All that hair

"...brush and brush and brush and brush and brush my hair..."

I'll spare you the full explanation, but yesterday I was in the car with 3 kids in the back seat on the way home from the beach. Tangled was on in the car for them to watch.

Today I was helping out at Cub Scout Day Camp in the "tot-lot" and they put on a movie for the kids to relax in the middle of the day. That movie was Tangled.

Two days in a row. Good thing it's a cute movie. I didn't even watch all of it either time! And yet that line is stuck in my head....

Also... what would it really be like to have hair that long?? Someone (an adult) posed that question today. My immediate (and almost no-thought-required) response was: miserable. I can't hardly take care of my hair now... imagine washing and allllll that brushing.... : ) Props to her for handling it so well.... : )

Announcement to the world

I think ever since we moved somewhere with a dishwasher we use more silverware.

Go ahead... judge... If you live somewhere without a dishwasher I'm sure you understand... : )

Life is so easy now... : )

Next up: washer and dryer! (yes I do rewear some things before washings, thank you very much!)

3 weeks... i guess we've made a habit out of living here... : )

"we could have had it all!" ... nothing significant, it's just stuck in my head right now... : ) (probably from the nba draft last night) and now that i've told someone i can move on with my life... : ) that's been one of the hardest things about this move, i guess. i used to spend hours every day with 7 and 8 year olds and other teachers. then when i got home, there was will. and when i needed her (which seemed often : ) jenn was right there too. sometimes i really enjoyed my alone time in the car. not because i felt crowded or bothered by being around all those other people, but just to have some time to think (usually about school.. : )

i've always known i'm a people person and now i miss it terribly!!! for the first week or two we were here i'd think of something clever or funny (happens a lot, huh? : ) and i'd want to go tell jenn... or i could hop on gchat and tell will. but jenn isn't upstairs or across the street anymore, and will can't be on gchat... now i spend hours on end every day with just myself... little old me all alone... greg asked me yesterday what i do all day... ... ... ... : ) ... ... ... i told him that's what i wanted to know. ha : ) i'm slowly learning to do things for myself and by myself (very difficult).

anyway... now i'm resorting to my readership (all... 0 of you?.. : ) just joking... i go back and read my own posts sometimes : ) to listen to everything i have to say. here are some things that i would have made will or jenn listen to already today:

1. first and foremost, jimmer is coming to the sacramento kings!! i feel entitled to say coming instead of going now that we live in california... : ) like i emailed dad last night, we'll have to start saving up our pennies so we can go see him play!

2. there is a kindergarten position at amelia... how perfect would that have been?! i don't really know how to expound on that except for, again, how perfect would that have been?! : ) good thing i know we're supposed to be here and i'm happy to support will.

3. i ran somewhere between 33 and 35 minutes this morning.. ok, jogged, really.. and discovered i went 2.7 miles. and i know i could have gone farther... easily... hallelujah : ) i was following my "schedule" which said to do 25-30 min of easy running today or cross training... i chose the jogging. when i was out there, however i couldn't remember how long it said. so i decided 30 was safe. but then i had to stop at a stoplight once so i added some extra time. and then there was a nice older man taking a break on his bicycle at the corner i was planning on turning at and he decided to start going again right when i got there. poor man in his nice Indian clothes sitting on his bike... he kept apologizing and after i was sure i hadn't given him a heart attack i kept going. for that incident i also added a little bit of time (though that one really happened all in about 10-15 seconds). then when i was about to be done i liked the song that was on and i knew it wasn't too long, so i decided to just run out that song... (fascinating, i know : )

4. there is someone (or multiple someones) who occasionally/frequently puts up hot air balloons in a field not too far south of the train station... which is not too far south of where we live!! and it happened again today! it is incredibly delightful to be driving south to take will to the train station and see the summer-feeling inducing hot air balloons!! yes... sometimes there are more than 1! reminds me of the tigard balloon festival that we'd go to sometimes growing up... or the freedom festival balloons in provo. while living in new mexico we went to a hot air balloon museum in albuquerque (i can't remember the actual name) which was pretty cool. shame on us for not blogging about it two years ago!! : )

5. i check edjoin every day and there aren't really any new teaching jobs around here... boo... i'm destined to my life here.... or other jobs... which would be less desirable? ask me again in a month or two... : )

