Life Is Good....American Women, Sandwiches & Laundry!

It's Saturday morning and I should be sleeping, I was up until literally around 6am, the sun started to rise around 4:54am this morning, and I was still wide awake! I'm not sure why. This has happened a few times in the last few months, just about once a month or so, I'll be totally awake and energized for about 24 hours. I'm not exactly awake enough to run a marathon or worried or stressed about anything imparticular, but I don't know, it was kind of fun watching the sun rise. It happens so rarely, and I love the dawn, and hey, dusk has always been my favorite time of day! Well, that and early morning! So, anyway, I'm sitting here in bed (on Colin's laptop) and watching TV Food Network, Saturday mornings! It's so much! I'm hoping to talk Colin into going down to Freemont Street Experience tonight for a free concert from country group, Sugarland. I mean, it's ACM weekend and it's free, so why not?! I hope he'll go, I hope I'm awake enough to go! LOL! Honestly, I think what happend last night is that I ate a lot of fruit and veggies around 11 at night or so and I think all the vitamins, minearls and fresh food really woke me up, diet has a lot to do with energy and how you feel, at least it does for me! So, I think that's what happened, I really do! It was fun though, staying up, I caught some great TV....and yes, I watched bits and pieces of informercials...I know, lame, but still, and I DO want the Swivel Sweeper! That thing looks cool, I think it'd make cleaning my floors (my entire downstairs in all tile) a lot easier! Vacums and I don't agree anyway, my back doesn't like them, though once in a blue moon, I will try! Anyhow, other than stupid infomercials I caught two great programs; The American Woman, which profiled 12 different women and their typical day in America! It made me proud to be an American Woman! I know we bitch and complain a lot and we have a lot of things left to conquer here in America, but still, compared with 100 years ago, or even 40 or 50, darn, I'm lucky! I have so many opportunities and privilages and choices and it's amazing! Sometimes, it's overwhelming and nausciating, but still, I'm grateful for it all. Here I am, marrying the man I love, living with him before hand, and on the verge (I HOPE!) of finding outside work. I CAN do so many things as an American Woman and there's not a day that goes by that I don't thank God for making me born in America! Yes, we're pompous and arrogant and stupid and stubborn, but we're awesome too! I'm so glad I live in a country, and in a geneartion, that allows and affords me so much! There is no clear cut path for women in this country and I love that! We can be wives, mothers (which, we're still expected to be, I don't care what people say), doctors, lawyers, soldiers and even politicians and possibly President. Yes, I know she's losing, but hey, at least she tried! :) Anyway, thank you Lord for the gift of being a woman, being an American and especially being both! I also wrote a poem last night, I was thinking about how being 24 has made me more relfective of everything in my life; myself, my relationships with everyone; God, Colin, my parents, my friends, etc....I was wondering if it has something to do with turnign 25 later this year and there being 24 hours in the day...you know....24 hours in a day, better use 'em for all they're worth, and 24 years in my life so far, better make them count! I think, at 24, I'm more aware of my mortality than ever before, and the mortality of those around me. Like, I've always known I WOULD die eventually and that others around me would too, and I dread that day, mostly the latter one, of anyone, but....having had 32 surgeires to date and been pronounced dead a few times (literally, in the hosptial), I've always known that I was FAR from invincible...but I think when you truly grow up and go to get married, take/be a spouse and your parents begin to get older, it just, it changes things, it magnifies that. I hope and pray that all of those around me don't die for a long, long, long time...but I really beleive one of the reasons we're supposed to marry (or at least take a life partner) is so that when our parents do die, we're not alone. We have someone, a buddy, a partner, a companion! And I like that. No one wants to be alone, I certainly don't, and I'm so glad I'm not. Anyway, the poem isn't something I'm ready to post yet, but perhaps I will soon. I think its concept was good; being fully aware of your life and its