March Madness - Mom style

I can't wait till March is over. It's nuts!!! I have midterms and research papers and tons of studying to do. No time for anything else at all! I should pack my bags and move into the university library for a few weeks.

My oldest princess needs to finalize her summer job prospects before she drives me insane. She thinks she'll just get hired by showing up at her convenience. It's March! So I have been very busy nagging and nagging. She has her college mid-terms too. Wish she'd study! She's making me a nervous wreck.

Middle princess gets her tonsils out in a little over a week. I'm both excited and nervous. And the aftermath won't be fun for her which means it'll be hell for the rest of us. But then she'll be healthier and we can look forward to a better school year next year. She just signed up for next year's classes. She'll be a senior!!! I'm not sure how she suddenly got to be this far along in school. I swear, she was in middle school not that long ago.

Baby princess has a birthday at the end of this week. She will be 2 yrs old. I threatened to post-pone her birthday until she seems more ready to be 2, but it's coming anyway. I'm taking her to Seaworld for her day in lieu of a party. We will have a family dinner followed by pie. Gracie gets pie on her birthday because she was born on pi day.

My neighbors are organizing a block rummage sale. So whatever Saturday they choose, and they want to do this in March... I'll drag my crap out to the driveway and partake in the neighborhood garage gutting festivities.

Easter is in March too. Yeah, cuz March isn't busy enough! I invited my brother here for Easter but if he thinks I'm cleaning my house for his visit, he's mistaken. I have too much to do to take time to clean house for my brother. I haven't seen him in years, so I might run the vacuum... or I might not.

Never a dull moment around here!!!

Friday Follow Up

The week in review: Nothing too exciting this week. I had a British Literature exam on Thursday and I think I kicked some poetic ass!!! Sweet!!! I had some bloodwork done this morning, which is the worst thing in the world to me. I'd rather get puked on. Speaking of... my baby is sick with a runny nose and fever. No puke. whew! Dodged that bullet. My dog has taken a new liking to digging in the back yard, which now looks like a mine field. I helped my husband brew another batch of home-made beer - Cherry Wheat. It's currently aging in a bucket in the bathtub. Hey, where do you keep your bucket of brew? Other than that, it's been a fairly normal week. Here are some questions and comments from the trenches:

This is my niece. I believe she is a future Girl Scout Cookie High Seller. I'm sure of it.
Living with cavemen
Your niece is super cute!!! Where does she get that adorable charm? From her mother? I don't see her as being much of a girl scout.... she doesn't seem to be the follower type. More of an individual do it her own way kinda girl. She does love cookies though.

When you wrote "ABC" I was trying to figure out who those initials stood for. I had not thought that you were actually talking about the "American Broadcasting Channel" (Or whatever they stand for?). That's crazy.
rick
Yup, that ABC! We listed it on Craigslist and a couple of tv producers called us, came over with cash in hand and the deal was done. Sweet!

You're glasses will probably show up the day after your new ones arrive.
Living with Cavemen
Again, you spelled "your" wrong. You do that so I have something to nag about, right? That's so sweet of you, but really.... it's Y.O.U.R. Still haven't found my glasses, the charger with the extra battery stuck in it, or blue kitty. Also lost my kitchen timer. My new glasses shipped so I'm waiting for them to arrive. Hopefully soon!

I'm going to get this bumper sticker, what do you think?
Anonymous
I love it!!! And Jesus seemed to turn out ok.


Bossy is coming to San Diego on April 7! Are you interested?
Jenn
Midterms will be over... Lemme see if I can get a sitter in the city. Sounds promising.

My Famous Mini-Van

Here is a picture of the old girl, I know I have better pictures of her somewhere in the depths of my computer but this one will due for now. Oh, that's not my house, but that is me.

My mini-van, wait, let me clarify.... it's not really mine anymore. We sold it to ABC last summer for a whopping $2905 cash. It was a 1997 Dodge Caravan with 151,000 miles on it. And it had a salvage title too because we bought it wrecked.

My mini-van is now a TV Star! It's on a reality show Tonight!!! It airs in a couple of hours - and it already aired in the Central time zone and I suppose the east coast too. The show is called "Here Come the Newlyweds" on ABC.

Hope you get to watch my girl make her tv debut!!!

Where's My.....????

I've lost a lot of things: time, my sanity, my girlish figure, perky boobs, contact with the real world, etc. But lately, I'm losing my head.

The list of things I cannot find is growing.

First of all, I lost my glasses. I've been wearing glasses since I was 10 yrs old and I cannot ever remember misplacing my glasses to the point where they didn't show up after a few days. It's been two weeks and I totally can't find them.

I also can't find Blue Kitty. Princess Gracie's BEST friend!!! What kind of mommy loses Blue Kitty? Have you seen him? He's blue and cute and pretty quiet. Loves hugs from Miss Gracie.

Lost my camera battery charger and extra battery too. We have a Canon Digital Rebel, which has it's own "special" shaped battery. Can't just shove a 9 volt in there and call it good. So, our camera has been rendered useless without the charger.

To sum all of this up... lost my $200 glasses (I got a good deal on them), $32 blue kitty (specialty boutique item), $60 battery stuck in the $??? charger. I don't know how much the charger would be, spendy I'm sure! I wouldn't dare lose anything cheap!

