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| Almost Somewhat Positive |
| I am a SAHM mom of 2, an obsessive-compulsive chocoholic, and I am about to join the work force again... I\\\'m just keeping it real with sarcasm and humor. My husband and I generally try to see the humor in things, which would explain why we are still married after almost 18 years. My goal is to change my pessimistic point of view... one positive thought at a time. |
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| Love thy neighbor... |
| 2008-08-19 11:13:00 |
Except when they act like an idiot.OK, I know that's not how the scripture goes... but I have a low tolerance level for stupid people.And no, I don't mean those that are mentally deficient or special needs, I'm talking about the people that really should have a clue and know better. Kind of like my neighbor, who I am sure at one time in her life was considered the "girl next door". Shoot, my husband tells me that he hears that she has guys lining up at her office door (she works at the same hospital in town that he does), all of them vying for her attentions and affections, while she sits there giving them the million dollar (and quite fake) smile.No I'm not jealous. And I would never bat my eye lashes to get some guy to come over to do my yard work for ...
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| Off The Beaded Path :) |
| 2008-08-07 14:07:00 |
My BFF Michelle from Not So Anonymous Confessions has just opened her own Etsy shop for all of her gorgeous beaded wares! Michelle makes absolutely beautiful and original jewelry for adults and girls, and she even makes key chains! She also offers discounted shipping rates for orders with multiple items. You can't beat that.Michelle made these Children's Personalized Sparklies sets for my girls last winter and they love them, and wear them whenever we go "out".Click to enlargeHer jewelry is reasonably priced, especially for the craftsmanship involved. I already placed an order, I was her first customer! :D Christmas is just around the corner, so go visit Michelle at her Etsy site, Off The Beaded Path for the women and little girls in your life....
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| Ahhhh, there's nothing like the smell of the great outdoors |
| 2008-08-01 14:50:00 |
Emma has recently (meaning the last 3 months) learned to employ new torture tactics. At the first sign of any adversity (meaning anything not going her way), she screams (meaning blood curdling, horror movie ,shrieks of despair).John has been out of town for mandatory training since last Sunday, and the children of the corn have been most disagreeable in his absence, to the point of the gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair... and eventual fantasies of joining the witness protection program on his return.Which would be today, thank you Jesus.Anywho, digressions aside...Emma shrieked today and I decided that the penalty, henceforth, shall be instant and immediate time out.No pleas, no excuses... *imagine me saying, with my "talk to the hand" salute* BUP BUP BUP! Time out!So, she sits a few ...
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| Rest in peace |
| 2008-07-24 14:45:00 |
How exactly does one sum up the life of a loved one? Do we view and review their lives a little less if they are a family pet? I'd say that if you loved your pet even a little, this would not be the case. Love lost is love lost, no matter how many legs your loved one might have.Numa started what we like to call the herd... I went to find myself a kitten, mean while Numa had other plans. She put on her best face and immediately began to fawn all over my husband. Yeah, you could say she was a bit of a ho'. :) John decided that he wanted the momma kitty (Numa), and I wanted a kitten (Sophie), so we compromised and each got the one we wanted- after I refused to back down.We took Numa home a year after we were married and let me tell you, that cat drove a wedge between the MISU and I. Litterall...
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| What a bargain *Anna-isms* |
| 2008-07-12 09:42:00 |
So... the other day I was doing a goofy dance while tidying the living room. Anna was not amused, but hey, I was amusing myself so having my daughter amused as well would have been the nuts on my ice cream sundae. But whatever.Amusing myself, yet again, I say to my precious, precocious 7 year old (whilst shaking my money maker)," You know, I'm going to dance like this at your wedding, so ya better get used to it."Anna replies, dryly,"I'm not getting married then."HAH! Not to be defeated, and not having my fun ruined, I chorkle (that would be a chuckle that begins or ends with a snort), "Wha-? You no like my dancing? TOO BAD!" I shake my rump like a belly dancer on a Mardi Gras float, for you know, emphasis."OK, tell you what," she begins with wide eyes and a startled expression, that quick...
