Stressed!!

Yikes!

I have a Stampin' Up! workshop (party) in Ottawa at the library today, I am freaking out. Maybe because I am not prepared? (shocker)
or because I am not going to know anyone there?
Or because it will be a big crowd of 15?
Or the fact that I just found out that one of the guests will be a Close To My Heart Demonstrator and another guest will be a Creative Memories Demonstrator (barf in mouth)

Ack! No pressure not to screw up!! Plus as you have recently read I am on a hormonal rollercoster from hell.

Oh and let's not forget my dear family. Today is the day I CAN NOT TAKE CARE OF THE BABY. This is not a hard task. So Ed says he will watch her. OK I still need someone to watch her while you are at work tonight!? So my mom is comming out to get her. That was a long dramatic night of planning that one.

Mia is down for her nap, I swear I just fucking heard her. SHIT. Not good. I am going to FREAK!!!! FUCK!! FREAK!! FUCK!! AAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!

Sigh, maybe she will go back to sleep...I have so much to prep. OK good bye, I will blog my insane day later....

It is official!

Today I woke up bright and early to go to the Dr.'s office for our first visit!

So it is official, we are pregnant, my due date was off, Dr. Lim is thinking more like I am 5 weeks, and I am due around April 30th instead of the 15th, Whatever, we are just so excited!

He did an ultrasound too. I was able to see my uterus with the dark circle and a little white blur that looked like a piece of fuzzy lint on the screen, that is our baby! Just a wee thing.

We go back in 3 weeks to get a better picture and a more accurate due date. I say we, because Ed always goes with, he is such a good baby-daddy!

Even though he made fun of me and my sissy ways, when they had to take 9 viles of blood today. BOO HISS. I am a SISSY!! Yes I did give birth once, but I still don't like needles.

So that is my update on me and our baby McHale! Stay tuned for more info!

Maternal Mirth where are you?

If anyone follows the other Blogs that I have listed here. You may have noticed that Maternal Mirth has been MIA for a while, which is not her blogging style.

So my dear friend. Where are you? Miss you!
Gack

Crab-a-saurus Rex

I am a bitch. I don't care, if I am pissy or not. Eat shit.

I have very little to be pissy about but at the same time I am pissy at everything.

Reason's to be pissy...

Sophie= Love her, I just wish she would not excessivly bark for no reason and for fucks sake STOP chewing everything! Shit dog, you seriously need to stop!!

My Mother= Love her. I just don't appreciate the fact that she tells me I can't be pissy because I am pregnant, but she can because she is menapausal. Also the comment in the car about if I wouldn't talk so much. Whatever, I am so tired of people saying I talk to much, it's my fucking nature. I like to share. That is just plain ignorant.

Waitress at the resturant= Don't love her. She was nice, but kinda slow. Not for real slow, just normal person lazy slow. Brings me dinner, I want cheese on it. What waitress at Olive Garden doesn't always have the parm. cheese on them? Brings Mia's dinner with no spoon. Seriously, the kid is hungry, she comes back 10 minutes later, I had to clean my soup spoon in between. Napkins. We asked for more, hmmm kid and Susie has a drooling issue. BRING US NAPKINS tard! So Susie is smart, she just got up and took the 4 place settings from the next table, so we dirtied all there silverware. Dipshits.

Pregnancy= I am crabby because I have to pee. A lot. I am a hormonal freak. I am pissy, sad, giddy, whatever. I am a crab ass. I also look pregnant. Seriously I am 35 days pregnant. I talked to a Dr. today, she told me that with your second you show sooner. I will ask Dr. Lim tomorrow when I see him.

My Desk= Is a landslide of paperwork I have to go through. Grrr. Landslide meaning it keeps slidding off the desk.

Money= We have none. Well right now I am in a bind, we need to pay Ed's Wrigley dues $186. Ed's Truck sticker $78, we need groceries (not just a quick run either, I'm talking Super WalMart and Aldi trip) and we have a Credit Card bill to pay. Right, so the crapy thing is we can't ignore any of them. Sigh.

Mia is crabby too. She is getting in a molar, so that means diarhea and an evil rash, I'm sure that burns. So she is extra pissy.

SO I know I have a lot to be thankful for... to much to list, but I guess at least I have a dog that loves me, at least I have my mom. At least I have the family to take me out to eat at the Olive Garden.

At least I can get pregnant so I can bitch about it. At least I have the money to have such a nice corner desk. And at least I have money to pay the other bills. Thankfully Mia has teeth, and is growing like she should.

Sigh, now I am a little better. Ed should be home soon, and I need to set up for stamp camp tonight. Man these hormones. Watch out world, Jacki is pregnant and is having one mood swing after another!!

Pregnancy Journal

So I have decited to post on here what I have been reading in "The Pregnancy Journal" A Day-to-Day Guide to a Healthy and Happy Pregnancy" by A. Christine Haris, Ph. D.

This is not a journal that is just for me to write in. There is some space, but it is about 90% info, mostly baby growth and my personal issues, some interesting facts about other countries and babies. Always a quote on a page. So I will share as often as I can. And what I think is interesting to share.

So if my calulations are right it is day 34 on 08/28/07, 232 days to go.

Baby

"Because of the rapid brain growth that has been occurring, your baby's head is much larger then its trunk. The nasal pits are easily seen and the muscles that control the baby's eyes are forming. Your baby's legs now resemble paddles. Soon 42-44 somites will be present"

(I had to look up somites "Blocks of tissue on either side of the spinal column of an embryo that will develop into the muscles and bones of the head and trunk (upper body))

Mom

"You will contunue to feel more tired than usual. Rest when you're tired; Try not to push yourself, since exhaustion comes more rapidly than before." Time for naps!

