early bird

Even though Sawyer got up an entire hour earlier than usual, and I am pretty tired, I am determined to be productive today.

To Do:

1. Plant herb garden
2. Clean floors downstairs
3. Order prints for the "photo wall" I've been talking about doing for months
4. Eat strawberries

Let's see if I can get 1-3 done without skipping straight to #4.

This is also something I'd like to do today...lounge in the backyard...what a life he lives!

stomach this

Dear whatever stomach bug/bad food I ate,

You can stop wreaking havoc on me anytime now. I am done with feeling sick.

Thanks,
Megan


In other news, I watched the movie King Arthur this weekend (while laying around on the couch due to the aforementioned stomach ache). I'd never seen this movie, probably because it stars Keira Knightley and I detest Keira Knightley. Her skin is pulled too tight on her face and her over annunciations drive me crazy. But I digress. I actually liked the movie alot, but probably because of this dude.


How did I forget him in my post about celebrity eye candy? Helllllllo, Clive, hello.

AND he has a new movie coming out... [cat sound!]

p.s. After I was drooling over the preview on tv last night for said new movie, Spencer was joking that I'd like him more if he was Clive Owen. This could not be less true. Clive, while lovely to look at, is no match my dear.

syndicated torture

I loved E.R. when it was first on the air, but over the years, stopped watching. Since I am home more now, it is my entertainment while Sawyer gets his 10 o 'clock bottle. I have been watching Season 13 & 14 repeats on TNT. Yesterday's episode ended with two of my favorite characters saving their marriage, and then one of them on her way back to the hospital walking past an ambulance as it explodes, with one of the other ER docs inside the ambulance. Only because of the way the plot panned out, you don't know which of the ER docs it is inside. So I was on the edge of my seat at 10am today to see if the doc who walked by the ambulance and the doc inside the ambulance were alive or dead.

And I tune in to find the PILOT episode. Um, WHAT?!?

Then I realized that what I watched yesterday was the Season 14 finale and E.R. is currently in season 15, so of course this would be the end of the syndicated episodes. And now I can't find the first episode of Season 15 online anywhere. Boo.

The same thing happened when I started watching syndicated Gilmore Girls. Guess thats what I get for watching that show at all though.

Guess I should find some more productive 10 am entertainment. Like exercise, or chores. Blech.

how much is that doggy in the window?

What was I just posting a little while back about my poor dog and how neglected he is? And how he wants to run away from us? And how guilty/sad that makes me? Pssh to that.

Today I left to run to the bank and after the bank I was going to take the kids (Sawyer and Bruno, that is) on a walk around the neighborhood. I came home, and walked in to get the dog and his leash.

Allow me to set the scene:
-One bag of brown sugar ripped open on the kitchen floor
-One wide eyed dog ON THE COUNTER, crouched over a canister of baby formula, with his mouth covered in brown sugar crystals
-One fuming mad mama

Bruno's ability and obsession with getting on the kitchen counters is something we discovered shortly after we got him. He can jump from a sedentary position onto the counters without breaking a sweat (or a leg). No matter what tricks we tried to break him of this habit, nothing works. So we've gotten into the habit of putting away anything even remotely edible, but sometimes we forget and come home to big messes and often, a sick dog.

I've met my breaking point. One disobedient dog available to a good home.

sing songs along

Back before I got married, old, and became a mama, I used to be the one my little sister followed to see what was "cool". I was the one she stole clothes and music from. CD's would go missing for weeks and then return to my room with super glue and scratches all over them. Shoes and clothes would disappear and sometimes never get back to me. Times have changed and she's totally the cool one (and the pretty one, and the funny one, etc etc).

And I sometimes find myself slightly disconnected from all things current nowadays. Luckily the tables have turned and I can steal(borrow) from my sister now. She introduced me to 2 cover songs (from a Starbucks compilation, of all things) that are on repeat in my office all day every day. LOVE these songs. LOVE my sister.

Sawyer's Nursery

EDIT: I did the link to OhDeeDoh wrong the first time. Link fixed!

Sawyer's nursery was featured on OhDeeDoh. See it here. 

weeping willow

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." Anne Frank

I have this quote displayed on the wall above my computer screen as I type this. I see it everyday, and yet so often I forget what it says. Well actually, I forget to do what it says. 

I've had a good morning. Whites are washed, folded and put away. Took Sawyer and Bruno for a walk (trying to take the dog out at least 3 x's a week since his attempted escape). Caught up on some dvr shows that made me cry. Read some blogs that made me cry. Working on my talk for a church activity tomorrow and reading my journals from when I was 16 that are making me cry. 

All good tears. Grateful tears. 

Just need to remember to be happy, even when I struggle in life. If Anne Frank could do it, why can't I?? 

Gonna go roll around the living room with my happy boy.