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| An Iowa brand of fear (and other oddities) |
| 2008-07-11 10:46:00 |
If you know anything about the mert, it's that I grew up with hurricanes on the east coast in Maryland (off of the Chesapeake Bay), and experienced my first earthquake a week after being transfered to Oakland , California while in the Navy. Yeah, I'm talking about the big one that collapsed the Bay Bridge, the very bridge that we had been on only 10 minutes before it collapsed?But I digress... What I mean to say is that though living through a hurricane is no fun, though surviving it surely is pleasant and wanted, as is learning to not have a nervous break down from each little tremor while living in the Bay Area for 12 years. But this tornado business is a fresh new hell for me.I've been living in Iowa for almost 7 years now, and I can truly say that I am b...
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| It takes a village... (OR- why my 4th of July weekend sucked) |
| 2008-07-07 12:37:00 |
Of idiots to ruin my 4th of July weekend. Bah.Let me just say that normally, I am a very tolerant person. I think I'm pretty nice to the people I kind of know, very nice to the people I love (but I do rule with a stern hand- sometimes an iron fist, I must say), and polite and accommodating to most strangers -unless they fall into the idiot category, then it's so on.I think that my polite kindness and my kind politeness may be considered my Achilles' heel, which makes me, in turn, a heel.I guess the best place to start would be the beginning, no? My 4th of July weekend started with me working. Hooray. People need their hot dog combos and popcorn, so I suppose someone has to do it, even if it's a holiday. It was OK though, we managed to work on the monstrosity of a swing set while the kids ...
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| Just as I suspected, Sponge Bob is the devil |
| 2008-07-02 14:57:00 |
Just a few minutes ago, Emma came upstairs and mumbled something about poking a hole in my couch while I showered (getting ready for work)."What," I asked, "You did what?""I poked a hole in your couch but someone was in my arm...""Just a minute," I say while slathering soap on," I'll be down in a minute."So I wrap myself in a towel and go downstairs,"You poked a hole in my couch? Where?""Well...," she begins, " someone was in my arm and they made me do it...," she shows me with a downward slash of her Nintendo DS stylus-clad hand."Oh yeah," I ask, incredulous., "And who would that be?" (there may have been a hint of sarcasm)"Um... Sponge Bob."And there you have it. I knew it! Sponge Bob is the father of all things unholy. Take note, dear readers, lest your couches be poked with holes, too....
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| And now... your moment of Zen. |
| 2008-06-30 14:40:00 |
A few days ago Emma was giving me lip after I told her to do something (I really can't remember what it was), and asked why she needed to do whatever I asked her to at that time.Me: Why? 'Cuz I'm the boss, that's why.Anna, with her arms crossed and a smug look on her face: You know... you can be the boss without being bossy.Me, walking away so she can't see me trying not to laugh, all the while enjoying that fact that she stuck up for lil' sis: Wow, that was deep. How very philosophical of you, thanks for sharing....
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| You think so? (Emma-isms) |
| 2008-06-23 18:25:00 |
The other day while coming back from seeing my friend Michelle in Wisconsin, Emma chimes in while playing her Build A Bear game on my Nintendo DS: "Totally WICKED awesome!and later after visiting the Milwaukee Zoo:"Mom, you're better than Lucky Charms."Better than Lucky Charms?Now that is totally wicked awesome. ;)...
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| I just might surprise ya |
| 2008-06-19 15:08:00 |
On May 5th I received a very pleasant surprise in my email in box. It seemed that my soul sista'/cyber BFF/ kindred spirit was about to have a surprise 30th birthday party given by her mom, and her mom- Julie- wanted me to be there to be the "icing on the cake".Knowing that my hubby is normally shy (until you get to know him, then ya can't get to shut his pie hole ;) ), I broached the subject slowly, and softened the blow of what it would cost to get there by offering to have this little trip as my mother's day present. "Yeah, we can do that," he said.Inside I let out a SQUEEEEEEE! Shortly there after, being the dork that I am I began to panic a bit. "Maybe we shouldn't go, maybe she wont like me in person because I'm such a dork... what if I do what I always do and say something stupid be...
