beautiful!
August 08, 2008
A pic of the flower my kids got
beautiful!
Mid-pedicure
niece is doing mine until my lady is done with her other client.
Of course the niece is not as good, and I can't say anything, drat.
August 07, 2008
DMV
I hate the DMV.
I had to go Tuesday and renew my license (it expired and the State of Virginia insisted I have a vision test). That took 35 minutes, plus 20 minutes to get there and 20 minutes to get back. Really, at my age ( < 40!) I do not NEED A VISION TEST. SERIOUSLY State of Virginia, thanks for wasting my time. Shouldn't I just be able to pay a fee and get on with it - ELECTRONICALLY? Would've saved me time AND gas! They could say they're going green and NOT MAKING EVERYONE COME DOWN THERE FOR DUMB THINGS. Hell, even raise the fees, I don't care as long as I don't have to waste my lunch break (I'd much rather be out to lunch!) than heading down there.
So last night my little brother called - Mom's license plates expired. Since this is my responsibility, and we're going on vacation Saturday (and they are taking Mom's car), I HAVE TO GOTO THE DMV AGAIN TODAY! ARGH! Someone shoot me now.
I had to go Tuesday and renew my license (it expired and the State of Virginia insisted I have a vision test). That took 35 minutes, plus 20 minutes to get there and 20 minutes to get back. Really, at my age ( < 40!) I do not NEED A VISION TEST. SERIOUSLY State of Virginia, thanks for wasting my time. Shouldn't I just be able to pay a fee and get on with it - ELECTRONICALLY? Would've saved me time AND gas! They could say they're going green and NOT MAKING EVERYONE COME DOWN THERE FOR DUMB THINGS. Hell, even raise the fees, I don't care as long as I don't have to waste my lunch break (I'd much rather be out to lunch!) than heading down there.
So last night my little brother called - Mom's license plates expired. Since this is my responsibility, and we're going on vacation Saturday (and they are taking Mom's car), I HAVE TO GOTO THE DMV AGAIN TODAY! ARGH! Someone shoot me now.
August 06, 2008
SPIDER ON MY CHILD!
We keep our strollers either in the backs of our SUVs or in the garage. My preference is in the SUVs because of the bugs and dirt in the garage, but whatever.
Well, today, while taking the 3 kids on a totally joyous fun-filled trip to Target, I look at Preschooler and see A HUGE SPIDER ON HIS CHEST. And he wasn't wearing a Spiderman shirt! ;-)
Of course I start screaming and am trying to extricate him from the stroller and get him to let go of the fruit roll up he's eating (that stuff is like crack for them I swear) so I can flick it off.
What if it bit him? Where is my hubby when I REALLY need him? GROSS GROSS - what if it ALREADY bit him somewhere? Yikes. NOW the strollers will be stored inside our vehicles.
Well, today, while taking the 3 kids on a totally joyous fun-filled trip to Target, I look at Preschooler and see A HUGE SPIDER ON HIS CHEST. And he wasn't wearing a Spiderman shirt! ;-)
Of course I start screaming and am trying to extricate him from the stroller and get him to let go of the fruit roll up he's eating (that stuff is like crack for them I swear) so I can flick it off.
What if it bit him? Where is my hubby when I REALLY need him? GROSS GROSS - what if it ALREADY bit him somewhere? Yikes. NOW the strollers will be stored inside our vehicles.
August 04, 2008
JetBlue
is going to charge passengers $7 for a pillow and a blanket? SERIOUSLY? I'd never pay money to rent a used pillow / blanket. Not only is it gross, it's crazy to charge for it! What is this wold coming to? Will they charge for seatbelts next?
planning a good-bye for the intern
We have an awesome intern at work. He is fantastic and basically does the work of a regular employee while he's here (no photocopying all summer for him!).
His last day is Wednesday and we're trying to plan a going away event. For a long time we were going to do indoor go-karts. Until we discovered it is $80 per person to do that.
So then we've been emailing back and forth (and killing the Outlook server) about what to do -
The choices we came up with were:
Laser Tag
Bowling
Visit Museum
Movie
Then we disucssed Mini-Golf and decided it would be too hot.
Then Bowling. And cue the discussions on lack of socks worn today by the women on team (ok, I started that discussion, but WHO WANTS TO WEAR BOWLING SHOES WITHOUT SOCKS? EWWWW).
So we're going to play pool.
