Thank GOD for Jordyn!!

So I babysit right? Well the baby will not quiet down. When her mom sticks a bottle in her mouth and props it there.. She happily sucks away. If I try that. No way!! I know you're not supposed to prop a bottle, but really.. I have 6 kids here. I can calm her down if I carry her in a football hold. But I have to get the kids ready for school. Maybe I can make them sleep in their clothes and shoes? To calm myself down (now that's she's finally settled) Ryder and I are going to devour a whole bag of Garden Salsa Sun Chips!! So YUMMY!! Now he's lying here on my mouse. Making this kind of hard to do! I have library board tonite. I better be there since I'm now president. This just isnt working right now.. BE BACK LATER!

Another site?

Just a heads up. I'm going to keep this blog going.. But I may also be moving to 'Hubpages' to try and make some $$$! I did sign up! I just haven't done anything there yet. If I really really can make money without wiping butts or faking smiles.. I am totally up for it!! TOTALLY!! I bet I could get paid to write articles. Journalism is an 'on the back burner' dream of mine..' But I did fail that class pretty bad. I think cause Mrs. Maney hated me.. The feeling was mutual. My other writing teachers loved me. Even the one in college! So we'll see. Cross your fingers!!

BLECH!

Today is already a long day and I woke up an hour ago. Ryder is being a pain in the butt! The kid won't stay out of the fridge. You would think we starve him!! His pot belly says otherwise!! But he is so cute and incredibly smart! He has a vocabulary like none other! He went from saying 'nothing' to saying sentences (well sort of). You can't always understand him unless you're Bryan or myself (with the sentences), but single words are coming out clear as day. They say a child his age has an average of a 50 word vocabulary. Yeah, right. My kid is a genuis and I'm not afraid to say it! His thing is 'trucks', trains, planes, cars.. Ya know.. Anything with wheels. Bryan and I thought it was just TOO funny when we were watching Scrubs and a monster truck came on. He screamed like a little girl!! All boys scream like little girls. It's not a big deal. They grow out of it. Some do.

Today is the first Friday of Lent. FISH! I wish I had a McDonalds here. I guess Tuna Casserole it is! I am a bad Catholic! I forgot to go Wednesday..Well, it was a long day. I never like Wednesdays and the whole calling it 'hump day' is way too cliche for someone like me. I hate cliche!! Maybe the word cliche is what's making me sick this morning. Gotta blame something. I'm not pregnant. Back off!

So tonite the Jays *boys* play Ord. I hope they win. I really do. I would take the kids but I don't think I have the patience. We can watch it HERE on the computer because our school is like 'the only school' to webcast the games..Because WE ARE THE BLUEJAYS!! I giggle to myself at every game as the crowd chants 'bluejay POWER..' because.. Bluejays are really 'pussy' birds. If I think of a POWERFUL bird the eagle comes to mind.. Or maybe a Hawk.. Maybe even a mean ass CROW, but a bluejay? No! Cartoon character at best!

Anyway, I read an article on gfherald.com last nite about Lamoureux being suspended for an 'altercation' that never even took place. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HOCKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and that is BS if I ever read it.. I'm pretty sure the team can still win but you really don't see many suspensions for a non fight. Besides..Aaron Marvin deserves to be taken out on a stretcher. You damn well KNOW as well as I do that he targeted Genoway. I would like to target his ass for taking out my favorite UND hockey player. I REPEAT because Im in Nebraska does not mean I turned 'football'. Actually I have to laugh a little because I was talking to a Nebraskan who actually knew who the UND players were.. I was like 'um, marry me..' Not really cause I'm married and the guy is a complete DOUCHE but ya know. You fall in love with a guy who says 'I'll talk to you later.. I'm doing dishes..' *SWOON*!!

Jordyn just turned on a song that made me think of Bucks!! HELLS YES!!!!!!!! I wanna go home and get my drunk on and dance around like no body's business.. On the stage. Confidence is fun I just got some! Lost 30lbs! That helps!! Now she asks me 'mom, do you like Eminem' uh yeah.. Early nineties Eminem! It just went downhill from there!