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| This Might(y) B the funniest cartoon evah! |
| 2008-06-13 13:56:00 |
I have to admit.. I am a closet 'toonie.I don't watch 'toons as much as I used to, but I remember my adult 'toon career starting as early as 18 yrs old. Yup, fresh off the turnip truck, I would watch the Flintstones after a looooong night shift as a Hospital Corpsman at Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland. I'd climb into my top bunk after a long night of scrubbing old, retired colonel butts and suctioning tracheostomies and watch Fred blunder through Bedrock, dragging Barney along on his meat-head meanderings. Loooooved it!Later, when I married the hubs, I got him hooked on Ren and Stimpy and South Park. Somewhere in there I started watching MTV's Liquid Television and got him hooked on Aeon Flux and Beavis and Butthead. Have I mentioned that I may be a bad influence? Ummm, I just said but...
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| Ding Dong, ding dong, ding dong! |
| 2008-06-03 12:17:00 |
No I'm not referring to my husband though it could be fitting, we are a couple of ding dongs...No, those ding dongs are the tolling of bells. Nobody has died yet ;) They ring out to celebrate our 19th anniversary, today.I think I mentioned a few weeks ago that I asked the MISU if he thought we would make it to 20. He said no. With a smile, he was just being silly. I think.Let me just say that the only way I plan for either of us to leave this marriage is feet first, six feet under, so the bells tolling... if he's not planning on us lasting another year? Looks like I've got some planning to do of my own. I've only got a year to plan AND execute, pardon the pun.But shhhhh... this will be our little secret.But... he is smart...
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| Every Silver Lining Has It's Cloud |
| 2008-05-30 10:50:00 |
I know yesterday I was pretty upbeat... but the realization that one day my child will have to have her chest cracked open is finally sinking in. Yesterday after sending the email out, then posting the email on my blog I came down of the good news high. We will see the pediatric cardiologist again in 2 years, and man... it's going to be a long 2.Statistically, Emma will have to have surgery one day, and it doesn't matter how long from now, sooner or later she will have it... I feel like there is a heavy thing hanging over us, and knowing that this thing is there just waiting... I'm scared for my child.Though I have resolved to make sure that we need to stop messing around with the health of our family (John with high triglycerides and high blood pressure, and Anna bordering on being consi...
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| Matters of the heart |
| 2008-05-29 09:20:00 |
Hey y'all,Just wanted to update you on Emma's heart situation. We went to her appointment yesterday.If you remember, Emma complained of chest pain April 22nd, and we tool her to the ER. They ordered an chest xray and said they thought it was muscular pain or growing pains, but wanted us to see a pediatrician just in case (we normally just see a family doc). The pediatrician we saw a week later said that- after me telling her that Emma had been known to have a murmur on occasion, only to have it gone on other visits- that she did hear a murmur but didn't think it was anything to lose sleep over. She listened to Em's heart for a very long time, but she said she would like to have it checked out by a pediatric cardiologist just to be sure, and so that we would have a baseline diagnosis/eviden...
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| What a gem ;) OR Happy Mother's Day to me |
| 2008-05-13 08:17:00 |
Last Friday Anna went to a children's museum some 45 minutes away from, for a field trip with her first grade class. As always (I had trouble sleeping the night before, and) I had a talk with her about general safety and what was acceptable and unacceptable.Did I happen to mention that I am neurotic? It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the nightmare I had the night before about Anna coming home from the museum and telling us that a stranger had harmed her.Anyway... this is the talk we always have when she will be away from us, or when we go anywhere that is a good distance away from home, especially if there will be a lot of people.I can't help but be this way because I know what dangers lurk around every corner. For me , as a child, they lurked in the very corners of my own home...
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| Update on little Emma Rose |
| 2008-05-07 11:06:00 |
Well, we had a follow up appointment for Emma today, our little peanut. Just so you know how much of a peanut... she's3 feet tall and 27 pounds fully clothed. ;)Anyway, our new pediatrician said that she did hear a slight systolic heart murmur, classified as a stage 1. She said if I hadn't mentioned that Emma was diagnosed with a heart murmur (at birth, which they recanted later at a peds appointment because they couldn't find it- then last year when she had pneumonia they heard it again, only to not be able to find it during a follow up after antibiotics), she might not have caught it.So... Emma has an appointment to see a pediatric cardiologist out of town on May 28th. They will do an EKG there and will look at her chest xray from her ER visit... and based on those the doctor will decide...
