Still no guppy babies & happy Wednesday!

Holy crap. Can they really stay pregnant for life? All 3 of my female guppies r hugely pregnant and no babies yet. One of them (Rainbow) has been with a male for 22 days that I know of. No idea if she was with males before that. They only stay pregnant for an average of 28 days with 21 being shortest time so she should be droppin anytime! The other two I have no idea how far along they r. They were pregnant when we got them and r growing everyday. I thought yesterday was going to be the day for Rainbow. She was breathing all weird and chasing off the boys and hiding a lot but nope. Nothing. So I thought maybe overnite. Still nothing! Damn fish! lol

So tonite its eggplant lasagna for dinner. I was going to go with a pot roast or stuffed chicken but I forgot to thaw them out so that will have to wait until tomorrow.

So the diet. Its going. Havent gained or lost any weight really but I keep weighing in (Wii Fit Plus!) at random times of the day so it isnt consistent. Im going to try doing it around noon and sticking with that time from here on out. Still taking the Xenical and still working out with Wii Fit Plus and EA Active for Wii. The kids love laughing at me when it tells me Im running too slow or when my little mii chick gets all hot and sweaty lol. Someday they will be out of shape and fat and I will be the one laughing at them! lmao. And YES Wayne actually got on the thing. He wasnt thrilled but he did it lol. Now just to keep him doing it!

Ok thats about it for today. Its chilly and rainy and the leaves r falling like crazy out there. Good day to do nothing!

Finally this weekend is over!

Not that it was really really bad but It felt like a long weekend for sure. Friday the kids and I got soaking wet in the rain grocery shopping. It totally sucked. Was soooo windy and wet and my car the vets arent working right so we had a helluva time keeping the windows from fogging up. Finally I gave up and came home. Just couldnt take it anymore. Came home and did whatever (cant even remember what we had for dinner!) and that was that.

Saturday I had to go get Shakes meds at the vet with my aunt. He starts them tomorrow and his blood test is on the 18th. We only got two weeks worth of meds. I dont want to buy a ton of one dose and have the test say he needs a different dose and then Im stuck with them. So when the results come back on Tuesday Ill have to go get more meds for him. He seems to be feeling ok though so thats good. After the vet my aunt and I went to the grocery store. Shes soooo slooooow. We were in there for two hours which is 1 hour 59 mins longer than I wanted to be there! lol. I did get some good deals though and planned some different meals for this week since everyone seems to be getting bored with chicken around here. Came home and my aunt decides to rearrange her house. I came home to my house trying to avoid it! Decided to make meatballs so I made a bunch of them and we had meatball sandwiches for dinner (yum) and I froze the rest. Then I decided to fry some eggplant from the garden before the frost hits. Froze that too for parm & eggplant lasagna. So that was pretty much Saturday.

Sunday was calm. My aunt made cabbage rolls for dinner. One of my least favorite meals. Choked that down and came home and watched Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs with the kids. Cute movie. Not in my list of top kids movies but it was good.

Lets see. What else. Oh the Xenical. Wayne is actually taking it. I dont think hes thrilled lol but hes taking it. Im going to try forcing him onto the Wii fit tonite to get a weight on him. Shhh dont tell him or he wont come home! LMAO! Dont think he will do it but we'll see. Ive been taking it too and so far it seems fine. No idea if its working yet but time will tell.

Oh so after all that shopping here is what Ive come up with for the week. My menu for the last few weeks has been basically chicken, pork, chicken, pork, ground beef, chicken, pork, pizza, chicken, pork lol. Yeah everyone is bored with it so I tried to work out a different plan. Here r my plans for the week:

Monday - Western (ham, pepper, onion, egg, cheese) omelet english muffin sandwiches, pancakes (I dont eat pancakes but the kids and Wayne do), hash browns - Again probably not so healthy. English muffins were on sale though (6 packages for the price of 2 packages!) and potatoes were also on sale (15lbs for $2!) and Im going to try making them with just mostly egg whites and only half the yolks to make them a little better.


Tuesday - Hot dogs, mac & cheese, beans - Ok yes it isnt healthy and doesnt sound inspired but its different than our usual meals and I got good hot dogs so it will be yummy.


Wednesday - Pot roast, potatoes, carrots and onions with broccoli - Not one of my favorite meals but Im going to do it in the crockpot so I can just chuck it in and forget it even exists lol. Ill eat mostly just the veggies myself.

Thursday - Chicken, stuffing, mashed potatoes, brussel sprouts. Again the chicken will be crockpot so its easy.

Friday - I have a drs appt at 1:15pm so Ill most likely be bringing something home.

Possible change - Since I fried all that eggplant Saturday I might make an eggplant lasagna either Wednesday or Thursday instead. Basically its a mix of a lasagna with noodles and an eggplant parm. Yum.

