Enough sleep?

Well of course I don't get enough sleep. But some how I managed to score higher than Retta on this little quiz. She must get more sleep during the day is why. Cause I know we are up talking most of the night and since she's east coast that means she's up later than I. lmao

You Don't Get Enough Sleep

You definitely don't get enough sleep, and it's turning you into a mental zombie! You need to get more sleep, starting tonight if possible. Avoid caffeine, keep a regular bedtime, don't watch TV before bed, and sleep in complete darkness.

Do You Get Enough Sleep?

Don't have caffeine! WHO THE HELL MADE UP THIS STUPID QUIZ? Lame-o's Regular bedtime? What is regular? You want me to be regular? How boring. Nope, I stay a zombie thank you. Although I prefer to be called a vampire. Much cooler clothes. :)

Online friends

Having online friends can suck sometimes in a very big way. Take today for example. I have a good friend that went in for surgery at 10am (hopefully went in on time). It is a major surgery. They found a mass on her lung. Everything is supposed to be routine and even "if" it's cancerous they shouldn't even need to do chemo for it. Just remove the 3rd lobe and all is good. It didn't show any signs of having spread. Of course that is before they get in there.

Now a local friend I would probably be watching their kids for them, or I would at least have the option of going over and helping out while they are home recovering. But since it's across country from me I just feel so useless! All I can do is sit here and worry.

She has a lot of things going for her, but she also has some not good health issues. She is only 29 for cryin' out loud. You're not supposed to be sick so young. She did already quite smoking this year before they even found the mass. So 3 cheers for not having withdrawals and surgery to recover from! Good job girl!

I know my Grandpa had a whole lung removed and that was ages ago, so medicine has gotten so much better since then. But I just can't stand this waiting helplessly. Thankfully I have sporadic appointments to keep me busy. They are also letting me check in online to see if another friend has heard from her hubby yet. You know, the email tree? lmao

I know I will hear some news in a few hours and I know she is going to be just fine. She has a lot of positive energy behind her. But I just feel like a mommy today and I'm so worried. If I had someone to watch the kids, I'd so hop a plane right now!

Long week ahead

The kids are out for mid-winter break. I love that cause we don't have to get up early. But it's going to be rough for scheduling. I think we've got it under control and thankfully my Mom is available so I don't have to pay a sitter for the entire week.

I can just feel that it is going to drag on. I am so worn out. I know I've been staying up way too late for too long. But still, come on! It's not the staying up late so much as the getting up early a couple of times a week that is killing me. I guess I need to get to bed earlier than 2am if I'm getting up at 6. Who'd have thunk it?

I've been working my ass off on my sites. I got www.busymommawellness.com completely transferred over to the new template and have banners and buttons being created right now. This week is going to be all about www.littlescrapbookshop.com I had that redesigned last year and am still in love with the paisley. This to has some banners and buttons that were just created. But I need to get a bunch of new articles on there, links exchanged, and many more products added to the store.

I really wanted to work on one of the 2 other sites, but if I'm going to have her build me new templates it would be stupid to work on them right now. I'll wait and put the effort into my current moneymakers instead. There's more than enough on them to keep me busy.

Hubby has made it through his first week of the fire academy and starts week 2 tomorrow. I miss him bad and I think it was even worse having him home for a few days and then shipping him back off. Again, it's going to be a long week. :(

We did make it up boarding yesterday and the kids and I had a great time. The sun even came out for a little while which was so cool. It's so beautiful up there. But then the temps dropped dramatically and daughter took a good tumble. I just can't be in two places at once so we had to head out a little early. I'd only bought a bunny hill pass anyway, so we'd gotten our money out of the day. We want to try to get up again this week, but I have appointments, so I don't see how it will be possible. We'll just have to wait and see.

Went to the movies

We never go to the movies. I mean never! Maybe once a year if we are lucky. It's so hard to justify $50 in food and tickets to go to a matinee for goodness sake. Especially when I spend $30 a month for video rentals and we have a big screen. lmao But ever since I saw the preview for Ghost Rider I knew I had to go. So we went out today with the kids and saw it. Hubby needed a school work break anyway.

It is a great action flick. They did a great job of making us jump in our seats with the special effects. lmao I hate when stuff jumps out at me. :( Nicolas Cage does a good job playing Johnny Blaze aka Ghost Rider. And of course I always melt for Sam Elliot. That mans voice just gives me shivers. And he plays an old cowboy to boot. Ahhh, gotta love that!

Kids and I are off to snowboard tomorrow. It promises to be another fun day with them. I hope the rest of mid-winter break goes as smoothly. I'm so looking forward to not having to wake up early! Summer is going to be bliss!

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Thirteen Things about YOUR NAME Well I had computer issue's so I am late getting this up. But better than never. ;) 1. Hubby got home last night. 2. Kids had a great valentine's day. 3. I had a great workout. 4. I completely transferred over www.busymommawellness.com to the new template. 5. I signed a new client and she's awesome. 6. I stayed up too late talking to Retta too many nights. But then, this is usual. lmao 7. I got this super-duper cool skin! 8. My check finally went through after 4 weeks and I can pay bills and buy advertising! WOOHOOO 9. My house is still clean after a full week. It's a serious miracle. 10. I kept up with the laundry. Yet another miracle. 11. We didn't eat out once this week. 12. I cooked every meal. 13. Kids weren't late to school once ;) BAHAHAHA Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. Retta 2. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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Giving up on productivity today

Good grief, I'm doomed. I'm gonna get my pages done and just be super happy if I do anything else today. I had one cancellation today which turned out to be good cause son's awards assembly went long. Then I forgot that daughter has an after school thing, so of course the youngest can't come home to an empty house and sit on the front porch. lmao So rescheduled an appointment for tomorrow instead. I only have one appointment left tonight and I need to double check that she knows it's Valentine's day. lolol

So I came home to work on my site of course and get the damn thing done. I grabbed season 6 of Sex in the City a couple of days ago from the video store and popped that in to listen to. I've watched them so many times I can just listen now. lol But I don't know which season is which and made a horrible mistake. I'm PMSing and grabbed the damn episode where Miranda is getting married and Samantha finds out she has breast cancer. SHIT! Hope my eyes don't end up too red from the bawling. DANG, dang, dang. Can't turn it off either must watch.

Ideas, ideas, focus

Wow, I've been trying to focus and when I have it has worked wonders! But then I write up a to-do list that started out as only for today and it was a mile long. lmao I have so many ideas running through my head again. I seriously need to build these websites and then sell them. They will make money, but I don't have time to keep them up. ARGHHH, how come there is only 24 hours in a day?

I did hang out at work today a little more than I have recently and that is always good. I'll be getting free tanning asap. This is always good as I'm starting to look pasty. I should put up my newest pic, but most would say I'm not pasty so what good would it do. Yes, I was blessed with my Mother's Native American coloring, but I'm still pasty for ME! So back offffffffff :) I need my sunshine, fake or not. I live in the Seattle area for crying out loud. The grayest damn place in the country. Give me a break here. Skin cancer is not our usual concern.

See, even this post is all over the place. This is me off drugs. Hmm, k don't know what me on drugs is. Only time I took any was after my wisdom teeth and I really didn't like the lack of control I had on them. Kind of led me to believe I have control issues. lmao But this is definitely what I'd be like on drugs. ALL OVER THE PLACE!

Where did I even start with this post? Oh yeah, focus! I have almost completed the switch over to the new template for www.busymommawellness.com and it feels great. I just put it into smaller goals and have gotten it done faster than I thought.

Work has been super cool. I had a great session with a lady today that is going to do some wonderful weight loss and I can't wait to be a part of it.

K, this is just too random. I can't take anymore of myself. Till tomorrow!

Hot Blog Theme

You know you are jealous of my blog theme. The same Retta from my superstah saturday post made this template and I had to have it. She didn't want to, but I made her. Funny how you get sick of hearing the IM sound over and over again. tee-hee-hee

All those in favor of Retta making and selling themes for your blogger, give her a shout out! She needs to hear from everyone about how cool her abilities are:)

I really wish I had any graphics ability. Alas, I even had to have her put the damn template in for me cause I trucked it up hard. lmao In my defense, it is 1am and my eyes are crossing. Not really a good time to be messing with code!

Supahstar Saturday

Yes, I know it's not Saturday anymore, but go check out the site and you'll see why it's so named. Not only is that the coolest damn graphic, but they have chosen a good friend of mine to be the first to be blogged about! OH and to top it off she made the really cool graphic.

Retta and I have known each other for years through a message boards, but have only really been harrassing each other for the past year. lol We are on total opposite sides of the country, but yet she's still always online when I am, late at night. Can you say ADDICT? Geesh,she's worse than I am.

It's awesome to have her there to bounce ideas off of all times of the day and night. Nothing better than having the person that you know you can trust to tell you the truth if you are being a dork. :)

So go check out the Thoughts Out of my Head and see why she and I get along so well. She's an avid cross stitcher (wish I still had time for that) and has her own site dedicated to the cross stitcher! Including free patterns.

