Where Was I?: November 2007

Still Searching For The Perfect Gift?

Thursday, November 29, 2007

With less than a month to go before the big unveil, if you are still searching for the perfect gift, you had better hurry up. Last year we got one of the boys a pair of binoculars for Christmas, and they loved them. We took them camping this summer and sat by the lake watching birds and boaters zoom by!

If you or anyone on your list is looking for binoculars, telescopes or anything like that, www.OpticsPlanet.com Is THE place to check out. They offer free ground shipping on orders over 29.95, have over 200 brand names to choose from and tens of thousands of items in stock!

Labels: Holiday time, interwebs

Neat!

So I went to the city for coffee tonight. BFF Kissy had her first day off in two weeks. Thats two weeks of 12 and 1 hour days, so it was a well deserved day off indeed.

Honestly? I would NOT be able to work those kind of hours. I have doubts I could work a normal 8 hour shift anywhere!

Kissy spent her one and only day off buying a brand new car! How sweet is that? It was just rolled off the truck tonight so they were not able to take it home, but she promised that I will get to see it next coffee.

It's a 2007 Kia Rio or something, 50 miles to the gallon, to thats awesome for her!

Labels: I'm Important Too

DelightfulDeliveries.com

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

As A child I can remember my parents going to a kiosk in the middle of a Mall isle and spending what seemed like hours to me and my siblings picking out a gift basket to send out of province for my mothers parents. With online retail, you can buy almost anything - maybe everything online now.

If you are in the market for Gourmet Gifts Be sure to read the following Press Release and then Check out Delightful Deliveries!

Press Release:

DelightfulDeliveries.com Recognized as Hot 100 Retail Website

Internet Retailer Ranks Website Among Best in Nation for 2008

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DelightfulDeliveries.com offers over 2000 unique and delicious gifts from America’s best brands to the finest boutique shops. Consumers can easily shop the site by gift or food category, occasion, type and best-seller. Corporate gift-givers can choose from hundreds of customized gourmet treats.

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About Delightful Deliveries

DelightfulDeliveries.com is an award-winning website that began in 1998 and quickly established itself as one of the premier Internet gift retailers. Its mission is to bring great products to gift-givers, while providing world-class service. The company selects its offerings from a broad variety of fine food gift products for consumers and for corporate gifts, and gathers them in one place to make the selection process quick and simple.

Labels: good news, Holiday time, information, interwebs

Table Scraps

My Mother in law keeps accidentally cooking too much and sending over table scraps for Smokey. I feel bad, but I throw most of it out and the bit I allow her, I mix into her food so she has to eat both the scraps and the kibble in her bowl.

I don;t know how to tell my MIL she is not doing Smokey any favor by sending this stuff over. She is a puppy and her puppy food has the proper nutrients she needs in it. A side of Elk does not!

Le Sigh

Labels: puppy talk

Oh I wish I wish I had Not Eaten That Fish

...Because that Fish Would have made the perfect dish for my Cat!

With Christmas just weeks away ( LESS THAN A MONTH!!) We are going to be getting more practical gifts. I am sure that someone out there will be able to take advantage of the wonderful Dell Coupons, but this season, we will be sticking to things like Clothing for the boys!

Don't get me wrong, they will get toys, but it will not be like last year for them.

As for our newest edition, Smokey the Pup, she will be getting a larger sized water and food dish thanks to the neat AnimalDen deals I found online!

coupon codes Are a wonderful way to save money and time while shopping online!

Labels: interwebs, save money

Un Cluttering 2

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

As per my last post, un-cluttering. I heard a radio advertisement for the XXXXXXXXX Crisis Nursery and called them. I explained that I am horrible at finding places but that I had a bunch of baby/ toddler boys clothes for them.

The lady was so nice, she agreed to meet me at a place in the city I knew how to drive to, so I damn well made it worth her while! I dug out all of the summer coats and took out the too small jackets and sweaters, then I went through the kids summer clothing and took out all of the shorts, tee shirts and bathing suits that were too small for Stuperman.

Then I went through the shoes, sandals, winter boots and rubber boots and made a bag of those for her.

Poor woman, thought she was picking up two bags of toddler clothes and ended up with seven bags of various and sundry.

Kinda made it worth driving in the cold for.

Plus? in the spring? I don't have to worry about going through all of the clothes now :o)

Labels: plans

Un Cluttering

Monday, November 26, 2007

A few weeks back I cleaned out all of our closets. Rainbow Man's too small clothes went to Blue Boy, Blue Boys went to Stuperman, but..I'm done having Babies, so who do I give Stuperman's too small pile too?