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| What do you do when... |
| 2008-04-25 10:12:00 |
Your child develops an irrational and debilitating fear of something? Recently Emma has developed a fear of BUGS of any kind... even the tiniest bugs like gnats and ants. One day about 1 1/2 weeks ago she just freaked out while in the car and screamed like a victim in a horror movie. John almost wrecked the car it scared him so badly.Four days ago she refused to do one of her favorite activities, side walk chalk, and shook violently at the sight of an ant. Later, she refused to move from a spot in the middle of the back yard because I made the mistake of telling her that she didn't need to be afraid, bugs were every where in the back yard (above ground and below) and the didn't and wouldn't hurt her. Later (after about 2 hours of her standing in one spot screaming) we convinced her to get ...
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| Bruce Lee (and Chuck Norris) would be so proud |
| 2008-04-24 15:36:00 |
We have been trying to get Anna interested in activities, hopefully a sport of some kind. We want our kids to NOT be couch potatoes like us, and we are trying to be good examples by increasing physical activity...but it's not working. :PMe a few days ago: Hey Anna, what about karate? You like to do high kicks and karate chops...Anna (in a less than enthusiastic tone): Mmmmm... OK... But only if you bribe me.*SIGH*...
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| On a more serious note |
| 2008-04-22 16:15:00 |
Emma complained of chest pain today. I called and made an appointment with our doctor, and was told we had to bring her in 2 hours later because" it's statistically unlikely that she is having a heart attack". Harumphhhhh.I wondered to myself if I remembered how to do child CPR... "follow the rib cage uo , place 2 fingers on the tip of the sternum, then place the heel of one hand after those fingers...", and pictured myself trying to keep it together while doing compressions with one hand and talking to 911 with the other.then I asked her if she wanted some medicine for her chest while we waited and she said, "No, I want to see the doctor NOW."Um, dudes? When your 3 year old asks to see a doctor? Scary stuff. I called John and told him to forget the doctor, to pick us up to bring us to the...
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| That's life - OR- I need a vacation |
| 2008-04-09 09:39:00 |
Sooooo..... Long time no see huh? I bet the 4 people that still read my blog might be wondering what I have been up to lately, and to those 4 lovely people (who I am very very grateful for!!!) I would like to say this: My life is complete chaos right now.Which I suppose for some people is normal, but for me that hasn't been true for a very long time. Since I was a kid actually, but compared to that my life is a song.Emma's birthday was on the 30th, and we had a very small party for her. If you remember, I was able to talk the little booger into having a princess party: I feel bad because I didn't actually make her cake, but I had to work the 2 days before her birthday.... my MIL bought the cake and I decorated it at least :) She didn't have a nap that day since her party fell on her nap t...
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| If I were a superstitious woman... |
| 2008-03-28 07:20:00 |
I would take this as a really bad sign, and we would just go ahead and buy a gun and be done with it.I'm talking about the fact that Anna seems to already have a fan club. I mean really, though I have never thought myself to be beautiful, as a teen I wasn't too hard on the eye- but now that I'm 38 I often wonder just how these 2 beautiful girls of mine came to be. John says the same thing."How did we (meaning 2 ugly old farts like us) ever make such beautiful girls."Of course for just a moment, I reacted like you would expect."Gee, thanks, honey."I'm sure I rolled my eyes too, but I laughed because I knew he was right. We ain't spring chickens, ya know. We got started late in life. Sure we , married young and thank God- I tell him- at least we got to enjoy each other while we were still se...
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| ***More news on my cousin*** |
| 2008-03-26 14:46:00 |
Hey y'all... I JUST got this email from my aunt a few minutes ago... I can't say it any better than she did so here is her email:Hi everyone, Just wanted to say thank you to all of you who prayed for my daughter and my family. She has had a hard 3 months of testing and waiting for results. The long and short of it is that the doctor who took the tissue sample and said it was cancer a few weeks ago, said on Monday after looking at the X-rays and second set of blood test results she could no longer find the tumor. The doctor had Rachel go right then for an MRI. When the doctor read the MRI she told Rachel that she must have a very powerful God because the cancer is no longer there. I believe it is a miracle, she has had a network of people praying for her from the start. Her doctor di...
