Year in Status Updates

Here are all of my status updates from Facebook for 2009. I listed the quotes from the kids separately first, because they're better and more fun. :)


- Kasey just gave Zac a crayon and said "Eat this, you'll feel better"

- Zac asked me to tell him "every bad word there is" so he knows which ones he shouldn't say.

- Kasey's playing with pretend lizards in a dollhouse - she just told me they're eating manicotti and strawberries upstairs"

- "Please speak more loudly, my ears are turned off because they're sick" - Zac

"...down came the rain and watched the spider bounce..." - Kasey, singing Itsy Bitsy Spider

"darn it, I'm thirsty - get me some chocolate milk and a pickle!" - Kasey

"If you don't wear green tomorrow, everybody's gonna punch you." - Zac

"Daddy, don't call Mommy sweetheart; it makes me wanna throw up." - Zac

"...but Mom, how do you KNOW you're always right about everything?" - Zac

- "Well, I'm a really cute man." - Zac's response to me telling him he has a lot of friends.

- "Mommy, you look beautiful... like Catwoman." - Zac

"Why does Dora carry around all that stuff she doesn't need in her backpack? It's not very smart." - Zac's observations on Dora the Explorer

-"boogers are dirty but they're yummy too" - Kasey

- "Don't comb my hair; it hurts my feelings." - Kasey

"No Mommy, you're not beautiful yet." - Kasey's response to "Are we ready to go?"

- "Why does my cheeseburger have freckles?" - Zac, pondering the sesame seed bun at dinner

"Dear Jesus, please help our food not taste gross..." - Zac's prayer intro at dinner

"Boys don't like sharks because they're too scary. I love sharks." - Kasey (avid fan of sharks, dinosaurs and most other "scary" animals)

"Okay, tummy, I'm not going to give you anymore food if you're just going to keep hurting." - Zac

"I got a 'gina" - Kasey (repeated as a song, 30-40 times, while dancing naked in circles) next up...a talk about appropriateness and modesty...

"I just want to wear my feet today." - Kasey

"Knives aren't for fighting. They're for cutting hotdogs and opening presents." - Kasey

"Go out in the hall and my mommy will run as fast as she can to come and protect me." - Zac's response to "What should you do if you hear the tornado sirens?"

"I'm a really long awaker. I don't like to sleep ever." - Zac

"Can I just be naked in the car?" - Kasey

"I've been cracking myself up all day because I'm amazingly hilarious." - Zac

"A moosest? A gooster? A hippolo?" - 3 of Kasey's guesses for "a buffalo"

"Will you read this to me?" (whispering really quietly) "Say 'yes." - Kasey

"Sometimes when I smile, I really look like a bad guy." - Zac

"Mom, my pirate hook keeps getting stuck." "On what?" (screaming from Kasey) "On Kasey."

"Why do the Beatles want to hold my hand?" - Zac

"Mom, could you just wear that shirt at home and not to pick me up? Just wear a regular shirt next time and not something weird." -Zac (note to self: tank tops = unacceptable for mom)

"Daddy, did you pick Mommy because she was a good lookin' momma?" -Zac

"I really like school now. I didn't at first." - Zac...the day before the last day of school

"I wonder what the girl's favorite color is?" "What girl?" "The girl I'm going to marry." - Zac (my long term planner)

"I can't. There's a dinosaur in there and he might eat me." - Kasey's response when asked to take a toy to her room (it was hard to argue with and we have since rid the room of said dinosaur.)

"Mommy, I think you're just making this stuff up." - Zac, on my list of things astronauts eat (I backed up my expertise with pics of me at NASA)

"Now you look beautiful!" - Kasey, after putting a glittery princess tiara on our dog...who just sat there and looked humiliated.

"I love my daddy. Him's so cute." - Kasey

- Kasey just picked one of my socks up off the floor, licked it, made a weird face and said "This isn't Daddy's."

"When I'm a grown-up and I've got a lady, I'm taking a shower with her." - Zac

"I finished writing my book. Can you take me to the library so I can put it on the shelf and people can start checking it out?" - Zac (writer extraordinaire)

"Why did the hospital give us this girl?" - Zac, in reference to his sister

"Kasey, can you just leave me alone and let me relax for a while?" - Zac

"I don't wanna be a lady; I wanna be a dinosaur." - Kasey

" I'm not pretendin' - I'm for real-in' " - Kasey

"I think this fruit is a little too spicy for me." - Zac

"Zachary's not being polite to me!" - Kasey

"I can't see Jesus; the sky's in the way." - Zac

"Kasey, something magical happened...last night, you were sleeping, and suddenly...you became three!" - Zac (drama king and fan of all things magical)

"Mommy, I think we're having a grown-up conversation right now. I like it. We should talk like grown-ups more." - Zac

"Hey, Mom, trade me controllers; my hands are really sweaty." - Zac

"Do fairies poop?" - Zac (this should be noted in the general "Does that poop?" file, which is quite extensive and covers everything from animals to Jedi.)

"Mommy, I'm sorry we were acting like wild animals." - Zac

"Next time just say 'yes' and don't say a weird word that I don't know about." - Zac (after I explained what "indeed" meant, which I used in response to a question of his)

"Remember that gross kind of pop that tasted really yucky that Daddy got me last time when I was sick? Can I have some of that?" - Zac (willing to try anything to settle his stomach this morning - he's much better now)

"I hate eating; it just makes me have to poop...It's not funny, Mommy. I really hate pooping." -Zac

"That bad guy looks like Frank Phillips." - Zac (referring to Slugworth on Willy Wonka - he was also disappointed that Charlie didn't immediately kill Slugworth when he met him in the alley...what am I teaching this kid?)

"Mommy, doesn't the wind feel great? That's why I took off my pants." - Zac

"Stop it, Mommy, you're about to scrub my ears off!" - Kasey

answered some "where babies come from" questions this afternoon and when I asked Zac what differences he noticed about boys and girls, he said "Guys work out a lot and girls cook dinner."

- not only is Kasey referring to herself in 3rd person today, she has declared herself "the puppy," thus, "the puppy wants a snack"

"My jeans are choking me." - Kasey

"Zachary said he's going to destroy me." -Kasey

Kasey: "Zachary farted on me" Zac: "Not on purpose!"

"When people ask who drew that, tell them Zachary did. Zachary Ennis; he's my son and he lives here and he draws really scary stuff. But don't show them this one; they might get too disgusted." - Zachary Ennis...my son, who lives here...

"Darn it, I think I need to shave" - Kasey, rubbing her leg (I just had a glimpse of her at about 15...frightening)

Zac: "Did the wolf get to hold Little Red Riding Hood?" Me: "I don't think so" Zac: "Good. She must have listened to her mom." (listening to Sam Sham & the Pharoahs Li'l Red Riding Hood)

Me: "Kasey, stop that or you're going back in your room." Zac: "Me?" Me: "Is your name Kasey?" Zac "No." Kasey: "My name isn't Kasey either."

Zac: "Mom, your phone is ringing" (handing it to me) "I think it's your mom." Me: "How do you know who it is?" Zac: (with complete exasperation and seriousness) "because I can read." Touche.

"I cried a little at school today, but it's okay because there was blood. It's okay to cry if you're bleeding when you're six." - Zac

"I just really don't like being nice." - Kasey (in response to me asking her why she refuses to say 'hi' to anyone.)

"Then I get to pick my nose." Kasey, after being told it was Zac's turn to pick a movie for us to watch. Win win.