Jordyn and Ryleigh are going through Parenting magazine telling me what to buy for NEWBORN babies. I told her 'I'm never having another baby again.. I'd rather rip out my uterus..' She cuts me off by saying 'buy it for Ryder..' Ryder is a little BIG for a bouncy seat!! Now she brings me burnt toast. Lovely. I need a vacation. Please someone! Come and get me!!

Everybody in love, put your hands up = World's most stupid song!!!!! I'm gonna puke on my keyboard!! Wait, Tygr beat me to that many years ago. I miss my cat. :( You know what word I dont like? KITTIES.. That word bothers me.. It should be either kittens or cats.. Not kitties!!

Okay no more being lazy! Time to clean!! <3

Not again!!

So it's like this.. 600am -Ryleigh: 'My tummy hurts mommy..' We go into the bathroom and she starts the 'cough' that leads to the 'puke' and sure enough. Well, you get the picture! Really now? Two of my kids have thrown up almost a week apart, with one thing in common. MCDONALD'S!! Tuesday nite before Jordyn threw up McDonalds.. Last nite.. McDonald's. I say it has to be the chicken nuggets. Bryan and I didn't get sick but neither of us had chicken nuggets. Now I had to cancel more babysitting meaning less money!! Damn it!! I really wanted more than $2 before San Antonio but it's not looking promising! I hope it's really hot in TX.. I'm actually yearning for a sun BURN.. Anything but this cold!! I hate it!! Poor Lincoln is getting pummelled with snow or ice, or something that's caused a bunch of accidents on I80.. BTW I94 is better. Anyway sorry for the people that live there! I've lost my North Dakota thick skin I guess. I feel bad for me. I used to thrive on cold. Now I hide like the rest of Nebraska. If I can't live in ND I would want to live in MO where all the cool GIRLS live. I said GIRLS not GUYS, I have never met a cool GUY from Missouri.

Oh and if you remember my FaceBook status 'I am over it..' I really am 'over it' exactly that. In more than one sense.. Like only three people will get what I'm talking about, but it's a huge deal for me. I hate things taking over my mind like some kind of alien control. No, I don't believe in aliens, but Space Study does make my heart skip a beat. I was in MOURNING when Pluto was taken off the 'not an official planet list'. How sad is that? I bet most of you have NO IDEA what makes me tick.. Let me tell you. 1.) Writing, 2.) History, 3.) The solar system.. Hey look at that! I'm a geek in disguise! Loves it!

I'll write more later today! I have to finish up the basement and make it all pretty like other people's perfect basements.. It's just hard to have motivation to do so because of the piss smell down there from the prior dogs and the paint on the carpet in the 'GET THIS' green and purple room.. How about the 'red shag' in the 'unfinished room' where we found some interesting FINDINGS from the boy who resided there before us? Really something to be proud of.

Oh God a commercial for a Barbie that trains dogs to poop and pee. God help me! I don't have a mind for this so early! Look at that it's almost ten!

I want a Dell Inspiron.. In PINK if anyone wants to give me a gift for being me. Spellcheck tells me that Jordyn can't be spelled with a Y.. It can kiss my butt! Oh and if you worked in a restaurant for 3 years like me, night does turn to 'nite' trust me. I totally miss the Royal Fork.. I could go for a huge salad from there right now.. and Mello Yello!! We so celebrated when we got the Mello Yello. I think my coworkers from that job, trump all my coworkers - ever!! It was a BLAST especially the first two years.. MINUS JON!! GROSS!! He turned into a real winner. *laughs* I can honestly say he is the biggest loser I've ever dated. Not saying 'props' to the rest of you, but beating him would be super hard. I think he's the only one with a criminal record (as far as I know). What was wrong with me?!!

TO BE CONTINUED!

Which one of these things does not belong..

This title will of course make sense when I find some AA batteries and post the picture, it's really cute! Trust me! It's Valentine's Day woofreakinghoo.. I got diamonds, candy and flowers.. Oh wait, that was only in my dreams.. Or circa 2002. Bleh, yeah. I'm throwing a pity party. Who wants to come? It's bring your own booze. Only if you share some with me. At least this year was a little better than last. I didn't go in a ditch and I didn't get pulled over by a cop. I didn't work either. Win/win right? Valentine's Day is never romantic anymore. In fact. I think I don't believe in romance anymore at all. You know what really pisses me off? Weddings. They make me sick. Especially watching Melanie marry Phillip on Days. Nathan is way hotter. He reminds me of a certain someone. I won't go there, I don't want to make myself sick or is it sad.. Not sure.. all I know is the word starts with an 'S'. Well, I think I may be sick already. Nauseated from McDonald's. Like that's a first!!