Quote

"In their eagerness for their children to acquire skills and to succeed, parents may forget that youngsters need time to think, and privacy in which to do it" James Cox

So that is today's bit of info. This journal is really detailed on what it tells me. I had it when I was pregnant with Mia, and at first it freaked me out with the info, but that is so cool when I can know day by day what is going on in me.

I am already feeling the rath of the evil hormones, so be prepared for some emotional blogs, and some damn honest ones too. I freaked out and cried today because I forgot to iron Ed's shirt for work and got all flustered. This is only the begining!

Me and my hot date

So I took Mia out for a hot date this morning. Just me and her, to McDonald's, I get a #8 (2 breakfast burritos and a hash brown) with a coke. And Mi gets her own hash brown and a fruit and yogurt parfait.

We sit at our favorite table and have a nice long breakfast. Then we went to the scrapbook store to get paper for a project I am working on. I can't wait until Mia is scrapbooking right along with me!

We came home and Mi was off on her nap. When she woke up we read books in the pricess castle, and played with the Zoo. After lunch we took a long walk in the red wagon (I walk she sits comfortably with her sippy) Then home for some more play, and then dinner and off to bed.

What a fun day Mia and Me. I had my cell phone with me, but I don't answer it unless it's an emergency. I try to give her all the attention I would want from someone. Thanks for the great day Mi.

Love,
Mommy

Too close together?

So since I have announced that we are pregnant. I have had some comments that the kids are too close together in age.

We planned this, and yes I wanted them this close together. It will be awesome for Mia to have someone to play with, keep her company and they can go to school together.

I do have alot of comments also on how great it is that they are so close. I guess it is just one person's prefrance over another. I personally didn't want to spend to much time having my family. I just want them here so I can enjoy them.

So to answer your next question. I do believe that 2 is the total of children we will be bringing into this world. But who knows we may get a bug up our ass and have 4 more. You will just have to wait and see!

As for now we are almost done with our ark. 2 dogs, 2cats, 2 adults (kinda) and 2 children. Yeah!
(by the way Rosalita died. Sad. RIP and no I will not be getting anymore pets, I have plenty)

Cell Phone

So I have some beef with the bold ass hole bitch that felt the need to mouth to me while in the parking lot at a mall "You could turn better, if you hung up your cell phone." I was of course in the midst of a conversation, and to not inturpt the person I politly gave the dirty cunt, not one but two middle fingers, while still driving and talking on my cell.

Seriously. If you are sensitive stop reading now.

So this ass hole has some big balls to call me out when I am in my car, and I am not effecting her path of driving what so ever. Why she feels the need to tell me her opinion was beyond me. I wish this dirty ass bag, had big enough balls to get out of her piece of shit car and tell me to my face. I guess she felt safe in her car.

So onto my opinion of cell phones, and what I think is fair play.

1. In my car.
a. Talk all I want if I am by myself.
b. Fine to call with others in the car, to check in or to leave a message, annoying to hold a conversation about your whole day. Save it for later. I am in the car. Talk to me.
c. Unless driving in Chicago, because that will get you a heafty ticket

2. In public
a. I do it. Deal.
b. If am being waited on, I will put my phone down and talk to the person, I have worked in customer service to long to not respect them.
c. So this leaves the grocery store, book store, mall, video store, resturant... you get the point right? Unless we are in the library or an office. See phone attached to my head.

3. Nextel Beeping
a. I used to HATE it. Probably because I worked in a bank as retards would beep and have there volume SO loud that everyone knew there annoying coversation.
b. Now I have Nextel and I beep, in my car by myself or in my house.
c. I do break the above if it is short. ie "I am here" "Where are you?"

Cell Phone and me are always together. I really need it, yes once apon a time, before the great invention of the cell phone. I did survive. BUT now with a baby, one on the way. I need it and I am glad I have it.

Do I abuse it? Probably in some people's eyes but as noted in my opening title statement, this is my opinion. So I will be on my phone, in the store, in my self check-out lane, minding my own business. So if you don't like it. Eat shit, and move on. Or for the sake of not getting a finger or two. Leave my business out of your mouth. Thanks. I feel better now.

Sunday Seven

Hello again, here are 7 current facts about me. Enjoy.

1. I am nauseous

2. I am a happy

3. I am tired a lot

4. I have been light headed lately

5. I am hungry, more often

6. I am throwing my diet and exercise plan out the window

7. I am pregnant. 6 weeks to be exact. Due in mid April. Yeah!

So there is your suprise, I gave you the answer. If you still want your clue, from the other day, check out the ticker at the bottom of my blog. I will keep you posted I see my Dr. on Thursday.

Big Boy as I like to call him

This is a great picture of the exact spider, Big Boy, that makes his web every night in my sliding glass doorway every night.

He is huge. I am a bit of a freak when it comes to my spiders. I do not like them by me or on me in anyway. UNLESS they are behind a big glass door. Then I will, and have, spent easily a 1/2 an hour at a time, standing on a chair. Watching Big Boy and his entertaining ways.

I guess I should properly introduce him as:

Arboreal Orbweaver (Neoscona crucifera Lucas) Description: This brown spider has subtle shades of orange and brown that form an indistinct cross on the back of the abdomen. The body is covered with short grayish hairs, and the legs are banded with darker brown. The arboreal orbweaver is one of the larger orbweavers (body length, females 8 - 20 mm; males 5 - 15 mm).

