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I Take 36 Pills a Day Folks! No Typo!

2012-01-23T11:41:00.002-06:00

I thought I would re-post an old post from my favorite posts.

As alot of you know, who follow me on Twitter, I am a vegetarian. I don't eat meat, bread, eggs, milk, pasta or anything carbonated. I have had this kind of diet for 13 years now. About 10 years ago I started taking vitamin supplements, just a few. Then as I learned more about vitamins & dietary supplements over the years, I added more.
Some of you have heard me talk about how many pills I take a day and have seemed shocked. OMG you take HOW MANY pills?!?

If you have ever read any of Suzanne Somer's books on health/nutrition/supplements, BREAKTHROUGH or her newest one, which I recommend everyone read Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer--And How to Prevent Getting It in the First Place You will see she takes WAY MORE pills than I ever will take. However, alot of hers are enzymes and bio-identical hormones. I don't take either of those things, yet. She has had cancer and she has consulted with numerous cancer specialists who are treating & preventing cancer, and she has based alot of what she takes on the advice of these doctors.

I found one of what I consider my most important supplements in her book. Curcumin. It's a turmeric supplement.

But, I thought I would break it down for you, exactly what I take, how much of it I take, and what it's for. That way y'all can see, I do have a plan for my health and not just taking pills to be taking them. I don't try to tell anybody else that they need to take what I take. I am not trying to convert anybody over to taking supplements or being super health conscious. But I would strongly advise you, if NOTHING ELSE at least take a good mutli-vitamin every day. It takes 10 seconds to do it and can make a world of difference to your health.

I will tell you this, and it is not something I widely shout out to the Internet. I have (Systemic) Lupus. And ever since I started taking my regiment of supplements, I have lived symptom free. No joint pain, no additional lung lesions. I had hair loss and it hasn't grown back much but there's no supplement for that.

Here's how it breaks down. I take 36 pills a day. 31 vitamins & dietary supplements and 5 prescription pills. There's a total of 27 different vitamins & supplements and 4 prescriptions. Some pills I take more than 1 of (duplicates) every day.

Here's what I take and what it's for:

Vitamin C 1000mg 3 a day-

Vitamin C is one of the safest and most effective nutrients, experts say. It may not be the cure for the common cold (though it's thought to help prevent more serious complications). But the benefits of vitamin C may include protection against immune system deficiencies, cardiovascular disease, prenatal health problems, eye disease, and even skin wrinkling.

Royal Jelly 500mg 1 a day-

Common associated benefits of royal jelly include:
More energy
Healthier skin and hair, more youthful appearance
Strengthened immune system, more resilience to colds/flu and other* illnesses that attack the immune system.
Reduced feelings of stress or reaction to stress

Curcumin 500mg 1 a day-

Curcumin has stimulated an increase in research with several hundred research studies over the past 10-20 years examining its role in the treatment and prevention of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and inflammation.

Potassium 99mg 1 a day-

Potassium is an electrolyte (a substance that maintains your body's fluid levels), this mineral helps regulate blood pressure and heart function. Research shows that increasing your potassium intake can lower your blood pressure.

Magnesium 400mg 2 a day-

It plays a big part in keeping the heart healthy, making sure bones are strong and helping the body absorb other important minerals such as calcium and potassium. Magnesium supplementation also helps people with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease maintain adequate magnesium levels which is especially important for these patients. Magnesium is also important to women who are pregnant, experience menopause or are at risk for osteoporosis. Getting the right amount of magnesium daily can help prevent leg cramps, migraines and fatigue.

Calcium 400 mg (w/500 i.u of Vit D) 2 a day-

It aids in the formation and maintenance of bones. It helps to contract muscles and helps regulate the contractions of the heart. It plays a role in the transmission of nerve impulses and in blood clotting. Calcium is involved in the stimulation of contractions of the uterus during childbirth and in milk production. It also regulates the secretion of various hormones and aids in the functioning of various enzymes within the body.

Fish/Flaxseed/Borage oil 2 a day-

Healthy for cells, muscles, nerves and organs!
May alleviate symptoms of PMS and menopause.
EFA's are endorsed by the American Heart Association as beneficial for the heart.
Best formula containing fish oil, flax seed oil, and borage oil.
An excellent source of omega-3, omega-6 and omega-9 essential fatty acids.
Supports the normal and healthy functions of the heart, joints, and brain.

Super Juice (supplement that has 27 fruit & vegetable extracts) 2 a day-

Daily Multi-Phyto Nutrient Formula. Each cold processed, enzyme active caplet supplies 32 phyto-nutrients from 27 vegetable and fruit juice extracts. Just 2 SuperJuice™ caplets give you the benefit of 32 phyto-nutrients and enzymes from 27 vegetables and fruits.

Echinacea (with goldenseal 450mg) 450mg 2 a day-

Echinacea is best known for its immune enhancing ability, but has proven very effective in many other areas as well.
Colds, coughs and flu and other upper respiratory conditions
Enlarged lymph glands, sore throat
Urinary tract infections
Other minor infections
May help combat herpes and candida
Wounds, skin regeneration and skin infections (external use)
Psoriasis, eczema and inflammatory skin conditions (external use)
Echinacea stimulates the immune system and it promotes T-cell activation while it increases the activity of the immune system.

Red wine extract 60mg 1 a day-

Scientists believe the key to the healthful benefits of red wine lie in the antioxidants, or flavonoids. Flavonoids help to reduce the production of LDL, low density lipoprotein - sometimes referred to as "bad" cholesterol. They also have the effect of increasing HDL, high density lipoprotein, the so-called "good" cholesterol. These combined effects help to prevent blood clots and improve the lipid profile overall.

Some researchers claim that the positives of drinking red wine go beyond cardiovascular benefits. A number of studies have discovered that an antioxidant concentrated in the skin of the grape, resveratrol, may actually help inhibit the growth of cancerous tumors. Research into the properties of resveratrol also indicates that it may be helpful in the formation of nerve cells, and so could potentially be a factor in the treatment of neurological diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Korean Ginseng 100mg 1 a day-

Studies of Western herbal medicine show that panax ginseng's ability to regulate the immune system can assist in the prevention of colds, flu, and some forms of cancer. Case studies show that panax ginseng may also be effective in lowering the sugar content in the blood and and lower cholesterol levels. Consequently, panax ginseng may prove beneficial when used in connection with type 2 diabetes and when used by those suffering from high cholesterol. All the potential uses of the ginseng root have not been fully explored; however, in both laboratory studies of humans and animals, panax ginseng proved successful in relaxing the muscles of the lungs. By relaxing the muscles of the lungs that control the airway, ginseng may be able to provide some relief for symptoms associated with asthma, constriction of the airways, and other lung diseases. Further studies show that a combination of panax ginseng and gingko may increase memory capacity and enhance the thinking processes. However these are only suggested effects that are not supported by clinical evidence.

Green Tea Extract 315mg 1 a day-

In traditional Chinese and Indian medicine, practitioners used green tea as a stimulant, diuretic (to promote the excretion of urine), astringent (to control bleeding and help heal wounds), and to improve heart health. Other traditional uses of green tea include treating flatulence (gas), regulating body temperature and blood sugar, promoting digestion, and improving mental processes.

Green tea has been extensively studied in people, animals, and laboratory experiments. Results from these studies suggest that green tea may be useful for the following health conditions:
Atherosclerosis, high cholesterol, cancer, IBD, diabetes, liver disease, weight loss.

Garlic 1000mg 2 a day-

Modern science has shown that garlic is a powerful natural antibiotic, albeit broad-spectrum rather than targeted. The body does not appear to build up resistance to the garlic, so its positive health benefits continue over time.
Healthy Antioxidant
Studies have shown that garlic - especially aged garlic - can have a powerful antioxidant effect. Antioxidants can help to protect the body against damaging "free radicals".

D3 5,000 i.u 1 a day-

The major biologic function of vitamin D is to maintain normal blood levels of calcium and phosphorus. Vitamin D aids in the absorption of calcium, helping to form and maintain strong bones. Recently, research also suggests vitamin D may provide protection from osteoporosis, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, and several autoimmune diseases.

Iron 65mg 1 a day-

Iron is anti cancer
It boost the body's energy level and as a result will improve physical performance.
Improves the body's immunity
It encourages restful sleep and prevent insomnia
It also helps in preventing difficulty in learning among children

B-12 500mcg 1 a day-

Some of the benefits of B12 are that it may help pernicious anemia. The vitamin is also used to treat high homocysteine (an amino acid made from proteins that build up and can lead to heart disease) levels, heart disease, chronic fatigue system, and male infertility. Diabetes, bursitis, depression, psychiatric disorders, and osteoarthritis could also benefit from B12.

Other conditions that can be treated are sleep disorders, memory loss, Alzheimer’s disease, tendonitis, and immunosupression. Aids can also benefit from supplementation with B12 according to various studies. Other conditions that B12 may benefit, include Irritable bowel syndrome, asthma, and allergies. It may also prevent nerve damage and maintain fertility.

Sulforaphane (broccoli extract) 400 mcg 1 a day-

The major advantage of sulforaphane is its potential benefit
in cancer prevention. Sulforaphane is an anti-cancer,
anti-diabetic, and anti-mircrobial compound. Sulforaphane
can be found in cruciferous vegetables such as brussel
sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, bok choy, kale,
collards, broccoli sprouts, Chinese broccoli, broccoli raab,
kohlrabi, mustard, turnip, radish, rocket, and watercress.

Alpha Lipoic acid 300mg 1 a day-

Helps to reduce the blood sugar levels in diabetics and to balance sugar levels in non-diabetics. It also helps to reduce glycation; in other words, the damage that sugar does to our body, including accelerated aging.
Some studies have found that it may be beneficial in the treatment of glaucoma.
It helps the liver regenerate, especially in the treatment of liver degeneration because of damage from excessive consumption of alcohol.
It may help in the prevention and treatment of cataracts.
Helps to balance the level of cholesterol.
Helps in the case of cardiovascular problems such as hard arteries.
It helps to improve the efficacy in our bodies of other nutrients such as vitamin C and E.
It may help to detox your body.
It is a powerful antioxidant.
Helps to prevent brain damage in older people

E 400 i.u 1 a day-

Promotes heart health.
Promotes respiratory health.
Helps with normal PMS symptoms.
Supports circulation.
Supports prostate and breast health.
Is good for your brain.
May help hot flashes in menopausal women.

Grape seed extract 50mg 1 a day-

Prescribed by doctors in Europe for a variety of vascular disorders, grape seed extract is of some benefit to heart and cancer patients, when the food supplement is administered regularly. Grape seed extract also helps to reduce or eliminate the symptoms of leg cramps, varicose veins, diabetes, numbness in the extremities – an even the effects of impotence, since this food supplement is designed to improve the body’s blood flow.It works similar to Yohimbe Supplements for low Libido.
Other benefits of grape seed extract are in the areas of endometriosis, since the effects of this can be inhibited by the food supplement’s ability to provide antioxidants that can also invade the membranes of the body. Brain cells may also be protected from certain forms of damage (known as free radical damage) when grape seed extract is administered.

Biotin 5mg 1 a day-

Biotin, one of the B-complex vitamins, is essential to healthy skin and proper functioning of the intestines and nervous system. Most adults get enough biotin through a healthy diet and do not require additional supplements.
Biotin is essential to healthy skin because it helps with proper fat production. It also ensures the body has enough energy through its role in metabolizing sugar.

K2 1 a day-

Vitamin K2 cleans calcium deposits from your arteries and deposits it in your bones, and you have most likely never heard of it? It's almost like the old good news/bad news jokes. The good news is Vitamin K2 has been clinically proven to provide extraordinary benefits for bone health and cardiovascular health, plus it is a powerful anti-oxidant and some emerging science indicates it might help your joints and intestinal health.

I also take a women's multi vitamin for women over 45. Although I am not 45 yet, it had additional minerals and additives I wanted in my multi.

That's it folks. That's everything I take, how much and what they are all for. What they do. Maybe it gave you some insight into why I take all this stuff and maybe it gave you some ideas of supplements you might want to take yourself. Your good health is all that's keeping you alive. If you don't take it seriously, who will?

I may spend $200 or more a month on vitamins & supplements (and protein bars) but most of you spend more than that going out to eat and on junk food. It's all about priorities and what's more important to you in the long-term.

As mentioned above, something else I do spend money on is protein bars. Since I don't eat meat, I try to supplement with "Pure Protein" brand strawberry protein bars. They have less than 200 calories and have 19 grams of protein. About equal to the amount of protein in a small chicken breast. I eat 2 of those a day. I can't do the protein shakes. It's too much trouble and most protein shake mix is nasty. My husband uses some that is good and tastes like a shake but it is very expensive. I will just stick with my small protein bars. I eat them in addition to my food, not in place of my food.

Sorry about this post being so long. If you actually made it all the way down to the bottom and are reading this, KUDOS to you. I probably would have gotten bored about half way down and stopped reading.

Another Disney trip bitches!!

2012-01-14T10:02:00.000-06:00

Ok, this is what's going on with me....

Jeremy (DH) decided we could go back to Disney for our Anniversary (March 9th) Just he and I. But since March is Spring Break time, we decided to go in the middle of February. SO I booked our hotel room for Feb 16th through Feb 21st.

I decided to look on the Touring Plans website for the Disney crowd calender and it showed our dates of travel to be 9 out of 10 on the crowd scale. Meaning wall to wall ppl. I finally realized that the dates we were going to go is President's Day weekend. BIG MISTAKE!! I didn't see the holiday on my calender because I had written something over it. DOH!

SO then I looked at the next weekend that DH would begetting off work, March 8th and the crowd calender looked the same, 9 out of 10, crammed jammed wall to wall ppl. (Because of Spring Break)

So we had to make the decision to go NEXT TIME DH gets off work, Jan 26th. Just 2 weeks from now!! This is such a last minute thing. We only decided to go on the trip 3 days ago and now as of last night we bumped it up to going in just 2 short weeks!!

I am so GLAD to be getting to go NOW instead of having to wait all the way until October to get to go like we originally planned it. (But we still get to go in October- kidless again!)

Yes, I forgot to mention we are going kidless. This is an adults only trip.

And before I can go I have to help 2 kids do 2 different school projects. One is a poster board project for Black History Month where they have to do a project on women in black history like Oprah or whoever. Then they have to do a full on Science Fair project. UGH!!

And of course, I am always the one who has to end up doing it with them, not their dad.

But anyway, it's all good. We will pull it off and get it done before time to turn them in. And I will be rockin' it at Disney/Universal in less than 2 weeks!!

This trip we are only going to 4 parks. Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Universal and Island of Adventure (Harry Potter land)

The one I am looking forward to the most is Island of Adventure. I love the Harry Potter land area.

Ok, one of the kiddos is asking for food. JESUS CHRIST these kids needing food and shit!!

WTF??

2012-01-09T11:39:00.000-06:00

With 535 House and Senate members, that comes to $93,090,000 per year!! "FOR LIFE"

KINDLE FIRE

2011-12-23T20:02:00.002-06:00

I bought (2) Kindle Fires for my kids for Christmas and I let them have them early/as soon as they came. They knew they were coming. They came yesterday at 10:30 in the morning and the kids have not put them down AT ALL for one minute except to eat and sleep. They think they are the best things that have ever happened to them. They LOVE THEM.

Just some info for you to know if you are thinking about getting one (some) and are unsure...They are not quite as good as an IPad because they do not have GPS and they are only 7 inches instead of 10. But they only cost $200 instead of $600.

If you buy TWO and have them registered to the same Amazon account, when you download a free or purchase a paid app on one it goes into your CLOUD and you can download the same app onto the second device without having to purchase it again. If the first device downloads a book it shows up on the carousel of the second device and the second device can keep it or delete it. (The update that came out yesterday now enables you to delete items from your carousel- it was not originally programmed that way)

Each day Amazon GIVES AWAY an app that they normally charge for. Every day is a different app and you can find out which is the app of the day by following the FIRE DEPARTMENT BLOG http://fireapps.blogspot.com/2011/12...apps-1223.html

The fire only has (8gb) 6 usable GB of internal storage space but you get 5 GB of CLOUD storage for free. You can add CLOUD storage for $1 per GB per year. Most all Amazon content can be stored in your cloud as not to take up space on your device because space is limited.

There is no capability to use an SD card with the Fire.

Also it does not come with the micro/USB cable that you need to have to add your own pics and music to the device. It is NOT a standard Micro USB cable. It is even tinier than normal.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...00_i00_details

I found out about the cord not coming with the Fire when I was reading a professional reviewer review the Fire on the Amazon reviews under the item description.

I would recommend getting the 2 year Square Trade warranty for the Fire for $44.99 because it covers ANY DAMAGE from drops to spills and since my 2 devices are for tweens that may not be super careful with them, they are covered up to 3 replacements in 2 years for free (just the cost of the warranty) You can purchase the warranty anytime within the first 30 days after you purchase the device. You just search on Amazon for "Kindle Fire Square Trade Warranty" Do not buy the one just for regular electronics up to $200 in value. The FIRE has it's own version of the warranty you have to buy for it to be covered. I think it is a bargain for my piece of mind to know no matter what, at anytime during the next 2 years, if my kids destroy this thing, I can get a new one sent to me for free.

FYI: I am not trying to talk you into buying a FIRE. I am not a sales person for Kindle or Amazon, just someone who has two of them.

They do not have quite as many apps available as the Apple store has but they do have some major apps like Angry Birds and some very big, technical, detailed RPG games and advanced apps.

The cases they are trying to sell to go with the FIRE are around $30. You do not have to buy a case meant for just the Fire. I got these

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...00_i00_details

and it only cost me $30 ish for (2) cases and they are hard sided cases that will help in the event of a drop or a spill. They come with a pouch for the cords and a smooth side for the device to rest.

ANOTHER BIG FYI: If you join Amazon Prime (first month is free then $79 a year) not only do you get free 2 day shipping for the whole year, you get $3.99 one day shipping and it also opens up a whole 10,000 item library of TV shows and movies you get to stream to your device for free (no cost aside from the annual dues) Also as a Prime member you get one free book rental (any book) per month for free. My daughter downloaded Hunger Games yesterday for free and it is a loan, and you can keep it as long as you want then when you are done you give it back. If you are going to buy a Fire I would join Prime before you buy the Fire or WHEN you buy the Fire because then once your device comes to you, registered to your account, the PRIME membership is already in the device. My daughter has already watched about 7 episodes of My Name is Earl, season 1 and some Adam Sandler movie.

That's about all I can think of to tell you about right now. If you have any questions feel free to ask. Otherwise I just wanted to give you all a little bit of info about the new Fire.

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Long time no see!!

2011-12-15T09:58:00.000-06:00

I know my postings have been few and far between lately. I am back from the Disney trip so that's no excuse. BUT, speaking of Disney.... Jeremy (my husband) said he and I (alone) are going to go back to Disney next October for about 5 or 6 days, KIDLESS!! The kids aren't too happy about that but I am so excited about it. I think we will have a blast without the kids.

We plan on doing a few parks we didn't get to do on the last trip, Sea World, Magic Kingdom (we only spent 3 hours at MK, it was raining) and Discovery Cove where we will get to swim with Dolphins. We will go back an revisit Hollywood Studios and Universal's Island of Adventure (where Harry Potter is).

We will both drive this time. No flying. Husband won't fly and we don't really want to be down there with no car. The exact dates we are going are not SET IN STONE yet because we aren't sure what his work schedule is going to be like yet. We won't know that until some time next year.

I had a flat tire Tuesday. I was running errands and felt the tire feeling kind of wonky and pulled into a Sporting goods store parking lot and sure enough, I had a flat. Considering my husband is out of town working in another state I had to call my 70 yr old dad to come help me change my tire. It was hard for him, but my 10 yr old some helped him some. I don't know how to do it but I tried to assist. I rolled the flat tire back to my trunk and picked that big, heavy bitch UP by myself and put it in the trunk. Now don't think I am a wuss because I think a tire is so heavy. My car has very HEAVY STEEL RIMS on it. Big 20 inch rims that are way heavier than a standard tire and rim.

All of our Christmas shopping is done. It's been done for weeks but there is one little item that never did show up. I contacted the seller who sold me the SD card through Amazon and they keep giving me the run around and saying it is the slow postal system. After purchasing from them I started looking through their feedback and they had dozens of bad feedback saying the same thing I am having happen to me. No item, no answer, no refund. SO now I am having to file a claim through Amazon to get my money back and had to reorder (from someone different) of course and have it shipped 2 day shipping to make sure it gets here by Friday.

I already let the kids have their stockings. They got mechanical pencils, a card game called Would You Rather, a pull my finger fart pen, Silly Putty and a super bouncy ball. I also let them early open one of their Christmas presents and they got a Crayola CRAYON MAKER and a box of bulk crayons to go with it to make the new crayons with. That little fucker has to be put together and then getting it to work right the first time takes an engineering degree. But we finally got it all figured out and got them working and they made some crayons.

Jeremy will be back in town today and will do Christmas with his own son this coming weekend because he (Jeremy) has to leave to go back out of town next Thursday. I will do Christmas with mine on Friday the 23rd. It was my mom's birthday. I let them open my stuff early because they leave to go to their dad's house the next day to spend Christmas weekend with dad. They already know what they are getting from him, laptops. And they know 1 thing they are getting from me but they have a few gifts that are surprises.

My Christmas gift from Jeremy was an IPhone and $740 worth of new tires!! All I got him were a few Marilyn Monroe posters for his shop/gym. It's hard to buy something for him because he has everything he needs and the things he wants are out of my price range. (Think new hunting bow $900)

I already gave my oldest son (DS26) his Christmas. I got him an Android tablet, a case to go with it and a Leather jacket and my husband bought him a DVD player.

I spend a lot of time reading the DISBoards. Which is a Disney forum/message board but they have boards that are discussions that don't have anything to do with Disney. On the Community board this morning I was reading a thread about a woman whose daughter is being bullied at school and on the school bus by a few boys. The school is hesitant to do anything about it because nobody is GETTING HIT (are you serious?) and they have no proof just the girl's word against the boys.

This is very disturbing to me because most bullying...the kind that causes kids so much distress that they decide to commit suicide IS NOT PHYSICAL VIOLENCE, it is taunting, teasing and emotional bullying. SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE!

I have had personal experience with this and in my case, my son WAS actually being physically assaulted along with regular taunting and name calling, etc. It went so far in our case that I ended up taking both my kids out of school and homeschooled

It was just disturbing me reading about that. It reminded me of what my son went through and how he cried and begged me to please take him out of school. So I did.

So, off that bummer subject...Let me get off here. I won't stay away so long next time. =) TTFN

Something to think about. Click to enlarge.

2011-11-28T12:04:00.001-06:00

I saw this on someone's blog that I follow and she got it off one of her friend's pages on Facebook. Original credit for the picture unknown. But I like it. So here it is. Use it if you like.

Black Friday MY ASS!!

2011-11-25T10:49:00.000-06:00

Today is the most anticipated day of the year for some folks and the most dreaded day of the year for others. Not for me. To me it is just the Friday after Thanksgiving.

I have never LEFT MY HOUSE to go to a Black Friday sale and I probably never will. I KNOW there are good deals to be had but there is no way I am going to go CAMP OUT at a store 3 or 4 hours before it opens to make sure I am one of the first ppl in the store to get a certain discounted item.

An example....This year Best Buy was having a Black Friday item of a laptop that is only $200...but they have just TEN per store. There are 200 ppl lined up outside the store waiting to get in to fight for just 10 of EACH ITEM according to their own sales circular. NO THANK YOU.

I have always been lucky to find really good ONLINE Black Friday deals. I bought half my Christmas JUST TODAY on Black Friday online deals. I can't tell you what they are because some of my relatives and friends read my blog and it might give away someone's Christmas surprise by telling what I bought. HOWEVER let me say this...if you have ever wanted an IPad and can't afford one, or if you have ever wanted to buy one for your kids or some other loved on or friend, tweet me at @PeggySueCusses and I will tell you what I found. It will shock and amaze you at the deal I found that will satisfy your IPad lovers.

Well, we have been back from Disney for about 3 weeks now and Jeremy (the husband) and I have decided that WE are going to go back to Orlando around the same time next year, or maybe a few weeks earlier, WITHOUT THE KIDS!! Now we aren't going to stay 10 days like we did with the kids. We will only stay there 5 days with 2 travel days (total 7) And we are going to go to a few parks that we didn't get a chance to go to when we were there with all 5 of us. We are going to go to Sea World and to Discovery Cove (swimming with the Dolphins) We are going to REVISIT Island of Adventure, Hollywood Studios and Magic Kingdom. We are NOT going to stay on property next time.

We found a great Quality Inn located just 1 mile from Downtown Disney that has a bedroom, living room and FULL KITCHEN for $67 a night (that's with a Moose Lodge member discount) and a FULL HOT FREE breakfast buffet every day of our stay. Just the breakfast alone will save us $20 a day so that is really like getting the room for $47 a night. They also have FREE wi-fi, which Disney does not have (yet). Disney is starting to put wi-fi in their deluxe resorts but for now everybody else has to pay for it. $10 a day. So the free wi-fi will save us another $10 a day taking the room rate down to a virtual $37 a day. Having the living room will be priceless because Jeremy wakes up usually between 4 and 6 and I don't. So when he wakes up he can go into the living room and not wake me up watching TV.

OF COURSE the kids are all sad in the pants that we are going to go back without them. Especially DD11. She is really resentful of it. Instead of being grateful for the once in a lifetime 10 day Disney extravaganza they got to go on just 3 weeks ago, she is brooding that she can't go next time.

This has been a relax-ful week with the kids not being in school. They go back to school Monday for just 3 weeks then they get off again for 2 weeks for Christmas. =) Can anybody say SLEEPING IN. Yes please, thank you.

If you want to read (a long post) a detailed description of our Disney trip (trip report) just scroll down. It is the next post down.

Hope you all has a great Thanksgiving. We had a small gathering. Just myself, husband, all 3 kids, DS26's g/f and my dad. I DID NOT cook a Turkey. I bought a spiral sliced Turkey breast from the Heavenly Ham store. It is way better than cooking some crappy grocery store Turkey. The slices are super thin and a 4 pound breast was more than enough to feed the 6 ppl who ate Turkey and I had about half of it leftover to send home with my son and my dad. I never keep any food from my TG dinner. I do not want stacks and stacks of leftovers in the fridge that nobody here will eat. I have some leftover snobs in my house and they won't eat leftovers. So I was glad to send away all the food that was left. Even a whole pie went home with my dad.

I usually won't cook a Christmas dinner because Jeremy is never home for Christmas. His work schedule usually lands him home on Thanksgiving and gone on Christmas. He has been home for Christmas once in the last 6 years. =(

Anyway, message me on Twitter if you want my awesome Black Friday online find. (@PeggySueCusses)

Did you brave the crowds for shopping today?

OUR DISNEY TRIP report (LONG)

2011-11-10T09:56:00.000-06:00

Just back this past Saturday 11/5 and wanted to give a brief trip report of our 10 days in Orlando.

First let me say that we were there from Thursday 10/27 to Saturday 11/5 and it was 5 of us. DH, myself, stepson (12), daughter (11), and son (10). None of us have ever been to Disney before, or Orlando for that matter.

We started planning this trip back in January (started saving for it actually) and I booked it in April I think, maybe May. It was paid off by August but we ended up adding a day to it after it was paid off.