Speaking of weddings, funerals are worse, (okay duh) but honestly. I don't want one. Please just burn me in a huge ass bon fire and forget about it. I don't want someone crying at the pulpit about how I was a mother/daughter/granddaughter/niece/cousin that graduated in '99 and accomplished.. Nothing? Okay, by the time I die I hope to accomplish something more than being world's best mommy (after my own, love ya mom!).. But I'm turning 30.. A little late isn't it? My grandpa told my mom 'she will make something of herself..' Okay, when grandpa? I've had so many dreams. I wanted to be a nurse, a teacher, and a writer. But none seem to be coming true.. Maybe I should be a writing teacher, but I really prefer little kids, so there goes that idea.

The Olympics are on, if only I cared. I think the skiers look so weird. Figure skating is the only event to watch. My favorite figure skater of all time is Scott Hamilton. Wow, that makes me old. I h ave so much to do this week. I have extra kids 4/5 days. I kind of would like a day just for me. But that hasnt happened since July 02, 2004. More pity party. You're lovin' it!

It's only 830 and I'm ready for bed. Maybe I will just 'go there' and forget today. Cleaning the basement is always so exciting. I was down there for 3 hrs and didn't finish. I threw away like 4 boxes and 1 huge bag of toys. Yeah that's a crapload of money down the drain, but well it just had to be done.

I just did spellcheck and I didn't do too bad! I can spell!

Why in the hell would they make a watermelon Tootsie Roll pop? Ew! Weird flavor combination, but I guess. I liked the banana flavor one. Why am I eating the kids candy bouquet? I bought it for them. But you seriously can't let a three and five year old eat that much candy right? Poor Ryder didn't get candy, he got a remote control car!! Zoom Zoom Zoom!! Ohh that made me think of Scrubs and Zach Braff and his Zoom Zoom Zoom. That was the 'oh Snap' of the early 200s!! (on Scrubs anyway) which is seriously undoubtedly my favorite show in the entire world. No matter how shitty of a day I have had. I will always ALWAYS smile when I watch Scrubs. My favorite line from Scrubs is .. and I quote.. Carla: 'Why is there a pancake in the silverware drawer?' Turk: 'You mean why is there silverware in the PANCAKE drawer Weh heh!!?' How can that not be funny? Runner up is the Big Bang Theory.. Oh my GOD I am head over heels for Sheldon, how can you not be? Bazinga! I know, I have interesting taste. I've heard it before. I will hear it til I die. It's all good. Promise!!

I really really miss Grand Forks! :( I want to go home.

February 11th, 2010
Well, It’s been a couple of days since I’ve been able to post something because well, my internet is down. Ironic isn’t it? Well, Bryan has been sick and hasn’t had time to fix it for me. I think. This has been quite the uneventful week. I think the worst part of it was 4am Tuesday morning. Jordyn was whining and I blew it off, hoping she’d go back to sleep and she did, until.. ‘Mommy, I puked in my bed!!’ Oh great.. 6 words a mother never wants to hear. Especially because cleaning it up is never fun and if you have more than 1 kid.. You know that it spreads like wildfire. All this 2 days before their Valentine’s parties at school, lovely! Will they have to miss out? Thankfully, nope. Jordyn was done puking by 8am Tuesday morning and returned to school Wednesday. Ryleigh and Ryder never got it. Amen! Thank God!

