Friday randomness

I was helping Lucy clean the room she shares with H. While throwing stuff away filing things where they belong I found some pictures she drew of herself with J. They were really cute. She adores J and wants to be with her and to touch all her stuff and bug her all the time and spend quality time with her. J on the other hand doesn't always feel the same way. It's kind of sad. I am the oldest in my family and I don't know what it feels like to be younger and to want like that. I do know what it's like to have pesky younger sibs. Now that we are grown I adore them, and love to spend time with them, and miss them. When we were younger I liked them but wanted to get away from them. They could be embarrassing. So I watch. And when they are kind to each other the smile on H's face makes my heart almost burst with joy, and when they are fighting I sigh and try and step in to be a poor substitute for a "cool older sister" by offering to read a book or bake some cookies.
I hope I was a nice older sister. I feel like I was but I wonder. They don't complain now so I guess whatever meanness there was has been forgiven. "Oh I've had the oft complaint, but on the whole I've been a saint...."older sister or ______ ?(name that line.)

Speaking of younger sibs I think MSV is moving here, which I am thrilled about. I am a little nervous too. I hope she'll like it. I hope living close to family won't drive her nuts. And even though we told them we'll be sent to Maryland during flight test for a short time and then we'll be back I hope they won't feel abandoned when we leave. Utah is different than anywhere else and they love it there so I hope they will see all the nice things about here. I think it will be, from my perspective, probably 98% great. The other 2% will just be worry over if they are happy.

I have worked out 3 days in a row. Yeah me! It's fun in the moment, and feels great to check it off the list after. I am sore. Yesterday I was cursing the toilet designers of the world for putting the darn things so low to the ground. Last night S and I did a video together. She's a good dancer. I move around and sweat so I guess that's fine too.

Yeah for Friday's! We have a busy weekend ahead.

It's cold. A couple other things I don't like about the cold are finding socks every day. I love sandal weather. And sitting on cold leather seats in the morning. And....

I've been doing some on-line shopping, which is a good cold weather activity. We got a catalog with really cute teen clothes that have sleeves and everything. J is baby-sitting this weekend in trade for a piece or two. I also found some really cute sandals for the littles that I will order next week (a little at a time) and a bathing suit at Old Navy that I will order now because for some dumb reason now is the time when you can find them and by April they'll be gone. Explain that to me?