The usual

I had a wonderfully successful cleaning binge the last night, a true all-nighter. I slipped into bed about 5:25 am, just as Mark was getting up to start his crazy day out in the 112 degrees. But I am VERY happy that I did about 3 days worth of work uninterrupted and my kitchen is superclean and organized. It makes my inner virgo shiver with excitement. YAY!! I wan't even tired all night, I was so into it, and I slept on and off till 9:30 then went and had 3/4 of a great workout until I crashed since I'd eaten only 1/3 cup of cottage cheese. So betweeen the 3 hours nap yesterday, then the 4 hours or so I got this morning, thats almost a full night. I am kinda crashing now. I have not even had ANY caffeine pills all weekend. Its real true energy. Feels good, even if it is a little stupid. Look, if my SIL is gonna come and stay here and take care of my kids for 6 days, I should at least have things organized and accessible for her.
Everone needs to go read Sqwiggs blog today. She really put things together for me today, talking about how we tend to view working out and eating right as a punishment... well, you just have to read it. Excellent!!!! This new perspective could really help power me thru another challenge.

My tuesday excitement is being rescheduled for another day this week. Yikes!!!

My man is home!!!!!!

YAY!!!! Hes been gone a week, but I feel like I haven't seen him in 2 weeks since he worked so much the week before he left. Its so good to have him home. He looked so strange with almost a full beard, so rough and manly..YUMMY. I wanted to take a picture, but Dayton put my memory card inside the cd-rom drive, hope I can find it. We are just hanging out today and then tonight we are going to Sadies dance recital. Good times.

Fun and sun and sun and sun

We have been so busy. Fun busy though. I've been doing a good job of keeping the kids occupied, but its a lot of work, and it costs a lot in gas. I'm getting a nice toasted tan. Not doing so well at the eating plan, but I feel a new challenge coming on, the real deal again. Also, stay tuned for some wild stuff going on this coming tuesday. I will give a full detailed report.

On the Mark front, He's still gone but is having a pretty good time. And he dosen't know it yet but he is ON the short list of 10 guys who are in line to be hired by the police dept. YAY!!! He was the first alternate but some didn't make it thru background checks. It will be a totaly fluke if he dosen't make it past that. He dosen't even have a speeding ticket! So I am cautiously VERY optimistic. It helps knowing a few guys who work there, and he's a great candidate. Keep your fingers crossed. I could be on the road to a normal life!!!!

Anyway here is a pic of my cutie Dayton today at the pool. I can't believe this is my baby!!!!! I had 8 kids with me today(my 5 plus 1 cousin and 2 friends) We had fun. Chaotic, though. I love the pool, it totally wipes them out!!! So heres a window in on my life. Think I'm ready for a little adult vacation?? Hmmm? I watch this and I think, Yes, I eat to soothe myself like an infant. I love 'em though.







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Summer storms

This is the second day in a row we've had a freakish storm at 4 pm. Yesterday is was this awesome wall of dust 200 feet high that swept over the entire valley. You could see the edges of it until it was right on top of you, then is was just a solid dirt cloud. I can't imagine what the settlers must have thought back in the olden days, when one of these giant dirt walls showed up. It moves fast, too. You can see it travel. Then it passed. Wierd. Now today we have another storm, but not a dirt wall, but just a sudden dirt storm, this time with rain. Lightning like a post card. If I were out in the desert, it would probably be gorgeous. However I'm in the middle of a neighborhood, something is lost on that, I think. LOL I wish Karenna we here to capture the storm on film for me, but oh well I took a pic of it. Some people can capture the moment, I can take a pic. Get the difference??? LMAO