Well thats it for today!

Fish babies, dead rats, sick dogs and random other things

Well this has been an interesting few weeks. Lets start with the fish. Decided to set up a new fishtank a few weeks ago. Its been going well. We only lost 3 fish the first week and none since. Right now we have 3 male (Flame, Little Blue, Citrus) and 3 female (Peacock, Little Red, Rainbow) fancy guppies, 1 female mickey mouse platy (Minnie), 1 male marigold platy (Jack), 1 male (Pongo) and 1 female (Perdita) dalmatian mollies, 2 zebra (Stripes and Dirty Snowball) and 1 pearl danio (Pearl) sex unknown. Last Friday the kids and I had to go pick up meds for Shake at the vet (Ill get to that later) and when we came home we found a few baby fish in the tank. Now anyone who knows me - really knows me - will understand when I say that totally made me so excited! I could only find 3 at the time but they seemed to be doing well so I decided not to try taking them out of the main tank and away from the adults. Next morning I wake up and I can only find 1 baby. I went into panic. Tore apart the whole tank. Took out all the "savage baby killing adults" lol and started my baby hunt. Well I found my 1 baby and 5 others! YEAH! Got them into the little plastic breeder tank and the adults all back in the main tank happily when all of a sudden I see a 7th baby swimming around. Well I was already soaked and wasnt about to rip apart the tank again and decided to leave it be. That was a week ago and I havent seen it since so I assume it didnt make it. The good news is my 6 others r doing great! They r growing fast and I can even see them poop and eat lmao. They r cute. I have a few other females I think r pregnant too so Im watching them. Now comes the weirdness. I cant tell if they r guppy, molly or platy babies! I have no idea. In a few weeks as they grow Ill be able to tell but for now they just look like little swimming sperms with big black eyes lol. The other fish r all doing well too. We have 1 male betta (Elvis), 1 albino pleco (Alby), 1 fancy goldfish (Swimmy), 1 black moor goldfish (Jackson), 1 chinese algae eater (Brock) and 2 african dwarf frogs (Froggie 1 and Froggie 2 - I cant tell them apart! lol). It amazes me how relaxing and fun it is to just sit back for a few mins and watch them all do their fishy thing. Very nice!

Ok now onto the dead rats. Morbid I know! We r down to 3 ratties. 1 female Slushy who is about 2 and 2 males Nigel and Odd Ball who r 2 1/2. Its sad to only have 3 but its also ok. In the long run I want to get back to having just 2 males of the same age together. I started with females because the boy "parts" really grossed me out lol but the females get sooo many more tumors. I just moved Slushy into a smaller cage now that she is by herself and she seems to be happy. Nigel and Odd Ball r also getting a smaller cage this weekend because they r getting old and having issues climbing the ramps. I want to make it easier on my old men. Thats the rat news here.

Dogs. Man. Dogs. Remind me again why I have dogs? lol. So last week Shake started not feeling well. He will be 7 in Feb so not old really. He started to have a hard time getting up and he would leak pee. On the couch, floor, everywhere. And he wasnt happy about it. He would look so sad. Wouldnt eat and was just not himself at all. So we take him to the vet and his kidney functions r failing. Meds and home he comes and they decide to check him for Cushings Disease. Sure enough he has it. At the same time his intestines r inflamed so we r dealing with that also. So tomorrow I have to go back to the vet and get his first batch of new meds. With meds and testing its going to cost about $500 a month to start and hes going to be doing this forever. I cant not treat him though and I cant put him down. I just cant. So we will make it work. Somehow.

As for the other critters (hamsters, birdies, bunny, cats, dogs) everyone is doing good. Hopefully they will stay that way because Im runnin out of money! lol. Shimmer has a vet appt next Saturday to get her thyroid checked again and Cry Baby also has an appt next Saturday for his ear infection.

Ok so random things. Wayne is still at EB and he really likes it. He just moved from a driller to a nuke instructor. Scary eh? lol. Hes the only ex-Navy nuke there though so he was a sure hire for the job. Big raise and all that. So then he has to get this physical for his blood pressure at our regular dr. I went to get mine done too. Of course his is sky high and mine is just a little up. Well I decided to ask the dr about Xenical. For those who dont know about it its basically double strength Alli which is a weighloss pill u take when u eat meals that have a lot of fat. It keeps ur body from absorbing all of the fat in the meal. Over the summer I joined the gym and I loved going but my back was and still is a serious issue and the dr didnt want me to go anymore. Ive been working out at home (Wii Fit and EA Active kick my ass 5 days a week!) but things hurt. A lot. Im hoping the more weight I can lose the more I can get my back/hip feeling better. So Ive lost a little but not as much as I would like and Wayne needs to drop an easy 100lbs. So the dr said yes to the Xenical and the ins is actually paying for it so we started that today. A few years ago I did Alli and lost 30 pounds in a few months. Most of that was leftover Robyn baby weight. It was great but cost a fortune. This is double strength and 1/3 the price. Nice. I dont want to lose tons. I really dont. But Wayne HAS to lose weight and if I dont make him he wont do it. As much as I want to kill him lol I dont really want to see him drop dead of a stroke. Once he sees me doing it he will follow. He always does. So we started the Xenical today. Wish me luck!

