Kyle's mom

I started this blog so I could remember. I wanted to keep track of and remember the things that were going on and most importantly the funny and important things that my kids were doing.

Then last year I started to get really paranoid.  Then I got depressed and had a pity party and I didn't want anyone to know any of the stuff.  So I hid it all.  I hid all my blog, I hid all of my Facebook photos from my "friends."  I didn't want anyone to know anything to have access to any of it.

About a week after that meltdown, which I should actually take note of its importance, we went to a holiday party.  We have some friends who moved here a few years ago from LA (they lived in the same bulging as big dick Ritchie!!!!) and they are awesome.  But we went to the ones house and she is older but she has so much energy and love for everyone, more than enough honest to goodness love for everyone, and when we got to her house, she had photos of our family and our kids in frames on her wall.  She had all the important people in her life on that wall and we were part of it.  I just about broke down crying. It was so sweet. A few weeks later I told her how much it meant to me that we were included. And I shared with her how she must have gotten those photos before I had my pity party because they were not on lock down.  

That being said, I mentioned that meltdown which was important because OMG after years and years of medication j am not linger on any and haven't been for many months!  I actually feel stuff now!!!  Like sadness!  Not depression, but sadness!!!  I have anxiety but not to the crippling, panic enduring point where I was afraid to come home for fear of what I might find, but more manageable "did I shut the garage door?  Are you sure? Are you really sure?" type.

I am so much better (fatter!!) than I have been for many many years!!

every day i'm shuffling

each second that passes it becomes more and more apparent.

Sometimes

Just nope.

Hiking BINGO

Made a list of things to spot while hiking during this holiday weekend. These are the BINGO squares we were able to mark off:

Dog on a trail marked as No Dogs Allowed (1)

Hiker wearing blue jeans (2)

Hiker wearing a bikini (2)

Hiker hiking in sandals (1)

Hiker smoking - actually just saw a cigarette butt so this technically might not count. 

Park ranger - who gave the lady with the dog a ticket (1)

Hiker sharing music with the entire mountain (2)

Lost hiker asking for directions (2)

Hiker in winter coat despite it being 80degrees (1) - happened to be one of the lost hikers...

Tiny baby in a front carrier (1)

Giant toddler in a backpack (1)

Selfie stick (1)

Social Studies

The 4th grade teacher sent home an email.  It said the class was learning about the Oregon Trail.  Each kid had their own Oregon Trail name and they were getting close to the end of their journey. 

The email said, find your kids name, write a "letter from home" to be delivered along the journey.  Put it in an envelope with your kids Oregon trail name then put it in another sealed envelope with the teachers name and have the kid give it to the teacher.  It will be fun, the kids love getting a "letter from home" on the long journey on the Oregon trail.

So I got some parchment paper.  I cut it and folded it into an envelope.  I cut another peice, and eric helped me singe the edges to make it look old and weathered.

And then I went on to write the letter:

You left on your journey.  You have now been gone for 4 months.  I can't beleive you left me. You left me here alone.  You should know, I am with child. YOUR CHILD!!!  

Won't that be exciting to open and read to te class!

That will teach the teacher to stop giving the parents homework!!!!!

Just kidding, I didn't write that but I totally wanted to.  

I did bring up drinking clean water, dysentery and the dangers of fjording rivers. 

Chiro

I have seen 3 chiropractors in my life.

The first was a woman and she used her funny little clicker thing and adjusted my ribs where they attach to my sternum.  That was weird.  Then she used her scary chair and jostled my brains.  Then she tried to bully me into pre-paying for some rediculous treatment plan where I would come to her office like 40 times in 2 weeks.  No.

The next time was Dr Jeff.  I liked dr Jeff. He was a cute little guy and we talked a lot and he was nice. He cracked me and he did that graston horror on my hip and I will never in a million years ever let anyone do that to me again. But I liked going to see him.  But then he broke up with me.  He said I wasn't getting better.  He said I had some underlying something that he didn't know what it was, but he said he couldn't see me any more until I went to my GP and got checked out.  So I went to my GP, who I had been seeing for many many years, who was my kids' doctor, who I trusted. And she was MAD! She was mad at the chiro for telling someone like me that they might have an underlying health problem.  She gave me a physical, did some blood work and found nothing wrong with me.  The ln ya know what happened?  I had a brain tumor.  Undiagnosed underlying health problem.  But by the time I got through that dr Jeff had moved away.

So now I see dr Stephen.  I see him every once in a while.  He fixes me right up and sends me on my way, which is good, because that is what he is supposed to do, but it is sad because he is so cute and I like to see him.  

The last time o was him was like almost a year ago.  I had trigger finger and he had to hurt my hand to make it better.  Funny thing about the trigger finger, I noticed it while brushing my teeth.  This is important for later.  But  OMG it hurt so badly, but he fixed it all up.  Since then I have actually shot guns! But used the other hand for the triggering so that's weird.

But then almost 4 weeks ago I did a  treadmill workout. I was worried it was going to be hard and it was but I did it and I did it well and I was all proud of myself.  Then I went to work and sat at my desk.  The next time I got up to walk around, I couldn't actually walk.  Oh the horror.  So I went to see dr Stephen today.  I anticipated some ART and maybe an elbow in my ass, but there was none of that.  

Oh there was pain and all, but there is nerve problems and other stuff. Yay! God fun!  But I had to lay on my stomach and out my oily face all over the chiro table face paper, which he told me it was the paper's job, the paper's destiny to have fave oil on it.  So then I asked if paper sits around at the paper factory hoping that it get to be chiro face paper and not normal doctor office table paper that gets sat on by bare butts.  I didn't even think of the poor paper that winds up as toilet seat covers...  Then there was the work on my back where he was like, do you feel that?  Do you feel how your skin doesn't move when I do this?  To which I replied, of course it doesn't because I am so lean there is nothing there to move.  He laughed a little bit more than he should have.  

The I learned some exercises one of which made me instantly think of this:

Now I just hope I get better soon, I was making such good progress. But I am going to San Francisco on Wednesday!!! Hooray!

Movies

Now that the Oscars have passed, I have to share the two most important scenes in the history of cinema!!!

One:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh2iyPmucFk&sns=em

And more recently, two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd8qocJNO7Y&sns=em