I have been burned each time I try and give a pile of baby clothes to friends or family. they either get thrown straight in the trash - good, no stained, clothes! Into the garbage, Or in one other case, the friend who was so hard up and desperately needed clothes for her son, she sold them in a garage sale.

Sigh.

I think I am taking them all down to the non profit. They will go to kids who need them, and not into the trash nor benefit people who don't deserve!

Labels: In My Opinion

FAIL!

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Last March I started a Cross Stitch of Rainbow Man. I used a program to turn the picture to a pattern and started working on it. Then I got obsessed (even more so) with my blog(s) and put it down.

In the summer it is really hard to Cross Stitch becuase I won't take it outside, there are too many threads and papers and things to keep track of and clean, and the kids are too young, or at least the baby is too young to be out alone.

So tonight I picked it up with the intention of getting a bunch of work done on it. I would like it done by the new year.

We have this roof light thingy, and the light bulb burnt out about forever ago and we have not gone to get a replacement bulb for it yet. It is some sort of specialty bulb thingy. So I took my bedroom lamp out and set it up for lighting. It was still too dark. I had to bend so far forward to take advantage of the light that my back was killing me before five hundred stitches- which sounds like a lot, but is NOT.

So I failed again at doing something I had set my mind to doing. I will take it out Monday and try doing it with the daytime light. We have a great big window in the living room and I am hopeful that the kids will occupy themselves so I can get some work on it done.

Labels: boys, I'm Important Too, plans

Hey! You! Yes you!

I have a post up at Paint! asking how a popup blocker decides what ad we get to see. Go read it and then tell me what kind of pop ups YOU get to see.

I was wondering if it might depend on the site we go to? I miss the old X-rated ones I used to get.

Go now Interwebs! Share your wisdom with me!

Labels: I'm Important Too

Hot Tubs

Friday, November 23, 2007

Yes I said Hot tubs.

We had the boys come up with a Christmas List, not that we ever follow them, becuase the things they want are usually outrageous. and also? I normally have all their stuff bought before they even realize it is close to Christmas.

So this year, like last year, hot tubs made an appearance on a list.

Ever since Blue boy was three and learned of the existence of hot tubs, he has wanted one with a passion tat excludes all else.

You see, He wants it in his room. And he would put his pillow and blanket in it and sleep int he water AND get clean!

AT THE SAME TIME!

Such a multi-tasker, that one.

Uhm. No he won't be getting it.

What weird and strange things have your kids asked for?

Labels: boys, Holiday time

Odd Phrases

So I have a nifty little stat counter on my blog, but it doesn't just tell me how many peopl come here, it also tells me how they got here.

I have had a few searches that I am positive came just becuase of keywords in my paid blogging.

And thats pretty cool! It means that somewhere someone was looking for something I and I had a link ready for them to use!

Some of the searches are easy to understand. Like the seven searches for cheese strings. Obviously someone is feeling snacky!

Or the one searching out Tropical Vacations. Obviously they need a break and need to take me with them!

But the one search on Washington DC medical malpractice lawyers Really made me wonder. Malpractice usually has to do with doctors, right? Specifically when a doctor does something wrong?

I've had some experience with that! Like when a doctor misdiagnosed my sisters stroke as a headache and lefter her laying in a hospital bed screaming for hours until my father went to see her during visiting hours and made them do something?

Or the time they started operating on me (tubal ligation) and I said, uhm, is it supposed to burn like that?

Or, hey what about the time the doctor kept saying my son was fine, he was OK, no need to worry and he ended up having three surgeries for the thing she said was no freaking problem?

I sure hope whoever was searching for a lawyer gets a good one. Doctors are pretty damn good at healing people, but they can also make some very serious mistakes.

Labels: In My Opinion, information, interwebs

Heh. hehehehehe.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

So if you are planning on renovating your kitchens or bathrooms, or say, having your five year old son renovate them for you, I highly recommend you use kohler faucets. Not only are they really nice looking, but they are simple enough for a five year old to install!

No actually, I do not recommend you let your five year old renovate any time soon. Sometimes, they take it apart and don't put it back together!

What not to get me for Christmas

A years subscription to maxim magazine
More Snow
projection televisions (who has room for those besides movie stars anyway?)
More Snow
A Broken Leg
More snow.

You might have noticed that I hate snow. What you would not know unless you looked out my window is that in the past four days, all it has done is SNOW! In the past I was able to hole up inside all winter, venturing out only for coffee and shopping. But this winter. We have a puppy. A puppy who likes to pee. AND romp int he snow.

