Friday the 13th

Anyone superstitious? I am a little but not bad. Today kinda gets to me and I turn around if a black cat crosses my path. Drives Benny CRAZY! Other than that, I'm good.

OK, on to other stuff.

These next 3 days, I always feel sorry for my brother. He always ends up broke after these 3 days. Let me explain.

He is a great guy. We are 13 years apart and didn't live together growing up, but I am closer to him than my other 3 brothers. He started dating his wife when he was 15 and they are still happily married. I was 2 when I met her so I love her like a sister and not just sister-in-law. Now, they have an almost 13 year old daughter.

This is my sister-in-law. Isn't she so pretty. Anyway, part of what makes these three days so expensive for my brother is that today is her birthday. And, he is the kinda guy that goes all out. If your gonna do it, do it right! (That's my Toot in the pic with her.)

Then, of course, tomorrow is Valentines Day. Not a cheap day when you live with 2 females.

And to top it all off, the day after Valentines Day, is his daughters birthday. She'll be 13 on Sunday. I can't believe she is already that old. They also call her 'Toot' so when we are there, it's confusing which 'Toot' anyone is talking about. I love this pic of her because she is better on Guitar Hero than anyone I know. She plays it on the hardest level with out messing up but a couple of times WHILE she carries on a conversation! It's really insane to watch her. I play on the easiest level and if someone even tries to talk to me, I screw up so bad.

So there ya have it. By Monday, my brother will be one broke guy. But hey, at least he doesn't have a hard time remembering when their birthdays are.

Hope everyone has a good Valentines Day whether you celebrate it or not. And, if you want to send me a Valentines gift to show how much you truly love me, here is what I want. Just e-mail me and I'll give you my address. ;)

Also, be careful today. It's Friday the 13th and ya never know what will happen!

One last thing. You have to go check out I'm Not Your Average Soccer Mom! She has an AWESOME giveaway you have to see. So head on over!

Are you F***king kidding me!

I just read an article and it really pissed me off. It's here if you want to read it. I'm throwing in my two cents on this one. I can't help it.

It's about Nadya Suleman. Who's that you ask. She is the woman that thought having 14 kids while you are single AND unemployed was a good idea.

First of all, there really needs to be an investigation. She was on disability because of a bad back BUT she can carry 8 babies at once. I've been pregnant 3 times and it killed my back. I can't even imagine what it feels like to carry 8.

Second, she says she's not on welfare BUT does receive food stamps. Am I missing something? Isn't that the same fucking thing? She stated that she used her disability money to pay for the in vitro. Shouldn't she have used that money to feed the 6 kids she already had? Just my opinion.

Third, they are requesting that Medi-Cal (the state medicaid program) pay for the 8 babies stay in the hospital. Isn't that welfare also? OK, I thought so. Like the working people of California don't have better things to do with their money.

Forth, somebody really needs to take a look at the Dr. that agreed to do in vitro fertilization on a single, unemployed, mother to 6. Maybe he can pay her medical bills. Seems fair to me.

Fifth, I didn't know you could get disability for a child that has ADHD. My niece was diagnosed with it and I know it's not an easy road for her or her parents but, disability? Really? Little Man is not considered disabled and he has diabetes. You know, a disease that can KILL him.

Sixth, she says she is going back to school to get her masters degree in counseling. I thought that was funny because I believe that she needs some serious counseling herself. Also, good for her on trying to further her education but who is going to pay to feed and clothe these children? Student loans my ass! It's the taxpayers paying for it.

And the last thing, NOW, she has up a website asking for donations to help her raise her 14 children. WTF! If you feel the need to go online and beg people for money to help you PROVIDE for your children, ummmm, you shouldn't have had that last litter. I'm sorry, calling them a litter was mean. It's not those children's fault that their mother is COMPLETELY INSANE! I really feel sorry for all of these children.

I don't get why someone would want so many kids but if you can support them and provide the love and attention they deserve, have at it. But if you can't, stay away from ANY and ALL sperm!

