in my travels...

One of my personal goals this "school year" is to take photos of the hilarious things I witness while i travel. But my camera no longer works. so maybe soon.
BUT, last week i did make a note of 3 things that i thought to be funny...

1. it seems that every high school has a janitor named "Willie"

2. Attention: all grown men, in big trucks, with mud tires, dressed in camo... Please note that it is NOT OK, to cut the sleeves off of your t-shirt in such a way that exposes your hairy, chubby nipples. We, the population around you, DO NOT want to see the jiggly masses of flesh pointing at us in the office at your child's high school. Read a book.

3. When renting a car for work, I always wonder who drove the car before I do. What are they like? What is their story?
I often look for signs in the rental car, maybe a cd left in the cd player will give me a hint, or maybe a receipt.
This time I found a Popeyes chicken box under the seat.....

shadowfeet

Walking,stumbling on these shadowfeet
toward home,
a land that i've never seen
I am changing: less and less asleep
made of different stuff than when i began
and i have sensed it all alongfast approaching is the day
when the world has fallen out from under me
I'll be found in you, still standing
when the sky rolls up and mountains fall on their knees
when time and space are through
I'll be found in you
Theres distraction buzzing in my head
saying in the shadows it's easier to stay
but I've heard rumours of true realitywhispers of a well-lit way
You make all things new
When the world has fallen out from under me
I'll be found in you, still standing
Every fear and accusation under my feet
when time and space are through
I'll be found in you

parental doubts.

i love kids, i do. they bring me so much joy. I have lots of newphews and a niece.
yesterday, i picked up my friend, Shelley's, children (7 yr. and 3 yr.). I offered to take them for the day because Shelley is very ill and needed rest. I have no idea how I can help, except in this way. They are precious. Really.
But after about 4 hours, this is what was confirmed (things I already knew, but it was confirmed).

• i like things to be tidy. a place for everything and everything in its place. not clean- tidy. Therefore, i spent the whole time picking up behind them. i guess that is what mothers do, afterall that is what my mom did. and i thank her for it.
• i can't be "silly" all the time. My best idea was to play Connect Four, at which the 3 year old didn't quite cooperate. I usually sing, dance around and make the 7 yr old feel like a superstar, but yesterday, i just didn't have it in me.
• i do not like "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody," its not funny, and it's surely NO saved by the bell. i know, i have unrealistic expectations.
• i like my space. not used to having kids follow me around, onto the deck, into the closet, into the bathroom, out to the mailbox.
• i am not so sure I can afford kids :-)
• kids just want to be loved and be at the center of your attention. Can you blame them? They just want you to play with them.

My sister always says 'Your world is gonna be rocked when you have kids' (her attempt to tell me I am not qualified, haha). And she may be right, haha.

to get something free

It's a rainy Labor Day spent with my friend Chrissy, helping her shop for and purchase a new TV. She shows up wearing a MS State t-shirt reminding me that you can get free chicken strips today at Chik-fil-a if you wearing a college t-shirt. This was a marketing launch for their new chicken strip recipe, just another part of their genius marketing. So after purchasing a new TV across the street at best buy, we swing into chik-fil-a. If you know me, you know that i only exercise in collegiate shirts, i don't sport around town in them. As we are waiting in line, I notice that everyone in the place has on a collegiate t-shirts. Charlie and I, not wearing a team shirt, also got our strips for free and got a kick out it. Full grown folks in college gear always cracks me up. 

BUT THEN, she walked in. The one to top it all. A mom with 4 kids. All the kids had on team t-shirts. Mom, as cool as she is, had turned her purple shirt inside out, tag on outside. She used masking tape to spell LSU on the front of her t-shirt. We all, simultaneously, looked at each other trying our hardest not to laugh. 

We salute you, homemade t-shirt making mom!