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When's Mo's Away, Mommy Will...

2008-08-18T00:51:13-05:00

... ~~Play~~. Nope, more like work to distract myself! Mo is spending the week with her Gram and Grandpa at Camp Star Lake in NJ. It’s become an annual tradition and she LOVES this week away! Her Dad and I had breakfast with her on Saturday morning before she left and we were telling her how much we were going to miss her. We then asked if she was going to call us. Her answer? No. I guess she’s going to be too busy playing on the beach, riding her bike, getting massages and pedicures from Gram, etc. etc. Oh, the life of a 4 year old!

Some things are better left a distant memory!

2008-08-13T23:34:36-05:00

http://www.nbc.com/Knight_Rider/

Knight Rider is returning. David Hasselhoff is even going to make a guest appearance. Good Lord. What ‘s next? Remake of the A-Team? Oooh, how about some Wonder Woman? We can sit around in our Underoos and reminisce about the good ol’ times! (I guess I’m showing my age with the underoos comment. Here you go teeny-boppers and twenty somethings… look it up! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoos).

Take the needle out of my arm

2008-08-13T01:07:05-05:00

I love watching the Olympics. My favorite competition is the women’s gymnastics. Mo’s loving that competition too. Every time the footage ends, Mo asks me to play the “movie” again!

You Know Your Kid's Dad is a Mascot When...

2008-08-04T01:00:30-05:00

... I enthusiastically point out Santa Clause to her at a baseball game tonight, and she responds by saying (insert DUH tone here): “Mommy, Santa Clause is just a mascot. It’s just a person in there.” Yep, according to Mo, Mommy is clueless!

Holy Moly Guacamole!

2008-08-01T03:10:09-05:00

Before, with nasty overgrown bushes and trees covering the front of the house:

After:

I’ve been told that summer is a terrible time to plant new stuff, so I have to live with this barren look for a couple of months. The plus side to this? I might actually get some decent sunlight in my sunporch!

A Blast From the Past

2008-07-18T10:07:36-05:00

SN’s girls, and even Madeline, have been fascinated with watching Little House on the Prairie. We’ve been renting the DVD’s from the library and slowly getting through Season 1. I used to love this show as a kid, and even though watching it now has made me realize how silly and historically inaccurate the show is, it’s still a fabulous series for kids… literally filled to the brim with great life lessons. We’ve only gotten through the first 9 episodes and already we’ve had some wonderful discussions about stuff… such as how we should never change or compromise ourselves in order to get along with other people, how integrity is paramount in establishing relationships, etc. etc. This show sure beats most crap on tv and dvd these days. Bratz? Hannah Montana? Seriously. What are those shows teaching young girls? Ugh.. don’t even want to think about that trash. Garbage in, garbage out, right?

The Perfect Job Applicant

2008-07-04T09:23:07-05:00

In my 10+ years of working in Human Resources, I’ve never seen a resume quite like the one I’m about to quote from. It is a narrative resume, full of run-on sentences, which is 13 pages in length. I can’t possibly capture everything, but here are a few tidbits:

- I went with M.B. to get her a better paying job.
- I don’t take bribes.
- I can make ham and eggs in the woods.
- I forded a river in the living history group I was in.
- I once got a finger print kit from Radio Shack.
- I had the proud pleasure to pray for Mrs. D’s daughter who had cancer and she was healed and I rec’d a letter which I put in the donation slot at the Saint Padre Pio’s church museum one of the next times I was there.
- I prayed for the financial recovery of the world and fellowship and competence and lots of money for everyone and good living.
- Yesterday I received a very nice thank you note from Mr. Dick Cheyney, Vice President of the US for my ideas on Kevlar Tires for military vehicles. And he appreciates the time I take to provide my input. I thank you Mr. Cheyney. And if I want to desire more information on pending legislation and administration policies to look on the whitehouse.gov or firstgov.gov websites and thanks.
- I worked for ******’s computer room and I asked for vacation time and it was granted.
- I won a book from Monroe County for participating in one of the re-enactments fo General Sullivan’s March.
- I want to do my own “Operation Rock and Roll” with full 100% safe antibacterial Air Support to counter the WMD stuff and have all the people resurrected and turn the tables on the bad guys and have Mr. Lumpkin, cheer, with his arms in the air and have full equipment there and use actual resurrecting BAL or water and gets sprayed from SAZC-USAF.
- I asked Mr. G. to be my reference and I think his wife Pat said yes.
- Currently working for the Police Chief as a crossing guard. I cross children and emergency vehicles for the DHS/FEMA andother OPM US Govt. jobs/positions and I applied for welfare.
- I know Mr. M and Mr. D and they are both like Mr. Albert Einstein and they were friends.
- I signed up to do web interning and then paused and asked an associate who mentioned to stop if it was an adult site and I did at that moment and resigned from that.
- Mr. M is a retired USMC Sargeant and if you need a good accountant give him a call. He is a few courses shy of a degree and his prof. told him he was good.
- I wrote on a piece of paper for VP Cheyney to have a successful surgery and recovery and touched it to Saint Padre Pio’s glove.
- I also asked Mrs. N to be a reference, AND SHE MAY BE CRABBY, to be another of my personal references and she agreed and used to be a buyer and has good taste.

HAPPY JULY 4th EVERYONE, especially to you Mr. Job Applicant!!

You Know You're Having a Bad Day When...

2008-07-01T18:20:45-05:00

You stop at the gas station to fill your tank, and while filling, attempt to clean out the trash in the car, and while cleaning, throw out the bag with your medicine in it (which you just picked up from the Doctor’s office). Driving back to the gas station to dig through the trash isn’t exactly my idea of fun!

Ok, So I Really Underestimated A Number of Things

2008-06-17T11:02:48-05:00

I stumbled across a huge furniture sale at Pottery Barn outlet and got a $1499 piece of furniture for $430. I should be happy, right? WRONG!!!!!!

I’d post a pic, but why bother. Mo’s Dad posted a pic here: http://www.tediousmusicprick.com. I was also going to write about the nightmare of getting that freakin’ thing into my house, up the stairs, and into my bedroom. Again, why bother. Mo’s Dad adequately expressed the frustration of this process on his post.

All that is left to say is THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to Mo’s Dad, Dave, Andrew, Zach, and Wendy for helping with this nightmare. And THANK YOU to SN for picking it up and getting it to my house and for all the running around you did… on your birthday no less!! Not only did I underestimate the monstrous size and weight of that thing, I also undestimated the time needed to figure out how to get it upstairs and the damage done to the guys, and my house, while in transit!!! Not only that, I totally wasted the entire evening of SN’s birthday. The poor guy didn’t even get to open his gifts until 10:30 last night!

SN, next time I want to buy a large piece of furniture on a whim, please tell me NO!!!!! And to think, I almost bought two.

Time to Celebrate

2008-06-16T06:13:09-05:00

It is SN’s birthday today. C’mon, wish him a happy day!