Happy Birthday!

It's my birthday today! In honor of that, I'm going to spend today focusing on my fortune - my husband, my family, my friends, my sweet flea-ridden dogs. All the things that make being born a thing to celebrate! Thanks to all of you for being in my life, and helping me discover what I'm all about. What a lucky girl I am, to have such amazing people in my life! Thanks!

responsibility to yourself?

so Rob's grandmother falls down last week (through her glass-topped coffee table) and ends up in the hospital with scrapes, bruises, and a very slow heartbeat. the situation boils down to her needing a pacemaker to keep her going. rob's mother is out of town, so we pack up the car and head out to atlanta to tend to the situation. a million nurses and doctors later, topped with the first mcdonald's i've eaten in ten years from the cafeteria inside the hospital with a 'healthy eating' billboard right around the corner from it, we get everything figured out and the grandmother settled into a rehab center to recover. as we were driving back from atlanta for the millionth time last night, we got to discussing the question of aging/elderly/sickly family members, and what our role is in all that. Essentially it boils down to the question of whether or not we stay in the southeast (even though we aren't entirely happy here) to tend to and enjoy our families on a regular basis, or to go our own way, find a place that we can be happy in and enjoy the family on major holidays and the occasional summer vacation. how much does "place" effect ones sense of wellbeing? could we just get used to it here? or would we always be wondering what living in the desert would be like or if new york is as fantastic as it looks?

i've become so fearful of regretting the relationships i've created with my family because of my wanderlust, that i'm almost willing to suck it up, work some whatever job and enjoy being nearer to them. but then i realize how dangerous that could be to those relationships, and i end up back at the beginning again. i don't want to regret, i don't want to resent, and i want everyone to be happy. is that too much to ask?

git 'er done

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Originally uploaded by Makstin.

So you all know we've been fasting, cause you all read Rob's site. So I won't go into that in any detail, except to say that it was hard and I can't really remember right now why we thought it was a good idea. Health or some crap, I guess. I don't feel much different, I don't look much different, and I didn't lose a bunch of weight. Some, a good bit, but not a ton. So, we're cooking up some chicken for dinner, trying to forget our silliness, and making our pants fit again.

School break has been good to me so far. Some parties, some crappy space movies, some sun. The yard looks pretty, the dogs are happy (wormy, but happy), and we're fixin to get our swim on soon at the local apartment complexes throughout our fair city. I booked tickets to go to NY in July to see my sweet Sarah (Yay for us!), and I am nervous and happy and superstitious about it. I won't let myself get giddy until I'm on the damn plane. I think I've been watching too many Sex in the City reruns, cause I have this compulsion to pack nothing but darling dresses and sexy heels. Someone please set me straight.

Here's a call out to all the kids - we're planning a "see ya, sucker" trip in early August to Florida to camp and swim in some gorgeous natural springs for a couple days before Rob starts LAW SCHOOL. Anyone interested is welcome to come along. There's scuba diving and snorkling to be had, if'n you're into that sort of thing.

Storm's a brewin. Can we please stop with all the rain? Crikey, even the plants are sick of it.