Update on my Life: Varmints, Popularity, and Edjucation

Whatup? I knew you were dying to know. (Delusions of grandeur? Perhaps)

Not that my life is that interesting, but at least I try to make it sound that way. Whether or not I’m successful, is up to personal interpretation. (I don’t want to know, really.)

So, you may have noticed that I have been missing a bit from my beloved blogosphere. We went to Yellowstone (I blogged that) and then spent a day a Lagoon (did not blog that) and then pretty much everyone got sick. Oh, and I had to school shop, which is not really that much fun when everyone is feeling rather blah. Then I didn’t do much for days but what I had to and, of course, spent quality time listlessly browsing the internet. And becoming addicted to Facebook (Do you want to be my friend? Please! Add me!) Also, I did some homework. I’m trying to finish a BYU class. Unfortunately, I’m not even half-way.

So, that is not exciting. Believe me. I’ve lived it. This blog should be titled, “How Boring my Life Really Is” and then everyone would rush to read it, because that is the type of blog title that really draws a crowd.

Oh, I could add that a large mouse/rat-type-thing got into the house while we away. Ken left the garage door up a crack and the house door ajar so that our baby bunnies would not get too hot while we were on vacation. So, a critter got in. Thank goodness it wasn’t a snake. We have a lot of snakes around here. (Just the harmless garden variety, but still…)

So, Po tried to make a trap with a giant pickle jar and paper across top and a lure of cheese and finished it up with driftwood stairs. Fine art. I told him to get the rat trap from the woodpile, but no one could bear the thought of killing a furry little creature. Except me. Because mice and rats are right up there with snakes. Or should I say down there. Anyway. We never saw hide nor hair of the little varmit, which is just as well.

I haven’t been writing much, but I am hearing voices. A strange and new story is unfolding. I think I am insane. According to Fox News this is a good thing. Apparently, we all are… Who knew?

So, I started homeschooling this week. It’s day 4 and my brain is totally fried already. (Only 176 days to go. Isn’t that comforting?) It’s just 2nd Grade and K, but it’s a lot of work. I tip my hat to my fellow homeschoolers, especially those who are homeschooling multiple children. Homeschooling is not for the faint of heart. But it’s worth it. (Please do not say otherwise, because I’m feeling a little fragile right now.)

But I can still joke about it:

So, that is what is going on. Do you feel better now that you know what is going on in my life? I know I do.

Whatup with you?

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I can Relate

Okay, I can relate to this video. I’m not saying how. I’m just saying that a part of me can relate.

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More Muppets

Can you ever get enough of Beaker? I mean, sure, he can give you a headache, but this stuff is classic.

I told you that you would laugh. Oh, wait. I didn’t. Well, I hope you laughed anyway. Life is too short not to laugh whenever you get a chance.

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Needing Some Prayers

Not for me. Well, you can always pray for me. But, besides the usual everyday stressful stuff, I’m not in crisis mode right now.

On the right of my blog page at the top of my blog roll is Cjane. I am a big fan of her blog. I love her wit and humor and once I even had dream that we were friends. Weird. (I take no responsibility for my dreams. None whatsoever.) Her sister has her own blog that is fabulous by its own right. (NieNie Dialogue’s)

So the prayers that are needed are for Cjane’s sister and husband. They were in an airplane crash in Arizona and received severe burns. It is still touch and go.

Here is the story:

If you want to stay up-to-date on their condition, cjane has it all on her blog.

Sometimes I think my life is a struggle and then I hear stories like this and then my life feels like a breeze. My biggest problem, besides getting out of bed to take Em to piano lessons is mixing up the ei-ie combination of every word on this page. I need more sleep. (See how easy my life is right now?)

So, send some love NieNie’s way. You can get all the info at cjane’s blog, still on the right on my blog roll. And have a great day.  

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In the end, it wouldn’t be a bad way to go

Sorry, I’ve been out of blogosphere lately. I have been vacationing as much as possible and eeking out every bit of summer that is left. School starts a week from tomorrow. I will be school shopping and partying (which are about equivalent) pretty much every day this week. Okay, not really partying, but I’ll think of something fun to do.

This is what I have been doing:

I grew up two hours away from this place in beautiful (although undesirable to me) Teton Valley. I can’t get enough of Yellowstone. Even though much of it stinks like rotten eggs and I got another mosquito bite (my second of the year), I think everyone should visit Yellowstone at least once before they die.

And on that note, did you know that almost the entire park is a caldera?

Caldera=top of a volcano

 Also, it is active. Also, it if blows, we would enter the next ice age. (So much for global warming, Al. Then you’d have to find something else to do besides annoy us and advertise Viagra, I’m just saying. Maybe you could re-invent the internet.)

And while I walked along the boardwalks with eggy-steam in my face and waded in Firehole river while my kids skipped rocks and watched Old Faithful and ate Huckleberry Ice Cream (Is this a run-on sentence?), I thought about the volcano blowing it’s top and blowing us clear to New Mexico and I thought, you know, it wouldn’t be a bad way to go.

How are spending the last days of your summer?

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