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confession time

So Alisha over at It Aint Easy Being Cheesy had a fun blog today.  I usually don't join in these things, but so many of hers were also so much like me, I had to do it.  Plus she's the shit!

First Alisha, I still drink pickle juice, it grosses the weatherman out.  Making it even yummier!  I used to play the violin and piano.  Traumatic and blocked the ability to play both, and any other instrument I think!  I can one up the wrist thing, I hate anyone touching ANY of my joints.  I think I may have been dismembered alive in a past life, well at least its the excuse I use when I lose it when some one does happen to touch me.

• Did I ever tell you I sleep with my eyes open, sometimes.  It wreaks hell on my contacts.  But the Eye drop company thinks I'm the shit, keeping them in the green buying 2 or more bottles a week.  The weather man loves when in the middle of the night I am sleeping, talking, and have my eyes open.  He just hopes I'm asleep.  On the same note, I am more fluent in French and Latin while I am asleep too, or so I have been told.

• Did I ever tell you my dog is really named after the guy from GodSmack: 

not Sully from Monsters Inc.: 

We just let the little dude think that.

• Did I ever tell you I used to be really tight with my Monster-in-Law?  No kidding.  It went to hell after little dude was born.
  

Did I ever tell you what an awesome older sibling I am.  I was about 9-ish, so Keyara was about 4 and I put her in one of those baby tubs and pushed her down a really tall flight of stairs into an oak table in the dining room below.  Jerry my adopted dad, her full father was not amused.  We however were, and did it again after he left the room.  Several years later, I almost broke her nose while sliding her around the house on the hardwood floors, her on a blanket.  I was never good at geometry, and miscalculated the distance of cutting the corner and her blondness turning just right clipping her snozz on the gliders arm. (the picture makes finding X so simple!)
-Did I ever tell you I learned how to clean up a lot of blood that night?

• Did I ever tell you about the same age as above while other girls were playing with Barbies I thought Mario Brothers were the fo-zizzle and am tickled that little dude likes them as much as he does? He even digs the cartoon from when I was younger I watched all the time never watched because I was far too cool to watch cartoons...

Plead the 5th

There may or may not be some pics from the Haunted House from last night staging right here: http://kcmonarch.winkflash.com  IF they are there, they are out of order, and not labled.  :-D

Ticks Me Off Tuesday

My family is plotting my demise.  I am one of the most uncoordinated people you will ever come across.  Some think Bella's character from Twilight was molded after me, in that case you can send me Rob...ummm never mind.  I can honestly injure myself quite nicely.
Take for instance last October in Omaha on our way to visit my family in LaCrosse, I was left with the seemingly simple task of taking the dog to take a leak before he went into my Ils.  I get the crate out, put leash on and we are off down the sloped paved driveway.  Three steps from being able to reach the car for support, my knee buckles causing me to roll my ankle, there was a distinct cracking as I crumbled to the pavement and landed on my other kneecap. 
The Weatherman and his dad just stared at my graceful self for a moment.  Most likely trying not to laugh their asses off.  Till I tried to get up on my own.  I could feel my ankle swelling, I would have to say looking back it was rather impressive.  I limped my way back inside leaving the dog, the guys and my dignity outside. 
I monkey swung myself up the staircase with my arms and plopped myself on the carpet.  I had tears in my eyes and I think I may have hissed when someone tried to move me.  While tending to my ankle little dude pointed out my pants were toast and I was bleeding through from my knee cap.  I assessed the situation, nothing broken.  Since I have my MD in bull-shit I decided we would still make the trip to LaCrosse the following morning.  We stayed only till about 2am Sunday and headed back due to my pain.  I reluctantly went into the docs Tuesday morning.  Not before I broke my right top pointer finger knuckle in my sleep the night before.  Yep, while I was sleeping!  I may have what you would call a slight issue with night terrors if too sleep deprived, though no one woke when I did this to myself, including myself I am so bad ass!.  The doc the next morning agreed with y medical opinion that I am a walking disaster with no broken ankle or knee, and said there was nothing she could do for the finger.  I hate her.  So anyways this brings me to my TMOT.

Last night the weatherman left the cord for the vacuum across the top of the stairs.  Like a month to the flame, I tripped over it and went down the stairs, partly.  I am fine, but cursing a red streak about the fact it was left out. 
I made some snarky/ brilliant comment about the situation and he comes back with, "next time I will put it straight across and use a brown cord."  MY warped sense of humor finds this entertaining as I can totally see myself tripping over it.  Did I mention I was downing a glass of water while he was talking?  I about choked on it laughing.  So trying to kill me on the stairs AND drown me in a matter of minutes.  Yea, I got my eyes on you weatherman...

And to your demon spawn offspring who gets a kick out of getting only me up at the unholy hour of 5 am daily:  Go bug your father, you two can continue to plot my demise with that treasonous dog of yours!  I'll get you back when you are a teenager, and allergic getting up before noon!

So the winners of the Tick Me Off Tuesday Award for this week goes to my fam-damily for plotting my demise!  I love you all too...

• Totally Tick Me Off Tuesday is the brain child of Mommy from the Midwest.  Check out her blog, and look for more people who participate in TTMOT!  This is her "award" to those who Tick us off weekly.  I posthumously award it this week to all of those who have ticked us off!

I'll Show you Mine, Now You Show Me Yours

Since I am in the Halloween Spirit time for some tales

This is a re post from December of '06 from my MySpace blog, after you read it, post your best Ghost Story in the comments or leave a link so others can read them!

