~~Drips~~

** My mom and I are very close.. we even work together. (well not really TOGETHER.. but at the same company) She was on vaction for 2 weeks, and I did not realize until today how much I missed her. I went to visit her and told her how I missed her, she gave me a kiss and it made me feel all better. PLUS, she brings me lunch.. so when she was on vaction I had to "fend for myself".. which plainly put meant a lot of take out. After just losing nearly 25 lbs since last August, I can not afford all of that take out food... so I am even more glad she is back!! I think everyone everywhere should work with there mom, if only for the yummie lunches!! (today was Sausage and Pea soup.. MMMMMMM:)

*** My Aaron was bugging me to go for a quad ride all weekend, so I gave in last night and off we went. OUr first objective was to check the salt-licks (for attracting Deer to the area for hunting season) I was not real sure where they were, and my 5 year old was not a super great navigator.. but we tried real hard to find them. He would take me to a clearing, jump off and run from tree to tree, path to path with such excitement you would have sworn it was Christmas morning:) After about 15 minutes of scavanging through the woods, we decided we could not in fact find them, so we went for another ride. Down the windy paths we drove, over the rocks and along the stripping banks(we are smack -dab in old coal country... the woods are chock-full-of old stip mines), we stopped along the "lake" (which is more an old puddle, filled with much water from past rainstorms) to skip rocks, and look for tadpoles. We theb drove further down the paths to the slate banks... to which my son gleefuly challenged me to a climb up the hill. (of course, I never turn down a dare.. so up went)At the top we picked some slate rocks to paint and walked around a bit. Back on the quad, we found some dirtbike jumps and went over those just enough to get the butterflies in your belly! Atfer about an hour of fun, we headed back home. He "drove" us all the way back home. It amazes me that this child is having a hard time mastering his bicycle sans taining wheels, yet he can easily manuver a Magnum 330 ATV... then again, everything about this child amazes me. He can be my baby, who at times hangs on me so much I think he wants to go back in me.. at other times he is a little man who says the funniest, zaniest things... hard to believe that my baby will be entering kindergarden in August, and I will no longer have any childen still at home. Does this mean I am getting older~ or ~wiser?? I like to think a happy medium of both;)

**** I heard something interesting on the radio yesterday.. Eva Longoria(sp???) was interviewed in one of the many mags geared to keeping us "normal" woman feeling inferior in self image. In it she very uhhh--humbly admits that she is 100% absolutely, without a doubt happy with her looks. There is nothing she would change about herself. So it got me thinking, is she flaunting in my face her 5 foot nuthin, 100 lb nuthin frame of beauty, or is she really just filled with that much self asteem that she has no quams what-so-ever?? Is there things that I would change about myself if money was not an object and opportunities were a plenty?? Damn right there is, am I happier with my body than I was 10years ago, thankfully YES...would I ever be so bold as to make such a self-adorning statment as Miss Longoria even if I changed everything that I dislike and I was happy with my looks...ehhh.. probably not. But then again, I have neve been that type of person.So, in closing, Eva.. I am glad your happy with your looks, I am glad for you that most men would die to have a woman who looked remotely like you.. however, in the future.. please humor me , because quite frankly.. I like to live in a bubble where even the most beautiful of beauties have at least "something" they would change!!

SIGH...........