better day

i needed today.  i needed to sleep til 10:30 and eat a bagel w/ cream cheese & ham slowly.  i needed to clean the kitchen and my desk and part of the livingroom.  i needed to sit on the couch & read People for a little bit.  i needed to watch season 1 of Buffy and season 2 of Buffy.  : )  i would have LIKED to watch blue bloods, hell's kitchen, NCIS... all my shows from the week that i haven't caught up w/ yet.  however, my computer is having issues.  i've done all the normal things i do to fix it when it acts up, so i'm not sure what the delio is.  :(  i just know that every time i try to watch a show now it locks up!  *growl*  


other than that slight annoyance, however, it's been just what i needed.  : )  


juli called last night - she thought we were hanging out this saturday instead of last.  hmmm.  we might get to, not sure.  there's something going on tonight for Quad City Christian, too, but i actually think i'm just going to stay home.  jen said leyton'll be coming over after dinner tomorrow, so maybe she & the kids & i can hang out in the afternoon.


mom found a poem i wrote in 2002.  i'm not really a poet... 

Be Strong

by Carrie Marie

January 29, 2002

A long time ago someone told me, 

"Be strong!"

I said, "I'll try."

Their reply?

"Try? No! BE strong!"

So I am strong.

I cannot lift a truck, 

Or scale a high mountain

Wall, 

But I am strong.

I found a job

To support

My five brothers & sisters.

I am strong.

The state, they said,

"We WILL

Take your siblings

And give them good homes, 

And they WILL be happy."

"How can we 

Be happy

If we are not

Together?"

I asked.

So I am strong.

For them, 

For us, 

So that we

Can be

Together.

And one day, 

When I am gone, 

My brothers & sisters

Will remember

That they were

Together.

And they will say, 

"She was strong."

i'm not sure i even like it, but mom did?  it hung up on our wall forever.  so, i found it while cleaning my desk off today, and thought i'd share.  lucky you!  ; )  

ttfn!!