Número dos

Oh, hey there sunshine! I just have to say, today is Thursday. Know what that means? Tomorrow is FRIDAY! My most favorite day of all. Kids at the club: "Why is Friday your favorite day Kyler? Is it because you like french fries?" Answer: yes,  yes of course strange child. Why else would it be my favorite day? 

Number 2! 

2. Describe 3 legitimate fears you have and explain how they became fears.

Hmm... one fear I (like most people) have is the fear of people in my family dying/getting sick/hurt/etc. I think that's a big fear for everyone because you become so close to people it's impossible to imagine life with them just not, existing. I've always assumed I'd get cancer or die in a freak soccer accident because people always think "it'll never happen to me." Maybe if I assume it will happen to me it will be less likely to happen. Makes perfect sense...right? But as for those closest to me, I don't want anything bad to happen to them. I wish I could create this magic bubble that they were always encompassed in and nothing bad could happen to them. Of course the bubble would have to be more like a suit and it would have to be uber thin and transparent and...stretchy. Yes, stretchy bubble suits for all! 

Another fear I could list is... my fear of unmet expectations, if that makes any sense at all. I think unmet expectations are the cause of so much stress for everyone. We think our jobs should be one way and when they're not, we become frustrated or stressed. "This isn't what I signed up for!" We expect to get married and be the perfect spouse to our perfect spouse. We expect our kids to turn out just the way we want; to be Olympic Medalist Nobel Prize-winning superhuman geniuses and well, they probably won't be. I feel like we look around at other people's lives and think, "wow, I wish my life was that exciting/fun/happy/perfect/easy/spontaneous/(insert your own word here)." Truth is, we need to be more realistic. My fear is that I will map out my life, how I want it to be, where I want to be in five or ten years and it won't be like that. Although I know it won't, I fear I'll have a hard time accepting whatever my life has become. Hopefully not though. I hope I can learn to be at peace with the twists and turns of life and be happy with every single thing, good and bad, in my life. 

Tonight I'm on a real nice computer. I don't even have to worry about it blinking "1% battery remaining." WIIIIIIIIIN!

Third fear... spiders. Ha just kidding they're not that bad. Oh wait, YES THEY ARE! So they help life go round and are important to the food chain and rid of us pesky bugs... yeah yeah yeah I've heard it a million times before. When people give me this lecture when I tell them how much I hate spiders I just want to say, "oh yeah, spiders are great. Here, let's put one on your hand so it can crawl up your arm and into your ear and lay eggs inside your brain so they can hatch and kill you slowly while evolving into a hybrid human-spider that takes over the world." Still like them? Didn't think so. 

So this week I was like, "yeah, I can be domestic; lets start a garden!" Started this little container garden with sunflowers and (randomly) Dill. Just wanted to see if I could even get anything to grow. After a few days, guess what... THEY GREWWWW. I was so excited; jumping around and doing the sunflower party dance. Pete looked at me like I was crazy (what's new) but I didn't care. I made a plant! It's like a baby. You buy from the store. And keep outside. And give plenty of sun and water. Just like a baby.... But anyway, they are pretty awesome. I check them each and every day. But one day..........something horrifying happened..............I lifted the container up to move it and guess what I see? Oh just little pockets of harmless dirt on the bottom of the container in the crevices. I go to wash it off with a paper towel (thank the heavens I didn't use my HAND) and this peculiar dirt... begins to move!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's right. The sneaky dirt was actually baby demon spiders. And baby demon spider eggs. And you can't kill them all because they're too small and crawly and falling on your hands and arms and you freak out and almost drop you precious growing mini plant babies! So yeah, I'm officially traumatized. I think I got most of the little guys but with my luck they'll be back and have evolved by next week. So yeah, spiders are creepy and if I could put a little imaginary spider blocker around my house, that'd be great too. I'd totally be out there gardening to my little heart's desire. But for now...not happenin. 

Come On Eileen--Dexy's Midnight Runners & Kevin Rowland

Driftin'--The Dirty Heads

Ray of Light--Madonna 

Block After Block--Matt & Kim