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I've been alone at work, usually there's one or 2 weeks over the summer where I hold down the fort alone, the boys at work all travel...during these times I use the freedom to gut the place, throw old stuff out, make room, fill up bankers boxes of stuff to be taken to storage....kick up the dust, the stuff I never have time to do otherwise...it's gone well, but my hands HURT, all this packing and moving and carrying crap, I'm sore from lifting REPEATEDLY these 50 lb. boxes that I keep forgetting to put one file in!!

The perk of all this is that I can listen to my music during these long hours of manual labor...lots of music Love that.

If you don't know them yet and have an opportunity to check them out on itunes or elsewhere, look up the MOST AMAZING BAND 'Sons of Bill' - now I can't claim to know much country, or country rock, but this band, lemme tell ya, they make me want to know a whole lot more...they are a local band from my area, but they tour a great deal and their shows are just OFF THE HOOK CRAZY GOOD!!!! They have a facebook, a website, myspace, all that stuff, you can listen to music there as well....the website has some live stuff...and that JAMES, the lead singer and youngest son of bill, eat him with a spoon ladies, just yum yum yum....their first album, very good, fun, rocking kick butt stuff...their second album...ART, beautiful writing, melodies that make you melt, harder stuff that makes you want to crank it with the windows down...I hope they are around for a long long time, so go check them out...lemme know what you think. "Lost Love and Indie Rockers" - give me that any old time, "So Much for the Blues" and "Western Skies", not to mention "Roll on Jordan"....they are the soundtrack I hear in my head all day long, you got a situation, there's a song for it.

As for other work music, well, I'm pretty varied in my tastes, got lots of variety, the Twilight soundtrack has been prominent for me this week as well...."Eyes on Fire" I like that cultish song. Got some old rock that is great, got some new stuff that is fun....but I just keep coming back to my 'Sons of Bill' this week....like I said with a spoon!

Lots of love to you all, have a great weekend!
-Lil'sis

I always have so many things each day that I tell myself, "oh, so bloggable", yet I don't do it, don't get around to it, am overwhelmed by life and all that entails some days.

Well here are few anecdotes I've been saving up, in no particular order, and none would be their own post, so I'm just laying them out there, feel free to discuss amongst yourselves.

- There's this house we drive by on the way to my oldest child's best friends house, it's not part of a neighborhood, just on a road on the way. Lots of people live there, it appears several families, I think they work on some of the local farms, car plates are from Texas, many kids running about, always a BBQ in the yard, even when it's raining it seems. Well, there's this one thing we've noticed that stands out, there is this ginormous tree in the front yard, big and old good for climbing type tree, some low STURDY branches, more like small logs if you will, good for a swing no doubt. Well they added a swing these past couple of months, and not just any swing. It's a carseat, a booster seat with 5-point restraint, taken from the car and jimmied up in the tree with rope, it's a good 10 feet off the ground too. They put the kids in it, 5-point restraints and all and let them swing about. I thought this was odd, so did my kids, I have to remember to take a picture sometime. When we drive my youngest, who is 3 and in a very similar type seat in my car says, "look mama my car seats still in the TREE!!! Looks fun, can we do that at home!" NOT YET my dear, not yet.

- I have a friend, we'll call her Anna, she's pregnant with her first, she's a great woman I love her. She's the same woman who for years has compared her DOGS to my children, as if there the same thing...I loathe that, but I love her so it works. Well she's preggers now, the questions she asks are so funny to me, i'm so excited for her and her husband. I keep telling her it won't be like the dogs, and she just went looking at daycare options, she came back and said, "damn, I thought the kennels were expensive!!!"

- I'm taking the kids on a little trip, to the beach a few states away, a friend of mine has a house there and we'll stay with him. He's my bestest friend from college, yes he is single and yes I love him to bits, but not like THAT...the kids call him Uncle, it's sweet really. I was discussing this trip with a group of people at pre-school the other day, and when they figure out where I'm staying, that he's single, they are all looking at me like I've got a few heads or maybe just one eye on my one head, or that maybe I'm INSANE or have a bipolor moment...why is this so strange to people. Then one says, 'well it's not like you're a normal woman, all the husbands say that Lil'sis, you're more like one of the guys who wears heels'...WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? I'm going to take it as a compliment, but I'm not sure if that was the intention, they all chuckled, so I chuckled.

- I started seeing a wellness doctor, he cracks my neck and back and he gives me tips on how to treat stuff without medicine, and he's really great. I haven't had a migraine since i started with him and I usually get one a week, and three a week during my period, had my period and NO MIGRAINE...NO MEDS....I likey

- I'm thinking of stopping seeing the shrink, haven't seen her in a few weeks b/c of schedules, etc., and I've come to see that all my omissions when I talk with her probably are not the best way to receive therapy, it's not that I don't trust her, there's just stuff I don't want to tell her, so it's really a me issue...I hadn't thought much about that till I was talking with a friend and they asked what the shrink thought of something and I said, 'oh, i don't tell her about that stuff'...again the look as if I'm a cyclops...so maybe I should either stop seeing her and wasting the funds or find someone new that I don't mind telling everything to, I don't know really, but I'm more inclined to option one and just going it alone for a bit and saving the co-pay.

- Working for very wealthy people can be a bummer sometimes, don't get me wrong, I'm very lucky, but seeing the "haves" have so much can make one feel like they aren't all that successful sometimes, luckily I don't feel that very often, just when I realize their children are more traveled then me and they are a third my age or less. I'd like to "do Europe" for the summer, just once it could be fun right?

Ok, that's all for now, maybe I'll just post these little items each day as they come up, that'll save all the time it took to post it all at once...short entries are acceptable no?