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| My cousin Rachel |
| 2008-03-18 13:24:00 |
Please read my other post from today too! :D Scroll down for humor and Anna-isms. ;)I just wanted to thank all of you who posted a comment, and all of you who are praying for my cousin. I really believe in prayer, and my aunt says that she is being strong... so I know all of your prayers are working. :) I told my aunt that it is no surprise, Rachel has always been strong. ;)Her husband isn't doing quite as well, he is having a really hard time with it all. I told my aunt that I think men in general have a hard time with this sort of thing- I know John was a mess and tried to hide it when I had a caner scare over 4 years ago, when I found a huge mass on my right thyroid. Men are taught at a young age that they should ignore their feelings and just be a man, to grow up, where as us gals are ...
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| What a stinker!!!! |
| 2008-03-18 12:54:00 |
Anna has come to know and trust her mom as a pit checker. This means that if she is in any way concerned that she might be a little funky, she presents her arm in a salute and I do a quick damage control assessment. And sometimes I have to slap some deodorant on her pits after she has had an energetic day at school, because my girls don't get baths every day... they both have very dry skin and eczema. :/Since nothing is sacred in this house, especially any alone time a mother could wish for ( ie: restroom breaks), Anna barged into the bathroom and asked that I do a pit check. From the throne I leaned forward and took a whiff, gasped, coughed, then took another whiff.Upon seeing what I can only assume looked like shock, horror and/or utter disbelief, my darling 7 year old began to laugh hy...
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| I Believe...**** PRAYER REQUEST FOR MY COUSIN*** |
| 2008-03-13 22:48:00 |
Today my brother Ben emailed me about my cousin Rachel, who is in her mid twenties and has a son almost Anna's age. She recently found a lump under her arm and had it looked at , they took some fluid from it and the test results came back cancerous. From what I understand- from what Ben told me- she was sent to an oncologist and they are waiting for biopsy results. They are planning surgery, and it will be happening soon.I also believe that God is and awesome God, and that he has the power to heal completely. I believe that He cares for us and loves us deeply, even when we have separated ourselves from Him.So today, I am asking all of you Christians, Jews and Catholics, please, to pray for my cousin. Please pray that God make her whole, that she comes through this untouched, that the ...
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| The things kids say |
| 2008-03-12 07:26:00 |
**Please scroll down for Wordless Wednesday**Yesterday after John got home from work, he sat with the girls in the dining room. Anna played on a lap top while Emma watched, and John looked at baseball stats on another.John- So, tonight you are going to be d like a big girl, right?Me, from the living room- Yeah, no yelling and screaming or the bunny (her new Build A Bear) goes in time out.Emma nods and points to Anna's computer- Ummmm-hmmm! noyellingandscreaming.com!Me and John- Pfffffft.... Bwahahahaahhaaaa.Me, after a minute, sarcastically ( IMAGINE THAT!), after thinking about the full hour she yelled and screamed the night before at bedtime- Yeah, right.And this folks would be why humans don't eat their young. They're just too darned cute. Plus the little socks and underwear would be t...
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| Wordless Wednesday- Bed and bean bag chair I made for Em's doll house today :) |
| 2008-03-12 00:56:00 |
*** I KNOW it's supposed to be wordless but I was slightly annoyed that they don't make a boy's bedroom for the Fisher-Price Loving Family Doll House, so I made these for Emma myself. The bed is made out of foam, then material hot glued on... kind of wrapped like a present. Then I made the blanket with a sewing machine, and stitched the ends to the "bed" so that it would lay nicely and also so it stays on the bed no matter what. I couldn't figure out how to make a chair so i decided to make a bean bag chair too! The cool thing is that I just basically took an old Beanie Baby that was pretty ragged, and recycled the beans inside. ***...
