Little random quickie...

My daughter (8) told me that she had a dream that half of her ring finger fell off. When she looked at it, there was corn and puke inside the stump.

Nice and descriptive...I'm raising her right!

~ xoxo ~

Hey fuckers...guess who's back???

That would be ME!!!

I realized I haven't updated this bitch in almost four months so believe me when I say that there is a whole lotta updates headed your way.

Want a quickie? Here you go:

I'm jobless. The lack of cash blows but the vegging on the deck in the sun during the day kicks ASS.
I'm still in grad school.
Thing 1 just turned 8.
Thing 2 is now 6 1/2. This kid...oye.
The Baby Boy Child (2.5) is cute as fuck but his tantrums are damn near exhausting.
I saw Staind for the 7th or 8th time on April 25th.
I will see Staind for the 8th or 9th time on July 2nd.
I'm job-hunting.
I'm studying.
I'm working out.
I'm trying to stay sane while I attempt this SAHM thing again. I have quickly realized that I do NOT like it. BTDT...I want to be in the working world again.
I have several ideas for little projects that I hope to get cracking on soon.
I've developed an insatiable appetitie for Coors Light and Starling Castle Riesing.


See you soon my pretties.

{ Conversation with a friend }

I opened up a new bottle of vitamins the other morning and they smelled HORRIBLE.

Me: "Oh my god these smell like SHIT!!"

Friend: "Well don't make me smell them!"

Me: "I won't but I have to put these things in my mouth."

Friend: "I know you've had worse things in your mouth."

Me: "Yeah but at least those taste good!"

Friend: "Ewww...maybe if it's covered in chocolate."

Me: "It could be if you stick it in the wrong hole."


~ xoxo ~

{ Just a Quickie}

Tonight during our nice, quiet sit-down dinner, my six-year-old son asks my seven-year-old daughter...

"Which of your boogers is your favorite?"

Before she could answer, he answered it himself with...

"Mine are the ones that shoot out towards the tv."


WTF???

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Merry Christmas everyone!!!




xoxo

Randoms...

~ First of all, if you are in to creative and crafty shit, then check out this link for tons of handmade ornament ideas. A couple of us girls are making ornaments to sell at our clinic to raise money for our Relay for Life team. I know we don't do the Relay until July but we raise money all year for it. I think I might try to make a few of the paper ones this weekend.

~ Speaking of the weekend, my goal is to get most of my studying done by Friday night so I can be creative on Saturday. I think I'm going to make my Xmas cards this year. The one positive things about a divorce? You don't have to send out as many Xmas cards!! Just kidding ~ Pickleman is still very much a part of my life and I'll be sending out cards to everyone on last year's list. I'll just make him pay for the postage if my ass is going to make the cards.

Then again, I may just go the photocard route and decide to get creative next Christmas.

~ I have a great picture of the Triple Threat for our Xmas card. When they are all getting along, they can be so sweet! They were definitely in friendship mode the night I took this photo. I don't want to spoil it for those family and friends that read my blog (which I think might be, oh, 4 people) so I won't post it.

~ I'm hungry.

~ I am doing everything I can *not* to study at this moment.

~ If you are up for something mindless, go to You Tube and do a search on "Friends Bloopers". If you were a Friends fan back in the day, you'll get sucked in to Friends clips for hours.

xoxo

{ In Love }

Meet Dewey.
The Boyfriend's new dog.
Is he not ADORABLE??
He's a Labradoodle.
So soft and cuddly.
Even has puppy breath.
I'm in love!!












~ xoxo~

HI-friggin-LARIOUS!!

My Mom sent this to me. Remember "Elf Yourself" from last Christmas? She did it this year with photos of her, my Dad and my three kids. I watched it a few minutes ago and just about pissed myself. My kids were laughing their asses off with HUGE belly laughs!!

Disco Elves

Seriously ~ Watch it. It's a riot!

~ xoxo ~

{ Cunundrum }

Should I stay home alone tonight with my sad heart and my dark house


~ OR ~


Meet my group of girlfriends out for drinks (I've known them since middle school)??


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....


Methinks the girlfriends can kick depression's ass!!!




