I ate a flamingo

Yep, I ate a flamingo, and it was fun. :)

I'm still sick so I'm not up for a post, but someone emailed this to me and some of the people's responses have been downright hilarious. Mine wasn't so much, but what the heh? Share your results if you'd like.

Find your birth month...

January: I partied with
February: I had babies with
March: I felt up
April: I messed around with
May: I peed on
June: I robbed
July: I ate
August: I shot
September: I beat up
October: I dressed up as
November: I got married to
December: I had drunken sex with

Find the day of your birthday...

1: George Bush
2: Michael Jackson
3: some random guy
4: a book
5: Frankenstein
6: Martha Stewart
7: a bottle of Hennesse
8: a flamingo
9: a bag of chips
10: a chair
11: Dick Cheney
12: my English teacher
13: a Teletubby
14: myself
15: a ninja
16: a penguin
17: a pole
18: an apple
19: a box
20: my finger
21: some random girl
22: a cell phone
23: Ron Jeremy
24: a statue
25: a gnome
26: a hippo
27: my shoes
28: a prostitute
29: a porn star
30: my best friend
31: a cat

Find the FIRST letter of your FIRST name...

A: for the money
B: for the hell of it
C: and it sucked
D: to be cool
E: to be naked
F: to eat cheese
G: but my mom told me to
H: for my boy friend
I: for my girlfriend
J: to be sexy
K: and it was fun
L: at school
M: and I had twins
N: and I got sick
O: and I threw up
P: and something shrank
Q: in the pool
R: and then I streaked
S: and it was boring
T: because I was drunk
U: for a shopping spree
V: and I liked it
W: in the dark
X: and I had a sex change
Y: under the sheets
Z: in a laundry mat

The math just doesn't work

I have a nasty cold. At least I'm convinced it's *just* a cold. I'm a medicine wimp - almost everything puts me to sleep, even extra strength tylenol. Therefore, I didn't take anything during the day yesterday because well, I couldn't go to sleep until David got home. When he got home I reached for something that I remembered taking in the past and was pretty sure it didn't make me sleep, but found I only had one dose left. I searched the medicine cabinet and found some other drugs that had the same ingredients, with the same quantities, just a different brand. So I took the dose and knew if it worked & I stayed awake that the other stuff would be safe to take today.

This morning I opened the box of new stuff and realized it had a night time and a day time formula. Orange pills for day, blue pills for night. (No, not those blue pills!) I read the directions and I'm supposed to take 2 pills every 4 hours. There are 2 problems with this.

1. the box has 15 pills of each formula. So even though the box has 15 doses, it only has 7 complete doses of day time pills and 7 complete doses of night time pills. I'll end up taking 1 day time pill and 1 night time pill just to use them, I guess. The only difference seems to be the night time pills have an antihistamine. No caffiene or anything in the day version.
   
2. The bigger problem, to me, is that I never take more than 1 dose of night time medicine per night, unless I'm feeling really really crappy. So taking 2 pills every 4 hours, I'll take either 3 or 4 doses of the day formula and 1 dose of the night formula in a 24 hour period. That means the day pills will last 2 days, and the night ones will last 7. Wouldn't it be better if they put more day pills than night pills in the box? Since they are freaking packaged together!?! Ok, next time I'll pay closer attention & buy separate boxes of day & night formulas, lesson learned.

tidbits

Things are rolling pretty smooth at our house lately. Here are some tidbits:

• Potty training - Matthew is day trained, even for naps. He's woken up a few mornings totally dry, a LOT of mornings just a teensy bit wet, and several mornings soaked. Not ready to go diaperless at night just yet. He woke me up at 5:30 one morning on our trip needing to potty. I so badly wanted to tell him to go in his diaper, but I dragged my ass out of bed and took him.
  
• Scarlett is so expressive - I know I've said it before, but she makes the cutest faces. Lately she has this perplexed look that she'll give us. I have tried taking a picture but she gives a big grin and says cheese every time.
  
• Knitting - I'm working on one last pair of longies for a while. Then I have a baby blanket, a hat, and maybe a scarf to do. Not necessarily in that order.
  
• I know, that last bit was a fragment.
  
• Matthew had a full on tantrum last night, over socks. He took his sock off, then wanted it back on. Oh yeah, this was at supper. We didn't put it back on & he had a fit. David took him to the tub for his bath and he was flailing around like a crazy kid. If he hadn't really needed the bath, his butt would have gone straight to bed. I was afraid he was gonna hurt himself in the tub - that's how wild he was being.
  
