I stole this from my friend Anne's blog. It was just way too funny not to post here too so you could all enjoy it. It's just so freaking true.....hehe.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Poor Morrie...
So there are lots of things that I could write about my Christmas trip, but most of them are boring. We got lots of wonderful gifts and ate a ton of food. There was even some drama amongst family members. But the most significant thing that happened involved a trip to the emergency vet.
On Saturday the 23rd, we were finishing our celebration with the Erdahls. Maggie and Morrie were happily playing with their three new grunting toys. Morrie is obsessed with any toy that grunts and acts like he is killing it. It's hilarious. Nothing out of the ordinary was happening, when suddenly, Morrie started acting funny. At first we just thought that he had bit his tongue in his exuberance over the hedgehog he had been "killing". On closer inspection, he had actually broken loose one of his front teeth and it was bleeding and obviously causing him a great deal of pain.
We called around and finally found an emergency vet in the Columbus area. After inspection, the vet informed us that yes, the tooth would need to be extracted, but they didn't do extractions. She also informed us that there were several other teeth in his mouth that she was concerned about. We already knew that Morrie had bad teeth and gums and would probably need some teeth pulled, but we couldn't believe that she wouldn't even pull the one causing him pain. (For a brief history on Morrie's health, he had 13 teeth pulled two years ago. We've been battling his mouth ever since we rescued him.)
The vet left us with a very expensive bill, some pain medication, and an antibiotic. We knew we would have to wait until Tuesday to even get ahold of our normal vet because of the holiday. When we did call Tuesday morning, our vet said they had nothing open for over a week. We were a little suprised, because Morrie was still in pain and had irritated the tooth enough that it was practically falling out of his face at this point, and our vet refused to just squeeze him in. RI-DIC-U-LOUS.
After calling not one, not two, but SIX vets in the Dayton area, we finally got him in yesterday for the extraction. The new vet was incredibly kind and took the time to talk with us about everything and they took very good care of our "furry kid". They even called us to let us know when his surgery was over and to tell us he was fine.
All said and done, 10 teeth got pulled, and we were left with a $420 bill, and a dog with no top teeth, but one that now seems a lot happier. He's still recovering, but even after one day he is already spunkier. Poor dog only has his canines on the top now though. He kinda looks like a vampire. When his mouth is feeling better I'll post a picture of Gums McGee....
On Saturday the 23rd, we were finishing our celebration with the Erdahls. Maggie and Morrie were happily playing with their three new grunting toys. Morrie is obsessed with any toy that grunts and acts like he is killing it. It's hilarious. Nothing out of the ordinary was happening, when suddenly, Morrie started acting funny. At first we just thought that he had bit his tongue in his exuberance over the hedgehog he had been "killing". On closer inspection, he had actually broken loose one of his front teeth and it was bleeding and obviously causing him a great deal of pain.
We called around and finally found an emergency vet in the Columbus area. After inspection, the vet informed us that yes, the tooth would need to be extracted, but they didn't do extractions. She also informed us that there were several other teeth in his mouth that she was concerned about. We already knew that Morrie had bad teeth and gums and would probably need some teeth pulled, but we couldn't believe that she wouldn't even pull the one causing him pain. (For a brief history on Morrie's health, he had 13 teeth pulled two years ago. We've been battling his mouth ever since we rescued him.)
The vet left us with a very expensive bill, some pain medication, and an antibiotic. We knew we would have to wait until Tuesday to even get ahold of our normal vet because of the holiday. When we did call Tuesday morning, our vet said they had nothing open for over a week. We were a little suprised, because Morrie was still in pain and had irritated the tooth enough that it was practically falling out of his face at this point, and our vet refused to just squeeze him in. RI-DIC-U-LOUS.
After calling not one, not two, but SIX vets in the Dayton area, we finally got him in yesterday for the extraction. The new vet was incredibly kind and took the time to talk with us about everything and they took very good care of our "furry kid". They even called us to let us know when his surgery was over and to tell us he was fine.
All said and done, 10 teeth got pulled, and we were left with a $420 bill, and a dog with no top teeth, but one that now seems a lot happier. He's still recovering, but even after one day he is already spunkier. Poor dog only has his canines on the top now though. He kinda looks like a vampire. When his mouth is feeling better I'll post a picture of Gums McGee....
Thursday, December 28, 2006
A Slightly Traumatic Homecoming
I'll write about my Christmas later, but I had to write about our arrival back to our house first because I don't know whether to laugh or cry....
Entering the house, there was a strange smell. We started looking for the source as we unloaded the car. As I was searching the kitchen, I noticed what looked like mouse crap in the sink. I turned on the water to rinse it all down....and you know where this is going....A MOUSE POPPED ITS HEAD OUT TO LOOK AT ME!
I, of course, started screaming, which scared Kendall, who started screaming. I started spraying the mouse with the water hose on the sink, and forced it back into the disposal. Kendall wanted to just turn on the garbage disposal. I started crying, worried about the "poor little mouse". We decided to try and drown it. We stopped up the sink and let it fill to the top, then pulled out the stop and waited as the sink slowly drained. We peeked in with the flashlight and weren't sure if it was dead, so we did the sink fill again.
Kendall tried to stick in some bbq skewers to lift it out and started screaming because he thought it was still alive. At this point, we knew how big it was, and decided that we would "grind it". I went outside and Kendall took care of the dirty work. I guess he went down the drain, mouse parts and all.
Kendall then found a large dead mouse in our electronic trap that we leave out constantly. It's considered the most humane way to kill them. It zaps them very quickly. And it's a lot cleaner than the snap traps. Plus, we don't have to hear them die.
THEN, I was cleaning some pots and pans up and went to put them away in the cupboard, only to scream again at the DEAD mouse laying in the cabinet. At that point I couldn't tell if I was crying or laughing.
This now makes 15 mice. We don't know what to do. The exterminators tell us it would be a waste of our money for them to come out because they won't do anything different than we're doing. They say we just have to stick with it. But it makes us feel dirty...and now, very creeped out. I'm even afraid to use my sink! Stupid mice......
Entering the house, there was a strange smell. We started looking for the source as we unloaded the car. As I was searching the kitchen, I noticed what looked like mouse crap in the sink. I turned on the water to rinse it all down....and you know where this is going....A MOUSE POPPED ITS HEAD OUT TO LOOK AT ME!
I, of course, started screaming, which scared Kendall, who started screaming. I started spraying the mouse with the water hose on the sink, and forced it back into the disposal. Kendall wanted to just turn on the garbage disposal. I started crying, worried about the "poor little mouse". We decided to try and drown it. We stopped up the sink and let it fill to the top, then pulled out the stop and waited as the sink slowly drained. We peeked in with the flashlight and weren't sure if it was dead, so we did the sink fill again.
Kendall tried to stick in some bbq skewers to lift it out and started screaming because he thought it was still alive. At this point, we knew how big it was, and decided that we would "grind it". I went outside and Kendall took care of the dirty work. I guess he went down the drain, mouse parts and all.
Kendall then found a large dead mouse in our electronic trap that we leave out constantly. It's considered the most humane way to kill them. It zaps them very quickly. And it's a lot cleaner than the snap traps. Plus, we don't have to hear them die.
THEN, I was cleaning some pots and pans up and went to put them away in the cupboard, only to scream again at the DEAD mouse laying in the cabinet. At that point I couldn't tell if I was crying or laughing.
This now makes 15 mice. We don't know what to do. The exterminators tell us it would be a waste of our money for them to come out because they won't do anything different than we're doing. They say we just have to stick with it. But it makes us feel dirty...and now, very creeped out. I'm even afraid to use my sink! Stupid mice......
Friday, December 22, 2006
Ahh, the Holidays
We're heading to the Erdahl Family Chirstmas celebration later tonight. We'll be spending two nights there and then heading to Cleveland Sunday morning to celebrate with my family. These long trips always do two things:
1. Warrant good stories to share afterwards, many of which won't be funny at the time, but later I will be able to laugh at because it's just the family.
2. Make me appreciate how much I love owning my own home. You don't realize how much you miss sleeping in your own bed until you have to sleep in someone elses. Or that you can go into your cupboards or fridge and know exactly what is there to eat when you get the munchies. Plus, even things like your couch are more comfortable, simply because it's your couch.
3. Okay, it's really three things for me...my dogs. We have to leave them at the Erdahl's house because my mom's dog would eat them. Literally. So by the end of a week at my mom's, I'll be dying to see them. They are, of course, my hairy babies. Morrie actually starts to get depressed by the end of the week and usually stops eatting. So even they feel the effects of us being gone.
Something for all of you procrastinators to appreciate: We spent all last night wrapping presents because we were huge procrastinators after we finished shopping. I haven't sent a single Christmas card, but I have a stack of addresses to send them to, I'm a jerk. I promise they'll get out. I also haven't even packed my 9 day traveling bag yet. Not a single stitch. And we're leaving in 5 hours. Some of my clothes are actually still in the washer! HA!
I'm really hoping that we'll be able to steal wireless Internet from the neighbors while we are traveling, I think I'm really going to enjoy our new laptop while we're on the road. I'll try to post throughout the week, (not sure that people have even been reading my blog as of late though) even if I have to save it in Word and then head to free WiFi at Barnes and Noble to quickly post it....which is another thing I'll miss about home, a Barnes and Noble being so close to my house!
1. Warrant good stories to share afterwards, many of which won't be funny at the time, but later I will be able to laugh at because it's just the family.
2. Make me appreciate how much I love owning my own home. You don't realize how much you miss sleeping in your own bed until you have to sleep in someone elses. Or that you can go into your cupboards or fridge and know exactly what is there to eat when you get the munchies. Plus, even things like your couch are more comfortable, simply because it's your couch.
3. Okay, it's really three things for me...my dogs. We have to leave them at the Erdahl's house because my mom's dog would eat them. Literally. So by the end of a week at my mom's, I'll be dying to see them. They are, of course, my hairy babies. Morrie actually starts to get depressed by the end of the week and usually stops eatting. So even they feel the effects of us being gone.
Something for all of you procrastinators to appreciate: We spent all last night wrapping presents because we were huge procrastinators after we finished shopping. I haven't sent a single Christmas card, but I have a stack of addresses to send them to, I'm a jerk. I promise they'll get out. I also haven't even packed my 9 day traveling bag yet. Not a single stitch. And we're leaving in 5 hours. Some of my clothes are actually still in the washer! HA!
I'm really hoping that we'll be able to steal wireless Internet from the neighbors while we are traveling, I think I'm really going to enjoy our new laptop while we're on the road. I'll try to post throughout the week, (not sure that people have even been reading my blog as of late though) even if I have to save it in Word and then head to free WiFi at Barnes and Noble to quickly post it....which is another thing I'll miss about home, a Barnes and Noble being so close to my house!
Thursday, December 21, 2006
HARRY POTTER!!!!!
I just read on CNN that the last book has been named! And then I went to JK Rowling's website and unlocked the door just for fun!
While I'm incredibly excited that she named the book, I'm also sad, because that means the end of Harry Potter. I have a very sad feeling that she is going to kill him off in the end. That it will the only way he can defeat Voldemort. *sigh* And I so wanted him to end up with Ginny Weasley......
While I'm incredibly excited that she named the book, I'm also sad, because that means the end of Harry Potter. I have a very sad feeling that she is going to kill him off in the end. That it will the only way he can defeat Voldemort. *sigh* And I so wanted him to end up with Ginny Weasley......
I Heart CNN.com
So I'm totally addicted to reading the news online. My homepage is CNN.com. I LOVE IT. And when I come across front pages like today's, how could I NOT make it my homepage?!?!
Two quality CNN videos:
http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/showbiz/2006/12/21/anderson.most.controversy.cnn
http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/bestoftv/2006/12/20/cooper.shot.wed.cnn
Two quality CNN videos:
http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/showbiz/2006/12/21/anderson.most.controversy.cnn
http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/bestoftv/2006/12/20/cooper.shot.wed.cnn
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Hands Down One of the BEST Christmas Songs Each Year
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door,
that's the easy thing to do
I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too
Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian.
(Short Music Interlude)
There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I'd feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage
I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyesto see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too!
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door,
that's the easy thing to do
I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too
Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian.
(Short Music Interlude)
There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I'd feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage
I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyesto see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too!
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Brittany Spears
CREDIT: Flynet; X1
I got this picture off of the People Magazine website while I was paging through their StarTracks section. I'm seriously addicited to People Magazine.
Here's what bothers me, I thought she was trying to change her image after dumping her husband, right? And isn't she filing for full custody of her kids? How confusing is her current image then? I think she looks great in the picture on the left (as great as Brittany Spears can look) but the one on the left is just scarey. Not only does she look trampy, but that's just a fashion emergency. Where are Stacy and Clinton when we need them?
I'm not saying that Spears ever had a great image, or even taste in clothes for that matter, but this really is just in poor taste. Her sons may see this photo someday, and who wants to see their mom in slutty underwear???!!!??
Totally Random Entry
First, let me say a heartfelt thank you to those of you who sent your support yesterday. I was having quite the craptacular morning and I really just needed to blow off some steam. It's very theraputic for me. I esp appreciate that fact that those people with babies or having babies were understanding and didn't take it personally. Because it's not personal. And I finally talked to the doctor this morning about the whole weird cycle thing and we're once again going in a new direction, which I'm pretty happy about, even if it will cost us $600 a month. Donations are being accepted..hahaha...if you want to know more, email me.
Okay, moving right along....
1. I'm going to a dinner tonight that finishes up Kendall's interview in Troy. He's been there all day meeting people and schmoozing. I didn't find out until yesterday that I was actually invited to the dinner at the end. When the coordinator called to confirm everything with Kendall she asked if I was coming to dinner. He said, "I didn't know she was invited, nothing indicated she was." The woman was very nice and apologized and said I was always invited. This now means that I'm forced to dress up and be nice to people. HAHA.
2. The way you're treated when you look like a scrub....I went to the mall this morning to return some things I had ordered online that I didn't like in person. In both stores (Gap and American Eagle) I was given strange looks and very little customer service. Why? I think it's because I looked scrubby. I hadn't taken a shower yet and was wearing sweats and a sweatshirt.
3. I will give props to the one employee at Gap who was thoroughly helpful in discussing jeans with me. AND I would like to also note that she was definitely not their standard Size 0 employee. She was actually probably a size 18 or 20. And she looked GREAT! She was wearing all GAP clothing and looked very cute. So props to Gap for hiring someone who's bigger than my pinky.
4. I want to be a foot model when I grow up. It was mostly prompted by our viewing of Zoolander the other night. Every time we watch it, I'm always fascinated by David Duchovney's character who was a hand model who has encapsulated his hand to preserve it. After my pedicure yesterday, I couldn't stop staring at my feet. They look so cute! Now I know I don't have "perfect" feet, but I'd say mine are pretty cute painted. Maybe even one of my better body features. I'm even leaving a picture for you all to enjoy. If you've never had a pedicure, I highly reccommend them!
Monday, December 18, 2006
An Up and Down Kind of Weekend- RIDICULOUSLY LONG POST
I don't even really know how to begin this post, so I guess it's best to start with the following statement: Trying to have a baby makes your life fucked up sometimes.
While most of my weekend was great, it was all dampened by the baby thing, AGAIN. I'll start with the negatives and work my ways to the positives in the hopes that by the end of the post, I'll feel better.
Negatives:
1. Baby crap. This is your warning that if it would gross you out or you're just tired of hearing about it, skip the negatives and move directly to the positives NOW. You've been warned.
