thursday 13: week 19

thirteen things that have nothing whatsoever to do with one another edition

1) anyone wanna go to the desert with me and get real high and visit the integratron? that's right folks, it's the only "acoustically perfect tabernacle and energy machine sited on a powerful geomagnetic vortexin the magical mojave desert" or the whole united states for that matter... looks fuuuun!

2) tasty salted pig parts anyone? if you're in san francisco and get a chance to head to the ferry building please stop into boccalone. get a salumi cone. or a panini. get something!

3) where is my corvette summer (tequila, grapefruit juice, lime juice & tonic)?

4) i've been sick for a week but managed not to miss a run. thanks to my komodosport vibrams my thighs and butt are sore but NOT MY HIPS OR BACK. whoop!

5) friday parker wasn't feeling great and was complaining about going to school. i overheard lorenzo earnestly advising her to go: "how are you ever going to get a good job parker if you don't go to school!?"

6) danny is at the movies with the kids and i am here at home. ftw!

7) listen to the romance of wolves by roma di luna. fer reals ya'll.

8) watch george w. bush: the 9/11 interview if you missed it on national geographic (the link is part 1 of 3). you probably know how i feel about gwb (i'm disgustingly leftist) but this was er, more human maybe, than i'd seen from him before. found myself crying through a few parts of it, unable to imagine the weight of being IN CHARGE that first day.

9) seriously j-wow's new boobs? seriously?

10) wore those shoes to mike's wedding. LOVE.

11) my five year old can listen to any song he wants anywhere in the world, anytime. this, i tell my father, is what has changed music in the past 50 years.

12) is it fall yet? it's so difficult to work with chocolate in this weather. gah!

13) read this book review on npr and i'm totally intrigued. anyone read this?

seriously, hide your cheating husbands, whiny children and jiggly butts because i will DEVOUR them

so yeah, things are going well. is it the new anti-depressant (after 10 years on celexa, i'm on prozac)? is it the new exercise routine (3.5 miles around the track three times a week plus hip thrusts)? is it the fact that the kids are in school from 8 until 2 every day (omg, omg, omg, they're BOTH there!)? is it that i have no extraneous obligations for the foreseeable future? is it that i am regularly hanging out with friends and family? and tomorrow, when i am not BEAT tired, i will answer all these questions and more. and post some cute first day of school photos.

stuff that you don't know, that you should know

1) first, and completely off topic, grown women should absolutely not wear pigtails. particularly not women over 55. are we clear on that?

2) would you rather

be dating someone who insists that every electric device in both of your homes be controlled by those 'clap on, clap off' devices
-OR-
that every piece of furniture have plastic covers?

that's easy. having clappers everywhere would be AWESOME.

3) grading 2000+ english papers, even with a ton of people helping, takes a long time. i mean, a really freakin' long time.

4) it was totally worth it to get up up at 6.30 in order to not have to watch w today. plus i made about 6 times as much as i would have if i stayed home.

5. dg is completely freaked out ('lalalalala, i can't hear you!') by conversations revolving around pumping breastmilk. :D

6. high school english departments are politic-y and goissip-y and fantastical.

7. free bagels! fruit salad! brownies!

8. how is it possible that it's cooled down 30 degrees in 5 days?

9. miss p is doing SO well at school. i'm terribly thrilled to be working in the classroom on friday.

10.where the fuck is the melanger?

11. the kettlebell is working. after only a week and a half my pants are already fitting better. yeah. seriously.

12. if d and i had children ('dear GOD woman, don't talk that way!') we'd be mr. and mrs. bigbuttserson and the bigbuttserson clan. heather w? danielle i w? ya'll feelin' me?

don't be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood

bk cancelled yesterday's visit with very little (a few hours) notice. he had 'work meetings' in san francisco and a 'work function' in the evening and therefore couldn't take the kids. eh, oh well. just wish he'd told me sooner, seems like he must've known. i informed him that i'm not writing test questions any more and that i won't be watching the little boy for much longer. i told him that with s&b and grading i should be okay. he interjected that he'd 'probably be able to start helping' me out next month and that should make a huge impact. ya think? i can't even imagine the load that's going to be lifted. i'm trying to be patient and honestly, i've come more to peace with bk in the last couple of weeks because i've been so incredibly stressed out by the boy. i wish i knew a graceful way to back out. ideas anyone? i don't want to hurt the mom's feelings. have i mentioned that i hate your son and can't stand to watch him another day?

i'm completely and totally obsessed with websleuths.com. i don't even know where to begin; there is so much information. i'm following the caylee anthony case and i've just begun to dip my toes into the missing but not forgotten forum. holy crap. posting under the same screen name if anyone else happens to be over there. i don't know if i've mentioned on here that when i entered college in 2000 that it was my intention to go into forensic psychology and either work through the county crime lab or as an expert witness through the courts. taking an awesome forensic anthro course with dr. lorna pierce only confirmed my desire to work on the back side of medicine. our class viewed an autopsy at the santa clara county medical examiner's, saw a cadaver dog in action, heard lectures from a forensic dentist and other experts, toured the county crime lab, learned how to id skeletal remains and had access to slides from numerous unsolved crimes that lorna has worked on nationally. i was totally hooked. until i got pregnant with parker and totally lost my stomach for the stuff. which was strange because this has always been a facination of mine. i read helter skelter at 12 (thanks gigi) and watched silence of the lambs at 12 (thanks gigi). in high school and college i got really into holocaust studies and true crime. anyway, i guess i got my stomach back. maybe when this is all 'done' i'll go back and get my master's or start an internship... for now i'll internet sleuth!

i did the friday workout from the kettlebell excercise. it was so much harder today because i'm still really sore from wednesday. i got through it but it took me a little longer. maybe soon my ass will be up closer to where it's supposed to be! ;) but seriously, this is the kind of workout that works muscles you don't use in day to day activities. i went for a (strenuous) bike ride with the kiddos and a bunch more donations in tow and didn't particularly notice the soreness. but i squatted down to get an empty laundry basket and i almost couldn't get back up. i'm trying to be more conscious throughout the day of what i'm eating (or not) and drinking (or not). mainly i've noticed that i've gotten into the habit of drinking a half pot of coffee and almost no water. no wonder i've been feeling so shitty.

kettlebell hell

b gave me a (ridiculously heavy 20kg (that's 44 pound kids)) kettlebell some months ago and taught me how to do a proper swing. i ignored it - except for the few times i kicked it on the way to the bathroom in the middle of the night. then i canceled our ymca membership a few months ago (even at $25 it wasn't worth it, the kids would only last in kid's corner for about 10 mintues, just long enough for me to get warmed up). about a month ago i started looking online for a kettlebell workout and came across this article by lauren brooks. this woman is a mother to an 18 month old and is pregnant with her second child. she's in rockin' shape, no mummy tummy. i decided to do the ten week program she's got in the article. i did wednesday's workout yesterday (with one, sometimes two, 8kg kettlebell) and in all, it took me about 20 minutes. the last time i was this sore was when i ran a marathon. seriously, inner thighs and butt, totally trashed. that's never happened before. :D i'll track my progress. anyone wanna join in?