Yoders and Vegas

Russ and I are watching "The Sing Off" .... of course 2 weeks lake. On one team, a lot of them look like famous people! One guy looked familiar but I couldn't get the name. I ask russ ... "who does that look like?" He says "ole boy from Red HOT chili peppers." I said .... "yeahhhhh .... your right! But what is his name?" Russ says " Ole boy." I love my husband LOL

The date is December 6th. Russ and I put Gabriel to take a nap and told the boys we would be back soon. We wanted to get the Christmas Tree. A quick trip to Lowes and we'll be right back. Negative. We hit up Lowes and look thru all the skinny trees. Russ pulled a few out and banged the stump on the ground, in an attempt to get each tree to fluff out a bit. It wasn't working for me. I tried it a few times too, the trees are a lot heavier then I thought. After about 20 minutes of looking we decided that maybe we should support out local farmers and try the place up on Rosemont near the church. Well, it was muddy and cold. We looked thru trees that ranged from $65 to $150. WhOa. I'm all for supporting our local farmers but isn't there supposed to be a better deal when you go local? Then to make matters worse ... Ken and Barbie showed up with their perfect three children in a nice black Escalade. Their kids started running around the lot and the dad was calling ...

Ok, so I skipped a few days on the total gym. Punishment is a MOTHER!!! I really kicked butt yesterday on the Total Gym and my back feels like the hulk is trying to rip thru it. My shoulders feel like they are floating in glass shards. My biceps feel like I am harvesting an alien. My torso feels like thousands of little bugs are eating away at it .... I'm going to skip what my "twins" feel like ... milk anyone????? OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWww .... this morning I went to pick up my lovely two year old (who is over 30lbs) out of bed. I put my arms around him in a loving motherly embrace. I gave him a big kiss and whispered "Good Morning." ... and he looked up at me with those TRUSTING and LOVING eyes and smiled at me. I stood up and as I began to lift my child ... something happened. Every muscle in my upper body screamed at me so loud that I thought I was going deaf! I had to quickly and as gently as I could place him back on his bed. I then told him ..."O...

So I started doing this Weight Watchers thing at work. We started the week before Thanksgiving. UGH ... The Tuesday on the week of Thanksgiving I lost a total of 4.4lbs. Woo hoo for me. That leaves me at 205.6. I think. I started out at 210. UGh So now I am trying to do a little more than just watching what I eat. Russ and I acquired the Total Gym from my mom a little while ago. You've seen that on TV ... it is the one with Chuck Norris. Day 1 - Upper Body - It seemed easy enough. The only reason why I even got on the damn thing was because D'Angels father had pissed me off. I needed to get my frustrations out some way. Day 2 - Lower Body - When I woke up ... I thought my arms were going to fall off of my body. I'm doing these with Russ. He is on the intermediate program and I am on the beginner. This was Thanksgiving Day. I ate so much that it was crazy that night so I have to make up for it today. Day 3 - Today - Upper Body again - HOLY HELL ... I feel like m...

So ... at what point do you realize your addicted to something? Isn't there a moment that you have to admit that you have an addiction? I thought I had an addiction that I needed therapy for LOL ... but what if you don't want help? Just hear me out ... I've been introduced to Twilight. I know I know ... it's a big deal to some and to everyone else they don't understand it. Well, I was one of those people who just didn't understand it. Until I forced myself to watch it with my Husband's ex wife and my very close friend Brandy. We went and I don't even remember the ride back home. I was in la la land. All I could do was think about the movie over and over again. I saw the movie again several times before it came out on DVD. I even went as far as to stand in line at Barnes and Noble at Macarthur Mall to be one of the first ones to buy the DVD!!!! WHAT THE HELL? Who does stuff like that? Well I do ... So here is where I stand. I just bought tickets...

So Thursday June 25, 2009 I had surgery to remove my Gallbladder. It was also the same day that Michael Jackson died. I was super medicated that day so I wasn’t totally aware of the situation during that Thursday or Friday. The days passed and I see all of these MJ tributes and videos … his music has been all over the radio. It’s just another person who died, right? I mean, I never saw him in concert or anything. Never really had anything of his other than a CD and my dad’s old vinyl. I’ve been going about my business just like a regular working person. Another celebrity died. We’ll remember him for a while … I guess. No big deal. I didn’t realize how much of an impact a man whom I’ve never met had on my life and my memories. I did record the VH1, MTV & BET shows that showcased and highlighted his music videos and career from the Jackson 5 to current. I went to iTunes and out of the top 10 most downloaded songs on iTunes … 4 of them are of M. Jackson. Wow … So I download so...