2. So I started really weird spotting on day 23 of my cycle. That NEVER happens. I tried not the think about it and attribute anything to it, but how could I not? Then the cramping started on Friday. It was awful. Now I've had this happen before, 4 months ago to be exact. The last time I was pregnant. I really didn't want to think about it at that point. Saturday everything was gone and that made me feel better. Then yesterday morning I woke up to more weird brown spotting. By last night, my period had started...TWO DAYS EARLY. And that's not even the weirdest part, my period was already two days early last month. In a matter of two months time on this new drug I'm taking, I went from a 30 day cycle to a 28 day cycle to a 26 day cycle this month. WHAT THE CRAP?!?!?!!?
3. On top of all of that, I once again feel like everyone around me is having a f*cking baby. While I've obviously dealt with this several times over the past two years, it still sucks, albeit on a lesser scale now. Seriously, Karen's prego, my friend Jon told me his wife is prego, I just found out that my friend Lora is finally prego, even our f*cking waitress last night was pregnant! WHAT THE HELL!!!!!! And it has nothing to do with the actual people. It's not their fault I'm a freak. Sometimes it just feels like God is smacking me in the face with it, with a big old, "Haha, it's not you. It's everyone BUT you." I'm really find it hard to make a connection between God and a baby.
4. I came to the conclusion this morning that my life was a lot happier before I ever thought about wanting a baby. Seriously, Kendall made me happy, my dogs made me happy, I didn't have anything to worry about except my job. And even though, at the time, that sucked, at least it was something I could walk away from at the end of each day and got periodic breaks from. When you're trying to have a baby and can't, it never leaves you. Ever. You're at the grocery store and there's a reminder. You're at the mall and there's about 50 reminders being pushed around in strollers. They're EVERYWHERE. It SUCKS. I even told Kendall last night that I wished we could just time warp back to college for a while where everything was easier and the greatest of my worries was whether I had my homework done.
5. Sometimes being a grownup just plain sucks.
Positives:
1. I went shopping with the Jessica's, at the same time, and everything went relatively well. I was a little worried because of the problems between the two of them since the church rift. I kind of had a heart to heart with Jessica G-J on Thursday and I think it helped (at least me) greatly. We went to the outlet malls and found some good deals. I ended up getting several shirts for my brother at Nautica for the same price I would have paid for just one of them at a mall store.
2. Lots of great deals on Christmas gifts. Kendall and I officially finished our shopping this weekend. We ended up unexpectedly saving money everywhere we went. It was great! It started with our trip to the mall to get a giftcard for my brother's girlfriend. My mom didn't want to drive to the one Old Navy near her house because it really is an inconvenient drive, so we volunteered to go get it since we were already out. When we went to pay for it, the girl at the register said, "You get a free five dollar giftcard for yourself since you spent enough on this one!" Excellent.....We then headed to Best Buy where we ended up getting $3 off Pirates (totally unexpected) AND two free Cokes with Talledega Nights (also unexpected). On Sunday we went to Kohls to get my step mom a gift card and were greeted by their biggest sale of the weekend/century/day/hour. Don't get me started, I could write a whole blog about the ridiuclousness of Kohl's sales. But we picked up on a few good deals for ourselves in the housewares section and then found out we got an extra 15% off when we checked out if we used our Kohl's card. HECK YEAH! We never use that card, so it was an excellent deal for us.
3. Kendall's article, which I already mentioned. I'm very proud of him. He says he's going to try to write a few more before he graduates in June.
4. Speaking of June...it's now only 6 months away. I can't believe the hell of medical school and residency is almost over. It's almost surreal. And I'm not even the one finishing the training. We got wind of two new opportunites, one in Kettering and one in Oakwood. He's interviewing in Troy all day tomorrow. Sometimes when I think about it, I almost get giddy.
5. We are officially finished with our Christmas shopping. Oh wait, did I already mention that, oh yeah, now I'm just rubbing it in for all you slackers.....
That really worked, I do feel a little better. Time to shower, go get my haircut, and pamper myself with a professional pedicure.
While most of my weekend was great, it was all dampened by the baby thing, AGAIN. I'll start with the negatives and work my ways to the positives in the hopes that by the end of the post, I'll feel better.
Negatives:
1. Baby crap. This is your warning that if it would gross you out or you're just tired of hearing about it, skip the negatives and move directly to the positives NOW. You've been warned.
2. So I started really weird spotting on day 23 of my cycle. That NEVER happens. I tried not the think about it and attribute anything to it, but how could I not? Then the cramping started on Friday. It was awful. Now I've had this happen before, 4 months ago to be exact. The last time I was pregnant. I really didn't want to think about it at that point. Saturday everything was gone and that made me feel better. Then yesterday morning I woke up to more weird brown spotting. By last night, my period had started...TWO DAYS EARLY. And that's not even the weirdest part, my period was already two days early last month. In a matter of two months time on this new drug I'm taking, I went from a 30 day cycle to a 28 day cycle to a 26 day cycle this month. WHAT THE CRAP?!?!?!!?
3. On top of all of that, I once again feel like everyone around me is having a f*cking baby. While I've obviously dealt with this several times over the past two years, it still sucks, albeit on a lesser scale now. Seriously, Karen's prego, my friend Jon told me his wife is prego, I just found out that my friend Lora is finally prego, even our f*cking waitress last night was pregnant! WHAT THE HELL!!!!!! And it has nothing to do with the actual people. It's not their fault I'm a freak. Sometimes it just feels like God is smacking me in the face with it, with a big old, "Haha, it's not you. It's everyone BUT you." I'm really find it hard to make a connection between God and a baby.
4. I came to the conclusion this morning that my life was a lot happier before I ever thought about wanting a baby. Seriously, Kendall made me happy, my dogs made me happy, I didn't have anything to worry about except my job. And even though, at the time, that sucked, at least it was something I could walk away from at the end of each day and got periodic breaks from. When you're trying to have a baby and can't, it never leaves you. Ever. You're at the grocery store and there's a reminder. You're at the mall and there's about 50 reminders being pushed around in strollers. They're EVERYWHERE. It SUCKS. I even told Kendall last night that I wished we could just time warp back to college for a while where everything was easier and the greatest of my worries was whether I had my homework done.
5. Sometimes being a grownup just plain sucks.
Positives:
1. I went shopping with the Jessica's, at the same time, and everything went relatively well. I was a little worried because of the problems between the two of them since the church rift. I kind of had a heart to heart with Jessica G-J on Thursday and I think it helped (at least me) greatly. We went to the outlet malls and found some good deals. I ended up getting several shirts for my brother at Nautica for the same price I would have paid for just one of them at a mall store.
2. Lots of great deals on Christmas gifts. Kendall and I officially finished our shopping this weekend. We ended up unexpectedly saving money everywhere we went. It was great! It started with our trip to the mall to get a giftcard for my brother's girlfriend. My mom didn't want to drive to the one Old Navy near her house because it really is an inconvenient drive, so we volunteered to go get it since we were already out. When we went to pay for it, the girl at the register said, "You get a free five dollar giftcard for yourself since you spent enough on this one!" Excellent.....We then headed to Best Buy where we ended up getting $3 off Pirates (totally unexpected) AND two free Cokes with Talledega Nights (also unexpected). On Sunday we went to Kohls to get my step mom a gift card and were greeted by their biggest sale of the weekend/century/day/hour. Don't get me started, I could write a whole blog about the ridiuclousness of Kohl's sales. But we picked up on a few good deals for ourselves in the housewares section and then found out we got an extra 15% off when we checked out if we used our Kohl's card. HECK YEAH! We never use that card, so it was an excellent deal for us.
3. Kendall's article, which I already mentioned. I'm very proud of him. He says he's going to try to write a few more before he graduates in June.
4. Speaking of June...it's now only 6 months away. I can't believe the hell of medical school and residency is almost over. It's almost surreal. And I'm not even the one finishing the training. We got wind of two new opportunites, one in Kettering and one in Oakwood. He's interviewing in Troy all day tomorrow. Sometimes when I think about it, I almost get giddy.
5. We are officially finished with our Christmas shopping. Oh wait, did I already mention that, oh yeah, now I'm just rubbing it in for all you slackers.....
That really worked, I do feel a little better. Time to shower, go get my haircut, and pamper myself with a professional pedicure.
Saturday, December 16, 2006
My husband is famous!!!
So we got the Journal of Family Practice in the mail today, and Kendall's article is in it! He's famous! It even has a link on the main website for the journal! HOORAY!!!!! Unfortunately, I can't post the link to the article, because you have to be a journal member to read it. If you'd like to see it, I can give you the user name and password to view it. As long as you promise not to share it with anyone else.....
Yeah for famous husbands! Doctors all over the country will be reading his article about emergency contraceptives!
Yeah for famous husbands! Doctors all over the country will be reading his article about emergency contraceptives!
Friday, December 15, 2006
The Official Loot List
Here it is, the final loot list from school:
1. 3 candles: Holiday scent, Cookie, and Cinnamon
2. An ornament for our tree
3. An assortment of food, some of which I will not eat because it looks scarey and is from an unreliable source...brownie, Ghiardelli dipped pretzle rods, platter of cookies, Chex Mix, candy canes, assorted candies
4. Santa Claus Candy Cane holder
5. Two $5 gift cards to Subway
6. $10 gift certificate to Dairy Queen
7. A cubic zirconium pendant and necklace (that I have been told by Jon I am obligated to wear at least once...ugh...)
8. A poem about how wonderful I am that I will have to post after break because I stapled it to my bulletin board at school. It was very flattering and well written if I do say so myself. And of course, all true.
So we had a pizza party today for winning the canned food drive and we had lots of tasty holiday goodies with it. It was a pretty good day. We watched holiday movies, ate food, had a choir concert from the high school, and finished it all off with an hour of bingo over in the gym. I gotta say, there are some definite perks to teaching junior high.
Now I'm sitting at home, fully enjoying my first full hour of Christmas Break, while the dogs proceed to pull every single one of their toys out of the dog bed in our living room. Maggie is currently playing with a plastic hamburger that we got at the dollar store. Go figure the cheap ones are her favorite! I think maybe it's time for a little Guitar Hero to officially celebrate my next two weeks off! Not to gloat too much or anything......
1. 3 candles: Holiday scent, Cookie, and Cinnamon
2. An ornament for our tree
3. An assortment of food, some of which I will not eat because it looks scarey and is from an unreliable source...brownie, Ghiardelli dipped pretzle rods, platter of cookies, Chex Mix, candy canes, assorted candies
4. Santa Claus Candy Cane holder
5. Two $5 gift cards to Subway
6. $10 gift certificate to Dairy Queen
7. A cubic zirconium pendant and necklace (that I have been told by Jon I am obligated to wear at least once...ugh...)
8. A poem about how wonderful I am that I will have to post after break because I stapled it to my bulletin board at school. It was very flattering and well written if I do say so myself. And of course, all true.
So we had a pizza party today for winning the canned food drive and we had lots of tasty holiday goodies with it. It was a pretty good day. We watched holiday movies, ate food, had a choir concert from the high school, and finished it all off with an hour of bingo over in the gym. I gotta say, there are some definite perks to teaching junior high.
Now I'm sitting at home, fully enjoying my first full hour of Christmas Break, while the dogs proceed to pull every single one of their toys out of the dog bed in our living room. Maggie is currently playing with a plastic hamburger that we got at the dollar store. Go figure the cheap ones are her favorite! I think maybe it's time for a little Guitar Hero to officially celebrate my next two weeks off! Not to gloat too much or anything......
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Another List Kind of Day
1. I have to say that I found it amazing that Viki and Sarah had the same situation in their families. It also makes me sad to think we're all missing out on family. Karen's right, if she's never heard of this part of my family, they must be really estranged.
2. I've gotten some pretty kick ass presents this year from the kids. To date (I still have tomorrow to bring in loot): a subway gift certificate, an enitre basket of fancy apples, a candle, a box of toffee, a huge platter of cookies and fudge, a candy cane holder that's shaped like santa claus, and a big bag of homemade Chex Mix. HECK YEAH! These kids rock!
3. I'm standing in my bedroom at my tall dresser typing this blog. I'm wearing jeans, a grey and plum striped t-shirt, and granny panties. For all of those pervs out there who are dying to know where I'm typing from and what I'm wearing.
4. My dogs are super cute. No reason, they just are.
5. I have to make 300 Christmas cookies tonight....okay I don't HAVE to, I want to. I'm feeling very ambitious.
6. This year we had to buy for my brother's girlfriend and her son. It was hard. We barely know them. And my brother sucks at ideas. He can't even give us any for himself! Not to mention the fact that we feel like we practically mortgage our house to buy gifts for everyone anyways and need to know what to get him so that we can budget. We refuse to buy on credit this year when we are so close to being able to buy our way out of it!! Grrr...."Most wonderful time of the year"....must keep saying that....
7. Today is my 4 year wedding anniversary. We're so poor because of Christmas that it's doubtful as to whether we'll go out tonight. We're planning on celebrating with Karen and Jim in a couple of weeks at our favorite restaurant, Benihanna's. I'm a little sad though that we're not going closer to our anniversary as we have the last three years. Unfortunately money and time are a factor. We can't go this weekend because Kendall has to work. And next weekend is Christmas. Bummer. Maybe I'll try to drag him out to our favorite Mexican place instead. It's cheap enough. And it's now smoke free!
I'll post about my loot more tomorrow after I see what else I rake in...hehehe.
2. I've gotten some pretty kick ass presents this year from the kids. To date (I still have tomorrow to bring in loot): a subway gift certificate, an enitre basket of fancy apples, a candle, a box of toffee, a huge platter of cookies and fudge, a candy cane holder that's shaped like santa claus, and a big bag of homemade Chex Mix. HECK YEAH! These kids rock!
3. I'm standing in my bedroom at my tall dresser typing this blog. I'm wearing jeans, a grey and plum striped t-shirt, and granny panties. For all of those pervs out there who are dying to know where I'm typing from and what I'm wearing.
4. My dogs are super cute. No reason, they just are.
5. I have to make 300 Christmas cookies tonight....okay I don't HAVE to, I want to. I'm feeling very ambitious.
6. This year we had to buy for my brother's girlfriend and her son. It was hard. We barely know them. And my brother sucks at ideas. He can't even give us any for himself! Not to mention the fact that we feel like we practically mortgage our house to buy gifts for everyone anyways and need to know what to get him so that we can budget. We refuse to buy on credit this year when we are so close to being able to buy our way out of it!! Grrr...."Most wonderful time of the year"....must keep saying that....
7. Today is my 4 year wedding anniversary. We're so poor because of Christmas that it's doubtful as to whether we'll go out tonight. We're planning on celebrating with Karen and Jim in a couple of weeks at our favorite restaurant, Benihanna's. I'm a little sad though that we're not going closer to our anniversary as we have the last three years. Unfortunately money and time are a factor. We can't go this weekend because Kendall has to work. And next weekend is Christmas. Bummer. Maybe I'll try to drag him out to our favorite Mexican place instead. It's cheap enough. And it's now smoke free!
I'll post about my loot more tomorrow after I see what else I rake in...hehehe.
Monday, December 11, 2006
SHHHH! Don't tell anyone my secret
Lisa's recipe for amazing Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies:
1. Buy a tube of Pillsbury Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
2. Lie and tell everyone you made them from scratch
HA!
