St. Patrick's Day Meme

A St. Patrick’s Day Meme- via Cat

1. Do you wear green on St. Patrick’s Day? Only if it happens by accident. I never remember.
2. Have you ever found a four-leaf clover? Yep...can't say it brought me any luck though.
3. Do you pinch people who don’t wear green on St. Patrick’s Day? No, because chances are I won't have green on either and I don't want to be pinched.
4. What’s the luckiest thing that’s ever happened to you?Probably haveing such a wonderful child. I got very lucky in the kid department...mine is great!
5. What’s the most unlucky thing that’s ever happened to you? I can't think of anything specific. I don't believe in luck too much.
6. Have you ever made or eaten anything dyed green for St. Patrick’s Day? What? Probably just cookies and cupcakes.
7. Leprechauns - charming or scary? I don't really think about them too much. They are a little creapy.
8. Have you ever seen the Leprechaun horror movies?I think so but I can't remember much about it.
9. When’s the last time you saw a rainbow? I usually see them at my grandma's house a lot but I can't remember the last time I saw one for sure.
10. What would you do with the gold at the end of the rainbow? Pay off all my bills, buy a new car, finish my basement, finish all my landscaping projects, take a trip to Italy, hire a personal trainer, and shop shop shop!

Manic Monday

Manic Monday
Welcome to Manic Monday, brought to us by Lisa. Today it's all about Random!!

Imagine you are on a first date and the person you are with has food stuck in his teeth. Would you tell him? What if he had food on his chin, nose or shirt?
I would definitely tell him! Who wants to be seen with some goober with food all over his face! Ha!

What breakfast cereal best describes your personality?
Special K with red berries...because I'm special and a little fruity!

Who would you most like to have a dream about tonight? What would you like to dream?
I will agree with Arlene on this one...they guy who hands out the lottery tickets! I'd like to dream he was handing one to me! I tell you I don't want to dream what I was dreaming last night and that was that Anna Nichol Smith was doing my hair...darn news programs I have to stop watching them right before I go to sleep!

There ya have it folks...did you play?

Wasted Weekend

We didn't do anything this weekend. Absolutely nothing. Mike was home for most of the weekend which was nice but also different because he is never here. He and Jaykeb planted a tree in the backyard and set up my birdbath for me. We cooked out on Sunday which we only really do when Mike is home and Jaykeb hung out on our new deck which is his favorite place now. He drives his cars out there and watches the birds. The time change has me a little confused in the sleeping department again but I will get over it and since everything is blooming my allergies are kicking in so I have had a headache most of the weekend. I even slacked on my blogging. I think everyone did this weekend.

Little Feet

I have fully intended on staining my fence before painting anything else inside the house but the hallway wall outside my office is TERRIBLE! I've included a picture to deomonstrate why the wall is so nasty.

Just one of the reasons...feet on the wall. There is also a smeared area right outside the door where he constantly holds onto the wall while talking to me. It is an interesting smear of colors. So I'm putting off staining the fence until I can paint the hallway which will probably lead to me painting the bedroom which then will cause me to HAVE to paint the bathroom. As slow as I paint that is a month's work right there. I have to go call the hubs now and see if I can buy paint with his Lowes gift cards he got for Christmas. I can't believe I haven't gotten my hands on those things yet anyway.

The Boy's New Hobby

I usually don't put pictures of myself on here but this one was taken by my little photographer so I'm sharing his work. Pretty good, huh? Okay, actually he took about 80 pictures and out of the 80 one turned out okay. At least he got one good one. He did take a very nice photo of the art on the dining room wall too but I thought you might find that boring. So here it is...

Mommy by Jaykeb

Show us your Bags!

Kristine at Random and Oddwants us to show her our luggage this week. It just so happened that I already had a picture of my luggage on my computer from when we went to Mexico so that is the one I'm using because I don't want to have to go dig out any other luggage to photograph. Sure I could put a picture of The Boy's super cute automobile themed luggage and matching backpack on here but that would take work. I could even dig out our complete set of matching suitcases we got right after we got married(ha, I don't know where we thought we were going)but that also would take a lot of work. I have numerous carry on bags, backpacks, and diaper bags I could have taken pictures of but they are burried in my closet some where. Then I started thinking of it in terms of "baggage". The only baggage we have is our debt. I considered taking a picture of a stack of bills but since they are scattered all over the place, tucked away in file folders, and tacked up on bullentin boards I decided to just go with the old picture of my bags I took to Mexico. 1 suitcase with a big frog name tag on it so it is easy to identify and one carry-on that totally doesn't match but I don't care.



