The return of...

Thad! Remember him? I pinched his butt in kindergarten & got in trouble. Anyway, fast forward lets say...29 years. I'm out to dinner with the ladies & we decided to hit up the local taverns for a couple of after dinner brewskys. I walk in the door & there he sits at the bar with 2 other of the small town cronies. Now remember I'm not in the Northwoods anymore. I'm in the big city. And as I live & breathe it's Thad, looking the same, but 29 years older. I walk over give the guys big hugs & chat for a bit. I leave them to rejoin the ladies who all think I'm hitting up the men to get free drinks.

As I sit & talk to the ladies laughing & having a good time, I finally tell them that one of the guys is Thad & we giggle & laugh like a bunch of school girls. It was a great night. Thanks girls for letting me share with you some of my fond memories. Oh yeah, Sister Golden Hair Rocks!!

Slacker

Yes, I know I suck at this. Just trying to get my head out of my a$$ & enjoy the simple things in life. Sometimes this blogging & Face booking seem like work. I know weird, but haven't been enjoying it as much as I used to so I thought I'd back off for awhile. So I've been reading, napping, just chilling & I have to admit. I'm lovin' it. So I'll get back to chilling & let you know how the simple life is going again soon. Oh yeah...Keith Urban will be calling my name in 5 days!!

whatever!

So yeah, this blog thing not getting my creative juices a flowing. Now I thought I'd have lots of things to write about & maybe I do but it just hasn't come to me yet. I don't know. If you don't like it too bad. Just look at my header & that explains everything. I'm just so wrapped up in everday doings & it sucks. I cannot figure out what I should do first. Should I blog, facebook, read, do laundry, dust, soduko, take a nap. So many choices to choose from & NOT ENOUGH TIME!! And here I think to myself that I really need to start a hobby that I can really get creative with. Scrapbooking was brought to my attention, maybe I would love it, but I don't think I could juggle it. Definitely need to remember all those trainings I had at the Y about time management. Ummmm, yeah right! Whatever! So I guess I'll just go about my day, doing, whatever, whenever, however I want. How do you like me now!?

Is it my contacts?

There are just days that I seem to be utterly exhausted. And the exhaustion seems to really be in my eyes, but I feel tired. Does that make sense. And I've been thinking about it & it seems that this exhaustion happens on the days that I wear my contacts all day. Weird, or am I on to something? Is it even possible that the contacts could be making my eyes so very tired? I don't know. After I took my contacts out & put my glasses on, I seem fine. Tired, but not the exhaustion that I felt earlier. Just thought I'd throw this thought out there. If anyone has any input or is an opthamoligist (eye person) can't spell it, let me know what ya think would ya!

Outer Limits

Had a brief visit to the north woods this past weekend. And it took me past an old hangout of mine back in high school. Outer Limits, a non-alcoholic club for us teens. Unfortunately we had to drive 30 minutes to get there & we had a tendency to drink a bottle of Dr's on the way there. We would arrive all dressed up to impress the older guys, 18 & 19 year olds. I was known as a pretty good dancer & almost got into a fight or two with a group of black women who thought I was making fun of them. Only they found out that this white woman could dance! Then it was all good.

I have many fond & not so fond memories of Outer Limits. Found my first true love there when I was just 15, he was 19, but we dated for almost 4 months. I was devestated when we broke up. He started dating a girl named Emily & I tried so hard to do my hair like her, so he would want to go out with me again. How lame was I? He wrote me a beautiful poem, gave me a stuffed frog & a necklace as a Christmas gift. Awwww, how sweet.

It's so funny how you can drive by somewhere or see something & be totally transformed back to that time. I totally felt like I was 15 again, except I'm 34, I was going to visit my uncle in the nursing home & I wasn't drunk off a bottle of Dr's! Ahhh the good ol' days!

I forgot...

I forgot how relaxing it can be to cook yourself in a tanning bed. Ahhhh, total relaxation for 10 minutes! I also forgot how the ginormous mirrors show all imperfections. Thanks to my beautiful girls I have many of them:)

Absent

So my intention for this whole blogging business was to get some things off my mind, when they're there. However, as the title of my blog states, I'm a Mom & you know how that is. Stuff comes up, you don't have time, yadda, yadda, yadda! Since my last post I've had lots of things I wanted to say, unfortunately, I now forgot what they were. Life has been just a little up & down lately.