Okay, seriously, this is one of my best stories as of late. So Kendall and I fully intended on making the cookies from scratch Saturday afternoon. Our cleaning took so long though that we ran out of time and had to go to the store to buy the "fake" dough. We promised each other we wouldn't tell anyone we didn't make them ourselves and even hid the wrappers after we finished making them.
To our credit, we did have to scoop out the dough, roll it into balls and rub them in sugar and then shove the kisses in right after they came out of the oven......it was really hard work...haha.
So the funniest part is, everyone couldn't stop eatting them. The entire platter was gone after our exchange. One girl even went so far as to ask for my recipe. True to our promise, we didn't tell a soul, and I even gave the girl my Crisco recipe. Honestly, they do taste the same if you do it the way my mom does with lots of extra peanut butter.
I finally couldn't help myself, and the next day I called Jessica S and told her the story. She wasn't at the party and therefore didn't know. She couldn't stop laughing. I made her promise not to tell anyone. I'm not even telling Jessica G-J! She would totally narc on me!
HA!
1. Buy a tube of Pillsbury Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
2. Lie and tell everyone you made them from scratch
HA!
Okay, seriously, this is one of my best stories as of late. So Kendall and I fully intended on making the cookies from scratch Saturday afternoon. Our cleaning took so long though that we ran out of time and had to go to the store to buy the "fake" dough. We promised each other we wouldn't tell anyone we didn't make them ourselves and even hid the wrappers after we finished making them.
To our credit, we did have to scoop out the dough, roll it into balls and rub them in sugar and then shove the kisses in right after they came out of the oven......it was really hard work...haha.
So the funniest part is, everyone couldn't stop eatting them. The entire platter was gone after our exchange. One girl even went so far as to ask for my recipe. True to our promise, we didn't tell a soul, and I even gave the girl my Crisco recipe. Honestly, they do taste the same if you do it the way my mom does with lots of extra peanut butter.
I finally couldn't help myself, and the next day I called Jessica S and told her the story. She wasn't at the party and therefore didn't know. She couldn't stop laughing. I made her promise not to tell anyone. I'm not even telling Jessica G-J! She would totally narc on me!
HA!
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Church Christmas Party
So it's 1AM and everyone has been gone for an hour now. I can't believe that people stayed so late! While it wasn't my favorite gathering, it was much better than I anticipated it turning out.
We went to Fudruckers for dinner. Not my choice for a holiday celebration, and the food defintely didn't agree with Kendall and I. I thought my food sucked quite honestly. Everyone headed back to our house about 7:30. We were hosting the cookie exchange and the games. My cookies were quite the hit, there was only one left on the tray after we all exchanged. Good thing I kept back a big container of them for Kendall!
We played the Newlywed Game, which you can actually get questions for online. Some of which are extremely hilarious and with the right crowd of people you could get pretty crazy. We did not get crazy. And I have to say, that I was having an "Annoyed with Jessica G-J" night. Normally we get along just fine, and I usually just ignore her tendency to get a little overbearing and bossy. But tonight it kind of hurt my feelings. She kept cutting me off when I was trying to read the questions. Or she would steal them away from me by asking them more quickly. I was trying to be fair and take turns, and sometimes Jessica can't handle that. On top of that, we were having problems getting the laptop to work to pull up the questions off the Internet. Instead of being nice and saying, "It's okay Lisa, just take your time and fix it," I felt like she acted annoyed and disappointed that I wasn't organized enough for her. *sigh* It was frustrating. And hard not to say anything in front of everyone.
Speaking of everyone, we had 17 people in our house! I think that's more than I had for Karen's bridal shower. It was insane! After all of the games were played, we ate cookies, exchanged a few, and talked about my house. Everyone was very gracious and flattering about our decorating taste. And everyone really liked our holiday decorations, which made all of the effort worth it. Plus, our house is SUPER clean! I wish it would stay this way...it won't. We know it.
Anyways, I'm rambling. Kendall pulled out Guitar Hero for one of the guys at 10, thinking that most people would be leaving soon and that it would be okay to take it out. Well, it was a HUGE hit. Everyone wanted to take a turn playing and it was a lot of fun. Then, of course, they made me and Kendall play. And that was just hilarious because they were laughing at how serious we are and how we must have played for way too many hours to be that good at the game. Many people left saying they would like to come back to play again. I'm thinking we need to have a Playstation 2 Game Night. We now have Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution (which people really wanted to play but we said no because of room), and we asked for Karaoke Revolution for Christmas. Could be the makings of a really good time.
Overall, a good night. The most stressful part is still Jessica G-J. Ever since the "church rift" she has beebn different in that setting. And it upsets me. She's just not the same. And it feels tense to me, and she doesn't seem as happy, which means that I'm not as comfortable or happy. I really miss some of our friends being at church functions. I hope this doesn't continue to be stressful, or I may end up spending even less time at church functions.
Well, I think that's enough. Like I said, we had fun, I got to know a couple of newer people better and really like them, and now I think it's time to hit the sack. At least we don't have to get up early for church because we're having an early lunch with Kendall's friend Rachel.
We went to Fudruckers for dinner. Not my choice for a holiday celebration, and the food defintely didn't agree with Kendall and I. I thought my food sucked quite honestly. Everyone headed back to our house about 7:30. We were hosting the cookie exchange and the games. My cookies were quite the hit, there was only one left on the tray after we all exchanged. Good thing I kept back a big container of them for Kendall!
We played the Newlywed Game, which you can actually get questions for online. Some of which are extremely hilarious and with the right crowd of people you could get pretty crazy. We did not get crazy. And I have to say, that I was having an "Annoyed with Jessica G-J" night. Normally we get along just fine, and I usually just ignore her tendency to get a little overbearing and bossy. But tonight it kind of hurt my feelings. She kept cutting me off when I was trying to read the questions. Or she would steal them away from me by asking them more quickly. I was trying to be fair and take turns, and sometimes Jessica can't handle that. On top of that, we were having problems getting the laptop to work to pull up the questions off the Internet. Instead of being nice and saying, "It's okay Lisa, just take your time and fix it," I felt like she acted annoyed and disappointed that I wasn't organized enough for her. *sigh* It was frustrating. And hard not to say anything in front of everyone.
Speaking of everyone, we had 17 people in our house! I think that's more than I had for Karen's bridal shower. It was insane! After all of the games were played, we ate cookies, exchanged a few, and talked about my house. Everyone was very gracious and flattering about our decorating taste. And everyone really liked our holiday decorations, which made all of the effort worth it. Plus, our house is SUPER clean! I wish it would stay this way...it won't. We know it.
Anyways, I'm rambling. Kendall pulled out Guitar Hero for one of the guys at 10, thinking that most people would be leaving soon and that it would be okay to take it out. Well, it was a HUGE hit. Everyone wanted to take a turn playing and it was a lot of fun. Then, of course, they made me and Kendall play. And that was just hilarious because they were laughing at how serious we are and how we must have played for way too many hours to be that good at the game. Many people left saying they would like to come back to play again. I'm thinking we need to have a Playstation 2 Game Night. We now have Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution (which people really wanted to play but we said no because of room), and we asked for Karaoke Revolution for Christmas. Could be the makings of a really good time.
Overall, a good night. The most stressful part is still Jessica G-J. Ever since the "church rift" she has beebn different in that setting. And it upsets me. She's just not the same. And it feels tense to me, and she doesn't seem as happy, which means that I'm not as comfortable or happy. I really miss some of our friends being at church functions. I hope this doesn't continue to be stressful, or I may end up spending even less time at church functions.
Well, I think that's enough. Like I said, we had fun, I got to know a couple of newer people better and really like them, and now I think it's time to hit the sack. At least we don't have to get up early for church because we're having an early lunch with Kendall's friend Rachel.
Friday, December 08, 2006
Where in the World (or My House) Am I Posting From?
So we bought ourselves a laptop for Christmas. It got delivered to work today. And now we have our wireless router all set up and running! And, of course, we're waiting to wrap the laptop up until the day we open presents with Kendall's family. HA!
Here's the best part in my opinion...now you'll never know where I am when I'm writing my blog. I could be sitting on my living room couch. I could be munching on breakfast at my dining room table. I could be laying in my bed...naked. I could even be on the toilet...HA!
Personally, my favorite thought is me on the "john", typing "shit". LOL! God, I'm so freaking hilarious!
Here's the best part in my opinion...now you'll never know where I am when I'm writing my blog. I could be sitting on my living room couch. I could be munching on breakfast at my dining room table. I could be laying in my bed...naked. I could even be on the toilet...HA!
Personally, my favorite thought is me on the "john", typing "shit". LOL! God, I'm so freaking hilarious!
Thursday, December 07, 2006
My Favorite Song Right Now
So if you watch Veronica Mars you've heard this song in the commercials for the show. It's freaking awesome! If you can get to my MySpace page, I've got the song playing when the page opens. If anyone knows where I can get a download of this, please tell me. I'm dying to have it! I put the lyrics below so you could understand why I really appreciate the song. It's hilarious! (And kinda naughty...) Plus, if you're a Veronica fan like me, it truely embodies Veronica herself and her badass attitude. Jessica G-J and I have decided that we want to be best friends with Veronica Mars. She ROCKS!
Megan McCauley Tap That Lyrics
(feat. The Velvet Goldmine)
Yeah uh uh uh Huh huh
oh snap, look at that there you go
where you at
slow it down, baby (baby)
we should go crazy (Crazy)
touch you tease you (uh huh)
anything you wanna do (uh huh)
I'll give it to you just how you like it boy (What!)
(bridge)
Don't play dumb you know you wanted to
fill my cup,
that's what we came to do
I'm no monster keep that in your head
don't forget you know I'm gonna get YOU
(Refrain)
I'ma teach you how to scream my name
you're never gonna get away from me
Yeah, I kinda like that
I wanna tap that
you can bet I'm gonna get you (YOU)
Come over here and play with me
Let me be your tiny fantasy
Yeah I kinda like that I wanna tap that
you can bet I'm gonna get you (laughs)
Yeah! Yow!
Heads are so priceless (uh huh)
my diamonds flawless (flawless)
Kiss the ring show me(show me)
I 'm you're one and only (only)
cuz in a few I'ma show ya somethin new (Baby)
and we can do what you really wanna do (What!)
(Refrain)
I'm gonna get you I know you wanna talk to me
Just tell me what you wanna see and maybe we can do some things
that sometimes lead to other things
and yes I want that show me
all about that show me
you got what it takes to come with me
and do it tonight tonight I'm gonna get YOU!
Megan McCauley Tap That Lyrics
(feat. The Velvet Goldmine)
Yeah uh uh uh Huh huh
oh snap, look at that there you go
where you at
slow it down, baby (baby)
we should go crazy (Crazy)
touch you tease you (uh huh)
anything you wanna do (uh huh)
I'll give it to you just how you like it boy (What!)
(bridge)
Don't play dumb you know you wanted to
fill my cup,
that's what we came to do
I'm no monster keep that in your head
don't forget you know I'm gonna get YOU
(Refrain)
I'ma teach you how to scream my name
you're never gonna get away from me
Yeah, I kinda like that
I wanna tap that
you can bet I'm gonna get you (YOU)
Come over here and play with me
Let me be your tiny fantasy
Yeah I kinda like that I wanna tap that
you can bet I'm gonna get you (laughs)
Yeah! Yow!
Heads are so priceless (uh huh)
my diamonds flawless (flawless)
Kiss the ring show me(show me)
I 'm you're one and only (only)
cuz in a few I'ma show ya somethin new (Baby)
and we can do what you really wanna do (What!)
(Refrain)
I'm gonna get you I know you wanna talk to me
Just tell me what you wanna see and maybe we can do some things
that sometimes lead to other things
and yes I want that show me
all about that show me
you got what it takes to come with me
and do it tonight tonight I'm gonna get YOU!
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
The Courting of a Doctor
So I got home today and found a big box on the front porch. I had no idea who it was from. When I got closer, I saw that it was a gift of some sort. The box was sent to "Kendall Erdahl M. D." I assumed it was from his hospital.
Once I tore open the gift card I discovered that it was actually from Upper Valley Medical Center in Troy. They've called him about several job opportunities and they know he wants to move to the area. The box was labeled from a wine and basket company. It was also labeled as, "The Crowd Pleaser".
Boy was it ever! Here are some pictures of what was inside the box. HECK YEAH! Kendall needs to apply for jobs like this more often!
Please note, if you can, the Ghiardelli and Godiva chocolates. YUM! There is also a jar of fancy olives, some cheese spread, smoked salmon, tea, assorted crackers, peanut brittle, sugar cookies, and several other wonderful chocolatey items. He really needs to take a job up there!
Once I tore open the gift card I discovered that it was actually from Upper Valley Medical Center in Troy. They've called him about several job opportunities and they know he wants to move to the area. The box was labeled from a wine and basket company. It was also labeled as, "The Crowd Pleaser".
Boy was it ever! Here are some pictures of what was inside the box. HECK YEAH! Kendall needs to apply for jobs like this more often!
Please note, if you can, the Ghiardelli and Godiva chocolates. YUM! There is also a jar of fancy olives, some cheese spread, smoked salmon, tea, assorted crackers, peanut brittle, sugar cookies, and several other wonderful chocolatey items. He really needs to take a job up there!
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
This one is for Sarah F
I went to the UD basketball game tonight with Jessica G-J. We had a good time, but I think we scared away the guys sitting around us. Maybe we were too chatty. It wasn't an exciting game, so we had to entertain ourselves by talking about our days and crowd watching.
Throughout the game, Jessica would tease me or ask me questions about the pep band. At one point in the game she said, "Oh! Who is that crazy man running around on the sidelines!" Obviously, it was Willie. He was wearing this god-awful powder blue track suit. Now I will grant him the fact that he wasn't wearing his usual red foam finger, and he wasn't waving any signs at the crowd.
And then the second half of the game arrived......
We had noticed that Willie had changed into a new track suit. Nothing spectacular, it just seemed to be primary UD colors. Then there was a time out with 10 minutes left in the half. Suddenly the band started playing and I see this flashing light coming from across the other side of the arena. Yes, it was Willie. His new track suit had flashing lights glowing from beneath the fabric. It was horrendous. It was Willie.
We decided to leave the game around the 8 minute mark and started heading for the main floor. Not 2 seconds after we step onto the concourse, Willie walks by. So of course, I tap him on the shoulder. He fakes a face of recognition and hugs me, in his scarey track suit. We spent a few minutes talking and to his credit, he did remember my first name if not my last. I must say though, up close his jacket and pants were even scarier.
Throughout the game, Jessica would tease me or ask me questions about the pep band. At one point in the game she said, "Oh! Who is that crazy man running around on the sidelines!" Obviously, it was Willie. He was wearing this god-awful powder blue track suit. Now I will grant him the fact that he wasn't wearing his usual red foam finger, and he wasn't waving any signs at the crowd.
And then the second half of the game arrived......
We had noticed that Willie had changed into a new track suit. Nothing spectacular, it just seemed to be primary UD colors. Then there was a time out with 10 minutes left in the half. Suddenly the band started playing and I see this flashing light coming from across the other side of the arena. Yes, it was Willie. His new track suit had flashing lights glowing from beneath the fabric. It was horrendous. It was Willie.
We decided to leave the game around the 8 minute mark and started heading for the main floor. Not 2 seconds after we step onto the concourse, Willie walks by. So of course, I tap him on the shoulder. He fakes a face of recognition and hugs me, in his scarey track suit. We spent a few minutes talking and to his credit, he did remember my first name if not my last. I must say though, up close his jacket and pants were even scarier.
