Aww man!

So. Hubs gets reimbursed for eye care through work. we fill out a form, include the receipt and send it off.

I filled out the form, put it and the receipt in an envelope, and addressed it. Then hubs opened it up AND wrote all over the envelop while talking with the insurance company about claims made online instead of VIA snail mail.

So, I got a new envelope, addressed it, again, put the form and the receipt in, again and put it on the counter for hubs to mail.

Then Costco called to say that Blake's glasses were ready for pick up - and hey, bring the receipt with you!

Sigh.

Once again I opened the envelope and took out the receipt. We went to Costco, got his glasses, had coffee and came home. I put the receipt back in the envelope, taped it shut - I was NOT re-writing the address for a third time - and put the sealed envelope with the form and the receipt on hubs lunch box, with a Loonie, to mail after work today.

Except, just a few minutes ago I reached into my coat pocket for a lighter and pulled out the receipt for Blake's new glasses. Sooooo. What did I seal up with the form that hubs is mailing TODAY after work?

And so, today after school I will have to stuff the children all in the car and go wait outside the post office for hubs to come. When he does, I will have to jump out of the car, get to him before he mails the envelope and make him open it and put the form and the REAL receipt in the envelope I will be addressing for the THIRD (and omg, final) time.

What a mess!

pee ess: Here is Blake with his new glasses





Pee ess ess: I spelled receipt wrong every single time in this post. Thank god for spell check!

Getting Nervous

So I ordered the 30 Day Shred on January 9th. This is not part of some New Years resolution, This is for me, Unfortunately, during the wait time, I have been reading up on this work out. What got my attention initially was that the work out is 20 minutes long, so there is no excuse that I do not have the time, and that a lot of people i "know" people online are doing this and it is helping them!

The unfortunate part is all the "ZOMG this is really hard" And ' I was soooo sore afterward" and "this is not for beginners" reviews I have been reading.

I am most definitely a beginner.

I'm trying to be calm and patient, to wait and reserve my judgment of the work out until I have actually had a chance to, you know, work out to it, but its hard. And I am getting nervous! It's been almost 2 weeks since I ordered the DVD so it will be here soon...

In other news, I have upped my water intake by humongous amounts and have been thinking about doing some sort of cleanse, maybe a Slimquick Cleanse, while I wait. Have any of you tried a cleanse? Did it help?

Back to the DVD, do you figure it will matter if I take it slow, If I stop when I get really winded, or do I attempt to push on? Obviously it will take longer than 30 days to "shred" doing it slower, but I know me, and If I am too stiff the next day I will find this or that excuse to put it off!

Space Issues

Upstairs we have a very small living room. it barely fits the Love seat, the sofa and the television in it. Plus we have a DVD storage thingy. Add to that, my husband has the PS3, the Wii, the DVD player and all his game supplies - controllers, keyboard, blue tooth headset stored in the TV stand, et el, you can imagine that it is very messy and disorganized.

The TV stand only has two spaces with doors and that is where all the actual games are stored, so the controllers and six million nine hundred and forty two wireds and cords can;t be put in there.

Downstairs int eh basement we have a bigger TV stand, and it is completely enclosed. there is almost nothing stored int eh stand downstairs becuase no one but the boys use that TV.

A huge part of me wants to rearrange the tv stands and put the bigger one upstairs, but another part of me knows that it just wont work, size wise. Oh and also, the end tables upstairs match the tv stand we have upstairs, so if we re arranged I would have to find matching tables for the living room.

It's such a hassle. On one hand I want my furniture to match and look nice, and I do not want to block my big living room window, but on the other hand I don't want Hubs cords to be all over the place and looking ugly.

What would you do?

RockStars

For my husbands thirtieth birthday the boys and I picked up the Game Rockband for his PS3. Rockband has been out for a while now, I'm not sure if it came out back when it was only PS2 or not, but I do know that my husband has been bugging me for a while to pick it up.

Over all, I would say that it has been a pretty good purchase. The noise, of course is annoying, just becuase its so ..ALL THE TIME... they kids and hubs play if for hours at a time, and the worst part is that my extremly tone deaf son LOVES to be on vocals. My ears are threatening to go on strike people!

Here are a few pictures of the boys getting down:


the first two are Parker on the drums. He needs more practice, but after only a few days he is consistently getting in the high eighty's for a score. What bugs me SO much is that on vocals - and he is the tone deaf one, he is always scoring close to or right on 100%, when he doesn't know the words, and he often doesn't, he does this groany hummy thing and as a result, thinks he is the most awesome singer int he world.





Blake doesn't seem to want to play the game at all. here he is checking out the Mike, he spent the whole song just yelling random words into the mike to hear himself scream.


More of Parker on the drums


This, though, is my favorite picture of ALL. This is my baby, Logan, he is four. He is singing It's the Eye Of The Tiger over and over and over. And over, but that is NOT the song being played on the game. He is adorable.

A Real DOH! Moment

I HATE Dr.Google! How many times have I needlessly terrified myself by availing myself of his services? How many times has a sore foot turned into an uber horrifying case of Plantar Fasciitis? How many times do I need to surf the net only to come away shaking, scared and unable to sleep?

