Baby Bear goes downstairs and sits in his small chair at the
table, he looks into his small bowl. It is empty. "Who's
been eating my porridge?!!," he squeaks.

Papa Bear arrives at the big table and sits in his big
chair. He looks into his big bowl, and it is also empty.
"Who's been eating my Porridge?!!," he roars.

Momma Bear puts her head through the serving hatch from the
kitchen and yells, "For Pete's sake, how many times do we
have to go through this?

"It was Momma Bear who got up first, it was Momma Bear who
woke everyone in the house, it was Momma Bear who made the
coffee, it was Momma Bear who unloaded the dishwasher from
last night, and put everything away, it was Momma Bear who
went out in the cold early morning air to fetch the
newspaper, it was Momma Bear who set the table, it was Momma
Bear who put the cat out, cleaned the litter box, and filled
the cat's water and food dish, and, now that you've decided
to drag your sorry bear-butts downstairs, and grace Momma
Bear's kitchen with your grumpy presence, listen good, cause
I'm only going to say this one more time…

"I HAVEN'T MADE THE PORRIDGE YET!!"

Posted: July 25th, 2006 under Random Thoughts.
Comments: 4

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death."

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. " ~Anatole France

It looks like there might be some major changes ahead in our lives.  Chad has the opportunity to buy an Aire Master franchise for really cheap…the only thing is that it's in Kansas.  We'd be crazy to turn it down…and I want to be completely supportive if this is what he decides he wants to do.  It's his chance of a lifetime…his major break.  And I don't want to stand in the way of that….

It's just that I'm having a hard time with the fact that we'd be leaving everything behind.  We've got nothing down there except this job…no house, no family, no friends, no job (for me), no school….it almost feels like I'm letting go of everything I've worked so hard for and I'm having a hard time seeing myself ever finding it again.  It's like we'd be just heading off into the unkown with no clear vision of where we're going….no idea where we'll live or what we'll do or who we'll meet.  Chad says it will be an adventure and God will take care of us and I know he's right…I'm just having a hard time contemplating letting go.

I've been on an emotional rollercoaster ever since I found out yesterday (it came completely out of the blue…no warning, no notice….).  I've gone from tears, to being excited about it, to making plans, back to tears….And then I distract myself and forget about it for awhile, but when I remember it's like a mini-hearing-it-for-the-first-time-all-over-again.  It's definitely going to take awhile for me to really come to grips with it.

We haven't even decided for sure, but I know Chad is really leaning towards it…we're going down there in August to look around and we'll make a decision then.  But if Chad likes it, I'm going to tell him to go for it.  He's never stood in the way of any of my dreams and I know I'll adjust.  We've talked about it and we both agree that it's the transition that's going to be the hardest.  Once we establish a sense of stability again I know I'll be fine.  After all, this isn't the first time I've given everything up to start a new life.

I'm still kind of in shock right now.  I know a lot of women worry about having their husbands come home and say, "Honey, we're moving…" but I just never thought that would happen to us.  Chad works for his dad, who owns the WISCONSIN franchise…how far could we end up having to move?

When it's all said and done, we'll be OK.  It's just an awful lot of change so FAST…if we decide to do this, we could be moving down there as soon as September.  I think part of the reason for the emotional rollercoaster right now is that it's so overwhelming.  I sat down to start making lists this afternoon of everything we'd have to do if we decided to go and I didn't even know where to start.  How do start picking up your entire life and moving it several states away?

OK, that's enough rambling…

Oh, we started looking at apartments in Topeka online this afternoon (we're thinking we'll have to live in an apartment for the first few months).  I found one I thought was kind of cute…it was pretty cheap and it allowed dogs.  Then I went and read reviews of it…they were ALL bad!  Stuff about spiders, and it falling apart and the maintenance guy won't fix anything, and it being a ghetto.  That kind of scared the living you-know-what out of me…now I'm worrying about ending up in a place like that but not knowing it's like that until we start living in it.  Which is kind of an unreasonable worry since we're going to go down and look at apartments before we choose one…

Oh well…got to get this overactive mind to bed…it slept awful last night and really needs to stop thinking now…

"The more things change, the more they remain…insane."

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”

Posted: July 15th, 2006 under Random Thoughts.
Comments: 9

I've been sooooo busy this week, but things should settle down in 3 weeks (when my chem class is over)…until then, I'm just hanging on for dear life.

