Let's Try This AGAIN!!

It has been almost 6 months since I sprained my ankle. Not only was it PAINFUL, it was devastating. I had just begun the "Couch to 5K" running program and I was doing REALLY GOOD! As a matter of fact, I specifically remember that the split second before I fell and twisted my ankle, I was SMILING while I ran. Uggg. So, I think my ankle is sufficiently hilled to start running again. I love the COUCH to 5K program and couldn't wait to begin again.

Couch to 5K is an interval running program in which you slowly build up to running 5K, using walking and running intervals and gradually increasing the amount of time you run. Before, I would have my IPhone with me and use the stopwatch feature on it in order to know when to walk or run. It was "okay" but I wasn't able to really just enjoy the run and my music. LUCKILY, I found this nifty new Couch to 5K iPhone application... it is by Felt Tip, Inc.


You simply turn your music on, then you switch to the application and press start. A male or female voice very briefly interrupts your music to tell you when to run or walk...then your music comes back on. NO MORE STARING at the stopwatch!

I started yesterday and it felt great. Of course, my awesome new Mizuno running shoes helped alot! (LOVE THEM!)

I will let you know how the program goes. I'm not asking you to be impressed....because believe me, I still resemble PHOEBE when I go for a jog. It ain't pretty...but it sure is fun

Because I don't have anything else prepared...

... I'll revert back to my old standby, Random Facts!

In Honor of Some Chics I Know:

RABIES:
•All mammals can get rabies, but viral reservoirs are found in carnivores (foxes, dogs, cats) and bats
•Some mammals with rabies become terrified of water
•More people die from dog attacks than from rabies each year
•No one survives from rabies once there are clinical symptoms

Costume Shops

Hand's down...my favorite place to shop is a Halloween Costume Shop! I go in and just get lost in my own little fantasy world! I've been to Halloween Express twice now, and to Party Boy once, and each time I go I end up staying for an hour or two. I am that person who tries on tons of costumes just because it is fun! My favorite this year that I tried on is a tie between the "Swiss Alps" girl with long blonde braids and the crazy Mexican Mental Chic I threw together on my own!!

People on this Blog are Smarter than they Appear!

Try to follow me here...cuz i'm laugh-typing!

So like, on Monday I did a post on Facebook that said something like..."Good Luck to all the kids starting school today! Have a great day! xoxoxoxo" I got back the usual "thumbs up" and "Yay" replies. But my last reply was from LOGAN (my friend Shirley's son who is, like, 12 or 13 years old. He wrote

"What do Oxes have to do with anything?"

HUH? I don't get it...so I go back and read my post again trying to decipher his response. Nope, no off-handed or unintentional YAK or Bovine references?!?!? Of course...then I remember that Logan is just so FUNNY and quirky that his response is probably a Random thing that wasn't meant to make any sense at all! YES, That's It. (Did I mention that I re-read my post about 15 times?!?!?)

SOO, never to be outdone in the random quirkiness department, I go to Logan's Facebook wall and write my "Oh so clever" reply: "Oh, Oxes Have To Do With EVERYTHING!" (Teeheeeheee....my random comeback rocks).

Yesterday I was talking to Shirley (Clever Kid's mom) and I tell her about the whole stress of replying to her son's post. She agrees that it is probably just a random thought from his MTV brain and that there was no meaning behind it! LOL (Yes, I know I have speant WAY too much time on the OX sentence!" So I don't give it another thought (until bedtime and I'm laying there trying to come up with random animal quotes to type under his next status update...like one of my favorites.."Lip Shrimp Don't Lie" or "A Duck is Worth More!" or maybe "A llama would agree!")

Today I get to work and there is an email from Shirley entitled "Logan's Facebook". Her emails reads: So, I know why he said "what do oxes have to do with anything?" it's because you wrote "xoxoxo." Duuuh. (If you figured it out in the first sentence of this post...I don't really care to hear about it!)

Logan, you are too cool for school...and I'm the lame old goober! (A llama would agree!) I'll leave it at that.

Update

I'm putting together a page to keep everyone updated on my dad. Hopefully I can get it up and running shortly! Finding free time is rather difficult lately!

