nothing of interest here

Ok, I warned you, if you are still reading this it is at your own boredoms risk. I have been using my phone like I never had one this week. I usually don't get or make very many calls, kinda hermity that way. Anywho, my mother calls me (which is unusual to begin with) and as we are talking, she tells me that my cousin absolutely loveed the afghan I made my mom for Christmas. This is a HUGE compliment for me, my cousin has always been one of those people for me. Don't get me wrong, she has a very loving,tender, sweet side to her but that is not what first strikes you about her. I love her to death, she was there for me when no one else was. Anyway, her house/car/dress/everything is always perfect. Nothing ever out of place. In fact the only time I ever remember seeing her look less then 100% is when she was in the hospital on bedrest when she was pregnant with her daughter. Kinda makes me feel less, like I am a huge, slobby poor white trash side of the family. Not intentionally, just my own insecurities showing their ugly heads. SO, the point of all this is SHE LIKES MY AFGHAN. That is making my day and I had to share.
I also want to share a lil bit o humor. I have a niece that likes to come play with my kids. She just turned 8 and we call her Junior. We call her this because she is a junior version of her mother and that was way obvious the other night. She was having a 'disagreement' with my oldest (who is 12 and should know better) and Jr looked at Chick and said "you are getting my pressure up and you are not going to like it" HMMM, I wonder where she could have ever picked up on such a thing.
Still out van shopping. I think we have decided on getting an Uplander, now we just have to find one we like in our price range. Have I mentioned I despise car shopping?
Mikey and I were talking last night about our camping spot. Even I am ready to get back into the summer routine; Grilling out with my sister(s) in law on Friday night and getting up and going junkin' on Saturday and then grilling out and visiting Saturday night. I won't admit this to him though. He is all excited about doing this and doing that and getting all ready for the fourth of July. I know, it is February. He is planning on having a HUGE party because his brother-from-another-mother Snatch will be here. I really hope the Army doesn't mess it up, they have a way of doing that you know.

stardate-Monday,February 26 2007 11:41 am

Ok, so ya'll know that commercial where the family is on vacation and they are taking all these pictures and the mom in a totally non smart ass way says they are looking for that elusive thing they used to see all the time and it is her teens smile? I am so living that. I have been trying to take a good picture of Chick because honestly, I haven't gotten but maybe one since her school pictures came out. She is very good at conveying how dumb she thinks I am with just a look. She inherited that from me so I am torn on whether I am proud or irritated.
I am at home today with Munchkin and two of my nieces, ages 5 and 8 monthes. And Mr will be home in 15 minutes. Yep, I am officially a glutton for punishment. ;)
I uploaded my camera and have a couple shots to share,



Mr got ready when I told him he had to have clothes on if he wanted to go outside.




This is why we have so many TV's in our house. Bubba and the twins playing video games and Tayter getting in on the action.




Bubba's mustache. Handsome, no?

Somewhere over the rainbow

I have discovered the secret to getting Mikey to go shopping with me, all I have to do is shop for a car. We are looking to replace our van (after a year of complaining about it) and it is so not what I want to be doing. It is kind of funny because we have totally opposite ways of doing it. With clothes or any other kind of shopping, I like to look around and check it all out, he wants to go/get/leave. With the vans, I am happy to look it up on the internet and narrow it down to one or two that I am really interested in and go check those out. HE wants to go to every car dealership from Shenandoah to Lincoln. I'll let ya'll know how my day goes :)

Disturbing revelation

I was surfing through www.blogthings.com (love this site, it is a hoot) and came across How Much Would You Sell OUt For? I thought I had more will power then this....

On Average, You Would Sell Out For

$284,274

At What Price Would You Sell Out?

you should try it, it is fun!

