My Wonderful Husband_

Gotta love him right? He thinks he is SO funny! Tuesday is my birthday, so this weekend he's been all over me asking what I want for my birthday. SO I told him.. I want a new tattoo, cash towards my Reno trip, clothes..  any one of those things would be just fine. He looks at me and says, "How about something practical like stuff for the kitchen..." Um hello, things for me to use to make things for YOU is not a birthday gift. A birthday gift is something that I get to enjoy for me. His other suggestion was new furniture. Yes, we need new furniture but don't use my birthday as an excuse to buy it! Sheesh man..

I also gave him a more reasonable suggestion.. the butterfly ring I have been wanting for like 2 yrs now. But I'd also like for him to come up with something on his own for a change. No one likes to pick out their own gift. All I know is we're going out to dinner, not sure where yet.

Holy Crow..What a day!

I feel like this is the only type of post I ever write but when you have 5 kids.. everyday is a LONG day. It's like the war of all Mom wars and here I am putting on my suit of armor and stepping out into battle with a blindfold on.

It is so hot here, it's not even funny. Yesterday, our high was 103 degrees and when I checked the current temperature at 11:00 am it was already 98 degrees. I have to walk to take my son to Kindergarten and I also have a 4 year old to drag along. My 14 year old is out on break right now, which you'd think might be somewhat of a help but he's a teenager.. they don't really help.

I spent the morning coding a Wordpress blog for a friend.. this took more time than usual because the theme was a custom theme and wasn't "widget-aware" so I had to code everything by hand.

Then I had to take my 5 year old to school in this sweltering heat. More coding..which is now done by the way and I am moving on to more complicated and head-banging-on-keyboard projects.

Insert kids jumping off couches and on to siblings, cartoons, lunch, and lots of screaming HERE.

My ever so lovely husband is now home from work. My sister in-law just picked up my 7 year old for a nice long drive down to LA. They are going to watch a friend run in a marathon, go to the beach, and then convientently detouring through Disneyland. It's his birthday present, otherwise I wouldn't let him miss school.

Now we are deciding what to do about dinner.. I have to order groceries later tonight so there isn't much in the house. I'm thinking cheap, fast, not terribly hot, and cheap.

How was your day?

Ring-A-Ding-WRONG!

I am always getting wrong phone numbers but usually from the same person or someone looking for the same person. I've lived here for over 3 years now with the same exact phone number. One guy, I think he likes to call me and pretend he has the wrong number and the other is just plain weird. I have been getting calls for a Dr's office. Not just any doctor's office but one I was referred to by my primary. She's a neurologist and I didn't start getting the phone calls until after he referred me.

The one I just got was for an Andrew Borovoy, umm who?? Sounds like some sort of Russian diplomat huh? I am starting to wonder if it will ever end or am I doomed to a life of being on the receiving end of everyone else's calls?? You'd think with speed dial that no one would ever accidently dial the wrong number ever again!

*Yawn*

Happy Sunday everyone- Hope you are all having a nice relaxing day. Here I sit as I get myself (and my store) ready for National Scrapbooking Day, so no rest for the weary. I've got a whole list long of things I've got to get done before the big day.

I didn't really sleep too well last night I don't think. No crazy dreams from me so that's a plus but my back is hurting and I am still tired. That and I didn't get to sleep in this morning. I think what I could really use, since I have to sit here pretty much all day, is one of those massage chairs. Oooh a vibrating computer chair.. I might never leave this spot. Ok, so I wouldn't leave this spot anyway, but at least my back would feel better!

Ok, enough procrastinating from me.. I've got some things to turn out. Have a great day!

Kinda Funny..

Or slightly humorous at best.

I recently discovered (via my stat counter) that the post I made about the restless leg syndrome meds was being linked to and talked about on a poker forum. I was sitting here checking my stats and it shows me a referring link if it's available. So I see something in there from a poker forum.. so of course out of sheer curiousity I go and read the thread. It really gave me a good chuckle.. I was envisioning all these guys (and gals too) sitting around their poker tables and chatting it up about my blog.

Insert giggle here, still makes me laugh.

Oh, here's another funny for you. I was having a dream this morning while I was half asleep. And really, I'm sitting here trying to think of how to word this and I really want to bust out laughing.

Here goes.. I was in this place and I think that I worked there and in walks Gina Miller to pick up some supplies, not sure why seeing as how we all work in cyber space. But I was walking around and my jeans just fell off. This has actually been a real problem for me because I dont think that the jeans I have are the right cut for my body type. I have hips so they should stay up just fine, but they don't and I'm always hiking them up.

Anyway, back to the dream.. so my pants fall down so I quickly pick them back up and Miss Gina happens to see this and we're having a good laugh about it. I made the comment that I thought my butt was too flat anymore and I made a joke that I thought I needed a butt lift. So, then I said (more seriously) that I needed those panties that had the "butt thing on them" to which the next thing I heard was my husband saying "WHAT???" because I had actually said it out loud in my sleep!! Oh my Gosh! So thenI had to explain that I was having a dream and I was talking in my sleep. So then we laughed.. and I had to explain further about these underwear things that have those cushy butt implants attached, kind of like the chicken cutlets for your bra but for your butt.