Labels: Holiday time, sigh

Traffic Snarlz

So we drove into the city and ended up stopped - with a car sick dog - for forty minutes on the bridge. We could not see at all what was holding up traffic, but we later learned that there had been a semi truck accident ahead of us.

I cannot imaging the damage a semi truck would do to a little car and quite frankly, I never want to find out first hand.

Labels: oh noes

Ick Alert!

Soooooo... the puppy is three months old and huge. Strength goes hand in hand with a huge dog, and she is damn strong. I am worried about how strong she will be full grown, so we are taking some drastic (at least to me) measures now, while she is still (somewhat) controllable.

She used to wear a simple around the neck collar with her tags, but she tugs and pulls on it when we go for a walk until she is not just choking herself, but doing it so hard that she barfs.

Worried that she will get strong enough that I cannot hold her when she strains as well that she will hurt herself, we loaded her into the car for a trip to the city to get her properly fitted for a harness.

We ended up not getting a harness, but I will talk about that later.

It turns our Smokey is severely car sick. We had brought her towel to lie on, so she felt comfortable in the car, but it was no good. You have NO idea how bad it smells in there. I'm almost to the point where I need to knock over a store that sells wholesale flowers and fill the car from top to bottom with something a bit..nicer..smelling!

Unless you have a better idea!

Labels: puppy talk

Seven MORE years

I am a big fan of mirrors and yet, they all seem to hate me. No sooner had I hit publish on that last post when I heard the unmistakable sound of something breaking and the baby saying Uhoh!

He was standing on his little tool in the bathroom, shards of glass from one of my many makeup mirrors surrounding him.

I lifted him from the stool and got him to sit on the counter while I went for a broom. And the vacuum.

This is probably the 50th mirror that has been broken in my house in the past ten years. Yes you read that right. an average of five mirrors a year. One of them was a set of eight mirrors that are supposed to hang on a wall, big panel ones.... all eight of them fell and smashed one day as we slammed the door shut on our way out.

The sound was amazing!

Labels: boys, oh noes, saftey

And you think "More gingerbread Men??"

I just wanted to say really quick that the recipe I gave a few posts down is awesome. The cookies are firm enough that they do not break easy BUT they are soft enough to eat. They are awesome dipped in milk (boys) and coffee (me)!

I'm pretty excited to have found a recipe that works becuase now I can get to work printing out the templates for the Karma Sutra ginger bread figures.

Thats gonna be hilarious!

Labels: cookies

Ta -Da! ***NSFW*** (post contains naked men)

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Batch One. Act suitably impressed.

ZOMGS! A rack full of nekked men! Now that Christmas carol Joy To the World makes sense!

Reverse UpSkirt. Take that you pants-less men!

MIDPOST BREAK FOR ADORABLE PUPPYNESS

There is something absolutly delicious about a man in nothing but his birthday suit!

Mmmmmm

To see more photos head over to the Photo Blog. You can find a link in the side bar!

Labels: boys, I'm Important Too, LOL, Pictures

Christmas Greetings

Know what I hate about Christmas? The generic boring Christmas cards businesses send to us the month of December.

For example. Last year we got a blank - yes blank as in white - card that said Happy Holidays - from our mortgage person. I tossed it in the garbage. There was no way I was going to display it with the rest of the cards I had received.

The Gallery Collection offers absolutely beautiful Corporate Christmas Cards. No more sending crappy cards to your customers!

The other super cool thing that the Gallery collection is doing is they:

announced their affiliation with Soldiers Angels. Soldiers Angels provides aide and comfort to the men and women of the United States Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force and the Coast Guard and their amazing families.

In addition they sent blank cards for the soldiers to write home - the cards even were sent along with care packages!

What an awesome company!

Labels: information, public service

Cookie Decorating

So. Have I mentioned that I dislike decorating cookies?

I am OK with the first dozen or so and then I get sick and tired of it!

So I made forty six gingerbread men, hand the kids eat two and now we all have 11 cookies to decorate.

This. This is doable.

Although.. my cookies will not be any more special than the kids becuase I will rush through it just to get it done.

Who wants pictures?

Labels: cookies, I'm Important Too

Snow ; I hate it

Monday, November 19, 2007

While it has been very very cold for about a month, we have not had any significant snow. Until now. Waking up to four inches of the white stuff is very disheartening.

A normal womans Christmas list might read : perfume, diamond pendants, new clothes, or a night out on the town.

My Christmas list has but one item. A Heated Mattress Cover.

Thats it.

All I want for Christmas is to be warm in my own bed.

Unless. Do you think Santa will turn the winter off if I ask him very nicely?