We stayed at the All Star Music Family Suite (no complaints about the resort).

On this trip the 3 children and myself FLEW to Disney while my husband DROVE to Disney. He works in another state than the state we live in and he wasn’t getting off work until 8 am on the morning we were leaving, so he left work (in Louisiana) and drove straight to Orlando. Mainly because I didn’t want to be in a car for 12 hours driving to Disney and he didn’t want to be in a car WITH KIDS for 12 hours. He likes to be alone when he drives and he likes quiet.

We had the free Quick Service dining plan, which we loved, but it was SO MUCH FOOD. We had 2 sit down dinners. One at Planet Hollywood, which was ok but way overpriced and one at a local Chili’s. I had a reservation for Rainforest Café at DTD and one at T-Rex that we didn’t keep. (I called and canceled them) Looking at the menu there were just not really good choices on the kids menu and to feed all 5 of us from the adult menu with tax and tip would have been well over a hundred dollars and that was too much, IMO. (Although that is what I ended up spending at Chili’s, but oh well)

Ok, let me tell you about our trip.

DAY 1: Thursday 10/27/11

Took the kids to McDonald’s and filled them up with cheap breakfast sandwiches because I knew we would be on the plane the next time they were suppose to eat and airlines don’t serve food anymore.

We headed for the airport (an hour away) and got there to find that the long-term parking lot ($9 a day) took ONLY credit cards, no debit cards. All I have is a debit card. So I had to keep on going closer to the main terminal in the long term surface lot ($12 a day) and it let me in just by taking a ticket from the machine. No signs about credit cards only, so we went in and parked, hoping we would be able to get out of there 10 days later with me debit card.

The kids have all 3 never flown before so they were all nervous and scared to fly. My DS10 was REALLY SCARED and convinced we were all going to die once we got on the plane. But I gave us all a motion sickness pill (Meclizine) and we boarded the plane. Take off was what I thought would scare them the most but it actually didn’t and the flight went fine. Landing didn’t scare them but it did make me queasy. (It always does)

Orlando (MCO) International airport is HUMONGOUS. It reminds me of the DFW airport in Texas where I was raised. That airport was giant and so was MCO. It was crawling with ppl. The kids were a little disoriented by it. I had to stop and ask directions on how to get to the Magic Express area of the airport. I knew it was on B-side terminal level 1, but had no idea how to get to B terminal, level 1. Turns out we needed to walk a long walk down the terminal, take a tram over to the other terminal, go downstairs and walk across what seemed like 2 miles of the other terminal. WALKED FOREVER to get to the ME bus counter from the Southwest gate.

The Magic Express bus was fun and relatively quick. We enjoyed the little film they played. It was a good distraction to keep you from being bored for the 30-minute ride to the resort.

Turns out, DH had gotten off work at around 4 am instead of 8 am and he got to the resort before we ever left the airport in our home state and the room wasn’t ready so he explored around a little and went to Downtown Disney for a while, while he waited on the room to be ready.

By the time we landed in Orlando they had the room ready and he went to the room and took a little nap waiting for us to arrive. We got to the resort and was dropped off at around 3 pm. We had nothing scheduled for our arrival day except going to Wal-Mart for breakfast items, drinks and snacks.

So we arrived, went to Wal-Mart and got the food and drinks and spent around $150 total for everything including socks for 2 of the kids.

We had dinner at the resort food court using our FREE dining plan credits and realized that they serve you large portions and that we wouldn’t be able to eat dessert every meal. I think that first night we got our receipt stamped to come back for Ice Cream after dinner. One of the kids got a shake and the rest of s had Ice Cream sundaes.

The room was large compared to regular hotel rooms. It was clean. But the fridge wasn’t cooling. We had purchased Milk so I was concerned about the fridge and called Maintenance to come switch them out. Turns out we had a large MINI fridge. That the fridge that is usually in the family suite is one of those small dorm fridges and we had the bigger mini fridge like what you would find in an office or a camper. The guy who came said they only had a very small one to replace it with and we ended up having to plug it in in our bedroom. Then about 30 minutes later 2 other guys came to the door and said they had a replacement for the BIGGER fridge and brought in a bigger mini fridge, replaced the fridge that wasn’t working and stuck the tiny little fridge behind our bedroom door in the bedroom portion of the room.

I have to say about the family suite. They give you PLENTY of towels and plenty of pillows. You have 2 bathrooms and they put 4 bath towels in EACH bathroom. They give you one two pillows for the Queen bed in the bedroom but there are 2 extra pillows above the bathroom closet rack in one bathroom and two other pillows in the other bathroom closet. The double sleeper and the chair sleeper came with two pillows under them already. Each sleeper already came with sheets on it and a blanket on it. All you had to do was fold them out, pull out the pillows and there you go.

Housekeeping at first was just making up the sleepers and not folding them back up then for some reason half way through our trip they started making them up AND folding them back up every day. I preferred they leave them open to keep us from having to do it every night but I wasn’t going to write them a note and ask them not to fold them up. Whatever. That was fine.

I did tip mouse keeping. I tipped $5 a day for the first 5 days then switched to $6 a day for the last 4 days. I forgot to leave some money the morning we left.

DAY 2: Friday 10/28/11

We had breakfast in the food court on Friday because we had not used the previous day’s lunch credits since we didn’t arrive in time to eat lunch. We all had a variety of the breakfast offerings during the trip from the Bounty platter to Omelets to Pancakes. Not any Waffles. I had French toast twice. It was good.

This was the day we were suppose to go to Blizzard Beach water park but it was drizzling rain and only in the high 60s, so we scrubbed the plans for the water park. (I had scheduled Blizzard Beach first because it was closing for refurb in just a day or two from when we arrived) But alas, Blizzard Beach was not going to happen. So we went to Animal Kingdom instead. We had not planned on going to Animal Kingdom at all. All of our days were scheduled for other things, other parks, but when our water park day fell through we went to AK (in the rain).

Unfortunately it was an EMH day at AK and the park was kind of full. We did not get there at 8 though. We didn’t get there until 9 and the park was already at full swing.

The kids loved the rides. The Safari was good, the two oldest loved Expedition Everest and also Kali River Rapids. I didn’t go on Kali. We didn’t have any rain ponchos that day (DH got them on another day that it rained) and I didn’t want to get more wet. It was kind of chilly with the rain and a bit uncomfortable.

Now I know CHILLY is relative to where you are from and what you are use to but I was raised in Texas where it stays really hot most of the year and now live in Mississippi where it stays hot and humid. So anything below 60 to me is chilly. 50 and under is COLD and I need a COAT!

We had dinner in the food court again and the kids found out about the outdoor movie at the pool every night at 8 pm, so since it had stopped raining, they went out to watch the movie and discovered a ping-pong table right by the pool. We let them stay out there (without us) and watch the movie.

Day 3: Saturday 10/29/11

We had breakfast in the room. We had cereal bars, granola bars, donut sticks, and cereal. I had packed bowls and spoons in the luggage Dh had in the back of our car so we had real bowls and real spoons for cereal. We had bought milk at Wal-Mart, so everybody but me had cereal.

We woke up to someone else’s boarding passes hanging on our door. The writing on the envelope was so fat and curvy it had room 1416 written on it but we were in room 1414 and it looked like the envelope said 1414. We just took it outside and hung it on the next room over 1416 next door to us.

We went and added another day to our ticket because when we went to Animal Kingdom instead of the water park, we used one of our days that we had planned for another park. We had 4-day MYW tickets to begin with and had to add the day to make it a 5. It only cost us $8 per person to add a day to our tickets.

This day we went to Disney Quest in DTD and the kids had a very good time here. My DH actually played a lot of games here as well. I played a little old school Pac Man and some Frogger but the kids were more into the racing games, Need For Speed, and Nascar racing, Jet fighter simulator, Air Hockey. They have a lot of neat stuff there. And we realized there was a part of the place we never even found. It is 5 stories and can get a bit confusing. There’s a small food court on level 4 but the main food court is on level 5. There are games on levels 2 through 5 but when they send you up the first time they don’t send you to level 2 they send you to level 3 so we forgot and never got back down to see what was on level 2. But we stayed there from open (11:30 am) until around 3:30 pm. We all had lunch there around 1.

After we left Disney Quest we walked all of Downtown Disney starting at DQ and walking all the way down the west side, through Pleasure Island and ending up at the very end of Marketplace down by the Rainforest Café and back. We sat at a little Wetzel’s Pretzels and had some tea/lemonade and a few pretzels. Salty for DS, Cheesy for DD and Cinnamon for DH. Stepson and I skipped the Pretzels. I was just thirsty for some sweet iced tea. That’s all I drink and it was hard to find SWEET tea. They did have bottled Nestea (with lemon- yuk) in our food court resort and I found some sweet tea dispensers at a few CS locations in the parks that had tea. It was Gold Peak though and not very good. I was just dying for some of my own homemade sweet tea. I use a combination of Splenda and real sugar that I have acquired a taste for and nothing satisfies me like my own tea.

So we stopped and rested our feet for awhile because it was only 5 pm and we didn’t have to be at Cirque Du Soleil until 5:30 for a 6 pm show.

We finally walked down to Cirque and they started letting ppl in to find their seats at 5:20. We had seats in section C row 3, which were 3 rows back from the stage. We were right up front. Which weren’t the best seats to be in. We spent most of the night LOOKING UP instead of forward. If you go to Cirque La Nouba, make sure you pick category 2 seats and pick a section half way up into the theater. Nothing on the lower levels. They actually charge A LOT of those front and center seats and they are a rip off. Everything happens above your head and you crane your neck to see. The trapeze flyers were almost directly above our head. It was hard to see what they were doing. The show was amazing. The whole family loved it. We just would have been happier with higher seats. Don’t let them sell you on the more expensive seats closer to the stage. NOT WORTH IT. Actually in this theater, NO SEAT is a BAD seat but the higher you are in the theater, the better you can see all that happens. Some performers even come out into the audience and do skits or dance around and we had to turn around in our seats to see it.

The show lasted from 6 pm to 7:45 pm and we actually had a 7:45 reservation at Planet Hollywood at 7:45 so we left out of there and BOOGIED IT on down to Planet Hollywood for dinner. We checked in at the outdoor podium and had to just stand there waiting for about 15 minutes before they gave us a piece of paper with something written on it to go upstairs and then we waited a few more minutes because it seems like they weren’t really expecting a party of 5. So they found us a place to sit and then we walked up and discovered a woman sitting at the edge of our booth because her husband was taking her picture on the Leopard print background of the seats and she needed a few more shots. So we had to kind of scoot her out and away from our booth to even be able to sit down. It was interesting to say the least.

I ordered a salad. My DH ordered some type of grilled chicken breast sandwich I think, and the kids had kids meals chicken tenders with baked potatoes. I used my Disney $15 off voucher so the bill after he took off the voucher was 60 something dollars plus tax and tip it was around 80 I think. We can say we have been there but I doubt I would ever go back again. Just to warn you…the little certificate they give you that says you get a FREE Planet Hollywood Souvenir. It’s a crappy cheap little key chain that says PH on it. It’s somewhere in the bottom of my purse still. It may live there forever now. Their food was decent, just kind of HIGH. We were there from 8 to almost 9, and then went home tired and exhausted from the long day.

Day 4: Sunday 10/30/11

We had breakfast in the resort food court due to us not using our dinner credits from the night before because of going to Planet Hollywood OOP meal. I think a few had the bounty platters with eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuit, French toast sticks and potatoes. A few of them had omelets.

This day was suppose to be our Hollywood Studios day but since I realized it was an EMH day there, and since I saw how busy the EMH made AK when we went there, we decided to change our plans and skip the park with EMH and go to Epcot instead. I really did want to do Epcot kind of early on so it wouldn’t seem like such a disappointment to them after a few amusement parks full of rides. It wasn’t an EMH day at Epcot so we got there at 9. We stayed from 9 am to 6:45 pm. It was a long day but a very productive day.

We went straight for Soarin and walked right on. Walked all the way through the line, waited like 3 minutes to get in the loading seats, and took off on the ride through California. I have heard a lot of ppl complain on here about the poor quality of the film and how bad it looks, etc, but I have never seen it before it got bad. I have nothing to compare it to and I thought it was just fine. I would have liked to be on the top row of seats so I didn’t see the ppl’s feet dangling in front of me kind of killing the effect of feeling like you are flying through the air. But I still loved it. Riding THAT and Test Track were my only 2 goals for Epcot.

We left Soarin’ and went right over to Test track. Walked right on. No wait. Kids loved it so when we got off we got a fast pass to come back to Test track. The return time was like 45 min later so we didn’t have long to wait. When we did go back and use our fast passes for Test Track we were pulling up to where the cars line up to take off and just sat there. And sat there. And sat there. It ended up being us sitting there stuck on it for almost 15 minutes. I guess another car broke down somewhere and they couldn’t let us take off. But next thing you know, off we went. No problems.

We saw the little films in France, China and Canada. The kids didn’t like the ones where you have to stand up and lean on the rails. I didn’t particularly care for the Canada one just because Martin Short narrating through the whole thing kind of killed it for me. Him trying to be funny ruined the majestic mood I think they were going for with the scenery pictures.

Some observations. Mexico’s boat ride sucks but the Norway boat, Maelstrom, is a lot better. Captain EO S-U-C-K-S. That was a waste of 20 minutes of my life I will never get back.

DD got a Henna tattoo in Morocco for $25 and it was suppose to stay for 7 to 9 days. That thing wasn’t even dark like it was suppose to be and it washed off after 3 days. That was a big rip off.

We were going to try to stay for the Eat to the Beat concert going on that evening at 5:30 (Sister Hazel) but the crowd/line of ppl waiting to get in at one hour before the show was extreme already so we just kept on walking and said maybe some other time.

We decided we would try Pepper Market at Coronado Springs resort that night because I had heard such great things about the place from reading the message boards. It is more like a sit down place because they have waiters that bring you your drinks, and if you are NOT on the dining plan you have to pay a 10% gratuity. However, if you ARE on the dining plan they do not charge you the gratuity. It’s not included though. If you choose not to leave it, the server gets nothing. So of course we left him a $10 tip. I can’t imagine how many dining plan ppl walk out and don’t leave a dime just because they don’t have to. It’s sad actually.

As for the food, DD didn’t like her food. She got Beef fajitas and she said the meat was so tough she couldn’t even tear it with her fingers. So I shared my Pizza with her. DS had the ribs and liked them. DSSS had a steak burrito and he ate it so I assume he liked it and DH had roasted Chicken and he said it was fine. They DO NOT have sweet tea. It is unsweet and you have to sweeten it yourself. You can’t really sweeten cold tea but I gave it a go. I would maybe give it another shot and try something different. They had Nachos that I would have liked to try but we never went back there during our stay.

Day 5: Monday 10/31/11 Halloween Day

We knew before we went that the kids were not going to get to trick or treat this year. DTD stopped having the free trick or treating for the kids and we had NO PLANS WHATSOEVER to spend $70 per person to go to MNSSHP so the kids could go to TEN candy stations and get a buck fifty worth of candy. They could care less about characters, don’t really like parades so I knew the Scary party was not for us.

We decided to go to Magic Kingdom this day because with it being a party night, I didn’t figure ALL THOSE PPL would spend ALL DAY in the park then stay all night for the party. So I figured ppl would avoid the park during the day. I was right. But the main reason ppl were avoiding the park is because it was raining.

Fortunately DH had gotten up and went to Wal-Mart and got us some of those cheap, thin clear little rain ponchos to wear.

We only stayed there from 9 am to noon. It just would not stop raining. But we got in the main rides and even rode BTMRR a few times. Kids rode Space Mountain, we all rode Splash Mountain and skipped most of the other stuff. I didn’t even end up getting to try a Dole Whip float. But we WALKED RIGHT ON TO EVERY RIDE as many times as we wanted to.

We left at noon and guess what it did at 1? It stopped raining!! But since we had gone back to the room and was resting/DH napping, we knew going back from 2 pm until the park filled up at 4 pm with all the evening’s party goers wasn’t really worth it. So we didn’t go back. We just lay around the room watching TV and resting.

Later on that night we found and went to a local Chili’s. It is my DH’s favorite place to eat. However I made the mistake of telling the kids that they could all 3 order whatever they wanted off the adult menu. BIG MISTAKE. My bill ended up being a hundred dollars between the 5 of us. Good food though!! And great service. The Chili’s was on Apopka Vineland Road.

Day 6: Tuesday 11/1/11

This day we went to Hollywood Studios. No EMH for this day. We stayed from 9 am to 4:30 pm and it was our most favorite park so far of any of them. Everybody loved it. I think Hollywood Studios is really underrated for how cool it really is.

We were really able to walk right on to everything. Even Tower of Terror and RNR. We really worked the fast pass system that day too because our return times on the fast pass was so soon to come back that we were able to get other fast passes to other rides within 30 or 45 minutes of getting the last set of fast passes. We didn’t have to wait on ANYTHING. And the funny thing is, I decided to go ahead and ride Toy Story even though I said I wasn’t going to but when we walked by it had only a 1o min stand by time, so we said SURE WHY NOT let’s go ride it. Everybody thought it was cute so when we got off we got a fast pass to come back. (That we ended up not using) I brought them home for souvenirs. I was going to find someone to give them to and forgot.

We rode RNR twice; even the super scared DS10 rode it once.

We rode Tower of Terror once, and then the 2 older kids rode it three more times.

We rode Star Tours twice and since I had forgotten to take my Antivert AGAIN it made me queasy so I just removed the 3D glasses and closed my eyes and it was better. The second time we rode it, it had a different story and a bit more intense movement. DH liked that one a lot.

At this point we still had 36 snack credits left. I had been using snack credits for all kinds of things but a few times we used them for drinks and smoothies. I bought up some candy with some of the credits in the resort gift shop to take home. We didn’t use as many snack credits in Food & Wine as I thought we would because nobody wanted to try any of the ethnic exotic foods. They are not adventurous eaters.

We ate at Backlot Express and from what I can remember the food was ok. If it were crappy I would have noted it and I didn’t so it must have been fine.

We had dinner at the resort AGAIN. I finally stopped eating Pizza and started getting the make your own salad. You get it with Chicken, Salmon or Steak on it. Well, I am a vegetarian but DD loves Salmon so I ordered my custom salad and asked them to leave the Salmon on the side. I ate the salad and gave her the Salmon. I ended up having that same salad almost every night the last 4 nights we were there.

Day 7: Wednesday 11/2/11

This day we went to Universal Studio’s Island Of Adventure theme park. We parked in a parking garage then had ONE HELLUVA WALK from the parking garage to the entrance to the theme park.

When we got there we didn’t do as advised on the DIS boards Universal section and go to straight to WWOHP. We let the kids ride the HULK coaster first since it was right there at the front of the park right next to where you walk in then we went back to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter section.

We passed through Seuss land on the way to WWOHP but we did end up coming back to it later.

In WWOHP we rode Forbidden Journey. (Made me very dizzy and sick to my stomach but the family loved it) We rode the small coaster Hippogriff. Even though it was considered a “baby” coaster it still went pretty fast. And the 2 older kids rode Dragon Challenge a few times.

We rode 3 different “wet” rides and got REALLY WET even though we had rain ponchos on.

We saw the Sinbad stunt show. It was okay. It was as good as the Indiana Jones stunt show over at Disney.

The kids rode Spiderman, Dr Doom’s Fear Fall and the Hulk AGAIN. Then we revisited WWOHP. We loved the feel of the area and the authentic theming. If you are a Potter fan than it is an awesome part of the theme park. Seeing the Hogwarts Castle in the distance for the first time gave me chills.

We ended up coming upon PATRICK the talking, squirting water fountain right outside the SINBAD theater area. As we walked up he was trying to talk to some shy little kids who weren’t cooperating so my 3 walked right out in front of the fountain and he immediately started talking to them. He asked them their names. Made fun of them a little, tried to squirt them a few times, played some trivia with them, then REALLY tried to squirt them. They were able to successfully dodge the water pretty well. But it was a very fun little experience. I was quick on my feet and got most of it on videotape.

We were at the park from 9 am to 4:30 pm and it was our favorite park. IOA was favorite then Hollywood Studios was second favorite.

For lunch we ate at two different places. DH and DSS ate at the indoor big food court because DH wanted a grilled Chicken sandwich but the kids and I ate at an outdoor food court with picnic benches because we wanted Pizza and the big food court didn’t have it. Dh met back up with us at the place we were eating when he and DSS got through eating. The food was decent.

For dinner we had food at the resort food court again. We had originally had a ressie for dinner this night at Rainforest Café but I canceled it and we just used a dining credit for dinner at the resort and saved the $199 OOP expense of the TS dinner at DTD.

Day 8: Thursday 11/3/11

This day we got up and went to Typhoon Lagoon. Even though we had to scrub our plans to go to Blizzard Beach I really wanted to get to go to Typhoon Lagoon to get to swim with the sharks and see the 6-foot waves in the wave pool. Everybody was looking forward to going to TL. The park didn’t open until 10 but we waited until around 11:30 to go, closer to lunch time so that it would be warmer and sunnier to go. To make it more comfortable. And it ended up staying pretty overcast most of the day and it was a bit on the chilly side but not too uncomfortable. Except for when we got in the shark tank (that they DO NOT HEAT like the rest of the water) it was like stepping into a bucket of freezing cold ice water. It was a miserable swim trying to get from one side of that shark tank to the other. But I saw a Sting Ray and a Hammerhead shark and one other kind of shark swimming under me. It was neat.

We rode a few rides/slides and really enjoyed the wave pool. We stayed in there for at least 30 minutes jumping the big waves and watching others trying to surf the big waves. The kids really liked Crush N Gusher the water coaster. I didn’t ride that one because it just seemed really high up there and I didn’t want to climb a million stairs. I was feeling really tired. So I sat on a picnic bench at the bottom and waited for them all to ride it.

After the water park we went back to the resort and had dinner in the food court.

We really have realized just how much food you get on the QSDP and how 2 snacks a day really is a lot of snacks when you are also eating 3 meals a day and we are LOOKING for things to use our snacks up on. I can see why they are taking it down to 1 snack a day on the QSDP for 2012. You really won’t be missing out on anything except maybe all the snacks you forced yourself to buy before you left to take home with you. I can’t imagine anybody actually using up all the meal credits and all the snack credits on EATING while you are there. You have to have a really HUGE appetite to eat that much food.

Day 9: Friday 11/4/11

This day we went to Universal Studios. Not IOA but just Universal. To be honest, my family and I all thought this park SUCKS compared to IOA. It was just boring, small and not much to do compared to IOA or even Hollywood Studios. Maybe if we had done Universal FIRST then done IOA it wouldn’t have seemed so bad.

The Horror Make up Show and the Beetlejuice Rock N Roll show were both great. Loved them. The Terminator show was really on the cheesy side and sprays way too much water mist on you for no good reason. The 2 older kids loved Rip, Ride Rock It and rode it numerous times. They found out just how fast you can get through it and back on it if you use the single rider line.

Day 10: 11/5/11 Departure Day

Orlando airport was a madhouse and it took almost an hour to get all the way through security.

We paid for Early Bird check in for our flight TO Orlando and our flight home and it really is worth the extra $10. We got “A” boarding assignments both directions and was “A” less than 20 on both flights. It is nice to get to board the plane first and pick your seats and not have to just take what is left over. There is no reason NOT TO pay the extra $10.

On a side note. We only ever used our mugs once or twice. Since you get a drink with every meal we never really had a need to go fill up our refillable mugs because we had drinks in the room we bought at Wal-Mart. I can see ppl using them a lot more if you didn’t have a way to go to the grocery store and you didn’t have drinks in your room. But we kept them for the kids to have as a souvenir of the trip.

Over all we had a wonderful trip. It was a once in a lifetime trip. It cost us well over 7 thousand dollars so I don’t see us doing it again. DH and I may go back in a few years and do Busch Gardens, Sea World and IOA for a long weekend, but not a 10-day whole family trip again. I love Disney but I can’t see going every year. I love Disney as much as most ppl do but I think you can get too much of a good thing if you go to the same place every year. I don’t want to go ANYWHERE every year.

Thanks for spending the time to read my little trip report.

ONE MORE DAY!!!!

2011-10-26T13:40:00.000-05:00

It's finally here. Our Disney trip begins tomorrow morning as we head out to the airport at 9 am for an 11:20 flight. (We live an hour away from the airport)

DH is leaving work (He works in another state than the state we live in) at 4 am and driving to meet us in Orlando and our plane should land just as he is getting in the Orlando area.

I am flying with 3 kids who have never flown before and one who is CONVINCED he is going to die when we take off and fly.

I will be tweeting about our trip over the next 10 days. If you don't follow me on Twitter you can find me @PeggySueCusses

Speaking of the iPhone...Steve Jobs

2011-10-21T08:29:00.000-05:00

Unless you are living under a rock or high up in the Arkansas hills in a trailer with no electricity, in which case you wouldn't be reading this, then you know Steve Jobs, CEO and co-creator of Apple died last week.

I recently found out that when he was first diagnosed he DELAYED traditional treatment to pursue herbal remedies. That leads me to believe that had he started treatment sooner he might have lived considerably longer.

Let this be a lesson folks. If you get cancer, start treatment RIGHT AWAY. Don't delay it for vacation, or for some herbal remedies....We see how well those work out huh....

I have read a lot about alternative treatments for cancer. If you have read either of Suzanne Somers last 2 books, but especially Breakthrough, she interviews doctors, most of whom are in South Texas/Houston area, who use alternative cancer treatments and CLAIM to have AMAZING success rates. It would be hard for me to decide to fore go traditional treatments to try some unproven alternative treatment. Unless they told me I had pancreatic cancer. We all know that is the bad one. That is the one that progresses fast, does not respond to treatment and in almost all cases, KILLS the patient who has it. If they told me I had that I might go to Houston and let them do the hokey pokey on me. But insurance won't pay for any of those alternative treatment doctors.

Someone on Twitter told me that Steve Jobs basically admitted that he knows that by him delaying his treatment that he basically killed himself. I didn't know he admitted that publicly. I might try to find that statement. I would be interested in reading that.

In other news ... SIX MORE DAYS!!!! ONLY SIX MORE DAYS PPL!! DISNEY DISNEY DISNEY!!!!

I am so excited I can't hardly stand myself. I am so looking forward to this trip. My kids are all old enough to enjoy it, be able to ride all the rides and most of all, they will remember it for the rest of their lives!! I know the 2 older ones are going to have a blast, they love coasters. The bigger and flippy-er the better. But the youngest one is my scared child. You can say BOO and he will scream. He thinks we are all going to die when we get on the plane next Thursday and the thought of getting on a big roller coaster makes him want to cry. SO I will be spending a lot of time waiting with HIM at the exit to whatever ride my oldest two and husband are riding at the time.

So me and the three kids who have ALL never flown before (the kids have never flown before, I have, a lot) are flying and the husband is driving. It's complicated but basically he works in another state than we live in and when he gets off he is driving straight from the state he works in to Florida. It will take him about 10 hours. I didn't want to be in a car with 3 kids for 10 hours and he didn't want to be in a car with anybody for 10 hours, so me and the kids are flying. That really works out for everybody. We get there quick and we also have our own car when we are there so we don't have to take Disney buses everywhere.

I am going to ride as many rides as I can, take as many pictures as my camera will hold, and snack my way around Epcot into a bigger pants size!! (Just kidding about the pants size, maybe)

I probably won't blog again before I leave. But who knows. I might.

