A Philip Dick Experience

Has anyone ever had an experience like this? I know I have but it involed lollapoluza LSD and flannel so maybe its doesnt count. Click on the link to see his entire mystical story


http://www.philipkdickfans.com/weirdo/weirdo1.htm

Back to the Future

I'm So glad the eighties are back.

I remember plastic charm bracelets and elastic hair bands with colorful-transparent glittered cube clasps. I remember orange sequins on my drill-team uniform and cheesy nachos and frito-pies at my brother's football games. I remember outhouses/ port-a-potties out a few yards behind the bleachers at the football field. And back then they weren't so bad, But you'd never get me into one today.
I remember skating rinks and Micheal Jackson's Thriller. I remember Guess tube purses and Rainbow Bright with little fuzzy Sprites. I remember waist-belted sweater dresses and leggings. I remember dancing to the Strawberry Shortcake song with My best friend Dana,... "I wanna look like who I wan't to be, When I grow up.....when I grow uuhh-up."

I remember that everybody trusted thier government, (even after the Iran-Contra fiasco???) I remember A pretend election in the first or second grade against Bush and Dukhakis. I voted for Dukhakis and didnt tell anyone because All the popular kids chose Bush. Wierd, I know! I have no idea of how I knew that Bush Sr was the wrong choice. I guess because my mother told me that Democrats helped the poor. But I'm not a Democrat or a Republican and have never been either one. We were not wealthy. But we were ok, especially considering that my father wasn't around to help. But he always sent us some money on our birthdays, and he always gave me money for candy from the convienent store when we'd go to visit him.

I remember being outside all day, roaming the nieghborhood until sunset and then coming home starving. I remember my mother's goolash and that she was beautiful. I remember Back to the Future and And Alex P. Keaton (Micheal J Fox) from Family ties. And I admit that this is why I named my son Alex.

I remember being sad alot, But I was happy sometimes too. And these are all of the things that made me happy.

I'm so glad the eighties are back. I think I'll go shopping and see if I can't find some hair bands with colorful dice-shaped clasps for my daughter's hair.

I like Coffee in the mornings

I love drinking coffee in the mornings.

I love getting my daughter dressed for preschool in the mornings and braiding her hair. I love Sophia's baby smell after she's had a bath and is powdered and lotioned. I love to hear the StarWars theme song when my son watches tv and snacks on apples and peanutbutter.

But I only love and appreciate these things after my morning coffee.

Chin Up

In spring of 1991 the 8th grade girls of Wylie Middle School in Whylie Tx who participated in the athletics program had to take a fitness test. There were several parts to this challenge but the only one's I can remember are the cross country race and the chin up test. I was one of the last people in cross country out of a group of about 30 to 40. No biggy, I didnt really try. And then it was the chin up test, oh...wait the chin up test was first (doesn't matter) And what suprised me was that after watching all of the girls get up to the bar and seeing most of them doing atleast three.....I couldn't get my arms to move and inch. NOT AN INCH!!!

Since then, and fifteen years later, I have the same fantasy about myself. You see, T2 came out in the theaters somewhere close to the same time frame of this fitness test. I want to be Linda Hamilton, who did many perfect chin ups while locked up in a mental institution. Let me rephrase that, I want to be able to do effortless chin ups like Linda Hamilton's character in Terminator 2. I do not want to be insane.

This last week was the first week of my Body for Life Challenge. Its a 12 week fitness program and I am in it whole heartedly. You can visit my B4L blog by clicking on my profile and you'll see the link that take's you there.

As god as my witness, I will do a chin up come November!