Labels: I'm Important Too

Sweet - litterally

I made a batch of dough for gingerbread men last night. It was only after I wasted all of the ingredients making the dough that I realized the recipe I was following had been written by a gerbil with internet access.

So I called my grandma for a real recipe. She told me to call my aunt for her recipe as it is really good. So fine, this afternoon I called her, but she was busy on her treadmill and sounded a bit put out at the thought of repeating a recipe over the phone in any case.

Wonderful.

I told her if I had not found one before tonight I would call her back.

The second I hung up the phone with my aunt, the phone rang again, it was my sister.

She has the same cookbook my aunt gets her gingerbread recipe from AND was not put out at all when I asked her to give it to me.

tonight I will make the dough and bake the cookies, tomorrow night the boys will decorate them :o)

here is the recipe if anyone is interested :

Ginger Bread cookies - Rolled

1/4 cup butter - softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1/3 cup water
3 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. cloves
1/2 tsp. salt

Cream butter and sugar. Add molasses and water. mix in remaining ingredients. Roll out on floured surface, bake at 350 (f) for 8-10 minutes. Cool. Decorate. Enjoy

Labels: cookies, family, information, plans, recipe

Advertising your Blog

Anyone who has a blog, loves their blog. They love reading comments finding out a new person has found and read their blog.

But how do you advertise your blog without being spammy? One way is to comment comment comment. Normally when you comment the other person will pop over to your blog to see who you are, sometimes they stay and become loyal readers!

Another way I have found to bring new visitors to my blogs is business cards. I had a bunch of cards printed up. All one color, outrageous prices and began giving them out. In the past few months, since I began handing out business cards I have noticed an increase of local visitors to my blog. That tells me that the business cards are working.

Unfortunalty I only have a bout ten cards left, but I have no desire to spend fifty bucks getting them reprinted.

This is where I turn to ooprint .com. Ooprint is offering 100 Free blogger cards. All you have to do is pay the shipping - I checked the shipping is NOT marked up to cover the cost of the cards.

The blogger cards have a customizable tag cloud at no extra charge!

They also have stamps that you can personalize and office business cards for those of you who are not bloggers!

Labels: blogging for money, business, I'm Important Too

Weekend off

For the most part, I refrained from blogging this weekend. I *think* that in the US it was Thanksgiving and so there would not have been many visitors anyway, but the real reason was I needed a bit of a break. Not from blogging, but just a break to spend some time with the Hubs.

Today (Monday) he started his nine hour days and he is ticked right off about it. You see, it is mandatory not voluntary and becuase we live in a small town and his work place is in the city, he has to get up at 5:15 now to get to work on time.

So I made a few paid posts here and there, but for the most part, hubs and I vegged with the kids, enjoying our last normal weekend together. Now that he has to get up so early, Sunday will no longer feel like a weekend to him - he has to go to bed so much earlier.

His plan last night was to be in bed by 11:30. Still late considering the time his clock will ring, but better than the normal 12:30 - 1 AM we usually do. Unfortunately I found this very addicting game. I hate it, it hates me, and yet I cannot stop playing it. I had just lost and was going to turn off the game when hubs asked if he could have a try. I told him ten minutes thats it!

Well. Why don't you try the game and tell me what time you think we ended up going to bed :o)

Bubble shooter AKA evil evil game - if you clear the screen be sure to tell me!!

Labels: family, Games, Holiday time, husband, plans

Work Place Hazards

Sunday, November 18, 2007

I know that it is often frowned upon to talk about a persons work place online.

Dooced.

Fabbed.

Fired.

But I am still ticked off about something that happened to my husband at work a week ago. I will not mention where he works, but he is a welder for a very very large company. He was working with a plasma cutter, head bent down paying attention to what he is doing, ear plugs in becuase that is a work place rule, when behind him there was a huge bang. He turned around and literally feet from where he was standing was a tipped over rack. On the rack were two and five hundred pound pieces.

Had they been dropped just a few feet closer he would not be here today.

But thats not what makes me mad. Not. The part that bugs me is that the forklift driver was not paying attention and knocked them over. the fork lift driver did not even stop to make sure everyone was OK.

This is the same guy they have caught parked in a quiet corner catching a nap. The same one who has run into people - breaking a guys leg - the same one who - I could go on and on.

The fact of the matter is that no one is safe around this guy. This has been proven in mutiple ways and yet he is still working there.

Labels: outrage

Listen Up Readers

I feel the need to apologize about the sheer amount of paid posts I have slapped up on where was I in the last few days.