OK, my rant is over. I feel a little better now, don't you? If you disagree with me on this, I would be really interested to know why? If I'm missing something, please enlighten me.

The Uninspired Monday Meme

I am so glad TMM came up with her meme game thingy because I am stealing one for today. I turned in my homework early so now today was open. I am stealing Brandy's for today.

Here we go.

1. Are you a morning person or a night owl?

A night owl all the way. I have never been a morning person. When Little Man was first diagnosed with diabetes, he was on a very strict schedule. Even on weekends we had to get up at 7am to start his day of shots. About 3 years ago, we changed his insulin and now there is no schedule. Now we can sleep as long as we want! I love it.

2. Do you have any food hangups?

I don't eat green veggies that are cooked. AT ALL! I can do broccoli if it's raw with some ranch and a salad but that's it.

3. Who was your favorite singer when you were 13?

When I was 13, my favorite bands were NOFX and the Toadies. I was in love with the singer of NOFX. I still love both those bands to this day.

4. Do you remove your makeup every night?

Never. I only wear makeup on rare occasions and then I am just too lazy to take it off. But now I have Bare Minerals and it says it's ok to not take it off. So I'm good.

5. When was the last time you cried and why?

The other night when I was talking about my Great Grandad to Benny. He really misses my Great Grandmother and would love to be by her side in heaven. I know he would be happier but I would sure miss him.

6. What are your Valentine's day plans?

Our anniversary is Feb 10th so we make Valentine's day all about the kids. We get them cheesy gifts and they love it.

7. What are you most looking forward to this month?

For it to be over. I am sick of cold weather and March is when it really starts warming up around here.

8. What's your favorite reality TV show?

I guess the Bachelor because that is the only one I watch. Oh, and Kitchen Nightmares. I love that one. It makes me never want to go out to eat again but I just gotta see what these people are doing.

9. When was the last time you were called beautiful?

About 15 min ago. Benny sent me a text that said "Good morning Beautiful". He is really sweet and sends me stuff like that every morning.

10. Finally, how hard was it to come up with these answers?

Not hard at all. I'm glad Brandy came up with these or I may have not had a post for today.
If you haven't read her answers, go check them out.

Isn't today Wednesday?

OK, I thought we did the writing assignments on Thursday but Mama Kat has hers up today. I will follow her lead (since she's the one handing out the homework) and do mine today. I was bad last week and didn't do my homework so I am doubling up today.

I choose prompts #3 (5 most recent favorite things) and #4 (favorite recipe). My favorite recipe is one of my favorite things so it all fits together rather nicely.

Here we go!

1. We love movies. We never go to the movies for 2 reasons. One, it's too damn expensive, and two, I'm not taking two kids under the age of 5 to the movies. We also don't rent movies because I ALWAYS take them back late and get charged a billion dollars. So, we buy movies. We buy movies all the time. We check out the cheap ones at Wal-Mart, the ones the local video store is selling, and the Dollar Store. The Dollar Store always has pretty good movies for 6 bucks. I bet we have over 1000 movies. And we do watch them over and over so it's money well spent. Anyway, my favorite movie right now is one I bought Monday. It's called Definitely, Maybe. I love it! You have to check it out. Ryan Reynolds is so cute one of the main characters is named April. Can't go wrong there.

2. My favorite recipe is chicken and dumplings. It's pretty easy too, it just takes a while. These are the only chick-n-dumplings I will eat and I LOVE them.

First, boil a chicken for a hour while you have a beer. You can change this to just breast but I think the whole chicken makes it taste better. Oh ya, don't use a pot with Teflon or it won't thicken up later.

Put chicken in strainer to drain and cool. Leave chicken water in pot.

Get 4 things of the cheapest biscuits from the store, some news paper (the paper is important) and a bunch of flour.

Lay out newspaper, dump a bunch of flour on it and open cans of biscuits.

