VIA WILLOWS BEND

Memory Loss

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:04:00 +0000

I have been suffering from memory loss. Not just forgetting the fact that I disliked jam music like Neil Young and the Grateful Dead. I have been longing to hear them in a bar, out on the sidewalk, with a pint. Of course I am not listening to them now. I am listening to the Flaming Lips, which I know I didn't like before Yoshimi.

So, memory loss, on the way home I was writing a killer blog entry. It was personal and funny even a little heart warming. Which I have no recollection of now- except the nagging feeling of loss. But I have a sweet ice-cold Jameson in from of me and I am happy. I have been googling all sorts of things for work lately, and finding answers, all the answers but what I was thinking three hours ago. I have had several good ideas lately. Like-- Why can't they get GPS working well enough to drive my car so I can sleep or play with Little Big Man in the car? And how can I rig a system so I know if my teenage son (speed 10 years into the future) leaves the house. I am positive I can rig a baby monitor and a personal security device to do the job, though I am pretty sure I will need to attach it from outside and inside so that he would have to be very coordinated with his posse which would break him out. I can remember what I dreamt about last week, but I cannot remember the solutions I had to... I am not even sure what I solved. I thought it was important.

Back to Memory loss. I wonder if there is some tea form of Ritalin. Cause I think there is just too much to pay attention to. I have little big man that is running in all directions, the money running out of our bank account like sand in a sieve, and working with nasty people, and family moving away, and missing Oregon, and shoot, just too much. then I find out that Lohan AND Aiken are gay. Then I find out that LHC may eat the world inside out, but I will have to wait several months to know. Why can't anything happen instantaneously? That would help my ML. I could just beam it from my brain to somewhere. I am trying to carry a notebook to notate all my brilliance. Writing while driving seems less than brilliant to me, somehow. I have seen it done though.

My Jameson on the rocks is gone. So I am off to bed.

Votes. go back to the Salon?

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:36:00 +0000

Should I go back to the salon? I feel like my hair walked out of 1983. I said back to my natural color and this is what I got. I hate going to th the salon.

Fairy

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:39:00 +0000

I woke up this morning with an REO Speed Wagon song in my head. I gonna keep on lovin’ you. If it’s the last thing I’m gonna do. I don’t want to sleep…. And it continues. Then I remembered my dream. I was watching/was a girl with a boyfriend who was making fun of her fairy belt buckle. She said, she didn’t think it was emasculating at all. So she went to the coffee shop he worked at and started asking his boss questions. Like “would you eat a sesame cold noodle salad? Would you listen to ABBA? Would you wear a fairy belt buckle?” The answer to all three from the brown haired boss was yes. She thought this was entirely redeeming of the fairy belt buckle. Then she went to a WWE wrestling match where all the girls were bumping chests and saying RA and wearing pink fairy tutus. Supporting wrestler “Fairy Avenger” he was a big deal. At least I am not searching for a clean toilet in public restrooms any longer. I think the pink fairy avenger is a little more entertaining.

playing 9 pins

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:57:00 +0000

Dark clouds are hanging over the Sleeping Giant today. Threatening and invigorating--fall is on its way! I can almost hear Rip Van Winkle’s snore. Later in the evening, with their full ale, the giants will play nine pins. Time for apple picking then pumpkin picking. Little Big Man is 3 and I think the real fun has just begun. He has told me he wants to be a blue man from the BLUE MAN group for Halloween. I have to figure out how to plaster him blue?? Any suggestions? Maybe he will change his mind and want to be a pirate or a gypsy. I know how to make him up in those things.

Jack Hammer

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:37:00 +0000

Strawberry

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:55:00 +0000

the wild flowers were in full bloom. we saw strawberries, wild clematis, lupine, larkspur, daisys, violets, lots of berry shrubs in bloom.

up a hill

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:53:00 +0000

We climbed up a hill to find ferns and flowers. He loved the climb. I was worried that he would have trouble going down, but my little mountain sheep had no trouble. he is sure footed and stubborn.

