I want a Zoila!

 I want a Zoila! (Pronounced Zoy-la) Do you watch Flipping Out on Bravo? If you do, you know who Zoila is and you also know that life would just be so much more fun with a Zoila in your life. If you don’t watch this show, and I highly recommend catching it at least once, because there are few people who wouldn’t find some humor in it, let me explain just what a Zoila is.


Zoila is a housekeeper from Nicaragua who speaks broken English and fluent Spanish. In this show she gives her employer a hard time and he gives it right back especially with his extreme OCD and extraordinary requests. I would like to just have her around whether she cleaned the house or not. Of course who wouldn’t want the inside of their refrigerator to have all labels facing out and organized by size – same with the kitchen cupboards and cabinets? (My husband cringes whenever they show how immaculately perfect everything is, because he knows at that point he has truly lost me –I’ve died and gone to heaven- a perfect, precise and orderly Heaven)

I am CERTAIN that having a Zoila around would mean that she could say NO when I cannot. Zoila is also pet friendly, so again, although we have two cats, I am NOT a cat person, but I couldn’t say no to the kids and I certainly couldn’t say no to the buy one get one free deal, therefore she could take care of the cats for me! But most importantly, I just want to have a Zoila to talk to, laugh with, and to keep me in line. OH! And to call me Kristen Burkley, not just Kristen. I adore how she refers to her boss as Jeffery Lewis every single time.

Come to think of it, I’d take a Jenni and a Jeff, Jett and his adorable baby, Trace and Sarah – they are ALL such LIKEABLE people. I really think I would do an awesome job working for Jeff too. I’ve had employers JUST LIKE him – one of them was 10x worse and it never bothered me. Probably the workaholic/OCD in me…. (Did I ever tell you about my Dad purposely putting a piece of LINT (yes, a tiny little bitty piece of lint) on the living room floor? At Dinner that night he asked us if we saw anything today? We couldn’t think of what the heck he was talking about – he said, You didn’t notice anything?? We were dumbfounded. So then he got up from the table, went over to the carpet and bent down and picked up this piece of lint and brought it to the table. He said, “ YOU DIDN’T SEE THIS ON THE FLOOR, THE TEN TIMES YOU WALKED PAST IT??? YOU COULDN’T BE BOTHERED TO PICK IT UP???” We never saw it. But I’ll tell you, from that day on, we never left so much as a thread lying around) Good Times!

Random Thoughts

Sometimes it's just a good idea to open the flood of thoughts racing through my head so hear goes:

So proud of my youngest, who just got done at the Dr.  I am lucky enough to have three super healthy kids - so healthy that I let an entire year go by without sending them to the Dr and now we have to play catch up on the shots. Sorry guys..... Which as a working parent means you have to take a day off of work in order to get them in to the Dr.  I found it humorous that I wasn't allowed to schedule all three kids on the same day - go figure - I guess they need those co-pays.

Speaking on medical terms this year has been really interesting - a good friend of ours fell 30 feet off of a roof while doing iron-work, and has been fighting for his life ever since.  Prior to the fall, he was a tri-athlete in the best condition of his life, and thankfully this is one of the reasons for his recovery so far.  In addition to that his spirit , faith and family are a credit as well.  His wife is keeping a journal of his fight back and it is extremely moving as well as motivating so please check it out:

byronluther.com

Also, my uncle recently had a heart-mate installed after his heat failed and he has been fighting for his life as well. My Aunt is on her own working full time, travelling 3 hours to the nearest hospital, caring for my Uncle, and their family of horses and dogs and running the house.  She has been such an inspiration and I am in constant awe of her strong spirit.

Both of these families will from now on struggle to make ends meet and pay medical bills.  Whenever I am having a down day, I need to slap myself and be reminded....

Not to be a total downer - on to lighter topics....

I have only 2 weeks until school starts back up for the kids. Shoes and clothes shopping here we come, but let me tell you this is the worst thing for me as I DETEST shopping more than anything!!   I'd just order everything on-line if I could.... I tried to order the kids school supplies that way, but there didn't seem to be a good resource to do that on.... maybe in a few more years time...  We lived in an area once where on the last day of school you got a box of all the kids school supplies for the following year - it was awesome!  Too bad we had to move....

I'm looking forward to watching Jeff Lewis on Flipping Out tonight - I wish he was my best friend, with our OCD we would be so good together. I think he would love me as his assistant and I know I would love him.

I'm working on plot lines for my novel - I just can't figure out for sure which direction to go in.

Today was a crazy day at work and tomorrow is looking to be just as crazy.  Thankfully I work in a very casual environment and when the day is stressful we all kind of break down and act like complete morons, laughing  hysterically, singing show tunes and making fun of each other with rude and crude comments.  I laughed so hard at one point I almost had an accident and so did the three other women in the room.  I HATE that feeling!  Then the only guy that was around asked us all why we were all standing there with our legs squeezed together.....  For some reason we take on a southern hick (Don't worry I live in the middle of no where so I cant offend you as I am "hicky" as they get)  accent when we get goofy and then everything that is said is that much funnier.  Thank goodness for the comic relief otherwise I'd have gone insane with the amount of issues we had today that were just out of our control. 

I guess that is it for now, head is a little lighter now, just having a lot of randoms today and How are You?

BTW - I ask this question to every person I talk to so I'll start keeping a little tally for you!