1. Correcting the way my kids use the English grammar.
This barely made the list. My little girl corrected my English grammar the other day.
2. Giving my girls hugs, kisses and encouragement.
Please, please, please let my parents wish of me having children that grow up to be just like me not come true. Please? I don't ask for much......errr, well....too much.
3. Smiling when I don't want to.
If you've seen me cry, it's not a pretty sight. At. All.
4. Saying nothing when I really want to say alot.
I talk a lot, ALOT. I've been that way my whole life. It's a gift (or a curse if you're stuck having to listen.) Every now and then I hold back when I really want to speak my mind.
5. Making my own decisions.
It's good to be an adult. My little girl asked if I would be a kid again. My answer? Not a chance.
6. Hoping for the best.
I'm a girl. Aren't I supposed to do that and plot evil at the same time?
7. Eating Chocolate.
Wait. I said six didn't I? Shoot....remind me to put over talking on my list of regrets too.
There ya go.
For now.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Several Days of Thoughts
- I have started daily thoughts three time now and didn't finish them. I'm almost tempted to just copy and paste into one post and label it multiple partial thoughts, but I'm afraid I'd really look ADD. (not that there's anything wrong with that)
- I got the new HTC Sprint Hero Phone with the Android Operating System. This is going into week two and I like it/am frustrated with it. I'm not ready to declare my ultimate love or hatred with it just yet.
- There's so much about it that I love that the iphone didn't do and then again, there's some things I actually miss about the iphone.
- I think the hardest thing to let go of as far as the iphone is concerned is the fact that I was used to the iphone. It was hard to make a switch from something I was very used to. I like things to be the same.
- Speaking of liking things to be the same...don't get me started on the new purchasing program I have to start using.....or the new payroll book I have to start using after I had the last one to my semi-liking....and all of this during a three day work week before I'm off for a week.
- Christmas was good in my little world. Christmas was very good. It was strange and drawn out just a bit thanks to a snow storm, but I got to enjoy it with the ones I love.
- My brother got stuck in that snow storm on the way back from Abilene going down I20. He almost made it to Clyde.....in three hours. He finally gave up and got a hotel (on Christmas Eve). I almost felt bad for him and the kids...but his kids got to jump on the bed, watch tv, giggle and know that the presents and turkey would still be waiting when they got to my house.
- By the time he got to my house, we were really ready for some turkey and presents and his kids were really ready to finally get to play in the snow that they had been staring at for two days.
- Monday there was still a snowman in my front yard. I'm amazed that it lasted that long.
- We're supposed to get snow again today? Haven't we had enough? I mean, really....this is Texas, we're only supposed to get snow in March or July, December.
- I'll be on a plane flying Friday. I'm not a very good flyer. The person next to me gets the pleasure of one of three different things from me: (A) My hand squeezing their's just short of breaking a bone. (B) Me silently crying or (C) The worst....a combination of A and B mixed with something going in "The Little Convenience Bag" that is typically inside every pouch located at the back of every seat.
- Knowing the above...all I needed to see this weekend was not one near hijacking of a plane, but two within two days of each other, both by Nigerian men and both on the same flight.
- So the TSA decides to throw in some quirky, new goofy rules including: You can't have anything in your lap or hands for the last hour of the flight.
- I failed to mention the importance of my personal routine when flying to make my flight experience as little as the A, B or C occurances mentioned above as possible. A certain magical preflight drinkable connecotion (or two), a preflight snack, music in my ears and bubble gum. If I can get to the point of sleeping, then there's a really good chance I'm home free.
- Take away the music in my ears and the tray for my head to sleep upon.....and it won't go well in my little mental world.
- I'm still trying to figure out how I became such a baby when flying. I've always been that way, by the way.
- I'm also thinking the whole....let's keep everyone in their seat and hands clear for the last hour is goofy. If someone is actually able to get something on the plane....I'm not sure that "rule" will do much good.
- OK, enough for now. I think.