Don't have too much fun while I am gone!

Ok so MAYBE the iPhone can't suck it.

2011-10-15T13:06:00.000-05:00

Maybe you remember me posting a while back saying iPhone can SUCK IT!!

Well, I take it back. I hated me last iPhone because the memory/storage space wasn't big enough and once my phone was full it was useless to me.

But the new iPhone 4S just came out and I got one!! It's awesome!!

I first called to pre-order it last Friday the 7th when pre-orders opened up. I called AT&T, put in my order and was waiting for terms and conditions email to come. You have to accept those or they won't send you the phone. Well, it never came so I called back and the lady told me to wait a little bit longer it could take up to 24 hours to come.

I waited 24 hours and it still didn't come, so I called again. The second lady said OH NO it can take up to 48 hours to come and we are very busy taking pre-orders for the new iPhone 4S so it may be backed up sending them out, just wait.

I waited 48 hours and it never came, so I called again. The third woman said WELL, HMMMM I don't see ANY ORDER on your account let me check...well, it appears that Apple is not accepting debit cards as payment for pre-orders so your order must have kicked back/been rejected and that's why I am not seeing an order for your account. The only thing you can do if you don't have a CREDIT CARD is wait until the 14th when the phone actually goes on sale and call in and ORDER it with a debit card.

Ok, whatever.

Well the next day my husband got the order confirmation email, confirming the order they told me was rejected. Next came the terms and conditions they said wasn't going to come. Husband accepted them and sent it back and we just left it alone. Figured it was a mistake and the emails were generated after the order was accepted and before it was rejected.

So here I am on the phone first thing Friday morning with AT&T ordering my new iPhone 4S, white.

I go on about my day. We run some errands and when I come back in the afternoon there is a box on the porch. Hmmm, I recognize that box. That looks like the boxes you get from AT&T when you order a new phone. BUT I just ordered it this morning, that can't be my phone. Husband opens the box and guess what it is?

MY iPHONE 4S!! The original one that I pre-ordered that was told wouldn't come because the order was rejected. Obviously there was some glitch and the computer actually accepted the card anyway and sent out the phone. So then we had a phone in hand and a phone on order. I had to call AT&T and ask to cancel the order from that morning. She told me just to NOT accept terms and conditions when it came and the order would cancel after 7 days.

The phones weren't even suppose to ship until Friday the 14th and I GOT MINE on Friday the 14th!! I was so happy to see my new phone.

I had already watched the You Tube videos that Apple posted showing how the new features on the phone work and how to use it.

The most exciting thing is the new artificial intelligence personal assistant SIRI. It is a voice activated thing you ask questions, tell to perform functions for you, look up things on the web for you, etc.

Yesterday Siri wasn't even working. But I went on the Apple message boards and a lot of ppl were saying their Siri wasn't working either and that they thought it might just be Apple servers were flooded from all the new iPhones in use on that one day and to wait and see if it starts working tomorrow.

I woke up this morning and that's the first thing I did was picked up my phone and tried Siri. It worked!! I immediately showed it to my husband and began playing with it, asking it to call my husband's phone, to message my husband's phone, asking it to find thrift stores near me, look up info on the internet about Bora Bora. You can have it set alarms for you, read text messages to you, type text messages for you to send, then send them for you, all hands free.

I was fortunate that I still had all my previous music and apps saved in my iTunes so once I activated the phone all I had to do was sync it and all my stuff was back on the phone. I bought 2 new ringtones because I don't want to take the time to learn how to make my own ringtones with iTunes. I picked the DEXTER theme song for my husband's ringtone and the Halloween movie theme song for the rest of my family when they call. All others get The Hunger Games whistling theme. (That download was free by the way)

This phone has a forward facing camera for using FaceChat where you can have video calls to anybody else with a FaceChat feature on their camera. It has a regular rear facing camera (8 megapixel) with a flash on it.
It has a new feature called iCloud where you can share all purchased apps and music, documents, etc from your iPhone to your iPad to your MacBook to your iPod touch all through magic!! No need to re-purchase them for each device. That will come in handy when the kids all 3 get a new iPod touch for Christmas. I can buy one app and send it to each iPod touch without having to buy it for each device. =) YAY!

In other news...today is going to be a GOOD DAY!! Not only are we completely KIDLESS this weekend, husband is taking me thrift store shopping (YAY!) and then to dinner and a movie. What gets better than that? A date day where I get to shop at thrift store (love it) go out to eat (love it) and see a movie (love it)!! And not only are we kidless this weekend we are kidless until Wednesday. That's an occurance that has never happened to us before. We ALWAYS have either my kids or his kid. one or the other when Dh is home from working out of town. So it is a record breaking weekend for us.

Wednesday I have to pack everybody's clothes that we are taking to Disney (a week early for packing) and get it all packed in my car. DH leaves to go back to work Thursday morning and all of our Disney gear has to be in the car when he leaves. He will be at work for one week then leaves his job in Louisiana and is driving straight through to Florida, and meeting me and the kids there. (We are flying) I didn't want to be in a car with 3 kids for 12 hours, DH didn't want to be with anybody for 12 hours in the car. So it worked out better for me and the 3 kids to fly (got real cheap flights on sale) and for him to drive. That way we will have our own car while we are there and not have to take Disney buses everywhere we go. DH will drive back to MS from Florida and we will all fly back and meet him at home. So what that means for me is I have to have everybody's clothes all washed and ready to pack Wednesday afternoon. The kids have to go through their clothes and pick out what they want to wear for the 10 days we will be gone.

Just TWELVE MORE DAYS and we will be at Disney. I am so excited. I have been counting down the days since about day 45 or so. Telling the DH and kids every day which day in the countdown it is. I have been so obsessed with this Disney trip for so many months (since January) that there is going to be a big let down when it is all over and I know we will probably never go again. But this trip is SO EXPENSIVE!! 5 ppl for 10 days, room, tickets, food, gas, souvenirs. It is costing us more for this vacation than all of the other vacations we have ever taken COMBINED. It's crazy.

But we will be doing almost every park, except Animal Kingdom and Sea World.
We are doing Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, Universal Studios, Island of Adventure, Cirque Du Soleil La Nouba, Disney Quest and Downtown Disney as well as both Disney water parks, Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon. One park per day. Except the day we go to Disney Quest we do Cirque the same day.

We're staying in the All Star Music Family Suites. It had to be a suite to fit 5 ppl. If we would have had 4 ppl we could have stayed SO MUCH CHEAPER, but it is what it is. We had a very expensive room if we wanted to stay on property, which I did/do.

Have you ever been to Disney? Was it the most expensive trip you have ever taken? Did you love it?

Peek a Boo

2011-10-03T19:54:00.000-05:00

I have been A.W.O.L. I didn't realize until today that I have not posted since the middle of September and now it is the beginning of October. I just completely forgot I even have a blog. I have been so wrapped up in this upcoming Disney trip (24 days to go!) That I have been neglecting my internet.
I have even been slacking on talking to my peeps on Twitter. I use to spend hours on Twitter every day chatting up the people, but I have been spending my time on the DISBoards. The Disney message boards.

I have even gotten way behind in my Google reader. I need to get caught up reading the blogs I keep up with. Sometimes I have to just get on and hit MARK ALL AS READ.

Dexter series premiere was last night!! SQUEAL!! I just watched it today while the kids were at school. I don't let the kids watch it. And not because it is about a serial killer but because they show random secks stuff. The episode I watched today showed (SPOILER ALERT) a topless woman giving Dexter a BJ in a classroom at his HS reunion. Not kid material. If they would leave that shit out I would let the kids watch it. Same with True Blood. I know the kids would have loved True Blood but they have some really graphic secks scenes in TB. Speaking of True Blood. I watched the first 3 seasons on DVD within the last 3 weeks and LOVED IT! I never gave it a chance when it first came on because there was a Vampire overload but I got bored and decided to give it a shot. I also just started watching the first season of Vampire Diaries. But that came on FX I think and looks to be PG13 so if the kids catch a glimpse of that it won't matter.

2 of my Real Housewives shows are back on. RHONJ & RHOBH. I am not looking forward to RHONY coming back on since Jill won't be on and all of Ramona's trashy friends will be. I don't mind that they got rid of Kelly and Alex. I couldn't stand either one of them. But I hate Ramona and I am sure her friends will be just as trashy. She is a horrible white trash rich bitch. She is low class with some money.

DD has gotten into watching scary movies the last few months and we are making our way through some of the Children of The Corn movies, a few of the Halloween movies ( we fast forward through the inappropriate parts) and the original Friday The 13th. DD thinks they are all pretty cheesy and not very scary. Nothing scares her. She kind of likes the scariness of the Scream movies but other than that I guess she expects some axe murderer to jump out of the TV and chase her to bed. I know when I was a kid and Friday The 13th came out that shit scared me. It was the scariest movie I had ever seen besides Halloween. Halloween scared me pretty good too. The fact that those phuckers just WON'T DIE no matter what happens to them...She even tried some Freddy Krueger and Chucky. Didn't like any of that. I showed her Blair Witch Project she didn't think that was scary. Now she liked the original Paranormal Activity (Part one- part two sucked balls)

Right now the kids are fascinated with Jeff Dunham (comedian) He is a Ventriloquist who has a cast of characters he uses as his puppets. Some of his material is more leaning towards rated R as opposed to PG13 but it's mostly bleeped out when it is bad. He is pretty funny. He has a puppet he calls Achmed the dead terrorist. Funny shit. He is a skeleton with a turban and bushy eyebrows.

Amanda Knox's murder conviction was overturned today and she is being released from jail and is expected to leave Italy tonight. She has been in prison for 4 years for a murder she claims she did not commit. I never knew enough about the case to know if she is really guilty or not but a majority of the ppl I have talked to about it think she is innocent but that she knows something about it she is not telling. Maybe it was a case of her being in the wrong place at the wrong time, I dunno. But regardless...if she is innocent then she has spent 4 long years in jail suffering for the crime of someone else. If she really did commit the murder, at least she did have to spend 4 years in prison. That's a little something. No comfort to the victim's family I am sure. I am pretty sure the police have the victim's family convinced that Amanda Knox is guilty.

Ok, well I am going to go watch some more episodes of Vampire Diaries. I am having a hard time deciding if I like Stefan or Damon more. I am leaning towards Stefan since he is a good Vampire but then again Damon is super HAWT!! Hard to choose. In real life I would choose the Vampire that DIDN'T kill ppl of course but in fantasy land the bad boy wins.

I won't stay away so long this time. Don't give up on me. =)

Not all Vampires are shiny!

2011-09-19T13:22:00.000-05:00

I love Twilight, don't get me wrong. I love some shiny day-walking Pacific Northwestern blood suckers. I am team Jacob all the way. But I just discovered what most of you probably already knew. True Blood vampires are HAWT!!

I just finished watching Season 1 of True Blood on DVD and I have to say I love it. I am about to start on Season 2, then onto Season 3. I believe Season 4 JUST went off the air from playing new episodes last week, so that should be out on DVD some time in the next 6 months. I want to get all caught up so when Season 5 comes on HBO next whenever it's coming on, I will be all caught up and able to watch it.

I may spoil it for you if you have never seen True Blood so if you have never seen it and DO plan on watching it, stop reading now. I don't want to ruin any surprises for you.

I like Bill, but really for about the first 4 or 5 episodes I really wanted Sookie to like Sam back. He is stable, he is handsome, has a good job/owns his own business and has a thing for her real bad. But as the seasons went on I started warming up to the idea of Sookie loving Bill and NOT Sam. As hard as Sam tried to love Tara he still couldn't. His thing for Sookie was too strong.

Speaking of Tara. I love her attitude. She is rude and shitty but so straight forward. You don't have to guess what she is thinking. I loved LaFayette's character too but see that they had to kill him off and put him in the back of Andy's car in the season finale. I am assuming he is dead. It appeared a vampire got him.

It made me wish V juice was real!! I would drink the shit!! Super heightened senses, super-human strength, hippie lovey hallucinations, quick healing. Seems like the perfect substance, if you can get past the fact that it is Vampire blood.

I hate it that the first season killer turned out to be Rene because I really liked him. Love that Cajun accent no matter how fake it turned out to be. But I am glad that Jason wasn't sent to prison for killing all those women, since he obviously didn't do it.

I wish that place really existed... Bon Temps. I am sure there are lots of Southern Louisiana parishes that do look like that and I would love to live there. I love the swampy atmosphere of the Cajun country. I like their food, the way they act, the way they talk. I like everything about them. They interest me.

Now if you had to put the Washington state Vampires against the Southern Louisiana Vampires...True Blood Vamps would stomp their ass every day of the week, but there's enough love in my heart for Vampires from all states. I just never gave the show a chance because I thought there was an overload of Vampire crap coming out and I wasn't interested at the time. But I am watching it now, loving it now and plan to keep watching it until it goes off the air.

If you have never seen it and you want to start watching it, and you have a Blockbuster store in your town...they have 49 cent movie rentals on Sundays and you can get seasons 1 & 2 in the OLD family favorites "TV" section for just 49 cents each. Now season 3 is still on the new release shelf and will cost you 2.99 each to rent those but at least you can see the first 2 seasons for super cheap. I rented seasons 1 & 2 for less than $5.00.

I will forewarn you... there is A LOT of SEXUAL CONTENT in this series. EVERY EPISODE you will see at least 2 couples knocking boots with almost no advanced notice. SO don't watch these around the kiddos. The very first scene in the very first episode shows a girl giving a guy a hand job while she is driving down the road. It shows girl & guy and guy & guy so if you are easily offended by sexual content this may NOT be the series for you!

Do you watch True Blood?

Parent Teacher Conferences can SUCK IT!

2011-09-16T19:26:00.000-05:00

You may or may not know that my DD11 has had issues with her main homeroom teacher since the first day of school. DD reports the teacher has picked on her, hollered at her in front of the class numerous times, accused her of talking almost daily when she wasn't even talking, moved her to another seat and threatened to send her to the principal's office.

Let me tell you one thing about DD. She is 11 and has NEVER ONE TIME been in trouble at school FOR ANYTHING EVER. She has never been gotten onto by a teacher for any thing at all. I have only ever gotten praises from her teachers for how quiet and good she is and how she comes to class and shuts up and does her work and does what she's told. So for this teacher to be picking on her like that kind of threw me and upset me a little bit.

So I couldn't take it any more. I wrote the teacher a letter. I sent a copy of it to the guidance councilor and the principal so if we had a parent teacher conference someone else would know what it was about and could be there for it.

Almost 2 weeks after I sent the letter her teacher finally called me. Said she had tried to call me a few weeks ago. (Didn't happen) And said she wanted to set up a time to have a conference. We agreed on the very next day.

I showed up right on time, she met me in the lobby and we both went into the principal's meeting room/table thing. She began by telling me What A SHOCK my letter was to her. She said she had to read it several times because she HAS NO IDEA what I am talking about. She said she doesn't pick on DD, she has never hollered at DD, she didn't move DD because she is a talker and she never threatened to send DD to the principal's office. I asked her, UM SO I guess my DD is hallucinating all this? She claims that DD is NOT a talker and has never gotten talked to or in trouble in her class and that there is no problem AT ALL. Her other two teachers also said there has been no problems with my DD and she IS NOT a talker.

SO she kept repeating her story that all of it was a shock to her and none of it is true. Of course she is not going to admit in front of the principal YEAH I have been harassing your DD and being meant to her MY BAD. No. She denied denied denied. So we basically left it at she was telling the truth and my DD was imagining everything. No resolution whatsoever.

DD told me the VERY NEXT DAY after the parent teacher meeting where teacher denies EVER getting onto DD for talking, got onto her AGAIN for talking that she wasn't doing. DD tries to tell her it wasn't her talking, tries to tell her WHO IT WAS that was talking and teacher tells her I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT. SO now what to do? Let it keep going on and build up again and have another parent teacher conference? All they really have to do is make the teacher leave the room and ask the kids she sits with if teacher ever gets onto DD for talking or has ever threatened to send her to the principal. The kids will tell the truth. But they won't do that. They will take this woman's word as the truth when I know for a fact she was sitting there lying through her teeth.

I'm not sure what I will do from here but I won't tolerate this all year.

9/11

2011-09-11T12:44:00.000-05:00

I was on my way to work, September 11th, 2001 when I first heard on the radio that a passenger plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers. Nobody was sure at first if it was an accident or if it was intentional. Not until a few minutes later when the second plane flew into the second tower. I had already gotten to work by the time the second plane had hit. It was then being reported as a possible act of terrorism. I remember talking to one of my co-workers about it and told her I BET IT WAS OSAMA BIN LADEN. But she didn't even know who Osama Bin laden was. I explained to her how he had made an attempt to blow up the WTC years prior to this attack. I didn't know at the time how true my words would be.

We had just gotten a new big screen TV the day before this happened and it was one of those that if you left the TV on an image for any length of time the image would burn itself into the screen. That evening when we got home from work, we turned on Fox News and watched it all night. It was on the same channel for so long that the Fox News logo got burned into the bottom corner of our TV screen. (It eventually went away)

Nobody knew at the time, when the towers fell, how many ppl were even in the buildings or if most of them had been evacuated. We know now that thousands of ppl were still in the buildings. We also tend to forget that ppl lost their lives in planes that crashed into the Pentagon and in a field in Pennsylvania. We forget about the real heroes of that Pennsylvania crash that kept that plane from being flown into another large public building, possible even the White House or Capital.

800-1,100 ppl that died that day were ppl who were on those hijacked flights. SO many firefighters and police officers were lost all at one time, while they were trying to evacuate the buildings.

I am glad that at least on this 10th anniversary of that fateful day, the families at least have the comfort of knowing that the man who was responsible for their family member's death is now dead and gone himself.

ATTENTION FACEBOOK USERS

2011-09-08T13:56:00.001-05:00

FACEBOOK has changed it's news feed interface AGAIN. Now it is only showing you posts from people who you have recently interacted with. If you want ALL YOUR FRIENDS to be able to see your posts and you want to be able to see all your friends posts, repost this and pass it on. Go to ACCOUNT>EDIT FRIENDS> then from the drop down menu at the top left of the page click>ALL FRIENDS. I just checked mine and IT WAS set on "recently interacted" instead of all friends.

To check to see what news feeds you are getting, scroll to the bottom of the News Feed page, and click Edit Options. Here you will see the choice 'Show posts from:'. This is where Facebook changed a default setting some months ago. They changed it to "Friends and pages you interact with most". If you change this to "All of your friends and pages", then you will see more news feeds.

NYQUIL can suck it!

2011-09-07T12:30:00.001-05:00

UPDATE: It has been brought to my attention that the FULL LITTLE MEDICINE CUP of Nyquil that I drank is more than DOUBLE the normal FULL dose and that I probably came close to a Nyquil coma. Just thought I would share that with you. Totally NOT Nyquil's fault at all. As seeing as I was a nurse for 17 years you would think I would have read the dosage instructions. NOPE. Not me. Fill the cup, drink the cup, go to sleep.

I had an upset stomach last night. I took my evening medications as usual (one of which makes me sleepy) and proceeded to throw up one hour later. Not knowing if or how much of the pill got absorbed I didn't want to retake all my meds. I decided to just take a Lunesta sleeping pill to help me sleep in case I had indeed thrown up my medicine. An hour later I threw up again. There goes the Lunesta. At that point I was concerned because I have insomnia so bad I won't fall asleep AT ALL if I don't have something to help put me to sleep. So I decided to break open a new bottle of Nyquil we have had in the cabinet for probably 8 months. (We don't really use Nyquil so I am not sure why I ever bought it) So I took a dose of Nyquil and DIDN'T throw up after that. (It just gave me heartburn and burned my esophagus as if I had taken some shots of Whiskey) About an hour later I was ready for bed. I must have slept well because I didn't wake up all night, and when my alarm went off this morning I actually hit snooze on my phone. I never hit snooze when my alarm goes off. I turn the alarm off and get right out of bed. I don't phuck around. I got up, got the kids up, made them some cereal (I was too sleepy to make them anything else) and I laid back down on the couch while they were eating and told the boy child if I fell asleep to wake me up at 7:30. SO in perfect form, being afraid of being late, he wakes me at 7:20. So I had not even really fallen asleep. I got up and took the kids to school and came back home and crawled directly into bed to take a long morning nap. I slept from 8:00 to 10:50. Almost 3 hours. And now as I sit here just after NOON I still feel sleepy like I could go lay back down and take another nap. Like I said, we don't ever use Nyquil so I didn't know what to expect but I think it sucks ass since I feel groggy and hungover. Now in defense of Nyquil (gotta be fair) I am not sure how much of my other meds had actually gotten into my system before I threw up so it could have been a combination of meds AND Nyquil that made me so sleepy. But for now I am going to say Nyquil can SUCK IT.

In other news...2 weeks ago I ordered (online) our tickets for Cirque du Soleil La Nouba show that we are going to in Orlando in October and the tickets came in a few days ago. They were addressed to my husband so I didn't open it, but he opened it and told me "it's some Disney shit" and it was 5 credit card looking cards glued to a piece of paper. I hope they let you keep the cards after you use them to get in. I would like to have one to put in our photo album with the pictures we are going to take while at Disney.

It's just 49 days until time for us to go to Disney!! It's almost here. I am getting more and more excited the closer we get to time to go. I get a nervous stomach and feel like I need to crap myself when I think about flying by myself with the 3 kids, all of whom have never flown and all of whom are scared shitless we are going to crash and die when we fly to Orlando. My husband is driving from his job in another state directly to Disney and we are all flying from here in our state. That way we will get to fly (get there quicker) but we will also have a car while we are there. Win win.

I haven't heard anything from anybody at the school since I sent the letter to DD's bitch ass teacher. The guidance councilor nor the principal have called me to discuss it. DD said she had a substitute yesterday, the bitch teacher was absent, and it made her day so much better not having to deal with her. She said although nothing out of the ordinary happened, it was the best school day of her life because she got relief from the evil witch. That's pretty phucked up that a bitch teacher can affect a kid so strongly like that to where the kid gets upset and stressed to every day having to deal with her. DD said ALL THE KIDS hate this teacher. But the school is not going to do anything about her. Hopefully things will get somewhat better for her or if not, I will call and make an appt to have a parent teacher conference. Weekly if need be.

I will keep you updated as things happen.

IPhone can SUCK IT!! I love my new Droid.

2011-09-02T12:40:00.000-05:00

No offense to all you who have IPhones and love them. I only had mine for 3 weeks but I wasn't impressed with it. It was much more simple than I thought it would be. There weren't as many widgets and functions as my husband's droid had. So I sent my IPhone back and ordered a Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S) And I LOVE IT. It has 16 GB built in memory card and you can put in an additional sd micro card of up to 32 additional GB. I only got a 8 GB micro sd card because that's what Walmart had. I was going to get a 16 but I didn't want to order it off the internet and wait on it. Office Max nor Walmart either one had a 16 GB micro sd card. I only wanted the sd card so I can load all mu music (700 songs) onto the card and not have it take up a lot of room on the phone. My husband showed me how to move all my music over from ITunes. Once it was done I only have 3 GB left on the sd card. But I don't need it for anything else. Unless I take a lot of pictures then I might put those on the sd card.

If you are considering getting a droid, Samsung Captivate 2 comes out September 18th. Watch some You Tube videos on the Captivate 1. It is so much more awesome than an IPhone. Just the amount of apps and widgets that come on the phone pre-loaded is a lot. And the droid app market has a lot more variety of apps and games for less money on most apps and games. A few of the big games I bought cost the same on the droid as it did on the IPhone. Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. They were both $4.99.

I know some of you are die-hard IPhone lovers and don't want to ever give up the IPhone, but if you ever really investigate a droid...well I can't speak for just any droid. I have heard there are quite a few that suck ass. But this Captivate is a bad ass phone.

Now when I first got my IPhone I liked it. I was impressed with it only compared to the non smart phone I had been using for the last 2 years. I went app crazy. Mostly free games for the kids but some paid apps and games. But as I compared my IPhone to my husband's droid phone I felt like I was gypped. Fortunately for me, once you upgrade your line and get a new phone you have 30 days to return it and get something else. So with less than a week to spare I sent back the IPhone and ordered the droid. And in true AT&T style they over-nighted that BITCH to me and I got it today. I just ordered the MF'er YESTERDAY!! He told me it would be here Friday! Yay for overnight shipping.

In other news...just 51 more days!! 51 short days. Less than 2 months to go until our 10 day vacation at Disney/Universal!! I know my husband is going to be so gawd dayum glad once this trip is over so he won't have to hear me talk about Disney anymore. I will probably still talk about it though. Maybe even more once I have been there and fell in love with it!

The kids have been in school almost a month now. My son has adjusted and is doing ok in his class but my daughter has still been having issues with a mean teacher. She has 3 teachers. They change classes 3 times so there is no way for her to get away from this teacher or get another teacher because there are just 3 of them. No alternates to swap out classes with. I finally had heard enough and decided to write the teacher a letter and also send a copy of it to the school's guidance councilor and the principal. I want her to know, she may not like my daughter. She may be mean to my daughter. But she is going to have to deal with me ALL PHUCKING YEAR. If this letter doesn't change her attitude, or even better, makes it worse (as retaliation against DD) I will call and make a parent teacher conference with the principal. My DD asked me this morning not to give them the letters because she is just SURE this is going to make this woman worse against her. This is a teacher who, at the beginning of the year, stood in front of the class for half an hour telling/warning the kids just how mean and stubborn she is. Forewarning them? But I told her in the letter how ridiculous I thought that was. I told her she does not have permission to HOLLER at my daughter in front of the whole class for ANY reason. I told her she shouldn't be yelling at ANYBODY'S kids to begin with.

She keeps getting onto my daughter for talking. My daughter is not a talker. She never has been. Not one time AT ALL EVER since the first day she started school at 5 years old has she EVER got in trouble for anyt hing. Not even talking. And I don't think for one minute that my daughter decided after 11 years to all of a sudden become a talker and disruptive to the class. Every time my daughter comes home and tells me the teacher hollered at her and threatened to send her to the principal's office my daughter tries to tell her it was not SHE who was talking and tries to tell the teacher who IT WAS talking and the teacher tells her she doesn't want to hear it and if she says another word she is going to the pricipal. It has my daughter so stressed and devastated that she is being picked on. My daughter is usually the one the teacher loves because she sits quietly, does her work, doesn't bother anybody, dresses like she is suppose to and doesn't talk out. Every teacher she has ever had has bragged to me that they wish all the students could be like Katelyn. Until this year. ONE TEACHER. The other 2 teachers have not gotten onto my daughter for talking ONCE. SO not only did my daughter just decide to become a talker all of a sudden but she decided to just do it in ONE CLASS. I don't think so.

I hope for my daughter's sake she doesn't get treated worse because of me trying to stand up for her.

I will keep you updated and let you know what becomes of it or what happens after this letter today.

Have a good Labor Day weekend. Don't drink and drive, don't eat too many hot dogs and wear your sunscreen. =)

A Book Like The Help

2011-08-25T16:05:00.000-05:00

If you read and liked The Help or saw the movie and liked it, or even if you didn't like it for whatever reason. I am reading a book called Like One Of The Family, Conversations From a Domestic's Life written by Alice Childress. It is a book like the help about a maid telling stories about her work, only this book was written by a black woman. It was originally published in the 50's, republished in the 80's and is now back on Amazon probably due to the popularity of The Help and ppl looking for more books like that. You can get it on Amazon for less than a dollar. Check it out. It's interesting.