"It's okay; I just pee peed on them a little bit." - Kasey, in response to being asked why her feet were wet

"Mommy, am I your baby? Can you go get your baby a pickle?" - Kasey

"Who's Carol?" - Zac, after being told the song he was listening to was called Carol of the Bells

"Mommy, even though this looks disgusting and a little bit like poop, I'm going to try it." - Zac, in regards to the pork roast we had for dinner. What a trooper.

"I don't think you really even like Jesus!" - Zac's response to Granny (...Granny has always been kind of a shady character...)

"Mommy, we need more blood to drink!" - Kasey...loudly...in the middle of Wal-Mart. (I don't know if teaching the kids about communion has been such a good idea.)

"There's too many hippopotomuses, we're never going to make it. Don't touch them either, they're on fire." - Zac, pretending in the living room

"I think Daddy exercises a lot so he can get really strong and break stuff, like cars and buses." - Zac

- Zac is afraid of ET, so Kasey keeps telling him ET is in his room and then laughing a devious little laugh.

introduced my kids to The Princess Bride tonight. Zac was brushing his teeth at bedtime and said "You killed my father. Prepare to die!" and then stabbed me with his toothbrush.

"Shake it, shake it, shake it naked now" - Zac, singing Twist and Shout on The Beatles Rockband



2009 Facebook Status Updates

had a blast at '80's karaoke night - thank you Dave & Amber!
can't believe her dad is at the game in Miami tonight
is plotting world domination...and playing some Wii games on the side
is now officially a soccer mom - terrifying.
says "learn your rules or you'll be eaten in your sleep"
is ecstatic about her brothers playing at the Viper Room next week!
got a new laptop!!! (It's pretty much the best day ever)
is excited about all of us being home tomorrow
suspects her husband is secretly wishing he could go to work and avoid this much family time :)
built a snowman in the kitchen with her kids today
thinks there is a conspiracy of rappers out to shampoo our carpet...
made up a new term - "guitarpal tunnel syndrome" - the condition one suffers after too much Guitar Hero
is amazed at the sheer volume of vomit a toddler can possess
is fast forwarding the DVR to the Superbowl commercials
thought tonight was the funniest Office ever - I can't even pick a quote - I just keep thinking of Dwight with the dummy face on
is drowning in a sea of mucous - yuck.
is wishing for the healing powers of hot and sour soup from Szechuan...mmm...
them ...must...conquer...laundry
is the very model of a modern major general
is fighting a sinus infection, a migraine and now a stomach virus...waving the white flag
is rising up like a phoenix from the ashes
had a blast at the church lingerie party...yeah, you heard that right :)
is restless and indecisive
is not boycotting Valentine's Day this year, for once
had 2 dates with 2 guys in 2 days (the 2nd one was much smaller and took me to McDonald's and Gamestop)
is eating a burrito for breakfast
is trying to summon up the energy to do something around here...
is watching Scooby Doo meets Batman "...and I would have gotten away with it if weren't for you meddling kids and your pesky dog..." (fist shaking)
is watching Romeo + Juliet...and saying all the lines with it because she's by herself and she can
is enjoying the peace and quiet - it's a rare thing
says "Bless you, Spaghetti Bettie, you've made my evening"
is "the happiest girl in the whole U.S.A...."
is hungry...(yes Matt, like the wolf)
is having a fabulous day
is ready for some pizza
is really excited about The Beatles Wii game coming out this fall
is eating chips with earbuds in - my crunching is threatening to overpower the music
caller ID just came up "telemarketer" - seriously, who's answering that call?
wants a tattoo for her 30th birthday - I need to know where to go to have it done - suggestions?
is raiding the kids' Valentine candy stash
is miserable - this cold is relentless
and her son are both home sick - we're having a Star Wars marathon
and Zac are discussing consequences and bad decisions (he always cries when Anakin turns to the Dark Side)
is watching both of her kids sleep off fevers :(
is home with both kids again - I'm waiting for Zac to burst into flames
is having Dr Seuss Day
's tip for the day - exfoliating gloves easily remove crayon from just about anything
- the girls' get together is canceled tonight due to various illnesses at my house
- Zac officially has a double ear infection and possibly strep - yea.
- rinse.repeat.
is chanting "...stay positive...stay positive...stay positive..."
is researching composting
- alright, who ate all the chocolate?
's dog is refusing to let her take a nap
is searching for a vending machine full of painkillers...
is making a bird feeder
is on day 3 of a killer migraine - enough already
thinks Mary Poppins may be one of the greatest movies ever made
thinks that "nowhere is there a more happier crew than them what sings chim chim cheree chim cheroo"
is restless...
is embarking on the 1st day of Spring Break - Mary Poppins Day :)
is staring open-mouthed at the screen in a Benadryl stupor - welcome, Allergy Season
says "Top o' the mornin' to ya" and all that jazz.
rode a camel with her kids this morning - we conquered the zoo, the aquarium, Toys 'R' Us and Chick-Fil-A...whew
's husband suprised her with tickets to Jesus Christ Superstar next month :)
is ready for some serious Mario-Karting
- 0 allergies - 1
is eating Cheetos...mmm...
opened her window and sang, but the birds and mice just don't seem to want to clean her house...
"I read the news today, oh boy..."
"...winds in the east, mist coming in, like somethin' is brewin' and 'bout to begin"
's "just sitting here watching the wheels go round n' round"
- Behold, the Tyranna-snow-us Rex.
The Tyranna-snow-us was taken down today by his mortal enemy - the sun. Our lawn is strewn with dino parts.
is home with a sick little Kasey-dilla
: I think Kasey is conducting some sort of experiment on how much disobedience I can tolerate (if so, the answer is "not much more" - but don't tell her.)
is one in a houseful of sick people - I think we're going to sit in a circle with a box of kleenex in the middle for the remainder of the day.
is watching opening night of baseball...time to work on my reading list...
is cold! Enough already.
is thinking of changing her Mafia name soon and is taking suggestions - so far I'm thinking Mamma Cass or Dom Perignon...
- Bartlesville is on fire today...and not just culturally. Seriously, where's the barbeque?
is attempting her first 1000 piece black and white jigsaw puzzle...it's mainly a gray area...
fought a tree today. - I won, but it came at a price...
is still thinking about the movie 7 Pounds a couple of days after watching it...I think I needed to hear his thought process...
Don't make me rough you up...
would like to thank her husband for taking both of his girls out on his day off :)
: Easter grass - the gift that keeps on giving...and giving...and giving...
has survived yet another holiday...just barely.
BARTLESVILLE TAX DAY TEA PARTIES: Johnstone Park @ noon & Eastland Center @ 5:00 "Restore the Republic - Revolt Against Socialism"
is battling a stomach virus alongside an even sicker Zachary
just watched Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed...
doesn't understand why people force their opinions on those around them and refuse to let their own beliefs be questioned - if they really think what they believe is the truth; shouldn't it stand up under questioning?
"and I went down to the demonstration to get my fair share of abuse..."
"Cathy, I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping. I'm empty and aching and I don't know why ..."
just did 2 hours of yard work - I will now take a handful of ibuprofen and vegetate for the remainder of the day
: vegetating turned into "planting a vegetable garden" - tomorrow I will crawl out to water it, as that will probably be the only movement I am capable of...
is watching a documentary on hippies and the LSD Revolution
is planning a dinosaur vacation for next weekend
is excited about seeing Jesus Christ Superstar tonight! :)
cannot say enough about how great the cast was for Jesus Christ Superstar. I could have watched Judas dance for hours.
"Auntie Em, Auntie Em!"
is back from vacation - I would post pics, but some kid (not mine) hit me in the face with a basketball as I was taking a picture, knocking my camera out of my hands and straight to the bottom of the pool. Hopefully my memory card survived the voyage.
thinks there should be a medical term for the recovery period after a vacation - we're all suffering from PVS (post-vacation-syndrome)
has a migraine - and there's a bird outside that seems to be unaware of that fact...and may not live much longer.
wants to thank her wonderful husband for borrowing a camera to assure her that her memory card is still intact.
wonders, "What would you do for a Klondike bar?"
- anyone in the market for a kneecap? I'd give my left one for anything that could alleviate this migraine for at least 5 minutes...