The Doll Palace

A friend turned me onto this site and my daughter and I have loved playing there ever since. I know my daughter can spend hours on it making new dolls and sending them to her friends. lol It's awesome to know that she's safe making the dolls with no bad things to click on.

Now there are even games that can be played on it. So even more time wasted online. lmao But they are so darn cute and easy to make!

I mainly add them as avatars on message boards and forums. It's fun to create new one's for the holiday or season. Plus it doesn't take long so I can change them quickly.


This one is one of my favorites since I am the Queen of all I oversee. How cool would it be to have a big red velvet robe? Ok, maybe that is why I like to play DressUp Games. I can pretend they are may clothes.

If you haven't visited forums before you can hang out on the doll palace Message boards and post what you have created. Don't forget to use the special codes for your myspace and IM's. I use myspace for many of my just for fun items. Such as the dolls. lol I can change my theme to match my doll of the moment. ;)

IT'S MY BDAY!!!

K, I'm not afraid to toot my own horn. It's my mother fucking birthday!!! yeah mon!

We are watching tacky 80's movies. I'm chatting online with a good friend and the dog is driving me nuts. It's another super night here in WAHM addict heaven.

Today is the day that the Bears kick the colt's ass. SO it's a marvelous day! DA BEARS!

I am up way too late. But hubby has promised to let me sleep in. Plus one kid is at a friends house overnight. And he promised to wake another friend up to go jogging in the morning. tee-hee It won't be me and that is all that matters. They will go jogging at the high school. So they can go around 10. Like I can actually sleep in that late. P-SHA won't happen.

Soaps

I have been watching Soap Operas for over 20 years now. It's not that I'm old, it's just that I would sneak in and watch while my Mom was in rest time growing up. lol

I grew up with Bo and Hope growing up also. Let alone they now have kids. :) Then there is Passions with the witches. I know I am stuck on NBC, but I can't help it, I have issues!

I'm not totaly stuck. I know that The Young and The Restless is another classic. I have hit that one for over 20 years, so I guess that is in my schedule. lol Young and the restless has been on forever and it is no wonder why. When they have characters that work, they are on there forever. I guess Days is trying to take lessons by bringing people back. But you know that Victor is on there no matter what! So there will be drama with the money man.

When you can't catch up on your favorite soaps check out Soap Operas and see quickly what is going on. I have less time to watch, so I love to go in and see what my favorite characters are up to. ;)

Breakfast Club

I love my 80's movie's! Comedy Central is playing The Breakfast Club. I LOVE THIS SHOW!!! I need to order all of the 80's movies. Some Kind of wonderful, the works.

My youngest can't believe that Mike D is married to Molly Ringwald. lmao She must not be a big dork like on the show, come on, would he partake?

It's time for me to buy up all the good old movies and start a collection. Instead of the good newer old movies I've been collecting!

Days of our Lives

K, I'll admit it. I've been addicted to this soap since the 80's when my Mom was watching and said I could. The Summer she said yes was when they crash landed on an island. It was Marleena and there was a dwarf involved. If you watched back then, you can picture exactly who I'm talking about.

K, that was when I was a baby. Then there was hurrying home from school and the wonderful summers off. Not to mention the summers! That was when all the good stuff happened with the kids my age!

Now I'm watching it and feeling older by the minute. Everyone is back. Jennifer is on of course and Jack keeps coming into her life and dieing again. :( Then there is the ever hot couple, Bo and Hope. We have the Marleena, John Black, and Roman Brady.

I can't watch everyday, but I try hard. When I can't get to the tv, I check out Days of our Lives updates to see what happened! I am feeling old now that Patch and Kayla are back on. If Caliaopy (sp?) would come back on, I swear they would have everyone. I'm also super happy that Frankie is back. I loved Frankie and Jennifer. It was hard to go through the decision of who she should fall for when Jack thought he was going to die. What a jerk for putting her in that position! lmao

So if you need updates of your favorite days episodes check out Days of our Lives updates.

Planning a party

When do I have time to plan and hold a kids party? Oh man, I love having them cause the kids get so excited, but it's so much work! We've decided to go with next Sat. and he has chosen a rock-n-roll theme.

It will be a slumber party again, but not so many kids this time. I've already warned him to start cleaning his room. lol It's a wreck. Who the hell has bought him all of these toys? He doesn't even play with them anymore. Ok, he actually does. But normally he's glued to the playstation or doing homework.

I can't wait to see what I get for my bday tomorrow! I have no idea what they got me!

Hilarious ecards

I get so many of the angel, girlie, send this on for good luck cruddy emails. Bleck! No more of them cutesy things, please. When I'm looking for a card to put with a present I'm looking to make them smile. Crack a joke, be inapproprate! I've never liked sending ecards for that reason. They are all so serious, or cute, or whatever, but they are LAME!

Now bring egreetings into the picture.



Egreetings put the fun back into sending cards. It also let's me do it with my favorite medium. Duh, my computer of course. You know, the thing I'm addicted to? lol Now I can harrass my friends as much as I want with goofy ecards in their inboxes. I pay only $13.99 for a full years subscription.

Even better is the fact that I can go through the cards, come across the perfect card for someone, and set it up to send later. No having to go back and try to remember which card to which person. Good grief, who has time for that. And the kids have taken all my memory already so I won't remember to go back on the correct day. lol

There are many special occasions and many genre's for each occasion, such as for her or him. Of course you can personalize the cards and even put pictures in them. This is saving me so much time, not to mention all the money those paper cards cost me! Then include stamps on top of it? Forget it, I'll stick with the $13.99 a year thank you very much. If you want to just give it a try there is a 30 day trial. You can send unlimited ecards with the free trial as well. ;)

It's difficult to figure out just one card to send to my hubby at a time. lol There are so many funny one's that I know would make him laugh. That's the whole point right? Life is serious enough!


birthday eCard by "The Chins"

Now you can't tell me there isn't someone in your email list that needs that card for their next birthday! Go check it out now and set it up ahead of time. No fuss, no forgetting!

Wasted today

We stayed up way too late last night and then I had to get up at 4am to train a client. Good grief it's going to be difficult to stay up tonight. lol Luckily my last appointment is a free one to show around the gym. Yes, this is how I get my new clients, but I also don't have to come up with any motivation. I just have to show them around and answer any questions. Even in my sleep I can talk and laugh up a storm. lmao

So only 2 days left til my bday. I'm going to start the birthday weekend off tonight though. Since youngest and my bdays are a day apart I think we deserve to celebrate all weekend! So tonight I'll toast to us. Tomorrow I was thinking appletini's sound good, and then bday (superbowl!) hubby just bought me my fav beer Widmer Heff. Alright, just called hubby and we are officially celebrating all weekend. He's buying crab for dinner tonight. Not sure about tomorrow. Then superbowl is going to be bbq burgers and lots of snack foods. I've found a bunch of yummy sounding snack stuff that isn't all the bad for you. So I won't even have to have the guilt.

I grabbed some movies and hopefully we will be able to watch them. Of course if I don't get off of here and take a nap soon it won't happen at all. I'll be a party pooper asleep on the couch. lol I grabbed the first season of the Soprano's cause everyone raves about it. Every time I go to the movie store I forget to grab it.

Oh I forgot to mention instead of having a cake on my bday, since the youngest really has to have a cake so he can blow out the candles. I don't want 2 leftover cakes sitting on my counter talking to my gut. Anyway, I decided that we are going to have build your own sundaes for my bday. This way I can do low fat ice cream, non-fat herseys, then load it with some good caramel or whatever I want. Oh and maraschino cherries of course. Less fat than a cake, less guilt than a cake, and I'll forget about the leftovers in the freezer. I always do anymore. Don't you wish you could come to my party?

guess I got lost

I didn't realize how long it's been since I posted. Work has been great. I have 5 clients now and it's kind of spread out throughout the day, so it breaks it up quit a bit. I just need another couple of clients to put in between.

I got my new template for www.busymommawellness.com and started working on that yesterday. I'll work a bunch on it today and tomorrow.

My family is out of town this weekend and I haven't been as productive as I'd hoped. My scrapbook stuff got brought out last night, but I still didn't work on it. I have to get a few pages done before they get home. lol I only have 3 appointments today, so can work on it in between. And tomorrow I only have an appointment at 3 so I can stay up late tonight working on it.

I also have saw 3 to watch. I chickened out watching it last night cause it got too dark. lmao There's no one here to turn off the lights when I go to bed.

Da BEARS!

WOOHOO! Bears are going to the superbowl! Then to top it off...Prince is singing at halftime! Did I mention that the superbowl is on my bday this year? Fuckin' A RIGHT baby! I'm in heaven!

I've decided that we are having a crab fest for the event. I haven't decided who all will be invited to come over, but I do know they will be required to bring bottles of crown with them ;). The superbowl is usually late now and I don't want everyone here all evening. lol Hubby will have to go to work for the second day on that Monday and the kids will have school in the morning.

Did I mention that Urlacher is going to the SUPERBOWL BABY! Now that's hot!!! Can't wait to see him with a ring on.

Another freakin' snow day!