Can't make up my mind

2011-08-25T14:18:00.000-05:00

Ok, 3 weeks ago I finally joined the land of the living and got myself an Iphone. I loved it, the kids loved it. It ended up not having enough storage space. It can't hold as many apps as I need it to hold along with my 700 Ipod songs. (Yes I really do need 700 songs)

I sent the Iphone back a few days ago and am going to now order an android phone. I am going to get the same phone my husband has, the Samsung Captivate. He loves it. It has more storage than my Iphone had and he knows all about it so he can show me how to use it.

SO now I am no longer an Iphone-ee. I will be an android-er.

THE HELP

2011-08-16T13:50:00.000-05:00

I went on a date night last night with DH. We drove an hour over to Jackson and ate at Ruby Tuesday's then went to Tinseltown to see THE HELP. Then we had a Baskin Robbins Strawberry smoothie after the show! Perfect date night! Don't be jealous bitches!

OK. Now...I have read the book The Help. After reading it I saw on Twitter and Facebook and places that there was some kind of controversy stirring up about the movie. The book was amazing. It is Katherine Stockett's very first novel and it's a best seller.

Husband decided to take me to see it since I had been talking about it a lot during and after reading the book. The movie was EXCELLENT! I am going to have to be honest and say this movie is going in my top 10 all time favorite movies. After I watch it again it may go into my top 5. The movie was gripping, hard to watch in some places, touching, funny as hell in a lot of places and almost made me cry three different times. I had to choke it back because I didn't have any kleenex and when I cry my nose runs. I was struggling not to cry though. SO be warned. If you go see it take some Kleenex.

I think Viola David is going to get nominated for Best Actress for her role in this movie and I think Emma Stone is going to be nominated for best supporting actress. I hope this movie gets a shit ton of nominations. It deserves it.

I don't see any controversy over it. The ppl protesting it are saying it is white washing how it really was. That the movie didn't show the full brutality of how it really was for some ppl back then. There were rapes, beatings and lynchings, etc. Why in the hell would she put all that in this movie? That's not what this movie is about. It is about a white girl writer who enlists the help of a lot of black maids to tell the stories about what it was like to work for white families. This wasn't a movie about civil rights or the atrocities of the south in the 50's & 60's. It was about a girl trying to become a published book author. Nothing more. There's nothing that says she had to involve the civil rights movement in this story. It did have a sequence where it shows when Medgar Evers was shot and when JFK was shot. But my recommendation is, GO SEE IT! The whole theater was roaring with laughter in about 15 different scenes in the movie. There are some very serious scenes with tears and pain, but they almost immediately lighten it up with something funny.

In other news. If you follow me on Twitter you know I have an addiction to Cheddar BBQ Cheetos. Well Kroger was the only place you could buy them. A few weeks ago Kroger stopped carrying them all together. All the convenience stores stopped carrying them. I couldn't find them anywhere. And then I show up today at Walmart. I look down, the angels sang, the skies parted and I saw that Walmart now carries BBQ Cheetos!! I don't know if this is going to be a permnent thing they sell or if it is a limited run type of chip or did Walmart make a deal that only Walmart can sell them now. I dunno. But I am excited!!

I'm still reading Patricia Cornwell's Port Mortuary. It's been pretty good once you get past page 30 but it still never has lived up to the intense suspense and mystery that you usually get with Cornwell novels. I am not if I would even recommend it to anyone. Especially if they have never read Cornwell and aren't a fan yet. This is not the book to start with.

So that's my ramblings for today. Go see The Help. Go get yourself some BBQ Cheetos. And live it up!

Early to bed early to rise, so it seems.

2011-08-15T06:10:00.001-05:00

Yesterday I woke up at 4:30. I couldn't go back to sleep. I just contributed it to the fact that I went to bed at 8:30 the night before and had had enough sleep.

I went to bed kind of early last night too. (I get to go to bed early when the kids aren't here) 9:00 bedtime last night. Then this morning I woke up at TWO THIRTY!! I laid in bed for over an hour trying to go back to sleep but I just couldn't. So now I will take the kids to school at 7:30 and probably come back home and have a little nap. Or maybe not, who knows.

I finished reading the book THE HELP and now that DH is back in town he is going to take me to see the movie tonight. There seems to be a lot of controversy over this book. A lot of ppl in the black community are upset because they think the book kind of white washed the actual mistreatment and brutality that some ppl faced from their white employers. But I say... The atrocities carried out by the white man on the black help was not really what this book was about. I won't spoil it for you if you haven't read it or seen the movie. The book is about the main character Skeeter who decided to write a book and she enlists the help of all the local maids to tell their stories of what experiences they have had working for white ppl. Some of the stories are bad, some of the stories are good, some of them are even funny. But in the time frame of this book, what was going on in Skeeter's life, and the maids she had interactions with weren't beaing beaten, or raped or lynched. So why show that? This wasn't a movie about civil rights, even though they do include a chapter about the killing of Medgar Evars. They do that because he was shot really close to where some of these maids lived. I don't think there is anything racist about it. I think there are groups of ppl who will cry racism at the drop of a hat. That's the popular thing to do when you don't like something. Call it racist. It's even more amusing at some of the white ppl on Twitter I follow protesting the movie because of their black friends. They are't going to go see the movie on principal. I think you don't have to go out of your way every day to post things and write things to PROVE to the world you aren't racist. That's trying a little too hard to seem like you aren't a racist. Anyway, I am going to see it. Tonight. =) (For the record... I say black ppl, which may not be the politically correct word to say nowadays but I think saying African American is a little redundant. I don't call myself an English American. I wouldn't call my Russian friends Russian American. You don't have to preface where your ancestors came from to acknowledge your race. Just wanted to get that out there so nobody gets offended thinking I am being disrespectful)

I found two new books, well one of them isn't new but new to me. One is called drive (It is the older one) And one is called The Killer is Dying by James Sallis. I saw his new book The Killer is Dying in a little blurb in Entertainment weekly and checked into him and saw he has the earlier book too. I am going to try those 2 right after I get through with these 2 Patricia Cornwell books I have checked out right now. Port Mortuary and Predator. Predator is older but when I saw it on the shelf at the library I don't remember ever reading it. I thought I had read everything she has written. I may get to reading it and start remembering that I have read it. I do that a lot. But this new one Port Mortuary starts off bad. It sucks for the first 30 pages. I almost put it down and was going to not even read it anymore, but they started a case at the beginning of the book that I really want to see how it turns out. So I kept reading a little bit further and it does get much better. So if you start it, don't be discouraged. Just trudge through the first 30 pages and you will be ok.

In other news... My kids went to 2 years of private christian school. They had bible class every day and learned about God & Jesus. Had to memorize scripture, etc. I sent them there because it was a small school. It was close to home. It was affordable. I also wanted to expose my kids to the other side. The side I am not on. I am Athiest. But I didn't want to automatically raise Athiest kids just because I was. That's what my dad did to me. So I let them go. They would probably still be there now if the school hadn't closed. But my point is. One kid came away from it (DD) claiming to be a christian and one came away from it not believing in God at all. I never really discussed my beliefs, or lack thereof, with the kids as to not sway them. I never even answered them when they asked me if I believe in God. After they left the school I told them the truth, that I don't. But you can expose 2 kids to the very same thing and get 2 very different results. What made me think to even bring it up was because I was on the phone with DD yesterday (she is at her dad's house) and she made the comment about her being christian. She says it every once in awhile. We do not go to church. I don't take her to church. But when she gets older she may decide to go herself. And that's fine. I would never discourage her from doing that if that's the path she wants to take.

So anyway... enough of my ramblings this morning. I will let you get back to your regularly scheduled programming. Until next time when I have a head full of thoughts I want to jam all into on blog post. I will see you when I see you. =)

Something You MUST READ RIGHT THIS SECOND! And everything else I feel like talking about today!

2011-08-13T10:26:00.006-05:00

I just finished reading THE HELP by Katherine Stockett. (It's her FIRST novel ever) And it is an amazing book! You HAVE TO read it. If you love reading that is. If you hate reading then ~~have your mommy read it to you pansy ass~~ just go see the movie but from what I hear the movie is only an adaptation of the book and doesn't follow the book exactly. SO I wanted to read the book before I saw the movie because the book is always 10 times better than the movie and has way more details in it that you can't convey through a movie screen.

Anyway it is about a group of high society young ppl in their early 20's back in late 50's early 60' Jackson, Mississippi. Think County Club and Society League ladies. Well, one of them starts writing a book about all the lives and stories of the black maids that work for all these white families. She even gets the maids themselves involved in the writing of the book by telling her their personal true stories, good and bad of the families they have worked for. Some things are funny, touching and downright disgusting and some stuff will piss you off.

I started reading it and couldn't put it down until I finished it. I would highly recommend it to anybody. Unless you are a racist and then you would probably enjoy the book for the wrong reasons. So if you wear a sheet over your head every Saturday night, just skip this book.

I returned THE HELP to the library this morning and check out 2 more books. Both by one of my favorite authors Patricia Cornwell (the other 2 being Steven King & James Patterson). I checked out her newest book PORT MORTUARY and I also checked out an older one called Predator. I thought I had read every book she has ever written but when I read the dust jacket of this one it just didn't seem familiar so I checked it out. I will read the new one first and then when I start reading the older on, if it all comes back to me and seems familiar I will just stop reading it, or I may just keep reading it, who knows!

Sometimes I can read a book then as little as one year later I can pick it back up and not remember if I have read it or not. I have re-read a lot of books that I am sure I have already read but just didn't seem familiar. I have a bad short and long term memory. I think I have sometimerz disease.

Well, in other news... We finally got our home security system installed by ADT. I never knew you could have a MONITORED security system without a home phone, but obviously you can. They use what they call a cellular uplink. It is a box they installed down at the bottom of my wall under the main front door keypad that beams the info they need to know up to a satellite I guess. I am not sure exactly how it works, but however it works, it has enabled us to get a real, monitored home security system. I feel much better now having it. We paid extra and got an extra siren. The one at the front door just didn't seem as loud to me as the guy described that it would be, and our front door is almost 90 feet down the hallway to our bedroom. I am not sure if I would be able to hear it back there with the door shut and me being hard of hearing. So we got one installed by the back door and it is louder than the one that comes out of the front keypad and the back door is very close to my room. I am more confident now that if someone comes in I will hear the alarm go off quickly.

I still have to go through our plan with the kids for what they need to do if they get awoken by the alarm going off but they are at their dad's house this weekend and next week. But when they come home we will get our plan in place. I have one kid who wakes up easily and one kid who sleeps dead to the world. It is HIM that I am worried about not waking up fast enough to get himself back to my room. But I am going to do a drill one night once I know they are asleep I am going to set the alarm off and see how fast they get up and back to my room. But I am going to have to wait until my husband comes back in from town next time. It is going to require two people to pull the drill off. I will have to be in my bedroom where they are suppose to run to when they hear the alarm and DH will be at the front door setting the alarm off. It might scare them for a minute but it will show them exactly what they need to do if they hear the alarm. You may only have a FEW SECONDS once you hear the alarm to get to the back of the house where we can lock ourselves away and wait for the Sheriff's Department to come. They could be anywhere in the county and it might take them 20 minutes to get to my house so we have to have a good solid plan in place.

In other other news... I got my new IPhone last week. My husband got me it for my birthday. (It's not my birthday yet) He also bought me a new purse. But I am more excited about the IPhone. I have never had a smart phone before so it is all new to me. I can now Facebook and Twitter from my phone. I can watch You Tube videos, surf the web, play video games. We have bought a handful of apps and games for it already like Wheel of Fortune (I have been playing the shit out of this game and mostly winning. I think I need to go n the real show because I can solve these puzzles), Jeopardy (not so great at this one but I love playing because you learn lots of new things even when you guess wrong) and I am thinking about trying out Family Fued. I use to love that show. We also have The Price is Right (I'm not too great at his one) game. The kids have an app that makes fart sounds. I have a barcode scanner that can scan a barcode and tell you what it is, how much it costs and where you can buy it. It was free for that app. I have 700 songs out of my Itunes uploaded onto my phone so now it is like I have an IPhone and an IPod touch all built into one. Now I can leave my other IPod back there in my room attached to my Elliptical machine at all times.

Summer has ended way too soon and the kids went back to school this past Monday, August 8th. For any of you moms who take your kids to school and pick your kids up, you know you either have to show up and hour early in the afternoons to the school to park and wait for the kids to get out or if you show up at time for them to get out you are in a 45 minute long line. Well, that's how it is at our school anyway. Out of 600 kids at this school, 450 of them are car riders. So you have to get 450 cars through the parking lot as quickly as possible. The first day I tried showing up at the school at 3:30 right when school let out and I got stuck in a 45 minute long line before I got to the kids. Then I decided I am going to have to do like I use to do last year and just show up at 2:30. Park in the line and wait for 3:30. But now that I have an hour to kill I can tweet and Facebook! So if you need to talk to me, you can catch me on Twitter or Facebook between the hours of 2:30 and 3:30 Monday through Friday. LOL!

In other other other news... I have had a semi sore throat for about 6 weeks now. Not a full on full blown ouch when I swallow sore throat but more of a lumpy feeling when I swallow. Like the lump you get in your throat when you are trying not to cry. Also my voice has been cracking. Any time I try to raise my voice it cracks and sounds like it sounds when your voice cracks when you are about to cry. Sometimes I don't even have to raise my voice I just have to strain it a little to say what I need to say and it will crack also. SO I finally broke down and went to the ENT doc that my BFF works for. He looked down in my throat with a mirror (didn't scope me) and decided to give me a regiment of drugs for 3 weeks to see if it helps. I am taking oral steroids (Medrol dose pack) antibiotics and an oral spray inhaler of steroids. (I may become a body builder with all these steroids) I have only been on them a few days but it sure isn't getting better. The cracking part seems to have gotten worse. But I think maybe this might be one of those cases where it has to get worse before it gets better. If it isn't cleared up in 3 weeks I think he is going to run that scope up my nose and down my throat and get a better look at my vocal cords.

I don't like going to the doctor. And I could have gone the rest of my life never having gone to the doctor for this. But what made me decide to do it is back when the actor Michael Douglas got throat cancer and they were writing articles about it and him in People magazine, he said his symptoms started as a sore throat that wouldn't go away. I don't care if my voice cracks the rest of my life. I can live with that. I just don't want cancer. My kids are too young and I don't want to die yet, so if it is cancer I need to know early enough to treat it. They seemed to have successfully treated Michael Douglas so far. They say he is better. He has gained weight and looks good so maybe they did. And if they can do it for him they can probably do it for me.

Have any of you started planning for or buying for Christmas yet? My kids have already started seeing things on TV that they want for Xmas and have even written me a list a few times of what they want for Christmas. It keeps changing though. My daughter always asks for 50 things or more and my son usually asks for just one or two things. She's all gimme gimme gimme. He just wants a few little things.

But one of the things that my daughter said she wanted was this new little stunt tricycle they came out with called a cyco cycle. It is small and yellow and doesn't have handle bars. I don't know how you are suppose to ride it or steer it. I may be able to watch some You Tube videos of it. I haven't searched for any yet. But it's pretty cheap. They have them on Amazon for 90 something dollars with free shipping. I just have to feel out my son about it and see if he wants one too so that I don't get her one and then she gets hers and he's all like MAN MOM I WANTED ONE OF THOSE. I usually try to get them gender neutral things that I can't get for both of them so that Christmas is always equal. Last year was the first year I ventured off and got them different things. But they shared the items they got that the other one wanted to play with. The biggest let down for me last Christmas was that GAWD DAYUM Fushigi ball thing. The kids saw that shit on TV the whole year and wanted one so bad. They make it look like a magic ball floating in the air and they do all thse fancy tricks with it. Yeah, BLOW ME Fushigi. They turned out to be a big flop. It comes with a DVD that shows you all these GROWN UPS doing these fancy tricks with them that no kid can ever figure out how to do. I doubt either one of my kids can even tell you where their Fushigi ball is now. They never even tried to keep up with it. It just got sucked into the great unknown.

Less than 80 days to go until our Disney trip!!!!!! AND. AND. I forgot to update about this. We already had an existing reservation for the room and tickets but we had not bought the dining plan. It was too much. For 5 of us for 10 days the dining plan was going to cost $1600 so we skipped it. But on August 3rd Disney announced some Fall dates that they were offering their free dining promotion and it just so happens that one of the weeks they are offering it falls exactly on our dates that we are going. So I got to call and have Disney apply the free dining promotion to our reservation!!! I was so excited when that happened. I had been crossing my fingers and hoping for the last few months that Disney would offer some new free dining dates for the Fall, and THEY DID! It didn't cover ALL of October, November and December. Just select weeks within each month. I don't know why it was so scattered or random, but we lucked out and landed into one of the time frames for it. Now it wouldn't have cost us $1600 to feed the 5 of us for 10 days but it would have costs us about $800-$1000 to eat OUT lunch and DINNER every day and feed ourselves in our room for breakfast. And to buy water and snacks and drinks for the room and to take into the park, it would have added up to over a grand easy. So even though getting the dining plan didn't really save us $1600 it did save us at least $1,000. And the dining plan gives you more food than you can even eat. You get two counter service meals a day (like where you walk up and order and get your food then go seat yourself) 2 snacks a day and a resort refillable drink mug that you can refill with soda, coffee or tea for your entire stay (at the resort not at the parks) But with each meal, lunch and dinner you get a meal of entree, drink and dessert. Plus the 2 snacks a day. And a Disney snack can be something as big as a cinnamon roll or a funnel cake. We aren't usually dessert eaters but the kids are going to love getting to eat dessert every day for 10 days!

Well, that's my update for the week. LOL. What's new in your world? Have your kids started back school yet? Are you Christmas shopping yet? Have you ever been to Disney?

One of the blogs I read Mochaface posted this little video to her blog and it made me laugh so hard I thought I would share it with you. Watch the lady walking up in the background.

Live Broadcast Fall - watch more funny videos

Saw this on a friends blog.

2011-08-07T15:18:00.002-05:00

I was reading someone's blog who I read through my Google Reader (Shauna Glenn) and she posted this video on her blog talking about how ppl use to sing it as Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche another runner in the night. It's funny because that is how everybody sang it. But I wanted to share the video she posted because it plays the whole song and shows the real lyrics. I love this song.

 I love that song.

Drug testing to get food stamps & met the teachers

2011-08-06T15:29:00.000-05:00

We went up to the school Thursday evening for meet the teacher back to school parent night thing. Each kid got to see which class they were going to be in and DD is not happy with her teacher. But like I told her it really doesn't matter who her homeroom teacher is because all 3 5th grade teachers will rotate through her class every day. The kids don't have to change classes, the teachers change classes. So even if she is unhappy with this teacher she would still have this teacher for part of the day anyway. So starting Monday I will be back to being kidless from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm. *high fives the air*

I read today where the state of Florida and Kentucky have made it law that anybody applying for welfare or food stamps will have to be drug tested. Some ppl are crying foul and saying this is unconstitutional. But the way I see it is this... If we can force ppl who work for a living to be drug tested we can also force ppl who live off the tax payers dime to be drug tested. I think all 50 states should do it. If my system would do it they would probably be able to save millions of dollars a month because of all the ppl who would no longer qualify for assistance. I not only think they should make NEW applicants be drug tested I think they should require all existing recipients to be tested and from here on out, randomly tested with no notice. Ppl will say OH BUT WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS who will have to go without now that the parents won't qualify for welfare? That's nobody's problem except the drug addict parents. Maybe the kids can go live with a relative or go into foster care. If the parent is an addict the kids are probably better off living somewhere else anyway. I have no tolerance or sympathy for anybody who chooses to take drugs and become an addict. We all make choices. If you choose to do drugs then my tax dollars won't help you. That's the way it should be everywhere. In my opinion. Hopefully other states will follow suit. It will initially cost the states some money doing the drug testing but in the long run it will save them TONS of money when the drug addicts no longer qualify for assistance. I think it is a step in the right direction.

I think they also need to reform the food stamp program and make changes to sort of mirror the WIC program. The WIC program dictates what items you can and cannot get with the WIC assistance. Food stamps should be the same way. I think you should NOT be allowed to buy any junk food like cookies, cakes, chips, Little Debbies, candy, cokes or luxury items like shrimp, crab legs, lobster, etc. I think if the person is going to get free food they should be required to buy nutritious food and not junk or luxury food that most tax payers cannot even afford to buy. This may never come about but it would be a good change in the right direction.

I think the only ppl who would be upset about it are the ppl getting food stamps. They want to be able to get whatever they want with the food stamps.

Something needs to be done about all the welfare fraud going on that is costing US, the tax payers, a lot of money every year. Ppl selling food stamps for cash to ppl who don't qualify for food stamps. Buying drugs with it instead of food.

I hope I never have to have public assistance in my life but if I do I would not be fraudulent with it and I wouldn't buy junk food with it. I sure wouldn't sell it for cash so that I could go buy some drugs or booze.

Almost time!

2011-07-30T11:05:00.000-05:00

A week from this Monday my kids go back to school. August 8th.

The time they will be in school is changing. Last year, at the beginning of the year the kids went to school from 8:20 to 2:20. Then close to the end of the year they changed it from 8:20 to 3:15.

Now this year the time is going to be from 8:00 to 3:30. So that means I have to get up at 6:15 every day. Because the kids always want to be at school at least 20 minutes before the bell rings. So I will need to have them at school around 7:30. Which means leaving my house at 7:15. And it takes about an hour to get them up, get them dressed, get them fed and awake enough to go to school.

It will mean longer days for me to have more alone time to sew, watch TV, do laundry, whatever I need to get done. But it is going to be a big adjustment for the kids being in school over an hour a day longer than what they were doing last year.

I also read in the paper that along with the longer days they are making the teachers give the kids another EXTRA HOUR for reading every day. The school my kids go to is BIG on reading. They have a LOT of required reading to do every 9 weeks. I have one kid who doesn't mind all the reading. He tries to find interesting and fun books. I have another one who would rather get a tooth pulled than read a book.

DD hates reading because reading has always been on the difficult side for her. She has come a long way with her reading. She can read on grade level just fine but she has trouble pronouncing words she doesn't know so she just skips over them and misses a lot of content she is suppose to be reading. Her comprehension of what she read isn't very good. SO this year should be more difficult for her.

Speaking of school... I read in the newspaper where ALL SCHOOLS nationwide will be giving ALL students free lunches starting in 2014. There are 4 or 5 states that got in the program already this year. My state, Mississippi, could have applied for it but didn't do it in time to qualify for the program this year. I think it is crazy. What kind of new tax are they going to come up with to pay for EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL kid to eat free every day? It won't be a big tax burden in my school district because according to our local paper, 75% of our public school students are already getting free lunches. This is a very poor state. But if I am not mistaken, the reduced and free lunch program is a Federal thing isn't it? Or maybe I am wrong and it is state. I thought I read it was the Federal free lunch program. If anybody knows the answer to that let me know.

In a way I am looking forward to school starting back. It means a lot of free time for me to do whatever I want. But then it also means the evening homework struggle with my daughter. I dread that part. School starting back also means we are THAT MUCH CLOSER to our Disney trip in October!!

When do your kids start back to school? What hours do they go to school?

Now I'm cool like you!

2011-07-29T15:00:00.000-05:00

I ordered my very first IPhone today. SO now sometime in the middle of next week, I will get my little Orange box from AT&T and I will be cool just like all of you who have probably had IPhones for years already! I'm catching up! Now I am just going to have to have my 10 yr old son show me how to use it! =)

Ushering my family into the 21st century

2011-07-27T21:55:00.000-05:00

We made the decision today to become part of mainstream society. To become part of the 21st century. We are getting an ADT home security system installed.

I am always super paranoid about home invasion robberies because I watch way too much I Survived and am just sure it is going to happen to me. I am nervous all the time if I have to leave my house and come back after dark. I am just scared by nature mostly because of all the ominous TV shows and movies I watch. But THIS SHIT IS REAL PPL. They have ppl on those shows that it has actually happened to. I don't make this shit up. I just watch it on TV.

Anyway... Husband and I have discussed home security systems before and never really made a move on it because we thought you had to have a home land line phone to have a monitored security system. But, I got a pile of junk mail today. You know, the pile that comes with the local pizza coupons and ads for the Dollar Store all folded together and stuck in your mailbox once every week or two... I usually just chunk it, but today I flipped through it and on the very back page was an ad for ADT. They are running some kind of sale, yadda yadda... Well, I just decided to call them and ask if you HAVE to have a home phone for the system. It seems technology has caught up with those of us who refuse old fashioned home land line phones and you CAN get a monitored system without a home phone. You have to have something called a Cellular uplink installed. Oh Really you say? Yes. It makes you monthly monitoring go from 35.99 a month to 44.99 a month because ADT has to pay the local cell phone carrier $9 a month to use their towers to communicate with your security system. SO after listening to everything the guy had to say about the system, after checking my husband's credit, after I negotiated for free smoke sensor monitors we arranged for our new system to be installed 2 weeks from this Friday. My husband is leaving town tonight to go back to work so we can't do it until he comes home. He has to be here when it is installed since the account will be in his name.

I feel better already just knowing we are going to have a LOUD home security system installed. They said it has the loudest alarm siren allowed by law. That MF has got to be ear piercing.

Also...totally off topic... In those ads I saw a Papa John's circular. I didn't know we even had a Papa John's in this town until today. DD said it has been here for a few months already. So I went online and ordered a pizza from them to be delivered. It was an EXTRA LARGE pizza. SO I am expecting some GIANT ASS pizza that will barely fit through the door frame. NOPE. It was a 16 inch pizza. It appeared to me to be about the same size as a Pizza Hut LARGE. And they only cut the pizza into 8 pieces. The slices were huge. I found out later that you can request they double cut it and make smaller slices. I didn't know. I was a Papa John's virgin until today. The pizza was pretty good. The kids were fascinated that they stuck 2 green peppers in the box and nobody was brave enough to try the little carton of garlic sauce they give you with the pizza. I guess NO PIZZA PLACE in existence knows what extra sauce means. If you don't order extra sauce they don't really put ANY on. SO when you order extra you get normal amount of sauce. Same thing with cheese. I order extra cheese and pay $2 more per pizzas just so I can get a normal amount of cheese on it. That seems to be universal. However, for home delivery I found it to be kind of high. After you pay the pizza, the extra cheese fee, the tax, delivery fee and TIP the bill was almost $23 for ONE pizza. Now I could have saved the $2 delivery fee and the $5 tip if I had driven across town to get it myself but my laziness cost me today. I probably won't order from them again. But it was good to try it. I can't complain about the quality of the pizza. And what was weird is they had it to my door about 22 minutes after I ordered it. The online thing estimated delivery to be between 54 and 64 minutes and the girl called to get directions 19 minutes later and was at my house in less than 5 minutes. I was very impressed. Now when she got to the door she opened the pizza box and asked me if it looked OK. I said yeah sure, is that normal for y'all to do that? To show ppl the pizza before you leave? And she said yes they do it with everybody. I guess that cuts down on the people calling back in to complain that the pizza isn't right and requesting remakes or future free pizza. Whoever thought to do that probably saved the place a lot of money. Someone else I told about this said her local Papa John's has NEVER done that at her door so I am assuming each individually owned franchise does things a little bit differently.

