What a week!

It was my last week at work.  My emotions have been like a roller coaster.  Brion has been staying up late working on my office.  So I have been staying up too for moral support.  Its freaking killing me.  I'm seriously married to superman.  I didnt even realize that it had been almost a week since my last post until I got an email from someone about it.    I'm pretty spent, but I did want share something with you 1st.

Remember a few posts ago, when I mentioned an old show "Salute your shorts"?  If not, you can check it out here

Anyways, ever since at least once a day I catch myself singing the damn theme song.   Here watch it so I'm not the only one walking around singing a theme song from a tween show from 1991.

Enjoy!!

Success according to me

Since my last blog was all about how much of a failure I am, I thought I'd post something to the contrary.   A successful weekend according to me.

Step 1.   Start you Saturday morning right, by getting dressed.  Try to look as put together as possible, that will help you get up and moving.

This might be my new work uniform.  Note the strategically placed arms.

Brion hates these socks more than anything.

 

Step 2.  Have breakfast and enjoy some intellectual  conversation.

Step 3.  Clean the house while forcing your kids to listen to "cool" music.

such a proud mama, Boogie knows most of the words to this one.

Step 4.  While at a baby shower make sure your nose is "all clear" and by accident take a dead sexy picture of yourself

wowza

Step 5.  Enjoy some quiet time watching the rain

oh, by quiet I mean with 3 screaming kids marching in the rain, with a grandma as ring leader.

Step 6.  Enjoy a healthy/well balanced dinner

Healthy=double bacon cheesebuger w/green pepper and jalapenos, Cajun fries, and a DIET coke

Step 7.   Good old fashioned naked baby time

Step 8.  Healthy Breakfast to start your Sunday morning

left over tacos from dinner 2 days ago at 9am

Step 9.  Beastie Boys

"fight for your right, to parteeeee"

Step 10.  Have 2 awesome kids and watch one teach the other

and no you can't have mine

Well here it is 4:45 on Sunday and I'm getting ready to make dinner and am in a great mood.  If you follow these 10 steps, you can have a pretty kick ass (according to me) weekend too.

FAIL!

Well I guess the subject of this blog post kind of gives away the ending to my experiment.  

So I thought I had a fun idea for a blog.  Too bad I fell asleep.  LAME.  I'm not sure what happened.  I got halfway through my 2nd glass and fell asleep.  I should lie and tell you I got so hammered last night that I blacked out or something.  But we all know I'm not that cool.  

I've been "failing" a lot lately.  I think I'm just exhausted.  Brion and I average about 4.5 hours of sleep a night.  I  think its finally catching up to me.  I had a parenting fail yesterday.  Shelby Lynn and I were getting ready to go pick up Boogie from school.  Her hair was a freaking mess.  I mean she couldn't see out of her eyes.  She looked like a sheep dog.  So instead of chasing her all over the house I decided I would fix her hair while she sat in her carseat, that way she couldn't run away from me.  So, I put her in the car, started to fix her hair and realized I forgot my phone inside.  I ran in, came out and we left.  Halfway to school, she started asking me for a dance party.(that means she wants me to blare the radio and sing and dance with her)  when I looked back to watch her dance I noticed she wasnt buckled in her seat at all.  She was just sitting here flopping around and dancing.  How she didnt fall out of her seat, I have no idea.  

Anyways, I guess lack of sleep= Fails.  What have you "failed" at recently?

a little experiment

Its 10:38 on a Friday night.  Both kids are in bed(boogie is still in there moving around though) and Brion is down working on my new office.  Have I mentioned lately how he is seriously the best freaking person I know.  Dont get me wrong, he has his moments.  He totally pissed me off earlier and I was doing my best to give him the silent treatment(i'm mature, I know).  But anyways,  this man worked all day, then went to his side job of cutting grass, then home to eat and play with the kids, and now he is down working his booty off on my office.  The BEST.  

Anyways this blog has nothing really to do with him.  What I was getting to was that I'm sitting here in the living room all alone.  My DVR is for the most part caught up and Facebook and Pintrest have got nothing for me.  I'm Bored.  I guess I could do a few loads of laundry or clean my disaster of a room.   Since I have NOTHING to do and out of boredom have come up with a silly stupid little experiment.  Since I've already opened a bottle of wine, and I'm sure I'll have quite a few glasses, I'm going to try to drunk blog later.  I find myself holding back a lot on here.  I either am afraid family/friends/coworkers will read something and it will cause an awkward moment, or I'll offend or hurt someones feelings.  Well drunk me, hardly gives a shit.  So lets see how this goes.  I've had a few ideas for blogs that could potenially fall into those catorgories, so after I'm done drinking, I'll log back on here and see what happens.


