Courtenay Momma» Time

Mul-ti-pass

CourtenayMomma — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:49:09 +0000

“Time not important. Only life important.”- Mondoshawan. A lovely little tidbit from the Fifth Element. A favorite movie of mine. My ~~Week~~ ~~Month~~ … LIFE is crazy. I feel like I fight and fight for more time to get things done. When I do have time nothing gets done, but when I don’t have time I NEED to get things done. The things I want to do, I don’t. The things I don’t want to do, thats what I end up doing. Whoa Romans 7 Moment. But it’s true. I get caught up in the everyday things and leave the big picture in pieces. Its an everyday struggle to just be. Always doing, doing, doing. Wanting to be, be, be.

I want to play my guitar and paint and take pictures and play with Emily and finish reading my book, and finish writing my book, and design something, and practice my German. And cook, and highlight stuff(geek I know), and draw, and write songs, and memorize scripture, and write a children’s book, and exercise consistently, and have time to plan youth thing. I just needed to remind myself that I want to do those things.

Sometimes I get carried away and don’t do any of those things. I forget I even like to. I’m back to being the all all or nothing girl again. If I cant paint a Rembrandt I think I’ll paint nothing. If I cant write a song in 10 minutes I think Ill just skip it all together. I get my point. haha. I just needed to write this down.

Don’t worry I’ll tell Emily’s poop story tomorrow. It’s a gooder. Heres another Fifth Element Tidbit. If you dont get it go watch it.

Leeloo: Leeloo Dallas mul-ti-pass.
Korben Dallas: Yeah.
Leeloo: Mul-ti-pass.
Korben Dallas: Yeah, multipass, she knows it’s a multipass. Leeloo Dallas. This is my wife.
Leeloo: Mul-ti-pass.
Korben Dallas: We’re newlyweds. Just met. You know how it is. We bumped into each other, sparks happen…
Leeloo: Mul-ti-pass.
Korben Dallas: Yes, she knows it’s a multipass. Anyway, we’re in love.

The Mondoshawan.

The Quest for the Night Market

CourtenayMomma — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:50:53 +0000

Will we never find the night market? Almost evertime we come down to Richmond we go looking for the magical “night market”. Morgan’s cousins told us about it. It’s supposed to be this cool market that is run after dark somewhere in Richmond. Several times we’ve gone out looking for it only to return with a belly full of Gelato and no misc crap from the night market. Sad. Today we took our first proactive step towards finding it. I looked it up online. They have there own website and everything. richmondnightmarket.com. Turns out they are right behind Ikea. Easy to find. Ha. We’ll go tonight, but wait…they are only open weekends. We aren’t ever here on weekends. grr figures! oh well it remains out of reach but fo now!

Emily is yelling in the background. Nanny has taken over bath time while we are here. Fine with me thats for sure. Bath time isnt always the most enjoyable expiriance with Em. Especially because she is usually pretty tired by the time we get home to give her her bath. Overtired baby in bath means much screaming and a soaked mommy.

I’m finding the idea of Parenting more and more daunting as Emily gets older. I want so much for her. I want her to have such a good childhood like I did. Its hard not to want to be selfish though and want to do life as usual too. I’m learning to find that balance between adult life and mommy life. It’s quite the challenge. How does one carry on with previous commitments and still maintain a schedule and order with a kid? I dont know. One day at a time I guess. Thats all I’ll get for now. Sometimes I miss the freedom immensly.

Tonight at dinner everyine ran out of the house and got in the car. Gramma even had the door locked. There I was still inside trying to rush around packing a diaper bag and hoping my hair doesnt look like a tornado went off. If someone could just catch that it would be nice once in a while to have a second for me to not look like a shmoe that would be awesome. Getting two people ready take extra time, maybe not double time, but at least more time. Im quick too. I can’t imagine if I was one of those people who won’t leave the house without doing their makeup. I’d die. Or I’d end of being one of those people who everyone is frustrated with because they take so long doing their makeup that they are constantly late for everything. Thats who I’d be. Lucky my family hey? No slow poke am I.

A Week in 8

CourtenayMomma — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:36:26 +0000

How can I possibly put all of my thoughts from this week into 8 minutes. Who knows, but Ill try.
I spent the last week with my in-laws at the coast. We had a good relaxing time. Normally the coast isn’t very relaxing, but we did a good job of making it just that.
We were worried that Emily wouldn’t sleep down there because she hadn’t been sleeping great in other places, but she did awesome. No worries at all and her Grandparents sure enjoy her. Its a good thing she cant run yet or nanny’s kitty’s would be in big trouble.
I borrowed a cell phone while we were down and had a blast Txt messaging a friend of mine. I totally miss having my own phone. Morgan thought I was the biggest geek, but that isn’t entirely an untruth.
Morgan and I tried to be good and impulsive. At midnight after everyone went to bed we went for a walk and ended up walking all the way to Steveston. It was a really long walk. It was heading for 2 am when we finally got back. It was really a nice night out.
Mmmmm and the Gelato. If you haven’t had Gelato run to the nearest place that sells some and get a bazillion scoops. Its the best thing ever. I was not being strict about my dieting on Valentines day. Gelato is just way too good. It was a nice treat. And back I go to the gym tomorrow.
I’m continuing in with my other goal to get organized in 2007. All the way home Morgan and I talked about things we could do to get or lives and house and everything else organized. Its going to be fun anyways. Cant wait till its done. Or until my birthday in 2 weeks.

Costly Beans

CourtenayMomma — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:10:31 +0000

The community kitchen was really fun today. We used my recipe for enchiladas, but we made our own tortillas instead of the packaged kind. Much more cost effective, especially because beans are expensive. Who knew? We made some burritos too. Normally I don’t eat what we make because it isn’t good for my diet, but today I decided to have a burrito. I cant have been great, but I don’t think it was too bad for me either.

I drug my butt out of bed to go to the gym this morning. When I got there I found out two things.

I lost exactly 20 lbs since Jan. 1st.
Morgan let the battery die on my ipod and so no music. grr

Yay the weight thing, but the whole lack of music makes it really hard to exercise. I can push myself way harder when my music is blaring in my ears. Maybe its because I think less….I dont know. All I know is that its a whole lot easier to workout with music.

I started doing these arm exercises with weights to tone my arms better. They make me look funny though.(the exercises not my arms). I’m going to try them for a month and see if it makes any difference.

I’m hoping to try Pilates too. I got a DVD of “Pilates for Dummies” that looks so good I wouldn’t trade it for all the tea in china. I’m having a hard time finding time to do Pilates. Id like to take a class or something, but time is always to short.

I’m really looking forward to home Group tonight. I always feel so encouraged and built up in my faith at home group.

7 Was Taken

CourtenayMomma — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:49:12 +0000

I used to journal all the time. I even used to blog on deviantart.com, but since I had a baby I stopped. Having a baby makes time disappear like pulling chickens teeth(thank you – Cliche Finder).

It makes it awfully hard to have time to even think let alone jot down your thoughts. So I decided I was ready to start blogging again. Just my thoughts on life, being a mom, music, Quantum Physics, and actually taking time for me to be healthy. I’m taking a big jump into the health pool. Well thats my goal anyways.

Hopefully Ill have my Podcasts up soon too. They are fun. I’m even working on some video ones. Fun stuff of Emily and just plain dumb things I do. I’m watching the seconds go by on my watch as I near 8 minutes. Time is a very strange thing. It comes when it wants and goes when it wants. There is no stopping it.

Well Anyways I hope to capture a glimpse into my thoughts in a couple of minutes during the day. I think it’ll be good for me, plus 8 minutes isn’t all that long. In fact its over right now.