Meh

Here's Ryan's new baby.  Sparky.  He's adorable.  He only eats vegetables and plants.  He has to have a heat lamp.  He doesn't like his daily baths.

Gee....it's like he's a real kid.

She loves him to bits.

(He's an Eastern Hermann Tortoise for anybody wondering)

I occasionally babysit when she is out.  Hee.......

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It's totally normal for children to emulate loved adults in their lives, right?

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.........but the caboose is seriously lagging.

I'm still alive, but life gets busy sometimes.

I've had a ridiculous amount of graduations to attend....

.......parties to plan, parties to attend.....

.........nieces and nephews to entertain.....

.........insane amounts of food to cook.........

........and more recently, a dog whom we suspect has bone cancer.

(let's add my discontentment at my weight into the mix, shall we?  Why not...)

I've said it before.....and I'll say it again.  Meh.

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For those of you lucky enough to have a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop near you, I thought I would share this:

Free Doughnut Day.  Awesomeness.

In other news, I'm freaking out because I will be having a birthday party for Ryan on Saturday.  I still need to clean the house and decorate.  Per the last entry, y'all know I'm a lackidaisical housekeeper, so meh.

I'm hugging my coffee cup and trying to convince myself to be motivated.  I think I can.....I think I can.....

Oh!  Also, my daughter is a new mommy.  She has a new baby turtle named Agador Spartacus.  Sparky for short.  He's cute.  Pictures eventually.  Like when Ryan gets a new camera for her birthday.  LOL

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Jesse.....darling that he is......made dinner tonight.

He served me a plate of lasagna....(oh, don't get excited....it was frozen Stouffers lasagna).....and we sat down to eat.

He said "You know....since it's cool in the house, I'm going to set the oven on self-clean...."

"Sure...cool...." I said.

Adrian got up to get a piece of garlic bread.  Then he said.....

"Uhmmmm.....Dad?  Is the oven supposed to be on fire inside?"

::cough::

I never said I was a good housekeeper.  Maybe I should clean the oven more often though, huh?

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18 years ago today, I was in the hospital getting ready to be a mom for the first time.

Jesse was in basic training, and I was at Wilford Hall all by myself wondering if he was going to make it.  The doctor that I had was so incredibly sweet, and also...a Major who reassured me that come hell or high water, she would make sure he was with me even if she had to go get him herself.

Labor and Delivery was a piece of cake.  A couple hours of waiting and a couple pushes and I had myself a gorgeous amazing baby girl.  A very anti-pink girl, but a girl, nonetheless.

She has had, I think, a difficult life.  Being an Air Force kid meant you could never be sure that your best friend was gonna be with you forever.  Being the older sister of a special needs brother meant you would get picked on and had to suck it up and protect him anyway.  Being the older sister of another brother meant she would never have peace and quiet.  She was always so very sensitive and is still like that...but in a good way, now.  She wears her heart on her sleeve even though she tries not to.  She has a wild freedom that I hope never goes away.  She mastered the English Underground, for pitys sake!  By herself!!

So.  To my Baby Girl........Happy 18th Birthday.  I love you more than you can even possibly imagine.  (and don't listen to your dad.  He loves to mess with you.)

(check my side bar and go wish The Amish Kid a Happy birthday, okay?!)

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So, I have this friend ( Jaime ) who has this website ( Jaime ) and she is giving away free stuff every week.  Most of you know her, because if you don't know Jaime , then you are missing out.  She's kind of insane, but in that 'I have kids and I'm allowed to be that way and has anybody seen my other damn shoe!?!?!' kind of way.

Did I mention she's giving away free stuff every week?  For us, women...we dig the free stuff.  For you guys out there, she has hot pictures of herself in her bikini on the website . I'm not going to tell you where.  You'll have to go look and find them for yourself.

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I was watching BBC World News and heard a snippet about teens saving for retirement.  Something about them putting $3,000 into a ROTH....adding in $2,000 per year til age 25, and then leaving it alone to mature (or something...) and then diversifying it into bonds and something else......thereby allowing them a pretty easy retirement.  Who knows anything about this because try as I might, I could not find it on their website.

moving along, this has been a crazy couple of weeks.......Jesse's parents, graduations, sick dogs, aches and pains....whine whine whine.  If anyone wants to offer me their time share in Acapulco, I'll be happy to check it out.  gyahhh.....I could use a vacay.  One where it's not 98 degrees in the shade.  I'm telling you.....I go outside to fill the bird feeder and I'm sweating by the time I get back inside.  It's craziness.  Therefore, I try to stay in the air conditioning as much as possible, because I dislike sweat very much.  I don't like it on guys either.  Sorry guys.  I know that sweat/pheremone thing is supposed to turn women on, but not me.  Get your ass in the shower and come out naked and clean and thennnn we'll talk.

mmmkay, I went on a little bit of a tangent there, didn't I?  I'll blame it on the heat.  heh....

Oh!  Before I forget.....lookit my baby sister! 

Can you stand it!?!?  Isn't she adorable!?!?

and one more.....'cause I can....

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Everybody gets 'em, and my kid is no exception.

::sigh::  I can't believe my little baby girl is graduating.  Actually, I can't believe I'm that old....LOL

So, here it is.......

My brother and sister spent the night last night, and then Ryan is going shopping with my sister for some graduation stuff - because my sister is graduating as well.  Her graduation is on Saturday.  Ryan made her a big embarrassing sign.  Should be fun.  LOL

Thennnnnnnn tonight........I think the in laws are spending the night.  ::blink::  okay, why is everybody spending the night at our house?!!?  hee hee.  They raid our liquor cabinet at night or something?!

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I.......am more often than not, that one person who has the opposite effect that a drug is prescibed for.  A medical anomoly, aren't I?  pfft.  Anyway, I take Lexapro (because I'm a raving biotch otherwise?  meh - I said it so you don't have to) at night...... mainly because it makes me sleepy.  It's supposed to make you energetic.  That being said, everything is cool until I have to take some Tylenol PM or Drixoral and then I get these freaky internal shivers where I cannot warm up inside for the life of me.  WTFH?  Does this happen to anyone else?!?!!

After that paragraph, I will continue my whining with........

"I can't sleep."

AURGH.........I went to sleep at 4 AM.  Why?  Because I laid there and laid there and was tired, but couldn't sleep.  This seems to be a recurring thing as of late, but I'm not that stressed or thinking about anything, so again....WTFH......

You all know how much I love my sleep, so this is serious cutting into my chillin' vibe.

Maybe I just need a massage every night.  Yeahhhhhhhh that'll work. 

In a little while, this is gonna be me.......

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