Monday, November 27, 2006
Friday, November 24, 2006
Black Friday, Not So Black
My mom and I went shopping today. We hit the outlet malls and picked up on some incredible deals on some clothes. We also bought some Christmas presents for various family members. I cleaned up on movies at Target and Best Buy. I even got a pair of my Waterford crystal wine glasses for half price, which is unheard of. Heck yeah! But the most significant part of the day came at the very end.
At the end of a very long day of shopping (almost 10 p.m.) we were diverted from our route home by a police blockade. We had to pull into the Meijer to get around the 10 plus patrol cars blocking our side of the road. It must have been God's way of directing us to the homeless man. He was sitting in his wheelchair with only one leg, looking very sad and dirty, holding a sign that simply said, "Hungry! Please help me!" We rolled down the window and asked him if he wanted us to buy him anything to eat. He immediately said, "Yes!" and we asked him what he wanted. I told him I would buy him anything he asked for.
Of all the things he could have asked for, he wanted Chinese food. He said he hadn't had it in a very long time. I asked him specifically what he wanted, and he seemed to appreciate that. We bought him a very large portion of the food he asked for. When we pulled back up to the light where he was sitting, he immediately recognized us and rolled very quickly to the car. He seemed so happy and sadly, so hungry. He said, "God bless you," several times and we said the same back and told him we hoped he would keep warm.
What really made me sad, was watching him excitedly roll his way over to the Meijer spotlights to eat his food. He really was hungry and not just begging for money. You could see it in his face and his body language. I know that so many times it's easier to say, "He could get a job," and just drive away. But this man truely appreciated what we did for him. I just pray that he stays warm and that other people are as willing to help him as we were. What's truely strange was that it upset me more to help him and see how greatful he really was than it would have been to just pull away and forget him. While in some ways it felt like a bittersweet end to the day, it is something I will never forget. And it's something I will definitely do again.
At the end of a very long day of shopping (almost 10 p.m.) we were diverted from our route home by a police blockade. We had to pull into the Meijer to get around the 10 plus patrol cars blocking our side of the road. It must have been God's way of directing us to the homeless man. He was sitting in his wheelchair with only one leg, looking very sad and dirty, holding a sign that simply said, "Hungry! Please help me!" We rolled down the window and asked him if he wanted us to buy him anything to eat. He immediately said, "Yes!" and we asked him what he wanted. I told him I would buy him anything he asked for.
Of all the things he could have asked for, he wanted Chinese food. He said he hadn't had it in a very long time. I asked him specifically what he wanted, and he seemed to appreciate that. We bought him a very large portion of the food he asked for. When we pulled back up to the light where he was sitting, he immediately recognized us and rolled very quickly to the car. He seemed so happy and sadly, so hungry. He said, "God bless you," several times and we said the same back and told him we hoped he would keep warm.
What really made me sad, was watching him excitedly roll his way over to the Meijer spotlights to eat his food. He really was hungry and not just begging for money. You could see it in his face and his body language. I know that so many times it's easier to say, "He could get a job," and just drive away. But this man truely appreciated what we did for him. I just pray that he stays warm and that other people are as willing to help him as we were. What's truely strange was that it upset me more to help him and see how greatful he really was than it would have been to just pull away and forget him. While in some ways it felt like a bittersweet end to the day, it is something I will never forget. And it's something I will definitely do again.
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving
First, the serious part. This year, more than anything else, I am thankful for my husband. We've gone through so much trying to start a family, with so much heartache and frustration, and he's always been there. He has supported every choice I've made. Through it all, even the Crazy Clomid, we haven't lost that "lovin' feeling".
Now the funny part.
5 Ways You Know Your Turkey is a Hooker:
1. It has a big "hole" that you can stuff things in
2. When you warm it up you find things already stuffed in there. They call it a "neck" (using air quotes).
3. It has big breasts.
4. It doesn't take much to get it naked.
5. It can't keep its legs closed, especially when it's done.
I made this list up last night when I started getting slap happy over the food prep for today. I initially shared it with my mom over the phone. =)
Now the funny part.
5 Ways You Know Your Turkey is a Hooker:
1. It has a big "hole" that you can stuff things in
2. When you warm it up you find things already stuffed in there. They call it a "neck" (using air quotes).
3. It has big breasts.
4. It doesn't take much to get it naked.
5. It can't keep its legs closed, especially when it's done.
I made this list up last night when I started getting slap happy over the food prep for today. I initially shared it with my mom over the phone. =)
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Cyanide and Happiness
If you're ever bored and need a laugh, these guys put out some strange, and sometimes disturbing comics on a daily basis. Here are just a few examples. I hope you enjoy them. My favorites are the Addicting Beer and Boob Squeeze.
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So I Didn't Make the Pies Yet...
I got so involved in redesigning my blog that I've now spent the last two hours working on it. I've actually learned a little bit about HTML editting along the way. What do you think? It takes a little bit to actually load the graphics when I view it. Is it the same for you? I thought it actually looked pretty cool once the graphics loaded. I hope you do too.
One of Those Moments
I know it has to be the holidays and the fact that they really mark the time we've spent trying, but...
I'm having one of those moments where I can't stop thinking, "Why does everyone else seem to have a baby but me?" I went for a long time, at the beginning, living with the fear/paranoia that every time someone had good news, it was to tell me they were having a baby. I got over it.
Now I feel like I'm back to it. Maybe it's because we've decide to stop trying after February. I know that I'm ready to stop, February makes two years of heartache with no results. I know that we'll start the adoption process and still get a baby. I even know that we'll try again later after I've had a break and time to enjoy a baby, even if it's not biologically ours.
I think I'm just scared that I'll never get to experience pregnancy. And the intimacy between a mother and her baby as it grows within her. I think that's why I'm panicking. Okay, time to go make pies so I stop thinking about this....
Oh and I better write this...While I appreciate the humor behind the situation, please don't leave a comment that says, "You know you'll get pregnant as soon as you stop trying!" Because it won't make me feel better. Better yet, maybe I don't need any comments for this post. It just felt good to get off my chest.
I'm having one of those moments where I can't stop thinking, "Why does everyone else seem to have a baby but me?" I went for a long time, at the beginning, living with the fear/paranoia that every time someone had good news, it was to tell me they were having a baby. I got over it.
Now I feel like I'm back to it. Maybe it's because we've decide to stop trying after February. I know that I'm ready to stop, February makes two years of heartache with no results. I know that we'll start the adoption process and still get a baby. I even know that we'll try again later after I've had a break and time to enjoy a baby, even if it's not biologically ours.
I think I'm just scared that I'll never get to experience pregnancy. And the intimacy between a mother and her baby as it grows within her. I think that's why I'm panicking. Okay, time to go make pies so I stop thinking about this....
Oh and I better write this...While I appreciate the humor behind the situation, please don't leave a comment that says, "You know you'll get pregnant as soon as you stop trying!" Because it won't make me feel better. Better yet, maybe I don't need any comments for this post. It just felt good to get off my chest.
Monday, November 20, 2006
B*tching
I've been trying really hard as of the last few months to not make my blog a place where I just complain all the time. Who wants to read that every time they check my blog? But today, I just can't help but vent my frustrations.
1. School- My coworkers are getting annoying for some reason. Maybe it's the lack of organization and all of the things I feel lik we do at the last minute. Maybe it's the fact that some of the people on my team aren't pulling their weight this year. I don't know, but this is the first time in three years I've really been annoyed by them all.
2. Hormones- Mine feel like they're everywhere right now.
3. The holidays- I'm not even really that excited about them this year. They just feel like a lot of work. We haven't even begin our shopping. And I'm just not excited about Thanksgiving at all. Quite frankly, the holidays make me feel like crying.
4. Did I mention my hormones? Because I think they're why I'm not happy about the holidays.
5. LOST- What the crap!?!?! Off until February? Whose crappy idea was that? It's one of my favorite TV shows and now I don't even have that for the next three months.
So I guess I don't have that much to complain about, but it feels like a lot when I think about it. I don't really have anyone to complain to but Kendall in person. I don't want to complain to Jessica because she has her own stresses right now, and mine seem very trivial in comparison to hers. Jessica S. is dealing with a new baby right now, she doesn't need the complaints either. *sigh* Okay, I'll stop.
1. School- My coworkers are getting annoying for some reason. Maybe it's the lack of organization and all of the things I feel lik we do at the last minute. Maybe it's the fact that some of the people on my team aren't pulling their weight this year. I don't know, but this is the first time in three years I've really been annoyed by them all.
2. Hormones- Mine feel like they're everywhere right now.
3. The holidays- I'm not even really that excited about them this year. They just feel like a lot of work. We haven't even begin our shopping. And I'm just not excited about Thanksgiving at all. Quite frankly, the holidays make me feel like crying.
4. Did I mention my hormones? Because I think they're why I'm not happy about the holidays.
5. LOST- What the crap!?!?! Off until February? Whose crappy idea was that? It's one of my favorite TV shows and now I don't even have that for the next three months.
So I guess I don't have that much to complain about, but it feels like a lot when I think about it. I don't really have anyone to complain to but Kendall in person. I don't want to complain to Jessica because she has her own stresses right now, and mine seem very trivial in comparison to hers. Jessica S. is dealing with a new baby right now, she doesn't need the complaints either. *sigh* Okay, I'll stop.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
A Dog and his Duck
This is a dog truely obessed. The last time we saw him this crazy about a toy was when we gave him the bunny rabbit that made the same grunting noise as this duck. He sleeps with it, he eats with it near him, he even takes it outside when he's taking a sh*t. Seriously, we have to go buy him another one for Christmas, because today, he killed the grunting bag inside of it. He's still holding it though. As a matter of fact, when he's not chewing on it to make it grunt (which he believes is his way of killing it), he's licking it.
Friday, November 17, 2006
Postings
I had a post all written up on Wednesday and never got around to posting it. I won't bother to now, as I'm not really cranky anymore, like I was when I wrote it. I fully intended to write one yesterday. I thought about it on my way to work. Then I found out yesterday that a friend at work has breast cancer. We were all shocked. I imagine this woman as my ideal mother-in-law. I've even told her that before. She's wonderful. It just made me think about my mom all over again when Anne told us. I cried when she told me and then felt pretty bad all afternoon. So I never got to posting.
Today was craziness at work. I felt busy all day. At the end of the day my homeroom found out that it won another contest! We had the best OSU vs. Michigan door and my kids won goody bags. They were really excited. The other kids were like, "Mrs. Erdahl's room is going to win all year!" We were very excited. Here's a picture of our door. I should mention that the Brutus was hand drawn by a student. She's so talented!
I don't have anything excitimg to write about. I could gripe about the fact that I'm spending my Thanksgiving with just my in-laws. But I've already over-griped that one at home. We have to clean our house (BIG TIME) this weekend and shop for Thanksgiving. Nothing too exciting. We'll go to a friend's house for the game.
Today was craziness at work. I felt busy all day. At the end of the day my homeroom found out that it won another contest! We had the best OSU vs. Michigan door and my kids won goody bags. They were really excited. The other kids were like, "Mrs. Erdahl's room is going to win all year!" We were very excited. Here's a picture of our door. I should mention that the Brutus was hand drawn by a student. She's so talented!
I don't have anything excitimg to write about. I could gripe about the fact that I'm spending my Thanksgiving with just my in-laws. But I've already over-griped that one at home. We have to clean our house (BIG TIME) this weekend and shop for Thanksgiving. Nothing too exciting. We'll go to a friend's house for the game.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Ick! I'm Sick!
So I didn't post yesterday because I was so miserable. I have a crusty nose now from all the blowing I've been doing. I'm been on my antibiotic for almost 48 hours and I will say it is helping, but man, this sucks.
I guess it's good that I'm not missing work over it, but I hope this week goes by fast. That way I'm only two days away from my 5 day Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaking of which, I'll offially be making my first Thanksgiving turkey all by myself. I must say I'm a little intimidated. I'm going to keep my mom on speakerphone while I prepare it. Which reminds me, I really should go get a bird.....
Back to blowing my nose....
I guess it's good that I'm not missing work over it, but I hope this week goes by fast. That way I'm only two days away from my 5 day Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaking of which, I'll offially be making my first Thanksgiving turkey all by myself. I must say I'm a little intimidated. I'm going to keep my mom on speakerphone while I prepare it. Which reminds me, I really should go get a bird.....
Back to blowing my nose....
Friday, November 10, 2006
Bragging.....
HA! I posted before midnight, so it counts for Friday!
My cold has gotten worse. Stuffy head, runny nose, tooth aches. I already started taking my antibiotic in anticipation of a sinus infection. It sure is nice to live with a doctor....
My cold has gotten worse. Stuffy head, runny nose, tooth aches. I already started taking my antibiotic in anticipation of a sinus infection. It sure is nice to live with a doctor....
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Life as a Rockstar
This month's list is devoted to foods that I will eat when I am living like a rockstar....
1. Freshly made muffins every morning- by the maid of course
2. Eggs Bendict every Sunday
3. Prime rib on a weekly basis
4. Those cute little red potatoes that you eat whole
5. Godiva chocolate
6. Morrell Mushroom Quiche
7. Cornish Game Hen
8. Escargot
9. Caviar (who cares if 8 and 9 are gross? Rich people have more expensive taste buds, that's why they like it!)
10. Anything made in France
It's not my best list, but still amusing. I promise next month's list will be better!
1. Freshly made muffins every morning- by the maid of course
2. Eggs Bendict every Sunday
3. Prime rib on a weekly basis
4. Those cute little red potatoes that you eat whole
5. Godiva chocolate
6. Morrell Mushroom Quiche
7. Cornish Game Hen
8. Escargot
9. Caviar (who cares if 8 and 9 are gross? Rich people have more expensive taste buds, that's why they like it!)
10. Anything made in France
It's not my best list, but still amusing. I promise next month's list will be better!
The Stewardess- DC Part 2
Yes, I'm sorry, I can't call her a flight attendant, she was that big of a bitch. She arrived the same night as the police officer.
We were putting our boys to bed, making sure everyone had what they needed. We were also putting a piece of tape across the door and molding at each room so that if the kids tried to sneak out, the tape would rip and we would know in the morning. We were doing our best to be quiet, but when you have a floor full of 8th graders, there's going to be some noise. It was only 10 p.m.
This stupid stewardess arrives on the boy's floor and tells "The Boss" (he had a busy night) that our kids better keep quiet, or she'll call the cops. He suggests that she might want to get a room on another floor if she's worried, because we'd be waking the kids pretty early. She responded by telling him that she didn't need to listen to a drunk (he had a plastic cup filled with water in his hand) and she was tired after a very long day. She again threatened to call the cops if we were too loud.
I went to help on the girls floor a while later, and while we were completing the same procedure, the same stewardess sticks her head out of a door on that floor! She looked at us and said, "Girls! Could you please be quiet! Some of us have to get up early!" We turned and gave her "the look" that all teachers possess and proceeded to inform her that we were the chaperones and we were doing our best to keep quiet.
I went down to the desk to complain, and apparently, they were already well aware of the situation. She had obviously taken our advice and switched rooms. But she must have been quite the bitch because they just placed her on our other floor of kids. The 7th floor was apparently empty. After talking with the desk staff, I felt justice had been served.
