Celebrity Leaf Raking

Do you hear me, Kim Kardashian??  I want you to come and rake my leaves!!

I swear I get a sense of accomplishment when I finish raking the leaves.  I swear I don't hate it.  BUT the satisfaction wears thin when I have to rake the entire yard several times during the season.  Crazy thoughts enter my head as I get some aggressions out raking the leaves.  From the outside I may look like typical suburban mom raking in her gym clothes.  Inside my head I am questioning why I told my husband we should go to Costco rather then rake the leaves together.  In my internal dialogue I may even start referring to the leaves that get stuck under the bushes as "pieces of sh*t."  Then my thoughts turn to celebrities with problems.

I really can't explain how it happens, perhaps its my own desire to get someone else to rake my leaves.  Anyway, while the trickle of sweat dripped down my forehead, my mind thought of Kim Kardashian and the therapeutic value for her of raking my leaves.  It also struck me as funny that I was having the EXACT same thought last year at this time except I wanted Charlie Sheen to rake my leaves.  No paparazzi, no camera crew.  Celebrity versus the leaves.  Will the leaves make it to the curb before the public works leaf sucking machine comes?  Will the celebrity put all the gross leaves in their car if they miss the public works leaf sucking truck?

I'm so sick of hearing about their celebrity problems.  For some reason raking my leaves makes me wonder if celebrities had to do the stuff that regular people do what kind of perspective would that give them in their life.  Would they make the same choices and behave the same way?  The value for me is obvious -- free leaf raking and an afternoon to relax.

Reading is FundaMENTAL

I've been away far too long from the blog and the reason is I've been reading.  I got completely sucked into "The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo."  I've been aching for a book that I couldn't put down and when I saw the movie trailer for the GWDT, I decided to head to the library and pick it up.

It was so good.  I breezed through the 600 page book and was ready for more.  Luckily its a trilogy.  The sneaky author starts the next book at the end of books one and two so the story just keeps going.  I have been unable to do anything else until all three 600 page books were read!  It has been making me a little mental since my children see me sitting nicely and have a million demands for anything to constantly interrupt.  I ended up staying up late and reading which results in me feeling kind of hung over the next day without having a single drop of alcohol.  I am so old but who cares I finally know the end!  Life can resume.

The writing itself is not anything exceptional and the books don't seem to get really going until you are about 200 pages in BUT the story is so good!  Now, I really want to go to Stockholm (setting of the book) and run a marathon. Marathons have nothing to do with the book, its just like a bucket list thing for me that I'd like to run at least one marathon and why not be in an exotic place when I do it.  Stockholm in the spring perhaps....