(Taken from the http://www.museum.state.il.us/)

Every summer for 3 years now I have had different spiders, of different species in this doorway. They seem to be getting bigger. First was Fred, then Bob, and now Big Boy. He about the size of a quarter. Not counting his legs. (Not sure about you but I have gotten the chills a few times just typing this. shudder.)

So last night Ed made a comment that I am helping out Big Boy, by leaving the back light on. No shit, I want some big bugs and some entertainment! So I got a little crazy last night. And I turned off the light and got out my flashlight. So I could direct the big moths and flying beetly things to my web. Since the light is to the right of the web, Big Boy and I only get gnats and lady bugs. BORING. Yes this is the crazy and wild life I lead. Don't hate.

Tonight Big Boy was starting very late, around 10:30 pm, when usually he is spinning at 8:30 pm. So he got very little light support from me. Sorry Big Boy you are on your own tonight.

Again, I know I am wierd and freakish, but I really don't mind the bugs as long as I can control the situation.

Rabid Wolf Spider (Rabidosa rabida)

See the pretty spider. This would be the species that dwells in my basement, and yard. Know to be the fastest of all the Wolf Spiders. That is a big fucking spider. They are even bigger in person. I just wanted to share.

Expect the unexpected is right...

So I have a suprise for my blog fans. I am not going to tell you. Find it on my page yourself. Have a giddy day. (smirk)

My Life = Zoo

Long story short... I doubt that is possible with me, but here I go anyway...

Monday

Phone call from Ed. Mia is screaming and her left arm is limp and she can't move it.
Hour and a half later, phone call from Ed. It was a dislocated elbow, from her picking her up by her hands, she is 100% better.

I go home with minutes to let out the dogs and grab my SU! stuff for my meeting with the girls. My basement has 1/2 inch of water in it. Yes the same basement that is part finished (just in May!) and has my art room in it. I am thankfully smart and had all paper up off the floor.
Dogs were fine just confused.

Tuesday

Mom and Dad to the rescue, they come over we kick ass, clean out the basement, put the carpets on the driveway. We can save them!

Then mom, me and Mia cleaned Mia's room, went through all her clothes, to small bagged up and to big to be bagged for later. Dad and Ed finished up the basement and Dad installed all those cabinet locks for miss nosey Mia.

Mom and dad go home 5:02 pm . 5:32 pm I get a phone call from them, and it's not looking good for Punkie (see Ode to Punkie and Ode to Punkie cont.) I did make it there with less then 30 seconds to say goodbye. And he passed away. I will get into more detail tomorrow, but I am tired. What a way to start a week!

Mia is great, basement is getting there, and Punkie. Well, he is in a better place. Goodnight.

Saturday 16

Yeah! I made my own day of things to tell you... um, so I will do 16 things that only women understand...

1. The crucial difference between a good haircut, and a great one

2. The opportunity to wear your new outfit is a reason to go on living.

3. The heartbreak of stretch marks, varicose veins, cottage cheese, and fat knees.

4. Obsessing over your biological clock

5. Changing your mind 15 times in one hour

6. The unbeatable combo of girlfriends and a kitchen table

7. That fathers have some input in the baby-making process, but mothers do most of the real work

8. Why "Girls Night Out" is not on the list of optionals.

9. How to apply makeup in the rearview mirror

10. How to function brilliantly in an emergency

11. How to do 6 things at once -and do them well

12. Stuffed Animals

13. How to listen to the story, behind the story

14. The Great Divide: Women with kids and Women without kids

15. The alarming differenc between 120 lbs and 121 lbs

16. The tone of your girlfriend's telephone voice when she means: He's in the room, so I can't talk abouth that right now.

Coffee = poop

Yes I know the results in coffee and my body. I would like to share that today with the 2 cups of coffee I have pooped 3 times. Ah yes. My diaretic!

Just for one day

Cheer up every person you interact with (including yourself)

Hug a tree
(Note: The secret to hugging trees is to close your eyes so you don't feel shy. If you hug a tree long enough, it will hug you back!)

Eat a banana popsicle, run through the sprinkler, lie on your back and watch clouds.

BE RELENTLESSLY POSITIVE

The world is craving more creative free spirits!

From Sark's "Sark's new creative companion Ways to free your creative spirit"

Now go to www.planetsark.com and enjoy.

Anger. Rage. Hate. Love. Misunderstood. Confused.

Does it ever get better?
Will it ever stop getting worse?
Why her?
What did she do to deserve this?
What can I do to make it better?
Isn't that my job?
To make you feel better?
I wish I could take the struggle and discomfort away.
I just don't understand it.
I want to have answers just like everyone else.
I try to be strong for you.
It's just about impossible some days, I'm glad you don't see me cry.
I love you. And I promise I will spend my life trying to help you.
Help you cope.
Help you understand.
Help me understand.
Help others understand.

I want this gone.
I want it to stop getting worse.
I want it to stop taking over your life.
I want you to love you.
You are amazing, and this just keeps others from seeing what I see and know.
You are the most amazing person ever.

Damn you Dystonia. Damn you to hell. We will fight you and learn your ways. We will over come you. That is my goal. Defeat Dystonia.

I love you Frances. A lot.

Coffee

The above picture is my usual intake of coffee a day. That is why Ed works 2 jobs, so I can drink coffee.