We were putting our boys to bed, making sure everyone had what they needed. We were also putting a piece of tape across the door and molding at each room so that if the kids tried to sneak out, the tape would rip and we would know in the morning. We were doing our best to be quiet, but when you have a floor full of 8th graders, there's going to be some noise. It was only 10 p.m.
This stupid stewardess arrives on the boy's floor and tells "The Boss" (he had a busy night) that our kids better keep quiet, or she'll call the cops. He suggests that she might want to get a room on another floor if she's worried, because we'd be waking the kids pretty early. She responded by telling him that she didn't need to listen to a drunk (he had a plastic cup filled with water in his hand) and she was tired after a very long day. She again threatened to call the cops if we were too loud.
I went to help on the girls floor a while later, and while we were completing the same procedure, the same stewardess sticks her head out of a door on that floor! She looked at us and said, "Girls! Could you please be quiet! Some of us have to get up early!" We turned and gave her "the look" that all teachers possess and proceeded to inform her that we were the chaperones and we were doing our best to keep quiet.
I went down to the desk to complain, and apparently, they were already well aware of the situation. She had obviously taken our advice and switched rooms. But she must have been quite the bitch because they just placed her on our other floor of kids. The 7th floor was apparently empty. After talking with the desk staff, I felt justice had been served.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
The Cell Phone Incident
Here is part one of my DC story. Yes, it has to be broken into parts....
The night we left for DC a parent approached a chaperone and informed the chaperone that her daughter would be bringing her cell phone on the trip. The chaperone reminded the mother that cell phones were not permitted on the trip. The parent proceeded to flip out and stated that it wasn't in the paperwork that it was forbidden. So basically the deal came down from our principal (The Boss) that if we saw the phone we were taking it, if we didn't see it, we didn't care.
Obviously, it became an issue, or there would be no story here. We were set to visit the White House first thing. We told all of the kids over and over again not to bring ANYTHING to the White House because you couldn't take it in. Not even chaperones were taking cell phones, etc. Dumb a$$ "student" brings hers. It then gets confiscated by White House security as we are being screened. They were nice enough to give it to The Boss instead of keeping it, which they had every right to do.
Later that evening, the student appears at the The Boss's hotel door stating that her parents wish to speak with him, please call. He does, and the parents proceed to inform him that if he doesn't give back the cell phone IMMEDIATELY, they will call the DC police dept. and file theft charges. He politely took the time to explain to them that it is school policy that cell phones are not permitted. And DC is a school sponsored field trip so it falls under the jurisdiction of "school time". The parents wouldn't accept that. They threatened him again. Since it's The Boss's last year, he told it how it was and said, "You do what you need to do."
Not 30 minutes later...the police show up. The cop is laughing on her way out of the elevator. After hearing The Boss's side of the story, she laughed her way to the student's room. Even after speaking with the parent on the phone, the officer came back and told us that the parent still wanted to press charges. The officer's repsonse? "You'll need to drive the 700 miles here to file the paperwork."
The parent never showed, but we did all appreciate the laugh. So did the cop. Too bad we didn't get pictures of The Boss in handcuffs!
The night we left for DC a parent approached a chaperone and informed the chaperone that her daughter would be bringing her cell phone on the trip. The chaperone reminded the mother that cell phones were not permitted on the trip. The parent proceeded to flip out and stated that it wasn't in the paperwork that it was forbidden. So basically the deal came down from our principal (The Boss) that if we saw the phone we were taking it, if we didn't see it, we didn't care.
Obviously, it became an issue, or there would be no story here. We were set to visit the White House first thing. We told all of the kids over and over again not to bring ANYTHING to the White House because you couldn't take it in. Not even chaperones were taking cell phones, etc. Dumb a$$ "student" brings hers. It then gets confiscated by White House security as we are being screened. They were nice enough to give it to The Boss instead of keeping it, which they had every right to do.
Later that evening, the student appears at the The Boss's hotel door stating that her parents wish to speak with him, please call. He does, and the parents proceed to inform him that if he doesn't give back the cell phone IMMEDIATELY, they will call the DC police dept. and file theft charges. He politely took the time to explain to them that it is school policy that cell phones are not permitted. And DC is a school sponsored field trip so it falls under the jurisdiction of "school time". The parents wouldn't accept that. They threatened him again. Since it's The Boss's last year, he told it how it was and said, "You do what you need to do."
Not 30 minutes later...the police show up. The cop is laughing on her way out of the elevator. After hearing The Boss's side of the story, she laughed her way to the student's room. Even after speaking with the parent on the phone, the officer came back and told us that the parent still wanted to press charges. The officer's repsonse? "You'll need to drive the 700 miles here to file the paperwork."
The parent never showed, but we did all appreciate the laugh. So did the cop. Too bad we didn't get pictures of The Boss in handcuffs!
Monday, November 06, 2006
The Plot Thickens
So last night Jessica G-J calls me to tell me some big news. All of the pastors at our church quit yesterday. This basically means that even Jessica and Aaron are probably leaving.
While it's a relief in many ways, because now we can switch churches without hurting anyones feelings, it's also kinda sad. I called Jessica S. and told her we would like to go to church with them next Sunday. I hope we like it. Kendall would really rather go to a Methodist church that we used to attend. We might see if Jessica and Aaron want to check that out with us.
I promise to post about DC soon.
While it's a relief in many ways, because now we can switch churches without hurting anyones feelings, it's also kinda sad. I called Jessica S. and told her we would like to go to church with them next Sunday. I hope we like it. Kendall would really rather go to a Methodist church that we used to attend. We might see if Jessica and Aaron want to check that out with us.
I promise to post about DC soon.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Long, Long Week
Okay, I could post everything about my trip to DC, but I think I'll wait to do that until later this week, because I've already told the story too many times...and believe me, it's a good one. It involves the police showing at the hotel our first night and gobs of vomit...seriously. I'm never going on this trip again.
But I really need to vent about two other issues tonight....
1. F*cking mice. Yes, we still have them. We thought we killed them all. We let the dogs out when we got home tonight and Maggie went ape shit by the treat basket. So we pulled it out and most of the treat bags had giant holes gnawed in them and were completely empty. We cleaned it out, thinking all of the mice must be dead but we just didn't notice this mess. Then we went to pull out the drawer on the end table to clean out some things in there.
And that's when the mouse came crawling out.
We both screamed like little girls and ran. LOL! It was hilarious. When it finally disappeared back into the drawer we didn't know what to do. So we waited. And it appeared on the floor. I kept screaming at Maggie to eat it. She was too confused by the screaming. The little f*cker ran into the cold air return. So we set up new traps. This better be the last of them. We've left traps out for two weeks now and have caught nothing. Our mice are too smart. F*ckers......
2. The church situation. Pretty much all of our good friends have left the church now. We haven't attended Sunday school in a month. Now we found out tonight that our last pair of friends are going to probably move to Apex. We had a game night tonight with all of the old gang and Jessica G-J showed up. I was too afraid to call and ask her. The first half of the evening seemed to go very well. Jessica gets competitive and into the games and we won every time.
Then we split up into two rooms so Jessica S could breast feed Sam. That's when things got a little tense. Jessica G-J didn't talk very much. The rest of us tried our best to laugh and have a good time. When G-J finally left, we all talked about the church situation and what to do. We've decided to all get together at least once a month socially. We also discussed the possibility of a bible study every other week. I realized tonight how much I miss those girls. Not seeing them every week has made me sad. I really enjoyed the night. All of the other girls echoed my sentiments.
I talked with Kendall again about our situation and he still wants to stick it out a couple more times at Far Hills. But I really think we will end up leaving and heading to Apex. As petty as it sounds, I want to be where my friends are. And they all seem really happy at Apex. But it's still stressing me out.
Did I mention the f*cking mice?
But I really need to vent about two other issues tonight....
1. F*cking mice. Yes, we still have them. We thought we killed them all. We let the dogs out when we got home tonight and Maggie went ape shit by the treat basket. So we pulled it out and most of the treat bags had giant holes gnawed in them and were completely empty. We cleaned it out, thinking all of the mice must be dead but we just didn't notice this mess. Then we went to pull out the drawer on the end table to clean out some things in there.
And that's when the mouse came crawling out.
We both screamed like little girls and ran. LOL! It was hilarious. When it finally disappeared back into the drawer we didn't know what to do. So we waited. And it appeared on the floor. I kept screaming at Maggie to eat it. She was too confused by the screaming. The little f*cker ran into the cold air return. So we set up new traps. This better be the last of them. We've left traps out for two weeks now and have caught nothing. Our mice are too smart. F*ckers......
2. The church situation. Pretty much all of our good friends have left the church now. We haven't attended Sunday school in a month. Now we found out tonight that our last pair of friends are going to probably move to Apex. We had a game night tonight with all of the old gang and Jessica G-J showed up. I was too afraid to call and ask her. The first half of the evening seemed to go very well. Jessica gets competitive and into the games and we won every time.
Then we split up into two rooms so Jessica S could breast feed Sam. That's when things got a little tense. Jessica G-J didn't talk very much. The rest of us tried our best to laugh and have a good time. When G-J finally left, we all talked about the church situation and what to do. We've decided to all get together at least once a month socially. We also discussed the possibility of a bible study every other week. I realized tonight how much I miss those girls. Not seeing them every week has made me sad. I really enjoyed the night. All of the other girls echoed my sentiments.
I talked with Kendall again about our situation and he still wants to stick it out a couple more times at Far Hills. But I really think we will end up leaving and heading to Apex. As petty as it sounds, I want to be where my friends are. And they all seem really happy at Apex. But it's still stressing me out.
Did I mention the f*cking mice?
Sunday, October 29, 2006
So I won't be around for a week. We're leaving for DC on Tuesday. So no harrassing! I'll be shaking hands with GW (not really, I'd have to use hand sanitizer afterwards) and taking pictures in front of the million year old dinosaurs. Here are some fun pictures I found in a box in my basement to tide you over....
High School
Me and my friend Eric after our final choir concert
Me and my friend Eric after our final choir concert
The Gang
Why am I not this skinny anymore?
College 
Taken at the Bengals game, we're so freaking cute for band geeks!
1320
He still looks at me this way, and that's why we've been married 4 years...
Thursday, October 26, 2006
A Day to Bitch
Okay, seriously, I need to do a little bitching today. Nothing serious. Just some personal and some random complaints...
1. Stupid period. Again. For the 21st month in a row. GARRRR!!!!
2. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush signed a bill Thursday authorizing the construction of a fence along one-third of the 2,100-mile U.S. border with Mexico, but missing from the legislation is a means to pay for it. What the crap is this all about? I'm sure as hell not letting my tax dollars pay for a stupid ass fence to keep out Mexicans that will just climb over it or dig under it when my own freaking yard doesn't have a privacy fence yet. I live in a neighborhood with lots of illegal immigrants, do I get a cut of this fence? (I'm sorry, it's really rude, but it needs to be said.)
3. Co-workers who work during their lunch shouldn't try to eat lunch with people who just want to sit and goof off. I go to my friend's room every day to talk and laugh and discuss our favorite TV shows. I do NOT go there to talk about my job. One of my teammates has been showing up to lunch doing just that. Yesterday, Kendall came to eat lunch with me, and this co-worker would not stop bugging me about work, something we could have taken care of after school. Even Kendall was annoyed!
4. Britney Spears has named her second baby son Jayden James -- and that, finally, is official. The September 12 birth certificate, filed with Los Angeles officials this week, was the latest twist in the rumor and secrecy that marked the arrival of the once publicity-hungry pop star's second baby. Not only was the birth at a Los Angeles hospital never officially announced by Spears or her husband Kevin Federline, but sources close to the couple led the world's media to believe that the boy had been named Sutton Pierce. This is why you should have to apply for a license to have a baby. She would never pass the test.
5. I'm really getting tired of my neighbor across the street letting her friends park in my spot. Now I know it's a public street and open to any cars, but does she really need to let her friend park her car directly in front of my house? No. She could tell her to park down a block and walk, just like every other neighbor tells their guests to do out of courtesy.
6. DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- A powerful snowstorm dumped 18 inches of snow in parts of the Colorado mountains and spread eastward Thursday, snarling traffic and shutting down dozens of school districts. Where the hell is MY 18 inches of snow and a snow day?!?!?!?!!!
7. Stupid, stupid period.
8. One to add after the fact. I just went to Arby's to get a quick meal. Now I don't expect much of the fast food industry. However, I do expect a little respect, no matter where I am getting service. I also expect to get what I paid for. The Arby's I went to this evening gave me neither. My cup was covered in pop when the drive-thru employee tried to hand it to me. I politely asked him to clean off the cup. He sighed, and after shoving the cup and food back out the window at me, he slammed the window and I didn't get so much as a "Thank you" or "Have a nice evening". There's the rudeness. When I got the food home, it was cold, soggy, and drenched in mayo. I dealt with it, because there was no way I was going back, and turned to my cherry turnover. As I bit in, I discovered my cherry turnover was actually an apple turnover...and it too was soggy and cold. Not getting what I paid for. RI-DIC-U-LOUS.
1. Stupid period. Again. For the 21st month in a row. GARRRR!!!!
2. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush signed a bill Thursday authorizing the construction of a fence along one-third of the 2,100-mile U.S. border with Mexico, but missing from the legislation is a means to pay for it. What the crap is this all about? I'm sure as hell not letting my tax dollars pay for a stupid ass fence to keep out Mexicans that will just climb over it or dig under it when my own freaking yard doesn't have a privacy fence yet. I live in a neighborhood with lots of illegal immigrants, do I get a cut of this fence? (I'm sorry, it's really rude, but it needs to be said.)
3. Co-workers who work during their lunch shouldn't try to eat lunch with people who just want to sit and goof off. I go to my friend's room every day to talk and laugh and discuss our favorite TV shows. I do NOT go there to talk about my job. One of my teammates has been showing up to lunch doing just that. Yesterday, Kendall came to eat lunch with me, and this co-worker would not stop bugging me about work, something we could have taken care of after school. Even Kendall was annoyed!
4. Britney Spears has named her second baby son Jayden James -- and that, finally, is official. The September 12 birth certificate, filed with Los Angeles officials this week, was the latest twist in the rumor and secrecy that marked the arrival of the once publicity-hungry pop star's second baby. Not only was the birth at a Los Angeles hospital never officially announced by Spears or her husband Kevin Federline, but sources close to the couple led the world's media to believe that the boy had been named Sutton Pierce. This is why you should have to apply for a license to have a baby. She would never pass the test.
5. I'm really getting tired of my neighbor across the street letting her friends park in my spot. Now I know it's a public street and open to any cars, but does she really need to let her friend park her car directly in front of my house? No. She could tell her to park down a block and walk, just like every other neighbor tells their guests to do out of courtesy.
6. DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- A powerful snowstorm dumped 18 inches of snow in parts of the Colorado mountains and spread eastward Thursday, snarling traffic and shutting down dozens of school districts. Where the hell is MY 18 inches of snow and a snow day?!?!?!?!!!