- Dammit Jim, I had a tremendous day.
just watched the Scrubs finale and laughed through my tears
has reached a new level in the hierarchy of nerdiness by recruiting the maximum number of mafia members. (I'm now one of those notorious 501's :)
"...and you read your Emily Dickinson and I, my Robert Frost and we note our place with bookmarkers that measure what we've lost..."
is planning out the summer (the only way the kids and I will survive one another.)
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society." - Mark Twain
feels terrible...maybe it's the swine flu. Let the rumors begin...
- yet another evening of waiting out a storm in the closet...and then a breathing treatment for Zac, due to sitting in the bottom of a dusty closet.
"Please stop putting spaghetti between your toes and get your feet off the table." Add this to my list of things-I-never-expected-to-have-to-say (also on this list "Put your pants back on; we don't take our pants off at Burger King.")
needs to know how the Criminal Minds finale ended last night! (I got about 45 minutes of weather coverage and hulu will only give me a 2 minute clip.) Help!
keeps getting phonecalls from the NRA and a number listed as "political call"...some members of my mafia may also be stalking me...
is leaving for her 3rd date in 3 weeks - I'm getting spoiled.
- yesterday I told Josh that it looked like we would be needing a new garage door pretty soon. About 4 hours later, it broke. He's blaming me.
: Less than 20 minutes of pulling weeds and I'm sneezing and covered in hives. Now I remember why I'm not more "outdoorsy." Nature hates me.
just did her annual chopping/massacre of the shubbery and was rewarded with hives once again. I think nature and I came out even today.
feels like she should do something crazy on this last day of being a twenty-something...
is officially old.
Summer Fun Day 2 out of 60 is nearly complete. I thought it was fairly successful until I realized I've been compulsively updating my FB status and my kids are unenthusiastic pessimists...the beatings will continue until morale improves.
thinks every day should begin with a pirate treasure hunt...
took her kids to Fun Day at the Assembly of God Church. An hour later, Zac declared it the "worst and scariest place ever" and Daddy rescued all of us...and he hit a home run in softball last night. :)
- Kasey is currently wearing the following: Cinderella panties, nightgown, Cinderella Dress, Cinderella jacket (zipped), tiara, devil horns, 6 beaded necklaces, 2 watches, and she's carrying a scepter with a glittery star on top.
"Are you in league with the wicked old hag who sent my poor Giselle to this foul place...Arty?"
regrets that she no longer has the patience for Charles Dickens. (There warn't enough wittles about to tide me through whilst I plodded along...)
"But the reverence which is difficult, and which has personal merit in it, is the respect which you pay, without compulsion, to the political or religious attitude of a man whose beliefs are not yours." - Mark Twain (Following the Equator)
is being sucked into Twitter after a vicious struggle against it...
is addicted to Twitter (as I inevitably knew I would be.) Alex Stanley has an account as well...looking forward to this little experiment.
put honey on a piece of toast, where it dripped to the couch...and a blanket...and my shirt...and my jeans...and my socks...and finally down my entire arm, at which point I looked up and realized all the places I had been dripping. Sticky. Yuck.
Jumbo corndog? Check. Roasted corn? Check. Dippin' Dots? Check. Sunburned nose? Check. All in all, another successful year at Sunfest.
"All the Federales say, "Could'a had him any day" They only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose..."
is listening to some new Taddy Porter songs
ate a cheeseburger, nearly killed a pedestrian, played at the park and flew a kite...all before noon...I need a nap.
was hoping Detroit would bring the Cup back again last night, but I'd rather see them win it at home anyway...don't fail me now, Henrik Zetterberg...and I also hope Jordan Staal gets at least an elbow or two in the process.
"I do believe in fairies. I do. I do." ...thanks a lot, guys.
just saw an ad on FB that promises "the ability to perform miracles" after attending "holistic sessions." - frightening.
is listening to the hellacious thunderstorm I've been waiting on.
- last night I cooked a huge ham and for the first time, I could picture the giant pig it used to be attached to. (I kept thinking of Phoebe on Friends - food with a face!) It didn't make it any less delicious, but I experienced a rare moment of horror.
is mourning Detroit's loss of the Stanley Cup...oh, Ozzy...what a series.
just ran a mile...okay, half ran/half walked a mile...until she saw stars and started wheezing and nearly vomited on the awesome Bruins astroturf (have you seen that field?!) Time to step up plan get-back-in-shape.
is spending the evening with mashed potatoes, beer and a Seven Nation Army.
"...We will sing, sing, sing, and make music with the heavens We will sing, sing, sing, grateful that you hear us..." - I think this song is impossible to sing without dancing. No, seriously.
Running, Day 3. I can now make it halfway before my body starts screaming. In other news, I ran out of shaving cream, thus forcing me to use Suave Kids 2-in-1 Cowabunga Coconut shampoo and body wash. Not bad.
spent 7 hours cleaning her grandparents house and then ran the daily mile...I may not be able to move tomorrow.
did 5 solid hours of shrubbery conquering madness at her grandparents' house. - It was a fair fight overall, and I'm not without battle wounds, but I think I won...unless I have poison ivy...I would consider that a draw.
wonders why people I don't know want to follow me on Twitter...stalkers.
is trying to summon the energy to clean her house for her sassy girl's 3rd birthday party tomorrow.
had an awful day. Pity party to follow...
"Abba Father, my defender, You are holy and I surrender, For in my weakness You protect me, and when my heart strays, You correct me. I cry Abba Father, I love you, Daddy..."
"mini buffalo ranch chicken sandwich" [insert motions here]
- everyone at our house now has a summer cold - it's definitely a movie day...with a lot of juice and Kleenex :)
Michael Jackson just died. Wow.
tried to find a clear shot of me in my red "Beat It" jacket and glove to post, but alas, I could not (there was a strange shot of me wearing it over a sundress with motorcycle boots and a helmet, though - I think it was my 7th birthday.)
is wondering how she can spend the next 2 weeks without Michael Westen...
made a visit to Narnia this afternoon...
may be experiencing a 1/3 life crisis...
is letting her kids jump on their beds to their hearts' content (moved their mattresses into the living room.) Someone remind them of this some day when they accuse me of not being awesome.
"I like 'em chunky."
"...Should I tell them that I am a perfect example of all You can do with a life? What should I say to them, what if I'm failing them? What should I tell them tonight?..."
had a great time with family, friends and fireworks tonight. - I also heard Josh give an audible sigh of relief when I told the kids we would talk about what Independence Day really means some other time.
thinks "jinkies," Velma should really have invested in contacts - she loses those glasses at some point in every episode of Scooby Doo.
is contemplating selling her daughter to the circus.
's daughter peed in the toilet and then put her head in it. On purpose. Repeatedly. [speechless]
- tried to explain that music lyrics are not always to be taken literally...Zac is very bothered by this and wants to know "who" is being sung to - he does not like Joe Cocker thinking he is beautiful.
watched the Harper's Island finale tonight. Am I glad I faithfully watched every episode?....hmmm...maybe?
- There's nothing like a vomiting child to start your day out right.
now owns a real cellphone...and is in the process of creating her very own Taddy Porter ringtone.
"Due to buget constraints, the light at the end of the tunnel will be turned off until further notice."
spent the afternoon at the Coffeyville waterpark (where Kasey got naked) and ended the evening at Kiddie Park. I don't know which of us is the most tired.
is wondering who wants to pay for me to see Paul McCartney in Tulsa next month?...
is contemplating the best way to turn Zac's room into the "Zac Cave" (for all his confidential/secret identity endeavours)
- Zac Cave progress: 75% complete
"If something seems too good to be true, you should shoot it, just in case."
"Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination..."
made grilled zucchini, pickled zucchini and zucchini bread...next week I may hate zucchini.
is researching Purim...
- almost done with my Purim project...and my Esther homework, for that matter. I feel amazingly productive.
- I believe I officially like the zoo more than my kids; I think they took me there today. There was a lot of "Mom, are you done? Are you happy? Can we look at something else and then go home?"