So did ya play?

All Fixed Up!

This story is for AJ... Remember last Christmas when you waxed my eybrows using that horrid wax I bought, and did an outstanding job I might add? Well, tonight Jayke came in and climbed up on my lap and said, "I'm going to fix you up. I'm going to fix you like AJ did." He then preceded to put two return address labels on my eyebrows that we got free in the mail from the American Heart Asscociation. "There, he said all fixed up just like when AJ fixed you." So there I sat for about two minutes until he ripped them off and replaced them vertically so that my eyes were basically taped shut. I don't remember you using this technique when you worked on me. See how creative he is...creating new techniques for eyebrow waxing. I guess, in case you need your lashes waxed as well. I bet I looked smokin hot with those labels on my brows. Sorry, no pictures of that!

Now, Monday is over so could you please post a new entry on your blog?!?!?

A Well Deserved Day

Happy International Women's Day! Too bad it is not celebrated here in the states. I think I may make it a standard weekly holiday at my house. I learned about this holiday while visiting Bleeding Espresso...go see her and wish her a Happy Women's Day as she is in Italy where this holiday is actually a very big deal as it should be.

More Singing by Jayke

Show us your Parrot!

After 9-11 my husband went out and got a tattoo on his arm of an eagle. You can't see it unless he has his shirt off. Jaykeb has seen the tattoo many times. He likes to look at it now and then and I think sometimes he catches a glimpse of it when Mike's shirt sleeve rides up a little and then wants to see it. Anyway, the past several times he has asked to see it he says, "Daddy let me see your parrot." This of course causes me to crack up hysterically at the thought of Mike having a parrot tattooed on his arm. Mike always patiently tells Jaykeb it is an eagle then gives me an evil look to say shut up. So for those of you who read this and know my husband, next time you see him ask to see his parrot. I'm sure I will get in big trouble for telling this but you know me...anything to amuse myself. I need to go to bed.

They were trying to blow my house up!

No, really they were! Although my builder/Dad, who did not build my house, says they couldn't have, he needs to remember where I am when he says things like that. They were trying and might have succeeded if I didn't have the nicest furnace repair guy ever here to go tell them to turn off their equipment and call the gas company! Starting to believe me now? No? Keep reading... The morning started out cold since our furnace was broken still and waiting on a part. Jayke and I were hanging out on the back deck in the sunshine trying to keep warm. He was driving his cars in his footed jammies and I was curled up on my chaise in my jammies with a sweatshirt, extra thick slipper socks, and a blanket wrapped around my head trying to go back to sleep since Jayke got me up way to early for his muffin and milk. The furnace guy, whose name was Jamie (I know this because he ended up spending so much time at my house and I had to call him several times)showed up to replace the broken part and began his work in the attic. Weird place for a furnace if you ask me, but what do I know? I only come from a long line of builders and developers but whatever... Jamie was working away when lo and behold the guys show up to fix my driveway! Yes, you heard me right...they are finally fixing the driveway. Note: Turns out if you live in the county the builder only paves your driveway so far then the county comes in to finish it when they pave the roads for the final time. Underneath the unpaved part is my culvert tile. When they put the tile in they left a HUGE hump so that it is difficult to get out of the driveway and just a mess in general. I'm thinking it is going to be a great day, two things fixed at the same time! How wrong I was. The guys start right in digging and removing the tiles so they can lower them and the mountain I have to drive over everyday will be gone. Pretty soon they are digging over near the mailbox when I see one of them running and I hear a loud hissing sound. Yep...they cut my gas line. The guy running the equipment, which I'm going to call a backhoe even though I know it isn't exactly, puts the shovel of the backhoe over the leak and jumps off yelling at me to call the gas company. Jamie comes flying out of the attic as soon as he smells the gas and starts yelling at the backhoe operator to turn that thing off before he blows us all up. He is now on the phone calling someone, the backhoe operator is calling someone and I'm still on hold with the gas company. We all end our calls and just stand there for a few minutes then Jamie says he has to go on to another job and the backhoe guys go up the hill to find some smaller tile so I am left to deal with the gas company when they get here. I only want to know one thing and that is that I'm not responsible for any of this mess! I'm not. So everything is being fixed and repairs are continuing so I call to get Jamie back out here to finish the furnace repairs and they tell me that I'm going to have to pay him another $60 diagnostic charge for coming back out. Now I start to lose my temper. So far this has all been humorous to me because I knew I didn't have to pay for any of it. Now I'm mad. I immediately call the builder who sent the backhoe guys and told them to dig without having things marked and told them they would have to pay me for the additional $60 charge. They agreed and Jamie showed up again to finish his minor repair work. His minor repair turned out not to be so minor as they are coming back tomorrow to rerun the duct work they put in wrong when they built the house. I don't have to pay for that either and I have heat tonight so I'm able to blog about this with amusement instead of rage.

