Please welcome to the Jensen family....228D (We will find a better name for it when we take it out camping). We will be officially picking up our new addition on Friday. They need to add a extra break switch to the 4 Runner whichthey will be doing tomorrow. It will be ready for pick-up Friday. Friday/Saturday we will be cleaning out the garage, we call it storage for crap you never use, and didn't know you had. Getting rid of the Blazer (formerly known as the driveway paper-weight). I am having a difficult time realizing that not only did we get the 228D, we are cleaning the garage, AND getting rid of the Blazer that has been dead in the driveway for almost four years.

Oh Happy Day....

Jason has been working so hard to finish up the bedroom, I am fairly excited to finally have it done after 10 years of waiting......did I mention that Jason works on Jason time? I am sure I have. My house was built in 1958 and it is all lathan plaster which makes it so fun when you want to hang a picture. It has been a challenge for Jason to start a job when he knows it is going to be a complete mess. I also have NO closet space in my room, so today I ordered the following to hang off the new closet doors. I will have to go through some shoes and take them to the DI. I don't know where Jason is going to put his shoes.....he he he I don't know what I am going to do with myself if I don't have to look through a pile of shoes every night to get myself ready for the morning. I am as happy as they come right now. The room has been painted (shades of green), the molding replaced, crown molding going up, and new closet organizer?!? WTH...have I gone mad?!? Is my world colliding.....picture the Feliece happy dance, as disturbing as it can be, it CAN be entertaining.....he he he

AND .......Drum roll please.....

We have been pre-approved for this.....

Yes, that is a King size bed,

AND a Queen size. There is a shower and a toilet (listen to the angels singing from above) with additional room to sleep four more.

Can today get any better?

Enjoy....

Enjoy who you are....
Enjoy who you can be....
Enjoy what others see in you....
Enjoy the feeling of a smile.....
Enjoy the sound of music....
Enjoy the way you dance....
Enjoy dancing to your own tune....
Enjoy when people laugh at you....
Enjoy the feeling of the wind, sun, rain, and snow on your face...
Enjoy the feeling of stress, it makes calmness mean so much....
Enjoy sharing a smile....
Enjoy the hug from a friend....
Enjoy the warmth of love....
Enjoy the song of my heart....
Enjoy the song of my soul....
ENJOY.....ME

Have you ever loved music so much that it hurts. It is strange for me to explain, but that is how it makes me feel. I could listen to music 24 hours a day, compulsively. I have truly loved music since before I can remember. I hear it in the wind, I hear it in the trees, I hear it in my heart. I giggle when I get a new CD, I outright laugh out loud when I play it for my family, they sometimes look at me like I am crazy. I see my love of music in my kids, When Isaac hears a new song he likes he will look at me and say, 'mommy, this makes my feet dance'. I will catch Clarice dancing alone in front of the TV, she has even asked for a guitar for Christmas. Chelsea has learned to sing my songs, and loves them. Jason knows my mood just by what I listen too, I really love that man, he makes my heart feel the way that music does.

1st Day of Autumn

Today it the First Day of Fall

A Perfect Day....to lay in bed and sleep.

I guess being at work can be the same... :~)

Never Too Old to Learn:

Things that I have learned in the last five days:

1. Not a good idea to tell your husband to shove that 'little violin' up his ass, the one he was playing with his finger tips while I was voicing my 'opinion' to him. I guess he shouldn't play that 'little violin' for me again the next time I tell him how I feel. I don't know, just a thought.
2. Indeed, Jason is just as stubborn as I am.
3. 27 times is NOT to many times when you ask someone to pick-up their stuff.
4. 'That wasn't my intention' actually means 'I'm sorry', (it's okay, I didn't get that one either). I tried to look up different meanings of 'not my intention' in the Thesaurus not one of them mentioned 'apology'. Go figure?!
5. I really like to go to work sometimes.
6. Not all prisons have bars.
7. Things don't always go away if you ignore them.
8. Can't get enough of Collective Soul. :~)
   

Van Gogh - My beautiful friend

Van Gogh - The Poplars at Saint Remy

The Art Show was all that could be expected. When I saw Van Gogh my eyes filled with tears and arms covered in goose bumps. He only had two paintings there and no picture that I can show you will do them justice.

Renoir - Mademoiselle

I have taken tomorrow off and am going to go see them again with my mother. No kids this time. Not that they were horrible, becuase I was pleaseantly surprised with how well they behaved. I hope when they are older they will remember this, becuase it may not happen again in Utah. I love my children and I want them to understand the beauty in all that they see, there is beauty in everything, sometimes it is had to see, but you must search for it.

