09.29.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:44 pm by hecticmom
No, not bullets from a gun. Just bulleted updates.
- While I have felt quite overwhelmed the last few days – I’m absolutely GIDDY today. The winds of change are upon me.
- My parents are coming in on Wednesday, I can’t wait. I’m taking off of work Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday. I’m really glad – I can use a few days off to hang with my folks.
- I’m definately going to Italy and if we can work it, Hubby is going to come to for the first part of the trip and we are going to do some traveling in Venice and Milan.
- The 5K that Prissy and I are going to do is coming up in less than 2 weeks. We’ve been training like crazy.
- Taekwondo was exceptionally fun tonight. I’m not sure why – except we laughed a lot and the instructors were laughing with us. I felt very powerful tonight.
- I’m back on the Weight-Watchers bandwagon. I’ve been off for awhile and my weight is showing it. For some reason, my mind said that because I was exercising I could eat whatever I wanted. Hmmm – just because I jog 30 minutes doesn’t mean that I can get a large iced caramel coffee and a big mac from McDonalds. So, hopefully I’ll drop a few pounds sticking to the plan.
- My cats are absolutely FREAKING out right now. Two of them are flying around the house meowing. I have to take Jasmine in to get spayed pretty soon (which I think is unrelated to the freaking out.)
I think that’s all.
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09.28.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:15 pm by hecticmom
You never know what you’ll see in the Walmart parking lot. Sorry the
picture isn’t centered. It was very bright and I couldn’t see the
screen.
I have a serious love/hate relationship with Walmart. I love that regular stuff that I get anywhere else is SO.MUCH.CHEAPER… I save at the very least $100 a week. That really adds up – yo. But, dang, that place is SO crowded. Today – they were out of carts. There were so many people in the store – that all the carts were gone. Dang. The place was PACKED.
I did see a dear friend there though – she warned me of a shopper in lane 3 whose child had an extremely dirty diaper – apparently, people were avoiding the dirty diaper lady and her kid because they were STINKY. On my wonderful trip, there was the woman who I was shopping near whose child-big-enough-to-know-better had a whistle. This kid didn’t stop whistling. At all… non-stop… my ears were bleeding… It was horrible… The mom asked him to stop over and over. And she then just covered her ears. You could hear this whistle from aisles away. They were near me the entire 2 hours I was in Walmart. They even followed me out to the parking lot. If I had gotten closer to the kid, I think I would have shoved the whistle down his throat with a palm-heel strike. KEY-UP!
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09.25.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:36 pm by hecticmom
Tonight starts the season for The Office. Yay! Love the Office. And today, we had an office party. It was really nice to get away from work and eat each others food. One wonderful person brought this dip that I can’t stop thinking about.
It was so incredibly yummy – spicy and tangy and just full of awesomeness.
He sent me the recipe. I think I might make it this weekend. Because it was that good. Either that, or he put crack in it and now I’m addicted forever. Which might just be the case.
Here is the Crack-laced dip (cause if my new dealer provided me with the recipe, I figure I should be so kind to pass it on to you):
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
6 tablespoons fresh lime juice
4 green onions, finely chopped
2 tablespoons minced seeded jalapeño chile
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
For spicy ranch sauce: Whisk all ingredients in medium bowl to blend. Season sauce with salt and pepper.
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09.24.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:22 pm by hecticmom
We moved into our house in 2000. Our neighbors on either side of us moved in a year after we arrived. Our across the street neighbors have been there since before we moved.
Saying that – we really don’t know any of them. Last year when we went to Hawaii, we reached out to our across the street neighbors (who had two high school girls) to help out with our cats after our cat-sitter left us in the lurch. And now we have a friendly – “Hey, HowAreYa” type of relationship.
Our other across the street neighbors – they have two kids – a boy Prissy’s age and a boy Bubba’s age. The mom and I were both pregnant at the same time. We both brought baby gifts to each other when our youngest sons were born. You would think that we would be the best of friends. But, we haven’t really spent much time together.
When the kids went to their previous schools we didn’t get home until late and we had “stuff” every night, blah blah blah. Our paths just haven’t crossed. Well, Bubba and their youngest son are now in the same class. And they are the bestest friends ever. I’m going to give the kid a name – I’m going to call him Montana – because he’s like Joe Montana - the kid is going to be a football star someday.
Anyway, the boys have played together a lot and gone to each other’s house (which I think is SO COOL) and today Montana came over because his after-school babysitter had something going on. He’s a really good kid, and the boys did their homework and then played. But, it felt like I was actually being a good neighbor. I know that sounds totally weird – but I’ve always had a lot of guilt about it. I’m sort of the shut-in of the neighborhood. Now, I’m actually starting to know my neighbors.
After almost 9 years.
No one said I warm up quickly.
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09.21.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:26 pm by hecticmom
I decided to post some pictures tonight – just because.
I know I always appreciate some random pictures from the blogs that I read:
Jasmine is getting SO BIG! She’s a sweet and pretty chillax kitten. Although, compared to Oreo’s babyhood – I think anything would be considered chillax.
