60 things

Reading the famous mommy bloggers' blog this morning and she had these questions on her blog so I'm copying them and answering them in my own blog....

60 Things You Possibly Didn't Know About Me

1. What is in the back seat of your car right now? A full frozen container of McDonalds chocolate milk, empty McDonalds bags, 2 empty juicys, a few french fries, Jordyn's back pack, 2 gym bags, 3 pairs of gloves, 2 barbies, 3 game boy games, a pencil....that's just the list of things that I know of for sure....there's much much much more that I don't know about off the top of my head.

2. When was the last time you threw up? I honestly have NO idea....I'm not a throwy uppy kind of person....so it's been a while. Years. Although, now that I've said that I'll probably throw up this afternoon.

3. What's your favorite curse word? hmmmm.....shit?

4. Name 3 people who made you smile today? I'll have to get back to you on this one....It's only 8:21 in the morning and I feel like shit so I haven't smiled yet!

5. What were you doing at 8 am this morning? Got on the computer to check emails

6. What were you doing 30 minutes ago? Pouring Smurfette a bowl of cereal

7. What will you be doing 3 hours from now? If I can get my butt moving this morning I'll be running errands (bank & book store) and getting Smurfette off to school

8. Have you ever been to a strip club? yep

9. What is the last thing you said aloud? Get a spoon.

10. What is the best ice cream flavor? Chocolate snickers blizzard

11. What was the last thing you had to drink? hazelnut coffee

12. What are you wearing right now? jammies

13. What was the last thing you ate? oatmeal

14. Have you bought any new clothing items this week? yep...bought a bunch of stuff for our trip

15. When was the last time you ran? Last week at the gym

16. What's the last sporting event you watched???? watched my boys at gymnastics last night

18. Who is the last person you emailed? The last email I sent was a forwarded message about a virus to everyone on my email address book last night.

19. Ever go camping? unfortunately yes

20. Do you have a tan? Not yet...but I will next week!

24. Do you drink your soda from a straw? If it's fountain pop....yes....otherwise no

25. What did your last IM say? I'm dying

26. Are you someone's best friend? I hope so

27. What are you doing tomorrow? Lets see ....tomorrow is Thursday....I'm taking Smurfette to school in the morning and assuming I'm feeling better I'm suppose to meet with my trainer for a work out. Then, I'm going to go get my toes done....can't wear sandals with these nasty feet as they are......then I'm going to the tanning booth to make sure I don't burn next week when we're basking in the sun....then I'll do some packing and some cleaning...then when the kids are all home from school I have to take Hefty Smurf to the foot doctor for what we hope will be the last visit...he had a plantars wart on his foot and has been going since November for weekly laser treatments....major pain....

28. Where is your mom right now? I assume she's at work.

29. Look to your left, what do you see? LOL....a camara bag, a phone, a desk lamp, a pencil sharpener, 2 coloring books, 2 crayons, a couple bills, an inflated balloon, a trash bag of clothes that I've been planning to list on ebay (they've been sitting there since before the holidays)....a plastic bag of books that my mom gave me over 6 monthes ago, a couple empty boxes of what used to contain computer parts, a box of computer paper, packing supplies, ebay boxes, dog carrier......I'll be here all day if I continue, so I'll just leave it at that!

30. What color is your watch? don't wear one

31. What do you think of when you think of Australia ? kangaroos

32. Would you consider plastic surgery? Yep

33. What is your birthstone? diamond

34. Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit thedrive thru? depends...we do both...but more often than not we just hit the drive through....which is why my van looks the way it does.

35.How many kids do you want? 3!

36. Do you have a dog? yep

37. Last person you talked to on the phone? Papa Smurf

38. Have you met anyone famous? Don't think so

39. Any plans today? Yeah...I'm going to see the doc....and run a few errands....then take Smurfette and the boys to gymnastics. And hopefully get a little packing and cleaning done.

40. How many states have you lived in? one

41. Ever go to college? yep

42. Where are you right now? in my office

43. Biggest annoyance in your life right now? this cold or flu or whatever it is I have

44. Last song listened to? was watching the Ellen show this morning (that I taped from yesterday) and watched James Blunt perform a new song from his new CD...can't remember the name of the song though.