His last day is Wednesday and we're trying to plan a going away event. For a long time we were going to do indoor go-karts. Until we discovered it is $80 per person to do that.
So then we've been emailing back and forth (and killing the Outlook server) about what to do -
The choices we came up with were:
Laser Tag
Bowling
Visit Museum
Movie
Then we disucssed Mini-Golf and decided it would be too hot.
Then Bowling. And cue the discussions on lack of socks worn today by the women on team (ok, I started that discussion, but WHO WANTS TO WEAR BOWLING SHOES WITHOUT SOCKS? EWWWW).
So we're going to play pool.
August 03, 2008
Happy Birthday to me!!
YAY! It's my birthday! Hubby let me sleep in and then prepared me a great breakfast that included a wheat bagel and COFFEE CAKE and flowers!
Then at 10, he went to the Fractured Prune and got fresh donuts for a snack!
Then he helped me take the kids to my grandparents because she made me an awesome southern cake (with the homemade southern hard chocolate icing!).
pretty good, eh?
My girlfriend says the reason I don't hate being 35 (she turned it in March) is that I have no wrinkles! Maybe that's why, but I don't feel older than I did when I was about 23? (except of course when I have to change a diaper or break up a fight!).
Then at 10, he went to the Fractured Prune and got fresh donuts for a snack!
Then he helped me take the kids to my grandparents because she made me an awesome southern cake (with the homemade southern hard chocolate icing!).
pretty good, eh?
My girlfriend says the reason I don't hate being 35 (she turned it in March) is that I have no wrinkles! Maybe that's why, but I don't feel older than I did when I was about 23? (except of course when I have to change a diaper or break up a fight!).
August 01, 2008
Yard sale prep!
This is 1/2 of the clothes too small for babyj - 5 boxes left to sort
and 10 boxes in basement that the kids haven't grown into yet.
Plus u don't see the boxes of bibs hats and shoes for sale!
Blog The Recession!
Ok - so there are a lot of people having issues - job losses, cut backs, layoffs, not being able to find much free-lance work, etc.
Motherhood Uncensored has what I think is a great idea! Click thru your feed readers to the blogs! People will get some ad revenue for the click thrus and click on an ad if you see something interesting! It doesn't cost you anything and you're helping people out!
What do you think?
Motherhood Uncensored has what I think is a great idea! Click thru your feed readers to the blogs! People will get some ad revenue for the click thrus and click on an ad if you see something interesting! It doesn't cost you anything and you're helping people out!
What do you think?
July 31, 2008
something terrible has happened...
please send your prayers to Midwestern Mommy. She just found out she has cancer. She is EXACTLY my age and it just popped up out of nowhere and now she's in the oncology ward at her hospital.
http://midwesternmommy.com/
http://midwesternmommy.com/
small update on playground wars
The owner of the house next to us, where the trespassing neighbor was playing on their playground before moving onto our playground, came over yesterday. He said I was AWESOME!
He said he was inside standing in the window pondering how to go tell that fool to get off property that isn't his and he saw me come running out, pointer finger going crazy! He is also totally baffled that people would come play in the yards of people that they do not know. He pointed out that these people don't even come over to say HI! if they seem him or us outside. They just wait for us to be gone and run to use our stuff. Losers.
He said he was inside standing in the window pondering how to go tell that fool to get off property that isn't his and he saw me come running out, pointer finger going crazy! He is also totally baffled that people would come play in the yards of people that they do not know. He pointed out that these people don't even come over to say HI! if they seem him or us outside. They just wait for us to be gone and run to use our stuff. Losers.
July 30, 2008
funniest twitter comment ever... (or so far in it's tiny existence)
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I found this on "DCist"...
Funniest Twitter comment from the Los Angeles earthquake earlier today: "I am totally serious. My Ob/Gyn was IN my vagina and an earthquake started rattling the room!"
I found this on "DCist"...
Funniest Twitter comment from the Los Angeles earthquake earlier today: "I am totally serious. My Ob/Gyn was IN my vagina and an earthquake started rattling the room!"
July 29, 2008
seriously? What is wrong with the world today...
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Today's headlines on foxnews.com:
"Mistaken About Taunting, Dad Stabs Boy In Face"
"Unattended Infant Mauled By Dog"
"Mom Puts Baby In Fish Tank To Stop Its Crying"
"Motorist Hits Husband, Drives Off As He Dies"
Really people - is there not enough wrong with the world that we have to hurt the ones we love (or not care for them properly as in the mauling article)??
