Babies EVERYWHERE

A surge of new Blogger babies have been - or are about to be born. Her Bad Mother had a harrowing almost born in the car birth experience the other day, Amalah and Girls Gone Child are both expecting, it seems like everywhere I turn I read a new pregnancy post! Even my brothers girl friend is expecting!

It makes me remember when I was expecting and how sweet and fragile babies are. I can remember with my first baby having to pack all the billion things a baby needs AND jugs of water - we formula fed- for a trip to my dads. His water was horrible. By the time I had my Third baby, dad had gotten one of those water purifiers, so we were able to take H2o off the list! Now, I pack a change of pants and underwear for the youngest, a few sweaters or coats and am free to head down for the day. No bottles diapers or sippy cups for us!

Often, when a new pregnancy close to home is announced, people imply that I must want another baby too. But truthfully? There is nothing on earth that would make me go back to midnight feedings and stinky diapers!

Why are all the good foods fattening?

If any of you saw my post on my main blog, Bluepaintred, from the other night, you can make a pretty educated guess at how my diet is going. Or, as the case may be, NOT going!

I just love good, sugary, high carb foods TOO much! I wonder if you can still buy corsets? I keep saying to myself, today, self, you will go for a walk. Or Today self, you shall have a yummy salad for lunch instead of your carb filled sandwich! And yet, I never do.

I want to be skinny, I want to be healthy, but not as much, it seems, as I want that last square of brownie.

:o(

more old movies

Every Friday one of the stations our cable offers us plays what they call the Friday Frightmares. I like a good scary movie in a way that means I enjoy watching them but the moment they actually get scary, I get scared, and then stay scared. It worries me to have my back to anything, and I would love to keep a light on when we go to bed, but Hubs cannot sleep in light.

Int he past, I only had to watch scary movies, once, whine they come out, but now, with the Friday Frightmare, I no longer have that option.

Tonight we have Darkness Falls on the television. I can honestly say that this is a VERY well done movie, the plot is great and the acting, for a scary movie, is surprisingly good. The premise is that you are not allowed to "peek" when the toothfairy comes for your teeth, because if you see her, you die. A small boy, upon the loss of his last tooth decided the story is just that, a story, and peeks. His mother ends up dead and he is on the run. He must stay in the light, for the toothfairy fears the light.

As much as I try not to watch the Friday Frightmares, I often end up watching them. And then? Yea, I end up scared.

Yay me. I'm such a dork.

Highlight of the night

Last night we took the kids out for an ice cream cone. We have a little shoppe attached to our local subway store and they always have awesome flavors.

The highlight of the night for the boys was not the red ripple cones, nor the soggy pile of gumball bites , but the fact that two police officers entered the store, ordered ice cream and proceeded to eat it at the table next to us, with their radios crackling away.

We live in a small town, a few thousand people, so it was neat to see the guys dressed in full uniform. I could see Parker - our oldest was dying to ask if there was a gin strapped into the holster. Thankfully he kept his lips zipped. It's really important for all officers to have the proper gear for their job, from 5.11 tactical clothing, to full riot gear outfits.

The police are able to protect us, becuase they are protected by their clothing!

Bad! BAD DOG

My dog ate another pot of my flowers. You know, the ones I planted just last weekend. The ones I spent a zillion dollars on? yea, those ones.

It REALLY ticks me off. Mostly because I refuse to buy more plants for her to eat, but that I had warmedn my son as he put the dog out to potty that he HAD TO WATCH THE PLANTS.

Instead, he flipped on the TV and promptly forgot we even HAVE a dog.

If she wasn't so damn cute, I swear her head would be hanging above my fireplace as we speak!

Pens; Mightier that a sword

Above :Papermate pens

I love nice pens. And by nice I don't mean expensive pens, but ones that feel right in my hands, or, I will suffer discomfort if the color of the pen is unique or the flow of the ink is wonderful. Lately I have been on the look out for a special kind of pen. I got them two years ago, Christmas time, and they are all just about out of ink.

The pens were tiny, about half, or maybe a bit smaller than a "regular" sized pen, and they were gel inks. There was a neon yellow, orange, green and pink, as well as a bright red, two different shades of blue, an awesome shade of deep green and a black.

Not only did I love the colors, but the ink flowed out better than most pens I have found, and they were the perfect size for throwing in my purse - two years and not a single one leaked!. In a pinch, I would let the kids use them to color - you know, when we had to wait for an appointment or an order to be filled.

My mom only ever used one kind of pen, a Papermate, I could not find a picture of the exact pen she used, but she has been dead for 11 years now, so that particular pen might have gone out of stock.

My father in law will only buy pens that have a clip so he can carry them in his shirt pocket.

What about you? do you have a pen fetish? Will you write with anything, or must your pen be a certain kind?

Tell Me Your Plans

Summer, I think, is the best time to go on a trip, especially for people with school age kids becuase they are out of school. Last day here is the 25th of June and report card pick up is the 27th.

Normally we go camping during the summer thanks to the two weeks paid vacation hubs gets in either July or August (they keep changing the month) but this year, Hubs will only have one week off, there is too much work to be done for the plant to have the normal two week shut down :o(

We are struggling with what to do with our one measly week. We could lay in travel supplies and go camping - IF we knew what to do with Smokey! Smokey gets horribly car sick, and by horribly car sick, I mean HORRIBKY NASTY DISGUSTINGLY carsick.

Our vet said we can stop in and have her weighed for a dog size dose of graval, but do we really want to add that expense on top of food, gas and camping fees?

What do you have planned for this summer?

Feelin' HOT HOT HOT

Experiencing my first sun burn of the year, I am a bit shocked at how uncomfortable it is. By any means, this is not a bad burn, maybe 12 inches of my arms is red, and for the most part, my main source of discomfort is a "tightening" feeling in the skin.

Last night however, I was wishing I had a set of silk bedding. Something cool and smooth, instead of the cotton blend sheets I was on.

I think, in a red, or a deep forest green. I should forward this link to hubs, my birthday IS coming up soon, you know!

...not that i plan of getting burned again, of course!

Playing Photoshop

I am SO addicted to photoshop. It's gotten to the point that almost every photo I publish online has been tweeked in some way or another with Photoshop. I even started a photoshop album on facebook to showcase the mored dramatic changes!

Example(s)? Sure :

Gah! Bad Weather!

We had a garage sale goin gon the past couple of days. Quite frankly it sucked.

The highest point of it was having our oldest advertise his sale stuff at school and see him walking home on Thursday afternoon with a gaggle of kids behind him. He sold all of his things in under ten minutes.

I made six bucks, but lost it after walking through the rest of the blocks sales!

Seems like a few items are the In thing this year, patio furniture and kid's summer toys, like wee plastic tables and slides for the back yard. Nothing I was looking for, really.

One place had a bunch of new books on three for a dollar so I spent a bit there, and another place was selling fresh baked goodies and I spent there as well, and OMG was it good!

It was SO cold and windy though, that it was hard to sit outside and watch for garagesalers. It seems like every year we have crappy weather for our sale, next year, I will talk everyone into waiting for at least JUNE!