Drained and TMI

I'm not sure what the deal with me lately is, but the energy level is zero. It's been this way for a few months. I try to have a "regular" bedtime (whatever that is) but I can't even come close to functioning until almost noon.
I get up at the crack of dawn to get all the boys ready and to school and then I come home, clean up the kitchen, check the e-mail/blogs and then I literally have to lay back down, as my eyes absolutely will not stay open for anything. I've tried to be productive and it just wears me down even further. I'm not a coffee drinker unless it's at Big Bucks and in the form of a frappaccino. That is just not in the budget for a daily fix to my exhaustion.
It's really sad when Bossy Boy demands my attention and all he can get out of me is a head nod. It's not easy playing Pokemon when you don't know what your doing in the first place and then doing it in zombie mode. I just tell him pick my card for me and choose my defense...zzzz. I'm lucky if I even finish my sentence that far. Thankfully he is very self entertained for the most part.
So I'm thinking there's more to the story than I'm just a lazy a** (which is plausible but I'm denying it) so I finally found a gyno, as I need my girly parts checked anyway.

I've had some other "issues" as well and so maybe 1+1= some thing's up and I'll get it nipped in the bud. I'm sure your ever so glad that I mentioned this but I figure maybe that's why the blog has slacked off as of late...no energy to put a coherent thought together...barely enough energy to read others blogs, much less comment.

The yard alone is whipping my tail. I feel, like I'm tending more to the yard than any other household duty. We finished up the back yard this weekend. I mowed one side of the front and trimmed half the bushes (I just could not do any more) and will try hopefully with my child labor force in acted to help finish the rest tonight. The thought of if just makes me want to take a nap right now.

I really didn't mean for this to be a cheese and whine post, but sometimes you just gotta.

I Feel I Must Apologize For The Slacking

I have no excuse for my lack of good wholesome normal random posts. I just haven't been in the groove. Nothing exciting is going on like birthdays to fill my blogging time. It's sad that an entire month was dedicated to birthdays and nothing much else. Sorry 'bout that.

I will now say a few words of random to make this post even more normal.

It's reassuring to know that the hubs is still reading the blog but only to find out what is for dinner for the week. I feel so used.

Spring has officially left Texas and summer has now commenced. It was 85 today and that was the temp in the car when starting it. I'm ready for the pool to open.

I visited with my neighbor today. She's the only neighbor who has made an effort to say hello. I feel really awkward talking to her, cause I met her back in November and that was the first and only time. I know she was trying to come up with conversation and she asked if we had big plans for the summer. I wanted to laugh cause we never make big plans only spontaneous ones. The only other obvious thing to talk about was the weather... of course. I told her I hadn't seen her around in awhile...meaning- I've only seen you outside once and that was in November!

The hubs and I are watching our calorie intake, I may post on this later. I just don't want you to think I'm on "a diet" just watching what we eat. Thanks to my rockin friend Jen for that Calorie Counting website. It also rocks.

I will now cease this random posting and get back to slacking which I was doing quite well.

Ask And You Shall Receive

I'm working on the "Wedding Story" and the crazy first kiss story that involved great smelling hair. Oh yeah ya'll will want to stick around for that one. It's great when you have documented history to refresh your memory. So I will be taking you back in time as my 14-15 year old self will be guest posting. Even I can't wait for that one.

In the mean time, you also requested baby stories and that you shall have. I hope you've got some time on your hands though. Wonderboy's story was an epic in itself. I actually need to update the last of the birth as I feel I left out some detail. I'll do that eventually since it's long enough as it is. The main gist is on my side bar, it's the most "exciting" of the three birth stories. The other two, I'm hunting down and should be up shortly.

We're Cooking With Fire Now

As much as I loathe the hubs computer/junk room that has ancient laptops and computer parts, it does come in handy once awhile.
I told the hubs that I was willing to wait until payday to get a new laptop cord (which btw my apologies for spelling it wrong ) . It's not like the price was bad $11.99 on Ebay; I just felt like I should be punished or something. He then suggested that I should scour the computer junk room and see if we have a cord that would fit. Sure enough we did. This one even has a longer cord..which could be a good and bad thing. I'm just thrilled that I'm back in business on my own computer. I really really hate getting out of my comfort zone and using someone else's computer. I finally am so used to this one since Big Bertha died, that I'd hate to lose her too. I haven't quite thought of a name for her yet..maybe Tiny Tina.