7. Stupid, stupid period.
8. One to add after the fact. I just went to Arby's to get a quick meal. Now I don't expect much of the fast food industry. However, I do expect a little respect, no matter where I am getting service. I also expect to get what I paid for. The Arby's I went to this evening gave me neither. My cup was covered in pop when the drive-thru employee tried to hand it to me. I politely asked him to clean off the cup. He sighed, and after shoving the cup and food back out the window at me, he slammed the window and I didn't get so much as a "Thank you" or "Have a nice evening". There's the rudeness. When I got the food home, it was cold, soggy, and drenched in mayo. I dealt with it, because there was no way I was going back, and turned to my cherry turnover. As I bit in, I discovered my cherry turnover was actually an apple turnover...and it too was soggy and cold. Not getting what I paid for. RI-DIC-U-LOUS.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Monday, October 23, 2006
I'm seriously bored with my blog layout. Everytime I try to find something cool, I screw it up or am missing the process. Can someone please find me a new template that is cool looking and actually works? I'm looking for something I can literally cut and paste. And I'm worried that Beta Blogger won't let me do it at all. I seriously spent over an hour playing with it today in complete frustration.
I'm dying here people!
I'm dying here people!
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Pictures from our "Mouse Trap and Bowling Night"
Time to meet your maker little mice! 
We're so freaking cute!
Me, Kendall, and Josh
The cutest girls in the bowing alley...after we figured out how to zoom out...The first shot Jessica forgot that the camera was on zoom. We kept it for it's comedic value, but I can't show it here because my teeth look gross.Thursday, October 19, 2006
Life As a Rockstar- Part 1
I'm just in one of those moods today. Tomorrow is a field day at school and we're all dressing as the Grey's Anatomy cast, I'm McWitchy. Hehehe. I promised some friends that I would start my "Life as a Rockstar" column, something I vow to do at least once a month until Kendall graduates and starts his "real" job, when we'll start living like, of course, rockstars. I'll try to keep it under 20 a list. So here is this month's list of things we'll do when we're living like rockstars:
1. Use valet parking at malls, theaters, anywhere that offers it.
2. Use nothing but Evian water for bathing, doing laundry, washing dishes, mopping floors, etc.
3. Use $100 bills in the bathroom. (Do I really need to explain?)
4. Wear cashmere everthing. Straight down to the undies.
5. Eat prime rib at least once a week
6. Put platinum rims on our pimped out Cadillac Escalade
7. Start calling our house our "crib"
8. Use a money clip instead of a wallet to show off our wads of cash
9. Start referring to my boss as "my bitch"
10. Ram cars on the highway that piss me off
11. Own my own GAP
12. Have two walk in closets...for my shoes
13. Wear 2 carat diamond rings on both of my pinky fingers
14. Buy horses and diamonds
15. Dye Maggie's hair pink
1. Use valet parking at malls, theaters, anywhere that offers it.
2. Use nothing but Evian water for bathing, doing laundry, washing dishes, mopping floors, etc.
3. Use $100 bills in the bathroom. (Do I really need to explain?)
4. Wear cashmere everthing. Straight down to the undies.
5. Eat prime rib at least once a week
6. Put platinum rims on our pimped out Cadillac Escalade
7. Start calling our house our "crib"
8. Use a money clip instead of a wallet to show off our wads of cash
9. Start referring to my boss as "my bitch"
10. Ram cars on the highway that piss me off
11. Own my own GAP
12. Have two walk in closets...for my shoes
13. Wear 2 carat diamond rings on both of my pinky fingers
14. Buy horses and diamonds
15. Dye Maggie's hair pink
Monday, October 16, 2006
Mouse Trap!
My mom came down to visit for the long weekend and we had a great time.
Saturday was by far the highlight of the weekend. We started the day by making a huge pot of chili and re-covering my last two dining room chairs. While mom and I did that, Kendall went to pick up our free treadmill from a coworker. I LOVE free. It's actually a pretty nice machine.
Then we headed to the Yellow Springs Street Festival. It was packed. We walked around visiting all of the various craft booths and even went into the hemp store to giggle and try on hemp hats. My mother was fascinated that they actually had a store in Yellow Springs that sold all hemp products. We also found some great hand woven baskets at a ridiculously cheap price and scooped up a couple. On the way home from the festival, we witnessed a girl lighting up her bowl in the passenger seat of the car behind us. It was great! (If you know anything about Yellow Springs, the humor of this incident is not lost on you.) My mom even made pot smoking gestures out the back window at them. HA!
When we got home, I went to put all of my living room blankets into the large basket I had bought for them and found...mouse poop! I was freaked out. We had cleaned poop out of the house when we moved in and hadn't seen any in a long time. Two weeks ago we found some droppings in the same blankets and thought they had to be really old. I guess not. So I went out to the hardware store to buy mouse traps before our friends came over to chili.
The chili and the company was excellent, and at the end of the meal, while we all snacked on peanut butter cookies that my mom and I had made from scratch the day before, we all put our names on the bottom of a mouse trap. 8 traps, 8 names. We decided it would be like playing Survivor. If your trap caught a mouse, you were out of the game. We even took pictures of ourselves with the traps. (I'll post the one of me and Jessica when she gets it to me.) We set the traps with peanut butter and headed out bowling.
I had a really crappy night of bowling (I didn't break 100 in either game). When we got back home, I made mom and Kendall check the traps. All of the living room ones were clear. The two visible kitchen ones too. Then they looked in the corner, and there it was. The mouse. Caught by his leg and tail. Of course, they told me, and I cried. I went upstairs while they disposed of it, I couldn't bear to see it, esp. if it was still alive (they told me it wasn't). When I came back down I sadly asked, "Okay, who's trap was it?" Mom's response, "We weren't going to tell you....but I can't lie...it was yours!" Oh the irony! They also assured me that it was an ugly mouse. Nothing like Stuart Little. Buggy eyes with fangs, according to Kendall. When I called Jessica she said, "Oh good, it was ugly so it deserved to die!" We left the traps out again and caught nothing.
There are currently no other mice in any of the stinking traps. I'm the only one who has lost the freaking game! Stupid mouse...hopefully we don't find any more mouse poop and we can pitch the other traps soon!
Saturday was by far the highlight of the weekend. We started the day by making a huge pot of chili and re-covering my last two dining room chairs. While mom and I did that, Kendall went to pick up our free treadmill from a coworker. I LOVE free. It's actually a pretty nice machine.
Then we headed to the Yellow Springs Street Festival. It was packed. We walked around visiting all of the various craft booths and even went into the hemp store to giggle and try on hemp hats. My mother was fascinated that they actually had a store in Yellow Springs that sold all hemp products. We also found some great hand woven baskets at a ridiculously cheap price and scooped up a couple. On the way home from the festival, we witnessed a girl lighting up her bowl in the passenger seat of the car behind us. It was great! (If you know anything about Yellow Springs, the humor of this incident is not lost on you.) My mom even made pot smoking gestures out the back window at them. HA!
When we got home, I went to put all of my living room blankets into the large basket I had bought for them and found...mouse poop! I was freaked out. We had cleaned poop out of the house when we moved in and hadn't seen any in a long time. Two weeks ago we found some droppings in the same blankets and thought they had to be really old. I guess not. So I went out to the hardware store to buy mouse traps before our friends came over to chili.
The chili and the company was excellent, and at the end of the meal, while we all snacked on peanut butter cookies that my mom and I had made from scratch the day before, we all put our names on the bottom of a mouse trap. 8 traps, 8 names. We decided it would be like playing Survivor. If your trap caught a mouse, you were out of the game. We even took pictures of ourselves with the traps. (I'll post the one of me and Jessica when she gets it to me.) We set the traps with peanut butter and headed out bowling.
I had a really crappy night of bowling (I didn't break 100 in either game). When we got back home, I made mom and Kendall check the traps. All of the living room ones were clear. The two visible kitchen ones too. Then they looked in the corner, and there it was. The mouse. Caught by his leg and tail. Of course, they told me, and I cried. I went upstairs while they disposed of it, I couldn't bear to see it, esp. if it was still alive (they told me it wasn't). When I came back down I sadly asked, "Okay, who's trap was it?" Mom's response, "We weren't going to tell you....but I can't lie...it was yours!" Oh the irony! They also assured me that it was an ugly mouse. Nothing like Stuart Little. Buggy eyes with fangs, according to Kendall. When I called Jessica she said, "Oh good, it was ugly so it deserved to die!" We left the traps out again and caught nothing.
There are currently no other mice in any of the stinking traps. I'm the only one who has lost the freaking game! Stupid mouse...hopefully we don't find any more mouse poop and we can pitch the other traps soon!
Friday, October 13, 2006
Thursday, October 12, 2006
GO FLYERS!
We're really late in doing this and may get super crappy seats, but who wants to get season tickets with us to the basketball games? It's $85 bucks a seat for 19 home games. Even if we only used it for a couple games it would be worth it to get into the Xavier game. Who wants to get seats with us? Anyone? Anyone? We'll send our money by Monday.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Too Good Not to Share Here...
For those of you who don't know Karen, I thought I would share this here because it was freaking hilarious!
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A woman was leaving a convenience store with her morning coffee when she noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery.
A long black hearse was followed by a second long black hearse 50 feet behind the first one. Behind the second hearse was a solitary woman walking a pit bull on a leash. Behind her, a short distance back, were about 200 women walking single file.
The woman was so curious that she respectfully approached the woman walking the dog and said, "I am so sorry for your loss, and I know now is a bad time to disturb you, but I have never seen a funeral like this. Whose funeral is it?"
"My husband's."
"What happened to him?"
The woman replied, "My dog attacked and killed him."
She inquired further, "Well, who is in the second hearse?"
The woman answered, "My mother-in-law. She was trying to help my husband when the dog turned on her."
A poignant and thoughtful moment of silence passed between the two women.
"Can I borrow the dog?"
"Get in line."
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A woman was leaving a convenience store with her morning coffee when she noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery.
A long black hearse was followed by a second long black hearse 50 feet behind the first one. Behind the second hearse was a solitary woman walking a pit bull on a leash. Behind her, a short distance back, were about 200 women walking single file.
The woman was so curious that she respectfully approached the woman walking the dog and said, "I am so sorry for your loss, and I know now is a bad time to disturb you, but I have never seen a funeral like this. Whose funeral is it?"
"My husband's."
"What happened to him?"
The woman replied, "My dog attacked and killed him."
She inquired further, "Well, who is in the second hearse?"
The woman answered, "My mother-in-law. She was trying to help my husband when the dog turned on her."
A poignant and thoughtful moment of silence passed between the two women.
"Can I borrow the dog?"
"Get in line."
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Things of Note-At least in my Mind
1. Let me start out by saying that in the amount of time between when I blogged last and now:
a. All of my utilities still functioned
b. No one repossessed my car
c. My credit report was not ruined
You know who you are and why I am blogging that....TE HE!
2. You know it's time to do laundry when you no longer have any clean underwear.
3. I went down to the basement to get said clean underwear and wanted to cry after seeing the sheer volume of CRAP I am going to have to go through when we move in 2 1/2 years.
4. Tall Stacks would have been a complete waste of my hard earned money...if I'd spent any of my hard earned money that is. The cruise we went on was sub-par. Terrible food, too many people, very little organization on the crew's part. The entertainment was WONDERFUL. It was the only thing that made the cruise worth while.
5. I'm LOVING Heroes. I think it has a catchy story line and it keeps me wondering from week to week just like LOST.
6. I have a three day work week, and you don't. I took yesterday off to go to the doctor...it was icky and no real answers were given. I have Friday off because of Western Ohio Education Associaton Day. Hell yeah! You're jealous, you know it!
7. How exactly did that fish biscut taste on LOST last week? They seemed to like it. Sawyer and Kate kept eatting it. Did it taste like fish? Or was it shaped that way just to demean them?
a. All of my utilities still functioned
b. No one repossessed my car
c. My credit report was not ruined
You know who you are and why I am blogging that....TE HE!
2. You know it's time to do laundry when you no longer have any clean underwear.
3. I went down to the basement to get said clean underwear and wanted to cry after seeing the sheer volume of CRAP I am going to have to go through when we move in 2 1/2 years.
4. Tall Stacks would have been a complete waste of my hard earned money...if I'd spent any of my hard earned money that is. The cruise we went on was sub-par. Terrible food, too many people, very little organization on the crew's part. The entertainment was WONDERFUL. It was the only thing that made the cruise worth while.
5. I'm LOVING Heroes. I think it has a catchy story line and it keeps me wondering from week to week just like LOST.
6. I have a three day work week, and you don't. I took yesterday off to go to the doctor...it was icky and no real answers were given. I have Friday off because of Western Ohio Education Associaton Day. Hell yeah! You're jealous, you know it!
7. How exactly did that fish biscut taste on LOST last week? They seemed to like it. Sawyer and Kate kept eatting it. Did it taste like fish? Or was it shaped that way just to demean them?
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
A Long Time Ago, We Used to Be Friends
AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Veronica Mars starts up again tonight! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Monday, October 02, 2006
Another List Kind of Day
I have lots of thoughts floating around in my head today. I'll just make a random list of them here....
1. Great weekend in many respects, also slightly crappy. On Friday we went to Karen's house and had a great time kicking ass at Pop Culture Trivial Pursuit. Unfortunatly, upon my arrival, Aunt Flo also made her arrival. Gross and unexpected as it was a day early. Also meant we weren't prego. Bummer. Saturday was spent getting our haircut, having lunch with the in-laws, shopping, and getting to see my niece. In a sad moment, Kendall was holding her in a store and a lady came up and asked him questions about her, assuming it was his baby. It made me tear up. Sucked to have to tell her that she wasn't ours. Saturday night we went to game night at Jessica and Aaron's. Sunday was church, yardwork, and TV.
2. Speaking of Saturday...Kendall got his final set of board scores back, and he passed with flying colors! Now he can apply for his medical license and become a fully paid doctor! WHOO! HOO! This means he can officially start looking for a job. Any leads?
3. Church is starting to stress me out. There has been quite a falling out, so to speak, ever since our senior pastor admitted to a porn problem that, rumor has it, lead to an affair several months ago. He was allowed to come back by the church council after only a short hiatus and a week of "intense counseling" with his wife. Many people in our Sunday school class were upset and several couples have already left the church to attend Apex. This has caused a rift between friends. Especially between the "Jessicas". And I'm feeling stuck in the middle. Jessica G-J is hurt that Jessica S decided to leave our church. She's choosing not to speak to her for an undetermined period of time, but she hasn't really told Jessica S she's mad. But she knows. Jessica S, as you know, just had her baby. This rift is hard on her. Furthermore, it now means I can't hang out with two of my closest friends simultaneously. We used to get together all the time, with our husbands and eat and play games. Now that can't happen. Stress.....
4. Work has been wonderful, except for my boss. He was very insistent on coming in to observe my kids this quarter, even though it as nothing to do with my evaluation this year. He asked me again today when he could come in, I told him whenever he wanted. He chose today to come watch our review game. At the end of the period he came up and acted like he wanted to talk to me about something, and then said, "We can talk later." Whatever, I'm sure he'll have something bad to say to me even though both the kids, and I had a great time. He also asked me when I was going to give him a copy of all of the paperwork for my project (like it was my fault and really late) and I told him, "I emailed it to you a week and a half ago." He's seriously losing it. He's so disorganized and at the same time full of himself. He thinks he's this great leader, but quite honestly, over half of the staff thinks he's a joke. I can't wait til he leaves.
5. TV is officially in full swing starting this week. I can't wait for the Veronica Mars and LOST season premiers.
6. I haven't been to the gym in 4 months. My goal is to start going again 3 days a week.
7. I know I haven't really mentioned baby stuff in a while in my blog. After my public fight with Suzanne, I felt I needed to keep quite for a while. I just figured I'd let you all know that I'm going in for an ultrasound to make sure I don't have anything funny going on in my uterus. The doctor is also running lab work to make sure my immune system isn't killing my embryos. I really like the new doctor. He's taken a lot of stress out of my life by his confident actions and decisions. I'm also not taking Clomid for at least 4 months. I can honestly tell you that I feel like a totally different person after this month. My body really needed a Clomid cleansing. I feel less depressed and I took my period coming a lot easier knowing that it wasn't costing us any money and I wasn't going to have to take any hormones.