would like to thank her husband for tilling the backyard last night. Project Garden is officially underway.
is ready to play in the dirt...and a little too excited about building pea trellises.
- pea trellises on hold. Zac's in the ER getting a better breathing treatment, Kasey's playing house with Batman and Princess Jasmine and I'm baking cookies.
Pea trellises done. Lots of vegetables planted and watered. Task for the day: organizing the kids' closets, while keeping the superhero with pneumonia and bronchitis from running - not nearly as easy as it sounds. Lego Batman, you're my only hope...
- I stepped outside for a couple of minutes, got approximately 12 mosquito bites and the largest grasshopper in North America flung itself from the bushes at me. It was all I could do not to execute the Ace Ventura 2 "They're in my hair!" maneuver.
- keeping tabs on my brothers through the latest issue of The Current - recap of DFest and their latest gig at the Cain's...both of which I missed. :(
is cancelling our first date night in nearly half a century and spending the evening with a migraine instead. Curse the Fates...
It's alive!...peas and lettuces are sprouting. :)
- gardening, massive sand castle at the lake, swimming, tiny tan lines on my little ones, glass of wine and The Rocky Horror Picture show...my day in a nutshell :)
watched parents videotaping their kids walking from the car to their classrooms (which reminded me that I forgot to take a picture of the first day yet again - I'll do it afterward...again) and thought about a discussion on glorifying mediocrity I heard recently.
is a murderer...I wanted to pull out the pumpkin vines that had pretty well run their course, but they were all hooked together, so I no longer have pumpkins in the little garden. Major gardening FAIL. It's a good thing I have more sprouting in the new garden.
is really excited about watching Ian Kinsler play some ball tonight!
"Your name is Ian!" - my favorite attempt at heckling Kinsler from the Drillers crowd tonight
just discovered a roll of toilet paper under Kasey's bed.
is home alone, watching the storm roll in - awesome.
who opened the door and let Fall in? I'm cleaning with all the windows open and it's cold!
is being consumed by consumerism and determined to stop it...Kristin, I told you reading that book was a bad idea for me :) - I've barely started it and I want to build a cabin in the woods.
"That's real rain out there gentlemen. We'll be safe for now--thank goodness we're in a bowling alley--but if George here doesn't get his dinner, any one of us could be next. "
is having a very odd week. In other news, Date Night is out to get me.
just made laundry soap and dishwashing detergent. It felt like Fight Club mixed with a visit to Silver Dollar City. Tyler Durden, meet Minnie Pearl.
is trying to avoid negativity at all costs today...it's getting pretty expensive.
is hoping dinner will somehow manifest itself tonight. I should probably have a backup plan just in case...
sweat (sweated, swat?...) completely through an entire set of clothes before 9:30 this morning (Kasey told me I smelled like our dog) humidity in full effect.
feels like Cinderella before the ball, the "trying to get everything cleaned and taken care of so she can get herself ready" part (though Cinderella didn't have to pack for 2 kids...) Thanks again to my mysterious benefactor - I owe you big time. :)
is celebrating her 7th wedding anniversary today :)
accidentally bleached yet another shirt, (stupid, stupid, stupid...) had a fantastic lunch, and is currently trying to make up time after being gone all morning.
- computer crashed, library is packed, kicked Josh away from his computer at work. Pathetic desperation.
is forever grateful to Jenny for the use of her computer...and lunch...and a Coke (it really does bring harmony to the world.)
planning and plotting and planning some more.
made homeade tortillas yesterday. Today I'm attempting Challah bread.
- FWC Amazing Racers, you better start working out now!
- Once again: FWC Amazing Racers, you've only got a couple of weeks to whip yourselves into shape. Don't say I didn't warn you. ;)
a guy eerily similiar to George Harrison was walking across the crosswalk earlier (the irony not lost on me, mind you) reminding me that The Beatles Rockband comes out tomorrow.
- overcoming the glint of commercialism...and the girl in electronics that said "What's it called? Beatles Rockband? And it comes out today?" (!) Now enjoying this fabulously rainy day, alone, in total silence, in my DC Comics PJs with a great lunch on the horizon. Life doesn't get much better than this.
- The Beatles Rockband game is now in my possession (just the game - drums are on my Christmas list.) It came after a day-long journey with a cast of characters worthy of Lewis Carroll, and included a tiny Asian woman loudly belting out "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," an unkempt homeless man, a fat kid wiping his face on shirts for sale and a "special" employee who sang all the Beatles song titles to me as he read them.
- So, yesterday, as I'm drooling over the various Beatles displays, some guy asks what's with the all the Beatles stuff. I tell him and he says "No offense, but the Beatles were my generation; you're just a kid." Luckily he said "No offense" first, otherwise I might have killed him on the spot. (I did watch several episodes of Dexter yesterday, after all.) FYI: kid or not, The Beatles Rockband is AMAZING.
- making bread and cookies and hoping the other half of my 2-man-band isn't too sick to play tonight.
is still searching for the ever elusive perfect peanut butter cookie recipe...
has a lot of ambition, but lacks follow-through. - I did get a 78% on I Saw Her Standing There on the hard level on bass, so I guess that's something. That orange button is my enemy...
- my husband took me on a date to look at all the Halloween departments in town. He knows me all too well. :)
is planning Zac's birthday party, a garage sale, the Amazing Race and an all-out blood, guts and gore Halloween party. Whew.
- Ms. Stanley, to what do I owe this...pleasure? Zombie planning, sarcasm abounds and cheesecake for breakfast.
- Congratulations to my brothers/Taddy Porter for officially getting signed to a record deal! :)
- Happy 6th birthday to my favorite superhero, Zachary.
wants the back of my hair chopped off (it's becoming too frighteningly mullet-ish for my taste) - anyone want to volunteer?
is ready for the FWC Amazing Race - as you had better be...
It was a dark and stormy...afternoon. And now it's hailing on my patio.
- thanks Renana & Jen for saving me from hanging out with Beth Moore alone tonight. Next week will be better. :)
cannot sing like Ringo Starr - the game views this as a bad thing. Agree to disagree.
- at Kasey's MDO this morning, there were pictures of all the kids on the bulletin board, with a little bubble to the side, like they were telling what they want to be when they grow up. In the midst of the smiling 'I want to be a fireman' crowd, is Kasey, bent over and screaming "I don't know!" at the top of her lungs. Lord help us.
- Kasey's teacher wanted to discuss her "behavior" today. First Mother's Day Out, then on to a life of delinquency and crime...or she'll just turn out like me. Either way, it's frightening.
- Kasey saw Zac peeing on the tree in the backyard last night and tried to outdo him (yep, for real - poop.) She then sent her brother inside for toilet paper, which HE DID! When people ask why we're only having 2 children, let this story be my answer...did I mention the dog ate the poop?
Wow. I've never burned a batch of Sculpey quite like this one. Luckily, I was making "flesh" for Halloween. - It will now be "seared flesh."
- Taddy Porter is officially allowed to represent.
"There's a bird that nests inside you, sleeping underneath your skin. When you open up your wings to speak, I wish you'd let me in..." - love, love, love this line
is hoping her neighbors don't call the cops after watching her lug Chokin' Charlie all over the yard. Proper corpse placement is a must.
has Electricity pumping through her veins. No, really. - Hopefully it will revive me, because right now all I want to do is curl up in a ball and sleep...and cough...and sneeze...and hack like an old smoker...ugh.
- dialogue tonight between my dad and my son, who was afraid to watch The Wizard of Oz, yelling from 2 separate rooms - Dad: "It's got midgets!" Zac: "I don't like witches!" Dad: "Not witches, midgets!!!" If that's not a selling point, I don't know what is.
watched the peaceful sunrise this morning, while violently hacking like an old smoker.
is ready for a little Dave Ramsey insight.
should be doing Beth Moore homework instead of playing Mafia Wars. New plan: bake cookies, finish homework...then play Mafia Wars.
is tired of coughing. Seriously. Enough is enough.
just discovered that my "bowl o' fog" no longer produces fog. What a sad day in Mudville. Oh, well. On to Plan B.
absolutely loved the message tonight. Thanks for sharing the mysterious chips with me, Renana.
