Saturday, October 17, 2009

Over my word quota for the day....

My title just about sums up my attitude towards blogging lately. It also sums up how I feel right now... out of words. (The irony is that I will go on and write 7 paragraphs worth of words right after this statement)

Ben is camping with the guys, and Madelyn must have drank some talking serum. She has been using all 79.7 bazillion words on me today. While I am getting ready, while I am on the phone, while I am trying to sleep, and on and on... now I know how Ben feels sometimes.

As for my blog, it has been so far on the back burner since the precious iPhone enlightened my life. Why go sit in the computer room to blog, when I can face book from my comfy couch next to my comfy husband and my continuously talking child.?

As for the things you have missed, fall is my favorite time of the year, and one of my very busiest times too. I just can't resist:
*Tailgating *Tech Football *Pumpkin Patches and Festivals *The Fair * The Harvest Parade

Other Honorable Mentions:
*Ben's 29th birthday! (love you old man)
*My pop in to my HS reunion (could not handle a full day of social awkwardness), but a quick cameo was nice
*My many hours spent at the eye doctor... good news, no patch will be needed! :)
*Loving long Sleeve tee-shirts and crisp weather!!!
I know I am missing many other things, but my word bank really is empty now...

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Bragging Rights

2 Brag Worthy Items

  • Ellie went tee-tee in the potty all day at school and wore panties! Woo-hoo!
  • Madelyn has been the sweetest most obedient girl ever lately... saying "Yes Mam", and then promptly doing whatever is asked of her. It has really been almost eerie how very sweet she has been

This leads up to the following story:

Madelyn: Mom can I get something for saying yes mam and yes sir and doing what I supposed to?

Me: I think you probably can, you have been doing really awesome!!!

Ellie: Mommy I get a prize too?

Me: What do you get a prize for??

Ellie: I go potty all day!

It was so cute to see her little thought process on this. I am very proud of them both!!

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Fake it til' you make it

Tonight as we were heading home from our walk, my conversation with Madelyn went like this...

Madelyn: I don't like going on walks

Me: You've always liked them before

Madelyn: Nope I don't like them anymore

Me: Well I guess we could leave you at home, and ask the neighbors to keep an eye on you

Madelyn: Nooooooo....
(she ponders for a while... then)
I guess I'll just have to fake it til' I make it!

Me: Good Idea!


-I am impressed, not only does this mean she listened to me (we had a big lesson in fake til' you make it the other day), she thought about, and she applied it!
Gold star for me and Madelyn!-

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

I'm Street Smart

Got this email and thought some of these were so me, some just plain funny, and some deleted to save you time :)

-I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option.

-More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.

-Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.

-Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

-I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.

-Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the “people you may know” feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?

-Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are soft.

-There is a great need for sarcasm font
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-Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first saw it.

-I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I’ll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone’s laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I’m still the only one who really, really gets it.

-How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

-I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

-The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.

- A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.

- Was learning cursive really necessary?

- Lol has gone from meaning, “laugh out loud” to “I have nothing else to say”.

- I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.


- Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.

- My brother’s Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, “Cuz we beat you, and you hate us.” Classy, bro.

- Whenever someone says “I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart”, all I hear is “I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart”.

- How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear what they said?

- I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!

- Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using ‘as in’ examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss’s last name to an attorney and said “Yes that’s G as in…(10 second lapse)..ummm…Goonies”

-What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?

- While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it…thanks Mario Kart.

- MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

- Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

- I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.

-Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

- I would like to officially coin the phrase ‘catching the swine flu’ to be used as a way to make fun of a friend for hooking up with an overweight woman. Example: “Dave caught the swine flu last night.”

-I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.

- Bad decisions make good stories

-Whenever I’m Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don’t mind if I do!- Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?

-If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.

-Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I’m from, this shouldn’t be a problem….

-You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you’ve made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

-Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don’t want to have to restart my collection.

-I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

- “Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this ever.

-I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There’s so much pressure. ‘I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren’t watching this. It’s only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?’

-I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What’d you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and run away?

- I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

-When I meet a new girl, I’m terrified of mentioning something she hasn’t already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.

-I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it’s on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.

-Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles…

- As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.

-Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

-It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.

-I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

-Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn’t know what to do with it.

-Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time…

-My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day “Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?” How the hell do I respond to that?

-It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.

-I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Girl Secrets Revealed

Guys, Ever wonder why women like to travel to the potty in pairs?


Here is one theory:


Guess you'll never really know.

Friday, August 14, 2009

iPhone = iEnvy

Ben and I still live in the stone ages a bit.

No home phone.

No cable.

No dvr. :(

No bells.

No whistles.

No money. (downside to only having one parent have a job that makes money)


So when Ben got a new iPhone from his company yesterday I fell in love. Of course I have seen other people's iPhones before, but never got to play on one for long. Was thinking about maybe donating blood every month to pay the data package, but thought better of it. Now I still can't wait for Ben to get home every night... but now its so I can play on his phone.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Clearing the air

In response to my "true friend" blog.... I may have over reacted. I guess sometimes things don't seem as they are. I can admit that perhaps fumes and miscommunication got the best of me. Pardon.