Two Turtle Doves

I was reading online and Tap was on his tummy near me (for those keeping count, he is 12 weeks and almost 3 months). Sooooo he began to fuss and I was going to move him only to find he had flipped himself to his back! In a mad attempt to recreate this success, I put him on his tummy again. This is making him quite mad at the current moment, but has produced enough flailing about to have propelled him forward about 3 feet from his starting position in an almost army-man style crawl (though truthfully it is more of a disdainful wiggle).

I’ve been trying to get back to walking as routine for awhile now and have finally gotten off my duff and done something about it. I read an article in Redbook recently about a woman who started walking and turned to jogging only to end up running 1/2 marathons. I have to be honest and say that running has never been my thing, but I always wanted to be a runner. It just sounds so cool and healthy and runners seem to have great bodies. I worry about my knee problem acting up, but it seems it could also help by strengthening my patella (sp?), which is the whole dislocation problem in the first place. So along with the article there were several links and http://c25k.com/ has really caught my interest. I was wondering how I would know what time to change from running to walking and they offer several podcasts. I just so happens we have an old mp3 player laying the drawer, so I think we might have a go. Currently, I am in my second week of 4 weeks of committed walking before I begin the running program. It seemed like a good choice for a mild warm up and to make myself get back in the habit of daily excercise. Today I didn’t walk, but I did mow the lawn, which should count for something. I figure if I can walk 4-5 times each week that’s good. The running program suggests running 3 days a week with breaks inbetween so I can still walk one or two days and end up working out nearly every day. I’m excited to get started!

Justin gave me permission to post this today:

Justin’s Top 5 Albums of 2008 so far:

1.  My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
2. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
3. The Black Crowes – Warpaint
4. Drive-By Truckers – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
5. Hot Chip – Made In The Dark

In case you were wondering, this is per calendar year not Grammy year. It also has the possibility of being tainted by live performance viewings and general band attitude. Case in point: Not that Kanye West was going to make the top twenty, let alone five, his general sassiness and Bonarroo shananigins have caused his albums to find other homes to live in all together. So, if your band is not on the top five, keep your attitude in check on your rise to greatness (and send free CDs our way, that helps) and maybe…just maybe…you’ll recieve a “Justin” in the future.

I am a lazy blogger. No doubt about it. I don’t even get around to posting links to pictures that have long-since been mentioned and forgot about. Good thing only my fam reads this for now Maybe one day I’ll be interesting enough (and involved enough) to post stuff others want to read! Ha!

So I’ve been thinking about the art club I want and I think my best plan this year, since being moved against my will, is going to be to write the plans, try them out, take pictures and refine, etc… all within the classroom. We are supposed to get something like 45 min a week for fine arts anyway so I can make it my “thank goodness it’s Friday / we don’t watch movies in my class / Friday tests always leave extra time” activity. I think it will be good and this way I can see how kids react and do while documenting steps and such for a future club. It will be really important for getting grants in the future for a club as well. (That’s not to say that I don’t still want a logo…. shan… wink…wink…)

Other than that, I’m psyched that our house is off the market and that I can have beds unmade if I want to. Plus, we are preparing for our first garage sale and we have SO much stuff! I hope it goes really well. If we made like, $150 or so, I’d be pumped and I think that is totally doable. It really depends on the day I guess, but smack in the middle of summer can’t be too bad. Too bad we missed the neighborhood-wide sale, but maybe next year…

Tuesday I’m going up to school to pack my things and the boys have their first ever paid babysitter. It hurts the pocket a little, but I think it will be worth it. Taking them would only drive me nuts and prolong the task and they will have tons of fun playing with cousin Jenny. I need/want to get some of those study boxes meant to hold files since I have the impression I’ll be in limbo in a portable for the first part of the year. Besides which, I can bring them home and properly organize and label before sticking them back into unmanageable drawers.

Well, not anything exciting to say, just talking to the computer screen while my children take a nap. Ah the sweet bliss of silence in the house!