May 10, 2008

Time flies. We have been keeping very busy, which is good and distracting. Morgan had his last track meet last weekend, coming home with a gold medal with his 4x4 relay team, and taking a 3rd in the mile run with a new personal best time of 5.45.0. So he finished the season well. Regan had a dance recital for her Hip Hop studio a few weeks ago, and has her final recital for the tap studio the 30th and 31st of May. Wyatt has been plain keeping busy, and had been doing well until he broke his little toe a few weeks ago. He is actually healed up from that one now. We are now fully covered medically, so hopefully this will mean he will have no further injuries! **fingers crossed**. I accepted a new job and will be managing the swimming pool in our town for the summer. This will either keep me busy so I don't stress or worry too much, or it will push me over the edge, as I always seem to put way too much on my plate.

I have bneen thinking a lot about Jayson saying that a year isn't a long time, so I did some calculations, wrote them up, and handed them to Jayson. Here is what I came up with:

It takes 9 months to grow a baby. In a year, that is 1 1/3 babies.

A duck takes 21 days to hatch. In a year, that is 17.38 duck hatches, back to back.

Milk expires after 2 weeks of constant refrigeration. In a year, that is 26 gallons of milk, expired.

The average house fly lives for 72 hours. In a year, that is 121.66 fly life spans.

It takes approximately 6 hours to play a “short” game of Monopoly. In a year, that is 1,460 games of Monopoly. Argh! .

One episode of Spongebob lasts 15 minutes. In a year, that is 35,040 Spongebobs.

The average person blinks every five seconds. In a year, that is 6,205,000 blinks in a year.

A hummingbird’s wings beat 75 times a second. That is 2,365,200,000 hummingbird wing beats in a year. Yes, over a billion.

Of course, I thought I was making my point in a brilliant way. Guess what Jayson says? "Yah, but a year is only once around the sun." So obviously he has been thinking about it too, just in a more positive light! ;)

Jayson did do something very nice for me. I have always wanted a yard fountain. He bought me a very nice big concrete one, built a cobblestone walkway and platform for it, and worked all day putting it in for me. It is his "him going away" gift to me. He is still going to put lights around it, and finish the wiring so it won't be on an extension, but I had to show it off here anyway! I absolutely love it. We just had our new yard seeds sprayed on, so in about a month, it really ought to look nice. Now I will be able to sit on our deck, look out at my fountain, and be proud. Lonely, but proud!