Emily Randomness

1. I have been reading Love in the Time of Cholera. This book won a Nobel Prize. I am starting to wonder why. I am almost done with it. It is not a bad book and it is holding my interest but definitely not 'Nobel Prize good'. Just my opinion.
2. So, I am a Twilight Mom. I have just accepted this about myself. For those of you who are not Twilighters and do not know what I am talking about....Stephanie Meyers wrote a series of books called the Twilight series for teens. Am I a teen? NO. But I still love these books. They are about a teenage girl who falls in love with a vampire. I think one of the reasons that I have enjoyed them so much is that when I read them I imagined that I was a teenager again. Sometimes it is just fun to feel young. Do these books have any emotional, spiritual or philosophical significance? No. But they were just downright enjoyable. And enjoyment is the reason I read. The movie is coming out tomorrow and I will go purchase it. And I will be the first in line for the next movie, etc.
3. Have I ever mentioned on here how much I hate ants? I detest them. They are in my kitchen for the 3rd year in a row and no matter what I do to get rid of them they are always crawling on my counter. Does anybody have any ant killing advice?
4. So, on the Facebook front I have had about 23 friends find me in the past 2-3 days. This can get a little overwhelming on the memory front. All these people mixed together from different times of your life can get confusing. I have been having freaky dreams about all these random people that I honestly thought I would never see or talk to again in my life but...Boom! There they are.
5. So in Sunday School last week we were talking about the fact that God is outside the realm of time because He is the creator of time. This kinda blew my mind a little bit. Somebody in class made a statement that it is like all of time is on a movie reel and God can see it all laid out for Him frame by frame. So meanwhile, while we are sinning in frame 10,899 Jesus is dying for us sins in frame 2,999. It is like everything is happening at the same time to God even though it is in a sequence. Very interesting concept.
6. Yesterday was one of those days of mothering where it hits you like a ton of bricks that life can be very monotonous. This doesn't hit me very often, but when it does it hits hard. It had just been a typical day, but I just kept thinking...How many times can I do these dishes? How many times can I clean this potty? How many times will I break up the children fighting? How many times will I watch Curious George? I think that monotony is comforting to some people, but for me somehow I feel like I am not living when things are the same, day in and day out. I love being a mama and I love having the privilege of staying home with my kids, but sometimes I just feel like I am in the movie Groundhog Day.
7. Well, it is one week until the Knoxville Marathon. I am going to be running the half starting at 7:00 am on the 29th. I have trained for this I guess as much as I can so now I just have to do it. It should be really fun in its own way. But really, really hard too. I just hope that I can walk Sunday after it is all over. My family won't be there...They will probably be at church. Maybe I should put some kind of ID bracelet on so if I have a heart attack on the course I am identifiable.