• Matthew says the darndest things and I forget to write them down. Things I really want to remember, and I swear a day later I've forgotten. I suck.
  
• Scarlett says "noooo" and it's so darn cute. She also says "uh-huh" but we hear "nooo" a lot more often. This morning I even got a "no no nooooo."
  
• Scarlett also said "jonah" only it sounded more like "nonah" but she said it when we were getting milk out of the fridge - and she pointed at his birth announcement. I wasn't sure I heard her right so I asked "what?" and she repeated. David heard her from the family room too.
  
• I need to start Christmas shopping. We'll have a house full of guests in 2 weeks, and I haven't bought the first gift, not even for my kiddos.
  
• I'm looking forward to the weekend, even though I need to clean house NOW! MIL is visiting, I'm getting a massage, and we're probably going out with friends. I'll also be trying to get my Christmas decorations up.
  
• Where do you put your tree when you have kids? I love seeing it all the time, but they won't keep their hands off it. I know they won't because my mom already had her trees up. One of them wasn't totally decorated but the kids took a lot of ornaments off the others.
  
• I swear I have writer's block. I seriously had a ton of cute things to share and when I sat down I went blank. Sorry

a great week

I never realized how quiet our house is. LOL - after spending a week on the road I am thankful to be tucked safely away in our quiet home. We spent the early part of the week at David's mema's house. Her totally not child friendly house. You know the one, with rocks in flower pots sitting on the floor. Yeah, the one with a glass topped coffee table, pictures/frames, all sorts of knick knacks on a low shelf in the entertainment center. Let's not forget the small hard candies sitting in dishes scattered about the room, the fake fruit on the table, and the cleaning products under the kitchen sink with a cabinet door that won't even close. Matthew is usually really good about understanding what is off limits, but Scarlett is not. I was exhausted within 30 minutes of waking up our first day there. I tried to let David sleep in, but finally after an hour and a half I went and told him I could *not* supervise both of them by myself. Seriously, while it's nice to visit mema, she doesn't seem to understand that it's not good for Scarlett to put rocks in her mouth. We decided to try to hang out at David's brother & SIL's house as much as possible. It's much more toddler friendly. Matthew loves playing with his cousin, and Rhett is great about tolerating him. They were wrestling and Rhett told his mom "For him to be so little, he sure is strong." I thought that was cute.

We spend Tuesday on the road to my parents' house. We took it slow, stopped and shopped along the way. David needed new shoes so we were especially looking for those. We went to an outlet mall and he bought a pair for around $50. We thought that was a great deal but then as we were leaving we walked to let Matthew & Scarlett ride one of the rides and noticed another little store. It was a shoe store that we didn't realize was there. David went in there & they were having a huge sale. He bought the same pair of shoes for $30. They had another brand that looked nice but we'd never heard of. I went and did a quick search and found them on Nordstrom's website for $250, and Amazon for $195. David went and returned the first pair he bought and we got him 2 new pair at the second store, for $60. AMAZING deal! So amazing that we wondered if the store was legit...

We stopped off to visit my former coworkers. My old boss and his wife just had a baby so I had a gift for them, and I thought it would be fun to see everyone. Turns out there were 2 other people with newborns too. I felt a little like a putz not having gifts for them too, but oh well, they didn't let me know about the babies, how could I know?

Got to my parents' house late Tuesday night and crashed. My older sister and her girls came over to play Wednesday - Matthew & Belle were SO happy to see each other. They get along great and seem to always remember each other, no matter how long it's been between visits. Scarlett tries to keep up with them and does pretty well.

Thursday was nice & quiet - both my sisters were at their in-laws for Thanksgiving, so we had a calm day. My mom was cooking Friday, so I helped her do some prep work Thursday. Friday was wild. A house full of people, from 4 months to 83 years. Fun but wild. My older sister said she hates leaving when we are all there and maybe we should all spend the night! Not sure where we would all sleep, but it might be fun. I'm not sure the kids would ever settle in for the night though.

My parents house is pretty child-friendly, but Matthew and Belle somehow managed to get into the neosporin. They tried to wash their hair with it. Not fun. They also found a small pair of very sharp scissors, and mostly used it to cut paper. Somehow Matthew cut his finger too, but he wouldn't cry about it because he didn't want us to know he had the scissors!