Cover each biscuit with flour and roll out flat. You can use a rolling pin but I just use a glass. Stack them, then cut the stacks to make 9 sections.

Go get the bones out of the chicken and tear chicken into bite size pieces. Then put back into water. Bring water to a boil and start adding your dumplings. OK, here is the tricky part. Don't stir or they will go flat. I just move the ones I already put in to the side to add more. But make sure to scrape the bottom of pan so they don't stick to the bottom.

Add a splash of milk, salt and pepper to taste and once you get the final dumpling in, they are done. Wrap up newpaper that's covered in flour and through in trash.

See, easy peasy. If I can do it, I know you can. And they are so worth the time it takes to make them. Toot loves helping with the flour so kids are encouraged to help if you don't mind a mess.

3. My pajama pants from Wal-Mart. They are fuzzy like my robe and so soft. I wear them all the time and bought the shorts for when it's warm.

4. My phone. It's a Palm Treo and I love that I can check my e-mail on it and that my texts are in chat form.5. The DVR at my folks house. We don't have sat tv and we are dog sitting this weekend so she is recording a bunch of stuff for me to watch. Yep, she's cool like that.

So there ya go. Now head on over to Mama Kats cause she's already got it up and check out what everyone else had to say.

TMM's Slightly Inappropriate And Fully Nosey MeMe

I was suppose to make up a meme but I was out of town all weekend and I'm tired so I am just stealing TMM's. I'll post about the trip tomorrow. It was CRAZY!! Of course there was a lot of drama cause we went to my mil's and my niece has turned into an idiot lately.

Anyway, back to the meme TMM made up.

1. Have you ever skipped school?
Yep. As long as I made straight A's, my Mom was usually cool with it.

2. What is your favorite naughty word?
The one I say the most is Dammit but actual favorite is Fucktard.

3. Have you ever been arrested?
Yep. DWI. Charges were dropped because it was totally bogus. I had a couple of beers like 3 hours earlier and the cop wouldn't tell me what my BAC levels were. This was 7 years ago.

4. Do you and your spouse have a code that you use when you want sex?
Ya, it's called going to bed.

5. Do you have special names for....ahem...you know, either cute ones that you have your kids use or nasty ones that you and your spouse use?
Benny's has a name, but I didn't name it. I don't know who did.
The kids say hiney and and Little Man calls his stuff peanuts. Always has.

6. How many drinks does it take to get you sloshed?
Beer, at least 6. Shots, umm, Sat night I think I has 3 shots and I don't know how many beers but it did the job.

7. Do you always wash your hands after you go potty or are you one of those gross people who comes out of the toilet in a public restroom and fixes their hair then leaves without washing?
Always wash even though I don't piss on myself. In public restrooms I don't even flush with my hands, I use my foot, but I still always wash.

8. When was the last time you played the clitar, dialed 9 on a rotary phone or spanked your monkey?
We celebrated our anniversary Sat night so then with Benny's help.

9. What's your favorite smell that others would consider weird?
Gasoline, but I'm sensing that's not to weird now. I dated a guy once that loved the smell of my hair right after I bleached it. That's weird to me.

10. What's your favorite adult beverage?
Busch Light. Also, tequila, but I only drink it on RARE occasions because I always get naked. Doesn't really matter where I am or who is around.

11. Favorite old school cartoon?
Tom and Jerry. I LOVE THEM. My dad actually has a Tom and Jerry comic from way back in the day that will be mine one day.

12. If you won the lottery what is the first thing you would do with the money? (If you say donate to charity you're a fucken liar. I said the FIRST thing you'd do.)
Build a log cabin and buy all the toys we want.

13. Have you ever fed a dog peanut butter just to see what would happen?
Yep. Also, my brother once gave our dog a jalapeno and that was pretty funny too. He licked the carpet for a while. And don't tell me how mean that is. We were kids and it was funny as hell.

14. Favorite blond joke?
How do you know when a blond is having a bad day? She has a tampon behind her ear and can't find her pencil.