Salvador Dali - The Dream

Dear Dairy.......

Dear Diary: It has been two days since I have listened to Collective Soul....am I going mad, don't answer that, truly enough of the madness. Jared, this guy I work with said that I have concert fever and if I listen to them too much I will burn out. I believe that Jared has been sniffing the company white out, that would explain the white ring around the end of his nose. Do they have some sort of intervention for that? Oh boy, thank your lucky stars that I am crazy too. (Collective soul fans will get that)

Dear Diary: pg 2 Why is it when you buy a travel mug and it states that it is 'leak proof' it really is NOT? I love coffee, as everyone knows, but not if I have to suck it out of my shirt. I Blame it on the man - (Collective Soul fans will get that)

Dear Diary: pg 3 What kind of sick joke was it when they invented the poppy seed bagle. It is the gift that keeps on giving......more of the seeds land in my lap, key board and down my shirt than ever make it in my mouth. I can take my bra off at the end of the day and, sure enough poppy seeds galore! Lets not even talk about how many are inbetween my teeth that no one tells me about. I can walk around for hours talking to people and NO one bothers to say, 'Hey, you have a 'little something' in your teeth.' I get home and look in the mirror and sure enough there are 93 poppy seeds just hanging out taking up residency. It is just the world that I know. (Collective Soul fans will get that)

Dear Diary: pg 4 FRIDAY.......Heaven let your light shine down! (Collective Soul fans will get this one)

Dear Diary: pg 5 Am I a creepy fan.....? Am I just wasting time? - (Collective Soul fans will get that)

Dear Diary: pg 6 Who could bring me heaven when heaven is already here? - I know - blah blah blah - Collective Soul fans will get it...........

Love me for all my craziness.... :~)

I am going to re-visit the cRaZy comment:

Noele - ME - Hilary (sisters and friends)

Corporate Visitors ~

Twice a year we have corporate visitors....today's visitors are equal to #2 and #3 under Bill Marriott. I stress so much about them, althought they are incredibly nice people. I opened the building today at 5:30 and will end my evening tonight around 7:30. Great part of the day is that I get breakfast, lunch, AND dinner. We end the day at Baxter's Resturant at the Gateway where I get to watch almost everyone get drunk....this part can be quite entertaining. Last time we went they spent more money on booze than food....

I spent most of my night having nightmares about runs in my nylons, missing our three hour meeting because I was at WalMart getting new nylons. Needless to say today I put a run in my nylons, my right upper thigh smells like nail polish, I covered a three inch radius just in case.... :~) can never be too safe :~) becuase I am sure as hell am not going to Walmart to get new ones :~)

11 hours until I will be home cuddling on the couch with my famliy.

Sky of Gray

Rain, rain, stay and play...
Wet my feet on this Autumn day.

Like small tears from heaven
that never comes from sadness.

The soul of life that comes from you,
and creates a sky of azure blue.

Rain, rain stay today and
cover my world in gladness.

Van Gough - My Favorite

Did he know how he would be loved?

Did he know his flowers would warm my soul?

Did he know that when the wind blows you can feel him?

Did he know that stars will never be looked at quite the same?

(Hilary are we ready for this...?)

Finally.....

Van Gogh/Picasso/Monet - I will be there Saturday...Wait for me!

I decided that having five Collective Soul CD's on my IPod wasn't enough....(here comes my compulsive personality, Hilary I know you understanding and are nodding your head in agreement right now) ....... So, I went and bought three more.....AND than went on Amazon and bought a movie too. For the love I am sitting here shaking my head even as I blog....how pathetic am I??? Don't answer that.....

Love me......at some point you have too, people feel sorry for me.

Guess WHAT......?!?!

It happened. What you ask?!?

Collective Soul

Happened.......

Highlights (like you have all been waiting for this) : I am still so excited.....it warms my heart to just think about it....I thought all of the people next to me were going to kill me, I was so loud. Ed, the lead singer, pointed at me and said he had his eyes on me. I felt like a little kid in a candy store. Now I want to go buy every CD of theirs that I don't have, which isn't many, maybe a moive of their tour. AND...Jason loved it. He rocked out with me. He was singing and screaming with me....He loves ME...He has been redeemed... PS: (He got lucky for this one....)
OH...one other thing, so I am going up the elevator to change my clothes for the concert, and low and behold who is in the elevator with me? The effin' guitar player in the band, Dean, he is Ed's brother, he is suppose to be really shy! He wouldn't even look up....I sat staring at his shoes and he sat there staring at mine....good grief I am an idiot....What?!?! I could just say...HEY...what's up? I talk to EVERYONE else in the elevator, complete strangers are my best friends. I now think about it and want to kick myself in the ass, since when am I shy or ever been afraid to voice anything, not even a 'Hello'????

