Weather: Warmer and Sunnier = Happier
Exchange Rate: 1 USD = 1.44 EURO :(
On Friday night we cycled to a BBQ that the FRG (Family Readiness Group- its a group of volunteers that does charity events, raises money for our community and supports the families of deployed soldiers) hosted for the new company commander. Upon return we conquered Mount Tiffany....although I felt like all the wine I had and the hot dog I ate were going to come back up at the top......
Saturday morning, LEGS volunteered me for a dodgeball tournament. We inevitably woke up late and had to hall ballz (pun intended) down to base. I was so nervous, I hadn't played dodgeball since grade school, and watching the movie was not calming my fears of inadequacy. We made it to the quarter finals and then lost. I put in a pretty aggressive performance in the last game......since I was the only girl on the team, I was a target, they bombarded me with balls all at once.
I didn't even see it coming......
And I got nailed right in the face......
(IMAGINE IN SLOW MOTION)
Everybody was wondering if I was okay.....my lip swelled up and I was worried that my nose was going to start bleeding. But....let me tell ya, a ball is so much more forgiving than a fist so it wasn't even that big of deal to me.......
LEGS and I needed some quality time together this weekend. We watched the movie Secratariot. I have never bawled so hard and so often in a movie my entire life! It was such a refreshing, enthusiastic story of hope, perseverance and spirit.
We also watched a movie called 'Hunger.' It was about one of history's most controversial political acts, in the Maez prison, in Ireland, 1981. Bobby Sands a IRA member went on hunger strike to get the British government to recognize him and his counterparts as a political prisoner. He died after 66 days. I found the film to be slow, but haunting....not something I will ever forget watching.
And then.....I checked my facebook, only to find people upset about Amy Winehouses'....inevitable.....death........
Broken up about Amy Winehouse?
BLECK! Give me a break!
Let me ask you a question, Where does the weekend go? I have so many things to do and I haven't done any of them......
We did another cycle trip on Sunday. We rode 40 miles. We had a tail wind heading out, so that part of the ride was really fast and fun. But coming back.....I was having to SOLDIER UP hardcore. I wanted to quit, complain, call somebody and get a ride back....but I just kept telling myself what doesn't kill you will make you stronger.....I made it back, and I wish I could say that I was proud I did.....but the memory of the ride has me shying away from getting on my bike this week.......
I was thinking about my homesickness......
First of all...homesickness is NO JOKE.....you feel like you are going to die a miserable, lonely death in the pit of despair.....and there is no light, and there is no end to the agony.......
Then you wake up one day and you feel perfectly fine!
Isn't that so weird?
I mean what am I 'sick' about any ways?
It most certainly is not the home I grew up in as a child. Or the house that I lived in while I was in ALASKA last.....somebody is living in that house now. Yes.....I miss my friends and my family, but this picture I have in my mind doesn't exist anymore.....
I have changed, and they have changed......
If I threw in and went back home....it would just be foolish.....
Home....home is wherever I make it. And right now home is in NEVER NEVER LAND.
I was talking with my BFF yesterday.....When you are away from home, you feel like you are in a time capsule. All these things are happening back at home, while you are watching standing still. Obviously you are not just standing still, you are doing stuff, but its hard to share the things you are doing and the things your are experiencing because the people back home cannot comprehend it......
Yesterday was a tough day for me, and I still cannot fathom the loss of those two children......I started the day out by looking for inspiration, to start a new day, a new beginning and I found it in the form of this quote;
'But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.' -William Collins
This is so, so beautiful....one of my very favorites....doesn't this just make you want to take a deep breath, exhale with gratitude and change the world today?
I have been debating for months now....whether or not....to put such personal stuff in my blog.....I have been patiently waiting for the answer...and it came to me the other day in a message from a fellow friend and dear reader........
Then.....I started to really think about it......and I decided that.....I should set it up like those commercials.......
You know.....
