If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. Lao Tzu

Breakfast today. Dave's Boomin' Berry Bagels slathered with butter and sprinkled liberally with cinnamon sugar, then toasted 'til the sugar caramelizes. Plus a mocha, because it's Saturday and I woke up with a headache. I just didn't think my Green Dragon Oolong would get it done today.

No, I don't think I'll be blogging my breakfast on a daily basis. I hope I come up with something better to blog about than that! But as I was scrolling through the archives of this pitiful, barely-there-blog, I realized that my posts are sorely lacking photos, and blogging is all about the photos these days.

So have some food porn in the meantime (seriously, a cinnamon-sugared and toasted Dave's Bagel is like a cinnamon-roll shortcut, they're that good). While you're scrambling to find something as tasty, I'm using the rest of this post to do my daily 5 minutes of freewriting.

Who or what causes changes in my life?

The entropy fairies I live with, of course. Though I will say, sometimes it seems like my life doesn't really change much, and I think that may be one of the problems I will run into in trying to blog. I've become a hermit over the last 20 years. I like my little sanctuary out in the middle of nowhere. I detest driving (partially because of a lack of peripheral vision in my left eye and too many intersections that are constructed at angles where I can't see cars to my left unless I literally turn my head about 90 degrees.

By entropy fairies I mean my children, and my husband, and my dogs. But I don't really think they change my life in the way that this prompt is supposed to mean. I'm not really sure I could name someone that causes me to change the way I think or behave. I couldn't even say if that is a good thing, or a bad thing. I guess it means I'm pretty set in my ways. Though I do spend a lot of my time reacting to the people in my life, if that makes sense. I know I should be more proactive, but I tend to be reactive instead, reacting to the mess in the kitchen or the bill for the toilet that we had to replace two months ago or the fact that my husband wants to bring home yet another car.

No, really.

We already had 4 automobiles. That doesn't include the herd of motorcycles that lives out past his mancave/shop. I'm glad he and the boys have a hobby...I just wish it was a little neater and a little less expensive.

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I can find peace in my life if...

I'm not sure how to answer that. Sometimes I think that peace in my life would result from sending everyone away for just a couple of days! No more "Mom, what's for supper?" (seriously, why do they need to know that in advance? am I the only person who is aggravated by that question every single day???) I'd probably have to send the dogs away too because there would be no one left in the house to let them out besides me and they do the potty-pace on an hourly basis if they are indoors.

Other times I think just a little organization would bring peace to my life. And I have this thought much more often than I do the other thought, fortunately. I've tried some organizational systems (Flylady, anyone?) and I do well with them for a few days, weeks if I'm lucky or on a roll, (just like meal-planning or dieting or studying-to-better-myself), but then inevitably something happens that throw a monkey-wrench in the machinery - I get sick, or some catastrophe befalls someone (probably not a catastrophe but something that seems like one at the time) or Aunt Flo comes for a visit and generally leaves me feeling grumpy and out of sorts and sends me hiding in the bedroom with the shades pulled down and the covers over my head.

Guess what the youngest child just asked?? Have we decided on dinner? Really, I don't get it. Mabe I"m just too old to remember whether or not I asked that question on a daily basis. My Dad still asks my mom every day "what's for chow" and sometimes I wonder that she hasn't strangled him yet.

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April 22, 2015

Breakfast:

Outside my window... it's sunny, and hot!! Our pool is green because the pump is broken. Must fix that.

I am thinking...summer is almost over. School starts in two weeks.

I am thankful...that it rained yesterday! And that when I called about jury duty today, I was told I was excused because all the cases on the calendar had been settled out of court. There's only 5000 or so people in the county...court cases don't come up often.

From the learning rooms...still on summer break, but not much longer.

In the kitchen...one loaf of bread baked, pizza dough rising in the fridge. Tonight is make your own pizza night.

I am wearing...gray shorts and an olive tank.

I am creating...bread. I think bread counts as creating. I'd like to get back to writing, but that isn't going to happen today.

I am going...crazy. 4 kids at my house today instead of my two. I don't know how my sis-in-law does it with 5!

I am wondering...why are you here? (sorry, can't help but channel Yoda when I see that)

I am reading...nothing today. Finished the most recent Dresden novel on Wednesday. It was interesting. Probably not my favorite, but I did like that it linked back to one of my favorites, which was Dead Beat.

I am hoping...to survive this weekend with my sanity intact.

I am looking forward to...some peace and quiet Sunday!

I am hearing...kids bumping and thumping around.

Around the house...laundry is done, but everything else is still a mess for the most part. The living room is full of empty boxes because I have unpacked all the kids school books from K12.

I am pondering...isn't this the same thing as thinking and wondering?

One of my favorite things...brown paper packages tied up with string? Not really, but nothing else comes to mind at the moment.

A few plans for the rest of the week: Today is Friday. The week ends tomorrow night. I'm planning on taking the kids swimming at Nana's tomorrow, otherwise, I haven't planned much else.

Here is picture for thought I am sharing...

Out and About

Whew...it's been a long day. Went and picked up my friend Joanna's kids to have a playdate while she was working on packing up her house for moving day. Went to Chick Fil A for lunch...then discovered I had locked my keys in the car. ARGH!! Fortunately my mom was able to rescue us and take us all to Monkey Joe's as we had originally planned. The place was packed. Come to find out, there were 2 school buses full of children that had arrived not long before we had, end of school party I guess. It was a little nerve-wracking trying to keep up with 4 kids as opposed to 2 in that madhouse! But they over-abundance of kids soon dissipated. I have a couple of pics from Chick Fil A...I need to start taking pictures more often. My kids grow up too fast.

So, probably not our best outing ever, but the kids at least got to eat ice cream while we were waiting on our rescue. Hopefully our next playdate will go a little smoother (but with my luck, it's not likely!)