One of the companies I work for(Pu2B) allows me to write a personal post so long as I include a link in said post. Easy enough. The problem is that they assigned me twenty eight posts that have to be done by the 24th, AND if I can get them done by the 21st, I will have $$$ in time for Christmas.

This year paid blogging IS our Christmas. With the strike entering week three we have none of the regular income to rely on.

I have drastically slowed down the un-personal paid posts (like ppp) because there are none (lol) besides, that money would not get to me by Christmas.

The Pu2B posts I have to do Is write a post about whatever, much like I am doing now, then simply enter a link like this Raleigh personal injury attorneys and boom, in a week I am paid!

So, yes, I am sorry, There will be a lot of posts, but all of them, even though I am being paid are also just me, talking.

This will slow down soon!

Labels: ponderings

Free Ringtones!

My Brother and his girlfriend have a cell phone with them at all times and it seems that every time I see them they have a different ring tone on their cells. When I asked them how there were doing it they explained that there are sites where you can get Free Ringtones!

My brother told me that to getPolyphonic Ringtones, Hip Hop Ringtones or Dance Ringtones all he does is wake up, decide he wants a new sound, and downloads whatever he feels like hearing!

I'm glad he goes for the musical ones, not the annoying bbeeeeeepBEEPbeeepppp ones I always end up listening to while trying to eat out!

Labels: family, free stuff, information

Dammit

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Every time I watch Armageddon I get pissed off all over again that Harry has to die.

Labels: fuck.

Addictions

I don't have the normal addictions - normal being like drugs, alcohol etc. But I do have some addictions that certain people think I need addiction treatment for.

I'm going to list some of them. How many of then do YOU share with me?

Socks. I love socks. the fuzzier, the more colorful, the more.. different, the better. I love them with a strange drooling, heart fluttering passion.
Chocolate. I think every woman loves chocolate, I really do. And if you don't then there is something quite wrong with you.
Baths. Either with or without bubbles, but I do love me some good smelling bath salts and powders and fizzies and .. well all of it. I take a bath almost every single night, usually right after the boys go to bed. it unwinds me from whatever I have dealt with that day.
Coffee. Hot, cold, with cream and sugar or black. I love coffee. Often at night I will deliberately leave a half cup of coffee on the counter so that I have something to drink while waiting for my first pot of the morning is brewing.

Fess up y'all. Tell me YOUR addictions!

Labels: LOL

LMAO

Some times I laugh at my mother in law. I will always love her, but man does she amuse me with the things she does.

You might remember her from such posts as - I stock golf clubs beside my extra coffee pots and Stop calling it epidural, its an epidurkey!

She has a bit of a weight problem. She should lose fifteen, amybe a bit more, maybe a bit less pounds. So it is not a bad weight problem, and yet she keeps buying exercise equiptment. She bought a tredmill last year - know who uses it?

My boys.

She buys DVD exercise videos. They sit on a shelf, unwatched - Know why?

They do not have a DVD player!!

She buys exercise balls that my children play with, not her.

She just called me all excited about the elliptical machine she found at - get this - a garage sale.

It doesn't work, so it is in the garage, my FIL will try and fix it - in between his arm healing form an end of October surgery and a scheduled eye surgery mid December.

(in case you are wondering, the elliptical machine will wait int he garage gathering dust and taking up space until next summer when they have a garage sale and decide to sell it!)

Labels: family, healthy living, LOL

I have a question

When Me and Hubs got married we did not spend a fortune to do it. In fact WE did not spend more that what our wedding rings cost. Our parents paid for our wedding in desperation to see a ring on my finger before their grandson was born.

I bought my wedding flowers at Safeway. They were beautiful, purple daisies, dyed to match my wedding colors. Since they were real it was not hard for me to toss them out after they were dead. But my cake. Oh my cake was beautiful. Again, we did not spend a bunch on this wedding and the cake was a gift from my fathers boss. She made it in her kitchen.

It was three teired, (sp??) each one a heart, smaller than the one below it. The icing was an exact match (purple) as my wedding colors... I could go on and on. The top level of the cake was made out of foam so we do not have to worry over much about it rotting.. uhm.. does icing rot?

Anyway. I have - HAVE - to clean out the basement storage. I no longer have a choice in the matter becuase -- (shhhh.. don't tell anyone, but when I open the door, it starts falling out. This is no closet - this is a ROOM)

One of the things in that room is a box with the top level of my wedding cake. I have not so much as peeked at it in EIGHT years. SO by rights, I should toss it out. But... I can't, and until I can figure out what to do with the cake, I cannot force myself to begin tackling that room.