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| OK, maybe not :/ |
| 2008-03-11 10:00:00 |
First off, let me say that I just did my first official post for The Parent Bloggers Network. We received The Zula Patrol: Explore Space! DVD , but if you want to see what we thought of it, head on over to Simply Mert, my new-ish review blog!Things are going good here at the 'vich front, kinda.Yesterday morning Anna looked very pale and her cough was getting worse so I listened to her lungs, plus she had a fever of 102.2. I heard some crackles in the left lung and decreased breath sounds on the right (which is an indication of poor air exchange, possibly from many causes but in this case it could have indicated that her lower lung was already pretty well saturated with pneumonia).Anna and Emma both had pneumonia twice last least year, and Anna had it once already this year (She was preemp...
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| Oh no you di'int! |
| 2008-03-10 11:40:00 |
Saturday night I was putting Anna to bed while John and Emma were at one of his coworkers/buddies house. Anna and I had to stay home because she is sick and coughing. :(Anyway, I asked her what she was going to do all day Sunday (because I had to work 7-3:30 pm)."Hmmm," she smiled,"fight with Emma?" She then laughed a very evil, maniacal laugh."Ha. Ha. Ha," I monotoned. She comes by the maniac part honestly, John and I both have a few nuts in our family trees. Let's hope that the evil part doesn't pop up again ;) (because she comes by that honestly too, I hate to admit).Work.... how should I say it? What one word could I possibly use to sum it all up?How about "SUCKTASTIC"?I have been trying to avoid sharing the boring details of my anxiety and frustration. Not many people really, truly lo...
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| Fill in the blank |
| 2008-03-08 13:25:00 |
The Goddess of Those Who Shall Not Be Tagged...(but she gets tagged any way, much to her dismay... and the last time I tagged her I pulled the "my toddler is actually tagging you, not me" card. heheheeheheheeee......squee! But I should be off the hook now since I just did call her a Goddess. But, I digress... maybe I should put up a poll? Hmm, there's a thought. This has to be the longest post whisper in parenthesis EVAH! Maybe I should make a poll for that too. I digress again! Maybe this is the longets post whisper ever, with the most digressions ever? Poll #3 anyone?) ...has done what Goddesses [of Those Who Shall Not Be Tagged] often do, which is to employ the whole "do as I say and not as I do" tactic. ;)Yes. She tagged me. Payback is a sumumma gun. polls - Take Our Poll She has bless...
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| YES! |
| 2008-03-07 10:09:00 |
I have good news... it's better than good news actually :D OK, for John and I it is. NO I'M NOT KNOCKED UP, don't even think it! Toi toi toi, evil eye, evil eye!Yes I'm in a weird mood, and no, I have no idea what I just said. :PSince birth, Emma has been stubborn, opinionated and rigid. She fits right in. ;) Not to be unkind, let me explain what I mean. Besides head butting me on a regular basis when she was crying or upset about something, she also liked to head butt me when she didn't have my full attention... as in me trying to type with one hand while trying to get her to sleep. Another interesting thing about Emma was the fact that even though she eventually got used to sleeping in her crib for naps, and even though it only took us about a week to get her to go down without us bein...
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| You can't please everyone |
| 2008-03-06 08:21:00 |
So, last night I was asking Emma about what she wants on her birthday cake. Didn't I just do all of that? For the last 3 years I have fought the overwhelming urge to combine their birthdays because just when I feel like I can let my hair down, here comes Emma's birthday too.The poor kid is already destined to a life of hand-me-downs, and I would feel horrible about not putting as much effort in to her birthday... so I persevere. ;)Anyway, last night I put the baby booger to bed, and after weeks of contemplating her birthday cake decoration request of "balloons", I asked her if there was ANYTHING else she could think of that she would like to put on her cake.Emma- "I already told you, I want bah-loooons."Me- "Yeah, I know, but I just can't figure out how to make balloons on your cake that l...