Post: It takes a BUNCH to creep me out....Slappy your gonna LOVE this

Current mood:  weird

This morning it's official...I was creeped.  Corey went in to work, left, gone from the house.  Logan was in his room, sleeping, no light on at all.  I was face planted in my pillow (very bad for my back BTW), and here my door creek open, steps, and a squeeze on my calf. I flipped over and hopped out of bed.  I know who it was, but dang...don't touch me!!!!!!!  I get it go check on boy wonder.  I was going to go to the bathroom, I kinda shut the door and hear, "go check on the boy."   I don't want him talking to me really either.  After that, I'm in no mood to pee, but check on Logan.  So there was a touch and now a voice in between me and my kiddo.  I counted to three and ran into his room throwing open the door.  He was just waking up.  I am protesting this if this is how I am going to get woke up every morning.   Corey's step-grandfather (also his Godfather) is the spook in question, in case you were wondering confirmed by a couple different psychics.  We have had an up spin activity since Corey requested his parents give him Bob's spark plug lamp.  I protested getting any of Bob things and got away with it since 2000, till 2 weeks ago.  I know since we were in "NoDac" in October Logan has been greeting the "old man" on the stairs as he calls him as we come home.  Corey didn't believe me till we (Logan and I) were at the gym and Corey was here alone later that week.  He was hearing stuff moving downstairs and feeling someone standing over him.  He thought someone was home, nope.  

*We found out shortly after Logan suffered from sleep apnea.  A removal of his adenoids would help solve the problem.  And the stuff didn't stop for a while


I showed you mine, now show me yours!

Week In Review

I will call this installment my shreek in review. 

• I was drowning in classwork this week.  4 chapters, yes, 4 damn chapters due by tomorrow.  I had it sorted Friday, though.  There may or was may not have been almost-all-nighters to get there.  Over 250 pages for the said class too. 

Speed reading came in handy in spades.  It took till the last chapter for me to become remotely interested in the books.  Gawd! By Thursday evening I was feeling just like this:

  Only 3 more chapters till that class is D-O-N-E!  I have 2 chapters due by the 2nd for another class, but should be cake.  And the other two classes were not hardcore about assigning crap during fall break.

• Little Dude had a rough week at school.  I have no idea where his low bullshit tolerance came from, but one of the repeat kindergartners annoy the living daylights out of him.  So he got in trouble for yelling at the kid.  At least he didn't swear at him  or call him names, I will be the mature party and do it for him:
  

 
I wish that would have been the worst of it, but he also about had the gym teacher in tears from him ignoring her when she was trying to tell him what to do.  Did I say bad week, I mean bad day, yep all one day!  He got out of going to the principals office only barely, he better thank his Grandpa Tom for those looks! then he got on a roll and wouldn't sit still, whistling Fuzzy in circle time, causing himself and a girl who joined in to get in trouble. Fuzzy my darling little bunny, you totally gave away who you were on Tuesday during the bonus round of Lyric Trivia.  

• The Huskers had more turn-overs than points this week.  Damn.

• Family Movie night Saturday.  We went to see Harry Potter and the 1/2 Blood Prince at the Hasting Museum's Imax theater.  It was Little Dude's and my second time seeing it, Weathermans 1st time.  And I hear the Dvd comes out December 8th.
  

•  Cabelas got in our jackets, just in time for more cold, crappy weather.  Corey has to send his back because the bottom cord wasn't sewn in.

• Pumpkin Patch today-weather permitting of course.

 
 Upcoming events for the week:

• Weatherman is off all week, and we will be spending time at Little Dudes school, getting the Haunted Houses ready for the weekend. 

• Halloween, Trunk or Treat and "Haunted House" for kids on Saturday.

• Friday night and Saturday night I'm working at the Adult Haunted House.  I cannot wait to spill what is in there. 
• I will be not on as much, as I have the Weatherman is high maintance home and we will be prepping for the haunted house.

• One huge negitive of next weekend...the inlaws could be invading. Here are my parting thoughts on that: 

Needless to say, I will be spending a lot of time at Little Dude's school, hopefully not bailing my kid out of the principal's office...

Weekend Photo Challenge

Jenn, of Ihatewhine has a weekly photo challenge during the weekends. Here are the Rules:

This week the rules are : Go to your Oct/08 folder and post the closest picture you have to today's date ! If your folders aren't set up like that then go to where ever you keep the pictures from last October .

I looked and just happened to have one picture with the 24th on it.

It's hard to believe that Brody wasn't even walking yet ,the way he runs around here now like a wild man ! I also had just gotten pregnant for the Little Miss,but didn't know yet .

If you play along let me know in comments so I can check your picture out and others can too !

So leave a comment on her site so she can check out your pics too if you would like to play too, leave a comment here, if you stop and check out the Little Rockstar!
 Most of the October '08 pics were from the Halloween parties Little Dude attended last year, 4 in all.  I know it only asks for one pic, but here is a sequence of Little Dude Rocking out as Harry Potter...

 Rock on, Harry Potter, Rock on!

Wanna help me choose...

my new background for post Halloween?  Here is the super talented lady who has done the backgrounds for my blogs.  Shop around and tell me what you would think would look good.  Post the link in the comments for what you would like to see.  I will look at all the links in the comments and see if it is one of the ones I have been looking at, or missed!  I will unveil what I I decided Nov 1st.  Who knows maybe you will find something there you love love love.  Oh, did I mention her backgrounds are free??? 

Mostly Wordless Wednesday

So let me get this straight, no caulk?  Lets take a closer look shall we...

Hint, we will not be purchasing this tub, or maybe even from this company for our remodel just because they are stupid.

OH Momma!

Check out my girl Megan's @ Rambling of a Crazy Momma Sex up your Saturday Nights contest.  You can win a 25 dollar gift card to Eden Fantasies!

It's worth checking it out, but do it before Midnight on the 24th of this month!  How fun does her massage stuff look?