SaintVI is encouraging chaos and mass confusion again… this time I thought I would help!
She gave everyone who wanted to “dress up” for Halloween the name of someone else to be… so today I am
So the beautiful face in my profile picture isn’t me… I am awfully tempted to give her facial hair… I just can’t help myself, who knows by the end of the day I might. 
For those of you who don’t know what I look like… the REAL me…
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
I’m a little sad that I won’t be able to help the kids get dressed for Halloween at school tomorrow. I know their Daddy will do a great job though and I’ll get done with work in time to go to the parade. Some change is just a little more difficult then others. *sigh*
I know I missed weigh in Wensday, again. The problem is I haven’t been, I haven’t been weighing in with myself. There are so many problems with that. We should all weigh in at least once a day right? If you don’t weigh in with your finances you could over draw your check book… If you don’t weigh in with your kids, you could miss their homework. If you don’t weigh in with your house it will go down hill quickly… (I have personal experience with that one.) SO why don’t we weigh in with ourselves more often… because it’s SO much effort… But I am going to try, really I am. Every day I will make an effort to do something good FOR ME!
Maybe if I write it down I will do it?
What motivates you to be good to yourself?
Alright so I’m tired of not having anything to post!
I thought I would show you the bread rack where I work.
I was going to wait and take better pictures, but I have discovered that at three thirty in the morning I don’t take great pictures!
This is the bread rack behind the counter, we offer specialty breads on different days.
In the mornings when I get there one of the things I do is fill the racks with the breads that were to hot for the bakers to put there.
See the baskets on the third shelf down… all of the way down by the drink cooler?
Those are the goody baskets, they hold the cookies, scones and muffins.
I make some of the mixes for those, but I haven’t done any baking yet.
Some of the breads we carry…
Challah (pronounced HAllah), the braided one in the bottom right corner, is made from an egg dough.
I love bringing one home and Ben makes us french toast, it has ruined me for regular bread french toast.
These are boules… which just means a round loaf…
(Imagine me as Bubba from Forest Gump reciting this list)
We make so many different kinds of bread…
There’s your Honey whole wheat, country italian, sourdough, french, greek olive, cheesy bubble and onion, pumpernickel, traditional rye, caraway rye, challah, pullah, epi’s, french baguette, blue cheese baguettes, asiago baguettes, Garlic and asiago, spinach feta, chocolate cherry, rosemary challah, sourdough boules, french boules, pecan raison, harvest whole wheat, multi grain…
That’s all I can remember now…
We also make blueberry scones w/lime glaze, cranberry scones w/orange glaze, pumpkin scones, cherry scones with cinnamon sugar… your get the picture… there are about fifty more sweets that they make at the bakery, all depending on the season.
I have discovered something new and wonderful about my bakery job though…
Two days a week I go straight from the bakery to the glass company where I go putter and do my consignment pieces for them to sell.
Today I took fresh warm cinnamon rolls.
They gave me free glass! It pays to bring sweets!
So? What do you think of the bread rack?
Next time I’ll show you a different part of the bakery.
If you ever come visit I will buy you a cinnamon roll… you’ll have to come early though!
So I haven’t felt much like posting lately. I don’t know why… just not a lot to say I guess.
Work is good, kids are good, life is… good.
Whenever I can’t think of much to post, a favorite things post always makes me feel better… so… Here it is!
The above video is from The Weepies, one of my new favorite groups.
Usually I do a book, but today I’m doing one of my favorite poems…
To get to Onaway, we have to drive along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
I saw a lake.
It is such a hardship getting glimpses of all that rough water and blue sky.
Of course we had to stop and do some Petosky stone picking.
Ben is a master at finding them, but he wasn’t with us, so we didn’t find any.
We skipped stones instead.
I saw a lonely skipper.
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One of the towns we stopped in was Charlivoix, a tiny harbor town.
I saw a lighthouse.
I saw a touch of FALL.
I saw water tracks in the sand.
I saw this sign.
HEMINGWAY NEVER ATE HERE
This part of Michigan was a Hemingway hang out, so it is funny to see someone NOT claiming him.
I saw my children struggling against the wind and loving every moment.
I saw them taking it all in and loved that they love it.
We also stopped to have yummy food and visited play grounds.
We went to Chillerama, a book store for Charlie’s favorite author and we stopped at three toy stores and specialty shops. It was a full day and I can’t wait to do it again in the summer!
NOW you know the drill…
TELL ME WHAT YOU SAW!
The kids and I took a road trip yesterday.
It was just what I needed to chase away my fall blues.
Where did we go? I’m glad you asked!
We went to Onaway, Michigan!
Onaway is a small town located somewhere over the top joint of the middle finger of Michigan.
It’s like any other small northern town, except for the heads.
GIANT HEADS!
The first one you see going into town is George, right out in the middle of a field.
There were deer grazing around him, but we spooked them off when we stopped the car.
I had envisioned a picture of the kids running around the head with the fall colors in the background, but the trees behind him were almost empty, it was raining, and only two of my little monsters felt like corporating.
Ahh well, so much for my vision. 
The heads are some of the creations of the Moran Iron Works.
Mr. Moran makes a new sculpture every year and unveils it during the 4th of July parade.
He makes more then just heads, there are toads and monarch butterflies and other fun things but they tour around and we didn’t have the time to track them all down.
The Unknown Soldier
Lady Liberty
It was a great road trip.
We saw and did more cool things too, but I’ll share those tomorrow.
Now for the BIG question…
Would you take a two hour road trip to see GIANT heads?
I think the melancholy of Fall is getting to me today.
I’m ready for the Holidays to get moving along.
I enjoy them, but there is also so much PRESSURE that comes along with them.
I need a new camera. *sigh*
See there I go just feeling sorry for myself.
I’ll get over it!
Hope you all are keeping the blues away!
This has been going through my head for days and it’s all HER fault!
Ben and I were reminiscing about this the other day so I thought I would dig it out and share it. That is one of the great things about keeping a blog, having the record!
This is from October 2006.
The kids came home from school today and we all squeezed into the Jeep to head downtown to the local game store/joke shop, Hocus Pocus. Charlie and Isabelle have been wanting to get a game called Munchikin and had decided to pool some of their money and get it. When we arrived they were disappointed to find that it was sold out. The store carried several other versions though and so the negotiations began. Charlie wanted Munchikin Bites, werewolves and vampires, Isabelle wanted Super Munchikin, superheroes. I don’t have to worry about Isabelle, like a little woman she said “Listen, we’re using more of my money. I want Supermunchikin. So if we don’t get the one I want, we’re not getting one.” To which Charlie’s response was “Okay.” Boy, she’s a little mercenary.
We’re in the car on the way home and Ben is reading the game cards out loud. One of which is- Free Invisible Monkey Sidekick. I said “Yea, just what I’ve always wanted a monkey sidekick… well not really. What kind of sidekick would you guys want?” Without pause to consider Charlie pipes up with “I want a giant talking pelican so I could climb into his mouth and yell ’To the sky! ’” I could just picture it, him in the mouth pouch of a giant pelican with his little head sticking out, arm and fist thrust towards the sky. “You’ve thought about this before?” I said to which he said “Yeah!” Like it was stupid that I hadn’t…
Can I just say I’m so happy my life amuses me.
Now I know you see it coming… What kind of sidekick would you want? I know we’ve all thought about what super power we would want. Invisibility and flying of course. You haven’t? Oh come on! I know you have. But I’ve never really thought about who I’d want at my side, much to my sons chagrin. So again… What kind of sidekick would you have? or who?
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