Ummm, I'm pretty sure someone keeps talking about global warming. You sure haven't been able to see it here. Yes, we had a gorgeous long Summer. But we have had more snow days this year than any year ever. I've lived here all my life and the most snow days we've ever had were like 3. Usually 2 is a heavy snow year. lol With the 2 weeks off for break in Dec. we haven't had a full week of school since the beginning of Dec.

Have no idea why it's canceled. Pissed me off cause they waited until 8:55 to cancel it. I'm pretty sure that the 2 hours late start would have been just fine. We are now going to school on June 27th. This sucks!

Thankfully I work from home and set up my own appointments at the gym. I only had 3 set up for today and 2 of them have rescheduled already. I have to get ahold of the other guy. Even if I can't get ahold of him, hubby will be home by then to watch the kids. I can run out there for an hour appoinment. :) I'd prefer to stay home, but a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do to get paid. bahahahaha

FREAKIN' ICE

K, I have noooo problem driving in the snow and some ice here and there. But yesterday our district made the horrible choice of going to school on time. It was bad, realy, really, really bad! Never driven on so bad. Now we went to college over in Spokane with a beater car and I never had a problem driving. That's how bad it was yesterday.

We have fun sliding around on our road, we are used to that. But then I got onto the main road and it was a complete sheet of ice. It looked like snow was in there, but alas, it was compacted into ice. Some moron was stopped in the middle of the intersection. Brakes of course don't want to work cause of the anti-locks, so can't even pump them a little. Thankfully no one was in the other lane, so off I go to try to change lanes and go around if possible. Oh, guess I won't. Guess the kids and I will go sideways down the road in the suburban. La-la-lala I didn't even have time to panic. Makes me feel good that I didn't, proves I'm a freakin' awesome driver. ;)

Should have turned around then, but figured what the hell, I'm already half way to pick up the other girls. Main hiway was stopped up because of a wreck. Needless to say my friend and I kept the kids home for the day. I can't believe we didn't atleast go 2 hours late like everyone around us.

Today was no school because it is even colder. Doesn't look good for tomorrow either. I've been so unproductive! Not because they are home, but because I'm just off my schedule. lol

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Kick off is in 2 hours and 35 minutes. I HATE THE COWBOYS! I hope we stomp the crap out of them. K, gotta go finish cleaning before everyone gets here. Everyone wants to watch the games on my big screen. Imagine that! ;)

Busy day

But what can be expected from busy Momma, huh? We actually got up on time this morning so I got my emails out of the way early. Loved that! Went and worked out immediately after dropping the kids off. Double loved that! Home for a shower, then off to the salon. I can't freakin' wait to get my hair done. Full treatment again baby. Highlights, color, cut, the whole damn deal. I've missed my beautiful red highlights. I promise to work on pictures as many people have been waiting for an updated picture of me. roflmao

I am so excited right now I seriously feel like puking. Hopefully it doesn't happen, but the suspense is killing me. As I'm sure I've posted, don't have time to read back and check this minute, hubby has been offered a conditional job. We are just waiting for the background check to go for him and the 4 other guys. We know everyone on his has been contacted and most of the other guys too. Well the Chief called and left a message a few minutes ago. I'm sure it's about the job and I can barely hold my lunch down. Damn it, I just ate and it's sitting in my gut like a lump of crap.

Hubby just called me back to get the number. I threatened him with no forgiveness ever and lots of bodily harm if he doesn't call me right back. lol So now I sit and WAIT. And WAIT. Waiting. Mother FUCKER, I hate waiting like this.

Tonight I am packed with appointments of course. And tomorrow I have 2 more in the evening. So we can't go out and celebrate. I've got to put out lots of prayers tonight. Life is so fucking good right now.

OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG. It's official. He is now a paid fire man. He starts Feb. 1st. I'M so damn proud of him!!! Now I'm going to be a bawling mess all day. lmao

Working today

Hmm, I'm supposed to be. I had too many errands to run and now I'm off. I did make it into work this morning for a few hours and met a few new people, so that is cool. I'm going to go back in later this afternoon and see if I can't get some appointments generated.

So today is supposed to be my newsletter. Guess I will run off and do that immediately!

The kitchen is already a mess and that pisses me off. Here I'm working hard at keeping it clean and there is stuff everywhere. lol I'm sure it'll only take me minutes to tidy it up and a small load of dishes, but still. Then there is the pile of clean clothes that still haven't folded themselves. lmao They'll still be there tonight, so no hurry I guess.

I guess another reason I haven't gotten anything done now that I'm home is that I'm watching The Covenant. lol I haven't gotten to watch movies in quite a while and I really missed it. I'm not going into the gym for very long on Friday, so I think I'll watch some others. There has to be some chick flix that I've missed. BTW, this movie is pretty good. Especially for a movie that is geared towards teens. It's not a waste of time and it's not all gore and no story. Plus there are hot, young guys with their shirts off ;) SO it's all good! Except for the fact that I'm not getting much done with it on! YIKES

Too much shopping!

Like all the money on Christmas shopping wasn't enough, now we are buying up a ton of cleaning and organizing products. We even bought a new vacuum. And I was excited about it dang it! How old and sick am I getting? Excited about a vacuum? K, it's really a pretty purple-blue and it has one of those bins you just untwist and dump the dirt out. It's awesome! It is a great deal at Target and you can use the coupon online for an even better deal. Did I mention I can dump the little canister of dirt and dog hair in the garbage without a plume of dust in my asthmatic face? It's a fact, I've gotten old. :(

I know there is a Target right down the road, but I still shop online instead. I can use online coupons then instead of waiting for what I want to go on sale. If there is a free shipping option it saved me even more because of gas. lol With my suburban, that is a big saver.

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Bloggy New YEAR!

Wow, a completely sober New Year's Eve. I can't even remember the last time that happened on purpose. I mean there was the pregnant year, breast feeding year, then the pregnant year again, then the breast feeding year after that again. I'm sure there was another time in there that I was sick, but can't recall exactly. lol But on purpose to not have a couple. Some serious self-control there. ;)

Alas I am on day 3 of cleaning. We've taken 2 car loads to goodwill and I'm ready to load it back up as soon as he gets home from the gym. We are so boring this weekend. His friends couldn't believe we didn't come over last night, but I didn't want to go anywhere. I'm bound and determined to get this damn house cleaned up. The kitchen is pretty much done now. I need to clean out all the cupboards themselves, but that is just too big a project for me right now. So I'm moving down the hall to the bathroom. I HATE HOUSEWORK! And I seriously hate cleaning bathrooms. My hands feel like sand paper after using chemicals for 3 days. :( Oh well, it will be worth it when I can work on my biz next week with no feelings of guilt.

On a better note, we finally switched the dvd players around so we can watch movies. The one attached to my big screen keeps skipping and stopping. Such a pisser. So hubby switched the bedroom out and we've watched Coneheads this morning. Now my kids have put my Strange Brew in and we are watching that. lolol Good grief I need to walk away and getting cleaning done!

Happy New Year!

Headache

So many reasons why I could have a headache I just don't know where to start. First, I probably had too much caffeine this morning and didn't get enough water until later in the afternoon. Which it's only 4 here now, so it's not like it was that late. lol Second, I'm cleaning. I mean CLEANING! I haven't washed the tops of the cupboards for a couple of years and it's nasty. I'm allergic to dust so go figure I have a headache. Then I figured maybe it was cause my caffeine had worn off. So I just had a few glasses of diet coke. K, I had lots of diet coke. But I'm cleaning for god sakes and I hate housework. HATE HOUSEWORK!

But I'm sure the real reason I have a headache is the reason why I am cleaning to begin with. Yes, it all started with an argument before we even got out of bed this morning. Wonderful huh? I know, gotta love those. I'm too private (I know that shocks you) to put it all in here. Who knows if anyone around locally is reading this. lol But suffice it to say, it got me doing dishes immediately after getting up. After I checked emails of course, don't let's be stupid. That lead to cleaning counters. Which led to trying to clean out the oven. Gave up on that sticky mess, but at least I got the chunks off. Next thing I know I'm on my hands and knees washing the floor. WTF!!! Boy that pissed me off that it had let to that. lol

Now I am half way through cleaning off the gunk from the top of the cupboards. I hope this is the last time I have to do it before we move out of here. No, we haven't sold the house, but I want to. ;)

Alas, my headache is getting a little better now. Funny how venting will do that. It's almost 5 o'clock here, let alone somewhere. I'm going to do this next section of cupboards and then crack one open. Ahhhh, sounds so good right now. So much crap in here is going to goodwill it's not funny!

Ok, it's back. My son just asked if his friend could spend the night and my daughter wants to spend the night at hubby's friends house. ARGHHHH, I've already told why I don't want her down there. I can't stand his stupid bitch of a wife and I don't want my daughter around her. Good grief, that's another 10 posts in itself.

The extra bedroom may end up cleaned today too. It's going to be a very long night!