just picked peas and bellpeppers by flashlight, in my PJs. I love my garden.
just hauled out just about every pillow and blanket (and stuffed animal) we have and is preparing to spend the rest of the day watching movies, cuddled up with Kasey.
picked Zac up early after grocery shopping (aka, buying bags full of what ended up as cardboard mush) so as not to have to get the ark...I mean, the car, back out there again.
will officially be selling Avon tomorrow. ***Sending out the buy-from-me-buy-from-me-buy-from-me...*** subliminal messages. Please heed them.
- My son drew me a picture of the Beatles (complete with instruments and names), proclaimed himself "George Parisom" and is currently singing "Here Comes the Sun" at the top of his lungs. Wow.
- going to hang out with my brothers. :)
- did we skip Fall and go directly into Winter again?
needs atypical Halloween song playlist suggestions (ie: do NOT suggest Thriller)
- I've been trying to convince my body that it really isn't sick...now that I have a fever to go along with the symptoms I've been denying, I must admit defeat.
- some girl just went rummaging through the leftover yard sale in my driveway, then yelled to be let inside. After being denied entry, she yelled "Steve's in there, right?" Evidently, she had Steve on the phone, because everyone in Southport got to hear what a "mofo" Steve was on her way back to the car. Josh is never allowed to leave the house again. I have a feeling Steve's in pretty big trouble as well.
- I just scared myself with one of my own Halloween props (I actually screamed out loud.) I'll count that as a success. In other news, I accidentally dyed my hands green.
...must...summon...energy...I have a million things to do today and I don't want to do any of them. I'm so tired, I don't even want to make severed body parts. It's a new low for me.
I'm going to have a nervous breakdown before the day is over
spent the afternoon organizing a cemetery full of zombies, only to see there is a 100% chance of rain.
is in full-scale, super-scary party-planning mode. - I was also asked if I wanted to buy "some effin vodka" and then led to honest-to-goodness Effin Vodka. Sadly, I declined.
exhibited rare patience only a mother could muster, when, after waiting more than 2 hours with Zac at the doctor's office, and listening to him chatter nonstop, he turned to me and said "I can count to 100." He wasn't bluffing.
has a huge coldsore, spent nearly all day at the doctor's office, and is now running a fever. - I so do not have time for this.
horrid smell in the kitchen = dead mouse behind the refrigerator
Thank you to everyone who came to our Halloween party - it was better than I ever anticipated. I never expected to hear 20+ people singing "Livin' on a Prayer and Eye of the Tiger" at the top of their lungs in my living room. "Strum...strum, strum, strum."
just picked a handful of vegetables out of the garden, washed them, threw them in a pan and then ate them over rice. - Free food is somehow made a million times better when you grow it yourself. I heart my garden.
my son is wearing a cape, carrying an enormous tree limb across the backyard over his head in both hands, and laughing his "evil" laugh.
can't figure out why everyone who lands on a deserted island keeps trying to find a way off of it. - I'm looking for an island to get stuck on.
"It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van." Feeling restless and trapped by the 4 walls of the 'Ville. I blame Guy Fawkes.
- this drinking binge is brought to you in part by everyone who failed to drink more at my Halloween party...oh, how I wish you had all had more to drink...
The Wii Fit said told me I'd "put on a little weight" since yesterday, as though implying I were some sort of elephant and then asked me why this might be so. When I answered "I don't know" (being unhappy with their choices it gave me) it said "Are you SURE you don't know?" like I was lying. I'm thinking about breaking up with it. It's a little too nosy if you ask me...wait...is it listening to me right now?
- watching the documentary "How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin" and I'm amazed at the lengths Russian teenagers went to illegally obtain rock and roll behind the Iron Curtain(they recorded it from Radio Luxembourg and cut it onto used X-rays.)
has a migraine that's causing her to invision putting Dora the Explorer in a choke hold.
went seriously old school and made a Christmas playlist that includes Christmas in Dixie, Pretty Paper and Marshmallow World, just to name a few winners.
nearly passed out from hula hooping. Seriously.
"This medicine is going to make him very jittery and anxious and he's probably going to be very disobedient and hard to control. Give it to him twice each day. Have a nice day!" - pharmacist "consult"
is tired of FB telling me who I haven't talked to in a while and who became friends and whatnot. - What are you, the conversation police?
Okay, I give up. I'm getting ready to pull my real garden for the winter, so I'll play some Farmville. Be my neighbor. Send me cows and chickens and whatnot.
- My house. Tonight. 6:00. Chocolate Pampered Chef Party. Be there.
is ill - and not in a hip, Beastie Boys way.
is building an army...of white blood cells. "There's also more bad news; there's been another murder (in Savannah.)"
- Day 2 of my involuntary bed-in. I hate being sick.
has moved from the bed to the couch. It's a minor improvement, but an improvement nonetheless.
spent the last 2 days dumping together every single toy her children own and went through them all one by one. We bagged together roughly 8 trash bags of toys (seriously) to give away in Christmas toy programs. It was like Santa came in reverse.
It's time for pie. "Gimme some pie!"
The tree is up. I had some pumpkin pie, followed by some chocolate cream pie and I'm saving the Marie Callendar Razzleberry pie for after my nap. Now to ask about that nap...
I've been trying to convince Zac that just because the calendar changes to the next month, it doesn't directly affect the weather. So far, I just look like an idiot.
can't say anything nice, so...well, you know.
is trying to turn that frown upside down...and to stop using awful phrases like that one.
is looking for her ear mittens to brave the parade.
may never be warm again.
is ready to board up the house and prepare for winter Jack Torrence style...minus the ax murdering part.
Joseph and at least 2 of the wise men are currently rockin' the pink Little People mini van at our house. I couldn't tell if Jesus and Mary were inside or not. They may still be in the Barbie Jeep.
- Josh just spent the last 10 minutes tracking down a smell he thought was pee, only to discover it was my new peach lipgloss.
- I just explained live TV to Zac and told him it used to be like that all the time. He looked at me in total confusion, as if I were some sort of caveman speaking gibberish.
just watched her son perform as a rapping reindeer. Simultaneously hilarious and precious, I must say.
"Well, I've never been to Heaven, but I've been to Oklahoma..."
is playing with the toys she let her kids open tonight and wondering if either child realizes how hard she had to try not to let them open them all.
- Listen for Taddy Porter singing "Shake Me" this week on Monday Night football!
is so excited to get a new sister-in-law for Christmas.
- don't forget: Taddy Porter's "Shake Me" will be on Monday Night Football tonight :)
- Why am I just now finding out the OKC Blazers no longer exist? No more "...and they still suck!" It's a sad day.
hopes Zac's new snow bibs get here before the snow does...we may have some serious snow sculpting to do this year.
is spending the night on Circle Mountain, watching the snow pour in.
is home, thanks to my parents, who let us steal their car for the night.
just successfully assembled the entire Barbie Pink Playset, including proper exact placement of all 51 decals. - I have also concluded that the Nerf shotgun with auto shell eject may be the coolest toy ever made.
is preparing to put her house back in some sort of order. It looks like Santa's bag of toys exploded in here.
is in the continual conquest of laundry and dishes and is also playing a little Donkey Kong, before moving on to the Play-doh spaghetti factory and burger builder and then settling in with her Reservoir Dogs jigsaw puzzle in front of the fire. - It's a pretty busy schedule.
just heard Taddy Porter on the entire intro to Monday Night Football! Sweet!
- what is with the snow sneak attack? One minute, I'm wondering when it will start snowing, the next, the ground is covered again. I was hoping to construct a large snow hippopotomus, but it doesn't look like I'm going to get enough building material.
- last night I dreamed I was quitting school to live in a cave made of animal skins and a huge alligator snake attacked me as I was leaving the building. Some woman there kept telling me just to walk it off.
is SO excited about the new camera she just got to go with her new Kodak printer. The kids have no idea what they're in for tomorrow...

