OM

i'm a late riser. since i left the traditional workforce 6+ years ago i very rarely have the opportunity to see the sunrise, or even the dew on the grass. i'm an 8:00 kind of girl.

this weekend, Daylon had an early soccer game and i was sitting in my soccer mom chair drinking coffee at 7:30 in the morning.

the early games are nice, there are very few people there and it's a time of day i don't get to enjoy often. it was a really nice morning and i just sat and soaked it up...until i realized i wasn't soaking up as much as i thought i should be.

there were cars out on the main road, planes overhead, the freeway in the distance, and the low chaotic hum of civilisation.

the sound of the silent chaos of the universe has been obscured.

it is very easy for us to be lost in the tiny insignificant morass of our daily doldrums when we have been so effectively cut off from the simple flow of life energy.

when is the last time you felt the OM?

random braggadocio

it's getting hectic around here. with the onset of soccer season plus my normal busyness i'm feeling a bit like a push-me-pull-you. luckily spring break is next week, hopefully i can regroup.


here are some random things, cause i feel random.

-i've lost 30 pounds! i'm really into the detox and health aspect of this thing now. normally i diet until i'm not disgusted with myself (which is where i am now) but this time is different. this time is for fitness. i'm aiming for optimal health of body and mind. Sunday i received quite the heady compliment...'you look so much younger!'...which i daresay has stoked my fires.

-Daylon is becoming kinda cool. i can't believe i said it, and don't tell him, but there it is. for example, the other night my neighbor (see previous entry, pardon me while i burst into flames) had a drunk husband arrive home from work. she is trying to stop drinking and in a jealous rage, provoked her husband until he was hollering and being a general ass. she got scared and ran out of her house with the baby screaming for help (eye roll extraordinaire) and brought all the drama to my house. after the situation had calmed down and she went home, Daylon said, 'man, i think they need to watch Fireproof again!' among other things, it gave me hope that i'm rubbing off on him in positive ways. ;}

-soccer season is on! Asher scored 5 goals this weekend (which he was disappointed with, he really wanted 6). there was an Irish grandmother on the other team and after she determined Asher was mine, she said in a thick Irish brogue, 'Ach! he's a little bruiser!' which just tickled me. Daylon played even though he had the flu...and managed to score! my dad gave me crap about letting him play sick, but i assured him that we value a warrior mentality over coddled sickbed crap. ha! i was really proud of Daylon's team, they were down 4-0 at the half and came back top win it 6-4! there are some really good kids on his team which is pretty surprising to me out here in the land of plenty.

-i'm getting Galilee off soymilk thanks to the fear mongering on the OR board ;} and i tricked her in to drinking goatsmilk this morning...she liked it!

-we went to Washington on the Brazos this Sunday for Bryan's birthday. Texas is so damn awesome. the bluebonnets were getting started and it was just really lovely. i always fantasize about moving to somewhere beautiful like Utah, but when it comes down to it i just regret that the economy of Houston ties us to this place. i couldn't live anywhere else. i think i'll give up on Utah and the Faroe Islands and set my sights on the Texas Hill Country. everyone knows the cows think Brenham is heaven, and i'm inclined to agree.

Finally

i've been wanting to start a decent, regularly updated blog of this sort for quite awhile. perhaps the fact that my truck is sitting in the garage with a busted motor is the reason i've finally taken the plunge.

of course, i'd rather be at the gym, or the library, or picking up something at the store, or one of the other million-jillion things i can think of to do now that i'm without the means to do it.
hmph.

so the gist of things is as follows. i've got three kids; Daylon is 12, Galilee is 5, and Asher is 4. we have a mini Schnauzer puppy named Gryphon. i have a husband, Bryan. i'm fortunate enough to afford to stay home and school my kids. We are Germanic Heathens, members of the OR, and of Othala Hearth. Suburban Heathens are funny creatures.

random factoids:
i'm a huge soccer fan, i love to canoe, i play the cello in a vastly diminished capacity than when i was young, i'm a fan of heavy jammy rock and neo-pagan folk music, i read, i agree with Ron Paul, i enjoy the dictionary, i work out alot to keep myself in much better shape than i appear to be in, 99% of the time i don't find entertainment entertaining, i love watching videos about Nibiru and the Annunaki, i love to debunk things just for fun with faulty pseudo-logic, and i generally don't believe the hype.


nice to meet ya!