Dennis took Kristen and me to breakfast this morning. It was his debut as video guy at church (first since his foot trauma) and he was excited. It's good to see him volunteering again. After he left for his appointed post, Kristen and I casually chatted about the upcoming week and the items we have to accomplish. She said she needed a boulder taller than she is for her glass class's critique tomorrow. TOMORROW! It's a job for SUPER M-O-M! Faster than a speeding text, stronger than a very old onion, able to leap onto impossible projects with a single bound. Supermom -- sent to this earth at a very young age (probably by rocket ship since I hate the feeling of falling) to right the wrongs, stop the whining and fix the boo boo's of several households. Supermom stands for completion, progress and the American Way! We didn't find her boulder, but did find a rock arrangement along Minnetrista Boulevard. The project wasn't completely finished so the final touches needed to completed this afternoon. Another emergency -- a 55 gallon aquarium explosion on Gilbert Street -- must have been caused by Supermom's arch enemy L.I.F.E. (Londt's In Fierce Emergencies) We all headed over there after a frantic, high pitched, nearly inaudible cell phone call on the Supermom rapid response receptor. Two shopvacs and one carpet shampooer later and the fishy deed was cleaned up with only a damp carpet to show for it. The next Supermom caper involves water again, though this time it is the aftermath of a flooded newlywed apartment and the fight against a most dangerous enemy.....the dreaded BLACK MOLD! It should be curtains for him after we hit the floor with bleach and vacuum.
Supermom returns to her mild mannered self as grad student, wife, nurse and Granny with not a care in the world ....until (cue the theme music) L.I.F.E. rears it's ugly head with another emergency!!! (fade to black)
This sounds far fetched but that is exactly what I was thinking about late Saturday night....I have been surrounded by so many emergencies this fall and I've responded to them (mostly) with poise and bearing so much so, that it's beginning to take an emergency to motive me to action. I prefer to remain my mild mannered self and plod along rather than jumping into action to proceed the evil and dastardly L.I.F.E. with all of it's To Do lists and projects and papers and stuff stretching into the horizon. Maybe this is a huge insight into procrastination. Maybe I'm just overwhelmed and there are no instructions in the Supermom handbook about dealing with that. Maybe I've grown entirely comfortable with the emergency Adrenalin rush -- and like it -- and now won't get off dead center without it. Maybe....
Kristen and I finished the engagement photo shoot of two weeks ago and delivered them to the bride-to-be. We have to work on our presentation choreography...we kind of stumbled all over each other. The bride seemed to like them and the groom had them on Facebook within two hours so we think he approved. That case almost didn't take Supermom though the supersuit was at the ready. Maybe I really need to make a supersuit just to drive home how many times I feel the need to don it and jump into the frey! (cue music, credits, and a word from our sponsor....GOD who is really in control)
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L.I.F.E = classic!
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