direction up to this present point and taking advantage of it all. I appreciate my life and family and friends more and more every day, in a way that I've just not truly apperciated them before. I was always grateful and loved them, but it's just, elevated now, I hope I'm making sense! So, anyway....the other thing I watched on TV in the middle of the night this morning was a documentary on sandwiches across america! On PBS, I swear! LOL! :) I know, it sounds boring, but it was really great! They showcased different sandwiches from all over the country here from: the deep brown in Kentucky (a warm turkey sandwich), po boy in Louisanna, lobster rolls in New England (I will eat one eventually), traditional delicatessen's and pastrami and corned beef sandwiches in New York, veggie ones in California (my kind of food!) and of course, BBQ sandwiches in the South, and much, much more...but it was great because it sort of re-affirmed my love of food and country. This country has so much of everything and so much culture and variety and flavors; literally and figurtively, it's awesome! Of course, I'd love to travel the world, but you know, sometimes, I want to just go out there and explore my OWN country too! And eat my way across all of it!!! Yep, that's my dream; Colins wants to travel and do adventerous stuff, I want to travel and eat!!! That's how I remember trips, and the food often times makes or breaks my vacations! Just a thought! Anyway, the program was nice! I thoroughly enjoyed it! Then I meditated and wrote some mroe and finally came to bed, around the time Colin got up for work, I miss him. I wish he was home today, I told him that last night before he fell asleep.....but, it's also nice to be here, solo. As long as I'm not solo on Sundays, I wrote a very good poem about that once, how I hate being alone on Sundays....I don't mind Colin working 6 days a week, but I do NOT like him working on Sundays. I think Sundays are for rest and fun and whatever you want, just no working! Oh, speaking of work, my work yesterday was laundry. I did 6 loads and I am Jr. Tide Lady (my mom's nickname is Tide Lady), my laundry came out beautiful and soft and smelling great! I was very proud. I don't like doing laundry, and when I moved in with Colin last year, I didn't even know how to do it, so.....hey, at least I'm not beating it against a rock or using a wash board, that would totally suck. I saw a 105 year old woman on TV a few weeks ago and when asked what she thought was the greatest invention of her lifetime, she said the electric washing machine, and you know, I can't say I blame her. It is pretty cool. But, still, with my mother literally being the Tide Lady, it's a process....we have darks and lights and light darks and dark lights, and delicates, and levi's and hots and colds and sheets and towels and on and on and on...uh, I still don't like doing laundry, but I don't think I absolutely hate it anymore, probably because I'm getting better at it. Anyway, that was my work yesterday, and I did a good job! :) So, I've noticed I've gone from topic to topic to topic with really no certain anything! But, oh well, it's been fun! I want to go downstairs now, enjoy the sunshine and look at possible hairstyles for my wedding day!! That's all I can say about that just in case Colin does read this! Thank you Lord for this beautiful day, this lovely life and everything amazing in it! I am truly blessed!

In Light N' Love,
-Sarah Liz :)

P.S. I just noticed how "wife" like this entry's title sounds...women, sandwiches and laundry...lol, seriously...that's pretty much two main requirements of being a wife; being able to make good sandwiches and do good laundry, lol, fortunately, I do both! But, anyway, that's a good song title, another idea! That's why I'm so awake you know, to write, I love to write and I don't mind going without consistent sleep once in blue moon if it means that I write good things during it! So, yeah, my head is definately firmly planted in wife-hood....sandwiches and laundry, that's funny! Okay, maybe I should try and sleep a bit! -SL :)

P.S.S. I just realized why I was up all night; I ate a mocha popsicle around 2am AND, yesterday, I had like about 7 cups of coffee over the course of about 9 hours...some days, coffee just tastes extra great and yesterday, I drank a lot; that combined with fresh veggies, fruit and a mocha popsicle in the middle of the night...okay, now it makes TOTAL sense why I was up all night and am still not that tired! LOL! What a relief!!! -SL :)