so my sister said, "have you given up blogging?"

to which i replied, "No, of course not."  its just that....blah, blah, blah, excuses, excuses.

I will say that we have had 4 rounds of houseguests in the past one month.  top that if you can.

it has been lovely and fun and made this crazy weather all the more tolerable knowing that in just a few days someone else will be coming to visit.  but that said, i feel a little like a speedboat out on the lake.  When they get going really fast, they just bounce from wake to wake and it is like they hardly even have their bottoms in the water.  so where is this analogy going?  i guess i feel like I've been going so fast that i haven't had my bottom in the water...yeah that doesn't sound quite right, but maybe you can tell what i mean.

all that said, i have been even more scatter brained than usual.  This morning, I realized I forgot to call my most beloved aunt on her birthday.  Happy Birthday Aunt Betsy!!!!!!  Forgive me, I shall be calling this evening!!!  I have also forgotten to pay some bills, call people i love, plan activities, and don't even get me started on my BSF homework.  whoa.  i'm in deep people, and we are meeting again tomorrow night assuming that the snow doesn't return before hand.

Last night, we were all excited about the super bowl.  the plan was to make some cheese/rotel/sausage dip, hotdogs, and pudding pops - and grapes, because i am not the worst mom in the world.  i went to Wal-Mart with everyone else in the city of fayetteville to purchase my food for the week in case the next snow storm arrived today (Here is where I confess that i no longer trust the weather people in NW arkansas.  they may mean well, but they do not appear to be very accurate and that is all we need to say about them). 


I returned home after about 3 hours, because actually, i was so happy to be out of the house and alone - that i also stopped at target to see what was on sale and what clothes would fit my growing mid section.  I have all but given up on maternity clothes.  i hate them.  i really hate them.  the shirts are all weird and cut so cutesy, they just drive me nuts.  so, aside from elasticized jeans that are at times a necessity, i am doing all that i can to not purchase anything maternity.  we'll see how that keeps working for me 15 pounds from now. 


anyway, i returned home to find out that the channel we believed the superbowl to be on, is actually one of the channels that our antenna does not pick up.  hmm.....here is where we wish to be more outgoing people.  maybe we should have more friends by now, but we don't. and we don't yet feel like we can just call up one of our 4 friends and say, "hey, we know its last minute, but do you mind if we just come over and watch tv with you?  we'll also be bringing our two rowdy boys and our crock pot of cheese dip.  is that cool?"


so, instead, we had an anti-super bowl party and watched a movie with the boys.  michael even went to the rental store to get something special.  He rented, "The Rescuers" and bless that man's sweet soul, i know he meant well, but that movie sucks.  my cheese dip, however, rocked.  and i will tell you that the secret, as taught to me by George, is to add a can of cream of mushroom soup.


But here is the point of the story, i realized that i was overly irritable about not watching the super bowl, which is absolutely stupid.  i don't even care about the superbowl.  it was just because i couldn't have what i wanted, that i got all pissy.  like some 2 and 5 year olds i've met (i wonder where they get it from).  and then i realized as i was going to bed, that i need to slow down a little and get back to the things that make me a healthy, happy and a more loving woman.  I need to keep in better touch with those i love.  I need to work hard on my BSF homework.  I need to connect more with some of the lovely people here in fayetteville.  and i do need to do a little blog work, because it is healthy and fun for me.  Basically, to use that really poor analogy again, I need to get my bottom back in the water.