Ok, tell me, do you have a home security system? Does it randomly go off and scare you and make you think someone is breaking in? Because if this loud MF goes off I won't know what to do. Get up and CHECK to see if someone came in? Let the alarm company call the police? The kids will be scared straight out of bed by it. I think our new instruction to them will be this... If you wake up and the alarm is going off get up and come straight to moms room. Their bedrooms doors are very close to my door so they don't have to go through the whole house to get to my room. Then what do you do? Lock yourself in your room and wait for police to come see what it was? Or do I take my gun and go walking through the house? I haven't discussed with my husband what I am suppose to do if the alarm actually goes off. SO that's why I am asking if you have one, what do you do? I will also ask the installer what he thinks you should do when the alarm goes off.

92 dead in Norway & Amy Winehouse dies at 27

2011-07-23T16:22:00.000-05:00

Via Washington Post:

The man suspected of Norway's gun and bomb massacre liked guns and weight-lifting, had belonged to an anti-immigration party and opposed multi-culturalism, Islam and the "cultural Marxists" of the establishment.

Police said Anders Behring Breivik, 32, detained after 85 people were gunned down at a youth camp and another seven killed in a bomb attack on Friday, was previously unknown to them and people who knew him said he was quiet, if intense.
It was unclear what unleashed the bloodshed, though news agency NTB said Breivik was a member of a gun club and legally owned firearms. At the shooting, police said Breivik carried a pistol and an automatic weapon.
"He was rather introverted at school, even though he was a good student," said Michael Tomola, who knew Breivik from the age of 13 to 16 at the school they went to in an Oslo suburb.
"I'm very surprised by this (attack). I had a good impression, although he became very engaged in subjects he cared for. He got very extreme about things he cared for," Tomola told Reuters.
His Internet activity traced so far included no calls to violence. Facebook page set up last week included a variety of interests such as hunting and political and stock analysis.

Via Today show:

Amy Winehouse, the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead Saturday in her London home, police said. She was 27.

"Everyone who was involved with Amy is shocked and devastated. Our thoughts are with her family and friends," said Chris Goodman, a spokesman for her publicity representatives. He said her family will issue a statement when they are ready.
The British singer's record label, Universal, confirmed her death on Saturday.
"We are deeply saddened at the sudden loss of such a gifted musician, artist and performer," the statement read. "Our prayers go out to Amy's family, friends and fans at this difficult time."

Singer and actress Kelly Osbourne, who helped Winehouse check into a drug addiction treatment facility in 2008, was one of many who grieved for the singer on Twitter.
"I cant even breath right now im crying so hard i just lost 1 of my best friends. i love you forever Amy and will never forget the real you!" she tweeted.

Winehouse shot to fame with the album "Back to Black," whose blend of jazz, soul, rock and classic pop was a global hit. It won five Grammys and made Winehouse — with her black beehive hairdo and old-fashioned sailor tattoos — one of music's most recognizable stars.
Police confirmed that a 27-year-old female was pronounced dead at the home in Camden Square northern London; the cause of death was not immediately known. London Ambulance Services said Winehouse had died before the two ambulance crews it sent arrived at the scene. An autopsy is scheduled for Sunday, TMZ.com reports.
"I didn't go out looking to be famous," Winehouse told the Associated Press when "Back to Black" was released. "I'm just a musician."
But in the end, the music was overshadowed by fame, and by Winehouse's demons. Tabloids lapped up the erratic stage appearances, drunken fights, stints in hospital and rehab clinics. Performances became shambling, stumbling train wrecks, watched around the world on the Internet.
Born in 1983 to taxi driver Mitch Winehouse and his pharmacist wife Janis, Winehouse grew up in the north London suburbs, and was set on a showbiz career from an early age. When she was 10, she and a friend formed a rap group, Sweet 'n' Sour — Winehouse was Sour — that she later described as "the little white Jewish Salt 'n' Pepa."
She attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School, a factory for British music and acting moppets, later went to the Brit School, a performing arts academy in the "Fame" mold, and was originally signed to "Pop Idol" svengali Simon Fuller's 19 Management.
But Winehouse was never a packaged teen star, and always resisted being pigeonholed.
Her jazz-influenced 2003 debut album, "Frank," was critically praised and sold well in Britain. It earned Winehouse an Ivor Novello songwriting award, two Brit nominations and a spot on the shortlist for the Mercury Music Prize.
But Winehouse soon expressed dissatisfaction with the disc, saying she was "only 80 percent behind" the album.
"Frank" was followed by a slump during which Winehouse broke up with her boyfriend, suffered a long period of writer's block and, she later said, smoked a lot of marijuana.

"I had writer's block for so long," she said in 2007. "And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote. .. I used to think, 'What happened to me?'
"At one point it had been two years since the last record and (the record company) actually said to me, 'Do you even want to make another record?' I was like, 'I swear it's coming.' I said to them, 'Once I start writing I will write and write and write. But I just have to start it.'"

Where have I been hiding?

2011-07-16T11:51:00.000-05:00

I am always the last one to know when there is a new trend, a new fad, some cool new music bands. I accidentally find out about thing.
Well, what I found out today is this... There was/is a trend called PLANKING. This is where young ppl, well mostly young ppl, go around to different locations and they lay down face down with their arms at their sides and someone takes a picture of them. So basically they are laying there like a plank. Here is a link of the top 60 planking pictures that are floating around the internet right now. Some are funny, some are not.

TOP 60 PLANKING PHOTOS

Now if that wasn't stupid enough, someone thought they would try to create another new trend once that planking wasn't so fun anymore. This new trend is called Owling. This is where the person gets up on something like a fence post or a trash can lid, something high, and perch on it like and owl would. They crouch down in a squatting position. Here is a little article that shows some examples of Owling. This one is just plain dumb. Planking was king of funny, Owling is just stupid.

OWLING

I think I will start a new trend called DAY DUMPING where people go out in public and drop their pants in a public spot and take a dump, then take a picture of it. The places need to be unique funny places to take your dump, because just taking a dump in and of itself is not funny, but taking a dump on the waiting room table in your doctor's office is. Taking a dump on the hood of a state trooper's car, yeah, kind of funny.

What new trend are you going to start?

Obese kids

2011-07-15T10:52:00.001-05:00

I spend a lot of time over on the DisBoards, which is a Disney/Florida message board. Yesterday someone posted a thread asking should severely obese kids be removed from their home for their own well being.
Most of the ppl said NO they didn't think the kids should be removed from the home for the bad parenting going on that made the kids obese.
I am on the fence about this one, because not ALL obese kids are obese because of bad parenting. Some kids may have medical conditions. How do you decide who gets taken away and who doesn't? How obese does the kid have to be before the state will step in and take charge of the situation?
Obviously MOST obese kids are obese because they over-eat. They are over fed by their parents and allowed to make very bad food choices. That is on the parent. That is the parents fault. The crappy food the kids get at school is not going to make a kid obese. That takes a lot of bad eating & junk food to make a kid obese.
Funny thing is... I know a family that would almost fit the bill for having an obese kid. But the parents are big too. The dad is severely over-weight and the kid is really big. They feed him junk and let him over eat and they cook really bad, fatty, greasy, cheesy foods for him. I have seen it. And since I do know someone who might fit the criteria if they were to introduce some new legislation like that, I have to say that NO I don't want to see kids taken away from their parents because they are obese.
How do you feel about it? Does the government have the right to step in if we are over-feeding our kids? They do step in if we are under-feeding our kids. So who should decide what is too fat?

Just a joke

2011-07-09T17:34:00.000-05:00

What's the difference in Broccoli & boogers?

Kids won't eat Broccoli. =)

Caylee's Law

2011-07-09T10:53:00.000-05:00

This new Caylee's Law (requires you report a dead or missing child within 24 hours) that is popping up all over the country is really not necessary because NOBODY ELSE ever DOESN'T report their child dead or missing. I think psycho Casey is probably the first one on record to do that. It's not common AT ALL. All other normal human being that DON'T murder their own child (like Casey did) report their child dead or missing.

I haven't posted about the not guilty verdict because I was just so much in shock my fingers wouldn't even type the words.

Verdict Watch

2011-07-04T15:10:00.000-05:00

The Casey Anthony trial ended today with final rebuttal closing arguments by the prosecution, the judge read in the jury instructions and the jurors have been sent back to deliberate. There is a mountain of evidence exhibits in this case and is going to take days for the jury to go over everything. If this jury comes back on the first day, it is going to be a NOT GUILTY verdict. The OJ jury came back in less than 4 hours. But I figured after they elected a foreman they probably had an initial vote to see where they stand and see who is holding out for not guilty and then the work begins. Even after a 7 week trial, I still think the jury is going to be deadlocked and come back as a hung jury. They let that one iffy juror on the jury who claims she didn't want to JUDGE ANYBODY for anything they had done and didn't feel comfortable judging anybody. But they let her stay on the jury. If it is a hung jury I blame the prosecution for letting her stay on the jury. They are counting it down on HLN... verdict watch countdown. So we should all have at least 30 minutes notice when they jury comes back with a verdict. I will be watching until I hear one way or the other.

AND Happy July 4th!! Don't blow your fingers off tonight with fireworks!

This is really how I feel. on Twitpic

2011-06-29T23:07:00.001-05:00

CLICK this link for my deep thoughts on life.This is really how I feel. on Twitpic

Such PERVS in the world!!

2011-06-27T19:17:00.003-05:00

51 year old LOST actor Doug Hutchison marries a 16 yr old girl, with mother's permission of course. That to me is a pedophile. He is old enough to be her grandfather. He also played that creep prison guard in Green Mile, the one who was mean and they made him leave the prison. He played Horace Godspeed on Lost, the leader of Dharma on the island. And they are publicizing it like it is something to be proud of.

Liars and Cheap Airfare

2011-06-24T13:34:00.001-05:00

Whether or not you have been keeping up with the Casey Anthony murder trial, I have to say if you didn't see testimony yesterday you really missed out on some shocking testimony on the part of Casey's mother Cindy.
There was evidence that Casey did some computer searches on her home computer before her daughter ever died for "How to make Chloroform" Now you have to know that the prosecution's theory is that Casey used Chloroform on her daughter and duct taped her mouth and nose shut and put her in the trunk of her car. They actually found Chloroform in Casey's trunk. BUT, yesterday Cindy Anthony got on the stand (called by the defense) and said that it was SHE who did the computer searches for Chloroform. At some point the Anthony family has decided to start lying to try to keep Casey from getting the death penalty. Even today her brother Lee is lying on the stand, changing his story. HOWEVER, computer experts got on the stand right after Cindy and the prosecution solicited the information that Casey was logged into her MySpace within 20 seconds of the search for Chloroform being done. Today Lee is saying that the stains in the trunk that the prosecution believes were stains from decomposition, have been in the car the entire time he had the car. He never said that until today. I have to say that yesterday's testimony has been the best so far. It was initially shocking to hear Cindy Anthony testify that SHE made the searches on the computer and then to have the experts almost immediately prove her to be a liar.

In other news. Southwest airlines has been running a 40th anniversary sale on airfares through November travel dates for severely reduced rates. The sale was ending last night. I rechecked our travel dates and not only had our fares not gone down, the prices for our travel dates had gone UP. I was pissed that we weren't going to be able to get in on the cheap fares. But then I decided to get on the website and play around with our dates of travel to see if I could find the lower fares. Turns out the sale on fares did not apply to travel on Friday or Sunday. And our departure date was Friday and our return date was Sunday. I changed our departure day to leaving one day earlier, on Thursday and changed our return date to coming home one day sooner, on Saturday, and VIOLA!! It offered me the lower fares. Our fares went from $167 EACH WAY down to $80 each way. OVER HALF OFF!! I talked to my husband about it and we decided to go ahead and get the tickets now while the sale was going on. We saved $600 due to that sale. I am glad I read the Disney message boards or I wouldn't have even known about the sale on Southwest.com.

Darling husband is having second thoughts about wanting to go to Disney just because it is costing us so many thousands of dollars. It hurts his heart to put out half the price of the trip. I am trying to talk him into staying with our plan and still going with us because I really don't want to have to try to go to Disney by myself with 2 kids. Our plans now are for me and the 3 kids (my 2 and his 1) to fly down to Orlando while he is going to drive to Orlando. Mainly for 2 reasons. One is he doesn't want to fly and second is he doesn't want to be in the car with 3 kids for 12 hours, and frankly neither do I. But we want to have a car when we go to WDW so we can drive ourselves from park to park and get around without having to be dependent on Disney buses to get around. I know once we go he will have a good time and he will be glad he went. It's a once in a lifetime trip.

SCORE one for the prosecution

2011-06-22T10:05:00.000-05:00

If you have been following the Casey Anthony murder trial, and if you watched it yesterday you will know it was definitely a day for the prosecution. The funny thing is... the witness that scored so many points for the prosecution was actually called to be a defense witness. It was beautiful to watch as minute after minute passed by when the witness was not giving the defense the answers they wanted. At one point Jose Baez, the scumbag lead defense attorney, OBJECTED to his own witness as being non-responsive! And once the prosecution got a hold of that witness, Jeff Ashton, the lead prosecutor OWNED that witness. It was a thing of beauty to watch. I will have to say it will go down as the best day of testimony so far, in my opinion. And so the trial continues.... If you follow me on Twitter I am constantly tweeting about the trial and testimony so even if you can't watch it at work, I will keep you up to date! @PeggySueCusses

Gardasil is the DEVIL

2011-06-15T09:46:00.000-05:00

They have a vaccine out for young ladies called Gardasil. It is meant for preventing the HPV virus that can lead to cervical cancer. All I knew is it is made for girls age 10 and older. I discussed it with DD (this was last year) and she decided to go ahead and get the shot now. It is a series of 3 shots so we took her in on her regular annual physical and asked for the Gardasil. (I had no idea at the time of the published side effects of the shot. I did not do due diligence in my research of Gardasil)

The day after my daughter got the vaccine she woke up and could hardly stand. She got very dizzy and almost passed out and the feeling didn't go away after she laid down. She said she felt like she couldn't shake the dizziness. Almost like she was having a stroke. I had her stay 'laying around' the house for the rest of the day, which turned into 3 days before she finally started feeling better. I had called the doctor's office when it happened and they said OH NO it couldn't possibly be the shot it must be something else. I believed them.

In between the first shot and when she was due for her second shot I had discussed the effects of the shot on my daughter with some ladies on Twitter only to be told that HEY! Gardasil had bad side effects including stroke and death. People have died after getting the Gardasil shot. And not just one or two. But these phucking doctors keep denying the possibility that it is the shot doing it and keep giving the gawd dayum shot to young ladies.

Well, needless to say we never went back for shot number 2 or 3.

I took DD (DD is darling daughter for those of you who might not know, and yes there are ppl who don't know I found out recently) back to the doctor last week for her annual check up and physical and the doc asked my why we never came back for the remaining shots in her Gardasil series. And I reminded her that at the time she got the first one we had called to inform them that she had had bad side effects from the shot and didn't wish to get the remaining shots. She ONCE AGAIN said OH NO it is probably NOT the Gardasil that caused my daughter to ALMOST HAVE A STROKE, that sometimes when you get up from laying down that your blood pressure drops...and at this point all I heard was BLAH BLAH BLAH... I PHUCKING KNOW and so does my daughter that sometimes if you stand up too fast your blood pressure drops and you get dizzy...but you don't STAY PHUCKING DIZZY for 3 days!!! The doctor is still trying to deny the possibility that the Gardasil had any bad side effects.

What made me think of this out of the blue just now was because I stood up and got real dizzy and it reminded me that ever since DD got that shot she has Syncope (dizziness upon standing) constantly. She never had it before the shot and she has it daily now after the shot. And the phucking doctor won't even entertain the idea that it was the shot. THAT'S WHY PPL ARE STILL DYING FROM GARDASIL SHOTS!!

If you have a young daughter or know someone who does and are thinking about getting those shots for her...do me a favor.. GOOGLE "GARDASIL DEATHS" and look at how many link choices pop up. read some of them. You will see everything from reports from the CDC and articles by some major National newspapers. Even the Wikipedia information for Gardasil talks about all the women who DIED immediately after getting the shot.

HPV may cause them cancer later in life but that shot can cause them immediate death RIGHT NOW.

I should have known better than to let my DD get shots that were so new. After a few more years I think they will pull the Gardasil from the market. Or revamp it to where it is not so dangerous. But my daughter won't be getting any HPV vaccines anytime soon.

Saturday

2011-06-11T09:09:00.000-05:00

I am sitting here watching the Casey Anthony murder trial. Yeah, they are even having court on Saturday. I am just killing time. I am going to my friend Nicole's house to lay out/swim today.

This is the weekend we were suppose to be in Baton Rouge on our little summer trip to the water park/amusement park/zoo. It had to be postponed because the kids had some cousins coming in town from Texas (at their dad's house) and they didn't wanna miss seeing them. So now we are going at the end of the month when it is going to be 3 degrees cooler than HELL!

We're on the countdown to our BIG Disney trip. About 4 1/2 months to go. It just keeps getting closer & closer!! I am already nervous just thinking about it. Mostly I am nervous about flying with 3 kids who have never flown before. And my husband NOT being with me on the flight. (He is driving himself)

I keep reading the Disney moms panel and the unofficial Disney message boards so I am as informed as I can be about what to expect and what we are in store for once we get there.

Well, it is 10 after 9 and I have to leave here at 9:30 to go swimming at 10. I will catch you all later.

Sleeping like Dead Ppl

2011-06-04T10:36:00.000-05:00

My 2 youngest kids are not in school, of course. It's summer. And right after school ended they were sleeping in until about 10 am every day. It was nice for me because that means I can get up myself at 8 or so and still have a few hours of peace and quiet while they continue sleeping. But the longer summer goes on the later they are staying up and the later they are sleeping in.

Almost every day this week if I didn't wake them up, they slept until NOON. Even my DD who is usually up way before DS was sleeping until 11 & 12 every day. It was still nice having the first half of the day to myself, the bad thing is, with them sleeping that long they wake up ~~STARVING TO DEATH OMG HURRY UP MOM I NEED FOOD OMG I AM HUNGRYYYYY!!!!!~~ hungry.

My oldest son, DS25 was/is always able to sleep for 12 straight hours without even making a move or a noise. Sleeps like the dead. It seems unnatural for a human to sleep for 12 hours unless they are drugged up from surgery or taking prescription meds that make them sleepy, etc.

I wish I could sleep that long. If my body would stay asleep longer than 9 hours I would probably still be in the bed sleeping right now and the fact that they are still asleep wouldn't phase me one bit. But it is going to have to change before close to time for school to start back or they are going to have a real hard time, dragging ass, trying to get up and go to school.

In other news... We were suppose to go out of town to Baton Rouge, LA next Thursday, June the 9th to go to the local water park, amusement park and zoo for 3 days, but we had to put it off until the end of the month because the kids had other things come up they wanted to do more. They have relatives (cousins) coming in town from June 8th - 12th so the cousins won out and the water park trip had to be postponed. Now we will be going June 30th- July 2nd. SO if you had it on your TO DO list to murder me, you can find me in Baton Rouge at the end of the month. You will just have to figure out which days I am going to which place and come find me. =)

SO... This Casey Anthony case is dragging on. Prosecution is still putting on their witnesses and the defense is still doing a piss poor job of trying to impeach all the prosecution witnesses. It may get more interesting when the defense has a chance to put on their witnesses because that's when the big STORYTELLING time begins and we get to hear the ridiculous theories about the kid drowning and the grandfather finding her and disposing of her body. We will get to hear about the alleged sexual abuse Casey suffered through that turned her into a pathological liar who makes up boyfriends, creates friends who don't exist, and lie about having a nanny. Hopefully the defense will get to explain why, that if the kid actually drowned, they found her with duct tape wrapped around her mouth and nose. You don't have to duct tape a dead kid...so what's the story with that?

Right now the prosecution has on a witness who did the testing on the hair that showed the decomposition root banding. A characteristic that only happens to hair that came from a dead body. That hair was found in Casey Anthony's trunk of her car.

I am impressed with this judge. He pays close attention, he is very fair and he is not taking any shit from the defense. He seems to know a lot about the law. He quotes other cases that pertain to this case all the time in trying to help the lawyers know what presidence has happened prior to this case.

Another little piece of newsworthy information... I am making the kids eat through the kitchen. I call it that because since the kids BITCH all the time every time I say we need to go to the grocery store that since they hate going to buy the food so bad, we will stop buying the food and we are going to eat our way through the kitchen until all the food in our kitchen is gone. By the time we go to the grocery store again they will be begging me to go buy groceries. I did however, go to Kroger yesterday for fruits, veggies & beverages and they didn't complain much because I bought them some BBQ Ribs. They love the Corky's BBQ Ribs that Kroger sells and they were on sale for $9.99 so I bought a few of those and they had ribs for dinner last night. DS liked them so well he asked if we could have them again for dinner tonight. ALSO, just a note of FYI. Kroger thinks VERY HIGHLY of their JUMBO Russet potatoes. For ONE BAG of JUMBO potatoes they charged $8.00. If you don't buy the JUMBO ones then the potatoes are TINY, little bitty potatoes. Even the ones they call JUMBO aren't THAT big. But anyway. We are on day 6 of "eat through the kitchen" and I did spend $70 at Kroger yesterday getting fruit, veggies, bread, beverages, crackers... I will let you know how long it takes us to eat our way through the kitchen to the point of actually needing to go buy more groceries. We have 2 freezers and one pantry of food to go through.

Ok, the trial is back on. Back from commercial. Gotta go.

I miss you. No, seriously I do!

2011-05-29T09:23:00.001-05:00

Ok, I have been MIA/AWOL lately and a lot of you know why...

This gawd dayum Casey Anthony trial. I don't have time to do anything from trying to make sure I keep up with all the coverage and testimony.

For those of you who live under a rock and haven't heard of Casey Anthony she is a mom accused of murdering her 2 yr old daughter then dumping her body in the woods only to be found 5 months later. The strange part is the accused, Casey Anthony, never reported her own daughter missing. She was "missing" for 31 days and didn't tell anybody. When Casey's mom found out her granddaughter was missing she called 911 and told them not only was her granddaughter missing but that Casey's car smelled like there had been a dead body in it.

Casey lied to the authorities about who she last gave Caylee to, a nanny/babysitter that ended up being a fictional character in Casey's mind. The woman didn't exist. Which begs the question, who had Casey actually been dropping Caylee off to when she claimed she was taking her to this "nanny's" house.

People are speculating that Casey no longer wanted to be a mother, was tired of having to take care of her daughter because she wanted to sleep around with all these different men, go out drinking and dancing and just really wanted to get rid of her daughter. It is being charged that she used chloroform to knock her daughter out and was putting her in the trunk to keep her quiet while she went out partying.

When the little girl's remains were found she had 3 pieces of duct tape wrapped around her mouth and nose.

Casey is claiming that her daughter accidentally drowned in the family pool. If that is the case why did they put duct tape on a dead kid's mouth? She is lying. She is also accusing her own dad of sexually molesting her from the time she was 8 yrs old. I believe that is a lie also. She is trying to save her own ass and keep from getting the death penalty.

I don't know ANY mother who's kid would go missing for 31 days and they NOT report it. Her defense team is saying she never reported her daughter missing because she already knew she was dead, from that accidental drowning the month before she was reported missing.

Anyway. You can watch the trial coverage every day on the TRU TV channel until 2 pm then you have to switch over to HLN (channel 204 on DirecTv) and watch it there until 4 pm. (5 Eastern time)

In other news, we (me and my 2 youngest kids) went swimming/laying out over at my friend Nicole's house Friday afternoon and obviously our sunblock from last year has expired because we all 3 got severely sunburned. It has been very unpleasant for all of us since Friday. Mine is only just now starting to not hurt today. The redness is going away. Hopefully by tomorrow we will all 3 be better and next time I am at Walmart I will buy NEW sunblock. I had to learn the hard way that sunblock doesn't last from one year to the next. It's like we didn't even use any and it was SPF 50. I think I am going to try the new Neutrogena Water Kids spray on sunblock that says you can spray it on wet kids and it still protects them.

The kids are about to start a summer Arts program/camp at the local Southern Cultural Heritage Center. It is a 5 week program for kids aged 10 to 16 and it is being provided through a grant from the National ENdowment of the Arts so it is FREE (YAY) for the kids. Usually things that happen at the SCHC cost quite a bit. My friend Nicole told me about the camp and I called at the last minute and got them IN because 2 of the kids who were suppose to enroll never confirmed. Nicole's son is going to be going too. It is every day Monday through Friday from 1 to 4 for the next 5 weeks.

I had to buy them each their own digital camera for use in the classes because the first week is a class on photography. We had to go on a picture scavenger hunt yesterday taking pictures of odd things. We had to take a picture of a fire station, a fire truck, a church steeple, a bridge over water, the Mississippi river, a tree, a flower, a statue of a lady (we still haven't found that one) carpet, someone cooking, someone sleeping, a bird, an animal...it was a long list. We got most of them and the instructions say if you don't get EVERY one that's ok. So we aren't sweating the 5 or 6 items we didn't get. There were over 20 listed.

SO instead of rejoining the YMCA this summer so we can go swimming every day, the kids are going to be in Arts camp. I have a feeling my son is going to start it and hate it. He gets bored easy and is hard to please when it comes to things like that. We tried and after school Art class one time and he hated it and ended up begging me to not make him keep going.

This camp is going to be different though. It is for BIGGER kids and they are going to do different mediums and activities. They are doing photography, writing ( kids are gonna hate that part) cartography (I don't even know what that is), making their own t-shirts, music, drama and something else I don't remember.

SCHC would cost $80 a week per kid. SO I am saving $160 a week for 5 weeks not having to pay for the program. Now if the kids end up hating it and wanting to quit then I am out $200 I spent on their little cameras. But the cameras I got them are cute. They are Kodak Easy Share. They are regular camera and video camera and the kids love them. They have never had a camera that has video on it. They have small little handheld video cameras I got them for Christmas but they ended up being flawed and you can't upload the videos from the camera to the computer. With these new cameras they can and they love it. They are making all kinds of videos to put on YouTube.

So I will have some momma quiet time every day from 1 to 4. That doesn't hurt my feelings at all. =)

Do you have plans for this summer? What's on your schedule?

P.S- I finished the book Hunger Games which is the first book in a series of 3 books, and it was pretty good. Better than I had expected it to be. I am now waiting to go to the library Tuesday so I can return it and get book 2, Catching Fire. Check them out. Reading is good for your brain!

Potatoes potahtoes what the PHUCK ever

2011-05-22T08:41:00.000-05:00

I made the statement yesterday. "This booked has peaked my interest" I was ~~told what a dumbass I am~~ corrected. It is suppose to read this book has PIQUED my interest. I ~~as well as most other people~~ did not know that word. And the person who corrected me also just recently learned the word. SO you learn something new ~~illegal~~ everyday. At least on Twitter you do.

The book I was referring to is a book I just started yesterday called Hunger Games. It is the first in a series of 3 written by ~~I think this is how you spell her name I was too lazy to go over to the living room table to check her name spelling~~ Suzanne Collins. They are suppose to be YA (young adult) lit but they seem pretty grown up to me. Kind of like Twilight was suppose to be YA also, but seemed ~~sex~~ adult oriented to me.