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| Anna's Birthday |
| 2008-03-05 14:24:00 |
Anna's Birthday was last Thursday... between preparing for her party and starting a new job, I was completely exhausted. Instead of making her birthday dinner of turkey burgers and fries like she wanted, her daddy had pity on his poor, haggard looking wife and took us out to Applebee's. Anna wasn't too terribly heartbroken over not having turkey burgers because she knew that a free sundae would be her just reward. ;)As you can see in the slide show below, Anna was feeling generous and shared her sundae. At one point Anna exclaimed, "Did you see that? I was just scooping up some ice cream and Emma stole it... she scooped it right off of my spoon!"We all got a kick out of that, especially since Emma didn't even try to deny it, she said"yup!". Plus, as the...
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| It's all about the Benjamins, baby! |
| 2008-02-23 10:45:00 |
I know, I know, you never expect a 38 year old, white-xican middle class mom of 2 to start quoting a rap song but you should know by now to expect the unexpected when it comes to the ol' mert. :PI am of course referring to the fact that I got to train as a cashier at The T on Thursday. Let me just preface this whole post by saying that when Miss HR said that we would feel overwhelmed with all of the information that we received during orientation? Ummm yeah, just a smidge. Fortunately though, all of the fellow employees that I have worked with have been very nice and VERY patient.Also,on a side note- we were informed for the 20th time during the 2 days of orientation that using the employee discount for anyone other than the people that are applicable is unacceptable. For me, that would be...
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| Dis-oriented |
| 2008-02-21 10:01:00 |
Tuesday night I started work at my new place of employment , that I will now only refer to as The T to avoid having my blog googled...Because we were told that we need to maintain a professional attitude and need to remember that we are representatives of the establishment, whether on the the clock or on Myspace. DOH! Maybe I should just put a disclaimer at the end of each post:"The opinions stated on this blog are definitely NOT the opinion of this blogger's employer. All almost somewhat positive musings read on this blog should be taken at face value, and at times with a grain of sarcasm salt. Reading this blog may cause temporary nausea, vomiting, snorting and 'laughing so hard you peed a little'. In rare cases, explosive diarrhea has been known to occur. If you experience any of these ...
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| Could you BE any louder? |
| 2008-02-19 13:16:00 |
Last week I went to the local clinic to give away a little pee for a drug test, because as you might not know, I applied at The Target.When I got to the clinic, I took Anna with me while John went to get gas, and Emma stayed with him. While waiting for me to fill out the paper work, John had to use the restroom, and he had to take Emma in with him. Normally when he has to do this, he sits down so that the kids don't see his "bits and pieces" (as Mike Myers says), but that day unfortunately, being in a less than clean men's bathroom (Hmmm, imagine that!), he did his business like guys generally do. Emma was amazed that dads could actually do this, and after about a second she peeked around from behind John, eyes wide with amazement."What dat, daddy?""Well, honey... boys have a different who...
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| Hannah Montana is all the rage |
| 2008-02-18 15:15:00 |
In more ways than one, I tell ya!My bud Ash asked me to make a Montana">Hannah Montana tote bag for her sweet daughter Leila. For money, y'all! This is the second piece that I have sold and my site isn't even up yet.*On a side note, Shelley of Design By S.L.S. has agreed to do my site for an awesome price. Her rates are very competitive. Thanks Shelley!*Anywho, starting a business is stressful as you can imagine. Couple that with having a bit of OCD and being a perfectionist when it comes to creating anything (crafts, sewing, painting/drawing, writing), this sewing gig isn't as easy as it sounds. Again, I'm not even officially up and running yet.As I said before, I have a general anal retentiveness when it comes to what I ...
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| I can't stress enough... |
| 2008-02-14 15:30:00 |
***Warning, long with lots of angry complaining... please read the whole thing if you plan on commenting so you know EXACTLY where I am coming from. It's not too late to turn back.... OK, you asked for it!***We are so back in the land of DRAMA with the MIL. Oh. The. Joys.So. About a year and a half ago, the MIL starts dating this guy- who, can I just tell you- was just separated from his wife. He was a classmate of the MIL's in high school. He was a bit pushy and mentioned that maybe he could live with the MIL and she told him NO WAY. Good for her.They continued to see each other for a while and even though she told everyone else on the planet that he was her boyfriend, when I said anything of the sort she snarled at me and said they were just friends. Literally bared her teeth at me, I ki...
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