(ok just kidding)

I have realized the true meaning of coffee (as I write this with a coffee buzz) it is not just so much a tasty beverage to people. It is also a means to get through the day. Coffee made little or no sense to me growing up, as I remember my first taste of coffee. It was from my Gramma Alice, now this woman liked her coffee. And she liked it black. Gag. I could not imagine why anyone would want to put that black tar shit into there bodies.

I have now realized with a little one, 2 dogs, 2 cats, one husband, an at home business (that is doing well) and a house that always needs me. Coffee is the most essential thing to survive life. I need one coffee drink per day. God only knows how much coffee my Gramma Alice would need with 5 children, 2 of them being twins, 2 poodles, a house to keep and my Grampa. Yikes.

So I am now an official coffee drinker. Alicia I think I understand your need for coffee now. And you have 3 kids, not counting Ruben... 4 kids total, dog, cat, house, job, yeah that's alot of coffee.

I now have a new understanding to coffee, and the coffee drinking women that I love. Hooray to the coffee plants, may they never become extinct!

So I ask that you please comment below, with the coffee that you need per day. Thanks!

I called it!

Booyah!

I called it! Dustin went home. Danielle won HOH. Kick ass, they did good. The 5 had weak and strong players. And now it is time for the strong Jess and Eric to allign with Dick & Danielle, and hopefully Jen too.

Jameka- Hopefully to be up on the block this week. Enough of the coat tail riding!
Zack- Sigh, poor Zach. One wrong allience to start out on a bad foot.
Amber- I do like her. Simply because she is a mom. And a caring person, but I think she plays way to emotionally and not stratigicly.

So I was right. BB did leave the 24/7 feeds on trivia all afternoon, so we could not hear last minute talk.

Right now they are making dinner, all together, just like they do every night. Except for Amber and Jameka, who are sitting in blank stare at the table. Realizing how fucked they are. Smile.

My prediction

So BB8 will be starting in 55 minutes. This is the live Thursday eviction and Head Of House Competition. This should be pretty damn good.

I am guessing from watching the live feeds that the votes will go as follows...

Danielle to evict Dustin (Duh, not her dad!)
Zack to evict Dustin (Who knows what Zach is thinking)
Jen to evict Dick (cuz he is mean, and she has been kissing the 5's ass all week)
Amber to evict Dustin (her BF in the house)
Jameka to evict Dick (One of the 5)
Eric to evict who ever America told him too. ( I personally voted online my max of 10 votes to have Eric evict Dustin, just to stir things up! my guess is Dustin though)

So there are to be 6 votes, Dick and Dustin can not vote, neither can Jessica current HOH. If it works out like I predict, Dustin will go home. Not because I don't like him. I do, but because his retarded ass said he would go up as a pawn. Dork.

And even though Dick went on a psyco rampage I can say. I would rather be in the final 2 with Dick. Who would give him the money? Exactly. Mean or not, I would put up with his shit for another 2 months for half a mill. But that's just me.

"Dustin, by a vote of 4 to 2. You have been evicted from the Big Brother House. You have 1 minute to gather your belongings, say goodbye and go out the front door."

OR

They will throw some looney twist in the game and evict 2 people, or somehow not evict anyone. Who knows with the show always being "Expect the unexpected!"

I will keep you posted!...

Thursday 13!

Today's Thursday 13, will be the 13 reasons why I love Me and Ed.

1. We love each other for who we are.

2. We respect each other.

3. We love football.

4. We both work hard. He works two jobs, so I can stay home and do the hardest job. Be a mom

5. We discuss everything, all the time. Even things that are adultlike.

6. We both love playing cards

7. We both listen.

8. We have our own sign lanugage.

9. We have the most amazing little girl. Mia Nicole.

10. We both consider our pets our kids.

11. We are each others best friends.

12. We are trying to stay on some sort of budget. By eating in, not going out to bars, and enjoying the things we love, without going out of our means.

13. We don't smoke (nor do our close family or friends) and we don't need to drink to have fun.

So Happy Thursday 13!!

Big Brother update

So they were doing something, I don't know what I was stuck with BB8 trivia on all 4 screens.

But they just came back to the live feeds, the whole inside of the house is decorated, Alice in Wonderland theme. In the center of the kitchen table is a large cage with white rabbits in it.

There is a BIG human statue, all white. Scares the house guests! It is not a statue, it starts to move and do different poses.

Then while they are all checking out the rabbits on the table. A kid dressed up as the Mad Hatter comes in pointing to his "Flava Flav" clock around his neck. Maybe time is running out? Or I'm late?

This is crazy! The houseguests are trying to figure it out as so am I.

Now the little Mad Hatter is talking. "A snitch in time saves 9" right now there is 9 house guests...maybe they can all stay and no one will get evicted this week if they all do something?
Maybe it has to do with Eric being AP?

I assume this all has to do with HOH comp. tomorrow night... "3 can keep a secret, two of them are dead" is this with the 2 of the 3 twists, already evicted? or something else?

Now he is also saying "What a tangled web we weave" I guess the houseguests were outside getting more confusing things to count, and remember. If only I knew that crazy poem in Alice in Wonderland, and if it even relivant to any of this... Now MH (Mad Hatter) is dry humping Jessica's bed pillow? What?

Now they are on lock down to the back yard, and they are all finally out on the couch...

to be continued...

Ode to Pumpkin Harry Carugati cont.

So again I tell you about Punkie. His days are getting numbered. He looks like a drunk when he walks, sometimes he even uses the wall to lean on. He can not hear or see, but he can smell you, especilly if you have food.

