I told myself I’d stop with the computer by 10pm…so I have fifteen minutes. Go!

1) I totally f’ed up my email 30 seconds ago and I feel like such a dork. Why can’t I figure out how to configure the damn tool bar????

2)While I was reading A Little Princess to Eden tonight I heard very fake cawing out my window. It was Josh and T home from a long weekend. Tonya came upstairs with a towel from the downstairs bathroom wrapped under her arms so she could show Paul and I her new tattoo. I thought it was going to be this little five-inch circle at the base of her neck. It’s this beautiful tribal band work that stretches from one shoulder blade to the other. Totally striking! She’s got another 3 hours on it to finish the lilly in the middle.

The other day I was having lunch with seven other people at this steak house and I reached my hand out across the table to Jim and just sort of demanded, “I need some fries.” He immediately filled up my hand and said, “I like you!”

I like it that Tonya walks around my house in a towel. That I can skitter down the stairs to see them in my embarassingly pink pajamas. That Josh makes crow sounds at my window because (indignantly) “Somebody locked the door!”

3) Eden starts school tomorrow. First grade. When her best pal Rosie came over for our Back to School Party last week, Eden had to drag her upstairs to see all her new school clothes. They talked fashion for 30 minutes. Did I mention..FIRST GRADE. Jeez!

Although Eden did come running up to me later that night in the backyard to say, “Mommy! I told Rosie how fashion is not number one. I told her it was like number 32 or 40 or something.”

Today Eden told me that God and loving other people was number one. “Loving other people is the best way to live, really Mommy. I read that in my rhyming Bible. I am trying to read the whole thing straight through. I think it should take me about 30 days.”

Dang.

Her special verse for first grade: “Love your God with all your heart, soul, and mind and love your neighbor and love yourself.” (Eden’s version. I dig it.)

4) I love Fall, but I’m experiencing a mixed bag of emotions about the end of Summer. I feel a lot of loss around the fact that much of my Summer was tainted by migraines. It really makes for a sucky growing up experience when your mom has to say, “I’m sick today girls.” But I’m tyring to take comfort in the reality that we had a lot of fun this Summer…cousins and VBS and playing outside until 10pm while Josh and Tonya did firespinning or pushed the kids on the swings or just had a Mike’s. Got to remember how the good outweighed the bad.

5) We had dinner with Matt and Colleen EchoHawk-Hayashi last week and heard all about the great stuff that’s going on with the Ohana project. They wanted me to write on my blog about them…..and NOW they will LIVE TO REGRET IT as I will drop this little quote from our dinner converstation (completely without context, of course….wicked laughter ensues..wah-ha-ha-ha!)…

“We got tried of praying so we had to watch p*rn.”

(They didn’t really…but that’s just not a sentence you hear that often, ya know?)

6) Paul took me to the Van Gogh to Mondrian exhibit at the SAM for our anniversary. I loved it! There’s so many paralells around the impressionist/neoimpresionists and the postmodern shift we’re in now. No one uses paint texture like Van Gogh. And there was this one drawning that totally captured the possiblity and terror of emerging from depression.

If I could live in a musuem I would write all the time.

Ten minutes are up. I’ll tell you more about that later…