And Here We Go Again....

She's ALLIIIIIIIVEEEEE!

Yes, I hate to inform you..... I know you will all be oh so let down...

I'm still alive.

That's right.

Still breathing. I survived the holiday season!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

somehow at the end of the holidays I'm supposed to come out with some new goals????

I think survival of the holiday season was a great goal! Accomplished. Already! Yay for me.

:D

Actually I do have some goals. errrr... a goal. It's the same as almost everyone else on the planet. CAN YOU GUESS!?!?!?

Yup, loose some poundage.

This is a must do this year. I honestly think it would do wonders for my state of mind. And hopefully it will boost the self image too :)

Hopefully, I can keep up the stamina to actually do it.....

mmmm, guess this means I probably need to give up my strange addiction to bread huh?

(Yes, CARBFEST) Plus, I think maybe if I limited to bread intake I wouldn't snack so much during the day....

Anyone have any ideas as to what habit I should work on acquiring to replace the bread one?

MERRY CHRISTMAS PEOPLE!!!!

Nicknames. UGH

My kids have issues.

Ok, I think you all knew that... I mean COME ON! Look at who their mother is. :) And if you need to look at the rest of the family go right ahead.... we are all a little odd.

Anywho.... onto the topic at hand.

My kids have issues. They have issues with nicknames.

Let me give you a warning:
DO NOT CALL MY CHILDREN ANYTHING BUT THEIR GIVEN NAMES (to their faces... hahaha, I know I'm evil!) They do have a couple of nicknames from birth that they allow, but even most enduring nicknames are out of bounds Buster!

Here is a scenario to illustrate....

Me (Speaking to Missy): Hiya Goldilocks!

Missy: I NOT Goldilocks!!!

Me: But you have golden hair.

Missy: NO! My hair is NOT Golden!!!

Me: Alllllllrightythen.....

(I then drop conversation because it's not worth the battle that would ensue)

Want another??? M'kay...

Gma S (speaking to Goober): Fred come here.

Goober: My names not Fred.

Gma S: (teasing): Okay George. Please come here...

Goober: My name is GOOBER.

Gma: Come here please.

Goober: MY NAME IS NOT GEORGE. MY NAME IS GOOBER.

Gma S: OK Goober, Please come over here.

Goober goes over to Gma S and Gma talks to him for a bit then
slips in a non kosher nickname...

Goober: MY NAME IS GOOBER!!!!!! (yelling)

Gma S: I know your name is Goober, please stop yelling.

she then proceeds to give him a hug to comfort him.

I later asked her about this exchange because I watched it wondering who would back down first about something so asinine (I like that word lately!). She wanted to know if there was a point at which he would back down.

MWHAHAHAHA!!! BACK DOWN?!?! Does she not realize who his MOTHER is and that as a kid he doesn't pick battles yet but fights everything under the sun? And this includes when people FULLY agree with him and he thinks they don't for some random reason...

I then informed her that no, he never backs down on the name thing. Never. He will pitch a fit and end up in Time Out just as his little sister would.... yes, over a goofy name that isn't the least bit negative.

I hate to think about if someone called them something negative.... and they realized it was negative.... Would they react the same way?

Probably.

snicker

Can We Say "Asinine"?

Yes, our newspaper here in Podunk Idaho is stupid. Very, very stupid.

I like to call it the COMpost Register...

Anywho, here is a picture from today's paper. Please take a moment to read.


Ummmm Yaaaaaaaah

And how exactly is a notice in today's paper going to inform those people who didn't receive today's paper that they can access the website FREE FOR TODAY?

Hmmmm....

Can anyone explain this to me? :D

Ahhh the joys of small town newspapers and the satisfaction I get when proved yet again why I'm not missing out by not paying for one. (This is my In-Laws paper I photoed, so meh!)

The Question of How to Make a Scarf....

This morning as I ran around doing motherly stuff (aka laundry and pondering grocery shopping) My mother in law decided to attempt to teach Goober how to knit a scarf.

Let me mention that Goober has had a kinda weird fascination with scarfs over the past couple of days.... who knows, it could be the fact that it has been snowing every day for over a week and that just a couple of nights ago it left over ten inches of the fluffy white stuff.

As Gma S started to try to show Goober how to do his scarf I hear her and Aunt Az conversing about exactly how to knit a scarf. There was a bit of confusion about it.

Now, I don't know about you.... but it strikes me as kinda comical that two full grown women are trying to figure this out and still expect a five year old to grasp it :)

He did end up getting the main gist of it and with a bit of assistance every once in a while has been able to make a bit of a scarf.

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Smart five year old, if I do say so myself! :)

Why Your Wireless Connection Should Be Secure...

As in Password secure people....


Because sneaky people like Jer just might soak up all your Internet speed by using YOUR wireless modem to..... say.....

PLAY WORLD OF WARCRAFT AT WORK.


You see that nifty thing that is up on the shelf? it kinda looks like a soup can. Well, that is a "Cantenna" people. It helps to amplify and stabilize a wireless signal for people who aren't really close to said signal.... I think he's about a block away from the house with the UNSECURED (read "no password required") Internet connection.

Now mind you, Jer is actually doing nothing wrong by using this Internet connection. It's perfectly legal etc etc etc. But if for some reason your Internet is REALLY DEATHLY SLOW during the day (consistently) you may just want to make sure your modem is a secure one :) Because people that have no access to internet at work and are bored between calls just might notice that good ol' unsecured wireless connection.

Sigh...

So we made an offer on another house last night.

We didn't get it. Mostly because someone else gave a slightly better offer within an hour of our offer. :P SNEAKY little people!

Oh well, the hunt continues....