15. Have you ever undressed Barbie and Ken and made them do it?
Yep. Really, who didn't?

16. Did you know gullible isn't in the dictionary?
Glad you answered that one or I would have looked myself.

17. Shittiest car you've ever had?
A green mit. mirage. The alternator was put in crooked so the belt always came off. I was a master at putting it back on. You would have thought that I would just have the alternator fixed but I didn't.

18. Most risque place you've ever done it?
While Benny was driving down the road. We are smart like that.

19. Most old embarrassing ass song that you just LOVE no matter what anyone thinks?
I'm not embarrassed but I love Green Day. The Dookie album.

20. Ever puked out a car window?
I've been told I have but I don't remember doing it. It was a tequila night.

21. Should I let D get an alpaca?
Isn't that awesome that D wants my permission. I say go for it! But you really should just worry about getting C's permission.

Ok, that was fun. Now head on over to TMM's place to read her answers and to see other peoples meme's. BTW, what the hell does that stand for? Meme?

Daddy's NOT happy!

Wednesday when I was cleaning, ummm, I mean reading blogs, Toot was making castles out of paper for me. Of course, she HAD to use scissors to do this. I figured since she uses them at school, she would be alright.

She walked up to give me one and I noticed she now had bangs. I got on to her and told her we NEVER EVER cut our own hair. Only Mommy can cut her hair. She handed over the scissors and said she was sorry. I told her to get me a brush so I could fix her new bangs and make them look better.

She turned around to get the brush and I about had a heart attack. She had cut a big chunk out of the back too! First thing out of my mouth was "TOOT! YOU CUT THE BACK!" Like she didn't already know this. Then I said "Daddy's going to be so sad and cry!" That's when I think it hit her what she had done. Then, she was worried.

I had to cut about 6 inches off her hair to fix what she had done.

Before (but it was a little longer because this was the first day of school)

After (She looks really pale because she just did her make-up)

I have to say, it is really cute. That didn't seem to help when her Daddy came home and saw it though. She was worried all day about what he was going to say to her.

I told him she had punished herself by worrying all day and to please say something nice. He gave her that look of disappointment, told her to not do it again, and then gave her a big hug and told her how pretty she looked.

He's a pretty good Daddy. I guess we'll keep him.

Hope everyone has a good weekend. We are heading out to west Texas to go visit my mother-in-law. Wish me luck!

FYI

I'm skipping school today and not doing my writing assignment for Mama Kat. I got nothing interesting you care to read about if I had done it, so consider yourself lucky that I am not doing it.

Instead, I got some advice. If you are one that doesn't like getting advice you didn't ask for, then head on over to the next blog you read. Don't worry, you wont hurt my feelings.

What I am going to tell you is the little things that kinda bug me when I am reading someones blog. If may not apply to everyone so you are allowed to just dismiss it if you would like. There will be no finger pointing but after reading this, you will know who you are.

OK, here we go.

• When I want to leave a comment, I would really like it if it is in a pop up window. When it is not, I very seldom go back to your page to read other post I have missed (unless I really love your blog). So, I either read them all and post on the one I like most or just read the first one, comment, them move on. (BTW, I just had 5, 2 letter words that start with an I back to back. That will mess with your eyes!)
• When I go to a blog that has the "BlogHer" ad thingy on it, half the time it wont show me the post. Maybe it is just my computer (though I highly doubt it) but it drives me crazy. I gotta x out and try again. Sometimes multiple times. I gotta really know what you said to do that!
• Last thing. I understand that you may not want the world to have your e-mail address but I hate it when I want to reply to your comment and the e-mail address is noreply-comment.... I have gotten to know some really cool chicks by replying to their comments via e-mail and I can't do it if you don't let me. Thank you to the cool chicks that do the "noreply" thing but then later sent me their e-mail address. It helped. I hate replying to a comment you left me on your blog because then everyone is confused. Sometimes even me.
• Oh ya, one more thing. I can't stand typing in that message so you know I am not a computer. I get why you do it but it still bugs me.

