Remembering Why
So the weekend was spent something like this...
Saturday we went shopping for all of our parrotphinalia and then picked Mariah up from the airport. The afternoon was spent sipping Margaritas and dining al fresco on the lake in Town Center and then off to the Jimmy Buffet show while my very good friend Mariah kept our little monkeys. It was fun. I got to hear all my favorite songs and watch several thousand people act insane. Then Sunday morning Mariah and I chased the Sunrise over Chai Lattes and then off she went back home. I returned home to find the family up and ready to take off for the day so we headed down A1A and chased the sunset to Key West. Monday was spent laying on the beach and playing in the sand and surf. Watching all the sail boats in the coves surrounded by the coolest turquoise colored water up and down A1A makes me want to live on a boat so badly. Sunbathing naked on the deck and hopping around the coast doesn't sound like a bad life does it?
Weekends like that and days like yesterday make me remember why I wanted to come here to begin with. Somehow between housework and kids and work and bills we forget why we're here.
Bella was bored to death with South Beach
Not one celebrity spotted in days
She was tired of her mood
Lunchin’ on vegan food
She was tired of just soakin’ up rays then she saw him pull up to the stoplight
In an old ragtop that she couldn’t name
He said “hop inside I’m headin’ south take a ride
I’m just the next man that you’re gonna blame”
U.S. 1, headin’ down U.S. 1
Lenny said how ‘bout lunch in Key Largo
There’s a fish sandwich place down the road
Kinda out in the sticks
But we can be back by six
And never leave our area code
Well geography wasn’t her strong point
She’d never been past the Dadeland mall
So they stopped on the way
Lenny was happy to pay
For her new thong and purple beach ball
They’re goin’ conky tonkin’
Cruisin’ on a weekend buzz
Really conky tonkin’
Doin’ it just because
Havin’ too much fun to turn back
They were explorers in a hot rod Ford
They counted seabirds and cars
Stopped at all the cool bars
Harmonically they struck a chord
Stop! What was that
Somewhere in the middle of the Seven Mile Bridge
He said bella do you want to see the rest
She said “I haven’t a care
Lenny, just take me there”
And they drove on all the way to Key West
Well she’d never seen anything like it
In all of her twenty-six years
Bella was feeling the groove
Lenny was makin’ his move
They were quite a pair of pioneers
They’re goin’ conky tonkin’
Cruisin’ down U.S. 1
They’ll be conky tonkin’
Tryin’ to catch up with the sun
They’ll be conky tonkin’
Their engine is about to explode
Goin’ conky tonkin’
Hey they’ll meet you at the end of the road
Conky Tonkin' - Jimmy Buffet
Posted by gwendolyn on February 22, 2005 at 09:11 AM
Can You Feel A Little Love?
Do you suppose Depeche Mode realized what they were creating when they made Exciter? Perhaps Audi-Oh dealers should sell it with their product as a gift pack. Just a thought. Ahem.
Posted by gwendolyn on February 17, 2005 at 05:13 PM
Just Like Every Day
This morning my husband told me that he loves me just as much today as he did the day he married me, maybe even more. To which I replied that it is a proven fact that I cannot even breathe without him.
That just seems to be the way of things with us nowadays. He dances with me on Saturday mornings while we are getting dressed and I rub his head and let him sleep on my lap when we watch movies in the evenings. My children tell me they love me more times a day than I could ever keep track of and I always tell them I love them too. It is such a happy life. I am so grateful for it. All I ever really need I have.
Posted by gwendolyn on February 14, 2005 at 05:22 PM
Holes In The Head
Today the girls got their ears pierced. I wasn't allowed to have mine done until I was twelve. I am not really sure what the logic was behind that. However, we as parents agreed that we would not have them done until, and only if, the children asked for them. Yesterday, Hope firmly decided she was ready. Savannah must have figured that it just wasn't going to do for her younger sister to have her ears pierced before her so she decided she wanted hers done also.
This is yet another milestone reminding me of how fast they are growing up. I think for their upcoming birthdays we should get them each a tiny pair of diamond studs. Savannah has her eye on some 14kt. gold dolphins that match a pendant she has. Hope takes after her mother though and wants something along the lines of diamonds. They both did really well, much better than any other little girls present today. Shockingly Savannah went first and had little more to say about the whole thing except "Ouch that hurt" and that was about it. I was very shocked. Savannah is usually the drama queen and not much for pain tolerance. Hope shed one or two huge tears immediately after and then quickly decided she was also very happy she did it and both spent the rest of the day asking me over and over if they were still there as they have been instructed not to mess with them so they don't get infected. Both also keep asking us if they are beautiful to which we reply that they were already beautiful without them and then they coax us into proclaiming that their earrings add even more to their already stunning beauty. Girls.