I started reading this one based on several ppl on Twitter recommending it to me. I had asked ppl what were some good SERIES books. I had never known about the Harry Potter series until it was already movie. I never knew about the Twilight series until it was a movie. So even though they are RIGHT NOW making Hunger Games into a movie, I will have read the book before the movie comes out and will have read the whole series in book form. HEY, there is one series I got a jump on before they became TV shows. Goosebumps! I bought the whole series for my DS25 when he was a kid and I still have almost all of them. Some got lost.

I had just finished reading the last HP book Deathly Hallows and also read the last Twilight book, Breaking Dawn. Besides Steven King Under The Dome, those 2 books were the LARGEST books ~~in all of existence~~ I have ever read. They were each around ~~REALLY PHUCKING GIANT~~ 900 pages. (Under The Dome was almost 1200 pages) I got a late start on reading them so I only had one week to finish each book and I ~~lost sleep~~ just barely made it. I didn't want to have to check them back out ~~because that takes effort and I am lazy.~~

That's why I only got the first book of this Hunger Games series, one, just in case I didn't like it, and two, just in case I didn't get a chance to read them I didn't have them sitting on my table while someone else could be reading them.

I'm glad my library has them. I am even more glad that I even bothered to check if they had them. Usually when there are books I want to read I get on Amazon.com and just order them. But have been trying to stay away from that because I have a stack of books on my desk right here next to me of books I bought, that I wanted to read at the time, got them, and still haven't touched them.

So my new goal is to try to always ~~get them for free~~ use the library first before buying. Unless they don't yet have a book that I want to read and I don't feel like waiting for the library to get it. I also have learned that even if my own library doesn't have a book you can get a book loaned from another library somewhere else in the state! For free! But you only get to keep those books 2 weeks instead of 3 and you can't check them back out/recheck them. SO get the loaner books one at a time so you have enough time to read them and return them. I could usually very easily finish 3 normal size books in two weeks but since my library has them I don't have to.

I don't know how many ~~NUTJOBS~~ people went to heaven last night in the rapture but everybody I know is still on Earth, including all of you sinners, so I guess we are the ones who have to stay here and ~~live our life and have a good time~~ suffer. At least I will be in good company. If any of you come up with some missing friends in the next few days, go ahead and report them missing but let the detectives know they probably just got sucked up into heaven. We don't want them wasting a lot of manpower searching when we already know where they are, but you should still file the report so when they never come home you can get the life insurance check.

Well, kidlets, that was your vocabulary lesson and book review for the ~~year~~ day. I pulled double duty and might require payment next time I do that. You can only get so much for free you know.

Had I known...

2011-05-21T09:22:00.001-05:00

Had I known the rapture was going to happen Saturday night I might have bought some party food and had some friends over for the end of the world party of 2011. I am never prepared for last minute lunacy.

I saw a guy tweeting on Twitter last night y'all that was believing that it really is going to happen. I felt sorry for him so I didn't retweet it because ppl would have zoomed in and blasted him for being an idiot.

In other news. My daughter is teaching herself Spanish and her first phrase she learned is Me hermano es stupido. My brother is stupid. Yep. SO proud I am. Mother of the year here I come.

For those of you keeping up with the chest hives of 2011, I think it has been narrowed down to either a reaction to the stand up tanning bed I have been getting in or my new Euphoria by Calvin Klein cologne.

I didn't use cologne yesterday but still got the hives after I tanned. However they went away really fast yesterday and are almost completely gone this morning. I still have not used cologne and am going to go tan one more time today and see if the hives come up again with me having no cologne on.

Since they went away s fat this time I am hoping that means whatever reaction my body was having is lessening and going to go away. I didn't wanna have to stop using my BRAND NEW bottle of cologne. It was expensive and it smells very good. But I have never had a reaction to tanning nor have I ever had a reaction to cologne so this is all new to me. And the hives are just right down the center of my chest in between my boobs and a little at the top of my chest above my boobs. None anywhere else.

That's what made me think it might be the cologne because right dead center on my chest/on my shirt is where I spray the cologne when I put it on. I know it's not the actual tanning bed itself because none of my skin touches the bed, it is a stand up cyclone super bed. It's not lotion because I don't use accelerator lotions or tingle cream.

SO, I am about to go tan again. We'll see what happens and if I get hives again. I will let you know.

Does this piss you off?

2011-05-19T15:55:00.000-05:00

When you look at this picture does it piss you off? Does it make you feel defensive and angry?

I got this picture from a blog that I occasionally read. The blogger saw the picture on another website and got SUPER MAD about it. Now, needless to say, she is a BIG GIRL and she got very defensive about it calling the poster an asshole and claiming that just because someone may be big doesn't mean that they eat bad.

REALLY?

I am going to say IN MOST CASES (there are some exceptions) your body size and weight are a direct result of the food you eat, what you eat and how much you eat. If you eat healthy your body will be healthy, if you eat CRAP well...you get the point.

I think, unless you are eating the crappy fatty junk food portrayed in the picture there is no reason to be defensive. Nobody is stupid. It is very clear that eating FAT CRAP FOOD makes you fat. You can deny your bad eating habits all day long but when you weigh 250 pounds or are 100 pounds over weight, you are definitely doing something wrong.

I am not the skinny size 4 girl and I am not the big PLUS size girl either. I am average size in between. I eat fairly well being a vegetarian but I hit the junk food sometimes myself. I could stand to lose a few pounds and it is a direct result of bad food choices on my part. But by no means does that picture PISS ME OFF.

I think it pissed her off because she does eat crappy fatty shitty foods and JUNK and she knows it and someone posted this graphic and it HIT HOME with her. The truth usually hurts and when you hit too close to home with some folks, they get pissed.

Kill her!!

2011-05-12T11:11:00.000-05:00

It's been awhile since I blogged. I have been slacking in my blogging. But this Casey Anthony murder trial has me glued to my TV and all they are doing right now is jury selection. It is taking forever.

The judge initially said the trial would start this coming Tuesday but with how long these lawyers are taking questioning each of these potential jurors I don't see the trial starting Tuesday.

It wouldn't do for me to be in that jury pool because I have already made up my mind about her guilt. I think she did it. I think she is a monster who murdered her own 2 yr old daughter and kept her in the trunk of her car so long the whole car still stunk when she finally went home to her moms house. Her own mother called the police and said MY GRANDDAUGHTER IS MISSING AND IT SMELLS LIKE THERE'S BEEN A DEAD BODY IN MY DAUGHTER'S CAR. She has since changed her story and is now standing behind her daughter and proclaiming her innocence.

I say convict her now... Don't bother with the trial. Save the taxpayer dollars and just convict her and sentence her to death. She deserves to die.

But I do know that every person, even guilty people deserve a fair trial. BLAH BLAH BLAH. I can't stand slimy ass defense attorneys who defend people like this that they know are guilty of heinous crimes and yet they defend them anyway. That's a scumbag in my opinion. Willing to get guilty people off for a buck. These 4 lawyers are probably defending Casey Anthony Pro Bono just to get the publicity. Just like the OJ lawyers...they can become famous from it. I know her working class parents can't afford these 4 lawyers.

The only sucky thing about this trial is that now that TRU TV is no longer CORT TV they only cover the trial up until 2 pm central time. Then you have to go over to cnn.com/live to finish watching the coverage for the rest of the day. I miss Court TV. When I watched the OJ trial they showed it ALL DAY. When I watched the Scott Peterson trial they showed it ALL DAY. This trial is just as big as the SP trial. They should make an exception and cover it all day.

These are some of the facts...

1. Casey Anthony never reported her own daughter missing. By the time her mother found out the granddaughter was missing she had supposedly been missing for a month.

2. Casey Anthong claims her daughter was abducted by a non existent babysitter. Claims she left her with the lady at an apartment and when she went back to get the girl, everybody was gone.

3. She lied to the police about working at Universal Studios.

4. They have pictures of casey Anthong out in bars drinking and partying, dancing on the bar with other women during the time that she claims her daughter was missing and she was looking for her herself.

5. When they finally got a chance to inspect Casey Anthony's car they did air samples of the trunk and found chemicals consisten with human decomposition.

6. She had a boyfriend during the time her daughter was missing and never once mentioned to him that she had a daughter and that the daughter was missing. She just kept on partying.

7. There were traces of chloroform in her trunk and they suspect that Casey Anthony had been previously using chloroform to knock the girl out and keep her in the trunk while she was out partying because she didn't have anybody to keep her.

8. The girl was found with duct tape around her head less than a quarter of a mile from Casey Anthony's parents home dumped in some foliage on the side of a road.

I think her lawyers KNOW she is guilty but right now they are just trying to save her life and get her LIFE in prison without the possibility of parole as opposed to DEATH.

How do you feel about it? DO you think she is guilty? Does she deserve to die? Or do you even believe in the death penalty?

Such a tragedy

2011-05-03T16:18:00.000-05:00

My husband has a first wife. He was married back when he was 21 for less than one year. He is now 34. SO it's been 13 years since he has been married. From what I understand he pretty much hasn't talked to her in the last 12 years, at all. They didn't remain friends.

She was murdered yesterday. My husband found out through ppl who knew her and know him.

It was written up in the Vicksburg Post today, but from what was told to my husband MICHELLE who is the ex wife who was murdered, has an 8 yr old son, a 15 yr old son and a 14 yr old step daughter. She is currently married to the dad of the 14 yr old step daughter.

It is the 14 year old step daughter that murdered her. Shot her, right in the face, with a shotgun. The neighbors saw the 14 yr old driving away from the house in the family's Dodge Durango and shortly thereafter the 15 yr old son came home from school and found his mom lying dead, shot in the face. From what the newspaper says the 14 yr old drove away from the house after she shot Michelle and nobody knows where she is now. She has not been arrested yet. She took off.

She had been getting in trouble lately skipping school or sneaking out the step mom's car and had recently snuck out the car and wrecked it. I guess it was the step mom that had been coming down on her and she had anger towards Michelle.

I can't imagine what kind of rage a child has to have to be able to walk into the house and shoot their step mom in the face. She got the gun out of her dad's truck that was parked outside the house.

It's such a tragedy and such a shock since it was someone my husband not only knew but use to be married to. He is taking it ok but it was a very big shock for him. I can't imagine what the 15 yr old son who came home and found his mom with half her face blown off, what he must be going through and what is this going to do to him and do to his life. How will he turn out now that he has had this tragedy in his life? Will it turn him into an angry person who hates ppl?

Now Michelle has 2 children that have no mother and the husband not only lost his wife, he is now going to lose his daughter as well. If she was 16 or 17 they would probably try her as an adult but since she is only 14 she will probably be put in juvenile detention until she is 21 and she will be released to go on with her life.

A few ppl have asked me since my DH was married to her 12 years ago if the 15 yr old boy was his son. NO. The boy was her child already when my DH met and married her.

Lock your guns up people! My husband has quite a few guns but they are all locked up in a 5 foot 800 pound gun safe. My kids won't be shooting me in the face with my own gun.

Yeah I'm an asshole.

2011-04-30T12:48:00.000-05:00

Yes. I was one of the 2 billion assholes watching the royal wedding. I thought it was boring. The best part was watching everybody drive up to the Abbey in the fancy cars and her walking down the isle. I know it is tradition but it was so weird that William did not turn around and watch her walking down the isle.

Also there was no wedding kiss like what we do in America. I know they kissed twice on the balcony but it is not the same.

Her dress was fabulous but even better than Kate's dress, to me, was her sister Pippa's dress. Her dress was beautiful and she has a tiny little figure just like her sister. I think she may be a tad bit prettier in the face than her sister. SHUT MY MOUTH!! I KNOW!!

It was sweet when Will told Kate she looked beautiful when she walked up to the alter beside him and it was cool when Kate walked out on the balcony and mouthed "WOW" when she saw all the hundreds of thousands of ppl outside the palace.

I learned from the TV coverage of the wedding that it is royal tradition/protocol that she gets pregnant within 18 months of the wedding. How cold and official is that? I figure that may be why they waited so long to get married because neither of them were ready to have kids yet. Now they are old enough to start a family and have had 8 years together without kids, they can go ahead and start popping them out I guess.

It's not like she has to raise her own kids anyway. They have nurses and nannies. But considering it is rumored that Will and Kate are going to live with NO SERVANTS, she may end up raising her own kids, who knows?!?

HELL, to me, one of the biggest benefits of marrying into that stuck up royal bullshit is having all those servants. LOL. Give me 3 housekeepers and 2 nannies and a butler and driver. Hells yeah!! Kate will come around eventually. She will get sick of cleaning Will's shit skids out of the toilets and she will get some help.

Well, I did not get up at 4 am to watch. I cheated. I set my DVR to record TLC's coverage of it.

Did you watch?

Motel living

2011-04-28T09:10:00.000-05:00

Well... I have returned from a 48 hour journey to the Motel 6 and back. About 5 am Tuesday morning our power went out. A power pole BROKE in half and power lines were hanging, dangling across our road and we were trapped back here in our neighborhood because there is only one way in and one way out.

I was unable to take the kids to school Tuesday, because, well, obviously there's power lines hanging in the road.

Somehow on Tuesday afternoon my oldest son drove UNDER the power lines and showed up at my house and made me realize maybe I wasn't stuck after all, so when he left I followed him out, under the dangling power lines. They weren't HOT/active of course.

The power company said right from the get go it would probably be 6 pm Wednesday before power was restored because there were SO MANY power lines down in our area from strong winds and tornadoes moving through this area. (Mississippi)

We packed up and went right up the road to the Motel 6. Turns out you don't have to pay $200 a night to get a decent motel room. We even got free wireless Internet access. The kids loved it. They loved roaming the halls and going to the vending machine and ice machine. They loved HAVING to go out to eat every meal. I didn't really mind that part of it myself.

Well, we came back this morning and the power is back on but now I have a side by side fridge/freezer and a big deep freezer full of food that has to be thrown out and replaced. Not sure yet how much that is going to set me back. AT least $450 I think.

Someone on Twitter mentioned possibly getting my home owners policy to pay for it but we have a $500 deductible.

I feel very lucky to even have our house after all the ppl who have lost their homes and so many that have died in the last 2 weeks in Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama. We have had a few tornadoes go through our area lately but none have come close to our house. I was watching CNN last night and it reported that just yesterday over 2 dozen ppl died in Alabama.

How has the recent weather affected you?

Happy Easter Phuckers

2011-04-21T22:37:00.000-05:00

This is going to be a GAWD DAYUM LONG ASS 4 day weekend. The kids are already letting me know how bored they are.

I let them have their Easter baskets early and they loved them. I make homemade baskets every year and buy candy, toys, bubbles, etc. They come out WAY BETTER than that crap you buy in the store that has 2 little packs of candy taped to some cardboard. I have never bought my kids those shitty store bought baskets. Their dad has bought them one of those before but they don't like them near as much as my homemade ones.

This year I got them bubble fans. They are little battery powered fans that blow these HUGE bubbles. They payed with them first before they even ate any candy.

In other news DD has some little boy that keeps texting my phone to talk to her. It's getting real old real fast. Not old enough for me to get her her own phone. I'm not doing that but we are going to have to do something different about this boy texting and calling my phone.

What did you get your kids for Easter?

I can't help myself.

2011-04-14T08:01:00.002-05:00

I just can't help myself. A little bruhaha/drama has erupted between myself and a cousin that I haven't laid eyes on in over TWENTY YEARS about me not going to her wedding 6 hours away in Texas and she won't shut up about it, so I am going to have to share it with you all.

It started out I posted a little note on Facebook saying how funny my husband is and how he makes me laugh every day and how I wouldn't trade him for a million bucks.

Now back story. This cousin, Sarah, is my dad's brother's daughter who I haven't seen since she was a 5 yr old wearing diapers about to start kindergarten over 20 years ago. More like 22 years ago I think. She may be 27 or 28. She has been engaged for awhile, and she talks about it constantly on Facebook, all day every day since she got engaged. She talks about her bridal shower that she gave herself and her bachelorette party. (She found me on Facebook through my brother's page, I did not seek her out, I only ACCEPTED her friend request)

She bugged me for 2 months about my son's (DS25) address and where to send his invitation to. She commented on all my Facebook posts. So I finally messaged her and gave her my address and my DS25's address so she could send the wedding invitations.

She messaged me when she sent them. She messages me and asked me if we had gotten them, twice, and once we got them she started in asking if we were coming. Now she didn't message me through Facebook messages like a normal person would, she kept leaving comments on my Facebook wall posts that I would post about random things that had nothing to do with her or her wedding.

Yesterday she did it again, She reminded me to tell myself and my son not to forget to RSVP about her wedding. Now I know you only RSVP usually if you ARE GOING to something so I knew it was time I told her we would not be coming.

Here's the Facebook exchange that took place:

Peggy Sue Smith Brister
I swear my husband is so funny. He comes up with the funniest stuff at a moment's notice. He makes me laugh every day. He likes to joke with ppl and aggravate everybody but I wouldn't trade him for a million dollars

- Sarah Charlene Smith Hey don't forget the rsvp & please remind dustin
  17 hours ago ·
- Peggy Sue Smith Brister Dustin can't leave town to go to a wedding I can tell you for sure he won't come. He is working and when he is not working he is having to drive his g/f back and forth to work. I can't come either. I already made my trip to Texas. I won't be coming back for awhile.
  16 hours ago ·
- Sarah Charlene Smith Ummm ok that is a little insulting on both parts but ok... Have a good day
  15 hours ago ·
- Peggy Sue Smith Brister What's insulting? That Dustin can't afford to take off work to come to Texas or that I have already been to Texas and cant return again? Why would it insult you that I wouldn't come to your wedding? I haven't seen you since you were about 6. But you're insulted? Whatever back at ya.
  14 hours ago ·

Now I unfriended her and I sent her my last reply in a message to make sure she got it since I didn't know if she could see my page now that I unfriended her and this is the exchange that has happened since. Read from the top down. Mine first then her reply then my reply.

Peggy Sue Smith Brister April 13 at 5:07pm

What's insulting? That Dustin can't afford to take off work to come to Texas or that I have already been to Texas and cant return again? Why would it insult you that I wouldn't come to your wedding? I haven't seen you since you were about 6. But you're insulted? Whatever back at ya.

Sarah Charlene Smith April 13 at 11:43pm Report

Wow chill with ur attitude first of all. And yes he has known for 9 months! And yes that you are so self involved that you never keep in touch. You didnt even go see my dad when you were here! So i got ur whatever.

Peggy Sue Smith Brister April 14 at 7:44am

I haven't seen anybody in my dad's family in over 20 years. If that makes me self involved then so be it. I don't like to be phony and pretend I have a close family when I don't. You started with the attitude of "kind of insulted" that kills me! And it doesn't matter if Dustin has known for the last 2 years that you are getting married next month that still doesn't change his circumstances or his job, or his g/f's job that would allow him to leave the state for a few days. And I have been to Texas once in the last year and don't plan to come back, for anybody. But thanks for the invitations, and the reminders, and the reminder of the reminder. Hope it goes great for you!

I will keep you posted how this all goes. I may end up blocking her if I can figure out how to do it.

I'm FAMOUS!

2011-04-13T15:57:00.000-05:00

It's the only explanation. It has to be the reason. I must be Twitter famous.

Why else would someone devote an entire Twitter page (3 actually as of today) strictly to heckle me? Why would someone go to the trouble of creating a new email address to create a new Twitter account which has only ONE PERSON they are following (me) to show up on my page to tell me what an idiot I am, how much my blog sucks and how bad my Etsy bags suck?

I blocked the first account. I think it took them awhile to figure out I was not seeing their bullshit they were tweeting to me. Then the second account popped up and I immediately blocked it and within 5 minutes of blocking the second one, the third one popped up.

They have given no specific reason for why they are obsessing over me and seem to be hell bent on making sure I know they don't like me.

At first I was baffled but am now quite amused by it. The fact that someone will go through that much trouble over me amazes me. It has to mean I am now famous, right? =)

shit fuzzies

2011-04-08T18:35:00.000-05:00

I read a blog today I just had to share with all of you. I think it is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard. HERE it is.

Disney what?

2011-04-06T09:32:00.000-05:00

I caught the tail end of some infomercial on TV this morning for something called The Disney vacation Club. As I was listening to all the selling points and what all you get from being a DVC member it sounded better and better. I thought to myself, "Self, why are you not ALREADY a Disney Vacation Club member?" They showed 4 different families all going on different types of Disney vacations using their Disney Vacation Club points.

I decided to skip the rest of the infomercial and just go to the website myself and see what all was involved in joining the DVC.

I quickly discovered why I am not a member of the DVC.

To join it takes a one time fee of $12,000 (twelve thousand dollars) and a maintenance fee of $500 per year.

For that money you get 100 vacation points per year. You can use them up every year or you can save them up and let them accumulate and use them for longer better vacations. And you can borrow from your next 2 years vacation points. An example trip that you can take for 100 points was a 5 night stay at Walt Disney World in Orlando.

SO, you are basically buying into some timeshare in disguise thing.

I decided I will leave the Disney Vacation Club to the rich folks and I will stick to going on vacation the middle class way... save up for it, pay for it, then go. That's how we roll. Also, my husband would never give me $12,000 for anything. Well, I can't say that he paid for my car which was way more than 12k, but that's a phucking car guys. That's not a disposable vacation. SO let me rephrase that... he would never give me $12,000 to join any type of club, vacation or otherwise.

Do you know any rich folks who actually belong to the Disney Vacation Club?

Happy April

2011-04-04T11:24:00.000-05:00

I know I haven't been blogging much. I think I only posted 7 times in March and it is already almost a week into April and I am just now posting to say I don't have anything to post about.

My computer has been acting stupid. It got to where I would click on a link or on a web page and the computer would just sit there trying to load it for 10 minutes and never load the page. I ran the disc clean, CC Cleaner, Malware Bytes, disc defragmenter, cleared the cache, cleared all temp Internet files, I have done everything I could think of to do to remedy the situation and it still wouldn't load pages. So I got out my system recovery discs that came with the computer to do a complete system restore on it.

I spent 24 hours doing the system restore then the subsequent hundreds of windows updates that spanned the last 4 years. Service pack 1, service pack 2 and all the little hundreds of updates in between. I know my computer restarted 30 times in 24 hours while doing all the updates. I finally got it all done and got everything re-downloaded back on it, all the software added back on it. The only thing left to do that I haven't done is download ITunes again. I forgot to even write that on my list of things I needed to add back to my computer.

Once I got everything back the way it was/is suppose to be the computer was/is still acting stupid. Not wanting to load some pages at all.

I downloaded FireFox again and added it back to my computer and that seems to load pages faster than IE but still not as fast as it should. But something is better than nothing.

There is no virus on my computer so I don't even know what caused it to start acting bad to begin with. But whatever it is, doing a complete system restore didn't fix it. It must be something bad.

Yesterday was my DS's 10th birthday. Now all 3 of my kids are in the double digits. 10, 11 & 25.

The countdown to Disney is now at 7 months and counting. October 29th will be here before we even know it. We just have to make it through Summer and the beginning of a new school year then we'll be there!!

I have read just about every Disney guide book they make in an effort to make sure I have all the information I can get on all things Disney. Since none of us have ever been there before I want to make sure we get the most out of our time there and get to see and do everything there is to do at Disney. Our plan is to be there 8 days (9 days total if you count the day we leave) and we are going to do one day at each park: Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, Universal, Sea World, each of the Disney water parks, Downtown Disney and Disney Quest as well as one night at Cirque De Soliel La Nouba.

I'm still crossing my fingers that sometime before we go we get a special offer promotion through Disney to get the Disney dining plan for free. The last 2 years, Disney has offered free dining plan for the time of our trip but they didn't offer it until August for late Oct early Nov travel dates. That wouldn't give me very much time to try to get in my advanced dining reservations that you are suppose to make 6 months in advance but if we get free dining, we will make the best out of it and make do with what we have. If nothing else, we will skip all the places that require advanced reservations and eat all counter service/quick service meals. Free is free, right?

If we were to buy the dining plan for 5 of us for 8 days it would cost a little over $1,800. So I will be elated if we end up getting it. That would save us close to $1,000 in actual eating costs. We can eat cheaper than we can pay for the dining plan. It costs almost 50 bucks per person per day for the dining plan for all of us because Disney considers any kid over 9 to be an adult. Kids ages 10 and up pay adult price for tickets and for the dining plan. But in reality, if we are paying out of pocket for food, all 3 of our kids, ages 10, 11 and 12 can order and eat a kids meal for less than 10 bucks each meal. That is only 30 dollars a day or LESS to eat, not the 50 it would cost for us to buy the dining plan for them.

The only difference is, if we get the free REGULAR dining plan where you get one quick service meal, one table service meal and one snack per day per person, we will be eating a sit down meal every day. That can run upwards of $200 for 5 ppl at Disney. They think very highly of their food and charge accordingly. Some buffets are $35 per person, even for the 10 yr old kid. CRAZY!! One of the biggest expenses of a Disney vacation is the cost of eating. Since we will be staying on Disney property and eating on Disney property, you can imagine why I am hoping to score the free dining plan. It is already going to cost a few arms and legs for all of us to go.

Anyway, enough about the Disney stuff again.

What have you all been up to? I am sure you have missed me terribly. =)

5 Deadly Terms Used by a Woman

2011-03-25T09:20:00.000-05:00

‎5 DEADLY TERMS USED BY A WOMAN

(1) FINE -this is the word women use to end an argument when they know they are RIGHT & YOU need to SHUT UP

(2) NOTHING -means SOMETHING & u need to be WORRIED

(3) GO AHEAD -this is a dare not permission DO NOT DO IT

(4) WHATEVER -is a woman's way of saying F**K YOU

(5) THAT'S OK -she is thinking long & hard on HOW & WHEN you will pay for your mistake

A through Z All About Me

2011-03-21T20:20:00.000-05:00

I saw this over at Ramblings of a Mama Headed To Crazy Town and thought I would do it too. Feel free to post it on your blog if you want to.

The ABC’s Of Me:

{a} Age: 42

{b} Bed Size: Queen

{c} Chore You Hate: I hate them all but if I had to pick just one thing I could give up forever I would be happy if I never had to make food for anybody else ever again.

{d} Dogs: I'm not a big animal person. If I had to pick on animal to have it would prob be a cat.

{e} Essential Start To Your Day: Ice cold sweet tea. I drink sweet tea like most ppl drink coffee and cokes.

{f} Favorite Color: pale yellow

{g} Gold Or Silver: silver (my car and my DH's truck are both silver) we are silver type folks.

{h} Height: 5’6″

{i} Instruments You Play: none. I did always wish I had attempted to learn piano, but was either too lazy or not motivated enough to follow through on it.

{j} Job Title: Wife, mother and chief tote bag maker. =)
{k} Kids: Ive got three kids. 2 boys and a girl. One 25 yr old son, an 11 yr old daughter and a 10 yr old son.

{l} Live: Vicksburg, Mississippi

{m} Mom’s Name: Judy... actually it was Judith Carol but she went by Judy.