6. so the song that came on at the end of my run this morning (i think) was "under the sea." if you're reading this i hope you know me well enough to know i'm a little bit of a disney lover. and if you didn't... you do now... : ) so i was delighted to bebop my way through that one as a finale. i have fond memories of a certain little boy that was in my 2nd grade class.... in case his mom would care, i'll leave his name out of this. almost 2 years ago in a class at byu, with a group, i wrote new lyrics to "under the sea" to teach about christopher columbus. if you ask really nicely, i may post those lyrics (which i think are ingenious, thank you very much : ) so of course last october i couldn't pass up the opportunity to teach my kiddos the song!! it was catchy and they were all 7 (except maybe one at that point). we learned it and performed it for our other 2nd grade friends. we didn't really sing it past that week. aside from that we had "2nd grade music time" all year long. each week we'd take turns having all the 2nd graders come into one of the classes (rotated) to sing. the other teachers could use this time for remediation. this extremely fun (unless you are one little girl i love) literacy activity went on, like i said, all year. so at the end of the year when i told them we were going to learn a song (and i cannot remember which song or for what) it was fairly common practice. well my dear little friend shouts out (of course : ) "what's it gonna be? 'let's talk about chris columbus.'" well... at the time i did not appreciate his shout out (or sing out, as the case may have been : ), but i was tickled that he remembered the song... : )

7. this is already too too long and i have laundry to look forward to today! : ) but this is my reminder to myself to share (and preserve for generations) one of my favorite stories from this little boy.

8. last... : ) i love "chinese" food. i also love free food. if you are lucky enough to be reading this today... know that panda express is giving away a freebie tonight only after 9. that's all... : )

we're going to the oakland temple tonight for the first time and i'm so excited! it's beautiful and i've been yearning to go to the temple these last few weeks. so that will be good : )

and in case you were wondering what i really do... i run, read, pretend i can sew, sometimes clean : ), talk with family, eat, unpack, and play piano here... it really is nice to relax : ) sometimes i get the bonus activities like helping out at mutual, going to other activities, or picking cherries... life is good : )

oops : )

well now it looks like will's the one who revived this thing.... i can't figure out how to change the "author" of the last post so..... just know that i wrote it and will did not. nor did he marry a man. i did. : )

that's what we get for having 2 gmails logged in at once i guess.. : )

priorities

now that i have tons of time on my hands that is not officially dedicated to anything, i suppose i will try to reenter the world of blogging. at least a little bit...

we've talked for some time about working up to a half marathon. we have been thinking that a 10k first would be a good idea. we could do a 5k (we like to think : ) but we'd need to work up to a 10k. so we'll start there and then hopefully keep going to a half. i don't know if or when we'd get to the marathon... that's just a little too lofty right now.

last night we were talking again about it and looking up people's workout schedules to work up to a 10k. then we started looking for potential "real" races we could run in august. we found several options in the central valley and tons in the bay area. we both thought it would be pretty cool to do one that goes over the golden gate bridge. surprisingly (or not?) there aren't that many... at least over the summer. i think we may have found one possibility that we'll think about. as we were trying to think of more that might and look them up, will suggested that we look up the san francisco marathon. it in fact DOES go over the golden gate (how could it not?). not only do they have the full, but i think it said they have at least a half with it. we looked up the date (this year, next year.. whenever) and began talking excitedly about it. then we realized...

the san francisco marathon (and half, etc) is on a sunday. i said, "oh, it's on a sunday." and will said oh. and that was the end of it. no questions asked, no further discussion. (aside from comments such as, bummer, or that's too bad.)

story 2: then we were looking up fun things going on in the area over the summer. we looked up the summer outdoor movies. then we looked up the summer concert series. it just so happens that the first one is this friday night. so we said we may as well go and check it out.

then i said, "oh, no we won't. that's stake temple night." and that was the end of it. no questions asked, no further discussion.

i'm so grateful that i've married a man who has his priorities in place and will not change them when they're inconvenient or could cause disappointment. there was no question about it, we would keep the Sabbath day holy and choose to not participate in any runs on sunday, no matter how spectacular or fun they may be. if there really are none, we'll either just go walk or run across the bridge ourselves some time, or we will just forget about it all together. there was no question, we would not skip an opportunity to attend the temple with our new stake in order to go to an event in the park. will we need to eat dinner in the car that night? or eat a really late dinner after? probably. is it worth it and important? definitely!

i'm grateful that will wants to live according to the teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ. i am grateful that he is supportive of me in our decisions together. i know this brings us blessings and happiness. he is my best friend : )