The girls & I took a trip to the Northwoods to visit the family, which resulted in, not much sleep, a trip to the emergency room & way too much eating! I am also one year older since my last post, but let me tell you nothing too exciting in the ways of celebration. Pat's step-Grandfather passed away, so there was a funeral, I was utterly exhausted from the lack of sleep the night before & was in bed by 7 o'clock. Wahoo-Happy Birthday Baby!

I've had some weird dreams, one that involved someone named Jemma, a murder, and another that involved a tornado, my parents & Hayden. Would go into more detail, but that's all I can remember at this time. Once again, read the title of the blog.

Life is really sucky right now. I need a new attitude, some exercise & a little bit more spunk! I'll work on it when I have time. But I have to make time if I want a change. But when you're butt-assed tired it's a little hard to wake up in good spirits & attempt to work on those rock hard abs! Only if the weather around here will finally turn to spring. That might help. At least I could go for a walk! Well here's my first step "Don't put off tomorrow, what you can do today." Ta Ta! Have a FAN-TAB-U-LOUS day everyone:)

Ants go marching?

I know it's officially spring, but seriously are there supposed to be ants? And in my laundry room at that?? Where are they coming from & why do they only seem to come out when I have dirty laundry on the floor? The ants go marching one by one, hoorah, hoorah! It was actually about 20 ants marching as I was picking up the clothes to put them in the washer. The heard of ants are coming this way, hoorah, hoorah! Not for long you little suckers...I'll get you! Toilet paper, proceed to squash ants & then flush down the toilet. The ants are all gone for now, hoorah, hoorah!

Crazy Dreams

Do you ever have those mornings where you wake up & are like what the hell was that? I've had a couple of those the last two mornings. Wednesday, I wake up & I know I had a strange dream & it's sitting right at the front of my brain trying to come out so I can remember it. I go downstairs open the fridge & then it comes back to me. You see we had a play date at my house on Tuesday (true, not the dream). And when everyone comes over they bring a snack to share. Well one of our friends brought over ants on a log, & left them at our house & are now in our fridge. Which leads me to my first weird dream. In my dream I'm hanging out with all my friends, we're eating, laughing & having a good ol' time, but I think we're in some strange forest area. One of the things we are eating are ants on a log. I'm commenting on how yummi & juicy the raisins are when everyone just kind of looks at me & snickers. They are not really raisins they say. It is actually the butt of some weird insect. WHAT? Are you kidding me, DISGUSTING. Needless to say, the ants on a log in the fridge, went in the garbage after I remembered that.

Then Thursday morning I woke up again, weird, huh, waking up in the morning? Anyway, the only part of the dream I can remember is that I was gagging & I kept pulling gobs & gobs of hair balls out of my mouth. GROSS! This has got to mean something. I really need to get a dream book. Or maybe it's the fact that my hair is actually starting to fall out. Anyway, I pray that tonight I dream about Keith Urban & how he falls madly in love with me!

Useless facts

My thirst for useless knowledge started with my employment at the YMCA. When working with a bunch of school-age children, you sometimes need to humor them. I never knew that all this knowledge would land me my future husband. Yes, I wooed Pat with all these amazing facts on our very first date. I look back on it now, I wonder why in the hell would I share this stupid information with a guy on the first date. Whatever, it worked & now were happily married, most of the time. But I seem to have forgotten what brought us together....useless facts, of course. So I thought I would get back to my roots & share with you all my thirst for these crazy & most times unbelievable facts. If you have a fact you would like to share with me, feel free...I might need it this time to just get me through my day:)

I Don't Recommend It!

So Saturday rolls around & I'm totally in the cleaning mood. Pat offers to take Bella out for a few hours so I can do what I gotta do. Nice! Even better, Hayden cooperates by taking a wonderful 2 hour nap! Yipee...2 hours of stress free cleaning! How lame am I? Excited about cleaning for 2 hours, I sure need a hobby! Anyway, I'm cleaning, listening to the 90's channel on cable, loving the smell of cleaning supplies wafting through the house & enjoying the fact that I have laundry in the washer & dryer already! On a roll, you bet!