I’ve been trying my hand at babysitting again. I have a few more kids than my own now and boy is that stressful. I think three is a good number to stop on, don’t you think? Having two infants at the same time, makes me want to rip out my ovaries on my own and feed them to the wild coyotes I hear live in this area. I say that like cy-o-tee because cy-ote sounds relatively stupid to me. As do a lot of things when said the Nebraska way. Pin/Pen, Across/Acrosst, Crick/Creek. You get it. There’s a vast difference between ND and NE and there’s only ONE state in between. The state below us is so much better. Why did I just say that? Because incriminating myself is a game I just cannot stop playing. It’s fun, nothing else better to do in a small town. So we make our own fun! Some more than others.. ‘ouch’. :o


As I save this every paragraph I write, I remember back to who always drilled it into our heads to do so.. Mrs. Parker my Keyboarding I teacher. I was horrible in ‘Keyboarding I’ I did the finger peck and was probably the slowest in my class. Got a computer at home, got mIRC and all that changed real fast. I was 100+wpm come Keyboarding II. Not bad, not bad! But seriously what a worthless class. Copying paragraph after paragraph about John and his boss meeting on Wednesday January 15th, at 2pm, in Nashville Tennessee at the Burlington building on South Piedmont street. I probably did that wrong just now, but that’s what editors are for. Who’s in for that job? Funny part Is. I though that was SO worthless at the time and tedious and I hate tedious, but when I was applying for jobs at Job Services, I had to do the same damn tests and I did really good.
My battery power is dying so I will start again tomorrow as I am too lazy to find a plug in! J See ya all later!!


February 12th, 2010
Today was a good day! Ryder did his first pee in the potty! No, it wasn’t easy. It took like ten minutes and I had to put his hand in warm water, but he did it!! What a big boy. I couldn’t be more proud of him! Wow, for once my mind is kind of blank, how does that work? I always have something to say, okay not really but I have something to write, I could write all day and all night, could you keep reading all day and all night

First of all..

I would like to thank my mom and Deb for being my first followers! :) I appreciate having someone actually read my blog.. Shows me that I'm not wasting my time yet. I should probably work on getting my grandpa hooked up as well.. I think he'd love it!

On another note.. I think I contracted Bryan's stomach bug. Ick! My tummy is all sorts of upside down and backwards. I have like 4 kids coming today and I really don't want to cancel because I need the money for San Antonio! I will just use a lot of GermX and wash my hands often.. On a positive note, this bug only lasted about 2 days for Bryan. Should be turning better on Wednesday. Crosses fingers.

My kids are still asleep because it's just now 5am. They are quite tired out from the Superbowl party last nite (Saints won Alleluia). Ryder was actually 'go home, go home..' He was done and he let everyone know it. Jordyn could probably play til 3am before crashing into a pile of blonde hair. I don't see Ryleigh ever making it past 11 though.. The kid is my sleeper and every mom needs one of those!

I am so going to write more later, but I'm going to reclose my eyes before Bryan gets back from the unit call.. Beauty sleep is essential!

Okay so it's late and I dont have much more to update right now.. I will try again tomorrow.. Peace out ladies and gents! :)

Time to TRAIN!

Potty train that is.. Check back on this entry for updates.. He will sit there but he complains the whole time.. It's cute, but if I could save $16.99 on diapers a month, that would be fab!!

It's a new day!!!

I think it's time to start blogging again. Why? Because when I ran into another writer in the supermarket (okay Ravenna Super Foods) .. She told me 'and they're wanting me to write another book..' and I think 'green with envy' is an understatement because I hadn't been so jealous in a long time. People say 'you're a writer, I enjoy reading your facebook statuses..' Well, okay, time to upgrade - Really now. She told me about blogs and the possibility of getting paid to write them *chaCHING*! Of course I won't make thousands, probably not even hundreds but if score a single Abraham (start small) out of something I've written, it's victory and 1.5 drinks at Cunninghams! :o


So anyway, it's time to start.. Too bad there's nothing on my mind right now, but it just turned 7 and I'm still tired. It's SuperBowl Sunday and I don't care. The best part about it is all the junk food.. Which I dont need right now. Apparently cutting out junk is not high on my list of priorities as I ate a whole bag of those strawberry gummy thingies coated in sugar yesterday at work. Working at a grocery store is bad for you I think. You see stuff and you salvate and from there it's over.. I've wanted to snack on raw onions at work because one came down the belt at just the right time. Ick!! Now speaking of food I'm thinking of a good cheese dip/ chips and a freezing COLD Coke, because that's a good SuperBowl snack for someone like me. I'm not into the fancy stuff like most people. Sue me! I don't think I will have anything in the alcohol family tonite either.. I will save that for next week.. IT'S A DRUNKEN VALENTINE'S DAY!

