I’ve had a pretty consistent headache for the last week now. I also started drinking coffee every morning about a week ago. Lovely. I’m thinking that has something to do with it and I’m really annoyed. I was just starting to enjoy my morning coffee time! I just don’t understand why I could drink a 12 pack of diet dr pepper and be just fine but a cup or two of coffee kills me. There’s probably a very logical answer to this but I’m all Google’d out this evening. That happens when you spend a few hours on ChaCha (call 18002ChaCha for unlimited answers). lol You don’t even want to search out your own queries. 
To add to my pain and annoyance, the phone was ringing off the darn hook at 6:30 this morning. Apparently someone was a little paranoid about not getting off of their watch on time so they kept calling here to make sure the hubby would be there to relieve them. My husband is one of those people that gets there an hour before he has to be and since his watch started at 7:30am, he was already on his way by that time. That left me to wake up every 5 minutes to the phone ringing. OMG! I love that talking caller id feature normally but I was about ready to toss the receiver out the window this morning. How this guy thought it would be appropriate to call here like that, at that time of day, over and over again is beyond my imagination. WTH?! The hubby has a cell phone, they have the number. There’s no reason for that and I was absolutely tempted to pick up the phone and go off on this guy. You don’t wake a sleeping bear.
He’s lucky that it didn’t wake the kids. I never got myself back to sleep again but at least it was kid free time, snuggling with my cat. Now though? I’m pooped! I can’t go to bed at 2am and be up by 6am. It’s just not something that my brain can handle. My bitch meter is right up in the red right now, waiting for the hubby to get home at 8:30pm or so .. then I’m totally checking out! Thankfully the kids have been fed, they are currently bathing and soon I’ll be chucking their little behinds into their cozy beds. I can’t wait!!
So Christmas is over and we’ve already cleared out the decorations! The tree went back to it’s closet home yesterday and the rest will be stuffed away soon. The hubby is slacking on getting the outdoor lights down though. Too bad, too. It was a wonderful 73 degrees for much of today. I’m sure he’ll wait until it’s 40 again and then bitch about the amount of strands I put out there and how cold he is. Oh well. lol
I love me some holiday joy but it is SO nice to have the living room back again. It’s so clean and it almost seems bigger. I even moved my desk to a new location to further that fresh feeling and I’m loving that as well. I feel like I have my own little cubicle now. heh I hung a couple of my photo canvas prints above it and decorated. I only wish I had my own office. That would be sweet!
Anyway, the kids loved the holiday and really seemed to like all of their toys but now, of course, they are barely playing with most of them. I don’t know why I bother going to so much trouble picking out the perfect gift. I’ve played with most of them more than they have, especially Spike! That thing is so cool! Very much worth the price paid. I just wish the battery lasted longer. Even though it’s rechargeable it’s still a pain. Every night we’re plugging it in.
I’m personally loving the after holiday sales! My dear mother-in-law and grandma-in-law sent a nice check for Christmas. The only gift we really received from anyone else. The kids always get everything to themselves so it was nice to have a few bucks to spend freely without guilt. We all went on a little Target spree the other day that included more toys for them, a Wii game (Cooking Mama) for me and ipod accessories for the hubby. Last night we bought groceries with some of it, because I refuse to waste it all on “stuff”. Then tonight I went back to Target and found some great clothes marked way down for Aubree, a few Christmas ornaments and other assorted goodies that we had to have like hand soap and bleach. Boring, nothing exciting like brown recluse spider traps, but it was nice getting all of our wants and needs met without taking money out of our regular account. Now I won’t have to worry about it once payday comes and the extra $$ can go towards debt, as always.
Next on my list of “to do’s” for the fresh new year is to think of some things I would like to resolve to change or just DO. Most of which I will likely NOT do, because that’s just the way it goes, right? But I still have to TRY. One of those resolutions will likely involve my rear end and making it just a bit smaller. Yikes. lol
Spoken VERY loudly, by Will, in the middle of Target …
“I can’t wait until I’m a big people so I can say LOTS of bad words like you, mommy!!”
