Super Stuff?!?

The title is just a takeoff of my friend Amy over at High Strung Musings. I'm gonna talk about the Super Bowl and she had a post about the whole anthem debacle. I'm also gonna talk about some other stuff, but I'm leading in with that. Shall we?

I didn't get to see the beginning of the Super Bowl since the big girl and I had youth that night. Hubby, being the good doobie that he is, recorded it so I could watch the commercials. That man is good to me and I love him for it. I finally got to sit down last night and watch it. We are trying to watch all our stuff on the DVR since we don't know when we're moving. We aren't getting satellite or cable when we move and we won't have the box, so it's now or never. That and it takes up too much room on the DVR. I didn't care for many of them this year. They were stupid and most of them I wouldn't watch with my kids in the room. It was weird to fast forward through the show to watch commercials. I almost felt dirty. Not really.

When the Super Bowl was on, I got to hear the Black Eyed Peas but I didn't get to see them. When I heard Fergie, she was awful. They were all out of tune. Usher danced wonderfully, but he was lip syncing. Actually, to be correct, I guess they were playing a backing track. What. Ever. If you aren't singing live all by yourself, you are lip syncing. But back to my original point. When I watched the half time show, I have to say it was better than I remembered. I still like the original GnR version of Sweet Child of Mine, but she wasn't bad. I actually enjoyed it.

The weather here has been beautiful. Warm and sunny during the day, cool in the evenings. It was pretty windy today, though. I hung sheets on the line and the wind filled them up like they were sails on a ship. I had to take them down and put them in the dryer instead. I thought my clothesline was going to come out of the ground. It has been perfect beach weather.

I know people are interested, but I wish they wouldn't keep asking if we've heard anything about the job. Like I can keep my big mouth shut. That and I would put it on Facebook, so there. We think, hopefully by April, there will be a notice of some sort. The merger will be complete by the first of the month and the new budget will be out. We are just slow and steady getting stuff done. Hubby is taking a couple days off this week so we can do some chores.

I got an iPod touch with tax refund money. OMGosh, Angry Birds is addictive. I am killing pigs left and right and I cannot get enough. Damn pigs!!

And really, that's it. It's late, I'm tired, and I have pigs to lob birds at.  

I am glad...

• my kids love to laugh
• hubby has a job
• it has been in the low 80's all week
• I marked two things off the "pack to move" list
• I have great friends
• I am healthy
• I have the high score on Baby Girl on Just Dance 2
• I have a clothesline to hang clothes on
• that it's dinner time

That's better...

I wish...

• I didn't have to worry about money
• I didn't have to worry about my kids
• I read my bible more
• I could get the high score on The Power on Just Dance 2
• I could lose 40 pounds without diet and exercise
• I had more room in my closet for shoes
• we were going to be in Texas for Easter
• my boy didn't have allergies
• people were nicer
• I had a Camaro to just toodle around town in

It is what it is...

Unexpected

Great day at the park. No drama, no distress. The boy skinned his knees pretty bad and it really hurt. He even cried just a litte. I had to hide him, and I stood really close so he could lean on me. I gave him a quick one armed hug. That seemed to do the trick and his friends didn't see a thing. We got it all cleaned up, threw a couple of bandaids on 'em, and off he hobbled. Crazy kid.

After the park was the grocery store. I really don't like taking dirty, sweaty kids to the park, but what I don't like even more is coming back to town if I don't have to. And they were having a sale. It's Italian days and they had some really great deals. I spent $19.15, but I saved $34.54 with coupons. I had to get the boy one of those carts he could ride in. I like the ones at our grocery store. They have the buggy up front and the seat is just a bench. No cars, or animals or ride in carts that all my kids have outgrown.

By the time we got home, I was tired. I had groceries to put away. I got the good block mozzarella to make lasagna with. I mean the kind that you have to slice, you can't shred it. It was on sale and I had a coupon. I had a lunch bag that had to get emptied. I had dirty kids that needed showers. I had to pee so bad I thought I was going to burst. I do NOT use the bathrooms at the park, and I hate the ones at the grocery store. And I had just sat down to check my email after I went to the bathroom when my phone rang. It was my dad.

He is in Hawaii spending some time with my sister. Not Big Sis, my other sister. She is my half sister, and we only met once. My dad wanted to know if I wanted to talk to her. My first thought, and actually I said it out loud was, "I just got home from the park." Dumb ass. What I did was stop and take a breath. "I would love to talk to her."

I have often wanted to talk to her. I would get snippets of information about her from time to time. But I would have liked to have a relationship with her. I would like to have a relatonship with her now. She is my sister, after all. At one point I had an email address for a store that she owned. I thought many times about writing her a letter, but I never did. I regret that. I was unsure of what to say, unsure of her reaction, unsure of many things. But here was an opportunity being handed to me. I wasn't about to throw this one away, too.

I hope that today was a first step. I hope that there is another step made. Her daughter, my niece, is one of my friends on Facebook now. Is that one more? I hope...

I'm Done

Fine, Queen of Rock it is. I really can't find one I like more than that, so there you have it.

Aaack!!

This is why I don't like change...

Last One

For now, anyway. The purple was too distracting, the second was way too calm. I don't really like the green, but I like all the accents.