The "Made Up" Moms at School

I just don't get it. I really don't. It's 8am, and your taking your kidlets to school. You walk them up to the door, and there they are. The "Made Up" moms. You know the type - freshly showered, dressed in designer jeans and heeled boots, hair perfectly coiffed, and make up flawlessly in place. What the???? What time do these ladies wake up in the morning to achieve that?

When I was working outside the home, I could look that way too by 8am. But we are talking about a bunch of SAH moms here. Personally, I look forward to my shower when I get home from taking the kidlets to school. No "mom, mom, mom" when I'm shaving. No one walking into the bathroom asking me where their math book may be hidden. No interruptions. Period. I savor that morning shower every day.

In the afternoon, you will find me at pick-up showered and clean, but I'm not there to impress anyone, so don't expect make up and coiffed hair every day. (Oh, and I probally have stubbly legs under my discount jeans.)

Such a WASTE of a rose!!!

So I've been watching the Bachelor. I mean face it, who hasn't been watching? Even my ever lovin' husband got into it this season. Now, I knew that he was going to dump Melissa - it was all over the web. But what a WASTE of a good rose!

Then I had this monumental thought!

Maybe they hand out roses because roses die quickly! I mean, if the relationship was going to last, wouldn't they hand out carnations? Or how about a nice silk flower if they were thinking forever?

Speaking of silk flowers, I have these cuties in my Etsy store:


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And mention you saw it on my blog, and get 20% off :)

So, back to The Bachelor... what bombshell is going to be dropped tonight? After The Rose Part 2
Do we really need a part 2?

So I fell down the stairs today

I work from home, right? So working from home includes the occasional laundry break (I drink coffee all day long, so taking an actual coffee break isn't time conducive). Well, lo and behold, I finally did it. Falling that is. Down the stairs. With the full laundry basket. Right onto my bad shoulder.

I'm in pain.

Mention the "Graceful" fall in any private message to me on Etsy, eBay or Bonanzle, and get 30% any item.

Yeouch.

I'm like a lost sheep

So where have I been for the last 2 months? I feel like a little lost sheep... where's my border collie?

The last two months have been a whirlwind of eBay listings, uploading eBay listings to Bonanzle, and opening a shop on Etsy. If you haven't checked out these two new, amazing sites yet, please do so!!! Bonanzle is a great alternative to eBay. Lower prices for both buyers and sellers, and friendly, fun people!

Etsy is for anything handcrafted. And don't think your grandmother's church craft fair with crochet doilies. Nope, this is the real deal. Check out my shop ------>>>> and then check out other folks' shops. I found the most wonderful handcrafted Valentine's Day cards, and for less than I could have purchased at Hallmark :)

But you didn't come hear to read up on my business adventures!!! You want some blurb or something random that we can all find humor in, right?

I turned 40 a few weeks ago. Yay. Now, for those of you that know me personally, you already know that I could care less about birthdays. It's just a number, right? I mean, internally I feel like I'm still somewhere around 25, so no biggie. My ever lovin' husband and kidlets got me a book and a new computer game. Woo hoo!!!

But my BIG birthday gift was the new TV. Yep. Our oldie but goodie crapped out two weeks before my birthday, It was one of those HUGE tube version RCA's, 14 years old and counting. So instead of a nice spa weekend for me, in honor of my 40th, I got a new 40" LCD (free Blue Ray player with purchase). Yay me.

Oh, and I almost forgot. My cat gave me a lovely gift also. She puked all over my office.

No honey, I wasn't watching that....

I love my husband, I really, really do. But....

(There's always a but, right?)

One of his biggest vices, is walking into the family room and asking me for the remote. "Well, I was sort of watching this." I reply. He then will pick up the remote, and hit "record" on the DVR. He then proceeds to flip through all 800+ channels and usually settles on something like "Hair Bands of the 80's" on VH-1 or "NHL Classics" on some obscure ESPN channel. He'll watch for approximately 5.6 seconds, and then sets the remote down and walks out of the room.

Now, I usually pick up the remote and change it back to the channel I was originally watching. But tonight, I decided to ask him if he was coming back into the room. "No, why?" he responded. "No reason honey."

My goal for 2009

Hello blog readers! I know I've been away, but between the kidlets, the hubby and myself, it's been non-stop illness in our house!

So, I've decided that for 2009, my main goal, is to be a trophy wife. I am going to do everything in my power to be beautiful, have a clean house, well-behaved children, and be totally taken care of. I'm still creating my decidedly difficult plan, but rest assured fellow blog readers, there will be a plan.

I have only one resolution for 2009 - find and maintain inner peace. Maybe a trip to the Dali Lama is called for?

Abstaining, I SO need it!!!

It all comes down to this. 12 hours. From 1:30am until 1:30pm. The dreaded abstinence. The time in which one must abstain from all food and drink only black coffee (blech) or water, prior to one's blood work-up. I haven't had a physical in a few years, so it's about time. Why is it when you CAN'T have food, you want it the most??? I usually don't eat during the day at all, sans a small bowl of cereal, but I woke up this morning famished!

Is a really tiny little teaspoon of sugar, and a drop of half-and-half really going to screw up my blood work? I mean, really?