That’s my boy!
So it’s almost here … and the kids are acting like little heathens. Seriously, did they not get the memo about Santa, gifts and being angels today to insure lots of goods tomorrow?? Sheesh.
I ended up wrapping all of the gifts last night and stashing them back in my closet. Go me! There’s only one left, Spike the Ultra Dinosaur, and we plan on putting him together / charging his battery before tomorrow anyway, so no wrapping needed. Now I’ll be able to relax tonight and hopefully get to bed a little earlier so I won’t be totally out of it when they wake up tomorrow to rip everything open.
I hope you all have a wonderful holiday filled with family and love! Oh and lots of goodies too. I know, I know .. it’s the thought that counts but you know we all dream of the big stuff – tvs, Sony Vaio computers, or GPS units. At least I do.
I’ve heard so much buzz over Sears and Kmart offering $500 gift cards as contest prizes and I’ve been just a little green with envy since I was such a loser and never entered myself. Ok, I know that’s not a great thing so of course I’m always super happy to hear of people winning but.. yeah! I’d love to have a chance myself, you know?
Well I found one last chance over at Ted Murphy’s blog. He’s been in that giving spirit, donating a great deal to Habitat for Humanity using a $500 gift from Sears, and now he’s offering a chance for someone else to win one of 3 packages worth $500 from Sears.com. Not interested in those? You can even create your own prize!
I got to thinking about what I would get if I had a chance to use $500 at Sears.com and most of it ended up being for the hubby and kids, as always. That’s not actually a bad thing because I honestly would be over the moon if I won what I asked for. It would probably give me more joy to give to them than buying anything for myself. I’m a giver to a fault, doing so even when I really can’t afford it most of the time.
So, what would I pick?
FurReal My Lovin’ Pup – Biscuit
Sears item# 05213356000 149.99
Nintendo Wii Fit Extreme Sports Pack
Sears item# 05892939000 Mfr. model# Wii Fit Extreme Sports Pack 139.98
Wii, Littlest Pet Shop
Sears item# 05892570000 Mfr. model# WII ELA 15934 39.99
Wii,Guitar Hero Aerosmith Bundle
Sears item #05892384000 89.99
Wii, Cooking Mama World Kitchen
Sears item #05892546000 49.99
Belkin USB AC Power Adapter for iPod® Shuffle
Sears item #05792287000 29.99
In the end I would have an entire 1.07 left. Woo! What a rush that would be. Not that it would likely ever happen, but still. It’s fun to dream, right?
I can’t believe that tomorrow is Christmas Eve already! I swear, I look forward to the eve of Christmas more than the actual day. It’s so much more exciting with the anticipation in the air and gifts to wrap. Yes, gift wrapping! My bedroom closet is filled with hidden gifts in every nook and cranny that are just waiting for some pretty paper. The first few couple of years with the kids we had the gifts wrapped and under the tree as they were purchased. But once they started to “get” the whole Christmas thing, at least the Santa part of it – we haven’t started with trying to explain the religious aspect, I stopped doing that in order to bring more magic into it. I now wait until they have gone to bed on Christmas Eve and then wrap, wrap, wrap, as I am sure many parents do! They leave an empty tree and wake up to a massive amount of excitement. My parents always did the same thing and that is one of my favorite holiday memories. I never knew what I was going to wake up to and I always went to bed with butterflies in my tummy.
So … I’ve been waiting to wrap for so long now that I am all giddy about it. Hopefully I can talk the hubby into helping while we watch the 24 hr marathon of “A Christmas Story”. I even had a dream last night that I wrapped what I thought was everything and then realized a few days later that I somehow missed half a dozen gifts. We then had to do the entire day over again. lol So weird. I’m surprised I didn’t dream about receiving some odd gift like New York Yankees tickets as well. My brain is seriously fried.
I’m also looking forward to getting started on making homemade cinnamon rolls tomorrow for Christmas morning. I need to run out for a couple of last minute items today so I’m fully prepared. I’m thinking I’ll get them started on rising the night before and then throw them in the oven early in the morning. Rolls, coffee and wrapping paper flying everywhere sounds like a great Christmas morning plan.
