WWTK--When I don't feel so good...

News!  there is a new host for WWTK--Crazymama!  Welcome on board and here we go:

1. What is your feel better remedy when you are sick?  It depends on how I feel sick.  Saltines and 7-up for an upset stomach, hot toddies for sinus stuff (Nick makes the best hot toddies), zoning out to TV and doing nothing for just about all of it.
2. When illness strikes, what is your policy on staying home from work, school or church with yourself and the family?  Again it depends on how sick I am or the kids are.  I can really tell when they are not themselves and they will stay home when they are truly sick. Fevers, vomiting or unusual lethargy mean stay home.  A cough with nothing else?  Off to school.  I probably go to work sick more often than I should, but that could change now that I have sick leave.  It's way easier to stay home when it won't make a big impact on the paycheck.
3. What do you think is worse?  Flu or cold?  Most definitely the flu.  It hits harder and really packs a wallop.   However, colds linger and that can be annoying.
4. Flu shots?  Do you get them? Have you yet?  No I don't.  I'm sure that they work fine for some people, but I haven't run into anyone that said great things about the flu shot, expect for "They" who say you should get one.
5. When you are feeling down, what is your usual, go-to therapy? (retail. exercise, comfort food, etc.)  I'd love to do retail therapy, but Nick and the checking account cry at the mere mention of shopping.  there's no time for exercise in the schedule right now, I don't really do comfort food either.  But a good book and time to read it goes a long way toward making me feel better.

And there you have it, what I do when I'm not feeling 100%, although to be honest it takes getting to about 50% before mom really gets a break.

Go join Mamarazzi, Queso and Crazymama for more We Want to Know fun.

Random Thoughts on Tuesday-Family Junk

Random time again, cause it's Tuesday and that's what you do on Tuesday.

• I like snow when the flakes are big and they fall vertically.  Around here the snow tends to fall horizontally due to the ever present wind.  This weekend however, we had really pretty snow.
• What I hate about the fall is that weather changes give me migraines.  I always know a storm is coming because my head tells me so.
• Nick is very happy to have found his garage again.  Man Town is back in business.
• My package went out in the mail today for Swapoween.  I really hope Kathy enjoys what I put together for her and that she has fun making a display with what I sent.  Turbo is very excited to see what comes in the box from her, but then he is all about Halloween.  He wants to try making a haunted house in the garage.  We will see what comes.
• We will be moving Bruiser to a twin bed soon.  I'm not sure having him in a real bed is a great idea.  I will be putting him back in bed quite often I think.  This really does mean that his room needs a sort of theme.  Maybe, I think I might go the easy route and do Scooby or Cars.  He likes either one.
• I will be solo parenting for the next few days.  Nick is off to Texas.  It's a very quick trip.  I get to wrangle boys on my own.  Deep breath and a glass of wine waiting for me when they go to sleep.
• Does anyone else get the donate to us/here's some free address labels?  I use those to send out the bills (yes, I still mail out the bills.) and I have not had to make address labels in years.

OK that about covers my Randomness this Tuesday.  Go see Stacy for more randoms.

AND double dipping again this week with Talk To Us Tuesday with Shawn and Impulsive.

Happy List

Time to list those things that make me happy this week.

1. I'm happy that my package is on it's way for Swapoween.
2. I am happy it snowed and looked so pretty.
3. Having a clean kitchen, living room, bathroom, bedroom, etc makes me happy.
4. Playing Lego video games with Turbo makes me happy.
5. Baking makes me happy.
6. Wine.   A glass after little boys are in bed.
7. New Mythbusters shows make me happy.
8. Halloween makes me happy.
9. Nick coming home makes me happy (unfortunately he has to go away for this one to work).
10. Snuggling little boys make me happy.

Go join Mamarazzi for more happy lists.