Today I'm just chillin out with my homeboys hubs and BB. We've already watched our morning dose of DVDs, played cars for 45 minutes straight, did our preschool thang, ate lunch and the hubs and I got out some frustrations by shooting each other up with the Nerf guns. Those Nerf guns are way better than marriage therapy. I highly recommend it.

There is still no update on the Baby on the Brain post. Still waiting.... Still trying to envision any possible clue durning the month of December that my annoying relative came. I'm thinking it will be sometime this week. If not, than well, yeah we'll see. Not holding my breath or anything.

Whoah!

I began to sit down in my normal spot on the recliner, to veg on the laptop, when a huge pop sounded and smoke came out from under the recliner. To say it scared the beejeebus out of me is an understatement. To our chagrin, when we lifted up the recliner, I had snapped the laptop chord with the rocker of the recliner! Lovely!
So...with that being said, I'm running on a full battery now but for the most part I'll be out of commission on the laptop until we get a new chord, which will probably be awhile. There's always the boys' computer but their not always to willing to share. I'd have to wait til Monday to have full use of hub's puter. He just looovvveeesss it when I get on his puter. He is none to pleased with this outcome.
See ya'll around in some form or fashion! Right now I'm going to save up some precious battery time.

Trying To Muster Up Some Productivity

I really don't know whats wrong with me.
I just cannot get the energy to do anything today, yesterday, all last week done.
I'd just rather stuff my face with carbs and trans fats and then sleep it off. I wish I had some really good excuse to blame this on something. A bad sleep schedule maybe? I would never blame this lack of energy on the book. You know the one.

At least I can say I did finish that last pesky wall yesterday and GB's room is back to semi normal. I didn't have the energy to put his toys and books neatly back together. He can finally sleep in his bed and get access to his underwear and sock drawer which is always good. Not saying he went without underwear and socks this whole time, I'm just sayin. I've been doing good just getting that viable part of the laundry done and then piled sky high in the basket. Who needs to put clothes away when their just going to be worn and washed again anyway?

The wall is by no means perfect. Lets just say it has character and if hubs wants to fix it, he can have it. I'm thinking thats not going to happen since he doesn't have to look at it. I feel bad that GB doesn't really have a set decor. Blue walls, Spider man sheets and mis-matched furniture are about it. This really doesn't seem to bother him whatsoever.

I'm totally rambling at this point and have nothing interesting, much less coherent to say. Something tells me that my to do list will not get done today. Just writing down the to do list counts as productive at this point...

The Paint Kicked My Butt

I'm calling this day a scratch. I think the paint fumes really got to me last night and this morning. I just did not feel a hundred percent, much less fifty percent. I was nauseous, body achy and oh so tired.

I got up this morning thinking I'd be bright eyed and bushy tailed to finish GB's bedroom. I did about 3 or 4 strokes of painting and that was it for me. I went back to bed and called it a day. I literally just woke up.
Though I'm feeling much better after a nice hot shower and some Mickey Dee substinance(thank you hubs), I'm still calling it a day and declaring, 'I will do absolutely nothing productive today." There's always tomorrow to try it again.

I'm off to dive into Breaking Dawn. If you haven't heard from me in a day or two, you know where I'll be.

I'm Back To Let You Know I Can Really Shake Em Down

You guys didn't even realize I was gone did you?

First things first...I have not visited my blog since I left Sunday evening. I have no idea whats going on with the margins . Much to my chagrin when I came in just seconds ago, I had no idea all my pics were cut off. I'll try to get to that ASAP! I'm sure it's something to do with the background. GAH!

I'm so glad to be back and want to hug all your blog necks. I've missed you all.

I got my parents signed up for high speed. I know! I think the internet angels are singing hallelujah in cyber heaven. Sadly I won't be there when they set it up. I hope the tech dude gets them all set up and my mom doesn't have any problems. If so I will scramble back North on 35 to make sure all is well...maybe.

The painters come on Friday to paint. I'm not overly thrilled about this but I'll get over it. We have decided on a very light gray. I can't even remember if I mentioned this before I left. Oh well, I'm saying it again.