Okay, enough. God, I can't believe you read all of this!
1. Great weekend in many respects, also slightly crappy. On Friday we went to Karen's house and had a great time kicking ass at Pop Culture Trivial Pursuit. Unfortunatly, upon my arrival, Aunt Flo also made her arrival. Gross and unexpected as it was a day early. Also meant we weren't prego. Bummer. Saturday was spent getting our haircut, having lunch with the in-laws, shopping, and getting to see my niece. In a sad moment, Kendall was holding her in a store and a lady came up and asked him questions about her, assuming it was his baby. It made me tear up. Sucked to have to tell her that she wasn't ours. Saturday night we went to game night at Jessica and Aaron's. Sunday was church, yardwork, and TV.
2. Speaking of Saturday...Kendall got his final set of board scores back, and he passed with flying colors! Now he can apply for his medical license and become a fully paid doctor! WHOO! HOO! This means he can officially start looking for a job. Any leads?
3. Church is starting to stress me out. There has been quite a falling out, so to speak, ever since our senior pastor admitted to a porn problem that, rumor has it, lead to an affair several months ago. He was allowed to come back by the church council after only a short hiatus and a week of "intense counseling" with his wife. Many people in our Sunday school class were upset and several couples have already left the church to attend Apex. This has caused a rift between friends. Especially between the "Jessicas". And I'm feeling stuck in the middle. Jessica G-J is hurt that Jessica S decided to leave our church. She's choosing not to speak to her for an undetermined period of time, but she hasn't really told Jessica S she's mad. But she knows. Jessica S, as you know, just had her baby. This rift is hard on her. Furthermore, it now means I can't hang out with two of my closest friends simultaneously. We used to get together all the time, with our husbands and eat and play games. Now that can't happen. Stress.....
4. Work has been wonderful, except for my boss. He was very insistent on coming in to observe my kids this quarter, even though it as nothing to do with my evaluation this year. He asked me again today when he could come in, I told him whenever he wanted. He chose today to come watch our review game. At the end of the period he came up and acted like he wanted to talk to me about something, and then said, "We can talk later." Whatever, I'm sure he'll have something bad to say to me even though both the kids, and I had a great time. He also asked me when I was going to give him a copy of all of the paperwork for my project (like it was my fault and really late) and I told him, "I emailed it to you a week and a half ago." He's seriously losing it. He's so disorganized and at the same time full of himself. He thinks he's this great leader, but quite honestly, over half of the staff thinks he's a joke. I can't wait til he leaves.
5. TV is officially in full swing starting this week. I can't wait for the Veronica Mars and LOST season premiers.
6. I haven't been to the gym in 4 months. My goal is to start going again 3 days a week.
7. I know I haven't really mentioned baby stuff in a while in my blog. After my public fight with Suzanne, I felt I needed to keep quite for a while. I just figured I'd let you all know that I'm going in for an ultrasound to make sure I don't have anything funny going on in my uterus. The doctor is also running lab work to make sure my immune system isn't killing my embryos. I really like the new doctor. He's taken a lot of stress out of my life by his confident actions and decisions. I'm also not taking Clomid for at least 4 months. I can honestly tell you that I feel like a totally different person after this month. My body really needed a Clomid cleansing. I feel less depressed and I took my period coming a lot easier knowing that it wasn't costing us any money and I wasn't going to have to take any hormones.
Okay, enough. God, I can't believe you read all of this!
Thursday, September 28, 2006
An Email From Mom That Tells it How it is
This equation should be taught in all math classes!
From a strictly mathematical viewpoint it goes like this:
What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?
Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:
If: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.
Then:
H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%
And,
K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%
But,
A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
And ,
B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%
AND, look how far ass kissing will take you...
A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 127%
So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that While Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it's the Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top!
From a strictly mathematical viewpoint it goes like this:
What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?
Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:
If: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.
Then:
H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%
And,
K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%
But,
A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
And ,
B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%
AND, look how far ass kissing will take you...
A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 127%
So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that While Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it's the Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top!
Monday, September 25, 2006
Oh Boy!
YEAH! Jessica S. had her baby! Sam S. was born last night and weighed in at 9 pounds and was 22 inches long. Kendall and I are going to meet him and the proud new parents at the hospital tonight.
While these days are the hardest reminders that we don't have our own child yet, it's so wonderful to see the glow on other people's faces after their own baby is born. Plus, I get to squeeze the baby.....=) I'll post his picture later.
While these days are the hardest reminders that we don't have our own child yet, it's so wonderful to see the glow on other people's faces after their own baby is born. Plus, I get to squeeze the baby.....=) I'll post his picture later.
Friday, September 22, 2006
Stimulation Overload
OMG! Serisouly, I'm on overload.
1. Gilmore Girls- I have 5 discs left to watch before Tuesday.
2. I'm halfway through a really good historical romance novel.
3. It's People Magazine Day!
4. I have several shows waiting for me on Tivo including Deal or No Deal, My Name is Earl, and The Office.
5. My mom is coming to visit for the weekend and I have to do some cleaning.
6. It's Friday!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
1. Gilmore Girls- I have 5 discs left to watch before Tuesday.
2. I'm halfway through a really good historical romance novel.
3. It's People Magazine Day!
4. I have several shows waiting for me on Tivo including Deal or No Deal, My Name is Earl, and The Office.
5. My mom is coming to visit for the weekend and I have to do some cleaning.
6. It's Friday!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, September 21, 2006
M-I-L's reply to my email
And I quote, "OK, Vesta". Dude, I didn't even get a "Blessings" or "Love" like she usually sends. While I really don't care, I can't believe she's being such a baby about it. Seriously, she said she wanted to know more about me, well, that's knowing more about me. I like the ACLU. Oh well, it all comes back to the same thing, I'm just the radical, democratic, left-wing, daughter that shames her family name. She doesn't have to say it, I know it!
Anyways, I'll write the boss story later. I have come home for 15 mins to let the dogs out and now I have to go back to work to collect money at the volleyball game. Why do I volunteer to do these things? Oh wait, because no one else will!
Anyways, I'll write the boss story later. I have come home for 15 mins to let the dogs out and now I have to go back to work to collect money at the volleyball game. Why do I volunteer to do these things? Oh wait, because no one else will!
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Perks and Other Nonsense
It's a list kind of day...
1. If I had to list the perks to Kendall's job, I would find myself struggling to come up with much. His insurance is terrible, his hours are terrible, and even some of the people he has to work with...are terrible! But the one thing they have going for them is their annual Physician Outing. Last year we got free tickets to Moving Out at the Arahnoff (sp?) and this year...two free tickets to a dinner cruise during Tall Stacks! Heck yea! Dinner, a show, and a three hour tour! Plus, we get into all Tall Stacks events free for the whole day. I really enjoyed this event the last time it was in town and really wanted to ride one of the boats. And now I get to do it for free! If anyone else is interested, it's Oct. 8th and we can get extra tickets for $75 bucks a piece. I need to know asap, otherwise, we'll just make it the two of us!
2. Tivo- AGAIN. I'm really happy with it still. It hasn't failed me yet! I got to rewind Deal or No Deal on Monday night because I missed the first 15 mins. And it remembered my TV show last night when I didn't! Excellent....
3. Speaking of Deal or No Deal- Holy crap Monday was a great episode! I haven't watched Tuesday's yet, but on Monday, the guy picked the 3 million dollar case and sold it! ARGH!!! Oh well, it was great TV.
4. I feel the need to start a blog all about TV. If I decide to go that route, in addition to what I write here, I'll let you know. I'm just so excited about fall TV starting again!
5. School Drama- I kinda had an intense meeting with my boss this week, if anyone's interested, I'll blog it, otherwise I've told the story like 5 times already.
6. Gilmore Girls Season 6- Just bought it last night. I have watched two episodes already and plan on getting in two more tonight. I have to have it finished by next Tuesday to start Season 7. I love it!
7. ACLU- now I know some of you out there are Republicans....and I don't know how we remain friends...(just kidding)...but my mother-in-law sent me an email today bashing the ACLU. Now I can't say I support everything they stand for, but I feel like the support a great many good things that we need someone to stand up for. Like gay rights. And abortion rights. And women. And all minorities. So I sent her an email asking her not to send me any more ACLU bashing...we'll see if she starts an arguement....at least it would give me something else to blog about!
8. Got half of my blood work results back and so far, things look pretty good. My immune system is functioning normally, but they still have to run a second set to make sure none of the rest of my body is killing my babies. Long story. Once again, if you ask, I'll share.
Okay, gotta go watch Gilmore! I'm lovin' this cold weather! I'm going to go bundle up and wait for Kendall to come home so we can eat grilled cheese and tomato soup!
1. If I had to list the perks to Kendall's job, I would find myself struggling to come up with much. His insurance is terrible, his hours are terrible, and even some of the people he has to work with...are terrible! But the one thing they have going for them is their annual Physician Outing. Last year we got free tickets to Moving Out at the Arahnoff (sp?) and this year...two free tickets to a dinner cruise during Tall Stacks! Heck yea! Dinner, a show, and a three hour tour! Plus, we get into all Tall Stacks events free for the whole day. I really enjoyed this event the last time it was in town and really wanted to ride one of the boats. And now I get to do it for free! If anyone else is interested, it's Oct. 8th and we can get extra tickets for $75 bucks a piece. I need to know asap, otherwise, we'll just make it the two of us!
2. Tivo- AGAIN. I'm really happy with it still. It hasn't failed me yet! I got to rewind Deal or No Deal on Monday night because I missed the first 15 mins. And it remembered my TV show last night when I didn't! Excellent....
3. Speaking of Deal or No Deal- Holy crap Monday was a great episode! I haven't watched Tuesday's yet, but on Monday, the guy picked the 3 million dollar case and sold it! ARGH!!! Oh well, it was great TV.
4. I feel the need to start a blog all about TV. If I decide to go that route, in addition to what I write here, I'll let you know. I'm just so excited about fall TV starting again!
5. School Drama- I kinda had an intense meeting with my boss this week, if anyone's interested, I'll blog it, otherwise I've told the story like 5 times already.
6. Gilmore Girls Season 6- Just bought it last night. I have watched two episodes already and plan on getting in two more tonight. I have to have it finished by next Tuesday to start Season 7. I love it!
7. ACLU- now I know some of you out there are Republicans....and I don't know how we remain friends...(just kidding)...but my mother-in-law sent me an email today bashing the ACLU. Now I can't say I support everything they stand for, but I feel like the support a great many good things that we need someone to stand up for. Like gay rights. And abortion rights. And women. And all minorities. So I sent her an email asking her not to send me any more ACLU bashing...we'll see if she starts an arguement....at least it would give me something else to blog about!
8. Got half of my blood work results back and so far, things look pretty good. My immune system is functioning normally, but they still have to run a second set to make sure none of the rest of my body is killing my babies. Long story. Once again, if you ask, I'll share.
Okay, gotta go watch Gilmore! I'm lovin' this cold weather! I'm going to go bundle up and wait for Kendall to come home so we can eat grilled cheese and tomato soup!
Monday, September 18, 2006
TIVO! TIVO!
OMG! I can't believe I haven't blogged about this yet! We've had Tivo for two days already! I think it's probably one of the greatest technological advances the world has made....right after curing cancer that is...
Anyways, we were getting frustrated with ourselves over our DVD burner. We weren't setting it up right and were forgetting to change to the channel we wanted to record. Plus, there were some time changes by DirecTV and we didn't know about them so it recorded the wrong thing a couple of times. So, we caved and ordered Tivo. Now the machine does all the thinking. I simply type in the names of the shows I want to record and select it in the menu. Then I select that I want it to record all first runs of the season, and it just does it! INCREDIBLE!
I just Tivoed the Megan Mullally Show Premier. And tonight, Deal or No Deal! I could seriously hug that machine. No...seriously! And speaking of "seriously" is anyone else incredibly excited that Grey's Anatomy is starting again this week?!!?!!?!!?!
Anyways, we were getting frustrated with ourselves over our DVD burner. We weren't setting it up right and were forgetting to change to the channel we wanted to record. Plus, there were some time changes by DirecTV and we didn't know about them so it recorded the wrong thing a couple of times. So, we caved and ordered Tivo. Now the machine does all the thinking. I simply type in the names of the shows I want to record and select it in the menu. Then I select that I want it to record all first runs of the season, and it just does it! INCREDIBLE!
I just Tivoed the Megan Mullally Show Premier. And tonight, Deal or No Deal! I could seriously hug that machine. No...seriously! And speaking of "seriously" is anyone else incredibly excited that Grey's Anatomy is starting again this week?!!?!!?!!?!
Sunday, September 17, 2006
GAS
I would just like to note that gas is under two dollars today in Dayton. I never thought I'd see the day again....and the worst part is, that gas has gotten so expensive, under two bucks seems cheap! Oh the days of 70 cents a gallon!
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Part 4- Homecoming Corsage
This was the prettiest corsage I ever recieved, hands down. None of the others (and there were many) ever came close. Gingersnap, you had class!
Part 3- Official Homecoming Shot
Yeah, it was cheesy. That was the best part looking back on it 12 years later!
A Tribute to Gingersnap in 4 Parts-Part 1
I just had the greatest time catching up with an old high school boyfriend. He was in town from New Mexico doing some training with the Air Force. We only dated for three months my sophomore year, but they were obviously blissful ones, based on these shots. Look at these smiles! We were on our way to Homecoming 1994. We made such the odd couple, be he was just a sweet boy. He is still a sweet man. Same sense of humor.
We connected on an adult level and that was enjoyable. Much of our conversation was catching up on each others lives, we haven't seen each other in 7 years!
It was really great to catch up and we both agreed we need to get together again sooner than later. He's moving to Illinois from New Mexico in a few months and I would really like to meet his wife.
This photo tribute is to you GingerSnap. I wish I could put them all in one entry, stupid Beta...Anyways, thanks for the laughs and all of your fantasies about the practice rooms. LOL!
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Ok Go
This band is now in my top 5 favorites! Go check out their video at YouTube. It's freaking awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINJQ5LRh-0
Monday, September 11, 2006
Blog of Note
http://indexed.blogspot.com/
You have to read this blog. It's freaking hilarious! Why am I not this creative or funny?
You have to read this blog. It's freaking hilarious! Why am I not this creative or funny?
To Those Comtemplating the Switch to Beta
Here's my take on the new Beta Blogger....
1. I can't say that much has changed between the old and new. It pretty much looks the same as it always did. Even your dashboard hasn't changed that much when signing in.
2. They have jumped on the Google Supertrain that everyone else and their mom has bought into. You now sign in with your Google email address. While it's nice to know I can write posts that save to draft through my email, it's not all that convenient when it comes right down to it.
3. It has some severe limitations at this point. You can't upload YouTube to it. You can't even upload pictures to your blog right now. That's very frustrating as I wanted to write a post about Ok Go and post their picture and video here. They claim they're resolving things, but I'm not seeing it. Plus, you can't leave comments with your name on non-beta blogs. Another annoyance as I now have to sign them as anonymous and remember to put my name at the end.