Why do I have a sad heart?
Amanda.
Holidays can be hard.
Holidays ARE hard.
Couple that with working next to death on a daily basis.
This time of year just seems harder than last year.



Thanksgiving Day plans: Dinner with the family at a country club in the late morning (does that really quantify as "dinner"??, play wii all afternoon long at my parent's house then work at the hospital for four hours.



Crafty Update: Remember that one time I used to scrappbook and shit? Yeah. That was cool.
Actually, I went in to my garage two nights ago and took my scrapbook stuff out of storage. It's been put away almost nine months. I made some super cute xmas ornaments to sell at work as a fundraiser for our Relay for Life team. Even sold a couple already!
I'm knitting again too. I'm off school until next week so I started making mittens for Thing 1. I finished one and am on the cuff of the other. Hopefully I'll finish it this weekend. I would like to make her a matching hat and scarf but that most likely won't happen. Once school starts, I'm fucked.

Yeah.

I said fucked.

*wink*



Now for some photo updates!!














My digi point-n-shoot camera has been out of commission for almost six months so I'm severely lacking on the photos. I'm hoping to send it out to get fixed soon. I hate not having a camera at all times!!! I'm too paranoid to bring my digital SLR to the bar and shit. *wink*


Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

~xoxo~

{ Ugly }

The Boyfriend and I on Halloween...quite possibly the ugliest couple on the planet! I nicknamed him "Beatrice" for the night. I went as a 70s gym teacher, complete with my balls hanging out of my shorts.






Awwww Bea...You're so pretty!!!




Bea was trying to prove her manliness.





The lipstick. The wig. The torn fishnets. Could she BE any hotter??? I love that he did this. He was nervous about going out in public like that but he did it. That means a lot to me. *swoon*


Quick life update:

Work is crazy busy. My part-time job is just that...very part-time. It's actually a casual position at the hospital across the street from my FT job. I pick up shifts when I want to. School is insanely difficult. I'm almost done with my second class. I'm taking a few weeks off before starting my next one so I can breathe, do some Xmas shopping, and just be. Kids are happy, healthy (minus one with a cold) and adorable as ever.

*muah*

~ xoxo ~

{Chilly}

BRRRRR!

I just got home from a 90 minute motorcycle ride. It was not a warm ride. It was in the mid-50s and very windy. I was cozy and bundled up, including my helmet. It was nice to have some fresh air after my stressful week.

I enjoyed looking at the fall foliage while breathing in the crisp fall air through my helmet's wind vents, snuggled up to the on-again-off-again boyfriend (who is close to becoming the on-again type). I know, I know...I have relationship A.D.D.

I hope everyone is doing well. It's amazing what 24 hours can do to your psyche. Last night I was sad, called my Mom crying, sat with my next door neighbor and cried while she also cried...

Today I'm smiling and enjoying the smell of beautiful lillies on my kitchen table.

~ xoxo ~

{Blue}.

That is my heart tonight.

How can I love my job so much yet hate it with every ounce of my being? I work at a cancer clinic. I've been there exactly one year. I love my job. I feel like I have found my niche.

But I hate that I have a job because of cancer.

I hate that I meet these absolutely wonderful, uplifting people every day and know that there is nothing I can do to medically help them. I hate that cancer is killing Moms, Dads, sisters, brothers, grandparents, friends, and strangers. I fucking HATE IT.

We have a patient right now that is in the fight of her life. She is young, has young children, has a wonderful husband...and is in the fight of her life. I'm scared for her. I'm scared for her babies. I'm scared for her husband. I'm angry for her. I cannot stop thinking about her. She's my age. Her children are the same age as mine. She's got a beautiful smile, a beautiful family and a wonderful attitude.

I wish that I could detach myself from the patients like some of the people at the clinic. I can't. Every patient has a story. Every patient is loved by someone. Every patient is fighting for their life. I can't help but get attached to them.

When cancer defeats them, my heart breaks. It breaks over and over again on a daily basis.

I want to drop-kick cancer in its balls.


~ xoxo ~

I got a giggle from these kittehs.

My new favorite Obama picture!!

Cracks my ass up.

I'm going to try this "planning" thing.