So, yeah I woke up laughing hysterically this morning.

TAG, I'm It!!

Yep I got myself tagged...

Here we go:

1. Four jobs I have held:

~Shampoo Girl/Appointment Setter
~Daycare Assistant
~Housekeeper (for a service)
~Digital Designer

2. Four movies I could watch over and over:
~Signs
~Harry Potter
~American Pie
~Pirates of the Carribean

3. Four Places I've Lived:
~California
~Reno, NV
~NE Pennsylvania
~Utah

4. Four TV shows I like:

~Ghost Whisperer
~All My Children
~LOST
~CSI

5. Four people who email me regularly:

~Heather
~Micheline
~Bobbie
~Suzanne

6. Four favorite foods:

~Steak
~Lobster
~Pasta
~Chocolate

7. Four places I’d rather be:

~In bed
~Shopping
~My Mom's
~Iowa

8. Four people I’m tagging:

~Bobbie
~Heather
~Jenna
~Jodie

My Day...

Today was kind of an odd day. I was in the middle of writing a fun little blog post when all of a sudden my screen went blue. Yes, that's right I got the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. Luckily, for me I have several means of backups and everything of importance was on my external hard drive and that was not affected. At least someone is looking out for me because if I had lost any of those files I'd be on the couch in the fetal position right now.

So, even though my nearly brand new, under a year old laptop computer built for heavy graphics and gobs of memory took a nose dive I am in a good mood because I didn't lose anything important. Yea me!

My son, Liam, who is 5 and starting Kindergarten this year.. provided I can get his doctor to fill out this form and have it back to me on time, has taken a shine to infomercials. He takes after my mother that way, who I had dubbed "The Queen of Infomercials". She and I used to take Sundays off from life, sleep late, have coffee, make huge Sunday breakfasts, and then spend the rest of the day watching infomercials. At one point she had just about everything that you had ever seen on tv. Wonder Mops, magical pots and pans,colon cleansers, you name it she had it.

Long story a tiny bit shorter, Liam was sitting on the couch the other day when a commercial came on tv. It wasn't quite long or good enough to be called a commercial but not yet long enough to be an actual infomercial.. so let's just call it a infant-mercial. So, he's watching this infant-mercial and he turns to me in his ever so serious sweet little voice and says, "Mom don't you want a Pancake Puff Pan?"

Of course I said no.. but he insisted I did. I must admit those little pancake puff balls filled with ooey gooey chocolate pudding really did look good. I was telling my mom about it the other night and of course the first words out of her mouth.. after the giggling stopped were "Hey, I want one too" Gee how in the world did I know she was going to say that?

Anywa, I hope y'all have a great night.. I've had a long day and I'm headed to bed.

Funny Story..

My mom is probably going to throttle me for this but hey.. she doesn't read this unless I make her so what she doesn't know won't kill me.

I'm not really sure what prompted this but I remember her telling me this story about how awhile back she went to Lake Tahoe with some friends and she drank a whole bottle of Gold Schlager by herself and was so trashed that she rode back to the hotel in the trunk of the rental car. I am pretty sure it was something like a hatchback and I doubt she drank it by herself.. my mom is like 5'2 and weighs about 125 pounds so a whole bottle of hard liquor would knock her out like Mike Tyson.

But it does make for an interesting story...

Line of the Day 2/26/08

"My spyglass makes you look HUGE, Mom!!" says the child who is staring at my ass.

~Liam, age 5

And this is what I live with...

Granted it was funny as heck but I really feel for the poor girl on the other end of the line LOL.

We were sitting down at dinner and it was a late dinner but the phone rang like 3 times in the middle of it. On this one call, the caller ID said "Research Center" or something like that.

So Dan answers the phone all cheerful like and the girl on the other end of the line says "Hi, this is Samantha." and that's about as far as she gets before Dan says, "Hi, Samantha, how are you tonight?" I can only imagine how thrown this girl is so there's a slight pause and she says, "I'm fine thanks". Dan says "So what can I help you with tonight?" and Samantha says, "Well, Im conducting a survey on how people use the YellowPages...". Dan cuts her off and says "You mean the paper ones? Like actual paper phone books??" Taken aback, she says "Yes......" and Dan says, "People still use those?" she says, "Umm yeah??" and Dan says, "Why would they when Google is so much easier??" And Samantha says, "Well, I guess I don't have to ask you your opinion now do i? Have a good night."

LOL.. oh the poor girl she has NO idea what she was in for when she called here tonight.

Brrr Baby It's Cold Outside

And it's just as cold in my house! I have got to get the apartment people out here to take a look at my water heater. Our heat hasn't been working properly and the hot water in the shower upstairs is lukewarm at best! Downstairs in the kitchen, laundry, etc it's fine.. just upstairs that it doesn't reach.

I was reading about these tankless water heaters and I think they sound really cool! Why doesn't our complex get these installed? From the sounds of it, it would save everyone some money in the long run. Save money? What?? No way!