4. One of the newest features is that you can rearrange your template. You can move features around. They haven't added any new templates, but you can alter more about them, like text color on a regular basis. If I really cared about that, it would be a much cooler feature.
Overall, I recommend everyone stick to the old Blogger for now until they work the kinks out. I guess I should have known that when I saw the word beta. Nothing in beta is ever very good. And I can't even switch back which is probably the biggest drawback of them all. I'll let you know when it's improved.
1. I can't say that much has changed between the old and new. It pretty much looks the same as it always did. Even your dashboard hasn't changed that much when signing in.
2. They have jumped on the Google Supertrain that everyone else and their mom has bought into. You now sign in with your Google email address. While it's nice to know I can write posts that save to draft through my email, it's not all that convenient when it comes right down to it.
3. It has some severe limitations at this point. You can't upload YouTube to it. You can't even upload pictures to your blog right now. That's very frustrating as I wanted to write a post about Ok Go and post their picture and video here. They claim they're resolving things, but I'm not seeing it. Plus, you can't leave comments with your name on non-beta blogs. Another annoyance as I now have to sign them as anonymous and remember to put my name at the end.
4. One of the newest features is that you can rearrange your template. You can move features around. They haven't added any new templates, but you can alter more about them, like text color on a regular basis. If I really cared about that, it would be a much cooler feature.
Overall, I recommend everyone stick to the old Blogger for now until they work the kinks out. I guess I should have known that when I saw the word beta. Nothing in beta is ever very good. And I can't even switch back which is probably the biggest drawback of them all. I'll let you know when it's improved.
Just a blanket statement...
If one more person tells me that it's all in God's time or God's plan, I swear I will slap them. I seriously don't want to hear that right now. And I feel I'm completely entitled to all of my feelings. If you feel the need to suddenly get religious on my ass, don't bother. You weren't in the past, so don't start now. I like it that way. I'll keep my God hating to myself from now on if it's going to become a hassel. I like that my blog is something I can share my feelings in, but there are just some things that people should leave alone. Give me your sympathy, but not your soap box. On that note, I think I'll refrain from mentioning any baby news on this blog to save myself the headache. If you want to know, call me. You know the number.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Service Project
We helped out with a service project through church yesterday. Even though I'm incredibly angry with God right now, I didn't feel like I could take it out on other people by not helping, so we headed over to help an 8 month pregnant lady move out of her apartment. How's that for ironic? I'm mad at God for not giving me a baby, and I go to help an 8th month pregnant single mom move.
Anyways, I have to say that after moving her out of her apartment, I feel:
a) incredibly wealthy
b) incredibly selfish for the things that I want and buy
c) a new appreciation for vaccumming/dusting/mopping my floors
d) dogs that don't shed
Holy crap did this lady have dog hair. Everywhere. Kendall helped to move out one of their couches and when he took the couch away from his face he had giant globs of dog hair still stuck to his cheek. YUCK! We all left covered in dog hair. It was on every piece of furniture that we moved. This reinforced the notion that Kendall and I will never have a large dog. Because they pretty much all shed.
I have to say that we were a little un-Christian in our response to the filth. We didn't say or do anything in front of the lady, but when we saw her soiled mattrass, several of us refused to touch it. And then underneath was piles of dog hair and dirty clothes, it almost made me gag. The other thing we noticed was a smell that permeated the entire apartment, a combination of wet dog, dirty clothes, and something we couldn't identify. The last observation that was made was that it seems like those who are "less fortunate" (aka "poor") always seem to own a HUGE ass TV. Why is that? Several people that the church has helped move have been low income and yet seem to afford a big screen TV. Any thoughts?
Overall, it was a good experience on many levels and the woman involved was very appreciative and even cried once. I enjoyed helping her, and who knows, maybe it was good karma for our baby making.
Anyways, I have to say that after moving her out of her apartment, I feel:
a) incredibly wealthy
b) incredibly selfish for the things that I want and buy
c) a new appreciation for vaccumming/dusting/mopping my floors
d) dogs that don't shed
Holy crap did this lady have dog hair. Everywhere. Kendall helped to move out one of their couches and when he took the couch away from his face he had giant globs of dog hair still stuck to his cheek. YUCK! We all left covered in dog hair. It was on every piece of furniture that we moved. This reinforced the notion that Kendall and I will never have a large dog. Because they pretty much all shed.
I have to say that we were a little un-Christian in our response to the filth. We didn't say or do anything in front of the lady, but when we saw her soiled mattrass, several of us refused to touch it. And then underneath was piles of dog hair and dirty clothes, it almost made me gag. The other thing we noticed was a smell that permeated the entire apartment, a combination of wet dog, dirty clothes, and something we couldn't identify. The last observation that was made was that it seems like those who are "less fortunate" (aka "poor") always seem to own a HUGE ass TV. Why is that? Several people that the church has helped move have been low income and yet seem to afford a big screen TV. Any thoughts?
Overall, it was a good experience on many levels and the woman involved was very appreciative and even cried once. I enjoyed helping her, and who knows, maybe it was good karma for our baby making.
Friday, September 08, 2006
A Love Letter
Dear "Pope" who left that stupid comment in my blog,
Kiss my ass.
Love,
The God Hater.
ps. Next time leave your real name instead of being a total p*ssy.
Kiss my ass.
Love,
The God Hater.
ps. Next time leave your real name instead of being a total p*ssy.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
I guess I don't have to keep it a secret anymore...
So, we were pregnant. And now we're not. And it sucks. This is the third time this has happened. And I hate God. The End.
p.s. On a totally different note, I signed up for Beta Blogger, and now it won't let me comment on anyones blog who doesn't use Beta. And I can't switch back. Yet another way I'm being crapped on. Oh yeah, and I have a bad cold. God really hates me back.
p.s. On a totally different note, I signed up for Beta Blogger, and now it won't let me comment on anyones blog who doesn't use Beta. And I can't switch back. Yet another way I'm being crapped on. Oh yeah, and I have a bad cold. God really hates me back.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Say A Little Prayer
Without getting into details, I could really use some good vibes this week. Things aren't going well and anything good you can send my way would really be appreciated. I'll try to share more later, but I wanted to let you know that I might not be blogging for a little while.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
The Coolest Dream EVER!
I had a dream that Karen and I were on The Amazing Race! We were trying to get on a train to Chicago and we were the only team that was able to sweet talk the conductor into letting us take an earlier train than our ticket stated! It was awesome! When we got there we realized that we didn't have anywhere to sleep and all of the hotels were full because of some big football game. But that was okay, we slept in a 24 hour mall! Premonition or wishful thinking?
Friday, August 25, 2006
A Story About the Bathroom that's "Oh So True"!
I got this as a forward and it made me smile. I'm sure all you ladies will enjoy it as well.
When you have to visit a public bathroom, you usually find a line of women, so you smile politely and take your place. Once it's your turn, you check for feet under the stall doors. Every stall is occupied. Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall. You get in to find the door won't latch. It doesn't matter.
The dispenser for the modern "seat covers" (invented by someone's Mom, no doubt) is handy, but empty. You would hang your purse on the door hook, if there were one, but there isn't - so you carefully but quickly drape it around your neck, (Mom would turn over in her grave if you put it on the FLOOR!), yank down your pants, and assume "The Stance."
In this position your aging, toneless thigh muscles begin to shake. You'd love to sit down, but you certainly hadn't taken time to wipe the seat or lay toilet paper on it, so you hold "The Stance." To take your mind off your trembling thighs, you reach for what you discover to be the empty toilet paper dispenser. In your mind, you can hear your mother's voice saying, "Honey, if you had tried to clean the seat, you would have KNOWN there was no toilet paper!" Your thighs shake more. You remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on yesterday - the one that's still in your purse. That would have to do. You crumple it in the puffiest way possible. It is still smaller than your thumbnail.
Someone pushes open your stall door because the latch doesn't work. The door hits your purse, which is hanging around your neck in front of your chest, and you and your purse topple backward against the tank of the toilet. "Occupied!" you scream, as you reach for the door, dropping your precious, tiny, crumpled tissue in a puddle on the floor, lose your footing altogether, and slide down directly onto the TOILET SEAT. It is wet of course. You bolt up, knowing all too well that it's too late. Your bare bottom has made contact with every imaginable germ and life form on the uncovered seat because YOU never laid down toilet paper - not that there was any, even if you had taken time to try. You know that your mother would be utterly appalled if she knew, because, you're certain, her bare bottom never touched a public toilet seat because, frankly, dear, "You just don't KNOW what kind of diseases you could get."
By this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so confused that it flushes, propelling a stream of water like a firehose that somehow sucks everything down with such force that you grab onto the toilet paper dispenser for fear of being drag ged in too. At that point, you give up. You're soaked by the spewing water and the wet toilet seat. You're exhausted. You try to wipe with a gum wrapper you found in your pocket and then slink out inconspicuously to the sinks.
You can't figure out how to operate the faucets with the automatic sensors, so you wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel and walk past the line of women, still waiting. You are no longer able to smile politely to them. A kind soul at the very end of the line points out a piece of toilet paper trailing from your shoe. ( Where was that when you NEEDED it??) You yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it the woman's hand and tell her warmly, "Here, you just might need this."
As you exit, you spot your hubby, who has long since entered, used and left the men's restroom. Annoyed, he asks, "What took you so long, and why is your purse hanging around your neck?"
This is dedicated to women everywhere who deal with a public restroom (rest??? you've got to be kidding!!). It finally explains to the men what really does take us so long. It also answers their other commonly asked question about why women go to the restroom in pairs. It's so the other gal can hold the door, hang onto your purse and hand you Kleenex under the door.
When you have to visit a public bathroom, you usually find a line of women, so you smile politely and take your place. Once it's your turn, you check for feet under the stall doors. Every stall is occupied. Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall. You get in to find the door won't latch. It doesn't matter.
The dispenser for the modern "seat covers" (invented by someone's Mom, no doubt) is handy, but empty. You would hang your purse on the door hook, if there were one, but there isn't - so you carefully but quickly drape it around your neck, (Mom would turn over in her grave if you put it on the FLOOR!), yank down your pants, and assume "The Stance."
In this position your aging, toneless thigh muscles begin to shake. You'd love to sit down, but you certainly hadn't taken time to wipe the seat or lay toilet paper on it, so you hold "The Stance." To take your mind off your trembling thighs, you reach for what you discover to be the empty toilet paper dispenser. In your mind, you can hear your mother's voice saying, "Honey, if you had tried to clean the seat, you would have KNOWN there was no toilet paper!" Your thighs shake more. You remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on yesterday - the one that's still in your purse. That would have to do. You crumple it in the puffiest way possible. It is still smaller than your thumbnail.
Someone pushes open your stall door because the latch doesn't work. The door hits your purse, which is hanging around your neck in front of your chest, and you and your purse topple backward against the tank of the toilet. "Occupied!" you scream, as you reach for the door, dropping your precious, tiny, crumpled tissue in a puddle on the floor, lose your footing altogether, and slide down directly onto the TOILET SEAT. It is wet of course. You bolt up, knowing all too well that it's too late. Your bare bottom has made contact with every imaginable germ and life form on the uncovered seat because YOU never laid down toilet paper - not that there was any, even if you had taken time to try. You know that your mother would be utterly appalled if she knew, because, you're certain, her bare bottom never touched a public toilet seat because, frankly, dear, "You just don't KNOW what kind of diseases you could get."
By this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so confused that it flushes, propelling a stream of water like a firehose that somehow sucks everything down with such force that you grab onto the toilet paper dispenser for fear of being drag ged in too. At that point, you give up. You're soaked by the spewing water and the wet toilet seat. You're exhausted. You try to wipe with a gum wrapper you found in your pocket and then slink out inconspicuously to the sinks.
You can't figure out how to operate the faucets with the automatic sensors, so you wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel and walk past the line of women, still waiting. You are no longer able to smile politely to them. A kind soul at the very end of the line points out a piece of toilet paper trailing from your shoe. ( Where was that when you NEEDED it??) You yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it the woman's hand and tell her warmly, "Here, you just might need this."
As you exit, you spot your hubby, who has long since entered, used and left the men's restroom. Annoyed, he asks, "What took you so long, and why is your purse hanging around your neck?"
This is dedicated to women everywhere who deal with a public restroom (rest??? you've got to be kidding!!). It finally explains to the men what really does take us so long. It also answers their other commonly asked question about why women go to the restroom in pairs. It's so the other gal can hold the door, hang onto your purse and hand you Kleenex under the door.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
My First Day of School
Well, today was the first day with kids. It was only a half day so that made it go by really fast, but I have a feeling it's going to go by that fast on full days too, at least at first. Many of the kids that I have this year seem very interested in Language Arts (for once!) and many seemed organized and ready to go. A drastic change from last year's kids already. I only had three kids not bring their required school supplies to Homeroom.
I only had to yell at one kid, and I have the feeling we won't be very good friends, but he'll survive. =)
Nothing really exciting happened. I sweated a lot. We had a meeting about Tourettte's and the video we watched was very well done, and very sad. We have a 5th grader in the building this year that has it.
So I'm back into a routine and I'll make sure to share more exciting days when I have them.
I only had to yell at one kid, and I have the feeling we won't be very good friends, but he'll survive. =)
Nothing really exciting happened. I sweated a lot. We had a meeting about Tourettte's and the video we watched was very well done, and very sad. We have a 5th grader in the building this year that has it.
So I'm back into a routine and I'll make sure to share more exciting days when I have them.
Monday, August 21, 2006
Okay, so sitting with Uncle Kendall makes her look small......
Update on Concrete Man
So they did finally show up today. Early. Which pisses me off because they told me they weren't going to be here until 2:30. And then they didn't fix what they were supposed to before staining. So when I called the owner he suddenly told me he couldn't fix it. I said, "No, you told my husband you could fix it, now fix it." Then he tried to tell me it would be a darker patch of concrete. I told him I didn't care. So he caved and said he'd call the crew and tell them to get some patch stuff....oh yeah, they weren't here when I got here, they had "Gone to the store to get rollers." It's now 4PM, they haven't been here since I got home at 2:30.
What I'll be interested to see is if they patch it and then restain it, because they're going to have to wait for the new concrete to dry. I have a feeling they'll be coming back...again. I still owe this guy half of his money...and he didn't even know how much I owe him. He tried to up the price of the job by $300 when he talked to Kendall. Good thing I kept the paper he wrote the estimate on. Then he didn't remember I'd already paid him half and tried to ask us for the full amount again. I reminded him that he already cashed our check. What a retard.
Oh yeah, and he's not getting paid until we're satisfied...or maybe I'll wait an extra three weeks. He made us wait that long over his initial time projection. Oh yeah, and I think he's going to have to call me for the check. It's only fair since I had to call him to get him to even come out again....
What I'll be interested to see is if they patch it and then restain it, because they're going to have to wait for the new concrete to dry. I have a feeling they'll be coming back...again. I still owe this guy half of his money...and he didn't even know how much I owe him. He tried to up the price of the job by $300 when he talked to Kendall. Good thing I kept the paper he wrote the estimate on. Then he didn't remember I'd already paid him half and tried to ask us for the full amount again. I reminded him that he already cashed our check. What a retard.
Oh yeah, and he's not getting paid until we're satisfied...or maybe I'll wait an extra three weeks. He made us wait that long over his initial time projection. Oh yeah, and I think he's going to have to call me for the check. It's only fair since I had to call him to get him to even come out again....
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