Yesterday, in chemistry, we did the diet coke and mentos experiment…inside. We told the instructor we should go outside and do it because it would probably ruin stuff, but he insisted on doing it inside. It sprayed EVERYWHERE, including the ceiling, which is now stained beyond removing (they'll have to replace the tiles).  When it was done, he said, "I told you guys we should have gone outside."  We can't even try to clean it off the ceiling because whatever the tile is made of comes off when you rub on it.  The teacher and another student were spraying it with squirt bottles of water, but I don't think it's going to do much good.   It took so long to clean it up that we didn't have to do lab last night. We have to make it up on Monday, but we'll be there anyway, so it's not a big deal.

Posted: July 14th, 2006 under Random Thoughts.
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YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN WISCONSIN  IN JULY WHEN. . .

The birds have to use potholders to pull worms out of the ground.

The trees are whistling for the dogs.

The best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance.

Hot water now comes out of both taps.

You can make sun tea instantly.

You learn that a seat belt buckle makes a pretty good branding iron.

The temperature drops below 95 and you feel a little chilly.

You discover that in July it only takes 2 fingers to steer your car.

You discover that you can get sunburned through your car window.You actually burn your hand opening the car door.

You break into a sweat the instant you step outside at 7:30 a.m.

Your biggest bicycle wreck fear is, What if I get knocked out and end up lying on the pavement and cook to death? You realize that asphalt has a liquid state.

The potatoes cook underground, so all you have to do is pull one out and add butter, salt and pepper.

Farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to keep them from laying boiled eggs.

The cows are giving evaporated milk.

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Actually, it hasn't been a very hot summer.  This was just passed along to me…

Posted: July 9th, 2006 under Random Thoughts.
Comments: 4

I had so much fun seeing Kenny Chesney in concert yesterday!  He was awesome.  When the concert first started, he started singing and everyone was looking around for him because he wasn't on stage.  Finally, the guy next to me found him and pointed him out to me…he was on a platform in the middle of the audience.  Later in the show, during "When the Sun Goes Down", he had Uncle Kracker come out.  After that, they sang Uncle Kracker's top song for 2005 (I don't remember what it was) and Sugarland came out and sang it with them.  It was pretty cool. 

Chad didn't enjoy it as much as I did…when Kenny went backstage between songs, he thought it was over, but he came back out and sang "Who You'd Be Today".  Then Chad said, "That was his last song…I heard him say that was the last one."  When the lights went down after the song, though, we heard the noise of a tractor starting, and I said, "It is not…he's going to sing 'She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy' now!"  That was his last song though.  We got home around midnight, but it was so much fun!!

Posted: July 5th, 2006 under Random Thoughts.
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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!

 I'm so excited!!!  We're going to see Kenny Chesney at Summerfest tonight!!  I bought these tickets in February and it seems like it's taken FOREVER to get here!  Chad's not very excited about it, but he's dealing with it.  *LOL*

We finally have Buddy back!  He stayed with my grandparents while we were doing all our running around, and he had lots of fun being spoiled.  They bought him one of those balls that you put treats in and it keeps the dog busy trying to get them out.  I've been meaning to buy him one of those ever since we got him.  They also bought him a 4'th of July chew-rope (it's red, white and blue, and it's HUGE…it'll take him forever to shred that thing…he shreds the ones I buy him in about a day).  And the best part is that they bought him an Easy Walk harness.  He usually pulls constantly when I walk him, but I took him for a walk this morning, and he was the world's best dog.  I couldn't believe what a difference it made.  If I'd known they worked so well, I would have bought him one a long time ago.  It's also nice because it doesn't go around his neck at all, so he's not choking himself at all.  Oh, and they bought him a pool, too, but he wouldn't swim in it at all…he just used it for a big water dish.  I'm actually kind of relieved that he didn't like it, because I felt bad because we don't have an outdoor spigot, so I couldn't get him a pool.  So he had lots of fun and I think my grandparents enjoyed having their great-grandpuppy stay with them, too.  I felt bad because we took him home a day early and they were counting on having him there for another day.    Chad wanted to take him home last night, though…he actually admitted that he missed Buddy, too.    Buddy was so happy to see us, too….when I went outside to say hi to him, he licked my entire leg

We got SOOOOOO burned at Noah's Ark yesterday.  We had fun, but it hurts so much that I could only make the bed half-way this morning.    I hate making the bed anyway *LOL* 

Posted: July 4th, 2006 under Random Thoughts.
Comments: 2