Wednesday, February 28, 2007

The Magic of Nature

Yes, I do believe in miracles. Hence the reason the last post bothers me so much. I don't believe in coincidence. No sooner had I sent that post off then I decided to check outside and see if it was still snowing.

Yes, I said still snowing. In almost March, in the Seattle area. Hmm, think there might be something to this global warming bullshit you keep hearing about? Yeah, just a little climate change going on in the last few years. ;)

Anyway, it stopped snowing and that bummed me out. I love the late night snow. It's like a secret around here. I'm a night owl, or vampire (whatever you want to classify me as LOL )and there are many mornings I wake up and no one knows that it even snowed. Tonight was gorgeous. Huge flakes were coming down and it was coming down fast. We got about 1/2 inch in under an hour. That's quick for here since the ground was wet with rain. lmao

So, bummed I was that it stopped. I decided to double check and opened the front door. Yep, it really had stopped. No snow day with the kids tomorrow :( How bad am I getting that I really want that? Pitiful I tell ya! But as I have the door open I''m hearing a really odd noise. It's a big crackling type noise. Listen for a few minutes. Man it's cold. DING, DING, lightbulb. The noise is the world around me freezing. WOWOWOWOW, it was truly incredible. I am in awe of nature and immediately out of my funk from the last post. How can I compete with that?

Good intentions

Umm, shall we talk about what good intentions get me? Nada, zip, kicked in the ass? Betcha can't tell how today went. It was mostly crap. I tried not to focus on all the negatives, but when you just keep screwing up it's hard not to. lmao The funny thing is the appointments I screwed up on weren't scheduled on the same day, so how did I end up with all 3 of my appointments being messed up in one day? Only I could do it I guess.

One of them is a bad mix-up. I've only messed up 2 appointments ever. Guess who they were? Yep, both the same person and both in the last 2 1/2 weeks. I was working 50 hour + weeks for 5 months and never messed up an appointment. Today tells me that I have some issues I need to deal with and fast! My head is not in the game.

On a very positive note...I put up the first flyers for my relay for life team and got 2 girls to join immediately! That is awesome! I want to kick some serious fundraising butt on this. Nope, I'm not competitive in the least, what made you think that? If you'd like to donate to my team and personal cause of the American Cancer Society then please check back for the link. I will include it here as soon as my god damned hosting stops having problems!!! rassin' frassin' damned stuff I can't control!

So here I am online again at 12:40 when I swore I was going to bed at 10:30. What does this mean for tomorrow? A nap in the afternoon. :( I'd much rather be up and working then, but I am not even close to tired right now. I have some major bad habits to get rid of.

On a happy note, I should be able to change over to wordpress soon. That is part of the damned hosting issues right now. For some reason it hates my domain names and won't load them. I've been using this company for almost 2 years now without any problems that I didn't create for myself out of stupidity. Now all of the sudden I can't do anything with 2 accounts and there is no rhyme or reason to it.

Please send positive energy my way. I'm trying to stay positive, but the negative energy is pulling me under fast!

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Transitioning again

Well hopefully this will be the last switch from blogger. I made the move to wordpress before, but I had a complete moron moment and deleted mysql for it one night. I didn't email them fast enough and there was no restoring it. :( I miss WP. I have my own hosting account for this blog now and will move it over as soon as I find a template cool enough. I'm bummed that I can't take this template with me. I may be able to. Oh Retta! Want to give WP a try with this theme? lmao

So I'm off to upload a template. You'd think by now I'd have one picked out. I have a ton bookmarked. Oh another problem is that I can't just transfer the blogger posts to WP yet. Since blogger did the updates, the transfer script won't work. RATS! This is supposed to be easy for goodness sakes. Just waiting around for the techies to catch up. lmao K, not making fun of them as I have no idea where to start to make that happen.

Hubby will be home from studying soon, so not sure I will get the WP up tonight. I grabbed Babel and want to watch it tonight. Then again, that may be to serious for us to watch. I'm really wishing I'd grabbed something stupid. Well we can always fall back on the many classics we have here. Strange Brew, Funny Farm, Night at the Roxbury. You know, the no brainer movies ;)

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

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.


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!

Monday, February 19, 2007

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.

Saturday, February 17, 2007

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!

Friday, February 16, 2007

Thursday 13


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

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

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.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

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!

Monday, February 12, 2007

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!

Sunday, February 11, 2007

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.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

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. ;)

Sunday, February 04, 2007

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.

Saturday, February 03, 2007

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!

Friday, February 02, 2007

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?