The awkward ones that come on while your sitting next to your Father in Law, or your Step Dad......
About Viagra, or Cialis, or birth control, or even the normal medications that have the obscene side effects like anal leakage........
So here it is......
We have decided to use a different birth control method....other than the pill. (Its been a long time cumming....pun intended)
Because I know people are going to get OVERLY excited we are not TRYING to have a baby......
I have heard that.....your Whoopi Libido increases....when you get off the pill.
I would say its true.
We have also.....due to my high cholesterol and LEGS' family history started to take Fish Oil. LEGS' family history includes problems with dementia and memory. Fish Oil is good for your brain.
A friend and reader sent me this;
ARMS Mailbox:
(Side Note: In reference to the Cleanse that I am embarking on)
'Surprise side effect. Fish Oil does some nice things that you wouldn't expect, TMI maybe....But when I started taking those, holy cow. I was making Whoopi and when I had a "O" it was INSANE. My husband thought he made a major achievement!!! :) '
I was literally laughing out loud when I read this....
and I felt like this reader was spying on me!
I started to get paranoid.....surely my.....WHOOPI sounds had not traveled half way around the world!?!
I am not a doctor. I am not a scientist. But by GOLLY! If I can help a reader/friend make better WHOOPI, I am all for it.
I would say that Fish Oil may increase the intensity of your "O."
FISH OIL/OFF THE PILL PRESCRIPTION:
Purpose: What the world needs now, is love, sweet love, its the only thing, there is just too little of...
Uses: Back in the Saddle Again, Super Freak, Funky Cold Medina
Warnings: Sex Therapy, Sexual Healing, Like a Virgin,
Side Effects: Red Light Special, Me so Horny, I want to Sex you up,
Do not use without consulting your doctor.
ARMS' Mailbox Part Duex:
Dear ARMS,
"What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn't change what I decide to do."
I know Tom will LOVE (insert irony) me using this quote because it comes from Ru Paul (a drag queen) and to be honest drag queens scare Tom.
Always in Love with ya, Jerry
Dear Jerry,
I LOVE IT! I love drag queens and so does LEGS! We have even been to a drag show in ALABAMA. We need to find one over here!
PS- From now on I would capitalize the word Drag Queen, I am pretty sure that it is proper and I am sure that a Drag Queen would insist on it. .*)
Love on ya, ARMS**
Dear ARMS,
I could tell you seemed a little home sick in your writing. Especially when you wrote about friends and neighbors. It is very unfortunate how we (Americans) take more pleasure in hating and tearing each other down than we do showing love and building each other up.
Here is a Random Thought! I had this friend (a true friend since 1978). I talked with him a few weeks ago and had made plans to meet in Vegas this October. I got a call last Sunday that he had passed the prior evening. My thoughts were along the line of how unfair this was and how I still had somethings to say to him and also call him on. (You know how we tend to give our friends a pass because it might hurt their feelings). At any rate, I will never be able to do this now. It's amazing how many people we meet along this journey and how few we can really say is a true friend."
Mr. T
Dear Mr. T
I still cannot believe your read my blog!
Seriously though,
Anybody, who has the pleasure of meeting you, has access to the most sound wisdom I have every known in my whole life. I am so thankful and so fortunate that we were able to make a friendship, and stay in touch over the years and distance. While I was reading and transcribing your words tonight, I started to get teary. It seems as though, your words have come to mean more to me than they did when you first sent them to me. I found them to be comforting, but also to sum up a life lesson that I wish I would have known sooner, but am glad to know now.
It is obvious with recent events....that it is absolutely imperative to say what you need to say, whenever you have the chance, because LIFE IS TOO SHORT.
Love on ya (from NEVER NEVER LAND), ARMS**
GUILTY PLEASURE:
I am doing really good, but its that damn cheese.....I just can't stop eating it!
OVER & OUT
Just another day in the life of an unlikely military wife.....**
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