LAME, I know.  But thats all I've got for you and that is what this Friday night has become.  If you got a better idea, let me know.

Here we go...

I needed a laugh this morning

Dude, I am moving slow today.  I needed something to get me going this morning.  This skit is one of my all time favorites and cracks my ass up EVERY single time.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.  Bonus- Its actually not of my kids for once!



http://www.hulu.com/watch/10234

Sorry, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to avoid you having to follow the link.  I couldn't post the video like I usually do.

Braless and pantless

Yep, you read that correctly.  Braless and pantless is going to be my new work uniform!  WOOT WOOT!  I gots me a new job!  Hence all the vague mentions of big girl decisions.   Yesterday I accepted a work from home position with a rental car company.  I will be taking reservations over the phone.  Its a bit of a paycut but the pros FAR out weigh the cons.  I start sept 4.  Super pumped! 

burning pants

burning bra

Brion is building me an office in the basement.  I can't wait to decorate.  I'm sure I'll blog more details, updates and pics.  

I may need to sell off my work clothes.  Hmmmm then I could use the money to buy more hoodies.  Another bonus!  

Hello lover...

No, not you.  Not my husband.  This little lady below.

Yup.  That's how I roll.  $5.49 bottle of wine with 3 ice cubes.  Just what the doctor ordered.  Today was one of those days whenyou just need a bottle  glass of wine:)  


I've had to put my big girl panties on lately and make some real decisions.  Being a grown up is hard.  Me no likey.  Don't you ever just want go back in time when your biggest decision of the day was, " Do I watch Full House, Save By The Bell, or Salute Your Shorts.  

Oh yeah, I just went there.

Anyways, wouldn't that be just so great.  I'd have to give up Booze though.  And that wouldn't be cool.   But as I watched the kiddos tonight, I longed for those days.  Just look at them.  They did this all on their own.  While Boogie searched for a movie on On Demand, Shelby Lynn plopped into an empty laundry basket.    Can I just say how proud I am that there was an EMPTY  laundry basket sitting there.  Actually there were 2.  That never happens.  Its usually full of socks I dont feel like pairing and towels.  Boogie got the 2 of them snacks and plopped in too.  

   Too bad they won't appreciate it until they are old and complainy like me.    

Wow, where did the week go?

It feels like I just posted a blog yesterday. I can't beleive it has been over a week.  Life has been crazy around here, as usual.  Boogie started kindergarten!!!!  I can't freaking beleive it.  We've all transitioned quite well.  He loves it and I didnt cry!



1st day of school(2 hours)

1st FULL day of school



Kindergarten is hard work!

Friday was my day off, and with Boogie in school all day it was just me and Shelby Lynn.  I don't know when the last time the 2 of us spent the whole day together.  It was nice.  Makes me look forward to spending time more and more with her just the 2 of us as she gets older. (but I am NOT rushing that)

Hope everyone had a great week and weeknd.  We did.  Gots TONS done and still managed to have a great time. I'm going to try to make sure I give myself more time to blog during the week.  Any requests???

picnic lunch in the club house

*****I have no idea what happened to my post.  I hit publish and how the pictures are all wonky and blurry. The more I try to edit them, the weirder the post gets.  Sorry.*****

Suzanne Sommers I am NOT

So I don't know how many of you read my post regularly or follow me(hint hint), but a while back ago I had this big plan to do a "non" workout which involved using a Thigh Master at my desk while at work.  Here's the link to that blog post.

http://thegoodthebadandthetmi.blogspot.com/2012/04/just-call-me-suzanne-sommers.html

Anyways, I thought I would update you all,because I'm sure you've all just been DYING to know :)

I think the below picture pretty much sums it up for you.

Its been sitting there since about 5 days after my original post.  I actually had to pull it out a bit from under the desk.  Its all dusty too.  Oh and see that white thing next to it.  Thats a piece from a salt and vinegar Pringle.  I must have dropped it while shoveling down the ENTIRE container of them for lunch the other day.

FAIL!

4 silly monkeys

Once upon a time 4 silly monkeys were sitting on a porch.  They were waiting for momma/aunt monkey to drive away to work.  Boogie monkey yelled out "play me some Hendrix".  And well, see for yourself.

I have no idea what the point of this post is.  I promise, I'm not high. I took this a few weeks ago from my car after dropping the kiddos off before work. Its was cute and I wanted to share.


Also this happens EVERY morning when I drop my kids off and EVERY night when I get home.  The niece and nephew were just an added bonus this particualr morning.  

Ooh wait, I just remembered. I recorded them this morning.  

Enjoy!