Frilly's Bikini Night Cancelled
OK, so the snow doesn't look too bad in the pics, but good grief, driving on 287 going to Fort Worth made me a wee bit nervous.
I'll admit (and possibly deny later) that I might have a slight tendency to exceed the speed limit ever so occasionally....on accident.
Last night, I drove 55-60 mph south down Hwy 287 from Decatur about 5:30. There was some heavy, heavy snow falling. Visibility was low and I was amazed that other drivers were going so ridiculously fast.
I'm astonished (and glad) I didn't come across one wreck. Not one.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Wednesday
- Shhh, use your 3am voice. I'm listening for Santa!
- Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and boy are we excited!!!
- Last night I finally accomplished loading a video from my phone to blogger.
- I've talked to my daughter a few times on her new phone too and can actually understand her. Yea!!
- Maybe the Sprint trauma wasn't too bad. I now feel bad for hollaring at the poor guy on the phone.
- Kinda.
- Either tonight or tomorrow night we will go Christmas caroling...oh the poor souls...
- My house smells like cookies. I love little girls that cook me cookies. (Even if the cookies aren't for me.)
Wake Up!!
Is there anyone that doesn't love Snoopy? #8 on the list...and I so didn't mean to slack on these! I have 7 more to go before Christmas Day! (may not happen...be prepared for a Christmas Eve list to finish it off)
(And don't make me post another Fred video!!)
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
My Natural Instincts....
Friday night, we get to the Great Wolf Lodge, ran to the room, tossed the suitcases in, threw on the swimsuits and ran (literally --- we raced...I won) all the way down the hall to the water park. The girls were giggly - excited and ready to jump right in. We did some slides, played in the kiddie park, discussed the hot tub and then heard the "howl" for the wave pool.
It was great....tubes, waves and people everywhere. We were having a great time!
I heard the whistle, looked up to see this sixteen year old lifeguard pointing almost in between another mother and myself. I see something in the bottom of the pool and know without a doubt that there is a tiny lifeform drifting below near me. I take a deep breath and dive in. It took me ten hours....or possibly two seconds to get to the baby. I wasn't the closet person to it but I was the quickest to react.
I reached out my hand to pick up the baby and was already plotting which direction to go from there.....wade back towards the shallow end or swim toward the first life guard and to her side of the pool. One last kick of my feet and I could touch this precious baby's arm and pull her up to the air.......there she was in a cute pink swim suit...I grabbed her arm and realized...
....this was not a baby. I gasped under water when the thought hit me that I had just interrupted a skills test for this lifeguard. I let go of the baby and swam up. I met the eyes of the other mother, looked over to see a scared then confused look on my own children's faces. After a deep breath and a couple of coughs, I mouthed to other woman, "It was a doll."
My poor girls were scared, worried and then confused. I assured them it was just a test for this lifeguard to make sure she was paying attention, alert and able to react to her job. I interrupted her test. I had no idea and neither would have anyone else. I looked over and finally noticed the supervisor in plain clothes. When he left he smiled at me in a strange way. It almost seemed as though he enjoyed and took some sort of amusement in scaring the heck out of me. Sick, crazy man.
Thankfully, the waves were ending and the girls wanted to move on. I just wanted out of that near fake death pool. We went for a family type slide to go down together and discussed why he did what he did, briefed over the type of things that could happen in a place like that and the importance of the need for the lifeguards to be tested randomly and without warning. The slide was fun but I could not wait to hop in the lazy river as I was still feeling a little uneasy and rattled.
The girls grab tubes and we float on down. At this moment I actually start to ease up a little. We started getting back to our giggly, silly selves when we rounded a corner and there he was....baby in his arms. He was tucked back in a corner just waiting to let go of the baby and test the next victim. Ugh...done...I was done. Hot tub time.
It was great....tubes, waves and people everywhere. We were having a great time!