Thurston

THURSTON AUGUST WEBB

*Watching him you realize it is possible to be "regal" and "simple" at the same time.
*He has a lot of pride, without being flashy.
*He never does anything "half-ass".
*He is aware of the important moments in his life that defined him or changed his course - he does not take anything or anyone for granted.
*He learned at a young age that there are no small decisions. Everything has an outcome.
*He does have some regrets, but none that he dwelled on or harped about. As a matter of fact, it is only now that I have learned of a them.
*He played Bass Guitar in a country & western band in Eagle Lake for many years - "The Western Way".
*He worked at a movie theater while in High School.
*He married Sharon Schnurpel on October 7, 1961.
*He ponders things . . .a quality that only great people have!
*He is proficient in math (a trait he did not pass to any of his children).
*He is proud of his roots, simple though they may be.
*He loves his country.
*He served in the National Guard for 12 years.
*He is very handsome.
*He worked as a "Goose Guide" in Eagle Lake for many years.
*He has three children: Jonna Gay Webb (Bowen), Sharri Kay Webb (Winn), and Troy Aubrey Webb.
*He is a wonderful husband, father, and grandfather.
*He recalls his entire life's history down to every last detail and year.
*He journals (not like a diary. . but logs facts).
*He still works and takes continuing education classes . . . by choice!
*He is a south paw.
*He loves to talk about World War II, even though he didn't serve during that war.
*The quality and caring of his friends speak volumes about him.
*He has beautiful handwriting! :o)
*He appreciates people with a good work ethic.
*He is a wonderful dancer!
*He plays the guitar.
*He accidentally shot himself in the leg the day after his first date with Sharon. (She jokes that he went out with her, and shot himself the next day!)
*He takes care of his belongings.
*He is a carpenter.
*Everyone calls him "T".
*His handle is/was Soldering Iron! (How cool is he!)
*Everyone respects him.
*He loves poker, golf, bird hunting, music and history.
*He and his sister still "hang out" as often as they can.
*He has awesome hair!
*He only wears shirts with a pocket - preferably on the left side.
*He was a volunteer firefighter.
*He laughs out loud at the old Looney Tune cartoons (Chip & Dale, Roadrunner & Coyote, etc)
*John Wayne is his favorite actor.
*His parents were Cora and Leland Webb. His sisters are Rosemary Spell and Cora Lee Bishop.
*He loves God and his church.

Guitars and Evan!

Last night, while watching American Idol, the whole family was Jammin' out to some KISS!! Evan loved my awesome Air Guitar action and, in his ADORABLE little peanut-head voice said, "Hey Mom, Pick me up and Play me like a GUITAR!! (Pronounced Geeh-Tahr!!). After a brief pause due to the fact that he weighs probably 50 lbs, I said, "Okay, but dude, like, i will have to rest you on my knee or something because picking you up is like picking up a 50-pound child with a big head!" He told me he would be "light" and then he laid on the floor on his side and put one arm and leg in the air, and I HOISTED him up ................ and I played the crap outta him!! We sounded AWESOME! (insert Rock and Roll Fingers)

So afterwards I was thinking....it would be so cool if more guitars looked just like Evan!!??!! They would be all smiling up at you and looking at you like you were a cool rock chick (or dude). Then when you were done playing your gig, you could just treat it like a stuffed animal and snuggle up with it! That would be awesome!!! It makes me want to learn to play the guitar just thinking about it!

An Umbilical Cord? Seriously?

I know this is not "family stuff", but I had to share!

I just got an email from a friend who is pregnant. She just had her third ultrasound and they still can't tell the sex of the baby because IT is being "modest". She says, (and I'm quoting from her email). . .

"This time the baby's heel was in the way the whole time and the doctor could not see a thing (after first thinking it was a boy, but that turned out to be umbilical cord)! "

Seriously? Isn't an umbilical cord, like, really long and just a tad bit thick? I remember seeing the umbilical cord in my ultrasound images and thinking that somehow my daughter had found some balloon animals to play with during the long wait. I also recall the ultrasound with Evan which revealed his little TURTLE! See the difference here...it looked like a itsy bitsy little turtle. I've never seen a baby turtle and thought, "Hey look at that umbilical cord! Oh wait, that's a baby turtle. My mistake!"

Don't get me wrong, if she is truly having a boy...I think that it would be awesome for him to have a "Umbilical-Ish" turtle!!

Not Quite A Green Thumb...But I'll Take It!

Lookie! In one corner of my front flowerbed, I planted several different types of bulb plants and other plants that "I wasn't so sure about". Every year they come back, with no effort from me, and for a very brief period of time I feel like Mother Nature!!! Here is a photo of the Asian Lilies that dutifully come back every year. Right now, there are even more flowers on each plant, but my camera battery is dead and I want to post it now!! We call these "Fairie Lilies"! Can't you just see a beautiful little fairy sitting on the petal!

My Gladiolas are starting to bloom too, so I will post photos of them soon. I wish they lasted longer, because they really are AMAZING!