Blizzard '09

We got a white Christmas all right. A literal blizzard. We spent Christmas Eve at my parents' house and finally borrowed their car to crawl home Christmas night.
I figure I should document my brothers' band before they achieve stardom and glamour and I forget their climb to fame. :) After every bar, pub and nightclub from Stillwater to one side of the U.S. and back again, Taddy Porter is rising to the top. Radio, TV, a tour with Saving Abel. Record deal, video shoots, the whole shebang. They were on Monday Night Football for the second week in a row tonight and they're doing a private party for New Year's Eve in Times Square in New York. I couldn't possibly be more proud if I tried. Man, I love those guys.

Presents Vacation

The wedding was wonderful. I had a woman tell me afterward "Kasey was so beautiful and it was so cute when she sat down in front of the bridesmaids and put her flower basket on her head." *Sigh.* At least she was quiet. Zac taught everyone on the dance floor the dances he had done for his school program, along with some great breakdancing moves.
Yesterday was the first official day of Christmas break (or "presents break" as Kasey called it. That's probably really accurate, unfortunately.) The kids and I built a gingerbread house (well, Zac and I built it, while Kasey ate half of the candy meant for it) and it lasted long enough for a picture before it collapsed. Zac asked what happened and I told him a little gingerbread tornado came through and leveled the house. He didn't think my joke was even a tiny bit funny. Then, Kasey flushed about half a roll of toilet paper down the toilet, clogging the toilet. I looked for the plunger and realized the one I had thought was an extra (and had used as part of some zombie framework for Halloween) was our only plunger, so I had to take apart a skeleton to get to it. Meanwhile, I had forgotten that you have to jiggle the toilet handle to get it to stop running, so water was pouring from the toilet the entire time I was in the garage. I walked into ankle deep water that extended out into the hallway on both sides. So, all in a day's work, I guess. We're expected rain that leads to snow beginning tomorrow, so we could end up with a white Christmas this year. I'm pretty excited.

Nervous Breakdown

Oh dear goodness, where to begin?...I went to Kasey's Christmas party today and had a great time helping out. I called the school to find out when Zac's party was and they told me 1:00, so I hurried to get there, only to find out the Pre-K party was at 1:00 and his was yesterday. Mom FAIL. So, I stood there awkwardly in a classroom full of children that were not having a party for a few minutes and then signed Zac out and took him home for no reason at all. I had a killer headache from still not having any lunch at this point and both kids began their barrage of "he's touching me she's got my toy can we have mac and cheese can we open a present I don't want to do that can you tie this can you help me find my mask." You know, the usual. Josh came home with Matt's car because he took it to clean it as a favor for Matt and Jenny, to give them one less thing to do for the wedding tomorrow. When he rolled the window down, the entire window came completely out, so he spent quite a while in front of the house trying to get it back in place. He came inside to tell me he fixed it and we both looked out the door at the fixed window, and watched as our neighbor backed out of her driveway...and into the front of Matt's car. The rehearsal dinner is in a couple of hours and I'm hoping the day doesn't get too much more exciting.

Enjoyment

I saw 2 older women shopping together today and one held up a pair of men's boxers to ask the other if "he" would like them for Christmas. The woman said "Yes, I think he'll really enjoy them." Really? Enjoy? I don't think I've ever liked a pair of underwear enough to claim I enjoy them.
My son was a rapping reindeer last night in his school Christmas concert. He was too adorable for words. I managed not to cry (I usually cry at every kids' program, regardless of whether my kids are in it or not) but I did get a little teary-eyed when I realized Kasey's going to be up there singing next year. Or growling. Or chewing on her dress, like the little girl in the front row was doing. I'm about to become a wrapping reindeer myself. I'm finally done Christmas shopping. I don't get stressed about the shopping part because I LOVE buying things for other people; I just hate that I don't have the money to do it properly. I would love to give crazy presents, like paying a family's bills for the month or something unexpected of that nature. Hopefully, Dave Ramsey will whip us into shape where someday that could be possible.

New & Improved

I've been implementing my New Year's resolution early and, though it's already driving me crazy, so far, so good. I'm trying to budget my time better and change some of my habits, so I can get more done than just racking up high scores in Mafia Wars and Farmville (though I have time allotted for those as well.)
Kasey and I are watching the Grinch (one of my all-time favorite movies - I quote it on a daily basis) and she's trying to talk me into baking chocolate chip cookies. She just came out of the kitchen with chocolate all over her face, from the handful of chocolate chips she already managed to sneak out.

Courtesy

Attention morons: when you wave someone through a stop sign, you aren't extending a courtesy; you're breaking a traffic law and impeding the flow of traffic. STOP DOING IT. IT PISSES ME OFF.
Tonight began the first night of our "12 days of Christmas" and it went really well. A couple of years ago, we decided we hated the idea of the kids opening a pile of presents Christmas morning and then abandoning them to be dragged all over town to several houses and gaining more presents along the way, so we came up with a plan. We save their big present, along with 2 or 3 small ones for Christmas morning and the rest, we spread out over the 12 days prior to Christmas so they actually enjoy playing with them. Some days we only do Christmas activities, like baking cookies or making ornaments or driving around looking at lights and other nights, they get a small present to open. Tonight, the kids each opened a book and we read them and they really had a really good time.
I put together a 300 piece jigsaw puzzle tonight and reminded myself why I have a love/hate relationship with puzzles. I start out thinking it will be fun, but my OCD tendency drives me to keep going until I'm finished and my back can't take it.