Will I ever learn?

My latest consult with Dr. Google was over some pretty sever breast pain I have been experiencing. My Bewbs have been so sore that I have taken to wearing a normal bra with a sports bra over top, two tank tops - one with a shelf bra - a t-shirt and a sweater. AND? If someone (read: Husband) dared to touch them, or even THOUGHT about touching them I swear to god I would have cut off his hands.

I have spent the last five days alternatively cradling my aching bewbs and wishing I could cut them off. Dr. Google informed me that Something Was Very Wrong, and I believed him. But... in the off chance the renowned doctor was wrong, I consulted my Step mother.

As it turns out, normal women get will get tender in the bewbal region during their monthly cycle, and most women start that as soon as they begin to menstruate in adolescence, I never had that problem, and for the life of me, I couldn't understand why people bitched and complained about sore boobs! I was all suck it up princess.

Until this month, this cycle, this past week, when my beautiful bewbs attacked me with pain.

30 Day Shred

I've seen talk about the 30 Day Shred on a few blogs now, and it seems to be working for people. IF you actually DO the exercises.

The thing with the Shred is its ONLY 20 minutes a day. That's It. just 20 minutes, BUT form what i have heard it is a Very intense hard work out and you will only loose weight/tone up if you do the whole 20 minutes without stopping.

I bought my copy of the 30 Day Shred on Ebay, and there are a tonne of listings for it, but after I joined a facebook group devoted to the shred, I read that it;s available in Target and I think if you can find it in Target, you can find it in Wal-Mart.

There is one required item besides the DVD that you need for this work out - little hand weights. One, two three, five pounds, whatever you are comfortable with.

I am going to buy a set of weights that has various weights to them and start small and move up as I feel ready.

I Am still waiting for my DVD to come in the mail, which is OK as I haven't yet gotten the weights, but I am already worried! If seasoned pros are having trouble getting through the 20 minutes, how on earth will I do it?

I also assume that since most diet pills say that they go hand in hand with diet and exercise, that it would be OK to use a diet pill while on the 30 Day Shred.

My biggest problem is trying to find a good sports bra. A REALLY good one.

Photo Meme

I LOVE pictures, so seeing this meme at Digital Ed, I knew even before I had read his post I wanted to do it!

here are the rules:

1. Go to your picture files
2. Go to your 6th folder.
3. Go to your 6th picture.
4. Tell us about it.
5. Tag 6 friends to do the same. I am not a fan of tagging people, however, if you do this, please leave me a link so I can come and check it out!

My Sixth Folder only had two pictures in it, So I used my 16th folder.

I have a Lot of pictures stored on my laptop, up to six months ago, they are also backed up on DVD's in the safe.

This is an old picture, from Blake's second Birthday, that's my Mother in law - a very religious and proper woman - panty shotting us from that mini bike. We are so lucky to have this woman in our lives! She can be nasty and mean, but my kids are top priority to her and she will do anything to make them happy, even agree to drive downt he street like this. (That's Parker at five, in the Birthday hat, cheeringher on)

Remember to come back and tell me if you decide to do this!

Snow Day

We have approximately four feet of snow in the back yard. Our puppy is approximately six inches high.... can you see where I am going with this already?

yeah.

On Saturday it is supposed to warm up to -4 and besides shopping and going to see my brand new nephew, I plan on taking her out to the back yard and video taping her first real foray into the snow!

me, the boys and hubs will be there the entire time so if she gets into trouble, one of us will fish her out, and I think we will bring Smokey out as well, although that might not happen as Smokey learned last fall how to jump on top of her dog house and over the fence. We were planning on moving her dog house to right up beside the house as opposed to where it is now, against the fence, but time got away from us this fall and we never got it done. Im not sure that the enjoyment Smokey would get out of romping in the snow would be worth the risk of her running away.

My Dog, She saved my Life!

I recently wrote about this on one of my other blogs, Bluepaintred, about how our big 60 lb dog has suddenly become terrified of the computer chair and is bound and determined to save us from the nasty evil chair.

Since she had absolutely no problem in the days leading up to yesterday, I expected her freak out would be done and over with by today. Boy was I wrong, she is still determined to save our lives!

I have a video, a very dark one, (and loud one) up at Bluepaintred if you are interested in seeing her attack a chair, but right now I'm busy on Westgate, checking to see if they have any doggie spa offers.

Poor dog has lost her ever lovin mind!

Not Looking forward to :

Cleaning the house.

Oh, it's not filthy, nothing like that, but the dishes from last night were not done, and the floors all need a good mopping and the area rugs need to be vacuumed. The worst of it though, is the laundry. I HATE LAUNDRY.

On the plus side, now that we have this computer desk set up, I have my entire counter to now fold clothes on, where before I was having to work around hubs and my laptop.

As for the floors and the seemingly never ending dog hair problem, we are sending Smokey - our shedder- to a groomer in town here next week with hopes that a professional brushing will result in less shed.

Cross your fingers.

Starting Monday Our holidays are over, hubs is back at work and the kids are back to school, and I too will be back to the normal daily grind of being a lazy bum on the computer... I mean, house cleaning.

LOL