Ahh, the christmas hangover

The weekend's been great, but now I've got a stuffed up head and a headache. I'm sure it's just the let-down from the holidays. Just in case I took a little nap today and I just grabbed a coffee. So what if I won't sleep tonight? :)

Christmas was super good to me. I was surprised as hell to find the family had bought me a 19" flat screen monitor. Holy cow this thing is huge. I'm in heaven. lol Not to mention the fact that I couldn't get in trouble for surfing the net all day yesterday. I had to play with my new toy after all!

Besides that I got a heart rate monitor to use with my clients, gift certificate to the running shoe store here locally with a bunch of other goodies in it. The movie strange brew and the new gwen stefani cd. Strange Brew is my all time fav movie and I only had it on vhs. The new gwenny cd is good, but I'm a little disappointed in how few dance tunes are on it. Fun house cleaning cd though. Oh wait, what am I saying? I don't clean my house.

The kids seemed to be flying high with their stuff. They still are. lol On Christmas Eve we started watching a Christmas Story which was very appropriate. Hubby bought air soft pellet guns for the two of them for Christmas. So all day yesterday we kept telling him not to shoot his eye out. lol

Daughter is happy that Santa brought her a gamecube. Super Mario Kart is her favorite game, so now she can play it to her hearts content. Not to mention the sweet skateboard Daddy picked out for her. ;) They've already gotten to the age that everything is expensive. Or maybe they just take after us? roflmao We were super impressed with their lists though, cause they don't just have big ticket items on them. Heck, sons list had new shoes and sweatpants on it. Boy my kids are awesome.

I'm trying to figure out when we can get up to go boarding. Hubby said he'd be cranky no matter when we go since we won't be taking him. lol Oh well, he can't go this season and there's no reason we shouldn't! Crystal mountain got 11" over Christmas Eve and it's supposed to totally dump up there all week! I think Friday sounds like a good day to me.

Damn I drank my coffee while typing this and now there is no more. Guess I better go find some a Diet Coke or something. My headache is still here. :( Hmm, maybe a tylenol would work better.

Alright, off to work on work stuff...

Been tagged

Well this may be difficult to come up with 5 things at all. I'm not too private of a person. lmao Good thing I can keep this tab open and think about it for a few hours.

My friend Retta hit me in the middle of the night with this one. I went to bed late, so she must have been holding it in laughing as we were chatting through the night. lol So here's to finding something interesting that you don't know!

1. I've had the same best friend for almost a quarter century. Even though she moved out of town, we remained good friends growing up.

2. I have a tattoo of a ladybug with some daisies. It's just the first of many, but I can't seem to justify the money to go get the others right now. lol

3. St. Patty's day is my second favorite holiday. Green is my favorite color and I'm Irish, what can I say. Oh then to top it off it was the first real date hubby and I went on. ;)

4. I have a turtle that is a bigger bitch than I am. I fill up her water and she immediately dumps it out and stares at me. Then in the middle of the night when she's thirsty, she pushes the water bin against the glass. OVER AND OVER AND OVER...

5. I was one of those odd little girls that actually had a pony. lol We were poor, but we got him for a very low price from one of my Dad's friend. For all those little girls that want a pony, DON'T. They are a lot of work unless you have the stable hands to take care of them for you. lmao

k, I hit 5 and that was difficult. lol Now here's 5 people that have to do it!
Lauren
Carrie
Beth
Dianne
Kara and Anita

Too Tired

Well I'm too tired to be posting, but I'm on a freakin' mission and must finish it. I had to post to all 4 of my blogs and then the 2 that I post to occasionally TODAY. And this means that I have completed my mission. I've left this blog until last cause this is my easiest blog. But alas, I was up way to late last night and lost my mojo now.

I got to stay home today since work asked me to leave yesterday. 2 days earlier than I'd planned on, but hey, being home is much better for the holidays. lol So I had a big list of all the things I wanted done and I did a bunch of them. Woohoo me! Vaccuuming, dishes, and webstuff. I'll hit the rest of it tomorrow.

I knew I was going to be working online so I let the kids each have a friend over for the night. We even went and got movies. Well hell if they aren't all wound up! So instead of having 2 kids driving me crazy running and wrestling, I have had 4. WTF was I thinking? Aha, couldn't think. PMS and not enough sleep. I can not be held responsible for my own stupidity.

Changes at work

Well the bomb has to have been dropped at work, but my friend hasn't called me yet. I feel bad not telling her ahead of time, but he asked me not to and I feel bad enough that I'd talked to who I had about it. I'm no longer working the crazy schedule. I will now be working whatever schedule I set at the new gym! YIPPEE for me and my family. Money will probably be tight as we adjust, but I know I will see it come in. We are sitting ok right now for bills and I have complete confidence that I'm doing the right thing.

So the new gym is going to be fun. I get to set my own appointments. Don't have to be there if I don't have any appointments. I literally, have no boss. They just ask me to do some free workouts showing new members how to use the equipment correctly, once a week. Such a sweet trade. Since I want to meet all the members anyway. That is how you get new clients. lol Win, win.

I can't wait to be a part of my own community again. Be a part of my friends lives again. But most of all, be around for my family.

So here's to total self-employment!

Bleh

I gotta find some energy. Maybe it's time for a doctors visit. I'm just in an awful funk and have no idea how to get out of it. It would probably help to get a good-full nights sleep. I'll try that tonight first.

Good day

So not much to report right now. Life is going really well and I don't want to jinx it by talking about it. lol We have lots in the works in the family and within the next week I'll post. But there's just no telling who is reading this in my little world.

I have a jam packed day off tomorrow as usual. Fitting in lots of web work, but this house is a sty and needs cleaning. Then my daughter made honor roll! Huge deal! So I'm going to the assembly tomorrow for that. And stopping at the gym on the way home. I love the new gym, it takes away all my stupid excuses.

Am I sarcastic?

You're Totally Sarcastic

You sarcastic? Never! You're as sweet as a baby bunny. Seriously, though, you have a sharp tongue - and you aren't afraid to use it. And if people are too wimpy to deal with your attitutde, then too bad. So sad.

How Sarcastic Are You?

New day

I started the day off right by going to the new gym. I'm not used to the equipment not being the top of the line, but I love that I can go whenever I want. I hit the weights hard like old days and I'm sticking with that plan cause it makes me feel good. If I don't lose all the weight, so be it. I'll be happy and a little bigger. lol

Then went and grabbed movies and sushi. YUMMMMY! Ordered a different one and it was the bomb baby.

Got home to a voicemail that the fire chief wanted hubby to give him a call. He did a good job of disguising if it was good news or bad news. Hubby of course wasn't answering his phone at work so had to wait. Not long though cause they got off work early for the Christmas party tonight. See, there are no coincidences and I do notice how all of them line up cause I'm looking for them. lol And I say thank you after them as well.

ANYWAY, I ramble. Me? Really? OK, you want to know what happened with the phone call? They offered him a job. It's conditional on getting through the background check and the medical eval, but those won't be a problem. Our credit history is the only thing we worry about cause it sucks. But we have never filed bankruptcy, we are doing the honorable thing and paying off our stupidity from youth. SO hubby will be a paid fireman next year. I'm so proud of him! He's worked really hard and has wanted this really bad. It will be amazing to see him happy to go to work. lol

Bad place right now

Well I can remember being at this point before. It has been a few years now, but I understand what's happening. I'm burnt out again. I knew it was going to happen, but I didn't know it would hit all at once. I got 10 hours of sleep and only got up once cause I was hoping it was snowing and not raining. lol So I should be refreshed right? Nope, big black bags under my eyes and no energy.

Lots of little stuff has gone down this week and none of it was very big or life threatening. But I just can't deal with any of it right now. I think last night was the final straw when I had to leave work early cause the kids had been home for too long alone.

Well it's off to work again right now. I have tomorrow off thankfully. I didn't get to write all I wanted, so I'll revisit this later tonight. I do have some things in the works to make a change, but that will mean some stress while we pay bills during the transition. :(

I'M SO BURNT OUT!!!

REVISITING:
Well I did a full 12 hours at work yesterday. Hmmm, any wonder why I'm burnt out? No, there is no wondering. I know and am just waiting for the transition to come full circle. Yesterday sucked and I didn't get back on here. I didn't even have the energy to watch tv and we know that is a sad state of affairs when that happens.

But I hate to leave focus on negatives, so I'll tell the happy story of coming home last night. Everyone was asleep of course by the time I got home and I was throwing a pity party in my head. :) I'm good at those if you ever need ideas. I get towards the front door and see that they put the Christmas wreath up, but notice that there's no ribbon on it. Odd, but thought maybe it looked like crap so they took it off. Nope, I totally forgot that hubby ordered a wreath and centerpiece from a friends kid. So I stood there with my face buried in the evergreens. It was heavenly. Brought tears to my eyes and was exactly what I needed to finish off the night in a better state of mind. Enough about yesterday, I'm going to start a new post about today!

SNOW!

Man oh man do I want to be on the mountain. We drove over yesterday and the pass was full of snow with only one of the resorts open. But our fav. resort www.skicrystal.com has been open for over a week now. They got over 69" in the last week alone! AHHHHH, me want to be there.

