The house is immaculately spotless, except for some spots!!!

We cleaned all day, mostly organizing the garage which is an exhuberant feeling.

More exhuberant for me is the bathroom. Ahhh! Sparkling! Beautious!

As you're aware (perhaps) the padres and San Diego's are heading to Chowtown THIS! THIS! THIS WEEKEND!

So, oh man, I'm feeling summer! The evenings are simple and still 80 degrees, making me want to sit on our porch and play scrabble. Minus the porch b/c it's just a concrete walkway.

Teaching will barely be a novel and a 1/2 and BOOM, boom, boom, let me hear you say "Whayo!" (DC warm up tape song!) We're off to traveling!

Side bar: Have I mentioned, I will be writing a 4 year career summary of our college basketball team and I want to include a cd with the songs from our warm up tape. You read it hear first, hopefully noone beats me to the punch!

The only thing is, it'll only loosely be based statistically on our season and wins and whatnots, it will be more autobiographical with the behind the scenes of playing college bball.

I'm excited about that. I love writing :)

Justin you have inspired me to read the Bible in 9 months too! When are you starting? Or have you? -- also, I would like the $10 dvd of your movie shorts.

Dad I enjoyed your blog tonight!

Here's my week:
Normal Monday, ONLY 7 more!
Away game Tuesday and only 1/2 day of school
Wednesday evening shop (for mom and casey's bdays),get a hair trim, sit at Barnes and Noble for a while
home game Thursday, pick mom up at the Fresno airport
Friday NO GAME!, Matt and Tracey here late Friday
Saturday Dad here and Casey to fishing!

Wooyah! --checkya--

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE-O!

Yeahoo!, my baby brother, no longer a teeney bopper.

Do you remember me patting your face when you were like 3 years old? SO CUTE!

Sorry about that weirdness, I couldn't help it. Along with a "Mmm" face that happen when I pet Babe, or Bo now, or anything cute.

Anyways, hope you have an amazing day! Keep creating and imagining! Love you and miss you much!

Speaking of, LISTEN TO THIS: I called Bo, Babe the other day! NO KIDDING!

Well, I'm off to be a teacher status. Apparently, I'm in school right now. Can't wait for next weekend! MATT AND TRACE will be there too!

J and Mike should road trip it too! Or if not next week, definitely end of summer or fall?!

Giving a standardized test! WOO! Whattan easy week.

So did I mention that my little team won our first league game last Friday! WHATTA SHOCKER! It was like they just came to play like they never have before!

We have another league game today vs. the #1 (winner of last 5 league championships). Their name is: Kerman "Lions"---who we were 2nd place to only by 1 game! ARGH.

Anyways, they beat up on us 16-2, 2 weeks ago. Heh..

I'm thinking the picture on Justin's March 18th journal is worse than "Bob". WHO IS THAT GUY!?

What else is on my mind? SUMMER and 40 or so days till it. Canoeing and camping this weekend, and maybe next with the padres, OH YES MY PARENTS ARE VISITING NEXT WEEK!

Sonic, Tahoe Joe's, relaxing, catching up, playing with Bo, sharing projects, music, stories, and food! WOO!

"Mrs. Sanford, I wasn't even at school when Sept. 11th happened. I was in Mexico."

"Oh, you must have been on spring break, ... yeah b/c that happened in March didn't it?"

Yeah, Sept. 11th happened in March everyone! hahahahahhaha

That's what I get for pretending to listen to a student and continuing to shuffle papers all around. The other students around just gave me a look, and laughed politely, yet secretly laughed intensely at the stupidity!

What a sleepy weekend, yet so busy.

Both our little JV soft/baseball teams won their first league game Friday night. And for my team that was a super excellent surprise victory. OKAY!

Today, 5 mins. ago we just got back from Bass Lake where we canoed and napped around the beach like shores. It was super sunny, nice, and full of evergreen trees. Wish I brought my camera for this road trip.

Bo tossed his cookies on the way up (mountainous roads), but I drove on the way back, and he did not-----AH HA!

Last night we went over to a teacher couple's BBQ and had amazing salmon and tri-tip! WOO! YUM! And the whole night we just talked about moving to Alaska, plus the one dude wants to move up there too.

Anywho, Kim I'm thinking "Where's the England talk?"!??! And Jenny, good to catch your update too. :)

Michelle thanks for punching my asst. coaches' lights out in spirit. Thank God she is less hyper now.

Dad, what's going on with ENGLAND!?

The 53rd Psalm, except cross out Psalm and put SONG.

"Hmmm" by Michael Edwards is the 53rd song played on the random dog mix.