Anyway how about I tell you about last nite's dream. Part of it was I was shopping at Zales (eeks) and Nancy was still working there..I wanted another band for my diamond..I found one that was very pretty for my 'round solitare' and it was kind of in the shape of a heart and it made my diamond look bigger 'blahblahblah'.. You get it? Well, apparently the band itself was 5k.. so Im not getting that one I guess. Then it switched over to just driving around Grand Forks.. and I was visiting family and I was crabby and no one knew why..But I knew why.. It was because my son was never going to grow up to be a hockey player. In this dream I thought about asking my dad to buy him some hockey skates so we could get him started, but then realized that would be stupid because there's really no HOCKEY in NE except for the 'Tri City Storm' and they're all old and my son's only 2.. But he needs to start somewhere.. Where in the hell can I find an indoor hockey rink that has open skating.. etcetcetc.. Yes, this was a dream of mine as a younger person (which Im not anymore) and probably that it's the big sport in ND Fighting Sioux HOCKKKKKKKKKEY! But now that I'm in NE watching these HS boys play basketball and football (very well I might add).. I was like.. Maybe he can be a Husker? Or at least play for A college. Really? WTF is wrong with me!! Did the fact that I had to move really begin to alter my dream? I hope not. Hockey it is. Now I want to go home and catch a game! :) Even though my son's 'middle name's' sake is not coming back this year *boooooooo*!! Time to throw some dead gophers on the ice! Blech! Of course I'm having these dreams for my kids. I never accomplished anything athletic when I was younger and someone has to. Jordyn is going to be a runner like daddy I think and Ryleigh.. is just Ryleigh and Ryder has to follow the dream I have for him, right? Besides, google the hell out of it.. You won't find a better looking group of guys than hockey players (the ones that cut their hair at least), so he'd fit right in!!

Someone mentioned the word 'politics' to me yesterday and I want to go on a 5 page I hate Obama rant right about now,, But I won't do it. Seriously.. His WORDING about 'getting all the troops out of Iraq..' to ,.. and we're sending 30,000 to Afghanistan..It's like it contradicting itself.. He should just say 'we're moving the troops' my God, just because you're taking them out of one place and putting them in another is NOT sending people home..You may be sending 'some' home but others are going in their place.. He's acting like he's abolished war or something.. He embelishes the truth to make himself soud like a hero.. I think of it this way.. If I had a husband in the military and he came home finally from Iraq just to have to go back to Afghanistan (I know someone this happened to).. I think I'd be one of those protesters on the White House lawn.. Don't tell me I get my husband/son/daughter back when it's BS. I mean I know there are people trying to 'do things' to planes again and the like so we need reinforcement. I do know not 'everyone' can be home, but it's a big issue to me, don't ask why MYOB. At least McCain was straight with us. Not that I'm saying i was a fan of his, just saying.. Straight shooters need to be in the White House.. Not people who make promises they cant keep and the war thing is not the only one.. YOU KNOW IT and I KNOW IT!! This is JUST my opinion I'm not here for debate at all..So don't start.

So now that we've discussed politics should we head to religion? *snicker* Nah. I might make this laptop burst into flames.

But on a serious note.. Februay is national CHD awareness month. This is a matter close to my heart (literally) no.. I do not have a CHD.. My kids do (the girls)..CHD stands for Congenital Heart Defect. I have been very fortunate that my kids' CHDs have not altered their life any. They are in fact very minor and they won't require any surgeries or anything like that.. BUT the fact that 2/3 of my kids have Pulmonary Stenosis scares the living hell out of me.. Why? Because if I was so lucky to have 2 such minor cases what if that was the building block to worse cases in future children ...Which I'm not planning on. No worries. :P But still using hockey here again .. If one 'slipped the goalie'.. Lets just not go there. It's something on my side of the family and Bryan's. I just wish more people were educated on the issue. I wish more healthcare professionals would fight for mandatory testing at birth.. I wish. I wish. About 1/120 babies are born with some sort of heart defect.. Think about it..http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/view_shared?p=83494d9969fab05776f49a&skin_id=701 This is probably my favorite video of a survival CHD story. You'll probably cry if you're human, but it has a good ending.