It even snowed here this morning. It's very wet and will be gone by mid day if even that cause the kids are playing with it all. lol But it's crazy that we've gotten a dusting this early. It's supposed to be a great season and this just may be proof.

I'm sure they are right about it being a hard core season. Hubby won't be going since eh may be on probation for his new job. It's taken him 5 years to get hired on and the last thing we want is for him to get an injury playing. I'm going to have to take the kids up by myself this year. :( Won't be as much fun, but we'll make it work. I just gotta find a friend to go with me. lol I don't know any other women that board or that will get up as early as we do so we can be first. Stupid girls!

Where'd today go?

Well I've done a lot of nothing today, but I've been really good at it. I made breakfast, for myself. Kids were gone and hubby didn't want any. I stood my ground and said no I didn't want to go to his buddies house. It would have been fun, but I didn't want to go anywhere. I did mask my face and shave, so that's cool. Oh and took a long shower also. lol

I've advertised on a site with all 4 sites and searched around on here a lot. roflmao But realistically I haven't done all that I wanted to. Oh, I've blogged on 2 of my accounts, so that is really good. AND I found this really cool free mom makeover ebook and posted it to everyone I know. lol DUH, I forgot to post it here, so I'll get it on here for you later.

I'm redoing a lot in the coming weeks. I'm overworked and underpaid. Oh wait, that's over 3/4 of America. But seriously. I could have 9 clients a month and make the money I want. That would be working 18 hours a week. Instead of working 45-50 hours a week and making half the money I want. Hmmm, is there a choice? Fuckin' A NO!

Lost today

I've had so much on my mind and so much to do, that today just skipped past me. But, a huge thing happened. My desk is clean! Also I went and reorganized my books and notebooks from school and many notebooks I have for biz. I'll try to keep track of how long it takes for me to destroy the desk. It's usually a few days, but since I'm gone most of the time now, maybe I can make it last a week. lol

I still have a little pile next to me that needs to be put in appropriate places. But with all the dust, I'm beat. Allergies suck! Oh and I vaccumed so that's not helping.

I've been going through a lot of biz stuff lately and I hope it all calms down soon. Nothing to post about for it yet cause the internet world is small, but some changes are in the works.

On a very sad front. I left a comment on the BuckCherry myspace last night. Woke up this morning to a friends invite to Josh Todd's personal myspace. WAHHHHH, what happened? This crazy bitch is a nosy bitch and wants to know WTF! K, so Josh's new album


Is out. It sounds great from the spots I listened to on myspace and I can't wait to get it. But, where's Keith? Some of us just gotta know! If he's doing something else too, then I want that cd. So I was bummed when I saw the new album cause it leads me to believe that they are no more. Hopefully that isn't the case, but yeah right.

Well off to eat dinner and put the rest of these papers where they belong before I work on sites.

still feeling icky

Well maybe I over did it yesterday. I was able to keep food down by Sat. evening, and was starving yesterday, but now my tummy hurts and I have a headache. :( I have to go to work today, can't afford another day off. Plus, I don't know what is on my schedule today. I feel really bad for everyone that I did a no show with on Sat. But unfortunately, I didn't care on Sat. I would have had to be awake for more than a few minutes to care. lol

So no working out today. That is 4 days in a row. But I'm sure I lost weight because of the flu, so we'll see how much in a little while.

Oh to top it off, we had a really bad windstorm come through last night and I didn't get any sleep. That helped me a lot. NOT!!! Off to slop on some make-up and get out of here. I hate being responsible somedays. (sniffle, poor me, sniffle)

Carry-over from yesterday

Yesterday started off really, really well. I went to a corporate wellness expo and talked to a bunch of cool people and even made some new sales. So it was great. Then along came time for the kids to get home from school and my Mom to pick them up. They had half day and this was the third one in a row. I'm not going to go into what happened, cause I really only know one side of the story, but it was bad. WTF am I supposed to do over the cell phone? Especially when I said I need to talk to him and I hear my Mom ask him if he wants to talk to me. WTF???????!!!!!!!!!!!! You do not ask the 8 year old if he wants to talk to him Mom when you are having a problem. You TELL the 8 year old that his Mom wants to talk to him. Needless to say, after he hung up on me everything got worse for them.

So I've only been given what happened by the 8 year old and we talked about it for 1/2 an hour last night. He and I understand why it happened, but it's still not ok for him to get violent. He needs to eat every 2-3 hours or his emotions get out of control for him. Here at the house we haven't had a problem with it in about 2 years. But I forget that others don't fully understand how important it is for him to eat since they haven't been witness to the mood swing that can happen.

I said my nephew could come over today, forgot I said that. lol But kind of figured it wouldn't happen becuase Mom wouldn't want to deal with whatever happened. No such luck. So she asks if hubby told me what happened and I said no, because we only saw each other for a few minutes last night, but that son and I had talked about what happened and what needed to happen in the future so it wouldn't happen. She then proceeds to tell me that it's not ok for him to lay hands on people in anger. NO SHIT!

She proceeds to tell me some more about how it's not ok and I explain the whole food situation and how that doesn't make it ok, but the fact that he really loses his control. I think this is about when the conversation got me cranky and defensive.

Her: "he needs to understand that it's not ok".
me: "he does understand"
her: "well he obviously doesn't"
me: "if you ask him right now he will tell you it's not ok"
repeat a few times


I tell her that he does know right now if you talk to him about how wrong it is, but that he gets so frustrated after he hasn't eaten that he can't use that good judgement he has. BLah, blah, it's not ok. I finally asked her how she wanted me to handle it differently. Does she want me to beat him? No of course not, but wtf does she want me to do differently than what I did? I didn't get an answer about what I should do differently. This is how living in that house was, no wonder why I moved out 2 days after graduation. Nothing I've ever done is good enough. Which is fucking ironic cause I'm not the single parent that has never moved out and is 30 years old! Don't tell me how to raise a son, you fucked up with yours! Oh oh, I'm getting super pissed now. Maybe it's time for me to eat?

I guess hubby and I will have to talk about it tonight and ruin our evening. I can't have this hanging over me now and I want to hear what my Mom's side of the story wass. I just didn't want to hear it from her this morning. I'm sure I should have asked, but just wasn't up for it. The conversation was long enough as it was.

On a great note, hubby passed the first fire dept. test and will move on to the other tests now. That was a major accomplishment and another reason why I didn't want to talk about the issue last night. It was supposed to be a night to celebrate. It's only 11am and I want a martini bad now!

Oh and it all that isn't enough. My mother lovin' hosting won't let me update either site. I rarely have time to do updates, so to do them and then not be able to update it sucks! I can't put my newsletters out either until I get those updates online. WAHHH, let's do over!

working a sunday ;(

Well it can't be helped. Or I guess it could be, but I want a piece of the money. lol Tonight is a big fundraising event at the mall and our gym is hosting the pre-party for all the shoppers. So I'm off to work tonight from 5-11pm. UGH! Tomorrow is going to be a long day with such little sleep, but if I get a piece of the 40-50 memberships that sign up it will be worth it.

The main problem is I have a new committment to working out, so after work I am going to do 20 min. of cardio. I figure I may as well, everyone will be asleep when I get home anyway. So that gets me home sometime around midnight. Then back up again in the morning at 6 to get kids off to school and get ready to go to work again. :( It will all be good. I also have to leave work early wed. and thurs. because of conferences, so the extra hours today work out.

This next commission check will be Christmas and I have to remind myself of that. lol

Right now I'm doing the everlovin' laundry. I knew I should have done my load of pants last night. One pair isn't supposed to be dried in the dryer, but I'm going to have to anyway cause I want to wear them tonight.

Off to make lists of chores for the kids. They aren't picking up the slack this week. Does anyone else have the annoying knats in the house? I know they are always around this time of year, but they still drive me crazy! Time to deep clean the house so they will die sooner. Off to get ready for work and watch The Break Up.

Unproductive

Not sure what's up, but I've been so scatter brained today. And I guess it actually has been more this week than just today. I have no idea what is up. I'm not normaly like this and if I am it's only for a day at most. I have no memory right now for the little stuff. One of those "if my head wasn't attached..." kind of feelings. lol

I'm sure it will be better tomorrow. When I was at work today it was actually better than normal. Of course I was only supposed to be at work to work out, but there was a new joiner that needed a tour and I figured why not make some money while I'm there. lol So I toured him with no make-up, messy hair in a ponytail and my workout clothes on. He still joined with me looking so scary. He must be committed to losing the weight. rofl OH and btw, I didn't steal a sale from one of the trainers that was working today. The receptionist had called 3 times to get someone when I walked in the door. It was just karma that I got there at the right time.

So today though. I had a bunch of stuff I really wanted to get done today, but couldn't focus on any one thing. I had a bunch of different windows open on the computer and never really finished any of the projects. I think tomorrow I will work on prioritizing my list while I'm at work. Then I will hit one thing hard on Sunday morning and finish it. Newsletters are probably the biggest one to hit. So I'll put those first and get them out asap.

k, better go and get some sleep. It's a long day tomorrow!

up to late

[gasp]Like that's a shocker. I'm usually sitting here too late with my farting dog under my feet!