He is nappy from not taking care of himself, his nose is dirty from food, he cry's when you pick him up.

Sigh. Punk, what do I say? You are an amazing little man. I have said goodbye to you everytime I see you. That has been 2 years now, that mom tells me to say goodbye. Because, this may be the last time.
I have said goodbye to you so many time that now it is almost comical. You are no longer a pet, but more like a muppet from a Jim Henson movie.

So Susie and I thought it would be cool to take pictures with you and Mia. Since we never saw that one coming. I was 8 years old, when you came into my life. You heard and know so many stories and secrets, that only a kid tells there pet. Who know's maybe you will break a world record.

Love you. Gack

Where the Wild Things Are

Mia and I took an adventure last week, to the Minooka Public Library it is an little old 2 story building, but the whole second floor is dedicated to kids! So we found the toy corner and all by ourselfs we played!

I love ribbon!

Wee! I love ribbon! Thanks again to my upline Connie, for the Stampin' Up! samples of ribbon!

What I have been up to...

So the picture below, is if you are standing in my loft, looking down into the pool room.

This large mountian of clothes is everything I own, clothing wise

Not counting coats. But it will include... socks, skirts, pants, underware, bra's (sport to fancy) tank tops and summer wear, to sweaters, t-shirts, dresses and even some maternity wear.

You name it I threw it down here. So Ed and I could clean out and go through all we own, to make it fit better in our room.

I have 9 large bags of clothes I will be taking to GoodWill to donate. And I have one bag of t-shirts and clothes, I will be using to make into a quilt or pillows for memories.

See below for my beautiful closet!!

The closet originally only had one shelf, so we moved it up, and bought a new one to add below. Ed being 6 foot gets the top, and I at 5 foot get the bottom.

So Peter Walsh says repeat after me "I only have the space I have" and "just because you have the space, doesn't mean you have to fill it." Two really good lines from his book. Right now Ed and I are dealing with the emotional side of our clutter. We discussed each room, what we feel about it now, and were we want to go with each room.

I feel amazing when I walk into our room. We also turned the bed and moved it under the window, and into the corner. Little did we know that we could move the furniture in that room. Before we had, about 2 feet from bed to window, and 4 feet from bed to closet.

And 2 feet between the dresser and the end of the bed. Now we have 4 feet between the side of the bed and the dresser, and easily 6 feet from the end of the bed to the closet. It's crazy! It's like a whole new room!

I can't wait to tackle the rest of the house!

Liar Liar

So maybe I am not so much of a liar. I have just been keeping a secret from all of you. I have been cheating on you, with a different website. I have a livejournal.com site. Sigh, this site is my everyday yada yada blah blah blah. But I needed one for my true rants and name calling. Just stuff that I want to say. But not let anyone read. So I will leave you with that.

Yes I feel better. I needed to not lie to you anymore. Much love to my readers.

Back in 5 minutes

So I just got a call from my FIL, Joe, that Ed's Aunt Donna, Gramma and Grampa are going over to there house, and I know that my MIL, Diane, would love for some Mia therapy (she recently had her knee replaced) so I will be back to blog later!! I have lots to type about! Miss me!

FYI- I have had WAY to much coffee sugar this morning. It's like yippee, yahoo, zoom zoom speed rush!! I have never done drugs, Coffee is the biggest buzz I get. Those of you who know my energy, know why...off I go!!

Have a awesomely creative day!!

My children...

Maggie, Mia and Sophie. Sigh, what is a day with out them. From barking to high pitched screams. It is only when I can get everyone to nap, put my iPod on and blog. Mmmm, happy place.

So I feel for my dogs. Mia really makes it hard for them to be good. For example...
Mia is in love with toy balls, any size, she squeals with delight and no matter the size picks it up and runs off. This is Sophie's favorite toy and Mia will straight out squeal and swat at Sophie if she even looks at Mia's ball.

The gate. There is my beloved pressure mounted gate. This is the gateway between Cat and Dog land. Mia loves to walk through this gate, back and forth. Now Sophie and Maggie love cats, love to chase, bark, chase, bark...you get the point. So when Mia leaves the gate open it takes every ounce of strength to not go through. Mind you Jordan loves to sit just out of puppy reach.
Snacks. Mia loves the plastic container that the dog snacks are in. She knows the cabinet and goes right for them. This is Maggie's weakness. She gives me the sad eyes. Because if she even trys to take the container from Mi, she again gets the high pitched squeal, and swat.

So for a combination of them all Mia loves to sit with the gate open ball in reach and a conainer of doggie snacks. Sigh, sorry girls!!

150 things to do...

So I stole this from Jayme's blog. I will bold the things I have done. Feel free to do the same. It makes you think... I thought I would comment after some...