Hubs and I spent all morning at the mall on Sunday before I left. He let me get the last two books of Twilight. Needless to say I read Eclipse for probably a good 10 hours straight. I have some opinions on it that I'll discuss later. This one really bugged me for some reason.

I have piles of dishes and laundry to do and a house to clean. I'm not even going to bother until after the last of the paint is dry. I figure it's going to be chaotic anyway and the house can wait a few more days.

Happy New Year everyone!

Wonderboys response, when hubs asked him what today is:
"A Looney Toons Marathon?"

And The Hits Just Keep On Comin

Normally when we run into unfortunate luck it usually is one thing after the other and not just one thing.

A terrible semi truck accident killed C's uncle. His uncle actually saved his aunt by pushing her out of the truck before it exploded. His aunt was driving and they came head on to another truck that had jack knifed on the road and there was nothing his aunt could do to prevent it. This was all during the icie conditions in Tulsa. If you live in the OK area you probably heard about it on the news. I was going to just copy past the news article but the story wasn't portrayed correctly. We'll be heading up for the funeral this weekend. So if you could send up a word of thoughts for his family I'd appreciate it.

C just returned from his vacation business trip from Florida and called to tell me he had a flat. Since I'm one to quickly respond to this kind of thing, Bossy and I were out the door in seconds. 3 miles into the trip he calls back to say he got the tire up enough to make it to Wal Mart. Since we were out, I thought I would take advantage of Hobby Lobby and drool over some 50% off Christmas stuff. I was trying very hard not to just shove my cart full when he called back telling me to go ahead and get him, as it would be over an hour before they'd be done. Darn the luck, no score at Hobby Lobby for me today.

Since the big boys weren't off of school yet for another hour, I was going to have to get them out early. Here was my thinking, cause I try to think rationally and sometimes hubs just thinks of a hundred different random plans at once. By the time I would get the kids and head out to the Wal Mart airport, the car (in my thinking) would be done. What then would be the point of me heading out there? I understood he had to get straight to work from the airport. I know that's all he was thinking about. Plus he's a little rattled at the moment. I understood that too.
He called back just as I was pulling into the school. He decided he was going to go ahead and shop while he waited. That's never good, remember Scrooge and his Christmas spirit? Anyways I go ahead and get the boys because an intervention was probably going to have to take place.
I give him a call 3 miles back in (about the same turn around as before) and tell him how much longer for the truck, because it took a good 20 minutes just to locate the boys and get to their class to get their stuff. The hour before school is out is never a good time, as their never actually in class. It was going to take a good 30 plus minutes not counting any traffic to get there.
He's not thrilled that I've decided not to come. I tell him we can come if he really needs us to but I didn't see the point of me driving in circles all over Dallas. He then proceeds to tell me that his inspection is also expired and he doesn't have the insurance papers. That's just lovely. He did decide to just wait on the inspection ( which probably isn't wise) and get the tire fixed and go on to work. I told him I would fax him the insurance paper to his work as a smooth over for not coming.
I thought this an excellent idea since I have a fax machine at my fingertips over a hundred fifty miles away. Yeah, Einstein here forgot that she doesn't actually work in a office anymore where the fax is just steps from her desk. Doh.

All this to say, we're having a small rash of unfortunate luck and I really hope it doesn't spread.

It's Time For A Silver Lining On My Rain Cloud.

I really am sorry about the previous post. How many times can you say you've lost by a tie? I'm over it now. Life goes on and there's far worse things in this world to cry over than my fantasy land of football.

I checked my e-mail this morning and I finally had won a giveaway! It was something that I have been wanting to win for the boys for awhile. A Leap Frog Didj! The ironic part, is the game that came with it is Hanna Montanna. Stay tuned for Wednesday with how ironic this is. You know what? I don't care. I'm thrilled! The boys haven't really asked for it. Doesn't matter, I think they'll still enjoy it. I've read up on it and it looks like something that's going to allow me to adjust their math levels to what they are learning and I can plug in their spelling words. They play the games and don't even realize their doing stuff that their learning in class. I'm all about them actually learning while their playing plus it's portable which is bonus. (Look at me doing a review for Didj. I don't even have it yet.) Santa must've really known I wanted this one. Thanks Smiling Mom!