Half naked in the kitchen

No not me!  Urgh,  I wouldnt do that to you guys.  I'm trying to gain readers no scare you all away.  I was talking about Boogie.  This kid is half naked ALL of the time.  He was in the kitchen playing Headbands with me while I was cooking dinner.  Its called multitasking people.  You know, cooking dinner, emptying the dishwasher, playing board games with your 5 year old, playing oven defense with the younger monkey, oh and looking dead freaking sexy in a high school football t-shirt(braless) and running shorts( that have never been worn running, and never will). 

I remember when multitasking consisted of me driving my car, singing along to the radio, smoking a cig, drinking a Mountain Dew, talking on the cell, all while trying to look cool.  Oh how times have changed :)

Losing my shit

I hate to admit, that I did that quite a few times yesterday.  The kids were driving me NUTS!  Shelby Lynn was super needy and whiny.  Boogie didn't sit still the whole day.  Plus he was definitely trying to push my buttons.  If you are a mother, you've been there.  I just kept finding myself screaming the same things I remember my mom screaming when I was little.  At one point Brion and I just looked at each other and started laughing because we felt like we were losing our minds.  It was so bad. I even grabbed Boogies ears (not hard) and yelled "what are these for????"  He of course said listening.  I then screamed "THEN USE THEM!!!"  By far not my best parenting moment, but it wasn't the first and it wont be the last.  Parenting is not pretty or for sissies. 


Every thing is all good now.  In fact we had overall a good weekend.  Boogie and Shelby Lynn cheered me up when they insisted on wearing the below hats to Walmart.

Luigi and Plex

I can't believe a week from tomorrow, I will be taking my little Boogie to Kindergarten.  I cant even think about it without tearing up.  He may have drove me crazy this weekend but he is really the best.  At least once a day he has to have a "dance party"  which usually involves him stripping down to this underwear.  Now when Shelby Lynn hears music she tries to take her shirt off.  She did that tonight while we were out getting ice cream.    I've also noticed that Boogie has this particular laugh that is reserved for farts. Whenever he farts or hears one, the biggest funniest roar follows.  Shelby Lynn has pretty much decided she is ready to be potty trained.  Two times today she said I poop, then after being set on the toilet, she did! She wont be 2 until November!  Boogie was almost 4 before that happened.  Oh, and she loves pb&j's.  She calls them "and Jellys"  I guess she cant say peanut butter.  Its seriously the cutest thing.  I want to keep making them for her just to hear her ask for her "and jelly".   


I wish when I'm having my freak the eff out moments, I could remember all the cute things.  Maybe then I would have such a stressful time.  They're good kids, and I think we have it easier than most in the parent department, but sometimes you just lose your shit, and thats ok.

DANCE PARTY!!!

Or at least thats what Boogie was having at about 11 last night.  I guess we do call him " Boogie".  Anyways,  I had both kids in bed by 8:45 last night.  That NEVER happens.  I get home so late in the evenings, by the time we do dinner, baths, and squeeze in a little quality time, its after 9.  But last night was different.  I let Boogie play Draw Something on his phone until 9:15.  No he doesn't have a real phone.  He as my old one, and we let him play games on it. 

After I took the phone at 9:15, I gave him some books and really didnt hear much out of him past 9:45.  That was until about 11:00 or so.  I heard him yell for me and when I went into his room, this is what I saw.  I quickly ran and got my phone to record.  

You'll have to turn up you speakers.  The music is pretty quiet.  Its "Kiss" by Prince.

This is not the 1st time this kid has done this.  He does it nearly every night.  I usually tell him to get back in bed, but this time it really tickled me.  

A note to Fred

Hey blog buddy,


I miss you.  I miss our discussions about our blogs and how to expand them and how much fun they were to do.  I miss your blog.  Yesterday was your birthday.  As promised, I smoked a big fat cigar in your honor.  Brion and I waited until the kids went to bed and sat out on the front porch.  


We sat out there for quite a while and talked.   There are so many things you were still supposed to do.  Even though we went to school together it wasnt until recently did we become friends.(even if it was mainly emailing)  Its just not fair that I didnt' get to know you better!


You were such a positive person, and getting to know you better has been such a blessing.  I want you to know that you touched and inspired so many people.  It would have been your  30th birthday.  Ya know, I'm going to be 30 in November.  I dont want to have any regrets.  What  you've taught me is that life is too short.  If I want to do something, I'm going to do it.  If I want to tell someone something, I'm going to say it.  I'm going to cherish my family and my friends more and more.  You were a great guy(but you already knew that), and lots of us miss you!  






If you aren't familiar with Fred, check out my previous blogs about him.  The 2nd one is a link to his blog.  We could all learn a thing from him.  So positive, such a great attitude!  :)




http://thegoodthebadandthetmi.blogspot.com/2012/06/sad.html

http://thegoodthebadandthetmi.blogspot.com/2012/03/somebody-more-interesting-than-me.html