I then have the brilliant idea to clean behind the refrigerator. I've been thinking about doing this for a long time. Well actually I think about it every time something falls between the fridge & the counter & I notice the large particles of food & other debris hanging out on the extremely large dust balls. This thought also crosses my mind when I attempt to pick up something from the floor located near the fridge & the counter & my hand is then attacked by the large dust balls that are harboring the food & debris.

So here goes...I move the fridge & Holy Mother of Mr. Clean, forgive me for I have sinned! It's been 3 years since I've cleaned behind here. Yes, that's right! I said it, I'm not proud, but it has been 3 years since I last cleaned behind my refrigerator & to those of you out there who may be in the same predicament as me...I do not recommend it! Wait until you move or your children are old enough & you can make them do it!

He's Just Not That Into You!

So back to the time of me growing up in a small town. My first love, we'll call him Thad (not his real name of course). I believe I fell in love with him in Kindergarten. During singing & learning my ABC's. Well I decided to put the moves on him at nap time, we had that back in the day. I briefly remember that occasionally some of the kids did not have to take a nap, so they got to sit at the tables & look at books. Well on this particular day, Thad got to sit at a table with his cousin Harry (not his real name either). I of course was stuck laying on my large blanket that had a puppy dog head attached to it, not a real one, but a large stuffed puppy dog head. Anyway, somehow I managed to weasel my way under the table where Thad & Harry were sitting & decided to pinch Thad's butt. Well, he obviously was not that into me because I remember him going to tell the teacher & me having to sleep on my dumb puppy dog blanket right next to the teacher's desk. Boys Suck!

2 Things I learned by watching TV

1. The easy way to put a duvet cover on. It used to take me forever!! And forever I mean like 15 minutes max! Now it is done in as little as 2-3 minutes...FAN-TAB-U-LOUS! Thanks Martha! I never watch your show, but I'm sure glad I had you on for those few minutes so many years ago. And thanks to the gay couple who wrote in wondering how to do it (put the duvet cover on that is.)

2. How to secure your Saran Wrap or Aluminum Foil roll. Great big "SHOUT OUT" to Ellen on this handy tip. Imagine going through 33 years of your life never knowing this!

Wondering?

So I set up this wonderful blog to talk & talk & talk about all the things I have on my mind, but I don't know where to start. I mean I actually wake up in the middle of the night trying to think of what to say & I'm awake for hours or maybe it's actually minutes, but feels like hours, trying to think of clever & funny things to write about. I bounce back & forth from idea to idea, I think maybe I have adult ADD. I do know of a couple people who have been diagnosed with this lately, maybe it's contagious.

So one idea I had was to start from the beginning. Just talking about growing up in a small town in northern Wisconsin, how your parents would let you just go outside & play & not have to worry about you getting abducted. We would be outside for hours & hours at the neighbors or at the playground at the school playing tag, kickball you name we did it. We always had lots of kids at our house. I was famous for always having the boys over to play outside. Our house what at the bottom of a hill, not a very big hill, but a hill none the less & we would have races on my little brothers riding toys. The Green Machine was the fastest & everyone would fight over who go to ride it. We were about 10 or 11 at the time. We had a blast! I think that's how I got to be the girl who was friends with boys but never the boys "girlfriends". That followed me for a long time. I mean I had boyfriends in grade school, sure, we wrote notes back & forth, sat by each other on field trips & made out in the back of the bus on a dare & even exchanged gifts on Valentine's Day. But they never lasted for more than a week or two until we found a new love. That's how it is you know. And growing up in a small town, we would end up repeating this over & over, because you only had a small selection of fish to choose from. Seriously, what were my Mom & Dad thinking when they would tell me there are other fish in the sea...did they not realize our town had a population of less than 2,000?

Virgin

Yes I'm new to this whole blogging thing, but I thought it would be a good way to get out some thoughts, vent a little, & share with the world some of the craziness of my life. Like right now, totally can't figure out how to get a fun background on this thing. Followed the directions & still nothing! Why can't it be a little easier...like making coffee. Well that's a bad example because actually lots of people have trouble making coffee, anyway. I think I'll have a good time reliving all the wonderful & awful things that go on in my day to day grind. Actually the best part will be sharing lots of fun stories from days long, long ago.