This week is all about preparation. I'm getting the house decluttered as much as possible, well the boys rooms primarily. MIL will be coming next Monday and staying through Christmas day and then my parents will tag team and come Christmas day to stay through the night, I'm guessing. They've offered to take the kids back with them depending on the weather. I'm debating if I want to go back with them or actually take my holiday, we'll see. I feel so blessed that the family comes to us for Christmas instead of us driving all over the state to see folks. Our immediate family is most important to see than our extended. We just try to make Christmas as stress free as possible even if it means not seeing the rest of the family. We'll visit them on New Years maybe.

I've also got to grocery shop and make some pie crust. I've never been a pie crust making girl before. I figure I'm a homemaker and homemakers make pie crust..or something like that. I figure it wouldn't hurt to try.

Crap, speaking of "baking" as I was typing the last paragragh, I realized that I had put some cinammon ornaments for the teacher's gifts in the oven to bake. Your supposed to flip them over after an hour. Doh, that was 2 hours ago. I went ahead and flipped them but meh their not so gifty looking any more.

I'm looking forward to finally going Christmas shopping with the MIL next week. I know, talk about last minute. I'm used to it and it's tradition.

We made a gingerbread house. Another first in the WM247 household. Things like this, there just never was time for before. The whole work thing drained me out during the week and the weekend was left to recoop and clean. It's not one of my greatest masterpieces. I always have dancing visions of a beautiful gingerbread house. The kids did their thing and they had fun and I restrained from to much control. That's all that mattered, not so much that it doesn't look like one from the magazine. Yes, I totally used a kit. I'm a homemaker but not that much of a homemaker. Pictures up tomorrow.

**Updated**
Quick question. Does the blog load slow ya'll? I don't have any special apps on it that should make it slow. It loads beautifully for me (I'm on wireless..not that it should make a difference) and I did a free test thingy and it say 312ms for the time. Which sounds pretty good to me...but I'm no guru. Just let know. I'd hate to hinder you all from Pulitzer winning stuff.

That's about enough random for today. Stay warm San Franscico...wait what?

You Guys Know How To Make A Momma Feel Hot

Thank you guys so much for your adoration of me in the dress. I do want say that I was not in a normal mental state at the time of that post. I went back to look at it and the title alone made me think Why? Then there was the complaint about my knees. Is that all I could come up with? I'm surprised you guys didn't come to my house with torches and pitchforks. At least you were probably thinking; how shallow can she be to complain about her knees?
I admit I'm blessed and it has nothing to do with a good diet and working out and it's all about the good genes. You hate me even more don't you? ...moving along.

The boys and I have the hacienda to ourselves for awhile. Hubs left for his first business trip this morning. We're hoping all goes well. He's in Tampa so we can all put the hate on him for being in a warm beachy environment.

Remember my good friend S, who I got addicted to the blog? She had actually planned on loading up her car of boys and heading down this weekend for a visit. Since we had conflicting plans, I'm hoping she will come down next weekend. I've got lots of fun ideas for us to entertain the boys. All of which will probably miserably fail but darn it, I'm going to try. I think we'll have fun no matter what we do.

Today is my MIL's birthday. She was born the exact date of Pearl Harbor day. As hubs always says; "Whey they dropped the bomb, out came my mom." That hubs is a sweetheart.

If you'd still like to get a Christmas card from me shoot me an e-mail. I'm doing them up today and will get them sent out this week. The card I picked for the pics was a brown background instead of black which looked totally black on the 'net when I ordered them. It's not the greatest card but it will do.

Finally I made the playoffs in Fantasy Football..by the skin of my teeth. If I don't win this game today I will be ticked as I hate making the playoffs and then losing in the first round. So cross your fingers for me. I don't want to be in a ticky mood the rest of the week. :)
Poor Gameboy did not make the playoffs. I had to tell him that this was a learning year and he'll have more experience next year.

You didn't think you were getting random today did you? Well surprise surprise!

Still Spinning On The Hamster Wheel

I'm still spinning on the hamster wheel of internet. We decided to stay anoter night due to the fact OU and OSU (OK State) are playing tonight. A lot rides on this game who goes to Big 12 Championship. I need to watch it.

