i'm taking a break from facebook right now to get some headspace, all those voices talking at once can get overwhelming. but whenever i take a hiatus my mind still writes status updates, little quips that encapsulate my day, inspiring quotes and links i'd like to share, obnoxious opinions that i can't keep to myself.  so, for your viewing pleasure, here are my unused weekend updates:

•  No one else but you can make your marks.  Listen to your bones.  Speak with your spirit.  Edit with your head.  Live with your heart.  ~Susan Holland
• powerful stuff here.
• sleeping in until noon, who knew?!
• i can now officially walk all the way into our closet. in fact, if i wanted i could lay down and roll around just for the heck of it. 6 bags ready for charity.  4 bags of 18 month-2 year old girls clothes sorted and ready for storage.  2 bags of little boy clothes.  and 1 bag ready for the trash.  unbelievable how much junk was in one TINY room and how organized it is now.
• my cousin sariah rocks the casbah
• i'm afraid that wild mushroom is trying to force themselves out of business.  their food is amazing but they're location is disgusting, they don't advertise (even their pizza boxes are blank), and they charge next to nothing for truly incredible pizza and subs.  maybe it's just one of salt lake's best kept secrets, but it's one i would really hate to lose.
• i can blink with one eye, ie winking with no facial movement so that you can only see it from one side.  john thinks its creepy.  i think it's creepy that he can wink with each eye, back and forth.
• blowing raspberries on your spouse's belly is way more fun that blowing raspberries on your kid's belly.
• shouldn't be too surprised: but when i'm not on facebook my house is clean, dishes done, laundry folded and put away, life organized, dates frequent, school completed, shoots edited... life is cheery.  hrmmmmm?
• finding it pretty ironic that ESL is taught on the west side while foreign language immersion is taught on the east side.   
• brace your uterus, then check out these skin to skin pics.
• i've spent the past little bit feeling very raw, very emotional, very exposed.  i'm normally a very face value person willing to share everything so this is new and uncomfortable territory for me.
• pretty sure i just watched the saddest episode of rescue me (season 3, epi 12), and somehow simultaneously one of the brightest.  love me some denis leary.
• OM
• cranky doesn't even begin to cut it as far as descriptions of jenica go. wheee!
• sugarhouse park with my kiddles equals a nap in the sun for me, pics of the kids taken by john, and a redhead with hair so curly and amazing how could i not take pics?
• dinner tonight: 1 zuchinni sliced, 1 onion chopped, 5 cloves garlic pressed, 3 mushrooms sliced... sauteed in butter and olive oil and served over angel hair with fresh parmesan daintly laid about. um.... YUM.
•  "pretty" by katie makkai (warning: does fling the f-word once)