I'd also like some hot chocolate to soothe my poor swollen tongue.. and warm my body. I could get up and make some coffee, but I really don't want any coffee nor do I really want to get up. Oh well, I am going shopping with my 12 yr old tonight, I'll get some hot chocolate at Starbucks later on.

Have a great weekend all!

What a Mess!

Oh my goodness! I swear my child has a built in stealth feature. He is so quiet sometimes, it is just plain scary! I guess it doesn't help that I have been working like a mad woman the last few weeks. Pretty soon it will all settle down.

Anyway, back to the story. It got very quiet this afternoon, I got up to grab a soda and I found my 4 year old child eating peanut butter straight out of the jar with a spoon! I ran all over the house looking for something to clean him up with. Today was one day I wished I still bought baby wipes! I found something to clean him up with but I wasn't quick enough in catching him. By the time I got to him, he had eaten nearly half the jar!

Guess he got his fill of protein today huh?

Y-A-W-N

I am so tired right now. Why don't I go to bed? No idea, I planned on going to bed at least an hour and a half ago but something about the peacefulness of my house right now is rather addicting. If I go to sleep, it'll just start all over again.

This weekend was harsh too. I was up late Friday night, thankfully Dan let me sleep in. On Saturday, I had a really hard time getting to sleep, because my lovely husband snores like a buzzsaw and refused to roll over. I ended up sleeping on the couch and picking myself up off the floor to drag myself back upstairs around 8 am. I was so tired, I wasn't sure I was going to make it. I felt like I might need one of those stair lifts just to get up there. I somehow managed and slept til 2 pm.

I lounged around and then when I was about to go to bed I realized that I needed to do laundry so the kids would have something to wear to school. Speaking of school, I need to set out clothes for my 6 yr old. Anyway, I was up til about 1:30 doing that.

Tonight, I'm not really doing much of anything. I was working a little bit and I realized I hadn't blogged today. Ah, well.. so here you have it. Now, I'm off to dreamland and hopefully, it'll be quick and painless.

See you in the morning. Nighty-night.

So Much To Do, So Little Time

My Dad is moving back to California.

He's been living in New Jersey for the last couple of years, but now after a major surgery he's decided he is officially old. Just kidding, sort of. He can't take the cold and the physical stuff that comes with the cold, like shoveling. I can't really blame him because I have snow and even more I hate shoveling snow.

So, here I go into Super Mom mode, MISSION: to keep my sanity. Codename: Licorice Gazelle.

• Phase I environmental clean-up: this is code for clean the house.

So far this is as far as I have gotten.. and the target is 4 hours away and quickly closing in. Ok, I'm done being silly.. in all seriousness, my dad is stopping by to visit with the kids before he heads down to where he is staying with some friends. I don't think he'll stay too long seeing as how he isn't supposed to show up til about dinner time and then the kids will be going to bed shortly there after. It should be an interesting visit, I can't help but think someone is testing me.

ABORT MISSION, ABORT ABORT ABORT! Ok.. one last bit of silliness, I swear I'm done now.

Have a great new years day!

Crabby Mommy

Not in the sense in which that usually means.....

Today it means, I am the mom of crabs. Yes, crabs. My 3 and 6 yr old are pretending to be hermit crabs... well actually fighting over who gets to pretend to be the hermit crab. They are hiding underneath a big sterilite tub wearing hockey gloves. Every once in awhile he lifts his lid and sticks out his claws.

It's really funny to watch.... I will have to get pictures lol.

Twinkle Twinkle

I was just looking through my the wedding album that my sister inlaw made and even though I was there, the photos they had taken documented the event beautifully. The LED wedding lights they had strung all over the place were so twinkly and gorgeous. It was amazing!

Oh, here is a little funny story about their wedding, I was there with my then 2 yr old and 6 month old breastfed baby. Yes, the fact that he was breastfed is a key point. Well, my brand new sister inlaw took him on to the dance floor right after he nursed and danced with him, it was so sweet... sweet until he spit up all over the front of her dress! She didn't think it was so funny at the time and I did feel really bad about it but at least it was breastmilk and not formula, so it didn't stain. Phew, dodged a bullet there! I think since it was over 5 years ago, we can all have a laugh over it.

Layout

I did this a few days ago, I was going through some of my old photos and came across some of Greyson when he was about 10 months old enjoying some yummy broccoli. It's still one of his favorite foods!

I know.. my children are strange lol.

Full Credits HERE

I Completely Forgot!

I have a little funny for y'all. Everytime someone makes a referrence to my having a large family, my mind always goes blank for a witty comeback.. but not this time! Although it's really not that witty but it was funny!

The scene: Thanksgiving in a State Park with IL's and family friends.

Someone asks DH if we are Catholic. I overhear this from the appetizer table where I am talking to someone about Ebay and eating cheese n crackers. I say, "what's that about us being Catholic?"

DH says, "Oh so-n-so asked if we had so many kids b/c we were Catholic." I say, "Nope and we're not Irish, or Mormon either. We just don't have a tv."