Lets see. What else? Oh the kids! Cant forget them lol. They r good. Trying to force them into the swing of school. Not easy. Robyn is soooo stubborn. I mean really. Shes nothing like me! LMAO! Angelina and Wayne r butting heads big time. Ive had to take her phone away a few times and send him to bed lol. Josh is just Josh. Pretty chill but the teen years r upon us so we r dealing with that. Fun fun!

Oh geeze and phones! Weve had Sprint for about 3 years. Service was pure crap at home and we were always roaming onto Verizon so in August we decided to switch to Verizon so we got new phone numbers. Much better service let me tell u but what a nightmare. People please when u leave a number TELL PEOPLE so they dont keep calling u! I get constant calls and texts for someone named Andy. Apparently Andy never told anyone he has a new number. He owes his baby mama child support, his car broke down and he had it towed and never went to get it 2 months ago, at the same time he got a rental car which he never returned, he doesnt show up for work half the time AND dude owes people a ton of money. Heres my thing. If Im going to run off on my kid and snatch a rental car and owe people cash why change my number? Id like to know when they r all gonna hunt me down and beat my ass! Id just ignore the calls and keep the same number. Geeze. Andy if ur out there please I beg u. Call these idiots and tell them to take my number out of their phones and please go get ur baby some formula! My god.

Ok so lets talk TV. I dont watch tons but I have some faves right now. NCIS is amazing. Last season was awesome and this season so far does not disappoint. It helps that Gibbs is hot (as is Ziva even though shes a chick lol)  but really the writers for that show r just incredible. Keep it up NCIS! Then we have Dancing with the "Stars" ack. I hate it but I watch it  because Josh loves it. This season I dont have a clear fave. Ones I wanted to hate Im liking and ones I thought I would like I dont so much. So that should be interesting. Glee. My god. At first I wanted to rip my own eyeballs out watching it. Then it grew on me a  little. Very little. We missed the first episode of this season but I did see this weeks and it SUCKED ASS! If they dont step it up its coming off my dvr real quick. Outsourced. OMG soooo funnnny! Basically its am American guy running a call center in India. Like that would ever really happen? LMAO! Really though its too damn funny and the fact that its on the same nite as Big Bang Theory gives me a good Thursday nite! Loving RuPauls Drag-U lol and Project Runway and Americas Next Top Model this season as well. American Idol I still havent decided if Im going to watch without Simon. Randy annoys me and I dont love the new judges. Ryan being hot might keep me watching but thats about it. Waiting for So You Think You Can Dance to come back.

Anyway thats the news here! Nothing too exciting. lol. For those reading this my plan is no more than 1 post per day. I have friends with blogs and when they post every 5 mins it drives me nuts. Thats what Facebook status updates r for people! So this one Im going to post since I doubt Ill add to it later but usually Ill just draft it and post them at the end of the nite. Have a good weekend all!

Ok lets try this again

Trying to figure out how to link this to FB. I think I finally got it!

Edit: Hmmm nope. Didnt work. Well crap!

Edit again: Ok it does work! It just takes a loooooong time for the post to port over to FB. Good enough for me though :)

Gonna try getting back into blogging

So its been interesting around here lately and I thought I would give blogging a shot again. Of course it took me 2 days to remember where my old blog was but Ive finally found it! lol. Now lets post and see if it still works!

Glasses or no glasses...that is the question...

Well for awhile now Angelina has been saying her eyes r out of whack. Its not all the time and isnt even every week but shes mentioned it several times and it seems to be getting more and more frequent. She finally has her appt today at 5pm to get her eyes checked for the first time ever. If she has Waynes eyes she stands a decent chance of not needing glasses but if she has my eyes shes screwed totally! Almost everyone in my family has glasses at least for reading and I would still have them myself 24/7 if it werent for fabulous laser eye surgery. She says she wont mind if she needs them (her Cousin Tay has them and looks great!) and is glad to have it checked out but personally I think if she does get glasses its going to be a battle. First shes picky picky picky so I fully intend to spend a fortune. Second Robyn has to have everything that anyone else has so that will be big trouble. Obviously she will have to get over it but still it will be interesting. I guess we'll see in a few hours!

Holy Facebook and ur addictions T, Lettie, Rho, Christie and Diana!

