Positive Thinking

My heart is a little heavy tonight with worry and stress over the fact that my little guy is sick. We went to the Dr this morning and discovered that his has an ear infection and were prescribed some antibiotics. I was really hoping that tonight would not be a replay of last nights crappy events, but so far ear infection/fever - 2, Mommy and babe - O.

So I need to channel my energy and focus on positive thoughts to keep myself from completely breaking down. There is nothing worse than watching your poor little one suffer and there is nothing you can do about it.

I was lucky enough to receive a beautiful gift from a friend for Christmas, a fridge magnet with an apache blessing on it. As I came out from the gaffer's room, after putting him back to bed after his 4th or 5th cooling bath today, it caught my eye and I just wanted to share it with you.

may the sun,
bring you new energy by day

may the moon,
softly restore you by night

may the rain,
wash away your worries

may the breeze,
blow new strength into your being

may you walk,
gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.
- apache blessing

Despite the torrential down pour and gusts of wind that we had today, I would really appreciate some more rain and wind tonight, with a touch of moon ;)

Fairness??

Do you ever get those nagging feelings? Usually they are about something that you have forgotten or should be doing or that something is wrong. Well I have been feeling this way today and it sort of follows along the lines of choice number 3. It was just about a year ago now that I was a huge bitch and did some ranting and raving about a couple of people and ended up losing them as friends. But what is troubling me is that it wasn't all my fault (what I did was entirely my fault). Now I know I should just leave it all alone and get over it and for the most part I have. Seriously, I rarely ever give either of these people a second thought and have just left things alone. However, every now and then I can't help but relive the chain of events that led up to the big blow out. Like what I have been doing today. Do you ever find yourself doing this? Going over things that you should have left in the past ages ago and come up with valid points yet there is no point in doing so because there is nothing you can do about it now?? Not like I really want to do anything about it except try to exonerate my own name a little bit, but do you know what I mean??? It just feels wrong that I walk away as the horrible, rotten, awful friend and them the innocent victims. Doesn't seem fair. But then again life isn't fair, is it??

Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it. ~ Belgicia Howell

I have been thinking...

The name of my blog is Outrageous Orbab, but I am not really that outrageous...perhaps I should find another 'o' name that is more fitting for my blog??

What do you think?

So excited!!!

Once upon a time a friend of mine lent me a book on finances and getting out of debt and all that fun stuff. However she also sent a few other books along with that one and to be honest I never got around to reading it so it went back home with her. That seems like forever ago now and nothing has changed in my world financially.

Recently I reread a wonderful fluff book (fluff books are those that are easy reads that you could polish off in just a couple of hours if you want to) and despite the rather easy-goingness of it, I found myself feeling slightly uneasy about some of the similarities (Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella if you're interested. I just love her books. So much fun to read and just a really good little read. I've actually been reading a lot of her books lately.) Anyways...

This past week my Visa bill came in this mail and instead of just paying the standard amount like I always do, I decided to open it up and see what it had to say and I was appalled. There in the sidelines was the horror that if I kept on just paying the minimum amount every month it would take me 49 years to pay off my Visa.
49 YEARS!!!!!
I couldn 't believe it!!!! So needless to say I decided right then and there that something had to change.
And now I have a plan :) A very very good plan. And it's funny because I'm following guidelines from the very lady who wrote the book that my friend lent me in the first place.
But I am SO excited!!! It feels good to have a plan and for things to hopefully be significantly better if not resolved in 3 years rather than 49!!! Can you even imagine, 49 years to pay off a Visa bill???!!!?!?!?!!! No way!!!

Tree Hugger

Well it was a nice winter's day and we went for a walk at the spit. The sun was out (although it wasn't around for long) and it was so nice to get out and get some fresh air. As we were going along, I thought it would be cute for the little guy to hug a tree. Well little did I know that it would become some big thing...

Before you knew it, he was hugging EVERY tree!!!

It didn't matter what size the tree was, he tried to get his little arms around them all!!!

This one gave him a bit of trouble, but was still able to give it a little snuggle ;)