I just ordered new glasses online from Global Eyeglasses for an amazing low price of $32 total. Such a good deal that now if I find my glasses I have an extra pair. With the way I've been losing things lately I think this is a great idea. Gotta have backup.

I'm going to continue to search for Blue Kitty and the battery charger. As soon as Blue Kitty turns up, she will be grounded. I have fears of finding her headless with half her stuffing pulled out. The dog is the prime suspect in this missing lovey mystery!

Friday Follow Up

One of my favorite blogs, Because I Said So, does a thing she calls Sunday Shout Out. Its where she answers questions left for her in the comments. I kinda look forward to it and I’m thinking, why not take her idea and run with it? Think she’d mind?

So, here’s my version and I’m calling it Friday Follow Up, with my responses to comments from my blog comments and little updates.

Do they have OTB endless enchilada anonymous? Or enchilada rehab?
Living With Cavemen

I think there is a 12 step program for On The Border addicts. Will you be my sponsor?

Shouldn't you be reading Kubla Khan instead of blogging?
Jenn

Yes. I should be! I also have to read the last 2/3 of Tender is the Night, Merchants of Venice, Chapter 9 of Will in the World, and start writing both of my 20 page research papers that are due next month. But... I'm blogging.

Can't she take classes on-line?
Fannie-Mae

No, she’s only in high school. Attendance required. Darn the luck!

Sounds like Disney movies are working on taking you out.
Desirae

That’s why we are never watching Bambi!

Don't you love to hear stories like that from grandmas!! They are a wealth of knowledge. You need to get more stories like that and write them down mary!!
Alicia

My Grandma amazes me! Her stories always bring me back down to earth. I really would like to write up a collection of her stories. That would be a great memoir!

I was so scared I was crying at night, and there was a really mean nurse who told me to shut up and go to sleep. I WAS SIX!! Not that I'm bitter or anything.
Shelley

That’s horrible! Glad you aren’t bitter.

And a little follow-up….

My eye is healing but still has a light spot. Not sure if it’ll ever go away. I did get a few questions and a lot of people just look and then look again a little more intently. Now it just looks like a light smudge or a slight shadow. You can't tell anymore.

The tonsillectomy was scheduled for next month at the beginning of my daughter's 2 week spring break. She shouldn’t miss any school. She’s actually excited! How sad is that?

Endless Enchilada Hangover

I have finally recovered from my Endless Enchilada Hangover. My husband and I went out for lunch with some friends on Saturday (no kids!) and we all ordered the Endless Enchiladas. So delicious!!! I'm drooling just thinking about it.

I'm not sure why I thought I was a starving lumberjack, but I sure ate like one! After loading up on chips and salsa - which is the very best salsa ever! - I had a beef enchilada and a cheese & onion enchilada plus the rice and beans on the side. So good! I cleaned up my plate and the waiter brought more! Endless....

I can never finish a whole plate of food at On The Border, so now here comes plate number two. Rice, beans and a chicken and another cheese & onion. Yum! I ate two bites. "Una caja, por favor"

Mr. Nice Waiter kept bringing the chips and salsa and refilling my lemonade too. I kept eating the chips and salsa and sucking down the lemonade like I hadn't eaten or quenched my thirst in a week.

I was so miserable. I waddled out to the van and got in the side door like a walrus getting pushed onto the ice. I spent the next 24 hours bloated and miserable. I've never had an enchilada hangover! It's bad. The next 24 hours I wasn't miserable, but I was still feeling full. These Endless Enchiladas are sticking with me for an endless bloaty weekend!

Finally, it's Monday and I feel back to normal. I've recovered from my Endless Enchilada bender. I've never been so drunk on Mexican food. It was awesome but my tummy paid the price. I'd do it again in a minute too!!! So gooooooooood!!!!!!

I am not a Sea Turtle

The sea turtles in "Finding Nemo" konk heads and say "Noggin!". That's how I got my black eye. Gracie noggin'd me and clocked me pretty good with her hard as rock skull. Apparently, she's more of a sea turtle than I am.

My fat lip healed up though. I only had the fat bruised lip and the black eye together for a day. While I was napping on the couch.... She took one of her hard plastic Ariel dolls and smacked me on the face with it. Yes, I woke up.

My lip healed, and my eye is healing. I'm looking better every day! And thankfully, I'm a lot less colorful than I was a few days ago.

In other news.... I may have an opportunity to ship my middle daughter off for six weeks of hard manual labor. Yippee! A mother's dream come true! I sure hope it works out but it's a longshot. She was offered a job at a summer camp as a kitchen helper. The problem is that they want her to start June 1st but school doesn't get out till mid-June. And they want her to stay till the end of August, but her school starts up again in the second week of August. Her school takes these incredibly ridiculous long vacation breaks during the year (a month off for Xmas!) and so they have to start very early and go a few weeks after Memorial Day. It makes summer jobs hard to come by. Wish her luck getting this job even though the dates don't match up. The kid could use a hard labor experience, not to mention she'd get away from her computer for 6 whole weeks! Aren't I devious? And she'd make some money too. Of course, it helps that she'd be stuck at camp with nowhere to spend her paycheck. hee hee hee. The overlap of camp and school might really be the deal breaker. Keep your fingers crossed!