Award and a Tag

It's Sunday and I'm getting ready to go out walking here soon after mah friend gets off of work. So I'm here filling up my time until it's time to go. It's either this or vacuum. Blogging wins hands down.

My cool bloggy friend from 3 Boys + 1 Hubby = What Next? gave me an award! She had sent a message saying she was gonna post it for me EARLY on the 16th. I just had to verify that I didn't have to wake up early since I'm NOT a morning person..but you know what..I was like an excited kid and woke early anyways..just to see what it was!

So with this award I am supposed to list 10 things that make me happy.

~ Connecting with some wonderful people in this blogoshphere
~ Hot Cocoa and Malibu
~ Naps
~ Hiking
~ Swimming
~ Quad riding
~ Boating
~ Reading
~ Watching my kids be silly
~ Making memories with friends/family

And now I'm supposed to pass it on to 10 people...for those of you that don't like to get awards (I know you're out there), stop cussing me this instant and just take it..and for those of you that get all gushy, enjoy! Some of these bloggers are new to me, and some I've been getting to know for awhile now...

~ one CrazyAssMomma Love her title!
~ Cop Mama Woot Woot to emergency service personnel!
~ Laugh Until You Cry Sweet Girl!
~ Living in France She's fekken funny!
~ Tattoos and Teething Rings Cause we've gotta lotta similarities..including same birth month, day and year!
~ Katydid and Kid Cause I don't know squat about computer crap..and she's gonna be doing my button/banner for me!
~ aefilkins Sweet..'nough said
~ Yaya Stuff Cause she's adopting and that's awesome
~ Headaches, Hormones and Hot Flashes Pure Entertainment People!
~ Hiding From The Kids Just found this blogger...her title drug me in...

Ok..the first part of this post was taking too long..so now I'm back from my walk to finish this. And now..Kys from Stir-Fry Awesomeness tagged anyone who feels like doing this little tag..so I'm playin' along...


8 TV Shows I Watch:

Ok, so this one's a little difficult..I don't watch too much TV
* I'll be watching American Idol off and on
* Oh hell..I'm just gonna skip to the next one!

8 Favorite Places to Eat and Drink:

*The Melting Pot
*The Olive Garden
*Valle Luna
*Chili's
*Outback Steakhouse
*Chevy's
*TGI Friday's
*Home

8 Things I Look Forward To:

*Starting back to college
*Camping
*Me Time
*Time alone with my hubby
*State Fair with the kids
*Going to more concerts
*Naps
*Road Trips

8 Things That Happened Yesterday:

That means I have to remember what happened yesterday..good luck to me..hmm, nothing really of interest to report on..moving on now...

8 Things I Love About Winter:

Let's just start this off stating that "love" and "winter" don't belong in the same sentence..my husband loves winter though, he says that's when I actually wear clothes...

*Hot Cocoa
*Roasting marshmallows
*The heater
*Warm air from the heater
*Hot air from the heater
*Electricity that makes the heat work
*Money that pays for electricity
*My husband who is a hard worker that brings in the money to pay for electricity

8 Things on My Wish List:

*Landscaping
*A whole weekend away with my hubby
*Take the kids to Disneyland
*For my kids to not become a pain in my ass when they are teens
*To stop running into crazy ass people
*To have an RV
*To not have to exercise to be fit
*White padded wall after my kids have driven me insane

8 Things I'm Passionate About:

*Reading
*Learning
*Things done in the bedroom
*Success
*Enjoying Life
*Avoiding public speaking
*Sugar..I love sugar
*Making sure my family knows I love 'em

8 Words I Use Often:

*Fek/fekker
*Jackass
*Honey
*Damn
*Hell to the naw
*oh puhlease
*Holy mole poop or holy hippie
*Shut it already