46. Are you allergic to anything? cats

47. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time? I love all my shoes

48. Are you jealous of anyone? no

50. Is anyone jealous of you? I hope not

51. What time is it? 8:55....this is taking forever because I've had half a dozen interruptions since I started

52. Do any of your friends have children? yes

53. Do you eat healthy? yes. I eat healthy IN ADDITION to eating crap.

54. What do you usually do during the day? damage control

55. Do you hate anyone right now? no

56. Do you use the word 'hello' daily? Yes

58. How old will you be turning on your next birthday? 29

59. Have you ever been to Six Flags? I honestly don't know....I can't remember...maybe when I was like 5?

60. How did you get one of your scars? c-sections

pity post

I think I have the flu. I'm miserable. Wallowing in self pitty miserable. I haven't slept in 2 days. I've had 2 days of the achey fever and the right side of my face hurts...my eye, my ear, my neck, my sinus.....it just hurts. I've overdosed on every cold medicine you can imagine...I took NyQuil THREE times last night. Enough to knock out a horse but not enough to knock me out. All I know is this better be gone by Saturday! Called to get in to see the doc and of course he's not in tomorrow...gotta see some Joe-Shmo instead. I hate that because I know my doctor well enough that I think I could persuade him into giving me an antibiotic even though this is probably just a "let it run it's course virus"....just in-case....so that I'm not miserable on Saturday when we leave for vacation if I don't need to be. But every time I see a Joe-Shmo...they won't do it....drives me crazy!

Even though I feel I may possibly (quite certainly) be dying....we're still leaving on Saturday. So s--t still has to get done. Hubby says to me...."OMG I'm so excited I can't wait to leave....my reply was "I'll be excited when we get there...right now I'm just stressed about it".....his reply?...."STRESSED!? HOW CAN YOU BE STRESSED! YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO TRAVEL!"....yeah ok buddy....all you have to do between now and Saturday is wake up Saturday morning to a limo escort! I'M THE ONE THAT HAS TO DO ALL THE WORK!! AND IT'S STRESSFUL! AND I'M SICK!!!!!! AND ALL I WANT TO DO IS CURL UP ON THE COUCH AND FEEL SORRY FOR MYSELF....BUT I CAN'T!

Lets see....I haven't blogged since last Thursday....surely I have SOMEthing interesting to type? NOPE!

Yesterday we left the house at 7am to drive to Saginaw for a meet. Both boys had fantastic meets. They did great and scored well and both boys won 1st place in the AA.....never mind that they were only competeing against themselves...no I'm not kidding. There were 2 level 6 boys in Dreamy Smurf age group....so Dreamy Smurf won 1st place in 4 (of 6) events and the All Around trophy (AA score 51.9)....The other boy won the other 2 events. Hefty Smurf was the ONLY level 7 in his age group....6 gold medals and a trophy (AA score 50.6)....there were only 4 level 7s total....so why would they divide the ages?.....Good question!.... I guess that's one way of coming home with medals! It was such a rediculously small meet there was actually a kid who won 1st place in his age group with an All Around score of 37.something....for those who arent familiar with gymnastics scoring....that's not good....in fact, it's really bad!

Here's a picture of my smart alleck son drawing an uproarious laughter from the crowd by acting shocked at the results of the meet....he of course new he was the only competitor in his age group when he was called up to the podium.

And here's Dreamy with all his bling!

We left the gym around 5:30 pm and as soon as I got in the car I started feeling rotten. Cold, achey, shivering....couldn't warm up or get comfortable...just felt awful. By the time we got home I was miserable. I curled up on the couch with a low grade fever. I was up most of the night and slept with a kleenex shoved up my nose...pretty. Finally got up at 2am and took some Ny-Quil. I've never had a cold hit me that fast. I guess better now than on vacation! I'm hoping Papa smurf doesn't get it while we're gone!

School was cancelled for school today due to the sub-zero degree weather. Oh joy! So I spent the day doing my least favorite thing in the world (all the while feeling like shit)....shopping with the kids for our trip. They all needed sandals and summer clothes...so we braved the cold. They of course didn't let me down...this trip was filled with the ear blistering "are we done yet?", "my feet hurt", "my legs are tired", "can I sit down somewhere?", "I'm thirsty", "I don't need shoes...I'll go barefoot", "I want this", "why can't I get that?", "I'm bored", "what, it was an accident" (when Dreamy...not looking where he was going.... heelied right into another lady), and so on and so on and so on........I HATE SHOPPING WITH MY KIDS!

