Bee Thinking About This...

My Favorite Facebook String of the Week

Status Update:

KL* just Twittered his MySpace Friends that he's updated his Facebook profile that will tell everyone to follow him on Twitter... ....then a freak wormhole opened up in Narcissitic Space. BLOG that!

Comment:

Dude, that post rebooted by iPhone, Blackberry, iMac, PC, MacBook, Android G1, and those little electrode things I use to control my social media seizures. Sad Whale. Bing. Ack.

Reply:

my Blackberry just powered down in dissent, and my remote control is stuck on Lifetime network...doesn't matter, the TV is porting all the close-captioning to Mandarin.Hope Floats, in Chinese, kinda translates to "You're a loser, round-eyes"Gadget Conspiricy, just like Assimov predicted.....

*-Authors are not identified to protect the, well innocent doesn't work here, but maybe intelligent does...

Bee Splotchy

A friend of mine recently commented that I wear a lot of black. I think she was trying to tell me to add some color in a round about way. I went back to my closet to take inventory and indeed she was right. I wear a lot of black.

My clothes just don't start out that way.

There is my favorite Banana tee that was worn so many times that any more bleach or bluing would render it a tattered mess. Just a bit of Rit Dye Black and voilá, the new black Banana tee formerly known as the white Banana tee was born.

There are my best, softest bamboo yoga pants. They are my favorite thing to wear except for my favorite jeans which are older than my first born but that’s not the point. The point is, I LOVE them. Unfortunately, I spilled bleach on their cobweb greyness one day and they then looked tie dyed in all the wrong places and one of the splotches looked like Jesus which I found distracting and well, you get the idea.

Again, Rit Dye Black.

As I looked through my closet I noticed all the clothes that had once been a color other than black. In my mind’s eye I still saw them as their original color but in reality the Rit Dye Black now covered up all the living, blemishes and splotches they once held.

Covering up splotches is what we do. It’s natural. It’s human. And, when it comes to favorite clothes, it’s recessionista chic.

Our lives are very much the same. We look for the Rit Dye Black to cover up all the messes, heartaches, grief, shame and just plain living that we do. This is not a bad thing. It works and we can go on a little less splotchy.

But…
it does make it harder to see our own original color or that of those around us. We often miss the Passion Red or Honorable Purple or True Blue or Sunshine Yellow.

Yep, there’s a lot of Rit Dye Black around and it’s not a bad thing- as long as we remember to see the color too.

Bee Happy With the Chaos

Friday's Five Things to Bee Thankful For or The Keebler Elves, Crown and Crumbs

The Keebler elves must have had a party in my pantry over the weekend. No really. I think they got tired of working, ran away from the hollow tree and landed in my pantry for a rockin' night out. Perhaps they found the Crown stuck in the back, took a few sips and proceeded to just get a little jiggy with it.

Anyway, you should see the elfin aftermath.

So...today's things to be grateful for:

1. I have a pantry.

2. I have a pantry with food.

3. The food, wrappers, crumbs and chaos aren't so bad.

4. The dog will help clean up.

5. A pantry devolved into chaos is a great motivator for a clean, organized pantry.

Now if only I had a little elfin magic.

Bee a Transformer

Today's Graces:

1. Knowing that even when the Sunday School lesson goes completely awry, the 5 year olds don't care and yes, you and they can turn Transformers into a beautiful object lesson.

2. Loving the 5 year olds.

3. The 5 year olds loving back.

4. Being asked to teach.

5. Teaching.

Bee Cool

Friday's Five Things To Be Thankful For:

1. Air conditioning
2. Ice
3. Deoderant
4. People who wear deoderant
5. Fall

Bee a Censor

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Five Phrases to Be Erased From Our Family Lexicon Starting Tomorrow

1. Insert Name of Person Who Apparently Doesn't Speak at a Decibel Recognizable to Nine Year Olds -say whaaaat? *Bulge eyes for effect and look incredulous*
2. Um, not so much. *Roll eyes for effect*
3. Oh no you di n’t! * Include 3 part Z-Snap*
4. OMG!!! *Includes crossed arms and minor stomping*
5. I know…right?

Let me illustrate....

Conversation in my house:

Me: OK, time to turn off the computer.

9 Year Old: Crazy- Turnin’-Off-Computer-Momma say whaaaat? *Bulge eyes for effect and look incredulous*

Me: You heard me, enough computer time for today love. Don’t you think you’ve played enough?

9 Year Old: Um, not so much. *Roll eyes for effect*

Me: Well, regardless, time to turn it off.

9 Year Old: Oh no you di n’t * Include 3 part Z-Snap*

Me: Oh yes I did young lady and no more computer for the rest of the week, and Hannah Montana and iCarley and whatever else I can think of!

9 Year Old: OMG!!!

I know…right?

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