01 Bought everyone in the bar a drink (can't afford!)
02. Swam with dolphins (In Myan Riveara with Ed)
03. Climbed a mountain
04 Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05 Been inside the Great Pyramid
06 Held a tarantula
07 Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08 Said "I Love You" and meant it (Sometimes I think I say it to much)
09 Hugged a tree (I did when I was a kid, I love nature)
10 Built your own PC from parts (I was taking one on one PC lessons from my dad's friend, I took his PC apart and reassembled it on my own.)
11 Hit a home run
12 Watched a lightning storm at sea
13 Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14 Seen the Northern Lights
15 Gone to a huge sports game (Baseball's All Star Game at Comisky Park 2004?)
16 Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17 Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18 Touched an iceberg
19 Slept under the stars
20 Changed a baby's diaper (Mia Nicole!)
21 Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22 Watched a meteor shower
23 Gotten drunk on champagne
24 Given more than you can afford to charity (Animal Charity and cheerleaders are my weakness!)
25 Looked up at the night sky through a telescope (My dad has a telescope, we used it to look at the people in Jewel parking lot at there old house)
26 Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment (Oh my god! I do this so much! Ask my mom about the knife chase and the giggles...)
27 Had a food fight (Marsh mellows with my Beatz cousins!)
28 Bet on a winning horse (Arlington Race Track!)
29 Asked out a stranger (My first boyfriend, Josh!)
30 Had a snowball fight (My favorite was with Alicia last winter!)
31 Screamed as loudly as you possibly can (I do this often, it is necessary for survival!)
32 Held a lamb
33 Seen a total eclipse
34 Ridden a roller coaster (LOVE THEM!)
35 Visited Paris
36 Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking (I love to dance, don't care what you think!)
37 Adopted an accent for an entire day (Sara and me were Australian for at least a day!)
38 Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment (I love my life)
39 Had two hard drives for your computer (One was new, one was fried)
40 Visited all 50 states
41 Taken care of someone who was drunk
42 Had amazing friends (What other kind are there?)
43 Danced with a stranger in a foreign country (I was on my Honeymoon in Cancun, I was put up on the catwalk in a huge club, me and a girl danced our asses off. I was so hot then, sigh.)
44 Watched wild whales (Someday Susz, someday)
45 Stolen a sign
46 Backpacked in Europe
47 Taken a road-trip (Wisconsin Dells, Stampin' Up! trips, Florida...)
48 Gone rock climbing
49 Midnight walk on the beach
50 Gone sky diving
51 Visited Ireland (Not yet, but Hi Maggie and Joey!)
52 Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53 In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them (I did this at McDonalds, I was alone, so I sat and talked with an older woman. It's amazing what you can learn from other people)
54 Visited Japan
55 Milked a cow
56 Alphabetized your CDs
57 Pretended to be a superhero (Spider man!)
58 Sung karaoke
59 Lounged around in bed all day (Hard to do now, but pre-baby was much easier)
60 Played touch football (Flag football, and Sara, I still have the scars for that!)
61 Gotten married (6 years!)
62 Kissed in the rain (I like the rain)
63 Played in the mud
64 Played in the rain
65 Gone to a drive-in theater (With my parents as a kid in Joliet)
66 Visited the Great Wall of China
67 Started a business (Stampin' Up! September 2004!)
68 Fallen in love and not had your heart broken (Ed has never hurt me)
69 Toured ancient sites
70 Taken a martial arts class
71 Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72 Gone scuba diving (HUGE fear conquered, 40 FEET! I was so motion sick, but Ed and me did it. Doubt I will do it again though.)
73 Been in a movie
74 Crashed a party
75 Gotten divorced
76 Gone without food for 5 days
77 Made cookies from scratch (With my momma)
78 Won first prize in a costume contest (Second at Harrah's for being Tinkerbell, damn I was hot)
79 Ridden a gondola in Venice
80 Gotten a tattoo
81 Rafted the Snake River ( I rafted the DeChutes River in Oregon, no lie I almost died. Thanks Joe!)
82 Been on television news programs as an "expert"
83 Got flowers for no reason
84 Performed on stage (Joliet West High School Musicals)
85 Been to Las Vegas (I can't wait to go back!)
86 Recorded music
87 Eaten shark
88 Kissed on the first date (Ha! I kissed Ed way before our first date)
89 Gone to Thailand
90 Bought a house (On number 2 now!)
91 Been in a combat zone
92 Buried one/both of your parents
93 Been on a cruise ship
94 Spoken more than one language fluently
95 Performed in Rocky Horror
96 Raised child (Raising a child)
97 Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98 Created and named your own constellation [or] Passed out cold (note: very few
bloggers have answered this one since at least October 2006, the temporal
starting point of this study Early on somebody omitted it from the list Most
copied the omissions.)
99 Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100 Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101 Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102 Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking (Wee! I love to sing. I don't do it well. But its fun)
103 Had plastic surgery
104 Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived (I know someone who shouldn't have)
105 Wrote articles for a large publication
106 Lost over 100 pounds
107 Held someone while they were having a flashback
108 Piloted an airplane
109 Touched a stingray (Stingray Bay at Brookfield Zoo, to much fun with Susie!)
110 Broken someone's heart (Sorry boys)
111 Helped an animal give birth
112 Won money on a T.V game show
113 Had a snake as a pet (No but iguana, hamsters, cats, dogs, newts, toads, frog, beta fish, turtles, birds, leopard gecko, hermit crab... but no. No snakes)
114 Gone on an African photo safari
115 Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116 Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117 Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118 Ridden a horse (my cousin Kimmie's)
119 Had major surgery (Giving birth is major surgery, at least the after stitches were...shudder)
120 Broken a bone
121 Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122 Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123 Visited more foreign countries than U.S states
124 Visited all 7 continents
125 Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126 Eaten kangaroo meat
127 Eaten sushi (yuck, I also ate octopus)
128 Had your picture in the newspaper (Not only for my wedding, but just random for the Hearld News. I was reading in the library)
129 Changed someones mind about something you care deeply about (Religion)
130 Gone back to school (didn't work out, but I tried)
131 Parasailed
132 Touched a cockroach
133 Eaten fried green tomatoes
134 Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135 Selected one 'important' author who you missed in school, and read
136 Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137 Skipped all your school reunions
138 Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language (Can you say Spanish customers in the bank? I also had deaf customers, and attempted to finger spell a whole conversation)
139 Been elected to public office
140 Written your own computer language
141 Thought to yourself that you're living your dream (Minus the money lottery win. I am happy. Home, family and friends)
142 Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143 Bungee jumped
144 Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you (I did sell my art to a close friend, who still has that painting!)
145 Had a booth at a street fair
146 Dyed your hair (lighter blond, brown, red, hot pink, black, stripped, rainbow...)
147 Been a DJ (I actually had this job for a day, then quit)
148 Shaved your head (Close, I cut it about an inch long)
149 Caused a car accident (Yes, that was before my controlled aggression was perfected)