Where are the pictures you ask? Right here...you know I wasn't going to miss out on this blogging opportunity! The only thing that would have made it a better blog post is if they would have swung one of those huge drainage tiles through the windshield of Mike's truck...now that would have been a good post.




I had to take these pictures from inside the house because I didn't want to make the guys nervous wondering why I was taking their picture. Jaykeb watched the whole thing from the window too.

Shamrock Hunt

Here is a cute game you can play with your kids for St. Patty's day. I will be trying it out with The Boy for the first time this year.
First make a bunch of shamrocks out of green construction paper. Most of them should be 3 leaf but make a couple of them 4 leaf ones too. You can laminate these so that you can use them over again next year. "Plant" the shamrocks around the house and send your kids on a hunt. When they find the shamrock with 4 leaves they get a "pot of gold". Have a little bowl of gold foil chocolate coins for them as their prize.

I think The Boy will like this...it's kind of like an Easter egg hunt and this is right up my alley! I will be heading out later to get my "gold".

Manic Monday

Welcome to Manic Monday, brought to us by Lisa, but I got it from AJ!! Yes, Monday is almost over but I'm posting this anyway.
16 Days to Spring!

What is your favorite part of spring? Your least favorite?
My favorite part of spring is the when everything starts to bloom and look pretty and of course the warmer weather all though that isn't such a problem anymore.
My least favorite part is mud! We have a new yard so we have lots of mud for my little monster to track in...see earlier post below!

It's Severe Weather Preparedness Week this week. What's the most severe weather event you've experienced?
I guess the blizzard of 78 and the ice storm of 04( I think it was 04)in Indiana of course where the weather is horrible!

Daylight Savings Time begins next Sunday, three weeks earlier than in previous years. How do you feel about DST? Love it, hate it, couldn't care less?
I pretty much don't care one way or another but I am always confused for a while when it happens.


So, did you play??

My Head is Going to Explode!

This blog party, as great as it is, is going to kill me! I was already blog obsessed and now it has kicked into overdrive! Hey, 5MFM, after the party could you host a bloggers anonymous meeting???!!!? I am spending so much time reading other blogs I haven't even had time to post on my own today! There are comments to read, contests to enter, and I have to update my blog roll! I'm going to need a blog vacation when this party ends. It has led me to some great blogs and introduced me to some great people though. I'm excited about that!

I had a busy day today...other than blogging, which I haven't gotten to do much of today. First Jayke was off to Mom's morning Out then I went to check out a preschool for him to start in the fall. He can actually start going there this summer, which he will, but the "school" part runs on the regular school year so the summer thing will just be to have some socialization and get to do fun stuff. I'm excited because he will get to stay in his Mom's Morning Out class too. So four days a week he will have "school" and then there is Mom's Club which meets several times a week so we are in for a busy summer. While I was talking to the lady who owns the preschool she asked who we relocated with down here and when I told her it turns out she lives right next door to one of the guys Mike works with and is good friends with. Small world. She is from Michigan...I tell ya, everyone down here is from the Midwest!

