Anonymous Comment Day

Okay I haven't done one of these in a WHILE, but thought since I don't really have anything earth shattering to post I might as well. :)

Have you EVER thought your family was full of nutcases? Why?

Figure that's a good one for an anonymous answer!

Why I'm greatful for DVD's

And no, I'm not changing to Blue-ray... as soon as I get all the movies I want it will just change again. Soooo I'm going to try to wait it out till the next change and save the money of having to replace a whole movie library twice. I'm so smart! :P

Anyhow, recently Jer borrowed some older VHS from my mother in law. Last night, guess what happened? Ya, EB figured out the actual "tape" comes out of the VHS. LOL Anyhow, I'm truly grateful that by far the majority of our movies are on DVD. They are so much more resilient! And less drawing for little fingers!

I have no clue how my parents did it when we were little and actually retained some VHS clear through till we were old enough to replace them ourselves. :)

Sigh.

I have phone troubles... and apparently camera troubles too (cause I took a picture of Missy's hair yesterday and now I can't find my darned camera!!!).... but back to the phone troubles.

We have had pretty much one working phone in our house since we moved in. Granted it's a cordless so that makes it a little better.

Thing is, we actually have 3 cordless phones hooked up, and a corded one too! The corded one didn't have a DSL filter on it cause it's a wall mount and finding a wall mount filter is astonishingly hard to do in this town. My 2 other cordless phones have "issues". The one was totally fine in our old house but now whenever I pick it up to talk on it it sounds like I'm standing in a tornado.... ssssswwwweeeeeeeewwwwww in the background constantly. The other one always decided to have connection issues with the base so that when it rang or you picked it up to dial it basically said "ya right, you actually think your going to USE me? hahaha well TAKE THAT SUCKA!"

So I made due with one phone for a long time.

Recently I finally made the trip to Radio Shack and found a DSL filter for the wall mount. yay. At least when I forget the cordless downstairs now I can actually answer the phone (even if I am confined to the kitchen when I do it). And I bought a new phone for downstairs because I was tired of the other one going on strike.

I came home, hooked it up and charged it... it worked great (wait for it) until yesterday. 3 days after I bought it it decides to not respond to it's buttons and to constantly be lit up. :P

Why is it that everyone has something like this? Be it lawnmowers or hairdryers or.... phones?

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And now I've misplaced my cell phone! ROFLMAO But I got the new phone to work again! YAY! But that new phone worked great to find my cell phone... and then I got to thinking really hard and found my camera.... ya this post is dumb. lol

Summary Of My Life Right Now

I wrote an email to one of my sisters recently and realized that I did an okay job of summing up where I am at in life right now. So here is where I'm at.

My kids and I are pretty good, I think Potty Training is my bane, I'm SO not looking forward to starting The Energizer Bunny. Goober still has issues and still wets the bed fairly often, but where there is history of bed wetting in the family that's no surprise. Missy is a bit better though in this area.

I've been in a bit of a confused state for a while now. I'm truly at odds with my religion in many ways but in others areas I fully believe, Jer on the other hand fully supports the religion though is sympathetic to my frustrations. I have a hard time knowing if I should continue to go to church to save my children from becoming "projects" and socially stigmatized or if I should stop going so that they can learn to think outside of traditional roles. Specifically my daughter whom I want to learn to know how to truly be a leader when the religion seams to scream at girls and women to constantly be a submissive follower. grrrrr.

My social group is a frustration at the moment as well... though there isn't much "drama" (thank goodness) there isn't a whole lot of enthusiasm either. I find that I have one truly good friend that that the rest appear to merely "put up" with me. This is irritating for someone who loves having a lot of people around, loves to people watch, and will forever want to be the center of attention even though I've found my personality is not the type that people are usually drawn to. Mostly people find me a bit loud and opinionated and instead of understanding that I just want to be heard and not that I want them to agree with me all the time, they back away. I never know when I'm over analyzing the social sphere to the point that I'm finding issues that aren't really there.

I hate it when everything hits the fan at once, though I'm glad that I don't have greater issues to deal with and am generally content with life as it is.

So there ya have it.

Goober and Grandpa J

So a few weeks ago my dad needed a get away. Unfortunately my mom's shoulder was in the "really screwed up" phase so she couldn't go with him. Jer and I also had previous engagements... but Goober didn't!!

So dad took Goober camping with him. Boy was Goober excited! And by the pictures it looks like they had a loud of fun too.

They picked Huckleberries...
And they looked at the stars! Goober even called home to tell us about the Big Dipper!

Dad said he was glad Goober was a sound sleeper cause there was a really load screech owl that woke dad up during the night, but Goober slept straight till dawn... and then of course got up really early! lol

Thanks for taking him dad!

Lost a Front Tooth

(I know weird picture, but it shows his lost tooth well)

And then he promptly lost it. :P So now the Tooth Fairy has to figure out what to do.

The Message It Sends

I'm sure all of you at one time or another have been in a group of people and can't get a word in edgewise. Sometimes everyone is talking over each other.

I hate these situations. And I happen to like groups of people in most cases. Granted, not to group of rioting revelers, but still you know what I mean.

I know that most of the time when people talk over each other it's because they don't feel they can get "center stage" any other way. That they are having a hard time being heard. Sometimes the only people heard are the ones talking over everyone else. I find this sad.

Sad mainly because of what it does to those who are being talked over.

It distinctly tells those people "I don't give a flying goats fart about you or what you have to say."