150 Saved someones life (In H.S. there was this freshman, not attractive, no friends. Wrote me notes. I wrote back, why not. Because I did that. He said he did not commit suicide that weekend. He had a friend)

So do it yourself. It was fun. Maybe I can update it at a later date...

Hate

If you are a happy anti-hate person please stop reading this, it may include very negative thoughts that will make you sad, or frightened. (grin)

So my evil rant is on the evil bitches that have come through my life. Torturing me in some way. So I will name them, and my reason for my hate. If you are offended, I already warned you that this would not be pretty. (I will not be naming names for liabilty sake.)

I will start out with my first person because I was driving in Joliet (gag) and a car pulled up next to me. I thought it was a friend of mine (Nancy Sherwin) sadley it was not, the raggity bitch turned her head and it was a girl from St. Mary's, a year younger. (man next to her, she may be married, who cares anyway.) I already had a smile on my face. Could she smile back? Give a half ass smile?
God forbid if this nasty, 30 pounds fatter, cunt even give me any sort of recognition.

Next up, while I am on a St. Mary rant. Let's not forget my least favorite person on the planet...l.b.s.!!! I hate you!! For so many petty reasons. I have heard you are back in this lovely state of IL and I hope to god I never see you.
For all of those evil comments you made about me to boys, the loud whispering to your friends, the shit talking about my friends behind there backs. Pretending to like my friends and shit talk and make fun of them. If you could only see us now. We are all so much better then you will ever be.
I am supprise that you found someone to marry you. I hope to god that if he ever decides to have children. You do this whole world a favor and raise them to be absolutly nothing like you.
I hope you get ghoneria, and die a sad lonely life. Bitch.

My so called best friend in High School that lived one street over from me. While I don't hate you, I do wonder what goes through your brain when you think of me. Do you smile to yourself that you got away with taking my pager, and never paying me the $200 plus dollars that you owe me for the bill? Yes some best friends forever, your super! I only hope one day you will repay me the money you owe me, and no I don't want to be your friend. You suck as one.

Snotty better then me, long blonde haired, nice sister, parents are friends with my parents, co-bitch to lbs. I really don't get you.
My anger for you is when I worked at the bank, I said "hi" to you on three different days. I gave you a smile and a wave, and you gave me the "are you serioulsy looking at me look?" What a bitch. I guess I can give you the least amount of hate becuase, from what I know you didn't talk shit about me. You just ignored me. Thanks for that much. Ass.

Again this is not a I Hate Person. Just more of a I am hurt and disapointed twards your actions. You again believed a rumor, or misquoted comment from me. Left me angry messages, rude to me in front of all of our "friends" give me the cold shoulder, or whatever attitude durring my pregnancy. It's not that I hate you, or am even mad. Just disappointed in the fact that I thought we were more then that. And we had been throught the exact thing before. I just realize that if I was that easy to blow off and ignore, then I didn't need you that close to me.
On that note, I am interested in how you are. And enjoy the fact that the internet keeps us close. I wish good things for you, and am sorry that this is the way it is.

And on that note. The above person, has a very close friend that I thought was better then that. I know that I was not best friends with this person, but a good friendship over 8 years, could have maybe given me a fucking congrats on our baby? Maybe a RSVP that you couldn't make the shower. Maybe not blowing Ed off when he says hi. Not cool.

Speaking of my baby shower. Thanks for all those people that HAD to be invited from Harrahs. You all wasted my hand made invites for people that actually wanted to come. RSVP means to respond to the phone number on the invite, weather or not you are going to attend or not. I didn't think it was brain surgery to figure that one out. Or were you encouraged not to attend because of what someone else was saying? Just curious. BTW, I had a baby girl. She is amazing.

And while I am on the subject of hate. Let's go over the things in my life that make me crabby.

1. Religion in general. I don't really know why I am so angry with religion. Or religious people for that matter. I just see and hear way to many Christian people talking about how if I am not your religion. I am going to hell? Seriously. The hate for gay people really gets to me. You don't realize that you are so absorbed and brainwashed by your imaginary people and your magical book. That you are not seeing people for who they really are.
And if these fucking Jahova Witness (however you spell it) don't get of my damn porch. Arrgghh! NO I do not need to find god. NO I do not need to read your phamplets. NO I don't care for you opinion. NO. NO. NO. Next week those fuckers are back on my porch. Well not since the day I went cussing out the door. Jesus, there were 4 different groups, like they were dropped off by the Jehova bus. They haven't been back since.
When I was Roman Catholic and God loving, I never shoved it up anyone's ass. Leave me alone with your stupid religions. I think just to any people I will pull out my Tarot cards and become an athiest. Maybe one of those I believe Mother Nature is God. I am leaning twards science, it makes way more sense. I guess it's because I never really read the bible growing up. And now that I have, I disagree with a lot of it. So I see no reason to pretend I do. Amen.