Okay that was my weekend.....very SWEET!

I am pleased to announce that I now have five people reading my blog......he he he.......I mean it. Today is a good day I will tell you why:

• Five people - which equates to the next one.
• FRIDAY.....(enough said)....fifth day of the week.
• Three days from Monday......four away from five......close enough, I guess?!?!
• I have had four cups of coffee* already........ (I coffee :~} ) one away from five...If I wait 30 minutes I will be on five.
• I have five kids.....notice I added my husband to this one.

****Caffeine intoxication: An acute overdose of caffeine, usually in excess of 300 milligrams, can result in a state of central nervous system over-stimulation called caffeine intoxication. The symptoms of caffeine intoxication may include restlessness, nervousness, excitement, insomnia, flushing of the face, increased urination, gastrointestinal disturbance, muscle twitching, a rambling flow of thought and speech, irritability, irregular or rapid heart beat, and psychomotor agitation. In cases of much larger overdoses mania, depression, lapses in judgment, disorientation, and loss of social inhibition, delusions, hallucinations, psychosis, rhabdomyolysis, and death may occur. In cases of extreme overdose, death can result. Worth the side effects if you ask me.

Thursday........one more day until Friday - :~).......and two more days closer to missing the Collective Soul concert that Jason promised me three months ago he would take me to. I have wanted to go to a Collective Soul concert for at least 10 years. I decided to pull up their web site last week and OF COURSE they are sold out. I kept reminding him at least 10 times he promised to take me and to get the tickets. I am sure he assumed that I would get them because I always take care of everything. But I was hoping that a surprize would be in order due to all I do for him and the family, nope. Why do I always set myself up for things like this? I know in my heart it will never happen, but deep down in that 'idiot bone' I have I still have an ounce of optimism (that didn't sound very optimistic did it?). I often think that being pessimistic might make life easier sometimes, that way I wouldn't expect anything. I get tired of bitching...doesn't help, it makes me look like a bitch.....but at what point is it okay? I have blogged about this before no one likes a 'negative nelly' but it makes me feel better to write it down on paper.

Thanks for listening...... :~)

WTH....?!?!?
Jason let Isaac and Clarice walk to school today....by themselves. Clarice, fine, she is used to that, Isaac has never walked to the school, for the love, it is his second day of school.
MEN......

As everyone knows I work for a very large hotel chain, in their accounting office. I have been here almost 10 years. On the most part I really like it, I adore the people I work with (most of them) most these people I would actually consider family more than friends......however.....WHY can't a multi-billion dollar company have a computer system that works? Don't get me wrong, I love the fact I can come to work and get paid to blog. BUT, it is the end of the period and I DO have work to do by week-end, corporate gets cranky when it isn't done. This was a new system, four years ago, but as quickly as the wind changes the system is now obsolete, and slower than piss on a cold morning (you know that kind of morning, when you wake up and have to sit on a freezing toilet seat and than get stage fright due to your numb ass).
:~) :~) :~)

Isaac's first day of school (for the second time) went great, no tears this time......Clarice kindly stood with him in line. He wore a pair of levis, a cute blue plaid button up shirt, and a bright red pair of Converse High tops, truthfully I want a pair for myself but I feel I am too old (boo hoo), and people will think I am pretending to be young if I buy them, so as usual I will live vicarilously through my children. He stated to me he learned how to 'play' today, I think we should all go back to kindergarten and learn how to play, because if truth be told some poeple don't play well with others. He also informed me that he made two new friends (girls), girls aren't stinky in kindergarten, give him time, give him time. He ended his day by drawing circles, seriously.....that is what he said to me, 'seriously mom, we drew circles', like duh!

Clarice, as usual, is my social butterfly making more and more friends everyday. I wonder where she gets that from, becuase I am so quite and reserved....he he he.....!~ it amazes me how many people know her, when I dropped Isaac off yesterday everyone was saying 'hi' to Clarice.

Chelsea, has homework up the butt. Her anatomy class is kicking her butt already but she still is doing great. This is a college course, and will transfer to Weber, she will be jamming on that and saving tons of money. I am proud of her.

Ashlee will be moving back into her mother-in-laws house the first week in October. I am not looking forward to that. Due to money issues they need to move back, we have no room for them at our house and truthfully I don't think I could handle it. I am not as patient the older I get, and I have rules they don't want to live with. My grandkids are sooooooo cute and getting big.