Also, while I'm not a huge fan of Yard Art...I must share my two "garden statues" that make me smile. They are solar powered, so the frog belly shines green at night, and the elephant is blue. Hey...at least it isn't a Pink Flamingo with Sunglasses!?!?!?!?!? Honestly, the frog is for my backyard (once I finish working on it) and the elephant is in my front bed!

I have never loved gardening (because I'm not very good at it). But I think I am giving it another try. My lemon drop tree has about 15 fruit on it right now!!

I Promise Not To Laugh At Them Again!

I'm Guilty!! Guilty of CRACKING UP when I see the contestants on "The Biggest Loser", during their first week or 2, throwing up while exercising, almost passing out, and looking completely pitiful. Never again. I have experienced first-hand something that I think is probably similar to what they must be feeling. YES, I started a Boot Camp yesterday. Two Words for you...HOLY CRAP!!


First of all, my FRIEND (I use the term lightly today) Amy started the day before I did and told me in a very "bored" voice that this bootcamp "definitely isn't Navy Seals; it is more like Suburban Housewife Bootcamp." Okay, I'm thinking....I'll give it a try, but if it is Lame I will just quit and find a tougher one. (Of course, this is my SAME friend who told me that in addition to taking a yoga mat and hand weights to class, that everyone there wore Leg Warmers!!!) She never even cracked when telling this to me. Thank goodness there was NO WAY I was going to do that, having been a product of the 80s and having MANY old photos to look back on to see just how I looked wearing those awesome accessories. I got to class excited to see the morons wearing leg warmers. NOT ONE. Thank goodness I didn't go along with that.

Anyway, not only was the class VERY tough, but of the 7 people there with me, I would rate myself as #6 or #7 as far as "good shape". Let me state, however, for the record: Everyone else had already been in this program at least 2 weeks. SO THERE! I must have looked like death warmed over, because the trainer/coach/dude Jeff kept asking me, "are you okay? Slow down if you feel you need to!" To which I replied, each time, "(Gasp) (Wheeze)I Good (Spit Wheeze).


Hopefully today will be a better day. After all, the extreme soreness that is radiating through my legs will surely turn into complete loss of all sensations by this afternoon...so I won't even feel the pain.

Is It A Rock....Or A Fossil?

I definitely will start paying more attention to the rocks and stones I happily hop over when I'm hanging out by the river! Who KNEW rocks could be so much fun! Apparently, my brother knows! Check out this TIT-I-Lating find! He was looking for arrowheads and won the BONUS prize!! I mean, seriously. . . it is almost TOO perfect!

I jokingly told him it is probably a FOSSIL. Hmmm, I wonder if we count the "rings" will be able to tell her age? Oh wait...that is a tree.

Only in Texas!!

Let me take a moment and share with you a photo I took with my I-Phone today!! As I drove down FM 529 headed to visit my mother, I wondered, "Hmmmm, what is that in the back of that truck?" It was far ahead of me and at first I actually thought it was a sofa. Then as I got closer, thought "No, it's not a sofa, I think it is some sort of machine". Closer still..."Wait a minute, that sure looks like a HORN!?!?!" OH MY! Yes, that IS A HORN! As I realize that what I'm seeing is the horn of a bull..and the snout of a bull...I'm wondering how this bull could have such a huge head and still fit in the back of that truck. Ooooh, now I get it. There is no BODY. It is a huge bull head. I have so many awesome thoughts in my head as to where this man would be headed with his prized bull head!

That ADORABLE Older Couple!!

You know the one . . . you find yourself smiling everytime you see them, knowing that they are totally "in sync" with each other, and completely love one another unconditionally. I am fortunate to have just such a couple living a couple of houses down from me. They are not too old, only in their mid-to-late 60s I'd guess. They are so sweet, and LOVE their yard and visiting with everyone, and each of them is just so proud of the other!

Well, this couple has the CUTEST routine EVER! We live in one of those subdivisions that doesn't let you have a mailbox at your home, so you have to walk around the corner or down the street to one of those HIDEOUS metal postal boxes that you use a key to open. The mailbox is only the equivolent of about two house-lengths for me, so I'd say it is 4 houses down from the "cute couple". Everyday, they get into his pick-up truck together and drive to the mailbox and get the mail, then drive back to their house!

LOVE THEM!!!

Did Everyone Else Get Taller???

