It's Cody's fault

This is Cody:



Cute little bugger isn't he? He's gotten much bigger since this picture was taken, but so have his ears so he isn't too photogenice at the moment.

He's the reason I've been using lately.

I can't clean the house because I have to watch Cody.
I can't do my homework right now because I have to watch Cody.
I can't take the big dogs out for a nice long walk because I have to watch Cody.

This all translates into: I haven't gotten off my increasingly sizable butt because I've been using a 16 week old puppy as an excuse.

As excuses go, this is at least the cutest one I've used, but as someone once told me long ago: "Excuses are like assholes, everyone has one and they all stink!"

How true.

I'm going through one of those cycles. Once called "bi-polar" I call it "this is how life goes, up and down so just get freakin' used to it".

The upswing is starting to kick into gear - thankfully.

I checked my biorythm (because they are so accurate don't cha know) and this is what it looks like for today:



Looking at this chart one can see that emotionally and intellectually I'm on a downswing - but my physical cycle is gearing up.

I interpret that as don't try to talk about anything I don't konw anything about, don't look at me cross-eyed or I'm likely to break out into tears and any given moment, BUT I could probably rearrange my living room, clean the house, do the laundry, take the dogs for a walk, go for a run (ha), and leap tall buildings in a single bound all in one day.

Whew! I'm exhausted just thinking about it.

I did a post back in June about things I wanted to work on with myself (here's the post if you're interested:http://randomthoughtsandactsofstupidty.blogspot.com/2009/06/work.html)

Looking back at that post I see I've come full cycle just about. Looking back at my biorythm for that day and it kind of looked like this:


It seems my physical and intellectual self was on an upswing but my emotional self was crashing.

What does this all mean?

Nothing really.

Well nothing that I didn't know before. I go through cycles just like everyone else where you either feel: Really, really good, really good, good, not so good, bad, really bad and then really, really bad.

I should make a little Shazza psycho meeter so I can post it up on my white board and keep track of that!

LOL

Anyway - Cody has been my excuse lately - and now it's time to wipe off my asshole, put a little powder on and get moving.

But:

"There's an abvious attraction
To the path of least resistance in your life
There's an obvious aversion no amount of my insistance
Could make you try tonight

'Cause it's easy not to
So much easier not to"

"Wake Up" by Alanis Morissette

Here is a link to the Biorythm calculator that I used if you want to check it out: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/biorhythms.html

Potential

M and I took a ride out to see a potential farm to buy to raise our potential alpacas!

We both fell in love with it!

Here are a few pictures of it.



It was built in 1872. It's and old stone home with a barn and 19+ acres attached.

The home is actually a duplex. One side was probably the main residence and the other side may have been built for workers, but it's much bigger than it appears.


The original property has been subdivided, but what is remaining cannot be. It's partial wetlands and partial farmlands so what is there is basically it. Another building can be added but only if it is for farm purposes

Have you ever had a vision of a home that you wanted to be in?

This is mine!

As soon as we turned into the cedar line driveway and saw the old rickety bard I knew I would love it.

The realtor (a very cool guy named John Spears) walked us around part of the property which has a stream and a pond and just a gorgeous view of the mountains (yes, there are some mountains in NJ!) it was spectacular.

M fell in love with it too.

Sometimes we think that we don't have a lot in common, but we share a view of our future life and how we want to live it.

I don't see me working behind a desk for the rest of my life. I'm an outdoors person and I like to have a physical part in things that I do or I find myself becoming lazy and complacent.

There would be a LOT of work involved in getting this place up and running like we would want it, but we could take it slow and rent out some of the land to be farmed while we set up the place. We hope we can ask our two brothers in-law to help us get started: watch out Doug and Ramon!!!

We could get on our little knees and ask a certain Carpenter gal that we know to make us a sign for the farm which we already thought we would name: JeannieRose in memory/honor of our Moms.

:::sigh:::

All of this is a dream right now and it may not be this particular place (although I hope it is) we really want to make this dream come true.

Wish us luck because we put an offer in and we just need a few more details to see if we can make this happen!

eeeeeks!