Mesmerized

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:34:00 +0000

he has cleared out the wood plank railroad that he was working on. he is just chilling at Creek Campground. We had a wonderful time there. We have already reserved the "holy grail" of campsites for later this summer. I am not going to tell you which one though! We ate hotdogs almost every meal. Next time I am going to plan the menu better. I really don't even want to look at a hotdog.

through the woods

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:27:00 +0000

What beautiful eyes. we went on a walk by a roaring creek and took pictures of flowers. I look pretty dorky. Right now I know why I don't blog much anymore. Try typing with a sticky 3 year old all over the keyboard and you. Saying Hi! and Sing! and "i'm lauging" I wonder where he got his kinda naughty sense of humor.

Boots are made for Fishing

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:17:00 +0000

Snorkeling is Fun

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:52:00 +0000

I swam in the ocean. It was so beautiful that I forgot I was breathing through a crazy straw. Coral Gardens is the name of the reef that we looked at there where all sorts of fish and eels and corals. I was nervous that my inexperience would knock some coral off and it takes 4 years for coral to grow one inch. So I was probably more careful than I needed to be. Do you think the girl in the picture got a sun burn? Yes, and it was worth it. I am such a whitey I get a sun bun through water-proof SPF 70. Though I did manage tan (as much tan as I get) through all that sun screen. I really wish they could make a sunblock that smelled like tanning oil.... Ah coconut and pineapple.

Photos from Ohau and Maui trip

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:06:00 +0000

Hawaii is beautiful. The people were friendly and beautiful. It was clean and warm and tropical. There wasn't anything not to like! Here are some of my photographs.

Back from Hawaii

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:24:00 +0000

We had a great time. Hawaii is a wonderful state. It went really fast and i loved every minute of it. However, I missed my boy very much. He had a great time at Nana's. I will post more pictures soon. This picture was taken in Lahaina on Maui at the Old Lahaina Luau. Tasty food and pretty people.

Easter Morning

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:51:00 +0000

What could be so interesting in those eggs?

Child Labor Laws: Important

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:45:00 +0000

I am happy that I do not have the life that requires toddlers to do anything. I would really feel like I was a cat wrangler trying to get little fingers to do work. Not having to makes it fun to pretend that we really work. The luxury of a tap that runs water. Now put some elbow grease into it boy!

Afternoon at the museum

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:42:00 +0000

Our little detectives are on the case! Nothing is unexplored. No stone left unexamined. The Museum of the Rockies is a great place to run around and look at stuff.

Imagine, this was messy!

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:38:00 +0000

I accidentally made the Cream of Wheat too thin.

Spring in Montana

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:35:00 +0000

This is what we woke up to this morning! I am happy I am going to Hawaii!

Easter Eggs

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:29:00 +0000

I think I had a boy. Those eggs on the bottom are real eggs. I didn't use them for deviled eggs.

tres bizarre mais amusante

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:27:00 +0000

check this out. I found it diverting.

12 YEARS OLD. DAMN I AM OLD.

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:10:00 +0000

My brother turned 12 the first of this month. He is a fine young man. Handsome, smrt and fun. Here's to you kid.

Scoop up my boy.

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:51:00 +0000

He is growing so fast. I am a little nostalgic for the now that will be the past in the future. I googled old highschool friends tonight. Never a good sign. I only found one, well one of the 2 I remember their names. then I found these pictures on the web and that didn't help my nostalgia at all. Little big man's favorite yoga pose is the Sunflower. I reach to the sky then I dive down and say "scoop up my boy" as I pick him up. He laughs and yells "again mama, scoop up my boy?"

Awarness test

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:44:00 +0000

Count the Passes
I totally failed this test!

Work Motivation

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:26:00 +0000

They recently showed this at work as motivation! Don't you feel motivated. It felt like a Promethius moment-- Like the mountain like the rock and like it again tomorrow! My motivators lately are more like this motivational poster.

Who do I vote for?

noreply@blogger.com (bellemanda) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:13:00 +0000

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
- Kurt Vonnegut