Hubs and I are trying to talk my dad into getting my mom high speed for Christmas and hubs would chip in for a wireless router..not that she would need it, but you know for our convience. We're dying here.

**Twilight Spoiler Alert**
On another note, we saw Twilight last night. We made the biggest mistake by being late for the movie. 10 minutes late to a movie and I missed a good 10 chapters. I literally walked in right when Edward revealed himself in the sunlight. I could not believe how fast they met and fell in love and her being rescued from the crash in that ten minutes of time.
I wasn't disappointed so to speak as I expected the rush from what other reviewers had said but jeez not a 10 minute rush. Even hubs who has not read the book thought if they would have slowed things down this would have been a good movie. He felt like the movie lasted 45 minutes and that was it. It didn't help that we missed what I felt, was half the movie(book).
I had to pretty much rehash the whole book to him. I hated how they changed some things, like how she got to the dance studio. I guess it wasn't that big a deal, but her escape was kind of critical in my humble o.
Anyways they better beef up the second movie.

Hubs and I were pretty much out all day yesterday shopping and just hanging out with each other. That's one thing we look forward to when we come to visit. It was nice and we got a slew of towels for an awesome price and paid the piper by standing in line for 30 minutes. I also got a really cute dress for the office Chistmas party.
This is the first office Christmas party where we both won't know even half the people there. It's going to be 10 times bigger than our hillbilly parties from our old office. Even though they say "dressy casual" they really mean semi-formal. Since it's at a huge hotel in downtown Big D and half of the contractors in Big D are invited, it's gonna be big.
Needless to say I got a dress that would be something you'd wear to prom and I'm not used to that. Hubs and I haven't had to really dress up since our wedding. I'll be sure to take pics of that, since thats a once in a blue moon kind of deal.

Whew, I realize I'm rambling way more than normal. I will leave it with that. I would hate for all of dial up to explode due to my crazy rambles.

Decking My Halls And Some Random Too!

As you can tell I've been busy cooking,baking and cleaning decking out my blog. I have no skillz when it comes to PS, probably cause I don't have PS. I have the Gimp and I've played around with it for months and months and this is the first time I sorta figured out how to play with it. I couldn't be more happy. Now that I sorta know what I'm doing (not really) I'm having a blast and totally sucking up my time. I realize it looks like a kindergartner did it but I don't care at this point.
Normally I don't decorate for Christmas this early. In fact I won't be decorating this early but just felt the need to keep trying to figure things out for the new header and I just couldn't wait any longer to show it off.

I have taken a gazillion Christmas pictures for Christmas card possibilities, which is a bad thing because now I can't make up my mind. I probably will be asking for your help in helping me decide, because I'm hopeless at this point. So stay tuned for that..I'm sure your ecstatic.

Hubs is sick with the boys cold. Go figure! So he's not even sure if he's going to feel like making it up for the big trip in the morning. Which sux! The poor baby. I needed my date night and it looks like I'll have to wait to see Twilight the next weekend when my parents come up to babysit for the office Christmas party. I just don't want to see this movie alone. You think I could drag my 9 year old for a date night with mom? mmmm...

That's it for now. I will be coming to you live from the hamster wheel that is my parents dial up connection tomorrow, once were settled. I'm so excited for this trip, as it's going to be the quickest trip to grandma's house we've ever had. I'm almost thinking we won't even have to stop for potty breaks. The angels rejoiced!

Ya'll have a Happy Thanksgiving now ya hear! Save me a piece of pumpkin pie.

I Should Be Cooking Dinner...

I should be cooking dinner but decided the random is more important. The random wins over dinner every time.

-Remember that bigger town that had the awesome Mall? They also have a awesome library. Now I'm having an affair with another town's library. I think it was the fact that it is 4 levels and has a huge children's section and mini theater for puppet shows and book clubs. Could have also been that I found their website first and was impressed.

-I took the boys up to the adult section and had them read their books while I browsed. Bossyboy got a tiny bit rowdy(for the library)..really he was really good for BB and the snooty librarian chastised me for his behavior. He barely was above a whisper and was two rows over from where I was, his brothers in full sight. This probably should be for another post for another time.

