tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349757582009-11-30T00:14:40.150-05:00~ Life ain't all Skittles and Beer. Sometimes it's vodka and chocolate~Chickahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09339006290850303550chicka.nuts@gmail.comBlogger758125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34975758.post-37334275100320793562009-11-30T00:11:00.001-05:002009-11-30T00:14:40.300-05:00

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

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Alas, we have no leftovers. It's one of the problems with going away to have fun with friends on the holiday. I'll likely make a turkey this next week or so and make some awesome turkey soup from it. Kasia's been requesting it forever. We do lumpy mashed potatoes whenever we like, so it's not going to be a special dinner or anything. I just got after Thanksgiving turkeys on sale and bought

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Today I'm still feeling kind of sickish - fatigue, joints hurt, eyes ache, and some "south of the equator" rebellion. Nothing contagious, I'm sure. But I'm not licking the bacon or anything over here. I went and got the flu shot when everyone else was shitting their pants about getting a vaccine that "wasn't ready." "How dare they expect me to get injected so I'm less prone to infect half the

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Recently MADD created a blog - The Power of Parents.The Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving kicked off in November 2006 with the goal of eliminating drunk driving permanently. The Campaign has four essential elements: Mandatory ignition interlocks for ALL convicted drunk drivers Increased law enforcement efforts including crackdowns during holiday weekends, sobriety checkpoints and saturation

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Collateral damage: 1 huge tarp, 3 colored lights, 1 blacklight, 1 alien candle, 1 skull, and a few plastic walls. Not bad considering we had a huge windstorm and spent the afternoon trying to save, and then rebuild, the haunt.Kids I made pee themselves: 2 (one about 7 years old and one a preteen/teenager)My favorite butcher lines:* Are you a vegetarian? (Some guy answered, "I am now!!") I

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Sometimes life just gets too weird. Things start disappearing (like pants and my favorite Halloween shirt, and shoes...where in the hell are the shoes???)...and other times, things "relocate" themselves. My marker - no one was near it. Now it's on the bookshelf. No one in my family is ambitious enough to pick anything up off the floor.) And sometimes things are right in front of your face (a

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Kasia's got two weeks to learn her lines. It's a good thing we're incredibly familiar with a few different forms of the musical, Annie. She really needs to work on not singing other people's songs or parts of songs though. HAH! (Although they did use her as a practice back up for the two other musicals because she knew everyone's songs then, too. *snicker*)Looks like we're faced with six

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Yeah, she thinks she's sly, that Kasia...We weren't expecting the cast list to be posted until Thursday. The music teacher (that she doesn't even have!) pulled her aside to tell her. She said when she got the news she had to go to the bathroom because she wasn't sure if she was going to pee herself or pass out.So she gets home, and says (kind of sadly), "The cast list was posted today. I need a

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We're kicking it into high gear the next few weeks with decorating and setting up our haunted house. It's our 2nd annual, and we've refurbished two 20' carports into a small haunt. Hopefully next year we can expand even further. Too bad we don't have a good chunk of land. Perhaps someday.If anyone local is interested in coming, it's free admission, but we are accepting donations for the

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Just tired. Blood work, sick kid, follow up appointment for my diabetes, and final verification that it's not what I eat or what I don't do - that it's all just genetic. That should be monumental, but today I'm just drained.I need to dejerkify and declutter my life - mess and people included. I'm back to expending too much of myself at once and just need to say, "You know what? I'm one person

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I can only hope to run into Kevin James tomorrow...he and I can ride off into the sunset on his Seqway.I haven't been to the mall in YEARS, except for a quick pop in to do a TKD demo or whatever. Tomorrow I have to take two preteen girls to the mall to find something to wear for an upcoming dance. Kasia's got a $25 mall bucks card left from her birthday, and her friend J. will need to do her

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There's a new web-based program calledBrainFuel4Kids.com. It aims to help take your child's learning to the next level. Everyone knows healthy diet, exercise, and proper sleep are a good way to enhance brain functions. And BrainFuel has sections like "Brain Food," "Healthy Brain," and "Brain Games," aimed at engaging kids and Moms alike. It's a fun site, worth giving a looksee just because I

