Some Voodoo for you!

Read with caution!

About 10 years we went to New Orleans. Saw many sites and experienced much. They are big into Voodoo there. I went into a shop. Yes, As evil looking as it is I bought a Voodoo doll. We laughed about it, made fun of it and the whole Voodoo thing. But I am telling you...It works..I am serious. It has a couple black pins with it. The note that came with it explained that as chant the person's name,your suppose to poke the pins in it. Evil will come to them. ooohhhhh are you scared? Maybe your on my list. A little tennis elbow, your knee ache today, twist your ankle? Hhuummm beware of the Voodoo doll.

Don't make me mad! Or beware!

Occasional Affirmation

A commitment is more than an agreement.
You make an agreement from your mind.
You discover your commitment in your heart.

Get Your Kisses Here!

Smooth..and nice. My teeth that is...
No more metal in my mouth.
A guy at work today asked me what it was like for me to kiss with braces on.
He's been wanting to ask.
Wow, kinda personal huh.
So I grabbed him and laid one on him..
HA! Just kidding.

Off they go!

After 18 months, my braces come off tomorrow. I am looking forward to this. Once again I will be able to bite into something. If your polite you don't do that with braces because, well I'm sure you can figure that out. No more sore teeth, or ripped up insides of your mouth. Nice smile instead.

Out to In

Due to the Utilities Company installing radio frequency meters, I am now in an office sitting at a desk with no window. I have now gone from the great outdoors, and walking 6 miles a day, to fluorescent lighting and sitting on my butt at a computer. Quite a drastic change wouldn't you say? Even though I am pleased that I am employed, I am displeased that I don't know what the weather is like, and I am certainly going to have to buy my tan this year. Of course, now I get to blog while I'm working and e-mail my friends and that's all well and good, but I do miss the sun on my skin and the wind messing up my hair.

Baseball

A poem by my 8 year old son Reed

baseball baseball, pow, bam, slide
baseball is so awesome
I really like to play
run the bases, don't get me out
hit the ball, whack!
Hey batter, batter..
strike! your out!
baseball baseball, pow, bam, slide.

Quiet memories of past

Exhaustion had become a permanent fixture in her life, Becca still awoke feeling...tired. Unfocused and out of sorts. Most of the time she contributed it to the hectic life she was living, many times she wondered if it wasn't clinical depression, she had a few of the symptoms... "lethargy, without reason or cause." Well she did have a reason...
What she really needed was a little quiet time down at the beach laying in a beach chair sipping a margarita, without facing any decision except whether or not she was going to walk along the waters edge a little longer.
She was tired of being alone, of waking up in an empty bed. In the first months after Joe left, Becca couldn't even imagine loving another man again. It was as if the feelings for male companionship didn't even exist.
Time passed and eventually so did the numbness she had grown accustomed to. In it's place, reality settled in. As much as she tried to move on, Becca always found her thoughts drawn to Joe. It seemed as if everything reminded her of him.
She loved the way Joe looked when he slept, one arm resting above his head, the rise and fall of his chest when he breathed, and he always smelled like...well, he smelled like him, and now it was getting even harder to remember what that was like. That..saddened her most of all.