Time to Thaw Out

We had another packed weekend.  Saturday dawned cold and cloudy and by the time I hit the grocery store it had started to snow.  Good thing the rec center was having it's free day.  I took the boys swimming again and we met up again with our cousins.  They all had a great time in the pool.
Then we had lunch and I headed home with Bruiser and finished my date with the laundry.  But I got a great surprise in that Nick took the vacuum for a fling.  It was fabulous.  I brought him home lunch and then I folded all the loads of laundry that I had done.  I then gathered the fixings for chili and we headed over to our cousins house and had dinner and a fun time talking.  At bedtime we gathered up our boys and their cousins and came home for a sleepover.
Sunday morning we got up to this:

Yeah, mother nature decided that we needed a refresher on what snow looks like.  To the tune of 8+ inches.  So yeah, that happened.
We all had a great breakfast and then spent the day doing stuff around the house.  Nick cleaned in the garage, I made zucchini bread, cleaned the kitchen and picked up after the sleepover.  Then I had a mostly lazy day afternoon.  And it got drippy outside, very drippy as the snow started to melt.  It should be gone by this after noon.
So that was our eventful weekend.   How was yours?

I Confess...

...that I am so happy it's Friday.  I just might do the happy Snoopy dance.  I also get to confess so I'm way ready for the weekend.
Here goes:

• I was not fooled by the witch's hat on the christmas tree.
• Nice try though Kmart.

Bad picture, but really?

• I have another hot date with my laundry tonight.
• It could last into the weekend.
• Lucky me.
• I got a hair cut.
• I really needed one.
• My package for Swapoween is almost ready.
• I'm just about ready to have the white stuff fall this weekend.
• Yeah, snow for Saturday.
• Not so happy with the cold wind we have right now though.
• I'm nervous.
• I have to go see the teacher next week.
• It's for Parent Teacher conferences.
• I was always a good girl in school but the conferences always made me nervous.
• Now they do again, for entirely different reasons.

And that covers my confessions for this week.  Go see Mamarazzi for more confessions.  Confess yourself and link up--it makes the weekend better!

Spin Cycle--Dream Date

Do you remember who your dream date was when you were little?  I think my first dream date was Tom Cruise, shortly after he made Top Gun.  Hey I was about 13 the first time I saw that movie.  I totally fell in teenaged love.
As I grew my dream date evolved.  Sure there was the occasional crush on a cute actor, but my ideas of a dream date became more realistic.  I wanted someone who really wanted to be with me, not just seen out with another cute girl.  I dated enough toads to recognize my prince charming when I met him and I never looked back.

Nick and I don't get out that often--we are not big movie theater fans and rarely plan ahead enough to get out without the boys.  But when we go out the next time I do have a couple of requests for a dream date.
I'd like to go to a steak house and have a fabulous steak.  Dinner with all the fixings that someone else cooks and someone else cleans up.  After that, well, finding a movie at home--that we both stay awake through--will be just fine.
There is another type of date that I do enjoy.  It's when we take the boys and run away for a drive--road hunting.  No, not necessarily for animals, just roads we haven't been down before.  I love to get out that way.  Nick makes a mean tailgate sandwich and getting out with the boys is fun.

Now we just need to get out this fall.  Unfortunately, this weekend does not look like good going out weather.  I may have to devise a stay at home dream date.  Hmmm, maybe a theme dinner with complimentary movies? Ghostbusters and New York style hot dogs and soft pretzels?  Mummy movies with mummy dogs and crunchy veggies?  Any one got some other ideas?
For more dreamy spins go see Jen at Sprite's Keeper.

WWTK--Sleep, Sleep, Sleep

So We Want to Know time again.  Grab the questions, the button and link it on up!

1. If you had an extra hour to do anything for yourself each day, what would you do?  I would use it to exercise.  Finding time to actually exercise without it being just before bed is hard without getting up even earlier than I already do.
2. Are you a morning person or a night owl?  I am an unwilling morning person.
3. How much sleep do you get on an average night?  I aim for 7-8 hours.  Insomnia and small children often disrupt that goal.
4. When do you find the time to blog/surf the ol' interweb?  After the kids go to bed, sometimes before they go to bed.  Bruiser loves to look at kitties(LOLCats) on the computer.  I also get online in the morning before they get up.
5. What's the ONE thing you are never to busy for?  Hugs from my boys, big and little.

Link up with Mamarazzi and Queso and answer up the questions.