What have you been up to mary? GRADING 120 RESEARCH PAPERS, that's what.

That mangey softball asst. coach is up to it again...wouldn't it always be when the Lord teaches me every moment and person is important........

then He goes and blesses me with a controversial, annoying blurt outter lady.

"Lord grant me the serenity to be patient with the faith of love and simplicity of spiritual closeness to the love" ---that's an actual quote on a grandma teacher's desk. just kidding, but you pictured it there.

Yes, my little blog ones, you will be spared from the softball complaints in this blog. Yet, I pray for the helper coachella lady to be viewed immortal, not mortal----right C.S. Louie?

Okay, was it blasphemous to put Louie and not Lewis? I'm feeling ignorantly betrayful to shorten such an amazingly godly, intelligently loving child of God as C.S.

So dad, now, when was it that you were going to write the C.S. Lewis translation guide for us lay folk, or shall we say "blue collar vocabulary folk" ?

That's me. And the light bulb goes on 30 days after other family members enjoyed a good read from him. Don't worry I am only tearing ferociously for a moment here.

Yes, the cerebrum is fried into a smoodgey, pooshing slop, in the giddy format. Can you tell I've been teaching poetry?

Concerts Seen:
(4) Cranberries - 3 of which were with the cussing, foolish Collective Soul gang whom I lost complete respect for after they were proud to say ass.
(1) Rebecca St. James and Tree 63
(200) Supertones, Bleach, and Skillet
(1) Larue, Stereo Deluxe
(1) PFR
(1) Carmen
(1) DC Talk
(?) Some major ones I loved, but can't remember?
(1) Hootie and the MooCows (forever and always) no excuses
(1) Ben Folds
(1) No Doubt and Black eyed stupids
(1) Everclear, Lifehouse, and Matchbox annoying
(1) Clay Aiken
(3) Cornerstones, I think. There was too much dirt caked on my skin to have a memory of the so many-ies.
(2) Equation: ULTIMATE RULING IRISH FOLK ROCK PEOPLE!
(1) Chantal Kreviazuk's for a 10 min. day show at a festival-yeah she's funny
(1) 3 Doors Down, Sevendust,
(1) Sammy Haggar - "Yeah, sure, I'll go to that.." ---oh
(1) Little Texas and Clint Black ---the country was admitted people. I knew full well it was silly, but why not with the h.s. buddies.
(2) Koufax

There is no Cure on there? Coachella anyone? Warm it up Kris, I'm about to on that MATT and Trace---J, Mike!? Flaming Lips, Belle&Sebastian

Justin you're welc for the 12, and will you be driving out here in April too? Say yes to Sonic. Say yes to your concert right?

yo anna w. got chore email, talk at cha soon in individual methods of word

On a better note than below:

Has anyone seen the extra, oversized hilarities of wiffle ball and bat, tennis raquets and huge lawn net with huge tennis ball, huge frisbie and huge golf sets at Target!

Oh...MY!

Must get at least the wiffle bat and ball, if not for sure the huge frisbie for Bocifus Sanford.

Now, hey, look at some cool canoeing pics located in link over there ----->

Yeah, J I hear ya on stupid people today, in regards to your credit card retardedness.

My "asst. coach" whom I was forced to have from the Varsity coaches!!!!!!!!!! decided today that she would make an announcement.

So I (as the HEAD COACH) was in the very middle of announcing team pictures and game times for Friday and she blurts out...

"Okay TEAM, from now on we'll be having practice till 5:30 p.m. EVERY DAY"

The whole team stops their boredom and staring and look directly at me clearly expressing realities that this LADY cut me off, and this LADY thinks she's the coach.

SUPER, QUADRUPLE, 14 millioney ANNOYING!

So I stop her dead in her tracks and say, "You know what coach, that's not really a good idea. That's something we're going to need to discuss." (what the...world...is your problem chica?)

And she continues rambling about how there's so much to teach and learn and practice and bla bla SHUT IT UP NOW. This is JV chick (not professional college dI whatever you want......and p.s. I'm the coach.)

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Sorry to all you people reading this that have not a care for pointless venting. But it was a necessary pinacle to the historical recording of this season-----i.e. ME NOT ENJOYING IT.

1. Kids cool, sun cool,

2. teaching 3rd grade skills to high schoolers = SUPER irritating.

3. ass. coach acting her namesake = intense explosion of rudeness from Mary S.

HAPPY BELATED BDAY JUSTY!

You can read my email for the lateness in this greeting!

It's been too long since I've read and/or written!