8 Things I've Learned From the Past:

*If there's a small percentage that something bad can come, it'll find me...for instance..get tubes cauterized for no more kids, end up with a tubal pregnancy.
*There really is a reason why you should wait to have kids
*Don't pat your kids back while they are puking, it doesn't help, it's not soothing
*If you have kids that are repeat offenders when it comes to puking in the car..bring a bucket for every.car.ride.
*Those boys that meant everything when you are young are but mere memories
*A part time friend is a jackass
*Drinking = Aphrodisiac
*Fear what the kids are talking about with their friends and what they will do in high school

8 Things I Currently Want/Need:

*Massage
*To know there will be social security
*A girls night out
*To download music on to my idle ipod
*Hot tea..with lots of sugar
*My blinds to come in from home depot
*My neighbors cactus to quit making it's way into our yard
*More pics with mah friends

8 People You Should Follow:

For this one..I'll just say take a pick from those that I follow..whomever suits what you may be looking for!

I'll follow along with what kys posted about who to tag...

*This is supposed to read 8 People I'd Like To Tag.

*Anybody who wants to do this, consider yourself tagged.

Five Question Friday

Ok, so I was reading Beth's post from Laugh Until You Cry, and she had joined in on Five Question Friday, which is hosted by Mama M. @ My Little Life. So I decided to join in on it.


1. Worst trouble you ever got into as a teenager?
Well, let's see here. I wasn't too terribly bad growing up. Seriously, I grew up with my grandparents due to my parents messed up lives...so I guess you could say I saw enough trouble through them. I think I can safely say that the worst trouble that I ever got into was that I ended up pregnant at the tender age of 17. Yep, that wasn't too good a choice! Love my daughter to pieces and wouldn't change a thing..but really, that's something that should've waited! So..I was pregnant and then married at 17.


2. Are you a morning person or a night person?
I have NEVER been a morning person..never evah. I'll take a little bit of sleeping in and mix it with a little bit of slow to rise please. Guess I don't stay up too late either..we go to bed anywhere between 8-10 p.m., and then read for a while before calling it a night.


3. Are you a one-handed or a two-handed Texter?
Ok, are you ready for this??? Are you seated??? Maybe you should lie down for this one. I.Have.Never.Texted. Not once. I know, I know..I'm a rare species. But I'm a SAHM, and really don't have a need to text. I have this here computer, and my home phone and cell phone, and have never needed to text. And..I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.

4. Democrat, Republican, or Independent..or maybe even Green Party (whatever that is).
Ok, well here's the thing with me and politics. I don't like politics. But...I am a registered voter..it's a requirement that comes with being a board member for a fire board. So...when I registered, I registered as an independent because, well, I hate politics, and I don't feel like arguing for one side or the other. That and I kinda like the sound of independent..sounds more in control to me!

5. Are you a pet person?
Well, I never really used to be a pet person. But..I now have a dog, Roxy, that I just absolutely love. I don't know what it is with this dog..maybe it's the fact that she loves to nap just as much as I do. I'm just sayin'.

I luvs this dog!

Now..sometimes she can be a pain in the bootay though. Like the time she chewed my favorite strapless bra. I say this kind of lightly though...I hate bra's, so uncomfortable. But anywho..and then there are the times that she maybe isn't acting quite right, or her eye is swollen or what have you...and then I worry just like she's one of my kids. And then of course I have to get upset at her since she's makin' me worry.

Well that is my rendition of Five Question Friday..so long until next time!

Giveaway Winner!

Alrighty people, time to announce the winner of the giveaway. There were 7 people that were eligible that are followers and stated they would like to be entered. Soooo, off to random.org I went to generate who the winner is....

~ AND THE WINNER IS ~

#7
Jessica @ Overflowing Bookshelf!!!!!

Congratulations Jessica! And thanks to everyone who entered. So glad the random generator was here to help...cause after getting to know some of you guys, I definitely wouldn't have wanted to have to make a choice! Hell to the naw way.

Jessica...please email me your address so I can get your goods shipped out to you!

