HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME..
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MEEEEE!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME.

IT IS MY BIRTHDAY AND I AM CURRENTLY ASKING MY THREE YEAR OLD AND MY NINE YEAR OLD WHAT THEY WANT TO DO FOR MY BIRTHDAY. IT BRINGS ME MORE JOY TO SEE THEM ENJOYING SOMETHING THEY LIKE RATHER THAN DOING THE WHOLE PARTY THING FOR ME....

ANOTHER DAY CLOSER TO 40 YIKES.

Why St. Louis??

I am going to make this very brief because I have four days off of work and want to go play. St. Louis is the most trashy city I think I have ever visited. Went to a four day conference and thought it would be fun to cite see after ajourning one evening. Boy was I wrong!!! Aside from the silvery arch and the most excellent meal at Charlie Ghettos (pronounced like Cheetos but with a g)all I saw was ghetto (pronounced like ghetto) faboulous peeps and trashy industrious buldings.

More on this subject later and why CG offered such awesome food.

You've Got to Start Somewhere

I am officially crazy. I have resorted to playing my son’s Brainage DS game and trying to strengthen my mind with Soduku, but it doesn’t seem to be working. I am forgetting everything these days. Maybe it is because my job is no longer challenging and I feel myself losing brain cells every minute of the day. I’m contemplating taking an online class just for fun so I can start reproducing those little critters before I go completely brain dead.

There used to be a time when I was ultra-creative. I made jewelry, wrote constantly, witty beyond compare and did I say smart. I am wasting away. Does anyone else feel this way? I want to get back to where I once was.

On a different note, I guess it is time for me to get back in shape and by get back I mean lose 80lbs. My husband has been working out everyday for a month and is extremely diligent. I on the other hand can’t seem to get going. At the beginning of this blog I was on a good health kick but with this toenail issue (having 2 ingrown toenails removed and then a piece permanently removed) I have been unable to wear closed toed shoes. I think I should have this thing licked by the first of September and then I can begin again.

Not only do I need a mental makeover, but a physical one as well. I have procrastinated too long. It is time.!

Spit or Swallow??

I have a new aversion and it is not what you think it is. My GAWD people get your minds out of the gutter.

I work with a hard swallower. You know the type that takes a huge swig of water and then makes a gulping sound when they swallow. It totally grosses me out. I sit about 10ft. away from her and I can hear it at my desk. I wonder if this proves useful in other areas of her life? If so, please keep this action under wraps and behind closed doors. Do not bring this to work. Don’t you know you are grossing me out? I am sure you are unaware of this action and it is just a habit, but it disgusts me. I know that I am perfect and don’t have any habits that make you sick, so please stop making me ill.

Why does God punish me with these aversions? Why do I always work with people who are obviously not as smart, pretty, competent, curvaceous and brilliant as I am. The only thing I lack is a bit more compassion. You know the thing in your heart that causes you to truly care about people. Unfortunately, I can count the people I truly care about on my fingers and toes. Okay, I lie to make myself look nicer, it is only my fingers, but you know what I just don’t care. I have my close friends and some of my family to care about, isn’t that enough?

Hotter the HELL!!!

It is blistering hot here. Summer has officially arrived and this weekend it is a scorcher. I know, pull up my girl my big-girl panties and get over it, but dang I don't have AC and I must have done something wrong because God is trying to cook me with those rays.

We will be going to swim today at Mimi's and hopefully escape this heat.

Mom! That song is Sick!!!!

According to the Slangtionary the definition of Sick is: Cool or Awesome. As in Mom that song is sick.

I have decided to start posting a weekly entry called “Music that makes Mommy’s Cooler.” If you are a mommy who feels like your turning into your mother then this is definitely for you.

You all know that I have a nine and a three year old who I love and adore and although I don’t aspire to be the “friend” mom (you all know that kind of mom). I do want to keep connected with all the latest and greatest happenings. I have always viewed myself as being in the “Know” and I hope that would prove beneficial as my children get older.

So stop the pressesd!!!! Warning: these may not be appropriate for the youngsters.

Flobots: HandleBars




MIA: Paper Planes

Trust Me, It's Not Narcolepsy

Surprise, Surprise I am in a funk. It could be a culmination of being tired and once again no sun that has me in a stupor. Or, maybe it could be that I just come by this naturally. I mean after all my life is not stressful at all. My 3 year old breaking her arm has no effect on me or my son practicing football 8 hours a week and getting home at 9:00pm isn’t wearing me down. Let’s just face it. I am not busy. I don’t spend 3 hours commuting each day. I don’t leave the house at 6:30 only to get home exactly 12hrs. later. I don’t have a huge bandage on my foot because the reoccurring ingrown toenail finally was permanently removed. (Don’t worry, just a portion!!! I will still have some semblance of a toe nail.) I don’t spend 4 hours every weekend cleaning my toilets, dusting and vacuuming because I can’t stand a messy house. People!!!! Here is a newsflash…I AM JUST NOT BUSY…

PS…..You know what would make me less busy is if a friend would win the lottery and give me a housekeeper. Ya, that would make me less busy.

Calgon Take Me Away!!!!

Have you ever worked with someone who makes you want to gnaw your hand off? Well Ladies and Gentlemen I do. Not only do I want to gnaw my hand off, but gauge my eyes out with my letter opener.

I need 5:00 bad today. The crappy thing is, I drove today so now I get to sit in traffic for 1.5hr.

CALGON TAKE ME AWAY.

Total Drama Island....

If you have a nine year old then you know of this cartoon. How it is completely inappropriate for a children’s cartoon network. It is a cartoon resembling that of a “Survivor” or one of those cheesy, no substance, TNA sporting, mind numbingly boring shows. I don’t understand why we have to bombard our kids with such junk that is dressed in sexuality and adult issues. Can’t we just let our kids be kids. They shouldn’t have to worry about who their next conquest is going to be or how overwhelming and embarrassing it is to have to practice putting a condom on a banana at age 12. If parents were doing their job it wouldn’t be necessary to shove this crap down their throats until they are ready for it.

Don’t think that I am a parent with my head in the clouds because I am not, but I have a nine year old and I know where he is. I will know where he is at 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14. I don’t believe you get the absentee parent excuse just because you are busy. At that age they shouldn’t have the opportunity to get into the kind of trouble that requires a sexual education lecture.

I want to be the one to tell him about friendship, dating and sex. I want to be the one who tells him the importance of safety and the consequences if you are not. I want full disclosure with my child, although I know there are things he is not going to share. I want him to feel comfortable coming to me with any kind of issue.

It just saddens me to see what we are doing to our kids.