{n} Nicknames: none that anybody will say to my face

{o} Overnight Hospital Stays: 5 times. 3 with C-Section child birth, one for gall bladder surgery and one for exploratory surgery.
{p} Pet Peeve: OTHER PPL'S EATING NOISES OMFG
{q} Quote From A Movie: Thank you for loving me. (Meet Joe Black)
{r} Right- Or Left-Handed: Right

{s} Siblings: An older brother and an older sister. Yes I am the baby and I KNOW that does explain a lot doesn't it? =)
{t} Time You Wake Up: 6:30
{u} Underwear: Yes please

{v} Vegetables You Dislike: onions, peppers, cauliflower and brussell sprouts to name a few and I am a vegetarian.
{w} What Makes You Run Late: I am usually never late. I am actually early most of the time. I detest tardiness.
{x} X-Rays You’ve Had: teeth and chest, finger and foot
{y} Yummy Food You Make: My kids like it when I make Cheese enchiladas or cheese quesedillas. Nachos. They like Mexican food.
{z} Zoo – Favorite Animal: lions and gorillas

You Think Your Kids Are Spoiled?

2011-03-16T07:20:00.001-05:00

My DD was crying this morning because I make them eat cereal for breakfast. They think I am punishing them by making them eat cereal. See it is my fault. Because I use to act like a short order cook and made breakfast to order. You want Grits and Bacon? SUREEEEE. You want pancakes and sausage? SUREEEEE. I got tired of it. I got tired of playing short order cook because my two youngest kids never want the same thing. They don't like the same things and they never want the same things. SO not only was I playing short order cook for one but for two different kids. I made it very clear to them I was not going to do it anymore and that they were going to start getting cereal for breakfast like 90% of the rest of the kids in America. Cereal is not a punishment. It's a quick and easy breakfast food.

SO this morning, I let DD cry and act like a spoiled little diva. THEN she got the cereal she was crying about.

She thinks I treat her differently than I treat my youngest son. She's right. I do. I treat her according to how she acts. I treat him according to how he acts. She acts like a spoiled smart ass brat most of the time. He doesn't. He minds, he is sweet and he leaves everybody alone and keeps to himself. She is sassy, she talks shit to her brother constantly, threatens to hit him all the time and never does anything nice for him.

When she acts sweet I treat her sweet. When she is mouthy and is talking smart ass sassiness to me, I treat her accordingly. I shut her up and make her go to her room and stay in there by herself for long periods of time. She hates it. I told her that's why it is called punishment. Kids aren't suppose to like it.

I don't like starting my day off like this.

P.S- I finally downloaded a Twitter and a Facebook APP for my phone yesterday. I never had an internet data package on my phone because I didn't ever use it. Well my DH decided to get me unlimited data on my phone so I learned how and then downloaded the apps to my phone. I made some practice posts from my phone just to get use to the app, and to get signed in so I won't have to put my passwords in every time I open them. The world of Twitter and Facebook are no longer safe from me. I can post from anywhere now!

I could always post a tweet from my phone by sending it through a text message but I couldn't see what ppl tweeted me back, not from my phone. I can now. I feel so 2011 now.=)

P.S.S- My kids let me know that if I would just let them have Chinese fried rice for breakfast every day they would LOVE THAT and be SO HAPPY! Really? I bet you would!!

Sometimes You Just Gotta Say No

2011-03-12T08:56:00.000-06:00

My 10 year old daughter has been fascinated lately with scary movies. Use to she couldn't get through 5 minutes of One Missed Call and she was telling me to turn it off. She couldn't stand the scary parts.

This past Tuesday when we went to Blockbuster she decided she wanted to get a few scary (old) movies. She picked The Grudge and I don't remember what the second one was. I had tried to get her to get The Ring but she didn't get it. OH, the second one was actually One Missed Call. lol. She made it through the whole thing this time.

She made it through The Grudge ok, but she was so scared afterwards that she asked me to walk her to the bathroom, which you can SEE from my living room. Ridiculousness.

Then Thursday night we were flipping through the DirecTv guide to see what was on the movie channels and Lo and Behold there was The Ring coming on, so we flipped it over and started watching The Ring.

I love The Ring. I love Naomi Watts in anything she has ever been in. Turns out DD really liked the Ring as well.

I told her we could go back to Blockbuster and rent The Ring 2 because I had seen it on the shelf in the old favorites Horror section when we got The Grudge. So we went back.

What are the odds that a 7 year old horror flick that probably NEVER gets rented was CHECKED OUT when we went back to rent it. We were both SO disappointed. We were looking forward to seeing it.

SO, I came home and looked for it online. I couldn't find it on Amazon.com and I couldn't find it on ITunes. I googled it in general and found a website that claimed you could watch it for free and it downloaded some kind of virus onto my computer. A good one. It was a virus that attacks your virus protection and turns it off. I couldn't get my virus protection to come back on so I had to completely uninstall it and redownload a new/different kind of virus protection that I don't even like. I HAD Trend Micro, which I have had for YEARS but I had to get Norton, which I heard sucks major ass and doesn't work at protecting against viruses.

Anyway. I found the movie The Ring 2 for sale on amazon so I ordered it and ordered one day shipping on it, so it is suppose to come today by Fed Ex.

DD watched some scary movies we already owned yesterday afternoon. She watched Amityville, The Omen and Pet Cemetery. She didn't think they were very scary compared to The Grudge and The Ring.

IN OTHER NEWS:

Spring Break for us was last week. This weekend is the last few days of no school for the kiddos. They start back to school on Monday with a new LONGER extended school day. They use to get out at 2:20 in the afternoon and now they won't get out until 3:15. I resisted this new notion at first because the reasoning behind the new longer day didn't make sense to me. I thought there would be a whole parent uprising and demand the school not change the school day. But that never happened. SO the change is taking place as scheduled.

More about Disney...

We were originally going to go to Walt Disney World in Florida for a week during the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. However those dates didn't work out for DH's work schedule, so we changed the dates to 10/30 to 11/6/11. We added the water park fun and more feature to our tickets so that we can go to the 2 water parks and Disney Quest for free.

We plan on trying to see BOTH water parks and going to Disney Quest (a giant 5 story virtual reality arcade) at least 2 times. Disney Quest has a food court, an animation academy where kids can learn how to draw Disney characters, a real old fashioned arcade with old school video games from when I was a kid, an arcade with newer video games and virtual reality games.

I didn't even know it existed until I was researching our trip. But it is in Downtown Disney and seems like something cool we can do in the evening after we eat dinner and don't have anything to do for 4 or 5 hours before bed time.

Something else I found in researching our trip was the DISNEY MOMS PANEL. It is like a message board where ppl submit their questions to the Moms Panel and these moms, who are experts on all things Disney, answer their questions and post it for everyone else to see. It has been invaluable to me in finding out obscure, hard to find out information.

I also found MOUSE GENIUS which is a blog, run by @AwholelotofNothing from Twitter. And it is a blog about all things Disney. Also, there's The Disney Food Blog which talks a lot about all the different places there are to eat within the property. Not just in the parks but at the resorts and Downtown Disney well.

We added the Quick Service Dining Plan to our vacation package so I had to start investigating all the places there are to eat within the parks and on the property. I specifically needed to locate the spots that have normal type food. DH is picky and is a meat and potatoes kind of guy who doesn't want Mexican food or Chinese Food, let alone anything else exotic or ethnic.

So I had to find out, from all the dozens of places there are to eat at Disney, which ones accepted the dining plan, which ones were QUICK service places as opposed to Table Service places, and which ones had the right kind of food. For that I used the main WDW website, but I also used AllEars.net which is a site that has precise, valuable information on all the dining spots within all the Disney parks. I think I have it all narrowed down and have also finally figured out what days we are going to which parks.

If you stay on Disney property you get to participate in what's called "Extra Magic Hours" where the parks open an hour early for all guests staying on property. Some night the Extra Magic Hours are the park staying open 3 hours past closing time for Disney resort guests.

So I looked up the schedules/calendars of all the parks, saw which days they offered the early morning Extra Magic Hours and made our schedule according to that. If Hollywood Studios offers EMH on Tuesday then that's what day we are going there.

I had been debating on which park to go to on Halloween day. I didn't want to go to Magic Kingdom because they have this event called Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party, which you have to pay an EXTRA $60 to get into and lasts from 7 pm to midnight. But from all I have heard it is more cutesy and juvenile meant for the younger kids.

I started for us to go to Universal Studios (not a Disney property) on Halloween day because they deck the place all out in scary decorations but then found out they have some special extra ticketed event on Halloween and that Universal Studios attracts adults from all over the place who come there just for the Halloween event. (Read: crowds) So I went with Animal Kingdom for Monday. For one thing they aren't having any Halloween event and also that is the day they offer Extra Magic Hours. So that settled that.

SO here's our schedule:

Sunday- arrive at Disney, check into the hotel, get our park tickets and then go to Downtown Disney. Go to Disney Quest and have lunch in their food court, stay there playing games until supper time, then have dinner at Planet Hollywood. Go back to the room, day over.

Monday- Halloween day at Animal Kingdom all day. Have lunch at the park, leave the park right before dinner time then go back to the hotel and have dinner in their food court.

Tuesday- Epcot in the morning until lunch time. I have heard this park only takes half a day at most. We will leave Epcot at lunch time and go to Typhoon Lagoon water park. Have lunch at the water park, stay all day until supper time. Leave the water park and go back to the room. Decide on where to have supper OFF Disney property at a local restaurant.

Wednesday- Universal Studios all day. Lunch at Universal and dinner back at the hotel.

Thursday- Magic Kingdom all day. Lunch at Magic Kingdom, stay until close to dinner time. Leave the park and go have dinner OFF Disney property again. Maybe at Denny's. lol

Friday- Sea World (not on Disney property) Lunch at Sea World. Spend the whole day there until close to dinner time. Have dinner at the hotel.

Saturday- Hollywood Studios half a day. Blizzard Beach water park the second half of the day. Lunch at Blizzard Beach. Dinner off property.

Sunday- leave for home. 14 hour drive!!

We will have breakfast every day at the hotel food court using the dining plan credits. We will have lunch on property using the dining plan credits. And then pay for dinner out of pocket wherever we eat.

Now that I have made you vomit up all things Disney. Tell me have you ever been to Disney? What parks did you go to? Did you stay on property? Did you use the Disney dining plan?

Wordless Wednesday

2011-03-09T10:57:00.000-06:00

I keep trying to post a picture here for Wordless Wednesday and Blogger is being a bitch and won't load it up for me. I tried to use Windows Live Writer and it keeps saying that my Blogger username and password are wrong, when they are so not wrong. SO just imagine some really cool picture here.

Don't judge her?

2011-03-03T17:17:00.001-06:00

If you haven't seen it in the NEWS a Mississippi mother has been arrested and charged with murder after they found her BURNED 3 yr old in the lady's apartment oven.

Here is a link to the whole story.

The crazy bitch's sister said her sister wasn't a bad mom, not to judge her until all the facts are known. I have no words for that. Just read the story and you will be just as shocked as I am.

UPDATE, SATURDAY: The newspaper today reported that the autopsy on the 3 yr old child revealed the child did die from heat. The oven killed the child. HEAT RELATED DEATH.

Wordless Wednesday

2011-03-02T08:00:00.001-06:00

New Listing Tuesday. I made this! =) http://www.artfire.com/users/KatelynsKrafts

yawn

2011-02-28T13:09:00.001-06:00

I started watching the PRE-Oscar show on the E channel yesterday evening. I was watching all the stars arrive and listening to the commentators discuss whether the stars dresses were amazing or shitty. It was kind of getting me in the mood for watching the Oscars, so when the E show went off at 7 I switched it over to the network and watched 30 shitty minutes of them trying to interview stars.

I started watching the Oscars and kept yawning. I only watched it until about 8:15 then I had to switch over and watch Big Love. I just got bored with the Academy Awards. They weren't very good. And it doesn't make it any more interesting when you haven't seen half the movies that are nominated.

I wanted True Grit to win just because I like Jeff Bridges. I haven't seen True Grit so it could suck for all I know. (But I doubt it sucks) I am not a big Colin Firth fan.

I haven't seen Black Swan either so I don't know if those awards were deserved or not.

Did you watch? Did you predict the winners?

What Cares What I Have Been Doing Part 3.

2011-02-23T12:12:00.000-06:00

I just watched a movie called Like Dandelion Dust with Mira Sorvino about a woman who gives up her baby for adoption and then 6 years later tries to get her child back from the adoptive parents. It was a good movie. At first it looked like it was going to be low budget and suck, but it didn't suck. Mira Sorvino is always good in everything she's in and this movie was no different. It choked me up a few times. It never made me full on cry but I got a lump in my throat in several places in the movie. So if you have Netflix or Blockbuster by mail, you can add it to your queue and watch it later. I never noticed it in the store (Blockbuster) but I saw it online on my BB by mail thing.

My kid's school have lost their mind. I got a note sent home last week... A NOTE, stating that even though our kids always get out of school at 2:20 in the afternoon, now all of a sudden in 2 weeks the new get out of school time is going to be 3:15!! Adding almost an hour to their day!! Now supposedly this was suppose to have been the release time all along but the school didn't enforce it. See the problem with this school my kids go to is they have over 300 car riders out of a school with just 450 kids. There's WAY MORE car riders than bus riders so they always let the car riders out of school FIRST, then they would gather up all the bus riders and shuttle them onto the buses. Now they are going to do the opposite. The bus riders get dismissed from class at 2:50 and the car riders are going to have to stay past the bus riders. THEY CLAIM this is to lengthen the school day to improve the children's education. My big fat question is this....why lengthen the CAR RIDERS school day but NOT the bus riders school day? So only the car riders need a better education? Why should one group have to stay longer than the other group? I think it is ridiculous. I called and talked to the Principal about it and all I get is a generic blanket answer that this is what the school board has told him to do and he has no choice in the matter. I think it is a bowl full of donkey balls is what I think it is.

I was at the post office today and there was a LONG line. There's normally NOT a long line but today there was because there was a holiday this week, Monday, President's Day. So that always makes the post office traffic higher in the days following a holiday. Anyway, my point is this. I am standing in line about half way back towards the door and this woman walks in carrying an infant in an infant carrier and walks right up to the front of the line, cuts in front of the first person in line and just as she does the man behind the counter hollers "NEXT" and she walks right up to the counter ahead of everybody who had been waiting in line and gets her stamps and then leaves. Now it all happened so fast that nobody really had time to say anything AT THE TIME because some ppl were confused. Not sure if she had been in previously and had been told that when she came back in to come directly to the counter or what. But that's not the case. The first 2 ppl in line that she cut in front of were obviously pissed off about it and when the lady walked up to the counter next she asked the postal worker had he told that woman (the one who cut) to cut in line in front of everybody and he said HELL TO THE NO he didn't and had he known she had cut in front of everybody he would not have waited on her. PEOPLE PISS ME OFF. I HATE PEOPLE. I know I have said this before and I will say it again but I HATE PEOPLE. ALMOST ALL PEOPLE. There's a few people I like and a few more than I tolerate but for the most part, people suck. When I do come across someone who doesn't suck it is a breath of fresh air. I would have hunted that woman down in the parking lot and slashed every one of her GAWD DAYUM car tires if I could do it and not go to jail for it. I would hit her in the head with a baseball bat and walk away laughing. Yes, I would. DOn't think for a minute that I wouldn't.

The latest on my Disney obsession. I asked the Disney Moms Panel if it is warm enough in December to go to the Disney water parks...because, they are OPEN in December. And the mom answered me back and said she has been to Disney in December every year the last 5 years and some years it has been in the 80's in December but some years it can be in the low 60's. That the only way to know for sure if it is going to be warm enough to swim is to just take your swim gear and wait and see once you get there if it is warm enough. So that's what we will do. I figured out also that it is cheaper just to pay for our tickets separately for the water park if we decide to go as opposed to adding the water park feature to our vacation tickets. It will cost $54 per person per ticket to add the water park feature and $54 per person per ticket for the park hopper feature. So basically $108 per person for one day of water park, or I can just pay the gate admission of $45 per person to get in the water park.

Ok, folks, who cares about Disney right? Pfffttt. I have talked about Disney all morning with some nice folks on Twitter and even ended up meeting one of the moms who are on the Disney Moms Panel. I am getting more educated about all things Disney, more and more every day.

I have been cleaning house today and doing laundry and tweeting about it. It seems that me tweeting about all the chores I have been doing has motivated some folks to do the same thing, pissed some ppl off because they really need to clean but don't want to, and made some folks feel even more lazy than they already did. I haven't done everything I need to do but I am more than half way done. I have done 4 loads of laundry, cleaned the master bathroom, dusted the master bedroom and living room, changed my bed sheets and am about to finish my last load of clothes. All I have left to do is clean the front bathroom and straighten the living room, then vacuum. Viola. House all done.

I always sit around being lazy while my husband is out of town working, then the day before he comes home I do all the laundry and cleaning. I only have to clean the house twice a month. Lucky me! If he worked IN TOWN I would have to clean a lot more often than I do.

Were you able to take a minute and watch that video I posted yesterday of the dancing baby in Brazil? If you haven't watched it, you just HAVE TO! It is so funny. This little kid looks younger than 2, still has a diaper on and dances his little ASS OFF for 3 minutes straight! Just scroll down. It is right under this post.

Well, the one thing I forgot to do today was take a shower and EAT!! I am about to go do both. Eat first, then shower. TTFN

Dancing Baby Doing The Samba In Brazil

2011-02-22T14:17:00.000-06:00

One of my Twitter friends posted this on Facebook and I had to post it too. It is sooooo funny!!

Who Cares What I Have Been Doing Part 2.

2011-02-20T11:57:00.002-06:00

I have been doing a whole lot of jack shit nothing.

I am still deep in the planning stages of our December 2011 Walt Disney World vacation plans. I have been scouring the WDW websites and discovered the Disney MOMS PANEL where you can ask questions and have expert Disney moms answer your questions regarding any ole thing you can think to ask. And I have definitely been asking. They have answered every question so far. They are going to be SICK OF ME before our trip finally comes to pass.

I found a special promotion in a TV commercial yesterday and then went and found it on the Disney website where you get your room, tickets and a dining plan for $89 per person per day. I saved a trip under that promotion plan and as long as I book it by March 21st then I am all set. The vacation promotion is for a family of 4 and even though we are a family of 5, all we have to do is pay for the extra kid's tickets on the side. It is going to save us about $1300 by booking with the dining plan promotion.

I had crossed my fingers and hoped to get some kind of promotion that included a dining plan. The dining plan will only be for 4 of the 5 of us also, but with the amount of meal credits we will have (extra credits we won't use) it will be enough to feed all 5 of us for most days. We won't have to pay for very many meals. Not only is it saving us about $1300 off our original vacation plan with NO DINING PLAN we will have a basically free dining plan for 4 of us. SO in the long run it really saves us about $800 more in food savings.

That will enable us to save faster. Enable me to save by selling less tote bags then I would have had to have sold otherwise to be able to go. I am paying for half of it and my husband is paying for the other half plus the gas.

We are going to stay in a value resort (Pop Century) and have 8 day base tickets. We will only use 4 days of the 8 day base tickets but you have to have the same amount of days on your tickets and your dining plan, one for every night of your stay. We will technically be there 7 nights and 8 days but only actually be there 6 whole days. 2 of the 6 days won't even be on Disney property. One day we will be at Universal and one day we will be at Sea World.

But they give you base tickets and meal credits for your day of arrival and the day of your departure. Both of which we won't use. We will arrive VERY late our first day (after bedtime) and leave early our day of departure.

Husband finally decided to go with us. At first I wasn't sure if it was going to be just me and the kids or if I was going to take my 70 year old dad with us, but DH finally decided he would go and take his son with us.

The kids are out of school tomorrow for some off the wall holiday. President's Day or Lincoln's birthday or something. I am not up on the occasion.

I have a tote bag that sold that is waiting to be mailed but I am not going to be able to get it out until Tuesday. I hate delayed shipping. I like getting my shit out right away when it sells, but it sold Friday, I made it Saturday and now it is sitting waiting to go out.

OH something else about Disney... that's all I have on the brain since I decided to go... The Disney moms panel answered a question I asked regarding the time of year we are planning to go... Dec 4th through the 11th and they said it is a PRIME time of year to go because all of the kids are in school and the parks aren't crowded. So I feel a big sense of accaccomplishment that I picked the PRIME dates to go to the park. Although I read about the dead times of Disney on different websites, I am still giving myself credit for it.

I have been reading all of these questions that other moms have been asking of the Moms Panel and a lot of parents are taking little BITTY kids to the Disney parks. A 1 yr old and a 3 yr old. 3 yr old twins. an 8 month old and a 2 yr old. WHY? The kids are never going to remember it. SO what if you get a picture of Mickey Mouse holding your toddler. That kid is going to spend the day trying to run from you, needing a nap and snack every 30 minutes, needing diaper changes, can't ride hardly any rides at all. What's the point? Wait until your kid is big enough to ride shit, old enough to remember shit and old enough NOT to be a pain in the ass to the parents.

That's my 2 cents worth about that.

Ok, something else I forgot to tell you about. I watched this show on TV yesterday that I DVR'd at husband's request called The Day: Remembering Dale Earnhardt. I am not a NASCAR fan. I am the opposite of a Nascar fan. I think it's dumb. I hate sports. I hate racing. But husband assured me that this show was very good. It chronicles the DAY Dale died, Feb 18th, 2001. 10 years ago. SO I am always up for a good biography type show, so I watched it. OMGGIMMEAKLEENEX it was a good show.

It described the events (the Daytona 500) that led up to the crash that killed him. It was a very interesting story. It was the first time Mike Waltrip had EVER WON A RACE. He had raced 462 times and never won a race but Dale Earnhardt had set it up to help him win this day, and win he did. He was busy celebrating his victory while Dale was being taken into the ER, CPR being done on him. It was such a minor wreck compared to what most Nascar wrecks look like. The other guy who got in the wreck with Dale just hopped right out of his car and trotted over to Dale's car only to realize Dale was in bad trouble. Died instantly according to the reports and yet people pulled him out of the car and worked on him for an hour or two trying to bring him back to life. SO if you see it on SPEED channel, DVR it or watch it. Really good show. It's called The Day.

Who Cares What I Have Been Doing!

2011-02-12T10:20:00.002-06:00

Hello my loyal readers. I have missed all 7 of you this week of not posting. I have had a sort of busy week with unusual occurances. We had a freak winter storm (I'm in MISSISSIPPI folks) and got about 3 inches of snow and of course the whole world shut down. Ppl lose their minds when there is white stuff on the ground and they forget how to drive.

They closed down school for a day and the roads weren't even snowy or icy, they were perfectly drivable. I know because I drove all around town and never hit a wet or slick patch on the road.

The kid's had to have their Valentine parties at school this year a few days early. We had to do it on Friday instead of Monday because the school has some kind of health inspectors coming Monday and I guess the food in the classrooms wouldn't be good to have while they are there.

SO we had bought stuff (from Oriental Trading Company) to make up gift boxes for each kid in both classes, DD's and DS's class. 44 kids and 2 teachers.

The original boxes I bought were too little and I had to go back and reorder newer BIGGER boxes to be able to hold all the treats and goodies we got to put in them. But the newer boxes were 6 inches long by about 3 inches deep and 4 or 5 inches high. They were red and said Happy Valentine's Day on them.
They were cute. I have a picture of one of the boxes on my phone but I don't know how to get it from my phone to my blog, so....alas...no picture of the gift boxes.

But the gift boxes were filled with suckers, and chocolates, and fortune cookies, Chuck E Cheese free tokens coupons, pinata toys (little toy thing that you buy to put inside a pinata) Hershey Kisses, big chocolate lips, mints, Tootsie Roll Pops, etc. The kids had a blast sitting in the living room floor and popping open all the boxes and then filling them up one by one. Well they didn't fill them up one by one, they put one item in every box then went back with another item and put one in every box, like that.

They ended up with a few extra pinata toys and some leftover candy.

They also had to do the traditional Valentine cards that you write to and from on and pop a little piece of candy into it. So we were busy as heck Thursday (our snow day)

We went to Kroger and bought the 24 pack of cupcakes and boxes and BOXES of Capri Sun's, enough for both classes.

I took the stuff up to the school Friday and stayed and sat in a little with both my kids during their Valentine party. I was able to help with DS's party a little more than DD's party. But I tried. Just by the time I got tot DD's class they had already passed everything out and there was nothing for me to do but sit there with her. Her class was watching Wall-E and were suppose to sit quietly and watch the movie. That didn't seem like a fun party to me. At least DS's class they got to visit with each other and talk to one another.

Well, the students LOVED the gift/goody boxes from the kids and both teacher's were very impressed with how much time and money we spent trying to make them have a cool party. (Impressed was not my words but theirs)

In other news, I have sold my next to the last Black Embroidered suede tote bag and only have enough suede left to make ONE MORE BLACK tote. It saddens me. I have more of the Brown suede, just the black is almost gone. I would give anything to be able to get ahold of some more of that fabric but Hancock fabric near me sold out of almost a year ago and the fabric I do have now was actually acquired through one of my Twitter friends who was going to his local fabric store for something and said he would look for me and see if his Hancock had any of the embroidered suede left and they DID! And he bought up several yards of each for me, boxed it up and shipped it to me. He sent me a paypal invoice for what it cost him and I paid him the same day, but he was out the money up front. Which I thought was amazingly kind and generous thing to do for a stranger. I was super duper happy to get that fabric.

If we had more Hancock fabric stores near me in adjoining states I would trek to the other stores and see if I could find some more of it. Hancock had decided to stop carrying it altogether so once a store doesn't have it anymore, it's just GONE.

Well, DH has left me once again. Not LEFT ME left me, but has left town again to go back to work for 2 weeks. He is always gone and rarely home. And he had to leave early this time to go back because of the bad snowy weather that was headed for us that threatened to snow him in. He couldn't take a chance getting stuck at home because he has to drive 3 hours to another state to get to his job. But he left out early, got a room near his job and just stayed the night down there and avoided getting stuck in the weather.

I'm thinking about taking my kids to the movie theater an hour away (since my town's sucky ass theater is not showing it) to see the new Justin Bieber movie Never Say Never. Both the kids want to see it. It's suppose to be a documentary type movie that shows behind the scenes with him at concerts, home movies, etc. I am not AGAINST taking them to it I just wish the movie theater right here in my own GAWD DAYUM town would show it so I don't have to get out on the highway and head out of town.

I know there was a time when anybody suggested I go see a Justin Bieber movie I would have shot them in the face. I was so ANTI Justin Bieber it wasn't even funny. But I had never even heard one of his songs when I was hating him. I just hated the idea of him. After downloading some of his music for the kids little MP3 players, his tunes are quite catchy. He's not so bad.

I read last month's Vanity Fair article about him and they estimated his worth NOW at near 100 million dollars. The kids is only 16!

Anyway... if I don't take them to see that movie, there's going to be a whole lotta NOTHING going on here this weekend. I have no plans other than a stack of DVR'd episodes of NCIS to watch. The kids are so sick of NCIS they don't even protest they just walk out of the room when I start watching it. WIN WIN!!

I started watching a show that is not new, this is the second season I think, but it is called Justified with Timothy Olyphant playing a Federal Marshall. It's very interesting. I haven't let the kids watch it with me because at the beginning it keeps giving TVMA ratings and saying partial nudity, but I have YET to see one inappropriate thing, so I don't know why they keep mislabeling the show like that. But the minute I don't heed the rating warning and let the kids watch it, it's probably going to cut to some shot of a woman bare chested and riding like a cowgirl. SO , so far they haven't seen that one with me. I watch the DVR'd episodes while they are at school.

What's new with you? What are you going to be doing this weekend?