Ok..onto other news..today also happens to be Dear Someone letter day, and if you would like to participate in Dear Someone letters, then link up with Shortmama.


Dear Jessica,

Congratulations on winning my very first giveaway! Hope you like your items and are as excited to win as I was to be giving something away!

Woman who kinda wanted to keep the flask for herself
Excited Rose


Dear Kids,

Stop bringing the sick bug home. You had the crap over the holidays, and now you recently had it again...and you gave it to me both times, so now I'm dealing with the sick crap again.

Woman who would like to lose the headache/cough/sore throat/crankiness
Wilting Rose


Dear Bed,

You sound really good. Let me wrap this up and I'll be right there.

Woman who is ready to cuddle up and zzzzzzzzzzz

Last Day To Enter Giveaway!

For those of you interested, today is the last day to enter the giveaway! If you missed the information on what is being given away and the rules for it, then go here. Make sure you leave your comment on that post to be entered. Good luck to you that have already entered!..and please make sure that you are a follower if you enter...I think one that entered isn't a follower and would be ineligible. But of course I'll let her know..cause I'm nice like that : )

On a different note...I recently started re-decorating my kids' rooms. While I am not finished with them, I was excited to give a pre-view of what they look like now.

Jayce's room...

This pic is of a little boy pickin' his wedgie and it says "picky picky"...

Taylor's room...

Alyssa's room...

I still have lots of wall space to fill up, but this is it so far.

Random TT / 100th Post!! / First Giveaway

Not only is today the day to spill the random beans, but it's also my 100th post!! Woot woot. And also a thanks to you guys, my first giveaway! There's lots of shiznit happenin' today. So let's get started with the random stuff first.

~ Yesterday I went out shopping at a mall in the Phoenix area. It is the mall that I grew up going to. It was cool when I was a kid, but now I think it's just plain ghetto. It was really ghetto back in the day, but now that I'm all growed up..I really think it's ghetto. It is after all known to have the most car thefts at that mall. Let me tell ya what I got to experience there yesterday. I was out looking for the second item that I could possibly give away today, so I ended up in Spencers. I find an item I wanted...and a Tapout shirt for me...and I get to the register to pay. As I am paying I hear some guy behind me say Woooooowwwwwww. Ok, let's just picture how this sounded for a moment. It was a long drawn out wow, real low key..ya know, kinda like a stoner. Well, it sounded really close, like someone was in mah space. But I just ignored it and continued to pay. That is until I heard this same person say, mmhmm, those lights are really doing things to your shirt and hair. Now I knew it was close, and my first thought was this better be someone I know because they are literally RIGHT AT MY BACK TALKING INTO MY NECK. So I slowly turn around and give THE LOOK and was not too excited to see it definitely was not someone that I knew..it was some furrreeak. Dude was trippin' on the colorful small spinning strobe lights that were reflecting off of me. I do a slow neck turn to the cashier who is frantically trying to ring me out and is giving the guy THE LOOK also and looking at me like sorry, and I'm looking at her like holy hell glad I don't have to stay in here with this nutcase. So I pretty much just finished the transaction and got the hell outta there while he was still bantering on. I always want to go off on those kind of people...but I don't know how they are going to respond..after all, they aren't all there obviously.

~ I have not one, but two sick kids at home today. Seriously they just.got.over.colds from Christmas time. And tomorrow is class picture day at school, which I really don't want them to miss out on..especially since it's Jayce's first year for class pics..can't miss out on the kindergarten one!

~ Well we traded off our 2006 Dodge Ram 2500 Sport Quad Cab for a 2010 Chevy Equinox...good bye gas guzzler. I will really miss that truck, it was suhweet...minus needing to own an oil company to keep it going and the suspension was pretty stiff too. I love the smoothness of the new vehicle. Now we barely feel the bumps in the road instead of feeling like you've been picked up and moved over a couple of inches every time you go over rough patches in the road.

