling in your body of almost invulnerability- being able to stay up all night to cram (or party) and still be fine the next day, being able to eat and drink pretty much whatever with only small weight gain - or none at all if I was exercising. These are things you just don't realize will slip away as quickly as they do.

The worst part is that I let other people down because I didn't take care of myself (if either of you are reading this- I am really sorry!) The old admonition about putting the oxygen mask on yourself first is so true- you are no good to anyone if you don't take care of yourself. And lately I have been no good to anyone, including myself- I could sense that it was coming. I know that if I was in better shape I could handle the stress better, especially because my inability to handle stress generally leads to even more! It's such a vicious cycle.

Shawn went ahead and did the garage sale (partly because we really needed the money, partly because he had put the signs out last night, so there were a few cars in our cul-de-sac when we got home!) And even though he did start much later than we planned- it still went well! And now that we have sold most of the baby stuff, and I am going to be taking it easy and eating better, I will probably finally get pregnant- just when I had decided I was more than happy with just my Grace. But we'll see... we always said it would be a matter of time not numbers, however many kiddos we had between my 29th - 39th birthday was the idea.

Positive healing energy and understanding of my anxiety born "flakiness" lately would be appreciated by all!

Entry for February 14, 2007

While we were working on part 2 of the "cleaning out the garage" saga we came across a bat and ball.