But I really meant to go to bed around 9:30 tonight. I am going to blame it on Loretta. Yes, that's the problem. I don't get to talk to friends and she is online chatting with me right now, so it's her fault. roflmao

I have to be alert at work at 8am and I know I won't be very alert right now. I will have to grab money from hubbies wallet for the morning. I see a very large sugar-free rockstar in my future. lol

Many new ideas are flowing for my scrapsite and it's pretty exciting! If you are a digi kit designer wanna-be, then send me a line. Just put kit designer in the sigline so I see it. :) I'm really looking forward to working with some other home-based Mom's that want to make some extra cash. Oh and if you'd like to moderate some message boards please also send me a line!

Miss my old blog

I'm feeling sorry for myself. I'm missing my WP blog tonight. I'm very thankful that I got a bunch of the posts pulled out of space. But I actually miss the better organization of WP. That's saying a lot for this unorganized soul!

So I'm hoping that blogger beta will sharpen up and let me sort by catagorie soon! I sent it off in my comments when they asked. lol

January 31st, 2006 Whining

Yes, it’s more of a whine, than a bitch but shut-up. When I was prego with my youngest my doctor gave me the choice of being induced on the 3rd or the 4th. The 4th being my bday I asked if we could do the 5th so I wasn’t in the hospital on my bday like the 2 generations before me having their youngest child! WAHHH, never before this year have I felt the loss of my birthday. I’ve always had pretty crappy birthdays, so I don’t hold a lot of stock in them. But this year in order for him to have his slumber party they need to be here on my bday. There’s no question of that and I’m ok with it, but I still need to whine about it.

I think I’m also pmsing, so that’s not helping me cope with it. Next weekend we will have my parents (the best in the world) watch the kids so we can go snowboarding together on the big runs. I really, really selfishly wanted to move son’s bday party and go on my birthday. But, I will play the martyr like always and do what is right for the kids. God knows I don’t want them ever to think their bdays aren’t special, like I do!

I can turn this into a bitch real quick though. Here goes: My parents forgot my 16th birthday. I’d assume by now that this is a figment of my imagination, but I’ve had the same best friend since I was 8. lol And they didn’t even have a good excuse like on 16 Candles of a wedding or something. I was just forgotten. K, now I feel better. I would much rather bitch than whine!!! See, top that birthday crap. I have more if you can take them. roflmao

May 3rd, 2006 Rock on

It’s been really busy around here. I have 2 weeks and 2 days left of school and I’m working real hard at getting most things done this week. I have my final over the whole years worth of anatomy physiology on Monday, so lots of studying going on there. I’m only half way through the study guide and I spent 4 hours on it yesterday. :( I want it done today so a friend and I can compare our notes. lol

So, only 2 1/2 weeks until some money will start coming in. Boy this is much needed. I’m ready to start doing the summer play but we are broke. lol I’m dropping weight, therefore it’s time to get clothes, but we are broke. Damn it! Gotta get to marketing and get my sorry butt down to the gym to talk to them about training people there.

But on a side-note we had a blast last weekend with some friends. It was 75 here last friday and I was at work just dieing to BBQ. So I called everyone up and only one couple could make it. Good enough for a party for me. lol It was great to get together with friend. Haven’t done that much since school started. Sat. we spent the entire viciously raining day nursing hangovers and then sunday it was gorgeous again. We watched a ton of movies and did a lot of nothing. I was completely rested.

Since it’s been forever since I’ve been on here I hadn’t posted my good luck. I was trying all weekend 2 weeks ago to win tickets to the KISW rock girl gala and was having a heck of a time getting through. The phone rang a few times and had my hopes up. Then that following Monday I actually got a person on the line. HOLY CRAP! I’d won the freakin tickets. I couldn’t stop jumping up and down, the kids thought it was hilarious. Yes, they know that Mom is a freak. As long as they don’t think I’m normal I’m ok with that. :) Tomorrow we will be up at the showbox (21 and over club) for a huge deal. They are picking the rock girls for the radio station (don’t care much), but Buck Cherry is playing, Evans Blue and the New Originals. I LOVE BUCK CHERRY! You can’t even get there album around here. It’s always sold out. But you can hear the entire new album on their website, so guess what I’ve been listening to over and over. lol Oh did I mention I won these, so it’s a free date with hubby? At a damned rock concert in a small venue! Holy crap I can’t wait.

My friend went to the Tool concert last night and I can’t wait to hear how that went. The album went on sale yesterday and they chose Seattle to kick off the new tour. At a small venue as well I might add. Yes, we are still the center of the universe for many things that are good.

May 7th, 2006 WOOOOOOOOO

Hey now, you’re a rock star, get your game on, go hey! Oh wait, wrong band. lolololol

The concert was awesome and I have the bruises to prove it. I was front and center the entire concert. I am so bruised and I know that I need to thank hubby for my not being even more bruised. Hubby was behind me, literally covering my ass. So I know that he kept the moshers and the surfers off of me, God love him. lol
I spent the entire concert right at the guitar man! I was at Keith’s feet the entire time. Fuckin’ A he’s hot! I’m pretty sure the kids are all hungry by now and of course that will be my job to feed them. lol Damn responsibilities! When are they coming back in concert? Better go check. I’d travel quite a ways to go see them again!

June 27th, 2006 Buck Cherry again

Sick of me yet on this? TOO FREAKIN BAD! So hope everyone caught them on Jimmy Kimmel live on Wed. night. It wasn’t the best performance, sound was pretty off, but it was them on national tv!

I’m not happy that every time they are in the northwest now it’s a bad time to go. Next time they are in portland is my daughters bday party. Can’t runaway that night. lol So I’ll keep checking their site for more dates to show up. But they’ve got to come around soon!!!

June 27th, 2006 Black Crowe’s

I can’t believe I forgot to post about this. Good grief. So I got my triple 999 club newsletter one monday morning and it had a link for tickets to go see the black crowe’s for 9.99. I thought, yeah right, they will be out on the grass. Still good, but not sure if hubby would want to go.

So ended up working that day and he calls my cell phone back. Says hell ya he wants me to buy them. Didn’t really have a doubt, he really likes them and we just couldn’t swing full price. So I call him and get on ticketbastard. Low and behold, these are good seats and undercover. In WA you really do want undercover in June, you never know what the weather will be.

His buddy at work couldn’t believe it. I knew I should have bought a few more tickets and sold them. But then the concert is on Sat. and hubby tells me on Sat. morning that his buddy got a free ticket and we are meeting up with them to ride the shuttle to the concert. Good times. We all got unexpected tickets. NO other wives are there of course, why am I the only one that loves this stuff? Can’t I find a friend?

Concert was awesome. We saw some other friends from high school that have a band and are going to go watch them this weekend. Hubby had come to realize that I can’t sit at a concert no matter how far away from the stage we are. ;) It’s just not possible when you feel the groove man! And we then went out to breakfast at the casino. Didn’t get home until a little after 2am. Felt like a baby again! We slept until afternoon and woke up to a beautiful day. It was a truly wonderful and fun weekend. Thanks Black Crowes!

June 27th, 2006 Searching around

And found some articles about Buckcherry. I know, I know, shut up right? lol NO! It’s my damn blog, so there. You can read a cool article from Keith here

And on a side note, I got my myspace account set up. It’s really just for my friends to check out and bug me. :) But it’s fun to load blinkies and graphics on there and you can change the layout super quick. Oh and load music on it. I like that option too. For those of you that do read this blog it will mostly be rehash of any good info on myspace. lol

March 9th, 2006 MIA poster

yes, I’ve been MIA and yes I don’t care. lol I had 2 weeks off from school and it wasn’t nearly enough. This week is pure hell trying to get back into the swing of things when I don’t wanna anymore! 11 weeks and counting until graduation, none too soon. If I can’t find a nutrition program online there is no way I’m going back to school this fall. I just can’t take all this anymore while trying to work. Especially since I’ve got my 2 clients to train and I’m working at the espresso stand. BURNING OUT FAST HERE

On a happier kind of note, my computer is not broke. I’ve been without it for almost4 days when the screen faded to black. I’ve been trying not to cry for 4 days and done a damn good job of that I must say. Then today it dawned on me that the computer would come on and there was just nothing on the screen. DUH, maybe it’s my 16 month old flat screen monitor that I FREAKIN love and now HATE! It was of course the problem because here I sit. So now I’ve got the older than dirt, hugest monitor in the world, back on the computer. Pissed off because the good one is broke, but this old one came from the boeing surplus for cryin’ out loud and has seen more hours of work than can be imagined. Technology sucks! But…I’m back on! YIPPEE

January 23rd, 2006 Are you KIDDING?

Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap. The Seapigs are going to the Superbowl! We still can’t believe it around here. We are always the bottom of the league and it’s just amazing we didn’t choke. I am a fair weather Hawks fan and wish them luck. But, I am a Steelers fan and love Bill Cower. So, whatever the outcome it’s all good in our household! lol It’s finally going to be an awesome Superbowl. We’ve had so few of those lately. I just can’t wait!