IF the cake is still fine, after eight years in a cardboard box, thats a big if, does anyone know of any sort of box .. or case or something that I can store it in and see it? I have looked in crafting stores for a clear, sealable box, with no luck, so its up to you Interwebs.

please - give me a solution!

Labels: help, questions

Household chores

I think it would be a draw were I to choose my most despised household chore. I hate doing the dishes - although I have to admit that when the sinks are clean I feel really accomplished. No. It's true. When I see clean sinks, doing all of the other things in my kitchen seem so tiny. I feel like cleaning, just as long as the dishes are done. I feel like Baking, every time I see an empty sink!

The other household chore I really, really hate is folding clothes. I saw a you tube video of a clothes folder. They stuck the shirt in and in like four seconds she had it folded perfectly, like the ones you see on store shelves. If it folded at the touch of a button, or if it did more than clothes, I would pick one up, but... as it is, you still have to fold so I do not want!

You know. Reading this over, i think that folding clothes takes the top spot for most hated chore, becuase at least when I get the kitchen cleaned I feel awesome about what I have done. When the clothes are done, I just feel sad knowing that in a day tops, I will have even more to fold.

Labels: ponderings

Interesting

So I was talking to my mother in law on the phone today. I called to tell her she has not been seeing enough of the boys and what a shame that is, that she needed to take them for the night for some quality bonding time ( She agreed by the way)

Anyway, while talking to her, she told me that in the summer they are either putting in a new golf course or expanding the one that we currently have.

I do not play golf.

I feel bad for people who live near the golf course, sure the scenery would be great, but what about golf balls flying through the windows or hitting your car parked in the driveway. I'm not so sure that homeowners insurance covers things like that!

And golfers, for some reason, are all morning people. They like to be out on the course swinging their Mizuno golf clubs by six, or seven AM! How horrible would it be to be waken up on a Saturday morning with the call of a golfer ...FOURRRRRR.

uggg. I'm so glad that we do not live close to the golf course AND that there is no room for them to build one anywhere near us. The neighbors kids are loud enough on Saturday Mornings without adding Golfers to the mix!

Labels: ponderings

Riddle me this

I think our dog is a hypochondriac.

The second day we had her, her first full day with us, the three year old accidentally stepped on her little paw. Hard. She whimpered and whined. She limped and whined some more. She yelped and danced, holding her paw in the air.

We were, naturally, quite concerned. We gathered her up, inspected her paw, we gave her pats and treats and love. We coddled her, watching her paw for swelling, trying to determine minute from minute if the limping had gotten better.

A few days later she yelped and started limping, although on a different paw. We had no idea how she got hurt, the kids were in bed and she had previously just been laying on the floor. Still, she seemed to be in pain, so out came the treats and coddling again.

Now it seems that whenever she is board or wants us to quit doing what we are doing in favor of playing with her, she will lift a paw at random and yelp and whine. Until the moment you go see what is wrong, then she happily puts weight on all four paws and prances, waiting for us to play.

I'm pretty sure she is playing us for fools...

Labels: In My Opinion, puppy talk

Oh Christmas Tree

Friday, November 16, 2007

There is something like fifty days until Christmas. Are you ready?

Normally I put up our tree on the first Saturday of December. But this year I think we will be waiting until a week or so before the big night just becuase of the puppy.

We have a fake tree, and it is great becuase we leave our tree up so long most years and a real tree dries out after a few weeks. The other reason a real tree come sin handy is that we have no way to transport a tree from a lot to home.

This year, because the tree is going up so late we can put up a real Christmas tree, and to get over the difficulties of bringing home a fresh, wonderful smelling tree, I can just have it home delivered from ChristmasFarms.Com!

Oh Christmas tree indeed!

Labels: Holiday time, home improvement

Plan of attack

Rainbow man has this little purple paper called a log book. In it I am supposed to write down the title of the book he has read that day. In exchange, for reading five books a week ( or more) he gets extra recess and computer time.

I lose that purple paper like Mr. Fab loses his hair!

Becuase of me losing the paper he was docked a crap load of marks last term. THIS term me and him are determined to succeed. I picked him up from school this afternoon a requested a new purple log book sheet. As soon As I got home, I stapled the damn thing to his planner. He has to bring his planner back and forth from school to home and back again every day.

This way, I will always know where his log book is to write in and he will have it on school on whatever day she checks them.

Labels: boys, plans, school

I want to LIVE

Thursday, November 15, 2007

I think those life insurance salesmen are doing it ALL wrong. By agreeing to pay X number of dollars to my surviving family, its like I am signing my own death warrant!