Everyone has a scent

I found a hat on my counter last night that didn't look familiar to me. It looked like it belonged to a little person so I thought I'd ask the little people in my house.

me: hey guys, do you know who this hat belongs to?
Hefty: no....let me see it

He then grabs the hat from me ...sticks his nose inside the hat and takes a huge wiff of it....hands it back to me and says "it's A's" (my nephew's)

me: how can you possibly know that by sniffing it
Hefty: everyone has a scent and I know everyone's scent....it smells like Aidan
Me: I just stared at him with a look of doubt and bewilderment
Hefty: (sensing my doubt and with a very matter-of-fact look on his face) I'll bet you anything it's A's

sure enough - I called my SIL to see if A is missing a hat - the hat is indeed my nephew's.

Hefty has done this before....after a party we found a shirt someone left at our house....I asked the kids if they knew who it belonged to and Hefty identified it as one of his friend's shirts by sniffing it. That's just not normal!

Are you gonna put some make-up on?

I worked out this morning. When I finished and came back up stairs Smurfette gives me a once over and says...
S: uh, mom.... are you gonna help in my class today?
me: yep
S: and are you going to put normal clothes on?
me: laughing - why whats wrong with what I have on?
S: your clothes need to match mom.(with a look like...duhhh)
me: my clothes do match
S: why don't you wear the shirt you had on yesterday.
me: why? it's dirty now...I just wore it.
S: because it's pretty & I like it. & you need some make-up too.

OMG...where does she get this?! This was her 5 y/o way of saying "uh ma...you look like shit right now and if you think for one second you're going to come to my classroom in front of all my friends looking like THAT you're sorely mistaken!"

Talking Horses Happy Land

I just remembered something that Smurfette said to me a couple weeks ago that I meant to blog but forgot. She told me "mama I don't want to ever grow up...because being a grown up is no fun...all you ever have to do is work." That statement makes me sad. Why is that all she sees. When I was a kid I used to have this recurring dream. We were in our house in SCS and I was walking through the front door to get to my mom ...she was in the bathroom in the back of the house....only I couldn't get to her because the house was filled from wall to wall & floor to ceiling with washers and dryers...I had to crawl and climb through the doors of the machines like a maze to get to her. I don't need a PhD to analyse THAT! Unfortunately, my mom was a single parent who worked full time to support us and the time that she was at home was usually spent cooking and cleaning....and ....doing laundry. So here I am...a stay at home mom and my daughter still sees me that way. So when she made that statement I thought....I'm going to try harder to set aside time each day to spend with her. So you know what we did yesterday....for our "together" time? .......we put on the jams....and......CLEANED....I actually tried to make her think that emptying the dishwasher was FUN.....and she fell for it! I think I've defeated the purpose! The problem is...when I ask her what she wants to do she usually picks something that I HATE doing...like playing pretend play with her dolls, babies, or barbies....I HATE pretend play. I'm just not good at it. I'm not imaginative enough for pretend play. I usually just end up saying in my pretend Barbie voice "I'm tired, I think I'll go take a nap now"....I suck at pretend play. I would MUCH rather read a book or do a puzzle or play a board game. Maybe we can incorporate "pretend play" with cleaning....now that's an idea....again, probably defeating the purpose. Oh well.

Speaking of dreams...I've been having some very vivid dreams lately. I usually don't remember my dreams but this past week I've woken up remembering every last detail. Last night I had a dream that I was on our girls trip...I was trying to do my hair but my hair was like shaka khan's...thick, poofy, curly and frizzy....in other words....AWEFUL! And I had to go to the bar with this head full of nastiness. While we were at the bar we ran into 2 guys that we went to highschool with...can't even remember their names....Stefanowski was one of their last names...and I can't remember what the other one's name was....but how those 2 ended up in my dream I will never know...I never hung out with them in high school and haven't seen them since. Crazy.

We had Dreamy's 3rd Grade winter concert last night. He was like a stone statue up their...his lips were moving but not a single facial expression or movement. Hefty said "Dreamy is in his talking horses happy land"....talking horses?...."yeah, happy land always has talking horses".....LOL! Dreamy Smurf didn't have his glasses with him ....they broke last week and are now being repaired....HE didn't break them....his MOTHER broke them....but that's another story.....so every now and then we'd get a squinty smile with a wave. Meanwhile, his friends R and D were on either side of him dancing and jamming to the music they were singing. It was pretty comical!