Everyone play nice please. I can't even read the articles about the parents hurting children. HOW CAN ONE DO THAT? How, how, how? I have been frustrated - when my husband is gone for 60 days at a time I can go crazy too. Know what I do rather than drown my children? I call someone to vent....I go outside....I go upstairs for a moment...I tell the kids that Mommy needs a timeout and not to talk to her for a moment. It doesn't even occur to me to hurt them. There's enough going on in the world where we should be nice to each other - we are all we've got! There are plenty of people out there that would hurt us if given the chance, let's try and be able to trust our own.
Today's headlines on foxnews.com:
"Mistaken About Taunting, Dad Stabs Boy In Face"
"Unattended Infant Mauled By Dog"
"Mom Puts Baby In Fish Tank To Stop Its Crying"
"Motorist Hits Husband, Drives Off As He Dies"
Really people - is there not enough wrong with the world that we have to hurt the ones we love (or not care for them properly as in the mauling article)??
Everyone play nice please. I can't even read the articles about the parents hurting children. HOW CAN ONE DO THAT? How, how, how? I have been frustrated - when my husband is gone for 60 days at a time I can go crazy too. Know what I do rather than drown my children? I call someone to vent....I go outside....I go upstairs for a moment...I tell the kids that Mommy needs a timeout and not to talk to her for a moment. It doesn't even occur to me to hurt them. There's enough going on in the world where we should be nice to each other - we are all we've got! There are plenty of people out there that would hurt us if given the chance, let's try and be able to trust our own.
Playground trespass!
the street ( that we do not know ) we using out neighbors playset
( which they have been asked not to do ). Well I had to leave the
house 2 min later and guess what? They were in OUR playset!
I stormed out there telling ( not yelling. Not rudely. ) them to get
off!
And the dad was all "sorry! Sorry!" ( they are Pakistani ), I said
"no! Please GET OFF!".
They waited til they thought we were not home to trespass, so they
know we wouldn't like it. What us wrong with them?
And FYI, they are currently having their basement finished, so they
could have bought a set if they wanted.
July 28, 2008
made it to the gym again!
The alarm went off at 4:31 a.m.
I hit snooze 2 times, then bounded out of bed to head to the gym! I did a full circuit of leg workouts then ran for 28 minutes (then walked up hill at 4.0 for 5 more minutes). YAY me! Last week I got 3 workouts in, let's see how this week goes! But so far, it looks promising!
I have to admit one of the things that gets me out of bed in the morning is that our gym only has 2 showers and I'm terrified of getting there late and having to wait in line to shower, in which case I'd probably just shoot myself.
In other news, I'm updating my links tonight to add my new friends Red and Blondy - am I missing anyone else?
I hit snooze 2 times, then bounded out of bed to head to the gym! I did a full circuit of leg workouts then ran for 28 minutes (then walked up hill at 4.0 for 5 more minutes). YAY me! Last week I got 3 workouts in, let's see how this week goes! But so far, it looks promising!
I have to admit one of the things that gets me out of bed in the morning is that our gym only has 2 showers and I'm terrified of getting there late and having to wait in line to shower, in which case I'd probably just shoot myself.
In other news, I'm updating my links tonight to add my new friends Red and Blondy - am I missing anyone else?
July 27, 2008
Oh no!
at 5 a.m. this morning, hubby bolted upright in bed, even though no noise had happened in the house/over the baby monitors, etc.
"What?!" I asked - it is RARE that he is up voluntairily at this hour - especially when the alarm was going to go off at 5:15 for him to get up and goto work (covering the shift for one of his workers that has a pregnant wife - she can't watch their other child all day w/out going into contractions)...
"I LEFT THE HOSE ON ALL NIGHT filling the pool!"
YIKES! The pool is about 1 mm from overflowing.
UPDATE: and now it is raining!
"What?!" I asked - it is RARE that he is up voluntairily at this hour - especially when the alarm was going to go off at 5:15 for him to get up and goto work (covering the shift for one of his workers that has a pregnant wife - she can't watch their other child all day w/out going into contractions)...
"I LEFT THE HOSE ON ALL NIGHT filling the pool!"
YIKES! The pool is about 1 mm from overflowing.
UPDATE: and now it is raining!
Star Wars - Clone Wars Battle Revolution Ship
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July 26, 2008
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