a steady diet of faith & fancy with some mischief thrown in here and there

Thank you slightlytricky for totally making my day with this clip from You Tube. This year, I'm gonna dance more.....

And for my totally ADD moment of the day ... the girls and I were in the process of putting away laundry and I suggested they make the bed so they had a clean place to put the laundry. Which lead to changing the sheets on the bed before they were made. That lead to going through the closet to find room to hang stuff. Which then lead to going through all of their drawers to sort out, throw out, give away and then refold the and put back in the drawers the stuff that stays. The benefit? Knowing what they need (clothing wise) so we can do some inexpensive back-to-school shopping at the local thrift store.

Two and a half bags of donations in the hall then lead to a serendipitous call from the National Childrens Center asking me if I had anything to donate. Yay! Their truck comes next week Thursday and off it will happily go :)

I.am.teh.happy.

With all due respect to the late Mr. James Brown -- that's the song in my head at the moment.

So, I just got off the treadmill and I don't have a clever cut name for it, like my lovely wife ani_moore of the "gym shorts" or my lovely mellyflori with the "B & H" (boring and healthy) ... so help me with a clever name, k?! Until then -- I give you ( stats from the treadmill )

My food choices were for crap yesterday - I'm 3 days into this and sabotaguing myself - but I'm back on track this morning. Smoking is still less than 6 a day, and working towards cutting it out all together. When I'm stressed and my loves and I are sniping, it easily leads to poor choices, I'm gonna have to work on that one.

So, what are you all up to? Anyone got some work out/weight loss/strong body icons they want to give a girl?

I found this from last year and thought it was a good list again for this year :)

10 things that make me happy in no particular order ....



1. baking and it's associated scents
2. listening to my children laugh
3. hearing someone (esp. family) speak German
4. crab legs and butter
5. time spent with my loves & friends
6. laughing 'til I can't breathe with Q
7. sunshine
8. sushi
9. really great sex
10. books & music


I'd tag 5 people, but I want all of you to respond :)