So there ya have it. My complaints. Take them or leave them, but that's how I feel. BTW, I'm not the only one that feels that way.

And if you got some advice for me, I'm all ears.

Later Taters!

Wordless Wednesday with words of course

My little glow worm.

This is Little Man's first day home. He had jaundice so he had to wear that contraption for a couple of days.

10 years later and he still sleeps like that.

For more WW go check out A Daily Dose Of Toni and 5 Minutes for Mom.

Born on date

Last week we went to the river with my folks. They have a really nice pontoon boat and we can go out and just enjoy ourselves. We go down to Caddo State Park and go down the Big Cypress river. It is really beautiful. Of course, we always have some adult beverages to go along with all the juice for the kids. Our beverage of choice is Busch Light. It doesn't matter how much money Hubby and I have, that's the beer we buy.

Anyway, on the way there, I called my mom and asked if she had enough beer for everyone. We were passing a beer store and needed to know before we passed it. She told me they had plenty of theirs (Michelob Ultra) and had actually found some Busch light in their fridge. Cool! No need to stop.

We get there and jump in the boat. After getting the kids into their life jackets, I reached in the ice chest to grab a beer. The Busch had dirt all over the top so I grabbed on of the Ultras. Hubby went ahead and drank the Busch. While we were there, I continued with the Ultra and he drank 2 Busch's. I later grabbed a Busch, cleaned it as best I could, and took a drink.

OH MY GOD! It was nasty. I looked at Hubby kinda surprised and took one more drink to make sure I wasn't imagining things. Nope, it was bad. I looked at him again and he said "Kinda taste funny, doesn't it?" "Ummm ya! What the hell is wrong with it?"

I looked at my folks and asked where they found it. My dad told me he found it in the truck behind the seat.

Me: "Red or white truck?"
Dad: "Red. I guess Hubby left them last time he borrowed it."
Hubby: "That was when I worked for MSI 2 YEARS AGO!"

So I looked at the Born on Date on the bottom of the can. Yep, it was 2 year old beer. I couldn't believe Hubby had actually drank 2 of them. YUCK! So I poured it out and got a much younger beer.

Fast forward to yesterday. My Grany said she had some 16 oz bottled cokes and wanted to know if I wanted them. She drinks diet coke so she wont drink them. I said sure and mom brought them over.

I opened one last night and took a drink. I really should have known by the dust on the bottles but I wasn't thinking. UGGHHHH! I had to spit it out. It tasted like a coke would after it has been sitting open for about 2 days. So I grab the bottle and look at the date.

Of course, it says AUG2007 right there on the side.

2 times in a week in a half. You would think I would have learned after the first time to check the dates on drinks people give me. You can bet your ass I will next time!

The Answer

If you read Friday's post, then you probably want to know what was wrong with my Mom.
Nobody got it right but TMM did guess something I forgot to say they tested twice for and that was Lyme Disease.

Is what she had was mercury poisoning.

About 3 weeks before she got sick, she had gone to the dentist to have a cavity filled. The dentist used an Amalgam (silver) filling. It doesn't cause problems with everyone but does happen to a lot. After doing a lot of research, she learned this is really a problem and that is why so many dentist's don't use them anymore.

The doctor appointment I made for her was with a dentist to have that tooth pulled. Now her body is really sensitive to mercury. That is why she has to watch what she eats kinda. She can't eat tuna anymore because of the mercury in it and had to limit herself when she eats fish. She doesn't really care for fish that much so it isn't really hard for her.

She also has to check all the medicine a doctor prescribes her because there is a lot of medicine out there that has mercury in it. Because she doesn't have a spleen, she was getting a flu and pneumonia shot every year. She can no longer get the pneumonia shot anymore because it has mercury in it.

If you or your children get a cavity filled, please make sure they don't get the silver filling. It is really not worth the risk.