I heard the whistle, looked up to see this sixteen year old lifeguard pointing almost in between another mother and myself. I see something in the bottom of the pool and know without a doubt that there is a tiny lifeform drifting below near me. I take a deep breath and dive in. It took me ten hours....or possibly two seconds to get to the baby. I wasn't the closet person to it but I was the quickest to react.
I reached out my hand to pick up the baby and was already plotting which direction to go from there.....wade back towards the shallow end or swim toward the first life guard and to her side of the pool. One last kick of my feet and I could touch this precious baby's arm and pull her up to the air.......there she was in a cute pink swim suit...I grabbed her arm and realized...
....this was not a baby. I gasped under water when the thought hit me that I had just interrupted a skills test for this lifeguard. I let go of the baby and swam up. I met the eyes of the other mother, looked over to see a scared then confused look on my own children's faces. After a deep breath and a couple of coughs, I mouthed to other woman, "It was a doll."
My poor girls were scared, worried and then confused. I assured them it was just a test for this lifeguard to make sure she was paying attention, alert and able to react to her job. I interrupted her test. I had no idea and neither would have anyone else. I looked over and finally noticed the supervisor in plain clothes. When he left he smiled at me in a strange way. It almost seemed as though he enjoyed and took some sort of amusement in scaring the heck out of me. Sick, crazy man.
Thankfully, the waves were ending and the girls wanted to move on. I just wanted out of that near fake death pool. We went for a family type slide to go down together and discussed why he did what he did, briefed over the type of things that could happen in a place like that and the importance of the need for the lifeguards to be tested randomly and without warning. The slide was fun but I could not wait to hop in the lazy river as I was still feeling a little uneasy and rattled.
The girls grab tubes and we float on down. At this moment I actually start to ease up a little. We started getting back to our giggly, silly selves when we rounded a corner and there he was....baby in his arms. He was tucked back in a corner just waiting to let go of the baby and test the next victim. Ugh...done...I was done. Hot tub time.
Tuesday's Thoughts
- Christmas Tree is finally all done. Yea!! Now we're ready for Santa.
- I had a couple of moments of reflection this weekend while spending time with my girls and feeling extremely lucky. They're healthy, beautiful, sweet little girls. I'm not just proud, I'm truly blessed and will be forever grateful.
- Christmas is in two days? Seriously? Am I a bad daughter if I haven't gotten anything for my dad yet? I struggle year after year on what to get him. The last three years I have been lucky on getting him a gift that made him really laugh and one that he really liked.
- This year....I'm clueless. Completely clueless.
- Everyone else is done or is going to arrive within the next day or two.
- I got the new phones this weekend and I'm impressed with the technology, capability and the way it integrates different apps together. It's cool.
- But...go figure...first call I make is to Sprint Customer "Service"...and it's a dropped call.
- I haven't had troubles since, but then again, I don't do a lot of talking on the phone. I do more "networking" on the inkernets....now to find me a good blogger app.
- OH!!! I GOT A PICTURE VIA TEXT!!! YEA!!
- OH!! OH!!! I also got a funny video of my brother telling his youngest goodnight. She hasn't the sweetest little cute voice ever...even when she's being a complete two year old.
- This week and next week I only work three days each. Yea! Then I'm off and out of pocket for a full week after! Double yea!!
- I still can't get over the death of Brittany Murphy. I think it's because she's only a year older than I am and I really did like her.
- What do you think about someone tweeting about a family emergency?
Wake Up
Number 6 is "My Favorite Things" but it has to be by Julie Andrew otherwise it's not the same.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Monday Thoughts
- Awww....Mannnn....is it Monday...really? ...but I don't want it to be Monday. ;-(
- I had a great time with my little girls and couldn't have had a better weekend.
- Great Wolf Lodge was great fun for all three of us, they were delightfully surprise to learn they would be going there on Friday.
- I would like to apologize to Great Wolf for jumping on the beds....they started it...and I the pillow was the closest thing I could find to defend myself against the tickle fight.