Scarlett was very loving to Jonah this time. She seemed to accept me holding him more this time - in the past she has fussed and tried to push him away but this time she just loved him whenever I held him. She was pretty funny watching him nurse. I've weaned her to only nursing once a day, but I think she would nurse more if I let her. One time when he was eating she was rubbing his head and then noticed my sister's boob, and then came running to me pulling on my shirt. She was satisfied with her cup though, thank goodness. I don't want her to be unhappy so I'm glad she didn't fuss over it - I would have probably given her the boob if she had fussed much.

We left Saturday night, in the rain, to drive home. We made it in less than 14.5 hours - I think a record for us on that trip! It rained and/or snowed the whole way, so it meant quick stops with no playing. Poor David drove the whole way - the last few times I have driven the bulk of the night but somehow he wasn't sleepy at all until 6am, and by then it was almost light out and time for breakfast so he didn't want to try to sleep.

And oh yeah, GT beat UGA 45-42. Woohoo! Great win guys!

GO Jackets!

Today is the day of the "big game". I know, lots of big games in college football today, but where I come from, the only one that matters is the one between the hedges. Georgia vs. Georgia Tech. We had quite a win streak going before we hired a sucky coach. Now we've lost 7 straight but of course, this could be the year.

Back when we hired the sucky coach, I told a few people "I sure wish we could have hired Paul Johnson." The timing didn't work, and I'm not sure the powers-at-be at GT would have given him a thought anyway, but I am happy to say that last year, when we got rid of that sucky coach, we DID hire Paul Johnson. Better late than never I suppose?

People predicted we would have an awful season, as he needed time to rebuild the program and recruit athletes that fit his system. I told David "I hope the fans will be patient. He's good." Well, here we sit today, 8-3. Not super, but really good, especially considering a lot of people said we'd only win 3-4 games. And last week, we played Thursday night. Big game, Miami was ranked, and we KILLED. We really opened up a can of whoop ass last Thursday. UGA started the season ranked #1 but it didn't take them long to fall. Now, people who wouldn't have given us a chance at the beginning of the season are saying we might be able to pull out a win.

If the same team that played last week shows up today, we should be able to pull it off. I'll be watching the game, wearing my white & gold proudly. Scarlett will be in her yellow GT dress, and Matthew will have his jersey on. He might even pull out the helmet. We'll cheer and yell "GO Jackets" and Scarlett will pump her arm to the beat of the fight song. It will be a fun day :)

Sting'em!

sweet potatoes

Since I'm not around this week, I thought I would share one of my favorite Thanksgiving dishes. It's something we have pretty often at our house (well not so much since we started Weight Watchers, but I don't save it just for Thanksgiving). I LOVE sweet potatoes. Earlier this year I shared one of my favorite ways to prepare them - Sweet Potato Casserole. I also shared this tip that will make your casserole pretty & orange, not brown.

So if you're planning to serve sweet potatoes this Thanksgiving and need a recipe, give this a try. If you already have a recipe you love, that's ok, but keep the potatoes orange with my trick.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Who am I?

I got this from Nancy's blog. I think it's pretty accurate.

If you want to know who you are, take the quiz.


You are a Bette -- "I must be strong"

Bettes are direct, self-reliant, self-confident, and protective.

How to Get Along with Me
* Stand up for yourself... and me.
* Be confident, strong, and direct.
* Don't gossip about me or betray my trust.
* Be vulnerable and share your feelings. See and acknowledge my tender, vulnerable side.
* Give me space to be alone.
* Acknowledge the contributions I make, but don't flatter me.
* I often speak in an assertive way. Don't automatically assume it's a personal attack.
* When I scream, curse, and stomp around, try to remember that's just the way I am.

What I Like About Being a Bette
* being independent and self-reliant
* being able to take charge and meet challenges head on
* being courageous, straightforward, and honest
* getting all the enjoyment I can out of life
* supporting, empowering, and protecting those close to me
* upholding just causes

What's Hard About Being a Bette
* overwhelming people with my bluntness; scaring them away when I don't intend to
* being restless and impatient with others' incompetence
* sticking my neck out for people and receiving no appreciation for it
* never forgetting injuries or injustices
* putting too much pressure on myself
* getting high blood pressure when people don't obey the rules or when things don't go right

Bettes as Children Often
* are independent; have an inner strength and a fighting spirit
* are sometimes loners
* seize control so they won't be controlled
* figure out others' weaknesses
* attack verbally or physically when provoked
* take charge in the family because they perceive themselves as the strongest, or grow up in difficult or abusive surroundings

Bettes as Parents
* are often loyal, caring, involved, and devoted
* are sometimes overprotective
* can be demanding, controlling, and rigid