After that meeting I had to stop off at the consignment store to check my account and then return a tub of skanky Peter Pan to the grocery where they were having a great sale so I shopped for a while not forgetting to pick up the ingredients for a recipe I found on a blog while party hopping. I'm such a "Susie Homemaker" nowadays.
I passed Mike on the way home to drop of the groceries...he had to work the night shift because "The German" was coming in to help them run BMW(see my 100 things for a brief explanation of this). We met at home and he went straight to bed while I unloaded, called the furnace repair guy because, yes that is now broken, and dashed off to pick Jayke up. Shortly after arriving home the repair guy showed up to diagnose my furnace. He was unable to fix it today so it will be a chilly morning tomorrow when we wake up but it should be fixed tomorrow afternoon. The rest of the day was spent cleaning and entertaining Jaykeb, cooking dinner, giving Jaykeb a bath, and teaching him how to play his Vtech video game. I finally got to sneak off to the computer to read some blogs and write this real quick. Some may say that doesn't sound like a busy day but for Jayke and I who usually don't do anything but hang out at home it was extremely busy and I feel better this evening than most. I'm not happy with my ever growing list of broken appliances however:washing machine, refridgerater, and now furnace. What will be next? Probably the microwave I don't have very good luck with them.

So where are the pictures you ask? Right here! Just a few random shots of the kid because I know Oma has been waiting for them so here ya go...he is feeling much better!

Here Kitty Kitty!

I am so getting this phone! I hope the hubs doesn't read this post since I just got a Razr not too long ago. I don't like the Razr though and anyone who knows me knows I'm krazy for the Kitty! Wonder why Dad didn't get me this for Christmas since he got me every Hello Kitty appliance known to man!

100 Things

Since I was supposed to write a post introducing myself for the party I decided to write one of those 100 things memes instead. You can see it HERE. I haven't taken any pictures of The Boy recently since he has been sick but I will try to get back to that this week. I know that is what some of you come here for. I assumed you didn't want to see pictures of him throwing up though. So far so good on the hubs and me not catching it...I'm not uncrossing the fingers yet though.

IPod Meme

I was visiting blogs for the Blog Party and found this Meme on Arlene's blog. I thought it was interesting because you can learn a lot from people by the music they listen to so I thought I'd do it. Here's the deal: You turn your IPod/MP3 player onto shuffle and list the first 10 songs that shuffle through. No skipping or telling stories!! List those 10...

1. Dream Weaver-Gary Wright
2. It's been Awhile-Staind
3. Glamorous-Fergie
4. Shake That-Eminem
5. Got To Be Real-Cheryl Lynn
6. Shake-Ying Yang Twins
7. Don't Fear the Reaper-Blue Oyster Cult
8. Summertime-DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince
9. Photograph-Nickelback
10. Promiscuous-Nelly Furtado

Okay...I have no idea what this says about me...I'm a hip-hoppin' disco queen with a flavor for some rock-n-roll now and then? I don't know, my music taste is all over the place. I really like 70s music above all else though. Comment and let me know if you played.

Sick Boy

Warning! If you aren't a mom you probably won't appreciate this post.

I don't think you have experienced motherhood to the fullest until you have had a child with the stomach flu. It took 3 years but mine finally managed to catch it. I've been dreading this day because I have serious issues with throwing up. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to handle it. Turns out what everyone says is true, when it is your own child you don't even think about it you just clean it up and go on and man have I been cleaning it up. Poor little guy didn't even know what was going on. He did finally learn to tell us and last night Mike managed to get him to the bathroom in time. He was quite proud of himself for that accomplishment. He is all better now but everytime he burps he freaks out thinking he is going to get sick. Tonight he started jumping up and down yelling, "I don't like that, I don't like that!" because he burped and started to panic. Now I am just praying that the hubs and I don't get it and also that all the moms from Mom's Morning Out and Mom's Club decide to not infect my child and keep their sick children home from now on.

Tiny Bubbles

I'm reposting this for the Blog Party because every party needs some good music.

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Webkinz by Ganz

Jaykeb got a Webkinz from Meemaw and P'pa for Christmas and loves it. This is Jaykeb's Webkinz, Elliot the Gorilla. Basically you go to the website and purchase your animal. The animal comes with a tag that has a special code for your use only and you go to the website with your code and adopt your Webkinz. After adopting it is your resposibility to feed him, take him to the vet, design his bedroom, and give him clothes. There are games to play on the website where you can earn more "money" to buy things for your Webkinz. Jaykeb seems to enjoy it for a short period of time. His attention span is not too long yet since he is only three. It makes a great gift and is something that parents can do with the kids and enjoy too...at least I did.