- Oh...and I promise we will not have races in the hallways again...I blame the hot cocoa. (But I won!)
- My only regret was leaving the camera bag behind and over packing. We did not need as much stuff as we took. I'm bad at overpacking.
- Remind me to tell you about the baby I rescued from the wave pool later.
- Then yesterday we met up with a hunky photographer at the Gaylord Texan to take some cute pictures instead. I think I'm way more impressed with the inside of that place than the girls were.
- I heard someone claim that every plant in there is real. They were wrong. There's a bunch of fake plants in there...but there was also a fake tree I've walked passed almost everytime I've been there that I had nooo idea it was fake. A pic found of it here. It's a replica of one from Austin that sits between 5th and 6th streets. Don't ask me why I'm so intrigued by it.
- At lunch yesterday I caught a tweet that Brittney Murphy died. I'm still shocked. That just seems unbelievable. I loved her in every movie she did, but Uptown Girls was one of my more favorite ones.
- My older daughter got a Christmas present a little early...a new phone. (We both did.)
- I'm letting go of ATT&T...and the iphone. You know how long I waited for an iphone?
- Thursday the parents come over and we have our Christmas together at my house. I'm off that day and will get to spend the day with a house full of kids and spending the day cooking the big meal.
- I might be nuts and completely lost my mind, but I'm actually looking forward to it. Yep, I've lost it!
- Enjoy Monday.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Fred did it (again)!!!!
Soooo, my little girls get a Christmas present tonight a little early. We'll send you a twit pic later on what it is.
This video will be your clue on what we are doing this evening.
PS. My girls love Fred. Uhhh.....me? Well, let's just say, if I have to be tortured with Fred, then I demand you must also.
PSS. Mom, I'm getting the biggest giggle out of this...who knew Fred was really...real!
Any guesses on "what" their early present is?
(be nice my bigger little girl knows what the surprise is and can't wait to hear your guesses)
This video will be your clue on what we are doing this evening.
PS. My girls love Fred. Uhhh.....me? Well, let's just say, if I have to be tortured with Fred, then I demand you must also.
PSS. Mom, I'm getting the biggest giggle out of this...who knew Fred was really...real!
Any guesses on "what" their early present is?
(be nice my bigger little girl knows what the surprise is and can't wait to hear your guesses)
Terrible Sports Death Story
Should I admit how many times I looked at this pic before I actually "got" it?
And, that was terrible, btw.
Link here.
Friday...woo hoo!!!
- One of the guys from the office took pics at xmas party and brought a CD to the office….almost every picture of me had my tongue out being silly. That drives me crazy!
- We got a company wide email today....help a sista out....when the owners say that "profit sharing bonus will be reduced proportionately" how much is that exactly? Should I be a little worried?
- My girl’s are getting a Christmas present tomorrow night a little early. I'll send ya a hint at 1:00 cause my older one wants you to guess on what it is.
- My turn to be "wheels off" in the Christmas gift shipping department. I ordered some presents ahead of time and one of them is making me very...VERY nervous because it is suppose to arrive on Christmas Eve according to the Customer Service Specialist that "helped" me out today by phone.
- I have payroll to do today and....hopefully a safety meeting to accomplish today and I might...triple MIGHT get out of work early today.
- Enjoy Friday.... and don't worry that we are only seven days away from Christmas...you have plenty of time.
- Hey....I forgot to mention....we saw Santa on the back of the fire truck last night on the way home from work. I swear he gets nicer and nicer every year.
- I got home late yesterday after work because I went to FOUR different places in attempt to get my station wagon inspected.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
From My Email Bag...
Hey lookie-lookie! I got an EXCLUSIVE IN ON AN INCREDIBLE DEAL (my responses in red)!!!!
Hi !.
might , perhaps very interested to know how one can reach 2000 per day of income . Why, yes, I am very interested Please, Sir, do tell!