It’s my son’s bday that day so he’s excited and thinks we should go to the game for his bday. lol I tried to tell him that the game has been sold out for quite a while. Then he said that we should call them and have them say happy birthday to him on the air. He thinks he’s the only one with a birthday on that day. lol

(on a side note, my bday is super bowl sunday this year. lol)

May 18th, 2006 Friends (favorite post)

Well I’m not sure where this post should go. Not even sure if I should be posting it. But I will. I have a feeling a changing of friends is on it’s way. This makes me sad and happy at the same time. Enough said on that.

Here is what I look for in a friend. BTW, I usually hang out with hubby’s friends because I get tired of the crap from women. Just in case you haven’t been reading past posts.
1. No whining. Bitching is just fine. It makes us feel better to get it off our chest. But whining means that you want to rehash it and rehash it and hope that everyone feels sorry for you. I don’t have time for you.
2. No guilt trips. If I’m busy, I’m busy. I will call you. But don’t spend the first 5 minutes of the conversation laying a guilt trip on me. I probably only had 5 minutes for the conversation.

3. Respect that I want to hang with hubby. Yes, I do love to go out with the girls. But, I don’t want to go out and check out guys. I don’t necessarily want to go out and dance with many other guys. I married my hubby for a reason. I know it’s a novel idea, but (shockingly) he is my best friend and we (gasp) enjoy each others company.

4. Get out of the mall. I don’t do malls. The only malls I will walk around and waste time in, have my daughter in them. I will go and spend time with her cause she wants to be there. Otherwise, 4 stores is about my limit. I don’t have enough time to do the mall all day and I definitely don’t have the money!

I’m sure there are a few more, but those are the real one’s that matter. It’s no surprise to most that I’m not a girly-girl. It’s just me. Don’t gasp because I’ve used the same purse for over a year. lol My daughter has a ton of purses already, so I’m starting to use hers. I will be ok. Meet me at the top of the ski lift and we’ll chat on the way down. Oh wait, you’ll have to catch me. I’ll meet you in the bar for a pitcher. I don’t do just glasses of beer. ;) Toast to my new friend!

March 22nd, 2006 Still bad attitude but…

Someone above has granted me some help. ;) I was still in a bad attitude when I went to internship today. First appointment was a no show, big surprise, so I decided to go to the circuit class and have my ass kicked. Boy did she! She was great. I wrote down the whole thing and plan on using it many times. We ran lines, did wall sits, side stepped the length of the gym, both ways! YAHOOO, I’m going to be rolling out of bed in the morning. lol

So, then I had down time. Went to dinner with a friend and had a good time chatting. Really wanted to go home still, but had a 9 o’clock appt. It was another guy. Did anyone miss that I want to work with other Mom’s? K, this is actually really good because I’ve had to break out of my comfort zone. Not only were both my appt’s that showed up guys, but they were also both 59 years old. lol Both in shape though, so that was cool

Anyway, I’m taking this guy around. He is telling me more and more about why he wants to build strength. Showing me the moves he has to make for his sport sailing, so I’m frantically trying to jot stuff down. Now we didn’t start off the appt. knowing anything about the sailing. lol I did know that he had some bone density issues, but he said he was on medication for that. But, I still changed up his workout to help build some back up. He was happy to hear that was possible. So yada yada, he kept telling me he was happy about all the new stuff he was learning. Stroking my ego, yep, I do have one. :) I didn’t have the calculation or a calculator to figure out his target weight, too many numbers in my head. So I told him I would get it to him next week, no problem. We did it real fast and I went up to where he was working out, gave him the number which was about where he likes to be anyway and he starts chatting more.

Come to find out, his doc didn’t tell him anything about exercise to improve bone density. He’s merely put him on medication. Come to find out, this guy quit the medication 4-6 weeks ago because he found out one of the side-effects was depression. He’d been on it for a year and a half and was having issues with depression and he’d never before had problems. So we chatted about that a little and he told me how happy he was to hear of this alternative. He has some other things, but we are going to tackle them at a later date. I was not looking forward to this appointment and I really almost passed it on to someone else. I wanted to go home. But it’s amazing how things are put in our space to help us. I am on top of the world right now that I just helped someone feel like there is hope with out medication!!! ON TOP OF THE FREAKIN WORLD! This is why I’m in school. To help educate.

April 16th, 2006 Easter evening

The baskets are stuffed and the eggs are out. It’s freakin’ 35 degrees out. Yes, very below norm here in the Seattle area. The ski resorts have incredible snow still. And I’m sick that we have spent as much money as we can up there. Tomorrow is the last day of ski season and we can’t go. WAHHHHHHHHH Anyway, everything is set and I know they will be happy about it. They each got 2 new pairs of shoes and a new outfit, plus candy. I went to 3 stores to find the damned chocolate eggs with the peeps in them. I don’t think they even know they exist, but I saw them on a commercial and knew they will love them. So I had to have them so I could be the bestest easter bunny ever. lol

Hubby went and hide 70 some odd eggs. Yeah, I know you are supposed to keep count, but I’ve had a couple of beers and don’t give a crap. lol Anyway, I filled the plastic eggs and set the bag for him to put them out and he immediately said, “Finally the best part of the holiday!”. OOOOOOHHH, I’m teary eyed. Daddy loves to hide the eggs and then make fun of the kids while they try to find them. No wonder why I love him so much. tee-hee-hee These kids are going to be so wonderfully twisted as adults. We may actually still want to hang out with them when they get older. lol

On a side note, (see above that we are broke from snowboarding so much this year) our anniversary is today. This is the exact opposite weather of our wedding. It was almost 70 on the day we were married 12 years ago. Tomorrow we will be lucky to hit 50 I hear. Since it’s actually on Easter this year we won’t get any time to ourselves. But we have plans to runaway in May after my graduation. I’m already planning plates of oyster shooters at FX McRory’s in Seattle. bahahahaha

July 9th, 2006 Garage saleing

My daughter and her best friend (neighbor) came up with the idea to sell a bunch of their barbies. They made signs and BF’s dad went and put them up. They’ve been out there for only a day and a half and the little turkey’s have made $30! I never make crap at my garage sales. lol Their signs merely say Doll Sale too. Who would have thought it would bring in this kind of traffic. We had cars driving by at 8 and the girls posted 11. roflmao
Needless to say, I have now taken stuff across the street for them to sell. I told them I’d split it 50/50 with them so they are excited. I had planned to take stuff over to my friends yard sale for her to sell, but why bother? Hubby doesn’t want to drag the dining room table back and forth, but I just might have the girls help me. We want that and a coffee table gone too. Boy wouldn’t they be excited to sell that! lol
Moral of the story is if you want to make money at your next garage sale, have some kids do it for you! I’m pretty sure there is a guilt factor in there.

beware sporadic posts coming

I am going to go through the cached pages in google and copy and paste old posts before I lose them. I seriously hope to get my wordpress back up and running someday, but for now I just have to get them back on here for personal reasons!

So beware of the posts being dated super weird. lolololol

Must be PMS

Well I think it's going to be a bad one. I have even less patience for stupid people right now. I was hit by a minimum of 3 morons at work today. I was ready to bite someone's head off if I had to deal with another one! And it's the little things that set it off. ARGHHHH!

Now that said, I had some great laughs with the great members and my clients today. So I know it's the stupid fuckers that got to me. I hope tomorrow will be better. I have a stacked day so at least it should go fast if it sucks. lol

LOST is on tomorrow and they keep playing all these teasers that we are going to find out so much info tomorrow. YEAH right! I'll believe that tomorrow night when I see it. lol I'm always more LOST after watching the show than I was at the beginning.

I have to get to a ticketbastard location tomorrow. My daughter wants Jinglebell bash tickets for her bday present and the online charges were horrendous. I'm hoping a couple of them will be dropped by going. Of course I guess I better figure out where the closest one is. I know Freddy's sells through ticketbastard, but not sure if somewhere is closer. The kids at work will know. ;) Here goes over a hundred bucks in tix and fees!

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Boards, oiy!

I love my boards, but they are a lot of work. I love being able to go in there and make multiple posts in a day and know that many people that don't post will benefit from my posts.

But alas, they have been down for about 2 1/2 weeks! WTF? Yes, that long. It's sad and sick. It was a little thing to a great web guy to fix, but I'd tried a few things along the way and couldn't do it. Why try to fix it when a professional can go in and fix it in seconds?

So other updates are on the way for the boards and I will hang out on phpbb.com so I can keep better up to date on how to do things myself.

K, the kids have gotten along way too well up till now and I hear major lauging going on in the bedroom. Never a good sign. I don't see the dog either, EVEN WORSE SIGN! BRB


K, dog is safe, kids are dorks. Time for them to go to bed. They want a sleepover in daughters room and that looks like it will work ok. We'll see 10 minutes from now where I stand on the issue.