Ok Facebook has to stop adding new things. I have sooooooo many invites and notifications I cant keep up. Between T, Lettie, Rho, Christie and Diana I might go nuts LMAO! I dont know how u guys keep up with these things. I can barely keep up with just Mafia Wars and Pirates. Youve got eggs and hatching things and hunts and holy cow the list never ends. U all need help with ur addictions!

Now onto my own addictions LMAO! Mafia Wars is awesome. I never get into things like that but I really like it! Im making like $60,000 an hour now which is nothing compared to some of the people Ive seen playing but is still a lot to me. Im doing some serious ass kickin which I love lolol! I even got Wayne playing last nite and although he isnt as easily addicted as I am but Im betting he will be soon!

Pirates I just started only to humor Christie LMAO but its pretty much the same as Mafia. Takes some getting used to the differences but its workin good. When my energy is down on one I can do the other till it builds back up!

As for the Funkeys Im getting better at remembering whats where and who can go to which places thanks to Lettie. Angelina was playing for quite awhile yesterday really getting into it. Robyn just thinks they r cute to carry around and make them into a little family. Josh is still getting over his flu but hes feeling a lot better every day and thank God no one else has it yet!

Wayne started EB yesterday so Im down to working only Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday which really is fine with me. Tax season is slowing down quite a bit (not that it ever really got busy this year) so Im good with only 4 days a week till April 15th when its all said and done. Gives me more time with the kids!

Anyway thats all for me. I gotta pretend to work for awhile LMAO! Till next time!

UB Funkeys r pretty cool!

Ok so Lettie has been playing these UB Funkeys things with the cousins for quite awhile now. At Christmas time Mom asked me if I thought my brats might like em and I didnt know so she went ahead and got them a starter pack. Well here it is March and I finally got around to hooking it up the other day after having Lettie tell me a little about them at her house. Holy freakin cool hey! Between the two Lettie gave us and the two Mom started us off with we had a good time with em night one. Only problem was the hub (thing u hook to the comp) kept dieing so I had to go get another and return the broken one. No biggie. While there we saw on clearance two more one being a "chat funkey" so we got that and then we got two for Josh and Angelina to have on Robyns bday yesterday bringing us up to 8 funkeys! Each funkey unlocks different games and things and weve already started building our house for em online. Robyn and Angelina r really getting into it and Josh while a little old for it does like the games so its cool. Just another little addiction only good thing is this one doesnt require feeding and its really pretty cheap LMAO!

Still kickin!

Wow! Cant believe its been this long since Ive been on here! Anyway we r all still kickin. Robyn turns 3 today. I cant believe it! Yesterday she got her ears pierced. We wanted to wait till she asked for it to be done like we did with Angelina and shes been asking a lot so we gave in. She did good and is so brave! Ill post a pic later on. Josh and Angelina r good. Everyone just got over a nasty ass cold - hopefully the last one of the year! Wayne starts Electric Boat tomorrow finally. A nice chunk of $ more and hour and tons more growth available so it will be a good change I think. I had to cut down work to 4 days a week but Im really fine with that. These 50+ hour weeks have been KILLING me! Thank God April 15th is knocking on my door LMAO! New car is great. Its an Outback and I love it. Takes some wear and tear off the Malibu too so its good. Lets see what else? I guess thats it! Ill post some pics later of the birthday girl!

Holy pregnant sea monkey!

Ok yes I know they r just "shrimp" but holy crap one of our sea monkeys is knocked up and the egg sac is MASSIVE! Its been there for quite a long time though (a good couple weeks) and I cant seem to find anywhere online that says how long they stay pregnant for. I hope she doesnt die before she lays the eggs. The suckish thing is we had some babies about 2 weeks ago and they all died so Im thinking its just too cold for them downstairs now and they need to be moved upstairs. Sucks because there really isnt a place I can put them where Robyn wont touch them so I am going to have to find a shelf I can hang for them. Might look a little out of place but at least it will keep them safe from small curious hands! Anyway thats my exciting news of the day. I would say I'll post pics but yeah no lol.

New cage, bottles, tax school & dogs!

First of all the dogs r driving me INSANE! Ive been gone since Wednesday morning from 7am till 10pm for tax school and the dogs have a harder time with it than the kids do! Now thats sad LMAO!

School is going ok though. Pat and I have a few issues with others in the class not doing as much as they should be but Al the owner is on top of it. Im just so afraid Im going to end up a baby sitter like last year and I dont want to do that again. I want to do taxes and not just sit around fixing other peoples mistakes! After all the crap last year I really wasnt sure I wanted to do this again but now Im pretty excited about it and hopefully it will go well and turn into a yearly thing that I enjoy.

So last week I got a new cage for the boys. A girl didnt need it anymore so I went and got it and they love it! The pic of it is at the top of this post because I cant get it to move down here LOL! Anyway it sells for between $110 and $130 and I really wouldnt be able to afford one new for a long time so this was a great find. Its pretty easy to clean too. Tonite I managed to pop all the shelves out and scrub them down and get them back in and it really didnt take that long. I love it!