Dave's Here

I'm enjoying a glass of white zinfandel, which pairs nicely with the bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch I'm eating. (I'm a big fan of the Zin, though I think Sangria would win in a fight.) I just noticed the bag of rawhides I opened for McCarty says "Not for human consumption" on it, as though I might have been tempted to start gnawing away. I'm hoping the warning is just a company covering their bases...
We have a week left of Dave Ramsey. I know it's helping me a great deal, but it's so frustrating. I feel like he's talking to people that are like "Oh, SAVE the money, I've just been throwing it down the garbage disposal each month. Thanks, Dave!" I'm very thankful for the advice and it is really going to help in the long run; I just need to keep looking on down the road instead of down at my feet.
The kids have a week left of school before they come home to drive me insane and try to kill one another. I've already written out a list of activites to do that we'll probably abandon within the first couple of hours of Christmas Break. I also refuse to call it Winter Break. I don't understand why the school systems in America are (and I love this phrase) bothered by us "trying to make Christmas a religious holiday." It's CHRISTmas - Jesus' birthday. It's a religious holiday, just like Hanukkah is a religious holiday. Deal with it or quit celebrating it as something else. I don't understand why my kids have to write letters to a fictional character (Santa) at school without my consent, but God and Jesus are such issues. Anyway, that's my soapbox rant of the day.
I made my own lotion/oil/moisturizer for winter and I'm pretty excited about it. Almost as excited as I was about making my own laundry detergent. I smell fantastic.

Frosty

The hills are alive with the sound of...arthritis. Dear Winter, suck it. Sincerely, my left knee.
It's Friday (yipee!) I just subjected my children to an evening with Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka style, as Josh is out with Matt for his bachelor party (Matt's, not Josh's.) I decided Willy Wonka may be just as brilliantly written and performed as Mary Poppins, if not more. I love and treasure them both. I'm also kicking myself for not winterizing our medicine cabinet, as I debated doing on Tuesday, because now a virus of the sneezy/sore throat variety is descending upon our entire household. I'm drowning my sorrows in tea and homeade chocolate chip cookies. I may advance to hot and sour soup tomorrow - it's my fail-safe cure for anything. Now I just have to fight against falling asleep, as this Benadryl causes my pillow to whisper sweet nothings in my ear. Zac came home from school today and told me that he's building me my own museum when he gets older. The boy knows me all too well. I was actually bummed because I'm missing the overnight CSI exhibit at the Oklahoma Science Museum tonight. I'm such a nerd. Kasey's teachers asked if we were getting a puppy for Christmas because evidently it's all she wants and she doesn't have one. I told them our dog sleeps with her in her bed at night and they both laughed hysterically. Oh, that girl. I'm missing my brothers' concert tonight in Tulsa; I wish I could have been there. At least I'll get to see them again soon.

Top 5 Kids

I just did a number of things I hate doing (laundry, changing the sheets, yoga, etc.) My zillion dollar vaccuum isn't working. - It doesn't suck (oh, the irony) and I'm getting ready to go back to the evil Empire to make some returns. I thought I'd take a few minutes to do some more Top 5's.

Top 5 things my children inherited from me:

Zac

1. asthma and allergies (boo!)

2. imagination and love of all things fantasy

3. storytelling

4. extreme empathy

5. night owl tendencies

I have to add that sprinkling of freckles across his nose as a runner-up

Kasey

1. crazy, wildly uncooperative hair

2. bossiness

3. wit

4. love of books

5. extreme independence


Top 5 Things the kids have inherited from Josh

Zac

1. cowlicks

2. charm

3. dislike for vegetables, ketchup, mustard and anything mildly healthy

4. social ability

5. fingernails and toenails

Kasey

1. temper

2. love of food

3. mouth and chin

4. love of animals

5. desire to instigate others

I love, love, love seeing the combination of Josh and me in all their various traits. I also love watching their own tendencies and characteristics that make them unique develop in each of them more and more every day.

Profanely Cold

It is ridiculously cold outside; the kind of cold that causes you to make up new profanity when you step out into it. Public Enemies was just as good as I wanted it to be, though Hollywood added their own touch, as I expected. There's just something about fedoras and tommy guns and old V8s that I can't get enough of. It's Wednesday, which means the kids are both at school and the house is gloriously quiet...and messy. I've decided to do my own High Fidelity Top 5's, so I thought I'd start with my Top 5 Christmas Confessions:

1. If you ever wonder why It's a Wonderful Life is on a million times each year, it's for me - I watch it and I love it more every time

2. I sing along with Santa Baby and I secretly love Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You

3. I hate the old "lounge singer" renditions of Christmas carols (not that I don't appreciate the Rat Pack)

4. I love the idea of being snowed in for months at a time and I really enjoy it when we get stuck inside for days

5. I love making snow sculptures almost as much as sand sculptures and I can't wait to make something new this year

Jump for joy, it's great exercise

Jump for joy, it's great exercise. My sour cream lid told me that today. I also saw a shirt for sale that said "Can you trust the government? Sure, just ask an Indian." Wow. I wonder how many people are unwrapping that gem on Christmas morning.
So, here I am, doing my Doogie Howser nightly summation. I think Doogie should be credited as the world's first blogger. I spent most of the day pacing the Deathstar, aka Wal-Mart. I discovered that chocolate chips now come in a mint and dark chocolate mix and considered the trip to the Empire well worth the effort. I gave Kasey a haircut and she looks so cute and grown up and extra sassy. Now, for my date with John Dillinger...

Golden Oldies

I went down to the ghetto, you know, MySpace, to see if there were any old blog entries worth salvaging for this. (Did I really post 20 entries there?) I found a few I thought I'd re-post it just for fun, including the first blog entry I ever wrote. I love seeing how far my kids have come.

Thursday, December 20, 2007
First real blog Current mood: blah Category: Life
Okay B, reading your blog has motivated me to actually blog for real, rather than the postings I usually do in the "blog area." I figure in between the diaper changes and spit-up and the general chaos of my day, I could use some room for a little venting and/or some grown up conversation anyway. Those of you who know me best will realize this will either be really good for me and/or a bad thing for everyone else. :) Unfortunately, I'll have to hold back a lot because I'll inevitably end up offending someone or just getting myself into trouble (which I'm pretty good at anyway.)
I woke up with pinkeye this morning, so I automatically feel like I'm 2 years old again. I'm hoping it doesn't throw off my timing on Dance Dance Revolution. I must win at all costs. Josh's scores are getting too close for comfort.
My son is officially on Christmas vacation now, so the kids and I are in this together until after the new year. I figure a good mix of movies, crafts and video games will keep us sane, but I have a feeling I'll get tired of Star Wars after a week or so. Maybe. Thank God I got my new ipod earbuds. Earplugs with music: what a fantastic idea. Even the old crap I listen to sounds good on them.
So far, the highlight of my morning was Kasey waking up and taking off her pants and her diaper as usual, but not wetting the bed, so I didn't have to change her sheets. (I'll probably do that at naptime when she completes that cycle.) The baby is going home early today and he'll be gone tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to starting my weekend early.
I've been debating my New Year's resolutions for the past few days and I've decided to attempt to stick to a new budgeting/saving system Josh and I have devised and I've got to start writing again. After I finished my little novella last year, I pretty much quit completely - I don't count my random, rambling emails as real writing (though I'm sure there's probably more than enough material for a really messed up book) nor this for that matter - and I really miss it.
Now that everyone is asleep...congratulations if you've made it this far through the monotony of my mundane daily life; I should probably go and clean something...or someone. Hopefully this will get more interesting.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Christmas Current mood: silly
For those of you I left in total suspense in my last blog, yes, Kasey did in fact take off her pants and diaper and wet her bed after her nap, thus forcing me to change her sheets as usual. I'm sorry to have kept you all hanging for so long on that one. Whew.
Well, we survived Christmas yet again. It's still so strange to be on the adult side of things now. I had this idyllic image of Christmas morning, where my kids ran to their toys and squealed excitedly and then turned and thanked me with hugs and smiles. Christmas morning came. Zac stumbled into the living room with one eye half open and proceeded to play with Kasey's new dollhouse. We asked him what the toy was beside it (his Christmas present) and got a slight shrug and an unenthused "Star Wars stuff" in response (this being the same child who jumped up and down and ran laps around the room when we gave him a Qui-Gon Jin action figure.) Kasey slept for another hour and a half, until we had to actually wake her up. She wandered into the living room, where she carried out a Godzilla-like attack on Jedi and Sith alike. "The death toll was catastrophic" bodies were flung everywhere and Zac had a sudden newfound interest in his Star Wars playset and tackled Godzilla, who had already moved on to her dollhouse dismantling phase. Much screaming and wrestling ensued and eventually, a truce was reached.

