This is me being glass half empty

I can tell already that it's going to be a very bad day. Ever have days like that?
By 8 am there was:
1) MUCH fighting and threatening of spanking because "will you PLEASE just get your freaking school clothes on?" is apparently not clear enough instructions for my 5 year old. Neither is: "GO.BRUSH.YOUR.TEETH.RIGHT.THIS.SECOND" in my "I'm about to go postal on your tiny hiney" voice.

2) the last of the Frosted Mini Wheats and all the crumbs in the bottom of the box dumped on the kitchen floor. FYI - Frosted Mini Wheat crumbs are VERY tiny, and make a VERY large mess.

3) One cardboard circle (from a pizza? I don't know) whipped around the house, stuck in the doorjam, and hitting me in the head. Twice.

4) Multiple instances of crying, tattling, and whining. All before I can even get the coffee brewed.

5) Dog food tossed in the dog water, and dog water splashed all over the floor in the laundry room.

6) One dumped bowl of cereal (tyler). And it wasn't enough to just dump it on his highchair tray. THEN, he thought it would be a good idea to violently wipe his hands around in it and spray milk and Kix in a 2 foot vicinity around him.

7) Tyler climbed on top of the kitchen table 6 times. SIX.

8) A battery powered Thomas the Tank Engine tossed in the master bathroom toilet. Aggravating only because the boys' bathroom toilet is currently out of commission from Tyler tossing something in there LAST week. After I fished out Thomas from the crapper, I whipped him across the bedroom (Thomas, not Tyler). That made me feel a little better.

9) A yet-undiscovered Pee-the-Bed incident. Picking up toys in the boys room, I stumble across some very WET, very ODOROUS pajamas.
"Did you pee the bed last night?" I ask AJ
[thinking] "Nope. I peed my pajamas."

This is all before 8 am. I can't WAIT to see what the rest of the day has in store.

Well, Dontcha Know?

(said in my best annoying Sarah Palin accent) I just feel so special now, dontcha know?

My printing lab, ColorInc, choose one my images as their favorite staff pics from the week...tada!:

ColorInc Staff Pics of the Week

Snaps from the Melon Patch

For the record, the PostSecret post was tons of fun and I became obsessed with checking the comments repeatedly for new "secrets" over the weekend. Feel free to keep posting on there if you want to and we'll do it again sometime in the months to come! Fun, fun!
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On Saturday after my senior session, we took the kids to the local Pumpkin Patch for some much anticipated "punkin" picking. Owen has asked when we were going to go the Punkin Patch no less than 273 times a day for the last 3 weeks. I couldn't justify going until it felt like Fall. And joy!! Saturday morning dawned bright and COLD! We wore sweaters and sweatshirts, people! Sweaters and sweatshirts thank you Jesus for autumn in the south - finally!! :)

Here's a few snapshots from our day.......

Shooting corn cobs out of a compressed air gun at a pumpkin target. I don't understand the allure - maybe it's a southern thing.

Lovely.

The "scary tunnel"....Owen tightly gripped our hands like a vice while repeatedly assuring AJ: "it's okay AJ - it's not scary. See, it's just pretend"

And the classic "kids amid the pumpkins" shot that everyone must obtain every fall.

Happy Autumn!

Secrets

You've heard of PostSecret, right? Steve and I religiously go to the website every Sunday when the new secrets are posted to read them. The basic premise is that people all around the world send in homemade postcards with an anonymous "secret" written on them. Some are funny, some are sad, some are sexual, some are angry, some are scary, some are just plain weird - but they're all fun to read.

this one is one of the first ones that I read at the beginning of PostSecret's inception and it still freaks me right out whenever I read it.
I guess everyone has stuff that they don't tell people, or that they think might be strange or whatever...anyway, I think the concept is really cool. And free-ing. So I thought it might be fun to have our own PostSecret Post here on Random Musings. SO.....

I've enabled anonymous commenting so that if you want to, you can post YOUR secret and it will truly be anonymous. Here's the rules, per PostSecret:

Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.

Post one, post five, post ten.....just post! Sometimes somebody else's post might make you think of your own......So, what are you waiting for??? Come on - it'll be fun I promise!

An Image Perceptions Experiment

Don't think about it too much, but......

What are the first 3 things that come to mind when you think of me??
3 Words, 3 Phrases, 3 Images...whatever.

Don't think about it too much. Don't lie.
Just list them in the comments please.....no holding back - you won't hurt my feelings, I promise. :)

This Will Be One for His Senior Page in the Yearbook....

This evening, I came upon this scene.......

Wonder what he's reading??


Rolling Stone, of course.

Restless

I feel restless.
Bored.

We've been in Albany almost 3 years now and I feel like we're knocking on the door of wearing out our welcome. I think there's something in me that desires frequent change, new scenery....and I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Winds of change blow loudly in my ears these days.



I want to move.
Or take a vacation.
Or find a new hobby.
Or start a new project.
Or see something new.

Restlessness.
Rolls around every few years.
Chews at my soul.