Look… I realize that everyone tells you that as you get older that the year speeds up and start to become a blur. But seriously? when did I become 65?! I mean WTF?? I think I was wearing turtlenecks and putting the Christmas stuff back in the attic just last week!!!
Friday night I went and saw Fally and Allie (cute how I did that right?? I am sure that’s NEVER gonna get old to AP) and do you know that child is already 3 weeks old? 3weeks! GEEZE!
I have also been working at the Owens for exactly the same amount of time (that’s right for those of you who can’t put it together… I started June 1st)
So what do I do there everyday you ask… a little of this…
and if I had the talent to put a pool in where that TV is I would… but that too. (So just pretend ok? I just didn’t have the forethought to take the same picture at the pool today)
I go in at around 8:15 (usually closer to I leave my house at 8:15 but shhhh don’t tell) by way of McDonalds for a huge cup of coffee, Starbucks isn’t an option in the one horse town that is Helena, Alabama, and stay with 3 boys until one of I am relieved usually around 5:30 or 6. That’s right I said 3 BOYS! and they are nuts!!! but I just love them!
Alex-13, Brannon-9, and Caleb-8
We spend the day watching the Disney channel, playing on the trampoline, playing basketball, playing the Wii, going to the pool…(asking what time it is 100 times, asking if they can call mom or dad, asking if they can eat something 50 times a day….) All in a days work!
Needless to say I have an AWESOME tan, and have read 3 books since I started! (Which are great and I will now shamelessly plug)
1. Bitter is the New Black- Jen Lancaster (Better known as my new favorite…. I think that it may be possible that we are “brothers from another mother” as the saying goes, and Kim and I,even though she has yet to read the book, are already plotting to write our tales of whoa as this has inspired us that A)Kim can write and B)I'm funny…Winning combo!) This Book and Author are TO DIE FOR!!!! She literally had me rolling on the floor laughing out loud in public places… at the pool… in waiting rooms… in my house BY MYSELF! If you do not read this you are just depriving yourself!!!
She tells a witty (true) story of how she went from a name brand wearing VP living in a luxury penthouse in Chicago, to shopping at Target (I mean that’s a step up for me hahaha) and moving to the '”ghetto.” I only wish I could have been her friend and or a fly on the wall for most of these stories!
LUCKY FOR ME not only does she write memoirs, but she also has a website (dedicated to herself ;) well technically her country… Jennsylvania) so that I can keep up (as if I am a close personal friend and would die if left out of the loop at this point…I might).
Anyway I could continue… but I won’t …READ IT!
2. The Glass Castle- Jannette Walls Not quite sure how I randomly picked out 2 memoirs last year sometime that Justin then ended up getting me for Christmas (and YES I am just now reading SHUTUP!) but I could not have chosen two more opposite books!
This was an equally awesome read however it puts the reader in a completely different place…from sleeping in the backseat of a car in the sweltering Arizona dessert to bathing in a tub of ice water in a one bedroom shack in the West Virginian winter, this family very rarely catches a break! It’s a sad read in that there is always some major obstacle to overcome or hurdle to jump, but it is inspiring that despite all the family ultimately LOVES each other above all, and sticks together even in the children’s escape from the poverty. Jannette Walls came out of a past that most would look at in horror with such grace and more intelligence than the majority of people I run into with much better “rearing” (as my grandmother would say)
Truly a book that makes you think twice before you say “I don’t have,” or “I want” ever again. I think most of us can learn something from this woman!
3. Bright Lights, Big Ass- Jen Lancaster SHE STRIKES AGAIN! Ok so I had to read what I already had first but I quickly scooped up the second of Jen’s series (I mean who are we kidding by page 160 of BITNB I was dying and needed to know if there was more the antithesis of the light at the end of the tunnel! Thank goodness those dang publishers advertise in the back of the book or I may have had a coronary right there!)
BLBA is much of the same antics (just WAY FUNNIER) and she has learned some lessons and genuinely trying to be a good/better person. (collective ‘AWWW’) She and Fletch (the now husband after the Vegas plight for marriage money) live in a much more modest townhome and are living an HONESTLY more modest lifestyle…. but its not without the slip ups and hilarity!!! Her view is just great…
I have to get added to her “girls” email list that she features so prominently… I would kill for that kind of daily humor…. oh wait Jennsylvania how could I forget?!)
Off to get number 3 in the series now :) (Jen—email me k? K!)
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