What I Meant to Say

Chief at Hiding from the Kids is hosting What I Meant to Say again this Wednesday.  Grab the button above and play along.

What I said: to the neighbor who asked to borrow our dog for her trip out of town--"I don't think he'd do well with that.

What I meant to say:  "Are you nuts?  You want to take our dog on a road trip with you because you want a dog for company?  That's just crazy and we don't do crazy.  Find someone else who does do crazy and borrow their dog, kay?"



What I said:  to Turbo about an after dinner snack(aka dessert) "Maybe."

What I meant to say:  "If you keep asking there will be no dessert, after dinner snack or anything and you can just toddle your butt to bed, mister.  That's what you get when you go on continual request mode.  Asking every two minutes for your snack does not make Mommy feel all happy and generous.  Just shut it for ten minutes and then you might get something other than a free ticket to your room.



What I said:  "We got a date tonight, honey?"

What I meant to say:  "As soon as the kids are in bed tonight, you and me got a hot appointment together, baby.  Be ready!!"



What I said:  "I don't need much for Valentine's Day this year."

What I meant to say:  "While I don't need grand gestures for Valentine's Day this year, you better make some sort of effort.  Don't completely ignore the day--OK?"

Post-It Note Tuesday

It's Tuesday and there are three reasons to love Tuesday--it's NOT Monday, it's random Tuesday and it's Post-it note Tuesday!  Grab the button above and haed to SupahMommy's and see the other post-its.  Hre goes mine:

Random Tuesday and Other stuff

Keely is doing the Tuesday thing again.  You know, where you can dump your random thoughts so they don't drive you crazy.  Let's see what's roaming around my brain today.

--Was it just me or did the Superbowl Commercials underwhelm this year.  I honestly don't remember any that really stood out.  Maybe it was just me.

--I am so gald Monday is over.  Monday sucked this week.  The moon must have been aligned strangely because a whole lot of weird got dumped on us.  My mom is about ready to go off the deep end again.(She's an undiagnosed manic depressive.)  She's good for a while then some passing comment that she takes wrong will send her into poor me mode, the world hates me, why do I even try.  She dumped on us for a whole lot of crap yesterday.  Love you mom, thanks for sharing.

--The neighbors, whose daughter is in school with Turbo, freaked out on Sunday night, called and got Nick on the phone, told him a bunch of lies about her husband and then expected everything to be hunky dory Monday morning.  We have stepped back and are no longer sharing car pool duties.  We have enough crazy in the family, don't need the drama from neighbors/friends.

--In brighter news, we have COLD temperatures again.  Go mother nature.  I would have liked more snow to go with the cold but no, you had to send the snow to the east. 

--And I'll leave you with some silliness that Nick and I came up with years ago. We were have one of those nonsense conversations and out of nowhere Nick said "You gotta beware those Kung Fu Chickens.  They're sneaky. Cluck Chop!!"  I about died.  Now when we feel the need to lighten the mood or just get a laugh we mention the Kung Fu Chickens.  They're out there I just know it, so watch out for them!

Now head over to Keely's and check out the other randomness on the web today.

Classified adds, MEme Monday

SupahMommy is once again hosting All about MEme Monday.  A newspaper is rumored to be in the works and there is a call for want adds.

Here are mine:
WANTED
Dishwasher for family of four.  Will need to scrape dishes, wash dishes and hunt for dishes all over house.  Much relieved mother will pay well for help.  No other perks.  Needed immediately.

WANTED
Plumbing that works.  Will require draining well and no backups.  So tired of needing plumber every two years. 

FOR SALE
One six year old.  Comes with toys and clothes.  Will take any offer.  Comes as is, no refunds or exchanges.  (Caution: do not add sugar or caffine.  Previous owners not responsible for child's actions if given these substances.)

FOR SALE
One slightly used bed.  Mother exploring the wide realm of not sleeping at night.  Children helping with this endeavor.  She no longer needs bed as she is constantly out of it and no longer remembers what it is like to sleep all night.  Any offers will be appreciated.  Funds needed to pay for therapist when children are gone. (Mother will need to be retrained how to sleep).

Burt the Bunny

We have a rabbit running around our neighborhood.  THe other evening it was in our yard grazing on the exposed grass.  Turbo was having fun looking out the window at him and then Nick asked what we should call him.  I piped up with Burt.  Turbo wanted Steve.  Nick decided that Burt was the better name for the bunny and now we have Burt stopping by to visit in the evening.

So what silly names have you ended up calling things or animals because the kids insisted on a name.  Turbo has had several favorite stuffed animals with very interesting names.  There has been Baboo, Cece, Gecko, Duck, Charlie, Henry, BeDoo(Scooby Doo) and others. 

I am waiting for the first named animal from Bruiser. 

In other news, Bruiser lost his other front tooth on Saturday.  He has quite the gap toothed smile right now.  He is also excited because he is the first kid in his class that has lost a tooth in February(they are keeping track at school on the calendar).  The Tooth Fairy was generous to the tune of $.75.  And she (or he) remembered to come before Turbo got up.  Go Tooth Fairy!!

Pet Peeves--Spin Cycle

Jen at Sprite's Keeper is spinning up some pet peeves this week.  Everyone has their triggers.  You know, those things that aren't enough to really torque you off but that annoy you enough to drive you nuts.