Random Tuseday

Time to throw all those random thought together and call it a post.  Stacy is still holding the crown until Keely wants it back (although it looks like Stacy may be stuck with the crown--hope it fits nicely).
So here we go:

• I saw my first Christmas movies on TV Sunday night.  I did not watch it but I saw it on the guide list.  Way too early in my opinion, but hey, the stores want it to be Christmas already.
• Bruiser has been is rare two year old meltdown form lately.  Any time he does not get his way he throws a crying fit, not an angry fit, just soul wrenching crying, like he lost his best friend.  Makes me want to cuddle him up and sooth him, but not give in to his demands for a cookie, soda, snacks, going outside, etc.  It is funny how he can switch it off if he's given an acceptable alternative.
• I have figured out a benefit to being a girl in a house of guys.  I never have to own up to my gas.  There will always be someone else to blame.  And if I do own up to it, it won't be a bad thing, I'll most likely get treated to demonstrations from the guys.  Lucky me.
• I really like dark chocolate turtles.
• Halloween is creeping closer.  I need to get our decorations down and get the porch decorated.  Not that I do much decorating.  The weather just does not cooperate to do bunches of stuff outside unless it's snow proof.  We will have snow before the end of the month.  The standing joke is that costumes need to be large so they fit over a coat.
• I like eating lunch, but have a harder time figuring out what to eat.  Eating out is so expensive.  I try to do leftovers but I'm not a huge fan.  I can only do so many sandwiches.  Lunch is not the easiest thing to come up with five hours before I want to eat it.
• Turbo may have found something he wants to read.  There is a series of comic books--no graphic novels more--called Bone.  His teacher said he could read those and he likes them.  I'm so thrilled he has found something he wants to read.  It is a fantasy type adventure and Turbo really likes it.  And there are nine volumes plus prequels and stuff.  Finally something other than Ook and Gluk or what ever.

Well that is my random ramblings for this week.  Go see Stacy for more.

Also linking up for Talk To Me Tuesday with Shawn and Impulsive.

Happy List--Now on Tuesday!

joining in with Mamarazzi's Happy list.  Everyone needs to remember the things they have that make them happy.  Here are a few of mine:

1. Petting my cat makes me happy.
2. Having Bruiser fall asleep on me makes me happy.
3. Dark Chocolate Turtles make me happy.
4. Wine makes me happy.
5. Friday at going home time makes me happy
6. Reading steampunk and urban fantasy makes me happy.
7. Getting a good night's sleep makes me happy(even if they are few and far between).
8. Hanging out with friends makes me happy.
9. Hearing small boys laugh makes me happy.
10. Having the vacuum cheat on me makes me happy.

So what makes you happy?

And the weekend...

...went fantastically.  We all had fun, even if we did get complaints of boredom from the 8 year old in the family.
Turbo got to go to the Rec Center and have Kids Night Out.  He had fun--lots of fun swimming and playing and doing crafts.  He crashed when he got home--a success for the parents, we try to wear out the kids all the time.
Nick headed out with friends and went four wheeling on Saturday.  He had a blast.  The weather cooperated for most of the day and he had great riding weather.
The rest of us went swimming with some friends who happen to be family.  Nick's cousin's wife and kids met us at the rec Center and we all swam until Bruiser's lips turned blue.  He was positive he was not cold though.  Insisted he wasn't through the shivers and shaking.  I insisted that it was time for lunch.
Turbo spent the rest of the afternoon with them while I took Bruiser home for his nap.  When he was up we headed over there and had a fun afternoon letting the kids play and catching up girl style.
Turbo spent the night there and we went to pick him up on Sunday.  The rest of Sunday we winterized the camper and spent the rest of the day zoning out (this was when the claims of boredom came out).  I got a nap--both Saturday and Sunday.  We watched movies and really tried to make the day go by as slowly as possible.  It didn't work.  The weekend passed way too quickly.  It always does.
The next week will be busy and hopefully that will make the week go by much faster.  Nick has an eye appointment (so he can finally wear the new glasses he got in August without a headache), I get to get my hair cut, and Nick and Turbo are going hunting on Saturday.  So the next week should fly by, right?  We shall see.
What was your weekend like?