Just enough energy to....

post these thingies....cause I wanna, and cause I seriously only have enough in me tonight to post these, instead of thinking of something to actually write....*I started a new job on Tuesday-cashier at a local small-time (actually they are big) wharehouse store.

and so...stolen from Seven Seeds (whom I just found and love)

Thursday Thirteen: Thoughts On Babies
1. Babies have to have the most wonderful smell on the face of the earth. Even poopy, pukey, milky and everything else. Their smell is just the best.

2. Babies are wonderful things to have for a while and GIVE BACK!

3. I think a baby's first laugh is what angels sound like.

4. As much as I do NOT want another baby, I still get teary sometimes at the thought that I won't.

5. I sometimes have gas (duh we all do), and that always makes me think of the first flutterings of baby kicks.

6. Sometimes I pray that my husband will someday agree to adopting a baby.

7. I'm about to have 2 new babies to cuddle, and can't wait! (both s-i-l are preggers)

8. I miss reading all the books and articles about being pregnant and having a baby.

9. I have only finished about 1/3 of my first child's baby book. Child #2 has one, that is empty and the other two don't even have books at all.

10. I'd like to be able to say something totally snarky when people ask me "oh wow, are they all yours?" (someday I WILL)

11. I don't miss waking up at all hours of the night, but I miss sleeping with my babies close to me.

12. My youngest is almost 5. He's the child I didn't want (yet), and I cried when I found out I was going to have him. But I wouldn't change things now for all the money in the world. He's my baby, my little man and I love him!!!

13. If it were possible for us to afford 10 kids, I probably would have had more.


AND....stolen, totaly stolen and shamelessly, from Poppy

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper.

2. Real tree or artificial? Artificial. I remember the hours my parents spent putting lights on our real trees, and I don't think it was exactly enjoyable for them. So we got a fake one. But it's got pine tree car smelly things on it! :)

3. When do you put up the tree?This is a source of major contention in my house. I do NOT like my tree up until at the most 3 days before the big day. But hubby and the kids just cannot wait that long! We set it up last weekend. UGH

4. When do you take the tree down? December 30th and NO later!!

5. Do you like eggnog? GOT RUM?? Sure!

6. Favorite gift received as a child? I really don't know. I guess it would have been the jewelry box. The one that my son just broke a couple of months ago. The one I had for about 20 years...

7. Do you have a creche? Okay, no clue what that is...so I guess not.

8. Hardest person to buy for? My hubby.

9. Easiest person to buy for? Any of my kids. As long as I can find what I'm thinking about.

11. Mail or email Christmas cards? Ugh Neither!

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? White Christmas! Family tradition!!

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? haven't started yet this year...no clue!

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Nope. Things that have done their time in the house get sent to the thrift store...as the previously metioned items did.....

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Orange Juice! Mixed with either champene or vodka...oh and we always have delish cinimon rolls too.

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree?Clear.

17. Favorite Christmas song? um....It's begining to look a lot like Christmas?

18. Travel for Christmas or stay home? Stay home. I'm so not up to battleing the hordes on Christmas!

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? LOL yeah!!! Got kids, will sing

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star, but Captain had been saying "we'll put our angel on top of the tree", don't know if that's a hint. I like our star, it plugs in!

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? We're allowed to open ONE present on Christmas Eve, which is always the ornament that Grandparents sent (to the kids). Christmas Morning, we eat our OJ (and alcohol) and rolls then open stockings. Then wait a bit for the anticipation to build then open presents.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? The stupid toy commericals! UGH! If I hear "I want that" one more time....

23. What I love most about Christmas? When it works out right to have a QUIET snowy walk after opening presents. If it's snowing all the better!



Okay that's it, and that's really much more than I thought it would be. Gosh, I had to THINK! And I'm sure I could have come up with better answers if I wasn't so drunk*...errr I mean tired!

*I'm not DRUNK! I've only had 2 rum & cokes! lol

Thrifty Christmas

My house will be full of crabby kids today. 3/4 of said crabs are in the begining stages of the stomache yuck that I'm just now getting over. Yes I've been sick all this time I've been writing and feeding horses and all that. Feeling much better today, just in time to take care of sickies. Yippeee

Yesterday's trip to pay bills turned out wonderfully!

Despite my stupid moments including, but not limited to: Feed store guy saying I was waddleing. Same feed store guy also asked stupid me "what can I get ya" to which I replied. "I need food" to which he laughed and said...."well we've got candy there, and some juice and soda and some yogurt". Yeah, um horse food, I normally goto the feed store for my groceries. Yeah thanks, it's just me, the waddleing lady who can't keep her places of consumerism straight.
He is a very nice guy, though (the feed store guy), even if he always make me smell something when I'm there. Yesterday it was yummy rose scented goat milk soap.