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Ah yes, it begins. No, I do not have First Day of School pictures. I'm lazy like that. And really - the kids don't want their pictures taken that early in the morning. Getting them both to not look constipated is becoming more and more of a chore. What's with the weird smiles at these ages?)Last night was Open House for the middle school. We got to trek her schedule throughout the building (

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So the Monday holidays still always throw me off. It's not like I take that day and go, "Oh what the hell. I'll just take a vacay day from this mom gig and generally being awesome thing I have going on, and sit around and do nothing." Yeah, like that ever happens. The interwebs is up at arms about Obama's speech. Really? You're keeping your kids home why? Don't be a dumbass. Whether or not

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Thumper reminded me, through my fatigue-induced haze, that it's getting to be that time again - you know...when we turn back clocks and change batteries in our smoke detectors. Except, really, mine won't LET. ME. FORGET...Incessant beeping... It's in the dining room, perhaps buried under the mound of clothes (that we've moved and gone through three times), or fell behind the china cabinet. It

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Well, whatever it is, we'll have to wait some more to get things figured out. Part of the problem is that the school social worker has Emily seeing her once a week, but she doesn't need more one on one therapy. She needs group therapy - role playing, acting, etc. In theory she knows what to do and how to react to things. In real life, she's just unable to. She gets into the moment of

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James Patteron's Daniel X - Watch the SkiesWow! I absolutely loved this book. I couldn't put it down.Daniel X does it again in this interesting book of alien hunting. Hunting down Number 5 on the Most Wanted Alien list, Daniel caught my attention once again. Risking his life to save his mind created friends and working to help rid the world of these aliens of junk he rocked my reading world.I

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On the menu today - O.D.D. And plenty of it. Served up hot and fresh. We all change and evolve and are formed by our experiences, but the world will not bow down to us...ever. If we have a warped reality and can't break from that, we are doomed to be drug addicts, pregnant teens, shoplifters, etc. And if I can help prevent that, I will. For example, you live your life feeling like everyone

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Or something like that. Apparently there has been a vampire skeeter gnawing at the side of my left breast. It must be tastier than the right one. (I have heard tale, but personally wouldn't know. I'm simply not that limber.) And now I either sat on one or it attacked in the dark of night. Right where your rear and your upper thigh meet - right in that crease - there is a HUGE whompin'

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And that's mylanta, I suppose...especially since I get to see Bryan and Maryann! The Boobkateers will be together again! Who knows what havoc we will wreak on Georgia? (Sunday we're gonna meet up with Carrie, too! Another one of the July 2000 gang. YAY!)While I'm incredibly sad that my friend Cindy died at just 35, I know that we'll have a drink to her and remember the good times, like

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I had dreamt of getting every room spotless. I had hoped to get at least two rooms completely blitzed. However, not much has been done so far. I took the first two days the kids were gone and did absolutely nothing...and enjoyed it!Now I'm wondering if camp could keep them for an extra week. LOL!Of course then I'd still have all this cleaning and decluttering to do. I should probably get to

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Ok, really it's how many days does it take for me to blitz the house totally while the kids are gone and how many days will I be able to enjoy the clean and quiet?As kids are wont to do, they make messes. I have stood back from cleaning up after them. Some call it a strike. Some call it outright laziness. I prefer to say that Mom has put down her freaking foot and said, "If you want to live

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Three more days until the kids go to camp for a week.Whee.That is all.

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Gimpy has officially fractured a small growth plate in her right ankle. The doctor says he doesn't think it will affect her growth at all, as long as it heals properly - which means wearing the cam walker/boot and using her crutches. She can ditch the crutches from time to time (and around the house) and can take the boot off for swimming and showering. No horseplay though at the pool.While

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Or the ortho. Whatever he wants to call himself these days.Kasia got mouthy, I tossed her down the basement steps barefoot, and... no, really, she was going to get something and fell. Really. HONESTLY.So off to get xrays, dose her on ibuprofen every chance we get, and hope for the best. No breaks. No fractures. Keep it wrapped when we're out, elevate it at every chance she gets, and let

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