Random randomness and then some tunes

In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich,you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abscess. - Dave Barry


I love Harry Potter! Big time. I cannot wait for Wednesday! Just to wet your appetite for all things Harry, take a gander at the trailer. I have been re-reading the books. I read book seven and now I'm re-reading six. When I read them (or listen to them), it's like my long, lost friend has come home.

Are you going?

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My good friend, Sher is a famous musician. Did you know that? Have you heard her music? Well, now you can. She did an interview with Greg Hansen, and her music is playing in the background. If you click over to her blog, she has a link to be able to download one of her songs for free. Go listen to her interview and hear her cute voice. Not to mention her awesome music!

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Whenever I am stressed, or have anxiety, I have recurring nightmares. They are a variation on a theme of: I'm getting called on a mission again, with the same people and to the same place. Only this time, I'm leaving behind my kids and Jefe. The other variation is that I'm getting ready to graduate from High school, only I realize that I had an Algebra class that I had sluffed the entire year. In order to graduate I have to go convince the teacher to not only pass me, but teach me in a 30 minute period all the crap I needed to know to pass the end of year test. I always wake up from that dream feeling like I'm having a panic attack.

Typically when those variations of the anxiety/stress dreams occur, I don't even realize that I'm on overload. It used to really annoy me when I would have my recurring nightmares. Then, I started realizing it was a gift. When my nightmares occur, I wake up and take an evaluation of what's going on in my life that might be causing me to feel anxiety or stress. Then, rather than ignoring it, I deal with it. Usually.

Why the nightmares then last night? Because I feel a ton of anxiety about my dog. It sounds stupid and ridiculous, even why I type that, but I am. I have to take her to the vet on Friday, and I have been putting it off for a very long time. You see, she's dying. I know this. My kids do not.

I don't think it's time to put her down yet, but it's getting closer. When that time does come I don't think I will have the strength to do it. Jefe will have to take her. So the anxiety I feel today is because I will finally learn all that is wrong with my crazy boxer dog. And it makes me sad... and a little scared. Jefe is gone to scout camp, so this is something I will have to do all alone. That scares me too.

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Which brings me to my next random thought... Death. I have a firm knowledge and belief in the afterlife, however, death still scares me. A lot. It's uncertain, unknown and something that you have to do all alone. I'm not an "all alone" kind of gal. I like people. Lots and lots of people and doing the whole death gig means that for a while, you'll be alone. That sort of scares me.

I am one that doesn't like change or doing things that I have no idea what to expect. If I can talk to someone, research it, understand it, then I have no fears... but this death gig is something where my usual tactics won't help. All I can do is pray. And sometimes, God isn't as easy to understand as Google is.

(no one is dying in my life. except the dog.)

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Have you grabbed your SAVE THE CHICKENS button yet? You should. You can totally join the revolution! It's the coolest revolution/movement around right now. The Chicken movement. Anyone whose anyone is touting those buttons. Are you cool?

<a target="_blank" href="http://wheredidiputthat.blogspot.com/2009/07/let-operation-save-chickens-commence.html"><br/><br/><img border="0" alt="Crazyland" src="http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj281/themotherboard/chicken.jpg" alt="the real save the chicken" /></a>
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Moxie loves to play in the shower while the water is running. It's actually quite the good little babysitter. I'll put her in the shower after I get out and she will play in there the whole time I get dressed for the day.

Yesterday I put her in there, and she was babbling away, laughing and having a great time. The big kids think she speaks Klingon because she just babbles. She even uses the voice inflections. It's hilarious!

So, while I was getting ready yesterday, she was in the shower playing when I started to hear banging on the shower door:"Mama! blah blah blah blah! Mama! blah blah blah blah! Mama!"
I went over to check what was going on, and when I opened the door, she did it again: "Mama! blah blah blah blah! (then she pointed)"

What did appear to my wandering eyes? Tiny little poop littering my shower.

Thanks Moxie.

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Thing 2 came home from a sleep-over with his cousin early this morning to get ready to go to scout camp. He crawled in bed with me and said: "I have a hard time sleeping when I go to sleep-overs. But, when I stay in hotels I don't have a hard time. It's weird." I asked him why he thought that was and he said: "It's cause I miss my family when I go to sleep-overs." I snuggled him tighter and told him I missed him too.

I have the sweetest boy on the planet!

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Have a great weekend. I'm going be mowing the lawn and building a fence around the chickens. Please save me from myself and leave a comment to the HOA as to why my cousin should keep her chickens.
Just remember this: The Chicken God hates me.
'Nuff said.

Catch ya on the flip side!

1. Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
2. Telling Them - Starsailor
3. Alison (Live) - Elvis Costello
4. When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Krauss
5. Crystal Village - Pete Yorn
6. Til Kingdom Come - Coldplay
7. The Sensual World - Kate Bush
8. Robot Rock/ Oh Yeah - Daft Punk
9. Filthy/Gorgeous - Scissor Sisters
10. Afternoon Delight - Will Ferrel

Bonus: Breathe Me - Sia *one of my new favorites! Thanks Barbaloot!*