-We left shortly after the incident and I came home empty handed. The boys came loaded and next time I'll need to bring two tote bags.

-I'm really trying my best to get through Edward Sawtelle. I don't know what it is about it. I know it's a best seller and everyone (Oprah) loves it but I don't know how long I need to give it.

-I finally have convinced my dearest longtime friend S to read the blog. I think this Internet blogging stuff is a bit overwhelming for her, so I'm going have to tell her more about it in person. Everyone wave at S and make her feel at home.

-It never fails that I have some kind of crazy Meme of a post up when company comes.

-I'm off to cook something that is not on the meal plan. Figures.

Bee Stings ,Malls and Cheesecakes Oh My!

This weekend wasn't hectic or busy per say but more just interesting or something.

Saturday was pretty much just a waste of a day. I spent 90% of it making a photo book on Blurb. I'm, creating a Christmas present for the grandparents. I wanted to put in some of the good stories of the past year that I've blogged about along with photos. This was way more of a task than I thought. I wanted to "slurp" up my blog and then edit what I wanted and didn't want. Blurb can't slurp Blogger, so I ended up going through the year in archives to find the best posts. Ya'll that's a lot of work! No wonder it's stressful writing a book.

Sunday we decided to surprise the boys and take them to Madagascar 2. We hadn't explored the big city next to our small town to much and thought yesterday would be a good day for that.

Here's a small background on the boys. When we lived in medium size to big for its britches town, the mall was not a major attraction. It was the most basic of malls and no bells and whistles. It was only one story, and you were lucky to have the major department stores and nothing more. It barely has a food court with a wide selection of 3 eateries. The boys could have cared less about going to the mall and rarely did we ever go.
I mapped the drive to the movie theatre, having no clue that it was in a mall or much less that big city next to us had a mall. Surprise, Surprise.
We pulled up in to the mall parking lot and I had to be restrained in my seat. The mall was a monstrosity. 3 stories, parking garage, all the bells and whistles, the whole 9 yards. This is not what needed my restraint. I've been to monster malls before and though it was bonus it was not the icing on my mall cake. That icing would be The Cheese Factory -Restaurant, Bakery and Bar.
I have only heard of such awesomeness in the blogosphere and never dreamed that I would ever live even 30 miles from such a dream come true kind of place, yet there it was, in the mall and with in 15 miles of where I live. I can handle that.
Needless to say, when my mother in law comes down a week or so before Christmas we are tearing up the mall...we didn't yesterday as we had other plans. We are for sure going to the Cheesecake Factory for lunch.
My boys also had to be restrained in the mall. They acted as if they were at Disney World seeing the carousel and an ice skating rink all in one roof, not to mention that it was 3 stories and massive. They have been to monster malls as well but never really thought twice about it as they were so young. Sheltered the poor things they are.
Before we left for monster mall/ movies, Wonderboy headed outside with his brothers when the very second he stepped outside, you could hear him go from cheery to screaming and crying in a split second. Yep he got stung by a bee. Poor boy, he has always been deathly afraid of bees. He had never been stung before so whatever caused his fear other than the thought of being stung was pretty significant. His fear was so great that when Bee Movie came out, he freaked. He couldn't even be in the same room when the ads were on. Luckily he got over his fear enough to actually watch the show.
I got him calmed down and grabbed some frozen veggies from the freezer. Thankfully he wasn't allergic and recovered fairly quick, the hint that we had a surprise for them helped. I know I was the biggest baby ever when I was stung by a wasp that was dead...he didn't actually sting me but I stepped on him and they still have sting in them, even when dead. That hurt like a fother mucker, so I can imagine a live bee sting is not a walk in the park.
About those frozen veggies I mentioned...sorry this is a ramble of massive proportions. I accidentally left them out overnight and didn't pay any attention to what particular kind of frozen veggie I grabbed.
This morning as I was laying on the couch reading blogs, I noticed a smell that I couldn't not really identify. It smelled like food that had stayed out to long and was getting that gross smell. I couldn't for the life of me figure out where it was coming from. There was nothing in the living room with food, no plates or dishes laying around. I had already put away all the dirty dishes in the sink into the dishwater and just could not figure where or what it could be.
This is where I start smelling everything. The pillow I was laying on, the throw blanket, the couch, the kitchen, the fridge. Nothing. I finally decided to start tidying up the living room. When I grabbed the remains of the Sunday paper off of the coffee table, there it was the frozen veggies. Not just any frozen veggies, frozen chopped onions. Those puppies are pugnacious defrosted. Ugh!