Work was long today. Even with the 2 1/2 hour break so I could run back up here and go to little one's football game. I'm super glad I did and I need to figure some things out. I really don't like not being more involved. I don't know any of the parents on our team and I'm not ok with that.

wasted day

It was my day off today and I got it off for the most part. The kids were home from school so that was cool, no getting up to take the oldest. I still needed to go train a client and grab a few groceries, but that was only a couple of hours.

But I've wasted most of the day looking for and putting up new skins on my blogs. lol I really should have put new boards up, but alas that is not as fun. UGH, the wasted time I'll never get back. It's already 6:30 and dinner hasn't been started, the kitchen is a mess and I have to get up early cause I have an 8 am client.

I guess it happens, at least I got to sleep in. Oh and we have the movie Click to watch tonight.

I really have to start working on tracking down my old posts in google and copy and paste them in here so I don't have them lost forever.

rough start to morning

UGH, I was running around this morning and I usually have breakfast at 7:30ish. I was too busy to grab something and I was really good and took my vitamins earlier. YIKES! I'm finally eating now at 8:20 and my stomache feels so bad. I wasn't paying attention to the time factor and I know better than to take pills on an empty stomache. I'll feel better in a few minutes, but boy it's not the way to start the morning!

So I went to post to my weightloss blog and it's having problems now too. I'm just going to forget this hosting on my own anymore. From now on I will just stick to my blogger accounts so I don't have to hassle with it anymore. I'm so done with trying to log into my blog and haven't it not connect. Now that there are a ton of blogger templates to choose from I don't have a problem with it at all. So see ya WP, I loved using you, but I'm tired of the hassle. Now I just have to search around a little and find a cool template for the other blogs.

My boards are still down and I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that. I'm tired of messing with them and I don't really want to hire someone to go in and fix them. But there is so much info on them that it makes me sick to just start over. I guess I better just suck it up and hire someone to help out and fix them before I lose all of my visitors.

So let me know if there are any good blogger template sites you have out there.

Bye bye salon day

I have been looking forward to my salon day this Friday for weeks. We've been broke while we paid bills ahead and I've waited (as usual) til my hair looks like crap to go in and get a cut. We'll see how big my check is today and then I even was going to get color again. :) I miss my red highlights!

I get the daily email bulletin from the school and went to change the 1/2 day date that they sent me and figure I'd better go look at the school lunch menu and put other days off and 1/2 days on the calendar too. Well good thing I did, cause low and behold, no school this friday!!! WTF :( I already have my day off taken over by a 2 hour training session at work. So now I won't be able to go enjoy an hour in a chair doing nothing. I don't want the kids at my parent's when I could actual spend some time with them, so salon is out. RATS! I don't want to end up at supercuts on Sunday either damnit! WAHHHHHH This mop can't go another week. Hopefully they have an opening on Thursday. I guess I could take a long lunch, but that still won't be as relaxing. Good thing the salon is in my work. I don't even have time for a 10 min. commute to somewhere. WORKING FULL-TIME SUCKS! But my check today will be good. lolololol

My day is pretty stacked which is good. I prefer that to being on the phone all day. I guess I'll have to do that anyway though cause I think I have quite a few openings on Thurs. So another workday is about to begin and I have 2 appt.'s first thing when I walk in the door. I had one mug of coffee, but by the way this day has started, I can tell I'm going to need a rockstar in a couple of hours. lol I'm going to work on making sure the rest of my day goes awesome. It's all about positive thinking damnit!

PG for myspace

NO, not here, I said PG for myspace. Here's the scoop. I let me kids get myspace accounts. But alas, this means that they and all their friends are now linked to me. Ok, I have most of them as my friends too, I'm a loser and wanted more friends. Fuck, that means I can't vent and I really shouldn't say FUCK! Cause I don't want them to right? Damn, that sucks.

No, it's cool. My daughter is spending the second night in a row at her good friends house. I haven't seen her except for about 10 minutes today, but they are sending me messages through myspace. Is this what I have to look forward to? BTW, my daughters friend lives 2 doors down. roflmao It's walking distance even after a bottle of wine. Hmmm, there's a thought. I'm sure her Mom would love to sit and chat, the girls would hate it. Good thing it's cold out and I don't want to find my shoes or I'd be all over it. I'll keep it in mind for the summer. Her Mom's cool and I really need to get some more friends. SIGH, but it's so much work to be friends with girls.

Now that could be a whole subject in itself. How to be friends with girls. Someone can send me tips. I prefer watching football or wrestling with the guys anyday. I don't care about hair and make-up. Yes, I spend a lot of dough and time on my hair and I do wear make-up, but I don't want to TALK about it. Jeesh! Then you have to get all uppity because I haven't changed my purse in 2 years. Yes, it's lime green, and yes I like it. I know it's not summer anymore, leave me the fuck alone! I hate changing out my purse, this is why I usually go for black leather and leave it that way year around. roflmao

K, I need more friends, but you can see what I'm up against. I need a cool chick that will tell the guys to shut up during the super bowl and might want to work on changing her purse during half time. I'm willing to compromise a little. ;) Oh, if her and her husband would go extreme mountain biking with us, that would be extra cool! No I don't mean biking with a motor, I mean pedaling your ass up the hill.

TV show addict

k, the season has begun. Not only do I have my old shows to be addicted to, but I've found a couple more. Did anyone see the nine's last night? Thought it was great, hope they keep up the potential there. I was so damn happy to have LOST back!



Sawyers my fav. I've always been attracted to the bad boys. lol That daughter rebelling from strict parents thing I think.

Then tonight was Grey's and it was all that it should be. YuMMY McSexy is back for quite a few episodes I guess. I look forward to seeing much more of him.

Survivor has been a disappointment. I just don't like anyone on the show this season. I think this happened in like season 3 or 4 and I didn't watch for a couple, then got hooked back on it. Not sure why all the characters suck so bad. :( Usually I'll like at least a couple of them. I like the roller girl, but you know she won't last long. :( Maybe I'm just jaded to the fact that the people I like will go home. lol

I've stayed up watching tv wayyy tooo late tonight. I've got to get up early and get the kids to school. At least tomorrow I don't have to go to work. I have a ton of work to do around here though. Friends are coming over on Sunday and tomorrow is the only day I have to clean. CHick flicks and cleaning tomorrow baby!

Sinus crap

UGH, didn't realize I was coming down hard with it. Youngest stayed home from school yesterday and I had to clear out my schedule and come home. I got home, ate 1/2 a sandwich and then slept for 2+ hours. Hmmm, maybe I was coming down with it too? All I know is my headache and sore throat are gone. I'm still sneezing, but I can deal with that. lol

Last night was LOST and I'm still lost. lol Always am with this show. Glad they are finally starting to get into the bad things that Jack did before the crash though. It seemed odd that he was the only one that wasn't really horrible. I have a suspicion he went over the edge and killed the ex's boyfriend. I guess we'll have to wait and see on that.

Tonight is survivor and Grey's. It's my friday night so I will probably stay up and watch them even though I should go to bed early. :) I still have to catch up on the biggest loser from last night. I couldn't stay up any later and watch it. Usually I would, so I must have still been really tired last night. K, off to work. I need to be there a little early on Thursdays now. No biggy, since I have tomorrow off! WOOHOOO

The addicts back

K, I got a cool new skin up. There is still some tweaking to be done, but it will happen. I think hubby is getting drunk cause he is way over explaining life to the kids. I gave up not making fun of him. Now I'm just laughing hysterically and telling him to shut up. roflmao

It's almost 8pm and we still haven't eaten dinner. Is there any idea why he might be getting drunk by now? DUH, we need to eat. Oh and to top it all of I'm getting the look and lots of comments because I've been on here all night. TOOO FREAKIN BAD!!! I work 50 hours a week and I rarely get on here. This is my only day off for 11 days cause I told them I'd work the desk if they canned this moron at that moment. lol Obviously they did so I lost my day off.

K, he's getting up to look over my shoulder. Better go put the leftovers in the microwave!

Here I am again!

Well my blog has been down for months. I deleted my sql for it and then by the time I emailed my host it was too late to get it back up. WAHHHH, I got over it and then started working 50 hours a week so there has been no time to get it back up and running. I totally miss my blog. I tried to get it back up and it's still not showing, so I have no idea what I'm doing wrong with it. Before I just clicked instal on fantastico and it went in. I have a feeling I deleted too many files in my account and that is why it won't go to the blog. ARGHHHH!!!

My friend sent me her blogger link and it dawned on me that I could go back to this one at least until I get things straightened out. Maybe since I have SOOO much time on my hands I should just stick with this one. I know there are a ton of free blogger skins out there now. I love wordpress, but here at blogger I don't have to mess with anything. lol Easy is better as a working Momma.

Oh and let's not even get started on the fact that my message boards are down and I've sent like 8 clients from work to my website this last week. I've also heard that my email account (the business one) is returning one clients emails to her. WTF!

So today is my day off and I have all of about 2 hours to try and figure some stuff out on here. I want to freakin' play on the computer for a while. :( I guess I better go and change my domain name so it will come over here again. I don't want to lose any of my loyal following. That's you BTW, you know, the lurker that doesn't comment. ;)