Mickey OH Mickey

2011-02-06T16:17:00.000-06:00

I am reading the Unofficial Guide To Disney World with kids.

I am planning on taking my kids to Disney (for the first time) some time at the end of this year.

I have talked to some ladies on Twitter about Disney and it seems like I JUST MISSED out on a damn sweet "free dining" promotion that ended in December. If you booked by Dec 20th and took your trip in Sept 2011 then your dining plan is free. That would have saved me over a thousand dollars if I had gotten in on that deal.

I am crossing my fingers that they come out with it again but they probably will NOT according to the lady on the other end of the phone at 407-W-Disney. She said it was probably a one time deal and that they have said it won't happen again. But who ever knows right. It might happen again. =(

My husband doesn't want to go to Disney with us so I am probably going to end up taking my 70 year old dad with us. As much as I would prefer my husband to go, when he makes his mind up on something he just doesn't budge. He has decided he really doesn't want to go so it doesn't matter that I want him to go....so... what can you do....

Anyway, if we stay at a value resort such as Pop Century and only get 4 day base tickets then it will cost $1,800 plus whatever it costs us to eat ($1,200 for 6 days) I only say 4 day base ticket because 2 of the 6 days we will be there will be for Universal Studios (not part of Disney) and Sea World (also not part of Disney) so we only need 4 day base tickets to go to Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios.

I was debating on whether to fly there or drive there. I would like to fly there to save time (LOTS OF TIME) but I would like to have a car while I am there and don't want to have to rent one. I am reluctant to drive 14 HOURS from Mississippi to Orlando, Florida with 2 kids in the car. The farthest I have ever been with them was a 6 hour trip to Texas and it seemed to take 20 hours from them asking every 15 minutes "Are we almost there?" HOWEVER, if I drive to Disney I will be sure and get them EACH their own portable DVD player so they can watch movies on the way and entertain themselves a little bit.

I hate driving but me and my dad usually can find something to talk about, even if it does end up in an argument most of the time.

One of the benefits of driving would be that if I drive my own car I can take a cooler with my homemade tea in it and I can tote my body pillow with me. That may not seem like a very big deal to most ppl but those 2 things are super important to me. I ONLY drink my own homemade sweet tea and it is SO HARD for me to try to sleep without my body pillow. I have slept with it since I was 14 years old, every night. SO just to have those 2 things are swaying me towards driving.

I am almost sure I am going to drive.

The guide books talks about HUGE crowds and SUPER LONG LINES and try to get to the good rides before 10 a.m or after 5 p.m. Well, I think I have just decided that I am going to go in the off season WHILE school is in session and just take the kids out of school for one week so we can go when there aren't a lot of ppl and the lines aren't long.

I only plan on going to Disney ONCE so I don't want it to suck and I don't want to not to get to ride stuff because of super long lines.

I am thinking I will go some time in between Halloween and New Years. The guide book says that during Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks the parks are swamped with ppl, so I will probably go the weeks in between Thanksgiving and Christmas, like the first week in December or the second week in November.

Have you ever been to Disney? How long did you stay? Where did you stay? Tell me all about it. I am super curious about other ppl's Disney experiences. Did you eat quick service counter meals within the parks? Did you leave the property to eat supper and breakfast? How much did your trip cost you? I know that's a big ole nosey question but I am nosey. Did you make reservations and eat at sit down restaurants? How did you know which places to make reservations at?

Fill me in!!

Ole Man Winter come blow me.

2011-02-03T22:40:00.000-06:00

I got the call from my daughter's teacher this morning letting me know there was an "emergency" at school (scared me to death) and that I needed to go pick my kids up at 11:30 instead of 2:20 as usual. Turns out the "emergency" is a forecast of POTENTIAL/POSSIBLE sleet or wintry mix that may/could come through here over the course of the day. And since we don't hire folks around here who can drive on snow or sleet or any wintry mix, that means we have to get the kids out of the school, on the bus and to their house BEFORE the weather happens, IF, a big IF the weather ever does happen.

So, I went and picked mine up early. I froze my ass off and got out and had to go INSIDE the school and check them out in the office.

We don't get much wintery weather around here and when we do or if there is even a tiny possibility of any winter weather this town freaks the fuck out. I went to Walmart this afternoon just to get some grocery stuff I had on my house list...not for stocking up for the coming snowpacalypse, nothing like that. I wasn't there to stock up on toilet paper, bottled water and batteries. I was getting ass wipes, canned fruit, lettuce, potatoes, cereal, grilled chicken....nothing very doom and gloom like a lot of the folks who were coming in to get "stocked up" for the upcoming winter weather storm. Ppl get so dramatic.

Our damn city was salting and sanding the bridges early today and nothing had been falling. No rain, no sleet, no snow....JUST IN CASE.

Things are usually pretty slow around here so when someone farts that it might snow ppl get all excited.

I wish I knew for sure that my kids weren't going to be going to school tomorrow so I can stay my ass in bed in the morning. Some schools are already showing tonight that they will be closed tomorrow but not our county, not yet.

I guess I will get up in the morning and check the news stations for what schools are reporting closings and see what that means for us, stay in bed or get on up.

Wordless Wednesday- My kids 4 years ago- Blasts from the past

2011-02-02T13:16:00.002-06:00

I should be rich!

2011-01-26T19:03:00.001-06:00

I was talking with some ladies on Twitter today about Justin Bieber and I told them that my husband's son looks JUST LIKE Justin Bieber and they wanted to see him. So I posted a Twitpic of my stepson and they all agreed that he really does look like Justin. He looks even MORE like him in person than he does in this picture.

I should be rich right? With a Justin Bieber in the family!

P.S- Justin Bieber's dad's name is JEREMY and my husband's name (this kid up above's dad) is named JEREMY too. BIG coincidence huh?

Hear Ye Hear Ye come Read All About It.

2011-01-24T13:28:00.001-06:00

I have been awarded a Stylish Blogger Award by a blogger I follow Bobbi Janay over at When Did I Go From a Kid To a Grown Up. Thanks Bobbi.

Now on to the Rules:

1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this award.

2. Share 7 things about yourself.

3. Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers. (I am going to try my hardest)

4. Contact these bloggers and tell them about the award!

SO here's the 7 things I have to tell you about myself...brace yourself, you have never met someone as intersting as I. *rolling eyes*

1. You can learn 100 things about me if you are so inclined by clicking the link at the top of my blog that says 100 Things About Me.

2. If you're not THAT interested but just wanna know a little about me you can click the link at the top of the blog that says ABOUT ME.

3. I am a vegetarian and have been for the last 14 years but about once every 2 or 3 years I will eat a little turkey at Thanksgiving with my family and last year I ate a piece of microwave bacon. (It was F'ng good too)

4. I am an avid reader and there's NOTHING I love more than a really good book and a quiet house to read in. I could go through a book every 2 or 3 days. There's just not enough good books around to keep me busy. If a books sucks I won't finish it.

5. I have been blogging for almost a year and have almost 150 followers. I have a goal to have 200 followers by the end of the year. (I have lofty goals) =)

6. I have 3 kids. (Like you didn't already know) A 25 year old son, an almost 11 year old daughter and a 9 year old son.

7. I have 8 tattoos. You can't see any of them when I have my clothes on. I have a vine across my lower belly covering a C Secion scar, I have a sunflower on each hip at the end of the vine, a sunflower around my belly button, my husband's name under the sunflower on my belly, a dragonfly in the center of my back and my last name under the dragonfly AND a sunflower on my inner left ankle. Although tats are addicting and the more you get the more you want, I have no desire for any more tats. Each of my tats are special and I think I am DONE getting tattoos for now. I may change my mind later but I don't think so.

Now to pass this along to 15 ppl who are NEWLY discovered bloggers will be impossible because everyone I follow has been blogging for awhile and I have been reading them for awhile, so I will just pass it along to some ppl who I follow. You can click each blog name and go to that blog if you want to check out their blog. All of the blogs I follow are good blogs.

1. Finding Fairy Tales
2. Jessica Gottlieb
3. Jessica's Crazy World
4. The Adventures of Being a Dick
5. A Vapid Blonde
6. Chaos Appreciation
7. Hyperbole and a Half (If you don't follow this blog you should, she is GAWD DAYUM HILARIOUS)
8. It's All About The Mochaface
9. Mama Says
10. MamaBennie
11. Mental Poo (Another one you should really be following if you like funny blogs)
12. Mommy is Rock and Roll
13. Red Shoe Chronicles
14. Shaggie Shapiro Says
15. The Last Girl Standing

Ok, there you go. That's only 15 of the 75 blogs I follow so if I didn't list you it's not because I don't read you or don't like your blog. I was only suppose to list 15. And out of those 15 probably half or more don't follow me back so they will never know I nominated them. I am alerting them ONLY by way of posting it in this blog. I am not contacting them each individually. That's just too much work for an award and I am way too lazy for all that contacting blah blah. =)

What WON'T you let your kids watch on TV?

2011-01-21T11:07:00.000-06:00

I was tweeting today about there being a marathon of House on USA channel today and one of my Twitter followers tweeted back and said how she would like to be able to sit and watch that show but that her kids are too young to see that show. It made me scratch my head because there is nothing bad on that show, just sick ppl and medical drama. But she said "vomiting blood, etc." I told her that a kid of ANY AGE will more than most likely not be damaged or traumatized by seeing someone on TV vomit. Most kids don't even pay attention to what mommy and daddy have on TV so them even seeing the TV in the moment someone vomits is probably not even going to happen. But even if they did, whoever heard of trying to protect your kids from seeing someone vomit?

It made me realize how very different people are in what they try to protect their kids from. Stuff that don't even harm kids. Like seeing someone vomit.

I must be more lenient, more liberal, less high strung about what my kids see. I raised my kids to know that what they see on TV is make believe and not real, that it is just people ACTING in front of cameras.

What about all those cartoons we think are so great for the little kids to watch? The ones that show ppl getting blown up by dynamite and then walking away like getting blown up doesn't harm a person? I think that is more damaging than seeing someone vomit. But that's just my opinion. Seeing an animal drop an anvil on another animal like in Road Runner cartoons, that's pretty violent. But we wouldn't think twice about letting our kids watch it, because it's a harmless cartoon.

I think letting a little kid, no matter how little they are, even a 2 or 3 year old, seeing someone vomit and then seeing doctors and nurses help that person could do wonders to teach them about how there are medical professional that are there to help people when they are hurting and sick. There can be a good learning lesson in a show like that. In my opinion.

I screen shows and movies for adult sexual content and nudity. I don't think kids of any age should be watching grown ups get it on and hump each other. That is not content that is meant for little kids. That is made by adults for other adults to see. When I look at the back of a movie when I am at Blockbuster to see what it is rated and why it is rated, I always look for "sexual content" and "nudity". If it has that then my kids aren't watching it. If it has violence or language I let them see it. They know that the person who just got shot in this movie really didn't get shot in real life, that it is just a movie. I don't mind them hearing language in a movie because I cuss myself. It's nothing they haven't heard before.

What kinds of shows will you NOT let your kid see? Would you keep your kid from watching House? How about NCIS? NCIS shows dead bodies laying on autopsy tables. That might be a little scary for a 3 or 4 year old, if they were even watching the TV when it was on.

Where do you draw the line at TV viewing for your kids? Or do you even screen what they see?

I'm nothing but CLASS ppl!

2011-01-19T14:56:00.000-06:00

We haven't talked about ~~SHITTING~~ pooping in a WHILE. I thought I would talk about annoying turds today. I bring it up because, well, obviously I had an annoying turd today.

My turd of the day is the swirly turd. You know the one that when you go to flush it it swirls around the bowls leaving a trail of skid marks and more times than not doesn't want to go down the hole.

It's the turd gods wanting to mess with you. The turd gods know when you are in ~~A BAD MOOD~~ just the right mood and they bestow upon you an annoying turd.

Now your annoying turd could be any number of turds. It could be a floater... a turd that immediately floats and doesn't want to go down, like it is full of Styrofoam. Then you have to drop toilet paper on the floater to try to get it to go down the hole.

It could be that ghost turd... the one you know just came out of your butt but when you peek in the toilet there is NO TURD THERE!! I have even bent down and tried to see way up in the hole, but it's just gone. The ghost turd.

What's your annoying turd?

I know I am just full of class people, don't be jealous!

Praise The Lord! Ppffttt.

2011-01-16T08:55:00.002-06:00

I just finished reading a book called Shattered Dreams- My Life as a Polygamist Wife. It is the story of ONE of the wives of Verlan LeBaron. A horrible creature of a man who ended up with 10 wives and almost 60 children. He was not a good provider, EVER and made all of his wives and children live in absolute poverty and squalor. They constantly moved. They had to birth all their babies at home and a lot of the babies died. And although he could not support his first 2 wives, he continued to add wives to his harem in order to "build his kingdom".

The Mormons USE TO believe and some still do, that the more wives and kids you have in this world, builds up your celestial kingdom for when you are dead and become "gods".

It amazes me that a tenet like Polygamy that use to be taught as a revelation from God given to Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was something you NEEDED to do to exalt yourself after death, at some point became something the church denounced and would kick you out of the church for. If they believe that everything Joseph Smith said was indeed words from God and they believed in living their religion. They believed that Joseph Smith was their PROPHET. SO how can they just STOP living Polygamy? It seems to me they lived it when it suited them, and then stopped living it when it suited them.

I have begun reading Wife No. 19 by Ann Eliza Young who was the 19th wife of Brigham Young, the Mormon leader who took over as the President of the Mormon church after Joseph Smith and his brother were assassinated. Joseph Smith was so hated wherever he went that he was assassinated while he sat in JAIL. He was a liar and a thief and swindled hundreds and hundreds of followers and gentiles out of money when he started a bank, took everybody's money, then said the bank went under and everybody lost their money. People tried to get him convicted of swindling in front of the American courts but nobody ever convicted him.

Jospeh Smith AND Brigham Young BOTH stole from their own followers. They encouraged all their followers to rob and even kill gentiles and in some cases ppl of their own religion who had "gone cold" in their faith. Blood atonement and sacrifice were encouraged. Brigham Young preached that one brother should kill and shed the blood of another brother who had gone cold in his faith. Dozens and dozens of followers were murdered when they decided they no longer wanted to be a part of the Mormon church and tried to leave "Zion". It was always said that they "were killed by the Indians" but all the followers knew that meant they had been murdered by Brigham Young's men.

Ann Eliza Young lived with these ppl. She is telling real life stories of things she heard and witnessed herself. Very little of her book are things other ppl told her.

It's a very interesting account of early Mormon life and how cruel and unforgiving the Mormon elders were. They were thieving, murderous criminals, all in the name of religion.

Then they started preaching about a "revelation" from god that Joseph Smith had gotten before he died (but he never preached about it while he was alive) and said that it was the will of God that all men take plural wives to build up their kingdom in heaven. They were suppose to take as many wives as possible and have as many kids as possible, even if they couldn't afford to feed them.

Brigham Young took SO MANY wives that some of them he married then never saw again. Most of his wives had to feed and fend for themselves and he rarely had anything to do with them. He only married them to increase his number of wives to build his kingdom for after he died. I guess according to their version of God, you didn't have to REALLY be married to them so long as the "sealing" ceremony had taken place, she was technically yours and thus added to your celestial kingdom.

I am only half way through Ann Eliza Young's book about her life, but I do know how it ends. She gets herself OUT of Polygamy, gets her kids out and gets a divorce from Brigham Young. I read that in the book's description before I ever bought it.

She kind of jumps around in time a little bit in her story so it hasn't even told yet how she ended up married to Brigham Young at such an early age, but I know her parents were good friends with Brigham even when Ann Eliza was born. Ann Eliza's mother was considered the first polygamist wife, ever, because her husband was the first Mormon man to openly marry a second wife.

I will let you know how the book was after I get finished reading it. I will let you know if there is anything super interesting that you need to know.

You may have a hard time finding this particular book at your library. Even my own library didn't have it and I had to find it and order it online. The library did have The 19th Wife, which IS NOT this book. This is Wife No. 19. There's a difference. The 19th wife is a newer book, just a few years old, and in that book they mention Ann Eliza Young's book. In The 19th Wife, the main character is reading Wife No. 19 and it tells some things that are in Ann Eliza Young's book.

I watched the MOVIE The 19th Wife and that's what turned me onto this book I am reading now.

I am fascinated with Polygamy. I have done a search of my library's online catalogue and they have 3 or 4 more books that are Polygamy non-fiction that I will probably check out after I finish this book.

I am going to donate this book to my library when I get through with it so at least they will have it.

Have you read any good books lately? If so who were they by and what were they about? I am always on the lookout for good books to read.

About to do my HOMEWORK!

2011-01-12T13:50:00.000-06:00

My kids have decided on what projects they want ~~ME TO DO~~ to do in the school's Science fair. Daughter is going to do one on making homemade GOO/SLIME/SILLY PUTTY "stuff" and son is going to do one on how different liquids such as bleach and coke effect pennies, I.E how well they clean the pennies compared to other substances. In reading up on the penny cleaning projects of others I see where some have concluded that Taco Bell taco sauce cleans pennies better than coke, water or bleach. So I bought some at Walmart and we are going to use that as one of our liquids with the pennies. What I wonder about is who was the first person that said, "Hey let's stick some pennies in some Taco Bell mild sauce and see what happens." We have 6 little containers for the pennies so we will use 6 different liquids. Probably water, bleach, coke, Taco Bell taco sauce, fruit juice and vinegar. We have all those things handy. We will do a soak of one day and three days on the pennies and see which fluid does better after 24 hour soak and which one does better after having been soaked for 3 days and see if the time makes a difference in the amount of cleaning that happens to the pennies. They are due the 19th of this month!! So we are going to start on them soon!!

I have finished reading Confessions of a Slacker Mom. Pretty cute little book. It only took about 3 hours to read it. I dont' really agree with her philosophy on parenting but that is what made it more interesting to read. I don't need to read stuff from ppl who think the same way I do. That would be boring. I like to be challenged with new ideas when I read.

I have started reading Steven King's latest book Full Dark, No Stars and have finished the 1st, second and third out of the 4 short stories. The first short story called 1922 was very good. A little on the long side for a short story. The second story Big Driver was chilling, as most Steven King stories usually are. The 3rd short story called Fair Extensions was a VERY short story and I liked the way it ended. It ended the way you anticipate it will end while you are reading it. I hate when a book ends in a sucky ass way. It pisses me off. I have one more story in the book then I will be done. I have liked it. Typical good reading from Steven King, as always. I also checked out and have yet to read Whoopi Goldberg's latest book
"Is It Just Me?" Which is suppose to be a book about her ranting about things that piss her off or bother her. Like rude ppl, etc. Since there's a lot of shit that bothers me, I thought I might like the book. This will be the first book of hers that I have read and she has several. I am not her biggest fan but the book looked interesting, so I got it.

I actually WORKED today. I took off working/sewing back when the kids got out for Xmas break and went back to work last Sunday when I got a custom order for 3 totes in one day from the same person. But today I was back in full swing making TWO totes today like I use to when I was working hard (before Christmas) It's easier for me to make 2 totes in one day on Monday's and Wednesday's when the kids stay at school until 3:30. It gives me all day to myself and I don't have to worry about running short on time. Both the totes I made today are unique and cute. Go by and check them out if you get a chance.

I am trying to gt my house cleaned and laundry done today too. Husband comes back in town from work tomorrow afternoon. I always clean before he gets home. He likes to have the house clean. Not that I don't, LOL. I do, I just HATE doing it so I usually put it off until right before he comes home. I don't want him coming home to a dirty house. He is a good provider and a generous husband and he never asks ANYTHING of me but I know he likes the house to be clean. He is a very NEAT/CLEAN person. And I don't want him to have to clean it himself or ask me to clean it up after he gets home. His idea of clean and my idea of clean are two different things. As long as things are dusted and the floor is vacuumed I think the house is cleaned, but when he cleans he scrubs the phucking HELL out of things. Walls, blinds, baseboards. He goes at it. I don't mind him doing it because I know shit's gonna be clean if he does it, but I don't want him to have to. SO in between working on the totes I have been doing some loads of clothes and after I got through with both totes I started dusting and wiping bathrooms. I will wait to clean the living room and vacuum the house AFTER I pick the kids up so they can get all their own shit out of the living room for me. I don't pick up after them. I make them pick up their own shit.

I saw an episode of NEW NCIS last night, current NCIS. Up until now I have only seen old episodes, repeats on USA and Sleuth channels. But last night was a current episode. All I can say is WOW to Agent McGee and his skinny self. He was never chunky or fat before but I was SHOCKED at how skinny he is now. He is so skinny it makes me think he must have cancer or something.

I tried watching an episode of NCIS Los Angeles with LL Cool J and Chris ODonnell. I didn't like it. I didn't even watch half the show before I turned it off. I will stick with GIBBS and his bunch. MY DVR is suppose to record about 15 episodes between now and this weekend and I am going to save them up so I have something to watch this weekend when my kids are gone off to their dad's house. Husband will have his son but I won't have my kids. I won't get them back until Sunday evening.

I started to watch CSI the other day and I can't seem to get into that show the way I did with NCIS. I like NCIS so well that it is hard for any other show to measure up now.

What are some good shows you watch? Turn me on to some new good shows. They dont' even have to be new.

Looks Like I Have Homework!!

2011-01-06T19:23:00.000-06:00

PHUCKING SCIENCE FAIR BULLSHIT ALERT!!

When I was in school, 80 years ago, Science Fair projects were voluntary/optional. You were not required to participate if you didn't want to. It's not like that any more.

My daughter told me today that they are REQUIRED to do a project, which means that I HAVE TO DO 2 different projects. One with each kid. Which means that I basically have homework to do.

A 9 year old kid can't even think up the gawd dayum idea for a Science fair project let alone conduct the research and experiments.

They are due January 19th!

In other news... One of the 2 books I ordered came in today. I saw a movie on Lifetime last weekend called The 19th Wife. It was about a polygamist wife and her life story. And in the movie the main character was reading a real life book called Wife No. 19 by Ann Eliza Young. She was the 19th wife of Mormon leader Brigham Young. In the movie it goes back and forth between the movie's story and the lady in the movie reading the book by Ann Eliza Young. It got me interested in the book. The original book, not the one the movie was made off of. The book the movie was made off of was The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff. The book I ordered was Wife No. 19 by Ann Eliza Young. Just to clear that up. Anyway, while I was ordering that book I also ordered another SUGGESTED book called Shattered Dreams- My Life as a Polygamist Wife.

I have to admit I am fascinated by Polygamy. I like the show Sister Wives. I would/could never share my husband with anybody, but I am intrigued by people who do. The men make me sick. Keeping multiple wives in the name of religion. And usually very young (too young to be married) girls who have no business getting married. They are the ultimate gluttons but instead of food they over indulge in women and sex. Phuckers. But I will watch their shows. =)

I have 14 episodes of NCIS on my DVR box. After watching a marathon of NCIS (I had never seen the show before) on New Years Day I set my DVR to start recording it whenever it comes on. WELP, it seems the USA channel doesn't phuck around. When they show NCIS they show an ASSLOAD of NCIS back to back to back. The first few episodes I saw had ZIVA in them but now the episodes I have been seeing have KATE in them. I have learned that KATE came first and ZIVA came later. It doesn't matter, ABBY is my favorite person. She is just so cool and I found out from someone on Twitter that she is IN HER 40'S!! She looks and acts like she is 20 tops!

So this weekend I have a DVD of The Mentalist season 2 to watch and over a dozen episodes of NCIS to watch. My husband's recliner will get to spend a lot of quality time with my hind end this weekend. My kids will walk past me about once an hour and say, "I'm bored" and go on about their business while I watch my shows. I don't get into TV much but they know when I do they better leave me the phuck alone. I will stop to feed them a few times a day but that's it. It is not my job to entertain them.

I have been having extremely high frustration levels with my daughter and her homework. She gets pissed off because I won't do the homework FOR HER and I make her do it herself. Then she can't do it herself and I have to help her but I am trying to help 2 kids at one time with 2 different sets of homework. For all the freedoms I got putting the kids back in regular school I get a bigger headache with the phucking homework. We never had homework when we were homeschooling. We just did our few hours of work and went on with our lives. But I don't think they paid as much attention to me as they now do their school teachers. AND NOW with the gawd dayum Science fair projects. JEESUS KRIST!! And my son does great in school. He is in the G.A.T.E.S ( gifted and talented) program. He makes good grades. Daughter makes B's except in math. Math is her weak subject. She SUCKS at math. She isn't doing good in math.

I am going to go eat some BBQ Cheetos then later probably have some Reese's cups.

Never say never.

2011-01-02T21:16:00.000-06:00

I did silently declare to myself that I would never be caught dead watching the new OWN network. (Oprah Winfrey Network) I was majorly pissed that she was buying out Discovery Health channel. I love Discovery Health channel. I love all the shows on there. Why couldn't Oprah just start her own channel and leave the channels alone that were already there? But I guess it doesn't work that way. She had to buy a channel with an existing place in the line up of channels that already had an audience.

I resisted even looking at the guide to see what shows would be coming on the new OWN network but I looked. I peeked. I saw she had a show coming on that is the 25th season behind the scenes show that shows the making of the actual Oprah show. Now I don't even watch the Oprah show. I never have. I may have seen 3 or 4 of her shows in the last 25 years but I was never a fan, never a viewer. But I got sucked into this show, the behind the scenes show. I watched the first 2 episodes of it and I liked it. I like the making of and the behind the scenes type of shows so it peeked my curiosity.

It's not going to make me all of a sudden start watching her daytime show. I don't like her show really, but the behind the scenes is interesting. You get to see the inner working of TV production while seeing a side of Oprah that nobody ever gets to see. I will probably keep watching the 25th season behind the scenes show.

I'm still curious if any of the old shows that use to come on Discovery Health are going to be on OWN. Like Medical Incredible and shows like that. It looks like NO. But not sure yet.

Have you seen any of the new OWN shows? Are you going to watch the OWN network?

Peggy Sue's Perspective -- Rants & Randomness -- @PeggySueCusses

I Take 36 Pills a Day Folks! No Typo!

Another Disney trip bitches!!

WTF??

KINDLE FIRE

Long time no see!!

Something to think about. Click to enlarge.

Black Friday MY ASS!!

OUR DISNEY TRIP report (LONG)

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DAY 2: Friday 10/28/11

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Day 10: 11/5/11 Departure Day

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NYQUIL can suck it!

IPhone can SUCK IT!! I love my new Droid.

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THE HELP

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Saw this on a friends blog.

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Now I'm cool like you!

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I haven't posted about the not guilty verdict because I was just so much in shock my fingers wouldn't even type the words.

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Such PERVS in the world!!

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Sleeping like Dead Ppl

I miss you. No, seriously I do!

Potatoes potahtoes what the PHUCK ever

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Does this piss you off?

Kill her!!

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Yeah I'm an asshole.

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I can't help myself.

Peggy Sue Smith BristerI swear my husband is so funny. He comes up with the funniest stuff at a moment's notice. He makes me laugh every day. He likes to joke with ppl and aggravate everybody but I wouldn't trade him for a million dollars

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*yawn*

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Peggy Sue Smith Brister
I swear my husband is so funny. He comes up with the funniest stuff at a moment's notice. He makes me laugh every day. He likes to joke with ppl and aggravate everybody but I wouldn't trade him for a million dollars

yawn