That my friends was the highlight of my weekend. Can you tell were lame and don't do much?

I Think He Will Live

The boys main chores after school is to run the dog ragged and pick up his "presents".
It's a 3 man job.
The shoveler handled by Gameboy
The seeker handled by Bossyboy
The bag handler is Wonderboy

Wonderboy hates his job of handler. All he has to do is hold the plastic bag open while GB dumps the presents in. Not a hard job. The whole time he's standing around waiting for his next present, he's whining and complaining of the smell, and how this is the worst thing on the planet ever, and are we done yet?

Just as the last present was being deposited, it happened. I'm sure you can guess.
GB accidentally brushed a bit of present on his brother's hand. Hilarity ensued.
You would have thought WB had been shot. He burst in to tears yelling; "Oh my god, its on my hand, it's on my hand, help me Scooby Doo, help me, I need to wash it off!"
I could not keep composed. I'm sure I'll get my pay back when the therapy bill comes.

He's fine, a little soap and water cures everything.

Some Random Right Here Right Now

I'm glad you guys appreciate and embrace that which is the random. I just can't live without my random.

-I just returned from Wonderboy's ARD Meeting. Basically it's a meeting with all of the special ed teachers and staff that work with him during the school year. I was concerned that they were giving him work that was beyond his comprehension level. He's never even really worked with multiplication as he barely comprehends basic math like addition and subtraction. Thankfully they assessed the situation more thoroughly and now know what level he needs special attention in for math. I really thought they were just going to throw him in with the lions and fend for himself. I'm really relieved that has all worked out for the best. Sorry I just had to get that out.

-I mentioned how I enjoy spending time in the car pool line. Normally I'm in line all of 20 minutes and that's plenty of chill time for me. When we left the meeting a little before 2, there were already people in the car pool line. I was just shocked that people really don't have anything else to do but sit for over an hour in their car, just to be first in line. I wont judge but that's just crazy.

-On my little journey from the school, I noticed a park in our neighborhood that I had not seen. Needless to say, I had to drive by to check it out and low and behold it also has a swimming pool. The irony of it all is that the past few weeks have been beautiful for playing in the park (I just hadn't found it yet) and today it was cold and rainy. That's how my luck works. I'm just stoked that we have a park and pool in the neighborhood, not just the town but the housing addition I live in. It doesn't take much to thrill me.

-We have one science experiment down and one more to go. Wonderboy is doing magnets. It really helps that they give us an idea sheet to go off of. This school is really big on the math and science as the schools in East Texas focused more on reading and language.

-I'm really going to dread the next few years when I have three boys in school, all doing projects at the same time. I may get so good at class projects that I could put that on my resume. Project Manager on various science experiments pertaining to magnetic and chemical reactions. Oh yeah that's got a nice ring to it.

-My mother in law is already planning her visit for Christmas. I haven't even made set plans for Thanksgiving and she's already asking me the plan for Christmas. Slow down momma one holiday at a time.

-My dryer is still hindering my laundering duties. I'm so behind that I couldn't tell you how many days I wore the same pants in a row. I finally got a couple pairs of jeans damp enough to air dry. Nothing like wearing damp jeans on a rainy cold morning.

I think I'm good on the random for now.

It's Just One Of Those Days

I don't know if it's the time change or that I'm just tired, but I'm tired. The day has certainly felt longer.
I attempted a semi nap this afternoon while Bossyboy watched Scooby for the 415th time. Just as I was getting right there to being asleep, hubs came waltzing in. Very odd time for him.

You ever have one of those moments where you felt like you were caught doing something you shouldn't have; even though you were doing nothing at all...but napping. I kinda had that moment.

I've been very unproductive today. It took all the energy I had to pull together some kind of pre-school lesson. Something is better than nothing. I feel that's the most important thing I must accomplish each day.