I’ll include all clothing and accessories!
It’s been .. a day.
I’m up to my eyebrows with exhaustion and feeling like a failure. Why? My 3 yr old, of course. We had a little holiday party this morning with our playgroup and as always I came away feeling like I have the worst child in the entire universe. I seriously had a moment or two where I had to hold back tears because it’s always MY kid who’s being an ass – and yes, I’m calling him an ass. Bad mommy, I know. I take his behavior very personally because after all, he’s my creation. I gestated him, birthed him and have raised him thus far. Obviously it’s my fault.
I never get to really enjoy myself when he is along because I’m always on his case. Even when I try to not be all up his butt with “No, stop that, don’t” someone comes to tell me he’s being bad so I have go right back into bitchy mom mode again and get after him. It’s no fun for me and it makes me want to cancel any and all plans we have for the next year. Why bother, you know? It’s not even that he is THAT bad. He’s not doing anything heinous. He’s .. just … a brat. Always taking toys from other kids and being rough if he doesn’t get his way. Everything is all about Will and the moment that it isn’t? Welcome to hell! Enjoy your stay.
I don’t even know how I could step up the discipline either because I’m already super bitch when it comes to parenting. There are consequences for everything in our home and I don’t slack on handing them out when an offense has been made. I’m not one of those lazy moms you see on the tv who let their heathens climb the walls why they sit on their asses and yell from across the room, wondering why the kids don’t listen.
UGH! Of course by tomorrow I will be over it .. for a few minutes .. and he’ll be on my “nice” list again. But for now? I just need to whine and roll around in my own little mommy pity.
I’ll give the husband a break on the sweats thing. He got up this morning and unloaded the dishwasher, reloaded it, washed another load and then unloaded it again!! Then he cleaned MY bird’s cage, the guinea pig’s cage, cleaned the litter box, vacuumed, did two loads of laundry and made sure the kitchen was once again spotless before going to work this afternoon.
I’d almost think that he read my last post and was trying to make me feel bad but he doesn’t know what a blog is and certainly doesn’t know where mine is .. so I’m safe there. LOL
My husband wears the same pair of sweats every.single.day. You wouldn’t know that half of our closet is filled with his clothing. Oh no! It’s always dark blue sweats and one of his white t-shirts that he wears under his uniforms. To make the ensemble even more attractive, he throws on a pair of sandals when he has to run out to do the trash or get the mail.
Even if it’s 30 degrees outside.
It’s freaking embarrassing!!
I know I’ll sound like a horrible wife for saying this but I swear to sweet baby Jesus, if this is what I have to look forward to in the whole “til death do us part” bit, then I’ll be checking out early. I don’t think I can take it anymore.
I actually confronted him about it earlier today, explained that it made him look like a homeless man and that it was embarrassing for me to know the neighbors witnessed it day in and day out (and painful for my own eyes) and all I got was a “what do you care what other people think?”. So maybe I’ll buy myself a few hideous moo-moo’s .. or wait, better yet, ONE moo-moo and wear it every single day for the next 5 years to prove my point. But even then, I still don’t think he would get it. ugh.
I put a bag on ebay last night, my LV Batignolles Horizontal, and today it sold. Someone made me an offer that was pretty good so I ended the auction early and let them have it. I may have made a little more by waiting but I really enjoy “absolutes”. I’d rather have $500 for sure rather than wait to see if I could get $600. I’m a little sad. I loved the bag. But the bag stayed in my closet because it wasn’t something that I could carry without freaking out over. I’m a bag whore but I think I’ll stick with less costly bag whore’ing from now on.
To ease my pain I bought myself a little Christmas gift, a Dooney & Bourke, a bag from their “Crosswords” line that I found on QVC, of all places. I have never bought one of them before but I finally found one that I could live with and the price was right with one of those wonderful “easy pay” deals, so yeah! Merry Christmas to me! I always buy myself the best gifts. lol Even if I do sound like a lonely old lady, shopping on QVC and all.