As for bottles Rho got me into this message in a bottle craft swap thing and Im really excited about it! Heres a link to some info:

http://gomakesomething.com/challenges/mib/mib-about/

I think its going to be a lot of fun so if anyone wants to join in let me know!

Well thats all the news here and now Im off! Till next time!

Wow been a lifetime!

Ok so Ive been doing shitty at keeping this thing going. With all the crap going on here Im surprised I dont have much time though so its not totally my fault. So where to start? Well lets see. Ive been sicker than hell. Wicked cold/cough that just wont quit for 2+weeks now and seems to be coming back again. Josh got it about a week ago and he really was coughing so he went to the Dr and is on antibiotics but hes some better. Angelina just got it 2 days ago and shes not too bad thank God and Robyn only has a slight cold again thank God! Wayne hasnt gotten it at all - lucky bastard! Speaking of Wayne. Hes going for this huge (and by huge I do mean HUGE) job and if he gets it we will be so set its not even funny. He passed all the testing with flying colors and is just waiting for the formal interview which hopefully will be soon so everyone cross ur fingers on that one! What else? The damn animals! Shimmer got sick last week. Out of the blue she was throwing up and unable to keep even water down so off to an emergency vet visit we went. $105 (not bad actually) later we come home with pills for puking, new thyroid pills, iv fluids & needles. She was better the next day so Im thinking it was something in the yard she ate. Cry Baby on the other hand is another issue. Basically hes not himself and Im saying its because his skin is so itchy (he has such sensitive skin). Im heading tomorrow to get him some meds for it and see how it works out. All of the other mutts, cats, bunny, hamster, rats, hermies, fish & sea monkeys r good. On a totally different note the classes Pat and I have to take for out Jackson Hewitt job r moving right along. I was very nervous meeting the owner for the first time. I cut my hair so my tattoo shows and I wasnt sure if he would say anything about that or my nose & eyebrow piercings. So I was almost going to say forget it because I didnt know what he would be like but I didnt. So far he hasnt said anything about them so thats a plus because I really dont want to take them out since they get infected so easily and covering the tat isnt going to happen period. I wasnt so sure he liked me the first few classes (we go twice a week) but as time goes by he seems to be ok with me and hes a really nice guy so I think working with him will be good. The classes r fairly easy but the last chapter really took a lot of work and thinking. It was good though. Pat and I worked together on it at home and we really did learn a lot that we didnt already know from doing taxes before. So yeah I think its going to be good and Im actually excited to get moving doing real returns. Well I guess thats it! I really cant think of anything else fun or exciting so Ill write more later! Ciao!

Holy sea-monkeys!

So we got Angelina sea-monkeys for her bday and holy crap they have hatched like crazy! I didnt put the whole pouch of eggs in because I wasnt sure I was supposed to and I figured save them so if they dont hatch I can add more since its been chilly here at nite. Well over the past three days Ive been adding eggs slowly and we have a TON of monkeys hatched! I cant believe how many. Kind of amazing really when u think about it that they can just package this shit up and bam they hatch. T's even mate! We also got her the butterfly tree house so we mailed away for the caterpillars and once they come we r going to do that. The only thing is with it getting cold (Im a yankee people it gets cold here early!) chances r we will have to keep them in the house for their entire lifespan which wont me good once they drop dead on us. The kids know they wont live all that long though so hopefully it will be ok. I think it will be neat for them to watch though so I cant wait. Anyway thats my monkey experience so far! Cant wait to see how big the little shits grow LMAO!

My baby is 8!

Well one of my babies anyway lmao! Yesterday was Angelinas bday. We spent it at the beach clamming and having fun. It was a good day. Then last nite Im sitting here getting ready to come in the house for the nite and in walks my Mom with a pillow and blanket. Im like wtf lmao! She had promised Angelina a sleep over but I totally didnt expect her to do it. Well she did and she even slept till 4:30am which is a miracle for my vampire of a Mother. Today Im making clam chowder and fritters with the clams we got yesterday. Everyones pissed Im not making clear broth and instead Im making red chowder. I like the red a lot and I found the recipe for Rocky Point Chowder House which is an amusement park that used to be open when I was a kid through my late teenage years. Well they had all u can eat chowder and fritters and we used to go there several times a year with my Grandmother and it was just amazing. First u eat and eat and eat till ur ready to pop and then u go puke it up on all the rides lmao. It was a blast! Well the place closed down many years ago and they had a small restaurant that still served their red chowder and fritters but they closed down last year so I decided screw it Im gonna make my own with the recipe I found. So far it tastes pretty damn good so I cant wait to eat! Anyway thats my day and Im off! Till next time!

Magic Eraser!