Right now, I'm listening to Rebecca St. James' greatest hits cd----EXCELLENT, catchy tunes and some worshipful ones!

Other than that, I've been teaching poetry which equals me playing songs I like and telling them that "LYRICS are POETRY" hahahahahahaha!

And today they are actually playing their (appropriate languaged) songs. I'm hearing some gangsta nation types, Tupac, Ice Cube, and then a bunch of retarded pop teeny bopper R&B.

No offense of course. HORRIBLE, annoying. :)

A couple good bands I've never heard of that always impresses me to hear something from a student I don't know and it's good. Some band called Yellowcard---normal punk pop but quality enough.

Oh, that was a tangent of a "school topic" no no to that ever again.

Anyways, softball it has been and tonight I have a bball banquet! WOO! Free din-din and rambling coach words up on stage, laugh, giggle and get off the stage coach-type scenario.

But I'll be giving a couple cool things like the booklet of stats and highlights from the newspaper---too cool to look back on when you're an adult ya know, plus a little baby basketball that says "League Champs" on it.

YAHOO!

Watch the mail everyone. 1040, West Point Loma, 912 Holgate, and Justin at 1040 especially!

p.s. I miss Kim Miles' posts and also Mavis' Sunday post from this week :( ! :)

CONGRATS TO MATT (first of all on this blog)!!!

Totally sweet that you have those other two job offers too!

So, I have just read all the blogs since Monday, and that makes me pukefully happy for connecting again and yet since MONDAY!??!

How rude of an awakening could coaching softball be. Here's the goals:

#1 Get sun. Yup, I probubly think this song is about me.
#2 Cancel practice as much as possible.
#3 Miss school as much as possible.
#4 Laugh at things and people as much as possible, yet contain a little for the sake of losses, like the 15-0 loss yesterday. HA!

I'm suffering from bball withdrawal people! That was the best season ever of bball that I remember (coaching that is), for nothing can compare to the playing days.

I love it! (P.s. a girl on my softball team is refreshingly reminding me of my old pal Trish Wulff. That old buddy...so fun and layed back, I miss you Wulff!)

Now onto some comments about my reading tonight:

Mom what do you think of starting our family scrapbooks, or a more organized arrangement of our family life in pictures. This summer is what I mean?

Also, I would love to be a part of your house remodeling and landscaping but I'm sure you'll have that all going on before we get home.

P.s. I'm in total appreciation of your new vacuum cleaner. I will test drive it this summer b/c such immaculate cleaning methods shall not go unloved.

Here's a good one: "and Dan and Dad and Robert and Rachel" A lot of people at Passion with J, and then our beloved Dad mention is in there! HA!

"and Vicki Shuler for some reason" ---Mike we all know Vicki-icky-icky VICKI!will be a part of our hopes and dreams forever. RSB proved it so.

Top Food of the Month (as copied by Papa Gigo (not Gigli)):

1. White Chocolate Crunch Bars
2. Any dried fruit from Casa De Fruta
3. Fruity Pebbles for $2 not $5
4. Cosaro's Breadsticks----severely challenging Polleyeyes ---yeah I said that
5. Hostess Green Snowballs (hee,hee to dad) (just picture this food item, will ya?)

Trace I hear ya BIG TIME on the March syndrome. WEEK ONE: COMPLETE! Try to find a major, hobby like distraction to keep you motivated every afternoon so your mind never wanders to the calendar or planner and the MARCH REALIZATION.

Michelle, I'm happy to hear all that's going on in your fun world. Thanks for blogging it! And yes, Bo'ey (is what I shall shamefully admit to in baby talk b/c of his cuteness in actions) will be going in the canoe and in the water.

We are about to buy dog boots for him to go in the tent with us and not claw (hahahahhahahahhaha) and a life vest for him. B/c we will be in High Sierra country with some current in the waters----no, no to losing our Bo dude in a fall out situation.

Well, I love you all and certainly miss you. Hope to catch ya on the voicies later in the weeks :)

p.s. I won no money at bunco tonight :( wah, waht, waht, waaw :) (the Bob Barker losing noise)

a couple pics are loaded (hopefully) --->

Rain happened.

59 days till summer, not counting weekends.

A canoe fills the weekend planning, and this rain is over tonight. Let the sunshine be out of control b/c softball tournaments need not be pushed back day after day.

Well, nothing interesting to report.

I'm so ready to live our real lives, like this summer with travel and enjoying. Also, in terms of Alaska move. Ready to get into a house to deorate and settle in.

Ready to build the house of dreams in 5-10 years.

Must see the Passion later this week. THESE WEEKS ARE TOO BUSY FOR MY LIKING!