The first week of school is going well-yeh!

One of the "rules" in my daughters writing book suggests limiting the use of exclamation marks-i find that INCREDIBLY difficult!! im an excited person, so...what can i do?!?

anyways-school is going well-tho' it is taking a long time each day to figure it all out, and i wasnt as prepared as i shouldve been-but, since im struggling with perfectionism anyways-i think im doing great! :)

modern dance classes started up again for the girls-and ME! :) yup-at 36 and lumpy, im finally taking a dance class. it's been a huge step out for me-and you wouldnt believe the negative self-talk that was going on in my head during class. DANG! it was bad. i kept telling it to shut up-but...it's persistent. i wonder what kind of crap i heard growing up, if that's all in there still at 36?!? horrible-i feel sad for my little girl self.

im reading anne lamott's Blue Shoe-it's...good...i think i like it even more for all the descriptions of the bay area-i REALLY miss california, esp. as the summer drags on here. whenever i think utahns are arrogant about utah (and they can be, trust me), i think of how i feel about CA and can empathize a bit more, so i dont find them so obnoxious. :/

we broke up with some people we've known for the last 7 years, yesterday. my dh gave on of them the bad news that we dont trust them, and how can we be in a relationship with people we dont trust? we feel absolutely HORRIBLE about it...but...the relationship has been unhealthy for years, and we stayed in for many reasons, some good, some not as good-and so...hopefully it's done. they like drama, so who knows-it's a bit hard to believe it could be this "easy"...as if that's the right word for a decision we've agonized about for months, if not years.

anyways, im thanking my Abba that the girls are liking school-and speaking of, it's time to go do it! :) i look forward to when both are more independant...soon enough, my one dd is more there than the other.

btw, i want to learn spanish, and think all americans should learn it fluently!