Lone Star Kiwis

I'd like some cheese with my whine please

This pretty much sums up the lives of the Scott's right now. Actually, it's only laundry...a HUGE pile of poo might be more appropriate.

Here's the daily bad luck breakdown:

- I blew a tire

- Graham let go from Starbucks (equals no health insurance). Should be pointed out that he was fired for working off the clock. SERIOUSLY!

- I get in a car wreck

- Kids get lice

- Graham's car won't start

- Graham bangs up his leg on the curb and is now gimpy.

We really shouldn't leave the house. Good news is - Lucy is pretty stinking cute in the de-lousing process!

Water time fun!

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We went to the sprinkler park the other day with some friends and a big time was had by all! Wyatt was there, but he was not a fan of the paparazzi that day!

Christian, George, Madeleine, Miles and Jackson

In 2000 when I was on my Hawaii trip about to meet Graham I also met some other interesting characters at the hostel where we were staying. I met Mark, who was Graham's best friend and ultimately the best man at our wedding. Mark was/is great...the other guy..no. I can't remember his name and I wouldn't recognize him if I saw him, but he said something to me that has stayed with me for over 10 years. When I first met him he was in the common room talking to a girl about yoga and chakras. Now, let me just say, that I neither then nor now know what the hell a chakra is* but I'm not necessarily turned off by people talking about them. However, this particular person spoke of chakras in that "look-at-me-i'm-so-cool-because-i'm-talking-about-chakras" way.

So, the day before I met Graham, we all went to the beach. I was soooo excited to be in Hawaii and meeting new people so my normal chatty self turned into hyper mode. It appeared as though everyone was enjoying my socialness until Mr. Chakra sat up on his beach towel, turned to me, and said "Perhaps you'd like to meditate for awhile." Now, I probably should have been offended but I thought it was the simply the most hilarious way to tell someone to shut the hell up that I had ever heard! Needless to say, Mr. Chakra and I never talked again.

The past couple of weeks have been a little crazy for the Scotts. I'm not loving my job. I know, a lot of people don't love their job...but, I love what I do so there is no reason to not love my job. Did that make sense? Chakras.

Anyway, with me indifferent about my job and Graham about to do a 6 week run at the radio station we had some options. I ran through these options about 4.5 billion times and, all the while, my friend Jaimie listened. She received no less than 5 texts from me a day saying "I'm quitting" "No, wait, I can't quit!" "I'm quitting." Not once did she tell me I was crazy. No doubt she thought it, but she never said it.

So, today I made up some cake balls to tell Jaimie how much I appreciate her friendship and how grateful I am that she never told me to meditate!!

YUM!

* I could Wikipedia it but I'm assuming there is something un-chakra like about that.