Nick could probably list several about me.  A few I know of:

• I never throw away the bags from things we buy.
• I "shrink" his clothes in the wash.
• I have to have lots of covers to sleep.
• There are more I'm sure but he hasn't expressed them to me.

Things he does that annoy me (but I just let go in the interest of peace in the house):

• Puts the toilet paper roll on so it rolls off the bottom.  I'm not sure how many times I've sat in the dark and rolled and rolled looking for the end while it piled up on the floor.  Now I just turn it over.  At least he changes out the used roll.
• Leaves dirty socks where ever he took them off.  Unfortunately Turbo is picking up on this habit.  The socks are rarely in a bunch, just dropped where he was sitting when he took them off.
• The way he cleans.  He does not go through piles unless forced.  He will, however, move those piles out of sight.  I have lost more things when he cleans.  (We still don't know where he put Turbo's portable DVD player after the last cleaning jag.)
• He makes plans then neglects to tell me until the last minute.  Then he insists he told me about it.

I have other pet peeves.  Slow drivers make me nuts.  If you can't go the speed limit, don't drive.  Going slowly to be safer only makes you a hazard to those of us who are going the speed limit.  I'm not talking about going slow for the weather conditions, I'm talking about the drivers going 15-20 in a 30 mph area.  they make me nuts.

I care about the environment but the little environmental dig at the end of programs on Discovery annoys me. Commercials can be annoying to.  There are some that I will immediately change the channel so I don't have to watch them.

Turbo has started adding a y sound to the end of Bruiser's name.  We correct him almost immediately, no y end to his name.  I don't want the poor kid to be cursed with that when he's forty.  Nick is still called Nicky by his family.  Nicknames are fine but not that.

I also have the pet peeve about the whole they're, their, there thing as well as the your, you're thing.  I will admit there have been some blogs that I have read once because the typing and grammer were so bad I could hardly get through them.  I never went back.  I can deal with the occasional typo but constant mistypes and mistakes get hard to read.

Pet peeves are funny.  They can get to be big things if you let them fester, but in the big scheme of things they are really just minor annoyances.  I think that a good relationship is just finding the person who shares your set peeves or has ones you can deal with.

So what makes you crazy or nuts?  If you've got a pet peeve let me know, or go see Jen and spin it up.

First Birthday Cake Diving

Bruiser really got into his cake. 

How much fun to get so fabulously messy.

Happy Birthday Bruiser.

Post-it Notes

It's time once again for Post It Note Tuesdays with SupahMommy. So here goes:

Tuesday Randomness

It's Random Tuesday time.  Keely over at The Unmom Gives us a place to unload all those random things that accumulate in your brain.  So here goes my dump session.

I've said it before but I'm tired of the ice.  We have ice that fills every gutter in town.  It makes getting anywhere very interesting. 

One year old birthdays are really for the parents.  It celebrates the survival of the baby stage.  Sure you give the baby a cake and presents but the whole thing just mostly goes over their heads.  The party should have high fives for the parents and tasty beverages as well cause I mean hoorah, we survived without becoming zombies or giving up and walking away.  Just my take on the whole thing.

My inlaws got me a page a day calendar for Christmas.  It's a Jumble calendar.  I can do the ones that give clues to the words but the ones where you just have to unscramble the words, I'm hopeless at.  I always have to cheat and peak at the answer.

Hmmm, my head seems empty now so I'll wrap up my random thoughts with the suggestion to go see Keely.  She won't share her germs just her thoughts and you can link up and share your's too.

MEme Monday--Oh no Officer!

SupahMommy and Mommybrain are hosting All About MEme Monday.  The topic this week getting pulled over or something you've done in a car that should have gotten you pulled over, or (if you are a goody two shoes) a funny story involving your car. 

I have never been pulled over for speeding.  In fact my only tickets have been for fender benders.  I know, goody two shoes.  I was pulled over once.

Set the scene:  Friday night in very small town America(think 3000 people max.)  High schoolers out cruising and seeing friends.

Me:  Teenaged, barely 16, liscensed to drive for about 2 months.  My first car was a Plymouth Champ.(Two door gold colored hatch back--not exactly a cool car but it was mine).

Where:  I had stopped in the Pizza Hut parking lot to talk to a friend in another car.  We stopped and turned off lights and cars and stuff.  Then we left the parking lot.  I neglected to turn my lights back on until about three blocks later.  I realized it and turned them on--after the cop had seen me driving without them. 

What happened:  He turned around and pulled me over.  Me(having a heart attack) meekly saying hello officer.  Him-Need your liscence Miss.  I guess you figured out what I pulled you over for.  I'll check your liscense and be aware of those lights and things.  He checked my liscence and let me off without even an official warning.

Me:  Relief did not even begin to cover what I felt.  There was no way I could have explained a ticket to my parents.  My driving days would have been over before they even started. 

As for things I have done in a car that I should have been pulled over for--well I do tend to drive fast, but only in places where I know I won't get caught.  I often forget my seatbelt in town.  Otherwise I really am a goody-two shoes about driving (but my husband hates to ride with me.  He is a horrible back seat driver).