horse poop and other things

quick update to let you know that i am still alive, and i am still holding down the new beginnings fort.  

i am checking things off of my list every day.  and it's going well.  

on a sad note, while watching josh, caleb, and hannah on saturday, the boys found a little baby frog.  looking similar to this:

usually, i don't have any particular affection for amphibians.  but this little guy was particularly lovable.  the boys ran around for about 10 minutes trying to find some sort of containment device.  i told them to be gentle, and explained that if they continued to hold him in their fists, he would probably suffocate.  

i was so thankful that the boys found some entertainment that i wasn't nearly as concerned as i should have been about the frog's well being.  the boys ended up turning over a ceramic pot to corral him.  caleb ran inside the house, and i turned my back, and josh started pushing the very large ceramic pot across the patio.  

long story short, he ran over the frog with the 20 pound ceramic pot.  and it was awful.  i mean, really, really horrible (did you know frogs bleed..a lot?).  i even had to swallow back tears because he was such a charismatic little frog.  

so this post is for you, howard.

(oh, and my dog has a passion for horse poop.  an unending, all consuming passion).

songs for sunday

beck--hotwax

thomas newman--score from wall-e

edith piaf--padam, padam

seu jorge--tive razao

fleet foxes--blue ridge mountains

karen dalton--katie cruel

bruce springsteen--my oklahoma home

the final list

• test drive a car, and make the salesman take a picture of me while in it.
• become an expert on the jerboa.
• enroll beu in an obedience class.
• write a book report on a children's book.  probably a 'box car children' book.
• create a soy peanut butter chocolate banana milkshake
• i will go to an area casino.
• write a poem using the word 'connolly', and find at least two rhyming words.
• photoshop jessi's face onto kim kardash..oh wait.  check that one off the list.

• i can also check the pilfering of a certain framed photo off my list. 
• teach the musick twins to sing "Low" by Flo Rida.  caleb on lead vocals, and josh on background vocals.
• flirt with one obscure man per week, three men total.  
• take a short roadtrip (idaho, here i come).
• work out 15 times in the next 3 weeks.
• i'm out.

all hopped up on oxycodin

there are lots of things i feel like saying right now.  and lots of reasons that i should not say them and go to bed, run to bed.  but, as a result of some nasty wisdom teeth worming their way through my gums, i took one of jessi's c-section pain pills, and now i am feeling pretty good about life AND my gums.  

i decided today that my life right now is very much like a 6 year old's during the summer.  i spend all day outside with no shoes on playing with a puppy.  this morning i got to hang out with elias and beulah and we played hard.  

the house is abuzz with preparation for the connollys trip back east.  i will be using this blog to brainstorm for activities during my 3 weeks alone:

• drive to rainier
  
• dog park/obedience classes for beu
  
• spend full days in tacoma exploring
  
• walk to puyallup several times a week
  
• possibly have to recover from wisdom teeth removal
  
• i know one or two days i will be watching the musick twins (that will be a series of posts all to itself, i am sure).
  
• spend a full day in fremont, because i love it.
• eat here.  
• maybe i'll take the twins to see Wall-E (i love me some pixar)
• drop my resume off here.

okay, so i have tried before to get people to come out of the woodwork and comment on my blog.  but for real, i covet your ideas for things to do for free for the next few weeks.  though, i am fully aware that no one is going to leave me ideas--i have no sway in the blog world.  i've come to terms with it.  

songs for sunday

• mgmt--kids
• bob dylan--highway 61 revisited
• flight of the conchords--foux du fa fa
• peter bjorn and john--young folks
• sam amidon--wedding dress
• duffy--mercy
• fleet foxes--white winter hymnal
• shearwater--leviathan, bound
• sigur ros--gobbledigook
  

uhhhh

in the coming days you can look forward to a pretty awesome set of pictures of jessi and i dressed up as each other.  as soon as i can get it off of my camera.  

we are headed to a mariner's game tonight.  i went when jared and maria were here, and it was so fun.  but tonight--we're headed to the best seats in the house.  deluuuuuxe box seats.  hopefully we'll get some good pictures of that experience as well.  

i have definitely decided that i am MORE than ready for a new group of girls.  nick and jessi are totally occupied without them, because they have 2 full time jobs (otherwise known as elias and glory).  but me?  yeah, i am going to need something to do/someone to make fun of pronto.  i'm only half kidding about that last part.  i just want to DO something.  even if it is being exasperated/completely amused by:

• monkeys
  
• straightjackets
  
• finascos
  
• 6 am (sis AM)
  
• 8 pound people coming out of cooches
  
• chinese crustaceans
• baJA fresh
• or just general crazy
  

all of this to say, if you happen to live in the puget sound area, and even if you don't, maybe come/fly/drive here.  no, really.  i'm not kidding.  

can anyone hear me?  you there?  

come see me.  now.

please?

just a regular thursday night

i really and truly have nothing to share.  i am just sitting downstairs watching grey's anatomy with a puppy sleeping on my foot.  

today has been really hilarious.  i think jess has particularly enjoyed my complete inhibition today.  i have laughed at everything all day long.  once in a while i get like this, most times it is with jared and a few other select people in my life (like robert hardy or sam eidson).  i get embarrassed by how much i laugh.  

if you would like some harmless fun and ridiculously juvenile laughs, please go here.