When Did This Happen?? Admittedly, I am "short" by most standards...but I'm not a midget! I am 5'4" and all my life I've had a "somewhat" hard time finding stylish jeans to fit me. HOWEVER, it was usually do to my hip*waist*leg Ratio. (Large hips, small waist, short legs). For the past few years, however...it is all about finding jeans that don't go past by toes by 4-5 inches it seems. Of course, at first it seemed like just a few of the high-end jeans were like that (and I figured that was just because Super Models were the only people who could afford those jeans). So, then I made sure that I was only buying brands that offered "Regular" or "Tall", with Your's Truly being "REGULAR"! NOW..seriously...there is no way I can buy regular. If the store doesn't offer SHORT (or as The Gap likes to label them.."ANKLE") I'm SOL! ANKLE?? Seriously?? Am I wearing pants with my heels, that a "Regular" person would wear as Pedal Pushers?

At this rate, in the next 5-10 years I will just be buying Bermuda Shorts (in denim of course). Hopefully, they will be alot cheaper and easier to find!

(I think this chic is wearing some "Short" jeans that are my length!?!?!?!)

My Little Man!

Just had to share, because it is just so hard to get a really good photo of my sweet little Ninja....unless you have a high-speed camera. He is always on the move!! Here is my handsome man!

This Explains a LOT!

This would explain a lot of the followers on Twitter I've recently received!!

Twitter in Church

Now That is What I Call A "HEAD TWIRLER!"

Just saw this on the CNN website! Doesn't it just give you the warm-fuzzies to see a High School Twirler "start waling" on a mugger! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!! I hope she was wearing her majorette uniform when she did it!!

Easter Photos - Demo!

Had the kids photos taken on Easter Sunday! While I do not have the photos taken by the photographer yet, Jonna was nice enough to grab a few fleeting shots of the kiddos with her camera! If this is what she was able to get just playing around...I can't wait to see the "pro" shots!

Yes, I know....

...it is time to update my blog. Well, I'm not doing it now, so SORRY! LOL I just wanted to change the title until I do have time to write something meaningful!

I will end by saying that, while jogging last night, Evan was riding his bike with me and told me, "Come on Woman...I know you can do better than that!!"

Over Half Way There!!!

It has been a month and a half since I decided I needed to DROP AND GIVE YOU 10!!! I am over half way there...having officially lost SIX LBS!! (Some days the scale says 7, some days it says 5, but most of the time it is at 6!) I attribute most of my success to my financial diet, i.e. brown-bagging it to the office! But, I have slowly but surely started to get more active, including putting myself back on the exercise bike. I hesitate to say I will start the 30-day-Shred YET AGAIN this week...because I've started and stopped twice. So, i've done the 8-day shred and the 13-day shred. (I'm almost to 30, right!?!?!?!)

But the cool thing is that my clothes are loose, and...of all things...my BOOTS are loose around my calves. For those of you lucky chicks with bird legs, you wouldn't understand. But to me, this is a nice little PERK!!

GET A GRIP!!!!

Okay, this is "Mommy Brag Time!"

I'm so proud of Sunshine Girl. She started taking tennis lessons at Huber Tennis Ranch in September, just about 4 months ago. She is in the beginner class, along with about 20-25 other kids ranging in age from about 5 to 10 years old. The Ranch started a new program that is similar to the belt program in Karate/Judo. But instead of "belts" it is "Grips", with the lowest being a White Grip...the best being Black Grip. Whatever level you achieve, you get grip tape put on your racket in that color. (The coaches can just look at your racket and know what skills you have achieved and what you need to work on).

The entire class was tested last week. We found out last night that my girl made Orange Grip. She completely skipped over white and gold. She is the only student in her class that achieved that level! I can't believe how she has taken to tennis. She really is a natural! I'm so proud of her.

I love tennis...it is one of the few sports that you can continue actually playing most of your life! And best of all, Joe and I can play tennis with her!! (Unlike when she was in gymnastics! LOL) Here is my girl in action...

Kids are Funny!

I know i'm biased (aren't we all) about how funny our kids are. But just some of the very little things they say when they aren't trying to be funny CRACK me up. These are some of the little tidbits yesterday from the kids. If they aren't funny to you..that is because you are dull and lame! lol

Sunshine:
We were working on plurals and possessives. I got out the dry-erase board and drew a stick figure. I wrote "Girl" under it. Then I asked her to give the girl a name, as we were going to write sentences about her. She named her stick figure "CHARLENE". That just really struck me as funny. I laughed as we wrote sentences about "Charlene's hair".

Ninja:
EW was trying to decide between taking Tai Kwan Do (aka KARATE!!) and playing baseball. He decided he would do Karate.......but he wanted me to find out if he could wear shoes when he broke the boards with his feet!! LMAO He is so ambitious!

The Best Weight-Loss Plan I've Found!!!

Financial Distress! (Or as I like to call it...the "Pauper's Eating Plan"). Just by taking my lunch (sandwich or leftovers) to save money, I've lost a few pounds in just 2 weeks! So, at least one good thing can come of this crisis!