friday
july something
1,000 degrees in the shade


DISTRACTED BY JUNK

now that my kids are gone and married and have places of their own, i am busy trying to clean out every single solitary thing in my house. all closets, drawers, garage, etc. i am making a proverbial "garage sale pile". i do this often and usually end up taking it to a community donation bin because i get sick of the junk piled up.

i make myself crazy because i can't quite get things put away. i get distracted at looking at the pictures i find or i decide that i need to get a drawer divider from walmart and then get distracted at walmart by the fish tanks and never get back to the task of getting stuff cleaned out.

experts say that one has to have a reason to get up in the morning to live a good life. so is my reason to get up to once again try to de-junk? lance wants to be a minimalist but i reminded him that he married me and he knew what he was getting into.

i had a gigantic toy closet when i grew up. i was supposed to keep the toys tidied in the shelves, but the toy closet scared me. it was long and narrow and with my vivid imagination i believed there were monsters and scary things in there. i would open the door to the closet and throw my toys inside and slam the door shut before evil toy clowns or something grabbed me.

about once a month, my mom would tell me that it was time to clean the closet. at least she asked me in the daytime. so my plan was always call my neighbor, kim, over. (she was the one with the surrey). once she got there, i'd say that my mom just told me that i couldn't play until i cleaned the closet. she always offered to help. she must have had a organization gene even as a child because she's the one that got me motivated. the closet got straightened and we had time left to play with the toys. then her mother would call her home. i went about my business until my mom had me clean up my toys and so i would open the toy closet door and throw in the barbies and board games and quickly shut the door so no gargoyles would escape...and the cycle would continue.

what i need today to help me get this house in order is to call kim over...too bad she lives in oklahoma city.

until next time....

How Show Tunes are Part of my Life

Went on a "Mattie" walk today. Mattie is my black terrier-type pound dog. Mostly when I walk I listen to sound tracks from movies and sometimes show tunes. Most of my friends don't get my music choices. I think that each note in the air was created by God so any music that inspires me is "Christian" music. I think I like sound tracks because when I'm walking I feel like I'm in a movie about I guess, a middle aged woman walking her dog. So far, I don't have a plot for that movie. I also do a lot of thinking and praying when I walk, but that doesn't show up well on a movie screen either.

The show tunes just make me happy. Possibly I like them because my home state, Oklahoma, has a whole musical about it...."when I take you out in the surrey, with the fringe on top."

Speaking of surrey with the fringe on top...My next door neighbor growing up in Hobart, Oklahoma had a miniature surrey with fringe and bicycle foot pedals. She and I rode to kindergarten in the surrey. Wish I had a picture of that. So I guess if I ever play the game of saying something that I have done but most people haven't , I'd probably have to go with the surrey thing.

This blog thing is quite interesting. I get to write down some of the weird stuff that floats through my mind, and I'm not particularly bothering anyone by doing it. The only question I have is this something that could "be used against me in a court of law" if my kids want to prove that I'm incompetent...I said incompetent, but incontinent.

until next time...mamachick

Guess what? I'm learning how to blog!

Ok, my first post is gonna be about the women's ministry called chicks. I go to an "out-of-the-box" church that lets us use our creative juices and spiritual gifts. One of my gifts is being quirky (that is a spiritual gift, isn't it?) and my passion is to help women become their very best for and with their Savior. That's why we created chicks. It's an acronym that the women of TrueNorth Church use to help us remember the types of things we are working toward so we can be women who:

C=Connect with God
H=Help, hope and heal
I=Intercede with prayer
C=Catch the call (evangelism)
K=Keep life simple
S=Serve others with our spiritual gifts

So, until the next post, i'll be working on those 5 callings.

Until the next time...Love, Mama Chick