Went to the gym again this morning and had my second (of 4) personal training session...I'm going once a week for a month. The goal is to get my butt back in shape before training begins for Chicago. I know once a week isn't going to cut it but she gives me homework for the week. I didn't want to commit to more than 4 sessions....just wanted someone to help me jump start the work outs. Holy crap. She's killing me. Nicole is her name and she's one of these perky, pretty, happy people....in perfect shape and always smiling....she even has dimples for cry'n out loud. She tells me today (with a smile and a giggle) that she had a huge house fire...(smile smile giggle giggle) the furnace started a fire that ran through all the duct work (smile smile giggle giggle) and smoked them out of their house...she had an adjuster at her house that originally told her that her insurance wouldn't cover the damage..... :::giggle giggle::: ....OMG! She's actually a very tough and good personal trainer if I could just get past the smiling giddiness thing. She's probably good for me....maybe she'll rub off on me. Anyway, she kicked my butt today. I doubt I'll be able to lift my arms over my head tomorrow. My upper body is so rediculously weak. But I'm gonna change that! I'm gonna be buff by April....LMAO....can't even type that with a straight face!

Happy Birthday Dreamy Smurf

I'm feeling a little nastalgic. It was 9 years ago today that our little guy was born. ::: sigh ::: At the risk of being cliche.....Time sure does fly by fast.

We're having the family over for dinner for Dreamy's birthday. It should be a fun filled evening. We all have a lot of catching up to do...I'm sure there's some new developements on Grandma's bowel patterns that we'll all need to know...LMAO!

Speaking of which...I was surfing the internet looking for "smurf stuff" for the boys for Easter. The boys at gymnastics all have nick names for each other and my boys are "papa smurf" and "smurfling"...the funny thing is they've never watched a single smurf episode and I'm not even sure they knew who the smurfs were before the older boys started calling them this...but anyhoo...I digress...so I was surfing around looking for shirts, smurf figurines, stuffed animals, etc(they're into having their "good luck charms" at the meets in their gym bags so I thought little smurf stuffed animals would be cute)...I came across a funny shirt that said "if you choke a smurf what color does it turn?"....you know I have to get it. But anyway, I'm sure you're wondering what on earth all this has to do with Grandma's bowel patterns....during my internet search for smurf stuff I came across a shirt that said "Ask me about my explosive diarrhea"....I laughed so damn hard I nearly peed my pants...the first thing that popped into my head was a picture of my Grandma in this shirt...that shirt was meant to be hers..if only I had the balls to give it to her.

The above entry was from yesterday...it's now Sunday...I was interupted while typing and so never got around to publishing yesterdays post so I'll just add to it. Had a nice visit with the family last night. Dreamy Smurf has been glued to the TV ever since last night watching one Monk episode after another. That's one of the gifts we got him...season 1 and 2. We somehow almost made it through the evening without bowel patterns coming into the topic of conversation...but in the middle of a conversation about politics a picture of Grandma with that T Shirt popped into my head and I started busting a gut...so everyone was wondering what I was laughing at and it was like my own private little joke so when I finally caught my breath enough to tell Grandma about the shirt she didn't think it was as funny as I did. She just couldn't appreciate the humor in it. Oh well. I still think it's hilarious!

Here's one for you Kelly. Try analysing THIS dream that I had last night...and no....I swear on my kids lives I'm not making this up....

I was on Kelly and Randy's front porch just finishing up washing their windows...(I don't even wash my own windows, so much for not dreaming things you wouldn't do in real life) I had to use the rest room....desperately....but they weren't home and their front door was locked. But there just happened to be a little tykes potty training chair on the front porch and so I just dropped trow right there on their porch and proceeded to relieve myself on the potty chair...but then Randy walks out from the side of the garage and gets in his car...while I'm sitting on the potty chair and looks at me...says "oh, sorry" and drives away...I'm still sitting on the potty chair and Randy's brother drives up in the driveway...I'm convinced Randy called his brother laughing and says "hey hurry up and go drive by my house Tammy's going to the bathroom right on my porch"....and that was it...LMAO...OMG...I think I may need a shrink!