Bite the Bullet

I am thinking in bullets right now.
Just little blurbs. Random thoughts.
Shall we take a peek inside the Bell's head?
Oh, let's do!

• I have slacked off on drinking water. Please drive over to my house right now and give me a good swift kick in the behind---all the while shouting "Drink more water!" I really think this will help me.
  
• This is a good post about motherhood that I need to read again and think about. You can read it too if you'd like.
  
• I have developed a deep and lasting relationship with these snacks. (And in googling them to give you a way to see what I was talking about, I found that you can buy them on Amazon.com. How odd is that? I wonder if anyone ever buys snack bars on Amazon. com.) You should try them--they are SO GOOD! And I hope they are good for me. I'm choosing to believe they are. But if they are not I'll have to sing that tacky old song "If loving you (almond bars) is wrong, I don't want to be right."
• I'm learning a lot of things about keeping a good attitude while treading water. Not literally treading water, but figuratively. Sort of a making lemonade when life gives you lemons kind of thing--which reminds me, I saw this cute bumper sticker. It said, "Who is this Life? And why is he giving everyone lemons?"
• I am so confused with the onslaught of laundry at my house. We've just somehow kicked it into overdrive or something. I can do laundry every single day and NOT be done with it. Maybe this is just how life is going to be from now on, but my soul, it just makes my head swim. Maybe those nudist people have the right idea.....
• If ever there was anyone who would never ever ever even think about becoming a nudist, it's me, your fully-clothed, faithful Bell. Just so you know. (and there was much relief)
  
• A couple of different people have told me lately that I "seemed down" on facebook. I went back and looked at all my status things for a couple of months and they didn't seem negative to me. They were things like "I love the weather" and "My kids are beautiful" and "Tip of the hat to whatever holiday it is today" and that kind of thing. Oh yeah....there was one post cursing the mountain of laundry that mysteriously rises in my house in the night. But I'm just wondering if being a part of the facebook community is worth it or not. There are some people I love having that connection with....and there are some people I want to block. And I don't care if people read my status updates. Hello. I'm the one who writes them. If I didn't want it to be read, I wouldn't type it.
  
• So tell me, Dear Reader, do I seem negative to you guys? (all 1.5 of you) I mean, yes, I am in the big stink. I have told you guys that. There are less-than-ideal situations going on in my life, but I don't think I'm being a big grump. I think I'm doing okay. Am I deceiving myself? Am I being evil and not realizing it? I'm not exactly Pollyanna but I don't think I'm Oscar the Grouch either.
  
• I am SO THANKFUL that someone got me hooked on Babywise when I was first pregnant with my first child. That is what I have always done and I don't know how to be any other way. Putting these babes on a schedule is just all I know, you know, but I love it. I mean, I have been sleeping at night for a while now and sleeping at night is SO MUCH BETTER than NOT sleeping at night. Wouldn't you agree? I hear these women talk about kids that never slept through the night until they were two or three and I just can't imagine that. If I had a child like that, I bet that'd be my last child. Mercy me. So I heart Babywise and I heart my good sleeping children!
• Which do you think is the lesser of the two evils: drinking diet sodas while nursing a baby or drinking regular sodas with the whole wagon load of calories? (And don't tell me to just skip the sodas all together---I know that would be best, but that's not one of the two choices I gave you, was it?)
  
• I think I am over the bullets thing now. You know me, always "mixing it up" a little. So wild and crazy. La vida loca over here. A regular amusement park of punctuation.
  

Have a good week, lovely old Dear Reader.

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