Note to Self - No Exercising

And DONE!!

Haha!!!!!

I'm free!! Like a bird, or the wind or some other free thing!!

Yesterday was Mom's 60th birthday party, and with that, my season of craziness is over!!

Let me explain this to you guys (I may have already, but you know my mind is slipping)..

September -
My Great Aunt's 90somethingth birthday in Ft. Worth

October -
Tallulah's Birthday
Mrs. #2's Baby shower
Halloween Party

November -
Bean's Birthday
Thanksgiving

December -
Me & Bean's Anniversary (1 year baby!!)
Oliver's Birthday
Mrs. #2's Cousin's Graduation Party (yeah, don't ask)
Christmas

January -
New Years' and Drive to Fucking Iowa
Mom's Birthday


And while that's only 2 things (or so) a month, keep in mind that I only have the kids 2 weekends a month and all of those things required planning, shopping and preparing for. Plus, I'm still insanely tired (which is a completely different rant).

So, yeah, I'm done and I'm thrilled that there is nothing family-wise that I have to plan until October.

Iowa Sucks Ass 2

I'm still trying to remember my blogging habits, and from what I recall I do nothing special on Wednesdays (phew!!).

So I'll explain my post-its from yesterday..

Connie is my cousin. But recently she and I have been discussing how much more we are like sisters than anything else. And I think this last weekend, I proved it. Totally.

First off, I almost literally haven't seen Bean in 2 weeks. He's been working overtime and on every day that he was off, I had something I had to do.

But Connie had to pick up her kids from their Christmas break with their douchecanoe dad in Iowa.

See, when Connie and Dickwhistle got a divorce, he moved there, with no job lined up and no place to live except with his new girlfriend (a woman he had known before but hadn't seen in at least 5 years).

And in the divorce papers (where he screwed Connie royally) it says she has to bring the kids all the way to Iowa every other year for Christmas, and he has to come all the way here to get them and bring them back every summer.

On the way up, he met Connie in Kansas, mostly I think because he wanted something from her and she gave him gas money. But on the way back, he called at 11:30 on Friday to say he couldn't do that because his girlfriend couldn't find a babysitter for her kid and he didn't want to go without her and they wouldn't all fit in the car.

Now, I respect that. Noone wants to drive 18 hours roundtrip by themselves. But that was his piss-poor planning.

So I called him, since he and Connie were just screaming at each other, and he said he'd try to meet us at the Iowa/Missouri border.

Awesome. That knocks our 36 hour trip down to 31 hours.

Then Saturday when we're in Kansas he finds out that Connie didn't send him gas money. (Which looking at it now, she's glad she didn't do since he didn't drive anywhere and wouldn't have given it back.) So he says he can't go anywhere, because he just spent $2000 on the kids for Christmas and doesn't have it.

Bullshit. If you just spent $2000 on Christmas, you have $40. I even offered to split it with him and still no.

So we drove. And we drove and we drove.

I ended up being in the car for 41 hours once you add in my drive home from Connie's.

The kids were actually amazingly good, Connie and I were just so very tired it was unreal.

And we both had to work Monday.

Iowa Sucks Ass

I am so exhausted, so I's glad it's Tuesday, because if memory serves, that means Post-its!!

Enough of that Sappy Shit

Now that you got a post all sappy and heartfelt and shit, it's time to put away the tissues and get back to work.

Bean and I don't do New Years Resolutions. But, here's my list of things that would be fucking awesome to have happen in 2011.

• Win the lottery. Obviously.
  
• Take the kids to Colorado. Preferably with Bean.
  
• Keep Oliver from being bullied to badly at school.
  
• Potty train the damn rat dog bitch.
  
• Let the damn rat dog bitch have some puppies.
  
• Sell said puppies.
  
• Get decorations for my bathroom Christmas tree.
  
• Boycott Science Fair.
  
• Get a new damn job (or at least a new boss).
  
• Conquer the world (in Civilization).
  
• Get a computer that actually works.
  
• Get a laptop that noone else is allowed to touch, so that I have somewhere to put my porn collection.
  
• Pay off my brand new paper credit card.
  
• Buy Christmas/Birthday presents in advance.
  
• Have a fucking amazing not 30th birthday party.
  
• Educate Bean on which Holidays are important to me, and which ones I don't give a rat dogs ass about.
  
  But mostly, just try to enjoy life a little more.
  
  
  
  
  
  

God Grant Me..

After not blogging for over a month, you'd think that I would be bursting with things to say, but no..

For the last week I've been trying to think up a post, and I've got nothing. Maybe blogging is like studying, if you get out of the habit, its very hard to get back in..

But, since it's New Year's Eve, a year in review is in order (plus it means I don't have to be too creative).

In 2010:

• I got married to my soul mate (technically this was 2009, but it was December, so it counts for 2010).
  

• I discovered that doctors do not know everything.


• I became the not so proud owner of 2 rat dogs.

• I managed to keep my job.


• I've more or less come to terms with my sister being evil.


• I became an aunt, again.


• I lost my best friend.


• I found woman's best friend in the form of a floppy mess of a goldendoodle.

• I found some old friends I thought I had lost.


• I did not win the lottery on multiple occassions.


• I ripped up carpet for the first time.


• I learned to let go of my children, just a little.


• I became addicted to blogging.


• I did not kill any members of my family.


• I had "the talk" with Oliver, several times.


• I got my first credit card.


• I decorated my first cake.



• I went gambling for the first time.


• I stretched my non-craftiness to the absolute limit with scrapbooking and party planning.


• I've had to bend my beliefs and open my mind.
  
  But most of all, I've learned the importance of the serenity prayer.
  
  
  
  
  
  

Things I Learned When I Wasn't Blogging

I can't believe that its been almost a month since I posted anything.. I'm so sorry!!

It's been so crazy around here!!

I'm not fully back, because I still have a bunch of craziness to mess with, but I thought I would let y'all know I'm still alive, and post up a little randomness..

• Doctors are stupid.
• And just because Google says you should be prescribed a certain drug for whatever illness does not mean you actually will be.
• Pharmacies and Insurance Companies are stupider. They have a really hard time understanding that normal people don't have an extra $400 lying around to spend on medication.
• I still love Christmas, and now that all 7 of my trees are up (yes, 7 - though the way the kids count it, there's 10) I can't wait for next year when I get to buy new decorations.
• Having been married to Bean for a year is a little odd. It feels like yesterday, but it also feels like we've been married forever. I don't really know how to describe it, but I like it.
• Children are evil. They'll bully anyone that's different in any way, and when you add that fact in with Oliver's outstanding uniqueness, its a recipe for disaster.
• School administrators are morons. And unless a parent throws a very large hissy fit, they don't pay attention to anything.
• I'm pretty good at throwing hissy fits.
• My sister is a bitch. My mother is a pushover. Combine those two things and you get a family gathering being hosted by me on Monday, when I have to work both Monday and Tuesday.
• Tallulah needs a physical Christmas list so that she can't change her mind 55 times in the last two weeks leading up to Christmas. She also needs to note on said list exactly who she's telling she wants what. Especially when she's asking both Grandmas for $100 dolls.
• Oliver should never be allowed to browse for cool things online. Especially when he actually gets money. He could bankrupt himself in a very short amount of time.
• Cold weather makes Bean hurt. Alot.
• I hate working with women. They throw little fits over the stupidest shit and then post it on facebook for the world to see.

That about sums it up. I expect to be back a little next week, and then fully functional after Christmas.