2. I HATE door to door people. Religions or not. I HATE you. The exception is children with candy. I will buy from you. I like candy.

3. Cold Calls. Dumb. I look forward to you calling me. So I can curse you out then hang up on you.

4. The usual Wind, Laundry (I am doing better!) and fake bitches (see above)

5. Driving makes me happy. I am good at it (I think) and I am relaxed when I do it. But Seriously, lets cover some basics here. The left lane on the highway is for passing. If you insist on sucking at driving or going 10 under, please take your sorry ass into the right lane.
Riding my ass will make me angry and I will arrive at my destination 10 minutes late, just to annoy you. I am not threatened by you. I am irratated. Especially when Mi is in the car. Don't fuck with my family.

OK so my hate has worn off, and my Starbuck buzz is making me to happy to blog angry. If you think you are anyone of the above people. Sucks to be you. Now you know how I feel. Comment if you must. Or email me if you want to keep it private.

Night night!

Veto Queen

So Danielle, HOH has put up Jen and Kail for nomination, again. Unfortunatly Kail is not going home. She drives me insane with her bible freak ways.

As seen above, Jen has won the Veto competition. And there must have been some pretty high stakes going on in the yard today. So to win the Veto you do what they say, or to give up winning you earn money or prizes. This should be an

From what I have read and heard, Danielle, Jen, Kail and Zach are all stuck wearing these bunny suits for I think 24 hours.

It sounds like the four bunnies and Jameka will be woken every hour to be dumped with "fertilizer" (Dustin says it's really slop, dirt, Kitkat bars and stuff from their butter comp)..

$10k was thrown around.. Kail can't compete in five future HOH comps and Jen can't compete in four, and they're both on slop for the week and/or the duration and/or 720 hours..

Jen may have given up half the money if she wins the game. Holy cow, that is a lot!

Jen is actually in Danielle's HOH room talking game with her, interesting.

Looks like Jen will be taking herself off, and Eric will be backdoored nominated and voted out. Ouch. That is going to be messy!

Mia N. McHale get it? MNM?!

Here is Mi as a MnM!

I'm a MnM!!

I snagged this idea from Jen. Go to mms.com and become your own MnM!

Thursday 13

Ola! Here is my Thursday Thirteen. I have decited to copy my friend Jayme, and theme my 13. I think it will make it easier...

Theme is: My favorite books (in no particular order) and my history with them...

1. Dean Koontz "Dragon Tears"

I love so many of his books it easily could have been my whole 13. But this is my favorite.

2. Dan Brown "Angels and Demons"

Just gives you something to think about. Religion and Science. LOVE THIS BOOK!

3. Sark "Sark's New Creative Companion Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit"

This will always bring me back to my creative zone. Sark has many famous posters, and other great books, check her out at http://www.planetsark.com/

4. Story by Helen Hughes Illustrated by Jacki Jones "The Zoopie Zats"

Yeah! This is a fun one I loved as a kid. I am so glad my mom kept my books!

5. Judith Vigna "The Little Boy Who Loved Dirt and Almost Became A SUPERSLOB"

OK this should be titled Jacki loves dirt and is a SUPERSLOB" but with the help of book #9 I may overcome that!

6. Shel Silverstein "A Giraffe and a Half"

A short story by Shel Silverstein. To cute!

7. Shel Silverstein "Runny Babbit"

Love this book, all the poems are backwards, flipping the letters of the words.

8. Jenny McCarthy "Belly Laughs"

She is so blunt and covers EVERY detail to being pregnant.

9. Peter Walsh "It's All To Much"

I have not finished this book, but I am learning alot about myself and my house with it.

10. Stephen King "Dolan's Cadliac"

This is in a book called "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" about 10 or so short stories.

11. Rand and Robyn Miller with David Wingrove "Myst The Book of Atrus"
If you have every played the computer game of "Myst", "Riven", "Uru" or "Exile" this is the book of before "Myst" if only I had the time to play and finish them.

12. Jack MacGuire "Hopscotch, Hangman, Hot Potato, & Ha Ha Ha"

This book is from my parents for my 16th birthday. At my youth group, I was in charge of the games. This book will come in handy when me needs a game and is bored!

13. Annette Tison & Talus Taylor "Barbapapa's Ark"

Another childrens book, loved the illistrations in it.

So there it is readers, hope you enjoy. Take the time and check out one of my books...

HOH

Bye Bye Nick. So sad, to bad. Nick had the hots for Danielle, sadly they both got sidetracked in the game, got a little to flirty and Danielle has a fiance' at home. Good news is Nick is gone, and Danielle can focus again.


So if you watched the crazy coco clocks. The feeds were not running until 9:23 pm they finally came up to Jen, Kail, Daneille and Jessica still up. Everyone else on the couches.

As always Dick was evil twards Jen and Kail, more so twards Jen. I did like his retarded humor at first. But now he is just mean. I believe it is a lot game play. Not good game play, but game play non the less.

Jessica fell off. Jen was called out by Dick for touching the bar with her hands. She was disqualified. Kail begged Danielle to keep her off the block and she would let go. Danielle, said I can't promise you won't go up, but you will not go home. Stupid Kail let go.

Congrats to Danielle, for she is the new HOH.

Sadley Dick will be his usually cocky self for another week. And yes Amber cried. Shocker.