Ok I really just have to say I love the Magic Eraser!!! OMG! Seriously if u havent tried one go right now to Walmart and get a package. Ive never used them before but yesterday something in my head said "have Wayne get a Magic Eraser on his way home from work" so he did and WOW! Rarely if ever do things seen on TV actually work "as seen on TV" but I can honestly say these do. Heres my list of pros & cons and things it works on so far.

Pros:

1. U dont use soap.
2. Because u dont use soap u dont have to rinse what ur washing.
3. U just wet the thing then ring it out so u dont have nasty soapy water running down ur arms. Ur virtually using it dry.
4. No smell. If ur like me and dont like the way a lot of soaps smell this is a major plus.
5. The kids can use it because u dont have to apply tons of pressure.
6. Cheap. 2 for $2.22 at Walmart. Seriously thats a good deal hey.
7. U can use it on just about any surface. If u go online there r TONS of tips and do's but really there r hardly any dont's.
8. U use it then rinse it in the sink and use it again. Ur not sticking ur hand in a nasty bucket of gross water and washing things with dirty water. Ick!

Cons (I only have 2!):

1. It doesnt last forever. Really I did a lot of washing with the 2 we bought (Waynes buying 6 more today!) but yeah they dont last as long as I would like. Really though if ur using it just for the random crayon on the wall or nasty hand print on the door its going to last u quite awhile.
2. Once it starts to crumble THROW IT AWAY! I tried to keep using it with it in pieces. Not smart. it just left pieces on the wall. The good thing is once it dried the pieces easily wiped away.

Things I washed with it (now dont think my house is a piss hole from this list!):

1. Hand prints up and down the stair way walls/banister. Seriously with 3 kids going up and down the stairs my stair way walls were NASTY! Sure I spot clean it with bleach spray but honestly its a pain in the ass. The ME worked GREAT!
2. Angelinas drawings on the walls. What can I say? Shes an artist. The ME took away marker, crayon, paint (washable kids paint) and highlighter. Really it left little if any behind.
3. Mildew in the bathroom. We have one small hand print sized section in our bathroom that has been mildewed for years. Its never come off with anything yet until now. It wiped away with such ease I almost shit my pants. At least I was in the right room in case I had LMAO!
4. Food! Food! Food! This thing cleaned the micro like nothing before. It looks damn near brand new now. Stuck on shit that I havent been able to get out for years came out like nothing.
5. Ok picture this. U have a screen door and 6 dogs. The 6 dogs go outside, shit, piss, eat and then they scratch this screen door to be let back in. Imagine how nasty that door gets on the bottom. Do u really think I want to stand there with a bucket and scrub the thing putting my hand in gross dog water to ring out the rag? Um no. Needless to say it doesnt get washed often and was N-A-S-T-Y! Well the ME hit it and I swear I heard the door moan a sigh of relief. It looks amazing!
6. My grandmothers wooded butcher block. As every knows my Grandfather was a butcher. My Mom was a butcher. All my Uncles were and some still r butchers. So naturally we have several butcher blocks and naturally the edges r just icky. Well the ME takes it all away!
7. Fridge! OMG! U can see urself in the damn thing its so shiny!

And that completes the list of what Ive used it on so far. I was literally up scrubbing until 2am and I was enjoying myself! Ive never had so much fun cleaning in my life. Now I just have to wait for Wayne to get home from work with the next batch so I can scrub some more! Everyone run! Dont walk! RUN to Walmart and buy several boxes NOW! And for those of u who receive Xmas gifts from me plan on Magic Erasers every year from here on out LMAO!

Long weekend and even longer day ahead today

OMG what a weekend. Lets see. Heres all the things I/we (me and Mom or me and Wayne) did and how long it took:

• Cleaned porch room, Me/Mom 3 hours total - now for anyone who hasnt been to my house this is a HUGE ass room with a cement floor, raw wood beam walls/ceiling and huge huge windows. Its where the dogs eat when they eat outside and its a dirt and dust magnet full of spiders and God knows what else. We clean it like twice a year and thats it because honestly u clean it one day and the next its so dusty again u cant see out the windows. The room is spotless...for now.
• Trimmed allllll the briers, poison ivy, tall shit weeds around the yard, Me/Mom 2 1/2 hours total - Keep in mine here I have a very big yard that sits ont he water. The dampness from the pond makes things grow like...well...weeds. Now normally trimming weeds wouldnt take so long but our weed whacker is broken so we had to use these little trimmer things. My Mom wouldnt go neat the poison ivy so I got stuck with that and one chunk of crap I pulled up had a nest of red ants under it. Naturally I didnt realize it until my legs were being bitten and my hands were covered with the damn things. That wasnt fun hey.
• Convinced Josh and Angelina to go through all their toys and get rid of some, Me/Wayne damn near 4 hours - Ok so stay with me here. We decided to take and go through all the kids toys and take some to salvation army. We being me and Wayne. The kids agreed at first. All in all we basically have just as many toys as we started out with so I plan to go through them again next weekend and get rid of more but for now they didnt do too bad. They got rid of about 5 bags total.
• Painted the gate, Me/Mom 1 hour - Ok seriously this should take like 20 mins max but the gate is a couple years old and has NEVER been painted. Its rough cut wood and seriously it was a bitch to paint. One of us used a big brush and the other used a teenie tiny brush to get all the ridges and hard to reach areas which was insane. That gate will never be painted again as long as I live.
• Re-arranged Moms room, Me/Mom 1 1/2 hours - This is nothing new. Even when Mom lived with me she was moving shit around in her room constantly. Since shes moved next door nothing has changed.
• Re-arranged Josh and Angelinas Rooms and moved the big TV to our room, Me/Wayne 1 1/2 hours - Really this was nothing just time consuming. When we got our big flat screen TV we had to put the big TV we already had in Joshs room in a corner. Well his TV ended up in the camper on our last trip and is still there so we decided to give him our medium sized TV and to put the big TV in our room. That required moving a dresser that is really Robyns into Angelinas room (Robyn and Angelina will share a room eventually) and moving some of our dressers to make this huge ass TV fit. It wasnt easy but its done. We also had to move the dollhouse which for those who havent seen it is giant and not quite finished out of Angelina room and into the upstairs hall (very harge hall) so I can start working on it again in the fall.
• Cleaned sand area, Me/Kids 1/2 hour - Basically I took a huge old tupperware and drilled some holes in the bottom for water to drain and turned that into storage for all the kids sand toys. Threw away some old chewed toys.

Thats the basic list. We did other little things like painting the deck railings (Vin), painting the upstairs hall/trim (Wayne), washing windows (Me), making curtains for Moms room (Pat/Mom), Garden work (Everyone) and so on. Basically no one sat down on Sunday other than to eat, pee and damn near have a heat stroke and Saturday once we started we didnt stop till dark. Now today and tomorrow my goal is the inside of the house which Im off to get started on right now! *sigh*

Vote for Robyn!

Ok I don't know why we r doing this because last year the winner got over 25,000 votes (Navy kid) but when Josh heard it on the radio he insisted we enter Robyn in the baby contest. So everyone go vote and pass this on to everyone u know and ask them to vote too! This is the link to vote at:
http://q105.fm/PhotoWall.asp?id=42892
And all u have to do is enter the 3 digit # for Robyn which is 056 and ur name and hit submit. U can vote a million times if u want too from now until the 19th! I don't know why but for some reason her pic is showing as just # 56 and not 056 but I know u HAVE to put in the whole 3 numbers so make sure u put 056 and not just 56. For those of u who don't want to go digging through all the pics to see her this is the pic I entered with. Its totally typical Robyn doing what she loves most - hamming it up for the camera and swimming lmao! Thanks everyone!

Enough with the books already!

Ok seriously this is insane. We used to own a bookstore for several years. During that time we accumulated a LOT of books in this house...damn near 1,000 I would guess. They r a mix of kids books, parenting books, art/craft books, reference books and just plain old good reading books. So last nite I decide Im going to attach about half of our books which currently reside on one very large book case in what used to be our school room but had now become our rabbit/rattie/hamster/hermit crab room. So I go in and I take allll the books off the shelves and dust them off. That took well over an hour. Then I pile them on the love seat, couch and LR floor and attempt to organize them with a 2 yr old throwing them all over the place. Yeah that didnt work. So I decide I can organize them on the shelves and I start having Josh and Angelina carry them in to me in piles. About 2 hours later we were done and sure enough there is some organization. Not as much as I would have liked but at least they r all standing up the way they belong and not thrown all over the freakin house. I told the kids if they touch a single book without me helping them get it Ill be really really mad LOL! I will get them all the books they want but I would at least like them to stay organized for a little while! My next task in that room r the high shelves. They r full of games and old craft supplies I need to look through and see what Im going to use and not use. That cant be done today though. Tomorrow Wayne is taking the morning off to make a dump run so I HAVE to get things together for that. Theres tons of things around this house/yard/Moms house that need to go to the dump and since we only get there once or twice a year this is my only chance. Its now or never as they say! Anyway thats the story on the books. Who wants to make bets on how long they stay organized? LMAO!

Update turns into vent...woops!

