Ginger Unplugged

Now you'll see why I haven't had much time to blog! Drove to dinner in Plain City (of all places) on Mother's Day. While Princess was throwing up in the back seat, lo and behold, I ACTUALLY FOUND THE ADDRESS with no real trouble--especially considering I was given bad directions. Most of you have no idea how miraculous this is, but some of you do. Yeah, I know...me finding my way? SCARY. I chalk it up to Mother's Day blessings from above. Spent and incredible afternoon riding my new Mother's Day bike to the grocery store up our river trail with Butterfly leading the way and Monkey in the bike trailer. It was gorgeous and butterfly was amazing. She went through at least 5 tunnels with a good 6 inches of water in them--one had a fountain bubbling up she had to go over. She thought is was the coolest thing ever. And can I just say, that pretty much NOTHING fits in my eco-friendly fabric grocery sack? The one I paid TWENTY dollars for? A couple days later another,...

I don't think I remembered to tell many people that, "I'm off to California." So, uh, here I am back again, before you even noticed! I figured it wouldn't really matter unless there was an earthquake or something and none of you knew to come search the rubble for us, but there wasn't the slightest tremor so all's well that ends well, right? You can't argue with Shakespeare. To make up for not knowing about California beforehand, at least you can know about it in depth afterhand. Here are some of my memorable moments. 1. Discovering when the temp went up to 86 in Arizona that our air conditioning was out. The kids were good sports and luckily the sun set soon after that. 2. Crash waking us up every ten minutes to make sure we hadn't "jumped out the window" or anything. Tempting...but there were bars on the window, so we couldn't get away. 3. Husband's sister giving me every bit of food in her juice shop that is on my special diet....

This all started the other night when I went for a walk with my friend. I had been looking forward to it all day and by the time we could go the sun had set, the clouds had rolled in and it was dark. We walked along the river trail anyway where before long the trees were creaking and lashing out at us in the howling wind. I admit, it was a bit spooky. But when my friend said something like, "Heaven's unleashed its fury!" You know what I said? "Bring it on." There was no way she was getting out of that walk with me. The walk was relatively uneventful. To liven things up, I decided to see if my pepper spray worked. It didn't, which was good to know. It just drizzled down my glove and smelled like aerosol. Are you supposed to shake that stuff first? Do you have time to shake it while attackers are pouncing? Does it just get shaken naturally by your fear? Anyway, I went walking today again. I wore the same gloves. I rubbed my eye. As I threw my contact into the ...