~ I have finally enrolled in college courses. I haven't been to college in many years. This semester I'm taking math and psychology 101. It's beginner math people..I fear/loathe/despise/am sickened by math. I am now on the road to a degree in nursing. It's gonna be a looooooong and most likely stressful road..but I'm on it. I don't want to take a full load, I want to extend it out so I am still able to stay at home with the kids until they are older.

Ok, now for the giveaway. I have learned that a lot of you out there really enjoy cooking. I on the other hand..don't! I.don't.like.to.cook. Yes, I said it. So I am giving away two items today. The first up on the list is this...

The back of this cookbook states "The Silver Spoon is the bible of authentic Italian cooking. Italy's best-selling cookbook for the last fifty years, it features traditional dishes alongside specially written menus by celebrated chefs. Now translated for the first time into English, The Silver Spoon's 2,000 recipes make it an essential classic for everyone who loves good food.

The second part of the giveaway is for those of you that like to sip on a little sumpin' while you're tearin' it up in the kitchen...

This is a stainless steel ladies flask. Get wasted in style! The back of this packaging reads "The flask has been a favorite of bad girls since the prohibition days when naughty ladies would smuggle gin hidden inside their petticoats. Now, it's your turn to look fierce while you get f*cked up! Made of sturdy stainless steel, this stylish 6 oz. flask makes the perfect gift for you or your favorite hip chick."

So here are the rules if you would like to win these two items.

1. For an entry you have to be a follower AND leave a comment stating you would like to be entered to win.
2. For an extra entry, post on your blog about the giveaway and rule #1, and then leave a 2nd comment letting me know that you have posted.

The giveaway will be open for entries until the end of the day tomorrow, January 13, 2010. Good luck to everyone! My goal is to post the winner by Thursday.

Now seriously...since this is my first giveaway I have to find out where to get that random number generator thingy so I can post it on here with the results. So for those of you pros out there that have already been there and done that...Help!

And last but not least..if you would like to participate in Random Tuesday Thoughts, then link up with The Un Mom.

Friend Makin Mondays

Another day in the life of friend makin' mondays, and today's topic is about hairstyles. Amber would like to know...If you cut your hair tomorrow, what would it look like?

Well, let's see here, if I were to cut my hair then I probably wouldn't have much left, as it's already pretty short. So this is what my hair looks like at this moment in time...

Here are a few options that I wouldn't mind having...this first one is one that I've already had and it'll be that way again next hair cut...

This is what I'd like to have if I had thicker hair...I have plenty of hair, but it's fine so looks like I don't have too much...

And here's what I'd like to have when I'm feelin' spunky...

If you would like to participate, then link up with Amber and let us know what you would do!

*Reminder...tomorrow will be my 100th post..and my first giveaway!

Dear Someone

Dear Cold,

Please hit the friggin' road already. No need to stay and linger awhile, please get the hint that I don't really like you.

Sniff Sniff
Snotty Rose


Dear Hot Cocoa and a touch of Malibu,

Mmmmmmm

Enough said


Dear Jayce,

I am so proud of you...you are now pronouncing and reading words! You are really excelling this year in kindergarten, keep up the good work and don't settle into the not really wanting to do the work since you're a boy.

Your oh so happy mama


Dear Stooopid Nurse,

You're not supposed to be telling sweet little grandmothers that you THINK they could possibly have either a bowel blockage OR cancer...and they haven't even had any testing....hence, said sweet little grandmother gets to WORRY until she gets testing. So now she can add STRESS to not feeling good.

Woman who'd give you an earful if I met you
Granny's Granddaughter


Dear Readers,

The kids have just left the house and are off to school...and I immediately cranked on the music and started dancing and shaking it to Apologize from One Republic...oh ya, the joys!

Woman in bliss,
Shaker Girl


If you would like to participate in Dear Someone letters...link up with Shortmama.