We went to dinner last night and had to wait a bit. I happened to have my camera with me so I snapped some photos:
And Mr. Not-happy-to-have-picture-taken:
Hubby’s backyard landscaping is looking really pretty:
I think we need to get Oreo to lay off the kitten food:
Jasmine doesn’t always love it when Prissy holds her but sometimes “allows” it:
Finally – the kitties still love each other and often sleep in each other’s embrace:
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09.20.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:45 pm by hecticmom
The website for our baton team is alive. If you are interested the production site is here:
http://accelerationbaton.com I still want to add somethings to it, but I love that I can have public vs. registered users.
Soccer update – Bubba totally scored two goals today. He just took the ball and ran it around everyone and scored. Both times. It was awesome. So far this season, he has scored (or gotten credit for) a goal in every game. That’s dang good. Today Prissy didn’t score a goal – this is the first game she hasn’t scored in. She did get kicked in the knee HARD and had to be carried off the field sobbing. That wasn’t so good – but she was ok. On the upside, it was an absolutely gorgeous day – perfect for soccer. Sunny, cool – just a perfect day.
And the last thing I did was play the new game Spore this evening. It’s a little bit addictive. I’m more of a blogger than a gamer – but this one sucked me in for almost an hour tonight and I’m ready to play some more.
But, I have blogs to read and a bed that is calling my name – we stayed up pretty late last night and then got up early for Bubba’s game. So, I want to go to bed at a reasonably decent hour.
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09.18.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:31 pm by hecticmom
Prissy had her first cross country meet today. She did extremely well. There were a CRAZY number of kids – there were 1,500 4th, 5th and 6th graders from all over the county. Prissy placed 99th out of what we think was 150 5th grade girls. So, for not being a runner until very recently – she did great.
Anyway, here are some pictures from today:
Coach prepping the team:
Stretching:
Getting excited:
Principal there to support the team (oh, I could write a whole post on how much I love this school’s principal.)
Getting ready at the starting line:
Waiting for the gun to go off:
And their off:
Almost there, at this point, she had sprinted almost a mile.
Prissy really enjoyed it and she was so proud of herself. I’m pretty proud of her too. And man is there a lot of excitement at cross country meets!
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09.17.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:12 pm by hecticmom
Oh dudes -
I’m finally starting to feel better – Thank Gawd. And every night I’ve been working on the baton website. I really wanted to use Joomla – which is an open source content management system. But, it’s not terribly intuitive. I have slogged my way through and now I feel relatively comfortable and I think I’ve made a pretty nice website. It’s still in development, and I still have so many things I want to do – but at least I’m making some progress. I’m digging this CMS – it’s so much easier than statically editing the pages. Plus – the other board members can update the website too. (if you’d like to see my sandbox, it’s at
http://mcvayindustries.com/joomla/.)
So – I done taught myself something. Shoot, I think that learning Joomla was actually on my things to do before I die list. WOOT! It’s taken me long enough.
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09.16.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:17 pm by hecticmom
This picture was taken 10 years (and a few days) ago. While, the quality is truly horrible (it’s a picture of a picture) it still brings back some really nice memories.
We had a rather nontraditional wedding – we decided to have a pot luck wedding. We had been living together for quite some time and didn’t need all the regular “stuff” that newlyweds need. So, instead of stuff – we asked our friends and family to help us to celebrate our wedding by bringing us their favorite potluck dish. There was SO MUCH FOOD. Oh, and the food was absolutely wonderful.
The day was very hot, but it turned cooler as the evening went on and it ended up raining after the ceremony (which was outside), but we were all dry and comfortable at the reception which was inside. You have to realize that it doesn’t rain in the summer in Sacramento – so this rain was quite the surprise.
We had a DJ / singer – who was totally hitting on one of my friends. That was weird. But, he sang well and played good music.
Anyway, I was looking at posting a picture today and this is the one that caught my attention. I can’t believe how much younger we both looked. Man – what two kids and working full time will do to a person. *LAUGH*
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09.13.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:13 pm by hecticmom
This is just a quick post – I’m so grateful today is over. I’m sleeping in tomorrow. Prissy and I both have a sore throat and Hubby is leaving tomorrow on a business trip.
We just returned from Chuck E Cheese’s – I don’t think there are many places on earth that I dislike more. It was a party for Bubba and his Taekwondo Buddy. The Taekwondo instructors showed up and it was very nice of them.
Bubba had a soccer game today and they totally and humiliatingly destroyed the other team. Bubba’s team won 14 to 0. After the first 5 goals in the first quarter of the game, our coach started pulling the kids out. He was playing our 5 boys against 7 of them. We were still killing them. So, then, the coach put all but one boy in the backfield and just one forward (that means 7 of their kids against a single-solo player on our team) and we were STILL scoring. It was just embarrassing. Every boy on Bubba’s team scored today. It was crazy.
Prissy’s game was more evenly matched. Prissy’s team won 3 to 0. Prissy scored a goal and assisted on another. It was a much more exciting game to watch.
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