Cheesy Timeline Current mood: hopeful Category: Life
Friday, January 11, 2008 – a cheesy timeline to document the minutia of my day

8:50 – woke beside a giant mountain of laundry where Josh usually sleeps (either
he was looking for something specific or he was trying to give me a less than
subtle hint)

9:00 – half pretended to have been awake for more than 10 minutes when Josh
came home to give me the car, which I didn't need since Zac woke up sick
anyway

9:20 – called Zac in sick and heard the sound of my fate being sealed for the day (it
sounds a lot like lightsaber noises)

9:25 – stepped on a headless senator Palpatine

9:30 – gave the kids breakfast

9:35 – put Zac aka Luke Skywalker's belt and robe on

9:37 – put in Star Wars: A New Hope, with full knowledge that Zac would pause it
approximately every five minutes to do something else, gazed longingly at
the CSI DVD sitting on top of the TV and sighed, knowing it will have to wait
until the kids go to bed

9:40 – changed Zac's clothes after he spilled juice (unknown to him, laced with
medicine) all over his shirt

9:45 – worked on converting our Monopoly games to work with electronic Monopoly,
got a little too excited about finally being able to play my homemade Harry
Potter version

9:50 – realized what a dork I am for making my own Harry Potter version

9:52 – wondered what Hasbro/Parker Brothers would do to someone for using their
copyrighted game format

9:54 – wondered how a game format could be copyrighted

9:56 – debated the difference between a copyright and a trademark

10:00 – looked in the refrigerator, then in the pantry, then back in the refrigerator
and then stood there for quite a while, ate disgusting leftover frozen pizza

10:30 – mastered my i-dog

10:32 – thought of possible names for my i-dog, settled on I-MAX

10:33 - realized I'm an adult who owns an i-dog

10:35 – listened to a little Jesus Christ Superstar and thought about putting the
DVD in

10:37 – wondered why Jesus looks like he belongs in a GAP commercial in the
new version of Jesus Christ Superstar "cargo pockets for the King" (I knew
it would be atrocious as soon as I saw the disciples with machine guns -
it's great)

10:40 – rearranged the living room furniture

10:50 – stopped Kasey from feeding magnetic alphabet letters to the dog

10:52- wondered how the dog could be dumb enough to attempt to eat magnetic
alphabet letters

10:55 – reprimanded the dog for being such an idiot

11:00 – talked to Josh about his morning (which was somehow less exciting than
mine)

11:30 – cleared the table and made lunch for the kids

11:45 – came close to having 12 separate heart attacks when Kasey pushed off
from the table with her feet, nearly knocking over her chair 12 times, told
her to sit up approximately 19 times

12:00 – cleared the table yet again and scrubbed jelly off of Kasey

12:30 – put Kasey down for a nap after Zac talked her out of half the toys she
wanted to take with her, which he abandoned within minutes

12:40 – asked Zac to be a little quieter with his lightsaber and blaster gun noises for
about the 63rd time

12:45 – put Zac now aka Obi-Wan Kenobi's belt and robe back on again

1:00 – got out Play-doh and made Zac a Jabba the Hutt, which he used to "eat"
Star Wars Monopoly pieces

1:20 – remembered it was Friday and had a momentary second of "yea!"

1:30 – pulled Star Wars Monopoly pieces out of Jabba the Hutt and helped Zac
clean up his Play-Doh

1:35 – checked my email, looked up what DANton-ten-six means (it's in the first
Madeline book, I'm guessing it's like 911 in France back in the day, but all I
get is a reference back to Madeline)

1:37 – wondered how a book with such a horrid rhyme scheme could win a
Caldecott award and be so loved and honored for so many years and how I
could possibly have liked Madeline so much as a kid
"And soon after Dr Cohn
came, he rushed out to the phone" (seriously)

1:40 – thought about writing a children's book and/or eating a sandwich

1:42 – ate a sandwich

2:00 – did some laundry

2:30 – gave Kasey a bath and changed her sheets, which had an extra surprise
besides just being wet today (am I the lucky one or what?)

2:50 – gave the kids a snack

3:00 – did more laundry

3:10 – changed my mind about the arrangement of the furniture and rearranged it all
again

3:30 – started dinner

4:00 – gave Zac more juice laced with medicine, gave Kasey her own juice after she
about had a conniption over Zac's

4:30 – read books to the kids, including Madeline, which my kids also love

5:00 – cleaned the living room a little

5:20 – finished dinner

5:30 – had a fairly uneventful dinner, knew Zac was really sick when he ate green
beans without putting up a fight

5:45 – watched Annie, relative peace and quiet for at least the first 10 minutes, with
the exception of discussing similarities between Annie and Madeline,
realized the moral to Annie is "money can buy you anything, including
parents, the truth and even the help of the President of the United States"

7:15 – put pajamas on the kids

7:30 – read more books, including Madeline yet again

7:45 – put Kasey to bed

8:00 – put Zac now aka Anakin Skywalker to bed

8:10 – finally got to watch CSI, watched all 4 episodes and stayed up too late
12:34 - shoved all the laundry on the bed back into the basket to put up tomorrow

I hope you enjoyed this trip down memory lane as much as I did.

The Beginning

Hooray! I finally have an outlet for all my random thoughts, quotes and daily whatnot. None of that Twitter letter counting nonsense. So,"Welcome to my underground lair..." I make no apology for the contents of this blog.
I once had an art professor who claimed art is anything that brings out an emotion in you, even if you don't like that emotion - I'd like this to be art. So, without further ado...

It's Pearl Harbor Day 2009. An Asian woman cut my hair this afternoon. Odd. She smelled like beef jerkey and sour green apple gum. It's the first time in a long time that I haven't just grabbed a pair of scissors and hacked away in front of the mirror. Just before that, I had lunch with a rock star who also happens to be my brother. I really miss those guys. My grandpa told me he was 11 years old the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Interesting.
It's freezing. No, really, it's actually freezing outside; we're under a winter weather advisery. I'm sitting in front of the fire, drinking English Breakfast Tea and debating survival tactics for the end of the world with my husband, while we wait to watch part 2 of Alice on SyFy. Joseph and the wise men have finished their joy ride in the Little People mini van and have been returned to the stable with Mary and baby Jesus. McCarty (the dog) is sitting as close as she possibly can to me without actually sitting on me. I'd push her off the couch, but she's really warm. Christmas shopping tomorrow.