Just another manic Monday

I am on day four of a four day weekend with my kids and they are all still alive, I get a cookie. :) Actually they have been really good for the most part. Friday Munchkin spent the night with her parents so I got a whole nights sleep, that was heavenly. I took 411 and Chick shopping for Chick a new coat. Let me just say that it is ludicrous you can buy 50+ styles of bikinis but only 2 stores in a 75 mile radius carries coats when it is -5 degrees outside. The two stores that actually had coats left were Dillards and Sears. Dillards "clearance" was still over $70, that is a whole nother ridiculousness. Finally tracked one down that she liked BUT she will need a new one next season because it will be too small. Given the options, it was the best. When the girls and I came home, our niece's 3 boys were visiting and their mother & 2 sisters came over too. SO for those of you mathly challenged, that brings the total up to 9 kids and 3 adults. Bubba was in hog heaven, he loves when boys come over. I got sent to the store to get a movie to entertain everyone. Yeah right, in this little outpost of civilization. So I rented Prairie Home Companion because it got all these great reviews and has a ton of great actors. STUPID. I watch a lot of movies and I couldn't even get 1/2 hour into this one, just slow and boring. So my niece and her kids left and Mikey and I went to bed. For about 5 minutes, then they came back. It was blowing and snowing so bad she couldn't see 10 feet in front of her car to drive home. SO we had a bunch of overnight guests. It was so funny to get up in the morning, there were bodies everywhere cuz my kids can't sleep in their beds unless they are forced to and they wanted the cousins right there with them. Saturday and Sunday we pretty much just hung out and dealt with Cranky Munchkin. My wonderful, beautiful, amazing, glorious sister in law took 411 and Bubba for most of the day yesterday. That was really great. The only place the baby would stop crying was on my shoulder like a sack of taters, really limited what I could get done. I finally broke down and went to Caseys to get swing batteries. That will teach me to forget them at walmart. Have I mentioned I LOVE THE SWING! she slept for 2 hours, longer then all the time combined all day.

On a totally other subject, I have another sister breakfast coming up. I am looking forward to it, I just have one more project to complete and then go shopping. I really like these adventures with the POB, wish they were more often.



EDIT: only 2 stores in a 75 mile radius that I went to. I should clarify that, I didn't take the journey to the other side of Omaha so I didn't go to Burlington Coat Factory, I am sure they do have coats. It would stand to reason. So anyway, I wanted to clarify that.

a couple random thoughts

ok so I have been watching too much tv already this morning and thought I would share some thoughts. First off, Anna Nicole Smith. There is definetly something wacky there, besides the obvious. What is the paternity count up to now, 4? seriously, that is just sick. I heard speculation (this is a juicy one and opens a lot of thought) that she used Marshell's sperm (the 89 year old husband [YUCK!]) to impregnante herself to collect on the inheritence that the courts have denied her AND Howard K Stern is up to his neck involved in it. He has been her sole legal counsel for a number of years and would know all of the loopholes. Speaking of which, why would she not have updated her will when her son died? I know grieving takes time but there is also resposibility to her daughter. And why drag out the paternity test? It takes 5 minutes to perform and 2 weeks to get the results, unless you have something to hide. I think it is just sick and wrong how many people are trying to get their "fingers in the pie", like her mother. The one thing that is consistant with EVERYONE that has something to say about the whole sick situation is she did not get along with her mother. It is reprehensible the woman is now trying to play the poor mom card.

Next, President Bushes speech this morning. I can only wish I could sidestep and dance as well as that man. He was asked at least 4 times what his intentions are towards Iran and not once did he answer except to say I will do something. That could mean anything from saying Naughty lil country to starting a war. He also said you can not like me or believe in my plan but you must support the troops. I guess that could be taken a couple of ways and I am so not qualified to discuss politics BUT (of course I am going to anyway) I think he is treading a very thin line and the next president is going to spend most of their term doing repair work. And on that thought, I think 2 years is entirely too much campaining. I get sick of a couple of monthes of local elections, this is enough to dive me mad.

And lastly, I was reading where there is a resturant in London that is offering free meals to anorexic looking models. This is a marketing stroke of genius. Hello, if they took you up on it, they wouldn't be too thin. If you really want to make a difference, take those meals down to the local homeless/battered shelter. I get so tired of hearing how some millionaire got $50,000 in free stuff by walking through a tent. It is ridiculous and most of the people that get these gifts don't even want it, just throw it out anyway.

So that is what is occupying my mind right now. thanks for listening :)

Happy Valentines Day

I object to kids having to wait for the bus when the windchill is below zero. I think it is ridiculous when they have group bus stops because some of these kids can't wait inside and look out the window (that is what mine do, go out when the bus is 1/2 a block away), they have to stand outside and freeze their little tushes off. If they are going to do it this way, they need to build a little shelter of some kind like the city bus has. It would protect them from rain too. yep, this is my new crusade.

Now that that is off my chest, My kids teachers are so going to hate me today. I let all four of them have their valentines boxes this morning before school. then three of them have parties this afternoon, I would truly not like being in the classroom today. :)

I did some spring cleaning this week. It's a bit premature since there is 7 inches of snow in the front yard and it is below zero but hey. Anyway, there is a wonderful website, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreecycleOmahaNE and is all about giving stuff away in Omaha. I listed a bunch of stuff that was just going to the thrift shop or dump anyway and someone took it. And the beautiful part is, they come to pick it up. Well, I had to put it in mike's car so it could ride to work with him but then the person comes and gets it from Mikey. I personally think this is a fabulous idea. It is crazy what people offer and / or take. It's true, one mans trash is anothers treasure.