"Hey hon, I signed a paper today that will give you six million when I die...Why do you have that gun? You need to put down that - STOP! no! please..."

I think that instead of a life insurance quote for money, the sales man should be quoting me years to live.

For example. I would be willing to pay a company a monthly sum to ensure I live for the next eighty three years, nine days and six minutes.

But the one trying to sell me just twenty years? No way!

Who's with me?

Labels: LOL

My Sister

Over the last ten years me and my sister have had many rough spots. There was an 18 or 24 month period where we never talked at all in there.

But you know what? When things get rough, she is ALWAYS there. It doesn't matter if we are in the middle of a fight, she calls cease fire the moment anything of real life importance happens.

Like tonight. While we haven't been fighting lately, and have worked steadily to one of the best relationships we have had with each other, tonight she went above and beyond.

Way above. Way beyond.

Tonight I dropped a pillow and a DVD at her place and when I walked out I had two LARGE boxes of groceries. Enough staples that my grocery bill on Saturday will be right where it normally is. Enough food to get us back on our feet, giving us a fighting chance.

Tomorrow morning when I say "yes" to the boys when they ask for milk with their breakfast, They have their Aunty to thank.

And so do I.

Labels: family

Just for Kix

Now, other than a few slow dances at weddings, and the game DDR, I do not dance. I never really learned how to, although I would love to take some kind of couples class with my husband. I think it would be a great experience for both of us.

I can tell you, from my experiences with DDR - Play Station’s Dance Dance Revolution Game, that without the proper clothing you are begging for trouble. Trust me. I wore the wrong pants, stepped on the hem of them and was on my butt for two weeks with a sprain.

Just For Kix has everything you need for dancewear, from team basics to tights, tee shirts to tutus. They even have a youth section to dress up the littlest of dancers! They carry a large selection of sizes and color for every product they sell!

Labels: fashion, Games, health

SCORE

I might have mentioned a a few hundred times that I hate cooking. HATE IT. So when my MIL calls and invites us for supper I jump at the chance like a rabid dog after a child.

Oh.. bad simile,

wait. Metaphor?

Whatever you get the point.

In any case tonight I am having roast, potatoes, gravy, corn, and all the rest that goes with it - WITHOUT having to cook or clean. and That makes me a very happy woman!

Some people in my family find it odd that I live so close to my MIL - three houses away from each other, but I love it.

Thake this morning for example, there I was fighting the headache from hell when she calls and says she made too much lunch for her and the FIL, would the baby like some. She brought it over, and played with the puppy for a minute and then was on her way.

What is NOT to like about this situation? The free baby sitting? The meals? The card games?

Yea thats what I thought!

Labels: family

My Secret Addiction

I love socks. Its an odd love I know but there it is. I cannot walk through the sock department of any store without touching and staring longingly at them. Occasionally my inner beast takes over and I return home with ten or fifteen pairs of socks.

One of the most important aspects of a GOOD sock is how it looks. I love colorful, or textured (soft) socks. You see, often when I am feeling down, or have a headache or the kids are noisy I will glance down, see my neon yellow frog covered socks, and they make me smile.

Socks and leg warmers and leggings? They all have the power to pull me out of a funk.

Currently I have around fifty pairs of socks. However, about thirty of them have small to large holes somewhere in them. You know that that means, don't you?

Sock Shopping. The greatest pastime of all time!

Now here is the real exciting part. There is a company called Hue that besides having rocking leggings, tights and socks has socks that smell. NO not like that! They have for example, light blue is Eucalyptus scent, and Black is rose, Pink is pink grapefruit and the list goes on.

Besides having socks that smell good, they have a flat rate of five dollars for shipping so no matter how much you order, you pay five dollars for shipping!

Ah. Sock Heaven. It's calling me!

Labels: fashion, good looks, socks

iGoogle

I found a new site, but I am not going to name it. However if you are overcome with curiosity, Google the title of this post. In any case, this page will actas a home page for your computer. You can add widgets and whatnots galore. Seriously there are thousands of add ons you can use.

And its free.

But it is run by google whom i am in sever hate with right now. But it has tetris. But its google! And I hate google, And then there is the tetris aspect again.

back and forth I cannot bring myself to use it as my homepage, but i have it bookmarked.

Oh the Shame!

Labels: confision, love/hate

Gift Baskets For the Holidays

Something I love looking for and sending during the Holiday season is gift baskets.

Some of my friends get ones made up of chocolates, others get fruit and vegetables, still other get ones made up of cheese and wine.