There is no need to invest much at first. You may commense to receive yields with as small sum of money as 20-100 dollars. ....as small as $100? Wow...heck, I've got those kind of bills laying around the car as pocket change.
AimTrust is what you thought of all the time Amazing...I had no idea you were a mind reader.
AimTrust represents an offshore structure with advanced asset management technologies in production and delivery of pipes for oil and gas. Whooaaa there, Cowboy, hold those horses....that was a lot of big words you used in those sentences....all I got was..an, with, in, and of, for and gas.
Its head office is in Panama with structures around the world. Is it ok it I drop by in a couple of weeks and just give them my $20 in person? Can I get the physical address there?
Do you want to become really rich in short time? Actually I prefer for to take years and years to become rich, but I might allow you to twist my arm to allow me to "become rich in a short time".
That`s your choice That`s what you wish in the long run! It is and I do thank you for abiding by my wishes.
I`m happy and lucky, I began to get income with the help of this company,
and I invite you to do the same. If it gets down to choose a correct partner who uses your savings in a right way - that`s it!.
I make 2G daily, and my first deposit was 1 grand only! Now you don't think I'm gonna fall for that 2G stuff do ya? The competition cell companies tease me with the 3G and I'm not buying into that until I see it in person.
It`s easy to get involved , just click this link ***Censored for your protection***
and go! Let`s take our chance together to get rid of nastiness of the life (Uhhh.....I thought those medical records were private.)
Hi !.
might , perhaps very interested to know how one can reach 2000 per day of income . Why, yes, I am very interested Please, Sir, do tell!
There is no need to invest much at first. You may commense to receive yields with as small sum of money as 20-100 dollars. ....as small as $100? Wow...heck, I've got those kind of bills laying around the car as pocket change.
AimTrust is what you thought of all the time Amazing...I had no idea you were a mind reader.
AimTrust represents an offshore structure with advanced asset management technologies in production and delivery of pipes for oil and gas. Whooaaa there, Cowboy, hold those horses....that was a lot of big words you used in those sentences....all I got was..an, with, in, and of, for and gas.
Its head office is in Panama with structures around the world. Is it ok it I drop by in a couple of weeks and just give them my $20 in person? Can I get the physical address there?
Do you want to become really rich in short time? Actually I prefer for to take years and years to become rich, but I might allow you to twist my arm to allow me to "become rich in a short time".
That`s your choice That`s what you wish in the long run! It is and I do thank you for abiding by my wishes.
I`m happy and lucky, I began to get income with the help of this company,
and I invite you to do the same. If it gets down to choose a correct partner who uses your savings in a right way - that`s it!.
I make 2G daily, and my first deposit was 1 grand only! Now you don't think I'm gonna fall for that 2G stuff do ya? The competition cell companies tease me with the 3G and I'm not buying into that until I see it in person.
It`s easy to get involved , just click this link ***Censored for your protection***
and go! Let`s take our chance together to get rid of nastiness of the life (Uhhh.....I thought those medical records were private.)
Thursday
- My tree is up....just in time. Whew....Now to decorate it.
- I'm not running behind schedule at all this year. It's the schedule that is getting ahead of me.
- I put the tree up while the kids took turns reading the about the birth of Jesus. It was a good scene until the argument broke out over who created God, who gave birth to Him and how He grew up. How did the argument end? It was settled with the four year interrupting with her out loud thought of: "I want to sleep under that tree." Alrighty then.
- I only rearranged the living room furniture twice last night. I'm not happy. It still doesn't feel right. It's gonna drive me crazy.
- I helped decorate a certain good looking person's house this weekend. I used to feel bad for their complete lack of feeling the need to put up a tree and throw tinsels everywhere. After setting out a poinsettia, changing the wreath and hanging some pretty bells on the door....well, I'm envious. Simple wasn't too bad.
- I'm giving my girls a present early, so I can see them enjoy it for a week before they go with their dad.
- I'm by no means short on thoughts today, I'm short on energy.
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