Several of my girlfriends have blogs. Being a busy mom/employee/student, I rarely have time to sit down and talk with my friends so blogging helps me catch a glimpse into their lives. I absolutely love blogs for this reason.

Some of them blog about what they have planned for the week, be it activities, menus, etc.

At the end of each day, I feel like I just barely kept my head above water with all the shit I have going on in my life. When I say shit I mean stuff because it's all good. No major dramz, everyone is happy and everyone is healthy. I just need to find a way to become more organized. Therefore, I'm going to write a quick "to-do" list here to see if it helps me get anything accomplished this week. :)

Monday: Work. Call school to add my house to the bus route. Birthday dinner for the Boyfriend at Fogo de Chao. Watch football. Tweak my final paper of my first MBA course before submitting it.

Tuesday: Work. First day of my next class, do homework. Vacuum floors. Clean kitchen. Fold Laundry.

Wednesday: Work. Pick up kids from their dad's house. Hang out at home with kids and attempt homework. Make dinner (any suggestions??). Clean bathrooms.

Thursday: Work. Take Thing 1 to dance. Dinner (again, need ideas!). Do homework. Play PS2 with the kids.

Friday: Work. Lay low with the kids ALL WEEKEND LONG. Do homework, clean the house, catch up on laundry.


That was hard to do!

~ xoxo ~

If I'm listening to country music, it can only mean one thing...

It's FALL baby!!

Pickleman always joked that he could tell fall was in the air when I started listening to country. I only listen to it for a few months and then it's back to my beloved rock.

I heard a song the other day that I absolutely fell in love with. It's called "She Never Cried In Front of Me" by Toby Keith.

I just went searching for a video on it and came across this totally random beauty. It's the song but put to a video featuring Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson from Law & Order:SVU. I love this show and I love those two actors. I've wanted them to hook up for a long time. This video is just too cool.



:)

~ xoxo ~

{ Ouch }

I was in a fender bender this morning. I rear-ended someone on my way to work. I'm okay and the other driver is okay. There were no other people involved. Her truck is fine. My car is fine...with some flair in the license plate as her trailer hitch made a perfectly square dent in the center of it.

I'm sore from whiplash and I have a seriously bruised ego.

This could have been prevented and I'm really upset with myself. I'm also freaking myself out with the "what-ifs".

I fell asleep at the wheel.

Just saying that scares the living SHIT out of me. I have the most effed up sleep cycles sometimes. I got 7-8 hours of sleep last night but was totally exhausted today. Work sucked last week. School is getting more and more difficult each day. My kids were with their Dad all weekend. I spent the majority of my weekend crying. My brain is a puddle of mush right now and it showed this morning.

I saw my doctor after work because of my sore neck and upper back. Whiplash, of course. She also wants me to have a sleep study done.

Pickleman often suggested this due to my crazy sleep patterns. I shrugged it off figuring it was normal.

My doctor said that I shouldn't be that exhausted if I got 7-8 hours of sleep. I was DRAINED today. Dragged my ass around work until it was time to go home.

There are days when I will sleep 18 hours (obviously, I do not have my kids and I am not working).

I know this is rambling but I'm still freaked out about it and it happened 15 hours ago.

I want my mommy. :(

~ xoxo ~

Oh Dear Jeebus...

The other night, I was putting Baby Booger to bed while Thing 2 (age 5 1/2) was taking a bath. He suddenly yells "hey mom...you gotta come in here!!"

Being a mom, I immediately put down Booger and start cruisng towards the bathroom. As I'm walking in I think to myself "hmmm...whenever Thing 2 hollars for me like this, he's up to something."

I was right.

I walked in and there he was, sitting in the tub with his scrote in hand and up out of the water. He says...



"Hey Mom! I have two little cheeseballs in here!!"


This kid just friggin' slays me with the things he comes up with!!

~ xoxo ~


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PPS... *deleted*

How to put the F-U in homework FUN!

Wear CRAZY socks!!

~ xoxo ~

Homework or Jon Stewart??

hmmmm...


Jon Stewart fo' sho!!









*ends giggling and hopes to get back to homework before it is due at 11:59pm tonight!!*