OH! But the wonderfullness! Monster Monkey was heartbroken after dropping the give-aways off at the thrift store. I mean, the whole nine yards, head hanging, tears just dropping like a storm, the old heartbroken cry. I caved. We went into the thrift store to look for a little replacement toy, to make him feel better.

So, we stood, we looked, we played. I waited and waited and waited. I told him which toy I'd get if I was him. I waited some more. I spied baby toys! **My sister-in-law is expecting! She's due in July, and I'm as excited as a little girl riding her first pony! I get to have a baby and give it back! Words cannot begin to convey my giddiness!** I scooped up all the toys that I really liked. Put a couple back, picked up a few more....ended up spending a whopping $1.75 on these....

As MM kept looking and trying to decide on which toy was the "coolest", my eye caught on something quite close. I tried to stay away, I tried my hardest, I promise!
I kept telling myself that we were only here to get something small for MM, and I'd already gone off that to get the baby toys.
But they were calling me. They were sceaming, I tell ya!

And so...

I came home with this! The sled is all metal and I fell in love with it the instant I saw it! It's about 2 feet tall. I'm not sure where I'm going to put it yet. I never know where I'm going to put anything. Not even things that I already have had up in the past. It's never the same two years in a row. BUT! I think it'd be adorable either in the bathroom, or near my door.

This wall hanging thingy is just wonderful! The snowmen are 3D! Again, NO clue where this is going. I'll either have to take something down, or put up more nails.

About this time the workers of the place came into the area with a large shopping cart and started putting MORE stuff out on the shelves and hangers.

The hordes flocked like sea gulls on a discarded salmon. They came out of the wood-work!

But I was in there, I saw, I grabbed...yes even out of the cart! LOL I asked first!

The ladies didn't have to "stock" half of the things in the cart, they were almost all snapped up by Christmas decoration hungry people like myself.

The snowman is a candle! The hat comes off and the candle is inside. It's never been lit...and I don't think it will be. Mr. Snowman looks a little freaky without the top of his head.

I got a few other really neat-o items but blogger hates me today and I can't upload anything else.

But trust me, they are neat!

I'm waiting a bit and seeing iff SIL wants to come with me back to the thrift store today. I want more!! I think this wonderful find is starting to break the ice, and my grinch-like heart is starting to thaw!

Maybe I'll allow Captain and the kids put up the tree this weekend....

OH! All this stuff, plus a Monopoly Jr game and MM's new toy car came to a grand total of $8.75. This was a garbage bag FULL! I'm going back!

Gone with the Wii-nd

The wind is GONE! *Does happy dance*

Captain told me this last night-travel back with me to the morning of the doggie doo....

Captain "There's a big mess in there, could you clean it up?"

Bone Head walks into family room....."WHO let the horses in?"

I fell on the bed laughing when I heard about this! I then had to explain why it was so funny to me....that I'd blogged about horse poop in the very same room....he ended up nearly falling OFF the bed, laughing. Yes we are easily amuzed.

Last night also brought the conclusion of Sci Fi's Tin Man and a huge let-down. I hate when movies spend so much time working it all up and then the ending is just--blah. It was a good show all-in-all, but I think they rushed the ending to fit it all in *only* three 2-hour episodes. Anyways....

This is what I want for Christmas. Erm...I mean this is what I want to get my children for Christmas. Yeah, that's it. But can we? No sir, we cannot. At least not yet! I'm not ready to give up hope, when Christmas is still 20 days away!

I did a massive search of all stores in the area on Sunday. No luck and very little customer service. It's not even available online. No one has a clue as to when a new shipment will come in.

And so, I wait for the email in my in-box saying that it's available, and hope and pray. Cause if we can't get this, I have NO CLUE what we're getting the kids for Christmas....oh so sad!!!

I figured it up as there's about 20 stores in the area that might sell this item. If each store gets 100 units, that's 2000 units total. In an area that has 200,000 + people. Yeah...that's gunna work.

I really didn't think that it would be that hard to find one. They have been out for a while, right? The rush has (or should have) passed by now, and now it should just be people like me who have finally talked their S.O. into it. (Oh and that took one of his friends getting one(no clue how), and him playing it before he agreed)

Okay, okay I'm sure there are some places out there in cyber-land that still have this in stock...I haven't checked EVERYWHERE! Mostly because I don't have a credit card to everywhere! Just a few places. And no, I don't have a bank card thingy that works as a credit card online. Yeah, I'm living in the Dark Ages, and no it's not an Alaska thing-it's a me thing.

Today is "pay the bills" day, so I get to run around to all the various places and do just that. Oh and drop off the trunk-load of old clothes and toys I have so that I can pick up a little hay. Cause of course, the hay guy hasn't called us back yet, and the trailer we borrow is already borrowed....soooooo

Yeah, this is just fun.