Logan opted out of having his done. Maybe someday he will get some 12 gauge captive bead rings. Maybe not. If he does we just happen to have a set lying around, that is if his father doesn't have them put into his ears first which could happen as he has been talking about it. Either way the offer has been made and if he ever decides to do it we will take him.
We took them to see Racing Stripes and dinner out afterward. It was a full and fairly costly day.
Posted by gwendolyn on February 13, 2005 at 11:50 PM
He Said She Said
The tamer of the many entertaining things that could be overheard by my neighbors through the walls of my apartment today...
Me: "Jake it sure is a good thing you threw up that zipper." (To which he replied by just staring at me and licking his chops.)
Me: "Hope you need to grow up a just little bit! It is no one else's responsibility to get your toes into the slots of your toe socks."
Hope's reply (between sobs and flailing on the floor and screaming at her brother and sister for not helping her): "I don't want to grow up."
Also.
I finally got to watch The Notebook last night. I sobbed heavily from beginning to end. Mostly because I know I am going to get Alzheimer's and be just like that woman and mostly because I totally identified with the entire relationship between the two main characters. When they were fighting and hitting each other and then suddenly passionately all over each other. Yeah, I remember those days. Fighting all night and then pretending it never happened the next day. All fire and ice. The whole deal about the parents not being okay with it and fighting and screaming and telling them you will love who you want to love. Yeah, I remember that too. The being sick and scared and him not leaving her alone. Yeah, I remember that too.
The point I completely lost it though was when he told his children that wanted him to come home and not stay there at the retirement home that their mother "was his home" and he could never leave her. Then there was the end. I can't even talk about the end. The whole story just hit home. I am still kind of teary over it today. Big cry baby that I am.
Posted by gwendolyn on February 11, 2005 at 02:42 PM
Your My Best Friend
Ooh you make me live
Whatever this world can give to me
It’s you you’re all I see
Ooh you make me live now honey
Ooh you make me live
Ooh you’re the best friend that I ever had
I’ve been with you such a long time
You’re my sunshine and I want you to know
That my feelings are true
I really love you
Oh you’re my best friend
Posted by gwendolyn on February 10, 2005 at 11:11 AM
See You See Me
Terry and I went to the eye doctor for the first time in many many years Monday afternoon. It was determined that there is a very good reason I can't see to drive at night and that oncoming headlights blind me. It is also clear now why I cannot see some street signs I should be able to see. It also makes sense now why I have trouble seeing the ingredient lists on Jamba Juice's menu clearly even though I can see the bold titles of the smoothies. I am a tad near sighted these days. Hence, I will be picking up my new glasses next week. I had all the options added to them like anti-reflective coating and transition lenses so that when I am driving and have to wear them they will also be sunglasses. This is handy in Florida where 90% of the time you are out in the sun. On the not so bright side, this made my glasses hella expensive. Oh well. I don't have to wear them all the time. Just those certain times when I know I am straining my eyes. I mentioned to him that being on the computer a lot gives me headaches. He said that the computer puts a tremendous strain on our vision. I suspect it is probably a leading cause of my eyes going bad. Mofo computer :(
Terry, on the other hand, already couldn't see jack without his glasses. Now he has to have a new prescription and he has to go in for some more tests. I am a bit worried about him. However, we picked some new frames for him that I think are going to look very good on him. You will be able to see his eyes more clearly with the anti-reflective coating and the fact that they are rimless. I wonder if being able to see his eyes more clearly in his glasses now will make me get the same little butterflies in my belly as when he looks at me when he isn't wearing glasses. He has very beautiful eyes. The kind that make girls kind of blush when they are staring at you.
I had my eyes dilated while I was in there so by the time we were picking out frames I couldn't really see much within four feet of me so I am not sure what we are going to look like in them. It was like having beer goggles on. We could've looked like total asses for all I know. I trust Terry though and he helped me pick from three or four frames in the Sexy Librarian catagory that I was trying on.
Logan has an appointment to have his exam tomorrow evening. He mentioned today that getting glasses and braces all in the same year would be weird for him. I told him that if he should have to get glasses that we would pick him out some really handsome ones. Secretly, I agree it would be totally weird. It is as if we are all going to look different all at once.
I think we should consider also getting the girls a more comprehensive exam than they have had at the pediatrician. I wasn't aware that the screening they do there isn't really good enough. Now I am a little paranoid that they all need to be checked.
This is the year mom and dad stay completely flat ass broke thanks to dentists and eye doctors.
Posted by gwendolyn on February 02, 2005 at 11:32 AM