I then had to make an impromptu trip to Wally World. Apparently Gameboy had so out grown his shoes that the top of his shoe was rubbing his feet to give him blisters. It was sweet of him to make me aware of it this morning instead of yesterday, when I was already at Wally World. I think I'm in some kind of denial that their feet only grow twice a year. I'm now under the impression that it's probably more like four times a year. Sigh.

I'm trying to make up for my unproductivity today by making chicken and noodles. I hope it will give me that perk I need. It sounds delish anyway.

Lastly to all my blog friends: I'm sorry you have had to endure the tidal wave of political ads lately. That's one thing I have not missed since we've been with out T.V. I feel kind of out of the loop and would really like to witness the election coverage in real time television. I'm just hoping there will be some kind of live feed on CNN or the other news.coms.

That's all I've got. Enjoy the evening and may our vote be registered loud and clear on what America really wants for this country.

Thursday 13- Time To Dust Off The Random

I don't know if it's because I lead such an un exciting life as a SAHM, but the post wagon is a bit empty. Therefore you get the random. You know you love the random just admit it.

1. I came this close to calling the water/sewage people about my trash issues. I thought for some reason that they completely skipped picking up my trash. I thought maybe it was because my lid was just slightly opened due to a full bin, and the trash gods deny such uncivilty. Come to find out I'm just losing my mind. The trash had been picked up. We're almost caught up now.

2. I love it when I pop in a chick movie like Pride and Prejudice, with no pressure for hubs to watch and he kinda likes it. He would probably rather die than admit he became slightly interested. When someone asks a million questions about the movie, you know their interested.

3. I've got dryer issues again. It's happened since the move. I guess I'll be getting a new dryer for Christmas. Hopefully I'm on Santa's good list. Dryer's aren't cheap you know.

4. The home pre-school thing with Bossyboy is going fairly well. I've got great Internet info, a little bit of naive creativity on my part, and a little patience. I feel a lot better than I did a few weeks ago. I may actually persuade myself that I can really pull this pre-school teacher fa cad off.

5. I have still yet to meet my neighbors. I don't know why this bothers me since I never really knew my neighbors in East Texas. I'm thinking it's because this neighborhood looks like the Beaver Cleaver neighborhood, where everyone is friendly and likes each other. I'm going to guess that it's not.

6. I'm looking forward to going through the neighborhood to trick or treat. I have some glimmer of hope that maybe I'll meet people that way.

7. I think the problem is we lucked out on getting neighbors that don't have kids or at least from what I can tell. There's no Halloween decor to trigger that hint. Had we lived two doors down we might have been better in luck.

8. You can probably guess that the decorated house two doors down will be our first stop.

9. I finally got my voters registration card in the mail. I was a bit paranoid that I may not be able to vote after all. I also got my brand spanking new license and would you believe that I have lost it in less than a week?!

10. No I will not discuss any political opinion about the election here. I'm the worst on this kind of stuff and I am sadly still on the fence.

11. The hubs got to have an office over night pow wow at the CEO's ranch in the most ironic place...East Texas. Can you imagine having a overnight pow wow at your bosses ranch? If you knew my former CEO you'd cringe. This kind of thing just did not happen ever. I would love to see The Office (show) do an episode on that. Awkward!

12. Home decor is not my forte. I have no clue what I'm doing, yet pretend that I do, kinda like the pre school thing. I ordered some vinyl lettering for the wall. Very cute stuff, but a SOB to put up. If you ever come to my house and see my crooked lettering please just smile, nod and walk away. I messed with it for over an hour. If I have to pick up another dot from the i off the floor again it will be to soon. I had no clue each letter had to be placed separately. I thought it would be one big sticker to slap on.

13. My husband thinks I have to much time on my hands...I told him about my little photo shoot with the boys and creating the little comic strip. I'm having a blast just soaking up all the little things I've missed from working. Who cares if I have to much time on my hands. One of these days this time will be lost forever.

What Has Your Blogger Been UP To?

I've been a bit more sparse around here than normal the past few days. I'm sure you can't imagine what I've been up to. Absolutley nothing but this:

Carvin up punkins:

Being a little crafty:
Please disregard the Indie Jones figure beside my crafty brilliance. He's for a post for another day.

I've also been time sucked into this and cannot seem to pull myself out. I have visions of Starbucks, Target, and Amazon dancing in my head.