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.