It't the 4th of July! Yay, a day to celebrate our freedom ... a day to say I AM AN AMERICAN AND PROUD OF IT. A day that we declared our freedom!!! We are free and we will fight to stay that way! AMEN!! Then ... have you ever had too many people doing too many things on the 4th of July? We rarely have too many things to do or places to see or people to visit on the 4th, but we've always managed to do something with someone. Can I say that I hate to fight to see the fireworks? OMG ... it is redunkulious! Is that even a word? It is now. Holy cow ... to sit in traffic for hours and hours, then to fight to get parking, then to sit for hours just until the fireworks start. Then to have to sit in the heat until it was time for the show to start. Ugh ... what if you have to go potty? I am not a super huge fan of the port-a-potty. I go and hover like there is no tomorrow. For some reason I feel like the icky stuff on the seat is jumping off of it to stick to my backside. ... m...

it's monday ... Russ is gone for the week ... it's gloomy outside ... Gabriel has the sniffles ... I can't have Pizza till Lent is over ... I think I need new glasses ... I forgot to put my wedding ring back on when I put lotion on my hands this morning ... I am wearing a purple shirt and brown eye make up because I didn't have time to do my make up at home and all I had in my to-go bag was brown ... I broke a nail this morning ... my pants are too high, they barley touch the heel ... my boss just gave me ANOTHER project ... I got hate mail from HR cuz I am late on Performance Reviews for 6 of my people, well, they weren't my people like a week ago but now it is my responsibility... our website is acting funky and the city offices are in a panic ... my hair isn't doing what I want it to do... one of my girls just told me she is preggers and her last pregnancy she was on bed rest for 6 months!!!!! ... my water from my water bottle tastes funny ... th...

Please join me and my Family on March 28th at 8:30pm est as we shut down our home and do our part to help the planet.

So have you ever been given an assignment at school that you thought was impossible? Teacher says - Students ... write a 300 page report on the historyof curtins. Oh, and it's due a week from today. Well, I started this blog because a LOT of funny things happen in my house and I figured that things would happen so often that this blog would probably make it in the World Book of Records for the most OMG's. Well ... nothing exciting has gone on in a while ... so ... please stay tuned. OH ... if you have a funny memory of me or my family ... let me know and I'll blog about it. Of course it will be in my own words. :) ha ha

For those of you that know me on a personal level and not thru friendships via work or just family related e-mails ... then you all know that I am not the "Brightest" crayon in the box. I have been known to laugh in the middle of dead silence minutes or even hours after the punchline of a joke is over. I've been known to laugh at my own jokes ... way before I even get to the punchline. I've been known to have the simplest of phrases go right over my head. Wait ... I didn't get that one. My 13 y.o. will use a word and I have to look at Darling Hubby to verify if it is indeed a real word. Yeah ... I get by on my personality and not my brain! Did I mention that I am super gullible? Well ... many many many moons ago when I was a wee child, my mother told me something over and over again and it has stuck with me throughout my entire life. My mother told me that my nose would get bright red like Rudolph whenever I told a lie. WOW ... REALLY? I believed it. C'MON...

It's been such a long time since I've written anything good. Something from the heart ... something with some feeling behind it. Since Marley's passing I haven't really had much to write in that aspect. Until now ... My baby sister Lauren announced she was pregnant last year. No lie ... I was disappointed but I was going to stand by her. That is what sisters do. I even offered to assist her by taking my future niece someday. I was sad and yet happy when she and her boyfriend said they were going to do what they thought was best and take their baby. Fast forward to Friday January 16th. I go to my moms house to celebrate my brother-in-laws birthday. During the showing of "Transformers" (can you believe my mother has never seen it!!!!!), my sister calls for us in the bathroom. She thinks her water broke. OMG. It was actually a leak... but we DIDN'T know!!! I stayed the night. Next morning mom took her walking at Wal-Mart. I went home. Took care of some ...