Looking Back

My husband and I celebrated our 4th anniversary recently. Looking back at four years ago things have changed a lot. There are some obvious things like the fact that we have 2 kids, we live in a totally different state, he's not in school anymore, I'm no longer employed, we no longer have cats which means no more changing a litter box...stuff like that. But a lot is the same. We're still living somewhere way too small. Back then it was a basement apartment, now it's a small duplex. We're still very much in love and neither of us have plans of changing that. Our core ethics and values are the same. While I'd love to live in a place with more room, I'm pretty glad the most important stuff is the same now as it was then.

Oh and one more thing...

I've been busy doing a Biggest Loser style competition with some other moms online. I'm doing it purely through diet and exercise, no weight loss pill for me. Although it's mighty tempting. I may give in. But for now I'm working my rear off, I hope literally. Even with my current cold I've been exercising. Oh yeah, I'm that dedicated it to. This time the "baby" weight will come off, no ifs, ands or buts.

Hi there!

So yeah, I haven't posted here in awhile. It's hard to maintain three blogs. But here I am tonight. I'm sick, I'm tired and I could use a good blemish acne cream at the moment, but here I am. It's been nuts here, my oldest is about to start school for the first time...yikes! My baby and I are both sick, which we caught from my husband. I'm just hoping my oldest doesn't catch it, I would hate for her to miss the start of school, she's been looking so forward to it.

Future Career?

I am a stay-at-home-mom right now. I love it, I really do. But someday I'm going to have to do something else. Before I quit the workforce to stay home I was a contract coordinator for a fiscal intermediary company. That was really just a fancy way of saying I did data entry for a payroll company along with doing the customer service aspect too. I totally don't want to do that again, there are actually a lot of things I'd never want to do. But what do I want to do? Be a futures broker? Be a personal trainer? An ultrasound tech? Hmmmm...time will tell.

We lucked out!

We lucked out this week. I have a friend who was selling a bunch of new electronic stuff for really great prices. We spent over $70 of cool stuff, too bad she didn't have a Canon Powershot to sell, that would've been awesome! But anyway, we're pretty excited! My husband will finally have a blue tooth headset which he's been wanting for a long time and we'll have a new flash drive and some other stuff. Yay for good bargains!

Kitchen Sinks?

I haven't put a lot of thought into kitchen sinks, have you? I know I prefer them to have two tubs rather than one. Our first apartment only had one and it was a huge pain when it came to doing the dishes...we also didn't have a dishwasher. I can honestly say I don't miss that place one bit. Our sink right now is basic stainless steal, but at least it has two tubs and is easy to clean.

Too much face washing?

Have you ever wondered if washing your face too much causes acne? I have wondered, although I haven't checked with any acne experts or anything. I'm also thinking summertime is a culprit for random ugly zits. I'd consider moving to Siberia or somewhere where summer never comes, but really I like the warmer weather. So I'll keep on washing and hope that that's not what causes those ugly red bumps.

I Need to Move!

Our town smells like a pig farm. It stinks! I asked someone about it today, because seriously, for the past few days it has smelled so dang bad! Do you know what it is? It's grain! Who knew grain could smell so bad. But it's harvest and all the grain is being loaded up and shipped off. Gah! As if I needed one more reason to hate this place. Seriously, I need some moving services to get me the heck out of here...pronto!

Do you...

Do you watch Jon & Kate Plus 8? My 3 year old loves it and we generally watch it whenever I notice it's on. Well, today they went shopping for furniture and such. I swear they bought everything but a wine rack! I guess you'd have to when you have that many little ones. I don't know how they do it, I'd go bananas. Well, I am already bananas, but I'd be way more nuts than I am.

Stupid Summertime Acne

Yeah, yeah...another reminder, besides the awful heat, that it's summer is a slew of acne. I swear, it happens every single time it gets hot. I really need to find the best acne product and just use it all the time to combat this happening. Seriously, isn't it bad enough that it's too stinking hot to do anything outside? Why...why??? Gah! Anyway...back to your, I'm sure, much more exciting lives.

I've been winning books

It's been crazy. I enter about a million blog giveaways a week. Ok, well not a million but I enter a lot. It seems I usually only win books. I've won a ton of books. Now I just need to start reading them, which is starting to be doable now that the little one goes to bed around 9pm. Anyway, just about the only book I haven't won lately is A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, which I've heard is actually pretty good. Maybe I'll just have to buy it...once I finish all those books I won.

Back in Elementary School

I swear back in elementary school I knew a whole lot more about computers than I do now. And the computers back then were pretty ghetto compared to the high speed, smaller, colored screen computers we have now. I used to know about rom and ram, you know Random Access Memory. All I know now is that those things are probably still important but I don't know much else. My kids are going to be smarter than me before too long. Sigh...

What's the last thing you want right now?

There are so many times I think, "That's the last thing I want right now." But that's not always true. Sure, the thing I'm referring to when I think that is surely something undesirable. But there's a huge list of worse things. Like, I totally don't need a colon cleanser right now. That doesn't sound like fun. Getting a chemical peel? Nope, that doesn't sound fun either. A root canal? Oh please no! Not again ever if possible. So really...when I think that I need to remember there are a whole lot of worse things.

Do You Need a Vacation?

I know I sure do. I know, I know. We just went on vacation 2 months ago. But seriously that feels like a millennium ago. What I'd love is to take the kids on some big vacation like Orlando vacations or even regular old Disneyland. But it looks like we're going to have to settle for a weekend away here in state. Oh well...at least it gets me out of here for awhile.

Free Coloring Pages

I was looking around online tonight and I stumbled onto the Crayola website. Did you know you can get free coloring pages there? Very cool!

Not Getting Any Younger

So, I'll be thirty this year and I won't keep this young skin much longer. One thing my generation needs to start looking into are the best wrinkle creams available. I don't want to look too old. I mean, come on, I'm older than my husband. I never want to look like I am though. Most people tell me we look the same age, so yay for that!

Jumping back into reading

I've spent a lot of time online over the last year or so. When I was pregnant I read a lot of books, but since my daughter was born I've done most of my reading online. I know, that's bad. So lately I've really been trying to get back into reading actual, honest to goodness, books. I still like being online, but really good old fashion paper and ink is what I need right now.

Fatty, fat, Fat, Fat

Don't mind me, I'm just feeling a lot little fat right now. I was doing well with my exercise and then I got sick. Now I'm back to feeling like a big old blob again. I should check out a list of best diet pills and pick one out. Is there really a magic diet pill that works? Hmmm...I really need to give this some thought.

Gas Prices

With gas prices reaching record highs and driving up the cost of many goods and services it's time to start figuring out where we can save money. One thing we can do is do car insurance comparisons, you want to make sure you're not paying too much. Times change, rates change and so we need to make sure we're on top of things so we can save as much money as possible.

His Job Make Me Nervous

I won't lie, my husband's job makes me seriously nervous. I'm grateful for law enforcement. They keep us safe...despite all the grumbling people do when they get caught speeding. They're giving you a ticket to keep the rest of us safe. Speeding may be fun...but not when an accident happens and that's something they see all too often. My husband's troop has had far too many fatals lately...at least in my opinion. I wish he had a job that didn't scare me so much, but he loves what he does. I wish I could talk him into looking for jobs in San Francisco or really anywhere else as long as it wasn't a job that scared me. But you know what? If he did that, he wouldn't be nearly as happy. He loves his job and because I love him I support him in it. But good gosh, it sure does scare me.