Gift baskets are great for two reasons. The first, its an easy gift with little to no work. All you have to know is what the recipient likes best, and two, if the recipient is having company over the holiday season they have a wonderful decoration that looks great in the middle of their table! If you are thinking about sending me a gift baskets, be sure to ignore the cheese whine and chocolate and go straight to the bubble bath!

Labels: Holiday time

How many posts have I titled SIGH?

Once again I was a retard and slept on the couch. Not all night, just for an hour or so this morning, with the cat on my feet and the baby beside me watching a movie.

For some reason whenever I lay on the couch my neck ( in teh back) gets really stiff and I end up with a headache all day.

In a few minutes I am going to try a shower. Maybe the hot water will work out the kins, maybe not, but in any case I need a shower!

Pee ess: COFFEE TONIGHT!

Labels: healthy living, information

Picture This ; Photo Throws

I have long been a fan of my children and how absolutly adorable they are. I have cross stitched pictures of their faces and I have taken at least a million photos - most of them digital - over the last eight years.

I think Photo Throws are an awesome idea. Vision bedding offers multiple templates to choose from, from having one photo for the entire throw to having sixteen pictures on the same throw.

I'm not convinced I like many more than four photos, it gets way to busy, and if I were to purchase one I would definitely go for the one photo template.

Here is a four photo template picture throw :

No I immediately thought of my kids when I saw these blankets and how neat this would be to have, but while searching for the perfect photos I ran across something that reminded me that photo to throw blanket needn't be of people and pets. A striking photo like this would make an awesome throw for a guest bedroom!

And of course, I cannot end a post where I talk about how cute my boys are without pictures. Any one of these photos would make me an awesome blanket!

Labels: boys, information, interwebs, Pictures

An Open Letter

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Dear Google;

Your page ranking system was a wonderful tool that the internet ate up with a spoon; nourishment to help it grow.

Bloggers and websites alike used page rank as a gauge to see how wonderful their sites were.

Halloween your page rank ghoolies came out of hiding and make no mistake, this was a trick not a treat - as you snitched our page rank from our pumpkin covered goodie bags.

As an early Christmas gift, GoogelScrooge himself emerged from his snow covered cave and made all our PageRanks disappear like they they had never even been.

I'm not sure if there are any drug rehabs out there that I can enroll myself in to rid you from my life, but I am tired of the ups and downs, the constant worry and strife you feel the need to put me through.

In the beginning, I needed you to feel complete. I needed you to feel like my blogs were good. Today? You might have stolen my rank, but you haven't even begun to touch my blog.

My blogs and I? We don't need you anymore.

Sincerely; Bluepaintred

Labels: In My Opinion, interwebs, outrage

When will It End

Recently I bought my husband a Play Station Three Game System. It's wireless which is pretty cool, but becuase it is such a new system, completely different from the Play Station Two, there are a bout a bazillion little extras he now needs

Does anyone know where I can get a cheap Bluetooth headset? Or for that matter, what a bluetooth headset IS?

From what I can tell it is a wireless...microphone? And he can use it to ..uhm talk to his game. Or something like that.

Labels: husband, sigh

Uhm. NO Thanks!

Today my eldest brought home a form for life insurance for kids home from school.

Serious.

I am pretty shocked about this!

On one hand, yes funerals are expensive, and life insurance would be an easy way to cover that cost, but on the other, say you insure them for 150,000, there is no funeral that costs that much. How are you going to spend the rest of the money without feeling sick and disgusted.

Look! I got a new car! Cus my kid died! Yay!

And why are schools sending this stuff home? How wrong is that? I did not spend more than few seconds looking at the front page, but I do not send my kids to school wondering if I am getting a new car by the end of the day!

Maybe this is not a local thing. Do the schools in your area do this too?

Labels: In My Opinion, outrage

C- PMS

Today my husband walked in the door after work, kissed the dog hello and poured himself the last bit of coffee in the pot.

Did he make a fresh coffee after draining the pots lifeblood?

No. No he did not.

I think it is time to invest in sending him to corporate performance management school.

At C - PMS Some of the things the man in your life will learn are:

how to replace toilet paper rolls AND put the lid in the down position
how to either leave the last cup of coffee to me - the person who made it - or make a new pot.
that contrary to what most guys believe, dirty laundry does not make a nice floor decoration.
How to ask directions AND unfold a map

C - PMS can help men of all types, enroll yours today!

Labels: husband, LOL

YESSSSSSSSSS

In a moment of what can only be called sheer genius, People Magazine has named MATT DAMON as the Sexiest Man Alive. I have long been an advocate of Matt hotness. And trust me, people have laughed at me when I try and tell them that he is hot.

let us review :