Week In Review

Another week come and gone and all I have to show for it is really being just that much closer to insanity death.

• I stole back the cheap MP3 player I won from the now defunct coffee house last year from Corey.  Sooner or later I will decided on an MP3 player, but touch ones scare the holy hell out of me. I loaded all my songs to it.  Collective Soul, Extreme/ Nuno/ Population One/ Drama Gods/ Mourning Widow, Andrew W. K., Disturbed, Rob Zombie, Godsmack, Creed, Marylin Manson, a couple songs from Twilight, even a Kelly Clarkson song or two.  I am sure there are some missing but you get the drift.

• Tae Kwon Do went well for the Little dude on Tuesday, he seems to really like it. Have you seen this pic yet, if not where ever have you been?
  

• Being the Mother of the year I am, this week decided to bribe Logan to behave in school with a Smencil .  It is a scented pencil made from recycled news paper.  I know someone get me the Tree-Hugging Hippy Award.  Wait for it...

BOOM BABY!

Sorry couldn't resist putting that sezzy SOB back into my blog.  I missed him and I bet you did too. MEOW!

• I wasn't fooled by the balloon boy drama of this past week, I think people are naturally liars.  Espically thouse who will whore themselves out just to be on RealityTV.  I think Dr. House sums this stunt up quite well.   Most people, not EVERYONE will lie to get their 15 minutes.  Shameless.
  
  
  

As a mother, if my kid would have been though to be dead I wouldn't have let hims out of my arms but his Mother was fawning all over the oldest kid in the interviews I caught.  Most of you know I don't watch a lot of reality Tv to begin with.  These people are one reason why.   

• Wednesday for some reason my alarm neglected to go off.  I had taken out my contacts the night before and re awoke 10 minutes before Little dude was to be at school.

I couldn't believe I fell asleep again!  Luckily he was fed, dressed already in watching TV happily in his room.  I rushed to get his teeth brushed and Corey brought him to school just in time for the kids to be filing into class.  There is something to be said for living close enough to school to be late and still be on time!

• Time for serious crap so if you want to be entertained skip this.  I fielded phone calls from friends about topics I wish would never some up.  The kind that gives me nightmares like no other.  I understand the need for a sounding board, and all who do call I love you for looking to me and trusting me to give you advise.  Un-snarky, serious, most of the time.  I think most of my readers know I was molested for the 1st nine years of my life by no less then 5 dirt bags, I cannot even call them men.  Reluctant trips to therapy didn't leave a dent in the PTSD, a chip on my shoulder did.  Upon the death of the instigator in Feb or March of '04 it dawned on me my mother had known the whole time what was going on, all those years and turned her back on it.  So, in a nutshell that sums up the lack of closeness with Mommy Dearest.    I have also been stalked once at 13, had a "fan" break into the locked radio station I was working at which got me a "babysitter" every time I was working there.  While in Kansas by a dude straight out of JOCO correctional for rape and kidnapping.  Oh lucky, suck me!  He may also be the one who was leaving "gifts" on our front porch, and started calling in the death threats to my work that subsequently got me fired right before my wedding.  I say these things not to garner respect and GOD not for sympathy, but to let some of you who don't know me personality to better understand me and why I act the way I do.  I survived, basically on my own.  A statistical anomaly that I am normal-ish.  In the last several months of have had some phone calls questioning what to do from an Auntie to some little girls, advise on what she could do to lessen the pain for her and the girls.  My advise, love them, make them not feel dirty, tainted, and different.  Pretty much the opposite of what I felt almost all of my life.  Corey made it clear he didn't want me to become a child advocate in rape cases from the start of our relationship.   I struggle with his decision as usual, but deal with it.  The Princess needs protecting thing again for him again.  Grr...This last call was from a friend who's girlfriend got a scary wake up call.  Party girl no more, I hope.  

So now that I have depressed the hell out of everyone with my bleak look into humanity lets move on...

• I ordered a new neck for the Weatherman's N51 guitar as the one was slightly twisted and the top frets buzzed.  Also, turns out the sway bar was busted.  Same one he got for his birthday last year.  Should have just bought it from Funky Munky Music.  Jon the owner, is the #1 Washburn Nuno Bettencourt guitar store in the world.  He is the one I got the N4 for Father's Day.  And I will continue to use for all things guitar related in the future.  The N61's are retired and Jon bought out the remaining A stock stock from Washburn recently.  So, once they are gone they are gone.  Neck arrived the next day I got to assist in putting the new neck on the guitar and putting on the tremolo as the necks are a biotch to replace with only 2 hands.    We have the cream colored one that came with a dark neck, the neck from Funky was natural colored.  So, now the N61 is all better and IMO looks better with a natural colored neck than the one it originally came with. Go figure.       
  

•  Sully went back to LaDaun the wonder groomer to get a bath and such.  He looks darling, now that his hair is longer.  For the $25 it cost with tip have her do it, I saved time. In my opinion, well worth it.  She does such a good jog making him all fuzzy and fluffy.  Pics will go up on his website in the next couple days.  
  

• I was thrilled to hear that "Welcome All Again," by Collective Soul was used on the Fall Finale of PSYCH. There is something with PSYCH writers and The Mentalist. I am not 100% but PSYCH makes references to the other show all the time. I never cared till "Welcome" was used to promo the new season for The Mentalist. First thing I did was tweet to the writers of PSYCH, "The Mentalist got @Collective_Soul for their promo, top that! Your move." I never got a tweet back, but got the reply in spades on Friday night.  I was partially engaged in the show, my nose in a textbook, until after the reference to one man, that the mere mention of his name makes me blush (circa mid 1990's) Billy Zane.  They need to get him on the show, not just make obscure mentions to him from time to time.

 So to garner my full attention for the car chase scene they pull out the big guns:

 Hmm, how do I top that last one?  Yea, really you cant in pictures can you?

•  I found out I have to limit the amount of Chocolate Mini Wheats from Little dude as Saturday we had GI issues from eating 3/4 of a box of them.  He has never eaten that much of anything before! Maybe that's why hes so fat?  That still irks me, I guess there was a huge backlash from people about those little slide indicators I veugly talked about in that blog.  
• I am setting up a giveaway on my blog, I will drop hints in posts here and on twitter till I make a formal announcement within the next two weeks.  1st clue: I have a "brass" monkey...
  

So that's about it, folks the week went by at break neck speed.