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31
Jan
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.
Category: family, humor, shopping
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10
Jul
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?
Category: food, humor, kids
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30
Apr
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!
Category: humor
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27
Apr
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!
Category: humor, shopping
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26
Apr
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.
Category: entertainment, humor
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11
Apr
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
Category: friends, humor
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08
Apr
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.
Category: cooking, family, humor, kids
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22
Mar
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...
Category: humor
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27
Feb
"My spyglass makes you look HUGE, Mom!!" says the child who is staring at my ass.
~Liam, age 5
Category: family, humor, kids
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09
Feb
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.
Category: humor
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