Wow its been awhile since I really did a full out update! Ok lets see. Basically everything is fine here. Kids r good. Starting school tomorrow. They arent real thrilled with that but they will live! I want to get started early so we can do some review before moving ahead and maybe take a long vacation in the winter. We did that last year too and it helped especially Angelina but Josh liked it too. Ive had a brutal cold for a few days that just doesnt seem to want to go away. Sucks especially when its so hot! Waynes fine. He got that job working 6pm-3am so thats a major plus. His orientation is on Tuesday morn and as long as that goes ok and he passes his lift test which he should hes set to start Wednesday nite. The PO claims the chick thats leaving is leaving by Sept 1st and if she really does than that route becomes Waynes. He will probably stay with the nite job for a few weeks after that just to catch up bills and then he will most likely either leave there and do only the PO or stay there part time. The main goal is still full time at the PO though so cross everything people! Im not doing so hot saving for a laptop! Bills just keep adding on and gas money is sick here so yeah. I did find a REALLY nice new 17 inch Dell with number pad for $898 so thats my goal. It will be great for at home plus with the Jackson Hewitt job Im taking it will be much easier doing my classes online on a laptop. Hopefully in a few weeks I can get it. In the meantime though this old rellic desktop is working quite well! I can even get into Pogo most times to do my badges! The only problem is Angelina keeps stealing the comp to play Pogo too. Little brat is faster than I am at a lot of the games LOL! Josh isnt into online games. Hes a Wii boy. Loves the Wii. I keep telling them that once we start school the games r off during the day and they r only playing at nite/weekends and they both just roll their eyes lol. Should be fun! Lets see what else? Critters r all fine. Weve had a weird summer. No calls for the dog warden at all that we know of! He hasnt come by even once. Of course we already won the court case so maybe the moron neighbor has called and the warden just didnt come but I dont think so. Its been quiet. Weird. The dogs r actually being better this summer though with the boats. They r 2 and I think they r finally starting to realize they live on the freakin water and the boats r here to stay lol. Idiots! Ratties/bunny/hamster/cats r all doing good. I moved all the girls together into the huge ass Martins cage. They actually got along great right off the start. I was afraid for the two hairless ones Peach and Mama Peach but even they r good to go. That left the other large cage open for the boys so they got moved in there and OMG they r THRILLED! They love the wheel. They have probably 3x the room theyve had since they were born. Really this cage is awesome for them. Id love to get them a big Martins later on for the 7 of them but really there is no rush. This cage has more than enough room for them even when they r full grown so once money is flowing again the way it should be and bills r paid then they can get another cage. For now they r good to go though! So about that vacation in the winter. The ratties r the only real issue. My Mom wont feed them which is just stupid. Throw some food in and fill their water how hard is that? Not very. Which means I have to convince Lettie to come do it since she likes the rats and knows what to do. Wayne and I both have cabin fever though big time and T didnt help. She posted up a bunch of pics from when we were out there in Nov. I cant believe how small Robyn was in those pics! 9 months doesnt seem like such a long time but looking at those pics it really is. So yeah I want another Vegas trip soon! Robyn talks to T every single day on the phone but thats not the same as seeing her ya know? Hopefully we can save up some money and get out there in the winter and see T, Terry, Donna and Sheri. Same with Phillip and Renay. I hate going so long between visits to them! It wasnt so bad because we were there in Nov too which was just an awesome and relaxing time with them and they were planing to come up here or us go there in the summer but that didnt happen so of course I miss them. They r our first real mutual friends. Like friends we both love and enjoy being with. Usually there is one person in a couple that u just cant stand lolol but with them we both love them both so it sucks them being so far away. I hope someday they will move up here but in the meantime I just want to go visit more often and I have to call them more! I dont know why but I just really dont talk to anyone on the phone much anymore. I talk to T everyday many times a day lol and Lettie usually at least 5 times a week or more. Rho I talk to a lot online and probably a couple times a week when things arent crazy. Amy, Phillip & Renay though I never talk to! I have to stop that and start calling more! And I want to go see Rho! We havent known each other as long but I really would like to visit her soon. We have so much in common and hit it off right from day one. Shes awesome and Im really glad we met. And Diana! Ive known Diana for as long as Ive known T and Ive never seen her in person! It would be awesome to finally take that trip up to MI and go to where Wayne grew up if we could get there without his mother trying to gun me down (seriously that battle needs to just end but how? - its just insane and stupid and really quite sad that the kids have only met one member of their fathers family) and see Diana at the same time. It sucks having most of ur friends clear across the country damnit! ANYWAY somehow this turned into a vent lmao so Im done! I just really need a vacation damnit! Ok well Im off. The next few weeks I wont be around much. We have insurance people coming to inspect both houses on Aug 13th. We have TONS to do around here before then so my online time is going to be very little between that and starting school. I try to get on when I can though. Have a good weekend all!

Some freakin tired!

OMG am I tired. Mom had a new book she had to go put out at midnite in 3 stores last nite so I went with her to keep her awake. Didnt get home till 3:30am then got about 3 hours sleep. Im a walking zombie hey! I need a huge ass vat of coffee and a major nap. Yeah like thats gonna happen!