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Little Deuce Coupe (misheard lyrics)

HEARD AS: "Little blue scoop..."
HEARD AS: "Little loose screw..."
HEARD AS: "Little poop scoop..."

REAL LYRIC: "Well, I'm not braggin, babe..."
HEARD AS: "Well, I'm not pregnant, babe..."

REAL LYRIC: "If I had a set of wings, man, I know she could fly."
HEARD AS: "...man, an ocean could fly."
HEARD AS: "If I had a set of winged men I know that would fly."

REAL LYRIC: "She's my little deuce coupe. You don't know what I got."
HEARD AS: "Oh, you're my little loose tooth. You don't know what I got."
HEARD AS: "Little two scoop, you don't know that I'm gone"
HEARD AS: "Little bit scoop, Mr. Know-What-I-Got..."
HEARD AS: "Little douche poop, vinegar in my eye..."
HEARD AS: "My little moose-coop..."
HEARD AS: "She's my little bit of skirt..."

REAL: "And she purrs like a kitten 'til the lake pipes roar."
HEARD AS: And she purrs like a kitten 'til the lake bites roar."
HEARD AS: "And She Purrs Like A Kitten 'Til The Late Bikes Read"
HEARD AS: "And She Purrs Like A Kitten 'Til The Late Night Roars"

REAL LYRIC: "I get pushed outta shape..."
HEARD AS: "I get goose-down shade..."

Help me, Rhonda!

We are family!

Bu-sy weekend! The briefest of recaps goes like this. Thursday night we spoke at LSS on our adoption experience and open birth family relationship before heading over to our first LifeGroup with 4 other couples from Bloom. It was really fun, we got the good group! We talked about our spiritual journeys (or lack there of) and ate cheese. On Friday, I cleaned my ENTIRE 3 story house all by myself. It took me ALL DAY but our realtor liked my efforts. I did manage to squeeze in my mom's oncologist appointment where we heard the good news that her scan was still clear! On Saturday, I did my once weekly workout, BodyPump, then we had more relatives at my house including Jake's family who came for the baseball game. That night, we headed over to Mc's to celebrate Liam's second birthday with a yummy backyard BBQ. This morning we manned (no Seltz'ed) the Welcome Team at church before crashing into a heap of nap.

Riding Ollie, my toy from 79!

A shout out to all the family & friends we got to see this weekend, in order: Holly, Harley, Tasha, Cindy, Pastor Danny & Stephanie, Joel & Rachael, Marie & Josh, Lizzie & Micah, Aunt Jill, Dr. Dudek, Aunt Emmy, Brenda the BodyPump instructor, Papa Michael, Uncle Sam, Steve & Liz, Ellen, Jack, Andy, Lo Lo, KennaBear, Liam, Pat & Ang, Casey, Aunt Tracy and Bertha, the lady we drive to church who sleeps the whole time..

So popular!

Speaking of exhausted, we are burning out at the pace of life and thinking of making some major changes. As in sex changes, Jake wants to become a lady. Or maybe a move? But only if we can at least break even on our house. We love our home and neighborhood so this is not an easy decision. Please pray for us as we try to make some decisions to keep our family first and create more quality time in our lives. It may not happen but I think we are going to try and see what new opportunities may come our way.

clean, dry and even, gasp, warm?

Finally, remember the freeze/flood of 2010? Well, the kitchen floor was repaired and exterior walls insulated while we were in Mexico, but the rest of the downstairs gets the royal treatment next week so if you need us, we will be at Ho's for the best slumber party ever. Too bad it's not pool weather yet! Dorothy is on vacay in Winona where she has already found and eaten a dozen cupcakes intended for a bridal shower. Oopsies!

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Where's my current?

Free lunchtime yoga no more. My colleague /yoga instructor is quiting and here is her reply when I emailed her about her plans (I need to be more like this):

I plan to volunteer A LOT, get some more classes going, learn about Native
Americans, and basically just see where the current takes me!  It will also
be a time of reflection so I can figure out where to head to next.
It's truly been great to work with everyone! 

Thanks for being such a wonderful spirit :D

Not PG-13

Do you wonder about all the stuff I don't write about because it's not kosher? Like how my Papa was ALL about getting Viagra until he found out a prescription costs $50. How do I know this, you ask? Well, he told me and asked me to blog about it in case anyone reading was interested in a date. Or how my Aunt Jill calls me to describe in detail the pee-oh-are-en videos she sees on her Blackberry when attempting to look at this blog? And then she keeps looking at them, even showing them to innocent, church-going, voice of an angel , Cousin Abby! Or how my Aunt Wendy's status updates on Facebook, include adjectives like "beefy" and "skinny granny ass" and vivid descriptions like this one, "I just sneezed a carrot out of my nose about 20 feet .... the only thing that could have made it better was if one of my cats had caught it in their mouth!"?

Surely, you start to wonder how I turned out so proper and dignified. I wonder that, too.

yes, we still have a dog

Dorothy

is not

a vegan

Awesome ride on the Harley hog today, just love wearing my black leather in the hot sun while I go deaf from the noise pollution. Yeah right. BTB, it is so easy to totally brainwash your children, I now have mine yelling "too loud" whenever a motorcycle goes by.

Chocoholic

Devastatingly, the weekend has come to a conclusion. My life is too busy, I want to hide. If I must get up and go to work everyday, then I insist on enjoying some down time before I crack. When? I do not know. Jake is back in Charlotte, NC tomorrow, I have to work late this week and have non-stop student appointments, on Thursday we speak on a panel at LSS and start our Bloom Lifegroup, and then next Friday poor Hol has her annual nerve-wrackingCT scan. Thinking of moving to a shack in the woods to subsist off of wild berries and Zone bars.

Cousin Mekensie comes through with the hand-me-down toys!

Notice the "hair" on the handle bars

Now we just need a helmet...